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Since august 1e6789 i see those at the pentagon and the department of state, many will remain nameless over the years. they worked and were heroic. they got 122,000 vulnerable afghans and americans out of the country when they had to fight their way back in basically. the airport scenes. the 12th airborne secured that airport in 2 hours. other than the tragic suicide bombing it was a unbelievable effort. you had military planes landing every 45 minutes lifting people off to safety. is it heartbr...

Afghannive holders, friends of america, vulnerable afghans and american citizens through? they kept the gates open and through heroic efforts they still managed to get several thousand more people out. but you can imagine every time you open that gate and had you to send a marine to pat down a woman wearing traditional dress. you dont know if there is a sue so wide bomb under there. so these commanders had to take a very difficult decision. they met with the president this morning at 0:00. and i...

Talked about the ways of operating with the u.s. military here. do you see a role for the u.s. military to have open conservations with the taliban and potential coordination going forward and in particular with this growing and now accentuated threat from isis. >> my dealing with the taliban and my dealing with the commanders on the ground revolved around our determination to execute this operation. a flat statement that said if you challenge us, were going to hurt you. they recognized that. fo...

U.s. flight left. >> on the taliban, youve talked about their pragmatic ways of operating with the u.s. military. do you see a role for the u.s. military to have open conversations with the taliban, even potential coordination going forward? and particularly with this growing and now accentuated threat from isis? >> well, ill tell you, my dealing with the taliban and the dealings of my commanders on the ground with the taliban revolved around our determination to execute this operation and the v...

There could be cases where commanders on the ground coordinating with check points were saying here is individuals we need to get through. in any case that were aware of, those individuals got through. again, these are -- this is coordination thats happening on the ground. i think we can all agree theres a big difference between providing a list of people who want to depart proactively and working at the moment, on the ground, in a coordinated way to get people out and save their lives. >> thats...

Commanders on the ground remain in communication with taliban leaders around the airfield to -- [ no audio ] >> over the weekend on the car bomb and the suspects and the u.s. said that initially, the initial assessment was there were no civilian casualties. on what basis does the u.s. make that statement. >> were asession and we have no indications at this time of civilian casualties. if i remember the statement exactly. and that was true when it was said. we also put in there or the cent come p...

This is really its hard to describe this right now. you feel reading something like this. i have picked up 8 green cards and four blue passport -- american citizens now as they have been completely abandoned after multiple attempts to get in to the kabul airport and promises of passage to. i have a 2-year-old american with lupus. i have a 12-year-old american with diabetes. i have an 8-year-old green card with asthma. abandoned by their government but not by us. what these groups are doing now i...

Service member was gone. because it was the president back in april after he had made his decision after he got was what aides later described as not a sugar coated option. it was president biden who announced it here from the white house that that was the method they were going to be pursuing, and that was the decision he had made. but he left it up to one of his top military commanders to announce this who of course has been overseeing this entire evacuation mission over the last several days,...

Afghanistan. were told that 250 u.s. citizens still are on the ground. they are hoping to leave, along with thousands of afghan friends of the united states as the taliban tightens their grip on the country thats under threat by isis-k terrorists at the same time. lets start our coverage as we await the secretary of state. our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is joining us right now. phil, just moments ago, president biden put out a written statement on the end of this war. >> rep...

0 helicopter with the state police to get him on the island and as long as there is communication, we will communicate with him to see what is going on there, the but it is hard to have no word from the island and the people on it. in lafitte, the water is very high, and from the louisiana national guard and others are there doing the search and rescue. they are having to get the boats in and out, and we are sheltering the people at the park playground, and then the state is going to coordinate ...