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Usually get riled up like this, but the last week and a half when myself and about 1,000 volunteers, and these are u.s. military academy grads, these are groups of national security professionals who have been in democratic and republican administrations, usaid professionals, state department officials, advocacy and international government organizations, all banding together in these different networks online to literally track down anyone who needs to get out, help them get to the airport. i m...

Definitely been harm, thats kind of obvious. republicans will try to use this to win back control of congress and if they win back control of congress theyll use it to beat up the biden administration through hearings. thats an ongoing problem. i think we shouldnt be surprised that joe biden has said for years he thought we should be out of afghanistan, he said it repeatedly during the campaign, everybody else in the campaign including then president trump agreed by the way. i think the broader ...

Administration, but especially the last administration and, frankly, even president obamas and say, why was this afghan civ issue, special visas processed so slowly? ive been working on this since we ive been in congress, by the way. we could have been working on t that, people who had been waiting on just one piece of that. why did steven miller in the last administration slow it down? we would be able to slip in, raising the cap on special immigrant visas to get rid of t some of this backlog. ...

Afghanistan. sir, thanks for being here. i do -- we just spoke with the national security adviser, jake sullivan. i want to get your reaction to what we heard from him. do you think that things are getting better? >> well, i mean, i guess given where we are and the fact that we have the best military in the world that can execute anything, were better than we were, in a better place than we were a week ago. that doesnt mean were in a good spot. i think we have a responsibility to talk about what...

That biden basically carried out the trump withdrawal plan. both of them wanted out of this endless war. >> yeah. look, two administrations decided that being in afghanistan was not in the national security interest of the united states. big majorities of american voters wanted out after 20 years and billions, even trillions of dollars. and also, dont forget, joe biden wanted out of afghanistan before donald trump was elected president. he was skeptical of the surge under obama. he wanted out. t...

Were solely on joe biden. he doesnt seem commodity plealy there. will: coming up in seven minutes i have a interview with former cia station chief in southeast asia. he said it was not one administration failure. it is a decisions made over several administrations. pete: theyre saying. no one could have done this. this was bound to be a disaster. end it, leave, cut, go. that is only argument they will attempt to make. which would be disasterous. will: the other story of the day hurricane henri. ...

Failure of imagination would include this. it fell so quickly. what was eat vac situation plan? this is a failure of the government across multiple administrations. when you talk to some military members and theyve been trying to get their interpreters out for years, almost a decade or more. and the blame certainly rests on members of congress, all administrations for not getting this going. now its the biden administrations problem. well see how much they speed it up, if they can. >> one thing ...

Afghanistan. the secretary of said thats not completely true. he said we have no troops in syria. the pentagon said we have 900. theres been so many instances, especially considering when he said there were no problems with americans getting to the airport and weve seen image after image of people having trouble getting in, the pentagon had to send a helicopter to get americans out. howie: when your words are contradicted by the pictures everybody sees its not a good situation. a washington post...

Can rely on at this point. i do want to get into a secure facility, and i want to have the answers, and i want them to be honest answers of whats actually taking place on the ground. benjamin: congressman, weve got about 30 seconds left. what should happen if an american citizen is harmed by the taliban in kabul? >> what should happen is what i think i heard you suggest, and it was what i would want to hear which weve heard from previous administrations. you harm one american, you do one thing t...

U.s. military to get every american out, and all those who fought along our side. unless that president gives that order, we will leave thousands behind. if we do, president biden should be impeached for dereliction of duty. >> on that and for more we are joined again by two of our friends, don calloway, democratic strategist and bill kristol, water, veteran of the reagan and bush administrations. editor of the bulwark. >> don weve heard from the cheap seats. lets hear from you. do you think it ...