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Say there's nothing on the ground in afghanistan, nobody, that has the capability or capacity to hit the american homeland. i hope that is true. >> a big bet there. heraldo, the president as gone back on his words. he said that they wouldn't be left behind, he said this was an orderly process and planned for and here we are with stories of school age children that are stuck in afghanistan without american forces to get them to the airport. >> jen psaki kept emphasizing over and over that the people that are still in afghanistan are duel citizens, some are children, some are pregnant ladies who...

Public and 60% approval in most polls, but not for the way this was done with the evacuation and the siv process was not done a whole lot earlier. the response from the pentagon and from the white house has done if we'd done it earlier it would have been signaling defeat and signaling that we were giving up to everyone involved and the ghani government as well as the afghan defense forces and what about this? you were a navy pilot and what are you hearing from people you know in the military. >> mostly i'm hearing sadness. there's anger and mostly sadness and what i would say to the people who...

Afghan interpreter that rescued joe biden in 2008 himself is pleading to get out. he was part of a quick reaction force that helped save these senators in afghanistan. vets are reported as saying if you can only help one afghan, choose mohammed. he's been stuck in the siv process. he was there for senator joe biden when he needed him. he fought a hundred firefights with u.s. forces. he's not on the list. he's not on the airplanes. he's been left behind. imagine how -- what a prize he would be for the taliban >> greg? >> yeah. if you're leaving 10% behind, i don't think the war is over. i just ...

Had two kids. i was able to see a picture of every life event. i kind of talked to him virtually along the way. sometime around 2015 is when we started the siv process. we were unsuccessful there, and then fast forward to the last few weeks where myself and three other marines were doing everything we could to get our friend out. >> and, i mean, you said you started the siv process with them, so they were part of that backlog we've all been talking about. this puts a human face on it. this family, they were at the gate. they were maybe yards away from where they could have gotten through with ...

>> bret: i agree with you having been on the ground it's tough and the military did an amazing job divhoog they did; however, with the decisions that were made, how we did it and the closing of bagram air base and the stopping of air cover for the afghan forces. seemed like it was a confluence that could have been done differently. >> it certainly could have been done differently. i do think that president biden is getting a lot of unfair criticism for having made the tough decision that so many before him would not make. and that was to acknowledge that we weren't going to be able to sustain ...