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Garland adding that he was also concerned about increased threats to secretaries of state, poll workers and other election officials. garland, however, admitted that the power of the doj to protect voting rights has been eroded, saying, in part, quote, are our tools weakened? yes, they are, but our passion hasn't weakened. let's bring in former acting solicitor general neal katyal. this is a justice department under a loft pressure to get a lot of things done. people are looking at it as one of the most important institutions right now. neal, i don't know if you can hear me. can you hear me? a...

>> hello, even, i'm alisyn camerota, welcome to "newsroom." >> i'm victor blackwell. obviously had a bit of an audio problem there, but you have been listening to the fema briefing on the response to what was hurricane ida. ida, as we know now, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the u.s. one official in louisiana says it's the worst case scenario that seems to have happened. we're starting to see, look at this, some of the severe damage. we know a fallen tree killed one man, but louisiana's governor expects the death toll to rise, in his words, considerably. and now, hundreds of searc...

0 get him to the island and as long as there's communication, we'll be able to communicate with him and see what's going on there. but it's very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they're having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understand...

Enriched by the day. is there not a parallel here between the massive amount of money made over on government contracts between these two wars, afghanistan and iraq and the failures and the way the government of afghanistan has failed? >> sarah chase, sorry, we're having a little bit of an audio problem there. john sop co, thanks to the both of you. greatly appreciate it. afghanistan could soon see the highest number of documented civilian casualties in a single year. we're going to talk to the president of the society about how it's dealing with the humanitarian crisis in the country next. yo...

So this is a way for us to meet her, for her to make a stance about what she expects to do within the next 14 days before she transitions. and i think it is starting right now so let's go to it. >> it sounds like there's an audio problem. what a great start. can you hear me now? it sounds like a commercial. can you hear me now? all right, all right. good afternoon and thank you for being here. i spoke with governor cuomo yesterday and he pledged his full support for a smooth transition. i thanked him for service to our state. regarding his decision to step down, i believe it is appropriate and...