now, according to the trump campaign s assis claims, dominion voting election company worked with a an election firm smartmatic, george soros and the government to steal the election from donald trump. of course, none that is even true. days before the infamous press conference, probably airing the baseless claims and there are internal records that prove it. there s the details from the new york times reporting, quote, according to emails contained in the court documents, zack parkinson, then the campaign director s director of communications reached out to subordinates in november 13th asking them to debunk several matters concerning dominion. the next day, it shows mr. parkinson got a copy of a memo, cobbled together by his staff which largely appeared to be news articles. and the times has a list of rebutted allegations, photo, that dominion did not use voting technology that dominion had no ties to venezuela or mr. soros. and there s no evidence that dominion leaders
people dead, with structures reduced to rubble, and questions about america s obligation to the devastated caribbean nation. but first, tonight s lead, onto the next. right now i m waiting to see if any of the momentum from the president s big policy win on infrastructure will hold as he approaches a wall of challenges for his white house, because the u.s. senate is going into summer recess having failed to take up voting rights legislation before the break due to republican sabotage. at the same time, the texas senate passed a very suppresssive legislation as democrats fled the state. while gop leadership, by which i mean donald trump, is pushing for more fraudulent audits of last year s general election results, and to many state republicans, are happy to oblige. and a handful of gop governors, some with presidential aspirations, are making a play for trump voters by campaigning against medical guidance and local mask mandates, even as covid-19 variants have exploded in t
kabul airport. the marine and army forces, about 3,000 in total, will be tasked with what the pentagon spokesman calls a quote, reduction of civilian personnel at the embassy. the those old enough, this might bring back the american departure in 1975 with helicopters on the saigon embassy rooftop. listen to ned price saying this is neither an escalation nor a retreat nor any kind of signal to the taliban. this is not about reengaging militarily in conflict in afghanistan. this is not abandonment. this is not an evacuation. this is not the wholesale withdrawal. what this is is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint so this shouldn t be read as any sort of message to the taliban. whatever it is, however you want to describe it, the american pullout appears to be accelerating from a country if not on the brink of collapse, it s certainly falling. cl clarissa ward is on the ground in kabul. what s the latest you can tell us about the plans the u.s. government has p
retreat nor any kind of signal to the taliban. this is not about reengaging militarily in conflict in afghanistan. this is not abandonment. this is not an evacuation. this is not the wholesale withdrawal. what this is is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint so this shouldn t be read as any sort of message to the taliban. whatever it is, however you want to describe it, the american pullout appears to be accelerating from a country if not on the brink of collapse, it s certainly falling. clarissa ward is on the ground in kabul. what s the latest you can tell us about the plans the u.s. government has put into motion about the american embassy? the situation is really going from bad to worse. 12 provincial capitals now under the control of the taliban. among them, harat, the third largest city in the country. also, kandahar appears to be on the brink of falling. this would be a huge one. it s a strategically important city. also the birthplace of the taliban,
that, because it is astonishing how bad i am, i never make fun of anyone else s singing no matter what. god bless america my home sweet home that was the rendition of god bless america that greeted conferencegoers at the cyber symposium that has been underway all week in south dakota, hosted by the ceo of a pillow company named mike lindell. he s been in the week this week, you might have seen, because of a very conservative trump appointed judge in d.c. just allowed a massive multi-billion dollar lawsuit to go forward against him and rudy giuliani and trump lawyer sydney powell. that lawsuits was filed by dominion voting systems. the voting machine company that has been vilified by former president trump and his supporters with all sorts of wild conspiracies about how that company is somehow to blame for the conspiracy that led trump to appear to lose the election when secretly he won. dominion s massive lawsuit against giuliani and powell and mr. lindell, this w