cooper and if anyone saw the movie the selma oprah winfrey played andy cooper in the movie but andy cooper had shared with them our story and the children he came so in love with our they started calling our grandma and some of them continue to write or even afterwards that we never knew the historical figure that she was. but that was important for students to have the opportunity to go to selma and to meet people there. their assignment on the trip was to meet someone who participated in the original march. they did that and now a lot of those students reach out to me. i remember one student reached out to me and told me when a bomber ran for president he volunteered and worked in his office and he said the reason why did that is because i thought about selma and this is a student that i taken when he was in the eighth grade. he'd plant the seeds and we don't know until years later the impact that regarding the election i felt it was very important for them to go to the clinton inauguration. i had interviewed them prior to the election one of the things i said to the president no

shreve, the cooperation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pba's -- pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. >> from washington, jan michels and door. anchor: good evening and welcome to a special edition of washingtonweek. the 9/11 attacks dramatically changed america. it was a tragic and emotional day. this evening, we look at how the attacks impacted american life, politics, and national security. joining me tonight our five top reporters who cover 9/11 and its aftermath. peter baker, p or thomas, osma lead. -- khalid, martha radix, and vivian salama. thank you so much for being here. martha, you were here in d.c. when this attack happened. you had a husband who was working in the pentagon. you were working at the state department. what sticks in your mind most personally and professionally? >> first of all, it can't help but be immediately personal when you have an attack on your homeland. you can go through the day, you can be a journalist, you can do your job that we all did. you go home at night, you are a scared american. my husband was in the pentagon th

one of the persons they met was a woman named annie andy . annie cooper if anybody saw the movie selma, oprah winfrey played her in the movie. annie cooper had shared with them her story, and the children became, you know, they became so in love with her. they started calling her grandma. some of them continue to write or even afterwards but we never knew the historical figure that she was. i just thought it was very important questions to have the opportunity to go to selma to meet people there. their assignment on the trip was to meet someone who participate in the original march and write an essay about them. and they did that, and now a lot of those students are now in their '40s and the reach it to be. i remember one student reached out to me and told me that when obama ran for president he went and volunteered and work in his office. campaign office. he said the reason i did is because i thought about selma, this was a student i've taken there when he was in the eighth grade. sometimes when we plant these lessons, plant of these seats,

, cooperative structure was a big failing and the time before 9/11. i think that has been addressed. it is relevant today. if i could, a short anecdote. at the end of january, as washington was going to its round of goodbye parties for people signing off from the old administration and getting ray to move on to the private sector, i attended a going away party at a secure location for someone involved in that world. there were representatives therefrom all of the various intelligence agencies. it did not take a real perceptive individual to realize that those intelligence agencies still had that residual quality to them. they were not yet into full sharing mode. that is a challenge for the future going forward. along with the challenge that, now that we are seven years-plus after 9/11, reevaluating the threat and the strategy. >> i was away for 36 of the first 48 hours. i will answer more broadly. what i will say is, generally for the war on terrorism, i spent a lot of time writing my book, thinking about things we did that were mistakes, things that

to cooperate with a criminal grand jury investigation. into allegations of bribery within her office. i think three of you know what's happening in the real world, those that listen to people on the streets the others want to place blame for a problem that they are not addressing. during the 10 minute response to the board. smith blamed a ballooning mental health crisis that has jails serving as care centers for people in need of treatment, not incarceration. i'm a law enforcement officer, not a trained psychiatrist, our staff does an exceptional job. not only in the jail, but on the streets. the sheriff asked the board to take the hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked to build a new jail and spend that money to build a new psychiatric hospital, adding she embraces reforms. but some experts say the tide has already turned. things are moving very rapidly in a bad direction for the sheriff. but the board itself can't directly remove her. the sheriff's ouster could come by ballot, but it's unclear if there's support for another recall el

