thousands of people who have worked with you, fought with you, supported you for 20 years. that should be the number one ask in a sense to get these americans and afghans out and there are things the united states can do to help the taliban and in that circumstance. all right. fareed, thank you very much. later on tonight, i ll speak with one of those afghans, ten years working with the u.s. defense contractor stuck in afghanistan tonight. the taliban hunting him. next, the pentagon does admit that the taliban freed thousands, their words, thousands of isis-k fighters from prisons in afghanistan. plus, demanding answers from the white house. cascading failures led to this moment in afghanistan. and ron desantis ban on mask mandates tonight shot down by a judge. that s why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh, yeah. that s the spot.
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resettle in the united states. trying to help those who helped our men and women in uniform for so many years at the risk of their lives. let s bring in republican member of the foreign affairs committee congressman peter meijer of michigan, was deployed to iraq before working in conflict, analyst for an ngo in afghanistan. congressman let me just start this morning by thanking you so much for your service to this country, your service in uniform. we so greatly appreciate it. i want to get this right, though. i ve been saying for a couple days this wasn t an intel failure because we all saw it coming a mile away. at least we ve been talking about it on the show. but you do think part of this was an intel failure. can you explain to our audience what you mean by that? absolutely. we had a cascading series of failures here from the
to see what tomorrow holds. again, i was supportive of the withdrawal, the execution of that withdrawal has been an embarrassment to this country. we are dealing with 1975 saigon right now, trying to avoid 1979 tehran. what happens in the next few hours, in the next few days is going to determine the next few weeks and the next few months. but it s clear that this was botched on the assumptions. it s clear that we have had a series cascading of failures that led us to this point. we need to do everything we can protect american lives and ensure we don t abandon those who served american forces. jillian: it s so devastating watching the scenes play out. i know there s a lot of people who would like to hear from our president. we will stay tuned. we were told it will happen in the next few days. real quick, before we get you go, want to get your opinion on
decorated combat veteran of vietnam, former cabinet member and member of the national security council. and dr. badelia, founding director of boston university s center for emerging infectious diseases policy and research. good evening and welcome to you all. general, we are going to begin with you with this urgent matter overseas. since you and i spoke at exactly this hour last night, the taliban has made incredible progress over land. i m tempted to say if patton s third army had moved this fast after d -day, ve-day would have come in two weeks in europe. question to you, what happens when they take kabul and what, got forbid happens, if any americans are harmed? it could be a cascading tragic for the afghan people. most of the country 40 million