it is still just as intense as it was. >> reporter: the hard truth at walter reed is that afghanistannged them more than they changed afghanistan. now the war has come full circle. major-general chris donahue, the last man out of afghanistan, was a junior officer serving in the pentagon on 9/11. >> america's longest war has come to a close. >> reporter: except no politicians were standing behind defense secretary lloyd austin and mark milley when they appeared in the pentagon briefing room. >> this is tough stuff. war is hard. it is vicious, brutal, unforgiving. and, yes, we all have pain and anger. >> i need something, please. it hurts. >> reporter: war is the dying cries of specialist chaz ray clark, bleeding to death waiting for a medevac to come to him, and the heartbreak of his young widow. >> my husband laid there wondering why nobody is coming to get him -- for how long? 40 minutes? an hour? >> reporter: a 20-year war is wo one in some of the last to die, those marines killed by a suicide bomber at kabul airport were infants on 9/11, with no idea what was happening. >> david an

trump's mysterious visit to walter reed medical center. this was back in november of 2019. in her new book, the former first lady's chief of staff heavily implies that the trip was for a colonoscopy. she says that president trump stayed silent because he did not want then vice president mike pence to be in power while he was sedated for the procedure. that's all from me and "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> did president biden lie to the public about the advice he had been given on afghanistan from military leaders? "the lead" starts right now. >>> top u.s. military officials today telling quite a different story than the one president biden shared with the american people about the advice they had given him before all hell broke loose in kabul. >>> plus, progressives p.o.'d. senator bernie sanders joining a chorus of liberals angry with nancy pelosi as he huddles with moderate democrats in a last-ditch effort to save his agenda on capitol hill. >>> and pfizer one step closer to asking the fda to authorize its vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. we'll talk to the

>> i never saw him again, one month later he passed away at walter reed. this is the cbs weekend news from new york. with jericka duncan. >> good evening, thanks for watching. ida's fury was first felt one week ago. today it is still inflicting pain. two more people have died in new york and in louisiana two more nursing home residents evacuated to a warehouse have died. ida crashed ashore the gulf coast then raced into the northeast, in its wake more than 60 people have died in eight states. today the n.y.p.d. released video of officers attempting to rescue a family in a basement apartment. three people, one a toddler, died. cbs' tom hanson is in hard hit paskataway new jersey. tom, how are things looking where you are? >> reporter: hi there jericka. well, residents here are cleaning up after the remanats of hurricane ida. take a look at this, this is a car lifted from the river behind me, many people with nowhere to go but even with all the stories of devastation we found neighbors jumping in to help. donations have been nonstop. many neighbors banding t

. >>> and we now know new details about trump's mysterious visit to walter reed medical center in 2019. let's go outfront. >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, showdown. multiple battles coming to a head in washington tonight as the clock ticks for president biden and his party to save his entire agenda. and the president knows what is at stake. he has just announced that he is cancelling a trip to chicago as negotiations between the white house and top democrats reach a feverish pace tonight. there is a make-or-break vote a day away on the president's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan. that's set for thursday. and progressives say they won't vote for that bipartisan infrastructure bill, unless they get a $3.5 trillion spending bill, too. and that bill is a bill that touches almost everything. healthcare. childcare. climate change. it's an everything and the kitchen sink bill for democrats and tonight house speaker nancy pelosi says, nope, sorry, she is going to split the two bills apart. >> are you disappointed that you have -- the bill that's taking l

why is walter reed not treating them?dical assistance to those who have experienced symptoms similar to this. but what the senators are saying in the letter to the secretary of state is they are still concerned about the access and the equity to the access of the treatment that is being received by those who are going to walter reed, saying that some who have been told they should go to walter reed are being denied that access. so they're asking the secretary of state to investigate what's going on here, why are some people saying they experience symptoms and others with their family members who say they experience symptoms aren't going. we should also note this is going on -- as you say, there have been ongoing incidents. just earlier this month, there was someone traveling with the cia director who reported symptoms similar to havana syndrome. that was in india, right. then the other thing to think about is the person who is in charge of this ongoing investigation and this effort to figure out what is going on here at t

