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Whats the latest? >> thats right. that 2,000 is, of course, just a drop in the bucket of people now vulnerable and could be targeted, previously been threatened by the taliban, i apologize im holding my phone because i have sources on the ground checking in confirming they are safe they made it through the night. this is day two with the taliban in charge. and nobody knows exactly what thats going to look like. there are conversations, talks going on in doha about what the government could look ...

Taliban because of doha agreement, if we busted that agreement we couldnt have counted on that, after may 1st those troops would have been in harms way, much worse than they were, and we believed that would have required a plus up of troops. you can argue you can plus up troops forever and stay in afghanistan forever but the commander in chief determined that was not sustainable, acceptable, so we began to draw down and we had to do it in a quick way because we couldnt trust the taliban, couldnt...

To these visa inquiries. if we cannot figure out a way to make right the situation, to secure the air base, to get the airport secure enough where commercial flights can come in and where we can process our afghan allies and activists and civil society leaders who are going to be persecuted because it didnt have to be this way. it did not have to be this way. >> yeah, it didnt have to be -- >> its just past -- >> i was just going to say, jonathan lemire, it didnt have to be this way. youre going...

Commercial airport just became absolute chaos. as you saw from the images. and so i had friends who made it there, thought they were on a flight, thought they were finally safe because the airport certainly it was assumed had to be a safe place because so many embassies had evacuated there. and then the situation just spiralled so out of control. and from what im hearing still today from afghans in kabul, the airport, the commercial side is still chaos, and its still not under control. so im so ...

And -- but thats the fact. thats the way things are. and so, the alternative to this is, what, you know, lowering the flag in a surrender ceremony to the taliban? i dont think that would have gone down any easier than this does. its a tragic situation all around. but there was no graceful way to leave. this is a particularly ungraceful way that were leaving but there was no graceful way to do it. >> "the washington post" has an op-ed this morning making the case for a small american footprint to...

Are going to be looking for people trying to get to the airport and stopping them and wanting to know who are you and why are you leaving? what is our plan for how to get those people to the airport let alone on a plane and out of danger? >> joe, ive been talking to several folks high up in the white house over the past 24 hours, and one of the things that they bring to the table in terms of the thinking here is that, yes, there are 25, 3,000 troops in afghanistan at the time and there hasnt bee...

You have to be sound of mind to in fact, assert your second amendment rights. you have to not have a criminal or violent background to assert your second amendment rights. >> would that include a social media search? some of your colleagues said with stricter background checks that would include that. >> i think its inevitable that social media will be an indication or determination if someone has a criminal intent. i see that happening but i dont think we lead with social media. congress doesnt...

Unable to leave. >> he did. he got up and supposedly went to the manager. you do have a commonality in all of these. we dont know what his mental state was, but it clearly wasnt stable. theres something going on if you decide youre going to be so aggressive shooting somebody without provocation. in all of these shootings, you have the common denominator of a man, who is unstable in -- >> how do you know hes unstable? >> one of the witnesses said, why would a gun be in a movie theater? guns are i...

Punch doesnt get you to the point where you can use great bodily force like a firearm. and quite honestly, i think an officer trained in the specter of force and when to use deadly force or a firearm, should know much better that it should never get to that point, unless he is truly in fear of death or great bodily harm. >> also in a movie theater, you can get up and leaved. its not as if you are cornered unable to leave. >> he did. he got up and supposedly went to the manager. you do have a com...

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