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the beer college baseball season. andy we call it hot dogs. you might miss a whole inning now. all right, andy scholes. thank you. this morning continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. poppy is off this morning. we are here. we have a lot of breaking news for you. some major updates that are happening after russia has arrested an american journalist and accused him of spying. were going to take you live to moscow. well have that in two army helicopters cr...

eastman. one day after, january 7th, eastman was still talk at trying the get some way to overthrow then president-elect bidens incoming administration, preserving information out of georgia. this is the new testimony. >> eastman -- i dont remember why he called me, or he texted me or called me, wanted to talk with me, and he said he couldnt reach others. and he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia, preserving something potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are y...

Themselves as a government authority? unlikely. lets not forget that almost 70% of the country public budget was from external aid, and most of its hard currencies have been frozen in the united states, the central bank of afghanistan doesnt have access to it. so unless the taliban does a magic trick and starts to address these challenges, it is not going to have control and there will be pockets of resistance all over the country because at the end of the day people want to know who is in power...

They may not do that, but theyre under huge international pressure. there are a lot of incentives. apparently a huge amount of money in new york city that belongs to the afghan government, whatever that. and they have to -- if theyre going to step up and fill that role and access that money, they have to act like a governing power. and so, im -- i dont know on the ground exactly how theyll do that around kabul. they may get help from other nations, such as turkey. i heard turkey might step in. b...

President has to make, and it doesnt mean because we dont have forces in the country that we are not going to fight on behalf of women and girls and human rights and human dignity. we are. we do. and many other countries where we do not have active military participation. and afghanistan too. we will attempt to use every measure of tool and influence we have along with our international allies and partners to alleviate the burden that those women and girls will face in the days ahead. we are abs...

To the extent that you can describe the word liberal to the idea we dont want to be like bush and cheney were. maybe we shouldnt call that liberal, but theres no reason to call it any partisan term thats specific to any party. because what we find about foreign policy in terms of american public opinion has nothing to do with whether youre a republican or democrat. look at this from a new report today on foreign policy. contrary to conventional wisdom, the red and blue districts opinions on fore...

The country if they ever became a governing power again, when a president has that much elbow room to maneuver in an area thats free from electoral challenge which is the state that president obama finds himself in right now, when a president has this much authority to move on foreign policy without challenge from the other side of the electoral aisle, it becomes important to understand how this president makes decisions on this important subject. not just on the anniversary of 9/11 but always. ...