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21 people including 7 month old twins swept away by catastrophic flash floods in tennessee. i'll talk to a mother who along with her 4 month old barely made it out of her flooded home alive. let's go "outfront". good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. we have breaking news. president biden being urged by several advisors against keeping troops in afghanistan past the august 31st deadline. the reason, the deteriorating security situation on the ground. meanwhile, the pentagon needs the president to decide by tomorrow whether to extend the deadline in order to honor his p...

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Monetary deal out of this whole thing. you know, way back, years and years ago, during the iraq invasion in 2003, he was saying if we're going to go in, let's keep the oil. so this is one of these mantras that he recites all the time, and recited again in his bizarre press conference following the announcement that abu bakr al baghdadi had been killed. >> is there are all kinds of reasons for keeping troops in syria, even though he said they would be pulled out and now they're being reinforced in syria. but the only obvious clear reason that he gave is that he wants to hold on to the oil field...

Except it looks as though president trump is trying to create the fiction of some kind of victory here, which is what he was doing in those remarks a couple of days ago. and at the expense of the lives of many kurds, the livelihoods of many kurds, the homes of many kurd, basically they're going to be ethnically cleansed from northeast syria, and he's keeping troops, lots of troops in the middle east, and even in syria, he's not bringing them home. so in fact, what he was talking about, a couple of days ago, was a complete fiction, and nobody was congratulating him then, much less today. >> chr...

Really heard these details before. it reads, quote, mattis matd his case for keeping troops in syria. president trump rejected his arguments. 30 minutes into the conversation, mattis told the president, you're going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to isis. i'm not going to do it. now, i should note jeffrey goldberg who wrote this piece said none of those details came from mattis himself, but still a pretty remarkable scene, no? >> well, yeah. it is. as you point out, john, it's not directly from jim mattis himself, but it is, i think, consistent. and i saw this when he was...