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Forever. that was ten years ago. afghanistan, tunisia, egypt, libya, syria, yemen, lindsey graham described them all as little laboratories to test his theories. all of those places still exist and are still countries. the question is, how are they now? has anyone of those countries been improved by lindsey grahams game plan? thats a good question, you have to ask the people that live in those countries. many of whom have since bled as refugees to germany and sacramento, california. lindsey grah...

Chris jansen picks up the coverage right now. hi, there. im in for stephanie ruhle. it is wednesday, august 25th. and we start with breaking news on capitol hill where house speaker nancy pelosi is about to speak any minute now, and the house foreign affairs committee will be briefed about afghanistan by the deputy secretary of state. last night, we learned congressmen went to afghanistan without any government approval. it comes after president biden said hes sticking to his pledge to withdra...

We need to put that metric on helping these people who have literally risked their lives and are now paying that price. >> were basically out of time, but do you ever envision a situation where there was a way to get every single person out in an evacuation? >> its an hour long show. remember, when this all started we were doing okay. we had about 2500 troops. it kept the taliban apt bay. this notion that we were going to pull the plug and everything was going to be fine utterly caused this coll...

Fell, the u.s. has evacuated or coordinated the evacuation of approximately 37,000 people. without question, this is progress and good news for the american citizens and green card holders whom the biden administration is prioritizing. the state department says that several thousand americans and their family members are still in afghanistan, still trying to get out. it has not been as easy for afghan allies who helped u.s. forces during the war and applied for what are called sivs or special im...

They need to have that action open for them. we are not putting any hurdles in their way, if they have a passport saying that they were issued by the us to them, they can go to commercial flights any time they want to go. that is their right. of course, we want them to stay in afghanistan and participate in the construction of the country, and there is no risk to their life or property. on sundayjoe biden said he was considered keeping troops in afghanistan beyond the 31st of august. we also kno...

21 people including 7 month old twins swept away by catastrophic flash floods in tennessee. ill talk to a mother who along with her 4 month old barely made it out of her flooded home alive. lets go "outfront". good evening, everyone. im kate bolduan in for erin burnett. we have breaking news. president biden being urged by several advisors against keeping troops in afghanistan past the august 31st deadline. the reason, the deteriorating security situation on the ground. meanwhile, the pentagon...

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Monetary deal out of this whole thing. you know, way back, years and years ago, during the iraq invasion in 2003, he was saying if were going to go in, lets keep the oil. so this is one of these mantras that he recites all the time, and recited again in his bizarre press conference following the announcement that abu bakr al baghdadi had been killed. >> is there are all kinds of reasons for keeping troops in syria, even though he said they would be pulled out and now theyre being reinforced in s...

Except it looks as though president trump is trying to create the fiction of some kind of victory here, which is what he was doing in those remarks a couple of days ago. and at the expense of the lives of many kurds, the livelihoods of many kurds, the homes of many kurd, basically theyre going to be ethnically cleansed from northeast syria, and hes keeping troops, lots of troops in the middle east, and even in syria, hes not bringing them home. so in fact, what he was talking about, a couple of ...

Really heard these details before. it reads, quote, mattis matd his case for keeping troops in syria. president trump rejected his arguments. 30 minutes into the conversation, mattis told the president, youre going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to isis. im not going to do it. now, i should note jeffrey goldberg who wrote this piece said none of those details came from mattis himself, but still a pretty remarkable scene, no? >> well, yeah. it is. as you point out, john, its...