manage it and then they begin to implode because of cracks on the inside and some of the reports that we are seeing of and discipline suggests that the taliban may be approaching that point, in discipline is always a leading indicator of catastrophic growth. and if they go beyond that point, then you might see this scenario where the government has collapse and the taliban is collapsing and afghanistan devolves into these warring fife dems which is then your most likely scenario where terrorist groups come back to afghanistan for special fiefdoms. groups come back to afghanistan for specialfiefdoms. colonel groups come back to afghanistan for special fiefdoms. colonel chris kolenda, thank you so much for being with us on bbc news. to the united kingdom now and the southwest city of plymouth in devon. a vigil has been held in memory
they can really turn the trial into something that they want to see. however, that is a stretch and a reach to some degree at this point, particularly given how republicans have lined up behind the president. no clear sign that it s going to happen yet, but obviously democrats are going to keep working on that. as you mention too, when we look at the house, when we look at the senate, things are very different for lawmakers in each of these. however, the unity that we saw from republicans in the house, it was clear. they were a solid block. is it your sense? it s one thing to line up behind the president. is it one thing to make sure that every single republican is in lockstep behind the president at this point? no, at this point it s too early. if you have followed us around capitol hill for the last two months, any time we asked most of the republican senators where they stood on this, most of them held their fire. it was a very frustrating experience, including senator murkowski
look at the house, when we look at the senate, things are very different for lawmakers in each of these. however, the unity that we saw from republicans in the house, it was clear. they were a solid block. is it your sense? it s one thing to line up behind the president. is it one thing to make sure that every single republican is in lockstep behind the president at this point? no, at this point it s too early. if you have followed us around capitol hill for the last two months, any time we asked most of the republican senators where they stood on this, most of them held their fire. it was a very frustrating experience, including senator murkowski, who refused to talk about this for the better part of the last couple of weeks. i do think it s important to note, unlike the house, senators are kind of their own independent fiefdoms. they ve got their own staff, which is larger than they have in the house. they have larger constituencies because they represent states and not districts.
posts in the administration and it s exactly the evidence that can change everything. right. but i think what you re saying is it s going to be a regular public servants who are going to possibly save this democracy. the people that we have elected to represent us, we have seen that a vast majority of republicans have not been doing their job. they have pledged their loyalty to the president and not to the country. and so when we move forward with this, i mean, that s so much fear there s so much fear of people who work around this president because they know that donald trump can only have fiefdoms. we talked about how he never had real boards. he had one or two companies that had a board but the vast majority of the businesses it s him as the king. everybody does as he says, so he thinks why can t we do this in d.c. so moving forward we have to get more and more republicans to understand that if they do not act now they are really
literally it would be years if it were not for the media, it would be years before the regular person, the normal, average working american would even know that the department had been shut down in terms of, you know, how much it affects their lives. michael, that s a talking point. will that dog hunt, as they say? no. what that comment tells you is just how blind and deaf that dog is. because the fact of the matter is well, then do i feel sorry for the dog? well, you shouldn t. because if the dog has a lot of problems. right. on top of being blind and deaf, it s also dumb. because what it has done is it is projecting outward some, you know, scary vision and view of what a federal worker is and what a federal worker does. who accesses the system among the citizenry that these bureaucracies exist as, you know, these little mini castles and fiefdoms that act unto