. >> i know you have questions, listening to you, sergeant major and i went and visited walter reed. the marines and sailors at walter reed are exactly like they have been for a couple of hundred years. all they want to do is go back to their units. how fast can you get me out of this hospital? walking around in gowns, wounded, dragging around the iv to check on his marines. even though the nurses do not want him -- he not supposed to be outside his bed. he is going up and down the board to check on his marines. some things don't change. >> how proud we are of them for that. that is the kind of people we want serving the country. thanks for the values you instill. i want to begin with course design. we will get to a number of other subject, one of the most important priorities when you begin, don't --, not --indicated a fundamental redesign of the service that. to fight a cure -- p competitor,. with china as one of the key competitors. the question is, what if you learned in the past year, how is that impacted where you are focusing on. >> we started a couple of years ago but some as

we installed sully and actually the real life sully came to the ceremony that dog is now walter reed and the real iconic photo which is an exhibit is of sully in front of president bush's casket so president bush got sully in june of 2018, and he's ser. bush for about six months into the president's death in november november 30th of 2018. so we have having a picture of him as a puppy and then with president bush and he did help president bush with every day every day tasks. and added a little quality to us the last of his life. and then the the memorial exhibit itself, we have the the flag that flow at half staff over the white house and then we also have the flag flew over the capitol. and one of my favorite items in this exhibit is the ships wheel that was built by the crew of the uss. george h.w. bush. cvn 77 which it will be the last sentiments class aircraft carriers, but the crew built it and presented here in june of i believe. 2019 i believe and they create themself. we had all the sailors of the year from the from the ship here. we bring them in once a year the sales of the

. >>> president biden and the first lady visited walter reed medical center last night. they met with some of the service members wounded during last week's isis bombing in kabul. 15 marines injured in the attack are now being treated at walter reed. one in critical condition. three are in serious condition and we're told the others are stable. >>> now to the growing fallout from the supreme court's decision to uphold a new abortion law in texas. several states are now taking steps to pass similar laws, but overnight we learned about a new legal fight brewing. this morning, a new legal challenge after the state of texas banned nearly all abortions in the state. planned parenthood now filing a restraining order seeking to end the new law's financial incentive. that incentive allows private citizens to sue anyone for helping a woman gain access to an abortion if she's further along than six weeks pregnant. >> it sets up a procedure that is unique among abortion restrictions which it doesn't have any state official charged with enforcing it but instead by private parties wh

. >> i know you have questions, listening to you, sergeant major and i went and visited walter reed. the marines and sailors at walter reed are exactly like they have been for a couple of hundred years. all they want to do is go back to their units. how fast can you get me out of this hospital? walking around in gowns, wounded, dragging around the iv to check on his marines. even though the nurses do not want him -- he not supposed to be outside his bed. he is going up and down the board to check on his marines. some things don't change. >> how proud we are of them for that. that is the kind of people we want serving the country. thanks for the values you instill. i want to begin with course design. we will get to a number of other subject, one of the most important priorities when you begin, don't --, not --indicated a fundamental redesign of the service that. to fight a cure -- p competitor,. with china as one of the key competitors. the question is, what if you learned in the past year, how is that impacted where you are focusing on. >> we started a couple of years ago but some as

the president went to walter reed hospital for a colonoscopy today.took a while because the doctor kept accidentally sticking the camera in his mouth. [ rim shot ] [ applause ] as soon as they turned the camera on, trump turned around and said "hey doc, how are the ratings?" [ rim shot ] the president's doctor decided to schedule the procedure after the white house toilet killed itself. [ rim shot ] it was a good thing trump had this done, because they found two cancerous polyps. [ laughter ] removed immediately. [ rim shot ] the doctors said the hardest thing about giving trump a colonoscopy was getting the camera around mike pence's nose. [ rim shot ] but trump thought it went great. overall. he got a perfect report. afterwards the whole medical team kept saying, "wow, what an unbelievable [ bleep ] hole." [ rim shot ] thank you. that felt good. [ cheers and applause ] hey, you know what? he gave us a colonoscopy for four years, it's about time we gave one back. today, by the way, is national voter registration day. california, as of yesterday is a

