Raising fears of a civil war. H here s president biden hours ago. I met with the afghanistan government in the white house. I think they have the capacity to be able to sustain the government. We know as many as 1,000 u. S. Troops will stay in kabul to protect the embassy. And since 2001, more than 2000 u. S. Service members have died in afghanistan. More than 20,000 wounded in action. Cnn ease anna corn is live in kabul for us. What is the latest reaction there to this threat of potential civil war and president biden s confidence that the afghan government is prepared to handle it? anna, unfortunately the people of afghanistan do not necessarily share his optimism. They do not believe that the government and the armed forces can protect them which is why we are seeing this mass exodus of afghans from this war ravaged country. They know what s coming. At least they fear what is coming which as you mentioned yshlg potential civil war, if not outright taliban rule. And we re seeing the
Brave. All those we honor today gave their lives for their country, but they live forever in our hearts, forever proud, forever honorable, forever american. And while the president spends memorial day at the white house, there are millions of americans getting ready to hit holiday traffic and long tsa security lines after the first long holiday weekend of the year with more than 100 million americans now vaccinated. And we re also following big political news in texas where democratic lawmakers blocked the republican majority in their state from passing new restrictive voting laws, but texas governor greg abbot isn t giving up on getting that bill to his desk. We start with nbc s kelly o donnell at the white house. President biden made the trip from delaware back to washington to take part in this sacred tradition with this speech that seemed to touch on a good deal of curren events and president biden is at his most emphatic and critical things and one personal loss the other is ameri
eric swalwell who has used his office to promote beijing s talking points word for word. a man who admits to a close personal relationship with an actual chinese spy who helped him get elected to congress. raised money for him and put an intern probably another spy in his office. that man continues to serve on the house intelligence committee where he is unrestricted access to classified information. how is this happening? trace: let s bring in former utah congressman jason chaffetz. good to see you this morning. thanks for coming on. i want to get your take. the axios report says this woman christine fang didn t pass on classified information. the report says private but unclassified information about government officials such as their habits, preferences, schedules, social networks and even rumors about them is a form of political intelligence. collecting such information is a key part of what foreign intelligence agencies do. what do you make of all this? it s a very
our hospitals than ever before, and the overwhelming majority are unvaccinated. the ad follows a similar plea from hospitals in minnesota earlier this month, now facing omicron, pleading for help. that part of it all feels like it was preventable. we had a level of protection that was offered that people declined, and now they re taking up beds that we know we need for other patients that need surgery for their heart disease or for their cancer, and those patients don t have access to the care that they need right now. all of us working on the front lines, health care providers, doctors, nurses, respiratory techs are going to feel the impact of those individual decisions. hospitals and emergency rooms were crowded before omicron came. we had a delta surge, we had e.r.s that are full of tired workers exhausted, not enough nurses e. covid now the third leading cause of death after heartland disease and cancer. being bombarded with new restrictions and restrictions, cali
investors brushed off comments from the chair of america s central bank, jerome powell, who s ruled out an interest rate cut next month. isaac poole, the global chief investment officer at 0reana financial services gave us his outlook on the interest rates and the markets earlier. what we are seeing here is the market really continuing to expect significant rate cuts from the fed and that has helped drive forward returns, as you say, this target was what we were expecting to hit at the end of the year, but we have seen a little bit better than expected economic data is also helping optimism, that earnings growth might pick up a bit in the next few months. so this is all bit in the next few months. so this is all about expectation for rate cuts, mr optimism because of strong earnings? i think it really does reflect rate cut expectations and a growing belief that the us can have a soft landing, because when you look at earnings growth, actual earnings growth has been slow and