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Years ago. bar door high ranking official for the government what does it mean for the rank and file like you? >> its dispiriting, im talking to folks who are in the building recently left. everybody is absolutely outraged at what has happened. per the universal belief that we should have gotten out. the question is how, of course, i think lots of smart people are saying that over and over and over again. but for people who signed up to serve their nation, they are not looking at their commander...

Harmed. you will go and crush them. you will put real costs on them. this is the model that the trump administration had adopted and each time we did that, each time we did that, we got a tactical response from the taliban that respected the united states of america because they understood that there were things that they would not be permitted to do, most importantly harming americans. remember this, maria from the time we began peace and reconciliation and conversations, from the time we signe...

Been there to begin with, but what i can say with absolute authority is we have a moral obligation, not only to rescue our citizens, yes, but also to do everything we can to protect these afghan christians. look, i know that america cant do everything in the world, but we can do some things, and protecting the small group of believers is a basic value of america, and its something we need and should do. >> shannon: well, and derrick, im talking with military folks on the ground who are desperate...

Their eyes and their hearts in afghanistan. they are working -- its very, very personal for me that i have been injured, deadly severe. i have been -- i have lost -- i have lost american women and men in uniform, and this is a disrespect for me, my service, for thousands and thousands of american soldiers that have lost their loved ones, that they lost their bloods. its a shame. i and alongside me all my military families are taking this very, very personally. its very painful. im talking -- the...

Battlefield in wartime. you cant fight the current battle but you need to know where you are going with the enemy. >> thats what im talking about. you have to be able to focus on the current fight going on but at the same time say what is tomorrow going to bring and the next day >> harris: biden doesnt vit. >> it doesnt. honestly, this is one of those i hate to say it. secretary gates had it right when he said joe biden has been wrong on nearly every national security decision in the last four d...

>> reporter: so, the streets of kabul today, its almost surreal. it feels like things are beginning to get back to normal. we saw a lot more people out on the streets than we did yesterday. we went to a market, as you know from earlier. it was pretty busy. id say roughly a third or half of the stores were open, some of them closing early to make sure people get home early. but for the most part there is a sense that there is a sort of very tense calm. thats holding and thats because there are ta...

Provinces fell, seven minutes ago there were more than two and now only one is left to fall to the hands of the taliban, and i worry about all of those hundreds of thousands of individuals who worked with the afghan government, who worked hand in hand with us who might at this point be facing a dire, if at all future. >> right now we want to play a portion of what secretary of state antony blinken said this morning on cnn regarding the u.s. exit strategy. take a listen. >> like it or not, there ...

Enroll this year. they left their kids with a grandparent and maybe that person didnt have the technical know-how to do the lessons or didnt speak english. many day care centers didnt have staff to take them through online lessons. parents didnt trust their local public schools to do a good job with remote education so they may have done virtual learning through home but did a program of some sort but those have not had good academic results for kids. >> john, these kids lost a year of school at...

Continues. for adults, we anticipate and handle illness in the elderly. we dont anticipate and handle illness in young people very well of young people shouldnt be sick. they should not be in the hospital. it is a rare thing for us. so to counsel and go through death and the dying process with people who are so young and their families, it is just an added strain on top of this last year which has been so difficult. >> tell us what it is like. what are you seeing with these young people? are you...

Foreign travel but people need to go abroad for more than just summer holidays because they have family and i think you get to a point where thatis and i think you get to a point where that is only an option for the most wealthy, it is a difficult place for the country to be in and i think it is strange that there is so much higher in price than what you would expect them to be at that point. there is no middle ground. here is the question _ there is no middle ground. here is the question if— ...