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Americans Under ISIS Threat At Kabul Airport
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 01:17:14
Publish Date: 2021-08-26 12:23:11
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Breaking news from Afghanistan: citing security threats Americans have been warned to stay away from Kabul airport with more than 10,000 people swarming the entrances today, amid fears of a specific threat from ISIS relating to planned attacks against crowds outside the airport. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reports there could be as many as 1,500 Americans still in Afghanistan and says efforts to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies will continue past the troop withdrawal on August 31.

More than 100,000 Americans are hospitalized with Coronavirus as the mask wars heat up across the country with deadly misinformation still coming from anti-maskers, namely the bogus conspiracy theory that the CDC is plotting to turn schools into concentration camps. 51% of Florida voters disapprove of Governor Ron DeSantis’ handling of the pandemic, with daily cases and hospitalizations in the state at record highs.

The White House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection is seeking records relating to dozens of people who had communications with former President Trump on the day. Trump is vowing to invoke executive privilege to fight the requests. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins to discuss the scope of the investigation.

An unqualified report into the origins of the coronavirus could be published any day now as sources tell CNN the intelligence community is still divided whether the virus leaked from a Chinese lab, or jumped from animals to humans. Beijing is pushing conspiracy theories and blaming the U.S. CNN's David Culver reports.

Finally, a disturbing incident where body camera footage from May 2019 appears to show former Louisiana State Trooper Jacob Brown, striking a black driver multiple times with a flashlight during a traffic stop. Aaron Larry Bowen, who did not resist arrest, sustained multiple injuries. Aaron joins to discuss his harrowing ordeal, and the ensuing Federal investigation in to Jacob Brown and Louisiana State Police Division Troop F.

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