afghanistan. president biden: we succeeded in what we set off to do in afghanistan over a decade ago. and we stayed for another decade. it was time to end this war. harris: michael waltz of the great state of florida is a former green beret and served multiple combat tours in afghanistan, middle east and africa. great to have you in focus. first of all i want to show everybody you are actually kicking off a six-figure ad bye highlighting the afghanistan fall. as we approach the one-year anniversary of the afghanistan withdrawal debacle we knew it would devolve into absolute chaos. those of us who had served knew this was going to happen this way. all of us veterans began demanding is start the evacuation now. harris: congressman, we started to see the approval
campaign yesterday, with a speech, and in the next few moments we are expecting to hear from and in the next few moments we are expecting to hearfrom penny morton. they are all up there, campaigning for votes. at this point, it is the votes of conservative mps. i think we can hear tom tugendhat. i votes of conservative mp5. i think we can hear tom tugendhat. votes of conservative mps. i think we can hear tom tugendhat. i want to be absolutely we can hear tom tugendhat. i want to be absolutely clear, we can hear tom tugendhat. i want to be absolutely clear, when we can hear tom tugendhat. i want to be absolutely clear, when we - we can hear tom tugendhat. i want to be absolutely clear, when we are - be absolutely clear, when we are talking about defence in this campaign, there is a really important issue at stake. that is predictability, looking at the future and making sure we give confidence notjust to our forces, but to our allies. when we are talking about defence spending, on
russia and the build-up and people still say i m an american first what s the problem here? it is horrific was taking place but this really isn t anything from america to be involved in so what is your answer as a combat veteran quick. it s good to be with you. is not just the fact i am a combat veteran my father served in world war ii my older brother served in vietnam i served 22 years myself with desert storm in iraq and afghanistan and my nephew has had three combat tours and we believe in our family and overall the constitutional conservatives and peace through strength. what is happening right now is if we don t honor our agreements of commitment going back to the budapest memorandum which said if ukraine or kazakhstan part of
russia and the build-up and people still say i m an american first what s the problem here? it is horrific was taking place but this really isn t anything from america to be involved in so what is your answer as a combat veteran quick. it s good to be with you. is not just the fact i am a combat veteran my father served in world war ii my older brother served in vietnam i served 22 years myself with desert storm in iraq and afghanistan and my nephew has had three combat tours and we believe in our family and overall the constitutional conservatives and peace through strength. what is happening right now is if we don t honor our agreements of commitment going back to the budapest memorandum which said if ukraine or kazakhstan part of
have your flagship blown up. yeah. but the russians are saying they didn t know the ukrainians did not flow our flagship up. it was our gross incompetence that made us blow our own ship up. either way, i think as you have said and as others have said this morning, not a very good look for russia. no. as admiral stavridis said this is important strategically, however it happened, strategically to take out the flag ship for the black sea fleet for russia, but symbolically for ukraine to have taken out another piece of artillery, another ship, and to show they are taking on and winning in many ways an army far larger, a navy larger than their own. joining us ex retired general steph twitty. he served multiple combat tours in iraq and afghanistan and prior to retirement in 2020 was deputy commander of the european