Terms of the Media Coverage, and weve been talking about this with jill abramson, former Executive Editor of the New York Times, and Annie Linskey of the Wall Streetjournal. But we spoke first to nayeema raza, who is a Co Host of the podcast mixed signals from semafor. The 46th President L of the united states, Joe Biden. I think it was actually 50 Million people who watched the debate on cnn that, You Know, and on Cnn Affiliate you saw it on fox news, etc, but people, 50 Million americans or 50 Million people watched the debate. Right after, in the cnn post brief, i mean, i think you saw this play out live, where people were literally, You Know, anchors were literally reading you Text Messages that they were seeing. You had Van Jones from the, You Know, 0bama administration, someone you expect to be supportive, You Know, talking about what could happen. I think the interesting thing to look at is not necessarily Cnn Or Fox news, where you kind of knew where the conversation maybe was
All the tourists have returned doing what they do walking slowly down the Sidewalk Right in front of you even though some of the seats are wet the subway is still packed and i know new York Citys coming back good Morning And Welcome to Morning Joe. It is tuesday, september 14th. And i think Jimmy Fallon has really captured new York City. Oh, yeah. No doubt, willie. So first of all, i like Bill De Blasio. Come on p. I love Bill De Blasio. Sorry. And the jets, the Punch Line is always, willie, and, of course, a line lifted there from marty scorsese. Its a great special on netflix. Pretend its a city. Just walk around and pretend its a city like people actually go to work here. Love that it is. Listen, there is moisture on the seats in the subway. I can report. Theres strange smells emanating from those platforms. Its really happening. Its really coming back. Late Summer Humidity brings up some of those scents and reminds you of the greatness of new York City. Cant wait. Were coming next
Of that country will only increase. The last u. S. Planes carrying u. S. Troops and state department left personnel left kabul airport at 3:29 p. M. Eastern time. They cleared afghanistan airspace and that s when we heard from the general. It marks the end of 20year mission which began shortly, of course, after the september 11th attacks. Roughly 6,000 americans have been evacuated since august 14th. About 250 roughly are believed still to be on the ground in afghanistan with the taliban now in control. Meantime, the big story here back at home in the u. S. Rescuers are trying to reach people trapped by floodwaters across louisiana as residents are being told not to return to new orleans and other areas across the southeast. More than 1 million customers in louisiana and mississippi, including all of new orleans left without power after hurricane ida made landfall as a category 4 storm. And many of them tonight are still without power down there. At least one person was killed as a res
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crisis. correspondent bryan llenas has the latest tonight from new york. good evening. good evening, a day after call they believed by democrats and republicans, today new york governor andrew cuomo double down and vowed to fight back against his critics. and going to take on those actors. today a defiant governor cuomo blamed lawmakers for spreading this miss information. i was not aggressive enough in locking down the false today. we were busy, trying to make lives, i will not make the mistake again. this is the normal political garbage. and it hurt them. that s what i feel badly about. undermining his claims of a partisan witch hunt, today new york democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez called for a full investigation into governor cuomo quote thousands of vulnerable nursing home residents lost the dear max their lives. this is republican u.s. senators are demanding the senate judiciary committee open investigation to begin public hearings warning pres