Thats going to do it for us tonight. We will see you again tomorrow come hell or high water. Now its time for The Last Word with lawrence odonnell. Well continue the Gram News Fame here but will have good news in this hour and actually, good news on the Vaccination Rate in one small town in the south where the state has the lowest Vaccination Rate in the country but this one small town is a remarkable success story, thanks to one retired woman there who took it on herself to get the town vaccinated. Its really an amazing story. Well do that later in the hour. That is exactly the kind of story i need on a day like this and on a night like this. Im going to sit here and watch it. Thank you for finding that story and b, thank you for telling me thats ahead. Thats what i need. Thats what is coming up. Thank you, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. What could become one of americas enduring lies to itself about afghanistan is being given birth on live tv these days. Last night on this network an unnamed American Military source in afghanistan was quoted as saying what we are seeing now in The American evacuation of afghanistan is worse, much worse than what We Saw in 1975 in The American evacuation from vietnam after we lost the war there. The problem with that kind of quote is that any unnamed Military Source in afghanistan tonight is too young to remember the Vietnam War and was probably not born yet. When we evacuated vietnam in 1975 and so that source literally does not know what he or she is talking about, so, too republican senator Ben Sass who said this today on television what is happening at the karzai is a more shameful, lower moment in u. S. History than 1975 in saigon. Ben sass was 3 years old in 1975. Ben sass literally does not know what he is talking about. Everything about vietnam was much, much worse than what has happened in The American experience in afghanistan. The total of American Military personnel killed in afghanistan over 20 years equals approximately just one month of american Military Deaths in vietnam in may of 1968. And here is just one measure and only one measure of how much worse The American experience in vietnam was. U. S. Military deaths in vietnam over roughly 13 years of active combat were 57,939. The american Military Deaths in afghanistan over 20 years are 2,448. On american of american Military Deaths alone, on that figure alone, vietnam was 20 times worse than afghanistan. When we fled vietnam in defeat and disgrace, the number of american families who no longer knew why they lost a Loved One in vietnam was 20 times larger than the number of american families who are suffering with that Feeling Tonight about the lose of their Loved Ones in afghanistan. We left behind millions of vietnamese civilian and military personnel, casualties in vietnam. Millions of war dead in vietnam and cambodia. We left behind babies, fathered by american soldiers and yes, we left behind people who helped american reporters in vietnam. We left behind all sorts of people who helped us in vietnam. Evacuating armies always leave people behind despite Hollywood Mythology to the contrary. Richard nixon and Henry Kissinger killed thousands of innocent victims with a sustained strain of bombs dropped from the skies. There is no measure by which The American experience in afghanistan is worse than the experience in vietnam but particularly american to believe that your personal version of an experience is always the best or the worst and so for 49yearolds like Ben Sass who have never before witnessed the united states being driven out of a country in total military defeat, this must be the worst. The American Military did not just terrorize Southeast Asia for 13 years with the Vietnam War. The American Military and The American government terrified americans at home in the Vietnam War, especially every american boy over 18 years old who had a Draft Card in his pocket that could get him sent to his death in vietnam against his will. That terrified american families everywhere, everywhere in this country for years families who were for or against the war were terrified of losing a son, losing a Loved One in vietnam. Vietnam was much worse but if you are young enough to have never seen a Draft Card, never held one in your hands, you might not know that. I was a teenager protesting the Vietnam War and so i for one have never been able to support Americas Entrance into another war because of the lessons of vietnam. One of the lessons is that The American government and the American Military do not know how to invade a country, lose a war and then exit without Chaos And Dishonor. No one in the pentagon knows how to do that but it is their job to publicly pretend that they know how to do that. And none of the Tv Pundits who are telling you that we can do that, and that we could have exited afghanistan without Chaos And Dishonor actually knows how to do that. When my Cousin Johnny went to West Point before being shipped off to vietnam and never coming back, West Point didnt teach him how to lose a War And Exit a country gracefully. West point still does not have a close on how to successfully and honorably exit a war that the American Military loses. No one knows how to do that. It is not up to us how orderly The American exit from afghanistan is, that is entirely up to the taliban now. Davids brilliant book the best and the brightest told the story how The Best And Brightest minds from the Ivy League and american business and foreign Policy Establishment were