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Coming in killing americans. u.s. victory and texas as federal judge orders the biden administration to resume the trump-era remain in mexico policy. the man who first brought the lawsuit attorney general ken paxton on his pushback of the radical agenda. then despite mounting crisis across the world, the senate closes in on $6 trillion of new spending with no new money for u.s. defense as china rises and afghanistan burns. tennessee congresswoman marsha blackburn as china builds nuclear capabili...

Civilians and intelligence officers who worked in afghanistan, most of all i think to our afghan partners, those who worked alongside of us. so recent days have really been nothing short of just stunning. i think id add, though, that for those of us who have been watching this for a long time, we realized that this is a product the last few days are a product of years of steady erosion inside the afghan state. so while its surprising with its rapidity over the last several days, its not a comple...

This is part of systemic ideology that they want to pass on. i dont know why. i have a clue but that is the issue. rachel: so what do you think it is? >> when i was growing up in iran the system in the school system, they made, they made sure everybody was educated. they were they had a separate agenda for indoctrinating children. here they are making our kids dumber. when i came in here in 1993 as a 14-year-old, my math level was at a high school level. when i sat in 8th grade, i was at a senio...

The afghan troops despite having greater numbers and greater capability? why would they have a lack of heart? is it an inability for the united states to have trained them up properly in what it might mean to have such conflict? or is this just cultural afghanistan and you cant chain it, even in 20 years? >> by the way i am an admiral not an ambassador. >> im sorry. >> no worries. three things went wrong here. one is the taliban overperformed. they did a superb job orchestrating this. they playe...

Saying our hearts go out to the brave afghan men and women who are now at risk. the statement breaking days of public silence from the commander in chief, who has been consulting with his national-security team on the deteriorating security conditions from camp david. where the president held a video conference, saturday, with the vice president, pentagon chief, and secretary of state as republican combat veterans like joni ernst slam the administrations strategy. >> it is all on president biden...

That they have the capability to manage and the capability to respond, and will respond if fired upon with a high level of vigor. the taliban has not made direct contact with u.s. forces. the u.s. hopes it will stay that way. if it does, according to what general milley said, we are fully prepared to respond swiftly and strongly. we are prepared for the scenario. there were multiple scenarios. this was one of them. we have continued to monitor this and fully prepared to act strongly. he said it ...

Standing in the world. we look so weak and it is so embarrassing. youre right. china hosted the taliban in china saying they would call them a legitimate government. dont think for a minute now the chinese are not going to go into afghanistan, get the rare earth minerals, and put a base of operations in afghanistan. we have negotiated out of weakness here, and the taliban, im sorry, foreign adversaries are emboldened that being russia, china, iran. remember, we have no isr capability anymore. we...

Figure out how best to do that. right now, hes scheduled to stay at camp david through wednesday. >> right decision or wrong decision, it seems the american people might have a right to hear from the leader of the country about a project they have invested so much blood and treasure in. thank you so much, monica. we know the united states military has been working to evacuate americans and allies from the region, specifically from the u.s. embassy in kabul. lets go now to the pentagon, where n...

Beggars belief in the face of all that that the government has been so slow to respond. it is possible the prime minister has now agreed he will make moves to recall parliament, but what we need to hear now is an actual strategy from the government for what they are going to do in response to this. was there ever a strategy? _ to do in response to this. was there ever a strategy? a _ to do in response to this. was there ever a strategy? a lot _ to do in response to this. was there ever a strateg...

>> joining me to discuss, juliet kayyem, a cnn national security analyst and former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security and military analyst, retired general james "spider" marks. good to see both of you. general, you predicted this over recent months, that this potentially could happen. what went wrong here? u.s. intel or something else? >> its a combination, obviously. what we dont have on the ground in afghanistan anymore is a robust connection, a network of intelligenc...