Until conditions were met in afghanistan, conditions such as a reduction in violence and progress in diplomatic negotiations with the taliban. The fear, esper said in this memo according to to someone familiar with it, premature withdrawal could undermine the actual negotiations since why, the argument goes, why would the taliban agree to any concessions if they know the u. S. Is halfway out the door either way . That memo is believed to have been one of the main reasons why outstanding going President Trump fired esper and much of his Senior Administration last week. Getting all he can done in washington before departing. We should know the outgoing president dns to deny the reality he lost the election and, thus, is continuing to refuse to allow the transition process to begin. Meaning president elect biden and his team were not briefed on this decision in any way. Though, todays announcement has clear life or death implications. Something that the president has apparently less regar
Feet and now signs that the push is coming with a high cost. Take texas, where the president s headed to today. A clear increase in infections in the state. And more troubling is the spike in hospitalizations in a handful of states but the White House Task force has been nowhere to be seen leading within top public expert to this conclusion today. Its clear to me from everything i can tell that the white house is more or less kind of throwing in the towel own this pandemic. As mentioned the president is headed to texas, he is Holding Discussions with Church Leaders and members of Law Enforcement expected to talk about the other challenge facing the country right now, demands for major changes in policing and Public Safety after the death of george floyd. Cnns Barbara Starr at the pentagon joining me now and Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Barbara, lets start with general milleys apology. Reporter it was quite something because as chairman he really is the guardian of keeping the un
The House Democrats to the attorney general for the full un redacted Mueller Report by monday. Second chances. An al qaeda terrorist who plotted to blow up the new york city subway is about to be set free after spending the last ten years in jail, working with the fbi against al qaeda. He got cold feet, eventually pleaded guilty, then met with the fbi more than a hundred times revealing everything he knew about al qaeda. And knock down the house. A new Netflix Documentary following the journey of four women who bucked the odds and took on the political establishment, trying to bring change to washington. My mom cleaned houses growing up. I never really saw myself going into politics. Americans arent asking for a l lot. Theyre just asking for politicians to help them get by. I can do this. I know you can. And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in morning with a new deadline just declared by house judiciary chairman jerry nadler notifying the attorney general he has until monday morn