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Made a decision that now -- i want to get this on the record because we just got this -- president biden has just ordered an additional 1,000 paratroopers to kabul. the pentagon put it. that will be 7,000 u.s. troops on the ground in afghanistan. when he came into office there were 2500. those gold star families, those people who have served deserve a word. what would that word be? >> well, i think that we need some accounting and some reconning with how we got to this point here. it is really important to point out. this is not just the last 10 days. when you look at what the taliban has done...

That are extremely red, inflation, gas prices, open border, thousands coming in with covid, the botching of the covid dynamic. mixed messages there. crime and extraordinary rise in crime in major american cities. all of it comes from the left wing messaging about defunding the police, in part. not trusting the vaccines that biden and harris pushed initially. the nature of not trusting the -- >> harris: harris said she wouldn't get it. >> if you have an illegitimate framework because of the flip-flops and because things aren't working it becomes an exponential kind of dynamic. >> harris: this h...

This now. senator marsha blackburn of tennessee sunday morning futures said this could have been avoided with a conditional-based withdrawal. watch. >> it could have been avoided. the exit from afghanistan should have been conditions-based. it should have been based on the threat assessments. we know that president biden chose not to do it that way. he wanted to set a timeline and as the afghan and taliban, as the taliban has said all along, you may have the clocks, we've got the time. >> harris: senator barrasso, your final comments on this today. >> senator blackburn is absolutely right. if ...

Determine the next few weeks and the next few months. but it is clear that this was botched on the assumption. >> harris: critics drawing the painfully obvious comparison between the chaos in afghanistan and the fall of saigon in 1975 as choppers were evacuating u.s. embassy staff, desperate people scrambled to escape and the country's president has fled. one cnn historian put it this way. >> afghanistan returns to being a safe haven for islamists. what have we spent 20 years doing there? if that occurs, this is the saigon moment for biden and that this will be a legacy. an albatross around he...

Barrasso, thank you very much, appreciate it. >> thanks. >> harris: i want to turn now to the other tragedy that was unfolding over the weekend. something again that the biden administration is going to have to respond to. they promised to help out with devastation in haiti. now we've learned that nearly 1300 people are confirmed dead after that massive earthquake that hit. the numbers are going up and we'll do our best to keep track. but it is heartbreaking nonetheless. now that country is bracing for a tropical storm as grace moves in. we're on the ground in haiti. plus covid-positive people...