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states mill he tri and our diplomats and military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. howie: howie: extraordinary success, that phrase brought the president plenty of criticism. the pentagon did good work in evacuating americans and afghan alleys. allilies. we haven t heard anybody say they did anything wrong. it was donald trump who signed the withdrawal agreement, also an attempt by pro biden pundits to conflate the decision to leave afghanistan with the awful execution that the whole world has witnessed. this broader debate is so important that it s our job to lift it above petty part sonship. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz. howie: ahead my interview with larry elder, the california radio host who has a shot at becoming governor. as hard liners say it would have been better to leave some military contingent in afghanistan indefinitely, president biden used his televised speech to reject those views. so when i hear that we could have, sh ....
for winds to pile up, damage, for rain to pile up also. winds right now currently in new orleans up to 60 miles an hour. closer to the center of circulation, obviously all of these wind meters have been knocked out at this point. 60 about as high as we ve seen, a lot of spots 30 to # 40-mile-an-hour gusts. we think the wind numbers are going to climb up. this is forecasted wind gusts, numbers getting up closer to 70 or 80. i ll continue on with this graphic and suddenly you re looking at areas getting up to 90-mile-an-hour wind gusts in new orleans in the next few hours. you ll be sticking with this for quite some time, up to 6:00 p.m. no surprise, the hurricane warning is not just along the coast, it stretches inland. we re expecting powerful winds, hurricane force winds to move inland as the storm moves inland over the next several hours. here is the timing on that. even as we get into this evening, still a category 2 hurricane. as you ve moved well inland, winds at 1 ....
week. climate envoy john kerry will help us understand the prognosis of it. but first here s my take. as we watch the tragedy that is unfolding in afghanistan, let s first dispense with the fantasy that the united states was maintaining the peace there with just a few thousand troops and that the situation could ve been managed with this small commitment. for the last couple of years, it sure looked that way to americans because washington had made a deal with the taliban, and as a result the taliban was deliberately not attacking u.s. and coalition forces. for the afghans, the war had been intensifying. in the summer of 2019 the afghan army and police force suffered their worst casualties in the two decades of fighting. it was also the worst spirit for afghan civilian casualties in a decade. in 2018 when the u.s. had four times as many troops as this year, 282 civilian afghans fled their homes in the countryside. a government survey done that year showed that afghan ....
this just in. a bulletin from kabul. taliban fighters have entered the afghan capital. this represents the collapse of the afghan government. the end of american nation-building dreams and the beginning of a frightening new era for many afghan civilians. i m brian stelter. this is reliable sources. it s 7:30 p.m. in kabul. darkness is falling on the afghan capital. there is a rush now taking place and evacuation at the u.s. embassy. a u.s. official just now telling cnn that a majority of the u.s. embassy staff are out of the diplomatic compound in kabul. some of them now at the airport, some are being taken off in airplanes out of the country. others are staying at the airport for the time being. reporters in kabul are reporting new developments basically every minute of every hour. there has been gunfire heard in the capital. there have been traffic jams in some parts of the city. other parts of the city look like a ghost town, according to witnesses who are there. ....
texas state legislature last week as she shepherded them around on capitol hill. i am both officials attended the reception with the texas democrats, only six of whom who have now tested positive for covid. sandra: the nation s top health officials testifying before the senate committee today. there were some fireworks. republican kentucky senator rand paul and anthony fauci at one point going at it. listen here. it is a crime to lie to congress. do you wish to retract your statement of may 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded research in wuhan? senator paul, i have never lied it your microphone. senator paul, i have never lied before the congress, and i do not retract that statement. this paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being of function. let me finish. you take an animal virus, increase the transmissibility to humans. that is correct. senator paul, you do not know what you are talki ....