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Fall. it happened within days. was there actually less surprise than acknowledged? do you believe the u.s. saw this coming or should have? >> the veteran community that i talked to certainly believes that the leadership saw this coming. and it's one of the things that we are looking for is accountability and transparency. we need accountability in this gem. everything i have found in the book tells me that the warnings were there, the indicators were there. and we could have done work on the front end to prevent this wholesale abandonment. it affects our security and our children as they fight...

Lot of the volunteers who have been on the phone nonstop. i can tell you, i had my own personal health issues coming out of a couple of tours in afghanistan, nearly took my own life, 18 months after i transitioned. and for many of us, these events in afghanistan come streaming back. and one of the things i want to ask people is, is check in on the veterans and your gold star families and military families. for many of them, they picked up the phone when the institutional leaders didn't. they stayed on the phone and they have given so much. and now, they have to relive so many of the traumas. w...

Retribution. isis and al qaeda, talking to the special operators i'm talking to in-country, they are making a play. but i think people, when they read this book, what they're going to see is the level of relationships, trust and human connection, between these veteran volunteers and the afghan allies. i think it was the thing that stood out most to me, at a time when the country is so divided, you have republicans and democrats coming together. and no one was talking about that stuff. we were talking about honoring a promise. and a lot of the groups like moral compass, have done it through the...

On this episode, Will sits down with U.S. Army Special Forces member Lt. Colonel Scott Mann, to discuss his new book, Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan.

Lt. Scott Mann, a former Green Beret, was brought back into the world of military operations and life-or-death decision-making when he and other veterans banded together to help get their Afghan friends and colleagues out of Afghanistan before the military withdrew last year as the Taliban rose to power.