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Lay-up. what are you hearing? >> its not a lay-up. were hearing already about vicious killings where if the taliban find if you have anything on your cell phone to see that if you been in touch with americans and calling the phone numbers and executing people as they try to get to safety. so those guarantees from the taliban probably not worth the paper theyre written on. most of them are not written on paper because the taliban are illiterate for the most part. this is an impossible situation. ...

Are we less safe after this mission? >> i think the world is a more dangerous place because having a terrorist organization take over a nation state which we have seen right before our eyes just emboldens the whole jihadist movement around the world and increase their recruiting and financing. much as isis when they burst onto the scene in 2014 and invaded iraq. the same kind of behavior happened. it emboldened terrorists around the world. because the united states regrettably has displayed so m...

Laura: our heart breaks for everybody wants to get out of and often corrupt regime. everyone in china who wants to get out, everyone clear -- name the country, we are now looking for speakers in bases in the middle east because we cant communicate with the translators we have but everyone in the united states is thinking everyone coming out of the translator -- >> if we evacuated translators and again translators to translate people we evacuated, bottom line we are looking at long-term over the ...

Cities collapsing. but then joe cities collapsing. but thenjoe biden, right until the first week of august, was telling us that the afghan army could probably resist the taliban. was there an optimism bias on both sides of the pond? i think there was this alignment, with those hopeful projections, of a change in the talibans day and the ability of the military forces come up ability of the military forces come up on the metrics the technology they had and compares them to the taliban, but those ...

It has been an enormous achievement, not just by the u.s. military, but also by the militaries of our allies and partners. and, of course, by our teammates at the state department. now the war is over and were entering a new chapter. one in which our diplomats and our inner agency partners take the lead. were part of an urgent team effort to move afghan evacuees out of temporary housing in intermediate staging bases in the gulf and in europe and on to begin new lives. and ill be traveling to the...

Military mission, even though there are flights coming out of kabul, there are afghans all over the world sitting in military bases trying to go to united states or partner countries, and so there is quite a big job for the military to do. i would like to add to that hearing milley and austin today with the personal, you know, expressions, i think it is very important for the veterans to hear, but also for the current active force to hear inside of the pentagon to hear, because it is a tough cou...

Rotten corporate regime, everyone in china, everyone in africa, everyone here, our heart. >> syria, libya. >> laura: i mean, name the country. but were now looking for speakers apparently in our bases in the middle east because we cant communicate with these few translators we have but everyone, i think in the united states is thinking everyone coming out is a translator or did something. >> right, clearly if we had evacuated translators we wouldnt have to send in translators to translate for th...

Ghani to be more stern and confident? >> secretary psaki: the president has consistently conveyed -- i just noted an example publicly, but the afghan leadership at the time needed to do exactly that. lead. come together in a cohesive manner, be united. show the afghan people they were going to fight and lead through this transition even as u.s. forces left. thats entirely consistent with what he said publicly throughout. >> reporter: one question on afghanistan and on covid as well. two colleagu...

Meyers comments. the boston red sox in the mist of a team wide covid outbreak have another player test positive, short stop xander bogaerts was pulled off the field in the second inning against the rays last night. manager alex cora says the team didnt receive word of his positive test until after the game had already started. bogaerts is the sixth player and eighth member of the team to test positive since friday. not only is the angels superstar the major league home runner he is also fast...

And lifting 12,500 souls to freedom. it has been an enormous achievement not just by the u.s. military but also by the militaries of our allies and partners. and of course by our teammates at the state department. now the war is over and we are entering a new chapter, one where our diplomats into interagency partners take the lead. we are part of an urgent team effort to move afghan evacuees out of temporary housing in intermediate staging bases in the gulf and in europe and on to begin new live...