to cooperate with a criminal grand jury investigation. into allegations of bribery within her office. i think three of you know what's happening in the real world, those that listen to people on the streets, the others want to place blame for a problem that they are not addressing during a 10 minute response to the board. smith blamed a ballooning mental health crisis that has jails serving as care centers for people in need of treatment, not incarceration. i'm a law enforcement officer, not a trained psychiatrist, our staff does an exceptional job. not only in the jail, but on the streets. the sheriff asked the board to take the hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked to build a new jail and spend that money to build a new psychiatric hospital, adding she embraces reforms. but some experts say the tide has already turned. things are moving very rapidly in a bad direction for the sheriff. but the board itself can't directly remove her. the sheriff's ouster could come by ballot, but it's unclear if there's support for another recall elec

to cooperate with a criminal grand jury investigation. into allegations of bribery within her office. i think three of you know what's happening in the real world, those that listen to people on the streets the others want to place blame for a problem that they are not addressing during a 10 minute response to the board. smith blamed a ballooning mental health crisis that has jails serving as care centers for people in need of treatment, not incarceration. i'm a law enforcement officer, not a trained psychiatrist, our staff does an exceptional job. not only in the jail, but on the streets. the sheriff asked the board to take the hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked to build a new jail and spend that money to build a new psychiatric hospital, adding she embraces reforms. but some experts say the tide has already turned. things are moving very rapidly in a bad direction for the sheriff. but the board itself can't directly remove her. the sheriff's ouster could come by ballot, but it's unclear if there's support for another recall elect

to cooperate with a criminal grand jury investigation. into allegations of bribery within her office. i think three of you know what's happening in the real world, those that listen to people on the streets the others want to place blame for a problem that they are not addressing during a 10 minute response to the board. smith blamed a ballooning mental health crisis that has jails serving as care centers for people in need of treatment, not incarceration. i'm a law enforcement officer, not a trained psychiatrist, our staff does an exceptional job. not only in the jail, but on the streets. the sheriff asked the board to take the hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked to build a new jail and spend that money to build a new psychiatric hospital, adding she embraces reforms. but some experts say the tide has already turned. things are moving very rapidly in a bad direction for the sheriff. but the board itself can't directly remove her. the sheriff's ouster could come by ballot, but it's unclear if there's support for another recall elect

kansas city chiefs head coach andy reed wassen opt sidelines as his chiefs lost to the chargers yesterday after the game reed was taken in an ambulance to a local hospital for dehydration. the 63-year-old said he is doing fine now and is in good spirits today. the team says he was released from the hospital this morning and expects him to make a return to practice later this week. >>> how about gold mailboxes for gold medalists? that's what japan is giving athletes that won gold in the olympic games. the softball team just got first one. you can see it here. japan is honoring winners of olympic and paraolympic games with the mag boxes at home and training sites. each mail box shows their name, sport, and hometown in japanese, english, and in braille. >> okay. up next, we're going check in with the 49ers after last night. did they lose last night? >> a heartbreak her. >> it was tough. we'll check in with the niners on this monday morning hangover. we're back in a moment. stay with us. working at recology is more than a job for jesus. it's a family tradition. jesus took over his dad's roue

let's go to andy in simpsonville, south carolina. caller: i would -- it would be very helpful if you could explain to people that what the people -- democrats are trying to do is a suspension of the debt limit which would last until about this time next year which means they can raise -- put their bill through without having to raise the debt limit again. if it has to go through reconciliation, they have to actually specify an amount they want to raise the debt limit by. host: thanks for calling with that. on the debt limit its front page in the new york times, they are reporting on the issue, their headline political game increases odds for the u.s. default. for nearly two decades lawmakers in washington of wage and escalating display over the federal government's ability to borrow money and pay its bills. they are forced in administration's both parties to take evasive actions pushing the nation dangerously close to economic calamity. but they have never actually tipped the united states into default. this time the dynamics are dif

