Page 5 - Plus 13 News Today

>> as you might guess i have an opinion on that. can i get a quick word on afghanistan first since the others did? >> bret: yeah, sure. >> they keep talking about strategic failure and logistical success. we are the parents of a marine. when our son was out in pendleton, he was supposed to come to dinner with us. he couldnt come because they had lost one pair of night goggles. and the entire platoon and indeed the entire company was grounded because of one pair of night goggles. whats the issue,...

Plus 13. and other polls have the presidents job approval considerably lower, in the low 40s. wont joe bidens diminished standing with the american people make it harder for congress, democrats in congress to pass his agenda when as i say theres less support for him generally and this is a tough vote thats going to -- youre going to have here for a lot of democrats. >> i dont think its going to make it more difficult at all because what weve seen in polling on what were trying to accomplish, the...

Consider a punishment, harsher than a life in prison. which is, in fact, the sentence larry received. life, plus 13 years. do you guys feel like you are better off now? >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. a lot better. >> i know, its weird to think that, after all of this and -- but we are. were closer. and we know each other, better. and weve seen each other at our lowest but we are closer, and were all stronger, as a family. >> two and a half years after the bombing, connie was up and walking, unassiste...

Plus 13. and other polls have the presidents job approval considerably lower, in the low 40s. wont joe bidens diminished standing with the american people make it harder for congress, democrats in congress to pass his agenda when as i say theres less support for him generally and this is a tough vote thats going to -- youre going to have here for a lot of democrats. >> i dont think its going to make it more difficult at all because what weve seen in polling on what were trying to accomplish, the...

Ready to deploy on short notice. 50 we got that team back in on the 17th, so there was a four—day period and the truth is that the paras and the us forces had not arrived in full and secured that airport until then. we got them back in on the ground on the 17th and they were bolstered again to a peak of 20, plus 13 border force staff. in addition we had this further idt of seven in dubai and, as we have already gone through, 200 staff at the fcdo crisis centre working 20 a7 to coordinate the r...

Some of them, one father had decided that he did in the end. but he taked about essentially mixed reviews of how that interaction went with the president where he felt like some of them said that the president was looking at his watch during it. some of them felt like he talked about his own experience with his own son dying too often and instead of their children and focusing on what happening last week. but i do think that isoch a way that you see that president biden try to connect with peopl...

Understood biden a little bit. the rest of it did seem quite tense between the two men. >> yeah. matt, thank you so much for your reporting, and of course as we are looking back on the end of americas longest war, we are continuing to keep the families of those 13 service members in our thoughts. >> thank you. >> in some ways that card that president biden carries with him represents the 20 years. the 20 years of the u.s. presence there and the plus 13 to 20 long years of an american presence in...

Post" details. "dont you ever forget that name, dont you ever forget that face, dont you ever forget the names of other 12 and take some times to learn their stories." the president appeared to bristle at that and said "i do know their stories. "schmitzs father had woken up a matter of days at 2:40 military officer at the door telling him the news of his sons passing, news that almost made him faint, but he also said there was one moment where he thought it worthy of praising the president and h...

This president, any commander in chief can say to the families to help assuage the heartbreak theyre experiencing right now, but they say they remain committed to help comfort them, do whatever they can for those families going forward. it is notable that one of the parents did say even though he was very frustrated with the president, there was one thing he gave president biden cudos, the fact he carries with him in his pocket the list that identifies the number of american lives lost, 2461 the...

Have been killed in the middle east. what did he say to you about that? >> that was sort of the one thing that mark left with sort of feeling good about biden, you know, he pulled out that note card. he showed him, i do understand these stories. i do understand the numbers. and he showed him the number of troops that had been killed in iraq and afghanistan, which of course he carries in his breast pocket, and on that, there was an added point on the schedule that said plus 13, and so for biden, ...