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The international order and multilateralism and therefore we have seen the way in which the americans have acted, with hardly consulting the british government. that poses serious questions about how isolated we are now as a country, so certainly lessons have to be learned about the specifics of what has happened with this whole afghanistan tobacco, but i think bigger questions have to be asked about —— afghanistan debacle. but bigger questions about the future strategy for our country in th...

Based airfields in that part of the world. its between china and iran. helps us project power across central asia. as we look at the debacle over the past couple of weeks. as the wall street journal page said we gave away bagram for nothing. we left in the middle of the night. and it was like ten aircraft carriers sitting in the middle of the ocean for us to project power. it was a loss. how do we project power in that part of the world without it? >> it was an enormous loss. just look at a map....

So this moment sucks, because the whole entire thing sucks. people were making billions off the war. as pointed out by journalist matt taibbi, the special inspection general found 44% of 66 billion and expenses examined was lost to fraud and waste. if the cost of the whole war was too chilling, the whole amount lost may be 600 billion. select cake at a nursing home birthday bash, everybody got a piece. everybody except for the men and women who risked their lives there. nice try, maybe next time...

>> they are people who stood alongside of us, interpreters, transl translators, contractors, people who worked on the bases. there are some american citizens, journalists still there. this is a complete debacle. we supported getting out but not like this. it didnt have to go like this. and you will hear the messaging out of the white house, it is starting to sound like the bush administration of 2003, like the response after katrina. they dont understand that our inboxes are overflowing with fri...

President trump and secretary of state pompeo to provide aviation, logistics, medical support to americans if they get trapped abroad. why would a view of gotten rid of that program? and joe stood by and did nothing as the taliban made all of these rapid advances, all over the country in the past two months. they acted like it wasnt happening.thed in fact, an internal state department cable in july actually warned of kabul imminent collapse. joe did nothing. and now we are experiencing what is t...

Overall 69.3% of americans disapproved that includes 48.2% of democrats and 74% of independents. robert, and this is with most of them agreeing with the actual withdrawal of troops, but the way it was done and actually the media slightly telling the truth this time, the camera doesnt lie. it is that the difference here? >> it really is. part of it is theres been this understanding that people havent blamed him for every thing because they really didnt think he was in charge. we did another poll ...

She has the moderates on one side pushing in one direction, progressives on the other side pushing in another direction. she knows she cant count on any republican votes so she has a margin of three. and shes going to do what she has to do to push both of the packages through. shes let clear shes not letting one go through without the other. what she has to do to make it happen, were not sure yet. thats the test really for the whole biden administration at this point. one thing that president bi...

Waiting for the wave to blow by but also changing the subject. and is that what we saw this week? because biden didnt take one question -- when he talked about the vaccines, people were shouting questions about afghanistan, he flipped on his heels and left. >> yeah. you know that your afghan policy is really bad when you try to change the subject to the pandemic. thats a better topic for you than the debacle in afghanistan. the idea that -- i dont know -- he doesnt have good answers for any of t...

Like? we have the perfect guest. former-chief counterterrorism ad adviser on the national security council. richard clark. dick, its good to see you again tonight. judge what you are seeing in here. >> well, chris, its a debacle. and right now, lets just state the obvious. the people who decide how many americans get out and how many former employees of the united states get out. the people who decide that are the taliban. the general that you showed earlier said in his press conference today, w...

Against him in a bigger way than anything hes done so far has been. >> laura: john, i also have to believe that this refusal to take questions -- a pivotal time in american military history, really with this debacle in afghanistan, then running as he did twice this week away from reporters. they are shouting at him, not a question, and then sending out the two generals who just dont reassure anybody about anything. that whole confidence thing i think people hoped for for biden, thats out the win...