report. [ music ] good evening, it is 10:00 p.m. on the east coast and 7:00 p.m. on the westward i am stephanie ruhle, continuing our special coverage of the assassination attempt of former president donald trump. it happened last night at a campaign rally in butler, pennsylvania. tonight, president joe biden addressed the nation, calling for unity and emphasizing that violence can never be the answer to our disagreements. of violence has never been the answer, whether it is with members of congress with both parties being targeted and shot or a violent mob targeting the capitol on january 6th or a brutal attack on the former speaker of the house nancy pelosi. more information and intimidation on election officials, with a kidnapping plot against a sitting governor , or an attempted assassination on donald trump, there is no place in america for this kind of violence, for any violence ever, period, no exceptions. we can t allow this violence to be normalized. you know,
headquarters in new york city. go ahead, challenge me at the convention. a feisty president joe biden fighting for his political future with a warning to his fellow democrats. not only does he intend to stay in the race, but if they don t get behind him now, quote, it helps trump and hurts us. we ve got reaction as more members of congress call for biden to bow out and as they return to d.c. plus, right now beryl is carving a path of destruction through texas after making landfall as a category 1 hane killing at least two people. and while it s now a tropical storm, there are new warnings of life-threatening storm surge and massive power outages. does the punishment fit the crime? boeing agrees to plead guilty to a charge connected to two deadly plane crashes. why the victims families want a judge to reject the entire deal. a lot to get to, but we begin with 48 hours. the next two days critical for determining joe biden s future. with more members of congress calling
cooperating with the investigation, despite desperate pleas from gabby s family. we have fox team coverage from lauren green who has the latest on the search for petito. first, let s go to charles watson who is live in north port, florida. charles? hi, jon. this is really turned into a two-part investigation. on the one hand, you have got authorities searching for gabby petito out west, and now you have several agencies searching for her boyfriend brian laundrie who investigators fear could be in danger. the police department tells us about 50 officers including fbi agents are on the ground conducting this search. they spent most of the day looking for brian in a 25,000 acre wooded area, known as the vast carlton reserve. authorities say it s a place his family says he goes to often. now, jon, the news about brian s disappearance wasn t really known to anybody outside of the family until friday evening. officers showed up to the laundrie residence and spoke to the family at
the desperation is building for thousands and thousands of americans and afghan allies who are trying to escape from afghanistan. here is what we know right now. we know that 3,000 people were evacuated in the last 24 hours on 16 military transport flights. that is a number that includes 350 americans and u.s. permanent citizens. now, for people on the ground, trying to get out is simply terrifying. this is harrowing. you see a video here of a young child being handed to american troops on top of a wall at the airport perimeter there in kabul. president biden will be briefed on afghanistan later this morning and will address the nation at 1:00 p.m. eastern. all u.s. senators will also be briefed virtually this afternoon. we also have new details about a classified cable sent to the state department by u.s. diplomats in mid july calling for swift action to prevent a catastrophe in afghanistan. and in an extraordinary move, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan has been leadi
this is all in an effort to capture what happened on the ground that day and show the afacts attempt to whitewash what happened that day from many of the forces of allegiance to former president trump. our potential of experts is here with me standing by to discuss what we expect to haeshgs the politics of it all and more. let s start on capitol hill. what more do we know about the opening statements? the opening statements are expected to set the tone for an emotional and dramatic day of testimony from the four police officers, two capitol police officers, two d.c. police officers who defended the building that day throughout the day s testimony will be never-before-seen footage, body camera footage of what the officers experienced and this is all part of an effort of what the democrats say and the two remembers who are a part of the committee saying in an effort to tell the truth about what happened that day. pushed back on the conspiracies about we re hearing from a lot