we will have the latest on the cities effort to curb the from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnston. welcome to the week. we begin tonight with evacuations from afghanistan. by all accounts, it is chaotic outside the airport in kabul. thousands of people are desperate to flee the country, as the taliban consolidate power. the british military said today that seven people were killed in a stampede of people who were trying to get into the airport. the biden administration has come under fire for how it has handled these evacuations. the situation could be hurting the presidents performance with voters too. a new nbc poll out today shows the president s approval rating has dipped low 50% for the first time in his presidency. today, he acknowledged the realities on the ground, but defended his administration s handling of the situation. let me be clear, evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it sta
international airport. so much has happened today. tonight we will take stock in what s happening on the ground, and we will answer questions that you submitted online, about why this happened and what could happen next. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnston, welcome to the week. let us begin at the monumental events that took place in afghanistan today. taliban fighters marched into kabul, intent on taking full control of the capital city. they faced a little resistance as they entered the presidential palace. they are flag now flies in place of afghanistan s flag. meanwhile, the american flag no longer flies over what was the u.s. embassy. diplomats removed, as they an embassy personnel were evacuated by helicopter. president of afghanistan has fled the country. he wrote on facebook that he did so to try and spare the city from additional violence. just in time to. commercial flights, out of afghanistan are off suspended. that blocks a key escape
find out from sara nelson, president of the flight attendant sea w.. and, can friendship be the solution to repairing our politics? david french, senior editor for the dispatch says he thinks so. we will let him explain ahead. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnston. welcome to the week. . if that sounds familiar, it s because we re in a very similar situation as we are in last night. it s almost like good morning. up to see the groundhog? yeah. think it will be an early spring? didn t we do this yesterday? i don t know what you mean. don t mess with me, pork chop. one days this? it is february 2nd. groundhog day. yeah. that s right. i thought it was yesterday. [laughs] oh, [laughs] . take a breather bill murray. good news is. time unlike his collector in the movie groundhog day, this time we have a pretty good idea of what is going on and how it will and. senators just voted minutes ago to swap out a shell bill, with the actual
sometimes or cautiously optimistic, but will obviously continue to monitor the. situation i do hope that you re right, it is a big risk, but anyways on today s subject thank you for being with us, i hope you ll come back and will continue have this conversation better circumstances. when i come home, it will be. thanks for having me on the show. there has to, it has to. thank you for coming on, thank you all at home for watching, we will be right back here next sunday, 8 pm eastern. you can catch me monday through thursday live at 7 pm eastern on the choice, on nbc s streaming channel, peacock. now, it is time to turn it over to joshua johnson. good evening, joshua. good evening committee, thank you very much. good evening to you, it is great to be with you tonight. on a rather historic day. tonight, we re keeping a close eye on cuba. thousands of people marched today in havana, protesting food and medicine shortages during the pandemic, we ll have the latest there al
hopes to accomplish. it may be the wildest qanon conspiracy theory we ve ever heard and a former trump official push for a former investigation of it. we ll explain. plus, some folks are just learning about tulsa race massacre. where else don t we know about america s history and how will we learn it? from nbc news world headquarters in new york i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. so i don t know if you see it this way but i think joe manchin might be the most powerful senator in washington right now. this morning, he made news on election reform that could mean the end of one voting rights bill. in an op-ed for the charleston gazette males, senator manchin wrote that he will vote against the for the people act, however he added that he does support the john lewis for voting rights act. he also made clear that he will not support abolishing the filibuster. the senator appeared on fox news to explain his objection to the for the people act. i think it s the wrong piece