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Administration recognizing this is a debacle that will reverberate for many, many years to come not just in afghanistan but in relation to our adversaries around the world. theyre trying to put a happy face on and trying to spin it for domestic political purposes. most americans realize joe biden is responsible for the fiasco weve seen in the last three weeks in afghanistan. >> harris: there has been much talk about how to get the remaining americans and afghan citizens who helped our american m...

The taliban are not friendly people. weve been fighting them for 20 years. trying to kill them successfully i might say and then this debacle you watch unfold. we walked away from the battlefield and allies. more importantly we walked away from americans. even if there was just one american we should not have left them there. >> harris: do you trust the qatari government to help us out dealing with the taliban? theyre the closest to the taliban. i dont know what that means. will they really do t...

Congressman tiffany joins us tonight. congressman, thank you for coming on. thank you for seeing this yourself. tell us whatur you saw. >> so we have seen the debacle in ad began stan. it appearsrs the boyd en administration is doubling down bringing people unvetted into our country. i was at forton mccoy last friday. two thousand evacuees from afghanistan were there. we found none were there one a special immigration visa. they were all there on parole. for our listeners a special immigration v...

Services committee. congressman, thanks so much for being here. i want to start with this report. obviously were all skeptical of the taliban and skeptical of the idea that theyre any different than the nihilistic extremists that the u.s. has been fighting for two decades. but does the fact that they were willing to work with the u.s. to evacuate american citizens in such an organized way give you any moment of pause that maybe there is some hope? >> absolutely not. the president completely over...

Following breaking news. al-qaeda now praising the taliban for taking control of kabul and consolidating power over afghan stop after the u.s. withdrawal after a 20-year war. lets dig deeper with fareed zakaria. as you know, al-qaeda issued a statement praising the taliban victory in afghanistan saying in part, we congratulate you on this great victory against the crusader alliance, adding the afghan debacle marks the beginning of the end of western hegemony and military occupation of islamic la...

The same sorts of mistakes, that led to the vietnam debacle. we did not have a clear exit, we did not have sufficient force. we did not have a clearly defined mission. that was the lesson that general colin powell had drawn from vietnam. and we forgot about it. and the consequence was, the casualties you listed, and the lives of 800,000 americans who served alongside, being changed forever. some in the worst way possible. but all of them as lucas indicated, haunted by the experience. >> lets lis...

>> since you have been having me the last few weeks working with veteran activists [inaudible] to get afghans as well as american citizens out of the country. we have been able to evacuate several hundred. i think the real question is why is this falling to us? where was the formal government organization to get these individuals out of the country? and what i have observed was there was none. there wasnt a plan. and its been left to people to just pick up all of the slack and the result of the ...

Demanding lloyd austin and mark milley resign over the mess in afghanistan. in a letter, they argue austin and millie should have recommended against this dangerous withdrawal in the strongest possible terms. if they cannot do everything within their authority to stop the hasty withdrawal, they should resign. their must be accountability at all levels nor tragic and avoidable debacle. joining us right now is retired army ranger congressman brian mast who joins us from d.c. congressman, good morn...

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Equipment left in a terrorist organization. jen psaki said that he will end the war in afghanistan after 20 years including the tough decision he made over the last seven months as he took office to bring the war to a close. to your point, general, just how important is this moment to stop and take the american people aside and say, look, this is the detailed explanation. this is the intelligence i received on the ground. if thats how he came to the decision, this is how i made the decision to g...