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Supporters at the time. joe biden was vice president, and do you see any potential for a similar repeat? because i mean, as you said, jojoe biden was then as vice president, i assume he wasnt for sending troops back in. >> well, look, the policy drifted for seven years because the attention had shifted to iraq. so president obama was trying to formulate a strategy for afghanistan that was missing. the pentagon felt strongly that to stabilize afghanistan, we need today have a surge, and this was ...

Operationally here, john kirby at the pentagon said that folks, americans, presumably afghan allies of america can begin movement to the airport here at some point soon. there doesnt seem to be any indication of support for them to get there safely, though. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, i think kirby made the critical point that there is no military plan right now to go out into the country side where so many of these afghans live and try and convoy them or fly them to kabul to get to...

Confidence in my movement than i did when i played him here a couple of years ago, the first match i played, singles match, since i had the metal hip put in so i was a bit apprehensive and he uses all of the angles on the court really well and makes you move a lot so you need to move well against him. and i did that tonight. afghanistan has withdrawn its two athletes from next weeks paralympics in tokyo. zakia khudadadi was set to become the first afghan woman to take part in the paralympics. bu...

Juggernaut of success behind you and you want to continue to add to that. but it is also an opportunity to prove to yourself that the training you have been doing has been in the right direction, that all of that work you have been doing is going to go to a great performance. iamjust as i am just as excited about the race as the uncertainty it might bring. yeah, i think it is really important to focus on the positives and life will go on after regardless of the result. now in a few minutes time,...

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The afghan army. >> theyre going to grow back like a weed and once again strike the west. this is a repeat of the obama administration yanking us out of iraq too soon that led to the rise of isis. >> reporter: in a statement on saturday, president biden said i have authorized the deployment of approximately 5,000 u.s. troops to make sure we can have an orderly and safe drawdown of u.s. personnel and other allied personnel. the president ordered another 1,000 troops into the country, that is the ...

Crucial because it says if biden tries to blame the intelligence and it turns out he was warned of this would happen that is a really important thing for us to know. >> he was absolutely warned the pentagon advised against doing this as well that congress was briefed that al qaeda fully intends to take advantage of the vacuum caused to reconstitute and to strike the west this is a repeat of the obama administration pulling us out too soon to reckless leading to the attacks across europe and in t...

Stories. day one of reporting now in the islamic emirate of afghanistan. you can see a lot has changed. the dress code what im wearing, behind metal ban fighters manning a check point. theyre all over the city now. theyre here they say to make sure that there isnt a power vacuum, there isnt chaos and anarchy. i will say here in the center of the city, it does feel relatively calm, eerie, scary, but relatively calm. at the airport, though, as you mentioned, those harrowing images tell a different...

What a difference 24 hours made. this is day one now of reporting in whats called the islamic em rat now. you can see a lot has changed. certainly the dress code for me as changed. were standing here with taliban fighters just behind us and theyre keen to show the world that they are able to maintain law and order on the ground. of course, thats flying in the face of those images we see from the airport of sheer desperation, thousands and thousands of afghans desperately trying to get out, frigh...

Crucial because it says if biden tries to blame the intelligence and it turns out he was warned of this would happen that is a really important thing for us to know. >> he was absolutely warned the pentagon advised against doing this as well that congress was briefed that al qaeda fully intends to take advantage of the vacuum caused to reconstitute and to strike the west this is a repeat of the obama administration pulling us out too soon to reckless leading to the attacks across europe and in t...