Of Havana Syndrome. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im Kate Bolduan in for erin burnett. Breaking news, sticking to his deadline. President biden announcing he will not extend his selfimposed August 31st deadline for all u. S. Forces to leave afghanistan. Just hours after the taliban said it would no longer allow americas afghans to leave the country and the deadline is a red line. Biden tonight rejecting growing calls to extend the deadline siting security concerns. Every day were on the ground is another day we know Isis K is seeking to target the Airport And Attack both u. S. And allied forces and innocent civilians. But is it a realistic deadline to fulfill the president s promise . The promise that he will evacuate all americans and afghan allies from the country before troops leave . So far, the president has said that more than 70,000 people including americans and afghans have been evacuated since august 14th. That is 15 times what it was the pace, that pace is 15 tim
simatic it was of the original infection, chronic and often deadly institutional racism. the events of that fateful moment just 3:00 p.m. on the 25th of may, the corner of 38th and chicago avenue reignited a national reckoning of race and pitted mostly peaceful demond demonstrators against a president who turned troops on them to have a photo op and forced a re-examining of policing nationwide and in minneapolis, it brought an enormous civil settlement to mr. floyd s family, which is not the same as justice. the search for that began today. joining us just outside the hennepin county courthouse in minneapolis, cnn national correspondent sara sidner. tell us what you re seeing there tonight. reporter: well, a little bit of wind here, jim. we heard very poignant and pointed testimony today from a 911 dispatcher from someone on the ground witnessing what was happening to george floyd as he was under derrickek chauvin s k and we heard from another witness that talks about ex
impeachment trial. tonight, there are new questions about whether he can be criminally prosecuted as well as questions about the future of the gop. with the impeachment drama over, president biden s agenda is once again front and center as he moves to garner support for his $1.9 trillion emergency pandemic relief package. he will lay out his big plan tomorrow night in a cnn presidential town hall, his first since taking office. the president will travel to wisconsin for the event, the first official trip of his presidency. let s begin this hour with our chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. mr. biden has just returned to the white house for his first weekend at the presidential retreat at camp david. update us on the latest. reporter: he has been in office about a month now but has had to deal with this split screen, trying to enact his agenda but also still focusing and dealing with his predecessor s impeachment trial that was always lingering in the background
already saying they will vote to acquit. so house impeachment managers face an uphill battle to win the necessary two-thirds majority to convict. trump s defense is set to argue the whole trial is unconstitutional. they call it politically motivated and as well as infringement on the former president s free speech rights. all of this taking place under what is extraordinary security at the u.s. capitol. physical reminder that federal officials still believe the threat is very real. let s begin on capitol hill. lauren fox is there. lauren, so walk us through the first day of the trial. well, this question of whether or not it is even constitutional to be holding an impeachment trial of a former president, that is going to be the agenda today. four hours of debate followed by a vote this evening on that question of constitutionality. now this is going to look very similar to what we saw a couple of weeks ago when rand paul forced senators to answer this question in a vote. ba
joked out communism in korea a crawled through the jungles in vietnam and battled in the hot sands in the middle east. greatness was everywhere in america because greatness was rewarded. if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face plastered on magazines and billboards you had to be in at this point top shave. not enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment in our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. not allowed to judge anybody. nothing is taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength