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Forever. that was ten years ago. afghanistan, tunisia, egypt, libya, syria, yemen, lindsey graham described them all as little laboratories to test his theories. all of those places still exist and are still countries. the question is, how are they now? has anyone of those countries been improved by lindsey graham's game plan? that's a good question, you have to ask the people that live in those countries. many of whom have since bled as refugees to germany and sacramento, california. lindsey graham himself weighed in on the results of the game plan. he does not like to look backward. reflecti...

Chris jansen picks up the coverage right now. hi, there. i'm in for stephanie ruhle. it is wednesday, august 25th. and we start with breaking news on capitol hill where house speaker nancy pelosi is about to speak any minute now, and the house foreign affairs committee will be briefed about afghanistan by the deputy secretary of state. last night, we learned congressmen went to afghanistan without any government approval. it comes after president biden said he's sticking to his pledge to withdraw u.s. troops by august 31st. he made the announcement after a virtual meeting with our allies, in...

We need to put that metric on helping these people who have literally risked their lives and are now paying that price. >> we're basically out of time, but do you ever envision a situation where there was a way to get every single person out in an evacuation? >> it's an hour long show. remember, when this all started we were doing okay. we had about 2500 troops. it kept the taliban apt bay. this notion that we were going to pull the plug and everything was going to be fine utterly caused this collapse. there was absolutely a way to do this. >> was that keeping troops, though, in afghanistan in...

Fell, the u.s. has evacuated or coordinated the evacuation of approximately 37,000 people. without question, this is progress and good news for the american citizens and green card holders whom the biden administration is prioritizing. the state department says that several thousand americans and their family members are still in afghanistan, still trying to get out. it has not been as easy for afghan allies who helped u.s. forces during the war and applied for what are called sivs or special immigrant visas. they were told to stay away from the kabul airport today. the situation outside that ...

They need to have that action open for them. we are not putting any hurdles in their way, if they have a passport saying that they were issued by the us to them, they can go to commercial flights any time they want to go. that is their right. of course, we want them to stay in afghanistan and participate in the construction of the country, and there is no risk to their life or property. on sundayjoe biden said he was considered keeping troops in afghanistan beyond the 31st of august. we also know 42,000 americans have been evacuated sincejuly, over 16,000 in the past 2a hours. but there remain...