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trying to use an unlawful ability to go after americans who they think disagree with them. beneath this, kevin is clearly running scared. petrified he might be more deeply implicated in the events of the day. mccarthy s phone records are also subject to the preservation request that the committee issued on monday to more than 30 social media and telecom companies. that means there s a chance that his data will be the target of a potential subpoena. that explains mccarthy s panic when he is issued an unprecedented threat to the companies on tuesday, vowing to destroy them if they comply with investigators. he is not just demanding those companies stonewall congress, he is running a protection racket. not unlike the mafia. with the threat of retribution. he is extorting private sector companies for a guarantee of safety. what exactly is he trying to hide? let s remember, little kevin is among at least a dozen republicans to have their communications targeted by the sele ....
one uk minister describing it as imminent and lethal. in just minutes president biden will meet with his national security team about this rapidly escalating situation. so far the u.s. has evacuated more than 101,000 people including 13,000 over just the last 24 hours. as for american citizens, the state department says 1500 are still in the country, including a third who have been in contact with our government. the white house says they are on track to wrap this up by the president s august 31 deadline. and the taliban is speeding things up, keeping crowds away from the airport. their spokesman telling nbc news that they will stay out of the way for now. translator: we don t want our countrymen to go to america. whatever they have done in the past, we have given them amnesty. we need young educated professionals for our nation. but if they want to leave, it is their choice. keep in mind an isis affiliate still poses an immediate threat to people in and around the ....
speak from st. charles, louisiana. he will be talking about the american jobs plan, hopefully with an infrastructure plan. mitch mcconnell said this. 100% of our focus is on stopping this new administration. what we have in the united states senate is total unity from susan collins to ted cruz in opposition to what the new biden administration is trying to do to this country. 100% of his focus, he says, is on stopping the president s plans. it s hard to see where there is room for compromise in that. perhaps just as important is what mcconnell was asked about when he gave those answers. 100% of our focus is on stopping this new administration. isn t there a concern that a sizeable chunk of the republican base doesn t believe this election was real? 100% of my focus is on standing up to this administration. the questions he got was about liz cheney and pushing back on the lies that the election was stolen. mcconnell did not engage in those questions. he mad ....
denying the allegations and joel greenberg s attorney has declined to comment. we re going to bring you all of the details in a moment. there is also this. former trump attorney rudy giuliani has spoken out for the first time since federal agents raided his manhattan home and office. he says he did nothing wrong. this as the washington post in another story has learned that fbi directly warned giuliani he was the target of a russian disinformation campaign. did he not take that warning. we re all covering all the angles of both these stories with our reporters, correspondents and analysts. i want to begin on capitol hill. we re following development surrounding matt gaetz. walk us through what we know about the letter and the context of the letter. the letter sent, was the not, for his social joel greenberg trying to get a pardon from the outgoing president? that s right, joel greenberg admitted he and gaetz paid for sex with multiple women including a minor who was ....
right now, the big show, cnn tonight , big star, d. lemon. can you believe after a year? i mean i remember when you got it, and i mean we were frightened. we didn t know we didn t know what would happen, and that was in the early stages. and then, you know, we thought 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 30,000, 100,000. we thought that was a lot then, and look where we are now. we are at half a million people. who knows where it goes? and it is really important, you know, kind of like january 6th and the shock people had during the trial of the scenes, yeah, because nobody talks about. it is about political interest, and it is the same thing here, brother, and everybody knows it. what did trump want people to believe about me? i wasn t sick, that i didn t have it. why, why would it be relevant? the denial of the reality was the game for him. yeah. and it not only made us sick, it literally killed so many people that it didn t have to be. these were not inevitable deaths, ....