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>> in what may be one of the more consequential speech of his political life president biden there with a full throated defense of the withdrawal from afghanistan. the president is trying to move past the chaos and the tragedy of the last two weeks and mark the end of two decades of failed notions of american nation building abroad. >> he tried to shift the focus from questionable decision making during pullout to the broader point that he ended a war three predecessors could not. jeff zeleny re...

Were there. i found it to be the most disrespectful thing ive ever seen. >> harris: there is legacy leadership in the military joining us, k.t., that is you. your children served, your predecessors served. you know what that meaning is, the casket on that tarmac. >> k.t.: my daughter is still lieutenant commander of the navy reserve. she had friends who died in afghanistan. the thing that upsets me the most about this is i go back to the vietnam war, when after we lost that were and came home, t...

Worst case scenario. president biden has been able to do what his predecessors did not. he stood by his word, his pledge that he wanted the u.s. troops gone, and history will judge him as making the right decision. thats yet to be determined. >> its hard to know. to sit here and say, was it worth it, or did it achieve the goal, the issue is it kept on changing. 20 years is a long time. you dont have one aim or doing one thing over 20 years. you look back on 20 years, and its hard to balance what...

Dangerous. the second point i would make is potus dont separate out these individual issues quite as much. but i have talked to people near me who voted for biden. gee, i glad i voted for him. im glad its not trump. but i dont know. i dont think i could vote for him. also at the congressional level we need to check some of this stuff. i thought the speech today was indicative. it was not the speech he could have given. not because of the substance. leave that aside. but at the end of a 20-year w...

Of course criticism not just from republicans but democrats as well. he said he refused to continue a war that was no longer in the service of the vital national security interests of the country. he said he was not going to extend these forever wars, he was not going to extend a forever exit. and he put some blame in pretty specific terms on his predecessors, former president president trump, saying that the status quo was no longer an option because the trump administration had reached an agre...

Presidents term? >> to be determined, phil, if theres another bombing or atrocity. if theres another loss of life, frankly, grievous loss of life in the next few days it could make things look even worse. at the end of the day, it could be a real tragedy. but look, the reality is the last president on the longest war in american history, the guy who was going to lower the flag was always going to get a disproportionate share of the blame. i think president biden knew that when he made the decisi...

Cdc is even talking about this issue, is even using the word guns. it hasnt happened in years and years. >> everyday we turn on the news and there are more young people dying. i swore to the president and to this country that i would protect your health. this is clearly one of those moments, one of those issues that is harming americas health. >> reporter: but theres a reason why your predecessors didnt address it. >> perhaps. >> i want to share -- >> reporter: were used to hearing dr. rochelle ...

Point the at that throughout the process. they believe with the evacuation numbers improving by the day, they believe if they were able to get people out by august 31st this is a story that fades from the headlines, and eventually, americans will even give him credit for being the u.s. president that was finally able to end the war, something his predecessors were not able to do. republicans are trying to seize the opportunity. there is vulnerability here. there are moderate democrats who believ...

Think, and his aides believe, as we have some distance from this, particularly if the evacuations continue apace and theyve been better in recent days, more and more people getting out, if that continues to be a success and most americans, all americans and most afghans are able to get out, that as the months go by people will look back on this and this will become something that held in much higher regard, he was able to end this war, something his predecessors were not able to do. right now it...

Vietnam, which inevitably invites unflattering comparisons with the last time the us were so humiliatingly defeated. kamala harris is relatively inexperienced in foreign policy and shes having, on this trip, to fend off questions, not just about the dreadful events in afghanistan but about the overall reliability of the united states as an ally. of course, she could point to the remarkably close relations today between the united states and the very same communist regime that drove it out of vie...