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Campaigned and now as president that it was time to go. people have said do you think having 2,500 american troops would not be preferable to what were seeing now. is there any back room talk different from what we heard from the president yesterday? >> i talked to a number of allies and a number of tell me defended the presidents decision to leave afghanistan no one is defending the decision how were leaving afghanistan. this is without question the biggest foreign policy crisis of this preside...

President who preside over war in afghanistan. two democrats and two republicans. i will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth president. i will not mislead the american people by claiming that just a little more time in afghanistan will make all the difference. nor will i shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today and how we must move forward from here. i am president of the united states of america. and the buck stops with me. >> senior administration officials ive spok...

Blamed the afghan forces for more or less laying down their arms for part of it. they admit they were caught off guard and led to horrific imaging at the airport today with people falling to their death, trying to cling on to an airplane as it took off from the airstrip there. we dont expect a course correction here. the president was firm on that. he sent a few thousand troops there this weekend to help the with evacuations, to get u.s. personnel out, to get afghan citizens, translators in part...

Some of the cities like mazar-i-sharif in the north and kandahar in the south. those cities did hold out against the taliban offensive a little bit longer than others. what was really surprising to u.s. officials is places like jalalabad, kunduz, k atika, some historically strong holds where the afghan military was capable, there was a belief they would hold up and fight against the taliban. in many cases they laid down their weapons, walked away, the taliban walked into many location ands took ...

Safer area and they have not been able to land any planes since they started that effort. >> stay with me. lets go to jonathan. as of friday president biden was standing by his decision to brau. it was reinforced over the weekend. should we be expecting any kind of different tone this afternoon or more of the same? >> white house aides havent oftened an official preview of the remarks. but the sense that i have -- the aides i have been talking to suggest no. no course correction from strategy bu...

Have a child and were unvaccinated. he got sick, hes in icu right now. no co-morbidities, nothing to indicate it would worsen in that degree. someone perfectly healthy. children are also being hospitalized. the issue here is we need to get vaccinated. we need people to understand that the statistics prove 99% of the people vaccinated do not suffer serious consequences. and again, 90% of the people that are unvaccinated are the ones that are hospitalized right now. >> perhaps youve seen this, but...

Soon. we heard from the president a few days ago when he was asked if he had any regrets about his decision, he did not. he believed this a long time. officials that i talked to in the administration over the defense department say there isnt a plan right now for any sort of course correction. they are taken aback by how fast this is happening. they suspected the taliban would make advances but not that the military would collapse in p such rapid fashion and by the hour another territory or city...

>> raking in the last hour, in response to what has remained a totally chaotic border situation , the department of homeland security just released a statement that certain family units you are not subject to public health order on the us-mexico border will be placed in expedited. its an embarrassment, border patrol chief said brian hasting last year alone they apprehende more than 20,000 illegal migrants, joining us now is texas lieutenant governor dan patrick. dan, im going to believe it when ...

>> raking in the last hour laura: breaking in the last hour in response to a totally chaotic border situation the department of homeland security just released a statement that certain family units not subject to the health order will be placed in expedited removal settings, this is a reversal for the biden administration, rio grande sector border chief ryan hastings said the rio grande valley apprehended 20,000 illegal migrants. im going to believe it when i see it but at least rhetorically thi...

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