brian: stayed in the hamptons and went to walter reed -- excuse me not walter reed, camp david. outrageous. the other big story is that there is this pushback, i see jennifer griffin's pushback from the pentagon that the gate was actually closed and that the americans couldn't get in until the last minute. we got almost no americans in the last 36 hours through those gates and empty planes left kabul at the last minute, the pentagon says no, we kept those gates open. steve: five hours longer. brian: we are going to see if there is any veracity to that statement. we can crosscheck that. steve: one of the senators that signed that letter that landed on the president's desk is tom cotton. and he says we need to know what we need to know, mr. president. watch. >> the biden administration has been saying for the last three weeks so, there will be time for an after action review once we are done in afghanistan, once all of our troops are are out. just today you started hearing a different tune from john kirby at the pentagon, for instance, saying that they can't conduct an after actio

the book also sheds light on the mysterious trip to walter reed medical center, suggesting he was undergoing a colonoscopy. writing, quote, it was a very common procedure during which a patient is put under. but she said trump skipped the anesthesia, because he didn't want to temporarily relinquish presidential powers to vice president pence. in a statement, trump called the book another pitiful attempt to sell lies about the trump family. >>> saying he hoped to empower the next generation of leaders, former president obama helped break ground on his presidential center. the half billion dollar complex will sit on chicago's south side near where he and the former first lady met. >>> coming up, why the cost of your daily cup of coffee is about to heat up. >> and we're making national coffee day by taking the plunge into the world of latte art. how do they really do it, and what it takes to become a coffee stylist. you're watching "world news now". i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. an ipad worth $505, was sold for less than $24; a playstatio

state department victims have been denied by the department itself, access to be treated at the walter reedt to be seen at walter reed. >> diplomatic personnel, state department personnel all over the world sacrificing themselves and their families. if they are injured on the job, they need to get the same treatment that everybody else gets. >> reporter: this comes at a critical moment. the woman the state department tasked with getting to the bottom of this, ambassador pamela leaves her position after only six months and amid questions over the task forces handling of the probe. a state official says she was always slated to serve only six months. there's new you are general is si -- urgency to investigate. a visit by vice president kamala harris was delayed when several u.s. personnel reported symptoms and two had to be medevaced. when bill burned travels to india, a member of his team reported symptoms and had to receive medical attention. an incident that set off alarm bells within the u.s. government and one source said left burns fuming with anger. >> the fight the cia director was on

so it was the night before transplant we're in the hallway at walter reed wearing our hospital gowns,fter we had met, and we're just standing there, and he's walking down the hallway, and i don't even know who this person is. the nurse just points at me and tells me, you know, points at her and goes, that's her. and he comes to me and we hug, and he just starts crying and saying thank you over and over again. and all i could say was i'm happy i could help. benjamin: well, and you did more than help. you saved his life. sharon, you are the founder of dove transplants that finds kidney donors for veterans in need. i've come across remarkable that statistics which i didn't know myself. the waiting list for a compatible kidney from a deceased person is between 3-5 years. there are almost 100,000 people waiting for kidneys? 1600 veterans waiting for kidneys? and on average 1 people a day -- 12 people a day die while waiting for a kidney. that -- those are staggering numbers. what what inspired you to start to transplants? >> well, exactly those numbers. i think that it's one of the most re

the book sheds light on trump's mysterious trip to walter reed medical center in 2019.ui writing, it was a common procedure, where a patient is put under. but she says trump skipped the anesthesia because he didn't want to relinquish his presidential powers to vice president mention. in the statement, trump called the book a pitiful attempt to sell lies. >>> the dramatic moment of a volcanic eruption in the atlantic. atlantic. >>> my plaque psoriasis... ...the itching ...the burning. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine. my psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff, swollen... painful. emerge tremfyant™. with tremfya®, adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...can uncover clearer skin and improve symptoms at 16 weeks. tremfya® is the only medication of its kind also approved for adults with active psoriatic arthritis. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. tremfya®. emerge tremfyant™.

