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Folded, mika. >> courtney, as i talk to former military, to a man and woman, they wonder why the united states abandoned a week before that cable the bagram air base. if the plan was to air lift american and afghan allies out of the country bagram would be the place do it, it's been there 20 years and the united states literally left in the middle of the night. why as you talk to your sources at the pentagon did they abandon that if the plan was to get all these people out and do they regret it now? >> so bagram makes sense as a place to stage a lot of people and take them out. there's more ru...

Hit their capacity for the number of u.s. military that they're bringing in. they're over 5,200 right now, the goal is just north of 6,000. the mission to evacuate people and get troops to secure the airport is well under way and progressing from several days ago. on that cable it was sent july 13th. i was in kabul that day, on july 13th. it was the day after general scott miller, who was the long-time commander there stepped down as the commander of u.s. forces, and the nato commission there. he said that they were very worried about the ongoing taliban offensive then, they were threatened ka...

People from kabul out to bagram. i've driven the road, it's a long road to get out there, it's also an enormous sprawling base so it takes a lot of troops to actually secure the perimeter there. i've heard the criticism but i don't know that bagram would have been the answer to this issue, this problem. just getting the people out there, look at the people outside kabul right now. one of the issues that the u.s. state department and military are facing is, it's not just getting people through the taliban checkpoints and then into the gate and manifested on the flights but what about all the pe...

Americans to safety. plus another 1 million americans received a dose of the covid-19 vaccine yesterday. what it means for the country's fight against the pandemic. and you might think this is video from a police academy at like a boot camp or something. but this is actually training that some flight attendants are undergoing with more and more passengers acting out. we'll have that point. we'll get to yesterday's bomb scare in washington and the anti-government messages the suspect was streaming in real time, another attack in the nation's capitol. but first the biden administration is wo...

Suggested that kabul would fall within 11 days. that was not a scenario that was put in front of the president. so he saw a wide array of intelligence but ultimately at the end of the day he's the commander in chief and the buck stops with him, he made the decision. he believes sending another generation of american men and women to fight, to prop up a government whose leadership was unwilling to fight for itself is not in our national interest and not in the interest of our troops. this was a decision he made knowing this was the right thing for our men and women in uniform and also in the na...