scores of taliban fighters and just behind us, the u.s. embassy xounl. some carry american weapons. they tell us, they re here to maintain law and order. translator: everything is under control, everything will be fine, he says. nobody should worry. reporter: what is your message to america in. translator: america spent enough time in afghanistan. they need to leave, he tells us. they already lost lots of lives and lots of money. reporter: people come up to them to pose for photographs. they re just channelling, death to america. but they seem friendly at the same time. it is utterly bizarre. yeah. so joining me now, cnn military analyst retired general mark ertling and robin wright, also a columnist for the new yorker. i m so glad to have you both on
you have to be concerned about your safety and your children s safety, are you not? absolutely. terrified. and every time i see this video, i m terrified. where does all this, where does this rage come from? where does it come from? it comes from a, some people can t be reasoned. with i hate saying that. some of it is grand standing. some of it is group mob mentality and you just get fired up. there are people, you get a thousand people all channelling for hours. it was 95 degrees. 90 to 95 degrees the other night when i walked out at 8:45. it was hot. people have been outside all day. i had no idea what was going through their minds. the crowd was nowhere near that big. it was big. it was nowhere near that big. so people clearly showed up during the meeting and then the crowd that left halfway through
did you say back to him? i respect my dad. he has awesome advice oftentimes but in this case i knew exactly what the right thing to do was. and i knew he was in part channelling his experiences and a deep fear that i would potentially end up, like so many in the soviet union or in other authoritarian regimes end up, which is persecuted, prosecuted and maybe even killed and that s what he was channelling when he provided his advice. ironically there was a grain of wisdom to what he was saying because you did leave the united states army based on your decision to testify. let s go back to the call. president trump calls president zelensky, ostensibly to congratulate him on his election. what did you hear specifically on that call that raised the alarms for you? going into the calls i was apprehensive. i shouldn t have been. i put together all the talking points, i knew how it should
have you ever seen this guy? he s like a clown. he s a gutless guy. this poor guy, i feel sorry. he s like a lost soul. it s sad. it s very sad. his family is so ashamed. he s an embarrassment to the bush family. poor, poor, poor jeb bush who brings out his mother because he needed help. no, he needed help. mommy, please come. walk in the snow, mom. you guys remember that, right? during the 2016 campaign donald trump disrespected jeb bush every single chance he got. it got so bad that even jeb s mother, former first lady barbara bush, later blamed trump for what she described as a heart attack in 2016. now neither of the bush presidents voted for trump, but jeb s own son, george p. bush, channelling his fredo corlione did not follow his family s lead. in 2016 he became the only bush to endorse trump despite the fact that trump had gone after