we begin with breaking news on the southern border where a new surge of migrants, most of them from haiti, has grown to nearly 15,000. right now dhs is ramping up deportation flights as thousands of migrants are overwhelming del rio, texas, many of them living under a bridge to try to escape the brutal heat. we ll have an update from the scene in just minutes. meanwhile on capitol hill the clock is ticking as democrats work to get a $3.5 trillion spending bill and a bipartisan infrastructure bill to president biden s desk. earlier today i spoke with house budget committee chair john yarmouth who had a message for his colleagues who are at odds over what that final bill should look like. you can posture all you want and say what you want, what you will and won t vote for. in the final analysis, you re going to vote for it because you re not going to vote against childcare and paid family leave and early childhood education and community college and all these top priorities
and concern from the speaker of the house and general mark milley that president trump was acting irrat particularly. some republican lawmakers are already demanding answers now. others say general milley should be brought in front of a military tribunal. the pentagon is pushing back tonight essentially saying there is nothing to see here general joins us with from the pentagon with the latest. good evening, bret. the two calls made to chinese counterpart were not secret. they were done with 15 people in the room including notetakers in coordination with the civilian leaders of the military at the time and the interagency i m told by current and former u.s. defense officials. unnamed sources in theoodward and acosta book contend general milley told general li that he would give him a heads up if the u.s. planned to strike. colonel dave butler the colonel staff spokesman issued the following statement, quote: his calls with the chinese and other in october and january were i
credible evidence of substantially declining protection against severe disease which is the primary goal of vaccination. and in other words, these authors and this is a well respected group of folks, say, look it doesn t help prevent severe disease, why are we doing this and what are the point of this and this is including the science health organization and food and drug administration. now let s look at the other side. that side is rooted in many ways here in israel where i am now. there is lots of israeli date yu looking at boosters, they have given booters to about a third of the population over the past six weeks and they say that it does help protect against severe disease and hospitalization. they say they have lots of day of thea that does show that it helps and dr. fauci, the president s medical adviser has quoted this data many times. let s take a listen at what he said last week. if you look at israeli data and they are about a month ahead of us in vaccinations a
still there in the, quote, thousands. and the nun of unknown, unknown number of afghan allies who helped the u.s. in the war but haven t gotten out yet. secretary of state antoni olympicen telling lawmakers the state department is working on that last number, trying to estimate it. but experts familiar with the situation put that number in the tens of thousands. yet, secretary blinken insisted today the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan was an extraordinary success. blinken was grilled by republicans on the house foreign affairs committee this afternoon. that grilling has continued late into the day. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. democrats tore into republican questioning tonight as republicans tore into blinken s decision-making calling for him to resign at one point and even questioning why he didn t show up to this hearing in person. can you tell us where you are t
capturing the urgency and danger that officers responded to. we need a police officer here now. sandra: for the latest on the situation, we will be going to garrett. he will be joining us and moments. including accusations one major network deceptively added to the 911 call and body can video. garrett, to you first. wow, sandra, this new video shows a vantage point of two officers who arrived on scene just as the shots were fired. what s going on? hey, hey, hey, get down. get down. you can see almost immediately the officer s job and to try to save ma khia bryant asking her to stay with them. when folks nearby ask why they had to shoot her, the officer tells them she came at her with a knife. despite the body camera video that has been released showing the knife and how she was going after two other girls with that, the white house is suggesting systemic racism and implicit bias with the officers to blame for her death. from the start, columbus mayors have pointed