NBC Evening News for Wednesday, May 06, 2009
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(Studio: Richard Engel) President Obama’s summit at the White House with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari reviewed; details given of the tension between Karzai and Zardari and what the US wants from both countries; scenes shown from an Afghan village where civilians were killed, possibly in a US air strike. [OBAMA – states the common goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda and its extremist allies.] [KARZAI, ZARDARI – talk about working together.] [Secretary of State Hillary CLINTON – expresses sympathy for the civilian deaths; praises Pakistan for its recent action against the Taliban.]
(Studio: Brian Williams; White House: Chuck Todd; State Department: Andrea Mitchell) The administration’s focus on this crisis, the issue of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and the question of whether Afghanistan and Pakistan will cooperate with each other discussed.
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