got to hand it to them, richard donohue. they did the right thing. but if the department of justice sends that letter and the georgia general assembly calls a special section, sends a state of electors to washington, well then they wouldn't have needed to mob. the man who colluded with donald trump on this coup should be disbarred. no one should ever hire him again. he should face eternal public shaming, jeffrey clark. it is insane to let this man, jeffrey clark, get anywhere near any institution in this country that matters at all. he aimed a nuclear weapon at the united states of america's democracy. there have been little to no consequences for anyone involved in this whole disgusting and sordid affair. and unless there are, they're going to try again. they came very close last time. charlie savidge, the pulitzer prizewinning correspondent for the washington times. he coauthored a piece called jeffrey clark i'm assuming, then he plotted with trump. charlie, maybe you can tell us a bit about mr. clark's background. because what's striking here is t

donohue commented internally, pure insanity. one other interesting thing from the emails of mark meadows, he started raising this name, jeffrey clark. get jeffrey clark involved. >> we spoke with former ambassador bolton about that. he was in the civil rights division. where does he fit in this and how much pull did he have? >> so bolton was correct jeffrey clark falls below rosen and donohue in the pecking order. clark was trying to run the coupe from inside d.o.j. he was connecting with trump trying to get them to send this crazy letter to georgia which he refused to do. jeffrey clark tried to take over. we heard people talk publicly about this, meaning it happened at the white house, which people have said was like the game show apprentice. it was deadly serious where they were both making their case for a. z a.g. jeffrey clark was choose me, i have your back on election fraud. choose me, i'm quitting, he's quitting. he backed off. it was that close to jeffrey clark becoming attorney general. >> it was not for lack of trying.

rosen and donohue are of particular interest right now because of two developments. first the revelation the president called the acting a.g. almost daily. and second the proof that backs up those revelations, notes, contemporaneous notes taken by rosen's number two, richard donohue, showing trump told rosen, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and our congressmen. now that trump is no longer president and not protected against the justice department's rule against indicting a sitting president might a criminal investigation against the ex-president come next? in an op-ed today in "the washington post" two former u.s. attorneys and constunesal law professor argue it should be. they write this. the time has come for the justice department to begin if it hasn't already a criminal investigation into the former president's dangerous course of conduct. if we're to maintain our democracy and respect for the rule of law, efforts to overturn a fair election simply cannot be tolerated and trump's conduct must be investigated. joining us now one o

both rosen and donohue placed jeffrey clark, a trump oappointd environmental law chief at the center of this extraordinary effort to help trump undermine the election results including potentially trying to oust his own bosses resisting trump. now, rosen testified about numerous interactions with clark but most of his testimony focused on multiple episodes where clark went outside the chain of command to try to help push these fraud claims. both rosen and donohue told investigators they don't know if clark was acting at trump's belast or a plot he concocted himself. they will pursue mr. clark to come in and tell his side of the story but not clear if he'll cooperate. >> thank you. >>> ""outfront" now a member of the house select committee investigating the deadly insurrection on january 6th. congressman, here is a little more of what your colleagues in the senate had to say after that testimony. >> that is something that goes back to the start of my tenure. >> how directly voiinvolved the president was and the pressure is real, very real. >> what impact do you think public testimony

donohue among the first to it deploy to afghanistan in 2001. now the last to leave 20 years later. >> every single u.s. service member is out of afghanistan. i can say that with 100% certainty. >> reporter: leaving afghan airspace one minute before the midnight deadline. hours later, taliban leaders walked across the runway and celebratory gunfire filled the air. forces evacuated more than 120,000 people from afghanistan, about 5500 of them american citizens. but the state department says about 100 to 200 americans who were trying to leave are still in the country, despite a pledge from president biden saying he would not leave any americans behind. >> americans should understand that we're going to try to get it done before august 31st. >> if we don't, the troops will stay? >> if we don't, we'll determine at the time who's left. >> and? >> and if there's american citizens left we're going to stay till we get them all out. >> the administration says diplomatic efforts will continue in hopes of evacuating those americans. >> going forward, any e

