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>> thats the message theyre trying to send here. >> christine romans, thanks. today president biden will announce his plan to withdrawal all u.s. forces from afghanistan by september 11th. ending americas longest war. ahead, the impact that move will have on the safety of that country, terrorism and u.s. foreign policy. financing the home of your dreams doesnt require going to different lenders. sofi is a one-stop-shop for your finances- designed to work better together. get a home loan or hom...

>> look at them. >> nearly 2400 americans have died in afghanistan and more than 20,000 have been wounded in action. nato allies in coordination with the white house announced their own eminent withdrawals from afghanistan. president biden called former presidents bush and obama to inform them of his decision. president obama issued a statement commending the decision saying it was time to turn the page. republican voters under trump jettisoned their belief in foreign intervention for an america...

He was arguing we had been involved in vietnam for much too long. and as a student of history, i would wager that joe biden knows that presidents who keep us out of wars that we dont need and get us out of wars that we dont need are just as honored as presidents who take us into wars that are necessary. look at dwight eisenhower, kept us out of war after the french collapsed. >> were seeing a powerful moment there of president joe biden walking through section 60 at arlington national cemetery. ...

S, section 60. lets go back to him again. hes speaking. >> the men and women who gave their lives for the country. they didnt give it for their country, per se, but their brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, their uncles, their aunts. it means i have trouble these days ever showing up at a veterans cemetery and not thinking of my son, beau, who proudly wore that uniform, and going with his unit to iraq, giving up his spot as attorney general in the state of delaware, because he thought it was th...

Cemetery and not thinking of my son, who proudly insisted on putting on the uniform and going with his unit to iraq and giving up his spot as attorney general in the state of delaware, because he thought it was the right thing to do. >> at the same event a reporter asked president biden if it was a difficult decision to withdraw troops. he replied, quote, to me it was clear. the end to the war in afghanistan announced today by president biden is where we start this hour, starting us off is admir...

Resurgeonsens of threats is flexibility in the region, something a senior white house official explains will be achieved through a regional counter-terrorism operation. president biden visited section 60 today, where veterans from the wars in iraq and afghanistan are laid to rest. more than 2300 american troops have died in afghanistan since the beginning of the war. president biden today speaking with emotion about their sacrifice. >> im always amazed as generation after generation, women and m...

Later? that would be inconceivable. even though we knew it would be hard and knew what the solve-and-and british experience had been, it still seem far-fetched. i think youre right, the exhaustion factor on the military and -- ive been struck by polls that veterans have a pretty similar view of the value of the afghan war as civilians do. even though many of them spent enormous amount of their services, in some cases gave great sacrifice, that they too have come to a conclusion, somewhat soured ...

Theyre being victimized by these men, even if they happen to be violating federal statutes in the process. as prosecutors, we approach these young ladies as victims recognizing we may often -- we also have to deal with their criminal exposure by granting them immunity for any laws they may have violated because we need to make sure we get the bigger fish, the more egregious perpetrators and those are the men who are trafficking and using these girls. >> drip, drip, drip. it just gets weirder and...

That derek chauvin should be acquitted. thats what you need to do with this witness. >> eugene robinson, you wrote your latem column, you talk about watching the prosecution lay out the case, but youre holding back the expectation that chauvin is going to get convicted. is this one of those, you have just been, you know, until you see an outcome thats different, youre always going to assume what you have seen before is going to happen? >> right. i mean, im not assuming one way or the other, but ...

Come home. >> as a senator, biden voted for the wars and recently hes been arguing against the presence in afghanistan. we should note that generals were pushing for a longer presence in afghanistan, advising biden to delay withdrawal until they had more progress against the taliban. the times reporting bidens announcement rejects the pentagons push to remain showing biden forcibly stamping his views on a policy hes long debated but never controlled. after this announcement, the president visite...