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Luma Mufleh, the founder of Fugees Family, a non-profit advancing educational justice for refugee and immigrant youth, on the reality behind the U.S. asylum process.

Be a member of palment. that resets the corruption issue here and resets the -- in essence, a fraud that was going on sort of almost in plain sight within the afghan national army. the training, et cetera, the way it was being run to reset that would have taken many years. i dont think there was a quick fix as we heard there. >> nic in kabul. ky kylie, at the state department. up next for us, the polls are open on this california recall election day. it is a yes or no vote on whether the democ...

Aarp is fighting for americans like larry, and we wont stop. thats why were calling on congress to let medicare negotiate lower prescription drug prices.

Look at texas, florida, look at how the delta variant has hit harder there. yes, youre frustrated with me and were all frustrated by covid. the president of the united states saying california might send a national message. >> the decision youre about to make isnt just going to have a huge impact on california. it is going to reverberate around the nation. and quite frankly, not a joke, around the world. >> we may overread this as you do any single election sometimes, but is it not true if youre...

Battle. you heard some democrats saying that this was also a problem with the trump administration, and their policies. you heard from senate shaheen pointing to mike pompeo, ignoring her questions about getting women at the table. the negotiating table with the tal taliban. she was clearly frustrated about what the trump administration did to get the biden administration where they are. she spoke about the need to work together to get the rest of the afghans out of the country. and secretary bl...

Withdrawal sooner? other questions, though, honestly, bizarre and theater. the secretary has been defiant and defensive of the administrations actions throughout this hearing. were going to continue to monitor this as the american people deserve answers still of why this withdrawal went so wrong. im kate bolduan. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. >> thank you. welcome to inside politics. we begin this hour with dramatic breaking news. the peril of trump. americas top general two...

Hes crazy, and what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness. general milley, i agree with you on everything. number one, the last part will set trump off. he already had a dysfunctional relationship with milley at the end. it was a common thread from early in the trump presidency that the speaker thought the president was erratic and maybe not wired correctly. but this, i mean, that is extraordinary. she is third in the line of succession. she is americas most powerful woman, and s...

Leave you a detailed plan. why didnt you say we need five more months or six more months? would that have sold to the taliban or caused chaos? >> it certainly would have thrown the cat among the pigeons with the taliban. you would have tested their stated intent to start targeting u.s. forces if you didnt meet the may deadline or reset august deadline. that test would have been there. it could have cost lives. i think the reset that would have been required to combat the broad scale of corruptio...

Its not about the country. its about him and whats good for him. what milley was trying to do and mike pence is trying to do is say no, theres a process. that process is sacrosank. we have to stick with it. its frightening to look back and see how close we came to a president demanding that be circumvented and there are people who had to say no. >> theres a thread through the trump presidency, whether hes calling them my generals or turning to the attorney general to be his personal lawyer or re...

Some of the testimony was combative. this is on the senate side on day two. what stood out most to you in terms of significance? >> the secretary reiterated what he said yet in terms of the defense of the biden administration and their decision to withdraw from afghanistan. as you heard him saying staying longer wouldnt have made the situation -- saying the processing for the siv process was sped up when senators asked why, he said it increased to 1,000 visas a week. he also discussed the fact t...