weeks time. as you talk to counterparts across europe, there have been wobbles in european capitals about how much longer they can support the ukraine effort, particularly if the counteroffensive proceedsaugust sluggishly. do you think it could convince the european leaders to say, hey, we have to stay with us, it s working? i do. the wobbliness was predicated on the fact that putin can outlast us. look what happened inside russia. we saw reporting of a potential purge. senior russian general, apparently, has been arrested. putin is going to be worried, what s happening under his own roof. number two, of course, the wagner group, as you had a guest yesterday talk about, elliott ackerman, you know, really was something really significant on the battlefield. the russians have lost that capability. this was their vanguard. this was kind of their shock
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blame to go around when we look at the strategic end game. i don t think you can place it solely on biden s soldiers or on trump shoulders or on trump s shoulders. the important thing is to say what can we do right now. i think the two things we can do is try to keep faith with our allies who are still trying to get out of the country, and do right by the afghans who have come to the united states with measures like the afghan adjustment act. elliott ackerman, marine veteran, author of the fifth act: america s end in afghanistan, the story what can be continue. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks for having me. all right. tonight, serena williams takes center stage at the u.s. open in new york. our sports anchor andy scholes joins us. so could this could, could this be her last match of a remarkable career? it certainly could, poppy. it could be the last time we see her play in a sing else match. it s going to be an amazing
botched drone strike in the final days of u.s. forces presence in afghanistan. authorities initially claimed that strike in kabul had killed an isis-k operative planning an imminent attack on u.s. forces. later the u.s. military revealed it had made a, quote, tragic mistake. the strike killed ten afghan civilians including seven children. the man they had been tracking was actually in the application process for a special immigrant visa to bring his family to the u.s. in the last year, the state department has accepted roughly 80,000 afghan refugees, but many more including many eligible for those sivs still waiting. in fact most of them. joining me is elliott ackerman, retired marine corps captain, purple heart recipient who served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. also a former cia case officer, author of the fifth act: america s end in afghanistan. good to have you on. you have so much experience there. i wonder if you could describe