neighborhood in kabul, none of those existed before the war effort. they only sprung into existence once the u.s. shipped thousands of troops into afghanistan and started regularly churning billions of dollars every month into that country into one of the poorest countries on earth. i ll never forget that because i feel it taught me something that you can only sort of experience by being there because it makes you feel it in your bones in a way you can t forget it. i mean, it does say something just mathematically right? if you do churn billions of dollars a month every month into the economy of one of the world s poorest countries you send over billions of dollars a month every month, month in and month out for a whole year and then you do that month in and month out for a whole second year and then month in and month out for a whole third year, billions of dollars every month ultimately you do billions of dollars a month for 20 solid years. if you do that, and at the end of the 20 ye
governor, but a lot of texans are. very quickly, did you ever think that you would end up here? no, absolutely not. i am a full government teacher, eye color inside the lines. this i had to take a stand. and i m disappointed at some of my superintendent peers falling off the wagon when it s gotten really difficult here. well, i admire you for taking a stand dallas county superintendent michael hinojosa. appreciate your time tonight. thank you. that is all in on this monday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening and thank you my friend. much appreciated. thanks at home for joining us this hour. we re going to start tonight if we can, we are battling technical difficulties, but we re going to try to start tonight live in kabul. it is 5:30 in the morning tuesday morning right now. nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel as
and helped u.s. troops during our war effort there. we now know, that s what s happening right now in kabul. we know the alarms, then matt zeller and others were sounding, were accurate, they were right, including about the timing. the u.s. embassy in kabul is fully closed. all staff have left. the u.s. has been able to relocate and evacuate some interpreters and their families. but thousands more remain on the ground, waiting for visas, amid chaos and frustration. so what happens now can meaningful action be taken in the coming hours and days to make a difference? joining us now is major matt, zeller cofounder of an organization bringing afghan interpreters safety to the u.s.. matt thank you so much for being here. i know you haven t slept, and i know it s been a difficult time. thanks for having me. yes i have family in kabul right now, it has been tough. tell me about what can be done. i ask that first. because i am so clear, that you
organizations, faith based organizations from all walks of life. people in the government busting their butt from all sides of the aisle, it s a whole of america effort. i m proud to see our citizens rally and how we re trying to get it right. there is a will to do this, the president needs to understand that the american people want to exit honorably. this is how we want to do it. we have a beach head in kabul right now. the taliban are afraid of us. they re afraid if they lose, they re going to lose the country. we have the largest military on the planet, let s use it for one good purpose to get these people out. we have a beach head in kabul. we need to keep it open for as long as we can and put as many people on to as many planes as we possibly can and then we need to go to places that we don t have beach heads at. there s a guy i m talking to right now, i haven t told anybody this, talking to him privately one on one, because i
this monday night as we start a new week. our thanks for being here with us. on behalf of all our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. if we can, we re battling technically difficulties, but we re going to try to start tonight live in kabul. it is 5:30 in the morning, tuesday morning right now in kabul, and s chief foreign correspondent richard angle, should probably know he has spent big portions of the last decades of his life in afghanistan during the war there. richard also just weeks ago, before some of the last fierce fighting by and the afghan commando units, fighting against taliban forces. we now know that was some of the last fighting like that that there was an afghanistan.