the latest number, the latest 24 hour period, is that they got more than 21,000 people out. 21,000 people evacuated in one day. that means the u.s. airlift out of kabul over wall has removed more than 70,000 people from kabul since they started ten days ago, which is an astonishing number. with the president planning to get u.s. troops out entirely by the initial deadline he said which is next week, august 31st, the evacuation effort will necessarily start to have to ramp down. troops will have to start to leave, it takes time to get them out safely. as of today troop numbers were already dropping at the kabul airport. what will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuation? and the orderliness of evacuations, and the commitment of every american an f ally of american troops in american people out of, there we will have a live report on that situation, coming up including the news today, about the reported meeting between the director of the cia, william burns, in a senior tal
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 including the news today about the reported meeting between the director of the cia, william burns, and a senior taliban official. this is the taliban co-founder who the trump administration got sprung from prison in 2018. they arranged for his release from prison in 2018. this is the guy who trump had his secretary of state mike pompeo meet with in person last year. toda
fired in letters to the house speaker. we ll hear from the future governor of new york with the current governor s problems not over yet. the legal and political firestorm andrew cuomo is facing as he gets ready to step aside. ahead, a new york state senator joining us live and how a new law in missouri makes it easier to free the wrongly convicted. we go one-on-one with the man at the center of the fight in prison for 26 years even though the prosecutor said he didn t do it and we track down the state s ag who says he s not playing politics. do you believe there s a chance that mark johnson is innocent? we ve been dealing with procedural issues. i m asking on the innocence piece. good morning to you. i m halle jackson in los angeles. with the action happening back home in d.c., that s where we find ali on capitol hill and john. we re waking up to some developments on capitol hill not just overnight but even into the morning here. in the last 24 hours, we had that sen
even larger, more progressive bill through reconciliation. that s a special filibuster proof maneuver that requires a simple majority for passage. in other words, without republican support. meanwhile, the senate continues to work on voting rights. the judiciary committee met saturday with a former trump d.o.j. official and a key city in afghanistan just fell to the taliban. that will be of key concern to the senate foreign relations committee where my first guest is a member. joining me now is senator jeff merkley of oregon. senator merkley, thank you for coming back to the sunday show. you re welcome. good to be with you. all right. let s start with infrastructure. will i understand senator haggerty of tennessee raised objections, i think put a hold on proceedings because he wanted to go back to regular order. will things get back on track today? yes, we re in a 30-hour period before our final vote from being held, a simple majority vote on the substitute amendmen
resilience, and infrastructure, we create opportunities for everyone. that s the heart of jobs plan i proposed here in the united states. president s $2.3 trillion tax and spending plan is still being argued over on capitol hill. phase 2 is on the way with a potential price tag of another $1.5 trillion for what the white house is calling its american families plan. to be laid out at next wednesday s joint session of congress. there is pressure from the left with progressive lawmakers call on the administration to spend at least $700 billion on universal child care, quote: we believe this is a generational opportunity to invest in affordable qualities care for all children who need it and we urge you not to let it go to waste. one potential way to pay for the massive spending plan is raising taxes on higher income earners. and republicans are concerned. if they want to do home health aides and expand medicaid and raise your taxes and all the things that the president wants