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Arent they saving more, you factor in the hours, the money we spend day in and day out commuting, staying home, not needing to live near an urban center, are those people doing the calculation and saying taking a 5% pay cut is nothing compared to how much they save by staying home? >> exactly. you could probably -- i mean, depending on how you do the math, it may turn out to be 10% or 15% that maybe some people would be able to take a reduction in their salary depending on what it is and the cos...

Counterterror adviser on the national security council. richard clark is a veteran of multiple administrations and he is indeed a better mind on afghanistan. welcome to prime time, sir. >> good to see you, chris. >> whats your take on the exit? >> well, its a mess. it was going to be a mess. but i didnt have to be this bad. the white house can say they planned for every contingency, but the evidence seems to be the opposite. if they planned for it, why is it going so poorly? you just did the mat...

Ngos. the military side of the airfield is open and the civilian side of the airfield is also open. and we intend to keep them both open for military commercial and charter flights. one caveat on the civilian side however is that the air frames have to command by visual flight rules only and a notice has gone out to the air crews. the state department is working to rapidly increase the flow of passengers available to get out on the aircraft and were fully supporting them with our military person...

Richard clark is a veteran of multiple administrations and he is indeed a better mind on afghanistan. welcome to prime time, sir. >> good to see you, chris. >> whats your take on the exit? >> well, its a mess. it was going to be a mess. but i didnt have to be this bad. the white house can say they planned for every contingency, but the evidence seems to be the opposite. if they planned for it, why is it going so poorly? you just did the math on getting people out. were not going to get them all ...

Fearing for their lives. they know theyll get raped, tortured, killed if the taliban find them before theyre able to get to safety. we owe it to them, we have a moral imperative to get them out. i heard reports from people on the ground that there are people with american passports, american citizens, trying to get to kabul airport to get to safety, so the next few days are absolutely critical as far as the evacuation goes. and obviously the administration is behind. >> the next few days are cri...

Withdraw u.s. forces. >> and this is where the math gets tough to understand. in pulling out, we pulled out the last 2,500 u.s. troops. as of tonight, there are 3,500 u.s. troops in kabul. the president has authorized a total of 6,000 troops to deploy to assist with evacuations, even though the pentagon refuses to use that word. with that, lets bring in our leadoff guests on this busy monday night, peter baker, veteran journalist and author, andrea mitchell, our own nbc news senior washington co...

Should not be fighting in a war, and dying in a war the afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. i inherited a deal that president trump negotiated with the taliban. the choice i had to make, as your president, was either to follow through on that, agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the taliban, after 20 years. ive learned the hard way. that there was never a good time to withdraw, u.s. forces. >> this is where the math gets tough to understand. in pulling, out we pull...

Country to try to go get them? >> its certainly an option that we have to consider. its a terrible option, considering that a mere week ago we controlled much more of the country or at least the allied afghan government did. we really missed the boat here. thats why ive been asking the administration, pleading with the administration for months to start this evacuation. dont wait until the last minute. do the math. you cant do this in the last week. but they didnt heed that advice, and now were ...

Way? i dont know what the exact math is at this moment. lay out the mission for us. >> john, forget the message points and forget everything youve heard from political appo appointees. they are in a major operation in afghanistan. they are deploying an entire brigade of the 82nd airborne and rapid response division, that unit, and hope them all there in the coming days. a total of about 6,000 troops they hope to get in. but before they can get those troops in, as kylie just said, they are in the...

Thats why ive been calling on administration for the last several months to evacuate our allies, to evacuate american citizens. this bureaucrat tprocess, you cn sort that out later. get these people out. if they had done that we wouldnt see the chaotic scenes attica beautiful airport today so i dont see how he can make the case that he planned for this contingency. its clearly catching us by surprise. >> and conguraz man, you said yu made the case? is it falling on deaf ears? >> there is a bipar...