bit later on in this broadcast. tonight, though, on another front, far from home, the president is under intense criticism after the sudden collapse of the afghan government and military and the chaos that erupted over the weekend as the taliban took over the capital of kabul. this came in the wake of the president s decision to pull u.s. troops out of the country after two decades and $2 trillion spent. today, biden spoke to the nation and defended his decision. our mission in afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation-building. i m president of the united states of america. and the buck stops with me. i m deeply saddened by the facts we now face. but i do not regret my decision to end america s war-fighting in afghanistan. it is now tuesday morning in kabul. airport has reopened for military flights to evacuate american citizens and afghan civilians. a photo shows over 600 people, mostly afghans, packed inside a c-17 transport late sunday, all of them desperate
saigon in 1975. how do you explain getting this so wrong? first, savannah, to be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years. but you know it s not the helicopter. it s not the mechanism. no, no, it s the last-minute scramble. you know that. it s the last-minute scramble when the assurances from the president himself were this is not what we were going to see. it is certainly the case that the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the afghans, including many of the analysts who looked hard at this problem. and part of the reason for that, is because at the end of the day, despite the fact that we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the afghan national security forces, we could not give them the will. the scenes at the city s airport today are staggering. thousands of afghans despera
tape, of course, everybody remembers the early years of morning joe when you and mika at times had to duct tape me to the chair. we did. on an occasion or two, everything worked out okay. it didn t interrupt you. while we were doing it, you were still going. kept talking. we have the white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire and we have catty kay. something happened last night, like a haley s comet. the red sox won a game last night. i saw it. when tampa bay spotted us 19 runs going into the ninth inning it was hard not to blow it but we gave it the 6-1-7 chance. didn t we? blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while joe and we were able to get the win. we needed all 20 wins in the ninth we gave up more and more and more. we needed 20, they scored 7 or 8, i guess we missed the extra point. let s be clear here, joe. these are dark times for the boston red sox. this is bad. the surging new york yankees today playing in iowa, the fi
towards her desk. beto o rourke tweeted this show of support. unlike the filibuster in the u.s. senate, the filibuster rules in the texas senate requires senatoring a have a al alvarado not able to eat, drink, use the restroom. we re with you. ultimately the senator s long-shot effort ended with this plea my friends, voter suppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. as we have drawn this sdougs an end it is my sincere hope that simple acts by everyday texans from the senate floor to the ballot box can help to shed the light on all important issues. what do we want our democracy to look like? do we want our state to be more or less inclusive instead of making it easier to vote? this bill makes it easier to intimidate. instead of making it harder to cheat, it makes it harder to vote. republicans true to their brazen commitment to rolling back access to the polls and totally impervious to the fact there was no fraud, ignored alvarado s plea and passed the res
why is he still in prison after 26 years? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone new york governor andrew cuomo has given up his fight to hold on to office, facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment in the workplace. cuomo announced today that he will be resigning from office. in an address to new yorkers cuomo maintained he never crossed the line with anyone but suggested the line has been redrawn. news of his planned exit welcomed tonight by his accusers. a growing figure on the national stage at the start of the pandemic, cuomo had been mired in scandal even before last week s bombshell report which detailed alleged behavior with nearly a dozen women that ran from inappropriate to illegal. kathy park is in albany tonight with late details i think that given the circumstances the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. and therefore, that s what i ll do reporter: