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None of the time in the national media or even in our national political conversations, in either party has been devoted to the americans who were suffering because of this, which is all 340 million of us, but its particularly the americans who live in south texas, towns like uvalde. the mayor of uvalde, texas join us with an update for how things are going. how are things going? >> thank you for having me. its pretty much a clown show. i mean, its the all of the check points are closed, from we...

Citizen, theyre going to continue to come. weve seen that time and time again. we have to have the proper discussion. if we have that discussion, we can fix this problem. but until we fix this problem, were going to continue to see things like this. were going to continue to put pressure on texas resources. were going to continue to rob peter to pay paul. were going to shift border patrol resources from already areas that are trouble, like tucson. were going to send them here. were going to shif...

Degraded significantly including the ability to plan and conduct external operations. after 20 years, 2461 american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, $2 trillion spent, it was time to end americas longest war. when president biden took office in january, he inherited an agreement that his predecessor reached with the taliban to remove all remaining u.s. forces from afghanistan by may 1st of this year. as part of that agreement, previous administration pressed the afghan government to release 5,000 ta...

Al-qaedas capabilities were degraded significantly, including its ability to plan external operations. after 20 years, 461 american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, $2 trillion spent, it was time to end americas longest war. president biden took office in january, he inherited an agreement his predecessor had reached with the taliban to remove all forces in afghanistan by may 1st this year. as part of that, the administration pressed the taliban to release some top war commanders. reduced our presen...

Very tight. guards posted up on different corners. different check points. you can see some of the memorials here in the reflection pools still here today. new yorkers will also see that tribute in light. that enormously remarkable spectacle, the two beams of light shining in the sky for miles to see. those are expected to come at sunset later today. boris, christi. >> laura jarrett, we thank you so much. cnns darryl borgis is live in pennsylvania. when you look at the time line of things. the...

Taliban checkpoints. he said it was their group that did the vast majority of this work. it was only at the last moment that the state department swooped in, tried to work with the taliban to get this family through. failed, he says, but once they gotta cross the border into a third country they are not naming for security reasons, then the u.s. embassy there finally provided consular services. we heard a little more about this from congressman mullen on "new day" earlier today. lets take a list...

Miriam, not we personally, not me me personally, i was in the united states, over 300 miles from kabul. im going to leave where we brought her across out of it because we hopefully will get more people through. we had her there for 24 hours before the state department realized she was there. they showed up a few hours after she got across. for them to say they facilitated, thats a lie. we had to go through 20 check points. each check point, you have to pay money to get through. on the day that s...

Credit cards, and as i said, you got to go through 20 check points, over 20 check points before you could get to the area were at, and at each one of the check points, they will charge 500 to 4,000 per person. they dont take credit cards, they only take cash. if were going to get people out, we have to continue to fund the operation, and you can only do that through cash. and cnn, you guys have been there before. you guys understand how this works. you know that you have to have cash on you to o...

Briefing saying theyre blocking flights and holding they can hostage to gain international recognition. if true, this is a big problem because the taliban has promised to allow these people to leave freely from afghanistan, and in fact since they took over the country a couple weeks ago, they sought to reassure the world they wont go back to the brutal world they imposed over afghanistan in the 1990s. then there are other reports like you said that it is the state department thats not allowing, ...

And the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> now, the white house disputes the term hostage. but they also say they cant be certain about the situation on the ground, because one of the prices of an american withdrawal is the lack of intelligence resources. situations like this are going to happen. >> right. look, the term hostage is a fraught term in a situation like this when it could mean a focussed life or death situation. this illustrates the lack of control we have over the situ...