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>> this is colt. >> i believe in the right of self-defense but you don't need a an assault weapon or 1,000 rounds or piercing bullets to do that. my name is jason crow. i'm the congress i represent many of the families of the aurora theater shooting. the columbine tragedy. i served overseas in three combat tours in iraq and afghanistan. there is a big reason why i didn't carry an assault weapons in the woods when i was deer hunting. it's also a really good reason why i didn't have any deer hunting rifle or duck hunting shotgun when i was in iraq and afghanistan. because the weapons i carried i...

As a nation. we have just left afghanistan after 20 years, in the hands of the taliban, as they were 20 years ago, at enormous cost to the u.s. to the people of afghanistan, and i think there is an openness now in the conversation for a reckoning about what we have and have not learned in those 20 years. joining me now is mehdi hasan whose show streams daily on peacock and sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc. max rose, a former democratic congressman, served as an officer in the u.s. army with combat tours in afghanistan. and anne-marie slaughter who is the director of policy planning at the s...

To facilitate safe passive. >> it's irresponsible to say americans are stranded. they're not. >> so we do expect to hear the president to come out to speak on this, the first full day in almost 20 years with no american troops on the ground. that could happen at any time now, martha. >> martha: thank you. we've seen the president be consistently late in all of these appearances the past couple weeks, sometimes hours late. we'll see when this gets underway. thanks, peter from the white house. bringing in congressman michael watts. he's the first green beret elected to congress. he had multiple ...

Counterterror official phil mudd, and retired army lieutenant colonel daniel davis, who served two combat tours in afghanistan and is now a senior fellow with defense priorities. welcome to both of you. good to have you. >> thanks. >> momentous occasion, to be sure. what it means is what we will discuss. so phil, let me start with you. what does the day mean, and can president biden say to america tomorrow, we can keep you just as safe here at home without being in afghanistan? >> no, he can't say that, but i have also heard people talk about this in intelligence terms as a disaster. i would d...

Had intelligence that there would be an imminent attack. and americans were even urged not to go to the airport. yet we still saw the tremendous loss of life. how do we move forward with the evacuations safely when once again everybody there is still under the threat of an imminent attack? >> well, of course we have to move forward with the evacuation because there is a deadline. making it a little bit more restrictive as far as going into the airport, having layers -- you know the taliban was the first layer. next would be whatever afghani security personnel you can find. and then protecting ...