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Showing that over and over again, i've been inspired this entire week by how many veterans have gotten together to work with ngos and private companies and raise funds and get private planes into kabul to make sure not only the military side is working but also the civilian side so we can get as many people out f as possible. >> it's inspiring and crushing. i can't imagine what it is to have had to make that decision to hand your kid off and hope against hope that all will be much better for them on the other end. dan blakely, thank you so much, appreciate it. thank you for your service. >> th...

Decide to try and stick with some of the american influence ideals that we try to instill there and get more freedom to the people of afghanistan. >> quickly, next. is there any way at this juncture to find a fix? >> i'd like to say it was an easy black or white fix, ultimately it has to come from the international community and a combined effort and get back with the nato allies and come with a plan of how we're going to act or enact in that space and either deal with a humanitarian crisis and try to help the afghani people with the military presence to push back the taliban. >> dan blakely, ...

Profile so you can continue to live and breathe . i haven't heard a vet that said let's keep staying in afghanistan, but it's the why. why now? why this way and why are we abandoning these people? >> and then, dan, what are your concerns or worries about the afghan allies that, you know, tom was talking about? we heard our kim dozier earlier who has covered the u.s. wars in afghanistan and iraq extensively that said many of the after began military that essentially abandoned ship wasn't necessarily because of their lack of will but because the taliban was far more influential and they had to l...

Dan blakely with the book called "20 year war" released on 9/11 dedicated to veterans of the global war against terrorism and they both served in the 75th ranger regiment including towards in afghanistan. good to see both of you. >> thank you very much for having us. >> you hosted a podcast called never left behind dedicated to sharing the stories of veterans. i want to play a quick clip from an episode. >> i think there's a lot of threads of shared experience. the reasons that people chose to serve. there's a lot of similarity across five or six major buckets, if you will. there's a lot of th...