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a crisis in america s hospitals, icus nearing capacity all because of coronavirus patients. we begin this hour with breaking news. the right to an abortion effectively eliminated in the state of texas today. the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation went into effect this morning in the state after the u.s. supreme court declined to step in overnight. the texas law bans abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy with no exception for rape or incest. make no mistake, the real life application and intention of this law is to ban abortions altogether. it allows private citizens to sue anyone who performs procedures or even helps a woman get an abortion. we ll get to the details in all of this in just a second. first, let s be real. the very same people in the very same state who say don t you dare tell me to wear a mask, the same people say that is government overreach because it violates individual freedoms, those very same people clearly are saying now, never min ....
hello and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. topping our world lead this hour, president biden grappling with the fallout from the way the u.s. withdrew from afghanistan. a senior state department official telling cnn that the majority of afghans who worked for the u.s. and applied for those special immigrant visas or sivs, well, they were likely left behind. pentagon officials saying that the siv program was never meant to be used in a hurried evacuation. the siv program is obviously not designed to accommodate what we just did in evacuating over 100,000 people. and so perhaps this program should be looked at going forward. it is designed to be a slow process. indeed it has been a historically slow process, one that a former trump administration official claims that the trump administration, quote, sabotaged. but that said, president biden took office in january, and his administration failed to expedite the process to get these afghan allies out, despite mont ....
biden himself is one of thousands left behind enemy lines and is baking the president to save him. todd: you are watching fox and friends first . jillian: a fox news alert, new fallout is president biden addresses the nation following the end of america s longest war. todd: republicans calling on him to resign in the wake of the deadly withdrawal. doug luzader live in washington. reporter: this was a defiant president biden who emerged to answer critics from both sides of the aisle and attempt to reframe this chaotic departure from afghanistan as a success despite the deaths of 13 us service members and the fact that perhaps 100 or more americans who wanted to leave were left behind. president biden: this decision about afghanistan is not just about afghanistan. it is about ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries. i take responsibility for the decision. it was time to end this war. the president claimed his predecessor, donald trump, ....
i have to go back and i plane, i don t i don t i don t know that when when those conversations happened. what we are now learning about jim jordan s multiple conversations with the president on january 6th. and why the select committee is seeking his phone records. and how the unhinged response to public-health measures during the pandemic is taking a very dark turn. going in with 20 strong men, i am going to speak before the school board and give them an option. they can leave or they can be removed. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. on september 26th #, 2001, almost 20 years ago, it was 15 days after the u.s. was attacked on 9/11. a dozen cia operatives landed in northern afghanistan. their mission was to lay the groundwork for the u.s. invasion of the taliban-controlled country. since that day, for nearly two-straight decades, there has been an american military presence in afghanistan. until today. this af ....
coming to address the scale of damage from hurricane ida. it made land fall as a category four slamming into the coast with devastating wind and rain. it is one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the mainland. officials say at least two people were killed. search and rescue operations are still underway in communities along the gulf. ida came on shore with everything that was advertised. yep. the surge, the rain, the wind. all of our levy systems, particularly federal systems performed magnificently. having said that, the damage is still catastrophic. catastrophic. the storm devastated the electrical grid. more than a million customers without power in louisiana including the city of new orleans. the city s mayor issued a warning today for residents who fled ahead of the storm. don t come back until further notice. we will have much more on the night s other major story just ahead. but first ali is live for us in new orleans. you are virtually in the da ....