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Protecting. they will be looking after air traffic control as well as the perimeter. and were seeing pictures of u.s. soldiers. one of those afghan interpreters said he went up to the americans and they told him to get back, to move back. he did not see the americans firing, but he did however see the taliban firing into the air to squcare people away. but this is causing huge problems because we know the civilian airport has been closed, commercial flights have been closed. so for all the afgha...

What one hopes is that the service is being streamlined and we are able to expedite the evacuation. serra; to expedite the evacuation. sorry for interrupting, _ to expedite the evacuation. sorry for interrupting, just _ to expedite the evacuation. sorry for interrupting, just on - to expedite the evacuation. sorry for interrupting, just on that i for interrupting, just on that point, i was going to say that there are some suggestions that some of those paper works for some of the afghan interpre...

Focused on getting u.s. citizens out, along with interpreters. although tens of thousands of translators have no u.s. visas, so they, too, are left to the taliban. the militants took control of kabul yesterday. we watched them move in. >> kabul is falling. we left our office, long time home in afghanistan, heading to a safer location, hopefully safer location. we have seen gunmen look like taliban on the streets and all government check points, police and soldiers are gone. now the taliban are o...

He now works for the nonprofit "no one left behind." to l tonight, the fall of afghanistan. president biden addressing the american people late today, defending the u.s. withdrawal, telling americans, quote, i stand firmly behind my decision. the searing images from kabul, with the taliban now in control of the country. afghan citizens racing to an american military plane, a c-17, heading down the runway for takeoff. reports people were killed falling from the plane. and that others died in th...

Perception that the americans were going to leave and that they simply needed to wait a bit longer for that to happen. i have no doubt if president biden had judged that staying in afghanistan was important to u.s. national security interests, that agreement with the taliban that president trump concluded would not have stood in his way. this was not an international treaty. it was not anything that the united states couldnt just brush aside if it judged that it was in u.s. national security int...

The interpreters out of afghanistan before this becomes a blood bath. hes been having trouble getting ahold of his family the past few days. mike is joining us to talk about this. thank you so much for being here. i know that your heart is heavy as youre trying to figure out what to do with your family. you served as a translator. you went on hundreds if not thousands of combat missions with u.s. troops. tell us thats something that purts your family in danger. what is their plight right now. >>...

Out a couple thousand interpreters and americans and thats it or do they stay there and secure that airport and take out women who started human rights organizations, people who are at risk of of being killed by the taliban? but whats interesting, nicolle, here, is part of the audience for this speech is also the taliban. frankly theyre going to be watching in afghanistan in the coming months are they going to invite in terrorist organizations to potentially have a safe haven that we would have ...

Counterterrorism operation. and he name-checked several of those. i think the second one, though, which is what speaks to the images weve seen, is the failure to evacuate more of the afghans. he mentioned that 2,000 have gotten out. i think most people assess that several tens of thousands at minimum would need to get out who worked with us. and i think he did speak to the fact that theyre accelerating that process. but again, when he spoke about the need to put human rights at the center of our...

To even many of the fellow democrats in congress like congressman seth moulton who have been saying for months, you have to do more to get out those who aided the u.s., right. you have to do more. you have to do it now. congressman seth moulton, a huge voice overnight with a scathing statement. he said to say that today is anything short of a disaster would be dishonest, worse it was avoidable. and to what the president is going to say when he does address the nation, he has to answer to those c...

>> greg: lets get to final thoughts gut get my final thought watch the show tonight. cori mills, kat timpf, joey. i wonder what we will talk about. >> dana: florida mills is running for congress. he is a veteran. worth paying attention to. this will probably be an issue in the midterms. i have got a final thought for you. this just in from a congressional source. the taliban are kidnapping the families of these interpreters in america right now and telling them to come back to face taliban justi...