of kabul's airport is adding to the pressure. the attack killed 13 u.s. service members, you can see nine of them here on the screen. it's the deadliest u.s. casualty event in afghanistan in ten years. yesterday president biden expressed his condolences to their families. >> my art heartaches for you. the lives lost yesterday were given in the service of liberty, the service or security, the service of others. the service of america. >> more than 110 afghan civilians were also killed in the violence. perhaps many more than that. some put the afghan civilian death toll at 200 and maybe 200 others wounded. in retaliation against the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the attack, isis-k, u.s. military forces conducted a drone strike that

killed an isis-k fighter alleged to have been involved in planning future attacks. but the threat of deadly violence continues. according to the pentagon there are specific, credible threats on the ground in kabul. the president's national security team has warned him another terrorist attack is likely. for more on this i'm joined by ali arouzi in tehran. ali, what is the latest on the ongoing threat of more violence in kabul? >> good morning. according to centcom, the u.s. conducted an over the horizon counterterroism operation which involved a drone strike against an isis-k member in nangarhar that was believed to be involved in the attacks in kabul. the u.s. military said that the

air strike took place in nangarhar province, east of kabul, bordering papakistan. initial indications was that the target was killed and they don't have reports of civilian casualties. according to officials, a reaper drone took off from somewhere in the middle east, struck the militant while he was in a car with an associate and both of them have been killed. also a senior taliban commander also said that some isis-k members had been arrested in connection with the kabul attack and are being interrogated by a taliban intelligence team. the u.s. troops overseeing this evacuation have been forced into a closer security cooperation with the taliban to provide safe passage to the airport initially and now to help prevent a repeat of those suicide bombings, which is an extraordinary situation for u.s. service members to be in. they're now relying on the taliban, an enemy they've been fighting against for the last two decades to provide them with

security against isis. less than a month ago the u.s. was dropping bombs on the taliban, now they need their protection. just sounds surreal saying it, but that's the chaos that's unfolding in afghanistan. nonetheless, the evacuation flights had resumed yesterday with a new sense of urgency as the u.s. says further attempts and attacks are expected by isis-k or other jihadist groups operating in afghanistan. so, you know, the longer the u.s. troops are on the ground there, the higher the probability of another attack on them. they don't want a repeat of that suicide bombing, which as you mentioned killed more u.s. service men than had been killed since 2011. they want to finish the job and get out of afghanistan by tuesday. the reality is they may get all the troops out, but they're going to be leaving behind a lot of afghans that helped them. not only the americans but the brits and others as well.

>> relying on the taliban for security is surreal indeed. in your latest reporting you unearthed new details about the attack at kabul airport. what can you tell us about the events leading up to the suicide bombers attack. have you learned anything new about how the attacker evaded taliban checkpoints? >> good morning. what we've learned is that the suicide bomber -- and we still don't know whether this was a man or a woman. the assumption at the pentagon appears to be this person was a man. in part because he was wearing a 25-pound suicide vest. there's no such thing as a normal suicide vest, but in times you see people wearing belts that are ten pounds maybe when they get to the vest you start to get to maybe 10 to 20 pounds, but 25-pound vest can do an enormous amount of damage.

it also had a lot of really bad stuff in it that, you know -- shrapnel, the shrapnel that it let out did an enormous amount of damage as well. so, that's part of what we're learning. he -- i will say he just because of the assumption -- waited until the last possible moment. on wednesday -- let me back up a second. on wednesday, intel sources had identified three -- what they said were credible threats at three different gates. abbey gate was one. and then i think the north gate and the east gate. and the american authorities on thursday morning, the state department sent out that warning saying americans should stay away from the airport. on thursday, they closed two of the gates, but they left abbey gate open. we're not sure why yet.

