kabul airport. afghan families desperate to escape the taliban s fanatical rule. they ll run behind you with the ak 47. and boom, boom, boom. our country is right now is finished. no more afghanistan. after 20 years of fighting. the united states military has begun strikes. the taliban will pay a price. and tens of thousands of of a began and american lives lost. we try not to think about it, because when you think about it, then i get like this. the united states became the latest super power to suffer defeat in afghanistan. we have defeated britishers, and now americans. and a generation of afghans who grew up knowing freedom saw their dreams denied. the taliban reimposed strict islamic law. i came here on this last trip less than two weeks ago, and afghanistan was a republic, backed by the united states. now it s an islamic emirate, run by the taliban. it did not have to be this way. the united states war in afghanistan started a lot earlier th
what happened to her last husband? whoever did this was very evil. the hurt, the anger. it makes you question everybody. it seems alive, somehow, in the appalachians of the tennessee mountains. the creepy tendrils of mountain misted snake and swirl. like lies. there is gold in there, somewhere, so they say. a sort of place where you could strike it rich, or maybe get away with murder. very scary. shocking. and devastating. so, after that serious death here, who can anyone trust? dearest friends? the royal betrayal come to mind? oh, absolutely. brothers in arms? it s beyond disturbing. closest family? she looked at me as if she wished i was, dead. maybe no one. we were always looking over our shoulder. it might still be, had it not been for him. pretty shocking stuff? i don t think i will work anything like this again in my career, just because of the different twists and turns. yes. in that toxic swamp of secret identities, of heroes and vi
[reading of names] it is that day again, september 11th, 20 years later. over the next two hours, we ll embrace two decades of death and life, and we ll reflect on the last 27 days in kabul. you will hear many of the names, the names we promised to never forget as we say good morning from ground zero. i m bill hemmer on this 9/11 yet again. dana: and i m dana perino. it s an honor to be here. we are coming to you live where 20 years ago america came under attack. bill: it started with disbelief and ended with a unified national resolve, and within days we moved to hunt down the terrorists that murdered nearly 3,000 in cold blood. dana: the evil did not discriminate. the victims were men, women and children of all races and religions. bill: some of them were going to work, boarding flights, others were fighting to save lives, losing their own in the process that morning. dana: right now in new york city we are approaching our second moment of silence at 9:03 eastern. that s
on it. what are they going to propose today. i think the way to think of this speech, in response to changing dire conditions that you mentioned, they re sliding along that continuum that starts with encouragement and ends with requirement a little bit closer to requirement. it was easy in the beginning, when people were flocking to pharmacies to get those vaccines. now you ve got a hard core of reluctant, resistance, some political some superstitious, some based on disinformation and they re trying to get over that. so for example, requirements, hard requirements for federal employees and contractors of the federal government to get vaccinated as opposed to opting out by getting testing. vaccination is by far, i think sanjay will affirm this when you talk to him in a moment, is far and away the most important thing that could be done. there is le additional steps is it the plan, encouraging masking and encouraging testing, health care steps for people to deal with covid wh
and british husband and wife not only win gold but break the world record in their respective cycling events. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us military says it s carried out a drone strike in western afghanistan, targeting what it said was a planner for the islamic state group known as isis k. the group is thought to have carried out the attack on thursday at kabul airport, in which 170 people were killed, inluding 13 american service personnel. in a statement, us central command said. meanwhile, the last british flights carrying civilian refugees out of afghanistan have departed from kabul. this report from graham satchell. the final flights leaving kabul airport. the british effort here is all but done. it has been a mammoth logistical operation. injust two weeks, more than 14,000 people airlifted by the raf to safety in the uk. but the ministry of defence ackknowledges as many as 1,000 former interpreters and other staff will left