and they were resisting it and here is part of when he suggest this letter, rich donohue, the deputy attorney general at the time acting says there is no chance i would sign this letter or anything remotely like this from where i stand, this is not even within the realm of possibility. rosen responds also to the claim from clark he says it confirmed, i confirmed again today i'm not prepared to sign such a letter and don, going back to his letter, january 3rd is the day president trump decides he'll bring clark and rosen to the white house again, a sunday evening and they spend the next few hours in some kind of bizarre reality tv show like script where the two men are essentially vying for the job of attorney general whoever wins is going to be able to decide frankly, you know, the course of history here and at the end, trump was persuaded by his advisors it was not smart to do this, he and multiple officials were ready to resign. it would be something like nixon, right? so we now know what happened three days later. people who were inspired by the president's fraud claims charged up

you mention that general donohue talk to taliban essentially a counterpart. can you give us any sense of what the taliban played from the security perspective to allow the u.s. to safely depart? >> i won't be able to answer those first two questions, because those operations are still ongoing. but i can tell you, the taliban established a firm perimeter outside the airfield to prevent people from coming in. they did not have direct knowledge of our time of departure. we chose to keep that very restricted, but they were actually very helpful and useful to us, as we closed down operations >> i'm going to go to the phone. dan lamont >> reporter: thanks for calling on me. general, can you give us a deeper level of detail on what this last day looked like in terms of number of flights, number of people on the ground to start with, who might have been on the last plane, particularly senior leaders, and how it all played out? >> sure. let me begin with the back end on the last airplane out was general chris donohue, the commander of the 82nd and my ground force comm

pac or rosen or richard donohue are the good fis. all we know is they chose not to undertake potentially criminal activity for the sake of protecting the failed former president's ego. however the fate of our democracy smutd not solely rely on a few people we hope did do the right thing in moments like this. but it kind of does. currently there are no legislative railroad legal guard rails in place preventing a scheme like clark's from being launched in the future which is why he and the other ex-president enablers must be held to account. with now msnbc contributor eugene daniel bes, the white house skoerpt and cothorough of politico playbook and ruth marcus. a editorial editor for the washingtons. jeffreyry clark who had no business interfering in the election, a guy we never heard of -- the part i left out here is that there was an underlying promise there if jeff rossen and richard donohue did not do the president's bidding, jeffreyy clark would have been a name every american knew because he might have become the attorney genera

rosen and donohue are of particular interest right now because of two developments. first the revelation the ws president called the acting a.g. almost daily. and, second, the proof that backs up those revelations, notes, contemporaneous notes taken by rosen's number two, richard donahue, showing trump told rosen, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and our congressmen.ren. now that trump is no longer president and not protected against the justice department's rule against indicting a sitting president might a criminal investigation against the ex-president come next? in an op-ed today in "the washington post" two former u.s. attorneys and constitutional lae professor argue it should be. they write this. the time has come for the justice department to begin if it hasn't already a criminal investigation into the former president's dangerous course of conduct. if we're to maintain our democracy and respect for the rule of law, efforts to overturn a fair election simply cannot be tolerated and trump's conduct o, must be investigated. joan

>> it seems between jeffrey rosen and richard donohue and b.j. pac we're getting answers. they're all saying that they were told to do something that they thought was either at best wrong and at worst highly illegal. what happens now? how does this unfold in your opinion? where does this go next? it feels to me this has to exist outside of the political realm and move squarely into the critical realm? >> there is stuff we know and don't know. donald trump filed a bunch of bogus lawsuits. we know donald trump as you said at the lead of the show held a prep rally on january 6th. we know trump maneuverered to throw out the election results. we know jeffrey rosen rejected this garbage. we know trump still calls the election results bogus and illegal and supported lawsuits and fundraising after his attorney general told him these lawsuits are going nowhere. he also know that about the 11,780 votes, you know, that phone call to the georgia official and we know the next day that b.j. pac resigns. we know a lot of stuff. we don't know why did pac resign? what were the contacts bet

army major general chris donohue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne, boarding a c-17 to depart kabul, lifted off at 11:59 p.m. local, just before the clock struck midnight. so that means it's august 31st in afghanistan right now. right? remember that date. arbitrary. set by the biden administration. it's about 5:30 in the morning there now. the taliban knows the united states is gone and is celebrating with gunfire. >>

. >> voluntary cooperation of people like jeffrey rosen and richard donohue is invaluable. there is another meeting coming up this week, another interview. we're going to keep pushing forward on this. i've been than since january. now we're getting real results. >> also happening on the hill, the senate is back in session today, hoping to push that bipartisan infrastructure bill across the finish line. this morning, one gop senator says he'll be voting no, not because of the contents of the bill, but what it means for the democrats' $3.5 trillion reconciliation plan on human infrastructure. >> pelosi has said all along she will not allow this bill to go through the house unless they get their $5.5 trillion reckless tax spending bill done at the same time. if you need help getting this done, you're helping to get the $5.5 trillion bill done. >> new reaction from congresswoman cori bush as the latest eviction moratorium faces an uphill battle in the courts. >> we have to do the work now to get this money out. we have to do the work to make sure that our states and our local g

