reston.everal years ago read the book by the wife of the gentleman whose famous words "let's roll" started the insurrection against these hijackers. i'm interested in some of the other people who were so brave to try to stop this. could you shed some light on that for me? thank you. bye-bye. guest: well, i think the assault on the cockpit in flight 93 was the most heroic event by ordinary americans in the entire american history. it is a truly amazing event. the fact that they had 20 minutes to decide whether to act or sit tight was not an easy choice. they had in those 20 minutes discard the whole past history of hijackings in american history from the 1960's to the 1970's to the 1980's. those past hijackings were by people who took over airplanes who had an agenda of some sort to force the airplane down to land safely and a negotiation to take place which ultimately resulted in the release of the passengers. those passengers on flight 93 had to realize within a couple of minutes that the wh

memorandum to department leadership tasking them with reporting data pertaining to sexual assault and reston. on february 26, secretary austin established the 90 day review commission. on june 21, the irc provided its findings and recommendations to secretary austin, and their comprehensive evidence-based and stakeholder informed report made 82 recommendations that spanned four lines of effort. accountability, prevention, climate and culture, and victim care. on july 2, less than six months after stating his intent to be the department encountering sexual assault and sexual harassment, secretary austin directed this implementation ahead. we have now created that way ahead called implementation roadmap, and secretary austin has approved it in its entirety. comprising experts across the department. after reviewing the irc's recommendations our experts identified sequencing issues, estimated resource requirements and characterized the risks and benefits associated with different implementation paths. built in consultation with the department's civilian and uniformed leadership, the resulting ro

cnn's maeve reston is there following the race for us.we expect to hear from vice president harris today? >> reporter: well, this is a homecoming, alisyn, for vice president harris. she is beloved in this state by progressives and in particular democratic women. that is a group that gavin newsom has really been targeting in this lead-up to the election. his biggest issue is making sure that democrats are aware of this election and that they actually turn in their ballot. and so what he and harris are going to try to do here at this rally is to really nationalize this race and make the argument that there are really serious stakes for this election because of larry elder's position on roe v. wade, on the past comments that he's made about women and really arguing that there's a lot at risk here for women and girls in particular. right now we just talked to the campaign manager here. things are still looking really good for democrats. gavin newsom said earlier this week that he felt that he has turned a corner and we are seeing democrats ke

. >>> want to bring in maeve reston and john avlon. yes, california is a blue state, very blue.ut also, yes, funky things can happen in off year special elections, as i said before, look at alabama. look at doug jones winning in alabama to phil jeff sessions senate seat. strange things can happen. if the issue was democratic turnout in california where you are, maeve, democrats turned out. >> they sure did. i was talking to advisers over the last couple days, we were talking about democrat apathy, in the end, it was really just that earlier on a lot of democrats were not even aware that this election was going on. you know, the newsome campaign really only had like ten weeks or so when they actually had a date and could begin calling and reaching out to voters and saying, this is how you vote. this is when you're going to get your ballot. this is what you need to do. and once that began to happen, at the same time that larry elder was rising in the polls, newsom had the perfect foil, he finally had a target in the election. my approach to the coronavirus and keeping you safe is

kamala harris is also lending a hand as maeve reston reports for us. >> reporter: more than 6.4 millionn california and they are coming in tags. and what the newsome campaign is hoping is that kamala harris could drive home that message to democratic voters that they need to turn in their ballots in this election or they are facing the possibility of an arch conservative replacing newsom as governor. kamala harris just like gavin newsom has been doing tried to come out here and nationalize this race, talk about the texas an bbortion law that went into effect and argue that many of the rights that californians hold dear in this very blue state could be at stake if a republican like larry elder was in office. she and newsom also said that this is a life and death issue because of larry elder's opposition to mask and vaccine mandates. and kachlmala harris made the argument that if this works in california, such a deep blue state, that it may be a pattern that is replicated across the country. so let's take a listen to that. >> this recall campaign is about california and about a whole lot

