covid questions in tonight s dear doctor. and homicides are on the rise in louisville, kentucky, almost a year after the death of breonna taylor. i am joshua johnson. welcome to the week. we begin tonight with the evacuations from afghanistan. by all accounts it s chaotic outside the international airport in kabul. thousands of people are desperate to flee the country as the taliban consolidate power. the british military said today that seven people were tkpheuld killed in a stampede of people trying to get into the airport. the biden administration has come under fire for how it has handled the evacuations, and a new nbc news poll out today shows the president s approval rating has dipped below 50% for the first time in his presidency. today he acknowledged his realities on the ground but defended his administration s handling of the situation. let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul will be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we
right now. put my hands up. they re playing my song. the butterflies fly away. nodding my head like yeah. jillian: good morning. you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m jillian mele. how you doing, griff jenkins. griff: we were just seeing the olympic torch there live in tokyo. viewership down on the olympics but i have been glued. do you know that on day one of the olympics we had zero medals, no gold, silver or bronze. that s never happened since 1972. 4 # years ago was the 49 years ago was the last time we had a zero medal start. jillian: that s truly sad. griff: now we are back with six, tied with china. here we go. team usa, we re on a roll. jillian: you mentioned tv viewership is down. in the u.s., for the opening day, 33 year low, 16.7 million u.s. viewers. i know you were one of the 16.7, griff. i know you re super stoked about this. i have to be honest with you, i haven t seen a second of it. griff: we have a lot more to talk abo
conflagration out. i ll talk to martin indick and rashid khalidi. and amal clooney is on a quest to bring isis to justice for genocide. but she said the u.s. government is not interested enough. they deserve better than the response that they re getting. i ll have an exclusive interview with clooney and the nobel peace prize winner nadia murad. but first here is my take. the republican party decision in effect to ex communicate liz cheney is a water shed event. it marks the final transformation of the party from an ideology driven enterprise to one that is tribal, marked less by ideas and more by group loyalty. let s compare the voting record of liz cheney to the woman who replaced here elise stefanik. the american conservative union gives cheney a life time score of 78 out of 100 for her consistent conservatism. stefanik gets a 44, which is one of the lowest scores for a house republican these days. cheney voted for trump policies while stefanik was one of 12 house repub
i ll talk to martin indyk and rashid khalidi. and amal clooney is on a quest to bring isis to justice for genocide. but she said the u.s. government is not interested enough. they deserve better than the response that they re getting. i ll have an exclusive interview with clooney and the nobel peace prize winner nadia murad. but first here is my take. the republican party s decision in effect to excommunicate liz cheney is a water shed event. it marks the final transformation of the party from an ideology driven enterprise to one that is tribal, marked less by ideas and more by group loyalty. let s compare the voting record of liz cheney to the woman who replaced her as chair of the conference, elise stefanik. the american conservative union gives cheney a life time score of 78 out of 100 for her consistent conservatism. stefanik gets a 44, which is one of the lowest scores for a house republican these days. cheney reliably voted for trump s policies while stefanik wa
and voted out. how far will cheney go? the cyber attack on that major u.s. pipeline. now that pipeline is back up and running. the question is when will things get back to normal? raising the stakes to getting americans vaccinated. the question is, can getting the shot make you a millionaire? it is way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show where we re feeling lucky on this thursday, may 13. after being ousted from republican leadership, congresswoman liz cheney is still making the fight. house republicans voted to remove cheney as conference chair in a meeting that lasted less than 20 minutes. cheney spoke to her colleagues before the vote and said, quote, we must be true to our principals and constitution. we cannot let the former president drag us backwards. down that path lies our destruction and potentially the destruction of our country. the congresswoman spoke to reporters after the vote. she took a couple of dwes. here is what i