afghanistan. texas senator ted cruz not holding back when confronting antony blinken about a child brian. did you receive that urgent guidance question on how many children have been subject to sexual abuse? what have you done to rescue young children from illegal and abusive relationships? after being brought to america by the state department. shannon: they report that the nation s top general bypass than president trump, large secret phone calls to china and more. we have the breaking details. we begin with judgment night for california governor gavin newsom, declared the winner by most outlets in this recall election. we are told that there are still people in line to vote. senior correspondent claudia cowan is tracking the details live from sacramento. hey, claudia. big breaking news within the last few minutes. gavin newsom will not be recalled. he will hang onto his job here at the state capitol in sacramento. the associated press calling the race less than half
the obama administration in exchange for the u.s. army sergeant bill bergdahl back in 2018. maybe they were picked up in afghanistan but they were picked up all over the world. they are terrorists and enemy combatants are not prisoners of war. greg: and so you have a catch and release game with maniacs, it s okay to let them go because they will come back. it s awfully insane. who is not gora gorgeous truth teller? then there s the taliban s new interior minister who was wanted by the fbi with a $10 million bounty on his head and he s said to be holding least one american hostage. and this, there was no hostage like situation stopping them from leaving. anthony lincoln is now changing his tune. as of now the taliban are not permitting the charter flights to the park. they claimed that some of the pastors do not have the required documentation. both whites need to be able to depart. we will work every day to make sure that they are able to do that. we will continue to pr
to resolve them. that is getting power back on in homes. that s getting gas to fuel stations. that s getting catarps out ther so people can mitigate their damage and to create and provide the assistance. so people who come home after not having electricity have to replenish the fridge. part of why we re here is we want to know what real people deal with. cnn is just outside of new orleans. nadia, you re on the ground with people who are dealing with these conditions right now. and what are they telling you? well, a lot of people are frustrated, and they are at the point where they ve reached their final straw, and they re trying figure out what happens next. they re seeing the lights come on in some neighborhoods. where i m at in kenner, the lights are still off. and they re not optimistic they ll turn off by wednesday when the power company says they ll be on. and they still have to clean up. look at this power line that came crashing down during the storm. it s still ri
has sustained over affeghanista he has centered around trying to get the coronavirus pandemic under control and deliver benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, and in the form of a human benefit, child tax credits, pre-k, expanded medicare benefits. free community college. a whole range of things in the budget bill that was advanced today in the house of representatives. he is facing tremendous resistance from republicans, legislatively on covid and the states and voting rights and he said going in to 2022, and 2024, his best chance of surviving the democratic majority and also winning a second term is by acting not talking about what you want to do for people, talking about what you have done for people. today was a step on the path. mr. brownstein the budget package, huge. it could transform american lives. but, you are not convinced it s going to actually help biden or democrats politically. why? why is that? in the near term. yeah. look, i think i
house correspondent john harwood, senior political analyst ron brownstein. gentlemen, so happy to have you. good evening to both of you. it s the top of the hour now. we re glad that you re here. john, two big wins for the biden administration today. the house voting to move forward on this massive $3.5 trillion budget and the john lewis voting rights act. the president also talking about the economic plan before the afghanistan announcement. does this show you where he thinks americans are focusing? it s not only where he thinks americans are focused, will be focused, but it s also what he thinks will be the best way he has to counter some of the political damage that he has sustained over afghanistan. joe biden has centered his presidency around trying to bring material changes to people s lives, trying to get the coronavirus pandemic under control, trying to deliver concrete benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, in the form of human benefits, child t