biden administration. so that exit from the country in august led to the deaths of these 13 u.s. service members and a terror attack at the abbey gate in kabul. it killed dozens of afghans. one american, a musician, watched what happened and couldn t stay quiet. john ondrasik joins me now. what do you hope can make a difference in this song now given the administration s inaction on a lot of this? i think afghanistan is different than the political talk of the day. afghanistan goes to our moral soul as a country and who we are. it s a question that has not been answered. we have a humanitarian crisis, a moral crisis. does america s word matter and
officers badly hurt in the assault or the mother of officer brian sicknick, who died shortly after. they spent the day imploring republican senators to support the bill. does it anger you, mrs. sicknick, to hear senators who do not support this? this is why i m here today. you know, usually, i stay in the background and i just couldn t. i couldn t stay quiet, anymore. this is why i m here, she said, to push for a commission. which seems clear enough. though, apparently, not to one of the senators she met with who seems to suggest ms. sicknick wasn t especially attached to a commission, at all. the commission was a part of the topic. but what they what they said they wanted, to to me, was more of understanding what happened with or without a commission. she also met with senator ron johnson who, as you know, not only opposes a commission but also routinely lies about the nature of the attack, and lies about the election and traffics in russian disinformation about
candidates that agree with trump, regardless of the issue. today, relatives of the officer who died after this attack, brian sicknick, went to the hill. trying to persuade republicans to back a search for the truth. it s been excruciating. you know? it was it was very hard to deal with the ambiguity of not knowing what happened to brian. we want to, you know, members of congress to ensure that it doesn t happen, again. brian had a work ethic like second to none. and he was just there for for our country. this is why i m here today. you know, usually, i m staying in the background and i just couldn t. i couldn t stay quiet, anymore. i am joined by emily is back with us. daniella. you know, i i hear the pain in that mother s voice. and the fact that mitch mcconnell won t allow this to go
cellmate has come forward. and he has said that bradford is very angry at you, and he is talking about making plans to murder you and your family. of course in lewin s line of work idle threats from resentful jailbirds were not exactly new. but this bill bradford guy caught his attention. he seemed as cold-blooded as they come. so lewin went to talk to the informant. normally, if somebody comes to you with a story like that, they want a little time off their sentence or something. they want something, absolutely. so not this guy? nothing. one of the first thing i asked is why are you coming forward? and he said, um, i hate the guy. i couldn t believe how he would talk about his wife and how he killed her. and he said, now he s talking about killing somebody else s family, and i just couldn t stay quiet. lewin polygraphed the