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that damage. reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russia s claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. there was no collision. the problem is that we didn t contact to this drone. the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some 80 nautical miles from land. we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. we also know it was very unprofessional and very unsafe. the actual contact of the fixed wing russian fighter with our uav, the physical contact of those two, not sure yet. reporter: but cnn is learning that the russian pilots did not go rogue. u.s. officials familiar with the intelligence say the pilots were ordered to harass the drone by senior officials in russia s
democrats seats. also tonight in a new report in the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan the white house largely blaming the chaos and decisions by former president trump on the actions it says the u.s. should have taken even sooner. the rising tensions in the middle east. israel striking back tonight after the biggest barrage of missiles from lebanon in more than 16 years. tracking severe storms on the move tonight in the midatlantic on the heels of that deadly tornado outbreak. nbc news investigates after our report on toxic air concerns near a louisiana school. what the epa is now doing about it. and it was 20 years ago we lost a member of our nbc news family covering the war in iraq. tonight my conversation with david bloom s widow about the lives his story may have saved. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. the tears of grief that consume nashville, tennessee, just ten days ago over the murders of young children and