from airline baggage to hotel fees. sparse 10 seconds on key security issues like china and being able to protect the southern board and no conversation about this family left behind in afghanistan after nine combat tours serving with u.s. forces as interpreter inside afghanistan. ashley: zero minutes spent on the afghanistan withdrawal, the disastrous afghanistan withdrawal. were you expecting him to mention it for a couple of seconds? as fellow afghanistan veteran who served there, not only was i disappointed, i was horrified, americans helped save lives of so many. after avi s combat tour, he was hit and was back out volunteering to serve with my home state of iowa to protect
last night. there are thousands of families who work with americans who are left behind. as fellow afghan veteran who served multiple combat tours, i was horrified there was no mention of the veterans. todd: nabi became a citizen in 2019 and he calls this the opportunity of a lifetime. american dream is alive and you just got to work hard in order to make it happen. make that reality. it was a proud moment and i m grateful for the opportunity and it was surreal to watch our president s speech in our capitol. so it was just a proud moment
deal now with philippines is it a sign that the u.s. is perhaps preparing for some kind of conflict? it s a sign we re taking the threat of chinese aggression seriously. as someone who has done four combat tours in iraq. i know in a very personal way that we must avoid war with china. a war with china would be brutal. and the key to preventing war with china is to show xi jinping and the chinese communist party if they start a war, they will lose. a key part of our strategy to make sure they lose any such war is the relationship with the allies. you can see how important the allies have been in the ukraine war in europe p. our allies in the pacific need strengthening. i led a bipartisan congressional delegation to the philippines in october and one of the conclusions was we need to do more to shore up our alliance
A U.S. Army veteran with multiple combat tours under his belt no doubt saved scores of people earlier this week during a mass shooting incident at a local gay and lesbian nightclub in Colorado [.]