Concerned about their own people. The state department says you should go to the united nations if you have concerns. No word from the state department on exactly how many americans are still in afghanistan. Last week we told you private groups blamed the department for blocking six planes from u. S. Citizens from leaving an airport in northern afghanistan. For all we know they may still be stuck there. Bill: lawmakers to demand answers on that today. Whether they get any we don t know. The first of two days of hearings. The secretary of state is the main player. Many blame the entire mess on the biden administration. I think our greatest national security threat at least in the short term is joe biden and our national security apparatus. Why did this go so bad? how did he get it so wrong? why didn t he listen to the intelligence community warnings since april and may of this last year? this rosie dream they were going to somehow negotiate a lastminute deal with the taliban was absolut
And disappointment for band performers in the netherlands, after nightclubs close again due to soaring covid infections. Hello and welcome. Day three at the tokyo olympics is now well underway, and the medals are coming in thick and fast. Team gb have picked up their first gold adam peaty winning the men s 100 metres breaststroke final. But britain isn t the only country celebrating a good day at the pool. 0ur correspondent sarrah mulkerrins is in tokyo with the latest. It has been a scintillating morning with some of the finals it has been a scintillating morning with some of the finals in it has been a scintillating morning with some of the finals in the it has been a scintillating morning with some of the finals in the full here in tokyo. Let s start with star man adam pt, defending his 0lympic title. He is so dominant in the 100 metres breaststroke. He is undefeated in seven years. He had so much pressure on him coming into this to try and back up that when i become the first bri
Choice. But i think that donald is probably promising him that he will be saved. Something he is loyally, blindly, blindly loyal to. Today, the former president again insisted the investigation was a partisan witch witch hunt. So his messaging remains to. Same lawyers for his company denied any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, we are getting extraordinary new details about the abrupt break between donald trump and his former attorney general bill barr. It is revelations come from jonathan carl of abc news is standing by to join us in a moment. In a series of interviews for his upcoming book which he details for the atlantic john carl spoke with barr about trump s insistence that the doj investigates socalled voter fraud. Barr also announced his own inquiries and said he s skeptical about trump s claims. S claims that is very different from barr s remarks to cnn during this september of 2020 interview when he defended trump s falsehood about a potentially tainted election after several states exp
The official government jobs numbers came out today. Unemployment is up far higherthanexpected, close to 14 million americans say they want to work but cannot find a job. That is an old story. Here is the new twist. At the very moment that unemployment is rising, fewer people are working, american businesses say they can t find employees. And it s obvious they can t. Go to the nearest strip mall and count the help wanted signs on the doors, they are everywhere. Restaurants are closing because they can t find anyone to hire, so our manufacturing plants. That means america now has far too many workers, but simultaneously, far too few workers. How can that be? another question. What happened to all of the consumer products? many of the things that you buy add me to buy are more expensive than they have ever been. Inflation is real. At the same time, a lot of product seem to have gone missing complete we. The united states is currently experiencing shortages of chicken, generators, ketchup