congressman kinzinger, thank you for joining us. i want to ask you, bennie thompson said there will be many subpoenas issued as part of the investigation and issued soon. who do you expect we'll see subpoenaed to appear before the committee? >> well, i don't want to get into naming names at this point. what we need to know is what happened. if you look at what is it going to take to find out what happened? it's going to take talking to a lot of people. it's going to take thorough investigations. we want to do this expeditiously. we want to get answers. we don't want to drag this out. we want to know -- i think this is like the shot we have as a country to get answers to what led up to it, what really happened and what happened in the aftermath. i would expect to see a significant number of subpoenas for a lot of people. the bigger thing is what is the message that's going to come out of this? the american people deserve the truth. they need the truth. even if there are some folks on some tv channels that don't want to talk about it,

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representative kinzinger, let me start with you. 13 u.s. the most in a single day in a decade. was this avoidable? >> look, in congress we got a brief on this a couple of days ago with the most crystal-clear evidence i've ever heard in terms of what's coming through intel. and so the real question is, how did this, these bombers, slip through the taliban lines? i think that's the question. we're relying on the taliban to secure that perimeter. we'll find out if it was avoidable. but it's certainly tragic. >> mr. ackerman, isis-k is claiming responsibility for this bombing. tell us about the power vacuum created when the government fell so quickly. >> i think it's something we've seen occur time and again. we saw it occur in iraq after the withdrawal in 2011 which led to the rise of the islamic state three years later in 2014. we're seeing it occur right now in realtime in afghanistan when isis-k has now announced itself. if there's any sense that the taliban can keep al qaeda from arriving in afghanistan, that should be totally dispelled by

kinzinger is asking the question, what are you afraid of?said this is a normal day at the office and tourists were visiting the capitol or you had something to do with this and you have some culpability. >> every time i hear take the fifth, i think of that dave chappelle skit. >>> still ahead, kevin mccarthy jokes about hitting speaker nancy pelosi with the gavel. just a joke, right? not funny. maybe it was coming a few short months after blood-thirsty insurrectionists stormed the capitol. funny then? or still not funny? it ain't funny. we'll be right back. in't f unny we'll be right back. ♪ fixodent ultra dual power provides you with an unbeatable hold and strong seal against food infiltrations. fixodent. and forget it. what makes new salonpas arthritis gel so good for arthritis pain? salonpas contains the most prescribed topical pain relief ingredient. it's clinically proven, reduces inflammation and comes in original prescription strength. salonpas. it's good medicine. what can i du with less asthma? with dupixent, i can du more....beginn

. >> joining me now, congressman kinzinger, a lieutenant in the air national guard. first, what are your reactions to what happened at the airport and our attempts to get americans safely out and the report that there are marines injured? >> yeah. i could have listened to general mcmaster for another hour mean is spot on. obviously, first, the humanitarian side of this. it's awful. our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the military members and of course, the families of those outside of the gate, but this was entirely foreseen. in fact, a couple of days ago we had a briefing by the administration in which they laid out the specific credible threat. i have never, actually personally had an administration lay out that threat in that specificity so they knew this was coming and for the rand paul endless war crowd who were stoking this fire, man, we're all tired when your grandma tells you how tired you are and you eventually feel tired. congratulations, the endless war just got fired up again because isis and al qaeda's job was to simply get out of afghanist

white house national security adviser jake sullivan and republican congressman and veteran adam kinzinger join me to discuss, next. >>> astron astronomical rise. in covid infection. vivek murthy is ahead. >>> congressman paul mitchell left his party over election lies. months later, as he bravely faced death from cancer, mitchell did one last interview with his final message. >> learn to understand people and judge less. and love more, and less hatred. >>> hello, i'm brianna keilar in washington where the state of our union is worried about friends at home and abroad. >>> outer bands of tropical storm henri have begun to pummel the eastern coast of the united states. henri is expected to make l landfall in hours on long island or new england. all the latest and an update about expected flooding and storm surge ahead. >>> now, we are also watching the situation in afghanistan, at the kabul airport, growing more dangerous and desperate by the minute with 14,000 people there waiting to get out. the state department warning americans in afghanistan not to travel to the airport, as a top u.s.

