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Our afghan allies. theyre not reassured. those interpreters not getting out they are not reassured by a statement like that. brian: how ridiculous is that? he is reporting from taliban news, the secretary of state. my next guest is not relying on the taliban to bring americans home. he knows the reality. he led a dangerous rescue admission course of weeks to usher as many as 500 allies and family nobodys safety. scott mann is retired green beret served in afghanistan and running operation pineap...

Questions when theyre at the podium. its not challenging because this is a foray ive been covering for more than 20 years, certainly since u.s. forces went in 20 years ago, weve been covering this story almost daily since then. so we have the context to challenge the pentagon whether theyre generals or spokespeople or defense secretary, standing at the podium, because we know what is actually happening on the ground. we have good sources, after 20 years of covering this conflict, so asking the q...

Airport with congressman molton democrat of massachusetts, one of the few bipartisan things thats actually taken place in washington these days. both of you took a lot of heat not only from your leadership but also from the administration. was it worth it? >> absolutely. there are people that i dont think i could have gotten out were i not there. there are stories on the ground of the heroic work by the soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines who are down there, diplomats that need to be told. frankl...

House, thank you. let me go to the pentagon. hit the main check points. lets go to the pentagon, courtney kube. do we have any new information or details on the attacks themselves? do we have more information, finding out more details of who is wounded, are americans part of the casualty count. what more information have you got? >> americans are part of the casualty count. the military includes casualty to be wounded and killed. what we know so far is there were three u.s. marines that were inj...

0 >> karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with "mtp daily" only on msnbc. well, dont worry, andrea, youre not going very far. were coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to "mtp daily." a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president bidens agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside t...

Done a good job answering questions. when he takes questions, he trips up and gets himself into more trouble with more contradictions from doj and others who actually know what the ground truth is. so sometimes staff says to the president, we have to take questions today, just take a couple and other days they say get your message out, get the headline you want, and walk awa dont take any questions that will knock you off message. im not going to criticize him, thats what the white house is due....

Now were talking about just a couple days from when this may be. this is something well have to keep watching. i dont get the sense that they think this dead looip will get extended. >> do we have a sense of how big the june verse of people is in afghanistan that were still hopeful to get out? >> no, an candidly it is really frustrating and difficult to get ground truth to that. i think part of that is if you look at american civilians there, citizens there, some of them may be registered the sc...

No eyes on the ground. number two we dont have a partner there. the afghan intelligence service. were going a bit more blind than we would like. we have to partner with old contacts. those who fled north to give us ground truth on ct reporting. well have to turn to our allies, the british and others because ultimately our human intelligence gathering has been degraded. when you talk about counter terrorism there are three things you need. human intelligence, signals intelligence and eyes in the ...

Have, there are plenty of folks out there who need that, so from a military perspective, if mission success is defined as getting all of these people out, they are going to have to expand the perimeter and get these people a safe way to the -- to get to the airport, and if they cant do that, then were not going to complete the mission as advertised. >> susan, the president sees no evidence, no question of u.s. credibility around the world. how is this resonating, and does that reconcile with wha...

Operation. theyre accountable for the on the ground execution and the questions surrounding the lack of preparation for it, as well as the bigger debate that has once again been were the statements to the american people about the mission in afghanistan. it was always like just a few months away from success. im sure those questions will come up as well. it strikes me that there are a number of extremely important and unanswered questions. what youre hearing from washington is a classic example ...