带走阿维·哈珀
在两党呼吁美国人和阿富汗盟友更快地从喀布尔撤离，国会议员将在周五获得更多关于当地情况的细节。
参众两院的议员将听取关于阿富汗的事态。国务卿安东尼·布林肯、国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀和参谋长联席会议主席马克·米利将军将与众议院议员交谈。参议员们也将收到一份简报。两者都不保密。
简报会之后又是混乱的一天在喀布尔机场。美国国务院周四表示，周五有6000人获准乘坐20架飞机离开美国，这是每架飞机的最大载客量。
美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)表示，为了赶在8月31日的撤军最后期限之前完成撤军，每天必须撤离5000至7000人告诉美国广播公司的乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯星期三。
然而，为了实现这一点，那些想要逃离这个饱受蹂躏的国家需要能够进入机场，但没有明确的计划来解决这个问题。美国国务院发言人内德·普莱斯向那些希望有一条安全路线的人发出了一个发人深省的信息。
普莱斯周四告诉记者:“目前，我们没有资源超越机场大院。
虽然与塔利班关于允许安全进入机场的谈判仍在继续，但尚未达成任何决议。
与...的关系亚里沙·维尔塞马
八个多月后1月6日起义周四在华盛顿特区发生的戏剧性一幕再次提醒人们注意国会山及其周边社区面临的安全威胁。
该事件源于国会警察称之为“积极的炸弹威胁调查”一名男子开着一辆小卡车走上人行道并声称有爆炸装置。嫌疑人被确定为49岁的北卡罗来纳州弗洛伊德·雷·罗斯贝里，经过几个小时的谈判，他最终被安全拘留。当局没有发现炸弹，尽管他们确实从卡车上没收了可能制造炸弹的材料。
尽管国会和最高法院目前都在休庭，但一些工作人员正在华盛顿特区的办公室工作，并在余波中参与了大规模疏散工作。国会大厦主要办公楼之一的大炮大厦办公楼以及国会图书馆和最高法院大楼被疏散。
在一份声明中，议长南希·佩洛西暗示了最近对国会山构成的危险，包括4月份导致一名国会警察死亡的情况一名男子撞上路障后国会大厦外。
佩洛西说:“今天，国会警察、联邦调查局和其他执法部门再次处理了对国会山社区的潜在威胁。
几个问题在全国范围内爆发，包括正在进行的与冠状病毒有关的恐惧，潜力经济不稳定和最近国外紧张局势升级-可能会提高针对民选官员的公众情绪，再次将安全与政治的交集置于聚光灯下。
小费梅格·坎宁安
加州州长罢免选举还有几周时间，寻求取代州长加文·纽瑟姆的共和党高层候选人周四第三次登上辩论舞台，对纽森的提名产生了冲击冠状病毒反应详细说明他们如何以不同的方式处理国家事务的计划。
三名候选人——商人约翰·考克斯、前圣地亚哥市长凯文·福尔克纳和议员凯文·凯利——避开了批评同为候选人的拉里·埃尔德的机会在没有退缩之后从本周早些时候开始。
埃尔德拒绝参加所有的辩论，包括周四的辩论，但在周二晚上的辩论中，他就最低工资和他写的专栏女性“对政治问题、经济和时事的了解比男性少。”
政治据报告的在周四的辩论前几个小时，埃尔德据称在激烈的谈话中向他的前未婚妻挥舞着枪。他有否认发生过。在参加竞选后不久，埃尔德被认为是共和党选民中的领先者，但他很少与公众互动，也很大程度上避开了媒体。民调显示，许多表示希望罢免纽森的选民仍未决定选择谁来取代他。
Biden administration grapples with slow Afghanistan evacuations: The Note
The TAKE withAveri Harper
Amid bipartisan calls for Americans and Afghan allies to beevacuated from Kabul faster, members of Congress will get more details about the situation on the ground Friday.
Lawmakers from both chambers will be briefed on thestate of affairs in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley will speak with members of the House of Representatives. Senators will also receive a briefing. Both will be unclassified.
The briefing comes afteranother chaotic dayat Kabul's airport. The State Department said Thursday that 6,000 people were cleared to be flown out on 20 flights on Friday -- the max capacity for each.
The number evacuated will have to be 5,000 to 7,000 per day to beat the Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline, President Joe Bidentold ABC's George StephanopoulosWednesday.
In order for that to happen, though, thoselooking to flee the ravaged nationneed to be able to access the airport and there is no clear plan to resolve that. State Department spokesman Ned Price had a sobering message for those hoping for a safe route.
"At this point, we don't have the resources to go beyond the airport compound," Price told reporters Thursday.
While talks continue with the Taliban about allowing safe passage to the airport, no resolution has yet been reached.
The RUNDOWN withAlisa Wiersema
More than eight months afterthe Jan. 6 insurrection, a dramatic scene in Washington, D.C., on Thursday served as yet another reminder of the safety threats facing Capitol Hill and its surrounding communities.
The incident stemmed from what Capitol Police called "an active bomb threat investigation" aftera man drove a pickup truck onto a sidewalkand claimed to have an explosive device. The suspect was identified as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina, who was eventually taken into custody without incident after hours of negotiations. Authorities did not find a bomb, though they did confiscate possible bomb-making materials from the truck.
Although Congress and the Supreme Court are both currently on recess, some staff are working from their D.C. offices and were part of a mass evacuation effort amid the fallout. The Cannon House Office Building -- one of the main Capitol office buildings -- as well as the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court building were evacuated.
In a statement, Speaker Nancy Pelosi alluded to recent dangers posed to Capitol Hill, including an April situation that resulted in a Capitol Police officer's deathafter a man rammed into a barricadeoutside the Capitol.
"Today, once again, the Capitol Police, FBI and other law enforcement dealt with a potential threat to the Capitol Hill community," Pelosi said.
The confluence of several issues erupting across the nation -- including ongoingfears related to coronavirus, potentialeconomic instabilityand recentescalating tensions abroad-- could heighten public sentiment aimed at elected officials, once again putting the intersection of safety and politics in the spotlight.
The TIP withMeg Cunningham
With weeks to go in California's gubernatorial recall election, the top Republican candidates looking to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom took the debate stage for a third time Thursday, hitting Newsom for hiscoronavirus responseand detailing their plans for how they would handle the state differently.
The three candidates -- businessman John Cox, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Assemblyman Kevin Kiley -- sidestepped an opportunity to criticize fellow candidate Larry Elderafter not shying awayfrom doing so earlier this week.
Elder declined to participate in all of the debates, including Thursday's, but drew pushback from the participants during a Tuesday night debate for comments he'd made about minimum wage anda column where he wrotethat women "know less than men about political issues, economics, and current events."
Politicoreportedhours before Thursday's debate that Elder allegedly brandished a gun at his ex-fiancee in the midst of a heated conversation. He hasdenied that happened. Shortly after his entry into the race, Elder was considered a front-runner among GOP voters, but he's had little interaction with the public and has largely avoided the press. Polls show that many voters who say they would like to recall Newsom are still undecided on who they would choose to replace him.
