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Means probably the only cause, but nonetheless a contributing factor to the regionally severe rioting that took place in south africa a couple of months ago which led to large amounts of damage and some deaths in some of the major cities of the country. still highly sensitive issue. the treatment of president zuma, with many of his supporters in the ruling party thinking that he has been made a scapegoat and others arguing that he is being made accountable for what is called the state capture in...

And state department had been relying on for a long time. now, the intelligence community in turn says the white house and the state department are using intelligence officials as a scapegoat because the intelligence community had in fact predicted in several assessments that the potential fall of kabul quickly was a likely possibility. of course, its not the job of the intelligence community they argue to say, to make a judgment essentially about how many days essentially this was going to take...

Livestock. lets go "outfront". good evening. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight cnn learning the blame game is about to ramp up big time. here is what we know. the white house begins reviewing what went wrong of the takeover of the country including kabul to the deadly and chaotic evacuation operation, officials now are pointing fingers. intelligence officials believe administration is trying to use the intelligence community as a scapegoat. this is a very bitter back and forth over who got i...

Chairman of the serve america movement and an msnbc political contributor. jonathan, you characterize this as a political stain, saying the damage from the bipartisan criticism and the potentially long arc of the wars aftermath could put his fellow democrats in further jeopardy in next years midterm elections. his agenda, they see a need to distance themselves from him. obviously the number one concern is getting people out and getting them out safely. but at the same time there are political ra...

The attack in kabul and the pullout of troops comes as republican and democrats prepare for a bruising election that could flip both houses of congress. already calls from some republicans for the presidents resignation. earlier tonight i spoke with republican adam kinzinger working with the house select committee investigating the capitol riot about his criticisms about president bidens actions in afghanistan. >> i think there needs to be accountability, and i think frankly president biden need...

From your party called for president biden to be impeached or resign. most of those people never spoke up when president trump made the deal that president biden has been following through on. but i do want to ask you something you said earlier today. that some people on his national security team should resign. if they dont resign, should president biden fire them, in your mind? >> yeah. look, i think there needs to be accountability. i think president biden needs to take better ownership of th...

Needs to take better ownership of this. you know, people have used the -- the kennedy bay of pigs analogy. where he took full responsibility and actually his poll numbers recovered because thats what americans want. they want leaders who take responsibility. so a firing or removal or a resignation of a national security leader team should not be a -- a kind of a scapegoat. ultimately, president biden owns this but we need to know what happens and as far as my partys knee-jerk reaction, look, thi...

Take better ownership of this. people have used the kennedy bay of pigs analogy he took full responsibility and actually his poll numbers recovered, because thats what americans want. they want leaders who take responsibility. so a firing or removal of a national security leader should not be a kind of a scapegoat. you know, ultimately president biden owns this, but we need to know what happens. >> correspondent jessica dean now has more of the reaction on capitol hill. >> there will be a day of...

We cannot as a nation emphasize the need for a vaccination and not let those without our interest at hearts as scapegoats. ive used his statements to say to blacks not vaccinated. thats why you need to get vaccinated because you have people who will try, in an uninformed and certainly false way, try to use us as a scapegoat for their own bias and bigotry. and i dont think that we ought to volunteer to sign up for that. >> victoria, jonathan lemire has a question for you. but jonathan, first of a...

Any final thoughts? >> tyrus: what we are seeing is the enemy of my enemy is my friend, progressives and moderates, clearly that does not work. we see the relationship, vice president is leaving it to the scapegoat and is going to say all the right things and then they are going to move him out. >> dana: there is a real disconnect, or contrast that was pointed out, over the weekend senator tom cotton and his staff continue to take calls and emails from anybody that is seeking their help to get p...