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Calling on democratic leaders to come back to washington and address the afghanistan issue, this is after a growing number of republicans from the house, 40 of them and 4 senators are calling for the resignation or impeachment of president biden. the "washington post" also out with this damning report over the weekend that claims that when kabul fell, the taliban offered to let the u.s. secure the capitol. they said this was one of the options that they were giving to u.s. officials. they could secure the capitol. u.s. officials chose to withdraw. this is also the same time that august 31 dead...

Or whoever have the authority to continue to conduct strikes against isis-k after august 31 or do those decisions have to go to the president? >> the commander on the ground has the authorities he needs right now. i won't talk about authorities going forward. i will say this in terms of i know what you are asking specific approval authority for each and every strike. i won't talk about policy decisions going forward except to say that the entire interagency, certainly the entire military chain of command understands the existence of this threat and the possibility of this threat to continue to...

Told they couldn't fly out. one student received an email saying i regret to inform you the high command has announced no more rescue flights. it comes as hundreds of american citizens we main in afghanistan. the acting u.s. ambassador took to twitter tweeting this is a high-risk operation. claims american citizens have been turned away or denied access by embassy staff or u.s. forces are false. reality is there are still american troops on the ground but set to depart afghanistan tomorrow. with not only afghan civilians who have been promised safety and also american citizens they will simply...

Clearly. we had a briefing last week and they said we'll complete the mission by august 31 s 1and a number of us pressed them what is the mission? they said it was one thing and it was really something else. the mission is we got to be out by august 31st because if we're not, the taliban are going to turn on us and it becomes impossible but we want to get as many people out as possible by that deadline and crucially put in place a situation where we have enough of a relationship with the taliban to keep getting people out after blut that was the mission even though it wasn't clearly explained....

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