Stay updated with breaking news from Sugar coating. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
we re going to stay until we get them all out. he did not fully extend that same commitment to afghan nationals when he said that s the objective. it s unclear how many americans remain in afghanistan. yesterday u.s. officials gave differing answers. they said it was 5 to 10,000. yesterday afternoon jen psaki said it was in fact 11,000 and congressional aides were told by state department and pentagon officials the number was between 10 and 15,000 according to three sources familiar with those briefings. that is the number the president said tonight. he also answered questions about the execution of the pullout. sir, you don t think this could have been handled better in any way? no mistakes? no. i don t think it could have been handled in a way that there we re going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that happens. i don t know how that happened. so for you that ....
americans in the coming months. more just ahead on what that means. speaking tonight on abc world news, he said american troops might have to stay in the country to secure the ongoing vaccination beyond his announced august 31st deadline. according to the president now, if there is american citizens left, we are going to stay until we get them aw out. he did not fully extend that same commitment to afghan nationals, though he said that s the objective. and it s unclear, how many americans actually remain in afghanistan. yesterday, u.s. officials gave differing answers. pentagon spokesman, john kirby, in the morning said it was 5 to 10,000. yesterday afternoon, white house press secretary, jen psaki, said it was, in fact, 11,000. and congressional aides were told by state department and pentagon officials the number was actually between 10 and 15,000, according to three sources familiar with those briefings. and that is the number the president said tonight. he also an ....
around the world. i m alison kosik and this is cnn newsroom. here is a snapshot of olympic medals awarded so far in tokyo. china the most at 9, the u.s. at 8. the u.s. leads with five gold medals, japan with three and team usa with two. coy wire is following the competition in tokyo. americans used their advantage in the swimming pool to get on the board today. tell me how they did it. reporter: since munich, team usa was shut out of medals on the opening day of competition at the summer olympics. things changed day two. american men finishing one and two in the 400 meter individual med lay. chase kalicz wins his first gold and the first for team usa at the games in tokyo. he won silver in rio. when he was 8-year-old he was on a ventilator and feeding tube for eight months as he fought an acute disorder of the nervous system. c k k kalisz says fell sps like the g.o.a.t. i don t know if everything has sunk in yet, not being in the water, not competing. a lot of emo ....
eric swalwell. very good. and andrew weissmann because, as you know and as you were describing in your hour, so much of this testimony was about the mueller investigation and donald trump s attempts to block the mueller investigation, fire mueller. andrew weissmann was on the other end of that stuff and wondering exactly what the president was up to. they documented a lot of it in the mueller report, but andrew weissmann has actually learned some things about don mcgahn as a result of this testimony. so that s going to be really interesting. and i noted that mr. weisman was invoked by name during the testimony himself, which i m sure is not a comfortable situation for him. but, yes, he is right in the middle of all of this stuff. yes. we re going to get right to that, rachel. all right, lawrence. thank you. thank you. well, as i said, it was two years, two years ago the house judiciary committee subpoenaed trump white house counsel don mcgahn to testify ab ....
block the mueller investigation. fire robert mueller. jeff andrew weissmann was on the other end of that stuff and wondering exactly what the president was up to. they documented a lot of it in the mueller report. but andrew weissmann has actually learned some things about don mcgahn as a result of this testimony. so that s going to be. interesting and i know mr. weisman was invoked by name during the testimony himself. which i m sure was a comfortable situation from it. he s right in the middle of this stuff. yeah, we re going to get right to that, rachel. all right, lawrence. thank you. thank you. as i said, it was two years, two years ago, the judiciary committee subpoenaed trump white house counsel don mcgahn to testify about what he had already testified about in interviews with special counsel robert mueller, whose investigation of russia s interference in the 2016 election to help donald trump had also become an investigation of obstruction of justice by ....