kabul airport. afghan families desperate to escape the taliban s fanatical rule. they ll run behind you with the ak 47. and boom, boom, boom. our country is right now is finished. no more afghanistan. after 20 years of fighting. the united states military has begun strikes. the taliban will pay a price. and tens of thousands of of a began and american lives lost. we try not to think about it, because when you think about it, then i get like this. the united states became the latest super power to suffer defeat in afghanistan. we have defeated britishers, and now americans. and a generation of afghans who grew up knowing freedom saw their dreams denied. the taliban reimposed strict islamic law. i came here on this last trip less than two weeks ago, and afghanistan was a republic, backed by the united states. now it s an islamic emirate, run by the taliban. it did not have to be this way. the united states war in afghanistan started a lot earlier th
luther king, jr., iii and why they are holding their nationwide event next weekend can change the course of voting suppression across the country. thousands of under a storm tonight as henri barrels up the coast, expected to make landfall in a matter of hours. we are keeping a close eye on its path. this is american voices. we begin this hour with breaking news, florida hits a major milestone in its uphill battle against covid. new cdc data shows the state just passed 3 million cases of coronavirus. you would think news like this would give the state s governor a reason to rethink his pandemic strategy. no the state s republican-controlled board of education is backing governor ron desantis push to punish schools with mask mandates. the state promises to withhold salaries of school board members in gainesville and broward county if they don t reverse their mask mandates by the end of the weekend. it s not just democratic strongholds that define the governor. last night,
control of afghanistan s capital, with a dramatic picture of helicopters air lifting us embassy staff to safety. the financial times writes that washington s two decade military project ended in chaos as afghanistan s president fled the country. the daily telegraph says thousands of britons and americans are scrambling to flee the country after islamist forces walked into kabul virtually unopposed. the sun also leads with the escape from kabul, adding that the taliban s lightning offensive surprised the uk and the us. the i writes that the taliban is back in power 20 years after being overthrown by us and british forces. and the guardian adds that the militant group started the day so confident of victory that its fighters surrounded the capital, then ordered them to stay outside the city and wait. let s start. all the front pages pretty much have something of these momentous events that we have been watching unfold over the last few days, culminating in the fall of kabul t
plus, a deadly race. 21 runners dying at a high elevation when hail, high winds and freezing temperatures swoop in. how an ultra marathon turned into an extreme test of survival. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start today with our health lead and a return to pre-pandemic life for many americans. crowded restaurants, live music, fans in the stands. america largely appearing open for business in many places as covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations are at their lowest point in months and continuing to trend down, and a key milestone for vaccinations. 25 states and washington, d.c. have now fully vaccinated at least half of their adult populations and nine states have more than 7 a% of their adult populations partially vaccinated this. good news comes as new scrutiny begins about the or since of the deadly coronavirus. cnn has learned that a u.s. intelligence report found in a several researchers at china s wuhan lab were hospitalized in november 2019. the chi
the evidence, or is going to run away with the evidence. but could have destroyed the evidence i couldn t destroy the evidence, because the evidence is exculpatory, it proves the president and i are innocent. it s like projections, they re committing the crimes. projection. rudy giuliani said the search warrant were based on suspicions he illegally lobbied for an ukraine international, something he claimed he never did. but this morning the new york times added critical details to the reporting. the times reports the investigations focused on the circumstances surrounding the firing of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, back in 2019. key question, what did giuliani do or say that might have contributed to her losing her job? was he acting on behalf of his clients then president donald trump or ukraine officials? while all of that was going on, we re learning the fbi was warning giuliani he was the target of a russian campaign to spread lies about then-