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Bridge and i started crying and i couldnt stop crying because it was such a personal attack on us as american. michael is completely right about the feeling of safety thats now gone, immediately then gun gone, something weve been dealing with for 20 years. >> so good to have you both here to start our show today and share your reflections and analysis. thank you. well have more coverage in the show and talk to some of the people who were leaving the white house, somebody at the pentagon in this ...

Board. >> and that communication probably mid-morning was the toughest, because vice president cheney who was technically not in the chain of military command told the military officer, yes, these jet fighters have permission. the president went along with that, but its unclear who gave the order first. by the time they gave the order, it reached those two fighter jets up already in the air, the plane had already crashed. but the idea of shooting down a civilian aircraft nobody could believe it....

I understand that you were actually in kabul on 9/11. look at that. wow. you look just the same. i wonder what are your reflections on how much has changed and perhaps maybe even more importantly what has stayed the same? >> reporter: where are we today. there is a massive breakdown in trust. we talk about going forward between the taliban and the united states. we hear from the secretary of state and from others that they hear the taliban words but they want to see their actions. it is the same...

Its at terrorist state on steroids. >> sandra: reflections from 9/11? >> i was in the pentagon for 9/11, and the command center after american airlines flight 77 hit the building. i will never forget those days sitting in the command center alongside the secretary of defense and the vice chairman of the joint chief myers, we watch the screen and of tire is towers falling and he said, the world has changed. and it did. i was so proud to be an american after what happened on 9/11 and the way we re...

To us here at the bbc. —— lauren. the fact that tomorrow is 20 years, is that for you and your family any more significant than any other date? what are your reflections about the fact that 20 years have now passed?— now passed? thats an extraordinarily - now passed? thats an extraordinarily threat l now passed? thats an | extraordinarily threat of now passed? thats an - extraordinarily threat of time, now passed? thats an _ extraordinarily threat of time, and yet the payment and the agony...

Terrorists. unfortunately we have about 100 to 200 or maybe more, we have no idea of potential bergdahls all over the country that will come up on television giving forced confessionals and well have to be overt about it or keep giving money under the table to bring them home. i think well probably end up doing that if we arent doing that already. the idea that somebody would say they gave us $85 billion worth of training and weapons to the national army that weve ex appropriated that should be ...

Forever. that was ten years ago. afghanistan, tunisia, egypt, libya, syria, yemen, lindsey graham described them all as little laboratories to test his theories. all of those places still exist and are still countries. the question is, how are they now? has anyone of those countries been improved by lindsey grahams game plan? thats a good question, you have to ask the people that live in those countries. many of whom have since bled as refugees to germany and sacramento, california. lindsey grah...

Overhaul and ban unsolicited ballots. our next calls their attempts an escalation in a battle over the future of our democracy. joining us michigan secretary of the state jocelyn benson. we have talked to you throughout the year about the republican disinformation around the election result, about the war on democracy. it feels like we have our best picture at how broad the effort is, and i wonder your thoughts and reflections on this last week? >> i think this has been a tough week. it has been...

Afghanistan, tunisia, egypt, libya, syria, yemen, lindsey graham described them all as little laboratories to test his theories. all of those places still exist and are still countries. the question is, how are they now? has anyone of those countries been improved by lindsey grahams game plan? thats a good question. you have to ask the people that live in those countries. many of whom have since fled as refugees to germany and sacramento, california.ced lindsey graham himself has not weighed in ...

20 years without the majority of public somewhere. i wonder your thoughts and reflections on that. >> you cannot send in a democracy the army to war without taking the country to war without the army meaning the country in a democracy has to support with popular opinion the sustainment of a military presence, particularly one that goes on for 20 years and so, indeed, this was the forgotten war. this war was not covered on the front pages largely of americas newspapers over the last two decades. ...