whether saudi officials were complicit in the attacks. in shanksville, pennsylvania, former president george w. bush equated the terrorists behind the 9/11 behind 9/11 to the domestic terrorists driving the news today. there is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. but then there is disdain for pluralism and their disregard for human life, and their determination to defile national symbols. they are children of the same foul spirit. meanwhile, donald trump did not attend any officials memorials, but he did stop by n.y.p.d. and f.d.n.y. precincts close to trump tower where he decided to honor the 9/11 victims by bashing his political rivals, namely joe biden, who this week announced his new six-prong plan to defeat covid-19 once and for all. on friday the president struck a fiery tone when he announced a sweeping vaccine mandate requiring all executive branch federal employees to be vaccinated as well as ordering all u.
the attack killed 110 afghan civilians and by some counts systems 20. the u.s. troops are still in danger warns the pentagon. later i ll speak with democratic congresswoman ill ilhan omar. preparations are under way to mark the anniversary of the 1963 march on washington. demonstrators in cities across the country gather to urge congress to enact federal protections for voters by passing federal voting rights legislation. 58 years ago today over 200,000 people took part in the march on washington for jobs and freedom in the nation s capitol. notably during the even, civil rights icon dr. martin luther king junior delivered his famous i have a dream speech. my poor little children, we ll one day live in a nation where they will not be color of their skin but by the content of their character. i have a dream today. the march was successful in pressuring president john f. kennedy s administration to dmvr strong civil rights protections at the federal level. clearly these kin
fronts of this voting rights battle. but tonight, also watching the human rights battle in afghanistan intensifying as afghan and american deaths mount, terror attacks this weekend in kabul, killing at least 70 people and 13 u.s. soldiers. president biden is vowing retaliation and wasting no time. u.s. military officials saying that at least two isis fighters believed to be involved in planning a future attack were killed in a drone strike last night. as the president keeps to his timetable, now 72 hours away. all that tonight on this very special politicsnation. but we start with voting rights. joining me now, global civil rights activist martin luther king iii and andrea waters king. it s a momentous kissinger brother martin, and sister andrea. tens of thousands of people are getting involved. we had at least 20,000 march with us down the streets of washington and there s some still in the streets in cities across the country. our collective mission today to draw attentio
biden told the pentagon and state department to be prepared with backup plans in case things go wrong. and it s not just the taliban he s worried about, the u.s. is also tracking threats against the kabul airport from an isis a affiliate, giving americans and afghan allies even more of a reason to get out, and fast. every day we re on the ground is another day we know that isis-k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. here are the latest numbers as wes know them. the u.s. has evacuated nearly 88,000 people since the end of july, including about 19,000 yesterday. what that doesn t tell us is how many americans are still there, waiting to get out. we have reporters covering every single angle of this story. richard engel back in kabul for us. courtney kube at the pentagon. geoff bennet at the white house. we have to start on capitol hill. what can we expect from speaker pelosi and what s the latest on these congressme
people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when it began. it would have been true if we had started a month ago or a month from now. there is no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. it s just a fact. new polling from nbc news today finds that only one in four americans approve of the president s handling of the afghanistan crisis. with three in five americans of the mind that our nation s longest war was ultimately not worth it. and political insiders are questioning just how much of a hit the president has taken on capitol hill over afghanistan, even as as even some democratic allies have condemned his response at a time when his party needs all his capital to move forward on voter protections. as the civil rights community prepares this week for the national voting rights march that martin luther king iii and i as president of national action network will lead to capitol h