there were reasons behind it that they needed abbey gate. during the day, they believe that the taliban may have kept out a couple of the -- the taliban managed to twice push the surging crowd back from the gate, which they say was very helpful. they think that that may have -- the taliban may have helped to prevent a couple of other -- thwarted a couple other attacks. they're not completely sure on that yet. then the third one got through. at 5:48 p.m. he walked up to the abbey gate, defense officials say he was steely, a lot of times when you're about to do something like this, there's a lot of nervousness. you're very -- it's easier to identify. you can see somebody who looks obviously nervous. sometimes they detonate too fast.

this person got up to the marines just before he was about to be frisked. they had not touched him yet, but he was about to be touched. he was about to be frisked. that's when he detonated, that's why the assumption is the casualty count was so high. >> you have to wonder about the depraved mind of someone who can do something like that. >> we're out of time. we have to leave it there. thank you both. joining me now is new york democratic congressman mondaire jones, he's on the house judiciary, education, labor and ethic committees. thank you for joining me. you along with many of your congressional colleagues signed a letter this week urging president biden to do everything in his power to evacuate at-risk afghans, especially afghan women. what more do you believe the president should be doing to evacuate u.s. allies and to provide asylum for afghans who need it? >> good to be with you.

this obviously is a crisis unlike anything we faced before. we have to meet the moment. we've got to satisfy our obligations to our allies including people who are now at risk because of the cooperation they gave us over the past 20 years. i think we need to stay there to make sure we're facilitating the safe departure of americans but also of afghans who were helpful to us and who are now in harm's way. the president has been very optimistic about meeting his august 31st deadline. i'm going to defer to him on that because he has more insight into the logistical operation. i will say i've been very impressed with the number of people this administration has been able to evacuate thus far. of course we have to make sure we do what we can to help.

>> let me switch gears. you'll be attending the march on washington later today. the house just passed an update to the 1965 voting rights act to restore pre-clearance requirements for states with a history of voting rights violations. it faces, i think, an impossible future in the senate given the filibuster. your solution is simple, abolish the filibuster. why do you think joe biden doesn't see it that way? >> i think the president has been a creature of the senate. he is used to this fixture that happens unfortunately to be of accidental origin and to have been weaponized against very vulnerable communities in this country. there's no question at times over the course of the existence of the filibuster it has been helpful in protecting real minority rights in this country.

but the fact is on balance, it has been more of an obstacle. we've seen it weaponized to block civil rights, and today not just in the george floyd policing act and equality act but also something as basic as the fundamental right to vote. i think he's surrounded by senior advisers who are more concerned about progressive policies becoming enacted when you get rid of the filibuster than they are concerned about the obstruction to even biden's agenda if you allow the filibuster to remain intact. >> a depressing thought if that's the calculation going on. congressman, your reaction to the supreme court overturning the federal eviction moratorium. you released a statement reading in part this decision is a painful reminder of the reality of a hyper partisan supreme

court more concerned with protecting special interests than every-day americans and the need to restore balance to that court by expanding it. as you know, justice stephen breyer, one of the three liberals on the court, the oldest justice on the court, spoke to the "new york times" d.c. bureau and he warned against court expansion saying if democrats do it, republicans will do it back in the future. it's a common argument. what's your response to it? >> i appreciate that justice breyer is trying to promote a book he's recently published, but the fact is the supreme court has already been packed by republicans. they packed it when they held a vacancy open for 14 months following the untimely death of antonin scalia. they packed it when they rushed through the confirmation of amy coney barrett.

so the court has been packed. the fact is we have to stop the bleeding right now. we have a 6-3 majority that is hostile to democracy itself. when we pass voting rights legislation, when we pass not just the john lewis voting rights act but for the people act which contains a set of transformative democracy reforms to strengthen our democracy, we won't have a situation where republicans are winning national elections. that's why they're doing everything they can to disenfranchise people rather than meet policies that are popular with people. i don't think we'll see a situation with republicans doing anything with the supreme court moving forward. bracketing that issue, it's no answer as to why we shouldn't act right now to stop the assault on our democracy and the disenfranchisement of a variety of communities not just in terms of voting rights but civil