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but donohue also explains why it's a really bad idea for the coyote. >> because when you feed wildlife eventually loses its fear of people. we just had a horrible outcome. for in july. we had a coyote who approach on 5 different occasions. toddlers in a tiny guarding getting way too close. so ultimately we have eliminate the coyote. situation was completely preventable cause that coyote had been fed. very often by very many people over the course of 5 years. eventually the coyote that pays the price officials at san francisco animal care and control are desperately trying to avoid a similar outcome. >> and are asking for the community's help. if you know this woman tells me she is numbers 4, 5, but by 4 9400. we to reach out. we want to talk to her. we have to, you know. get her not to feed coyotes think because there's a possibility that, hey, maybe this woman doesn't have that. she should be feeding the coyotes. >> there is that possibility there is a lot of fighting age. >> has it made you in kron. 4 news. you want to be safe out there. >> let's take a look at this. maybe you saw th

but donohue also explains why it's a really bad idea for the coyote. >> because when you feed wildlife eventually loses its fear of people. we just had a horrible outcome for in july. we had a coyote who approach on 5 different occasions toddlers in a tiny guarding getting way too close. so ultimately we had eliminated the coyote. situation was completely preventable cause that coyote had been dead. very often by very many people over the course of 5 years. eventually the coyote that pays the price officials at san francisco animal care and control are desperately trying to avoid a similar outcome. >> and are asking for the community's help. if you know this woman tells me she is numbers 4, 5, but by 4 9400. we want to reach out. we want to talk to her. we have to, you know. get her not to feed coyotes think because there's a possibility that, hey, maybe this woman doesn't have that. she shouldn't be feeding the coyotes. >> there is that possibility there is a lot of fighting age. >> has lead you in kron 4 news. >> next. tonight kron. 4 news at 5 disturbing details from the home invasi

general donohue, the last thing he did was talk to the taliban commander just letting him know that we were leaving. there was no discussion of turning anything over at all. reporter: if i could just have you reflect personally, after 20 years of war, you have served there and you have watched the last troops leave, we lost troops in recent days -- how did it feel leaving afghanistan to the very group you overthrew 20 years ago, the taliban? >> as i said in my remarks, as you know, i've been there a couple of times, my son has been there a couple of times, and i was very conflicted. i was pretty much focused on the task at hand. i will have days ahead to think about that that there was just so much going on and we were so completely focused on getting our troops out in the days before, and getting our citizens out, and vulnerable afghans to the best of our ability, i did not have a lot of time of reflection. i'm sure i will do that in the future but right now i am consumed with the operational task at hand. i will be thinking about that in the days ahead. reporter: your message to amer

major general chris donohue of the 82nd airborne division. the last american soldier to leave the military mission is over. >> a new diplomatic mission. >> has begun. secretary of state antony blinken says us diplomatic presence will be transferred from kabul to doha as the taliban now takes control of the country. it's celebrating with gunfire as the last american aircraft took off but not all americans got out in time. we believe there are still small number of americans. under 200. >> and likely closer to who remain in afghanistan. >> and want to leave. the state department says they're still trying to determine the exact number of americans left behind and vowed to help them leave for lawmakers who served in the war in afghanistan. the promises are empty, basically everybody. but this administration, it's getting americans and our allies out a group of republican congressman in veterans met monday night condemning the biden administration for working with the taliban warning the war isn't over. homeland is now at more risk that it has bee

but donohue also explains why it's a really bad idea for the coyote. >> because when you feed wildlife eventually loses its fear of people. we just had a horrible outcome for in july. we had a coyote who approach on 5 different occasions. toddlers in a tiny guarding getting way too close. so ultimately we have to eliminate the coyote. situation was completely preventable cause that coyote had been fed. very often by very many people over the course of 5 years. eventually the coyote that pays the price officials at san francisco animal care and control are desperately trying to avoid a similar outcome. >> and are asking for the community's help. if you know this woman tells me she is never as 4, 5, but by 4 9400. we to reach out. we want to talk to her. we have to, you know. get her not to feed coyotes. think because there's a possibility that, hey, maybe this woman doesn't have that. she shouldn't be feeding the coyotes. >> there is that possibility there is a lot of fighting age. >> has it made you in kron. 4 news. >> new tonight at 6 nasa's return to the moon could be significantly d

in fact, there's a very poignant picture the military put out, a picture of major general chris donohue, the last u.s. soldier to leave afghan soil, you can see as he gets on the last military transport plane out. as that happened, it wasn't long after that the taliban, their leaders and followers came onto the airport and then began firing off their guns into the air in celebration, calling it independence day, not only of the airport but across the city. in the meantime, how many people are left behind, to your point, dagen. the state department believes 100 to 200 citizens still in kabul and the allies, how are they going to get out. secretary of state antony blinken said they will not be forgotten and if they want to get out the u.s. is committed to helping them do it. take a listen. >> many are dual citizen americans with deep roots and extended families in afghanistan who have resided there for many years, for many it's a painful choice. our commitment to them and to all americans in afghanistan and everywhere in the world continues. >> reporter: so with that said, the effort here

so even though donohue at justice knew it was a law they called pack up and said the president is going to fire you. and pack thought i'm going to eare zine with dignity, no one will know about it then. but now he's talking to the judiciary committee they do know exactly why it happened. because the president was fixing to fire him, and why? because he wouldn't support it lie of election fraud in georgia, which he investigated and found no evidence of. >> yeah. we can hear you very well. we can't see you well so we're going to stick with it because what we need most is the information you'll provide, harry. you point out a president can fire a u.s. attorney for any reason or no reason at all. but what about a refusal to lie about an election? this is for harry. >> yeah, so thanks for that. you know, i was a u.s. attorney and i got the sack eventually. and really, you know, he's not going to try to challenge it, but theoretically, don, you couldn't fire him because you didn't like his race. and this is protected speech. you say to him because you won't lie about this i'm going to fire yo

major general chris donohue, the commander of the 82nd airborne division is already in kabul to help facilitate the evacuation. additional counselor officers arrived in kabul today. we'll double the number of counselor officers on the ground by friday. our diplomatic and military personnel are working in lock step toward the same goal to get as many people who want to leave afghanistan and who are vulnerable to taliban reprisals because they helped the united states and otherwise at risk because of who they are, or what they do or what they believe out of the country as quickly and as safely as possible. the events and images of the last week have been wrenching. for all of us. i'm sure for you as well. thousands of state department personnel have served in afghanistan over the last two decades. many more than once. an entire generation of diplomats were called to join the armed services after the september 11th attacks. even those of us who haven't served in afghanistan know many who have. the men and women of the state department have built deep enduring relationships with afghan c

>> yeah, a lot of credit goes here to jeffrey rosen to richard donohue and leaders of the justice department. jeffrey rosen had a very up and down term as deputy attorney general but here he absolutely did the right thing and it's an important reminder of the importance of the justice department as a check on the run away powers of the president and i think it's so important that we not go numb here because we've seen so much reporting on this and it's sort of started to become a drum beat. we see that the president tried to weapon nize doj to steal thi election. there is nothing normal and acceptable. it's an act of disloyalty by donald trump, rey clark. it needs to stick with them for history and there needs to be real consequences. >> jeffrey clark is the trump loyalest at the center of this and abc news has gotten a letter showing he tried to meddle in the georgia election. he was vying for the job in the hours long oval office meeting jessica describes as "apprentice" style and wants to replace him with clark and trying to overturn the election there. the on consequences of all of t cou

but donohue also explains why it's a really bad idea for the coyote. >> because when you feed wildlife eventually loses its fear of people. we just had a horrible outcome for in july. we had a coyote who approach on 5 different occasions. toddlers in a tiny guarding getting way too close. so ultimately we have eliminate the coyote. situation was completely preventable cause that coyote had been fed. very often by very many people over the course of 5 years. eventually the coyote that pays the price officials at san francisco animal care and control are desperately trying to avoid a similar outcome. >> and are asking for the community's help. if you know this woman tells me she is number is 4, 5, but by 4 9400. we to reach out. we want to talk to her. we have to, you know. get her not to feed coyotes think because there's a possibility that, hey, maybe this woman doesn't have that. she should be feeding the coyotes. >> there is that possibility there is a lot of fighting age. >> has it made you in kron. 4 news. >> coming up next. new vaccination recommendations by the cdc. if you're pre

