prevented the pilots from being able to take off. just moments ago, we confirmed from three u.s. officials that officials are going to start at the airport on the military side. meanwhile. they are bracing for the group of taliban rule by removing images of women from store fronts like this beauty salon. the white house says we ll hear from them soon. that s where we start this very busy hour. richard engle is on the ground in kabul. mike memoli is near camp david. we re also joined by doug olivant. he is also a retired army lieutenant colenel in afghanistan. good to have all of you here on a very important day. richard we have to start with you on the ground. the situation still very much unfolding. what are you seeing right at this moment? so courtney just confirmed that the flights out of kabul are supposed to resume soon. we are very close to that airport. i have been watching it for the last several days. we have not seen those flights resume at the moment. but the ope
country. joining me now, ali arouzi nbc correspondent. ali, thank you for being here. to start things off, could you tellrt us the reaction in teher to what s happening on their border? reporter: well, it s a mixed bag, jonathan, from teheran. traditionally iran is ideologically opposed to the taliban. they are suni, the iranians are shi a and they never read off the same hymn sheet. as history has always told us, your enemy s enemy is your friend, and they are an enemy of the united states and iran is welcoming a large swath of u.s. troops disappearing from their border. and we ve also seen extraordinary scenes, jonathan, of afghan military personnel pouring acrossta the border int iran in advance vehicles with advanced equipment. no doubt provided to them by the united states which the iranian defense ministry will be very happy to get their hands on. that s the military side of it. the humanitarian side of it is that the iranians have opened up three border crossings on
federal investigation. well, do what bernie kerik is doing. back in january, the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection issued kerik a subpoena. at first, he said he would comply, but then he wanted an apology. fair enough. kerik has continued to place conditions on his cooperation with the investigation. this weekend, he handed over some documents while withholding others that his lawyer claims kerik is prohibited from disclosing. the documents he withheld are cataloged in a so-called privilege log, a spreadsheet that lists and describes the records he refuses to hand over because donald trump presumably claims to pertain executive privilege over them. one document is described as draft letter from potus to seize evidence in the interest of national security for the 2020 elections. yeah. totally normal stuff. i draft a letter like that at least once a day. in all seriousness, though, at the very least, that sounds like it would be relevant to an investigation i
average over a two-week period climbed by more than 200%. those figures only illustrate part of the story. testing sites are overwhelmed as omicron spreads at breakneck speeds. many americans are turning to at-home tests, if they re lucky enough to get their hands on one. think about all the positive tests that aren t being properly counted. some experts believes if all all the active cases were accurately counted, we would have somewhere near 1 million new cases a day in this country. and the serious cases are again overwhelming hospitals across america. in many parts of the country, long lines at testing sites have become commonplace, whether waiting on foot or in a vehicle. massive lines stretch for blocks. i like countless americans went out this past week to search for a local testing site that could do a test. the woman at the counter of one of them said they were full and taking no more walk-ins or appointments. it was only 2:00 p.m. when i said, okay, i ll come back t
mariupol. just a moment, we ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor. it s been 27 months since the first confirmed case of covid in this country. now, the u.s. has passed a stunning 1 million deaths from the virus. 1 million people. we ll discuss how we got there and where we go from here. willie, there s so much to talk about here. of course, we re going to start with the story about the russian generals. it s certainly consequential. but it does seem like we ve all just sort of breezed past that 1 million mark. we all remember back in the spring of 2020 when we had officials saying maybe 70,000 people would die. maybe 100,000 people would die. i remember there was a british maybe it was kings college, but there was a british research institution, university, that said up to 1 million people would die. my god, the chuckling from the maga freaks, the disregard from the maga freaks, the same people who worshipped donald trump for saying it was two or th