Of afghanistan. The politics of our presence have always been deceptive and messy. The exit is too. Heres the reality. Trump made a rash deal with the taliban to leave by May 1st of this year. Biden agreed and had it go bad on his watch. Here is how the current president explains the state of play. It would have taken a significant american troop presence, multiple times greater than what President Biden was handed, to stop a taliban onslaught. But the afghan government and its supporters, including many of the people now seeking to leave made a passionate case that we should not conduct a massive evacuation unless we trigger a loss of confidence in the government. What you can do is plan for all contingencies. We did that. When a Civil War comes to an end with an opposing Force Marching on the capital, there are going to be scenes of chaos. Do you agree with that assessment . It doesnt really matter. Thats politics, okay . What matters is how we do what we need to do right now. Lawmak
Andrew cuomo is a man alone tonight. He is a politician very much alone tonight. Every democrat who New Yorkers have heard of, have called for new York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign. Every democrat in the new York State congressional delegation, including Senate Majority Leader chuck schumer, has asked new yorks democratic Governor to resign. The final political isolation of Governor Cuomo came just before 5 pm this evening when the President Of The United States said the Governor of new york should resign. Back in march, you said of the investigation confirm the allegations against Governor Cuomo, then he should resign, will you no call on him to resign given the investigator said the 11 woman were credible . I stand by that statement. Are you now calling on him to resign . Yes. It was another terrible and difficult day for the woman who have accused Governor Cuomo of Sexual Harassment having to relive those accusations in the Media Today seeing them portrayed by us and the news med
For starting the fires to justice. Pregnant women are being urged to get the Covid Jab as soon as possible, as the number of mothers in hospital with the virus rises. Our Health Correspondent Catherine burns has the story. At Londons Chelsea and westminster hospital, an antenatal clinic with a difference. Mums to be having vaccines at the same time as routine scans and blood tests. We just thought it was important to have it, to protect me and the baby as well. I was really nervous before i had it done, and then i did a bit of reading and thought, actually, this is perfect. Kind ofjust want to do the best thing for my baby. And i was really scared about getting covid. I catching covid during pregnancy puts Mother And Baby at extra risk, so the chief midwife for england is encouraging anyone who is pregnant to get theirjab. We want mums and babies to be safe, and indeed their families, and thats why we encourage and urge every pregnant woman in England Today to seek some wise counsel, s
Since the latest conflict broke out. Israeli military operations ramping up for thousands of rockets being launched into civilian areas of israel. Over Night War planes attacked a tunnel belonging to hamas in the southern Gaza Strip. Cnn is live in israel with more. About 3100 rockets fired from gaza and israeli territory since last monday. Any hope it could slow down any time soon and slow the pace of civilian Death And Destruction here . Reporter well this is about 15 and a half miles north of the Gaza Strip. The city, according to the military, received the number of sirens. In the last few minutes, weve been Hearing Explosions south of us. The city has been receiving sirens. We may get a siren here at any minute. Possibly indicating incoming rocket attack. But what weve been hearing earlier this morning is lots of jets overhead. Weve been Hearing Explosions and booms in the south. At one point, we saw a plume of black smoke behind us. It gives you the indication the action is conti
good evening. chris cuomo is off tonight. vigils are under way in boulder, colorado. a police officer with wife and seven kids was honored separately as well. at the same time, investigators have a lot to learn about what motivated the alleged killer and why he chose this particular store to attack. i spoke to kimberly moore last hour, pharmacist at king soopers. i stood back. i wanted to make sure that my other colleagues in the pharmacy were okay. we ended up hunkering down more in the back of the pharmacy. but for the beginning of the initial part of the attacks, it was really terrifying, because you felt extremely exposed. all he had to do was jump over a counter. so you were, what, underneath the counter or so there s these shelves that go behind the pharmacy where we keep our medications. we eventually moved our way back there, which is pretty deep into the corner as you can get, being inside the pharmacy. we just hid there. wow. those grieving for loved one