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Bring our people home. >> i submit we have to stay until we get our -- certainly our american citizens out and as many of our afghans out as possible. >> dana: i dont understand. if you are willing to say it publicly why wouldnt you be willing to take the vote? >> and i know these members have been working very hard behind the scenes informally to help people they know. i respect their service but congress has more tools at its disposal than just going in front of a microphone or sending a stern...

Evacuate americans in may, in june, and in july watching and knowing the taliban was taking the entire country in record time. there is zero excuse for that. there is no good answer. you failed in what is a surrender. but tonight, let me be clear. the president can still change course. we have less than seven days now. he can fight back, he can put in the best military on the face of this earth and send them, like the dutch and the french and the brits, and extract american citizens. he can make...

In the white house press briefing room, in 1975, the day after the last american helicopter left vietnam, republican president fords -- gerald fords press secretary, ron nessen, who he had inherited from the disgraced president niks nixon who was forced to resign the office was asked what the reaction was to south vietnams surrender north vietnam to which the press secretary said, quote, given the military situation, this did seem to be the inevitable result. no one in the white house press corp...

Not going to let any afghans ou of the country who we dont wan to leave the country. the overall question is though lot of people are asking is why is the united states of america going hat in hand to the taliban ? >> exactly, john. we are bag big in the taliban t lead us to evacuate the country. its gotten to that point it such a showing of weakness. the idea that our cia director has to meet with the taliban to save americans, in the taliban, they are in power now in their responses we are dra...

Secretary said quote, given the military situation, this did seem to be the inevitable result. no one, in the white house press corps then, asked, why president ford did not publicly say it was inevitable? that the side we had been fighting for, would surrender, before they surrendered. because the reporters were all adults, then who understood that the president of the united states, even if he believed, it could not publicly predict, the surrender, of the week government we had been fighting f...

His own secretary of state and defense were saying we are goin to get all-americans out of there and all of our afghan partners, there is no way its humanly possible by august 31st. in in the span of that hour in half klaff classified briefing the president made this decisio in its very clear it surprised everybody there he that is why say he will have blood because our military always is no one left behind, no man left behind the president is leaving behind american citizens in think its a disg...

Smoothly, is part of the naive belief system in the american military is invincibility, that allowed the afghanistan war to go on for 20 years. our next guest, uses the word inevitable, to describe what you are seeing in afghanistan. that is the same word, that the white house press secretary used on the last day of the vietnam war, to describe the surrender, of the side that we have been fighting for their. inevitable, thats with the white house called it in 1975. our next guest, lucas coons se...

A debacle, asked them compared to what? when has any country ever evacuated from a foreign war, that they lost, in a way, that is better than what we are seeing now, the answer is never. this is the best version of an evacuation from a lost war, that the world has ever seen. that does not make a good, that does not make it orderly, that does not make it safe for everyone involved, but it does mean that nothing else was realistically possible. the white house press v. briefing room, in 1975, the ...

Tall pan is kind of making it tough, you know, we have been talking to the taliban, you know, we talked to them all day, we have been talking to the taliban. we dont want to hear that we want to hear lets get these guys out. and is he not meeting the moment. >> no. i mean, everybody you talk to they say if we wanted to screw this up and endanger americans, what else would we have done? they cant even imagine well, i guess we would have surrender to the enemy and then we would have been humiliate...

Military and the state departmen from a war we have lost which it is. it is impossible to lose a foreign war and evacuate that country safely and honorably, leaving no one behind. that has never happened in human history. and it is -- was not going to happen in afghanistan. and the american news medias naive presumption that the evacuation from afghanistan could have run smoothly is part of the naive belief system in the american militarys invincibility that allowed the afghanistan war to go on ...