and besides adam kinzinger and liz cheney, you're not seeing republicans lining up. but i'm not sure that this is the winning issue that some of them apparently have convinced themselves. by the way, i'm still reeling from the news jim jordan is writing a book. it will be a great moment in american literature. >> we don't know much about it yet. i want to press you on something, charlie, you said january 6th was the culmination. when you hear mark meadows sounding bat bleep crazy with his cabinet, he doesn't have a cabinet. it's not clear, even the best reporters didn't give us much evidence they did much more than praise their leader for the cameras. i don't think that january 6th was the culmination. if you sort of jump out of reality into the delusion, the only reason to turn ashley babbitt into a martyr is not because that was the culmination but the beginning of something darker. i wonder what you make of all their actions since january 6th. >> okay. so i withdraw culmination and i will throw in an inflection point because it does appear this is ongoing. and my

in our washington news room josh, thanks very much for congressional reaction, let's turn to adam kinzinger now. currently a member of the air national guard congressman, i know you are with me on this, that i just can't stop thinking about the family members who just knew that their military folks were coming home by tuesday and now this. it is just heart-breaking. >> yeah, it is you know, shep, and we all often talk about, you know, the last person to die in the war and the last casualty was february of 2020 and then now, you know, you have this, 13, and i hope it doesn't climb from that. it is very heart-breaking. and particularly you think of even the ones that survived that didn't get injured, the kind of scenes they've had to see after this, you know, peering over the wall and seeing the taliban beating women, abusing children. there will be a lot of damage to a lot of people. >> what's congress's role now? how quickly do the hearings and the investigations begin >> well, yeah, congress's role is to get the answers. i think it is important not just for accountability on some of these

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and we will try to get to the bottom of that story and get to the latest of stomach on the adam kinzinger meanwhile in dallas, a lunatic judge and county administrator called clay jenkinson's forcing mask on children and people dining in restaurants and there's no medicine behind this. by the way, the order violates the law. what's interesting is this is the same judge who ostentatiously went out of his way several years ago to tell us that ebola wasn't dangerous. if you thought it was, you are a bigot. so what are the effects of this judge's new order? for restaurant owners in dallas it's crushing. so we thought we would check in with one of them. ray washburn is the charter of holdings and thanks so much for coming on. what effect does this having? it's been a tough year for restaurants, a year and a half. what effect this is having on you? >> the interesting thing is the dallas metropolitan area encompasses six different counties. eight if you really stretch it out and we operate in five of them. clay jenkinson is the only judge who has made this ruling into dallas county so our employ

republican member of congress adam kinzinger of illinois, who served in afghanistan in the military, had this to say about the u.s. troop withdrawal tonight. >> this was entirely foreseeable. and beyond, you know, judging the decision to leave, which i think is disastrous, we had nothing in place and have nothing in place for the evacuation of the 30,000 afghan residents who put their life on the line. who were promised a visa if they worked with us as translators, and people in those categories. and they're stuck in afghanistan now. how will you evacuate them when all the major supply routes and all the areas are controlled by the taliban now? it's a tragedy and one that was entirely preventable. >> presidents at camp david right now, white house says he will spend much of the weekend meeting with military advisers and security advisers. there's also concern about security threats here at home. department of homeland security today issued a new domestic terrorism threat advisory, citing the approaching 20th anniversary of 9/11. simmering tensions over covid restrictions as well and

and kinzinger said this saturday. >> what we need to know is what happened.f you look at, it will take to find out what happened? it will take zero and best to geishas. i would expect to see a significant number of subpoenas for people. significant number of subpoena for people i would support anybody they can shed light on. that >> anybody that can shed light on that cornell? what do you think? how far the democrats need to go with this investigation? >> i think you're seeing why mccarthy did not want serious republicans on that committee about this. the truth of the matter is, if that committee does not devolve into a partisan circus, which he wanted to have done with the republican that he selected out there, but leading circus, being jim jordan. it becomes a very serious investigative body. that is going to turn over every rock and look around every corner. and that means that subpoenas some of the people that mccarthy wanted to put on that committee, to in fact muddy the waters. i've said it before i'll say it again. there's an awful lot of smoke here fo