. >> the president would go to both walter reed and bethesda hospital to visit his lawyers and to visit with the families and he would go to the icu with their loved ones and to the rehab area to meet with soldiers and at the same time it was an opportunity to award purple hearts to the soldiers and quite frequently he wouldn't bring the press along and i would be there as a professional photographer but also the photographer for the families because they would also want photos with the president and definitely whenever he would meet with these families it was always a roller coaster of emotion because he got the troops in this situation you could see the sacrifice and those types of scenes. the president was very compassionate and always wanted to look them in the eye and tell them if they had questions for him, look them in the eye and tell him why the mission was so important and why he made the decisions he made as the commander-in-chief and to send them into harms way. it was important for him to confront. it was a moment of compassion to award the purple heart and kiss them on the

. >> the president would go to both walter reed and bethesda hospital to visit his lawyers and to visit with the families and he would go to the icu with their loved ones and to the rehab area to meet with soldiers and at the same time it was an opportunity to award purple hearts to the soldiers and quite frequently he wouldn't bring the press along and i would be there as a professional photographer but also the photographer for the families because they would also want photos with the president and definitely whenever he would meet with these families it was always a roller coaster of emotion because he got the troops in this situation you could see the sacrifice and those types of scenes. the president was very compassionate and always wanted to look them in the eye and tell them if they had questions for him, look them in the eye and tell him why the mission was so important and why he made the decisions he made as the commander-in-chief and to send them into harms way. it was important for him to confront. it was a moment of compassion to award the purple heart and kiss them on the

well, us marine sergeant allergist in vargas, andrews is being treated at walter reed medical center in d c he's had 13 surgeries so far with even more scheduled over the weekend fund raising efforts in vacaville raise nearly $10,000 for his recovery. an organization that helps veterans and first responders hosted that event volunteers tied yellow ribbons and held a lunch benefit organizers say every seat and even the vacaville mayor came out to the ravens. >> we wanted to help raise some money to make sure that any needs that arise from his care and moving forward are taking care of that. the community takes care of those needs and mission up and find force today. >> sergeant andrew grew up in vacaville before moving to full sun. the yellow ribbons will be put up around the area as a sign of hope for those in the community. >> coming up next to the kron 4 morning news football season is back in full swing at the forty-niners pick up their first win. we have the highlights after the break. wel the kron 4 morning news. it's happening now. 04:44am. with a beautiful weekend. >> a nice s

transfer of the soldiers killed in the kabul attacks yesterday he and the first lady traveled to walter reed hospital to meet wounded service members. and today he is headed to louisiana to survey the damage left by hurricane ida. tracie, what can we expect >> reporter: hi, frances the president is going to do a ground tour and an aerial tour today he'll speak with local leaders and people impacted by this storm, and emergency workers talking about how they rebuild and how they mitigate the impact for the next storm. the president speaking out not only about the damage and the federal help that he's sending 1,100 people from fema, the federal emergency management agency on the ground, providing water and generators and other assistance they're helping trying to get the power back on with the record heat that they're seeing down there in louisiana. but he's also talking about what's causing storms like this and the wildfires out west >> the past few days of hurricane ida and the wildfires in the west and the unprecedented flash floods in new york and new jersey is yet another reminder that th

all 15 wounded marines now at walter reed in bethesda.ne is in critical condition, three serious and the other 11 are in stable condition. they have not released the names of the wounded at this time. >>> when we come back here tonight, why gm is putting almost all of its production on cars here in the u.s. on hold. to those who can't leave their acne alone. ♪ ♪ we can't make you stop. but we can help get rid of the spots that your acne left behind. differin dark spot correcting serum has clinically proven dark spot fading power you can get without a prescription. make it a part of your routine for consistently clear skin. don't let acne leave its mark. do things differin. this is what freedom sounds like. and this. this is what freedom smells like. don't let acne leave its mark. ahhh, enjoy 30 days of open-road freshness. febreze car. la, la, la, la, la my dvt blood clot left me with questions... was another around the corner? or could i have a different game plan? i wanted to help protect myself. my doctor recommended eliquis. eliquis i

