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Purpose is whether we need enhanced penalties for the dereliction of duty. >> listen, shes right about that. he could have gone to the briefing room. he could have said bring a camera to the oval office. whatever. he calls it a supreme dereliction of duty. is that criminal? could the president face charges for that? >> let me put this way. the failure to act for three hours is a dereliction of duty. to me its about so much more than that. its about the fact he said it in motion. and then failed ...

Sleep because of my brothers. what will happen to them? what will be their future? >> abdul is like many who made it out leaving behind lives and loved ones without visas to evacuate. about 27,000 afghans remain on 7 bases across this country awaiting processing. like abdul they hope for a better life an and to be reunited with family here in the united states. the unusual cause gop lawmakers have taken up. as we go to break, catch an all new "politics nation" tonight. speaking with attorney b...

Where is the issue that voters will match onto, do you think? >> i think its mostly economy, the inflation, is the transportation bill going to affect quality of life. i think that crime is part of it, immigration is always something thats a big issue for both bases in a midterm. i think overall, its going to be inflation and the economy. edward: well leave it there, appreciate it. >> thanks, ed. edward: the migration surge at the border, one of the many crisis during president bidens first year...

People modify their behaviour pretty substantially. it is likely to be a second factor. the third factor is the virus itself. it seems that other places as well, the rise has been sharp, and there has been an early plateau or signs of decline in other bases as well. an early plateau definitely sounds positive for the rest of the world. for the rest of the world looking at the south african model or our country is just too different to be able to replicate what one other country has done?- to rep...

Clean energy investments and capping orphaned oil and gas wells. >> despite the cynics, democrats and republicans can come together and deliver results. >> reporter: this should be where the story ends. and once did. until a wild and rare week of extreme weather struck in december. tornados tearing through kentucky, and neighboring states killing scores and leveling multiple towns. entire communities left in ruins. >> mayfield will be okay. >> reporter: just five days later, a historic storm lea...

News, i want to pick up on the rand paul point from the previous conversation. here is where the conservative base is on voter suppression via a tweet from a former daily caller staffer yesterday. the best way to save america is by fundamentally altering the voting process. photo i.d. doesnt go far enough. not everyone deserves political power. raise voter age, impose civic literacy testing. tied to family unit or land ownership. bases should have a tangible stake in the future. what in the 17th...

Afghanistan to the taliban, thousands of afghani evacuees abroad and at u.s. bases are still waiting to be resettled. cnns priscilla alvarez is live in washington with more. priscilla, what are you learning? >> reporter: paula, the reality is there is a lot of work ahead for the biden administration as they try to re-settle afghans who evacuated when the taliban took over. to give you a sense of scope, nearly 3,000 afghans are still waiting at pad locations. those are transit countries used by t...

The year and scaled back after the military exercises that it said were pre-planned and on its own territory, that its perfectly at liberty to do, which is the same situation that exists now. again, training that was planned on russian territory and from russias perspective, even if its close to the border with ukraine, this is a russian issue, russian sovereignty, and the west should not have a say and a view in this. but after that buildup earlier in the year, russia left behind heavy equipmen...

Once again on womens rights as thousands of afghan refugees in american bases around the world wait for answers about their future. our coverage this morning starts with cnns arwa damon in istanbul. arwa, good morning. it seems like all of these new rules from the taliban seem to involve women in cars. >> reporter: yeah, a lot of them do, and the taliban keep saying that this is all to keep the female population safe. but it really is quite reminiscent of the way that the taliban used to rule an...

Have all been pressing over recent weeks to get talks going fast. president putin wants to end the ambiguity he sees in natos position about ukraine. he feels that nato is expanding eastward. thats a threat to russian security in his view. so theres been this huge push from the russian perspective to get these talks going, and that really seems to have been as a function of having those troops, close to 100,000 troops, russia says, performing these military drills, standard military drills, on r...