and the suicide bombing at kabul s airport. an intelligence failure, chaotic scenes and americans and afghan allies stranded in that country, some still today. yet, the white house officials say they were proud of how that exit went correspondent mark meredith at the white house with the latest on that live at the north lawn tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. tonight the white house is essentially blaming former president trump for out how the end of the war in afghanistan was carried out even though the war ended in august of 2021 under president biden s command. critics are saying this report out today is an obvious attempt to try to shift the blame over how america s longest war came to an end. the president s decision to end the war in afghanistan was the right one. the white house is defending how it ended the war in afghanistan. even after images like these showing afghans fleeing for their lives sent shock waves worldwide. today the white hou
a very chaotic withdrawal. his whole tenor during this press conference saying this report is not about accountability. that s precisely what the american people were hoping for. they saw this disastrous withdrawal. it is true that they supported president trump s decision to end this war in afghanistan. which was a very just war but had been mismanaged for the better part of 15 years. the manner in which the withdrawal happened was what people were upset about. i didn t hear mention of the 11 marines, the baby carmen, the soldier killed that n. that kabul attack. you know, even kirby said something about how he thought it was preposterous to talk about all the equipment left over there. that s a major issue for a lot of americans who fought there, served there, lost their friends there, they were hoping for something more than this, i think. bret: last thing, there are still afghan allies who we can t get out of there. yeah. that is the biggest tragedy. these are people who truste
surrogacy. under the law he needs the approval of the surrogate mother who gave birth to her using an egg donor. i have no legal rights over carmen. and the woman who gives birth has all legal rights and we have been terrified from day one that she, the police social services would try to take carmen from us. lake and his husband believe that the surrogate decided to keep the baby because she found out they were gay. the woman denies that, saying she only cares about carmen s safety. translator: i miss her every day. you see how cruel the world is today and i just don t know what they are going to the with my baby. reporter: she says she never agreed to give the baby to lake
would tell everybody it s a modern day brothel. you come in and they would say, oh i want an african-american girl. i want a small girl. i want a girl who looks underage. be sure to join us for the cnn freedom project documentary children for sale at 8:00 p.m. in london and 9:00 if you are watching in berlin. that is only on cnn. a gay couple is battling to take their daughter home to the u.s. after she was born in thailand as a surrogate. the couple is living in hiding with their two children in bangkok hoping that the courts will rule in their favorite. a huge smile from baby carmen 6-month-old unwittingly in the center of the world of thai