there you go. that s your point. paul gosar was stripped from his.coms after he posted, his staff did but posted with his authority a video of the en anime fantasy of killing another member of congress, alexandria ocasio-cortez. the question there is a number of republicans have raised reservations about omar particularly who is well liked even by republican colleagues and think she s liberal but has given a bunch of anti-semitic statements and don bacon came out saying he would vite to remove her because they read in the conference meeting a number of her anti-so mitting statements. she has apologized in the past but apparently not enough. apparently not enough for some republicans and they sort of are going back and forth with how they re going to determine what they ll do in her situation because we have heard from moderate republicans who are saying, no, i think this is going a step too far with her that she did give an apology early on and this was actually a few years ago
breaking our collective hearts. but we are holding out hope for there to be many more stories of joy and rescue in what s happening ther i m so sorry. thank you. thank you noto the gulf coast, where ida first slammed into the u.s. as a catory 4 hurricane. about a lot of the aftermath of ida up tthis point now. butonighabout 883,0 stomers in lisiana are sll wiout eltricity, and the suer heat is scorching. nthia lee sheng is t president of jferson parish. she s in gretna, louisiana. president sheng, thank you for being he. i me from area to ea, region to region, we re sing the impact of this. states north of you, as yore hearing, are reeling from the wreckage left behi bida from just last night. buin lisna, places like grand isle he en dealing with ida s devastation for,
and then we found out from the secretary of defense that yeah, people have been beat he en and yes it is a dangerous way to get to the airport. i want to get to senator joni ernst who we would have on screen but we ll do it by phone. she served in the army national guard. who things that are rather disturbing is the timeline that publicly admiral kirby, spokesman for the pentagon said there is pressure. we know about the public pressure from the taliban but wouldn t make further comments. just on that first point, what is your thought on that? harris, i am with pete on this. we absolutely need to get our american citizens out of afghanistan. we know the taliban is impeding progress there. and we need to make it very loud and very clear with the
0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and that s what the president was referring to. i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little more specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers were the taliban first. i would like to go back to the deadline. the french foreign minister said today that it s quote, necessary to continue the afghanistan evacuation beyond august 31. can t rule out who the hostile actor was in the incident last night. central command s statement referred to it as a hostile actor. we don t know more than that. this just happened. i don t know when we ll have
london and also with us the writer behind the washington post, the right turn blog jennifer rub he en. thank you for being with us. i want to pay another part of the interview with jay sekulow. jake tapper asked him whether a president can technically commit obstruction of justice. here is his answer. in this particular case you had a scenario where the president receiving advice from a variety of his government officials was told by his attorney general and by his deputy attorney general that james comey should not be leading the fbi. it is ironic that based on the action that they recommended, that he took in consultation with others, that he s now being investigated by the agencies that told him to take that very action, removing the fbi director. so, alan, the president s lawyer initially said multiple times he s not under investigation, disregard the president s tweet, but then we just played this clip in which he says the president ironically is being investigated by the