带走阿维·哈珀
距离塔利班接管喀布尔还有几天，在与塔利班举行了长时间的新闻发布会后国家安全顾问杰克·沙利文，目前还不清楚如何条件恶化这么快就进去了阿富汗。
当美国广播公司新闻记者斯蒂芬妮·拉莫斯问沙利文关于拜登政府的报道时官员们被告知塔利班可能会压倒这个国家，国家安全顾问否认看到这一点。
“我对你描述的情报评估并不熟悉，”沙利文说。
乔·拜登总统在周一的讲话中承认，塔利班接管了这个国家比预期的要快。
政府计划进行一项调查对灾难的评估一次撤离已经完成。
“我们将审视整个行动中从头到尾发生的一切，以及我们可以做得更好的改进领域。我们可以在哪里找到漏洞或弱点，并在前进的过程中弥补它们，当然，我们打算在有机会进行分析后，与人们分享这些，”沙利文周二告诉记者。
立法者也是给…施加压力拜登政府寻求答案。众议院军事委员会的共和党人写了一封信向拜登要求撤军计划的细节，明明白白指责总统没有一个具体的计划。
“几个月来，我们一直在向你询问从阿富汗撤军的计划。你没有给我们提供一个，基于目前在阿富汗发生的可怕事件，我们确信我们从未收到你的计划，因为你从未有过一个信阅读。“如果你做了任何计划，现在正在阿富汗展开的安全和人道主义危机是可以避免的。”
与...的关系亚里沙·维尔塞马
拜登政府的新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)预计顾问们会给出一个助推器发射的最新情况据白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基(Jen Psaki)称，周三上午的一次简报会上，总统还将在下午讲话时就这一话题发表讲话。
尽管最近几周全国范围内的疫苗接种有所增加，但是助推器的更新将会有大量的美国人选择不接种疫苗尽管医疗官员和社区领袖敦促他们保护自己免受德尔塔变异病毒的感染。助推器的引入可以创造新的挑战如果那些已经完全接种疫苗的人需要进一步的说服再打一针。
随着南方几个州继续体验汹涌澎湃感染和住院。根据联邦数据，截至周二，五个州——阿拉巴马州、佛罗里达州、佐治亚州、密西西比州和得克萨斯州——的重症监护室已满90%。
拥有检测呈阳性对于周二的冠状病毒，德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特(Greg Abbott)目前已完全接种疫苗，无症状，他现在是那些新感染病例之一。最近几周，雅培成为了全国关注的焦点封锁学区和地方政府发布口罩或疫苗授权。本周早些时候，州长出席了一个拥挤的室内活动事件似乎已经小的社交疏远。
据雅培办公室称，他“将在州长官邸进行隔离，并继续每天进行检测”，同时“接受Regeneron的单克隆抗体治疗。”
小费奎因·斯坎兰
众议院民主党人推出了最新版本的约翰·刘易斯周二，投票权促进法案表示，如果通过，该法案将还原关键元素最高法院“掏空”的里程碑式的1965年《投票权法案》两个主要案例，2013年Shelby诉Holder案和Brnovich诉DNC案今年早些时候。
众议院议长南希·佩洛西表示，众议院将于下周就该法案进行投票。如果所有民主党人都支持，该法案将在下议院获得通过，就像2019年12月该法案首次获得投票时一样。但只是一个共和党人——宾夕法尼亚州的布莱恩·菲茨帕特里克——当时加入了民主党，但没有被当时由共和党控制的参议院接受。
如果共和党参议员阻止早在6月份，民主党人就提出了全面的民主改革法案《为人民服务法案》，这表明，如果不对该法案进行改革，该法案不太可能到达拜登的办公桌参议院阻挠议事规则。
当民主党联盟和民权组织发表声明敦促通过该法案时，保守派采取了相反的立场。右倾的诚实选举项目负责人杰森·斯尼德(Jason Snead)称该法案是“联邦权力的攫取”，他说，作者“有很多机会使其符合宪法或两党一致，但每一次机会，他们都朝着另一个方向冲刺。”
Few answers from Biden administration on Afghanistan despite pressure: The Note
The TAKE withAveri Harper
Days removed from the Taliban's takeover of Kabul and after a lengthy news conference withnational securityadviser Jake Sullivan, there is still little clarity on howconditions degradedso quickly inAfghanistan.
