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Nation building and i think ryan crocker said it well in terms of the main mission was always to prevent afghanistan from becoming a haven for terrorists who wanted to kill us trying to keep the fight there rather than here at home. but along the way, these other things helped to build the support for that and helped people to live their lives in a way that i think were seeing crumbling quickly. this is a humanitarian disaster. when i hear ned price and other spokes people say keep in mind the p...

The political leaders asked them to do, and regardless of the outcome of the war or the generational divide or what we are seeing of the taliban but as military members, they did what they were asked to do. >> and peter, they could have stayed in afghanistan 5 years, 10 years, or 50 years. so at some point the afghan army had to stand on their own two feet. with that said, we are leaving behind people who could be potentially slaughtered now. i want to play some of andrea mitchell pressing ned p...

New york times pentagon correspondent helene cooper and ben rhodes, former national security adviser for president obama. thank you both. lets talk with what we just heard from ned about the drawdown and we can only assume the standard procedures involved, shredding documents, securing the embassy and there are 1400 people that we know of. tell us about this trip deployment and how this is going to work. our own reports from courtney kubi and others that there are differing accounts of how soon ...

>> on top of that, you have families who have fled these regions and in a lot of cases their houses have been destroyed and they have nothing and they have no money to buy food and the u.n. is warning of an escalating humanitarian crisis here where you have tens of thousands of people, no way to eat and theyre dependent upon volunteer essentially showing up with bread and water in order to keep them going. it really is descending into quite a humanitarian crisis and when you look ahead at the po...

School, they could get a job, they could start their own businesses, and we would protect them. ned price at the state department talked about how the united states was not abandoning afghanistan. well, we are. this is an abandonment, this is an abandonment that the sec dev opposed. the chairman of the joint chiefs did the same. as we all know, most of washingtons foreign policy establishment knew this was a bad move and this was going to happen and we were going to see these stories every day f...

Security, stability to the people of afghanistan. let me explain to you a couple of things were doing. first and foremost, the state department, we are focused on the diplomatic front. just this week our team has been in qatar meeting with countries from the region and in fact, well beyond. we have seen a very strong consensus emerge from this large consolation of countries and international organizations to include the u.n. that any government that takes afghanistan by force, that takes power b...

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Situation. we expect to draw down to record diplomatic presence in afghanistan in the coming weeks. in order to facilitate this reduction, the department of defence will temporarily deploy additional personnel to the airport. gary odonoghuejoins gary odonoghue joins me from washington. do we have any more detail on more trips being needed to be sent to? it detail on more trips being needed to be sent to? , , ., ., ., be sent to? it seems that around 3000 troops _ be sent to? it seems that around...

Building to the airfield, thats it. >> ned price says there will be from the department of defense temporarily will deploy additional personnel to karzai international airport. jeff, to you. i understand there had been some conversations obviously from the white house there. the president has consistently said that despite what is happening there in afghanistan, this does not change the timeline, this does not change the deadline for american troops coming out. >> victor, that is president biden...

Afghanistan has fallen to the taliban and horrible stories out of there. theres information that kandahar has fallen. we cant confirm that. we dont have people on the ground. we have oversight flight. ive been to all of those places. i think that youre going to see this go fast. this hope that the taliban is somehow going to be enlightened in the world stage and theyre going to be engaged in the u.n. or anything else is just rose-colored glasses to the x degree. >> martha: preposterous given wha...