The big unknown tonight. All right. Peter, thank you the taliban quickly declared victory after the last american troops left, celebrating as they took over the kabul airport. Heres Richard Engel Reporter today was Victory Day for the taliban entering the airport. Their fighters inspecting the spoils the u. S. Left behind at what was the last american toehold in afghanistan. The taliban spokesman saying today the group wants new relations with the west and are even open to foreign investment they looked over the aircraft and weapons u. S. Troops abandoned and decommissioned so they cant be used but american forces did not damage the airport itself the united states is relying on the airport to reopen quickly to evacuate american citizens and translators who never made it out in the Air Lift some of them now in hiding from the taliban and who one day, once they have documents, will have to pass through here to leave the taliban insisting theyll let them go. The taliban also promising to
Soar there. Well have the very latest. Plus, we are following the continued battle in florida over the Governors Ban of School Mask mandates. A judge ruled the Governors Order was unconstitutional, but the state still has gone ahead with financial penalties against School Districts. Well have an update on that story. Good morning, welcome to Morning Joe, it is wednesday, september 1st, im willie geist, and were start with President Bidens address to the nation, one day after the final american troops left afghanistan, officially ending our part in the war. Peter alexander takes us to the president s defense of the decision. Reporter with the taliban declaring victory in afghanistan, President Biden at the White House marked The End of americas longest war. Leaving August The 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. It was designed to save american lives. Reporter facing bipartisan backlash, the president at times angry and defensive, standing by his decision to end the mission with up
Blockbuster new reporting in this yet to be released report bears that out and adds to our understanding of the horrors of January 6th including the new detail that trumps white House Counsel expected trump to be charged with a crime, sedition, on that day. In the new book we learn more about the extreme pressure campaign. Donald trump exerted upon his Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the will of The American people on January 6th. They write this, quote, trump called pence, who was spending the morning at his naval Observatory Residence before heading to the capitol. Pence again explained the legal limits on his authority as Vice President and said he planned to perform his ceremonial duty as prescribed by the constitution. But trump showed no mercy. Quote, you dont have the courage to make a hard decision, he told pence. Its a sentiment he repeated even as the crowds turned violent with the threat mounting. The excerpt says this, quote, as rioters marauded through the capitol, i
Days. It is not as high as it was in february, but we are clearly seeing a rise. What we are seeing is a rise in hospitalizations, right. We see this is the change in new coronavirus. Hospitalizations, sevenday average. We had been dropping most of the year, now all of a sudden were seeing the rise. That is far more worse. We talk about cases, and thats one thing. Thats symptomatic, asymptomatic. This is people getting sick. More people are get bting sick,o sick they have to be hospitalized. The rate is increasing pretty quickly at this point. What do we know about the age of people getting sick, harry . Right. Look, these are the cases. This is a percentage of all coronavirus cases. This is the big take away, right. Those under 50, they did makeup the clear majority of New Cases back in December Of 2020 at 65 . But now we see them rising to 72 in june of 2021. The idea that its basically this old Person Disease really does not bear itself out in the numbers. Its, in fact, the vast maj
Eric swalwell. Very good. And Andrew Weissmann because, as you know and as you were describing in your hour, so much of this testimony was about the Mueller Investigation and Donald Trumps attempts to block the Mueller Investigation, fire mueller. Andrew weissmann was on the other end of that stuff and wondering exactly what the president was up to. They documented a lot of it in the Mueller Report, but Andrew Weissmann has actually learned some things about Don Mcgahn as a result of this testimony. So thats going to be really interesting. And i noted that mr. Weisman was invoked by name during the testimony himself, which im sure is not a comfortable situation for him. But, yes, he is right in the middle of all of this stuff. Yes. Were going to get right to that, rachel. All right, lawrence. Thank you. Thank you. Well, as i said, it was two years, two years ago the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed trump white House Counsel Don Mcgahn to testify about what he had already testified