If taliban understand that our families, parents, are in afghanistan, they will catch them until we show up. Reporter since many have already been to the u. S. For training and fought so closely with american forces, the Visa Process is expected to go smoothly. Which would be a huge relief for the men who are forced to dramatically flee their native country and start life in a new one. I cant explain how happy i am. And its a big pleasure not only for me but for all that were in uzbekistan. On top of the afghan Air Force personnel who have gotten out of uzbekistan, there are still around 140 more in neighboring tajikistan. General hicks has been tracking their cases as well and has told us that processing on them has started. John, between those two countries, around 60 planes and helicopters were flown out of afghanistan. What will happen to them remains unclear, but thanks to those pilots, the taliban will not get their hands on them. Nice to get some good news. Alex, Thank You so much for that report. So the news continues. Lets hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. All right, thanks, john. Im chris cuomo, and welcome to primetime. Now, 9 11 is heavy. 20year anniversary is heavy. And there were many of you saying the right things. I appreciate what you said to me and about the occasion. But there were still too many that were wearing never forget shirts and yet i was listening. Im seeing people fighting about stupid things, about lies, and about misinformation. And it reminded me of a quote because were in a bad place. And i say that because im desperate for us to get to a better place. Our Chief Want is someone who will inspire us to be who we know we could be. That was true in the civil War Era when emerson said it, and it is just as true now. Thats a leader, thats the leadership we need, and we need a lot of leaders. Because we Cant Stay where we are. You all know it. You tell me all the time. For the sake of our economy, our kids, our health, our status in the world, we cant keep getting weaker from the strains of division. And 9 11 20 years on is a window into who we once were during hard times and how we are now. And the man who led this country 20 years ago told you the truth to mark the 20th Anniversary. We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders but from violence that gathers within. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But then theres disdainful pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols. They are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them. Bush was in shanksville, pennsylvania. You remember that. Its where americans and their allies onboard took on terror, took down that plane, and saved who knows how many with their sacrifice. And there we had a President Standing where people gave everything and reminding you that we have lost what got us through that hard time. Then came the reminder of why we are where we are. Manifested in the appropriate agent for animus. Trump. The election was rigged, and thats what we got thats what we got. If they fought the war the way they fought the election, or they stole it, i dont even say stole it, they rigged it. We would have had this this war would have been over 20 years ago. Doesnt even know what hes talking about. He doesnt even know who hes talking about. His party was in charge on 9 11. Even on 9 11, not even respecting the memory of the dead or the first responders. He couldnt even spare them poison politics. He went on to try to discredit bush and what he had said by saying he lectures us that terrorists on the right are a bigger problem than those from foreign countries that hate america. He shouldnt be lecturing us about anything. The World Trade Center came down during his watch. Thats what he is about even on 9 11. And that, my Brothers And Sisters, and thats what we are, if were not Brothers And Sisters here, we are nothing at all. And to me, thats unacceptable. And i know it is to you as well. But we got to see the difference of what brought us together out of common Concern And Collective will to come back 20 years ago, when this country took on terror, when it held each other close. We werent perfect. We had tons of fights. The Bush Administration with the yellow cake b. S. And all that, went to the wrong place for all intents and purposes. But the commitment was there. Today, what do we see . Were pushing each other away. Were making ourselves sick, literally and politically. The gop of 9 11, which by the way was in control, they led us to come together and worked with democrats to keep us safe. And then contrast that with what else you see. That shell, the soulless suggestion of what that party is today. Everyones the enemy. Everything is bad. Everyone is bad. No collective concern for anything but the demise of democrats and any perceived opponent. The majority wants this to stop. The majority is vaccinated. The majority does what it has to to keep themselves and their families and their communities safe. So when will the Majority Demand that the tyranny of a toxic Minority End . And yet maybe we dont really want better. Most republicans say they want trump to remain as their leader of their party in our new poll. Even after January 6th. Even after a pandemic he all but ignored that killed hundreds of thousands. You need another reason to see why we need to get better . You may get one this week. Theres, quote, concerning online chatter surrounding the September 18th justice for January 6th event. Because that means, i put it in quotes, that means the opposite of what it suggests. Justice for the 6th should be a reckoning for a day of infamy and criminality In The Name Of trump and toxic principles, yet the fevered few think those who attacked the rest of us and the crucible of our democracy are somehow victims. Capitol police have