It was the way The Story might go. The men who risked their lives to bring her to safety say that honestly the federal government had very little to do with getting them out. You are in the faulkner focus. Im Martha Maccallum in for harris today. Army Veteran Corey mills led a team into afghanistan to rescue this american mother and her three children. Shortly after they escaped the country the State Department released a statement claiming that it had facilitated their safe departure. Any notion the federal government deserves the credit for this operation is in his Opinion Quote absolute nonsense. The incountry State Department officials are eager to help. There is a cooperation there but this is politics being played out by the State Department. They are the issue. There are major concerns whether the military can properly vet the thousands of afghan refugees coming to the united states. Well talk a lot about this process of how they figured out who should come and who shouldnt. Jen
Continuing to deploy thousands of american troops, we will maintain the fight against afghanistan and other countries, we just dont need to fight a Ground War to do it. Paul lets bring in retired army general petraus served as commander in Coalition Services in afghanistan and director of central intelligence agency. General, great to see you again. Thanks for coming in. So now that we are out, the u. S. Troops are out, how do we get those americans and afghan allies who are still there out . Well, we are going to have some kind of relationship with the new rulers of afghanistan. Obviously the taliban. They have still not completely formed their government but its taking shape. We know the leader will be some of the key ministers, we have a diplomatic presence in qatar which is the location in which the negotiations with the taliban were carried out. A lot of countries have removed embassy from kabul and establishing a Shadow Embassy again in doha, qatar. Thats where that will take pla
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[laughter] i have some bruises. A little too far to the left. Clumsy people should stick to dancing on the floor. You be quiet, i am trying to do a monologue. Its been really hard to gauge the Vice President s performance during the afghanistan fiasco, mainly because she has been harder to find that a nonbinary taliban leader, which basically means he sleeps with both women and goats. It is almost like she was abducted by aliens, not the ones pouring across our southern border. Honestly, i am starting to miss her. Her gravitas, her sincerity, her compassion toward looters and arsonists. But also, i really miss her soothing laugh. [laughter] be honest, i am going to cackle withdrawal. But i have been making do with this. [cackling] come, my cohort in crime greg we would have more Luck Finding Cesar Romero at a laundromat in queens than finding kamala anywhere. Guess that means its time for. In search of Kamala Harris. With your hosts, sarah jessica parker. Greg that was a mistake. Welco
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