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0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wa...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons ...

Through you guys. i think it is one of the most important things for us to do and that is what were trying to do, to get that message out. i know our social media, were posting on there and im in the baton rouge area at the moment and we have intermittent capabilities on wi-fi and even through our email system and things like that. so were working as best we can. there is multiple different cell providers that are down right now. so even when on a troop level to communicate with them, it is thro...

I dont think any service anywhere in the world, whatever you do, is in vain. >> jon: theres been the suggestion that the united states has lost the trust of maybe some of its allies around the world in the hasty way this evacuation was conducted. you say there was another point, loss of trust in the u.s. government and military leadership by our armed forces personnel. >> i think there absolutely is. i mean, look at the efforts that are going on by former special operations personnel. theyre org...

International partner or international -- another country. but that has yet to come to fruition and that is a major question here, john. >> its unclear whether there will be flight operations at all after august 31st, at least for a period of time and then there are questions about whether or not people will be allowed across land borders and how risky it is for them to get there. these are the considerations being made as the u.s. draws its troop level down to 0 over the next few people. kylie ...

>> yeah, maria, i think this illustrates very well joe bidens incompetence in handling the withdrawal. we announced the withdrawal in the spring. we had 2500 troops in afghanistan. we now have 7,000 troops in afghanistan, maria, to try to get americans out. so we have almost 3 times as many troops in afghanistan to get out of afghanistan as we had when joe biden announced we were getting out of afghanistan. nothing can probably better indicate the incompetence of joe biden of executing the withd...

That will argue we shouldnt be there. we shouldnt be fighting if foreign wars. we have no business being there. was there a way to remove u.s. troops or remove our presence or downgrade our presence there without setting off his generals? >> i dont really think so. we are already at 2000 troops in syria, right? it is downgrading that troop level anymore. so i think it is hard to talk about for so many reasons. it is a humanitarian disaster. there has been very little reprieve. so any which way i...

Deploying, quote, anywhere between 10 and 15,000 military personnel to the u.s./mexico border. already more than 5,000 service members have been deployed with the state admission of preventing entry to any migrants traveling with the caravan or any undocumented immigrants. the caravan still hundreds of miles from the closest crossing point to the u.s. the president stoking fear on twitter this morning, writing, quote, we will not let this caravan into the u.s. our border is sacred, must come in ...

And a white house official told us last night that there is a number that they have in mind, they are mulling over a troop level here. but that that number hasnt been announced yet. so if there is something to be announced, it is very likely to be that or something along those lines. ver of course the president trying to do mexico and congress to do more. >> and well look at all of that. abby phillip, thank you. and obviously a lot to get to this morning. here to discuss it with us, our contri...