anthony weiner sent less ill-advised tweets. if only you had known this was a gold star family grieving the loss of their loved one, one of the 13 american heroes kill in the kabul terrorist bombing in in august. you remember, the operation that biden called a success. so instead of asking a few questions, she decided to squeal like miss piggy with an apple in her mouth. the people in the photo were who they were, she doubled down, replying, how does that exempt them from wearing a mask. in theory, it doesn t. but in reality, you re a [ bleep ]. [ applause ] greg: sometimes no word fits except for that word. why, joe, why can t people mind their own damn business.
of the world. but then he says hamas doesn t support attacks against citizens. tonight, israel closed its airspace to foreign airlines and then close iselin borders to prevent any possible terrorist attacks. there s a sense here that palestinian militants may try to take advantage of the confusion to kill more israelis. tom? thank you very much. and missing bc s martin fletcher s. already a complex situation is even more so tonight. now to a different kind of problem. the world trade center towers were some of the most famous buildings in the world, of course. they have survived hurricanes, fires and even one previous terrorist bombing. nbc s roger o neil talked to the architect of those buildings and how they were put up. and what brought them down. ayman brown was a project engineer of the twin towers. the man on the ground in charge of making sure the buildings were built right. the way it was designed we had pride in it and we were doing something that hadn t been done before
sheer terror. you can imagine a father describing what his daughter, a flight attendant would feel as the plane hit the twin towers. this ceremony, this service has gone on for some five hours. a reminder of loss of life here. almost nearly 3,000 people that perished that day, fred. an extraordinary number, extraordinary experience so many times over. let s go to orenat at the pentagon. tell us what s happening there? at the pentagon it is a solemn day and solemn few days, the waegeight of 9/11 felt thro the building, many paused to reflect what it meant with end of the war in afghanistan. it was the same feeling that heavy burdened feeling, a feeling of pain in many cases felt after the terrorist bombing
i m not sure the question he was asked that prompted that, but to hear the chairman of the joint chiefs speak of those terms it s rare. it s incredibly rare. he pointed outright at the end there he is a professional soldier. he knows his official sort of function is as an advisor to the president and follows the orders he s given. it s incredibly rare for him to talk about his emotions, the pain and anger. he referenced that in the opening statement what he thought about the situation he s looking at and sort of processing everything that s happened including of course the terrorist bombing that killed 13 u.s. service members just a few days ago and that simply came out here. he was explaining that pain and anchor in a question from my colleague barbara star, quite a stunning moment of frankness and reflection from general mark milly on what he feels wrapping up america s longest war. we ve also learned tonight some disturbing news about many of the allied afghans who worked to sup
tremendous risk, an airlift that evacuated tens of thousands to a network of volunteers and veterans who helped identify those needing evacuation. bill: his critics firing back pointing to the rapid return of taliban. chaos at the airport and the deadly terrorist bombing. 13 brave american troops are now dead because of the chaos at the airport last week. this didn t just happen on joe biden s watched. it happened as a direct result of joe biden s decisions. again, this is one of the worst foreign relations debacle in the history of our country. it is going to take years for us to get over this with our allies, to get over this with our citizens. they made a political decision to set a date certain. they departed from the major airfield. never made a plan to make sure we got all the americans home. the end result was chaos. it resulted in the deaths of 13