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hello again, and welcome, it s time to get together with some smart people po break down the big stories, today we re asking, with donald trump racing so quickly to the republican nomination, what can never trumpers do now to keep him from the white house? then, a possible d.a. disaster, is the georgia case against trump in danger because of a love affair? and it won t be groundhog day all over again, if animal rights advocates succeed in replacing punxsutawney phil with a coin toss. the panel is here and ready to go. sit back, relax, and let s talk about it. up first, the power of the few, after a relative handful of voters gave donald trump bac back-to-back wins in iowa and new hampshire the republican race for president is already being called. setting us up for one of the longest and least anticipated general election matchups ever. i say the general election begins tonight. donald trump s camp, declaring the race for the nomination is over. thank you, eve ....
we appreciate you helping us to understand that a little bit and helping to illuminate what s happening in afghanistan today. thank you so much. thank you very much for having me. joining me now is nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube. she was in the briefing that just wrapped up a few minutes ago. courtney, it seemed today the flights out of kabul were a big point of conversation. obviously we know the flights were halted for several hours today while officials were trying to figure out what to do with people who were landing in qatar, for example. what do you make of that reality? is this a bad sign for the effort to get everybody out by the end of august? i think it s just one more data point in just what a difficult logistical lift this entire operation is. it s worth pointing out, the flights were halted for somewhere between six and eight hours, they stopped them. and since then, only one has gone out. a second one may have. ....
0 welcome to msnbc on a busy friday afternoon. president biden giving an update on the chaotic situation, the evacuation of americans and afghans as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the crisis unfolding in afghanistan. the president says evacuation flights have resumed. that is of being paused for several hours. sources tell nbc news the flights stopped temporarily because qatar, the first batch of evacuees were taken, didn t have the capacity to take any more people. this has its situation outside the airport gets more desperate. thousands of afghans hoping for a chance to get inside and get on a plane out of the country. the president defended his situation to get out of afghanistan in a report that nearly two dozen diplomats at the u.s. embassy in kabul sent a cable to tony blinken warning of a possible taliban takeover and urged an airlift operation. i made the decision, the buck stops with me. i took the consensus opinion. it would not occur if it occurred ....
colorful language,, and it appears as if he is going to establish lines of communication, lines of control, and if that is so, i ll add one more caveat, and that is attainable, the second one may not be, which is if he can have some influence, on raining in the president s impulses, then i think they have a very good chance of succeeding, if they don t, if he can do that, they will fail, and it will be trump two-point oh, and it will go the way of trump 12-point oh, tucker: people have said that the president likes chaos, he feels comfortable with it, yet he is the one who brought kelly in, and he brought him the latitude to make the key staff change, some may it suggests that the president has come to believe that he is not served by chaos. and i think what happened ....
Language, and it couldn t be tolerated. it appears as if he s going to establish lines of communication, lines of control. it will all go through him. if that is so, i ll add one more caveat, and that is attainable, the second one may not be, which is if he can have some influence on reining in the president s own impulses,in then i think they have a very good chance of succeeding, if s they don t, if he can do that,ry can t do that, they will fa fail, and it will be trump 2. 0 and it will go the way of trump 1.0. tucker: people have said that the president likes chaos, he feels comfortable with it, yet he is the one who brought kelly in, and gave him the latitude to make the key staff change. some may it suggests that the president has come to believe that he is not served by chaos.nt and i think what happened last week is that chaos became ....