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Warnings. do you believe that? >> i mean, i dont want to believe it. how could it be that he did not have access to that analysis? the job of the senior officials in that administration is to make sure the president gets best advice, best analysis, multiple options, and clearly that didnt happen. and anybody who had been in afghanistan, jim, knew this catastrophe was happening, because we set the conditions for it. we delivered psychological blow after psychological blow to the afghans, across t...

Evacuations that need to occur and they have been a stymying slow force at every turn and it all flows down from the fact that at the top, in the oval office with the president, there is no sense of urgency, there is no sense ever compassion or concern for those that were left behind and until that changes, were going to continue to see the delayed drawn out and frankly deadly process that weve seen so far. >> i wonder if you agree with him? >> well, peter is a friend of mine and hes a fellow me...

Messages to give up and surrender to paybeijing becausee united states will abandon them to. >> thanks. let me see if i can address all those questions. the regard to phone call and im not going to comment on leaked, purportedly leaked transcripts of phone calls. what the president said in that conversation is exactly what he was saying in public, and its this. the issue is not the capacity at that point of the afghan government and the aftghan security forces the hold the country. it was their ...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. were working on that every day. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classifi...

Charge. and i think that leaves, clearly, a huge number of questions, not least for the women, the girls, the children, our journalists and any other member of the aftghan nation tht actually put their faith in the u.s. and international effort to bring them an end to the war with peace and universal rights. >> given how much time youve spent in afghanistan, time and time again, and saw what the taliban meant for women and girls there, i want to ask you about what it means now, because the -- as...

Its -- its going to be sustained. and, you know, our troops may be leaving but support for afghanistan is not ending. >> in moments of great transition, things happen. but you will see that with determination, with unity, and with the partnership, we will overcome all else. >> u.s. and afghan presidents giving their assessment of what lies ahead, once the u.s.-troop withdrawal is completed. now, the leaders met in washington friday, as the september-11th deadline draws near. already, taliban for...

On personal diplomacy with kim jong-un. he was more hawkish and realistic about that than the president of the united states. and that pompeo manageded to sort of square the circle, if you will, and figure out a way to stay within the presidents objectives. >> carol, take us through the tick-tock of what youre learning. >> one of the things we know is that the president was really upset to andreas point about the vice president and bolton and the tension that is may have been there. the presiden...

Taliban to speak to the aftghan government and come to a solution. >> and what the prime minister said is a very big story and its 100% true. weve made a lot of progress over the last couple of weeks and pakistan has helped us with that progress. but a lot of great things are happening. a lot of things are happening for the united states and i think a lot of great things are going to be happening for pakistan too under your leadership. i really feel that. >> how about iran, are we closer to nego...

were there any warnings that came in for these storms? >> a good 15, 20 minutes flfsz a tornado warning on this. thats an image of the radar at the time the storm blew through and we see a little bit of a bowing feature, is what we call it thats indicative of these strong winds, there was also a lot of hail in the area, around golf ball-sized and baseball sized. western and northern parts of st. louis under a severe thunderstorm warning. round two is moving on through. >> were going to...

>> that was president obama wednesday in a joint press conference with british prime minister david cameron, as the election season lights up. hoping to limit americas involvement in any international conflict. can the president keep them at bay until after november? were with daniel henninger and memorial board member matt comiskey. lets talk about the aftghan prime minister karzai saying he wants out. and the united states seeking for quite a while now. how much trouble is the strategy in? >> ...