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Leaving on time. no good choice. i would have done what biden did. >> phil, lets play it out. okay? >> yes. >> so you leave and you brag about your number and then people like me poke holes in the number for the next two and a half weeks because we dont know if it is real. what happens to the people left behind? these stories you are talking about are guaranteed if you leave whoever is left behind and by your equation there will definitely be people left behind and that is exactly what is going ...

Period because when american forces leave those left behind will likely pay a price. getting out will be at the mercy of men known for being merciless and the women there will be in grave, grave danger. even while saying theyll be the kinder, more inclusive taliban, they are telling women to stay inside for their own safety. and now this new threat, isis k. there will always be a threat. are we handling this one the right way? does it deter from the mission? that is what matters. lets take up th...

>> but, phil, if you tell them to go away, you are now automatically making good on the threat by isis k or whoever is making it because youre now putting them in even more danger. the further they get from that airport the less chance they ever get back to. >> that assumes we cant improve the processes over the next five, six days. look whats happened over the past five, six days. would you have said wed be at 80 plus thousand people five or six days ago? id have said no way. that also assumes ...

Now hes saying after we leave, were going to figure out ways to get you out. >> yesterday secretary blinken said that was going to be donewy meetings. i think what happened today is were going to have to consider alternative means, whether it is military or special operations forces or possibility some of our militaries. it could be assistance movements that were seeing inside of afghans, the northern alliance. so i would hope that the president lives up to those words and it is not just a campa...

They dont have good choices, we dont have good choices. there is no good answer. >> but phil, if you tell them to go away, you are now automatically making good on the threat by isis-k or whoever is making it because youre now putting them in even more danger. the further they get from that airport the less chance they ever get back to it. >> that assumes we cant improve the processes over the next five, six days. look at whats happened over the past five, six days. would you have said wed be at...

Congregate around a gate and get blown up. >> you know my suggestion. i dont understand why you would put any weight on the august 31st date. i dont understand why biden did. i think he was duped by the media asking him gotcha questions and the fringe political base that worked against him. why did they ever play into that? oh, its in the deal. the guys who made the deal say its a joke. you never honored the deal. you didnt work on the deal. why honor it now and give the taliban that kind of res...

Arguably botching the exit, which is you cannot be focused on a deadline right now. you have to get your people out. phil mudd who knows way better about this stuff than i do, he says theres no good answer. but there can be a worse answer, which is if you leave you guarantee anyone whos left behind is going to be in a bad way, and they will be looked at, and they will be hunted and there will be recriminations. if you stay past the deadline, that may cause problems but that assumes that the tali...

It takes, even if it gets ugly because you have to get them out period, because when american forces leave those left behind will likely pay a price. getting out will be at the mercy of men known for being merciless and the women there will be in grave, grave danger. even while saying theyll be the kinder, more inclusive taliban, they are telling women to stay inside for their own safety. and now this new threat, isis-k. there will always be a threat. are we handling this one the right way? does...

Beginning, if his parents were never paid for the image, thats one thing. >> well, thats the thing. >> right. but this is very different. >> well, if you are going to say this is child pornography, then whats your parents? what do your parents have to do with it? whats their -- i mean, do they have an obligation here? is there an onus on them? >> they do, the father has told the story before. look. we know what this is about but again, its capturing a lot of peoples attention and it was worth ki...

Its better than having people congregate around a gate and get blown up, chris. >> you know my suggestion. i dont understand why you would put any weight on the august 31st date. i dont understand why biden did. i think he was duped by the media asking him gotcha questions and the fringe political base that worked against him. why did they ever play into that? oh, its in the deal. the guys who made the deal say the deal was a joke. you never honored the deal. you didnt work on the deal. why hono...