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The special purpose grand jury. as we learned last week, that special grand jury will sit beginning may 2nd. theyll be able to subpoena people for testimony in the das probe and compel discovery. obviously the da here very concerned about possible threats to anyone involved in that investigation, especially since presumably, theyll be sitting at that courthouse beginning in may, potentially that courthouse and the other federal buildings around there, the state buildings around there could be ta...

>> bob dylan may 2nd, at a carpet warehouse in dalton, georgia, eight song encore. >> thats great. >> mike what did you learn today? >> i learned earlier when we were talking about the beatles documentary, the relationship between john and paul mccartney in that documentary is fascinating. its like a younger brother paul mccartney trying to woo the older brother back into the house. >> right. >> its really fascinating. >> and you know hes connected. thats the thing that again, ive read every boo...

>> we are not going to rescue the democrats in their efforts to implement the largest tax i can history, $6 trillion of things like welfare and health care for illegal aliens or welfare for in may 2nd wont work or look for work or tax credits for rich people so they can buy electric cars. of democrats want to spend $6 trillion on a party line faces the democrats can raise the debt ceiling on a partyline basis to cover their own reckless socialist agenda. >> we had 19 republicans agreed to the in...

Countryside, north and south. none of the major areas, none of the major points of the capitals of each of these provinces, but they were all over the country, and the idea that if i had said on may 2nd or 3rd, we are not leaving, we are staying, does anybody truly believe that i would not have had to put in significantly more american forces? send your sons, your daughters, like my son was sent to iraq? to maybe die? and for what? for what? so, the only rational thing to do, in my view, was to ...

Thats number one, number two, the taliban was taking hard swats at the countryside north in south, none of the major points of the capital of each o these providences, but they wer all over the country. the idea that if i had said may 2nd or 3rd, we are not leaving, we are staying, it doe anybody truly believe that i would not have had to put in significantly more american forces sending your sons in daughters, like my son was sent to a iraq, to maybe die? and for what? for what? so the only rat...

Blinken said today, the taliban would have started offensive operations, on may 2nd anyway, and so he did something really, hard and it was messy as he said, and it will be messy for a while, but it was the right thing to do. >> there are very few good options, when youre president of the united states. but let me take the other side, let me talk about what would have been equally hard. what if joe biden had given his speech today, that said i know, i said we were pulling out, but ive watched al...

The timing could perhaps have been better. im sure he wishes that. he said that candidly, everything unfolded a lot faster than they had expected. as we see tonight, theyre going to redouble their efforts to get the special immigrant visas for people and get them out and try to kind of fix what went wrong. but, again, the big picture is, you know, it was time. the trump treaty had kind of set the clock ticking as secretary blinken said today. the taliban would have started offensive operations o...

Decisions that were in the best national security interests of the american people. he talked about that at length yesterday. and from that perspective, he believes that the decision that he made in this context was the right decision. >> thank you. the president has not been shy about these policies, many of them. the taliban, they have violated already what they agreed to with president trump. >> jake: you are referring to the agreement that president trump made with the taliban in february 20...

He has tried to do that. from that perspective he believes the decision he made in this context was the right decision. >> the president has not been shy about undoing many of the previous presidents policies. why not undo this one, particularly since the taliban have abrogated already what they agreed to with president trump? >> youre referring to the agreement that president trump made with the taliban in february of 2020, which set a deadline, be out by may 1st, 2021. walking away from that w...

Yesterday and from that per perspective, he believes that decision he made in the context was the right decision. >> the president has not been shy about undoing many of the previous presidents policies, many of them. why not undo this one particularly since the taliban aggravated already what they agreed to with president trump? >> youre referring to the agreement that president trump made with the taliban in february of 2020, which set a deadline. be out by may 1st, 2021. walking away from tha...