alarming letter and i think there needs to be accountability for it. >> roger, earlier i was talking to joe walshrsation i had tens of thousands of times in the last ten years he meaning joe said i oppose trump because he acts like he's above the law and uses his office to try to silence descent. i don't care if he's an authoritarian because he's fighting for me. some americans are quite prepared to overlook stuff like this letter from jeffrey clark or the fact that donald trump tried to get the acting attorney general to intervene in the election. >> so, ali, one of the core issues if we think about how internet platforms work in ourl authoritarian. and they have been an essential tool for trump and his minions to undermine democracy and now attempt this coup. the challenge that we face is the country for 40 years has deregulated business to the point where businesses like facebook are governments themselves. as barbara said, they make the choices thatual our lives. we have to decide as a country, do we want to be ruled by a handful of very large corporations and potentially a dictator? or would

we're going to bring in former gop congressman joe walsh and former direct over the democratic campaignran. we'll start with you. >> i think it's a great addition. denver's a great guy, and this assignment fits perfectly with his background, military intelligence. lindsey, i think the other important aspect is denver is a republican, and it's important because my former political party is going to continue to paint this select committee as some partisan witch hunt. it's not. liz cheney is on the committee, adam kinzinger is on the committee, and now you have another republican. i think it will add a lot of heft. >> this is considered a big win for the biden administration. he campaigned on his ability to get bipartisan things done. when you think about it, infrastructure is kind of the easy thing, right? it's not as controversial as gun control, as immigration. so do you see this as a win right now, and also do you see any big ticket items likely? federal voting rights, anything like that as the focus starts to shift to the midterms? >> yeah. i do think this is going to be transformatio

. >> joining us now is former republican congressman and presidential candidate joe walsh.. on one hand, you have donald trump maybe mull ing another ru. and it's also august where qanon conspiratorers think that you will have trump aascending to the presidency. >> this is serious. we're entering august. i'm in a weird position because i hear from trump supporters, hundreds of them, every day. they don't believe that joe biden won legitimately. many of them do believe something is going to happen this month. for mark meadows to sit there and say president trump is meeting with his cabinet, again, in one respect it's bizarro, but it's dangerous. because he's playing with fire. the threat of violence, brianna, this month of august, is real. i know, because i hear it every day. shame on mark meadows for putting stuff like that out there. >> playing footsie with qanon conspiracies, right? very specifically choosing his words, talking about the president is on task, talking about meeting with his cabinet? again, it seems very deliberate. as you say, joe, dangerous. >> john, he k

nick payton walsh, many thanks. >>> president joe biden said there's a long way to go before all americans and afghan allies are out of the country. pledges the evacuation effort will push on. cnn's arkansas let saenz has more from the white house. >> reporter: president biden pledging to get all americans out of saafghanistan safely and said the u.s. troops may need to remain in the country past the august 31st deadline mo to scare make it happen. he said he does hope they will be able to leave by august 31st. it will be dependent on the status of americans who are in afghanistan. now the president's remarks came as he addressed the country for the third time since kabul fell to the taliban. while the president offered these assurances about evacuating americans and afghan allies safely and in a quick manner, he also said there is still room for something to go wrong in the process. take a listen. >> there's no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss and heartbreaking images you see on television. it's just a fact. my heart aches for those people you see. we are proving wit

they simply walked in but i imagine we'll hear certain words from president joe biden in the hours ahead. >> nick paton walsh, thank you very much for your reporting from kabul for us. so, let's discuss the u.s. response with cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house and barbara starr at the pentagon. just a short time ago, president biden returned to the white house where he will address the nation in the next hour on the situation that we're watching unfold in afghanistan. so, do you have any sense of what he will say and how he and the white house were caught so unaware? >> reporter: well, the white house has been trying to push back on the idea that president biden has made the wrong decision here when it comes to withdrawal. they're defending it overall, but i think a lot of the questions and the scrutiny on the white house right now are on how this went down and how this happened and how this morning of clearly the airport in kabul is not secure. it's the only way to get people out of afghanistan right now. and you have seen what is happening not just on the ground there when it comes to people clinging

