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accomplished more than in two years you will be a laughing stock in the united nation and around the world. that was back in 2018. today joe biden is going to be addressing the u.n. general assembly for the first time since taking office. mika, let s just say it right here. he does not do it in a particularly good time coming off of what s happening in afghanistan and also what s happening in france over the past week. it comes amid of what s happening. with ambassador etienne who was recalled from washington and he ll be on the show this morning. donald trump is calling on georgia s secretary of state to de-certify the election. brad ralph raffensperger is joining us and we got bob woodward and robert costa is joining us on the former president s democracy. that s going to be interesting willie, i am going to enjoy talking to our friends woodward and robert costa. a couple parts of that book i would have to ask him about. i would love to know the forcing for will ....
pregnancy, before many women even know they re pregnant, but it also provides no exceptions for rape or incest. and it relies on citizens, regular citizens just like you and me to enforce it, basically letting them sue anybody who helps a woman get an abortion and awards them ten stacks if they succeed. the most pernicious thing about the texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out anyway. and it just seems i know this sounds ridiculous, almost un-american what we re talking about. president biden says the justice department is looking at the legality of the new restrictive abortion law, but this is a huge blow to roe v. wade. it has spurred democratic leaders to try to codify the protections into federal law after the supreme court just allowed it to stand. but no surprise, other states are already working to use the law as a blueprint for copycat measures, and texas lawmakers have advanced yet another restrictive bill li ....
evacuations in the last 24 hours. officials say 21,000 people were air lifted from the kabul airport via u.s. military and coalition flights. 21,000. that s the highest evacuation numbers in a 24-hour period to date, all without a single u.s. casualty. and an estimated 4,500 people are waiting inside the airport for evacuation flights at this time another 9,000 are believed to be at the gates surrounding the airport. a source tells cnn, afghans with special immigrant visas are now being allowed on to the airport grounds. we re still a week out from the august 31st deadline. today is decision day for president biden on whether to extend the evacuation mission at the kabul airport beyond that day, beyond next tuesday, and the pentagon says it needs enough time to start withdrawing 6,000 u.s. troops almost, along with all of their equipment. extending the deadline will no doubt be at the top of the agenda, when the president meets virtually this morning with g7 leaders w ....
officials here. so this is a remarkable logistical achievement set against this background of extraordinary negotiations between the united states and the taliban. the two leading belligerents up until the taliban conquest of kabul with the exception, of course, of the afghan government itself. with high-level meeting now that we re going to hear more about with your guest just now, and ongoing fire fights. last night until about 5:00 this morning from about 4:00 to 5:00, just off to the west here, there was very heavy exchange of small arms and medium-size weapons fire. went on for a long time. we don t know who was involved in that. we are also getting reports on the ground that the taliban have arrested five suspected isis members who were believed or alleged to have been filming possible targets in the capital city. and we are now seeing massive crowds of people trying to get to the qatari embassy downtown. similar numbers of people not similar numbers, similar sc ....
decision must be made today in order to provide enough time to withdraw the 5800 troops on the ground in kabul, as well as equipment and weapons. minutes from now, leaders of the group of seven nations are set to hold a virtual meeting where u.s. allies are expected to ramp up pressure on the president to extend that deadline. we are covering this story from all angles, like no one else can. let s begin this morning on the ground in kabul where that dramatic increase in evacuations is unfolding as we speak. and sam kiley is there live. sam, tell us what you re seeing there. this is an enormous number of flights in the past 24 hours. reporter: yeah, it s a gigantic number and they have been continuing all day today. of course as well, jim. so, as of about two hours ago, military officials here were telling us the u.s. alone had flown out some 9,000 evacuees. when i was on the main area where the refugees and the evacuees were gathering yesterday, jim, there were about ....