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42% said the president did poorly, more than rated fair, good or excellent. this part of his remarks spoke to that. let me be clear. leaving august 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. it was designed to save american lives. my predecessor made a deal with the taliban. when i came into office, we faced a deadline, may 1. the taliban onsloaught was coming. we faced one of two choices. follow the agreement of the previous administration and extend it to have or extend, add more time for people to get out. or send in thousands of more troops and escalate the war. the president said between one and 200 americans with, quote, some intention to leave, unquote, remain in country. most he said are dual citizens who decided to stay because of family roots there. for them, he said, every diplomatic effort would be made to get them out whenever they want to leave, which falls short of the commitment he made a couple weeks ago. some americans should understand troops m ....
unfolded. that s one headline from his address to the nation today. one that s of immediate importance, especially in a domestic political sense. the other headline could be far longer reaching with much greater impact on how this country maintains its presence in the world and at what cost in dollars and lives of american service members. namely, the president s commitment to avoid fighting another war like the one he just ended. we ll talk about both tonight. today new polling from pew research showed that americans by a 12-point margin, 54% to 42%, approved of the decision to withdraw. however, as the president s overall handling of the situation, 42% said the president did poorly. substantially more than those who rated it either fair, good or excellent. this part of his remarks spoke to that. let me be clear. leaving august the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. it was designed to save american lives. my predecessor had made a deal with the taliban. when i ....
rule on emergency challenges to the law, meaning it went into effect just hours ago. cnn s senior legal analyst laura coats explains how this law is different from others around the country. if you are talking about up ending the trimester framework not only of roe v. wade but of subsequent decisions that talk about a woman s right to choose prior to the viability of a fetus, meaning it can actually exist and survive out of a womb. what they are doing is so sneaky, it needs to be explained even more. what they have done in texas is essentially said any person can sue anyone in a very vague term who aids and abets an abortion, meaning somebody who encourages it, who drives you to, somebody who may have donated money to an abortion-related cause, that person could then have to pay a penalty of about $10,000. the idea of a plaintiff who might have to have something that they cannot reverse in the form of having a risk of imminent harm by a law, they can t now go to the c ....
states down south are still without power. and it could be for weeks before that power is restored. the storm left a trail of destruction in louisiana and mississippi, and now comes the scorching heat with no power. temperatures could hit 103 degrees today. overnight, two people were killed when floods washed out a major roadway between mississippi and louisiana. first, afghanistan, the challenges still ahead, and the legacy of what has been left behind. joining me now is pentagon press secretary john kirby. thanks so much for being with us. you know, i m cognizant of the fact that you spent your life in public service, a big chunk of it in the military. what s it like for you to wake up this morning and after 20 years, for the first time in 20 years, to have no u.s. troops in afghanistan? yeah, i think we re all still processing that, john, to be honest with you. it is something that for two decades we ve all been connected to, without question. and i think it s go ....
following yesterday s terror attack at the airport, hospitals in kabul are overwhelmed with the wounded. the pentagon says that the attack was carried out by one suicide bomber, not two. i can confirm for you that we do not believe that there was a second explosion at or near the baron hotel, that it was one suicide bomber. it comes as the uk government says it s stopping civilian evacuations from kabul after today and admits some people will be left behind. we are now processing approximately the last 1,000 people on the inside of the airfield and will fly them out today. that is effectively where we start to move to the next stage, the evacuation of our 1,000 troops. food shortages and only a few days of medical supplies left aid agencies say the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan is worsening rapidly. in other news, firefighters are tackling a blaze at an industrial estate in leamington spa, where explosions and a strong chemical smell have been reported. and in th ....