waiting in heat, chaos, and gunfire, threatened by taliban whips they fear worse awaits them if they stay. the german broadcaster says that taliban fighters searching for one of their journalists killed a member of his family, and artists are fleeing in fear, too. as a human being you should have a value. but under taliban rules, okay you live a miserable life. life is not about just eating. it is about creativity. reporter: the taliban is dismissing allegations of reprisal attacks against those who fought them or worked for nato as fake news. 20 years of fighting by the u.s. and its allies has resulted in a taliban triumph and an evacuation of local foreigners that looks more like a route. many european allies of the u.s. are rattled by the sudden withdrawal of american forces and the taliban victory. the president defiant. there s a greater danger from isis and al qaeda and all these affiliates in other countries by far than there is from afghanistan. and we re going
the court argued there was a vast valation of cosby s due process rights when he was charged. what does that mean? it goes back to a deal he made with the district attorney. he was on the former president s legal team and the higher court was saying this none-prosecution agreement sort of paved the way for cosby to sit down in a civil deposition. the testimony in that civil deposition was incriminating and essentially used against him when charges were brought forth later by a different district attorney. the higher court said that wasn t fair. we re getting reaction from all around as this really has just breaking. we got this opinion just before 1:00 and now we re talking about bill cosby, the comedian, basically out of prison for a ten-year term he only served a few years of. let me read from his attorney telling cnn that we re ecstatic with the supreme court s decision. we always believed that this is how the case would end. we are grateful and happy that not only was t
happening on capitol hill today. the electoral count act of 1887 is what requires congress to form a joint session. this is what it says. congress shall be in a session on the 6th day of january, succeeding every meeting of the electors. the senate and house of representatives shall meet in the hall of the house of representatives. it goes on to say, at the hour of 1:00 in the afternoon, on that day, the president of the senate shall be their presiding officer. now here s how the day will play out. the joint session will gather in the house as we just read. it ll be followed by the vice president, pence, calling the session to order. then each state s vote certification is read by a teller. if there s no objection, the process continues. joining us today is laura brown of george washington university where she s the director of the school of garage of the graduate school of public management. laura brown, talk about this role of congress today overall. why is it that they h
i m the guy you had to put up with during the first panel. fortunately we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars on the first panel. once again we have miller center people here and the miller center, one of its main emphasis is the focus on studying the presidency in depth, historical depth, with objectivity. in other words we re all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not which is reacting to events on a day-to-day basis as pat oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. we all strive to be as objective as we can but the job of the editorial cartoonist and pat as well as anybody has ever done it to provide comment, opinion. to provoke discussion as opposed to perhaps settle a discussion. the panel today will cover the presidents from george bush. i don t use the h.w. he was george bush when he was president. when john quincy adams became president, j
building. aution evacuated as a pr and some live broadcts were interrupted. police searched the building and did not find anything. th same building was partially evacuated in october when a pipe bomb was delivered there. in the district, a man was seriously wounded in a double shooting late last night in southeast. just before 9:00, aufofficers w called. police have not identified the victim also, a man has life threatening injuries after being hit by a montgomery county police ofcer. the pedestrian was taken to the hospital. that is less than a mile away om the wheaton metro station and they say the pedestrian was not in therosswalk athe time of the crash. police say the officer was not hesponding to the call the person wasit. j georgia avenue was shutdown for hours last night. it s back open this morning. a man is settling with the police department. we should warn you, some may find this video disturbing. he sued d.c. police claiming the officer s body cavity sear