next. pain and regret. hospitals are running out of beds. plus new era. new york will welcome its first female governor after andrew cuomo resigns in disgrace. no one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment. what is her plan to clean up new york politics? new york s lieutenant governor kathy hochul joins me ahead. hello. i m jack tapper in washington with the state of our union watching a tragic foreign policy disaster unfold before our eyes. weeks before the anniversary of 9/11 and the deadline of president biden s complete withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan, the taliban having seized much of that country they re now at the gates of the capital city of kabul. their representatives are meeting with leadership inside the afghan presidential palace. the rapid crumbling of the country has caught the biden white house flat footed. on saturday after pulling out almost all of the 2500 service members there when he took office, president biden
last stronghold of the afghan government. afghan president ghani has now fled the country. taliban fighters have entered the capital city of kabul where the american flag has been taken down from the u.s. embassy as the u.s. undertakes an urgent evacuation of american personnel. the rapid crumbling of the country shocked the u.s. and u.s. allies and caught the biden white house flat-footed on saturday. after pulling out almost all of the 2,500 troops when he took office, he s deploying troops back to get americans safely out of kabul, warning of a swift u.s. response if the taliban inte interfered. sources tell cnn the majority of the u.s. embassy staff are now out of the embassy compound. that s a sharp tsharound when president biden called it highly unlikely the taliban would overrun the country, at the time striking many experts in his own administration as unrealistic and prompting questions as to whether biden was cherry-picking intelligence or indifferent to it. as amer
in my life. we ll be dissecting that tornado you see there in ha hattiesbu hattiesburg, mississippi, at 10:00 p.m. eastern ahead of us. we want to get you to our next program. i ll see you back here in an hour. jake tapper reports an american hero: the uncommon valor of clint romesha begins right now. october 3rd, 2009. a storm of bullets, rockets, grenades and mortars rain down among a remote outpost in eastern afghanistan. deep in a valley. the taliban had found a perfect target. combat outpost keating. one of the most vulnerable american military outposts in afghanistan. studied by the enemy since it was set up three years before. as seen in the taliban s own video. time and again since the post was created in 2006, its defenses were tested by the taliban. but on that october morning in 2009, the enemy staged its fiercest attack yet. the high ground and their vastly superior numbers gave the taliban a huge advantage. eight americans would be killed in a battle that l
trust us. it s just better to be in front. the sonata turbo. from hyundai. . if you didn t catch the grammys last night, carrie underwood s electric dress was awesome. here is what was terrific. british folk rock band mumford & sons winning album of the year. and then song of the year going to we are young by fun, who are also named best new artist, who are adorably saying we are young, the lyrics, look at us in hd, we are not young. thanks for watching everybody. newsroom international starts now. welcome to newsroom international i m suzanne malveaux, here s what is going on right now from the vatican. it s the resignation heard around the world. pope benedict xvi stepping down at the end of the month. he says because of his advanced age. he s no longer able to handle the demands of being pope. the last pope to resign was way back in 1415, i will have much more of what happens next. and what is ahead for the catholic church. and former navy s.e.a.l. who reportedly fired
cover three wounded americans made their escape including a grievously injured stephan mace. but more americans, their bodies were still out there. and clint romesha lives the soldier s creed, i will never leave a fallen comrade. so he and his team started charging as enemy fire poured down. and they kept charging, 50 meters, 80 meters, ultimately 100 meter run through a hail of bullets. they reached their fallen friends and they brought them home. throughout history, the question has often been asked, why? why did those in uniform take such extraordinary risks? and what compels them to such courage? you ask kleine aclint and many soldiers here today, and they ll tell you, yes, they fight for their country and they fight for our freedom. yes, they fight to come home, to their families. most of all they fight for each other, to keep each other safe and to have each other s backs. i called clint to tell him he would receive this medal, he said he was honored, but he also said i