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Analyst, retired army colonel, and a medal of honor recipient. and colonel jack, there are few people with whom i would want to talk about something like this more than you given the dignified nature of this and you being a medal of honor recipient. you know well about the protocol and about the extraordinary way that the military handles things like this. we are proud as americans to see these soldiers and at the same time we are heartbroken. give me a sense, sir, of the symbolism of this proce...

Combat veteran jason crow. sir, thank you very much for your time tonight. i know there are a lot of demands on your time right now. i appreciate you spending some of it with us. >> thanks, rachel. joining us now is retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs. he is recipient of the medal of honor for his service during the vietnam war. colonel jack, i really appreciate you making time today. i know you have been very busy trying to make sense of this, reporting what you know from the ground and hel...

Yesterday was quite possibly the worst day of the biden presidency, amid one of the worst weeks of the biden presidency. not only were the 13 service members and dozens of afghans killed on his watch, you have spiking cases of covid-19, and a confluence of problems for the biden presidency. the concern is that all of this undermines president bidens push to really be seen as in control of the crises, all of these crises effecting the country and the world at this point. that said, president bide...

Named marcus yam, mr. yemens of foreign correspondent hes an award winning photojournalist working for the los angeles times. hes joining us live from kabul. mr. yam plans to remain their reporting on the situation in the country. just yesterday he was at the site of todays bombing outside the gate of the kabul airport. marcus yang thank you so much for taking pence to be with us tonight, i know this is not an easy time difference, or indeed an easy time. >> thank you for having me on the show. ...

Applicants and their family si members. im of the belief that we can get that done probably in a matter of weeks substantially. i dont think theres a path to. get that done between now and t the end of the month and thatsn why ive said we have to make ai sure that were focusing on the mission and the actual numbers, as opposed to a date on the calendar. but im not talking about a mission that goes in perpetuity or even months.at i think we can do this in a couple of weeks but we certainly have t...

Supposed to be her in front of the capitol. and you see, underneath her chin, theres that drop of blood. um, there is several versions of that flag. some with tag lines like the word vengeance written on them. meaning, vengeance for her. note, also, in this one the star of david on the capitol there, presumably to suggest that the government is controlled by a jewish conspiracy and so we need, you know, vengeance on the jews or whatever. that far-right and, indeed, white supremacist attempt to t...

Terrorists, or are in the chain of command of terrorists organizations. so we have been listening. second, we received credible information from afghans we know who passed this information to us. and then further confirm by conversations with our allies whose afghan friends confirm what we have already heard, and what we learn from our afghan friends. and that is why the administration, the military establishment, was so certain that something like this was going to happen. and they predicted it...

Forward. they insist their priority now is ending the mission, getting all americans out safely and doing it as fast as possible. >> as we are watching flights take off and seeing the activity at the airport there, colonel jack, the president said he didnt think it was a mistake for the u.s. to depend on the taliban for security for the airport perimeter. republicans have been jumping all over that, criticizing the president saying he trusted the taliban with sensitive information. whats your ta...

Three ways that this confirmed itself. one is that were constantly listening to phone conversations of the targeted people. people who might be -- turn out to be terrorists or we know are terrorists, are in the chain of command of terrorist organizations. but particularly, this one. so we ever been listening to what theyve been talking about to each other. second, we received credibility information from afghans we know who passed this information to us. and then, further confirm by conversation...

>> marcus yam, foreign correspondent, live in kabul tonight. while weve been talking weve been able to show some of your recent works, some of your photos including the aftermath of some of these incredibly bloody attacks. take care, stay safe, i know youre planning on staying there as long as you can. thank you for your work. thank you for joining us tonight. >> i appreciate it. thank you. >> all right. as weve been talking about the group that claimed responsibility for todays attack, isis-k, ...