defense secretary it is truly disgusting when you think of the heroism of the actual fighting men and women. absolutely. this is the reason why president eisenhower warned in 1961 of the military industrial complex. since 2009 and this is a story that stayed with me throughout my coverage of the war, i was in a small town in eastern afghanistan, a small version - - a small village they were constructing a hospital at all doctor came up to me and said millions of dollars is what was spent in this hospital. he walked up and kicked to the side of the wall it was made of number two red brick and crumble before me and i saw are right then and there the wasteful spending of our taxpayer dollars in afghanistan. that hospital never lasted. not the way it should have it was supposed to last 20 years we saw this over and over brown university just came up with a study that said we spent over 2 trillion taxpayer dollars since the war in
disgusting when you think of the heroism of the actual fighting men and women. absolutely. this is the reason why president eisenhower warned in 1961 of the military industrial complex. since 2009 and this is a story that stayed with me throughout my coverage of the war, i was in a small town in eastern afghanistan, a small version - - a small village they were constructing a hospital at all doctor came up to me and said millions of dollars is what was spent in this hospital. he walked up and kicked to the side of the wall it was made of number two red brick and crumble before me and i saw are right then and there the wasteful spending of our taxpayer dollars in afghanistan. that hospital never lasted. not the way it should have it was supposed to last 20 years we saw this over and over brown university just came up with a study that said we spent over 2 trillion taxpayer dollars since the war in
disgusting when you think of the heroism of the actual fighting men and women. absolutely. this is the reason why president eisenhower warned in 1961 of the military industrial complex. since 2009 and this is a story that stayed with me throughout my coverage of the war, i was in a small town in eastern afghanistan, a small version - - a small village they were constructing a hospital at all doctor came up to me and said millions of dollars is what was spent in this hospital. he walked up and kicked to the side of the wall it was made of number two red brick and crumble before me and i saw are right then and there the wasteful spending of our taxpayer dollars in afghanistan. that hospital never lasted. not the way it should have it was supposed to last 20 years we saw this over and over brown university just came up with a study that said we spent over 2 trillion taxpayer dollars since the war in
afghanistan. and that is a strategic mistake. that was a good point. although it put him in a situation that we ve been living ever since, which was to get deeper into afghanistan. just so you understand, it was a republican and then a democrat who put us deep into afghanistan after 9/11. and we would spend over a trillion dollars over 20 years, lose more than 2,400 fighting men and women, many, many more thousands injured in that graveyard looking to avenge 9/11 by getting bin laden and al qaeda, the base. that s the reality. we were attacked by real bullets and bombs and bad guys and i say, yes, i m a journalist. but we re americans and we were hit. i lived it that day and lost people i knew and cared about. while we ve been on the ground fighting in afghanistan, they ve been trying to beat an invisible
for american-fighting men and women, it will be a stain on this administration, forever. i don t disagree with that. i know that there s some political pushback. and there s some people on the trumpy fringe trying to make it, like, look at the people he wants to bring here. these are men and women. talk to our veterans. listen to our veterans, about what they did for this country and for our fighting men and women. and now, they re going to be left there and they are going to be hunted down like dogs. i think it s i i agree with what you said. but i think it s too early to judge what s going to happen. we don t know what s going to happen. the exit? yeah. those pictures are horrific. no one can deny the situation that happened at the airport there. and the the the pictures that we re seeing and what we re hearing from our folks who are there, happening on the ground. but i think, let s see. it s going to take some time to figure out if it was a right move, at the right ti