closing chapter and a coda to the speech that started it. good afternoon. on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. now the taliban will pay a price. the name of today s military operation is enduring freedom. we will not waiver, we will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail. that, of course, was then-president george w. bush announcing the start of the bombing campaign that began on the night of october 7th, 2001, in kabul. it s also where the last u.s. plane carrying american forces lifted off 7,269 days later, marking the end of america s longest war. this iconic image of the last american soldier with boots on the ground in afghanistan, major general chris donahue boarding that final c-17 out of the country. in that clip we just played you heard then-president bush announce the name of that operation enduring freedom. if that word rin
has sustained over affeghanista he has centered around trying to get the coronavirus pandemic under control and deliver benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, and in the form of a human benefit, child tax credits, pre-k, expanded medicare benefits. free community college. a whole range of things in the budget bill that was advanced today in the house of representatives. he is facing tremendous resistance from republicans, legislatively on covid and the states and voting rights and he said going in to 2022, and 2024, his best chance of surviving the democratic majority and also winning a second term is by acting not talking about what you want to do for people, talking about what you have done for people. today was a step on the path. mr. brownstein the budget package, huge. it could transform american lives. but, you are not convinced it s going to actually help biden or democrats politically. why? why is that? in the near term. yeah. look, i think i
the request includes records from the trump white house relating in any way to former president trump and former vice president mike pence and in total to 30 other key figures in trump s orbit. in letters demanded from the national archives and several other agencies the committee chairman signaled an expansive investigation touching not only on what happened on january 6th but also materials that could shed light on matters such as the former president s knowledge of the election results and what he communicated to the american people about the election. the requests include information on communications within and among the white house and executive branch agencies during the leadup to january 6th and on that day as well as attempts to place politically loyal personnel in senior positions across government after the election. the committee is hoping to fill in. a campaign that culminated in the deadly attack as congress tried to certify the election results. here is a littl
pipeline, dr. torres? this is going to make mandates a lot easier and i think you ll see a lot more, yasmine. it has the legal authority behind it saying this what has been vetted and it s been safe and it has the government packing for full, permanent approval. now the institutions like the military with say we will mandate. it was under emergency use authorization, it had been a faster approval process so they wanted to make until the more approval process happened before they start doing the mandates. i think you will see more of those. what does it mean for moderna and johnson & johnson going forward? pfizer first started to submit the data back in may. it had to be six months after getting vaccinated versus two months for the emergency use authorization. they wait until full submission of all of the date until recently and then got the full approval and moderna started theirs in june and johnson & johnson said they ll start in the fall process so they re behind it
the latest on the situation there. today s remarks are expected to focus almost solely on evacuation efforts of americans and afghans. the remarks come as we just learned another troubling development. not a single flight has left the kabul airport in eight hours. let me repeat, no flights have left in eight hours. we know qatar said no to more plane loads of afghan. the u.s. has evacuated about 3,000 people from kabul yesterday. another 9,000 in total evacuated since kabul started to fall last weekend. keep in mind the pentagon said earlier this week it hoped to quickly ramp things up to a point where they could evacuate as many as 9,000 people per day. so we re basically doing what we hoped would be one day s worth of work in one week. complete being pressed repeatedly yesterday, officials have not been able to say how many americans are left. it s not just about getting people out of the airports, it s about getting people into the airport. the situation outside of the kab