When ABC News correspondent Stephanie Ramos asked Sullivan about reports that Biden administrationofficials were informedthe Taliban could overwhelm the country, the national security adviser denied seeing it.
"I'm not actually familiar with the intelligence assessments you're describing," said Sullivan.
President Joe Biden, in his remarks Monday, conceded that the Taliban takeover of the country unfoldedfaster than anticipated.
The administration plans to conduct anevaluation of the calamityonceevacuations are completed.
"We'll look at everything that happened, in this entire operation, from start to finish, and the areas of improvement where we can do better. Where -- where we can find holes or weaknesses and plug them as we go forward and, of course, we intend after we've had the opportunity to run that analysis to share that with people," Sullivan told reporters Tuesday.
Lawmakers are alsoputting pressure onthe Biden administration for answers. Republicans on the House Armed Services Committeepenned a letterto Biden demanding withdrawal plan details, plainlyaccusing the presidentof not having a concrete plan at all.
"For months, we have been asking you for a plan on your withdrawal from Afghanistan. You failed to provide us with one and based on the horrific events currently unfolding in Afghanistan, we are confident that we never received your plan because you never had one," theletterreads. "The security and humanitarian crisis now unfolding in Afghanistan could have been avoided if you had done any planning."
The RUNDOWN withAlisa Wiersema
The Biden administration'sCOVID-19advisers are expected to give anupdate on booster shotsWednesday morning at a briefing and, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, the president will also give remarks on the topic when he speaks in the afternoon.
Although there has been an increase in vaccinations across the country in recent weeks, theupdate on boosterswill be happening as large swaths of Americanschoose to remain unvaccinateddespite urging from medical officials and community leaders to protect themselves from exposure to the delta variant. The introduction of boosters couldcreate new challengesin messaging and logistics if those who are already fully vaccinated need further convincingto get another shot.
The development is also playing out as several states across the South continue toexperience surgesin infections and hospitalizations. As of Tuesday, intensive care units across five states -- Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas -- were over 90% full, according to federal data.
Havingtested positivefor the coronavirus on Tuesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott -- who is fully vaccinated and asymptomatic -- is now one of those newly infected cases. In recent weeks, Abbott has been in the national spotlight forblocking school districtsand local governments from issuing mask or vaccine mandates. Earlier this week, the governor attended a packed, indooreventthat appeared to havelittlesocial distancing.
According to Abbott's office, he "will isolate in the Governor's Mansion and continue to test daily" while "receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment."
The TIP withQuinn Scanlan
House Democrats introduced an updated version of theJohn LewisVoting Rights Advancement Act Tuesday, saying that if passed, the legislation wouldrestore key elementsof the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court "gutted" intwo major cases, Shelby v. Holder in 2013 and Brnovich v. DNCearlier this year.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will vote on the legislation next week. If all Democrats support it, the bill will pass the lower chamber just as it did in December 2019 when the bill first received a vote. But onlyoneRepublican -- Pennsylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick -- joined Democrats then and it wasn't taken up by the Senate, which was controlled by Republicans at the time.
IfGOP senators blockingDemocrats' sweeping democracy reform bill, the For The People Act, back in June is any indication, this bill is unlikely to reach Biden's desk without reforms being made to theSenate filibuster rules.
While Democrat-aligned groups and civil rights organizations put out statements urging its passage, conservatives took the opposite stance. Jason Snead, head of the right-leaning Honest Elections Project called the bill a "federal power grab," saying the authors "had many opportunities to make it constitutional or bipartisan, but at each opportunity, they sprinted in the other direction."
