deadline. it was designed to save american lives. reporter: failing to deliver on this explicit pledge from just 13 days ago. if there are american citizens left, we re going to stay till we get them all out. reporter: biden making clear u.s. diplomatic efforts will be singularly focused on evacuating those americans. and for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. we remain committed to get them out if they want to come out. reporter: but with thousands of afghan allies also still stuck in the country, one clear reality. the u.s. efforts in the country are far from over, even if its military is now gone. i don t think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on. reporter: the fallout from a frenzy, chaotic, and bloody final 16 days is just beginning. congressional hearings and probes slated for the coming weeks on a withdrawal that has drawn sharp criticism from both parties. the administration has
thank you all very much. if you have something on bahrain, can someone give it to me? yes. the nato secretary-general talked about the situation in afghanistan. from earlier today in brussels, this is about 40 minutes. question afternoon, the north atlantic council by what i see unfolding in afghanistan. nato has been working around the clock to maintain operations at the kabul international airport. around 800 nato civilian personnel have remained to provide key functions under very challenging circumstances. including air traffic control, fuel and communications. i would like to thank them. let me also think military forces of nato allies. in particular, turkey, the united states and united kingdom for the vital role in securing the airport. operations at the airport are readily resuming. during today s meeting, allies announced they are sending additional airplanes. we also maintained our diplomatic presence. they have been working closely with allies and the rest of
to find osama bin laden after he escaped up through this gradual escalation into much more expensive counterinsurgency and nationbuilding until his efforts essentially collapsed and u.s. forces returned to a coward terror counterterrorism foster in recent years before leaving. host: when did you first go to pech and why? guest: i first visited in 2010. i was a journalist covering president obama s surge that year when u.s. troop levels had been rising to their all-time high of 100,000 u.s. troops in the country. i was embedding with different infantry battalions in different parts of the country in a tough fight. the patch was one of them and i got fast pech was fascinating. host: why was a fascinating? guest: there was a huge dichotomy with what was going on there and to the rest of the country. traveling afghanistan that summer, the commanders would give you a line about how many new outposts their building, how many new kilometers of road they are paving, how many new
violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be assassina
for the past ten years, good evening. this story is developing in southern california. the victim taken from her home in 2004 finally worked up the nerve to report her abduction on facebook. the man accused. 41-year-old isidro garcia who has been charged with kidnapping and rape and false imprisonment. abc news reporter sid garcia is on the story. oh, my gosh. reporter: the neighbors are stunned by the news that their neighbor is accused of kidnapping his wife ten years ago when she was a young teeb teen. neighbors knew isidro garcia as thomas medrano, they say the couple lived here for ten years. neighbors say they never suspected anything was wrong. he treated her like a queen. yeah. and this is isidro. you recognize him? yeah, we know him. and now when you know what he is accused of. that is weird. we never i would never imagine that. reporter: maria sanchez says she helped garcia s wife organize their baby shower, and other get-togethers with garcia s fa