think undersells it. this is going to be an open question of how and what the taliban require in order to get folks out. they made some initial statements saying they will not, you know, forbid anyone from leaving, that folks are free to go, but we will see if that s something they intend to uphold or if that s more, you know, just propaganda and pr. jon: the suggestion has been made that perhaps we should reopen bagram airfield, which is north of kabul. it s huge. it offers a lot of capability. i mentioned it, the possibility of that on this program last week. general millie has said he doesn t think that is necessarily a good idea or not even necessary to do. what s your take on that whole controversy? you know, i think if we had a time machine and we could go back, we should have kept bagram airfield open. closing that down was a strategic failure of the first order. it was literally the fact that we could not have enough people
footprint of special operations counter terrorism focused troops in afghanistan through all of this and if we would have kept the bagram airfield open rather than rely on the very inefficient kabul public airport. this situation could have unfolded more effectively and in a much much better way than it has. we ll get back to the asking those questions later. in the meantime we have to get all these americans out of country and i don t have the confidence this administration is able to do that. harris: so congressman quickly because you can talk tactics with us now and with some specificity. every american is wondering if we were there, what would we be doing? we are getting mixed messages on the ground. we re being told to get to the airport and now the airport is too dangerous to get to. you have people in other parts of the country can t get there. if we pull up stakes do we have to go back in with a bigger
they are fighting to keep bagram airfield open indefinitely. they talk about the concerns of the iraqi military and police force. six men were killed by a suicide bomber just next week. correspondent rich edson reports on the cold war powers that seem unable to set aside their differences to fight a common enemy. reporter: russians and americans again have a common enemy. this time it s isis, though they ab and there are no cooperation between the two mill taerz beyond attempts to avoid one another. now, if the russians say, quote,