I m erin burnett. The breaking news, i quote the buck stops with me end quote. Those are the words of president biden admitting the fall of afghanistan happened, well not at all as he expected, yet, he says there is plenty of blame to go around. Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The afghan military collapsed. Sometimes without trying to fight. Americans cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. When i hosted president ghani in the white house in june and spoke to him by phone in july, we had very frank conversations. We talked about how afghanistan should prepare to fight and clean up the corruption in government so the government could function for the afghan people. We talked extensively about the need for afghan leaders to unite politically. They failed to do any of that. I also urged them to engage in diplomacy, to seek a political settlement with the taliban. This advice was f
ready to refer meadows for criminal contempt for refusing to sit for a deposition. congress grilling the head of instagram after a whistle blower leaked internal documents showing that the company knows the social media platform can harm the mental health of young people, especially teenage girls and emotional testimony as a manslaughter trial begins in minnesota for a former police officer who shot and killed daunte wright during a traffic stop saying she accidently mistook her gun for her taser. i want to bring in former gop congressman charlie dent and senior legal analyst ellie a former federal prosecutor. gentlemen, good evening to both of you. meadows is suing the committee. is he afraid of trump or is this another stalling tactic or both? it s a delay tactic. it s a distraction, tactic, don. this lawsuit has next to no chance of succeeding. what he s basically doing is taking a firecracker, lighting it, tossing it into the january 6 th committee room and saying deal
necessarily mean it hasn t already arrived. you would predict from looking at the mutations that have been identified that it likely will be more transmissible. you don t know that yet, you have to be careful, assume that s the case. do you believe omicron is already here in the u.s. likely? you know, i would not be surprised if it is. still, a lot of unknowns about the variant. let s get to cnn s elizabeth cohen with more on what we do know about the new variant. unfortunately we have detected a new variant which it is a reason for concern in south africa. so what we have done is to act very quick. a new covid-19 variant spreading quickly in south africa. u.s. health authorities in contact with officials there. we want to find out scientist to scientist exactly what is going on, a bit more widespread in south africa than originally thought. researchers say there s reason to be worried. it has more than 30 mutations in the spike protein, the part of the virus
we ve already heard from officials who say if it s not here yet, it could be on the way soon. cnn is covering this from every angle in the world. we have reporters in london, atlanta and johannesburg and arlette zientz is traveling with the president. arlette, let s start with you. we ll hear from boris johnson since the first time they confirmed they have two cases of the variant in the uk. reporter: we re waiting to here from prime minister boris johnson. he ll be alongside his chief scientific adviser. we re hoping to get updates. there he is. we see boris johnson arrive to the podium. let s listen in. we ve had the fastest vaccine rollout in europe and the fastest booster campaign in europe with almost 16.8 million boosters in people s arms. the case numbers have remained relatively high. we re seeing falling hospitalizations and falling numbers of deaths. on wednesday we received news of a new variant, the so-called omicron variant, and i want to express my deep
today s first-in-the-nation primary in new hampshire. i am kaitlan collins in washington, alongside anderson cooper in new york. right now, voters are getting their picks for the number one republican primary between donald trump and nikki haley. the former governor of south carolina is hoping to prove her critics wrong, vowing to stay in this race. of course, he would not require for her in the granite state, as trump and hurt rivals are falling in line behind him. we have reporters all over the state, analysts standing by with us. i want to go to the ground in new hampshire now, with sanchez and omar jimenez. omar, what s happening where you are? yes, we have been at this polling place in manchester throughout the day today. we have had so many people, hundreds coming over the course of today. i want to walk you inside a little bit here, just so you can see, then we will talk to a quick voter in a moment. this is the setup here. you see a, little less crowded than it wa