Reliant on the taliban to allow safe passage for people trying to flee. We are learning that the peer group has more of a waiting outside the airport and is controlling who gets in. New video shows fighters haulin somebody away and kicking him i the face. They have checkpoints all aroun the city and are beating people were trying to flee the airport. The white house is refusing to commit to keeping troops on the ground while all americans are being evacuated. Can you offer any guaranteed to the americans and afghan allies that if they remain ther past the end of the month, us troops will help them evacuate? our focus right now is i m doing the work at hand and the task at hand. That is day by day getting as many americans and applicants and members of the population who are eligible to be evacuate to the airport and out on planes. And president biden s pass, it s about america being back are coming back to haunt him after his blame shifting yesterday. The one thing that i promise i tak
Lives on january 6th one by one detailing the physical, verbal, racist attacks they encountered that day. Here is officer michael fanone. I was trying to push people off of me. There were individuals trying to grab my gun. I remember one lunging at me time and time again trying to grab my gun and i heard people in the crowd yelling get his gun, kill him with his own gun. And words to that effect. I feel like i went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room but too many are telling me that hell doesn t exist or that hell actually wasn t that bad. The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful! officer harry dunn gut wrenching testimony detailing the blatant racism he endured when he mentioned the i election and i warn you, what you re about to hear right now is disturbing. I do my best to keep politics out of my job, but in this circumstance, i responded. Well, i voted for joe biden. Does my vote not count? am i nobody? that prompted racial comments, one woman
house correspondent kristen welker. kristen, the white house has to be very happy about this number. they are, steph. and we are efforting reaction but we know that when president biden talks a little later on this morning, he is going to tout these figures. he will likely argue they re in part, and the economy is in part being helped out by that $1.9 trillion covid relief package that passed and those $1,400 direct payments. i think more broadly you re going to hear the president defend this strategy of going big. what has been a controversial strategy for republicans who say that he s going too big, who say that all of the spending in that $1.9 trillion covid relief package is ultimately going to add to a ballooning deficit that was $2 trillion last year alone, one of the highest levels since the 1940s, steph. i think both sides will be watching this very carefully but the bottom line is this is a strong jobs report on president biden s watch. he s going to be touting tha
ordinary citizen. unless the stat chute of limitations is run, he is still liable for everything he did while in office. he didn t get away with anything yet. we have a criminal justice system in this country. we have civil litigation. and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one. good morning. welcome to morning joe . senate minority leader mitch mcconnell with the not so subtle suggestion there are other paths to hold president trump accountable. something one of president trump s lawyers pointed out during the trial. we will point out what the charges could be. the senate did acquit president trump for the second time this weekend. 57-43 verdict that was 10 votes short of the 67 two-thirds majority needed to convict. seven republicans did vote to convict. we will dig into what the future holds for those seven republicans who are already feeling heat from a republican party still grappling with whether donald trump will be its leader. and wha
the danger of political despair and john podesta on joe biden s battle against rising gas prices. it will take time but you should see the price of gas drop when you fill up your tank. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. you know, this week we mark 58 years since the assassination of president john f. kennedy. as his motorcade drove through dealey plaza in dallas, texas. yesterday this was the scene. a small crowd gathered. this red pickup truck drove in circles, proclaiming trump won 2020, along with a bunch of qanon slogans. now, we ve mentioned this group before. it s a small group. they re a splinter faction from the fringes of the far-right qanon movement. three weeks ago hundreds of members of this cult, for lack of a better word, assembled at dealey plaza awaiting the return of john f. kennedy and his son, jfk jr. who died in a plane crash tragically in 1999. they believe the kennedys are not actually dead and will reveal