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It makes me proud you were able, i was able to be part of this and save so many people. there is always work to be done but we did what we could and for me i am proud to be a us serviceman and full circle for me. got a couple years left so hopefully on to the next thing. todd: before we let you go what is your message to the american people that may look at the events of the last four or five weeks and be disenchanted with what is going on? >> just know your servicemembers are here fighting for ...

How to do you catch a dancing sprite? put her in a bottle? can you capture the joy she brings? can you keep it when it goes? >> she was a gravitational pull. >> reporter: her name was marie. marie carlson. >> she was magnetic. >> reporter: when she was happy, she could make the whole world sing. >> live life to the full et. you might not have tomorrow. >> reporter: she offered herself, her goodness. gave her vulnerable heart and stored her secrets until -- what happened. she was always that way,...

What it will look like without dip employee mats on the ground. >> i want to go from the big picture that we have been talking about to the iconic picture that many of us have now seen. that is the last serviceman to leave afghanistan. when you know the back story, its even more poignant. these photos, this photo of him through these night vision goggles or this look is just so poignant because this is major general chris donahue. he deployed 17 times in afghanistan and iraq and syria and elsewh...

Airport killed serviceman but should this be a surprise. >> former president obama defense attorney robert gates warned of bad foreign-policy records in 2014, president biden is wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and national security issue over the past four decades. >> lets ask congressman during the obama administration sean duffy. as always, when you look at what is unfolding here should any of us be surprised? >> 1991 war in iraq ron, general david petraeus and george was wrong, he ...

Was handled. to that point, i found the interview with peter ducey of fox news to be revealing. >> mr. president, there has not been a u.s. serviceman killed in afghanistan since 2020. you set a deadline. you pulled troops out, you sent troops back in. 12 marines are dead. you said the buck stops with you. do you bear any responsibility for the way things have unfolded in the last two weeks? >> i bear can responsibility for fundamentally all thats happened of late. but heres the deal, you know, ...

Nation for evacuations. there had been warnings that an offshoot of the islamic state group in the region was planning an attack. speaking at the white house president biden insisted it would continue despite the bombings and said the serviceman who lost their lives where he rose and the attackers would be made to pay. we have a continuing obligation. a sacred obligation to all of you. the families of those heroes. the obligation is not temporary. it lasts forever. their lives to be lost today w...

This as calls go for president biden to resign or be impeached here to react house minority leader kevin mccarthy. first off, this is just a trump deal, he had no choice, is he right. >> now hes wrong hes been wrong in every single press conference. the trump agreement you had conditions and we had president biden telling us his plan for every single one of the scenarios and the president telling us there was no mistakes we now have 13 more goldstar families and every single serviceman and golds...

Save american servicemen by leaving on time. no good choice. i would have done what biden did. >> phil, lets play it out. okay? >> yes. >> so you leave and you brag about your number and then people like me poke holes in the number for the next 2 1/2 weeks because we dont know if it is real. what happens to the people left behind? these stories you are talking about are guaranteed if you leave whoever is left behind and by your equation there will definitely be people left behind and that is exa...

Leaving on time. no good choice. i would have done what biden did. >> phil, lets play it out. okay? >> yes. >> so you leave and you brag about your number and then people like me poke holes in the number for the next two and a half weeks because we dont know if it is real. what happens to the people left behind? these stories you are talking about are guaranteed if you leave whoever is left behind and by your equation there will definitely be people left behind and that is exactly what is going ...

They are heartless. the people here are scared for their safety. there are many reasons for afghans to fear the taliban. they are walking into unknown futures. still, they do not want to stay behind. shumaila jaffery, bbc news, chaman, pakistan. such a difficult dilemma for so many people there. you have been watching newsday. a reminder of our top story. 12 us serviceman people have been killed and 15... painter b to the americans who lost their lives, president biden called them heroes and it ...