regenerate, rebuild and eventually carry out more attacks. because of that concern, we are hearing more and more about how the military has these capabilities that are in neighboring countries like qatar, like uae, mainly drones, unmanned aircraft, that will conduct intelligence, that will look in on these groups, and that if if able, they will carry out attacks and strike these groups to hopefully be able to stop them from being able to regroup and regenerate back to their strength of before september 11th of 2001. again though, alex, it will be much more difficult without troops on the ground there. yeah, you bring up some really important points. i have a couple of interviews coming up this hour, we will delve further into it. thank you so much. nbc s courtney kube there at the pentagon. joining me right now, the first of these two interviews i just referred to, tim roemer, former congressman from indiana and a member of the 9/11en commission which provided a complete accounti
bravery and commitment of law enforcement. that was exemplified by those who ran to help. i caught up with new york city police commissioner shae. i wasn t at work when it happened and to this day i will never believe what i saw that day. just the sights of the travesty, the building down, everyone wanting to help and really the saddest thing was that there really wasn t much to do that day. it s certainly an interesting time right now. we are well aware of the incidents worldwide particularly on this 20th anniversary. whether it s the nypd or our partners that are walking hand in glove, we are out here today to make sure that new york is safe. eric: here in new york the sky is clear and blue as it was on september 11th of 2001 but, of course, a very sowerful and
weekend, we expect her from him in the next few minutes. it s been a disaster, he sen us spokesman this weekend who said that we had had a successful operation in iraqi come actually in afghanistan, not true. they claimed that mission had been accomplished because we went to afghanistan to get al qaeda. no, we went to afghanistan to get the people who brought down those towers on september 11th of 2001, but we also went to remove afghanistan as a tate haven for afghanistan and once again we ve established afghanistan as a haven for terrorist. al qaeda and other groups will use that for a safe haven for which they can attack the west and attacked the united states. this has been a dreadful chapte come up mishandled from start t finish from the moment the president of the united states said we re going to remove arch troops on september 11th of 202 to the hurry it up badly planne badly executed disaster that
afghanistan. the development has taken place in the last week, in the steps we re taken to address rapidly evolving events. i national security team in i have been closely monitoring th situation on the ground in afghanistan and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every constituency including and contingency. including the rapid collapse we are seeing now. i will speak more in a moment about the specific steps we are taking, but i want to remind everyone how we got here. in what america s interests are in afghanistan. we went to afghanistan almost 2 years ago with clear goals. get those who attacked us on september 11th of 2001, and, make sure al qaeda could not us afghanistan as a base from whic to attack us again. we did that. we severely degraded al qaeda i
have. we are honoring the fallen of september 11th of 2001, 18 years after the terror attack. a wreath is laid at the pentagon at ner9/11 memorial. president bush was commander in chief at the time of the attack. nearly 3,000 people were killed. think about it. 18 years ago, for so many people it feels like yesterday. we ll be right back. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely. with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast. .and brake too hard.