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Airport, taliban around the airport, this is a double lemming for them. it puts them on the map. this spectacular attack today rejuvenates the ranks of the time when isis hasnt had much to subvert over the last few years. so one of the things we should be looking for in the coming weeks and months is this will -- well this reignite the jihadist movement around the world? >> thank you for that explanation. jim, as you, know lots of talk about that garden spot of the high desert bob maher airbase....

Responsible for benghazi, responsible for the rise of isis, that were responsible for the bird-dog trade, have now created this mess, and biden was there, too, and heres where we are. now he has is any position, because he pulled out too fast, too soon, let the afghan army collapse, took no action when it was happening, shut down our main airbase, now we have this false choice of either stay and continue to suffer attacks in an indefensible position in kabul airport, or go and leave americans be...

Taliban and many of these terrorist organizations one way or another. they certainly have not cracked down on them in pakistan itself and of course those are groups that dont work with the pakistani government but the ones that have been working and creating problems for afghanistan are now in control and pakistan has a nuclear weapons enterprise which could be at risk if were not careful. >> stand by. a live event as we are hearing chatter in washington of the presidents reaction -- >> whats in...

Military said bagram airbase is not much of an asset. a lot of questions on the decision to leave that airbase. do you think it proves to be a fatal flaw in everything weve seen happen? >> it is the fatal flaw in this operation. i served 13 months in bagram, two runways, you can see miles from guard towers, russian minefields around it, a fortified point of injury, it is impenetrable to the types of attacks that happened at kabul airports, it is like somalia surrounded by tenements, and the stan...

They expect to be at capacity here on this airbase so it is clear that we are into the final push to get people out. there are nowjust a handful of days before all us troops are scheduled to withdraw from afghanistan. we scheduled to withdraw from afghanistan.— scheduled to withdraw from afihanistan. ~ ~ ., ., afghanistan. we know the task on the ground _ afghanistan. we know the task on the ground is _ afghanistan. we know the task on the ground is daunting. - afghanistan. we know the task. o...

Basis all of the way to the united states in the coming days and weeks. on that topic here is a week update on the military installations in our safe havens and staging bases that are helping transition all of these flights. locations including an airbase that steadily receive process and transfer to passengers in europe and in the united states. today they will receive about 19 flights and proximately 5,000 passengers in germany, italy, and spain. in turn, six flights will transport about 3300 ...

Behind. families have separated. more than a dozen children are here alone. some arrivals are treated for gunshot wounds, still fresh from their struggle to get out of the country. but the us commander running the space urges people not to lose sight of their gains.— of their gains. this is about humanity. _ of their gains. this is about humanity, and _ of their gains. this is about humanity, and there - of their gains. this is about humanity, and there are i of their gains. this is about. hum...

Where it was founded and he spent most of his time controlling in the 90s and 2008 is based symbolically important place. thats why we went down there to see how it was going and how the forces were instructed. we were expecting it to last a couple of weeks at least and he got caught their because it lasted just a few days. by the time we were on the front lines we saw how weak these fronts were and it was clear that soon this would be over and just in the next 2a hours after we fled from kandah...

U.s. is a wiware of. the question is siv applicants. it is hard for them to get on. there are pictures of buses circulating around the airport. these are people who thought they had a deal with the taliban to get through. it may not have been shared with the u.s. to let them onto the base. many scared, disappointed souls. but were hearing also, too, from australia, italy, turkey, possibly the british, too, their presence is coming to an end, the british beginning later today. the allies are depa...

Airbase? its hard for me to believe that. >> it is for me, but i found that astounding. we had a lot of misrepresentation here by the president over the last week or so. im not sure where that falls into it frankly. this much i do know. weve got to really come to grips with how much of a problem the arbitrary date of august 31st really constance. when that date was established, it denied us the opportunity to provide air support and intelligence to the afghan security forces in the taliban start...