officials donohue and rosen, who was the former acting attorney general both who testified before the senate judiciary committee, donohue on friday, and rosen yesterday, rosen for seven hours. >> yeah, jonathan, i reviewed the same "the new york times" article that you did. i think it's shocking. it's disturbing. and yet it's not all that surprising. i mean, given, as you know, what was revealed during the course of the impeachment trial back in february. we knew then that there were a number of actors within the -- excuse me, the trump administration that were working to essentially subvert the popular will of the electorate, and to overthrow the election, and to challenge the peaceful transfer of power that really has been the underpinning of our republic for the better part of the last 230 some odd years. i think that the investigation at the senate majority committee, the house reform committee, and of course the select committee, each of the work the committees are doing is important. i would also say the investigation that clearly the inspector general from the department of jus

but donohue also explains why it's a really bad idea for the coyote. >> because when you feed wildlife eventually loses its fear of people. we just had a horrible outcome for in july. we had a coyote who approach on 5 different occasions toddlers in a tiny guarding getting way too close. so ultimately we have to eliminate the coyote. situation was completely preventable cause that coyote had been fed. very often by very many people over the course of 5 years. eventually the coyote that pays the price officials at san francisco animal care and control are desperately trying to avoid a similar outcome. >> and are asking for the community's help. if you know this woman tells me she is never as 4, 5, but by 4 9400. we to reach out. we want to talk to her. we have to, you know. get her not to feed coyotes haaziq madyun kron 4 news. >> coming up next, how one bay area university plans to verify covid-19 vaccination cards ahead of the fall semester. and governor newsom orders. all school staff to be vaccinated or tested weekly. how local educators are reacting to this breaking news. and track

because the then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and the acting deputy attorney general richard donohue wouldn't sign off on them. but what we're learning and see if the ex-president had had one of his less scrupulous cronies installed at the department of justice this whole plot might have worked. he didn't need to overturn five states election results he only needed one state. and enough would have likely followed suit. there weren't and currently aren't any guard rails in place that would have prevented in from happening. and unless the federal government takes immediate and decisive action, the next coup attempt may not fail. weemt now is anna palmer founder and ceo of punch bowl news. msnbc contributor and best selling author of "the hill to die on, the battle for congress and future of trump's america." renae graham joining me, a associate editor for "the boston globe." thanks for being with us today. let me start with you, anna, this reporting, for those of us following closely what was happening january 6th what trump was up to and listened to the phone call with brad raffensper

then "the new york times" reported the night before pak's resignation, the deputy attorney ric richard donohue talked to him on the phone and said the white house was upset about his failure to bring voter fraud charges. the phone call between former president trump and georgia secretary of state where trump pleaded for officials there to find him the votes. >> the people of the country are angry and there is nothing wrong with saying that, you know, uh, that you've recalculated. all i want to do is this. i just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. >> so, pak's resignation taking place two days after that phone call. today the senate judiciary committee should get more insight into any direct pressure that pak faced when he goes behind closed doors today in that virtual testimony, erica. >> oh, to be a fly on the wall in that closed door testimony. the senate judiciary chair is saying he wants to interview trump's former chief of staff mark meadows about the pressure the d.o.j. faced to overturn biden's victory. so what more do we know about

27th, trump spoke to acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and acting deputy attorney general richard donohue and reportedly said just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the r. congress men. >> this is the justice department. and in america, the president is king. that's the first thing. he has an obligation to the law of the united states. >> reporter: in a letter from the very next day obtained by abc news, an acting doj department head falsely wrote the justice department had identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states including the state of georgia. jeffrey clark was pushing for the justice department to step in and wanted to urge the governor of georgia to call a special session to consider this important and urgent matter. but his bosses rosen and donahue refused to sign on, denying any evidence of fraud. and just five days later on january 2nd, trump held the infamous phone call with georgia's election officials. >> so, look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more tha

richard donohue took thorough notes of the entire conversation and some sentences he put in quotation marks including the idea that trump said to them, "listen, you don't actually have to prove corruption. you don't have to yourselves overturn the election. all you have do is say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me" is the sentence in quotes. it was clear, startling and one of the first times we've seen that declaration in trump's own words so blatantly. >> "leave the rest to me." everybody who is outraged and disgusted were already outraged and disgusted. is anything going to happen to him, now that this has been exposed. >> i don't know, the justice department has grounds for investigation based on indicate east's reporting. saying the election was corrupt is on its face appears to violate a federal statute that makes it a crime to command a federal employee to engage in political activity. that's a three-year felony and low-hanging fruit. president trump said he knew it was false "say it was rupt." we all know this isn't true. i'm just asking you say this. this opens

