to members in that crowd. and there were some very interesting moments. is that right? what can you tell us? reporter: certainly, jim, some very, very interesting moments. certainly people who believe that this insurrection just didn t exist, that this was just people trespassing, people who just don t believe that when have seen before their very eyes. i had the opportunity to talk to one of the attendees, and he was talking about how no officers were assaulted, how this was a bunch of people who were just trying to go in and essentially protest, and asking him all sorts of questions, you could just tell he was living in his own kind of reality, take a listen to some of what i asked him. it s a public building. i mean people out there, people are in this town all the time and i think the most severe charge they have is trespassing. destroying property, assaulting an officer? you don t believe the video? on video, there is assaulting of a police officer. you don t think
covid questions in tonight s dear doctor. and homicides are on the rise in louisville, kentucky, almost a year after the death of breonna taylor. i am joshua johnson. welcome to the week. we begin tonight with the evacuations from afghanistan. by all accounts it s chaotic outside the international airport in kabul. thousands of people are desperate to flee the country as the taliban consolidate power. the british military said today that seven people were tkpheuld killed in a stampede of people trying to get into the airport. the biden administration has come under fire for how it has handled the evacuations, and a new nbc news poll out today shows the president s approval rating has dipped below 50% for the first time in his presidency. today he acknowledged his realities on the ground but defended his administration s handling of the situation. let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul will be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we
lawmakers are debating a new voting law mid vocal opposition. this one would increase criminal penalties for some voting irregularities and greatly empowered partisan poll watchers on the day of the vote. earlier today, and what amounted in a photo op carried out live on fox news, florida s governor desantis signed their new voting law which is largely aimed at curbing mail-in voting access, all other news outlets other than fox news were denied access to the event. something desantis clearly didn t think was a problem. why did you only allow fox news to sign the controversial election bill? we were happy to give them the exclusive on that. i think it went really, really well. for the record, fox says it didn t request the event to be a exclusive. it didn t ask for the other to be out. it limited mail-in ballot. several voting and civil rights organizations have filed suits to faux block florals law above and attack on the right to vote. and a horrifying reminder
covid relief has to pass. there s no ifs, ands, or buts. are the democrats about to give up on bipartisan too soon? i ll talk to president biden s chief economic adviser brian deese. also, party split. less than a month after the capitol insurrection, more republicans decide to stand by their man. democrats are wasting the nation s time on a partisan vendetta against a man no longer in office. than to oppose him. what is being alleged and what we saw, which is incitement to insurrection, is an impeachable offense. if not, what is? i ll talk to adam kinzinger, one of only ten house republicans who voted to impeach, about his drive to return the party to more traditional values. and what should republicans do about marjorie taylor greene, the qanon-supporting congresswoman who has many members concerned about their own safety? joining me for insight and analysis are eddie glaude jr. of princeton university, amy walter, national editor of the cook political repor
covid-19 vaccine. congratulations on that, sir. this, i think is what a lot of us are tracking. these variants and wonder how worried we should be about them and if this could tllead to another surge. what do you think? i think americans watching these mutations in the covid-19 virus, which we were expecting in the health care field, pretty much all variants you likely see will likely end up in this country. what is clear about these, it makes the virus much more transmissible. in other words, you can get it a lot easier than you could before. that s why vaccination remains the number one thing for americans to try to get and number two, social distancing and mask wearing, those types of things we ve been doing become even more important going forward. officials say when did we detect this? early january, they say. to be honest, south carolina, i m in washington, d.c. not far from there and immediately thought, i wonder if it s already here? do you think that it s actuall