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Alert the day care staff. He recently called the white house an adult day care center. I didnt make any of this up. Kasie hunt joins us live now. So the president is heading to capitol hill in the next hour for what is supposed to be a, quote, unity lunch with gop senators focusing on the tax cut plan. How awkward might this get . Reporter i have to tell you, ali, ive been roaming the halls of capitol hill for some years now. I havent seen anything like this before where you have the powerful head of a very Important Committee at a time when not only do we have americans deployed overseas but ...

But as, you know, as ed said, we have a democratic president pulling everybody out of iraq, isis goes in there, we have a republican president pulling these special forces doing an extraordinary job in syria with a light footprint out of there. now we have a democratic president pulling special forces and pulling these men and women out of afghanistan. people who were doing an extraordinary job with a light footprint, and -- are being yanked out and creating this devastaing void. >> joe, i think one of the lessons of this period, contrary to what we're feeling right now, is that the applicatio...

The loss of terrain and the repetitivity of the loss of terrain has to be concerning. one, because it is a war that is physical but it is also has a psyc to it and hope matters and moral actually matters. >> reporter: the biden administration has made it clear that this is the afghan military's fight, this is a fight for the country of afghanistan. the u.s. mission is complete at this point and the fundamental assistance to the military is in the form of finance. jim. >> oren liebermann, there is a lot of concern on the ground there. thanks very much. although the troop withdrawal is almost ...

So bad guys don't steal it. back in the day there was colonialism. you went into areas because you wanted to use the resources yourself. now it's about keeping it out of the hands of other people. that's a big mission for the u.s. military. >> that mission has been in effect since world war ii. the entirety of the united states involvement has been to help major countries extract oil. we just don't see it as much anymore. authority to go to the small regions where isis and al qaeda and fundamentalist groups could recruit and get more man power, operate in secret. therefore all of these special...

Captain not army. but he was immersed in the iraqi people, their culture, tell me about him. >>guest: travis patrick was a junior officer who spoke arabic, he studied the koran intently and spent time in arab countries on special forces missions and he was put into the worst difficult in iraq at the worst moment of the war as the tribal affairs expert and suddenly iraqis started saying, what part of iraq are you from? >>neil: he knew the slang? >>guest: street iraqi arabic and some would say, are you from the north of iraq or the south. >>neil: he looked iraqi. and he was proud of that thick m...