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Something catastrophic has happened. but there are ways to get involved and volunteer and were really working with is that support. we have a number of volunteers helping to get meals out to people who need them and them a appreciate all the support that folks give. >> i wonder about what you said, it made me think when youre on the ground somewhere, obviously something catastrophic has happened. you dont necessarily want to see world central kitchen on the ground. what does it say about the abi...

Administrations. we see a white house increasingly on the defense. press secretary jen psaki said the president will thank the military for this enormous achievement but again lay out his thinking process for why he is withdrawing troops and his foreign policy view that he is making decisions that are in americas national security interest, america first, you might almost be able to call it. look for those remarks. of course to the point that mark and matt are making, the white house wants to tu...

Do you accept any of the criticisms of how this was done, or do you agree with president bidens essential argument that this was going to be ugly and messy no matter how we did it? >> withdrawals are always difficult. there is some substance to that argument. but i think we have to look back beyond the past couple weeks, as weve been fixated, as we should be, in and around the kabul airport. look, the siv program, to bring afghans who have worked alongside of us to safety and give them a new fre...

Of people who are questioning why this didnt happen faster and why this particular withdrawal was conducted the way that it was, leaving so many american partners just lost. >> i think thats going to be the hardest question for biden to have to justify is how we left this way, right, if we had been going through this process and a number of administrations have dealt with the challenge, how do we leave and whats the next chapter with afghanistan leaving the way we did where we have our closest a...

Like general patreus, mcmaster coming in and talking about it like theyre not part of the problem. this is a tragedy that went through four administrations. and, in fact, at least give president biden some credit for getting out. thats the other side of the argument youre making, right, that he made the best of what was a bad situation that developed over 20 years. >> i guess the question is did he make the best of a bad situation? im not sure. and im not sure that what david laid out is going t...

Many -- a lot of things in the field where you can argue this or that was a mistake, some of them are things where the mistake is not to learn from what youre doing rather than to condemn everything was a mistake. >> sometimes theres a broad brash, it was all wrong or all right. >> thats one of the issues that everybody is talking about almost universally wrongly, that we morphed into building a modern democracy. what you had is, we had three administrations in succession trying to find how do y...

In and made friends with the most corrupt people we could possibly find, as long as they were our people, we were willing to contribute to the corruption. we needed to get out and needed not to get bogged down in what we always do. it is a disservice to our military, i think the civilian leadership, not biden so much, i give biden credit for getting us out. it was an untenable situation. we put our military in terrible position because the political leadership of four administrations kept doing ...

Failure that goes _ your view? this is an institutional failure that goes back _ your view? this is an institutional failure that goes back decades i failure that goes back decades through four different administrations. united states military and cia suddenly dont recognise all the precautions they take, they still make mistakes in choice of targeting, choice of weapons, use of intelligence, and continuing to carry out air strikes. its going to get worse. they failed to do better. do its going ...

>> john? >> theres so much to those comments. i think whats most important is joe biden relates to the father who sent his son to the war and the buck stops with him. what weve seen, and listen, we opposed the surge into afghanistan. we have seen four administrations punt the football on this war and it takes a leader to end it, and it has been extraordinary to see the foreign policy class of people, and frankly retired military generals that dont want to own their failures and misleading of the...

What the taliban has said, but having made that point, it is worth noting that 120,000 people have been evacuated in the last two weeks and not a single one would have been safely evacuated, had it not been for the taliban allowing that to happen and in some cases indeeed facilitating it to happen. so they have kept their word in not attacking foreign forces and they have kept their word in allowing foreigners and those who work for foreign governments to leave the country. so thats a relatively...