>> the president would go to walter reed and bethesda hospital to visit with the families and he would go to the icu, if the families were there with their loved ones. he would go to the rehab area and at the same time it was an opportunity to award purple hearts to soldiers and the president would do this quite frequently. he would not bring any of the press along but also as a photographer for the families because the families with photos of the president. when the president would meet with these families it was always a roller coaster in motion because you got the troops in this situation and in a lot of ways where he could see the sacrifice, the loss of limbs and those type of scenes. the president was very compassionate with these soldiers and he always looked them in the eye and would tell them that if they had any questions for him, looked tthem in the eye and would tell them why the mission was so important. why he made the decisions he made as commander in chief to send them into harms way and it was important to him to confront and see these soldiers on a personal level. that

accountability in a letter to antony blinken after state department employees were denied treatment of walter reedif this were a soldier injured on the battlefield. there would be no question about getting his or her term. matic brain injury treated new legislation will provide reimbursement for medical bills associated with havana syndrome. i consider this to be an attack. on the united states of america. more than 200 officials have experienced these apparent brain injuries, including a member of cia director william burns his team on a recent trip to india staff working for vice president kamala harris were targeted on a recent trip to vietnam. it's real. it's affecting our officers is affecting others around the community and in government and we're going to figure it out. the cia has enlisted members of the team that hunted bin laden to figure out who is behind these attacks. and if they've shared these weapons with other adversaries at the pentagon, jennifer griffin fox news. we don't have a voice anymore. they make laws in here that don't even consider us self described anti-vaxxers hope a

she also strongly implies that the former president's secret visit to walter reed in 2019 appeared to be for a routine c c co c colonoscopy and said trump's son-in-law and senior advisor jared kushner reputing -- is that reputing? in a slim fitting suit, the slim reaper. [ laughter ] okay. sure, she will answer the questions now but she never spoke up about this at the time when it might have done the country some good. speaking of doing some good, there is a huge announcement today from lebron james. he says he was skeptical about the vaccine at first but did his research and decided to get vaccinated. >> i know that i was very skepticism about it all but after doing my research and things of that nature, i felt like it was best suited for not only me and my family and friends and, you know, that's why i decided to do it. you're talking about individual's bodies, you know. we're not talking about something else, you know, political or racism or police brutality and things of that nature. we're talking about people's bodies and well beings so i don't feel like for me personally i shou

as for the mysterious visit to walter reed, a colonoscopy for which the president needed anesthesia.s under. >> trump harassed women on the staff, she claims. she claims he requested a young female staffer be brought to his cab oeupb air force one so he could look at her from behind. and she claims trump once asked a staffer's boyfriend if she was good in bed. >> and assuring his equipment was normal as stormy daniels described it as a character in super mario brothers and describes his temper as terr terrifying but one staffer had a trick to calm him down. ♪ so a white house staffer nicknamed the music man played that song from "cats" to soothe the president of the united states. to me, of all the alarming revelations in the book, to me that is the most disturbing. i feel as if the '80s will never recover from "cats." it is an abom nation. if that was used, if the united states of america and safety around the world depended on that, man, we were screwed. >> look, i find it hilarious having learned that your personal hell is "cats" and maybe specifically that song. not so for the fo

i happen to agree maybe for the first time ever with mayor london walter reed i don't want the fun police friends and family either. the problem is, democrats have been doing that for nearly two years now. but, again, they believe that they are more important. their lives are more important. their fun is more important than you and me. so they laugh at it. they don't care because they live in places where unfortunately they will not pate price politically. we just saw that with gavin newsom in california. of course his famous french laundry dining nancy pelosi in the salon. we see it over and over and over again. but they suffer no consequences so why would they change? they're living it up. they are having a great time sitting in their high places. are. jillian: the emmys was a perfect example of that. that's what everyone keeps going back to. tomi, good to see you. we are out of time but see you next week. have a good day. todd: "fox & friends" starts right now. thanks, everybody. jillian: bye. ♪ ♪ >> the gentleman slapping the girl. >> he was slapping her. >> yes. jillian: a disturbing

soldiers at walter reed.pital in maryland 15 marines who were injured in the suicide bombing at the kabul airport, arrived there for treatment. this week. another 13 u. s service members were killed in the bombing. the white house says its relationship with the taliban government has yet to be determined. we will be assessing its of course, based on how they treat individuals in the country, how they treat women whether they let people who want to leave the country leave all of those are factors that we will be assessing, the united nations says it is resuming humanitarian operations in afghanistan. the white house says it's assisting americans who are still left in afghanistan and are trying to leave the country. the labor department has released. the latest jobs report still to come here how president biden is responding to the new numbers as the nation looks to bounce back from covid restrictions, plus the debate over the controversial abortion law in texas, puts the issue front and center in upcoming elec