joe brought along almost half of the republican caucus in the senate. call it whatever you want, but it is happening. let's bring in our experts, cornell belcher and joan walsh. cornell, what do you think of this moneybag joe? >> more money, more problems. >> first, let me say this, is this a significant victory? it is something you have not seen a lot in washington where you have a bill where it is not one or two republicans but it is as you point out 18 or 19 republicans. we didn't get most republicans but we did get a sizable, a sloth of republicans where it was really bipartisan. it is a huge victory for the president. again, he can say i am delivering and bringing washington together and working on big issues. that's something americans want desperately. they want republicans and democrats to work together. that's an important political. why i say more money, more problems is this. there is also winning the -- you know go back to 2008 and barack obama won a lot of big legislative battles. he pulls the country from the cusp back from a economic disaster. i want to prefix that we have got to win the battle outside as well. >> the more money we come across

nick paton walsh has the latest on this complicated mission. >> reporter: pam, as ever, president joeing competence and order about this evacuation plan, although, it is clear on the ground that that is not wholly reflected in what happened today. i understand from a source close to the situation, they managed to get 11,000 people off that airport, an extraordinary number but there are still 20,000 or so, a rough number there of people on that airport. that figure has simply stayed the same because while people have been taken away, i understand more have been brought on to the base using these alternate routes that u.s. officials don't want to elaborate on for security reasons. this raises a huge issue, of course, because they're simply having to work out how long they can keep this up for. a source i spoke to said some of the thinking is maybe four, maybe five days. president biden said he would possibly discuss whether they would stay longer than the august 31st deadline but then that essentially could drag them into an indefinite process. they don't know how many americans they ar

joe biden plans to address the nation. that after a weekend of silence as americans watched an american retreat and american embarrassment. describe the scene you are seeing at that airport, nick paton-walsh. >> the american investment was so palpable and this extraordinary modern place and contractors came in on dozens of flights a day and now over run by people to reach a civilian flight unaware that those have been cancelled and racing towards u.s. cargo planes to get on any way they possibly could and rendering the system the americans set up here to try to get out afghan who assisted them. many thought when they announced tens of thousands of afghans out that you never would see chaos but these sorts of scenes are startling and led to u.s. suspension of flights. i've seen flares must be helicopters trying to protect planes and it's clearly volatile. that is inside the airport. we tried to head out to it ourselves and it was startling at the gate where the taliban and they were essentially doing crowd control for the benefit of the united states, keeping back many of the afghans trying to swarm that particular airport. there will be some who say they were trying to people leaving they

watching unfold, i mean joe biden described it as the largest and most complicated airlift, one of them in history. >> and the ramp-up. several days ago -- our thanks to nick paton walshoren lieberman and phil mattingly, by the way. early on the administration was being scrutinized as it should have been for getting 600, 800, 2,000 out, but now 21,000 in a 24-hour period is remarkable. >> we will see if they can keep up the pace of every 45 minutes which is their goal. >> yes. >> our thanks to our correspondents there. >>> as we have said we are awaiting president biden. joining us now cnn military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hertling, a former army general of europe and the 7th army. also peter bergen, cnn national security analyst. he has written several books on al qaeda, afghanistan and america's longest war including the united states of jihad, investigating america's homegrown terrorists. general, i want to start with you because i understand that it is in both the taliban and the united states' military interests to get out on august 31st, but what happens if they can't? i mean what happens if the u.s. isn't done with their mission, if there are mor

joe fryer has more on the new pro boxer who has the sports world buzzing. good morning >> good morning. this is an impressive young man, to see the least nico ali walshld college student lived up to expectations and the ali family name as he made his pro boxing debut. like grandfather, like grandson. with nico ali walsh's saturday night debut, the third generation of muhammad ali's family joined the ranks of pro boxing, giving the hard rock crowd in oklahoma a chance to chant this - >> ali ali! >> with ali-walsh defeating his opponent in the first round by technical knockout >> tko victory for the grandson of the g.o.a.t >> it absolutely -- it's like a euphoric feeling right now >> reporter: nico's grandfather, or papi, as he called him, debuted in 1960 launching his legendary career >> i am the greatest >> reporter: and muhammad ali's daughter leila is considered one of the greatest female boxers. >> the pressure was immense. i'm glad everything worked out the way it did the greatest night of my life. >> reporter: he wore his grandfather's trunks in the ring because his weren't ready. >> i wasn't planning on wearing them, but it just happened the wo