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Launch some sort of attack, what could be their target? >> in this case its the crowds of afghans around the airport. things such as suicide bombers who could easily infiltrate those crowds and cause a lot of casualties, possibly breach the gates of the airport. the intent with this attack, like so many terror attacks, is to create fear and mayhem. thats the concern of u.s. officials. it appears that that contributed to the presidents decision to stick to the august 31st deadline. i want to br...

To do this for several more days. we had an air bridge during communism to berlin that we didnt ask the soviet union for permission. if we have the will, we can push back. the administration has to be willing to take risk and there is risk to u.s. personnel. >> isis poses an acute threat to americas evacuation mission. can you help us understand how and why that is? >> i think there are two risks here when it comes to isis. the first is that you could have an attack on people trying to get into ...

More time and attention. theyll have to go around the world to our allies, as im sure president biden did today, while this is very difficult, we have to turn our focus for the next several decades here. >> so sam, thats beyond our borders. lets talk about domestic politics. in bidens remarks, it looked like about 50% devoted to his domestic agenda. in your view, is that the old veteran campaigner correctly summing up his hunch that primary voters are not going to be motivated to go to the polls...

Elections infrastructure so that they get to hang on to power because they noted in a marketplace of ideas fewer and fewer people are buying what theyre selling. the only way for them to continue to hold on to power is if they take a sledgehammer to our elections infrastructure, and thats what we are witnessing right now. we cannot pretend like thats not what were seeing, that they have no legitimate argument. and im talking about going back to when president trump -- former president trump was ...

Or red states that the courts can end up saving voting rights? >> well, i think its one example where the courts have stepped in and expanded the right to vote. we did see examples of this during the 2020 election. there were numerous times courts stepped in and said, no, we need to protect mail-in voting and drop boxes. votes that had already been cast legally under new guidelines were protected. so courts have been a major venue to protect voting rights pretty much since the passage of the vot...

My white immigrant mother. it was designed to lock out people from latin america. so until we get about the business of looking at the fact that our immigration system has as its feature being racist, that its not a flaw, its a feature, we cant expect to have a truly equitable system. thats what we need to address. >> neal, to the legal piece of this, its been widely remarked upon that the court showed great deference to the trump administration when it came to emergency matters, something that ...

Are truly immune, right? we know this prior to. and we expected this to be the same thing and maybe our messaging wasnt as great, but we told people on the way we are tracking those persons in the clinical trial to see when we may need to do a third dose. guess what? the third dose time is now here and were saying eight months past your second dose is when you need to be considered for a third for the mrna vaccines and even for johnson & johnson eight months after that dose get your booster shot...

Are very, very keen on trying to remain on good terms with the international community and the international community has made any kind of future relationship entirely dependent on their behavior towards their citizens in terms of respect for future rights, female education and so on. so, at least in the medium term the hope is that perhaps people will be able to make their own way out of the country if they choose to do that. >> sam, america obviously isnt the only country operating flights, e...

70,000 have been evacuated. there is still some question about the number of americans still in the country. biden has asked secretary of state antony blinken to have an exact number for him by tomorrow. today we learned the cia director william burns held a secret face to face meeting yesterday with the talibans de facto leader. nbc news confirming this report from the "washington post." they put hit the way. biden dispatched his top spy, a veteran of foreign service and the most decorated dipl...

As always in any kind of combat consideration the enemy gets a vote and sometimes we dont calculate that into our eq equation. >> as the taliban says it has arrested four isis-k operatives who are doing reconnaissance, filming the airport clearly looking for vulnerabilities and possibilities for attack. >> yeah, because that would be an embarrassment to both the taliban and the united states. >> sure. >> thats what the taliban is concerned about. >> what is this -- youre talking about this is th...