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Supporting and we appreciate that. >> thank you very much. >> all right, back to the phones here. kim doshier? >> thanks, john. i wanted to ask if you were given the short amount of time left, just seven days, are you going to allow private charters to start landing in greating numbers to pick up afghans at risk? even by conserve math you can't move all of the citizens, the green card holders, the special operators, et cetera. also private charter companies tell me that they were told when they land they have one hour to land, pick everyone up, and take you have. some are leery of going becaus...

Politics. that's the problem, will. they knew we had american citizens there. they knew we had thousands of them. we now know there are leaked state department memos where they told biden the taliban are going to take over right away. biden wanted a cheap political win before september 11th. that's what it was. so they didn't take five second to think about getting out our civilians maybe destroying our military equipment so they don't fall into the hands of the people we have spent 20 years fighting. it was all about politics. it was all politics all the time. that's why he is changing the su...

All these groups will now be able to train, they will be abl to use u.s. captured equipment in will be trained by soldiers that were trained by the afghan by u.s. special operations meaning former soldiers. there is a taliban social walking the street outside the airport dress likes u.s. specia operators. they took the uniforms in their walking around like they are eight u.s. special operators in they happen to be taliban special forces. iran has deployed to put down protest inside of iran come in they hope to utilize their proxies and on the other side jihadist are looking to use theirs to fu...

Question that we will be asking in the coming days, weeks and potentially even months is -- it's not a surprise that the taliban have taken over afghanistan, but it's just the speed with which they have been able to do it. so defense officials who i spoke with and our colleague ken dilanian spoke with, they explained to us there was one worst case scenario they were looking at about a month ago that had the taliban taking over afghanistan and in kabul as early as september 11th of this year. so in a couple of weeks. well, think about it. you know, they're a month earlier than that. so that jus...

Taliban to try to protect, you know, the last strong hold, essentially try to protect some human rights and allow internationals to leave safely, including nbc correspondents. so i am concerned to hear this because i spent a lot of time in bagram. i had oversight for almost a decade on the hill with the senate on service committee for the special operations forces, u.s. forces there in bagram doing training and, of course, doing the counterterrorism mission. and, yes, there is a reason why these hardened prisoners were kept there with our most capable operators as well as, of course, the afgha...