issued an Emergency Declaration to deputize outside law enforcement. Side law temporary fencing going up around the citadel of our democracy again. Why . To prepare for what bush rightly called children of the same foul spirit. Like this guy. Capitol police just arrested a California Man Today with a bayonet and a machete near the dnc headquarters. He had multiple knives in his truck, a swastika, and all this other white supremacist b. S. We havent had another attack like 9 11 since that day, thank god. Thank god. But you got to ask yourselves, would we hold together as we did then . How sad is it that the answer for so many of us has to be not an obvious yes . Lets ask a better mind where we are and what it suggests about where were going. David gregory traveled with then President Bush on 9 11, 2001, as a member of the white house press corps. Welcome back to primetime, brother. Let me ask you a question you posed to the rest of this country and beyond. How is your faith in where we are and where were headed . Well, were in such a different time than we were at 9 11. So my faith in our collective belief in who we are and our institutions is lower. You know, i dont think that we have a sense of Common Cause in our national life. I dont think we have a sense that were all in it together. I think were really pulled apart. In ways that our media has contributed to, that government has contributed to, and that events have contributed to. So i think its a lot harder to pull in the same direction. And thats what i think is so regrettable. You know, you have talked a lot about 9 11. The thing that brings us together as a country is an external threat. And an attack. And thats what 9 11 was. Thats what Pearl Harbor was. Thats what the fight against Nazi Germany was. And i think we live in murkier times. Even though i think our basic humanity is intact, in our communities in terms of looking after each other, my faith is diminished in our ability for big institutions to meet the challenges that we face. And by big institutions, i mean our politicians, our political parties, the ability to triumph, to get to we over a collection of individual interests. I ask david, how is your faith . Thats the name of his book. Its really good. No matter what your Belief System is, its a really good book about suggestions about faith and what it means and how it manifests itself in life as a virtue no matter what the basis for it is. So, you know george w. Bush, you covered him. He does not court controversy. Especially postpresidency. Right. That was a very determined message to give on the 20th Anniversary of 9 11. He did not have to say any of those things to check the box of what was expected from him. Were you surprised and what do you think the motivation was . Well, i think his motivation is that he wants whats best for the country. And that he wanted to speak out at a time and a place of his choosing to have some impact. And i think he, like a lot of americans, and certainly a lot of conservatives and opponents and critics of trump, found as we all did what happened on January 6th to be reprehensible, and to be something that simply cannot stand. And so i think he used the power of his memory of being president on 9 11 to make that statement. I think thats what motivated it. It was surprising because hes gone out of his way to stay out of that. Number one, hes always believed he should exit the stage and stay off the stage. Two, i think that he understands that trumpism was very much a reaction to him. To his strain of the republican establishment. To launching the War On Terror and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. A lot of trumpism was about a rejection of the bush presidency. And so i think he felt in the trump years that he only would make things worse if he had spoken out more. Its interesting, his numbers were way better. Vaughn, you have the numbers, right . His low was the same as trumps, about 34 , which is usually as low as most President S get. But look at his mean average, about where he was when he was strong. This was their last rating, which is the same, 34 . But look at this, the average. 49 to 41 . Its interesting that youre not wrong. I mean, many in this new era of the gop see bush as some kind of problem for them. But he rated a lot higher than their boy. Well, right. But i think whats striking is that trump as president , too, consolidated the core of the republican party. I think he lost a lot of that. I think that says something about his relative weakness going forward. But even when he was elected, we were together on Election Night in 2016. Republicans came home for trump. We didnt expect that. I think they stayed around for him on things like the court and taxes and just a rejection of the left. But yeah, i mean, bush was bush suffered from a lot of things but certainly by The End, it was the combination of Katrina And Iraq and a question of competence but he won a second term, and you saw trump lose everything. Although i must i have to say, the republicans did a lot better in this last election than they were expected to do. And i think thats because right. Because this country is divided, and we have real concerns in this country about the left and how far it can push us. Though i heard trump say something this weekend that i was surprised he said. I dont think he meant to say it. He threw in some of his typical rhetoric of xenophobia of muslims coming here. He picked the wrong time to say that. A lot of his supporters are in favor of bringing people home from afghanistan right now, including the allies. The idea he was talking about people from afghanistan coming to the country right now, and i think he misfired on that. I do not think hes going to find support for that given the context of how many veterans are trying to pull people who helped america