i can tell you there isn't a single day that goes by where admiral vasely and general donohue aren't working this in a very personal way with taliban authorities outside the airport. let me go to another one on the phone. tara. >> thank you for doing this, john. yesterday the president mentioned, also, that he was calling upon the department to create contingency plans in case the number of americans and afghans that still need to get out have not gotten out by the 31st. can you just explain sort of what the department is thinking about what its options might be to continue to get americans out after the 31st if they haven't made it to the airport by then? just to follow on jeff's question with afghans that aren't getting through, have discussions gone on with the

but donohue also explains why it's a really bad idea for the coyote. >> because when you feed wildlife eventually loses its fear of people. we just had a horrible outcome for in july. we had a coyote who approach on 5 different occasions. toddlers in a tiny guarding getting way too close. so ultimately we have to eliminate the coyote. situation was completely preventable cause that coyote had been fed. very often by very many people over the course of 5 years. eventually the coyote that pays the price officials at san francisco animal care and control are desperately trying to avoid a similar outcome. >> and are asking for the community's help. if you know this woman tells me she is numbers 4, 5, but by 4 9400. we to reach out. we want to talk to her. we have to, you know. get her not to feed coyotes. think because there's a possibility that, hey, maybe this woman doesn't have that. she shouldn't be feeding the coyotes. >> there is that possibility there is a lot of fighting age. >> has it made you in kron. 4 news. >> san francisco police are investigating an attempted robbery in union

major general chris donohue of the 82nd airborne division. the last american soldier to leave the military mission is over. >> a new diplomatic mission. >> has begun. secretary of state antony blinken says us diplomatic presence will be transferred from kabul to doha as the taliban now takes control of the country. it's celebrating with gunfire as the last american aircraft took off, but not all americans got out in time. we believe there are still small number of americans. >> under 200 and likely closer to who remain in afghanistan. >> and want to leave the state department says they're still trying to determine the exact number of americans left behind and vowed to help them leave for lawmakers who served in the war in afghanistan. the promises are empty, basically everybody. but this administration, it's getting americans and our allies out a group of republican congressman in veterans met monday night condemning the biden administration for working with the taliban warning the war isn't over. homeland is now at more risk and has been in

i can tell you there isn't a single day that goes by where admiral vasely and general donohue aren't working this in a very personal way with taliban authorities outside the airport. let me go to another one on the phone. tara. >> thank you for doing this, john. yesterday the president mentioned, also, that he was calling upon the department to create contingency plans in case the number of americans and afghans that still need to get out have not gotten out by the 31st. can you just explain sort of what the department is thinking about what its options might be to continue to get americans out after the 31st if they haven't made it to the airport by then? just to follow on jeff's question with afghans that aren't getting through, have discussions gone on with the taliban to maybe find some negotiation space for -- they've said no more afghans can leave. clearly there's 10,000 at the airport. so something is happening behind the scenes that's helping some people get through. can you talk about that to some extent? >> i'll turn it over to the general. >> i'll start with that last ques

major general chris donohue of the 82nd airborne division. the last american soldier to leave the military mission is over. >> a new diplomatic mission. >> has begun. secretary of state antony blinken says us diplomatic presence will be transferred from kabul to doha as the taliban now takes control of the country. it's celebrating with gunfire as the last american aircraft took off, but not all americans got out in time. we believe there are still small number of americans. under 200. >> and likely closer to who remain in afghanistan. >> and want to leave. the state department says they're still trying to determine the exact number of americans left behind and vowed to help them leave for lawmakers who served in the war in afghanistan. the promises are empty, basically everybody. but this administration, it's getting americans and our allies out a group of republican congressman in veterans met monday night condemning the biden administration for working with the taliban warning the war isn't over. homeland is now at more risk that it has be

major general chris donohue, commander of the 82nd airborne division, stepping onto a c-17 in kabul, the final u.s. soldier to step off afghan soil. an iconic photograph, marking the unceremonious end to a war that cost some 2461 american lives, many thousands more injured. in just a few hours, president biden will address the nation he is expected to explain his decision not to extend the mission past the august 31st deadline, even with the administration granting that americans remain on the ground there. he'll also address what comes next. we have a team of reporters following all the angles of this story. let's begin in the region. cnn's nick payton walsh, joins me now from qatar where the u.s. diplomatic mission for afghanistan will now be based. of course, where many thousands of those evacuees went from kabul. so, what has the first day under taliban control looked like in afghanistan? >> reporter: some to understand, possible degree of celebration from the taliban declaring their independence. remember this is a country where the median age is about 18 years old. so, so many

