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Not good enough to go to a gym? this is not scientific. its not based in data. its strictly pushing a political agenda. im for vaccination but we shouldnt have inherently discriminatory abusive policies that are not based in science. so i want to emphasize your point. i think you are pot on. >> will: if we are divorce from science it makes no hypothetical completely off the table. that means we need to watch where we are going here very carefully. dr. brett giroir, i have enjoyed the conversatio...

Theyre watching americans load their belongings onto the plane, load guard dogs. some afghans were putting on social media today that they were especially offended that the americans were leaving with their dogs and leaving the afghan people behind. and also leaving afghan interpreters behind. there are many thousands, tens of thousands of afghan interpreters. were in touch with a few, unfortunately, who we have been in touch with, were no longer able to reach them because theyre in hiding. we d...

Acknowledgement of the sacrifice of american men and women. i want to say that it was something that was a worthy cause but that one part of the mission was very successful. that part was the elimination of the terrorist threat from afghan soil but the other parts of it were not successful and he needs to reiterate that point. make sure the american military forces that are deployed in afghanistan that they actually have a way out so they are reasonable to bring americans but the interpreters ou...

There was a new responsibility to get the interpreters, the others who helped the american forces out of the country quickly, to diminish the size of the u.s. embassy, something the pentagon had urged them to do so there wouldnt be a rush to the exits. the resistance to that idea was understandable. they didnt want to look to be abandoning the government of -- that was in place. >> right. >> president ghanis government. but i think they felt if they left too quickly, it would seem the taliban wo...

As that has happened, thousands of afghans have come to the airport hoping to get on flights. scared to stay in the country because of the taliban control that they have asserted over kabul and over the country right now. and so as that has happened, one of the things that the u.s. has had to do is prioritize getting out u.s. personnel. what that means for now is there have been some flights put on pause for these after fwan interpreters for these special visa immigrants that the united states h...

On today and the image that we have seen of him to this point really is the one we saw yesterday, the president effectively isolated, appearing alone, speaking via videoconference with some of his top advisers at camp david. he was seated at that big table by himself and it shows the position where he is effectively alone on this. this has been the presidents position all along, that he wanted the u.s. out, he did not want to send any additional troops to that region and did not want to pass on ...

Shouldnt -- and everyone believes that number should be doubled or tripled after that massive offensive that has taken place all across afghanistan. >> and matt zeller, you appeared on this program and talked about how your own life was saved by an afghan interpreter when you were serving in afghanistan and you called on the biden administration to airlift out the interpreters and their families out, and those words were tragically prescient, and what now do you feel about the families there? >>...

>> reports are that the president rejected the advice. president obama had a policy of lead from behind. everybody has to pave their own way. it appears the biden administrations policy is going to be just leave behind. >> trace: thank you both. >> thank you. >> sandra: we are awaiting any more information. governor hogan has just announced that maryland stands ready and willing to receive more afghan interpreters. we are starting to hear from our state officials as their willingness and capabil...

That trip to kabul was eye opening for me. everything felt different, and that warning from the taliban elder was chilling, but u.s. intelligence did not predict the speed of this taliban takeover. they underestimated the taliban and overestimated the afghan forces. senior pentagon leaders were saying they were hopeful that the afghan forces could handle this, and they could not, but however anyone feels about whether we should have stayed in afghanistan or gotten out, it is how we did in that i...

Possibility of not knowing what will happen in the future. >> trace: now we are told that despite the fact he is bringing his papers that the taliban, they know. they have the proof. they have the documents to prove who was working with americans. you counter that with the fact that we have only got 200 people out so far. the situation is dire. >> well, here is the brutal irony. the very paperwork that these brave interpreters and others who worked with us need to prove to get through the state ...