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Civilians in this fight. theyre allies in this fight. theres all sorts of issues as we know in terms of how things could have been better, mistakes were made. theres no denies the fact that for 20 years they stood up against radical islamic movement for their own self-interests but also for the security of the american people and our nato allies. for some reason, he hasnt been able to embrace that. he made a flippant statement in 1975 dealing with the south vietnamese. he said we have no obligat...

Ambassador to nato in the final years of 0bamas tenure. hes in salt lake city, utah. thanks very much indeed for joining us. i wonder what you made alljoe biden�*s comments today. in spite of everything we have heard about the us being caught short on what has happened, there wasnt a lot of contrition and there was a lot of defiance. i contrition and there was a lot of defiance.— of defiance. i think the president _ of defiance. i think the president made - of defiance. i think the president...

>> dana: general. were losing your audio a little bit. thank you for all of these comments. well be in touch with you throughout the day. general jack keane will follow the story. >> bill: this is a quote from the statement from the commander-in-chief who we have not seen in six days. when i came to ted the deal cut predecessor which he invited the taliban to discuss at camp david on the eve of 9/11 of 2019. yes apparently that invitation went out. the meeting never happened. such an unnecessary...

From his predecessors mistakes. at least carter could claim the guise of inexperience. >> this tells you that leadership matters. that one person matters. everyone thinks maybe this is the whole point of bringing biden in. the bureaucracies will run the country. president trump showed us one individual can matter even when everything is against him. in this particular case you have perhaps a bureaucracy that has not known what it has been doing. explains catastrophes in america and problems in t...

Inevitable. yet it happen. it happened in the blink of an eye. talking to people like you and other troops who served on the ground, they say it is not surprising. how did he get this so wrong? >> one of the scenarios mapped out to this president was taliban takeover of afghanistan. this was conceivable when he made the decision. he made the tough and high integrity call to not pass this failed war on to yet another president. he was given a series of bad options from his predecessors. and he lo...

To prevent looting since their predecessors fleed. smoke rising from the u.s. embassy grounds as officials scramble to burn sensitive documents no they are destroying classified documents as i speak. the visa process is stopped. and now -- you know, president biden said in july, this is not going to be a saigon. it is not like south vietnam. but guess what? when i talked to ambassador crocker, we think it is going to be worse. >> president biden has increased the deployment of u.s. troops to kab...

On to a fifth. and you have to ask your self, why is he the fourth. well, its because his predecessors all chose to leave troops in to avoid the scenario they are now seeing play out on the ground. however, this president has maintained that he is staying the course, that he believes in it, it is something he believed for years well before he was president, that there is not a military solution to afghanistan. he said in a rather lengthy statement the white house put out yesterday, that one more...

Administration. we know him. is he tempered? if is it possible to have a reformed taliban? is he i dont want to say a little more liberal than his predecessors, what do to you expect from knew la baradar -- mullah baradar? human rights violations, crackdowns, executions or something more tempered? >> you know, the idea of a reformed taliban, i think, is a bridge too far. but, and i do, and i am disappointed that the biden administration announced in the spring that it was planning to leave afgha...

0 jaw-dropping developments. >> thank you, dan. appreciate it. we are nearing the top of the hour right here on msnbc as we continue to watch these live pictures coming from the city of kabul. a city that is right now encircled by the taliban. by some reports, the taliban have been spotted within the streets of the city. there are reports that negotiations are taking place within the presidential palace there in the capital city. its not clear if ashraf ghani who is taking part of those negotiat...

Paul: united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change released their latest report with you and secretary general good terrors that says its a code red for humanity. the 4000 page report generating predictable media headlines but my next guest says dont buy the latest alarmism from the copenhagen consensus from the hoover institution his new book false alarm. so welcome back good to see you. what did you learn thats new in the report. >> its great to be back. i spent time reading the re...