Tonight, why so many are being so misled. The pandemic gross around the country. Then the January 6th committee issues a raft of document requests. What we know about their demand for White House records. Plus, never mind the Big Lie. How every single House Republican just voted against strengthening democracy and what you need to know about what is being called the Stunning Radical and terrifying decision by the Supreme Court. All in starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im chris hayes. Ive been haunted the last few days by a little bit of a mystery. How is it that the daily Death Numbers from Covid Have topped 1,000 and how are we seeing this Level Devastation and death with the virus despite just over 60 of the eligible population fully vaccinated and 81 of seniors vaccinated, senior being the most vulnerable to the virus making up a huge portion of the deaths from covid weve seen until now. How are we in this situation . We came across this New York times article which help
To 11,000 per day. Today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. Thats one big u. S. Military Cargo Plane full of people every 39 minutes. The Wall Street Journal is also Reporting Tonight and this confirms what we had from the a. P. A few days ago. Theyre confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where theyre actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. Picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. Now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these Evacuation Efforts in kabul. The pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hardtoget places, but this further Reporting Tonight from the Wall Street Journal that in many instances its actually Cia Officers who are doing those dangerous missions and not just u. S. Military person
Lee, thank you so much for making some time for it tonight. i really appreciate it. thank you. that is all in for tonight. the rachel maddow show starts right now. dpeng, rachel. good evening, chris. much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. this is one of those news days where i spent the whole day prepping for a completely different show than the one we re going to end up doing tonight. a lot of just tearing stuff up and starting over today, which is fine. but there s just a lot of important developing news, including news stories that are developing over the course of this evening. and we are going to cover a lot of different bases tonight. we are of course keeping eyes on afghanistan and what is turning out to be just a massive, massive, unprecedented in size u.s. military airlift out of that country. in recent days we have watched as the number of people being airlifted out of kabul climbed from a few hundred per day to 2,000 per day to 5,000 per day