Nearly 11,000 people in one day in the 24 hours from sunday to monday. Today the pentagon says the latest number in the latest 24hour period is they got more than 21,000 people out. 21,000 people evacuated in one day. That means the u. S. Air lift out of kabul overall has removed more than 70,000 people from kabul since they started ten days ago which is an astonishing number. But with the president planning to get u. S. Troops out entirely by the initial deadline he set which is next week, august 31st, the evacuation effort will necessarily have to start to ramp down. Troops will have to start to leave. It takes time to get them out safely. As of today u. S. Troop numbers are already dropping at the kabul airport. What will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuations and the orderliness of evacuations and the commitment to get every american and every afghan ally of american troops and the american people out of there, we re going to have a live report on that situation coming up in
We start with the world s biggest entertainment company because after a tough 18 months walt disney is bouncing back from the pandemic. It made revenues of 17 billion dollars in the three months tojune up 45 per cent on this time last year and more than wall street was expecting. Its streaming service disney+ now has 116 million subscribers. And visitors are returning to its theme parks as restrictions are eased. But will it last? the bbc s michelle fleury has more from new york. The world s largest entertainment company walt disney is riding high after it reported total revenues of $17 billion. The ceo bob chapek says he is pleased with the company s trajectory even as he acknowledge the ongoing challenges of the pandemic. Much of the excitement was over disney+, its streaming service which has thrived during the pandemic as the company lost money from the cinema box office as well as its theme parks and resorts and cruises. In the last three months, disney added over 12 milli
Unprecedented war in democracy. Now going to be aided and abetted by at least two democratic senators, joe manchin of west virginia announced he will be voting against a democrats sweeping reform bill known as for the people act. In an oped in the charleston mail the conservative democrat writes, quote, the right to vote is fundamental against our democracy and it should not be against policy or politics least of all. It should never be done in a partisan manner. The problem, it s already been done in a partisan manner. It s been done. At least 14 states have enacted new republican laws this year, placing restrictions on the casting of ballocht ts. Out of 389 bills as of midmay in 48 states, which basically means joe manchin thinks voting is fundamental. He says voting is fundamental but doesn t want to do what needs to be done to save it. He writes further, quote, whether it is state laws that seek to needlessly restrict voting or politicians who need to restrict our elections, policy
trip to chicago tomorrow in order to spearhead negotiations to save his multi-trillion dollar domestic agenda which is at a make or break point right now with anxiety growing among democrats. biden holding meetings with joe manchin, kyrsten sinema to work out a deal with them. also today the top general testifying that they recommended maintaining 2,500 u.s. troops in afghanistan rather than a complete withdrawal, apparently contradicting statements made by president biden about the advice he received from pentagon leaders. a new development in the search for brian laundrie. an attorney confirming to cnn laundrie and his family went camping a week after he returned to florida without his fiance gabby petito. let s bring in cnn s senior political analyst john avlon and white house correspondent john harwood. i have to be careful here because they are both named john. good evening, gentlemen. so, mr. harwood, this is about making a deal. who does president biden have more lever
Trip to chicago tomorrow in order to spearhead negotiations to save his multi-trillion dollar domestic agenda which is at a make or break point right now with anxiety growing among democrats. biden holding meetings with joe manchin, kyrsten sinema to work out a deal with them. also today the top general testifying that they recommended maintaining 2,500 u.s. troops in afghanistan rather than a complete withdrawal, apparently contradicting statements made by president biden about the advice he received from pentagon leaders. a new development in the search for brian laundrie. an attorney confirming to cnn laundrie and his family went camping a week after he returned to florida without his fiance gabby petito. let s bring in cnn s senior political analyst john avlon and white house correspondent john harwood. i have to be careful here because they are both named john. good evening, gentlemen. so, mr. harwood, this is about making a deal. who does president biden have