From bob woodward called peril in which he lays out the panic behind the scenes as the protesters moved to the capitol in a near insurrection ensued. Reports that mark milley took action to secretly prevent things from totally unraveling not only during and after the capitol event but weeks before it. At issue, the president s behavior following his loss to joe biden and what general milley described as the president s erratic behavior. Milley reportedly concerned that then t could go rogue and his obsession with questioning the election hit a fever pitch. He told his top chiefs to watch everything all the time. His fear is that president trump could do something unpredictable. Milley assuring his chinese counterpart that they need not be concerned about any surprise attacks that no hostile moves were coming from the united states. But the worry was plainly there. Both in china and here. Milley said there was no certainty that the military could control or trust trump and believed it w
Good evening, bret. Once again republicans called on the secretary of state to resign but in a shift from yesterday s house hearing, he wasn t getting much love from democrats either. Doing the right thing in the wrong way ends up being the wrong thing. Democratic chairman of the senate foreign relations committee robert menendez set the tone for what turned out to be three hours of intense questioning and scolding of secretary of state antony blinken over the withdrawal from afghanistan. We realize this is a complete debacle. This sant failure of intelligence. This is a failure of policy and planning. This is a puppeteer act if you would and we need to know who is in charge and who is making these decisions. Committee democrats deflected, letting the secretary explain how we got here over the last 20 years. And pointed fingers at the trump administration. Republicans handled the interrogating. Senator rand paul who has been pushing for years to leave afghanistan took issue with report
President biden singing collapses unlikely. John: there s been no new information from the state department on american stranded in afghanistan. As far as we know, the taliban still refusing to allow planes ready to evacuate americans from taking off. Jacqui: florida congressman standing by. You will have a chance to question blinken. First, to congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. Hi, jacqui. Good afternoon. We could expect some fireworks today during the hearing. Ranking member michael mccaul told me he is ready to hold blinken s feet to the fire that he will be bringing up prior previous testimony to this hearing. Secretary of state is set to appear virtually in front of the house foreign affairs committee at 2:00 this afternoon. You would expect some sharp questioning from republicans and democrats over the role the state department played in this chaotic withdrawal including questions about the about the state department email fox obtained showing the department denying appro
Republicans. He is expected to do some blaming and finger pointing including to the trump administration to pull out which set the process in motion and including a backlogged visa process. It is to keep the focus on the biden s trillion dollar plan to create a social safety net. It is a critical week for at least today and tomorrow, lawmakers are shifting the focus back to u. S. Involvement back overseas. Joining us to start the hour as we are keeping our eye and the start of the hearing, we have with us washington post military reporter dan lamoff and allied commander correspondent admiral stavridis, and joining us back is a valued voice that we are happy to have back in the fold amna anhoff. Welcome back. And before the congressional hearing, they send out a prepared text, and we know what he is going to say, and he is going to defend the decision to withdraw from afghanistan, and he says that it is the trump administration that made the deal with the taliban and leaving them with t
Is stepping in to the texas abortion rights battle. The united states has the authority and the responsibility to ensure that no state can deprive individuals of their constitutional rights through a legislative scheme specifically designed to prevent the vindication of those rights. The justice department suing texas while a big u. S. Company offers to relocate its staff out of that state over the abortion ban. President biden is headed to the west coast to join california governor in the final campaign stretch. We re days away from the recall vote and democrats are ramping up their turnout efforts. Football fans rejoicing, nfl sundays are back. And as a first big weekend of the season kicks off, many are saying the league is setting an example for how to successfully navigate this pandemic. We do say good morning, everybody. It is a football sunday, september 12th. You are a football fan? like the halftime. Yeah, during the super bowl. That s how much of a man i am. That s amazing. M