so congressman andy biggs, the head of the house freedom caucus has sent a letter to kevin mccarthy asking him to remove liz cheney and adam kinzinger for their roles going as far to call them spies for the democrats. what do you say to that? >> well, it's absurd. you know, it's really astonishing that people are calling to sanction these two members of congress who are simply doing their duty and other members of congress who are republicans are calling for violence and not a word, not a peep of condemnation for that discussion. it's really very confounding. >> i mean, it makes sense that they're calling for, you know -- calling for against cheney and kinzinger when you consider the minority leader, kevin mccarthy, is threatening telecommunications companies and social media companies if they cooperate with a duly appointed committee. >> well, aside from the fact section 1505 of the federal criminal code says it's a felony to threat to try to impede a congressional investigation, one would hope that the minority leader would want to get to the bottom of what happened here just like the re

we had great cooperation from the community, and visit one of 50 sites, not only operated in conjunction with the arlington county public health, but neighborhood pharmacies and other locations. >> reporter: and chris, to andy's point about this not being a zero-sum game, unlike earlier this year where we had long queues, people had to wait for weeks, they've got the infrastructure in place. they're not expecting this to be a problem to give the vaccine to anyone who wants it. again, they're stressing that while this information is still being studied for everyone else, it's important to tell the public that it's not that it is unsafe for younger people, it's just that we don't have the data yet that this is really an interim decision. they are studying this issue of myocarditis in younger males, but it's just that the data isn't yet in. >> heidi przybyla, andy slavitt, monica alba, great stuff from you today after the president spoke. thank you. appreciate your time. >>> also this morning, another big story. more proof this morning that the big lie is just that. and the proof is actuall

much more quickly. >> i appreciate your candor and i yelled back. >> we now recognize representative andy barr of kentucky for five minutes . >> mister secretary let me return to the dissent table. you read the dissent cable prepared by career diplomats at the kabul embassy and you're proud of that. is thatcorrect ? >> that is correct. that came one month before the fall of. >> the cable was i believe july 13. >> over a month and the cable warned the afghan government was at risk of collapse and your response was, but lots of the drafters reflected much of the department, unquote and youstill maintain that to be the case . >> the cable did not predict that the governments or security forces wouldcollapse before we departed .>> but the cable did say the afghan government was at risk of collapse and you said that the box of the drafters reflected much of the thinking of the department. either way at the exact same time the bureau of intelligence research in that apartment was breathing this committee that the taliban was moving quickly toward to take over and you presumably have access to t

let's go to andy in simpsonville, south carolina. caller: i would -- it would be very helpful if you could explain to people that what the people -- democrats are trying to do is a suspension of the debt limit which would last until about this time next year which means they can raise -- put their bill through without having to raise the debt limit again. if it has to go through reconciliation, they have to actually specify an amount they want to raise the debt limit by. host: thanks for calling with that. on the debt limit its front page in the new york times, they are reporting on the issue, their headline political game increases odds for the u.s. default. for nearly two decades lawmakers in washington of wage and escalating display over the federal government's ability to borrow money and pay its bills. they are forced in administration's both parties to take evasive actions pushing the nation dangerously close to economic calamity. but they have never actually tipped the united states into default. this time the dynamics are dif

phillips: i appreciate your candor and i yield back. >> i recognize representative andy barr of kentucky for five minutes. rep. barr: mr. secretary, let me return to the dissent cable. you said you read the july 13 dissent cable prep -- represented. you said you are very proud of that. is that correct? sec. blinken: that is correct. rep. barr: that warning came over one month before the fall of kabul, right? sec. blinken: though cable was, i believe -- july 13. yes. rep. barr: over one month. the cable warned the afghan government was at risk of collapse. your response was "the thoughts of the drafters reflected much of the thinking of the department." you still maintain that to be the case? sec. blinken: the cable did not predict that the government or security forces would collapse before we departed. rep. barr: but the cable did say the afghan government was at risk of collapse and you said that the thoughts of the drafters reflected much of the thinking of the department. by the way, at the same time, the bureau of intelligence research into the department was briefing this committee