now, we don t know who the soldiers are or who is doing the shooting here but we do know this is apparently happening multiple times a day outside the airport. you see children in the area as well. president biden says as many as 65,000 afghan allies and families are still stuck in the country, along with up to 15,000 americans. the big problem, of course, is while the u.s. controls kabul airport, the taliban controls all the roads leading into the area, leading to scenes like this with crowds gathered just beyond the walls. on wednesday, defense secretary lloyd austin said there are no plans to use american soldiers to open a path to the airport. that left many afghans at the mercy of taliban fighters that control the roads, beating and whipping people trying to get in. some cases, people managed to access the airport by climbing walls. you can see american soldiers helping a woman over the top, onto the airport grounds. as for evacuations themselves, the u.s. says it is run
welcome to mtp daily. i am chuck todd. i have been saying it for months, how covid goes in the united states, so goes the biden presidency. as pandemic numbers increase, the president s numbers are starting to decrease. more than a month ago, president biden declared independence from the virus, covid cases in the united states flat lined to 10,000 a day. we are now averaging more than 100,000 cases a day, 10 times jump. cases are rising in all 50 states, and in places with low vaccinations rates. the administration announced a plan to encourage children over 12 to be vaccinated by the time school starts in fall. the education secretary will be at the white house press briefing, expected to begin any minute. we ll keep an ear on what he says. we have an idea what they re proposing, all of this as most of the country is experiencing substantial, high transmission of the virus. some hospitals and states like arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, florida are breaking records, runn
medal she s ever won before. thank you for being here. we have a lot to get to this hour. but at this very moment, we re waiting for what is being described as a major announcement from new york attorney general letitia james. you see the live room. the details on what they will announce very limited. we re going to bring the news to you when it begins. we re also keeping a close eye on the white house. where in a few hours president biden will be laying out where the country stands right now in the fight against covid. it cop comes at a critical moment. with a stubborn resistance to get a shot by some still but also a moment of new hope. the white house met the goal of 70% of eligible adults vaccinated with one dose. although it is a bench mark that they met one month later than they hoped. but where the now hope comes in is the number of people getting shots in arms is on the rise again. particularly in states getting hit the hardest by the delta variant. here is how one nu
nancy pelosi, told me earlier today that he is open to potentially calling some republican members of congress as well. so that is something that will take shape, jake, in the weeks and months ahead, as this investigation picks up pace. congresswoman liz cheney, she is one of the two republicans appointed on this committee. cheney is expected to give an opening statement at this committee s first hearing tomorrow. do we have any idea what she plans to say? she will speak right after the chairman bennie thompson and be expected to talk about how this issue, in her view is bigger than politics and that it is essential for congress to understand everything that happened in the run-up to the attack. a really important opportunity to remind everybody about the necessity of accountability for what happen for making sure that it never happens again. so now the question, too, also remains on capitol hill, whether anything will happen about accepting an appointment from nancy
[noise] chill bro. [noise] this is our house. [noise] the justice department also released new footage from inside the capitol. the rioters can be seen trying to force their way into the senate chamber, and taunting those officers who were trying to keep them out. more than 500 riders have been arrested in connection with what was essentially a failed attempt to keep president biden from taking office. late today, the winner of november s election issued a statement it read in part quote, this was not descend. this was this order. it posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive. a sad reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy. this past weekend, the men who lost november s election continue to push the very lies that fueled the january 6th insurrection. we won so much and then we had a rigged election. democrats used covid to cheat, they illegally change the rules of the key states and mailed out millions, and milli