control. and all we keep saying s statewide intervention into what people can teach in the local and county level. but when you look at what cannot be taught now, you can t talk to students about why we ultimately had the biggest war in american history. what led to it, why we have a 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. one reconstruction was. how texas left mexico and the fact that racism, white supremacy, and slavery were at the corner store enough that. how florida came into the union and andrew can jackson s concerns about black slaves escaping into what was then spanish territory in the 18 teens. how missouri came into the union. we re not talking about the history of california in the compromise that created a federal bureaucracy to track down fugitive slaves in order to allow california to come in as a free state. the fundamental history of the
open session. martha: there you have it. a lot of ground covered on the tumultuous exit from afghanistan. the 13 u.s. service members that were lost at the abbey gate and all of those left behind, sizs, people that helped us, interpreters on the ground over 20 years and a number of americans said to be less than 100 although we heard estimates that go higher than that. this is an important record that is being put down today of our history in afghanistan. 2400 service members lost, 20,000 wounded in that longest war in american history. so it s important that we go down these roads and we ask the questions being asked today. joining me is former u.n. ambassador, nikki haley here today. we re also joined by fox news senior strategic analyst,
0 to work, to come out of bagram. no way to keep bagram and go to effective zero in well, thinking of what we have may have gained or may have lost as we leave. we think about countering adversaries, so again, general mckenzie what is your assessment of the foreign influence in afghanistan, the wake of our - hosted what we called the conference. we all adversaries from filling the we talk about that region after the fall of afghanistan. generally what they want is they want assurance. they want to continue to have ties with the united states because they want alternatives to russia and they want alternatives to china. unfortunately because of the geographic location, they ll always have to deal with russia and china. our partners in the region want a message that the united states is not going to turn our back on them even though we left afghanistan. we had a productive conference based on those themes. i couldn t agree more. it makes us more vulnerable if we allow anybody else t
administration s allies evacuated over 124,000 people in 17 days. that is a staggering figure, so you have to give them that. it is. at least 100 americans and the majority of afghan allies who want to get out, they re still there. again, the question is how do you move on from that? dana you and i have been doing this for quite a long time, and we do know that the administration priorities, their focus and the news cycles eventually move on. they eventually move on, so you know what i m saying. no, and you re exactly right. what is going to keep the focus on afghanistan? several things. number one, i do think that the media, we re all woken up because this has this was the longest war in american history and the american people s attention, the media attention broadly, it just had turned away from it, and so the fact that
and it s the same old story dame sarah wins yet another gold at the tokyo paralympics. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the taliban have taken control of kabul airport, after the united states pulled the last of its troops out of afghanistan. the final evacuation flight left at a minute to midnight last night. it brings to an end the longest war in american history, in which more than 2,000 us servicemen and women lost their lives. the taliban are back in power, as they were 20 years ago. they ve declared victory and have been celebrating on the streets.