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Problem here is the fact that joe biden set a date certain for pulling out and then never went back to pay attention to their realities on the ground to determine whether or not it was a wise thing to carry out at that time or whether to adjust based on that. lord knows failed to make all the contingency plans to make sure that our people, they are american citizens, whatever afghan interpreters or other people that we wanted to get out, and equipment were all gone out before the military abando...

Is not something that should be worrying to us even though there are a lot more than remnants there. >> dana: one thing the administration has been doing to president bidens statements and the secretary of state and secretary of defense and national security advisor r using a lot of numbers. you watch the speeches and listen to them they are trying to kill you with numbers. it feels like a checklist. it feels like it is missing the point. it doesnt seem to match what were hearing from people wor...

Deep jeopardy with the taliban. jillian: as chaos in kabul continues, a network of hundreds of thousands of veterans are using intelligence and satellite images to direct afghan interpreters around taliban checkpoints. member of digital dunkirk and former defense intelligence super who served in afghanistan, alex plesus joins us now. tell me how that got started and what you guys are able to do to help those on the ground and what the situation is really like for them. >> good morning. thanks fo...

Under sees. brian: none of this affects them its not there boys that went to afghanistan they dont know interpreters or translators that thought shoulder to shoulder with kamala harris in southeast asia, afghanistan is not that far away 7000 troops of the garter if you want to see a firsthand look at whats happening at the airport. great perspective, we appreciate it. brian: the fda is fully expected to approve the pfizer vaccine will this lead to an increase of people getting the shot marc sieg...

Through. this is a terrifying situation. we have americans all across that city that are terrified and waiting for someone to help them but believe me there is healthcare. but the president needs to allow the men and who are there to do their job and get our american citizens those out afghanistan it can be done but not the ineptitude of this administration. steve: what about the people outside kabul? this is a whole country what will they do about that? how many are there? we hear numbers in th...

Establish safe core doors and provide with the appropriate transportation and then protect that transport as it comes back. the taliban and al qaeda and isis that is unfortunate but they already are and it is terrible. i was just informed today because of the work im doing through the embassy and writing letters i could get two of my afghan interpreters on a plane so they are in a safe area now, but there are so many more we are working to help. this is immediate. needs to be done. i will go bac...

Theyre not being allowed now into the airport. what does that mean? and do you worry that they have now been cut off maybe entirely from getting relief? >> i absolutely worry about that. i worry about that as our credibility as a nation. i would implore the biden administration to reconsider that. there are tens of thousands of combat veterans, u.s. combat veterans right now with a large chunk of the american people behind them saying this is the right thing to do. these people stood up for us. ...

If it was afghan national army or police or u.s. or british. and they were panicked, panicked asking us to help. can you call someone. they literally think i have guys stationed at every gate that i can just get on the phone and say let my guy through. so we couldnt figure out what was happening on the ground until we got footage from the gate. show me what they are so that i can then go to my royal marines in britain and paratroopers in britain or our group in australia and special forces in au...

Hands-on constant activity and acshufnl thats why the presidents going to speak later today. i think they realize they have a problem. they also have several audiences they need to talk to. of course theres the domestic audience. you also have our allies, who are obviously very angry. you have our adversaries who are paying a lot of attention. you also very importantly have the veterans who thought and they need to be reassured that their sacrifice mattered, that were not going to see a safe hav...

To stay there in august. i have been having phone calls with people who worked on, you know, neo operations. noncombat operations and they said that the u.s. citizens pop out of the wood work, youre never sure how many are there in any given country. i dont think we know how possible it is i think as we get closer to the deadline, if the number of u.s. citizens is down to a trickle by say friday or saturday, well, then well have a better sense of what the scope is. if were still getting hoards o...