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For this one the starting price is $680,000. late last month the republican led assembly in the state of wisconsin voted on party lines to authorize $680,000 in taxpayer funds to be an spent on an audit of the results of the 2020 presidential election in wisconsin. why do they need to audit the election results from 2020 in wisconsin? because they can, right? because joe biden won the state of wisconsin and given the opportunity wisconsin republicans would like to make it seem there was somethin...

>> because they can, because joe biden won the state of wisconsin and given the opportunity -- republicans would like to see that there was something wrong with that result. so it must be carefully checked. this new effort in wisconsin, is of course a copycat of what republicans have been doing for months now. with their hilarious sediment audit in arizona. that has in fact been hilarious at times. but from a security standpoint, that audit in arizona, has been a disaster from the very beginning...

Right to vote. frank figliuzzi, i want to bring up an interesting part of the conversation from nbc. officer byrd talked about the fact he did not if ashli babbit was armed or not, but he still felt like he needed to do his job. now, look, im not an expert. im not an officer, im not fbi. im deferring to you on this, but to me if you are that far in building at that point, you are a threat. it seemed reasonable to me that he could use whatever force was available. but, you know, from a security s...

>> courtney, please stand by. first of all, lets just start with your initial reaction. they are at least 13 dead so far. scores of others hurt. what is your initial reaction. >> i think a likely culprit is isis k. but isis k certainly is, and they know that the eyes of the world right now are in the airport. this there is a lot of individuals. fraen a security standpoint this it is nearly a nightmare

Believe isis-k is behind this. >> courtney kube, thank you. clint, i want to bring you in. we have seen crowds for days gathered around this airport. it is obviously a difficult situation to control. cia director was on msnbc earlier and said it was a, quote, nightmare scenario from a security standpoint. what do you think? >> yeah, hes exactly right. look, we dont control the perimeter in the way we might have controlled other military bases inside afghanistan. bagram air force base, we would o...

0 >> all right, david, thank you. we have a bit more breaking news to add to this, the pentagon spokesman saying we can confirm the explosion at a gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casuacasualties. another explosion a short distance from the abbey gate also took place. our breaking news coverage continues now with craig melvin. good thursday morning. craig melvin here. we continue to follow breaking news in afghanistan. explosion outside of ...

>> clint, you referenced this earlier, and i want to come back to it. this is reporting from my colleague, ken delanie. after a 100-day review, the white house didnt make a decision about what might be the biggest policy decision with regard to what its it says is the most urgent security threat to the united states, whether to seek a law with specific criminal penalties. white house officials said they didnt have enough information and asked the justice department to further review the issue. w...

Shootings that is a difficult thing for all of us not only to understand you an indicator that should have been reported if it was noticed by others as should have been reported to authorities. thats something i think that investigators will have to take a serious look at, to what extent did this saudi air force hraupbt actually have connection with others in this regard and to what extent he actually acted on his own volition to carry out this act. >> okay. so lets look at the bigger picture he...

Showing, when these things happen, theres a lot that happens from a security standpoint. they will certainly be looking to safeguard all the senior leadership in the capital city there. boris johnson and others. theyll be on heightened alert here in new york city, simply the nypd which has an officer assigned in london, counterterrorism, they will be trying to learn as much as they can as quickly as possible. you can guarantee in the arch city light now nypd is starting to put its resources out ...

Kobalia. sorry, im not saying that right. andra kobalia. ambassador yovanovitch says you know, hes as clean as they come, determined, fearless to shake everything up and really made amazing steps forward. i mean, from a country that was getting the vast majority, something like 93% of its gas to russia, to ukraine importing zero from russia. i mean, if you think of that from a security standpoint, those are huge steps forward." oh, so thats what lev and igor were up to. again, we dont know who w...