Good evening, i am chris jansing. Special coverage of the assassination attempt on former president donald trump. Next hour, president biden will address the nation from the oval office with a critical question lingering in the minds of congress and the country. How could this happen? and at this hour, we do have some new information for you. A senior secret service source familiar with the planning of yesterday s event tells nbc news that the roof was a well known, highpriority vulnerability. It was identified just the day before during a security walk through. We have also just learned that there were two counter sniper teams on site, and that the counter sniper did not need approval to shoot. One source telling nbc news that prior protocols were not followed the fbi announces the alleged shooter, 20 rolled thomas matthew crooks , appears to have acted alone. This all provides new context for the shocking scene last night in butler, pennsylvania, already burned into our collective co
And at least 113 afghans. Almost 200 more people were injured including 18 u. S. Troops. President biden vowing revenge against the terror group isisk for the attack. To those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this, we will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay. And more concerns today that isis could attempt another bombing. We certainly are prepared and would expect future attempts. Absolutely, but i won t get into the specifics of what those are. We are monitoring these threats very, very specifically, virtually and in real time. Joining me now, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel in doha, qatar. Nbc correspondent courtney kube and nbc correspondent peter alexander. What is the security situation on the ground? so the security situation has improved. It has improved for the people on the base, the taliban have pushed out their perimeter. They are now set up with checkpoints and hundreds of yards fr
And six black or multiracial, including a chemist, a nurse, an auditor and a grandmother, deciding the fate of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. The prosecution leaving the jury with a final message, believe your eyes. You have seen the video, use your common sense. The defense arguing that a reasonable police officer, a word used 118 times in the desense s closing argument, a reason blg police officer would have acted as chauvin did, given what happened in the 17 minutes before that 9 minutes and 29 seconds with chauvin s knee on floyd s neck. And cities from minneapolis to los angeles, brooklyn center, minnesota to brooklyn, new york, are bracing for protests. Local governments are planning on how to handle it without inflaming tensions even further. President biden spoke about the trial just a short time ago. They re a good family, and they are calling for peace and fran quill tea, no matter what that verdict is. I am praying the verdict is the right verdict, and i th
minneapolis police chief said the acts that chauvin took were totally unnecessary. the witnesses on the stand this morning was the doctor who pronounced george floyd dead at the hospital. was your leading theory of george floyd s cardiac arrest oxygen deficiency? that was one of the more likely possibilities. i felt that at the time, based on the information i had, it was more likely than the other possibilities. and, doctor, is there another name for death by oxygen deficiency. asphyxia. it s well known that any amount of time a patient spends in cardiac arrest without immediate cpr markedly decreases the chance of a good outcome. none of the officers on the scene performed cpr on george floyd. the doctor said he believed floyd s death was not likely from drug use but instead from suffocation or asphyxia. the defense team tried to combat that conclusion. so when someone ingests fentanyl, it can cause them to feel very sleepy because of an increased carbon dioxide
minute order. as to defendant, anthony robert williams, de nine defense motion to travel. defendant, while on patrol release and facial charges including serious felony, offense stemming from his alleged rapunzel january six 2021, which is to leave the michigan winter to spend ten days in the warmer climbs of jamaica, to meet the family of a woman with whom the defendant has been in a committed relationship for, quote, more than a year. footnote in the mid order indicates that more than a year has a quote from what he said about himself in the motion where he asked for permission to travel to jamaica. more than a year. the judge continues, quote, although such a meeting might be an important step in the defendants personal relationship, defended surrendered his entitlement to unfettered international travel when also more than a year ago he in 2021 he follow-through, by joining a mob at the capitol, that in his words, took that building. an event he allegedly viewed as the