thing unfold and you continue to try to make the difference, sir. i just want to thank you again not just your piece in the new york times but everywhere, elliott ackerman, thank you very much for joining me tonight. i appreciate it, sir. be safe out there. thank you. come up, joe biden says he is going to make the taliban be nice to women and girls. how is that exactly? is he going to send them a sternly worded letter? the horrors awaiting the women and children we abandoned in afghanistan coming up next. (struggling vehicle sounds) think premium can t be capable? think again. (energetic music) introducing the first ever at4 lineup.
us, elliott. i really appreciate it. and thank you for your service right off the top. good evening to you. 13 u.s. service members were killed, 10 of them marines. 18 were injured. you fought with some of the marines who are there on the ground right now. what are they saying? well, up until recently, they were completely overwhelmed trying to execute this evacuation, which has been, i mean, nothing short of, you know, disastrous. i have never seen i fought in two words on five deployments. i have never seen anything like i ve seen in the past 12 days in which i ve been inundated, veterans i know have been inun inundated. journalists have been inundated with our afghan colleagues begging us for help as they try to get to the airport, as well as our american citizens. the reason i ve been in touch with many of my former comrades, ones serving on the airfield, is
the veterans across this country who are organizing to get their afghan colleagues out, and it doesn t understand service because it is squandering the service not only of all the people who fought in afghanistan i ve never seen so much squandered so quickly since april but also is squandering the service of the marines in that airfield right now because it has put them in an impossible position. you know, don, i earned a silver star, a bronze star, and a purple heart in my service, and one thing anyone who has ever earned an award for valor, is that they only hand out the medals and they only start talking about valor when things go really bad. and a lot of stuff has gone really, really bad the last few days, culminating in these dead marines that we ve lost. elliot ackerman, again, thank you for your service and thank you for appearing. we will have you back. please keep us updated on the folks you re trying to help. thanks so much. president biden standing by his decision to
people contacts and get them into the airport. that s how this evacuation has occurred. you re still trying to help others, elliot. i just want to play this is part of a voicemail you received from someone that you ve told us in afghanistan is an afghanistan interpreter who you re trying to help get out of the country. let s play it, and then we ll talk. here it is. hello, sir. hope you re dog good. i wish you okay. it s all right, sir. we just moved back to go somewhere else because except that just we don t want to get caught with the by taliban because they are looking everywhere, place by place, home by home, street by street looking for us. we don t want to be recognized by them. i will send you a picture of myself that when i was also close to that explosion and the
mark of blood is all over in my clothes. so except me, all the family is so scared. i can t get to the airport, but i can come close or near to the airport. if it s possible to pick us up, it would be good because for now, all the family is in a very bad condition. they are so scared. kids are so scared. everyone is in a very bad condition. so, elliot, this person is dealing with the threat of the taliban plus a threat of isis-k. they re obviously scared. what will getting out look like for them? at this point i don t know. i mean this is a message i received earlier today right after that bomb went off and the airport shut down.