and remember in 2019, when the then-president unexpectedly went to walter reed medical center but nobodywhy? well, according to grisham, the president went for a colonoscopy. well, sure, with this president, they had to film it in imax. but, of course, when it came to his b-hole, the president had to be an a-hole. he was so reluctant to hand over powers of the presidency to vice president mike pence that he underwent the colonoscopy without anesthesia. >> audience: ooooh! >> stephen: oh, my god. that had to be terrible... for the doctor who had to give a colonoscopy while the guy on the table kept screaming about how he won michigan. ( cheers and applause ) now, one of his reasons for keeping the colonoscopy secret back then was that he didn't want to be "the butt of a joke" of tv comedians. sir, sir, please, i would never have made a joke about your butt. i would have made it a primetime special: "the late show's presidential butt-tastic ass-travaganza-colon-how full of crap is he?" turning away from the president's butt for a moment, let's travel a few inches down the old taint highway

all altered my view of was it worth it, here's how i know -- to a person, if you were to go to walter reed right now to visit a marine or sailor or soldier who was wounded and you asked them that question, they would respond with i know it is because i can tell you how many people we processed through our evacuation troll center and put on line step this is their yardstick they are not political, they don't really care about international relationships. what they do know is exactly to the person how many people they over the wall out of the canal and put in a safe place and put on the plane. to them, that's worth it. there is a baby who will grow up in the united states, never going to meet that marine or soldier that pulled them over at the canal but they will live a free life here. is it worth it? yes. were there decisions made that we should go out -- go back and scrub? absolutely. should we look at the options themselves? absolutely. how does this surprises and 11 days. those are things critically as a government and military that we absolutely should unpack. it does not for me change

they visited walter reed they were injured in the same attack that killed 13 service members on augusth >>> federal resources will be on the way to california to help with the caldor fire the declaration clears the federal resources to help the 15,000 firefighters on the ground battling the blaze. officials say progress is being made and the fire is now 25% contained. authorities also lifted evacuation orders in some areas. >>> taking a turn to something lighter. after 40 years, abba is back with new music ♪ i still have faith ♪ ♪ in you ♪ ♪ it stands above ♪ ♪ the place within ♪ >> the band released two songs and announced a new album is coming out on september 5th. seema, i'm ready for new music and hits like "winner takes it all. my favorite. "dancing queen" is the anthem of girls night out. "winner takes it all." if they get something close to that, i'mdone. >> did you know all of the singers are in their 70s and still producing music. so many good songs from abba love it. maybe we can go to london. i'll see you there >> seema, thank you. >>> let's move on to movies. labor day week

previously this was trying to send, take back soldiers from downrange on to launch school in germany, or walter reed vincent antonio. now we are talking about respiratory pandemic. so that's why we're here. we're trying to adapt to a changing mission. direct environment, and make sure we can deploy these resources effectively. >> so is part of what you're saying that when a state like idaho, when a state like florida, or mississippi, runs out of beds, when critically ill patients have to go to an open icu bed, that we may use the lift capacity of the u.s. air force to do that? >> absolutely. and the idea is that in the pacific northwest, back in ohio right now, they're five states connected trying to share resources. so it's important to be able to transport patients from point a to point. he from boise to seattle. or from boise to so. can't to get them on an advance flight saving their. so transport is important. military can do that betty than any other organization. c-130 c-17. also we have an advance military capability garden reserve, icu providers that can actually help stuff a field icu. so w

. >> pete: so mayor walter reed says she kentucky possibly eat and drink with a mask on, not with tonyan serenadingher into uncontrollaby movements. make take a lesson from these people. they certainly seemed to make it work. just a tip. well from mask mandates to the never ending push to get every last american vaccinated. it's no surprise at all that pfizer announced today that its vaccine is safe for children according to them ages 5 to 11. the news coming just days after the fda pushed back on joe biden's plan to inject us with a covid booster shot. our so-called health experts have used the rise in hospitalizations as their main argument for the vaccine recently reporting that since last january over 58,000 children were in the hospital due to the virus. shows us that those numbers canning vastly overcounted. according to the study between the months of january and march of 2021, 45%. 45 of kids hospitalized for covid were actually admitted for something completely different. and just happened to test positive. yet, they count. joining me now to react former health and human servi

