classified dobbs case. let s get right to ken del layne nan. judge aileen cannon in florida has dismissed, the dismissed the indictment against donald trump in his classified documents case and co-defendants on the grounds that the appointment of the special counsel violated the appointments clause of the constitution. this is an issue that has been litigated in other special counsels, has never succeeded. judge aileen cannon accepted the arguments of the defense that the appointment of jack smith and other special counsels by inference has been improper and illegal. i ll read you from the opinion here. the bottom line is this, the appointments clause is a critical constitutional restriction stemming from the separation of powers and it gives to congress a considered role in determining the propriety of vesting appointment power for inferior officers. the government s position, she says, effectively usurps that legislative authority transferring the a head of department. le
americans he says are not vaccinated to get the shot. the president says he is frustrated with those people. wearing thin that day are hurting the nation overall. he says the issue is not about freedom or personal choice. increase testing and wearing of masks. country in a tough stretch and it could last a while. the administration has withdrawn president biden s nomination of gun control advocate david chipman to head the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives. chipman had faced strong republican opposition in the senate. and the justice department is suing texas over its new law banning most abortions. the filing states that the law was passed in open defiance of the constitution. the obvious and expressly acknowledge the intention of this statutory scheme is to prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights. the department of justice does not file lawsuits based on pressure. we carefully evaluated the law and the facts. and this complaint expresse
hundreds more leaving daily. could make it difficult to get people that are trapped outside of the kabul air and wanted american help. what is interesting to know and why we re going to go to this pentagon briefing, in each and every cases of these rescues outside the perimeter, the taliban has done nothing to disrupt the efforts or to interfere at all. that s raising concerns at the same time hope that there could be more of these missions to get more americans out. before i go to john kirby, another development that you heard in the last hour, this notion that we might have all of 4500 americans left there. that s hard to quantify and seems like a guess. but if that is correct, it does sort of dispute the other numbers that we ve seen. furthermore, records that there s 1,500 that might remain and many that might not want to go we ll explore that in more detail and try to understand how that could possibly be. meantime, let s go to the briefing. we ll make the right plans
good evening, trace. the taliban is trying to isolate kabul so officials at the u.s. embassy there are destroying sensitive materials and documents as the first of 3,000 american troops hit the ground on a mission the pentagon admits is potentially dangerous. the movement of forces to kabul has begun. and the world is watching. afghanistan is spinning out of control. as reports flood in of executions and forced marriages. we re gravely concerned by what we are hearing and we are doing everything in our power to try to put an end to this violence and give some semblance of hope, security, stability to the people of afghanistan. [gunfire] president biden argued now is the time for the afghan military to stand up to the taliban three days ago. they have got to want to fight. they have outnumbered the taliban. and i am getting daily briefings. that was tuesday. by today, half of afghan s provincial capitals have fallen to the taliban. and that s raising eyebrows
from covid to the economy to guns. we re going to show you why some are pointing out that some of his answers didn t really seem to make sense. we ll play them for you and a new development tonight a poe deathal ethics concerned around hunter biden s art work. he does now plan to meet with prospective buyers even though we were told the sales would be anonymous. we begin with the january 6th commission now in limbo, political fireworks blowing up the panel task with getting to the bottom of what happened in our nation s capitol that fateful day. white house corespondent kevin corke is tracking all the latest developments for us tonight. good evening kevin. good evening shannon the house voted to give nancy pelosi ultimate veto power to the members on the committee so frankly it s not surprising she knicksed jim jordan and jim banks both who recently met with president donald trump. and while the speaker did sign off on three other mccarthy picks which i don t think really