dead two taliban fighters who were about to kill me in the battle. i made him a promise if i can ever repay that life debt all he had to do is ask. i m not the only american service member with this story. there are hundreds of us, if not thousands who can point to our afghan wartime allies and say these people stood shoulder to shoulder with us. when my tour of duty was over i had the luxury of coming home, they went on to the next unit and the next mission over and over again. janice never used to veil his face and i would ask him why don t you cover your face and he would look at me and say i want the taliban to remember this face. this is my country, they should fear it. these people are brave but they re now outgunned, out numbered and unless we go and save them they re going to die. go and save them, what does that entail, though? what is it exactly that you think the united states should be doing differently this morning on the field of battle? so the afghan military is bein
little busy losing to the taliban. so unless we go and get them, i don t see how they make it to the one airfield we decided which is the only place they can get to safety. it s incredible. this has really been a failure of planning, failure of government. how much of a kick in the guts is it to americans who served with these people, who such as yourself, literally, had their lives saved by translators and others? you know, these guys stood shoulder to shoulder, men and women. you know, they stood shoulder to shoulder with us. in the most arduous and difficult of circumstances and they did it over and over, again. i was fortunate. when my tour of duty was over, i got to go home. they went on to the next unit and the next mission. over and over and over, again. and we made a promise. we looked them in the eye. people, like me, looked these people in the eye and we said, we d be there for you in your moment of need. and now, we re failing to keep that. it is the most brutal of betra
desantis is putting mandates off the limits, which is, in my view, irresponsible. because we need all the tools in our toolbox to fight this infection. but as far as a pre-traumatic stress that i m talking about, all of the health care workers that i work with, including myself, have been through this. i feel like we re servicemen and women going back into our third tour of duty. anyone who served in the military who did that that stress and anxiety of, well, let s brace ourselves. we re having to redo how our hospitals operate. we re having to gear up again after taking away all the extra units, the ventilators, et cetera. we re bringing them back because of the lack of vaccination in our area. we re seeing a spike, not a surge, a spike that s going to peak around labor day and could be, based on projections, two to three times higher than what we saw at the worst time in january. so we re kind of concerned about
ban on any vaccine requirements for in-person learning so far. corey, thank you. tomorrow, lawrence o donnell speaks to texas democrats and will discuss covid breakthrough cases. watch the texas democrats monday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that wraps it up for me. jasmine is back next weekend. politicsnation with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening. and welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, tour of duty. right now, democrats are sharing the trenches in this battle over our voting rights.
campbell has been gunned down, he s barely been home from his tour of duty? it heart. we take great pride as having them in our community. the fact that our soldiers protect us every day, we wanted to make sure that we had justice for him. was jessi able to describe the person who shot her husband? she initially described him as a black man, and i believe that s pretty basically all the description she was able to give. jesse also describe the killers car. what kind of car? an old one. one of the big ones. what color was? it i don t know. like reddish brownish color. it wasn t much for police to go on, and to make it even more difficult, the eyewitness walter ferguson had seen something different. describe the truck that you saw speeding off? as he passed me i could see that it was a white truck and i