out of the country and get them to safety. I agree with that. For trump, its just, lets add another group to be afraid of and lump them in and say theyre terrorists. Its without any merit at all. Lets remember going back to the earlier point that bush wins reelection in 2004 really around the strength its still around fear. You know, Karl Rove used to say if the question is terrorism, the answer is george w. Bush. He was still considered strong enough and iraq hadnt turned badly enough for it to hurt him in 2004. And thats a key thing, right . I mean, the idea that fear of an external threat rallied americans to such a degree, but that unity came apart because of the governments response. Because of torture, abu ghraib, the war in iraq, the excesses of digging into privacy. All of that unity started to fray. And yet, i was watching 60 minutes last night and the story of the firefighters from the fdny, the 343 who died. Youre reminded how bonded together we were. Thats not what trump ever accomplished. What he did was reach to a narrow group of people and say you must be afraid of all these different people. But people didnt buy into that, not enough people. Only enough to get him elected, but i still think its a smaller part of what the gop is, to your point about the counterreaction on afghans. I tell you, he came out, hes a former president , he wasnt with the other former President S. He was meeting with the first responders. He wasnt there during 9 11 when it first happened. I dont know where he was, but he did not Donald Trump was not a force of any type of common Concern And Collective will during that time. I lived it. I was here. All of the Big Shots In The City were trying to help out. He wasnt in a position of power, im not saying he was in politics, but im saying, you know, hes a president , he could speak about whatever he wants, but when 9 11 happened, he was no big presence. Last word to you. Yeah, i mean, and its so sad for our institution of the presidency that we have a former president who is still acting like, you know, hes kind of On Parade in a carnival as opposed to trying at least to be some kind of a statesman. Which is why, you know, people have lots of different views about President Bush. If you go back to his presidency, but you and i have talked for years about what do you worry about, about a president . How would they handle a 9 11 . And that is a test, the things you dont plan for. And trump had that on the pandemic. On covid, and bush had it on 9 11. And people have made their judgments about how all of that went. One got a second term, one is Donald Trump. David gregory, Thank You very much. The book, again, is how is your faith . Especially now, a good read. Be well. The democratic party is about to face one of its biggest tests since the november election. This recall matters. Gavin newsom out in california, will he survive . The last time they tried this in california, It Worked. Remember . Schwarzenegger. But the Wizard Of Odds is here to show us how republicans would need to make a different kind of history to win this time. Its time to pay attention. Next. Monitor, check and lock down you money with security from chase. Control feels good. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Hey lily, i need a new Wireless Plan for my business, but all my employees need something different. Oh, we can help with that. Okay, imagine this. Your mover, rob, hes on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. 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Hes come under scrutiny, newsom, for his handling of the pandemic and recent wildfires. Things really came to a head last november when newsom was caught enjoying a lavish dinner with friends at an expensive french restaurant while the state was under partial lockdown. Despite the backlash and the gotcha media, newsom is still polling ahead at 56 . Thats eight points better than only a month ago. His closest challenger is a shocker, conservative Radio Host Larry elder. He has long been the subject of controversy surrounding public statements hes made over the years. Heres just a taste. I have always felt that minorities and women complain too much about racism and sexism. Like it or not, slavery was legal, so their property was taken away from them after the civil war. So you can make an argument that the people that are owed reparations are not only just black people but also the people whose property was taken away after The End of the civil war. I think i would rather have George Zimmerman living in my neighborhood. This is why people profile, instead of being angry at George Zimmerman, be angry at the thugs who committed the crimes. Theres all sorts of reasons why the 2020 election was full of shenanigans and my fear is theyre going to try this in this election in recall. Will you accept the results of the Election Tomorrow . I think we all ought to be looking at election integrity. Now, now that hes got a chance, right, that hes polling high, hes softening his talk. Makes sense. You see this . This shows you the stakes. President of the united states, joe biden, just landed in long beach, california. You know why . Because the recall has everybody worried. Joining me now is the Wizard Of Odds, harry enten, to give us a preview of what may happen tomorrow and explain why do you care. I dont live in california. All right. Wiz, so when we look at this, heres my concern. The polls. Should we be giving stock to the polls in this context, and what do you take from them . I give stock to the polls. Right now, we know a majority of voters say theyre going to vote against the recall. 