Failures that allowed him to get so close. Six presidents, including trump, have survived attacks. Four have been killed while in office. And sadly, our history is also full of other notable political for, have been killed while in office sadly, our history has also full of other notable political figures being targeted from martin luther king junior and robert f. Kennedy in the 1960s to more recent assaults and members of congress congress and their families over the next hour scene sara sidner examines what we now know about the attempt on former president trump s life. And have these types of attacks have so often changed our country s history just past six on a saturday evening outside pittsburgh. Hello, butler and hello to pennsylvania a political rally is about to devolve into political violence that look like because we have an officer attendees spotted gunmen on a roof about two minutes before shock swing out i was able to see him perfectly and i see any abbott done. My wife ra
You a story. He like to tell you about, it s not who they are, they talk about a policy they don t like by conservatives, you hear liberal state all the time, that s not who we are. You know what definitely is not who we are? we don t leave our people behind. Let me say that again. We don t leave our people behind get the bike and ministrations seems to have forgotten that because that isn t who we are, back to the biden administration is. The biden administration is leaving the american people behind. It setting up to blame americans. There are some americans may not have decided to leave by the 31st. That is possible. Many americans remain citizens, they have extended family members, 20 or 30 others i want to bring with them when they are not ready to make that decision to. But i will say but i think it s relevant to this is that our military operation will come to an end by august 31. What does not have an expiration date is our commitment to any american for whatever reason decides
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 kinds of federal
But we won t know. It s true, and it is humbling, but i am going to try. I m going to try, and that is all i can say. I think you will get it done. Thank you, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. I appreciate it. We ve been through this only once before in our history. Before the evacuation in afghanistan, the american military had carried out only one major evacuation from a war that we lost. That was in vietnam in 1975. In vietnam when the airport we were using came under rocket fire from the north vietnamese army, and two marines were killed, the final two soldiers killed in combat in vietnam, republican president gerald ford immediately ordered the abandonment of the airport, and the switch to helicopters, dangerously taking people from the tops of buildings to finish the evacuation. President ford immediately ordered the evacuation speed it up. The president never gave a thought to try to avenge the deaths of those two marines, or in any way prolong the dangerous situation, and extending
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 isisk 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 congressmen and the tr