you, as well. here we go. i m ayman mohyeldin. all right. so tonight, we begin with that assault on american democracy. it s both a physical assault but it s also a legislative one that s playing out behind the scenes. today, around 400 protestors rallied in washington, d.c. in support of the january 6th insurrectionists who engaged in that physical assault on the capitol. now, it was less than the 700 or so expected by the department of homeland security. but the danger is not the protest, itself. it s the attempt to rewrite history, and what actually happened on that day and every day since. let s remember exactly what that assault was about back on january 6th. supporters of former-president donald trump ransacked the capitol, and they did it with one clear objective. they wanted to stop congress certifying the election of joe biden. and they actually succeeded, if only for a few hours as, of course, everyone remembers. congress had to be rushed to safety until security
washington, d.c. is on high alert right now. there s a rally in support of insurrectionists but stirring fears of violence at the capitol today. we re going to take you to the hill, to hear from officials who are taking some extra steps right now to avoid something like we saw january 6th. plus, people over 65 and those at risk for severe illness could soon be eligible for covid booster shots. why that recommendation changes the game for the white house s original plan to get booster shots to everyone. as a combatant commander i am fully responsible for this strike and tragic outcome. the u.s. military admitting it killed ten civilians in a drone strike in kabul last month. how that deadly mistake happened. and the questions that it now raises about so-called overly-the-horizon strikes. plus, a spending split. democratic leaders are fighting to keep their party united. and passed president biden s $3.5 trillion spending bill amid threats within their own ranks that th
he s now hiding. i m griff jenkins. jacqui: i m jacqui heinrich. charles, from north port, florida, let s start with you. hello. hi, jacqui. this is a double missing person s case and now brian laundrie is now missing and hasn t been seen by his family in days. north port police department just posted to twitter a short time ago that multiple officers and the fbi are currently conducting a search of the vast carlton preserve for brian laundrie. and his family says they believe he entered the area earlier this week. on friday, north port police showed up to the laundrie residence and they spoke to the family at their own request for the first time since gabby petito was reported missing by her family. and by that encounter, the family told they had not seen or spoken to brian since tuesday, but didn t say whether or not the family knew anything about the disappearance of gabby petito. it s not that you re not helping anymore, it s hindering investigations. you re using up
the same mind-set, and it s highly disturbing you still have people in america who want to take on democracy and destroy it. and this afternoon capitol police arrested a man for a weapons violation saying that he brought a long knife to the rally. let s go to nbc s elson barber joining us from there. i know the crowds are much smaller, but for the most part with they remained peaceful? yeah, i mean by and large they have. as you mentioned there was that one individual who according to capitol police was arrested. he is facing a weapons charge. they say he had a knife. we saw just a little while ago someone appear to be detained or at least surrounded and then escorted out of the area by capitol police in full riot gear. they sort of circled around this individual and backed out with them taking it behind the police barricade line. that was one of a couple of incidents we saw today. apart from that, though, thick things really did seem by and large peaceful. this was not a
team had planned to begin distributing boosters next week, but even if this fda panel signs off, another approval must come from the cdc. president biden s chief medical advisor, dr. anthony fauci, today suggesting approval is likely. the data that i have seen, i believe strongly suggests that will be the case. our position about at least planning for the eadventureuation that we might have to give boosters, we vernal have planned very ready to go, pending the decision that s made from a regulatory standpoint. cnn s senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen is here to explain the arguments for or against boosters, so elizabeth, what are you learning from the meeting today? alisyn, this issue is so hotly contested, because the data just doesn t agree with each other. let s first look at the argument against boosters. this argument basically says the two shots, the two shots that so many of us have had, they are enough in countries besides israel, and i ll get to isra