In just a minute we re going to hear from the michigan governor. It is good timing. Even before the debate, governor whitman was considered a key figure in this selection in the future democratic party. Since that, her name has been mentioned with greater frequency , should president biden decide to leave the race. Pen what is going on inside the party at self where there has been a lot of news today. Democrats met behind closed doors today to discuss the future of the candidates the. Have given a variety of responses about where they are. Let s see the press conference. With the campaign stops and all of this. It will all be necessary. Joe biden has my support. My colleagues need to recognize that. He is in the race and i support him. He had a bad debate. Former president trump had a horrific presidency. Calling him president biden to step aside. Sounds like even the most vulnerable are coming to the realization that biden may not be going anywhere. A group of moderate democrats calli
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And of course for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the war effort too. For years, for example, the british army had been engaged here in the town of sangin in helmand province. And that area helmand province prominently but that area and sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. By june of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that one single town
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And, of course, for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the war effort too. For years, for example, the british army had been engaged here in the town of sangin, sangin in the helmand province. And that area helmand province prominently but that area and sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. By june of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that o
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king and washington. very busy day in the news. thank you for your time right now a supreme court deadline in a critical medication abortion case, a decision on whether to take a pregnancy ending drug off the shelves but now happen at any moment and this hour, an overwhelming show of solidarity for a black team shot for ringing the wrong door. bell, the man who pulled the trigger twice. it s still not under arrest. attorneys for ralph yours, family say that s an outrage and that the reason his black and white and the florida governor versus the house. the mouse build ron desantis threatens retaliation against disney with rival amusement parks. even he says, maybe a state prison crowd cinderella s castle, others eyeing the 2024 republican nomination, say governor desantis is doing harm . the gop s less government free markets brand. this has gone from kind of going after a headline to something that is devolved into an issue and i
we had literally people in pittsburgh and southern california walking into synagogues and shooting people while they were praying. sojerusalems is real in this country and around the world. and when you say i want to start killing jews, you inspire people. and he needs to be completely ostracized. thank you all very much. we ll continue this conversation. that does it for us. jose diaz-balart picks it up right now. good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. we are just two weeks away from election day. this morning people are lining up for the first day of early in-person voting across three more states. this after a critical debate in battleground florida. we ve accomplished an awful lot, but we ve only begun to fight. he won t even tell you if he will serve four years if you reelect him. i mean, come on, you deserve better than that. we ll break down where these races stand this morning and also this morning a russian court has rejected an appeal from wn