control, kabul and jalalabad. there s urgency at the u.s. embassy in kabul where thousands of troops are arriving to help in the evacuation of staff. earlier today president biden video conferenced with his national security team on developments in afghanistan. arlette saenz and natasha bertrand join me now. arlette, what else are we hearing from president biden? i understand he just put out a statement a few moments ago. reporter: he did, jim. really this is the most robust statement we ve heard from president biden since he was asked about afghanistan on tuesday. in this statement, a paper statement, he announced that he has ordered an additional 5,000 american troops to afghanistan to help with the drawdown of personnel at the embassy and to also help evacuate those afghans who helped americans over the course of that 20-year war. in is in addition to the 3,000 members of the military that he has already deployed to afghanistan. and the president also issued a very stron
have established a commission to investigate the insurrection on capitol hill. only six republicans sided with democrats in friday s vote. it shows how much of a grip former president donald trump has on the party. democrats are thinking about launching a probe of their own. cnn s ryan nobles has the latest on where things may stand. reporter: it may have taken a little bit longer than expected. three-fifths of senators chose to not vote in the affir affirmative. the motion is not agreed to. reporter: republicans successfully blocking an attempt to form an independent commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection. the final vote? 54-35. 60 votes were needed to move the measure forward. but out of fear or fieldity to donald trump the republican minority prevented the american people from getting the truth about january 6th. reporter: six republicans voted yesterday. among them is susan collins who maintained to bring changes to the bill to bring her fellow r
the overall public seems to be done with the coronavirus emergency. many congressmen don t. this question gets that the trend line we ve seen. an overwhelming 70% of americans agree with the statement that it s time we accept that covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives. that view is widely held despite an average of 2,500 people in this country dying every day from the virus at this moment. most of them, of course, are unvaccinated. and while americans overall say it s time to get on with their lives, democrats are more divided. the fact that independents look more like republicans on this question is a huge potential political liability for the president and his party. independents are the deciders these days on a lot of issues, looking more like democrats than republicans, but not on covid. those numbers are a window into why the administration appears to be struggling with its pandemic messaging, privately and publicly. photo-ops like yesterday s m
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. closer, but to a deal or to a default. kevin mccarthy herds a bill through the house. it s guaranteed to go nowhere in the united states senate and far from certain to break the white house s negotiating promise. plus, ament here because donald trump raped me. e..en jean carroll is back on the witness stand after detailing an attack by the former president nearly two decades ago in a dressing room. and the mouse strikes back. disney makes ron desantis a defendant as the governor finds the polling gap between him and trump getting wider. up up first, a cross roads moment for president biden and house republicans. today a new number says the country is growing more slowly. but not as to dive into a recession. 12.1%, that s how fast the economy expanded in the first quarter. it falls off as you see the breakneck pace from the end of 2022. but the good from the report is very go