Ahead? plus, more than 12,000 undocumented migrants gathering at the border waiting to be taken into border patrol custody. We re live on the ground with the escalating situation, ahead. Welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper, and we start with breaking news. The u. S. Military admitting to a massive and deadly mistake in a targeted drone strike on august 29th that killed three afghan adults and seven afghan children in a kabul neighborhood. The military initially claimed that they had successfully targeted a member of isisk, someone who posed a threat to american troops at the airport. But just moments ago the leader of united states central command took responsibility and admitted they got the wrong vehicle. Our investigation now concludes that the strike was a tragic mistake, as the combatant commander, i am fully responsible for this strike and this tragic outcome. This is a total about face from the pentagon s initial denial they got anything wrong days after the attack. At least on
The withdrawal is moving at light speed. And so the taliban. Plus today a strong jobs report. 850,000 new hires. A big boom in hospitality. The biden economy making strides in repairing the pandemic jobs damage. And brand new cnn reporting raises huge questions about the company some republicans keep. Photos and videos capture a january 6th capital rioter tagging along with republican house lawmakers on a trip to the border. And we begin right there with that new and important reporting from cnn s team that just speaks volumes about the direction of today s republican party. A conservative youtube personality who took part in the riot at the capitol traveled with a group of house republicans to the u. S. /mexico border. If that isn t shocking enough, the republican members traveling to the border were skipping a house vote in washington that very day on creating a select congressional committee to investigate the january 6th insurrection. Our cnn editor of the kfile joins us now with t
you very shortly, we will be hear with you into the next few hours, but coming up, we will have a special news paper review, some of the reaction and commentary of the duke s life, that is coming up with my colleague clive myrie. stay with us for that on bbc news. after a long and eventful life prince philip, the duke of edinburgh, has died at the age of 99. he was by some distance the longest serving royal consort in british history, a role he d made his own. from the day of his marriage to the future queen and throughout her long reign, he was at her side in good times and bad. he has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and i and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or we shall ever know. the duke of edinburgh s award scheme for young people isjust one of the achievements he will be remembered for, and for which he has received praise from political leaders. like the expert carriage driv
january 6th certification process. the electors plot is one of the schemes that spans from trump s early efforts in the states to wider national efforts to create confusion about the results, and it went all the way up to mike pence, all the way up to an attempted, ultimately thwarted pretext that was going to be presented by pence to help stage a coup on jan 6th. in essence it involved fraudulent electors or getting states to appoint trump electors in the states that biden won or was winning and try to send those to congress. unlike some of the other plots that we ve covered, this one s already at the center of three different cases, including indictments by doj s jack smith, plus the probes in michigan and now georgia, where d.a. fani willis just charged several trump lawyers and aides for these types of plots as part of the larger rico conspiracy. that is why tonight s scoop, this video, may be of interest in the two big cases led by these tough prosecutors who mean busine
about rinvoq. learn how abbvie can help you save. explosive testimony today about what trump and those close to him knew heading into the insurrection. aide to former white house chief of staff publicly testifying trump was told his supporters were armed but said they re not here to hurt me. cnn ryan nobles has more. from the moment she was sworn in, cat hssidy hutchinson made clear she had much to share. the first moment i remember feeling scared. and nervous for what could happen. on january 6. providing unique insight into a chaotic white house in the days leading up to january 6. and a president who cheered on the rioters. and she says she was told desperately wanted to be with them. the president said something to the effect of i m the f ing president. take me to the president now. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. angle grabbed his arm. said sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we re