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: there are reports tonight that congressman adam kinzinger,ts has been cryig again, wef that story and get you the latest on the adam kinzinger trail of tears. that is tomorrow's show. meanwhile, in dallas, a lunatic judge called clay jenkins is forcing masks on children and people dining in restaurants. there is no medicine behind this. by the way, the order violates the law, texas' ban on mask mandates. what is interesting as this is the same judge who ostentatiously went out of his way several years ago to tell us ebola wasn't dangerous. if you thought it was, you were a bigot. so whatt are the effects of this judges new order? for restaurant owners in dallas, it is crushing. we check in with one of them. the ceo of charter holdings and operates a number of restaurants in the areas. he joins us tonight.or ray, thank you for coming on. what effect does this had that it has been a tough year and aea half restaurants -- what effect does this have on you? >> tucker, an interesting thing is the dallas metropolitan area encompassess six different counties, eight if you rea

liz cheney and adam kinzinger whether or not they know it will forever live outside the bubble.s like charlie sykes and bill kristol will live outside the bubble, because inside the bubble the truth and the facts can't survive. but i wonder if you see it as a thought-out part of a strategy for what comes next? if you agree with some of the observations by max boot that this is laying the foundation for more successful coup in 2024, or if you think this is just reflexive rage from the twice-impeached ex-president? >> i think there's probably both, but i think there's certainly some people in the republican party who are now really very carefully planning the next four years. i mean i was very struck by some of the things that governor desantis of florida has said in the last few days. for example, accusing joe biden of wanting to lock everybody down again. you now have some republicans saying things that they must know are not true, creating new lies which they can use to kind of loosen the relationship of their constituents to truth, but actually much more worrying than those ki

veteran and republican congressman of illinois, adam kinzinger joins us now.now that you are critical of the way that biden, president biden has conducted this exit. and i know that you disagree with the idea to withdraw all u.s. forces. but, just as a moment in history, as a moment of this war is over, are you feeling -- what are you feeling? >> well, it's certainly a significant moment. i think we all expected we would be out in an additional 24 hours because august 31st deadline i think we all assumed it was 11:59 p.m. on the 31st. so it's surprising. but on the one hand it's great relief that we got those thousands of military members out other than the one tragic bombing. on the other hand, it's kind of like a mix of sadness because i have this sense of a number of americans, a number of allies that we've left behind. i know that the taliban's kind of good front they've put up is going to disappear soon. i hope i'm wrong and i hope that maybe we have this magical relationship and the taliban decides they want to liberalize and give women's rights and not

adam kinzinger said it and it was shocking how fast it went.hink that is something that the advisers have talked about behind the scenes. that what they are seeing, they are surprised how quickly it happened. but also, this is a president who, while he was candidate now as president, he has made this decision. he has been moving -- we are out of afghanistan. and he said over and over, i was in his remarks that he gave to us this week, when we asked him about this. and he said, you know, this is the people of afghanistan have to fight this now. this is the army of afghanistan, the military of afghanistan, it is their job now. and i think that is where the tough truth of it all is, it's not anymore america's problem. could i change if americans are hurt or killed while we are, they try to say it's not an evacuation, while we are evacuating and getting them out there. that's is a question they were talking about, it's on the table. and something that was said by the department of defense to speak. if the taliban were to engage the military as we g

how about that, adam kinzinger, is this the democracy you fought for? please.ers of the riots go free, especially if they were working for the fbi, but the people who offend joe biden's friends, they are in jail. one programming note tonight, our "tucker carlson originals" team has been looking into the events of january 6 very closely, been doing it for months, and we plan to bring you that report. the video we have collected is shocking and informative. that's the next installment of our documentary series coming next month. well, it wasn't long ago that jeff bezos' newspaper was telling us that birds are racist. and all the experts are telling us toddlers can be white supremacists, too! that straight ahead. ♪ ♪ is your family ready for an emergency? you can prepare by mapping out two ways to escape your home, creating a supply kit, and including your whole family in practice drills. for help creating an emergency plan, visit safetyactioncenter.pge.com area homeowners for help creating an emergency plan, learn how your neighbors are accessing $100,000s with a

but adam kinzinger's point is key.estified before the watergate committee but people around him did. people in the justice department did. people in the cia and elsewhere and we learned an awful lot about his interactions with people elsewhere in the government. for me, this is where people are underestimating the importance of having a select committee with the power to compel testimony. and a lot of people scattered around who will testify -- who were around the government between november 3rd and january 6th and incidentally state and local governments elsewhere who will testify truthfully. ing think of ukraine. a lot of people testified truthfully once called at the state department and national security council. so we can learn more. people assume this committee is just going to rehash the same old stuff. but look at that testimony this week from the police officers. that was some moving and gripping but in a way, i think the more important fundamentally more important testimony is from people still to come in the