i visited the wounded up in walter reed. this is stuff stuff. war is hard. it's vicious.utal. it's unforgiving. and, yes, we all have pain and anger, and when we see what has unfolded in the last 20 years and last 20 days, that creates pain and anger, and mine comes from 240 of my soldiers killed in iraq and afghanistan. yeah, i've had that. but i'm a professional soldier. i'm going to contain my pain and anger and continue to execute my mission. >> chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley. >>> mitch mcconnell on a call to impeach president biden. >> well, look. [ indiscernible ] in this country, the report card you get is every two years, so i think the way these behaviors get adjusted in this country is through -- >> last week a handful of republicans including senators lindsey graham and josh hawley called for president biden to be impeached over his handling of the situation in afghanistan, this despite many republicans supporting the troop withdrawal when it was initially agreed upon by former president trump. joining us now, congressional reporter for polit

this is donald trump when he got back from walter reed hospital after being treated for covid-19.his mask off. this is a man who said it was going to go away, poof, it will disappear like a miracle. skepticism about masks. skepticism about science. and then he was amplified by fox news channel. yes, tucker carlson. repeatedly suggesting this is about freedom rather than public health. laura ingraham as well. now, what has that brought? 92% of democrats, at least one dose of 56% republicans. what does that translate into real world numbers? okay. these are cases. look at this. look at the difference here. this is republicans versus democrats. just to remind you, and i will remind you in the next two slides as well, this does not have to be a partisan issue. this is about public health. june 30th through september 28th, we are talking over 40 per 100,000 people in the hospital here versus under 20 if you're a democrat. doesn't have to be partisan. this is the worst of them all. this is deaths. you know, look. i feel like we could do a million. they're all the same. biden won states,

the grieving families and the soldiers on the ground, and last night i visited the wounded up in walter reed, and war is hard and unforgiving, and yes, we have all pain and anger, and when we see what unfolded over the last 20 years and the last 20 days, that creates pain and anger. mine comes from 242 of my soldiers killed in action over 20 years in iraq and afghanistan, so yeah, i have that, but i am a professional soldier so i will contain my pain and anger and continue to complete my mission. >> we have to go, guys. thanks, guys. >> general milley -- >> that was defense secretary lloyd austin as well as the joint chief's chairman, general mark milley, and they are addressing not just the people but a operation focused on the military, and i will bring back my guests that we were discussing prior to that briefing and those remarks, and general let me start with you because you got interrupted as we went to that. there was no talk about winning or losing, and the tone was somber and there was talk about pain, and they were talking about anger around the situation, and there was also a lot

. >> last night i visited the wounded up in walter reed. this is tough stuff. war is hard. it's vicious. it's brutal. it's unforgiving, and yes, we all have pain and anger, and when we see what has unfolded over the last 20 years and over the last 20 days, that creates pain and anger, and mine comes from 242 of my soldiers killed in action over 20 years in iraq and afghanistan. >> there he is, he hit it on the head. listen, there should be accountability, but war is tough stuff, and anyone who says my plan, i had this plan, you don't know. you really don't know. we'll find out over time what exactly happened. we are learning tonlt that here at home, u.s. officials are grappling with the threat of domestic violent extremism as white supremacists and antigovernment extremists are praising what they say the taliban accomplished ask calling it a model for the civil war they want to see right here in this country. that is according to homeland security call that the state department and law enforcement obtained by cnn. and in the midst of all of that, the president is dealing wi

he is currently being treated at walter reed medical center in washington. officials say he's had 13 surgeries so far earlier this month, a vacaville community came together to raise money for vargas who is still fighting for his life. thousands of dollars have been collected to aid in his recovery. >> meantime, the biden administration has started notifying governors about how many refugees will be settling in their states. california is expected to take in more than 5,000 afghan refugees the most of any state, a large number of afghans have resettled in california over the last 20 years. many have requested to come here because they already have family or friends in the region. they are expected to begin arriving by the end of the month. although the process is taking some time. >> the biden administration wants to provide them with the same benefits. the refugees get. that includes access to public benefits of money individuals here in the united states will help them to integrate a light in this country. >> nearly 37,000 refugees are expected in the firs