infected with the delusion during the Vietnam War they could manage everything. That delusion is alive tonight and many of the best and the brightest in The American Press Core who seem to believe that the American Military knows how to do things that it has never successfully done in its history. If you are outraged with what you are seeing in afghanistan tonight, may it not be The End of the war that outrages you but war itself. If you oppose what youre seeing in afghanistan tonight, oppose war. War is hell. War is hell in the beginning. War is hell in the Middle And War is hell in The End if you lose. The best and the brightest Thought Hell was manageable because of secretary of defense during The American buildup of forces in vietnam during the 1960s successfully run the ford motor company. The best and brightest believed he could successfully run and win the Vietnam War. The American Military has the best equipment in the world, the American Military may well have The Best And Brightest troops in the world but americas successful opponents in Vietnam And Afghanistan have something that america has never had, patience. The North Vietnamese always knew that all they had to do was out last the American Military commitment to vietnam because american patience would run out. The taliban always knew because of that lesson in vietnam that all they had to do was patiently wait for The Americans to leave and so the taliban won by waiting. One very big difference between afghanistan and vietnam, we never had a president who believed that he could charm the North Vietnamese into a gentlemenly end of the war. We had a very good conversation with the leader of the Taliban Today and they are looking to get this ended and were looking to get it ended. I think we all have a very common interest. The relationship is very good that i have with them and we had a good, long Conversation Today and, you know, they want to seize the violence. Theyd like to seize violence, also. The person he had that conversation with is now the head of the Taliban In Afghanistan after he had him released from prison. Today, national Security Advisor Jake sullivan explained some of what were seeing in afghanistan today to a White House Press Core too young to remember how much worse it was in vietnam. We communicated with American Citizens for weeks telling them to get out of the country. We offered financial assistance for those not able to afford to get on flights themselves. Many chose to stay right until The End and that was their choice. We now are faced with a circumstance we have to help evacuate those. Thats our responsibility as the u. S. Government but the point im making is that when a Civil War comes to an end with an opposing Force Marching on the capitol, there are going to be scenes of chaos and lots of people leaving the country. That is not something that can be fundamentally avoided. Leading off our discussion tonight, senior political scientist for the Rant Corporation and author of Leap Of Faith also with us, Philis A Fellow at the institute for policy studies. The author of ending the u. S. War in afghanistan. Philis, let me begin with you and with your expertise in this arena. I wouldnt presume to guide your thoughts on this tonight. Ive been eager to hear what youre thinking about what appears to be The End of the American Military involvement in afghanistan. You know, lawrence, listening to you just now talking about the comparisons with vietnam, im old enough to remember that war and remember the night it ended for the u. S. And one of the things that comes to my mind is the vietnam syndrome, the name that was given to the rise of resistance to Military Intervention that followed that war and it lasted a good 15 years. Didnt mean the u. S. Didnt intervene. They had the central america wars, Et Cetera but those wars as a result of what was called a syndrome were unpopular and it meant congress at a certain point was willing to cut funds. All of that is something we should look forward to. We need an afghanistan syndrome now, thats one of the things im thinking about. Ive also been thinking about the some of the things that president biden said in his speech yesterday, which was in certain ways a very disturbing speech. He essential recalled the Afghan Military and the afghan people for that matter cowardly was part of it, but the important part was he committed himself, recommitted himself to the withdrawal that was so necessary even if it was quite late. So i think that was very important. The point that i remember thinking i wish he would acknowledge and he was clearly not prepared to was the understanding, he tried to say that we didnt know that the taliban could win. We didnt, you know, theres a lot of talk in the press, as well. We didnt have the intel to know that the taliban was strong enough to beat the afghan army. What it doesnt take into account is that the Afghan Military in the overwhelming majority of the cities that the taliban took over in the last just few days, in the last week, they didnt have to fight their way in. The Afghan Military largely stood back and said were not going to fight you and part of the reason, a big part of the reason was that this was not about fighting for their country as president biden tried to say. It was not about fighting for their country. They were being asked to fight for a government that did not and never had represented them. A government that was imposed by an outside occupier that created a government that was rooted in replacing or