adam kinzinger critical of his party.letely with president biden 0 this issue had a view of this, take a listen. >> we can be angry at what joe biden has done, right? i am. i'm also at the setup put here by donald trump. i do believe some people on his national security team should resign. that's up to them and that's up to him. look, we impeach presidents for high crimes and misdemeanors. this is a very bad decision. i'm not going to call on the president to resign to this or be impeached. >> congressm man kinzinger may t call for him to resign. republicans are split on how to channel it, rage or outrage, house leader kevin mccarthy, and mccarthy is not somebody who holds back when it comes to president biden. what are the dynamics you that see now as republicans try to navigate this moment? >> yeah. i think, look, the tactical question of when to call for accountability, when to call for something as drastic as impeachment or resignation, it really makes no sense at this point to go straight to those kind of issues, i t

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joining us now to discuss, republican congressman adam kinzinger. we just heard general milley say that there was no indication that the afghan military would collapse in only 11 days. you heard clarissa say that she agrees that the collapse is not the surprise, the rapidity, how quickly it happened, is a surprise. what do you think? >> well, a couple things. i don't think we expected it to happen this quickly. but keep in mind we abandoned the afghan military over the last 20 years we've taken as many casualties in 20 years as they were taking every year in the ground fight. we made a deal with them in 2014, you fight on the ground we provide logistics and air. we took off, we left. and keep in mind under the prior administration you had donald trump continually saying we're getting out, it's not worth the fight. you had mike pompeo cutting the afghan government out of it. this abandonment of the afghan military began a while ago. but then particularly in the last 11 days as we saw the military a rapid basically capitulation and the taliban advance

liz cheney and adam kinzinger voted against it.y as a robust pro democracy republican in 2021. they're unwilling to do what republicans and democrats have always done to just secure the basic right to vote for all americans. joining me by phone is congress ann sheila jackson lee, a democrat representing texas' 18th congressional district. she was arrested last month at a demonstration rallying support for new federal voting legislation. congresswoman, first, i wonder if you could just describe what this bill does and compare it in its scope and boldness and potential controversialness to the more aggressive hr-1? >> chris, thank you for having me. first of all, what i would say is the john robert lewis advancement act was worth getting arrested for. voting rights was worth getting arrested for. frankly the bill that was voted on yesterday has enormous teeth. it strengthens the opportunity to fight against voter suppression and it means that it clearly holds states accountable across the nation that may have a number of voting suppr

after the january 6th attack on the capitol, liz cheney and adam kinzinger have gained reputations asemocracy republicans in congress. and to their credit, they have become pariahs and their party for refusing, steadfastly, to support donald trump's big lie of election fraud. they are now serving on the house select committee. jeanne lost her position in house republican leadership. again, that is to their credit. but are those productive moccasin republicans helping to secure and protect the electoral process? there are two major pieces of voting legislation that are proposing congress sitting. there there's all the for the people act. it is a democratic kind of formal reform vision to strengthen our democracy and the right to vote, and to end partisan gerrymandering, and restore regulation around speech and. money it would be transformational. it is a bold vision. and for that reason, it is quite an uphill battle to become law. in, fact joe manchin himself said he wasn't on board until they made some changes. that is when. point the other one is considerably more modest. it is a bil

not liz cheney, not adam kinzinger. in the senate lisa murkowski said she would support it.cided on it. he already voted against the for the people act. which is a reminder of two things -- number one, democratic senator joe manchin who has been a thorn in the side of his own party needs his head examined when he talks about the need to protect our voting rights in a bipartisan way. a bipartisan way does not exist. it's going to be filibustered. number two, they may have stood up to donald trump, when it comes to voting rights, the likes of liz cheney, adam kinzinger, mitt romney are not your friends. and take. it. on... ...with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. and for some rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. that's rinvoq relief. with ra, your overactive immune system attacks your joints. rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious infections and blood clots, sometimes fatal, have occurred... ...as

