to remove him from office. plus new revelations about a top-secret move by america s highest-ranking general to protect the nation s nuclear weapons in the final days of the trump presidency. we have seexcerpts from a new book. good to have you with us. cnn projects california governor gavin newsom will get to keep his job. voters in the golden state rejected a recall effort led by republicans opposed to his handling of the coronavirus, homelessness, and the economy. the first question on the ballot, should governor newsom be recalled? about two-thirds of the voters said no, a landslide victory for newsom. exit polls show about a third of voters said the covid pandemic was the most important issue. newsom pushed tough lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, a sharp contrast to his main republican challenger, larry elder, who questioned the science behind such measures. in his brief victory speech, newsom took aim at republican claims of voter fraud. we may have defeated
national gave two of the hijackers. this is key because families of 9/11 victims have been demanding answers on saudi arabia s involvement, suspected involvement for years. now they are eagerly awaiting the release of more documents in the days ahead. a chance of getting some closure 20 years after their loved ones were taken from them. cnn s alex marquardt is here with me. how much do we know from this new document? i do think this goes to some extent to, i think, take care of some of the feelings some of these families have had. but they want more information than perhaps we re getting. feelings and suspicions. the question of the ties between these hijackers and the saudi government. what this document does, it cements the ties between two of the hijackers, the first two who arrived in the states and saudi officials in los angeles. it s heavily dere dacted. a lot of it is the summary of an interview the fbi did with a saudi who is unnamed in this report in 2015. he was
it s the final push in push in california ahead of the governor s recall election. could gavin newsom be the second democrat in 20 years to be removed from office? pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. we have breaking news tonight out of north korea. the state run news agency there is reporting that new long rage cruise missiles were tested successfully. cnn s alex marquardt ngjoins me now. what is the significance? it is very significant. we are waiting to see if this has been confirmed. we have not heard from the south koreans or the u.s. what we know is entirely coming from north korean state media. they say they have tested a new type of long range cruise missile. they say it hit targets around 1500 kilometers away. they say they had been developing the missile over the past two years. in this official announcement from north korean state media, this was no mention of the dictator kim jong-un, whether he was there to see the la
translator: yes, they sent it to us, absolutely. reporter: in fact, what followed was according to our sources a fountain of freely volunteered intel. not just documents and photos but potentially incriminating videos like this one, after the downing of a ukrainian military aircraft in the eastern war zone. offered up by the fighters themselves. all ukrainian intelligence had to do was pick the ones it wanted, offered the lucrative venezuela contracts and because of covid-19 travel restrictions in russia assembled this belarus to fly out. intelligence sources say the real plan was to land them in ukraine and make the arrests. these people would have ended up here in ukraine the details of their criminal acts would have been known around the world. ukraine could have brought them to justice and shown our fight with russia is serious and that we won t raise our hands and surrender. reporter: but the plan failed when the belorussians arrested the group just hours before th
conversations with the president on january six, and why the select committee is taking his phone records, and how the unhinge response of public health measures during the pandemic is taking a very dark turn. i m gonna speak in front of the school board, and i m gonna give them an option, they can leave or they can be removed. it all starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. on september 26 2001, almost 20 years ago, 15 days after the u.s. was attacked on 9/11, a dozen cia operatives landed in northern afghanistan. their mission was to lay the groundwork for the u.s. invasion of the taliban -controlled country. since that, day for nearly two straight decades, there has been an american military presence in afghanistan. until today, this afternoon, america s longest war was brought to a close. i m here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan, and the end of the military mission to evacuate american citizens, foreign country nat