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the city of mcallen. mcallen is a small city on the very southern tip of texas, right on the border of mexico. the first abortion clinic in texas opened there? 1973, and it served women in the rio grande valley in that part of south texas for decades. even as anti-abortion republicans started to cement their control over the government in texas and year after year they devised ever more creative and draconian ways to make abortion as hard and as dangerous to get as possible in texas, that clinic in mcallen kept going. and republicans really did keep passing more and more restrictive laws, making it more impossible for clinics to stay open, making it more impossible for doctors to provide that service. in recent years texas republicans passed new abortion restrictions regularly, at least every two years with each new session of the republican dominated state legislature. and as a result of those restrictions, every couple of years, more clinics in texas would close. by t ....
tonight about americans left behind in an f kenneth under taliban control including dozen of students from a school district in california. we have a live report with the very latest as we wait for an update on the situation from th biden administration. hundreds of thousands of struggling in louisiana tonight no power, no water, no gas. we will check in on the hurricane ida recovery efforts tonight with a live report from southern, louisiana,. we begin with team coverage as the continuing follow-up from the withdrawal from afghanistan. live from london with a new taliban take and what it means for the afghan people. she s going to join us in just bit. the latest on the americans in the afghan allies left behind. taking a closer look at the president s address to the nation today admitting there ar still americans and thousands o friendly afghans who worked alongside our troops trapped in afghanistan for it. they still don t know the exact number of those trying to ge ....
carrying the last troops to leave the country, ending america s two decade long war in afghanistan and ushering in a period of uncertainty for the afghan people. civilians were flown safely out of the country. this despite an attack at a gate that killed 13 u.s. service members and 100 afghan civilians. tony blinken says diplomatic efforts are underway to get 200 americans and afghans with special immigrant visas out of the country still. mean time, in a very rare move, vice president kamala harris presided over a brief senate session today as the chamber increased payments to american citizens returning from afghanistan to help with transportation, housing, and other costs. that bill now heads to president biden for his signature. joining us is the senior white house correspondent and nbc news correspondent courtney kube and raf sanchez in doha, qatar and matt bradley. so shannon, we re expecting to hear from the president. his remarks are already a little delayed. wha ....
the president s national security advisor, jake sullivan. but first for our ongoing coverage we are joined by helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the new york times, an msnbc contributor, former top state department official rick stengel, now also an msnbc political analyst and paul rieckhoff is here, founder of veterans of america and host of the podcast independent americans. helene, i start with you. if there s any question as to whether or not this president and this white house cease the criticism of this decision, i think it was answered by the president going right at this very sort of specific line of attack that you hear frankly from the right and the left. he talked about this, quote, we shoulda, coulda maintained a small force and not taken on any casualties. they felt it was important to knock that down. what did you make of the specifics that he had and the attempt to knock back the critics? hi, nicolle, thanks for having me. it was a clear effort ....
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