joining us now, congressman adam kinzinger, one of two republican members on the house select committee on the 6th of january. congressman, appreciate you being with us. as someone investigating the insurrection, in hopes of preventing something like this from ever happening again, are you concerned by these reports from dhs and others? >> yeah, it's concerning because, you know, on january 5th, we never imagined that january 6th, to the level it did, would happen. even though a lot of us predicted violence, up to that day. that's the new floor, now. and so, when you look at online rhetoric and you look at chatter that's happening. and you look at, you know, maybe 100 people post insane comments like bring out the gallows. even if only two of those out of the 100 are serious, that leads to violence, i think, what the biggest concern is, is all this talk. a lot of times, just, you know, people trying to sound tough on the internet. but that ends up kind of feeding itself. and particularly, when people start brainwashing folks with the election was stolen. look at what all these patriotic

and our mission will go on. >> joining me now to discuss is republican congressman adam kinzinger ofnote he's an air force veteran who served in afghanistan and iraq. congressman, thank you for taking the time this morning. >> you betcha. >> listen, it's a difficult 24 hours for all involved. 13 u.s. service members are dead, many more wounded. who among u.s. leaders and officials do you hold responsible? >> you know, look, i don't hold leaders and officials responsible for these marines' deaths. i hold the taliban responsible and i hold isis. but i do think there were some really bad decisions that put us in this moment. you could go back, you know, two years and look at the really awful deal negotiated by donald trump, and then you can just go to a month ago and look at this insistence of an august 31st deadline, leaving bagram, the failure to defend kabul when they were surrounded by the taliban. so everybody bears some responsibility for sure. but the only people i hold responsible for the deaths are these evil terrorists and there has to be vengeance on them. >> was the mistake

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i was talking to congressman kinzinger last hour and he was saying that the president needs to take betterthe time president biden inherited this problem in january, there were nothing but bad options left. and i think that's really important to understand. that so many of the pundits and critics that we have seen over the last two weeks failed in their own attempts over the last two decades to bring any of this problem to a conclusion, and they have kicked this down the road for four presidential administrations now. all of whom have sort of tacitly admitted that the reason we're staying in afghanistan is that we know this will happen the moment that we try to leave. and so there are some tactical critiques that you can make of the way that biden has handled the last couple of weeks. but at the end of the day everyone for the last 18 years has known this is where this problem was going to end up, that we were going to lose afghanistan someday. >> democratic congressman susan wild on the house foreign affairs committee has vowed to investigate what happened in terms of any intelligence fai

by threatening to punish fellow republicans liz cheney and kinzinger mccarthy has made -- it is bettert on the committee may be an act of political cowardice, but it is certainly a political miscalculation. jonathan, can you expand on the miscalculation part of this? >> sure. kevin mccarthy is forfeiting the right to position republicans as a party that is interested in finding out why so many people rushed the united states capitol. staged an insurrection. to try to restore or try to overturn the election and keep donald trump in the presidency. if republicans are not going to -- their physical health, their security from these images you are seeing right now, if they are not willing to defend the capitol, defend the constitution, the question is what do they stand for, who do they stand for, who can they claim to stand for other than former president donald trump. the answer that mccarthy is giving by not assigning recommends to that committee and threatening those who decide the sit on it at nancy pelosi's request have decided they are not going to put that in context, not going to

and i was very pleased to see that adam kinzinger and i believe earlier liz cheney said this as well, two republicans on the select committee, that they, too, want to see anybody who was in contact and can give a blow by blow, minute by minute description of what happened on january 6th and the days leading up. >> okay. what you have just said, i want to reiterate it in a different way. because that's what you are looking for. for any republicans who say oh, this is a witch-hunt, look, they are just coming after us. you are about a broad based anybody in the republican administration, anybody that worked from donald trump. you just want to hear from people who were in contact with donald trump on that day in the immediate time preceding this to figure out how this got to where it did? that's it? >> that's exactly right. that's exactly right. those individuals and i would say individuals that were in touch with key insurrectionist leaders. that is also very important because we know there are members of congress that may have worked with these insurrectionists and each helped them in d

