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Is. >> im worried they wont revisit. the back channel discussions with d.o.d. white house, state, dhs officials they are defensive and bureaucratic and i wonder if that i remember why they entered public service. they make the mistakes and then being told the information you have is wrong. look at what david described as something we saw over and over again last night. the problem is the pentagons not acknowledging basic problems such as the taliban are continuing along with the curfew that was ...

Streets. they were pushed and tortured by the taliban that they sold their country, thats why they are going to work for infidels in the united states, and they are united states puppets. >> but they got to the airport, which obviously is the good news. and im told youre personally helping some people who were able to get on flights yesterday. tell us about that. >> yes. i have helped with this family probably ten people now that ive been in contact with my friends from washington, d.c., some fr...

White rage millie, secretary crt austin should have been terminated. they are being outmaneuvered everywhere in the world and it shows. democrats and republicans on the hill should all be demanding that biden clean house and bring in better people to get this under control. we cant take these three much longer, can take three weeks of this much less 3 more years and that is the angle. as biden and many leftists rush to blame trump we are bringing you the inside story of what trump had planned fo...

The time line and accelerate that timeline, as well? thats my job. my job is to ask those questions and to get those answers and also to make sure that im supporting as your piece before us, supporting those thousands of men and women who went before and served our nation and made sure that there was a purpose to that service. >> how do you explain the fact that they were not prepared for evacuation in an organized way? >> im having a hard time explaining that to myself. im doing as much reading...

We never won it thats the problem, brian, having been there. there wasnt anything to win. after we went and killed them. we could have a small footprint to do that but, frankly, after the navy seals killed bin laden, that was about -- our mission was complete there. and we kept trying to build a national army that didnt exist and we knew it thats an intelligence dod failure and now we have thousands, tens of thousands of weapons, heavy weapons that will fall into the hands of the taliban, helico...

Important to note that a lot of the people who were asking those questions in the congress were veterans and were people who served as youve talked about it in that theater, and i think its interesting and worth noting that that push was coming from within the congress rather than the dod example. >> congresswoman chrissy houlahan, thank you very much. >> youre welcome. thank you for having me. and airlifted out. nbc news was there as the coast guard pulled haiti earthquake survivors after the...

At about roughly 2,500 and by the end of the day approximately 4,000 troops on the ground in kabul. forces will continue to flow in and reinforce the state department and dod effort there. the operation is ongoing and id like to give you a few more details on that operation. hkaya is open for military flight operations and limited commercial flight operations. throughout the nine nine c17s arrived delivering equipment and approximately 1,000 troops. additionally, seven c17s departed. these fligh...

Our own time line was september 11th. i dont frankly understand that as a timeline when that sort of is not what you normally try to do when youre in a situation with a known enemy. so there are lots and lots of questions that i think we should all be asking the answers for and hold ourselves accountable for what the answers to those questions are. >> and you were among those warning them and trying to speed up the siv program that was legislation last month. >> there was, and again, i question ...

>> provide an update on afghanistan and then take some of your questions. with that ill turn it over to >> thank you ill start with an update. the president spoke with his advisors. he spoke with secretary austin, general mckenzie, and myself. the president was briefed that dod personnel have secured hkai. and its open and military flights are taking off. following this operational briefing with his military commanders the president and the vice president met by secure video conference with thei...

And with that, i will turn it over to jake. >> jake: thank you, jen, and hello everybody. im going to start with an update in terms of the presidents engagement today and engaging with his national security team and make a few comments probably on the situation, and then i will be happy to take your questions. this morning, he spoke, commonly known -- he spoke with secretary austin, chairman milley, chairman mckenzie, admiral baisley, and myself. he was briefed about dod personnel have now secur...