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Commander, and we dont need those bases anymore in europe, because that is the bases of the cold war, and wrong. those are the bases of the 21st century, and we have capacity in the system, and allies and partners and friends. when the qataris are pushed, they can move to others so we have options where there are allies as well. >> admiral james stavridis and dan ramoff and amra nazra, thank you. i want to start off with numbers of the number of people who served in afghanistan. and 2,321 is t...

Of more than 60,000 u.s. refugees by the end of the month. already, they felt built small cities on eight bases. those bases now hold 53,000 at-risk afghan. ft. bliss in texas was the first to grant media access. here, theres housing for more than 10,000 afghans. theyll get covid vaccines, medical screen welcome and the beginning of a new life. at joint base maguire diction lake hurst in new jersey, the afghans have broken up their vigil into counsels. the leaders of these counsels meet with bas...

Syria, iraq and east africa. those are countries with long coastlines where we can project power from the sea. afghanistan is a landlocked country surrounded by hostile states with a hindu curb mountains. terrorist need also in 15,000 foot hay stacks. we have no bases nearby to recover people. bush said $2 million missile to hit a camel in the butt. thats where we are now thanks to the biden administration decision. >> bill: what if china takes over bagram? a messy mix on the ground. marc thiess...

And our first chance and look at seeing how democrats and republicans will approach holding this administration accountable. if theyll do that at all. blinken is set to appear virtually in front of the house foreign affairs committee at 2:00 this afternoon. republicans and democrats are expected to fire off sharp questions at him over the role the state department played including that state email fox obtained showing the department denying approval for the chartered planes to land at department...

Discovered three confirmed cases of measles. another case was confirmed at ft. pickette in virginia, and a fifth in wisconsin. >> there are no 100% guarantees with any of this, but i am comfortable with the extreme vetting process that we were briefed on today. the multi-layered, the biometric, all the background checks. >> reporter: the discovery of the highly contagious disease prompted the military to pause the flights of afghan evacuees from europe to the united states for at least seven day...

What do you snow? >> reporter: thats right. these are military bases that are receiving afghans who fled when the taliban seized power of afghanistan. so they are receiving medical screenings as well as additional processing, and other services while on these bases. as the defense official put it, theyre turning into, quote, small cities. we already know that babies have been born on bases. just last friday, two babies were born at two separate bases. we also know about fort dix, one of the othe...

Its tougher when the taliban are in full control of afghanistan to be able to have good intelligence, its a big country. it was tough enough to do it when we were involved and working with the afghan government to be able to cover that country and determine where the threats were coming from. now its even more difficult with the taliban in charge. in addition to that, to do counter terrorism operations, if we have to do them from bases outside of afghanistan, whether its a carrier, whether its p...

Not impossible, but definitely difficult. eric: yeah, talk about those difficulties and the obstacles and the challenges of having that over the horizon capability the president touts. clearly though, some think thats not enough. >> i concur. in fact, not having boots on the ground, intelligence assets on the ground, you can only do so much from are remote stations. and without bases surrounding afghanistan, because afghanistans got pakistan, its got iran on one side, its even borders with china...

3.0 partnered with haqqani and the taliban except this time, when the next generation has to go back to deal with it, they will have no bases. we have given them away. no local allies. theyre being massacred by the taliban as we speak. well have to deal with an armys worth of american equipment that the taliban now has. it is just heart-breaking and infuriating. maria: so disturbing and michael mccaul, we want to show this video that i know came from your office. this is video of the taliban loo...

Buses together. its going to spread like wildfire. if president biden does not have the resources at the boarder and now at our military -- border and now at the military bases to be treating these people and making sure theres follow-up so theyre not spreading it to someone else, it makes no sense these policies that hes doing on americans and not parallelling them for the refugees and immigrants. [inaudible conversations] >> and pointing out -- [inaudible conversations] >> youre not supposed t...