i was talking to congressman kinzinger last hour and he was saying the president needs to take bettery the time president biden inherited this problem in january, there were nothing but bad options left. and i think that's really important to understand. that so many of the pundits and critics that we have seen over the last two weeks failed in their own attempts over the last two decades to bring any of this problem to a conclusion, and they have kicked this down the road for four presidential administrations now. all of whom have sort of tacitly admitted the reason we're staying in afghanistan is we know this will happen the moment we try to leave. and so there are some tactical critiques that you can make of the way that biden has handled the last couple of weeks. but at the end of the day everyone for the last 18 years has known this is where the this problem was going to end up, that we were going to lose afghanistan someday. >> democratic congressman susan wild on the house foreign affairs committee has vowed to investigate what happened in terms of any intelligence failures. ho

members of congress including members of the freedom caucus who are calling liz cheney and adam kinzinger, the two republicans on the committee, spies. colorado congresswoman lauren boebert said, "they are a cancer to our party." i wonder what you see as the future for republicans of that ilk now. granted, i think the midterm elections will sort of tell the tale in terms of whether voters push back against those lawmakers and say you need to go or you carry enough of my interests that i will let you stay. but what is your sense of the balance of power in terms of republicans who are still kind of clinging on to that fabulist view of what happened on january 6th? >> well, the really interesting thing about the republican party is how completely dominated they are by their fear of the primary election process. so as we start to get into the primary season for the midterms, i think we're going to see a real division between who actually has challengers run against them from the center. like, are there going to be actually any of these trump supporters who have more moderate republicans try t

the two republicans who are participating on the committee, representatives liz cheney and adam kinzinger as "pelosi republicans." do you worry, congresswoman, about the number of americans, some of whom are in your district, who will perhaps never take seriously the findings of the select committee? >> i do. i'm concerned about it. and that's why i strongly preferred that we do a 9/11-style commission, a bipartisan group of outside experts, not sitting members of congress. and we had 35 republicans who voted with us in the house, but it died in the senate. and so we're already in the world of second-best options. but ithard for me to accept, you know, to see republican leaders attacking the current commission when they could have had a very different version of it. they just ch not to support it. so i'm not sure i really believe e crocodile tears that are coming out of some of these folks. they had the opportunity and they missed. they whiffed on a truly bipartisan conversation of outside experts. now, the committee, the current committee has to do its very best to remain objective and s

kinzinger: thank you. mr. amin, we hear a lot about the benefits of open-ran, but everyone seems to talk about it like it is just an idea, and you are actually running a network based on these technologies. while we think we are getting ahead, after hearing what you have deployed in japan, i feel as though we may actually be falling behind. can you speak to where u.s. market is relative to japan and where do you see american wireless innovation relative to china? mr. amin: i think i just want to highlight what we have done in japan now is deploy at scale with over today 18,000 macro base station 4g running on a completely open-ran platform architecture. we have taken the fear and uncertainty and doubt and the merit about such an advancement in telecom architecture from concepts to reality in about a year and a half and i think we see the potential for such technology is absolutely enormous. we have met with many cfos in the last 18 months to explain to them across the world the advantages of such technologies

i was speaking to congressman adam kinzinger and asking him does he have an idea what would trigger these contingency plans to have u.s. forces stay in afghanistan longer. from the viewpoint of allies, it almost feels like boris johnson called that g7 meeting to say the ground has already shifted, contingency plans already need to be triggers. i'm curious your thoughts on that. >> boris johnson called that meeting probably because he was in the chair of the g7 and this major international crisis was unfolding and they're trying to do something that was helpful. you're right that he hoped there would be the chance of extending that deadline. as i was saying earlier, this is not a unilateral decision. i don't know what my good friend bill burns has been doing in kabul talking to taliban leadership. it may be about terrorism and trying to assure that it's not in their interests to be a save haven for terrorists. he also may be talking about the contingency plan of extending. it may be that director burns is examining those possibilities. there are still thousands and thousands of people who