. >> joining us now cnn national political reporter maeve reston.ll, i think, john, that it's the -- this has been a pattern of comments that we have kay file uncovered that other news organizations have uncovered. a pattern of borish behavior by larry elder. in the past and comments that have seemed very disparaging of women. what that has done in this race is that it has really helped governor newsom sort of crystallize the choice for democratic voters going into this recall. as you know, there were a lot of concerns about democratic apathy earlier on that many democrats were not going to return their ballots in this all-male election where 22 million ballots are now out to voters. but what we're seeing in these early patterns of ballots returned is actually quite a high level of engagement among democrats. what my sources are telling me is that earlier in the summer a lot of democrats didn't feel like this was a real possibility, that their governor would get recalled. and as newsome has been able to make this about the contrast between himself,

ben in reston, virginia. good morning. >> good morning, hi. my position on this is i think that the immigration is a disaster. i think we've been overrun, invaded. we are not responsible for their overflow, their population control, their, you know, public rape game that they're playing and just dump everything on this country. we can't afford it. i mean, please, enough is enough. we need to get the border shut. we need to get these people back the hell out of here. this is -- where is this leading? there's no end to it. it's just going to be a constant, you know, handful -- >> keith from georgia. keith? keith, good morning to you in georgia. >> good morning, how are you? >> good morning. your take on president biden's immigration and border policies? >> well, i think that a lot has to be worked through. it seems like every week we have a different crisis. but for the most part people complaining about the immigrants, they're not coming from a country in such disarray. we're in our houses looking at this on our television. so we're not out in

let's start with mike, calling from reston, virginia on the democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. we always turn a blind eye. for saudi arabia, where the 15 terrorists who attacked our country were saudi nationals. saddam never took one american. but we should have done, go to afghanistan, never go to iraq. i blame cheney for going there and destroying that country and letting iran take over syria. and lebanon, we never did anything about it. talking about terrorists in iraq, saddam was a secularist. if someone grew a beard he would send them home to shave it. you are talking, mr. quin, about palestinians objecting to the occupation in israel. you are conflicting things. they did. they did it -- they did it for business. look what is happening in iraq. the country disintegrated. it is gone, finished. syria is finished because we opened the door for iran to sponsor these terrorists in yemen, iraq, and syria. i don't want to hear about republicans always defending cheney's decision to go to war in iraq. host: i will let you respond first, quin. guest: we did no

let's start with chris calling from reston, virginia.ler: regarding the vaccine, i took two shots, had no effect. 6 people in my family had no effect. since when was it an issue, vaccines? it works. i was deployed to iraq in 2003. i had nine shots! even aspirin can kill people -- it depends on the person. vaccinated people do not get sick, okay? the government mandate -- we are mandated to do many things. a building has to be according to code. i do not want to hear this. the most important issue is democracy. the gop is waiting people to distrust of our democratic system -- leading people to distrust our democratic system. we need to change campaign financing and jerry mondrian should be -abolished- gerrymandering -- gerrymandering should be abolished. caller: all of these democrats who want to call up, they need to see how horrible of a job biden has done. we have inflation of gas, inflation of food prices, inflation all over the general economy, a border crisis that is a total and complete disaster, we had 13 service people get killed

let's start with chris calling from reston, virginia.ler: regarding the vaccine, i took two shots, had no effect. 6 people in my family had no effect. since when was it an issue, vaccines? it works. i was deployed to iraq in 2003. i had nine shots! even aspirin can kill people -- it depends on the person. vaccinated people do not get sick, okay? the government mandate -- we are mandated to do many things. a building has to be according to code. i do not want to hear this. the most important issue is democracy. the gop is waiting people to distrust of our democratic system -- leading people to distrust our democratic system. we need to change campaign financing and jerry mondrian should be -abolished- gerrymandering -- gerrymandering should be abolished. caller: all of these democrats who want to call up, they need to see how horrible of a job biden has done. we have inflation of gas, inflation of food prices, inflation all over the general economy, a border crisis that is a total and complete disaster, we had 13 service people get killed