nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone president biden announced late today that the u.s. is on pace to finish the removal of u.s. citizens and military troops from afghanistan by the august 31st deadline the president, however, leaving the door open to stay longer, acknowledging contingency planning is under way the u.s. tonight caught between the proverbial rock and hard place on one side, the enormous challenge of getting the last of americans safely out while at the same time demobilizing the last of our troops there. on the other side, the risk of renewed conflict with the taliban and potential terror attacks tonight, the pace of evacuation flights is picking up, but will it be quick enough as the clock winds down peter alexander has late details. reporter: tonight with the frantic rush to evacuate stranded americans and desperate afghans and despite please from g-7 allies to stay
north dakota if it you vote against donald trump s supreme court choice? and then, how do you stay in the democratic party if you re the one that helps them donald trump put a second person on the supreme court before the election? i mean it s a lose-lose situation but it s almost like i can vote with donald trump again on the most important thing to the democratic base but after i do that i m going to have to switch parties. yeah. you re really between the proverbial rock and hard place if you are manchin or heitkamp. you re in trouble, because they really need to worry about the democratic party and democratic base, which is in no mood to sort of roll over on this nomination. you know, let s be real. donald trump will get to make this nomination. whether before the election or after the leaelection. it will be somebody most
prison will be even worse. yeah, certainly is. he is going to have to choose between what how he thinks he is going to be able to survive, because at this moment, he is stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard police. so he is going to have to figure out for himself what is more beneficial and what the inter gators are going to convince him of. i want to go back to clint talking about the personalities of these men and how they formed this friendship. clint, at the end of the day though, they are both murderers. these are not the most trustworthy of individuals. so how did they within the walls of prison identify each other as someone they can trust? well, in this particular case, i think they both decided they wanted to escape. we know, for example, that matt, the last time he went to trial, he was considered such an escape risk that the local authorities had snipers up on the roof. they had him tied with chain. they had a vest on him that would shock him and put him down
china, growing, but nowhere near what it was growing in years past. so the whole world economy is doing better. but this is a very slow, methodical grind. u.s. definitely doing better than everybody else. but it s a slow, methodical grind. i think it s hopefully it gets a little bit more momentum later in the year. but clearly, just getting past the first quarter has been tough. we can attribute part of the growth to an aggressive central bank, right, with the federal reserve keeping ultralow loan rates to make it easier for individuals and businesses, especially, to borrow and spend. the question, you see the fed possibly raising rates at any time soon? look, the fed is really put between a proverbial rock and hard place. they want to keep interest rates low because it allows businesses to borrow, consumers to borrow, and making those borrowing costs lower throwly positive for the economy. on the other hand, think about the average saver. 300 million americas are basically earning
after 115 days under a proverbial rock, two weeks before his highly anticipated speech at cpac, mitt romney has finally broken his silence. in an interview to air on sunday, the romenee was asked to report about the sequester. the president campaigning to the american people, doing rallies around the country and flying around the country and blaming and pointing. what does that do? that causes the republicans to retrench and then put up a wall and to fight back. it is a very natural, human emotion. john, i love when mitt romney talks about natural emotions and then also refers to republicans as if he just wasn t their nominee for president. i wonder what you think in terms of leadership on the sequester. is mitt romney the man that the gop was waiting for? i am glad he has human emotions. might have showed them during the campaign. that would have been good for him. it is remarkable that he s back at this point. be interesting to see what kind of tone he strikes.