Forward on afghanistans new government. There are Satellite Images of 6 planes on the ground in Northern Afghanistan. Yesterday a top republican and the house foreign Affairs Committee Mike Mccall warned that the taliban is keeping americans hostage in preventing them from leaving the airport as shown in meas pictures. We have a busy afternoon ahead. We kick it off with trey in qatar. The Defense Secretary is here to meet with officials. The biden administration will have to work closely with these people and lean on them to use diplomatic chance with the taliban. He will visit Kuwait And Saudi arabia in the gulf. In a statement over the weekend the Pentagon Press Secretary said Secretary Austin will meet with partners and thank them for their cooperation with the United States as we evacuate americans and afghans from afghanistan . There are at least 100 americans in afghanistan. While evacuations can pick up the u. S. Military wont be directly involved. The u. S. Secretary of state i
In this country, particularly where areas where people remain unvaccinated. This morning more than 91 Million americans live in counties with high covid19 infections, and the Delta Variant, which is more transmissible, accounts for more than 83 of covid cases across the country. Despite plenty of vaccine supply, there are no lines, you dont have to wait for them and plenty of data to back up the efficacy of vaccines, more than half of the country remains unprotected. As it stands, these are the ten states there on that map struggling the most to get people vaccinated. Poppy, its no coincidence that those are the states you see the biggest jumps. Tragically for a number of families, it is already too late to get the vaccine that could have saved lives. She liked the song Beat It by michael jackson. I started singing to her. Thats why i made that sign up there that says beat up. My is my baby slipping away every day. My daughter is not vaccinated. I really do believe that had she been va
On fighting domestic violent extremism. For the departments key role in enforcing the violence against women act, he is asking for a landmark, one billion dollars for the office of violence against women. Republicans appeared to be horrified by his testimony, by the idea that the justice department will try to fully fund this work on civil rights, and violence against women, and domestic terrorism, and extremism, which of course the fbi said is predominately a white supremacist threat. Hearing the testimony today they were not into it, as you might imagine. You know, like i said, under new management. Elections have consequences. Under attorney general merrick garland the justice department has started out federal investigations into multiple local police departments around the country on their use of force. The justice department has indicted a local georgia sheriff for brutalizing prisoners in his care. The department has opened of federal civil rights investigation in the north caro
year since he was sworn into office. he says his administration has outperformed since that time and blames president trump and the republicans for any shortcomings. carley: brooke has reaction, first we begin with griff jenkins. a lot to talk about this morning. griff: a whole lot. the president begins a new year with another legislative failure, even before the vote was called over changing the filibuster rules, senator joe manchin labeled it dead on arrival. it will fuel on the fire. griff: the president tweeting this, i am profoundly disappointed the senate failed to stand up for our democracy. i am disappointed, but not deterred. this after the president defended his performance. president biden: i outperformed what anybody thought would happen. you mentioned number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down, everything is changing. griff: as far as the direction he wants to take the country in, he had this exchange with pete
official proceedings to count electoral votes? and tonight, another committee member was asked to be criminal referral for trump was a possibility. we will go wherever we need to to get the information that we need in order to understand what happens in a run up to january six and what happened on january six feels that they are above the law. and that we never have this happen again. we will follow the facts to whomever where they lead. the man today, who actually did leave the 2020 election spent much of his afternoon in the state of kentucky. offering hope and comfort to victims of those devastating storms. more than 30 tornadoes hit kentucky in seven other states over the weekend, killing dozens of dozens of people. this afternoon, biden promised to send whatever is needed to those communities to rebuild. the government is going to cover 100% of the cost for the first 30 days for all the emergency work. from clearing everything to every costs, the federal governme