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Was there any -- the idea that you accept bad deal by trump, but youll turn back other bad deals by trump? what was wrong with delaying six months? >> because we inherited a deadline negotiated by the previous administration. that deadline was may 1st. the idea that we could have maintained the status quo beyond may 1st if the president decided to stay i think is a fiction. here is what is likely to have happened had the president decided to do that. during the time from when the agreement was r...

Was the original mission was over -- m that has been the whi house rationale and they feel -- they say that their hands were tied by donald trumps decision to get out on may 1st, that -- as secretary blinken is telling meet b the press today, that on may 2nd, we would have been embroiled in this brutal civil war and having to send thousands andha thousands of troops back in order to stop the taliban because they had said that they would startth fighting the day after the may 1st withdrawal that ...

And they say they had to live up to that because otherwise it would have been a bloody civil war on may 2nd, its on joe bidens watch. he inherited this, but hes carrying out the withdrawal and critics say that he had some options. >> andrea, stay close. we will continue to cover this as it is happening. as you canis see on the screen the left of the tv we are seeing helicopter movement between the u.s. embassy and somewhere in the greenom zone, a secure arean baghdad and the baghdad airport. bot...

With which this transpired. what many are calling, especially the republicans, a lack of add equation planning for the drawdown in the evacuation, as well as the fact that they are, of course, not blaming president trump, who made the commitment to may 1st, and the pushback from secretary blinken those on "meet the press" that on may 2nd. the taliban was going to be attacking if we did not signal we are going to meet the commitment, a call that president trump had actually invited the taliban to...

Blinken said today on nbc is that by may 2nd, there would have been an all-out war because the taliban had said their decision not to attack american troops was only until may 1st. so theyre saying that on may 2nd, u.s. would have been coming under attack as well as the afghan troops, and that it would have been a bloody civil war and we would have had to surge forces in quickly. and that joe biden simply not prepared to do that. he made that very clear in his statement. yesterday from camp davi...

0 going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, its important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. >> yeah. >> the current pl...

0 latest on the situation. thank you. the fall of kabul appears to be imminent is the headline. >> were sure courtney will be with us throughout the day, as well as our steam of correspondents to follow the latest. thanks for watching msnbc reports, "velshi" starts right now. im ali velshi, were departing from our normal format for the news out of afghanistan where the taliban is closing in on kabul. the biggest city in the country. it does appear to be surrounded. this map is the latest we ha...

To icu on friday march 12th. by that saturday, they had to put him on a ventilator, and after being in the hospital 51 days, he passed away may 2nd. >> im so sorry, kristy. i cant imagine the pain and im sure the anger that youre feeling and kayla, you as well. can you talk a little, i know with this time lin, early march, vaccines had been starting to roll out. kayla, talk about why you and your family were hesitant to get vaccinated. i know its been said to kurt in his final moments said somet...

Is it fair or even patriotic to threaten states that do not conform to the Democratic Socialists mandate to control the outcome of Free and Fair elections enacted by constitutionally guaranteed states legislatures?   Yes, all elections must be federalized so that the whim of the majority political party can set the standard for all elections.   No, Our Founders purposefully decentralized elections by guaranteeing only states legislatures the independent right to enact Free and Fair electi...

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