including censorship, and, well, i myself went through a process of self criticism about. ..assuming our responsibilities, about what happened in the 80s. and there was a transition, a democratic transition process, starting in 1990 in nicaragua, that lasted 17 years. and unfortunately, it failed. and i assumed my role as an independentjournalist during this transition process, and i ended up being expelled from barricada and from the fsln. yes, no, i know all of that and right now, of course, even in exile you re still running your news website and your tv shows on youtube and you re still getting your message into nicaragua. given that you ve told me you think ortega and the people at the very top of nicaragua are responsible for creating a system which tolerates and indeed uses torture techniques, do you fear
on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan and the policy moving forward. kylie atwood, let me come to you. we just saw congressman gerry connolly there speaking with congressman gregory meeks and congressman connolly was on with ana cabrera last hour and said he wants to hear a degree of self-reflection, self-criticism. when you read this opening statement, is there any in there? with regard to the opening statement, no, not really. i mean, it is very much a bold defense of the biden administration and as i said, what they did right, because there s been so much focus on what they did wrong. but i think it is noteworthy that the first time that secretary of state tony blinken spoke with reporters as this evacuation was under way in late august, he was asked about responsibility and if the biden
crisis that we experienced, and then secondly, i d like to hear him engage in some self-reflection and self-criticism about how the administration could have, should have, done better in the evacuation understanding that, you know, when you end a war, it is always chaotic. and i want to give them some credit for removing 120,000 people in the evacuation, but there are still tens of thousands left behind, and i want to know their status and what the plans are to try to help them. you sent a letter in fact just last week to the secretary seeking answers, including how many americans remain there in afghanistan, what steps the u.s. g government is taking to continue those evacuations for americans and afghan allies. have you gotten a response already, and do you know how many americans are left? i don t and i didn t and i intend to pursue that today as well. as you may know, ana, my office,
will attest to the reality of that failure, even if they are the generals and the national security advisors and the people who sit on corporate boards now and pontificate on tv even if they have a very different interpretation. this wasn t epic, colossal failure and frankly it s incumbent which facilitated this nightmare. and fix on the logistical details of the withdrawal. that shouldn t distract from a thoroughgoing self-criticism as to how we even got here in the first place, under 20 years and the presence of both parties. tucker: i read yesterday on the total coverage the nightly news for the past five years was
the reality of that failure, even if they are the generals and the national security advisors and the people who sit on corporate boards now and pontificate on tv, even if they have a very different interpretation. this was an epic, colossal failure, and frankly, it s incumbent on the entire bipartisan political class, which facilitated this nightmare, to reflect and to fixate needlessly on the logistical details of the withdrawal, it s open to criticism just like anything a president dollars, but, but, i think that shouldn t distract from a thorough self-criticism as to how we even got there in the first place come over 20 years under presidents of both parties. tucker: i read yesterday, the total coverage on the network nightly news of afghanistan for the past five years was essentially zero. i mean, prostate health got ten