evening of september 11th. alex, thank you. in a few minutes, tennessee congressman tony gonzales will be here about those revelations in the fbi report and how he thinks the biden administration should respond and if he thinks that saudi arabia is telling the truth by denying any involvement in 9/11. that s coming up this hour. arthel. arthel: we ll look forward to that. meanwhile, a new york times investigation found that the u.s. drone strike last month against the suspected isis-k bomber actually hit an aide worker and his family. this comes as some americans and u.s. allies are still trying to escape afghanistan. many vulnerable afghans are also feeling or fleeing into neighboring pakistan. trey yingst has more from pakistan, close to the afghan border. trey. reporter: arthel, good afternoon. we are learning more about that u.s. drone strike late last month that killed multiple
associates including a saudi arabian diplomat and government employee were in contact with the plane s hijackers and had other complexes to other terrorist plots against our country but the report claims it shows no clear evidence that the saudi government itself was directly complicit in the attacks but you know the families of 9/11 victims, they don t buy a word of that. alex hogan live here in new york city with the latest. alex. reporter: hi, eric. the white house releasing this formerly classified report yesterday afternoon two decades after 9/11. familiar his of the victims said that unless the administration declared and declassified the information, they didn t want president biden commemorating the events commemorating those killed in terror attacks. biden did so by executive order. loved ones and family members who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the kingdom of saudi arabia thanking the president, releasing a statement saying in part it provides a blueprint for how al-q
pakistan. arthel. arthel: great on the ground reporting, trey yingst. thanks, trey. eric. eric: arthel, the white house meantime looking to steer away the conversation from the issue of afghanistan as president biden is defending his sweeping new mandates on the covid vaccine. mark meredith live now at the white house with more on that and the president s week ahead. reporter: tomorrow, president biden is going to hit the road, heading out west to campaign for gavin newsom. california has the recall election coming up. there is plenty of questions about the president s own political popularity given what s going on in afghanistan as well as trouble with his domestic agenda. there have been a lot of questions about what s going to happen with his build back better plan. today one democratic senator said there s no guarantee that the bills are going to move forward as quickly as the white house wants. we hear from west virginia senator joe manchin who says he can t support the package,
the attack he told one of the associates the hijackers were, quote, two very significant people. these new saudi revelations have been revealed, how should president biden move forward? with us now is texas republican congressman tony gonzales who served in the navy as a cryptologist. thank you for your service. thank you for having me. eric: it s a pretty disturbing picture. it does paint a picture of saudi officials in the country helping, meeting with, perhaps assisting in other ways some of these hijackers before 9/11. what does this potentially tell you? there s no doubt that saudi nationals helped plot and helped execute this terrible act on september 11th. what level that dipped into the saudi government, i still think it s murky. one thing that isn t murky is
we have the unknown. the unknown is everything you ve been talking about. covid, what s going to happen with covid, what it will do to the economy. no one is talking about inflation or debt. reporter: manchin made his displeasure with all of this already known in the last several days but opposition certainly complicates the administration s timeline, their goal was to get this to the president s desk this fall. still, the white house believes manchin will eventually come around and support the effort. there are other things on congress plate for this month. there s concerns about the government running out of money, a possible government shutdown by end the end of the month and questions about when congress is going to raise the debt ceiling. we heard from press secretary jen psaki about this on friday. we continue to believe that democrats and republicans should do what they have done 80 times which is to raise the debt limit. that is what we re working toward. i m not going t