rights. >> congressman, appreciate you speaking out on these issues. thank you for joining me on the show. i know you'll be attending that big march in d.c. later today. let's see if it has an impact. congressman mondaire jones, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. still to come, one former refugee turned u.s. congresswoman says america needs to open our arms to the huddled masses from afghanistan. i'll talk to congresswoman ilhan omar. and the march for voting rights. over the course of the day, the national mall will fill up with protesters demanding the passage of voting rights legislation. we'll take you to the capitol next. and we're tracking yet another major hurricane. hurricane ida struck cuba yesterday. it is predicted to make landfall along the gulf coast late sunday as a dangerous category 4

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democracy is not guaranteed for people in america. that's why this year the march on washington has taken on new meaning. it's a day of national dissent after a slew of voter suppression laws popping up across the nation from washington, d.c. to atlanta to miami to phoenix. americans are marching today in the name of voting rights. hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people are recognizing that the urgency of now is greater than ever. you know who dare not show their faces at any of today's historic events? every republican lawmaker in the house and senate. this week the house passed the john lewis voting rights advancement act which aims to strengthen the 1965 voting rights act. the bill passed 219-212 on strict party lines. not a single house republican voted for it. not one. not liz cheney, not adam kinzinger. in the senate lisa murkowski

said she would support it. mitt romney said he is undecided on it. he already voted against the for the people act. which is a reminder of two things -- number one, democratic senator joe manchin who has been a thorn in the side of his own party needs his head examined when he talks about the need to protect our voting rights in a bipartisan way. a bipartisan way does not exist. it's going to be filibustered. number two, they may have stood up to donald trump, when it comes to voting rights, the likes of liz cheney, adam kinzinger, mitt romney are not your friends. and take. it. on... ...with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. and for some rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. that's rinvoq relief. with ra, your overactive immune system attacks your joints.

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early voting options and increase protections for partisan poll watchers. the state of voting rights in texas and across the nation is exactly where thousands of people are marching today. it's the 558th anniversary of te march led by dr. martin luther king jr. now people are demanding for the protection of voting rights today. marches will take place in washington, d.c., atlanta, phoenix and more than 40 other cities. more than 50,000 people are scheduled to attend the march in washington, d.c. according to permits. joining us now is tremaine lee. what do you see out there now? what can we expect later this morning when the march actually gets under way? >> good morning. thank you very much for having me. as you mentioned, tens of thousands of people are expected

to flood into washington, d.c. to participate in this march on voting rights. there's a bunch of people all across the country. already before the march has started, hundreds of people are gathered here in mcpherson square. the plan is folks will gather here and commence to march down to the national mall. one thing i think we should remember as we commemorate this anniversary, the march on washington wasn't just about social or racial equity. it was called the march on washington for jobs and freedom. you have a conglomerate of different organizations coming to make their voices clear today, pushing for a shift in our voting laws, but also folks who are fighting for statehood, police, equity and justice. thousands expected. hundreds have already gathered. >> i'm so glad you mentioned that back in the 1960s this weren't just marching for freedom but for jobs, economic and material concerns as well. a lot of the groups today are marching for multiple issues. the top one, of course, is to

protect voting rights. that's the primary demand we know today. the house just passed a bill designed to do that. it's pretty much dead on arrival in the senate given the filibuster. i wonder, is there a sense among the civil rights leaders organizing these demonstrations today that there exists a viable path forward for that bill? >> what folks do know who i talked to is that -- i want to quote the reverend jesse jackson, he talked about street heat. mobilizing people and putting pressure on policymakers. the democrats don't have the numbers without undoing the filibuster. it is kind of dead on arrival. folks marching today and organizers believe that if you can just get a mass of american citizens who believe in equality and freedom and access to the franchise, then maybe just maybe that pressure might move the ball some way and some form. as you mentioned, it's not looking good. it's an uphill battle. this movement that goes decades back was forged in the fight. they're ready to do just that,