56 to 41 , and Take A Look here. If you look back at all of the gubernatorial elections since 1998, with a Polling Miss of 15 points or more, its just 4 out of 243 times. Obviously, this is a recall, an offyear election, but this number puts it in context. If the governor gets recalled tomorrow, its going to be a Polling Miss for the ages. Gavin newsom is heavily favored. It doesnt mean hell necessarily win, but it would be quite surprising to me as someone who studies the numbers. How is elder doing and why is he doing well . Well, what is doing well, right . He leads in that second round. But that doesnt necessarily mean that most of the people who say theyre going to vote in the second round want him. Look at that. Hes only at 31 of the vote. Someone else blank dont know at 69 of the vote. Compare that to the last recall in 2003 that schwarzenegger won. Look at the final poll back then. He was at 46 of the vote. 15 points ahead of where elder is right now. So that when voters are not just wondering about whether or not who i want to vote for in the second round, but who do i want to vote for in the first round, they have to realize, maybe i dont necessarily want elder. That wasnt a problem for schwarzenegger in 2003. Its interesting as im looking at the numbers here. Maybe the going full trump the Way Elder is, isnt going to work in california as we have seen It Work in other places. Schwarzenegger was a moderate, and theres nothing moderate about Larry Elder. So maybe thats not working as well, at least in this one race. I dont believe its working as well. Heres the best way to know its not working well. Look at the Trend Line in round one versus the Trend Line in round two. Round one is where youre asked, do i really want to recall the governor . A month ago, look at that. Against the recall was 48 and elder was at 28 . And then ten days ago, elder went up 25 . Then elder is at 31 now. 56 against recall. As voters have been seeing elder Gain Ground in the second round, theyre going, wait a minute, i dont want to go there. I dont want to chance that we might have Larry Elder as our governor, and that has very much been beneficial to Gavin Newsom, and i think one of the large reasons that newsom has regained some strength in the polls is because voters are recognizing that if he is in fact recalled, Larry Elder will replace him, and in a democratic state like california, voters want no part of that. You know, newsom was getting picked on for not talking about himself enough, and ironically, you had people on the right saying all hes doing is saying whats wrong with people on the right. It worked, though. Its been moving his numbers. Fear sells. Now, a larger implication. What is the President Doing in california . Its just one governors seat. Why do they care . I think there are multiple reasons. One is, yes, you want a democratic governor in the largest, most populated state in the union, but it could also have federal implications, right . We have already seen Gavin Newsom appoint one person to the united states senate. He may in fact appoint another one down the line. We dont know what might happen. But more than that, its about nationalizing the race. This is what Gavin Newsom wants to do, and you can see this. Look at this. Senators in states won by the other party in the last president ial election. There are just six of those. Just six of those at this particular point. Look back in 2003. It was 29. Voters were far more willing to give a shot to a republican governor who might appoint a republican senator than they are now. So this is just smart strategy from Gavin Newsom. Nationalize the race, we have seen It Work in the polls. Obviously, well have to wait and see what happens tomorrow, but right now, Gavin Newsom has the right message, at least if you believe the polls. And i do. At least enough in the event i think he will not be recalled tomorrow. Again, it just takes such a large error for that to happen. So if he gets the majority tomorrow, then there is no second phase. He stays governor. Thats exactly correct. You dont get a round two if round one says no to the recall. Harry enten, Thank You, brother. Appreciate you. To another governor saga. Floridas Ron Desantis just allowed some wild Covid Misinformation to spread from his own microphone. And hes issuing new threats to those following president ial guidance to help end this pandemic. I want to take you through this. Dont Say Desantis is a dummy. Hes an Ivy League educated lawyer who served this country. He knows what hes doing. The question is, why is he doing it . Next. Okay people. 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Listen to this. The vaccine changes your rna so for me, thats a problem. So im here with you folks. We dont want to have the vaccine. Its about our freedom and liberty. Desantis knows thats b. S. Hes a smart guy. Hes got experts giving him the truth. Hes harvard and yale educated. Hes a lawyer. He knows. Which may be why he started staring at the ground and shoving his hand in his pocket. When it was done, and he returned to the mic, did he correct what that guy was just saying about how the vaccine changes your genetics . No. He shook the Guys Hand and thanked him for coming. And that is beneath the office. All of this, by the way, comes as desantis is making it harder to do The One thing we know that works to get people vaccinated, mandates. 