they have taken three capitals just this week. today president biden authorized troops to the legion. kelly kobiaya starts us off tonight from kabul. reporter: well, the president has announced that 5,000 troops will now be heading to afghanistan to help in what is described as this very limited mission of evacuating embassy staff as well as thousands of afghans who have helped in the military mission over the course of several years, heptd to finish applying for special immigrant visas and to get them out of the country. today the u.s. ambassador as well as the commander in afghanistan met with the afghan president to talk about the defense of kabul. a special forces commander from the afghan army has now been put in control of defending the capital city as we are starting to hear reports of taliban fighters inching closer to kabul. there were reports earlier today of fighting about 20 miles away from the city. more provinces falling and also reports, unconfirmed by nbc ne
of redistricting. how that plays out out could decide who controls congress. in new york, i m joshua johnson, welcome to the week. we begin in northern afghanistan, where the taliban have taken its last major city. the collapse of mazar-e-sharif they have taken three capitals just this week. today president biden authorized troops to the legion. kelly kobiaya starts us off tonight from kabul. reporter: well, the president has announced that 5,000 troops will now be heading to afghanistan to help in what is described as this very limited mission of evacuating embassy staff as well as thousands of afghans who have helped in the military mission over the course of several years, heptd to finish applying for special immigrant visas and to get them out of the country. today the u.s. ambassador as well as the commander in afghanistan met with the afghan president to talk about the defense of kabul. a special forces commander from the afghan army has now been put in control of d
that would be the end of it. so he said the burden was on them to decide if they would put forward any position that these documents have been classified. and the former president has said it publically, but not an argument that his attorneys have made yet. and his lawyers said that they hope to push that issue down the road because it also raises the stakes of how would they support that, it could involve affidavits, witness statements, sworn statements under oath which could become an interesting strategic decision for them to make which they even noted as part of their defense if there ever is a subsequent indictment in this case. so really getting to the heart of this issue here and what trump s team will take. and on a practical matter the judge said trump s lawyers have until friday to choose one of five vendors put toward by the department of justice, they will kick start the process of reviewing these materials, allowing both sides to categorize them as to whether thi
worker too scared to even say her own name out loud in public, a steep price for those who defended democracy and did their job. the committee unveiled new information about previously unknown activity involving wisconsin s republican senator ron johnson. his aide offered to hand deliver fake electors to vice president mike pence on january 6th, now, johnson claims this is a nonstory. cnn s manu raju pressed him on this. reporter: why was he even asking for that? because somebody delivered this to our office and asked to deliver that to the vice president. reporter: who is the person that delivered it? i have no idea. and new reporting this morning on ivanka trump, this is a reminder of what she told the january 6th committee in a taped deposition when asked about bill barr s conclusion that there was no widespread election fraud. i respected attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. barr made those claims on december 1st, 2020, but nine days la