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Resettlement. thats what people dont need when we have an open porous border and thousands coming across every day we need every capability including every man and woman from border patrol, boots on the ground, not processing is 60% are doing but they need to help stop the flow and when weve taken away, i really mean president biden through executive order, weve taken force multiplier away, weve taken away their ability to turn people around, they are fighting tooth and nail to reinstate mpps, m...

We retain a robust counter terrorism capability. we are going to be able to, we must, continue to maintain that capability with regards to any resurgence of al-qaeda or isis on the ground. it is concerning that the air base was abandoned and that that military prison has now been opened by the taliban. and i am concerned about developments on the ground in afghanistan in terms of our security. that is the sort of issue that we in the foreign relations committee, the armed services committee will...

I have argued for many years that our mission should be focused on counterterrorism, not counterinsurgency or nation—building. that is why i opposed the surge when i was proposed in 2009 when i was vice president. and that is why as president i am adamant we focus on the threats we face today in 2021, not yesterdays threats. today the pentagon told us they have now the capability to move up to 9,000 people a day out of kabul and, as they secure the hamid karzai airport, they hope some commerci...

A new and bespoke resettlement scheme for afghans who are in most need. there is talk about this new plan coming soon. irate need. there is talk about this new plan coming soon.— need. there is talk about this new plan coming soon. we would certainly welcome that. — plan coming soon. we would certainly welcome that, we _ plan coming soon. we would certainly welcome that, we need _ plan coming soon. we would certainly welcome that, we need to _ plan coming soon. we would certainly welcome tha...

This and the pundits are wrong. >> whats the most important thing to do next? >> to ensure that we have the capability to continue collecting information that identifies people who want to attack a city in america. the question is, can we keep an american family safe. it is not can we ensure that a capital, kabul, halfway around the world is safe. its going to be a humanitarian disaster. if were supposed to be responsible for every humanitarian disaster, we should move into yemen, we should move...

You have the capability to get them out of the airport. >> right now the airport is open and people are able to get through the gates there. theres a processing process that actually has to occur. right now things are moving out of the airport and again, our focus is on making sure that continues. >> president biden said yesterday as we carry out this departure, weve made it clear to the taliban if they attack our personnel or disrupt our operation, the u.s. presence will be swift and the respon...

North vietnamese army. they are not remotely comparable in terms of capability. there is no circumstance where you see people lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all comparable. >> tucker: brit hume is our senior political analyst, we are happy to have him here, thank you so much for coming on tonight. so how do you assess the politics of this for the administration? >> i think this is a stain, unmistakable the viewpoints across the board of this...

>> the likelihood there is going to be the taliban over running everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. >> that was only six weeks ago. thats how fast afghanistan fell. and it was only six weeks ago the president was insisting that this would be nothing like the fall of saigon. >> the taliban is not the north vietnamese army. theyre not remotely comparable in terms of capability. there is going to be in circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy ...

In when the pentagon answered, you know, what they said about the plan to get those things back, there is no plan. there is no capability to do that. they are not going to go up and say hey, listen, do you have the title for this humvee? do you have the title for this? did you register this weapon? thats not going to happen. its in the hands of the taliban. they are much better equipped for the duration forever. thats just the simple fact now. steve: you know, congressman, sometimes when the end...

Regional counter terrorism campaign. lets remember the most important raid of the entire post 9/11 period, the one that got bin laden in the few months i was commander in afghanistan was under the c.i.a., that that raid was conducted from afghan soil into pakistan where their military academy is and back to afghan soil. a number of operations were carried out over the years that employed that capability that was there. we dont not only have bases in afghanistan, we dont have them in pakistan or ...