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Fall. it happened within days. was there actually less surprise than acknowledged? do you believe the u.s. saw this coming or should have? >> the veteran community that i talked to certainly believes that the leadership saw this coming. and its one of the things that we are looking for is accountability and transparency. we need accountability in this gem. everything i have found in the book tells me that the warnings were there, the indicators were there. and we could have done work on the fron...

Lot of the volunteers who have been on the phone nonstop. i can tell you, i had my own personal health issues coming out of a couple of tours in afghanistan, nearly took my own life, 18 months after i transitioned. and for many of us, these events in afghanistan come streaming back. and one of the things i want to ask people is, is check in on the veterans and your gold star families and military families. for many of them, they picked up the phone when the institutional leaders didnt. they stay...

Retribution. isis and al qaeda, talking to the special operators im talking to in-country, they are making a play. but i think people, when they read this book, what theyre going to see is the level of relationships, trust and human connection, between these veteran volunteers and the afghan allies. i think it was the thing that stood out most to me, at a time when the country is so divided, you have republicans and democrats coming together. and no one was talking about that stuff. we were talk...

On this episode, Will sits down with U.S. Army Special Forces member Lt. Colonel Scott Mann, to discuss his new book, Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan.

Lt. Scott Mann, a former Green Beret, was brought back into the world of military operations and life-or-death decision-making when he and other veterans banded together to help get their Afghan friends and colleagues out of Afghanistan before the military withdrew last year as the Taliban rose to power.

Former Green Beret Scott Manns book Operation Pineapple Express details the tireless effort of special operators to get Afghan allies out of Kabul as the carnage unfolded.

Exactly one year ago on Monday, Afghanistans capital fell to the Taliban in a lightening-fast offensive just four months after President Joe Biden announced the US militarys withdrawal.

Are trapped behind enemy lines and the worst part of this is it was all preventible. doesnt care that our afgan partners have been abandoned and theyll likely be 1 murdered. doesnt seem to care that 13 american heroes died because of his disastrous withdraw. over the weekend, after joe checked his watch repeatedly during the dignified transfer, a relative of one of our fallen soldiers reportedly yelled across the tarmac at joe, i hope you burn in hell. her feelings, her anger, her grief. you wan...

Are trapped behind enemy lines and the worst part of this is it was all preventible. doesnt care that our afgan partners have been abandoned and theyll likely be murdered. doesnt seem to care that 13 american heroes died because of his disastrous withdraw. over the weekend, after joe checked his watch repeatedly during the dignified transfer, a relative of one of our fallen soldiers reportedly yelled across the tarmac at joe, i hope you burn in hell. her feelings, her anger, her grief. you want ...

Impoverished place. the taliban is like 18 different groups, the ethnic differences in afghanistan. you have all of these different groups who think they have pry prymacy. i think if china hits this tar baby their hands stick to it. >> kate.y. >> i want to ask jennifer another question. shes not here. she mentioned ngos and private organizations helping, pete you can talk about this too. its incredible to see ace result of this crisis happening so quickly and people caught off guard. operation p...