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Thank you so much for getting us started. joining us now with us in ukraine. the u.s. embassy says borders crossings into poland severely backed up. it is taking some people more than 30 hours to get through. what's the situation right now for people trying to leave ukraine? >> it's really unbelievable. i saw it up close yesterday. the amount of families, women with children, pushing up against border guards and border gates. trying to get into poland. from ukraine. we measured the mile of cars. it was 26 miles long. and it was not moving. you said 30 hours. it could be up to 50 hours. some fa...
Person and not ask yourself what was it for, what was it all in aid of. so many afghans over the past two decades have been able to dream really big dreams, and do astonishing things with their lives, and i'm thinking particularly of women. and those dreams thousand really are hanging by a thread, and there's so much uncertainty and so much anxiety, and there is also a sense of bitterness among many people, a sense of abandonment, as remarkable as the u.s. air lift evacuation has been. there are many people who are left behind. and this is basically what they're left behind to now. they can't ...
Correspondent kaitlan collins who is doing a lot of reporting on this. what set these two guys off? >> reporter: it got really ugly, talking about a recent surge in border cross, something that has infuriated president trump because he's been tweeting about it and it got really ugly between john bolton and john kelly where it startled other people in the west wing. that's not normal. a lot of fighting in this white house, it's bitter and divisive and this is more dramatic than that and someone equated it as a falling out. they were talking about the surge in borders crossings, and really what ...
Reasons. like i remember there was stories when bill clinton ran in 1992 he had no idea he was going to win. he thought he was preparing for future presidential run chblt not only did he win the primary but went on to win the presidency. so sometimes these things happen somewh somewhat accidentally. donald trump had a long career in business and finance and immediate yachlt i think he was prepared for the job in a lot of ways. and some ways he wasn't prepared. he didn't have the political advisers that he needed. so he brought in a lot of people, including steve bannon that had no political ex...