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Friend brenda looney killed in afghanistan and buried together in section 60 of arlington cemetery, brothers forever is how president obama remembered them. she has had a very tumultuous 48 hours as shes been trying to work to try and get one of those interpreters out. we will bring you the interview coming up, anita. >> griff, yeah, very scary to hear the experience that those interpreters are having. joining us to discuss how republicans and democrats are responding to expanding crisis in afgh...

Been made to evacuate americans, our allies and military equipment before rolling out. fair enough. every effort should have been made to evacuate our allies. every effort? every effort? three weeks before he put out that statement, congressman bill policy of florida was confronted with an actual thing on he could do on this actual subject. not theoretical. what some might call making an actual plan related to military operations. 22nd of july. house representatives voted on whether or not to ex...

From afghanistan. and he would have gotten all the interpreters and translators out safely. that doesnt sound true. but there is someone knowing its not the case and she was there in the trump administration when the issue came up. elizabeth troy who served. there were cabinet meeting about this during the administration where steven million miller they would undermine anyone working on solving the special immigrant visa issue. pence was fully aware of the problem. we got nowhere because trump a...

Accomplished attorney, working for the government. and of course now he cant work, so they have no income. ive been -- luckily we figured out a way -- yes. >> i was going to say, youve been on the ground in afghanistan. youve seen what its like there. youre seeing the security situation right now and some of the images out of kabul airport. what do you want to see the biden administration do right now to help your friends and others? >> well, right now i -- i have just heard word that they have ...

Presidents on the region. richard clark, dick, thank you for coming back. you schooled me on this when i was at abc news when we started this 20 years ago. you gave me a number of books to read when i first met you about you wont even remember because you were doing it for so many us. but the idea of what the taliban is because i was like well in afghanistan. you were like read the book. the taliban is not a bunch of people from afghanistan. you are hearing all the talks from the interpreters ab...

Danger that they face because they risk their lives for us and so the question is does americas pledge and promise mean anything. and i think the answer has to be yes. not just because its the right thing to do, because its the smart thing to do because we know some of our most vocal allies as weve been advocating on this was veterans groups, national security officials who knew that we needed allies like the interpreters and drivers and translators and engineers who fought alongside us who need...

And his interpreters, he always talked very wonderful about them. oh, theres a picture. and he just loved his family and one of the things that i kept saying to myself is they did not die in vain. they were over there to make sure that our -- those americans that are left at home, especially their family, you know, thats what they went over there for. >> i want to put -- im sorry to interrupt. i want to put up on the screen quickly a recent associated press poll about the war in afghanistan and ...

Conference yesterday was probably one of the easiest that he ever gave because his people that briefed him probably said, listen, just think of everything going on in afghanistan and around the world, and just say the opposite. because thats literally what he did. he just said the opposite of what the reality on the ground was and what the troops are. >> and the president saying no american will be left behind, a little unclear how strong the commitment is to the afghan allies like the interpret...

This process continued, especially prioritizing the interpreters who had served overseas with military and intelligence officers would be able to get through that system, and it was a very challenging situation and these claims that trump would have done this differently and saved all of them, he had several years to do that and the numbers speak for themselves. the numbers of people, afghans and especially iraqis, still waiting to come here. very few got through the system. >> and that was in l...

Things moved very, very quickly, lucas. lucas: i just received a net from retired army general said, the one thing he didnt hear from john kirby saying he was wrong, griff. griff: lucas tomlinson at the pentagon, lucas, thank you. >> in my friends house, two or three times the taliban came and asked me at my door and they called me a couple of times. i dont know who are they. im sure that if they capture me, they will kill me. griff: now thats only one of the many interpreters for the u.s. left ...