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On august 31st, hundreds of americans left behind the 13 service members murdered the president stood in the east room of the white house and called the withdrawal an extraordinary success, close quote. i fear the president is delusional. this was an extraordinary disaster, not a success. it will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of american leadership. were here today to get answers how the hell this happened. i expect our witnesses to give us the honest accounting of exactly w...

Americans left behind the 13 service members murdered. the president stood in the east room of the white house and called the withdrawal, quote, an extraordinary success, close quote. i fear the president is delusional. this was an extraordinary success, it was an extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of american leadership. were here today to get answers on how the hell this happened. i expect our witnesses to give us an honest accounting of exactly ...

Specifically to deflect legal challenges. we see some of those challenges present themselves here. for example, theyre suing the state of texas, but the state has previously pointed out in other litigation that its not responsible for enforcing this law. instead, this law deputizes any citizen of texas to take action against anyone who aids or abets someone trying to obtain an abortion after six weeks. in his press conference, the attorney general talked about why that makes it difficult to brin...

Those precedents hold, in the words of planned parenthood versus casey, regardless of whether exceptions are made for particular circumstances, a state may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability. texas does not dispute that its statute violates supreme court precedent. instead, the statute includes an unprecedented scheme to, in the chief justices words, quote, insulate the state from responsibility, close quote. it does not rely on t...

That are there. these are more difficult -- will be more difficult for them to operate and sustain. and over time i think they will prove less useful for them. but there are these other items that are less useful to them right now that will likely be the things that will be able to aid them as they continue to conduct their operations. >> yeah. were told more than 2,000 armored vehicles in u.s. vehicles left behind for the taliban to use now in whatever way they want. >> i want to read to you wh...

Every single inappropriate incident is the culture of the place. on the one hand, he makes all this inappropriate and creepy behavior normal. and like you should not complain. on the other hand, you see people getting punished and screamed at if you do anything where you disagree with him or his top aides. i really just wanted to go to work and be recognized for my work and nothing else, close quote. charlotte bennett, the complainant as ms. clark mentioned who was transferred after she reported...

Government, close quote, by reforming the filibuster. there were people who really went there to kill members of the government, to destroy the at least the facade, the edifice of the capitol. i find it interesting that thats the terminology. thats the verbiage he used here. >> you know, its interesting, joe manchin is in this position where he is standing in between possibly the filibuster going away, and he does not want to do this. but we also have reporting from our colleague, dana bash, tha...

Reporting on senator minority leader mitch mcconnell and his personal efforts to squash this bill. >> reporter: well, as lauren pointed out, we know that mcconnell has been pressuring republican voters to vote against the january 6th commission since he announced his opposition last week. but what were told by two sources, two republican sources, is that in the last 24 hours, mcconnell has doubled down, and he has reached out to particular senators he was afraid might be wavering. according to o...

With the tweaks senator susan collins has proposed to address his concern. i want to read you one more quote. this was from a republican source who was baffled by mitch mcconnell. the source said, no one can understand why mitch is going to this extreme of asking for a personal favor to kill the commission, and went on to say, quote, how can you have an attack on the capitol and the republican leader is saying, vote against it, quote, it is despicable. >> jamie, we heard from senator thune that ...

I mean, this reminds me of right after sandy hook, when lawmakers on capitol hill were trying to come up with some kind of bipartisan background check bill and i remember those families coming up to the hill and meeting with senators, many of whom had already made their positions very public on where they stood. the hope is that a personal story, meeting with someone changes your world view, makes you take a step back from the political moment and make a different decision. i just dont think tha...