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Taliban have continued to act over the summer and up to august 15th when kabul fell. they didn't hide who they were. they were doing exactly the same thing. they may have said a few pleasing words in kabul that duped joe biden and tony blinken. this is who the taliban always has been and always will be. this is why it was such a catastrophe to leave behind thousands of american citizens and green card holders and afghans who served with our troops and their families and why we still have to work to get all those people out. >> trace: what about those numbers? trey yengst saying look, some of t...

Bravely, the military collapse in an unanticipated way. one of the things we have to look at is the impact this pervasive corruption had, as far as giving the institution, the will to fight for the country. >> absolutely. >> final days as the capitals were falling, president ghani refused to acknowledge that there was falling capitals. like a world in which he was disengaged. then the finance minister resigned and said he was leaving the country for family reasons. but taken as a symbol of the government on the verge of collapse. shortly there after, president ghani fled himself. i think it wa...

Unanticipated way in the course of 11 days, as we go back and look, we have to look at the impact that this pervasive corruption had in terms of given the institution the will to fight for the country. >> absolutely. in those final days as the provincial capitals were falling, president ghani refused to acknowledge that there were falling capitals. it was almost like a world in which he was disengaged and then the finance minister resigned and said he was leaving the country for family reason, but it was taken as a symbol of the government on the verge of collapse. then president ghani fled hi...

0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i don't know who you're talking to. but if you're talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if you're talking honestly to our adversaries, they will certainly say it is a sign of weakness, as will terrorist groups a...

Have, and again, looking at what we've learned from that period of time and having tools like masking, vaccines, all of the ventilation issues, we used a multi-layered approach to create the safest possible controlled environment in schools so we can keep kids safe while they learn in the best environment possible. i think it's the thread of delta and the information and frankly the science that's been collected around the delta variant and its transmissibility and the fact that it is affecting kids. because it is so transmissible. we worked with ucla. we worked with stanford and johns hopkins...