Where do we go from here? and where you ll be asked to roll up your sleeve again. We have new information tonight on the missing woman case gripping the country, now her fiancé is also missing after placement the day at his family home in northport florida. The breaking details coming up, but we begin tonight with what top american general is calling a tragic mistake, that u. S. Drone strike in afghanistan killing ten civilians. White house correspondent tracking the latest development tonight. This was a sort of admission frankly that usually followed b resignations or perhaps even firings, but the fallout from the botched drone strike in afghanistan continues to develo tonight, but one thing is for certain, innocent people are dead over there and lawmakers here are demanding accountability. It was a mistake, and i offe my sincere apology. As a combatant commander, i am fully responsible for the strik in the outcome. While i have begun with the mos important findings of our investiga
General milley has a lot of explaining to do and ought to stop honking like a goose and try to make our country more secure. Bill: if tomorrow general milley decides joe biden is senile or a future present is not in his right mind. It s a military coup. There needs to be a full congressional inquiry. It is vital that general milley needs to resign. Bill: we begin with peter doocy but first to the pentagon and jennifer griffin. General milley plans to address these accusations under testimony. The characterizations of the phone calls with the chinese in the book are not accurate and were taken out of context. I spoke with a former seen trump defense official told me the phone call to the chinese was done at the request of the then defense secretary. It was designed to lower the temperature and prevent the u. S. And china from stumbling into a conflict. The phone call was made at the request of the civilian leadership of the military. General milley was asked to followup. At no time did
Associates including a saudi arabian diplomat and government employee were in contact with the plane s hijackers and had other complexes to other terrorist plots against our country but the report claims it shows no clear evidence that the saudi government itself was directly complicit in the attacks but you know the families of 9/11 victims, they don t buy a word of that. Alex hogan live here in new york city with the latest. Alex. Reporter: hi, eric. The white house releasing this formerly classified report yesterday afternoon two decades after 9/11. Familiar his of the victims said that unless the administration declared and declassified the information, they didn t want president biden commemorating the events commemorating those killed in terror attacks. Biden did so by executive order. Loved ones and family members who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the kingdom of saudi arabia thanking the president, releasing a statement saying in part it provides a blueprint for how alqaid
At the pentagon when it was attacked on this day 20 years ago. He s now a fox news senior strategic analyst. General, welcome. Good to see you as usual. So looking 20 years back, and having experience so intensely of that day and reflecting on it, what are the lessons you draw for american national security from that day s attacks and our response? yeah, they are pretty profound, and certainly the 9/11 commission as a result of that tragic day helped us too to bring some of these things into focus, most notably is our intelligence system failed us miserably, and we know now that the cia and the fbi really weren t talking to each other the way they should be because there were plenty of signs that an attack was imminent. They also had some chatter to that, but the specificity that they were hearing in the country certainly and preparing themselves for that attack slipped through. That was tragic. The other thing is that really the principle of taking the fight to them and staying on top
Dana: federal workers won t be able to opt out of the shot. Bill: it could affect 100 million americans. Republican governors calling it a severe federal overreach. I don t think it actually helps to get more people to ultimately do it. But i do not believe that people should lose their jobs over this issue and we will fight that. We live in america. You would expect words like that from the president maybe of communist china or north korea. You don t expect words like that coming out of the mouth of the president of the united states. Business owners are calling me telling me how it will make it hard for them to run businesses. This is not a power delegated to the federal government. It is a power for states to decide. It is unbelievable to me what he is doing. I knew he would wreck this country. Dana: brandnew reaction from senator tom cotton in a moment. Let s go to mark meredith live at the white house. The white house knew this was going to get a lot of reaction and they were i gu