get in there and they got well over 100,000 people out, obviously we tragically lost lives in that effort. i think we really need to thank those service people who weren t in there and did their level to get people out of afghanistan in very desperate circumstances. that s my dominant thought. then, of course, we have a lot of policies to figure out going forward. bret: yeah. when the president talked about this and the evolution of the past two weeks, it did change about how this is going to go how he answered and what general mckenzie said today. a commitment holds to get everyone out that, in fact, we can get out and everyone that should come out and that s the objective. that s what we re doing now. that s the path we re on. and if there is american forces american citizens left we are going to stay until we get them all out. no american citizens came out on what we call the joint tactical, the last five jets to leave. we maintained the ability to bring them in up until
american situation of hundreds of millions of guns in private hands. military grade weapons in private hands. you put those two together, and you are in uncharted terrain and one of the concrete things and manifestations we saw was january six. so, we are really in some kind of situation that many other cultures weren t in. because they had coalition governments and they didn t have so many civilians owning military grade weapons. robert jones. ruth thank you so much. that was great. for more on the republican embrace of authoritarianism i m joined by timothy snyder, professor of history at yale university. professor, when you see what happened today, the vote is sort of a symbol of something larger. what kind of moment are we in here, despite the fact that trump was defeated ultimately
thinking we ll squash this taliban that have been there, every other country and failed. squash them when they weren t in, flying planes into our buildings. i m just saying right now. they didn t attack us on 9/11. al qaeda did. do you wish you had that moment over? not at all. the taliban and al qaeda in afghanistan because we weren t there. i m not saying we need 14,000 troops there and i think we can take some troops out but the question was, do we leave those areas open? do you think that was a cheap shot coming from gabbard on fact checking you on the taliban? yeah, clearly, dwewe didn t e enough time to get into the details but she was trying to score points. i think whoever got that question on afghanistan, she was going to go after and quite frankly, she doesn t have very good judgment on a lot of these
probably knew about the transgender issue. i don t know that that s the case. how familiar were voters some how many weren t in there and just say, i m looking for the d. because i m punishing the r. or whatever the reason is. that s the stuff that s going to make give paul ryan heartburn tonight, frankly, and thinking about things going forward. do democrats in the next time you talk to tom perez ask him this, because there s not been a lot of evidence. if democrats take what s the lesson they take away from virginia? absolutely. how do they apply to it alabama? do they try to make a point in alabama, realizing there is terrain there, don t walk away from it. that is a great point. a huge, huge implication for what the democratic party decides to do with doug jones, their candidate running in that special election in the senate
you want to get to the legislative agenda which is as messed up as it possibly could be. they watched this all happen, right? yeah. whether we win it or not, we re going to do something that is not talking about this. right. and that s where mcconnell wants to be and a lot of the senators want to be. they don t want to have to carry this baggage of health care. they don t know what other baggage it s going to contain. sabrina, it s a satisfying thing as a reporter when you catch someone in a lie and it happens. it s a great feeling when you e-mail or call back and say, actually, to have that record in the meeting you said you weren t in. but i don t think i can remember the last time i saw something, lied about this brazenly and have it unravel so quickly. usually one or the other happens and it s been head snapping. this is a white house that has a credibility problem and