Associates including a Saudi Arabian Diplomat And Government employee were in contact with the planes Hijackers and had other complexes to other Terrorist Plots against our country but the report claims it shows no clear evidence that the saudi government itself was directly complicit in the attacks but you know the families of 9 11 victims, they dont buy a word of that. Alex hogan live here in new York City with the latest. Alex. Reporter hi, eric. The White House releasing this formerly classified Report Yesterday Afternoon two decades after 9 11. Familiar his of the victims said that unless the administration declared and declassified the information, they didnt want President Biden commemorating the events commemorating those killed in terror attacks. Biden did so by executive order. Loved ones and Family Members who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia thanking the president , releasing a statement saying in part it provides a blueprint for how alqaida o
War is officially over. The war in afghanistan is officially over. As skwrep from said the last american airplanes of u. S. Troops have left and tal boone in control of the airport. There are americans still there and the state department will work to get remaining americans out. We take this around our table, first. Poet, have served. This must be filled with a lot of different emotions. Yes, it s almost surreal to see that banner at the bottom right will. America ends war on n. Afghanistan. Setting aside all of the criticisms i and all others have i m very glad every one of our boys at this point is off of that airfield. Off of that kill zone and that x. You can talk about what was miss man amed and the future. We will talk about that. People left behind, the legitimate terror state that is this. Ultimately i tip my hat to the pentagon using a he will ppt of surprise, moving earlier than many thepg they would and getting all of our boys back. It s not been a smooth process. We have l
Very prevalent in the u. K. Duncan: plus, space race, an early morning spacewalk at theye international space station and new images of chinese astronauts building their own and later on this father s day, we have a v. I. P. On board. Duncan: a memorable moment for a veteran pilot. This is the cbs weekend news from new york, reporting from new york city. Here s jericka duncan, duncan: good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. Senate democrats go on the offense this week looking to expand voting rights and spend big on infrastructure. A number of republicans are said to be on board for a trimmed down half trillion dollar infrastructure bill. But voting rights, well that s a far different story. Christina ruffini is at the white house tonight with the latest on the impending battle. Good evening christina. Reporter: good evening, jerika. Jerika. The juneteenth celebrations over the weekend were, as one activist put it, a good start. But pressure is growing on congress to take actio
be getting an ambitious goal of government equity agenda. equity is ambitious and it will be everywhere, but we are not allowed to know what it is. that s odd. for three months, we ve been trying to guess what is the equity that is in our country s main reason for existing? we know it s not the same as equality or even closely related. in equity for example, the divided administration supports open just minute stomach discrimination. they are asian, so they can get into school, it s simple. we used to call that behavior racism, we had laws against it. now we call equity and we have laws demanding it. it turns out that racism and equity are pretty much the same thing, who knew? here s the latest illustration of the principal, comes not from the biden administration, but from united airlines. united used to be a conventional commercial air carrier, it flew airplanes from place to place, most of the time, uneventfully. that was the old united airlines. at the new united is v
patriots, for the very first time this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening from foxborough, massachusetts, the site of one of the most anticipated homecomings in sports history this weekend. we ll talk more about that later in this broadcast. but right now all eyes are on the political gridiron in washington and it s where we start. declaring we re going to get this thing done, president joe biden making a rare trek to capitol hill late today on a rescue mission to save the cornerstone of his political agenda not from republican opposition, but from his own splintered democratic party after postponing a promised vote on an infrastructure bill late last night, house democrat leaders scrambling again today to appease dems who want it tructure done and those demanding an expansive social and climate safety net be done first the president with skin in the game tonight, trying to bind wounds our garrett haake is on the hill. reporter: facing a possible make-o