Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the biden administration is under fire over its chaotic withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan. A new report from the republicans on the house of foreign Affairs Committee accuses the White House of misleading and even lying to the american public. Vice president Kamala Harris and her democratic colleagues are trying to blame former president Donald Trump for the afghanistan disaster. That is not stopping the issue from playing a role in the president ial campaign. Gillian turner starts us off tonight. Good evening. The Republicans Report is 350 pages long, contains thousands of pages of additional documentation from the chairmans two year long investigation. The biden administration iS Pushing back hard on the substance of this report and the timing of its release. Dueling reports from the house foreign Affairs Committee on the 2021 u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan. Republicans ultrafast first major finding, the biden administration failed to deve
As this week. Our Latest Reporting is ahead. New polls show a changed president ial race, especially on some critical issues as Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns with President Biden in pennsylvania. Donald trump is facing new scrutiny for his comments to Fox News that he had, quote, every right to interfere with the 2020 election. Today, a new russian Missile Strike in ukraine hits a Military Academy near a hospital. Dozens are dead. Nbc news speaks with President Zelenskyy about what comes next. Good day. Im Peter Alexander in washington in for my colleague Andrea Mitchell. We hope you had a good Labor Day weekend. Today Benjamin Netanyahu is defiant, vowing revenge after six hostages executed by hamas days ago were found in Southern Gaza over the weekend by israeli forces. The discovery and the heartbreak sparked some of the biggest protests since the start of the war. The largest union joining the protests along with demands for a Ceasefire And Hostage deal. Among the six murd
By cnn contradicts pentagon reports about that Chaotic Afghanistan Withdrawal and the explosion outside the kabul airport, 13 u. S. Service members were killed in that blast, Hundred Grids are dozens at least of afghan, some of the goldstar families are now accusing the pentagon of telling lies. And leading this hour as the new york hush money cover up its picks back up tomorrow in new york, a change in tactics from Donald Trumps legal team were told when it comes to Adult Film Actress and director Stormy Daniels being back on the stand. Lets go to cnn paul read in new york and paula, the defense crossexamination of Stormy Daniels, we were told it originally was expected to be fairly brief, but but sources are telling you thats changed why . Yeah. They have a while to go at this point. And the reason they want to spend more time here is because they were surprised that in her testimony, she raised the possibility that the sexual encounter was not consensual, something that she had not
A trojan horse, perhaps, ill Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week, the university of southern california, where nearly 100 arrests have been made him, its protests since the university canceled its muslim valedictorian speaker announced it was now canceling its main stage Commencement Ceremony next month they cited insufficient time to carry out, quote, new Safety Measures its the latest most highprofile ramification of the surge of propalestinian protests disrupting campuses all across america students saying they have a right to free speech. Jewish students saying that speeches often antisemitic so what is the current reaction or protesters, the modern day greeks who use the deceptive tactic to enter the campus and defeat the trojans. May, im sympathetic to the University President s and administrators who now have to engage in a difficult balancing act. Campuses have become the Staging Ground for americas growing divide over supporting israel as It Retaliates for hamass octo
Opposition within both parties to the controversial program. Today, the house of representatives will meet with the aim of voting on several foreign aid bills and legislation that could potentially ban tiktok in the u. S. Those votes prompting\in the Republican Party with several members promising to take steps to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. The south the house is scheduled to come in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. We want to hear your top news story of the week. Republicans can call in at 202 7488001. Democrats at 202 7488000. Independents at 202 7488001. If you would like to text, you can text that 202 7488003. The foreign aid bills hitting the headlines and front pages of many of the newspapers incding the wall street journal, which has the headline aid package passes. Democrats clear a key hurdle in funding for ukraine and israel. The house appeared poised to pass a 95 billion foreign aid and weapons package saturday after democrats rallied behind Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to cl