bars in clark county. you have potential victory is lying in those sales at least for now. i want to i guess is it makes a huge difference night, i step toward voters like elliot carver hall having their voices heard, it felt a little bit of empowerment, a little slow, a little tiny bit sara marie joins us now from las vegas. so this is the first time he s running boost had been used. how did the process go? it went pretty smoothly, although there were voters who showed up to vote and found out they were actually registered in a different county or in some cases, in a different state, which is negating the education gap that still exist for those who are behind bars. there were dozens of folks who wanted to vote from the jail today and we expect that that s going to number is going to be even longer when we get to the general election in november. this was sort of a dry run for the big event coming up, anderson be interesting to do polling and see if they re running for
all, a dissent memo is only written by diplomats if they feel that their voice is not being heard. it is a way for them to dissent to the secretary of state with what is happening at that moment in time hoping that changes can be made. the second of all, it is important because we hear president biden in his interview just recently with abc not saying that anything went wrong in terms of the u.s. withdrawal here. it is very clear now, as we are seeing in this dissent memo, that there were state department officials saying look, things are going to happen. it could get bad, but let s take steps now so that we can mitigate against the worst case scenario, against a case scenario where we are totally out of control, where it is chaos and we re watching that chaos unfold right now at the airport in kabul. jake? kylie atwood at state department with that breaking news. also on our world lead as the taliban take over afghanistan they might be turning to an ally of convenience, one with dee
wrong are set to begin next week, but as 209th anniversary of the september 11th attacks approaches, biden insist that had afghanistan where that terror plot began has also changed. it s not going to look like they were when we were attacked. there was a guy named osama bin laden who was still alive and well. they were organized in a big way, that they had significant help from other parts of the world. reporter: now a bipartisan group of senators in fact more than half of the u.s. senate have signed a letter and sent it here to president biden at the white house urging him to quickly evacuate those afghan special immigrant visa am gantz and their families. these are the people who have worked alongside american forces for some two decades, working with the military and embassy personnel asking the white house to move faster on those evacuations. now, jake, the state department says there will be 20 flights going out of kabul tonight. we should also point out the pentagon said toda
afghanistan and he says to himself we tried this in 2001, 2002, it didn t work, and i don t think you can divorce the personal element of this which is the fact, jake, as he will say, he is the first president to have had a son in a combat role since jimmy carter and before that president eisenhower. he took that seriously. he had a lot of contacts with people in the united states who had september their sons and daughters off to fight and this looms large in his mind and in his end when he had the opportunity to pull the policy through over the resistance of many cases military leadership he did it. whether you agree were the decision or not, trying to make sense of where president biden comes from on this, evan, thank you so much. joining me next, the first female air force pilot in the history of afghanistan will talk to us about the rapid collapse of the afghan military and the future for women in that country left behind. plus, some schools are requiring masks but now more s
the troop surge in 2009 top president obama. do you see this withdrawal as finally following through on what he has long wanted to do even though obviously it s incredibly messy? i do. i think you saw signs of this in comments he s made going back exactly as you said going back a decade. president obama once described to me, he said that vice president biden s biggest impact on the administration in total was on afghanistan policy, and that was because they would get into these discussions, particularly with the pentagon, about what could be done. what could they achieve there, and then vice president biden s view was was rigid which was that he said this shouldn t be an ideological question about what we seek to accomplish. it has to be what we reasonably think we can get done. narrowly what it will cost us and when our investment will be and in that regard he was pushing constantly for the idea that we shouldn t stay just because we think we can achieve something that we might no