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I am working with some of the most amazing people. i dont even know some of their last names. they show up in my signal on my cell phone saying im here to help you get so and so from point a to point b. it has been incredible to see what american people are doing to help these people halfway around the world. my in box is full, email and texts and everything just full of people trying to help. were trying to make it happen but our first plane it took a week and day to get our first plane off and...

Airport, you know, i am in a place where i feel like, you know, the sooner we can move folks out, the better i understand that its very difficult for folks to move from the outer provinces, so right now, our primary focus is on the kabul airport. you know i think this situation is difficult no matter who was in office at the time. and you know reporting has shown that there was some indication that the government around the military forces in afghanistan would you know collapse a loot quicker th...

He invited taliban leaders to camp david. there was an uproar, that never happened. barack obama released taliban leaders in exchange for beau bergdahl. is this history, now that were dealing with thousands of americans that want to get out of the country and escape possible reprisals under taliban rule. >> i would say its not ancient history. it was happening during our lifetimes. we remember it. history builds on itself. it does matter how we got from point a to point b. i think march. mara is...

The government and the military forces in afghanistan would, you know, collapse a lot quicker than we anticipated. so this is a really unfortunate situation that were in right now, but i do think that there are options on the table. >> you know, jonathan, this is all happening against the context of a u.s. public that did have an appetite to see those troops withdrawn. can we pull up that polling, biden and trump both saw the need to get out of what was at this point a deeply unpopular war. and ...

>> reporter: this is from a briefing that just ended with the bipartisan group of house members. i should stress it was an unclassified briefing, and these are -- this is information notes im getting from someone inside that briefing. it was from secretary of state blinken from defense secretary austin and the joint chiefs of staff chairman general milley. and according to this briefing, the blinken told them that, we have troops in the area that were prepared for this scenario, that the state d...

Vaccine researcher dr. paul offett who saved countless lives with his vaccine. he puts it this way is the job of the vaccine is to keep you out of the hospital and out of the morgue. 99.99 percent prs of fully vaccinated people have not been hospitalized and have not died from covid-19. maybe a milder case? yes, that is absolutely possible. if youre not getting vaccinated youre making a decision to put yourself at a higher risk of being -- much higher, way higher risk of being hospitalized or dy...

>> allen bee arrives in the middle east. there were major changes. they realized they cant depend on the ottoman army alone to keep the british at bay occupying the middle east. >> germany sent thousands of re-enforcements to jerusalem. >> now what has been up until this point a proxy war between the british and the germans now becomes an actual front of world war i. general allen sent lawrence back to arabia, the same time plans his push and move towards gaza and jerusalem. here is as very impo...

They realized they cannot depend on the ottoman army alone to keep the british at bay from occupying the middle east. >> germany sends thousands of reinforcements to jerusalem. >> and now what has been up until this point a proxy war between the british and the germans now becomes an actual front of world war i. >> general allenby sent lawrence back into arabia, and at the same time, plans his push and his move via sinai towards gaza and then towards jerusalem. and here is a very important point...

Reckless policies that are permeating throughout this country make it more and more possible every day. >> so far this year, nationwide, more than 185 officers have been shot in the line of duty, according to the national fraternal order of police. that is more than double the number who were shot at this point a year ago. bret? bret: garrett tenney in chicago. garrett, thanks. a judge in minnesota is considering arguments about whether minneapolis can include in explanatory note along with the ...

At right now in that direction. they obviously have a certain amount of distance for safety reasons. as soon as the four crew members get the go ahead, they will actually go into the capsule after posing for some pictures right now. miles, lets talk about this being an autonomous vehicle. there is no pilot on board this rocket. there was with virgin galactic. there is a safety benefit to not having a pilot, correct? >> yeah, and as a pilot, i hate to say that, anderson. but we are the problem....