so i was trying to think if there s anything perhaps worse then our pullout from afghanistan. at first, saigon pops into your head. but compared to this that now looks like a rocket s dress rehearsal. i did in fact find something worse than the afghanistan cut and run. it s the president s defense of it. still a lot of pandemonium outside the airport. but look, nobody is going to be killed right now. correct me if i m wrong about that, but nobody is being killed right now. a couple thousand a day, it s increasing. we are going to get those people out. but we ve all seen the pictures, we ve seen the hundreds of people packed into a c17. we ve seen afghans falling that was four days ago, five days ago. greg: what does that even mean? it was two days prior, not four. of course, i blame that racist math. who doesn t lose track of time when you are in hiding? and as for no one is being killed right now, if joe sets the bar any lower i will be able to drink it. so it s
it s very heartbreaking. the officers responded, came in, did their job. and a lot of them are trying to face a sight no one should ever have to see. we re aware of the tragic shooting at our fedex ground facility near the indianapolis, indiana airport. we are cooperating with investigating authorities. we re going to follow this all morning and we ll bring you any new developments as we learn them. let s go now to new polling on gun reform in this county. 54% of americans support stricter gun laws. they found that 42% oppose. but when you dig into specific gun reform policies 89% port background checks. 79% favor a red flag law. 52 support a nagts wide assault weapon ban. 49% oppose the law that gives gun manufacturers immunity for being sued by gun violence victims and their families. when asked if gun violence was a crisis 45% said it is a crisis. 41% said it s a problem, not a crisis. and 12% said it s not a problem at all. we originally wanted to talk about polit
drinks and cheese and canopies, this clearly was not a business meeting. this isn t about wiggling out of the rules when many people were arrested by the police. i want to hear what the prime minister says on the record at the dispatch box at lunchtime today, and i will for myjudgment after that. let me know what you think. what sacrifices did you make to adhere to the covid restrictions last christmas? we ve asked to speak to government ministers but no one is available. contact me on twitter @vicderbyshire or email me on victoria@bbc.co.uk. germany s bundestag meets to approve the appointment of the new chancellor, olaf scholz, before he is sworn in. a helicopter carrying the head of the indian armed forces, general bipin rawat, has crashed in the southern state of tamil nadu. there s no word on casualties. exactly one year after 90 year old maggie keenan received the world s first approved coronavirus vaccine, the booster programme opens to over 40s in england. and coming
members who voted with the democrats last week has dragged their own infighting in the public square and it is ugly. and across the country, countries with high vaccination rates are seeing a new wave of cases. is what s happening abroad a warning sign for what s ahead here in the united states? i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. so the recent fights on capitol hill over infrastructure and social spending have featured plenty of democratic infighting, nothing new there. until now republicans have managed to stay out of the spotlight but that is beginning to change as some very public fractures are emerging within the gop. republicans in the biden era have designed themselves by one characteristic. they are against whatever joe biden and his party are far. and any crack in their wall of opposite to cost them the chance to flip the house in 2022. this week 13 republicans voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill faced a wave of harassment, including, yes, death thre
so the recent fights on capitol hill over infrastructure and social spending have featured plenty of democratic infighting, nothing new there. until now republicans have managed to stay out of the spotlight, but that is beginning to change as some very public fractures are emerging within the gop. republicans in the biden era have defined themselves by one characteristic. they are against whatever joe biden and his party are far. that s it, pure and simple. and gop leaders know that any crack in their wall of opposition could cost them the chance to flip the house in 2022. now, one fracture became apparent this week when 13 house republicans who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill faced a wave of harassment, including, yes, death threats, from the trump-aligned party base. congressman adam kinzinger received a call from someone telling him to, quote, slit his wrists and rot in hell. and another said they hoped don bacon with slip and fall down a staircase. they pale