Again in an Nbc News new poll shows just what americans think of the Evacuation Efforts so far. The house comes back this week with Infrastructure And Voting rights on the agenda. Democratic Party Chair Jamie harrison is here to discuss. Whats the matter with this guy . The biggest group in most states are africanamericans who have not been vaccinated. The last time i checked, over 90 of them vote for democrats. For real . Well debunk this nonsense from the Lieutenant Governor of texas and get the latest actual news on covid from the director of the national institutes of health. Im Jonathan Capehart. This is the Sunday Show. We have a lot to cover this sunday, but we begin with the northeast bracing for tropical Storm Henri which is expected to make landfall any minute now, bringing with it a dangerous Storm Surge and high winds. We are also awaiting Press Conferences from both the governors of New York and Rhode Island. Joining me now is nbc Meteorologist Bill karins. Hey, jonathan.
People from kabul is going to be hard and painful No Matter when it started, when it began. It would have been true if we had started a month ago or a month from now. There is no way to evacuate this many people without Pain And Loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. Its just a fact. New polling from nbc News Today finds that only one in four americans approve of the president s handling of the afghanistan crisis. With three in five americans of the mind that our nations longest war was ultimately not worth it. And political insiders are questioning just how much of a hit the president has taken on Capitol Hill over afghanistan, even as as even some democratic allies have condemned his response at a time when his party needs all his capital to move forward on voter protections. As the civil Rights Community prepares this week for the national voting Rights March that Martin Luther King iii and i as president of national Action Network will lead to Capitol Hill this coming
Fallout from president Bidens Denial of any mistakes in the exit from afghanistan. Cnn now learning that u. S. Diplomats wrote an internal memo last Night Warning of a potential catastrophe in afghanistan. This hour i will get reaction from the president , the deputy national Security Adviser. Hes standing by live. Our experts are standing by as we cover this breaking story. We begin with cnn national Security Respondent over at the State Department for us. This is major. What are you learning about this memo . Reporter wolf, what were learning is that two dozen diplomats wrote this classified Dissent Memo to the Saek Tear of state Tony Blinken In July. They were urging the department to take more actions to prepare for what they saw as a massive Evacuation Effort that would be needed to get these afghans who would apply for these different visas and Refugee Status in the United States out of the country. The context in which they were making this suggestion is the fact the taliban wer
Im erin burnett. The breaking news, I Quote The Buck Stops with me end quote. Those are the words of President Biden admitting the fall of afghanistan happened, well not at all as he expected, yet, he says there is plenty of blame to go around. Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan Military collapsed. Sometimes without trying to fight. Americans cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan Forces are not willing to fight for themselves. When i hosted president ghani in the White House in june and spoke to him by phone in july, we had very frank conversations. We talked about how afghanistan should prepare to fight and clean up the corruption in government so the government could function for the afghan people. We talked extensively about the need for afghan leaders to unite politically. They failed to do any of that. I also urged them to engage in diplomacy, to seek a political settlement with the taliban. This advice was fl
Colleagues voting to advance the deal, he will continue to try to slow walk it. Seems because he wants to. On the Senate Floor last Night Hagerty said no need to speed up consideration of this package. The countrys deteriorating roads, bridges and pipes on the other hand might beg to differ with him. One good reason to get it done and thats the senates scheduled recess is set to begin in 24 hours. However, Majority Leader Chuck schumer said hell keep the lawmakers in session as long as it takes to get this bill passed. We can get this done the easy way or the hard way. Its in either case the senate will stay in session until i finish my work. Up to my republican colleagues how long it takes. New details of the failed Coup Attempt continue to unfold. Now one of the former officials that he repeatedly tried to pressure undermine the election and overturn the results is reportedly telling investigators how far the Ex President and his cronies were willing to go to stay in power New York T