. >> meanwhile, committee member adam kinzinger said he would support subpoenas of kevin mccarthy andordan to see what contact they had with president trump on january 6th. fox news host trey gowdy blasts the media for turning a blind eye to pelosi's double standard when it comes to congressional investigation. >> she put adam schiff on the benghazi committee even though his mind was made up and he did everything he could to protect the democrat nominee for president. she picked her own biased members but rejected jim jordan. jordan is the top republican on the judiciary committee. he was on the intelligence committee which has more access to more sensitive information than any committee in congress. why is it your members can have their minds already made up but somehow that is disqualifying for the other side? it's the sort of question a serious objective media would ask. it's the sort of question a media serious about speaking truth to power would ask. it's the sort of question a media devoted to the truth would ask. but the modern media in this country is just as partisan as the p

block this every which way they can aside from a handful of exceptions like liz cheney and adam kinzinger. these are republicans who spent 4 1/2 years probing benghazi and they couldn't care less what happened on january 6 when our capitol was stormed. >> charlie, this is about the insurrection and also about attempts to overturn the 2020 election. they want records from former chief of staff mark meadows, members of the trump family. chairman bennie thompson is saying records from several hundred people. will this committee get everything they want, do you think? i'm sure they'll fight it, but they're asking for a lot. will they be able to get all of this? >> don, i do think they'll be able to get much of the information they have requested from the various departments and agencies. that's true. to the extent -- i'm sure that donald trump will try to fight some of the testimony that's going to be solicited from his former staff. mark meadows, his family, and others. i'm sure they're going to try to fight that legally, any request they think would be privileged. so i would watch that. but

today, cheney, kinzinger, they're standing up for truth and putting everything on the line for what ise of the key messages i try to communicate in the book. you know what the right thing to do is. you've done it repeatedly, trained yourself how to do the right thing. all you need to do is trust in yourself in follow through. frankly, my book is what i would like to believe is a tool to help folks overcome some of these challenges, train themselves to be better, and maybe each one of us could be a little bit better about dealing with challenges. >> listen, i wish you the best in life, and the best with your book. colonel alexander vindman, "here, right matters: an american story." thank you so much, colonel vindman. >> thank you. >>> covid cases are up. but so are vaccinationvaccinati. the u.s. hitting a milestone today. more after this. d-new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer

there's a tiny group of people, lindsay cheney, adam kinzinger, say this is, wrong we shunted on. this but by and large, it's either denial or cooperation. >> well, first of all we have a couple of things working in our favor. i hate to inject a note of optimism here, but we have a couple of things working in our favor. one is the republican party is shrinking. there is a chunk of the republican party, that agrees with liz cheney. and agrees with congressman king zinger. and so i do think, that electorally, we are not in a horrible position. the other thing is we have to remember here, trump appointed judges, laughed his lawyers out of the courtroom. when they tried to go to the courts to get redress. and so we have to remember, we have this balance of power between the executive branch in the executive branch in the judicial prince. so far, on some things i don't like with the judicial branch is done. but in terms of this election, they did the right thing. and they said, you don't get anything if you don't have evidence. >> you know what, it's interesting, what's fascinating to

outside that perimeter is a source of criticism from republican lawmakers, illinois congressman adam kinzingercnn's state of the union. why are we sitting in the kabul airport in afghanistan right now with such a lack of confidence. >> that were begging the taliban to allow us to save our own citizens. secretary of state antony blinken telling cbs face the nation. they are in control. a couple that is the reality, the president said sunday that the taliban has not taken action against us forces but didn't shut down using sanctions against them. >> something >> the president says nearly 8,000 people were flown out in the last 24 hours and more flights will be added with the help of commercial airplanes to aid us evacuation efforts. the president promised we're working hard and as fast as we can get people out. that's our days until troops are set to withdraw from the region and the president is set to meet with g 7 leaders this week to discuss the ongoing situation in afghanistan. >> reporting in washington. i'm kelly meyer. stay with us, i'm kelly meyer. stay with us, everyone. we attention, c

. >>> adam kinzinger expects the house committee investigating the capitol riot to issue a significant number of subpoenas to find out donald trump's write abouts on the day of the insurrection. he signalled some reluctance to subpoena the former president himself. at least not right away. >> we may not have to talk to donald trump. there were tons of people around him. there were tons of thing involved. if you talk to the former president, it have a whole new set of kind of like, you know, everything associated with it. i'm like maybe but i know we're going to get to the information. if he has unique information, that's one thing. i think there are a lot of people around him that knew some things. >> he expects house minority leader kevin mccarthy to be among those who receive subpoenas. >>> back on the beam. simone biles is back in olympic competition tomorrow. cnn will be live in tokyo next! [grunts] ♪ ♪ [grunts] pnc bank believes that if a pair of goggles can help your backhand get better... yeah! ...then your bank should help you budget even better. (laughing) virtual wallet® is s