teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrow s hearing to draw direct links between the extremist groups who stormed the u.s. capitol and have been charged with seditious conspiracy and people inside donald trump s orbit. we are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those who were trying in government circles to overturn the election. what we heard cassidy hutchinson testify along the lines of trump telling mark meadows, the chief of staff, to talk to roger stone and others, mike flynn, and stone and flynn ha
oath to testify about that chaotic and ultimately deadly exit just last month. early on in the nearly six hours of testimony the descended armed services committee, joint chief of staff chairman. general mark milley and send calm genel frank mckenzie acknowledge that they previously urged biden not to pull out all american troops. and secretary of the students austin said the white house was aware of their concerns. i ve recommended that we maintain 2000 and 500 troops in afghanistan, and i also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020 that we will maintain 4000 at that time. i also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of an afghan military forces, and eventually the afghan government. general milley i assume that you agree withhat in terms of the recommendaon of 2500? and do you agree with tt? . my assessmentoss back, the fa of 20 and rain constent throughout, we