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The united states has not signed the treaty that created the international criminal tribunal that was set up in the late 90s to try war crimes. nor has russia. and that weakens the court. and ukraine should be an opportunity for the biden administration to sign that treaty and strengthen the system from prosecuting war crimes. >> ambassador, i have about a minute left. your final thoughts? >> well, i think thats right. that we should be a member of the international criminal court. but the real ...

Having managed to stiffly resist -- to resist russia. but i would add, the more they resist, the more you see a case of two wars, there is the war on the ground which is, as josh mentioned, being fought to a standstill almost with the russian military not gaining momentum. but the war in the sky is a different story, although the pentagon also assessed that there was a lot of the ukrainian air defenses are still up and running, and theyre still managing to take russian -- make strikes on russian...

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Can there be that the taliban will actually do whats needed to avoid another incident like we saw in thursdays bombing? >> well, at the highest levels of the taliban you can expect some cooperation, more than a modicum. i mean, as the administration has said you cant really trust the taliban. the problem with the taliban is that its not the well oiled, well controlled, discipline machine we think it is. no organization is. and so the people at the top of the taliban food chain can tell us what t...

When. now youre trying to do the same for him and his family. tell us whats happening with them. >> they are out of afghanistan. they were lucky enough to get in the airport, and the sad truth is that many other colleagues of mine, other journalists are still trying to get their friends and family out. this morning the update is even american citizens are struggling to get into the airport. people are desperate afghans who back the united states, theres an estimated 300,000 afghans who backed th...

The evacuation, unless youre an american citizen, and again i just heard from someone that even american citizens cant get through the gates anymore, but the evacuation is essentially over. >> all right, gentlemen, we will leave it there. colonel jack jacobs, david rhode, thank you both. tomorrow marks 16 years to the day since hurricane katrina made landfall. that devastation is sered into the memories of many people who lived there. i traveled there in the days after katrina. i remember how ...

Room and get briefed there from pentagon officials. the fact that the pentagon briefing is moving from 10:30, as it was previously scheduled, to much later in the day, gives us some sense that, yes, they are gathering information in real time and making decisions accordingly, garrett. >> im joined now by david rhode, executive editor for the new yorker.com and msnbc contributor. he was kidnapped by the taliban in 2008 and held for seven months in pakistan. he has rare expertise on all of these i...

But this shows how complicated a challenge we face. >> yeah. i think even if the president walked out of this meeting and decided he wanted to be out an hour ago, i dont know how they could possibly get the thousands of american troops, equipment, civilians that theyre still trying to move out of there in a hurry. can you speak to, david, the challenges that you have the 82nd airborne, the turks, the taliban all trying to work together to secure an international airport with multiple gates in a ...

0 there in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. lets toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? >> chris jansing, thank you. im garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. youre looking at live pictures of the airport. its 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are hudd...

Salute the soldiers that are there. but we should welcome these -- we will vet them, theyre going to military bases, but there are thousands and thousands of families like tahirs that are dying to come to the united states. we have to keep the gates open, we have to keep u.s. troops at the airport, and we have to bring them to u.s. bases and then vet them, and i hope eventually bring them here. >> david, i want to thank you for talking about all of this. im so gratified to hear the good news. fo...