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I think part of it is the second we surge troops into kabul, first up, our bulwark, like our base of operations was an urban airport with one runway in the middle of the largest city in afghanistan. so tactically that is a huge problem. secondarily, when we landed with 5,000 troops or 2,000 initially and then we spun it up, we should've pushed those troops outwards to go save americans at that point. and we hit a defensive position. look, i'm not the tactical guy to sit back here and second-guess all of that. but what i do know is that we ended up in a situation where we're relying on former s...

Unbelievable courage and heroism and empathy of all service members, not just special operators and some of the afghan special operators that are at the airfield but especially in the marines and army that are guarding the field. but -- and i say this as an army guy, those pilots that are flying those c17s and c130s are doing some phenomenal work. i heard a story about a pilot today when his crew chief told him there were #00 bodies onboard and did he have enough power to take off, and he just said watch me. that's the kind of hireoism these young captains and majors flying these aircraft are ...

>> we have i think 6,000 plus troops there. these are pretty amazing units, these marines and paratroopers and special operators. we have the capabilities and general mckenzie -- let's not give our enemies any information or our plans. this is not the right time to talk about that. if we have the troops -- in addition to the troops, their capabilities, resources, air support, other resources to bring to bear to get our americans to the airport and evacuated. >> martha: we remember those that were lost today. 12 u.s. service members, 11 marines and one navy medic. their families are getting the...

We sit on it and there's an attack it's worse. that's how it's worse, jake. >> kimberly, let me ask you because i don't know any journalist who has covered this war or any member of the milt who hasn't spent much of the last ten days trying to help people get out. whether it's american citizens, legal permanent residents, sivs, just everyday afghans. were you speaking to an afghan family who was supposed to be at the abbey gate just this morning. >> i've been embedded as many have with one of these dozens of groups of citizens trying to work to get afghans out. this particular one is current a...

Special operating forces that conduct extraction operations are extremely well-trained. they do it in a very precise manner. it is very difficult when you're talking about an area that's as wide as some of the areas they might be going into in afghanistan. so, yeah, it -- it's tough, no doubt about it. but there -- we've seen over the last couple of days isas the --s the evacuation operation has continued, some unbelievable courage and heroism and empathy of all service members, not just special operators and some of the afghan special operators that are at the airfield. but especially, the ma...