nearly 11,000 people in one day in the 24 hours from sunday to monday. today the pentagon says the latest number in the latest 24-hour period is they got more than 21,000 people out. 21,000 people evacuated in one day. that means the u.s. air lift out of kabul overall has removed more than 70,000 people from kabul since they started ten days ago which is an astonishing number. but with the president planning to get u.s. troops out entirely by the initial deadline he set which is next week, august 31st, the evacuation effort will necessarily have to start to ramp down. troops will have to start to leave. it takes time to get them out safely. as of today u.s. troop numbers are already dropping at the kabul airport. what will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuations and the orderliness of evacuations and the commitment to get every american and every afghan ally of american troops and the american people out of there, we re going to have a live report on that situation comi
but with the president planning to get u.s. troops out entirely by the initial deadline he set which is next week, august 31st, the evacuation effort will necessarily have to start to ramp down. troops will have to start to leave. it takes time to get them out safely. as of today u.s. troop numbers are already dropping at the kabul airport. what will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuations and the orderliness of evacuations and the commitment to get every american and every afghan ally of american troops and the american people out of there, we re going to have a live report on that situation coming up including the news today about the reported meeting between the director of the cia, william burns, and a senior taliban official. this is the taliban co-founder who the trump administration got sprung from prison in 2018. they arranged for his release from prison in 2018. this is the guy who trump had his secretary of state mike pompeo meet with in person last year. toda
fox & friends. jed, good morning. good morning to you and everyone at home. i am lucky that i have a house celebrates two holidays. palm sunday and palsover. if any of you are doing that at home too, we re the lucky ones. will: we re glad you re watching fox & friends on this sunday. we start with joe biden and president trump. everyone is waiting for announcement that joe biden will go down to the border to look at the crisis with migrants making their way up from central america to the united states of america. president trump intends to visit the southern border perhaps next couple weeks. watch. mr. president, when do you think you would go? over next couple weeks. the border patrol wants me to go over the next couple weeks. i don t know there is rush for me to go. he is supposed to go, make a decision, very, very bad decision, stay in mexico where he ended that. that is incredible. we re not getting along with mexico any longer. will: that was president trump on
i want to begin this morning with a big policy win for president biden. the law that s been told about it by some republicans. for 20, years the pharmaceutical industry has had near complete control of prescription drug pricing for some 65 million medicare patients in the united states. that is going to change. this, week the biden administration announced the first ten drugs that will be subject to price negotiations under any provision included in the inflation reduction act. president biden s signature bill that was passed last year. they target some of the most commonly used drugs that helped treat diabetes, heart, failure chronic kidney disease, blood, cancers arthritis, crohn s disease as well as blood thinners that prevent strokes and blood clots. according to the department of health and services health and human services, about 9 million medicare beneficiaries use one or more of these ten drugs in the past year and paid a total of 3.4 billion dollars out of pocket
right now on cnn this morning special counsel, robert hur s set to testify before congress after releasing an explosive report about president biden s handling of classified documents and alleged cognitive decline plus a developing story out of haiti, the embattled prime minister resigning amid rising gang attacks against the government and former president trump s justin, he s open to cutting social security and medicare after vowing repeatedly, he would never do it all, right 05:00 a.m. here in washington. a live look at capitol hill, lot of action up there today. good morning to all of you. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us a first special counsel, robert hur, is set to testify in a matter of hours before the republican led house judiciary committee hur investigated president biden s handling of classified documents last month. he concluded the president did ms handle the material per however, chose not to prosecute still, it was his assessment of bide