are about to go back into session, and we re going to see in texas what s been happening in georgia and other jurisdictions where because there s not a mask mandate, they re going to school for two days and then literally everybody is going home and quarantining. and so this notion that, you know, that it s about freedom, well, nobody should have the freedom to infect other people and make other people sick. that s like saying, you know, that you shouldn t have to wear seat belts or you should be able to drive drunk. yeah. thank you, gentlemen. be safe. i ll see you soon. let s bring in now jason candor. he is a former army captain and afghanistan veteran who works with the veterans community project. jason, i m so happy to have you here. i want to thank you right off for your service to this country and i appreciate you bringing your expertise to this program. thank you. good evening to you. thanks, don. thanks for having me. how do you feel seeing what s happening in kabul? i
takeover by the taliban has left many of our afghan allies in grave danger. your thoughts when you watch what happened with the afghan forces and the afghan government that you and others sacrificed so much to establish, and it seems it really just disappeared, jason. yeah. i m not surprised. i guess what i don t i have like a lot of anger in this situation, but i don t really direct any of it at anybody in particular. and i definitely don t direct it at the afghan national security forces. it seems like a lot of people in this country have chosen there s like a couple of paths that people have chosen here. some people active in the debate have chosen to point their ire at a partisan foe. you know, republicans want to point it at president biden. democrats want to point it at president bush or president
people that i served with, they re good people who i admire, the afghans, and i m worried about them, and i m worried about their families. and i want them to get here because they deserve it. jason, i m so glad that you re reaching out to your fellow soldiers and folks who were there. and take care of yourself. be well. thank you. thanks, don. appreciate it. also tonight, the taliban releasing this video of their co-founder, mullah abdul ghani baradar, arriving in kandahar. it is the first time that he has set foot in afghanistan in 20 years. joining me now, two people who have done a lot of reporting on this taliban co-founder, jessica donati, author of eagle down. and toby harndon is here as well. he is a former foreign correspondent for the daily telegraph and sunday times of
trained them to fight. it s not really there for them at that point. the government of afghanistan has not been in a position in many cases to feed them. so now you re starving, you re surrounded. it s not a choice of do i fight to the end and give my own life because that s what i do. that s not a difficult choice to make when you re trained and that s your situation. they train you to make that choice. it s more than that. it s if i continue to fight, i m either killed or i m captured. the taliban will know that it was me, and they re going to my hometown to kill my wife and my kids and my parents. that s a very different set of decisions to make. and so i just think that there s more nuance to the question of did they stand up and fight. the best outcome for this, since we are here, jason? the best outcome for this is that we get as many people out who need to be out as possible. look, it has sort of settled in,
what s been happening in georgia and other jurisdictions where because there s not a mask mandate, they re going into school for two days and then literally everybody is going home and quarantining. and so this notion that, you know, it s about freedom, well, nobody should have the freedom to infect other people and make other people sick. that s like saying, you shouldn t have to wear seat belts or you should be able to drive drunk. yeah. thank you, gentleman. be safe. i ll see you soon. let s bring in jason candor, he s a former army captain and afghanistan veteran who works with the veterans community project. jason, i m so happy to have you here, and i want to thank you right off for your service to the country and thank you for bringing your expertise to the program. thanks for having me. it s terrible. it s not unexpected but it