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0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, president biden, announced his decision, and the u.s. military received a change of mission, to retrog...

Decades. he flew combat missions in the vietnam war and now he's greasing the wheels once again in a similar style plane to celebrate the 75th anniversary of a local parent. he said he felt like a teenager doing plyovers and tricks he wasn't rusty at all. getting back into the cockpits. love it. >> as a former flight simulator, i appreciate it very much. let's me take you to the garden state. a quick thinking and fast acting school teacher is being hail tonight as a real hero after she jumped into an suv that was rolling toward a group of students just outside of a school on wednesday. the tea...

Out over months and years, and this will be the enduring mission for the united states and our allies and partners in the years to come. >> let me bring into our conversation matt dowd, political strategist, founder of country over party, and "washington post" correspondent and msnbc contributor. joining us, amy mcgrath, a lieutenant colonel who flew combat missions over afghanistan and iraq. i'll start with you, amy. your reaction today's news? >> i have been getting a lot of texts and phone calls from my fellow veterans. look, we remain torn. we -- a lot of us wanted to get out of afghanista...

Soldiers die on the battlefield. as you can see the u.s. forces dropped the combat missions in 2014 and afghan soldier and movingen police were the only one fighting against the taliban. and they had lost more than 60,000 troops on the ground so far. so afghans were not prepared they were left unplanned unprepared that's why the taliban were able to take over the country. >> sayee, i am so pleased you came on the show today to tell us about the good news about your family getting out of afghanistan. i hope you see them soon. thank you so much and stay safe. >> thank you so much for having me. ...

Services. do you have those same questions, or as an army veteran do you just -- do you think this is just inherently a dangerous job even if the u.s. didn't really leave the perimeter? >> yeah, jake. both of those things can be true and are true. i'm looking at this both as a perspective of an army ranger and combat veteran with over 100 combat missions under my belt. this is risky stuff. this is dangerous stuff, and it's imperfect and, yes, sometimes we do the best possible job we can and we still lose great people. at the same time i'm a member of congress and i have an independent obl xwag...