Security adviser Jake Sullivan suggested american officials were trying to get the taliban to cooperate with the evacuation. We have been working engaging, coordinating with taliban elements on the ground to ensure safe passage. We will continue to work that Issue Day by day until weve completed our mission. The pentagon said some 4,000 u. S. Troops would be at the airport In Kabul by The End of today. The State Department said over 1,000 people including u. S. Nationals were evacuated today. That tempo will pick up. Once again, our Nbc News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is on the ground for us In Kabul. We made it to the military side of kabul airport. This is where the u. S. Is carrying out its final withdrawal from afghanistan. The american flag still flies here. This side of the airport has long been an american and nato base and it is full with extra troops brought in to protect the evacuation. This has become effectively the last u. S. Military base in afghanistan. Th
freezing temperatures from chicago all the way to new york city. and now the new storm on the move tonight. the washington, d.c. to philadelphia to new york all bracing for the next system coming. rob marciano timing it out. in new york city tonight, the manhunt for a possible serial stabbing suspect. authorities say surveillance images show him armed with a hunting knife. at least three victims attacked just today. one victim stumbling into a dry cleaners for help. stephanie ramos with new reporting. also in new york, an explosive day in court at the civil defamation trial against donald trump. a jury. reporter: finding trump liable, with his accuser, e. jean carroll on the stand today, trump lashing out. the judge threatening to kick him out of court. the disturbing video tonight. a 14-year-old boy with autism tased by police in his own backyard. the boy suffering a broken hip. the family calling it a case of mistaken identity. an officer can be heard questioning if
Hiccup. news that texas governor greg abbott tested positive for covid comes a day after he boasted danieling a standing room only event. and it comes as they navigate the legal challenges to his ban on mask mandates. still with us, thankfully, professor victoria defrancesco society there and a.b. stoddard. a dual question for you. number one, students returning to u.t. austin. is there a mask mandate for them? and tell us how bad it is in your state. it is sheer chaos. we ve seen it ramp up over the last couple days. right now, what we re seeing is schools and some of the rural regions of the state, that
Was truthful, that is stone, he would have been danieling to the campaign and damaging to trump. a telephone call showed stone had important conversations with a handful of trump staffers but only a handful himself. he contacted trump on a few key days in 2016 as the dnc hack scandal unfolded. roger stone has pleaded not guilty of all charges. with the trial continuing into this next week, many are wondering what new information we will learn next. jean qasr r l.a., new york. you had this roger stone trial going on in the background here. we re learning more about the 2016 russian interference because of this trial, correct? yes. the big question here is what was the nature and extent of the trump campaign s efforts to
About how this would affect the election. to help his campaign. to help him and the campaign. you heard it there. cohen making it absolutely clear. two key claims. one, trump directed the payments. builds on nbc reporting that trump was in fact in the room with cohen and david pecker discussing the hush money payments in the campaign. the second claim is that trump knew it was illegal. here s the potentially danieling news for trump today new audio emergencies from 2012 showing that trump was indeed familiar with the relevant campaign finance laws, specifically how the law applied to the john edwards case. arguing that payments to his mistress were not campaign finance violations. in fact, they were personal payments. here s trump in 2012 revealing he was watching the case very closely.