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Blue jays are going to sweep past us next. >> now, joe, thats not quite how i remember it. i shared your pessimism about this red sox team. i should note im standing here so i can make a quick get away from willie before he starts taunting me further about the sweep yesterday, and the two games we saw yesterday encapsulated the flaws with the red sox team. in the first game, a bull pen melt down to cough up a lead, load the bases in a 7th. 7 inning game in double headers, punchless, they get not...

Pakistani prime minister saying that the shackles have been broken of slavery in afghanistan. but this is a dangerous bed fellow oig to have because thousand the taliban once harboring along the border are in control, they are running the government. and the pakistani taliban that could perhaps get ideas, they certainly have caused problems over the years. and there is no reason to say that they wont again. you have potential, you know, terror networks like al qaeda and isis which many experts s...

It has been publicly disclosed. it had significantly had c.i.a. presence on the ground dogging al qaeda from military bases there. they have huge dexterity in terms of what is happening with al qaeda in the country and what the potential is. so he had the advice. he just chose to ignore it. and make -- this comes down to the self-righteous stubbornness he has. he believes he is a foreign policy expert because he has dealt with foreign policy committee for years. many of us who have been associat...

This is the first question i asked secretary austin when he came before the house armed services committee two months ago. i said mr. secretary, why have you not begun the evacuation. all the scenes of total chaos we saw play out on the tv yesterday could have been avoided if the administration had planned for this in advance. i am shocked that theyre talking today about finding u.s. bases here in america to house the afghans. weve known for months, in fact weve known for years we need places to...

Bought for the afghan army which collapsed after the u.s. pulled out of the bases and left them without air support. the group called on civil servants to return to work and offered a nonpacific general amnesty, and called on women to join their new government, and the taliban said they will always be guided by strict sharia law, as advertisements showing women are now being painted over. >> somebody should help me -- >> a translator for the u.s. military is one of thousands in hiding this morni...

Of operations. this has unfolded faster than we expected. think carefully about what that means. they expected this kind of thing to happen eventually, just not as fast and refused to take the very sage advice from the pentagon and the cia, dont do it this way. the afghan military was supposedly 300,000 well-equipped, not so. they started losing troops with a withdrawal date. the taliban does not have the air force and neither does the afghan military. that air force has been grounded because th...

Evacuate about 5,000 people. we heard from pentagon press secretary john kirby this morning, he gave an update and explained theyre hoping to get even more out than that each day. heres what he had to say. >> just on the military craft alone, we believe we can get between 5 and 9,000 out per day. weather dependent, security dependent. thats just the military side. we want the civilian side of the airport to remain open as well so commercial flights can and are now able to get themselves in and o...

Taxied for takeoff. one u.s. military official told me, it was 100 times worse than the humiliaing american pullout from saigon. afghans are running from the taliban, now in full control. setting up checkpoints with the very weapons american taxpayers bought for the afghan army which collapsed instead of fighting after the u.s. pulled out of bases and left them without air support. and the u.s. didnt see this coming? we reported on the tremendous security vacuum after the u.s. pulled out of bagr...

But still the crowds didnt disperse. instead, they ran along and clung to the undercarriage of a military transport plane as it taxied for takeoff. one u.s. military official told me it was 100 times worse than the humiliating american pullout from saigon afghans are running from the taliban now in full control. today setting up checkpoints with the very weapons american taxpayers bought for the afghan army, which collapsed instead of fighting after the u.s. pulled out of bases and left them wit...

Behalf. ainsley: whats was your role in afghanistan. >> i led delivery station out of afghanistan. i had an organization under my control that provided aerial resupply to 45 remote combat outmosts and four operating bases. ainsley: what is your experience like? >> it was an honor to serve my nation in afghanistan. i think that some of us though as we watched this knew that the end had to happen. so many support the withdrawal of our forces from afghanistan. veterans and the broad american public...