at walter reed medical center.nal flights out of afghanistan. oren liebermann is out front. >> reporter: the approach into and out of kabul allowed little margin for error. mountains surround hamid karzai international airport and the valley's prone to bad weather. thousands of afghans on the field and thousands more desperately trying to get in. nearby, a terror threat from isis-k. in this environment lieutenant colonel alex pelbath had a mission. the end of the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. >> instead of focusing on the danger, what all the operators do is you focus on the mission you've got at hand. you focus on your individual tasks. you focus on success. and you focus on doing your part of the mission as well as you possibly can. >> reporter: pelbath was the mission commander of the final five flights out of kabul. he snapped this picture. of another c-17 taking on afghan evacuees. in the background the cars and baggage and hangars about to be left behind. >> i granted the air force academy in 2001 and a c

. >>> and we now know new details about trump's mysterious visit to walter reed medical center in 2019>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, showdown.

>>> one week after the deadly terror attacks in kabul, the president and the first lady visited walter reedusly unscheduled trip to military hospital which is treating 15 marines injured in last week's gunfire. this is his second visit since taking office. it's the same hospital his son beau underwent cancer treatment before his death in 2015. >>> joining us now, co-author of "the playbook," eugene daniels. thanks for getting up early with me. senator manchin i mentioned once again is wielding his outsized pow owner the because of the $3.5 trillion budget plan. what do we hear about what he wants to accomplish? >> yeah. i mean this is something that joe manchin has been loving to do is get a lot of attention right around the things hes like that he can wield power just like the other joe can, right? joe biden, that's something we continue to see from him. you know, we've talked to a bunch of different people. some people think on the hill that this is just joe manchin being joe manchin, wanting to be a large part of the conversation, wanting to make sure he seems like he's wielding a lot of

certainly one of the other revelations was about that mysterious trip to walter reed in 2019 and no onearently it was a colonoscopy, a routine medical procedure for anyone over the age of 50. he doesn't want anyone to know and he didn't want to be put under because he didn't want mike pence to step in as the 25th amendment. so he only took a sedative. never talked to the public or used it as a teachable moment. grisham also writes ability the marriage behind the scenes of the first couple, how those revelations were frustrating, made the first lady angry, made her more independent and more sort of on her own than before those revelations came out. so lots to get into in this book for sure. >> a lot of the story lines consistent with other inside accounts of the way the president operated, not just with russia, but on things like not wanting to project weakness in any way. kate bennett, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> erica? >> shutdown showdown, democrats facing two key battles. the clock is ticking over the next 48 hours. president biden working to get his own party in line. so will i

military hospitals elsewhere, and then on to walter reed, and the united states.now those skills and that equipment and teams are being used to move critically ill covid patients around the country. earlier today, dr. gupta posted this picture of himself and his colleagues in front of one of the military planes that is being used to transport patients under these circumstances he said quote, best job in the world. working with some of the most talented icu respiratory therapist and nurses, in service to our beautiful country. joining us now is major vin cooped up, critical care pulmonologist, affiliate, assistant professor at the institute for health metrics and evaluation part of the university of washington. doctor gupta thank you for taking time to be with us tonight, especially in the middle of all you are involved with. >> rachel, thank you for the privilege of being here. let me ask if i adequately explained what this deployment is like for you, but the activation is like for you in terms of your air force resource service? >> you know, rachel, let me say, t

>> of the 22 wounded in the abbey gate attack, we have learned that 15 marines are currently at walter reed, one is in critical condition. three are serious. and 11 are stable, bret. >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon, thank you. at least 43 people have died in the east after massive flooding from record rainfall produced by the remnants of hurricane ida. correspondent bryan llenas shows us the devastation tonight from queens, new york. good evening, bryan. >> bret, good evening. the rainfall in new york city was extraordinary and unprecedented. at least 13 people have died in new york city. 11 of them drowning in their basement apartments like this one behind me. the flash flooding stunning residence and state officials. >> tonight new york city is in a state of emergency after cascading water falls shut down the city's subway trapping train cars and flooding stations wednesday night. the historic rainfall turned the city's highways and streets into rivers forcing first responders to save drivers from trapped vehicles. at least 11 people in the city died in heir basement apartm