officials. i think you have seen the airfield is secure and every day in security operations commanders are always improving the security environment. so as the commander on the ground at every level finds those things that need to be improved to increase the security to allow mission success, they will do those things that they have authority to do on a daily basis. so the ability to bring more people on and to continue those that is what we will continue to look at. do they have the snablt. i don t want to get ahead of where we are. but the mission remains security at the airport and inside of the airport and that is what we re doing. there are as we speak, there is no plans to expand beyond that and i think we leave it on that. the general has been talking about it, air lift is not a limiting factor. but that doesn t mean every set on every plane is available. there is a lot of factors that go into the in the throughput. including processing at the gates where we hav
they marched with torches chanting jews will not replace us as they paraded through the campus of the university of virginia. it was eerily reminiscent of the torch light rallies held at nuremberg during the third reich. the following day they carried confederate flags and symbols of nazi genocide as they vowed to protect the statue of a treasonous confederate general and openly embraced donald trump as one of their own. in fact just months earlier, an organizer of the unite the right shouted hail trump, hail our people, and was greeted with nazi salutes and applause add a pro trump campaign rally. another organizer was a member of the proud boys which would later lead the siege of the u.s. capitol on january 6th. in other words, charlottesville, four years ago tonight, was a tinder box just waiting to ignite. inevitably, it did. in fact we witnessed some of the violence live on this very network when one of our guests, reverend tracy blackman, was whisked away for her own
report alleging sexual harassment. is the flit cat fallout over? plus, after years of attempts the senate has passed a bipartisan bill. the question is when will it actually get to president biden s desk? and amid covid concerns, the academy is taking the event outdoors and the people to that. the question is who makes the cut? it s way too early for this. good morning, and welcome to way too early. the show that thinks that all the nominees are winners. i m elisa menendez. we ll start with the news. new york governor andrew cuomo is stepping down are the three-term governor is stepping down and will leave his office in two weeks. it comes as the assembly prepares to leave the month-long impeachment probe from several sexual harassment allegations. now, you know me. i m a new yorker, born and bred. i am a fighter. and my instinct is to fight through this controversy. because i truly believe it is politically motivated. i believe it is unfair. and it is untruthful.
assault israel. it s unrelenting. and we are going to challenge it vigorously. are you on the side of truth or lies? fact or fiction, justice or injustice connect democracy or autocracy? that s what it s coming down to. stand up, for god sake, and help prevent this concerted effort to undermine our election. have you know shame? we are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. jesse: joe biden is also calling for a federal takeover of elections and is promising to use his department of justice to go after the states. now, keep in mind, while the president spewed that kind of rhetoric, liberal fact-checkers have found these republican bills actually expand voting hours. but those facts don t matter to liberals in texas. a group of showboating democrats just skipping town in order to block republicans there from passing these new voting bills. they are fashioning themselves as political martyrs, who of course fled the the down next washington, d.c
afghanistan, the drawdown in the next few days? president biden: no. we re on track exactly as to where we expected to be. but we just i wanted to make sure there was enough running room that we could get wouldn t be able to do it all until september. a rational drawdown with our allies. there is nothing unusual about it. are you worried the afghan government might fall? president biden: we were in that war for 20 years, 20 years. and i think i met with the afghan government here in the white house in the oval. i think they have the capacity to be able to sustain the government. there will have to be more negotiations down the road, i suspect. but i am concerned that they deal with the internal issues that they have to be able to generate the kind of support they need nationwide to maintain the government. [inaudible question] if there is evidence that kabul is threatened as some intelligence reports it could be in six months or thereabouts, do you think you hav