mayor general chris donohue who leads the 82 nt airborne division at fort bragg and was deployed 17 times to the country. not long after, celebratory gunfire from the taliban, now fully back in control of the country. and these images of taliban fighters surveying u.s. military equipment left behind. history will show the war's remarkable toll with 2,461 american service members killed, including 13 just last week. more than 20,000 injured and more than $2 trillion in u.s. spending. >> to those asking for a third decade of war in afghanistan, i ask: what is the vital national interest? in my view, we only have one, to make sure afghanistan can never be used again to launch an attack on our homeland. >> on that front, the commander in chief delivered a blistering warning to those who launched last week's deadly attack. >> to isis-k, we are not done with you yet. we'll hunt you down to the ends of the earth, and you will pay the ultimate price. >> so the president said he would -- he vowed an unforgiving, precise strategy to go after the terrorist threats of today, not from two decades ago,

army major chris donohue, the last to board the c-17 flight. this is the last u.s. soldier to leave afghanistan. we will hear from the pentagon in just a moment. >> this morning we are also seeing the impact of hurricane ida after more than a million homes and businesses

so the fact that rich donohue took these notes with verbatim quotations from the president at that time is pretty significant. they, you know, you read these notes and he's a trained lawyer and you read these notes and you say, you know, there's not much question about what was going on here? this was the department of justice whose job it is to develop evidence, you develop evidence and you see if there's credible evidence that would cause you to find somebody guilty or not guilty of a particular allegation. and here's the president of the united states saying, here's the result i want, you announce that result and i'll find a way to get us there. it's extraordinary. >> what about the doj, the current doj under the biden administration with merrick garland as attorney general. that doj, ordering the treasury department to give the u.s. house the former president's tax returns. where do you see that heading? >> so that's another somewhat unusual thing to have happen. you do sometimes see that when an administration flips from one party to the other, you do sometimes see that the departm

that's according to notes taken by then acting deputy ag richard donohue on december 2020 phone call which reflects that trump said, quote, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and our congressmen. joining us now cnn political analyst and washington correspondent for the new york city maggie haberman. doesn't leave much to the imagination. >> it's not subtle. this is very, very serious. this is the most blatant thing that we have heard so far that former president trump tried to do to influence parts of his government to undermine the election. now, we knew he was talking about fraud. we knew that he was making allegations that the election was rigged. we knew that he was making all kinds of statements, you know, or at least he was saying these things to people behind the scenes because he wasn't seeing that publicly. but this is the starkest example that we have of what he was trying to do to use the levers of his government to keep himself in power. and again, this is -- we're just hearing about this now. this is now several months after this call took pl

army major general chris donohue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne, boarding a c-17 to depart kabul, lifted off at 11:59 p.m. local, just before the clock struck midnight. so that means it's august 31st in afghanistan right now. right? remember that date. arbitrary. set by the biden administration. it's about 5:30 in the morning there now. the taliban knows the united states is gone and is celebrating with gunfire. >> now, the government can tell us that the war has ended. and they can put out the picture of the last soldier. they say. but we all know it isn't over. okay. two reasons. now, what we do know that is true is that america has lost the last clear chance to cut a different deal. or to maintain a force in afghanistan until everyone is out or to reclaim the bagram air base to secure exits and to keep an eye on one of the most if not the most fertile terror spots in the world. so you can say this has ended, but it certainly is not over. two reasons. first, the immediate. as many as 200 americans are still there, and look, i have never trusted the numbers, not because i'

i believe the contemporaneous notes that were released today by deputy attorney general at the time donohue clearly reveal out of donald trump's own mouth an illegal attempt to subvert the election results of a free and fair election. >> joining me now, arizona congressman ruben gallego. congressman, i want you to take a listen for a moment to some of what we've heard so far from the commission hearings. i want to ask you about it on the other side. >> what we were subjected to that day was like something from a medieval battle. >> i was dragged from a line of officers and into the crowd. i heard someone scream. "i got one." >> i was defenseless and sustained injury from the increasing pressure of the mob. >> the crowd, perhaps 20 people, joined in screaming, "boo, [ bleep ]." no one had ever, ever called me a [ bleep ] while wearing the uniform of a capitol police officer. >> we knew it was going to be emotional, we knew it was going to be powerful. i'm not sure a lot of people were ready for what they actually heard. your overall reaction to what we've heard so far from these hearings. >>

