one important programming note, watch kaitlan until midnight tonight, election coverage at the white house, starting at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning again, right here on new day. we ll be in washington for special post election night coverage, a huge day with many states and commonwealths voting in primary elections. cnn s coverage continues right now. good morning, i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. right now, president biden and first lady are on their way to buffalo, where they will meet with the families of those killed in this weekend s racist mass shooting attack. these have become such familiar presidential trips in these times. during today s visit, biden plans to condemn the heinous act that left ten people dead, calling it, quote, terrorism motivated by hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. this comes as we re seeing new
adam, can you hear us? i m not sure we re asking you if you can hear us just other stories of heroism and tragedy? we may have lost adam candy there from the las vegas sun. we thank him for being with us during our konk. we ll be right back with the latest on where things stand in the investigation into the man who carried out the deadliest mass shooting attack in modern american history. we ll be right back.
and when we do, perhaps a new timeline is in order. a timeline of the heroes. cynthia mcfad den, nbc news. and we ll be right back with the latest on what has now become the deadliest mass shooting attack in modern american history.
mass shooting attack at ft. hood in 2009 in texas and with the attempted christmas day airliner attack, the underwear bomber, right? later that same year. if we accept that the u.s. is at war with al qaeda, then it is not a stretch to believe that the u.s. would target a prominent al qaeda figure like anwar al awlaki in that war. with some exceptions, the broad political and moral issue here is not an issue with u.s. forces killing bad guys. the issue here is who is a bad guy and how do you figure it out? if this is the means by which we re going to decide not that you re going to be arrested and tried, but the means by which we will decide whether the president can order you dead, then on what basis is the president making that decision? how do they determine who is a bad guy? or as oregon senator ron wyden put it in a question, a written question to the president s cia nominee john brennan, how much evidence does the president need to determine that a particular american can be lawfu
qaeda he was associated with the mass shooting attack at ft. hood in 2009 in texas and with the attempted christmas day airliner attack, the underwear bomber, right?