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Was hinting with this press conference was there was a decision made. that is -- i dont mean to say it not past. its on going that, you know, he was somewhat defiant and knows the debate is going on and knows people are angry about the decision but he was focused on the present future. the present is getting everyone out of the airport and securing the airport. thats what we saw in the last 36 hours and getting as many americans and interpreters and others out. there was also a pivot in this pre...

Mccaffrey who guides us through all this as well. what are we not hearing? what is sort of the buttoned up and more opaque view from inside active duty military and pentagon leadership about the events of the last 72 hours? >> there is a level of depression, i think. theres two things. the military people that we cover, the active duty troops, the officials are very good at compartmentalizing. at the building, at the pentagon, everything is about evacuating this horrible situation going on at hk...

We have no bases in the region and no local allies because they have all been hunted down. i want to see resignations. blinken presided over the withdrawal that led to the caliphate arising. im not going to wait for another 9/11 or pulse nightclub. we all remember charlie wilsons war. we need to take a page out of his page. we need to force biden to support pockets of resistance, laura is right, they exist, been in touch with them that are willing to continue the fight against the taliban and al...

This show july 7th over a month ago. he is a veteran and served in afghanistan facing the prospect of a taliban takeover of that country. he and the organization he co-founded, no one left behind, have been sounding the alarm for months about the need to get going, to evacuate thousands of afghan men and women at grave risk from the taliban simply because they worked alongside and helped u.s. troops during our war effort there. we now know, as of whats happening right now, in kabul, we know the ...

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Are going to be sad. theres a range of emotions that all of us are going through as we watch these images and finish pulling out of the country. whats important for us at the pentagon and this is what i say to the veterans and the rest of the american people is that we remain committed to completing this draw down in a safe and orderly way to doing what we can to get as many of our american citizens out as well as as many of those interpreters and translators who helped you do your jobs on the b...

Army, which collapsed instead of fighting. after the u.s. pulled out of bases and left them without air support. and the u.s. didnt see this coming? we reported on the tremendous security vacuum created when the u.s. left the air base two months ago, leaving it so undefended and empty, i was able to bike down the runway. the warning signs were there. and this weekend, kabul was taken without resistance. and the afghan president fled. still in the country are tens of thousands of afghan interpret...

Those interpreters, that we love those people, what is wrong with america? what is happening to us? we saw president obama go and hit our ally, israel, leading the charge to humiliate them at the u.n. now president biden goes and literally leaves the allies that kept our soldiers safe on the ground. you saw what happened in the airport. what you didnt see it as well as outside of the camera. there were thousands of people at the fence, begging to get there, and the taliban was around the perimet...

Check paperwork and go through that, and i understand a part of what was going on. my personal view is if an individualfrom a particularfamily individual from a particular family have individualfrom a particularfamily have what you might call a reasonably plausible set of paperwork or details, then we should move them out of danger first and worry about the process of paperwork later. there is a balance there and i recognise there is a balance around issues like security and criminality, and i g...

Now they know our name, ourface, ouraddress, our phone numbers, everything. fearing the future, many afghans are trying to leave in any way they can. their desperation evident in these scenes at kabul airport. the us says it has now secured the airport in order to evacuate americans and otherforeigners. yet some people are managing to get out. charities in the uk have urged the government to help refugees fleeing the taliban to settle in britain. ministers say that more than 3000 afghan interpre...