jihadi group is celebrating this victory according to afghan officials, 10,000 foreign fighters in the country already, you could guarantee there will be thousands more. so, you know, they re saying the right things. let s see when all of the americans have left oar most of the americans have left and when they declare the islamic emirate which is not different from the islamic caliphate. there are more similarities than differences. that is a good way of putting it. dana, to drill down on a point you were making, this is also an extremely dangerous moment for the thousands of afghans who helped the american efforts, american troops throughout the war. biden said yesterday that there are plans to airlift more of them in the coming days. it is not clear how many that actually is. advocates for these afghans are furious, let me play matt zeller, an afghanistan war vet
that pain. neil: yeah, you re right, but to your point, and this comes up in poll after poll, after 20 years, the afghans are not ready to fend for themselves, they probably never will be. john, i want to thank you, first and foremost for your tremendous service, and all the looking out for all of your friends and colleagues. john byrnes, the afghanistan war vet. much more, in the meantime i want to take you back to our continent and what s happening at the border right now and surprising acknowledgment on the top biden administration official, yeah, it s a mess down there. jonathan hunt in la hoya, texas with more. good morning to you. it s shaping up to be a busy weekend here on the border through this morning, we ve seen a fairly steady stream of migrants coming up from the rio grande river, about a mile behind me. last night, friday night was very busy indeed. our cameras were out pretty much all night. several hundred migrants coming through just this one spot in
recover. we may want a war over, we may even declare it over, you can pull your troop it is out as president obama learned the hard way out of iraq. and in this case, if we don t keep the pressure on, then isis will resurge. it s absolutely a given that they will come back. reporter: the white house is closely monitoring the situation in syria, and administration officials say they will be meeting with the national security council today for an update on where things stand and what actions, if any, the u.s. should take. leland? leland: what action, if any, the president will let them take. garrett tenney, thank you very much. with that, we bring in indiana republican congressman, an afghanistan war vet, jim banks. good to see you, sir. good to be here. leland: this is our reporting from jennifer griffin who talked to one of the thousand special forces soldiers who was stationed with the kurds. i am ashamed for the first time in my career. this is insanity. i don t know what they ca
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i m not joking. wife, new kid. raises tens of millions of dollars for democrats. watch what he does if there are any openings for new people in camilla harris. you took it out of that s what i was going to say. i think kamala harris will be someone to watch, most certainly. senator elect from california, attorney general, progressive. she s a second african-american woman to be a u.s. senator, also of indian descent. and i would keep my eye on her, especially as we get head into 2020. and republicans got lucky that in the who lholiday spirit, are the republicans afraid of? i would say jason candor of missouri who lost to blunt, but he s an afghanistan war vet, had had a best ad of this season by far, where he put together an m-16 in 30 seconds. blindfolded. it was incredible. and so i feel like republicans