the afghan defense forces to even resist the taliban rather than surrender at the risk of their own lives. kevin how do you see it? all day i ve seen a lot of these comments, aimed at the u.s. leadership from day one. arguing that the american people have been lied to. are that every time a general said that they thought progress was being made, that somehow that general is lying. i don t believe that. and i say that with some seriousness. i ve spent the last decade myself covering the pentagon, more than a decade actually. and many times in my role, you cover the leadership. you cover the four stars, the three stars, the chairman who go in and out. and i believe a lot of them who s cycle in, they are handed the problem. and it s their job to assess it. and then move it forward. and they have a mission. that mission may have been hamstrung, and may have been wrong, and may have been
0ne officer said yes, two forms, even to walk across to tesco s, another said if you are working on foot you will not need anything. we are two days away from everything starting and we are unclear. at the pharmacy it will be business as usual and people are encouraged to plan ahead and the staff are gearing up to make sure they can get to work. we have make sure the id is in place and we have letters from the employer to say we are based here and the pharmacist will be here at the end of the week and has decided to cycle in, he was based in hell and he made sure that was the quickest way to be here. bookings at this vegetarian cafe have been hit hard over the days of the summit. with no prospect of compensation. thursday and friday we have known one table on both nights so it is a complete contrast to normal. we are a little bit busier on saturday and we are getting hundreds of inquiries for those days but we tell people that they are going to face challenging, challenges getting to u
texas history and importantly not just won more votes than any democrat in our state s history but won nemindependence for the first time in decades, won nearly half a million republicans who voted for greg abbott for governor, and me for senator, it s going to take that kind of movement of democrats and independents and republicans not just to defeat donald trump but to get the kind of majorities in the house and the senate that we need and then to be able to hold them year in year out, cycle in, and cycle out to overcome some of the greatest challenges we have ever faced and achieve the most ambitious agenda we have ever set on health care, on climate, on immigration, and on the economy. we can do it, and texas is absolutely key. all right. beto o rourke, thank you very much. congratulations on last night, and it s been fun getting to know you. we ll see you soon. thank you. and beto kicked off our big lineup of candidates today. still to come, we ll be joined by mayor pete but
surprised how much time people work on raising money. and it doesn t make you involved with lobbyist and specialists. i think public financing elections would make congress a better place, and then running every two years brings that cycle in, and that needs to change, and people see that. there s a lot of stuff about congress. and being the institution as what it s looked upon, i have written speaker boehner again and again to try and get him to stand up for congress, which he should as speaker. a lot of things put on the internet are lies on the internet? they put out things like congress people, after one year, get a retirement for life. it s a full salary. that s not true. you don t get a retirement until you serve five years, and then it s the same as any employee.