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Talking tonight about president bidens tempt to get everyone on the same page in whats is vitel for their future and they would argue for americans. talking to commentators who have seen a lot of this in the west wing. so, the presidents visit to the capitol seemed to have help tamp down tensionz bs between the progressives and mod rtds. what do you make of how split the partys become and where it goes from here? >> i think he did a good job tamping this down. usually you dont deploy the big gun...

But that started to be -- to be fair that started long before doha. some commentators suggested that since 2014 the taliban have been surrounding provision capitals, insinuating themselves into the politics of the local communities, striking bargains. is that your impression, too, general mckenzie? >> sir, it is a good assessment from 2014 on the taliban did pursue that strategy and had some success. the government of afghanistan also had success holding onto to population centers but the taliba...

There are some commentators who suggest that since 2014 the taliban have been surrounding provincial capitals, insinuating themselves into the politics of the local communities, striking bargains. is that your impression, too, general mckenzie? >> sir, i think it is a good assessment from 2014 on the taliban pursued that strategy and had some success. the government of afghanistan had success holding on to centralized urban areas and population centers. but the taliban pursued a distinct strateg...

That started long before doha. there are some commentators who have suggested that since 2014, the taliban have been surrounding provincial capitals, insinuating themselves into the politics of the local communities, striking bargains. is that your impression, too, general mckenzie? >> i think it is a good assessment, from 2014 on, the taliban did pursue that strategy, and they had some success. and the government of afghanistan also had success, holding on to centralized urban areas and populat...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan which was our core original mission. and everyone who served in that war should be proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when the ambassador signed the doha agreement...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan, which was our core original mission. and everyone who has served in that war has been proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when ambassador calisade signed the agree...

Do that and its going to be difficult. and two things to bear in mind but they almost went into this and walked away. thousands shocking decision by its leader and took a lot of criticism for that. doesnt want to do that? will have to see. the second point is, theyre both singing openly today, hey, we should talk to because they know its the fourth largest party in the have a huge opportunity to shake the next government in germany. they have leverage over the two biggest parties, the centre—r...

But believe me, there will be some twists and turns and some thought this result will be in the end they dont. so the likely outcome is that they come together even with the social democrats or the cdu and most commentators think the social democratic route is the most likely but believe me, there will be some twists and turns and some thought this result will be a knockout blow for the cdu party come easily one point behind. the founder of wikilea ks the founder of wikileaks spent seven years h...

Recorded since tracking began in the 1960s. the number spiked in the summer of 2020 the fbi report says, and then remained elevated for the rest of the year. why? >> there was a pandemic, and then we had increased street protests in connection with, as a reaction to the death of george floyd at the hand of a minneapolis police officer and similar kinds of cases. >> reporter: another possible factor experts say, after incidents of police brutality like the george floyd murder, more police officer...

Ushering out the press, just whose in charge here? former abc executive shelley ross is accusing chris cuomo, then also with abc, of harassing her citing a single incident in 2005 where he greeted her at a bar. a new york times op-ed wrote an apology that cuomo sent her afterwards saying now that i think of it i am ashamed which is the right reaction and she doesnt want cuomo to lose his job at cnn, cuomo told the times as shelley acknowledges our interaction was not sexual in nature it happened...