Page 20 - August 6th News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Intelligence inside, the cia did intelligence outside, it made it hard to bring all of the pieces together. i can tell you, dana, a day doesn't go by that i don't wish we had seen it differently. i'm incredibly personally remorseful that we didn't, because when nearly 3,000 people die often your watch, it's something that stays with you -- die on your watch, it's something that stays with you. but i think we did everything we knew how to do at that time. what we didn't have the imagination to see was that the attack would be commercial airliners hijacked and flown into buildings. that memo tha...

Was really a little bit angry, he wanted to come back, because you know him, dana, you know that at that moment, the emotions were running really, really hot, but that was really the nature of the conversation, you cannot come back here. >> let's talk about pre-9/11. the warning signs. two years prior, 1999, a federal study on terror warned that al qaeda could carry out an attack of this magnitude, less than a month before 9/11, president bush received a memo entitled bin laden determined to strike in the u.s. 2020, hindsight, do you wish you had evaluated the intelligence differently? >> i wi...

And that's not hyperbolic. that's because the voting rights act was signed on august 6th, 1965 by president johnson, and has been gutted by the gop supreme court in 2013, and recently a case gutting section two. we are literally before the civil rights movement in terms of protecting voters of color, specifically black voters from this. so the john lewis voting rights act takes a step in the right direction. it would put the pre-clearance provision back in the voting rights action, which is the heart and soul of the voting rights act. it means before states that have covered jurisdictions can ...

Anniversaries. the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. we just came off the 10-year anniversary of capturing and killing bin laden, and just a few weeks ago, we came off the 10-year anniversary of the single biggest loss of life and special operations history. 30 americans in the military were killed on that helicopter on august 6th, 2011, and 10 years later, we now have 13 brave servicemen, 12 marines, and this was tragic, and completely avoidable. i think as americans -- >> laura: explain how, edward. edward, if you don't mind, i'm sorry to interrupt, but how specifically could this have be...

Story, i was thinking we've all learned so much about covid. but did it surprise you what it was actually like when it hit you? >> first of all,i ithank you fo bringing attention to this issue. yes, i was quite surprised. i've been an athlete my whole life. i've always worked out. initially i had never really felt a fear because of everything we had heard about covid and how it worked. but on thursday morning, my first exposure with my granddaughter was friday, august 6th. i was told, don't even go get tested for three to four days. on thursday morning my chest felt like there was a 900 pound ...