Today i spent the day in the covid ward in the hospital where i was born in baton rouge, louisiana, except there s not really a covid ward. It s basically become a covid hospital since there are so many patients with the virus. They are struggling to breathe, they are struggling to live. The doctors and nurses are fighting to make it so. Even though there is a vaccine that could have avoided all of it and they have a message for all of you. Listen. Louisiana has the worst covid case rates in the country. It s also near the top of the list when it comes to hospitalizations. I was born in louisiana in baton rouge at this very hospital. I came home to see what was happening for myself. Baton rouge general mid city is bursting at the seams. We have more patients here with covid than without. That is correct. In general hospital in your lifetime, you haven t seen anything like this? i have never seen one illness occupy 90% of the resources and 90% of the beds. What s going on? it s more con
The biden administration is scrambling in the face of this stunningly fast unexpected fall after the u. S. Withdrawal. U. S. At this point now sending some 3,000 troops to help safely evacuate staff from the u. S. Embassy in kabul. That is where cnn s clarissa ward is joining us from this morning. This is, this is something to behold how swiftly this is moving, clarissa. Reporter: it truly is. I don t think anyone could have predicted this in their wild imagination. And the thing that is so striking here on the ground in kabul, brianna, is the deafening silence from the afghan government. We haven t heard any from them anything from them literally as this country is unraveling. You mentioned all these provincial capitals have fallen. Kandahar, the second largest city in the country, a city with huge strategic significance, huge spiritual symbolism for the taliban. That used to be the capital of their islamic emirate, and yet we are not hearing anything from the government about how the
Of voter fraud and election theft. Brooks is one of three lawmakers who stopped the steal organizer, administrator said help organize, administrator said hel alexander said helped him organize the rally. Along with mark knockout calls unapologetic association with fuentes and american first perhaps the most vivid example of the republican party s growing extremistism, his brother called him a white supremacist on this very show forethe whole nation to hear. These people are white supremacists. Ok. You don t get to say you re not a racist when you are cavorting with racists, amplifying your message and refusing to denounce them. Literally everything is connected. Ali alex ander said he collaborator with fuentes on stop of the steal movement meanwhile, attempting to gas light america into thinking maybe the insurrection wasn t that violent or the fbi or antifa or woke mob are responsible. It s got to the point they re playing president biden or democrats, the republicans are doing everyt
Charged. Do you think this is only going to get bigger? i think that s right. I still don t know what s going to happen, as i said, with kind of the other tentacles of the investigation as far as manipulating asset values for bank fraud and tax fraud and that side of things, the hush money payments, et cetera. But as far as this particular scheme is concerned, the indictment was very careful to not only talk about weisselberg and his son but to make clear that other people benefited and other people were involved on the trump organization side as far as making this scheme happen. So i fully expect that more people will be charged in this particular scheme in the weeks to come. Michael, if weisselberg was being paid off the books, what are the chances others like the trump family were too? well, i think the chances are very good. In fact, the first person i d imagine they re looking at is ivanka trump because it was revealed in the press a couple of years ago that she was paid in a way
Scheme and allen weisselberg making it happen. This is a pattern and practice of the trump organization for numerous executives and employees over a decade and a half. So this is really serious stuff, much more expansive than i would have expected given what s been said over the last few days. It s real trouble for trump and his organization. The indictment, jennifer, repeatedly mentions other employees who also got benefits from the trump organization. Weisselberg was the only one charged. Do you think this is only going to get bigger? i think that s right. I still don t know what s going to happen, as i said, with kind of the other tentacles of the investigation as far as manipulating asset values for bank fraud and tax fraud and that side of things, the hush money payments, et cetera. As far as this particular scheme is concerned, the indictment was very careful to not only talk about weisselberg and his son, but to make clear that other people benefitted and other people were invol