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The pakistani military. number three, we desperately need a new strategy. i believe ambassador, the point man across multiple administrations who has told them the taliban have changed and interesting the peace i believe he should resign or be fired. and only once we have reestablished strength and stopped their momentum can we seriously talk about negotiations. otherwise the taliban are actually using that to bolster their own legitimacy. the worldds greatest super power begging them to not hit...

Right? theyre listening to political pronouncements whether or not we have previous administrations that propose a time line or say were leaving. from one on we never really established here is our end state. here is where were going to go. and so for 20 years the forces, whether or not it is colonel bashir, are you staying? the interpreters that worked with us. theyre making a calculated decision on a six month, nine month, or annual basis based on what advisor is coming into town and making pr...

More rapidly thn they thought. theyre saying diplomatically, well in, doja, were working with other countries to tell the taliban youre not going to gain respect from elsewhere. china and rush yashgs tehran, they were all welcomed taliban delegations in recent weeks, treating them like visiting dignitaries. theyre not worried about respect. theyre going to get the respect from the ground by their military advance. it was, you know, predictable but not predictable at this pace. and what im seeing...

People feeling like there is no, none, zero. he went on to say not comparable at all. there would be no circumstances that he could foresee where you would see people lifted off the roof of an embassy. here we go. what are we about to see? what happens next? >> this was across four administrations. not the first administration not wanting to withdraw from afghanistan. i dont think they would have engineered a humanitarian crisis on the path to withdrawal. the taliban are in the house and we need...

Be good actors. they were posturing they would come to the table and negotiate a peace settlement. they obviously havent done that. we have the opportunity to try to hold their feet to the fire on these issues by not recognizing their government, amongst other things. but we also have an obligation to the people of afghanistan, many of whom, as we have all been talking about, women and children. many of those women are some of the most powerful allies weve had in the 20 years in afghanistan who ...

I am sure is going to be very valuable testimony. like you, i wish he had come forward sooner. but you have to remember, this is a change of administrations. from the trump administration who treated the department of justice as its own personal political law firm to do its bidding under a.g. barr and others. so the transition to biden and merrick garland, it was merrick garland and his department of justice that just, i guess it was in the last month, freed people to testify, no cloud. so im go...

80s, bret. and my siblings and my brothers in law have spent far more time in afghanistan than anyone on this panel. and i was talking to my brother right before i came on, and i said what would you like me to say? and he said what do you expect? what do you expect after all of this? okay, a policy that was misbegotten in terms of the anticipation of trying to achieve things in afghanistan that may be unachievable. blood that cries out from the blood there, i think, in terms of wasted resources ...

To bring austin home >> words are easy. we are really measuring more by action, which is what we dont see and the only thing, lester, that we have asked since 2012, nine years, three administrations is direct diplomatic engagement with the syrian government. >> and what do you think the obstacle is to seeing that happen? >> well, right now what -- what we need president biden to do is to tell the national security council, tell the state department that austins freedom is a priority >> reporter:...

Afghanistan, their own security forces are still not able to defend their own territory. youve had consecutive administrations. you just played all those soundbites. two american presidents wanted out. two american administrations decided that having american troops in afghanistan was not in the national security interest of the united states, and the american people are, first of all, tired of it they dont want american troops there they also dont understand what were doing there. >> bret: yeah...

Immigration reform. there are some promising signs. not only the fact we got bipartisan infrastructure done. i have seen some promising signs from congress they are looking at taking this on. i like to see them both at a local level and at the federal level come together and look at the problem and then provide solutions. the truth its not just the biden administrations that ha had this problem. if we blame it on rhetoric its as bad we have people saying biden has open borders when he does not. ...