mehdi. >> we can only hope. thank you for your time and your reporting. appreciate it. joining us now is democratic congresswoman joyce beaty of ohio, chair of the congressional black caucus. she will be attending the march in washington, d.c. later today. good morning. thanks for taking time out for us. earlier this summer you and nine others were arrested during a voting rights demonstration at the capitol. what message were you trying to send to your constituents that day? what message is trying to be sent today? >> first of all, thank you for having me this morning. that message was quite simple. we wanted to make sure that the nation knew that we were going to stand up and fight for justice. we knew that we had a battle ahead of us. when you think about what was up on us, john r. lewis voting rights act, we wanted to make sure that it was not just those of us who are elected officials,

but that we were able to galvanize masses of folks that would lead us to where we are today. we know when we look back on our history, it's worked before. when communities come together, when we fight, we make change. so it was in the spirit of not only john lewis but martin luther king jr., fannie lou hamer. they did so much so we must continue that fight today because we're still fighting for our democracy. we're still fighting against voter suppression. we're still fighting against racial issues. >> let's talk about that fight. this past week you and your democratic colleagues in the house passed the john lewis voting rights advancement act. you tweeted now it's time for the senate to make some good trouble. do you really think that's possible with the filibuster in place in the senate and with your democratic colleagues there, joe manchin and kirsten

sinema still insisting that the filibuster is a good thing to keep in place? >> we know it will be a difficult battle. here's what i also know. if you look at the last four times that the voting rights was reauthorized, republican presidents did it. we should be asking ourselves why is it partisan now? why do we have senators and why do we have people in the ohio house -- in the united states house of representatives that refuse. not one republican voted for the john r. lewis voting rights act. we need to take it to the streets. they need to be held accountable when it comes time to pushing that button to vote for them. so we're not going to give up. we'll continue to move ahead because we know it's what the american people want. thus that's what we're going to see today. >> congresswoman, why do you think itis that not a single

republican voted for the act? is it because it's a party today filled with racists and white supremacists? >> absolutely so. when we look at what happened on january 6th, when we look at that there were members of congress who were aware, who participated, who followed the past president -- i hate to even call him president -- it's a carryover from what we had during the trump administration. and unfortunately people elected to serve all people are still following in his footsteps. it's sad for us. today we're hoping to get the message out and have individuals across the country stand with us. >> yes. we can only hope. let's see what happens with these protests. i want to switch gears a little bit and talk about afghanistan. big story in the news today and this weekend as we wait for the

pullout. one of the marines sadly who was killed in afghanistan was ohio native navy hospital corpsman max soviak from your great state. what are your thoughts on that and the thoughts of the ongoing withdrawal efforts? do you support joe biden's decision to pull out on the 31st of august? >> first of all, when i think of that young 22-year-old navy officer, it saddens me. when you listened to his mother who talked about this being a child who had dreamed, something he always wanted to do, so he gave his life or his life was taken in the battle of what he wanted to do. i do support the president. i think that this has been one of the most complicated issues of war that we've ever had to deal with. but i think he has a plan. this is something that is not foreign to him. so we will keep moving ahead.

certainly it's devastating to us. >> devastating indeed. congresswoman joyce beatty, chair of the congressional black caucus, appreciate your time. >> thank you. looking forward to the march. >> yes, indeed. we'll cover it here on msnbc all weekend. the house committee investigating the january 6th riots wants to know every move made by the former president who incited that insurrection and every person he spoke to leading up to the attacks. now the cops are turning on him, too. that's next. [relaxed summer themed music playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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way towards the gulf coast. classified as a category 1 hurricane, forecasters worn it could be much stronger when it crashes ashore tomorrow. potentially increasing to a category 4 hurricane. in new orleans, residents are being evacuated, 16 years after hurricane katrina pummelled that region. what is the latest forecast saying? >> yeah. you know, we're dealing with a pretty dire situation. and this storm system is about to go in much more favorable conditions where we're dealing with a warm gulf. right now it's continuing to gain steam. you can see it's a large storm system that we're talking about. even some cloudtops that are starting to form. that lets us know we're having an increasing storm system. the latest stats from the national hurricane center, 380 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the mississippi. right now sustained winds, that's a constant wind speed of

