Looks like besides the mess, something is about to happen. Welcome to mtp daily. I am chuck todd. What could be a pivotal day for u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan. We expect to hear from president biden this afternoon with an update on the situation. All of this comes as we confirm the president decided against extending the august 31st deadline, despite pleas from our allies and intel community and a lot of folks on the ground in the capitol as u. S. Forces scramble to evacuate american staff and family and now we know that afghans, the taliban plan to stay in the way of afghans getting to the airport. More on this in a moment. The president met with the national security team and g7 leaders. He was supposed to deliver remarks on afghanistan at noon. Taliban spokesman said the u. S. Must complete evacuation by august 31st, a peek from today, period. Signaling afghans will no longer be allowed to leave the country. Evacuations through kabul are continuing, at a brisk pace, more than 2
Storm complicate earthquake relief efforts? and after banning mask and vaccine mandates, texas governor greg abbott has testified positive for coronavirus. Despite being fully vaccinated. The news come as a breakthrough in infections in a handful of states. The question is what does it mean for vaccinated americans? it s way too early for this. Good morning. Welcome to way too early, the show that wishes the baseball season was over already. I m john lemire on this wednesday, august 18th. We begin with the race to evacuate thousand of americans in afghanistan following the taliban s takeover of the country. Biden administration officials told staffers yesterday that as many as 15,000 americans are still in afghanistan. About 1100 american citizens, permanent residents and their families, have been evacuated so far. Nbc as you chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the latest from kabul. Reporter: we made it on the military side of the kabul airport. This is where the u. S. Is ca
Tomlinson has the story. People in the nation s capital are on edge following a shooting in an upscale neighborhood while many were dining outside and sent patrons scrambling. The d. C. Police chief visited the crime scene. I m mad as hell about this and i hope you all are, too. We want to help people, yes, we should, but you cannot coddle criminals. You cannot. Chief, are calls to defund the police helping you? i don t think that those calls are helping. D. C. Police released this video showing two suspects wanted in thursday night s shooting getting away in a getaway car. And they called it a war zone. Violent criminals are not staying locked up. I see people doing violent crimes and i see them back in the community. And it breaks my heart. We need police now. We don t see them on bikes, we see them in cars. Just last month, the mayor bowser wanted to cut funding for police and now she says she wants to see the department quote, use any overtime necessary to stop the recent spike in
To join him in what would have been a soft coup to try to compare this election to those who have been validated for other reasons that there would be wide enough corrupt fraud to be nullified. This is proven. These are now public today, you can see the note here. This is damming evidence revealing, relief of the first time at this level of internal pressure that trump was ordering the justice department to say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congress. I am going to read that again, this is evidence that we do not have during the impeachment trial about this very issue. These are independent notes within the highest levels of the trump administration outing them president trump for ordering the doj to say quote, the election was corrupt, leave the rest to me and the r, congressman, the gop. It is a level of fraud that had not been found in internal evidence written before. This is the kind of thing that would big and many people would like to sweep
Established to protect everybody, the japanese people and the participants of the games. All these strict measures have proven to be successful. And down in surfside, it s the first full day of the recovery operation to find dozens of bodies inside the rubble of the condo collapse. I ll speak to the leader of the elite israeli unit working with miamidade fire rescue. Let s begin the hour in washington with chief white house correspondent weekend today cohost peter alexander, garrett haake and congressman david jolly, former maryland democratic congresswoman donna edwards and civil rights attorney david henderson. Thank you all for getting us started today. Peter, the president knew that there would be plenty of times like this. Joe biden of all people has seen it all and where there would be things on multiple fronts, but what are you hearing about the white house s strategy going into this afternoon s meeting especially in the wake of what had to have been a tough conversation about a