takeover is permanent or semi permanent. but it is proceeding with lightning speed. and because of that, that has led multiple countries to activate contingency plans. multiple countries that had long-standing deployments along their, are now acting on an emergency basis to salvage what they can and to rescue their can. canada, great britain, germany, norway, denmark. all countries taking emergency steps right now to evacuate their citizens and personnel. to evacuate and then close or at least temporarily shut their embassies. it s not just us. it s essentially all of our allies who served alongside u.s. troops and afghanistan over the long war. the first contingent of u.s. marines returning to afghanistan to evacuate u.s. embassy personnel, that first contingent of marines is already on the ground right now. there should be something of the order of 3000 u.s. marines back in kabul before this weekend is up. jake listen machine and foot foot tree commander. he s now congressm
election was stolen from trump, and senator ron johnson of wisconsin whom trump praised for getting to the bottom of things. the notes pointing to trump s perceived coup accomplices are now in the hands of those members peers in the house oversight and reform committee, which is investigating trump s efforts to overturn his defeat. the extraordinary new window into conversations with top justice department officials and the ex-president represent fresh smoking gun evidence of trump s abuse of power and frantic efforts to cling to power at all costs. the notes illuminate a well worn theme of the trump presidency, the ex-president s imperviousness to facts. the times writes this, the officials also told trump the justice department had no evidence to support a lawsuit regarding the election results. we are not in a position based on the evidence, they said. we can only act on the actual evidence developed. trump then cass at this gat cas. he said people are angry blaming the
meet with georgia s new democratic senators, congresswoman williams and voting rights advocates to discuss ways to combat the states gop voter suppression activities. one of the advocates in that meeting will join us in a moment but here is how the vice president described the meeting. the vice president s third event this week focused on protecting the right to vote in republican led states. on monday, vice president harris met with veterans activists in south carolina, and on wednesday, she met in washington with more than a dozen texas democrats who blocked gop backed butter instructions. one of those texas democrats will also join us in just a moment. the administration is serious about protecting the right to vote at the state level. democrats in state houses believe that the best way to do that is to protect the right to vote at the federal level. some of the same tech stomach a secure last-minute meeting with joe manchin in an effort to win his support for federal
going to 40 and older on monday, and 18 and older on april 5th. they re trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible but this comes as these states do see these surge of people just flooding in and when it comes to the number of states that are seeing this rise, let s take a look at these numbers here. you mentioned over half the states in our country are seeing this rise and a handful are seeing a massive rise of 25% to 30% or more. that includes, i want to take note of a couple states in particular, connecticut, north dakota, new hampshire, minnesota, and some other ones. now, that s going to be important later, which i ll mention, so keep those in mind. now, the cdc director says that overall, the national average of rising cases has hit 7%. she says this is a clear sign that we are starting to get this increase. does it amount to a fourth wave? listen to what she said about how close we are to that. i remain deeply concerned about this trajectory. we have seen ca
all 50 states certify the results of their election, we don t get a new president. and perhaps, this is overstating it a little bit. but last november, this guy, with the awesome name, aaron vanlangvelde, he kind of saved democracy from all of us on zoom. we have a clear duty to certify the results of the election, as shown by the return that was given to us. we cannot, and should not, go beyond that. as john adams once said, we are a government of laws, not men. and this board needs to adhere to that principle here, today. this board must do its part to uphold the rule of law, and comply with our legal duty to certify this election. i will be supporting the motion. i will be supporting the motion. by which american democracy was rescued from the brink. that low-key zoom meeting happened on november 23rd, just a few weeks after the 2020-presidential election. joe biden had definitively been called the winner. donald trump had lost. biden had won critical-swing states, lik