Evacuate staff from the u. S. Embassy. This as the taliban gained more ground today capturing afghanistan s fourth largest city and a major setback for the local government. Meanwhile, president biden is said to be keeping tabs on the taliban takeover from camp david where he is spending the weekend. We re covering the crisis from all angles. Lucas tomlinson has more on the military action in afghanistan. But we begin with white house correspondent kevin cork live from the north lawn. Kevin? good evening, jon. The white house issuing a statement today. In it five action points, to address the devolving situation in afghanistan. I want to share a couple of the most notable of those five points. The white house making sure that the american people know that they are going to do all they can to safely evacuate the americans on the ground. The deployment of approximately as you pointed out 5,000 u. S. Troops to faciitate an orderly and safe drawdown of u. S. Personnel. Another note from th
Up. How long it takes for them to show up in your neighborhood. Also ahead, the administration s efforts to spin the border crisis with new housing units which you saw here first last u weekend with our exclusive reporting on the buildup of new eptents, rather than stopping te flow of illegal migrants and illicit narcotics from coming into our country. Wisconsin senator ron johnson on the border, the vaccine and the radical biden agenda. The drama within the republican ranks, former speaker of the house newt gingrich on what liz cheney is really up to and the man at the center of the story, gop leader, kevin mccarthy and the vote to oust cheney this week and his commitment to american first policies. All that ahead as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. Maria: and first this morning, this. Sunday morning futures exclusive, illicit narcotics that enter the united states through biden s open of border with mexico do not stay a ator that time texas border. They get to big c
Up at the texas border in a helicopter, attorney general ken paxton who showed up to the crisis from the river during a vote ride and from the land, right along with the president of the national border patrol council brandon judd. Under the trump administration apprehension at a 45 year low, coming up the policy that reversed everything, one of the worst on record the former trump advisor stephen miller all that and more as we look ahead at sunday morning feature. Maria: first up this morning texas governor greg abbott took up on a black hawk helicopter right above texas to view the 1200 plus miles of the texas border being breached everything all day, smugglers and criminal cartels are the biggest winners, transporting 2000 people every 24 hours in rafts and boats and helping some through gaps, most of the people coming and want to be apprehended so they can get processed and assimilate into america, but there is another group that are criminals that got away and ended up in the inte
Abbott who showed up in a black hawk helicopter, attorney general ken paxton who showed up from the river and from the land, a ridealong with the president of the national border patrol council, brandon judd. Under the trump administration, apprehensions were at a 45 year low. Coming up, the policies that reversed everything, causing one of the worst breaches on record with former trump advisor, steven miller. All that and more as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. Maria: and first up this morning, texas governor greg abbott took us on a black hawk helicopter ride above texas to view the 1200 plus miles of the texas border being breached every day. Smugglers and criminal cartels are the biggest winners, transporting 2 you thousand 2,0y 24 hours in rafts and boats and helping some through gaps in the unfinished i ll wall. Of most of the people coming in want to be apprehended so they can get processed and assimilate into america but there is another group that are crimin
putting up russian road signs, erecting statues of soviet leaders. plus, good news on the american jobs front. more than 90% of the 22 million jobs lost in the height of the pandemic are back, but is that good news enough to offset the spiking inflation rate? this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with breaking news in our politics lead. we have a brand-new cnn poll in the wake of that draft opinion leaking, that opinion that revealed the supreme court appears on the verge of striking down the landmark abortion decision roe v. wade, the 1973 decision has guaranteed constitutional protections for girls and women in the u.s. seeking an abortion for almost half a century. keep in mind, the abortion opinion leaked to politico is not final. it was only in draft form, yet of course, the news ignited rallies for and against abortion rights nationwide, and now tall fencing surrounds the entire perimeter of the u.s. supreme court in antic