In the chaotic final days as the united states military airlifted more than 120,000 people out of kabul s airport. Tonight, more than 1 million people along the gulf coast, mostly in louisiana, without power after hurricane ida s devastating blow. The widespread power outages could last for weeks amid excessive heat. And a restrictive state abortion law could take effect tonight in texas. If it s not blocked by the courts, it could effectively end roe v. Wade. I want to go to john harwood and charlie dent. Thank you for joining us this evening. I appreciate it. John, president biden delivering a forceful defense of the u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan today, not giving an inch to his critics. What was the strategy here? don, i think what you saw today was part strategy and part personal impulse. On the strategic level, he wanted to explain and defend the decision in broad strokes that led us here. That is that the war in afghanistan, it was time to bring it to a close. He not only dee
Stay indoors during the demolition. Before the building comes down, investigators are using 3d imaging to gather as many details as possible from the structure. And dump trucks you see right there on your screen, they re taking debris to a secure location where it s being held as evidence to try and help determine what caused the building to chance. A news conference on the condo collapse just wrapped up last hour. Nbc s vaughn hillyard was there and joins us live. Still in the room, in fact. Vaughn, what are we learning here about the time line? reporter: yeah, lindsey, that press conference just wrapping up in which governor desantis was here as well as miamidade county mayor, as well as rescue officials talking about the current state of this rescue operation and that planned demolition here. We do have some new details here about what this demolition exactly will look like. Essentially they re relying on explosives from underneath here, underneath some key rodding and columns under
candidate seemed to refusal in the specter of violence that resulted from his ambition to cling the power. we will explore how the false claim of a stolen election by the twice-impeached expresident and his party s refusal to knock down that lie has infected our body politic. we will talk to two reporters that reveal the documents, memos and private conversations behind what amounts to a coup plot by the expresident. we will also speak to georgia s secretary of state, brad raffensperger who was famously harassed by donald trump just days before the insurrection and asked to find enough votes to overturn the will of the voters of georgia. we will also speak to someone who has sought to protect their country from donald trump and who is now trying to protect the country from another trump-like term, democratic congressman adam schiff. but we begin with that fresh evidence remerging in the also few days that shows just how close this country came, potentially, to a second trump
public. the other developments that relate to all this january 6th business is the committee now scouring those trump documents that he failed to hide, losing at the supreme court. it was just last week. it was just last week that the supreme court handed down that big 8-1 decision, a stinging rebuke for trump. for people who say how does this all work, does any of it matter? the rule of law is holding. days later the committee is receiving and processing what looks to be about 770 pages of once secret documents from inside the inner sanctum and the upper levels of the trump white house. what s in there? the short answer is we don t have all the texts yet, but we do have reporting on some of the examples, the categories. meeting notes at the time they were preparing for january 6th, drafts of the actual january 6th speech which could be incriminating. we know trump wanted to hide it, as well as high level correspondence, that could be emails, notes, from then white house chie
1,000 points. it s enough to make your head spin. even if or maybe especially if you are the president. despite covid, growing tensions over ukraine, a stalled agenda, it s a question about inflation that appeared to hit a major nerve with president biden yesterday. will you take questions on inflation then? thank you. thank you all. you think inflation is a political liability ahead of the midterms? more inflation. what a stupid son of a [ bleep ]. by the way, the president later called and apologized to fox s peter ducey who asked the question. ducey said it was a nice call. whether it s the white house or your house, the frustration and concern over higher prices is real. you feel it firsthand. maybe in transactions you make every day. so it s, you know, tough for a good headline like low unemployment, stock market rebounds to outweigh that direct effect. let s bring in justin wolvers. the stock market gets all the headlines but it s just a piece of the economy.