77 of workers say they will or have gotten the shot if their employer requires it. Look, i dont know about you. Im not in any hurry to have the government tell me how to live my life, but what was Plan B here . In a state with less than 10 of icu beds available, desantis is now threatening to fine cities and counties that refuse to let a minority of both parties dictate the danger the rest of us face. And instead require employees get vaccinated. The irony here, at the same time the right is slamming biden for fining companies who dont adhere to vaccine mandates, whether its masks for kids or the vaccines, desantis keeps trying to frame this as a matter of choice. While taking away the choice of local officials to do what works. Its our belief that this should be a parents choice. Its basically a personal choice. Its their choice. That should be the choice of the parent. Yes, but choices have consequences. Choose not to get your kids vaccinated, you dont get to go to public schools or pretty much any school. Right . You dont have to take the vaccine. Thats not whats being done here. But you dont get to not do what keeps Everybody Else safe and then get to live the way that you want to because you are forcing the rest of us not to live the way that we want. The Choice Desantis is making, okay, just as he stood silent in the face of b. S. He knows isnt true is to play this to advantage even if It Works for the disadvantage of so many that are under his care. While the number of deaths in his state keep heading in the wrong direction, he is being defiant of what is right. And it raises a question. Do these defiant governors who are all on the right really want to prolong the pandemic . Do they really believe it wont come back to haunt them one day . Lets take it to a man who is dead in the middle. Michael smerconish, next. When youre entertaining, you want to put out the best snacks that taste great, and come straight from the earth. And last time i checked, pretzels dont grow on trees. Just saying. Planters. A nut above. 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And the actions that come with the talk could also come with a heavy price. The question now is, will they wind up owning these decisions and losing because of them . Lets discuss with Michael Smerconish. Smerc, this is a little bit on the Abortion Side Reproductive Rights side, a little tricky. Lets do that second. On the vaccine side, desantis stands next to a guy who just runs some b. S. About what the vaccine does to your body. He knows its not true. But he says nothing. Because what is his play . Well, i see the issue similarly. I see the Abortion Issue and the Vaccine Issue in the same light, which is, and i love the way you just set it up, its a short game. Its not a long game. You can sell this to the base. You can sell this in primary season, if youre running for the presidency. This is not a strategy for winning a general election in a president ial race. And the best i can offer you, chris, is to say that they think Theyll Worry about it later because in the short term, theyre all toeing the exact same line. Ask yourself this. Why doesnt former President Donald Trump own the vaccine . Why isnt this his issue 24 7 . Why isnt he The One out there talking about operation warp speed, which by the way, i think hes got a right to do. But he hardly ever brings it up, and the reason is because like the rest of those on the right, hes afraid of that base. He doesnt want to antagonize them. In alabama a couple weeks ago, he raised the prospect of people getting vaccinated and when there were a Couple Cat calls from the audience, he backed off and said, hey, its your choice. Just like that guy speaking before desantis. Its all about driving the base and not a longterm strategy of winning general elections. Now, the vaccine is a new issue. Reproductive rights is not. And the Operative Understanding for the right has been talk the talk, but youre not going to walk the walk, so you get it both ways. Youre not going to piss off the majority, including in their own party, that does not want Reproductive Rights completely stripped from women, but you get to say the right things for the christian value set. What happens if the law does change . Right. So this is a be careful what you wish for. And as i was listening to you describe the background circumstances, i was thinking on Ronald Reagans watch, remember, reagan as president , very prolife in his philosophy. But you know, every year, chris, there used to be a gathering. There still is on capitol hill, of prolife forces. And it always struck me that Ronald Reagan would communicate with them sitting in the Oval Office instead of going out and making an appearance before the group. And i think that said a lot. It was always pay lip service, keep everybody at arms length. Do what you need to do to keep the evangelicals in the tent, but dont get too close. This texas situation is frightening for republicans, and i think they know it. You could never sell in suburbia a sixweek timeframe. The mississippi law, that i think is the more significant challenge at 15 weeks. I do not believe that the Supreme Court is going to pay heed to the texas law. I know about the 54 vote. That law was very cleverly crafted so it really couldnt be challenged at an early stage. And they were careful in that 400word order to say they werent necessarily buying into the constitutionality of it. I say keep your eye on mississippi, the 15 weeks, and what develops there. I dont expect roe will be totally overturned. But if it were, i think it brings out democrats in droves in the Midterm And President ial elections. Probably not just democrats. Put up the numbers from quinnipiac recently in may about where people are on this issue. And we have actually seen even among catholics a movement on this. The 73 roe v. Wade, do you agree or not agree . 