broke. it s freezing, it s a blackout, no electricity. blackouts, water shortages, freezing temperatures, and the hot debate over how everything went so wrong. the state didn t prepare for the worst-case scenario, now we re paying the price. plus, the republican civil war. days after mitch mcconnell s broadside against donald trump president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. the former president strikes back with a little help from his friends. president trump is the most consequential republican in the party. if mitch mcconnell doesn t understand that, he s missing a lot. i ll talk to former texas congressman will hurd about the rift in his party and on the catastrophe in texas. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief white house correspondent kristen welker, democratic polster cornell belcher, susan page, washington bureau chief of usa today, and former republican governor of north carolina,
sarah vine, columnist with the daily mail, and ruth smeeth, former labour mp in stoke on trent. and on a busy night, we also have. amanda renteria, former adviser to hillary clinton. welcome to context. occasionally, there are two stories that collide and compete for our attention, and this is one of those nights, although strangely, there are obvious parallels between them. on this side, these are truly dark times for the prime minister, borisjohnson. today, one of the new intake of northern mps defected to the labour party, while one of his former brexit allies stabbed him in the front and called on him to resign. in washington things are not quite as serious forjoe biden, in washington, things are not quite as serious forjoe biden, but like the conservatives, the democrats are asking what their leader can do to stop the rot. in the senate the president s agenda is stalled, inflation is soaring, in the senate, the president s agenda is stalled, covid i9 still a problem, and
they 124. sean: 124, 137 days since joe biden promised he wouldn t abandon any americans. tonight, now admitting they have no idea whatsoever how many people are still trapped. and now the official number does appear to be going way up, not down. according to a big new report in the wall street journal, around 60,000 interpreters, visa applicants, and others who helped the u.s. are still trapped in afghanistan. we have hundreds of americans, we have military families, we have thousands of green card holders also trapped. yesterday, the pentagons was broken john kirby said more people there, that s a good thing. what world is he living in? the issue is that as we have proven successful at getting more outcome on warren or i know being coming while comfortable in saying we want to go too. again, we don t think it s a bad thing for the number has increased. we think it s a good thing and we are going to continue at this even though the military mission is over, they should
americans. tonight, now admitting they have no idea whatsoever how many people are still trapped. and now the official number does appear to be going way up, not down. according to a big new report in the wall street journal, around 60,000 interpreters, visa applicants, and others who helped the u.s. are still trapped in afghanistan. we have hundreds of americans, we have military families, we have thousands of green card holders also trapped. yesterday, the pentagon spokesperson john kirby said more people there, that s a good thing. what world is he living in? the issue is that as we have proven successful at getting more out, more and more are now becoming comfortable in saying we want to go too. again, we don t think it s a bad thing for the number to have increased. we think it s a good thing, and we are going to continue at this even though the military mission is over, they should help americans leave afghanistan. sean: we learned that this week that they are not
a line across. it you ll see moderators, lights, cameras all the normal stuff. a number of candidates with varying degrees of presidential potential will be lined up with their best flag, pins, and prepare lines ready for that debate. the days leading up, we ve been watching all of these candidates do the things candidates normally do. they re giving their speeches, shaking hands with voters, making the rounds at the iowa state fair. visiting swing states, but no matter how much they try to cling to a sort of, alternate reality, where this is any primary. and any of the meld a bag full of a bunch of hopeful presidential candidates. that s pretty disconnected from the situation here back on planted earth. and it s a weird one of the situation is a weird one. it s one where the front runner has has been indicted four times, in four months, and has to turn himself into jail this week, this week, the same week of the debate. reportedly maybe even the day after the debate. it s