Plus: 4 Points to Understanding How Many Americans Are Stranded in Afghanistan
October 28 2021
Good morning from Washington, where Attorney General Merrick Garland declines to back away from threatening public school parents with FBI investigations if they step out of line. Our Fred Lucas reports on his answers to a Senate committee. How many Americans are still stuck in Afghanistan? Lucas tracks the Biden administration’s moving numbers. On the podcast, Doug Blair explores China’s chilling surveillance state. Plus: Democrats hide their real spending plans; first responders under fire; and “Problematic Women” considers an alarming sterilization trend. On this date in 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba after President John F. Kennedy initiates a naval blockade, ending a major international crisis.
The attorney general faces tough questions from Republican senators, mostly on treating dissenting parents as “domestic terrorists” but also on past FBI abuses and on investigating the Capitol riot.
The State Department’s admission that three times as many Americans remain in Afghanistan as originally estimated marks the most recent controversy resulting from the hasty withdrawal.
On health care, the supposedly “pared-down bill” would expand Medicaid to 2.2 million people in states that have not already expanded it under Obamacare.
Hudson Institute’s Riley Walters warns that the surveillance state can have real consequences for both Chinese citizens and the international community.