63 28. Those are not the kinds of numbers where you find yourself wanting to engage the 28. But this is the interesting play here. I mean, i really believe so far in terms of issues, this is the most stark one that goes to what you talk about all the time, mike, which is, what is the cost of catering to a minority. Right. And i guess the response to that would be that despite what your numbers show, that the passion on the issue, if you could poll passion within those numbers, you would find that that meter would swing more toward conservatives. Historically, the court issue, talking about who you want to appoint justices to the Supreme Court, has been a republican issue more than a democratic issue in the last couple decades. I think roe is different. I think this is The One judicial legal issue that would really have a reverse Effect And Pose harm to the gop. Even if they wont say so today. Ill tell you what, there are very few issues that unite all three generations of women in my family. And it never gets to the idea of the pregnancy. Its, you dont tell me. They dont even want to hear me talking about it, to be honest. But you dont tell me what i do with my body. My mother is 62 years old. And my wife is very young, and my daughter is 18. And all three of them, it will be interesting to see what happens if this court takes that law away. Then wheres the passion . Michael smerconish, always a pleasure, brother. I almost got myself in real trouble with with the ages. But i didnt. Thank you. The first hearing on our ugly exit from afghanistan was held today on the hill. The Secretary Of State came. He had a lot to say. Now, he didnt come actually, and that was part of the thing, he didnt come in person, but Tony Blinken reassured that we, meaning america, is going to bring home all the americans and afghan allies. 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She doesnt want to leave, without being able to take some of the kids who qualify she says for an siv visa. She sent a new video showing her and the kids that she is still trying to get out. Faces are blurred, again, because there is danger. We dont want people to be able to identify them. But i do want you to be able to relate to the need. They have been able to get some food and were told some medicine. The bigger news is that sarah has been in touch with the State Department. Good news. Lets bring in sam rogers. One of the veterans whose group is working with other groups and other veterans and allies to help people, like sarah and these kids, get out of there. Sam, its good to have you. Again, Thank You for what youre doing. Thanks for having me on, chris, i appreciate all your support. Whats the update . So, sarahs had a couple of conversations with the State Department. Um, though, i have to be honest, her feedback from the State Department is directly in conflict with secretary blinkens comments today. That we will continue the relentless efforts to help americans, afghans, and foreign nationals who want to leave. Shes under the impression that shes the only one who can get out. And shes dealing with some some really crippling guilt and some challenging questions of does she leave these people behind . And can she . Now, lets talk about the legitimacy here. The people she wants to help. What do you know about paperwork and any way of verifying that they have not the right but the credentials that america would smile on in terms of helping people . Right, chris. So so, weve made available um Everything Weve got. You know, military identification. Letters of recommendation from Military Officers who these translators and their their families served under. And we have made all that available to not only State Department but some of these other groups who are working diligently to try to find Em Options to get out of the country. So when they say no, you cant bring them with you, what is their reason . There there hasnt been there hasnt been one, yet. Um, shes hoping, shes praying that they are going to reach back out and let her know um you know, what options she has. But in the meantime, you know, that communication, they are really only willing to communicate directly with her. Not through any intermediaries which, you know, for Security And Privacy purposes, i understand. Although, it does make our job more challenging. Can she identify you as an agent . Um, you know, Thats Something that Thats Something that we could explore. But, you know, right now, shes in a place with with no power, with limited connectivity. Um there is a lot of theres a lot of really pressing challenges which is really the whole idea of flying people to these thirdparty countries, in the first place. Right. To do that initial round of of of vetting that cant be done safely in afghanistan. So, you believe you know, i mean, she is very passionate do you believe her when she is saying im not leaving if i cant take these kids . I will go talk to the taliban before i do that. I i can feel the pain in her voice when i talk to her on the phone. I can hear the exhaustion in her voice. She doesnt want to leave these people. She doesnt believe that its in our dna, as americans. She shes proud of being an american, and she doesnt believe that Thats Part of the american idea. And i dont think that i dont think that americans feel that way, either. I think that, you know, heres how normal people feel about this, chris. Over the labor day weekend, Cva Foundation set up a booth at the house of Harley Davidson in milwaukee to tell people about this issue and collect refugee supplies. People said a biker rallys a weird place to try to collect supplies for afghanistan refugees. We talked to over 2,500 people in a weekend and they donated over 150,000 of supplies. I believe it. I believe it because country made a promise. Its who we are. Yeah, country made a promise. This is not left, right. Bikers. They care about the country like Everybody Else. Its just being reasonable. Sam rogers, we will stay on it and Thank You. Well be right back with the handoff. Oh yeah honey, you still in bed . Yep bye thats why we love Skechers Max cushioning footwear. Theyve maxed out the cushion for extreme comfort. Its like walking on clouds big, Comfy Ones Oh Yeah ready to turn your dreams into plans and your actions into achievements . Explore over 75 programs and fourweek classes at national university. 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