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>> janessa webb, thank you for the update. appreciate it. the courts have been on the side of mask mandates in recent days. a florida judge blocked governor ron desantis' ban on masks in schools saying the governor overstepped his authority when he banned such mandates. in texas, a travis county judge issued an injunction on governor abbott's ban on mask mandates. the fight over these mandates is boiling over in one tennessee school district where covid cases spiked by 40% in four days. dasha burns is there and got caught in the middle of an argument between a doctor and a parent. dasha? >> we're in the same school district that went viral earlier this month for videos from their previous school board meeting showing some heated confrontations. this time security was out in full force. we saw maybe 30 plus officers, which is a striking sight.

remember this is at a school board meeting. they did keep the situation under control but the tensions were high. i want to show you a moment that is emblematic of how school board meetings have really become the next frontier of culture wars and political divisions. we were speaking to people outside before the meeting. we interviewed a doctor who was one of the few people there in favor of the mask mandate. here's what happened. >> i'm going to beg for the health of our community to prevent -- i'm a physician, i'm trying to help our community here. our hospitals are full. we're asking for help. >> you're talking to the fake news, they will twist whatever you say. >> this is amazing to me. i'm here to talk to you as your community member. >> yesterday we lost 12 service men in afghanistan. that's a lot more important than this. you know it. >> okay. >> ma'am, why are you here today? >> excuse me? >> why are you here today?

>> because i have children and grandchildren that i want to live free. this is all smoke and mirrors. this is tyranny. >> what do you mean by medical tyranny. >> excuse me, i got to go. >> we don't have rights anymore. >> we late rally have come up with a safe and efficacious vaccine and people don't want to accept it. there's little to no side effects. it's very effective. people are behind me screaming about how it's tyranny and it's communism. it's silly is what it is. literally, they have a doctor here telling them how safe it is >> dr. meredith duke says she has two children of her own who have been exposed to covid-19. she says her hospital is at a breaking point and some of the people at this board meeting were not parents of children in the school district. they simply showed up, they say, to make their voices heard. >> dasha burns, thanks for that report. up next, by now you've probably heard about the

national debate, if you can call it that over critical race theory. did you know the crusade pretty much started in a texas town called south lake? it's a small town with a lot of drama and a serious racial divide. it's the subject of a new nbc podcast. we'll get into it next. into it t hi mr. charles, we made you dinner. ahh, thank you! ready to eat? yes i am!

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featuring stately homes, civic pride and some of the country's top schools backup but this suburb of dallas has what some areas residents have called a dirty secret coming to light in 2018 when a syed sfrpsed showing southlake students chanting the n word. when black residents came forward to talk about bullying, the school board vowed to make changes. today those changes and effort to educate and inform residents have gone unheed pd. now a podcast takes an in-depth look at the drama gripping the texas town, fueled by growing national crusade against critical race theory. nbc news correspondent and tonia hilton is pastor new six-part series. thanks for coming on the show this morning. southlake was one of the first communities torg to war over what we call the debate over

critical race theory. reminder to our viewers it's a law school course about systemic racism in our legal system. but what happened in southlake, that preceded a lot of the debates. how did that get started >> it's one of the ground zero communities where the fight over race and history began starting in 2018 with the video you mentioned of well-known students in the district chanting the n word. what you see happen at first in 2018 is the community came together, a diversity council formed that worked almost two years on a ds diversity plan for the school district. when the plan is ready in 2020 not long after at murder of george floyd, there is a massive backlash. parents raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, one parent brings a lawsuit that ultimately leads to a restraining order that keeps the district from working on any kind of diversity and inclusion program for the kids. and so this podcast is really about taking people past the

