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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 bluepr ....
citizens left behind enemy lines in afghanistan as i speak. we have six airplanes that the airport. with american citizens on them. as i speak. also with these interpreters. and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. julie: we have fox team coverage. trey yingst is in kotter dominic qatar. first, we go to benjamin from london. there are actually conflicting reports. yes, the taliban say they have full control, and they have released images showing the amount of the governor s office, but the national resistance say that they still control all of the main strategic areas. there is a small glimmer of hope that right now for them. less of a hope, perhaps, and for the americans on board trying to escape afghanistan. this news broke yesterday when congressman michael mccaul claimed that the taliban is now holding these american citizens and allies hostage by blocking the planes leaving the airport in northern afghanistan. he says that they are there sitting on ....
you re watching fox & friends first on this friday morning. i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. todd an jillian are off this morning. now to the border crisis, homeland security secretary new mayorkas announcing border crossings hit a 21 year high. carley: griff jenkins is live with brand-new audio recordings that are telling. reporter: we haven t seen these kind of numbers since the spring of the year 2000, never during a raging pandemic. secretary mayorkas announcing this number here, more than 212,000 encounters in july, a five-fold increase over last july. the situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. it is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. reporter: but behind closed doors, in this leaked audio, talking to border patrol agents, mayorkas admits the situation is much more dire. these numbers cannot continue. we cannot get to the point we were a couple weeks ago and we ....
joshua johnson. welcome to the week. i work a lot of saturdays but the senate really doesn t and we have been following a rare-saturday session in the senate today. senators are waiting for the final text of that bipartisan infrastructure bill. it includes $550 billion in new spending. now, our understanding is that the text could come, pretty much, at any point this weekend. this evening, senate majority leader chuck schumer said that the senate remains in session, and the discussions are ongoing. after weeks and weeks of negotiations, the senate voted, wednesday, to advance the package, 67-32. that number, 67, is key. that means, 17 republicans supported the move. and that is seven more than the 60-vote threshold. but the bill they voted on was just a shell. it s a placeholder that the actual full-text bill will replace. clearly, leader schumer would like to see that text, asap. i have said, for weeks, that the senate is going to move forward on both tracks of i ....
but is it politically probable? and how might a pared down voting rights bill affect that? from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. i work a lot of saturdays but the senate really doesn t and we have been following a rare-saturday session in the senate today. senators are waiting for the final text of that bipartisan infrastructure bill. it includes $550 billion in new spending. now, our understanding is that the text could come, pretty much, at any point this weekend. this evening, senate majority leader chuck schumer said that the senate remains in session, and the discussions are ongoing. after weeks and weeks of negotiations, the senate voted, wednesday, to advance the package, 67-32. that number, 67, is key. that means, 17 republicans supported the move. and that is seven more than the 60-vote threshold. but the bill they voted on was just a shell. it s a placeholder that the actual full-text bill will replace. cl ....