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On that video. >> very basic way of looking at the case after all. floyd family eternally ben crump today as derek chauvins lawyers presents his defense. -- floyds death is fully documented on video recorded from multiple angles. the onlookers cellphones, the officers body cameras, a surveillance camera across history. all the jewelers have to believe is believe their own eyes and ears. i should be able to expect that they will do so. i should at least be able to hope they will. but hope still f...

Oldest son beau was an army man who served in iraq. barack obama read a statement that said, quote, it is time to recognize that we ever accomplished all that we can militarily and that its time to bring our remaining troops home. biden also talked to obama about his decision, and that he rejected advice from the pentagon where they said withdrawals should be based on numbers and not the calendar. >> were withdrawing because its been too long. withdrawing because america it too tired. i can tell...

The video tells us from day one that derek chauvin killed george floyd and he should be held criminally liable, and everything else he does is attempt to distract and not focus on that video. >> floyd family attorney, civil rights lawyer ben crump today as derek chauvins lawyers present their defense to the jury. one of our next guests, eugene robinson, writes this, quote, floyds death is fully documented on video recorded from multiple angles: the onlookers cell phones, the officers body camera...

To be celebrating -- or sadly talking about the anniversary, the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this september, we have people who have fought in this war and now their children are fighting in this war. its an intergenerational war at this point. the longest war the united states has been engaged in. we ended the ability of al qaeda to grow terrorism and commit terrorist acts from their base in afghanistan, which was our mission. we captured and killed osama bin laden, the head of that organization. ...

Afghanistan with then president karzai getting -- pushing away from the table, throwing down his napkin and leaving because of corruption in that government he then was opposed to barack obama increasing the number of troops in afghanistan. so a lot of people are not surprised by this decision. >> yeah. president biden has been a long time skeptic of the americans presidents there in afghanistan. he was overruled repeatedly while vice president. but his decision didnt change. he believed that, a...

This is what he said. >> i am always amazed at generation after generation, the women and men prepared to give their lives for their country. look at them all. >> was a hard decision to make, sir? >> no it wasnt. to me it was absolutely color. absolutely clear. >> absolutely clear. he said it was absolutely clear. george w. bush actually tried to and the u.s. war in afghanistan after he started it. the obama administration. president obama deliberated long and hard about what to do in afghanista...

Cemetery and it was an incredibly powerful reminder of their service, their sacrifice, what they put into this. and for 20 years, they stood watch and protected this country in afghanistan and for 20 years, afghanistan was not used as a base for terrorist attacks against this country. we believe that we have developed a strategy that allows us to have the kinds of capabilities and assets we need outside of afghanistan to suppress the terrorist threat coming from inside afghanistan. and we believ...

Who holds the authority. who will bend the need to whom. thats the point. explicitly. its a psychological performance. >> thats what we saw in the streets of minneapolis and brooklyn center, a show of force with curfews and tear gas. flashbacks. and now just take all of that footage weve seen. before last summer, during last summer, and since, and now. take all of that. and just look for a moment at the utter in version of what happened on the steps of the capital in january. there was hardly an...

Forever war. >> it was no accident that biden made his announcement from the white house treating room, looking out over the ellipse, where george w. bush, told the nation about those very first airstrikes on afghanistan, back in 2001. we wear a different country than. biden also said he spoke with bush yesterday to let him know about this planned departure. shortly after todays speech, president traveled to arlington cemetery. he visited section 60, thats the final resting place for those kille...

Agreement, duly negotiated between the governor of the united states and the taliban, that all u.s. forces would be out of afghanistan by may 1, 2021. just months after my inauguration, thats what we inherited, that commitment. thats perhaps not what i would have negotiated myself, but it was an agreement made by the united states government. and that means something. so im keeping with that agreement and with our national interests, the united states will begin our final withdrawal, begin it on...