fighting that we're all seeing at school board meetings and transporting you inside the school district. what actually has been happening in a communities where fights over race and history have been raging for years. i want to share with you for the very first time a very important scene from our podcast. this is secretly recorded audio from one of the black students who went to carell, the high school in southlake. to set up the scene, in black student ravren rule overheard a white boy in her class use the n worshipped and she and the boy end up in the principal as office, a former principal named shawn duhan, the three have an intense conversation i will warn viewers is quite emotional. take a listen. >> this happens way too often in school. am i supposed to get up and leave every time i hear someone say that. >> well, to me, it's. >> that's correct, you should that's -- that's why we're trying to work through this and

educate, because this has to be a safe place for learning because she is entitled to a classroom and to a seat in that classroom just like everybody else. so she shouldn't have to get up and leave. >> well, to me, it's just a word so it doesn't. >> it's not just a word. don't even say that. do you know what that means? how are you going to look at me in my face and tell me that that is just a word? do you know how disrespectful that is. >> to me it's just -- >> no it's not just a word. >> yeah, it's not. >> that's a racial slur. i can't even believe you would just say that to me. >> raven. >> i'm not going to calm down. >> just relax. >> i cannot deal with this ignorance. >> there is no words that offend me. >> because you're white. that's why. i'm black. and i have to go to school in this white school and listen to y'all say that and you're going to tell me it's just a word. it's not just a word. >> sit out there for me for a

second. >> alone with raven after sending the boy away duhan at first tries to see you see the word ignorance you said it. that's what we're dealing with. i'm not sure, raven. i'm not sure if that kid will ever change. >> he is not going to. >> and then duhan gichs raven advice on thousand keep herself out of trouble during the final few months of her senior year. >> when you see ignorance like that, you can't let them take your joy, girl. you can't. you're too good of a biller, too good of a person for somebody like that. >> i try. that's why i didn't say anything the first few times. >> i know. you're too pretty, too nice. you're too -- everything you got going for you, you can't let somebody like that take your joy, right, take your peace.

>> principal duhan and the boy who we're not naming who you hear in the audio both declined to speak with me or my cohost, but duhan did offer to rearrange raven's schedule so she wouldn't have to be in the class with the boy. but raven felt and told us she felt she was left in a position of doing most of the work of educating that boy. and she says to this day she still doesn't know if he was ever punished for what you hear happened there. >> and tonia, that clip is so depressing and infuturing, because it's very clear. she says because you're white you don't understand what an offensive word is. i wonder, these, quote, unquote, controversies start off with blatant racism. and then it becomes about something else. oh, this is about political correctness, about censorship, trying to foist a left-wing

agenda on the children. and the discussion totally moved away. is that what went on in southlake did it begin with a discussion about racist language in school and then the culture war non-sense. >> that's right it begins with community conversations. and people attend coffees and beer events to try to talk about and heal the racial divide. then it quickly becomes very predictle. what's especially hurtful to students like raven and we have spoken to. o many, many students in the district some of whom are still current students some recent graduates is there is this stark divide between the experiences they consistently try to tell people they are hearing and seeing in school every single day. and what the adults in the community insist at the school board meetings. there is no racism here and people should be color blind when the incidents happened they are handled well and swiftly. >> nbc's antonia hilton thank you for coming on the show this morning. thank you for doing the podcast.

the first few episodes of southlake are available this monday august 30th. follow it, subscribe to it wherever you get your podcasts. and don't go anywhere. we have much more ahead for you from 9 "a." back to the nation's capitol where the march on washington is set to get started within the hour. i'll talk to congresswoman terry sewell and derek johnson about the nationwide rally for voting rights. another hour of "velshi" starts now. rights another hour of "velshi" starts now. good morning. it's saturday, august the 28th. i'm mehdi hasan in for ali velshi. we're tracking a major hurricane as it aims at the gulf coast and communities are bracing for impact. hurricane i'd aire barrelled through cuba yesterday and is now making its way to the coast of louisiana. the national hurricane center predicts it will make landfall late sunday as a dangerous category 4 hurricane and could

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