- stand up if you are first generation college student. (crowd cheering) stand up if you re a mother. if you are actively deployed, a veteran, or you re in a military family, please stand. the world in which we live equally distributes talent, but it doesn t equally distribute opportunity, and paths are not always the same. - i m so proud of you dad. - [man] i will tell you this, southern new hampshire university can change the whole trajectory of your life. (uplifting music) will affect us for years to come, but this week it has been special hard for veterans. the war ended the same way it
that tajikistan renting a helicopter, officials believed was an attempt to use the border between tajikistan and afghanistan to try to get american citizens out. a really extraordinary turn of events, hallie. i know you ve covered washington for a long time. i would challenge anyone to come up with similar scenarios, where you have congressman trying to enter a country recently taken over by the taliban to try to rescue american citizens. it s an extraordinary turn of events. one quick note we ve been showing our banner at the bottom of the screen. congressman mullen said is he on his way home, that what he s saying in the instagram post. when you talk about this, what was the reaction you got? you had congressman moulton and mier who took that very sort of now well-known trip to
to be this chaotic and every critic who asks whether chaos should have been a part of this or whether chaos could have been avoided to me may as well just be saying i ve never been to a combat zone. chaos is baked in. it s part of it. jason, every single time you are here, you make us better, you make us smarter and you make us grateful. jason candor, the face of a true patriot. that s what we saw over the last two weeks, true patriot im. thanks again. if you are a veteran struggling with your mental health, please, please know you re appreciated and not alone. call the veterans crisis to the line at 1-800-273-8255, press 1 or text 838255 or visit veteranscrisisline.net. we ll be right back. with home and auto to help people save more! [ laughs ]
accused of threatening a u.s. ambassador. oklahoma republican mark wayne mullen just posted to the gram. we ve been helping get americans out of afghanistan, yes. is the mission continuing, yes. am i missing, no. did i go dark for a little, yes, because it wasn t safe to be communicating. here is the back story. the statement comes after new reporting out from the washington post that officials say he threatened embassy officials in tajikistan after being can he nid a request looking for help to get into afghanistan to rent a helicopter to get out a handful of american citizens. just this past hour congressman seth moulton said this. i know mark wayne and i ve been asking some of my friends and connections about him because i m concerned for his safety. washington post national security reporter john hudson is here with his scoop. let me clarify here. i don t know that congressman
jason, when the headlines crossed, the war is over, i was about to walk into my 15-year-old son s bedroom and tell him he had two friends sleeping over and i stopped myself, because i was afraid when i went in and said, hey, the war is over, that they might say to me, what war? and i was embarrassed by that. i was sad by it. but it s the truth. there are so many young people who were not born 9/11 and seth moulton said it in the last hour when he was serving in afghanistan, he felt forgotten. how do we make sure that s not the case? what do you want people to know, especially the next generation? yeah, no, the line you just played of the president stuck with me, too. and i appreciated him speaking to that, because i think part of what has been so upsetting over the last week, for a long time, but especially over the last week or two, has been this feeling that americans have discovered that we re at war in