To answer them live. Plus, a standoff with police. A suspect outside the u. S. CapiTol Today claiming To have a bomb. What led him To it . What is his motivation in the breaking details ahead. Welcome To the lead. Im jake tapper, and were going To start with our World Lead. The rush To evacuate americans and afghan allies out of kabul. This afternoon the u. S. State department announced 6,000 people are inside the Kabul Airport right now. All were Told, all of them are fully cleared and will soon fly out of the country. 20 flights are expected To leave Cat Bull Airport Tonight, but there are still massive issues for Too many others. Sources telling cnn the State Department advised thousands of local employees To head To the Airport Yesterday but many simply could not get there, caught in the crowd of thousands waiting outside the gates, they were beat, sTopped at checkpoints. President biden has pledged that u. S. Forces will remain in afghanistan until all americans are evacuated, eve
familiar security concerns on capitol hill after decision announced last night by house republicans, plus, how the 14th amendment fight just took a puzzling new turn in colorado. the headline that highlights what could be key for democrats in 2024. a very good at all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we have breaking news in the israel-hamas war. rocket fire lighting up the night sky once again on the israel gaza border. as israel s military is pushing on with its increasing military offensive in southern gaza. meanwhile, a massive march in jerusalem, thousands of people demanding the resolution in the effort to get those 200 plus hostages kidnapped by hamas on october 7th, bring them back home. we ve got a lot to get to know, with our jay gray who s in tel aviv. jay, welcome in again. israel indicating it is prepared to intensify military operations. is this the next phase? the start of the next phase in the war aga
Followed his efforts and wanted to take part. what s so inspiring about watching the sedition hunters community go it s about publicly holding people accountable and ensuring that the public understands what happened on that day, even as republicans and others continue to try to rewrite history. and prosecutors have cited the work of these online sleuths in several court files and, of course, jake the fbi has credited the public in this. they received more than 200,000 digital tips from the public and, of course, at this point more than 500 people have been channelled. there s actually 575 by our latest count, but as you saw in that piece the public is doing a lot to help prosecutors out in these cases. reporter: and the key, of course, is they are sharing these tips privately so in case they made a mistake nobody innocent gets tagged. jessica schneider, thanks so much. more than 2,000 people dead after two disasters in haiti. cnn went to the earthquake epicenter where locals a