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Us kabul was safe. the government would stand, that intelligence. so the drone strike of august 29th that killed a car fullen of children underwent the same level of rigor that we have done for years. that's not very reassuring. you will not find more revealing statement about our pentagon leaders. it explains why no one has been punished for this disaster. if you fire mark milley for killing a bunch of kids unintentionally and lying about it, may be the accountability chain will start. maybe they will fire whoever it left hundreds of american civilians behind in afghanistan. in light about th...

Not multiple ways to interpret that. it were in the streets, horror in the airports. our embassy has been cleared, our flags are coming home, and that has real and practical meaning. we are not there anymore to protect them. i think there is this interesting dichotomy going on, but he also got it right on thi very just a little while ago, jason crow who is a congressman in a veteran had a bill putting forward to fast-track these applications for afghans in light of the fact that we decided we are going to come home. it was hugely popular only 16 congresspeople voted against it. those other kin...

President as he made this decision about whether or not the authorize this raid in yemen over the weekend. today reporting on how that all played out, the "new york times" described it this way "almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong." joining us now is david sanger, national security correspondent for the "new york times" and one of the authors of the "times" piece on what went wrong with the raid in yemen. mr. sanger, nice to have you here. thanks for being here tonight. >> great to be back with you, rachel. >> for the -- for us to understand the accountability chain here, obvi...

The "times" piece on what went wrong with the raid in yemen. mr. sanger, nice to have you here. thanks for being here tonight. >> great to be back with you, rachel. >> for the -- for us to understand the accountability chain here, obviously this is something where under the obama administration the initial planning had already started. there had been weeks if not months of planning around the possibilities of this raid. but it was ultimately the trump administration, including the president himself, who made the call that this should go ahead? >> that's right. and from everything we can unders...

Thanks for being here tonight. >> great to be back with you, rachel. >> for the -- for us to understand the accountability chain here, obviously this is something where under the obama administration the initial planning had already started. there had been weeks if not months of planning around the possibilities of this raid. but it was ultimately the trump administration, including the president himself, who made the call that this should go ahead? >> that's right. and from everything we can understand, president obama never actually authorized this one in the end. it had been sent over to th...