Vowing to stay in the race they returned to the Campaign Trail on monday we have a team of correspondents covering this for us, Priscilla Alvarez is covering the Biden Campaign. But lets begin with Capitol Hill Reporter annie grayer. Annie, whats at Stake Today as President Biden reaches out to elected democrats on Capitol Hill fred, everything is at stake with these calls. Biden is trying to make direct outreach to House Democrats to try and stop the bleeding of democrats calling for him to drop out as weve seen, a slow trickle of democrats making those calls ever since bidens disastrous Debate Performance, more than two weeks ago. So biden is going to speak with few key groups of House Democrats. First, the progressive wing of the caucus, and then a more moderate group, many of whom are running in very competitive House Races who have raised serious concerns about the president s ability to remain atop the ticket. Now, biden started his formal outreach last yet, stark started well, m
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And of course for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the war effort too. For years, for example, the british army had been engaged here in the town of sangin in helmand province. And that area helmand province prominently but that area and sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. By june of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that one single town
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And, of course, for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the war effort too. For years, for example, the british army had been engaged here in the town of sangin, sangin in the helmand province. And that area helmand province prominently but that area and sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. By june of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that o
Immigrants and if they don t qualify for asylum, they will be swiftly deported. That is a very big shift from the way this has been handled thus far. Thank you, julia. That s nbc s julia ainsley with the latest on the situation at the southern border tonight. Well, it is the top of the hour and it s very good to be with you tonight. We are waiting to learn the next steps for the house select committee that s investigating january 6th. Lawmakers huddled behind closed doors last night, after some emotional testimony this week. Simone biles is out for at least two of the four individual competitions in the olympic finals, after sparking pa big conversation about mental health. Hers is just one big story this week about the ways we show up for each other. To give a teammate a break, to defend democracy, to stop a pandemic, or anything else that matters to us. From nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. The working weekend on capitol hill tonight a
Just 300,000 a day. There is a clear message that is coming through. This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk. The good news is that if you are fully vaccinated, you are protected against severe covid hospitalization and deaths and are even protected against the known variants including the delta variant, importantly over 97% of people who are entering the hospital right now are unvaccinated. Here is something interesting. The white house says one out of every five covid cases this week is in florida. Why there? might it have something to do with the governor s pet slogan don t fauci my florida? sadly for everyone, unvaccinated people are now ruining the freedom the rest of us enjoyed this month. Starting tomorrow, everyone in the country s most populous county los angeles county will have to wear masks indoors in public places whether they are vac