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Lawyers for donald trump approaching a 5 00 p. M. Deadline as prosecutors push to limit what the former president can say about the federal case against him. And after years of dodging the question, Governor Ron Desantis bluntly said, of course trump lost the 2020 election, as the former president s rival tried to reset his campaign. Plus pink is in the new green. Barbie and taylor twist and beyonce proving to be big business for the u. S. Economy. Welcome to the lead. Im Bianna Golodryga in for jake tapper. We start today with our Law And Justice lead. Donald trump is on the clock. His lawyers have just minutes to let a judge know what they think about a request that would block trump from sharing some of the evidence in the january 6 case. Prosecutors say if trump were to start publicly talking about or posti ....
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That country for those who want to leave. i do want to play some video that we had live on the screen a short time ago following the attack, following this explosion and that is a u.s. military jet taxiing down the runway and taking off. and an indication at least in that flight that at least one evacuation flight was able to get off after this attack, perhaps a sign that the operation can continue. you see the plane taking off there. we also have nick paton walsh in qatar where many of the evacuation flights have been heading. on your end, and you ve seen thousands come in there in recent days, tens of thousands in fact, any indication to whether flights are still heading your way following this attack? reporter: as you ve shown, the jet there doesn t appear to ....
So maybe we ll start being serious again. i think that we ve exuded extraordinary weakness and that invites these kind of attacks. let me ask you this. the troops have already begun to leave. the deadline has been set and the president is sticking to the deadline but that deadline is when the last light is turned off in kabul by the u.s. forces that the evacuations have to end before that because, well you have to get all of the troops off the ground. is there any wiggle room, flexibility for the president here to extend that deadline, to get more people out, both americans and people who served with americans? i think the question is what is the mission. is it just following through on the surrender and withdraw or is the mission to get out all americans and get out the afghans at grave risk buzz they ve helped us and tried to help build a better future for thur country. if the mission is the latter, then the military can do that. that is our capability. but can we muster the will ....
As we reported yesterday, a credible threat intelligence stream that the u.s. had about plots, planning and capability to carry out an attack targeting exactly a gate like this and exactly a crowd like this that has been gathering at these gates. i want to go now to sam kiley. he was on the ground until just yesterday morning among the journalists taking out of the country in part because of safety concerns. sam, this was the concern and the sad fact is the pentagon now confirming such an attack. reporter: yeah, the situation on kabul international airport for several days until i left yesterday evening, in fact, jim, was extremely tense. because they did have this very active ongoing intelligence with some precision. this he were anticipating a spectacular attack. they were anticipating an attack almost certainly against the crowds gathering outside of the gate. and they anticipated that it ....