For California Governor Newsom who easily defeated a republicanled recall that could have removed him from office. Newsoms Coronavirus Policies validated by democratic voters who said no to the recall by a nearly 2 1 margin. The California Governor thanked his supporters and warned about the dangers of republican efforts he says to undermine democracy. We said yes to see you inside, we said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic. We may have defeated trump, but trumpism is not dead in this country. The Big Lie, January 6th insurrection, all the Voting Suppression efforts happening across this country, what is happening, assault on fundamental rights, constitutionally protected rights of women and girls, this is a remarkable moment in our nati nations history. Larry elder who pledged to repeal Newsoms Coronavirus restrictions acknowledged his loss despite vowing to fight in the days before the vote. My Opponent Governor Gavin newsom [ boos ] come on, lets be gracious. Lets
The question is, did you hear what Mike Pence did . Some of broadways biggest shows reopen, hamilton, wicked resumed performances Last Night. 18 months after coronavirus forced broadway to close. Broadway is back. But the question is, is it back to normal . Its way too early for this. Good morning, welcome to way too early, the show that has always been a rumor in the house. Well start with the news, California Governor Gavin newsom survived an attempt to remove him office. The question was ask whether newsom, a democrat, should be removed. Yes or no. And against 46 others, led by Larry Elder a top conservative radio host. Newsom succeeded in rousing democratic voters with warning that a republican replacement would roll back covid protections and betray the states character. Last night, newsom thanks california voters for keeping him at arms. We said yes to science. We said yes to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic. We said yes to peoples right to vote without fear of fake
Good evening, bret. Once again republicans called on the Secretary Of State to resign but in a shift from yesterdays house hearing, he wasnt getting much love from democrats either. Doing the right thing in the wrong way ends up being the wrong thing. Democratic chairman of the senate foreign Relations Committee Robert menendez Set The Tone for what turned out to be three hours of intense Questioning And Scolding of Secretary Of State Antony Blinken over the withdrawal from afghanistan. We realize this is a complete debacle. This Sant Failure of intelligence. This is a failure of policy and planning. This is a Puppeteer Act if you would and we need to know who is in charge and who is making these decisions. Committee democrats deflected, letting the secretary explain how we got here over the last 20 years. And pointed fingers at the trump administration. Republicans handled the interrogating. Senator Rand Paul who has been pushing for years to leave afghanistan took issue with reports
Residents do not go home. Also, this morning, history. For the first time in 7,268 days, americans wake up without the country at War In Afghanistan. This Photo Capturing Army general chris donahue, the last soldier to leave afghanistan. The last flight carrying military personnel, taking off one minute before midnight, kabul time, marking the official end to americas Longest War. But this morning, more questions than answers about what exactly comes next. Thats where we begin. We begin with the taliban back in power after we drove them out in 2001. We went there to find Osama Bin Laden and take out Al Qaeda Training camps, with former president george w. Bush making this pledge to the american people. We will win this conflict by the Patient Accumulation of successes, by meeting a series of challenges with determination and will and purpose. We did not ask for this miss. This morning, the taliban telling Nbc News they took control of the Kabul Airport after u. S. Forces burnt their ar
Of that country will only increase. The last u. S. Planes carrying u. S. Troops and State Department left personnel left Kabul Airport at 3 29 p. M. Eastern time. They cleared afghanistan airspace and thats when we heard from the general. It marks the end of 20year mission which began shortly, of course, after the September 11th attacks. Roughly 6,000 americans have been evacuated since august 14th. About 250 roughly are believed still to be on the ground in afghanistan with the taliban now in control. Meantime, The Big Story here back at home in the u. S. Rescuers are trying to reach people trapped by floodwaters across louisiana as residents are being told not to return to New Orleans and other areas across the southeast. More than 1 Million customers in Louisiana And Mississippi, including all of New Orleans left without power after Hurricane Ida made landfall as a category 4 storm. And many of them tonight are still without power down there. At least one person was killed as a resu