Voters. And they found jd vance whose memoir elegy chronicling his working class upbringing in kentucky and ohio as a source. Vance became a translater of sorts explaining the plight of e rural voter to blue america. Their communities have been struggling in a lot of different ways 20 or 30 years and nobody has really cared and trump is the first person to at least see these communities even if you think he doesn t have all the solutions. Oeas he became a media darlii his book received rave reviews and was turned into a movie by ron howard. I know i could have done better but you got to decide you want to be somebody or not. Even in 2016, some caught a cynical undertone to vance s narrative as the new republic put it. Quote. His great ewtake away from life in america s underclass is this. Pull up those boot straps and don t question elites. Public policy can help but there is no government who can fix these problems for us. It starts when we stop blaming obama or bush or faceless compa
Good evening our special coverage of the republican national convention begins right now. I m ari melber. I m jen psaki with you for the next two hours as we get into the second day of the rnc. This rnc includes the typical trappings of any political convention including what you see on your screen. Yesterday the delegates affirmed the running mate senator jd vance and he s getting a walk through. There are the speakers. And appearances from past rivals now pushing unity. Tonight ron desantis and nikki haley will speak. A boom for trump as they are the rivals who did best against him in the primary. And the force and enthusiasm of nikki haley s speech did matter. She did build support among conservatives and independents who were skeptical of joe biden and donald trump alike. Tonight s theme is make america safe again a place nikki haley can draw on her foreign policy experience. That s the typical part of the gathering. Then there s the assassination attempt hanging over this conventi
Mohammed ali. The afghanistan war ends just days before the anniversary of 9/11. And back in afghanistan, many are stranded with their families past the evacuation deadline. Here at home there has been a fierce debate of president biden s handling of the withdrawal. With us is atan zeem. Spencer ackerman and the author of the great new book reining terror. And michael dalynyc. And the author of the upcoming book new york s finest. Let s go to the region first, aisha, what are you hearing from your reporters still on the ground in afghanistan? what i m hearing is they re really scared. I talk to them on the phone almost daily. They send me whatsapp messages. I wake up every morning and they re continually asking, what is the update, when are we getting out? their biggest fear is now that the evacuation is technically over that they will be left behind, they will be forgotten. And almost all of them have said to me that despite protaliban promises that they will not take revenge on anyon
To 11,000 per day. Today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. That s one big u. S. Military cargo plane full of people every 39 minutes. The wall street journal is also reporting tonight and this confirms what we had from the a. P. A few days ago. They re confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where they re actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. Picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. Now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts in kabul. The pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hardtoget places, but this further reporting tonight from the wall street journal that in many instances it s actually cia officers who are doing those dangerous missions and not just u. S. Military pe
Of that country. In recent days we have watched as the number of people being airlifted out of kabul climb from a few hundred per day to 2,000 per day to 5,000 per day to 11,000 per day. Today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. That s one big u. S. Military cargo plane full of people every 39 minutes. The wall street journal is also reporting tonight and this confirm as what we had from the a. P. A few days ago. They re confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where they re actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. Picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. Now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts in kabul. The pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hardtoget places, but this furt