for a very specific purpose. that s a big difference than saying you re deploying for eight, nine, 12 months, forces to stabilize and secure afghanistan, which we ve been doing the last 20 years. this is a very narrowly defined temporary mission. so once this mission is over, there s only going to be 650 troops to protect the airport and embassy staff? once this mission is over, i won t get into specific numbers here. we anticipate having less than 1,000 u.s. troops on the ground to support the diplomatic presence in kabul, which we all agree we still want to be able to have. i ll defer to my colleague. after three questions. yes. are you considering the need for more troops if the situation continues to deteriorate. if there wasn t one event that led to this, what changed in the last 24 to 48 hours which clears
i thought i was in trouble. and she leaned over from her chair and she grabbed my hand and says, james, i got something i really need to tell you. i thought i was, like, you re fired. [laughter] no, she said, i ve fallen hopelessly in love with you, and i don t know what to do about it. what was it like to hear that? it was a huge relief. relief? yeah. because? i was already in love with her at the time. i couldn t tell her. i didn t feel that i should tell her. you know, i wouldn t know how she would react. i d rather have her as my friend than have her as nothing at all. so having left artist tim to marry ex-fighter pilot todd, rachel now launched into an affair with ex-marine james. this, by the way, wasn t one of those sneak off into a closet and steal a kiss kind of affairs. with todd living and working in the san francisco bay area during the week james and rachel were together almost constantly. we tried to spend as much as time as possible we could togethe
capitals. there s a number of others under threat. there s growing question of whether they are moving to cut off major pop pop youulation centers. there had been a question of what strategy the taliban would pursue. wasn t one of using the territory they gained for leverage and negotiations to create the government or was it a continued offensive. that answer at this point is all too clear as they build on the gains they have already made taking more territory and controlling more people and population throughout the country. all right. orin leiberman and nick payton walsh, thank you. a chirj in florida has lost six members to covid over a matter of days. what the church is doing now to try to save lives.
the president would come out and often spiral way off topic with things having nothing to do with coronavirus. but in the swing of the pendulum of the day, we ve ended up now with these briefings. they were daily, and then a couple of times a week. now they re happening once a week, we think. last week there wasn t one. instead there was that cdc announcement they did via teleconference, and they really always last about 30 minutes no, matter how many questions are on. i can see them lanzing 30 minutes when there s not a lot of news. there s concern around the pandemic in the surge in cases we re seeing across the country. so, you know, a lot of news, a lot of information here, and unlike the trump administration that would take every question in the room twice and i know because i was in there asking the question twice sometimes, these briefings, it s quite hard to get a question. they may take over five or six questions from reporters before
it s a strange feeling because, for me, i ve always felt like i m not going to be here, you know, it s like. what do you mean by that? because i m a british born bangladeshi, you know, when i started music, it wasn t like. it wasn t normal. i m like the alien in the family. everyone s normal, doing normal things. and for me, it was like, how do i turn up the music really loud in the house without getting in trouble? # your body s like a drug to me, let me tell you now # give me your hand and let me show you something magical, girl.# a, there s our own community that might hold some sort ofjudgment, like, who is he? what is he doing? b, there s the other south asian counterparts. like, i m not used to seeing a bengali guy doing this. and then, there s the industry, there s the white man, there s the system. there s so many hurdles. for me, there wasn t a bengali man who reached out and said to me, yo, get into the music industry. i was waiting for a bengali man to do it. it s ju