Of the war in afghanistan. Mr. Laportea is now an excellent journalist. We have had him here on the show several times featuring his reporting from among other places the military times wrchl he now works as an investigative correspondent for the associated press. Tonight he was first to break the news that a new phase is under way or at least a new resource is being brought to bear on the evacuation effort in afghanistan. This is very interesting, potentially important. Mr. Laporta first to report at the ap that u. S. Forces in afghanistan including intelligence agencies have started using helicopters to pick people up to safely bring them to the kabul airport so they can be airlifted out. He said today, quote, i have been sitting on this but can now report u. S. Helicopters ferried 96 afghans for evacuation, signaling military flights occurring outside kabul airport. Cia/dia which means defense intelligence agency and sof, special operations forces, are collecting up u. S. And afghan
Tony blinken warning a catastrophe on the ground in afghanistan when the u. S. Withdraws. It is the situation we are seeing right now. The diplomat calls for a swift evacuation of afghanistan. The cdc reports covid19 for children reaching the highest as ever. D. C. Police arrested a man who he claims to have a bomb. Let s bring in john harwood and author of joe biden, the life, the run and what matters now. John, the president is insisting the afghanistan withdrawal is going as well as it could have. But in the memo raises questions about his administration handling of it. What do you know? well, look, they re clearly people within the government who felt there was greater urgency to the situation than the administration was reflecting. We have seen it in the state department memo, we have seen it in the leaks of the intelligence community suggesting there were some dire prediction in the intelligence community, of course president biden and chief of staff milley had said that there wa
Things that a 14yearold doesn t usually get to do, so yeah. Absolutely. And the flexibility, being a military child, you know, from birth till now, for the 14 years that sydney s been with us, it has been absolutely amazing. We just we try to remain flexible. We try to prepare any time we can. We re always looking ahead, what do we need for this week so we can knock those barriers down so that we re ready when the day comes and we can be flexible. Honestly we laugh a lot, we joke a lot because it helps us get through, and we definitely try to stay in touch with one another as often as we can. We try to talk to dad any time he can. He and sydney since he left, they have a weekly skype session with each other where they sit and talk with each other. That s been absolutely amazing, especially when you re a teenage girl, being that connected with your dad. And so that s been really wonderful. That s amazing. Well, he s on a combat tour. Technology is wonderful for these things these days.
they know their one stopping point to getting this stuff done is the u.s. supreme court. they ll change the rules and change the game and add four more people. they couldn t get a bill passed in congress or passed by state legislature so they went to a court and got it done. now there are conservative judges and judges that interpret the constitution the way it was written on the bench they think we have a crisis on the courts and they think it needs to be looked at. a pure political employ. trace: we ll talk to karl rove appeared andy mccarthy in a moment and we begin with jackie heinrich live on capitol hill. good morning. good morning. trace. house and senate democrats will unveil this legislation a couple hours from now in front of the supreme court. the bill would add four justices to the high court bringing a total number to 13. it s being sponsored by house judiciary committee jerry nadler, hank johnson, freshman progressive jones and ed markey in the senate. c
as smart as you and me put together to figure out how to do deal with this. they were playing too cute by half. he tried some homeopathic deal, according to reporting, asked for a waiver. the team said no, but never enforced any rules. apparently. are we sure he s not vaccinated? he has not said that he is not vaccinated. when he was asked he said i m immunize and people just left it alone. i really hope that is i hope he s vaccinated. i hope he s vaccinated, too, and i hope he doesn t have symptoms and he s okay with covid and he has no long haul. all good wishes for him, but the truth matters, and let me tell you something, it would be really easy to clear up. if he was vaccinated, there should have been a statement out already. he s vaccinated. this is all wrong. where is it? okay. and if he were vaccinated, he wouldn t have been treated the way that he s been treated since his positive. so unvaccinated players have to quarantine for ten days after the test.