he also met with family members of those troops. cnn s jeremy diamond reports on the mood inside the white house. jeremy? reporter: pam, for the first time in his eight months as president, president biden attending a dignified transfer at dover airforce base attending as the remains of those 13 service members who were killed in the terrorist attack on thursday in kabul arrived at dover airforce base. families were also in attendance. president biden becoming the fourth commander-in-chief to preside over one of these dignified transfers. we know president biden before those transfer cases were loaded off of that military c-17 plane he met personally with the families of those 13 service members and we saw as the president stood by alongside the secretary of defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the secretary of state, and other top u.s. government
top biden administration officials insist they knew there would be chaos in afghanistan as americans tried to leave this 20-year war. and that contingency plans were always in place. but as cnn s jeremy diamond reports, growing criticism is coming from all sides, blaming the administration for ignoring intelligence and warnings and for the potential fallout to come. reporter: facing mounting criticism over the chaos in kabul, today president biden staying out of public view, holdup at camp david while his national security advise york trying to contain the fallout. when you conclude 20 years of military action of civil war in another country with the impacts of 20 years of decisions that have piled up, you have to make a lot of hard calls. none with clean outcomes. reporter: even as desperate scenes have unfolded in kabul, sullivan insisting the u.s. planned for every contingency. but he said the administration will conduct a review of what went right and wrong. biden acknowledge
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people were on the streets speaking up and demanding civil liberties be protected. again, keeping in mind it is i believe we may be able to bring anna coren abouting i en . we are not. stateside, the u.s. president, after a late night, a series of tweets, we have a very rare instance of donald trump admitting he is bowing to outside pressure. our jeremy diamond reports. reporter: president trump will not host next year s g7 at his resort near miami, florida after all. just two days after he trotted out his chief of staff, the decision to host the global gathering of world leaders a lot one of his own properties and in the face of blistering criticism from democrats, as well as some republicans, the president reversed course. in a tweet late saturday night, the president acknowledged the criticism tweeting while he
engineered by white house senior staffer, jared kushner. it s now expected to easily pass the house of representatives and will allow president trump to sign one of the landmark accomplishments of the trump administration. let s talk about this. one of the things that s very interesting is cnn s jeremy diamond reports, the president s initial hesitation in this was that there could be a in his view, a willy horton situation, somebody who benefits from this bill, is released early, and then commits a horrific crime. and the truth is, we should just acknowledge, that anything could happen, really. right. and that s the lesser of his worries right now. the president of the united states has bigger problems. but i think this is bravo. bravo for congress. and i worked in the building for 25 years. and this kind of stuff has been missing for a long time. the fact that you can have chuck grassley and cruz in the same bill as the democrats and passed by 87-12. exactly. and it s so