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To my head >> reporter: tonight she says the taliban are hunting down americans. now tens of thousands of vulnerable afghans were also left behind. international flights are still not taking off from kabul, and traveling over land is dangerous. here in pakistan, the government is really only letting people into the country who have all the right documents or who need serious medical care tom? >> molly hunter with that update from the region, molly, thank you. in just 60 seconds, the crisis for...

Her american passport but the taliban didnt let her through. >> i got gun pointed to my head. >> reporter: she said the taliban are hunting down americans. >> so peter baker, obviously you spent an awful lot of time, you and susan spent an awful lot of time, studying about, reading up on, writing about james baker, just the consummate washington insider. one of the complaints that have been levelled against the biden administration is that they are -- it is an administration filled with a lot of...

Chancellor angela merkel. hes about as prepared as you can get. we heard the first lady say a few days ago hes overprepared. of course the stakes are certainly high, but the expectations actually quite low of what tangible effects will come out of this summit. hell make his way there really surrounded by every top adviser he has, briefing books and everything else, but by tonight hell be in geneva and the big meeting tomorrow. john? >> jeff zeleny, thank you for your reporting. terrific work. ...

Huge outlier, as a country that is unable to get the political will to actually achieve effective gun control. i think here in london and elsewhere, theres a lot of curiosity and disdain. and just a lot of question marks about why things arent able to be done. and so, i think thats a big question that americans have to answer, especially as they try to project the role in the world and their sense of kind of -- their morality in the world. >> yes, its unusual to see other countries saying dont g...

Republicans and democrats, preferably from red states so it doesnt seem like its the province of coastal elites. and were going to get some things done on background checks, or limiting or banning assault rifles and also on so-called red flag laws. instead, he hasnt done this. hes essentially just kicked the can down the road and said well deal with this in september. >> right. and an overwhelming number of americans according to a poll by npr favor background checks. some 89% think it is a good...

That was really a compromise bill led by the house. >> it seem like a compromise to me because no one was voting for it. >> thats prably where they wanted you to be. donald trump did everything he could as for the push along that repeal and replace. there are others that have come to the tabling and said we degree on repealing obamacare. it sounds like evan and some of the democrats dont and they want to relitigate that and were happy to have that fight. we will replace obamacare with something ...

Russia and domestic propaganda has turned against trump. do americans really need to take a step back here? >> i think that reality as usual is much messier than we would like to think. you know, conspiracy theories are great because they make reality suddenly digestible because all the dots are connected. i think that part of the whistler behind these hearings is to connect all the dots and make things clear and explain how trump happened to us. actually, i think, you know, its much more messy ...

Fully cover maternity care. you know, i think back to the hearing we had during all of this argument about obama care to begin with. a bill that has helped tens of millions of people to get health insurance, and debbie stabenow, and a republican senator said, well, i dont need maternity care, so we shouldnt have to pay for it, and senator stabenow said i bet your mother did, and to me that says it all. >> is there a worry that a complac complacency might happen and a miss would happen all over a...

To do things the old way too. >> that second woman you heard there was obviously a trump loyalist hoping that they would have backed the bill that was put -- was going to be put to the floor yesterday, but overwhelmingly the trump voters i talked to -- theyre more like the first woman. she was a nursing student. she said she was skeptical of the bill. sle didnt know although the nuances of the bill that was introduced less than three weeksing a. they still take this and be proactive and discuss ...

Insure that theres better and more health care in this country and not what they tried to do with that bill yesterday, which is take health care away from 24 million americans and strip away things like maternity care. i mean, we do need to continue advancing health care in this country. you heard it just in the earlier segment from the folks in kansas. thats what we need to be doing. we dont need to be looking at opportunities to pull it away. we need to be extending and expanding health care, ...