livestock. let s go outfront . good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight cnn learning the blame game is about to ramp up big time. here is what we know. the white house begins reviewing what went wrong of the takeover of the country including kabul to the deadly and chaotic evacuation operation, officials now are pointing fingers. intelligence officials believe administration is trying to use the intelligence community as a scapegoat. this is a very bitter back and forth over who got it so terribly wrong and the context of all of this is what i m about to show you. which is one taliban commando showing what could be in store from the taliban, here is the chilling warning today. translator: we will kill the americans, ten times more than that. in the future god willing we will go to their land and destroy their countries ten times more than they do to our country. just one commander in the taliban and across afghanistan. the taliban are taking a victory lap. i
in response to the committee asking telecom companies to preserve the phone records of at least 11pro- trump lawmakers like marjorie taylor greene, kevin mccarthy released a statement warning the companies if they comply, quote, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the united states if companies choose to violate federal law a republican majority will not forget and will stand with americans to hold them fully accountable under the law. da-da-da. a fact check here, companies are not breaking the law by complying with a congressional request for records. the january 6 committee responded to mccarthy s attempt to bully private companies by saying this. quote, the select committee is investigating the violent attack on the capitol and attempts to overturn the results of last year s election. we have asked companies not to destroy records that may help answer questions for the american people. the committee s efforts won t be dete
officials claim dozens of americans want to stay in the country. dana: chaotic situation in the ground guaranteeing some americans will be left behind in addition to thousands of our afghan allies. bill: the president s messaging on this has evolved over the past 10 days. take a look at this sample starting with abc nine days ago. president biden: no one is being killed right now. god forgive me if i m wrong about that. no one is being killed right now. we made clear to the taliban that any attack, any attack on our forces or disruptions of our operations at the airport will be met with swift and forceful response. president biden: the taliban has not taken action against u.s. forces. so far they have by and large followed through what they said. we ll see whether or not what they say turns out to be true. every day we re on the ground is another day we know that isis k is seeking to target the airport and attack u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. well n
thank you. sylvie? i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little bit more specific and tell us if you can rule out that the attackers were taliban? first. and i would like also to go back to the deadline, the french foreign minister said today that it s, quote, necessary to continue the evacuations beyond august 31st. cannot rule out who the hostile actor was in this shooting incident last night. i think, as you saw, central command statement referred to it as a hostile actor. we don t know more than that. and this just happened, so i don t know when we ll have more forensics on this. again, our focus was on making sure that we could maintain security at the airport. it was maintained. sadly it resulted in the life of one afghan soldier and wounded several others. so, i mean, obviously that s our focus right now. on the deadline, i can t speak for other nation states. i can only speak for the department of defense, and you heard th
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. good news this morning, breaking news, the fda has granted full approval to the pfizer covid-19 vaccine. this is a key step in getting more americans vaccinated. it comes more than nine months after the first dose of the pfizer vaccine was administered in this country. the decision could motivate millions of americans who still have not received a vaccine to finally get the shot. the data is behind it. it saves lives. it keeps people out of the hospital. according to the surgeon general, this could also open the door for businesses, universities, other institutions to impose or enforce vaccine requirements. this breaking news about the pfizer vaccine comes as vaccination rates are slowly starting to tick up. again, three days in a row of more than a million vaccines in a day. let s start with cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen as well as dr. paul sax, clinical director of