he's major general chris donohue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne. it comes after the evacuation of some 123,000 civilians over 17 days, including 6,000 americans. it also comes after the death of 13 service members killed in the attack while carrying out that evacuation. the president today praised u.s. troops in a statement that also said military leaders unanimously recommended to, quote, end our air lift mission as planned and that ending our military mission was the best way to protect the troops. the best says he will address the nation tomorrow on afghanistan. this afternoon, the pentagon and the state department both acknowledged that there are americans left behind in afghanistan. >> we will continue our relentless efforts to get americans, foreign nationals and afghans to leave afghanistan if they choose. we believe there are still a small number of americans under 200, closer to 100 who remain in afghanistan who want to leave. >> there is a lot of heart break associated with this departure. we did not get everybody out that we wanted to ge

unrestrained robust discussion, that was not what donald trump was doing when he was talking to rosen and donohue. it was telling them to say that the election was corrupt. >> exactly right. you know, when i watched that this week i just, you know, he has done a lot lately. senator grassley, that i have been concerned with, with not voting for the commission to investigate 1/6. he is not the guy i remember watching growing up. i grew up in iowa, where we hat democrat tom harken and republican chuck grassley and they went to the u.s. senate and you know, i would not agree with what everyone was doing. you knee they still at least had iowa's back. when i have been watching him well the last few years, he is not the same guy i remember. how he is acting is quite frankly giving up on democracy and quite frankly our country and that's not who i thousand he was -- who i thought he was, and it's why we are going to beat him. you do not get to say the words on the floor of the u.s. senate, defend a president who was trying to stay in office after he lost an election and expect to get re-elected in a stat

but donohue also explains why it's a really bad idea for the coyote. >> because when you feed wildlife eventually loses its fear of people. we just had a horrible outcome for in july. we had a coyote who approach on 5 different occasions toddlers in a tiny guarding getting way too close. so ultimately we have eliminate the coyote. situation was completely preventable cause that i only had been dead. very often by very many people over the course of 5 years. eventually the coyote that pays the price officials at san francisco animal care and control are desperately trying to avoid a similar outcome. >> and are asking for the community's help. if you know this woman tells me she is numbers 4, 5, but by 4 9400. we want to reach out. we want to talk to her. we have to, you know. not to feed coyotes think because there's a possibility that, hey, maybe this woman doesn't have that. she shouldn't be feeding the coyotes. >> there is that possibility there is a lot damage. >> has lead you in kron 4 news. >> 5.21 is the time and message to oakland from governor newsom. help is on the way. he's a

what donald trump said because you could be sure that this notes of the conversation between rosen and donohue and trump on december 27th that we have the recording of. he honed in in order to try to convince them to overturn. what could be provided from pat is some statements about his intent, the different effort that he took to try to overturn this election which could be powerful evidence that would undermine any defense that he had and believed that this was a legitimately fraudulent or improperly calculated election and that his efforts were pure and in good faith. that's where pat could come in. >> tim o'brien, what strikes me, the ex-president knew he had lost and trying to fund his defense. he became convinced of his own delusion. he had a plan to stay in office. he wanted doj to declare it was corrupt and he and his republican allies had a plan. he marched in a legislature in michigan to do the same bidding. rudy giuliani became important here. what kinds of conversations they had when they launched five or six bogus big lie lawsuits trying to weaponize it in the court systems. arizo

major general chris donohue boarded the last plane in kabul. eamon javers has the latest. >> reporter: good morning, joe ending the war at 3:29 p.m. eastern time that was the picture of the general being the last boot on the ground as the last flight out of kabul yesterday left the airport in the capital city in the hands of the taliban joe, u.s. officials acknowledge there were americans who were not able to get out and left behind in afghanistan. antony blinken said there were under 200 americans who wanted to leave who remain in afghanistan. the u.s. has ususpended di diplomatic presence in kabul they transferred it to qatar the u.s. will work to reopen the kabul airport for civilian traffic as soon as possible. the commitment to get our afghan allies out had no deadline that mission is going to be ongoing. how they get out is the trick. blinken explained what will happen next. >> we are working to identify ways to support americans and legal americans and supportive staff. we have no illusion this will be easy or rapid. this will be an enti