military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. that was the choice, the real choice, between leaving or escalating. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. to those asking for a third decade of war in afghanistan, i ask, what is the vital national interest? it was time to end this war. we will maintain the fight against terrorism. we just don t need to fight a ground war to do it. and to isis-k, we are not done with you yet. the speech gets the broader outlines of his foreign policy, saying that the era of nation building is over. the president also noted that the u.s. would help evacuate the estimated 1 to 200 americans still in afghanistan, if they want to leave. the state department also think kabul embassy staff, posting this photo taken just before the departure. there is no longer an embassy in afghanistan. those diplomats will now be based in qatar. meanwhile nbc news has learned more about just how closely the
tried to pressure the justice department in the days after the election. asking the department of justice to investigate fake claims of voter fraud, which would help delegitimize joe biden s victory. but until tonight, we did not know how extensive donald trump s efforts were. according to the washington post, president donald trump called his acting-attorney general nearly-every day, at the end of last year, to alert him to claims of voter fraud or alleged-improper vote counts in the 2020 election. end quote. in those calls, the post report that donald trump raised various allegations of voter fraud that he had heard about. and asked what the justice department was doing about it. here is the kicker. these calls did not just stay phone calls. there is a paper trail. quote, attorney general rosen told few people about the phone calls, even in his inner circle. but there are notes of some of the calls, that were written by a top aide to rosen named richard donoghue, who wa
we know he had tried to pressure the justice department in the days prior toic the election asking them to investigate fake claims of voter fraud, but until tonight we b did not know how extensive trump s efforts were. trump called his acting attorney general nearly every day over claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. in those calls the post reports donald trump raised various allegations of voter fraud he had asked about and asked the justice department what they were doing about it. here s the kicker. these phone calls did not stay phone calls. there is a paper trail. quote, attorney rose entold few people about the phone calls, but there arene notes of some o the calls that were written by a top aide to rosen named richard donahue who was present during some of the conversations. those notes could soon be turned over to the senate judiciary committee as part of its probe why bill barr so suddenly left the justice department after the election. those notes could hea
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kids across tennessee from all vaccines, not just covid. it s just it s astonishing. really mind boggling stuff. and also just really important, i think, to see, like, we keep seeing in this, the progression of this pandemic, these civil servants just doing their job with integrity and getting whipsawed by in nilelistic political movement and it s hard to watch. it s lives at stake. incredible. incredible stuff. well done, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us. happy to have you here tonight. we start tonight in the beautiful state of oklahoma. oklahoma where the state song is oklahoma and everybody knows huh to sing part of it. home to the national cowboy hall of fame. oklahoma is home to this giant pair of very vrany anatomically correct hands at the entrance to oral roberts university in tulsa. it s the birthplace of will rogers, brad pitt, woody guthrie. it s the birthplace of elizabeth warren and wilma mankiller. this 76-foot-tall golde