National guard, what Tim Walz for a decade weighs in on the timing of his retirement and allegations it was to avoid service in iraq and later well could have been a Mass Casualty Nightmare at now canceled Taylor Swift concert the latest on what authorities say three suspects were planning to do, and how grieving John Berman here in for anderson. So it turns out that after backing out of a September 10 president ial debate on Abc Donald Trump is backing back in. That was the main nugget of news and a mountain of ramblings that his Press Conference Today at maralago, he now says he wants a three debates. The other two on fox and nbc. Vice president harris late today said this about the abc Face Off im glad that hes finally agreed to a debate on September 10. Im looking forward to it and as for the rest of The Press conference, it was a very lengthy, very trumpy Affair One that left a pro harris strategists telling cnns jamie gangel, they hope you he holds one every day and prompted pro
With russia, instead of them, giving russia too much influence in a place where britain thought that they should be in charge. So in 1839, The Brits Invaded Afghanistan, they tried to install their own, guy who they had handpicked to run afghanistan. Who they thought would make afghanistan more closely aligned with them. The british Army State for several years, fighting that war, but in The End that did not work out. The brits left in 1842. But then, 30 5 40 years later, the British Army tried again. The brits were freaked out all over again, that a place they thought out to be aligned with them, was actually more inclined toward russia, same thing that has driven them 30 5 40 years before. In so in 1878, the british Invaded Afghanistan again. And again they installed their own handpicked guy. This time for a hot minute they actually thought they had one. In that afghanistan would have a long Term Alliance with britain, which is what they were seeking in that first and second or. But
There was no statement from the country. He issued a Written Statement out to the final Harry Cocktail came out. There was not of what were seeing in these last two weeks, And so, weve seen two of these, weve seen two big losses after a multi decade war. This exit is very different from the vietnam exit. And its actually a good point. We saw the Sitcom CommAnder formally announce that the last aircraft was carrying afghan airspace. We then saw Blinking Give essentially a formal address to the country, explaining things in terms of the Diplomatic Mission And doing those things. We just seeing Tonight Statement from secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that were going to get another speech. Weve seen several already from President Biden. He says hes gonna talk about his decision to not extend past August 31st. And the military obviously it is a lot, sort of a lot of accountability, in terms of people saying yeah, this is me, And this is happening on my watch, And this is why im doing it. Th
This is one of those stories. Watch this. Stick with me till The End. Okay . Here we go. September of 2010, the Warren Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And of course for a long time it hadnt been just american troops fighting the war in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the War Effort to. For years, for example, the British Army had been engaged here, in the town of sank in, in Helmand Province and that area, Helmand Province, but that area near sangin was, a Cure Center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, first decade of the war, the british were the ploy there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there. That experience was just absolutely devastating for the British Army. By june of 2010, the british had lost around 300 soldiers, total, and all of afghanistan. But nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british older skilled in the
Forces reportedly hit more than 90 targets including the homes of senior Hamas Leadership this overnight strike killed 42 palestinians. 16 women and ten children lost their lives in the attack. At least 188 palestinians have been killed so far including 55 children. That is according to the local health ministry. The reported Death Toll is far lower in israel. Ten people are known to have died there in this latest violence. Meanwhile, some nations are pushing to stop the fighting. Today, the united Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting. Secretary general antonio called for the violence to end immediately. Israels Prime Minister made it clear that wont happen. Well do whatever it takes to restore order in quiet and on the security of people were trying to degrade how losses abilities and degrade their will to do this again, so it will take some time. It wont take long but it is not immediate. President biden was working the phones this weekend. He has spoken to both netanya