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Predicted on september 12th, 2001. >> lets talk about the events in afghanistan. heres the screen. ill share it with you first, was the situation in afghanistan inevitable or the result of policymaking mistakes? you say what? >> i think it was largely as a result of mistakes. but i dont think we know what would have happened if we played this out five or ten more years. when president biden says, for example it would have been the same regardless of when we left. he might right. he might wrong. ...

After withdrawal. thats when the clock is supposed to start. and then in early august oh it might be 30 to 90 days but, again, after august 30th. didnt make it to august 15th. steve: its just a disaster. congressman, i have been reading, apparently boris johnson, the prime minister of the united kingdom, was so upset with what was happening because nato didnt want this to happen like this. joe biden pretty much unilaterally decide are for all of nato they were going to pull a plug on it the pres...

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Donald trump." thank you very much for being here, both of you. ben, im going to start with you because im going to read a different "washington post" columnist to jennifer. im going to read a little from david ignatius piece in "the post." heres what he wrote. i thought it was brilliantly written and comprehensive. the structure of the kabul government has been rotting from within for all 20 years of the united states war. every u.s. commander knew its weakness. they worried about the corruptio...

As provincial capitals fell the cia was warning about a rapid and total collapse of the afghan military and government. thats according to current and former u.s. officials one of whom told nbc news the worst case description of what it could look like is pretty close to what happened. the white house wont confirm whether president joe biden received this warning from his national security team. joining me now is congressman jake auchincloss from massachusetts. hes a marine corps veteran who ser...

Could have misjudged or mishandled the end game, badly. the other is the justification, both domestically and geostrategically for ending our 20-year commitment there and what happens now. president, so far, has done little to explain the first but a lot on the second. the question of pulling the plug. >> there are some very brave and capable afghan special forces units and -- and soldiers. but if afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance at the taliban now, there is no chance that one ...

Talking tonight about two stories as troops continue flowing into kabul airport to secure the american and allied evacuation, one is how the administration could have misjudged or mishandled the end game badly. the other is the justification, both domestically and geostrukeejicily for ending our 20-year commitment there and what happens now. the president so far has done little to explain the first, but a lot on the second. the question of pulling the plug. >> some very brave and capable afghan ...

This, the afghans could not defeat the taliban, even with u.s. air support and even with considerably more troops when w have u.s. forces there, but the taliban can not also defeat the afghan government, and that imperfect stalemate that status quo, has enabled us to continue to protect the american people. why? because the taliban are not taking over the country in we can make certain that the al qaeda does not resurrect itself. we have the cia present in that u.s. forces in significant intelli...

Years, this is proof in the rapid crumbling of the country that they werent up to the fight, that may be it was time to go commit that if they were not up to that and couldnt do anything without us, then may b our will belief that the countr could move on without a taliban influence it based on a false premise in a naïve confidence that the afghans would be up to that. >> lips unpack what you just said. they took 3,000 casualties last year, i think 7,000 casualties in 2019 in the fight very so ...

Disingeneral with us to say these generals have been lying to us all complaining the afghans should have done better. and the ground troops knew better. we all knew that the success of the finallies was entirely dependent on them having their back and their capabilities were only going to be as good as the faith of their government that they were asked to defend. just like when isis stormed through. no faith in kabul. and that was especially overtly no reason to have any faith in the united stat...