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Is that something that is an authorized part of american mission? it seems right now that they seem limited to the airport itself. >> to the best of my knowledge, ive not seen american forces operating outside the airport. that doesnt mean that its not happening. there might be special forces operating outside. i wouldnt necessarily have knowledge of that. we have definitely seen some other nato partners taking a slightly more proactive role in trying to pull people in even through those gates. ...

And he seemed to not -- that was not a priority for him. is this just a -- i mean, is that a -- is it a blind spot or what do you make of gaetzs comments and the way president biden viewed this in vietnam? >> well, this reservation which i think you rightly identified that goes within president bidens conception of americas obligations abroad runs very, very deep, meaning he really does draw limits around what the united states owes to its partners in places like vietnam all the way back to 1975...

Outlines of next steps like for instance making u.s. military bases more available in germany and kuwait and qatar. theyre going to run out of space pretty soon. we may see other bases drawn in. thats a way of building weigh stations for evacuees. the fundamental point they had to pick up the pace. over the first six days theyve evacuated about 13,000 people. but they have to get up between 5, 7 and 9,000 a day. they have a very difficult few weeks ahead. >> roberts gates who served under obama ...

Mentally there. are. will: he wasnt vetted. did i talk about this last time. i do believe this to be the case. no one voted for joe biden. nobody really said i love joe biden. rachel: thats true. people voted for or against president donald trump. and the point of that is that nobody vetted joe biden. therefore, he wasnt put through the process during the campaign period of seeing if he is mentally and physically capable enough to the job. and so when we watch whats happening right now, its not ...

Figure but public life is something different. we saw that play out. he had big support, roberts gates speaking on his half, former senator sam nunn, speaking on his behalf. theres been a lot of comings and goings. we also had protesters, not quite as colorful and loud on the first day of confirmation hearings with jeff sessions. green peace was here saying, reject rex. trying tone courage senators not to support this nomination. the numbers are so strong in favor of republican nominee like this...

>> i think its a challenging confirmation, but i believe thats a mistake. he think he is an inspired choice. look at a couple of issues. number one, eight years of secretary clinton and secretary kerry resets that have failed miserably. our relationship with russian is poor. we have a man who succeeded with a difficult partner, vladimir putin. we have a man who is sponsored by unimpeachable in terms of personality, in terms of history, unimpeachable people in the republican party. condoleezza ri...

The karzai government to be more competent and less corrupt, to get more civilians from the u.s. and our allies in there to help with development projects and help make the government more effective. these things werent working very well. and military strategy, the military campaign was taking longer than the military had told the president it would. and people may remember the campaign around marja where we talked about the afghans coming in with government in a box quote unquote. and so that w...

Bissett. i dont think any of us had any real idea what she was talking about in that memorable golden globe speech. >> i think it was 47 years ago, the hollywood foreign press gave me a promising nomination -- promising newcomer. >> wonderful stuff. tonight ill ask her, jacqueline bissett is here exclusively. well get to my interviews of roberts gates in just a moment. a first disturbing story out of iraq today against the backdrop of todays deadly violence. the u.s. military is investigating ...

Numbers, it wont make a significant difference. and thats why i think gadhafi feels time is on his side. i take an opposite view. i think time is not on our side at all. and i happen to agree -- unfortunately the situations only going to get worse until we really decide that he has to go and to reconcile the military mission with a political objective. >> sir, there have been reports this culture clash between white house and pentagon officials over the strategy in libya, "the huffington post" d...

We begin with to armor not to arm. there is a fierce debate in washington this morning about whether to supply weapons to disorganized rebels in libya who are losing momentum to gadhafi forces. defense secretary roberts gates and joint chief admiral mullen argued forcefully against supplying u.s. arms. the white house has said repeatedly, it has not ruled out arming libyas opposition. libyan state tv is quoting gadhafi saying he is not the one who should resign, but rather the western leaders wh...