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Failure the american people can take. you talked about that poll. i expect it to go down and i expect it to go down in a bipartisan fashion because americans across the board are very upset with this. and frankly, i dont think a lot of people want to hear too much about a 3.5 trillion dollar progressive wish list when we are in crisis and americans are in crisis. i got a text from one of the interpreters that i supported leaving iraq. he said he is very, very disheartened. he said the americans ...

Period. right? that its in their interest and not touch a hair on a single americans head. and guess what, taliban, we are coming in with force, if necessary, to get them out. we dont even know how many are inside kabul vs. out in the hinder land. hundred hinterland, taking bagram back air base east of kabul and making it clear that were going to be there as long as it takes to get every single american, no one left behind and our interpreters and their families. from the state departments stand...

The afghan americans over there, they have very hard times, and the families, they are crying. i received a hundred, hundred messages, and my hands are shaking, it become too weak, i couldnt sleep and eat because i am worried about my family and other afghan american allies in afghanistan, kabul airport. >> sean: congressman, let me ask you, biden apparently is going to address the issue of an evacuation plan.an a little late for that, considering all these people, 15,000, he tells us, americans...

Show another face. in the _ afghanistan. the taliban are keen to show another face. in the northern l show another face. in the northern city of mazar—i—sharif, women studying as usual. is this propaganda and will it last? clearly, its not enough to dispel the fears of those converging on kabul airport. this chaotic exodus has been going on for a week. how much longer will it last? in the last hour, the foreign secretary dominic raab has defended his actions over the afghan crisis — saying...

Attack. they were in vietnam to help manage the final desperate exit. they were there to protect the people trying to get on those final helicopters they might have been on that final helicopter on april 30th 1975 if they had lived just one more day. its a day after charlie mcmahon and darwin judge were killed in action, the last american helicopter left side gone and left their bodies behind. in a hospital. in saigon. it was a mistake, it was the kind of mistake the american military can make i...

Slow walked the visa process for the afghanys who helped us, ainsley like the guy you were quoting who were interpreters and they dragged their feet and now its too late. there are 80,000 people who need to get out. will: you know, this is a complicated issue and we want to be led with our hearts but we also want to be led with our minds. we start talking about the people we owe something to the interpreters the refugees we want to bring to motorcycle. the question is how do we balance what we o...

Were my interpreters when i was on the air with you from afghanistan. we are trying to get them out before they are hunted down. and now, the enemy has the t addresses and phone numbers, and they are calling them up, trying to entice them to come on over. they come over, they are dead. number four. the resistance units forming in the panjdarh valley are appealing for help. is anyone in the u.s. government answering the phone? if not, why not? call me, i got their numbers, they call me. number fi...

To give you some idea of the challenges facing afghan allies trying to make it to these flights out of kabul, cnn has obtained a message from the state department. it was sent to thousands of locally employed staff at the u.s. embassy in kabul tilling them they could come to the airport for evacuation. multiple sources tell cnn some didnt because of the danger. though, they desperately wanted out. others had to turn back. some who made it were bloody, mentally distraught, and had lost most of th...

It was a mistake. it was the kind of mistake the american military can make in a situation like that. the american military did not just leave behind friendly interpreters in vietnam, they did not just leave behind interpreters who helped reporters in vietnam. they did not just leave behind friendly allies who helped the military and worked on american military bases. they also left behind hundreds of babies and children who were fathered by american soldiers over the 18 years of the american mi...

Probably willing to extend the deadline for getting all of our troops out beyond august 31st. >> right. >> they need it. it may take more time. >> yep. and at some point, united states has to be dictating the terms for its own people. lisa curtis, thank you so much for taking us inside the room. helping us understand how we got here. and where we may go from here. thank you. all right. so many heroes who have helped protect us are stuck in afghanistan right now. citizens, interpreters. now, we...