reflecting the same kind of government that we have in the u. S. And in europe with a president and a parliament with all the powers centered in the national capital, in a place like afghanistan where the long standing millennial long traditions, political and cultural traditions are that power resides in the family and in the clan and in the tribe, not in some far away capital. There is this notion now as then that what happens in kabul remains in kabul and that government never had the support of the population. It was always known for corruption and violated afghan traditions so why are we surprised that the Afghan Military that was charged with defending that government, not their country, not their people, that they werent willing to fight for that. So we and everything youve just said also describes the selfvietnamese regime, which we were supporting and which immediately collapsed as soon as The American troops pulled out of vietnam so the mirror is almost flawless in this case. Michael, the argument of staying in afghanistan rests on the notion that a tiny group of 2500 maybe of soldiers could perpetually keep the Taliban At Bay and make the taliban wait another 20 years. If we just left 2500 soldiers in afghanistan. Yeah, and thats just not a tenable argument for a variety of reasons. Military operational reasons, political reasons, 2500 to 3,000 troops are not going to hold off even in stiffening and Afghan Army A Taliban force estimated 75 to 80,000 Battle Hardened troops. Part of what were now seeing has likely been going on is that the trajectory was moving strongly against the government of afghanistan in recent months and perhaps years but the taliban was not making full, making people fully aware of their degree of strength and capabilities because as you said, they were waiting for the critical moment. If the united states had said we are going to take this little group of people and maybe a few hundred to a few thousand allied troops and contractors and leave them there, then that would have posed the taliban with the question of whether to escalate. And i think we would have gotten trapped into a whole series of the kinds of Dilemmas President Obama faced in 2008, 2009 when the situation was moving in the wrong direction and we had to either escalate and surge or accept that we were on a trajectory to losing. So no, i really dont believe that there is some sort of minimal permanent War Making that you can do and also, for a lot of the reasons you were bringing out which is that war is the fundamental choice of State Craft and this is something that u. S. Military troops are taught that, you know, in good terms, war is a different kind of Act Of State from other sorts of acts of state and when you start treating it as this little Paint Brush you can go around the World And Dab into places to the degree that you want, thats when you get into serious trouble. When the united states has done well, we have had vital interest at stake in large scale issues. We have fully committed as a nation to fighting and winning a war and in those cases in the modern Context Weve done well but its when we try to play a half Way Game with warfare that its wrong and i think there is a certain im morality to it, as well. Philis, the one of the things well talk about for the next several days, weeks possibly is this tragedy of people left behind and for a lot of people who never seen this before, this is going to be the first time they wrestle with the moral issues involved here, but the idea that this is not what is going to happen every single time that you have any kind of exit that is shaped like this from a losing war is just doesnt comprehend reality. This is what has always happened in these situations. Thats absolutely true. It doesnt make it any less tragic. And it doesnt mean there is nothing that could have been done to mitigate it. It doesnt eliminate the problem. But there are things that could and in my view should have been done much earlier. You know, we heard Jake Sullivan up there saying well, we notified americans that were leaving there and they should leave and even offered them money to buy a plane ticket. Thats not a realistic answer. The realistic answer is you start flying in planes and putting them on the ground and calling people and saying there is a Flight Waiting in three hours be on it. You start making clear that you know what is coming and that youre warning people who may not know that this kind of reality is or has been inevitable in every war. There were more people stuck on the tarmac than needed to be and more people trying to get to the airport. The united states did not open up its access for refugees, for asylum seekers, for the desperate people who may not in fact be in ultimately as great risk as they fear but they are afraid and we should have had that responsibility to let them come, let them go somewhere else even if it doesnt fall within the very narrowly defined 15 separate points that people have to answer if they think theyre going to get one of the special visas. Michael, there is no evidence in American Military history that the pentagon knows how to manage an evacuation like this. I wouldnt i mean, noncombat evacuations are a very common activity for the u. S. Military. Theyve done a variety of times and have a doctrine for it and know how to do that. If youre talking for example let me just pause on that for a second. Im not talking about evacuations from other arenas but an evacuation of a country that the united states invaded, had a war more than a decade and lost out right. There is no model. They have never successfully left that kind of situation without scenes like this. Thankfully, we havent confronted that situation too many times but youre right, i mean, there is no way even if we had given people more advance notice and suppose we started flying in planes a month ago. That would then have been the signal that The End was beginning and then you would have seen scenes of panic. I agree with you that there is the answer to this problem is not to have been there for that long in that way the way we were. Thats the way to avoid this kind of messy ending. These are the things that are inevitable with the decision to go to war. Well have more on this as we continue to cover it. Michael, philis, thank you both very much for starting us off. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Coming up, today a Trump Supporter pleaded guilty to threatening to kill senator Raphael Warnock. Thats next. R Raphael Warnock. Thats next. SomeOne Once told me, that i should get used to people staring. So i did. Its okay, you can stare. When youre a twotime gold medalist, it comes with the territory. I dont just play someone brainy on tv im an actual neuroscientist. And i love the science behind Neuriva Plus. Unlike ordinary memory supplements, Neuriva Plus fuels six key indicators of Brain Performance. More Brain Performance . Yes, please neuriva. Think bigger. Ok, got everything ready. Got the rental. Got it dropped off. Going to the championship with. Your tiny champion. Going. Going. Got it. Music playing. 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A Trump Supporter has pleaded guilty to threatening the life of Raphael Warnock the day before Senator Warnock won his Georgia Senate race, using the conservative Social Network app, the parlor under the name of lone wolf war, edward told his fellow Trump Supporters that Quote Warnock is going to have a hard time casting votes for communist policies when hes swinging with the fing fish. In response to another users post, edward wrote dead Men Cant Pass crap laws. A proud boy supporter, Edward Floria didnt join the group to attack the capitol but before the Protrump Mob attacked he posted we need to all come to an agreement and go armed and really take back washington. At his home in new York City while the Protrump Mob attacked the capitol, Edward Floria posted i am awaiting my orders armed and ready to deploy. Guns cleaned, loaded, got a bunch of guys all armed and ready to deploy. We are just waiting for the word. Federal agents who searched Edward Florias home in january found more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition along with military Style Combat knives. Hes scheduled to be sentenced in late november. Joining us is paul butler, professor at georgetown University And Eugene robinson, Politzer Prize Columnist for the Washington Post. Both msnbc analyst. What it feels like were seeing in this evidence, one thing were seeing is the reaction from this kind of Trump Supporter to the election of a black man to the united States Senate and it makes me wonder what was going through minds like this when they saw a black man elected president of the united states. All right. When you can pretty much guess what was going through their minds. It drove them literally insane and, you know, you can trace a lot of the craziness that we have been seeing in our politics, i believe, to that moment, to the election of barack obama. I think that Brougt Home to a lot of people that this that White Supremacy was in Jeopardy Or Thought cat utilized what We Saw in the Tea Party and the insurrection on january 6th. I say finally because i doubt that was The End of it. Paul butler, in a plea like this, hes pleading guilty. That doesnt necessarily mean that there is an agreement with the prosecutor for a reduced sentence by pleading guilty because sometimes the evidence is just so overwhelming that there is not really any point in going through the motions of a trial. What do you think we have here . So lawrence, if the judge wants to throw the book at floria, he can be sentenced to up to 15 years but under the Sentencing Guidelines hes probably looking at two years in federal prison. Those cases are tough for prosecutors because there is a thin line between whats protected speech under the first amendment and the someone placed in serious fear of injury. Thats a crime. Some people might say this is just a proud boy want to be who was bluffing like when he said he had a caravan of cars headed to d. C on january 6th. He was at home in queens. He doesnt even own a car. When he was arrested, agents found 1,000 rounds of ammunition on his person and 75 style military Style Combat knives so of course, Senator Warnock would have ton very worried given the violent statements made about him. So what the Criminal Law is trying to do with the law against making threats is to stop the bad guy before he actually carries out real physical harm. And gene, this person has a deeply disturbed criminal history, an incident with his wife threatening to kill his Wife And Child in 2014 and so this is someone who you just cant you just dont know which way this person is going to break. No, you dont know which way hes going to break but thats the troubled person i think attracted to groups like the proud boys, it gives im not a psychologist but seems to give a sense of Self And Power he doesnt have in the real world but he can be powerful O Para parlar, sometimes these threats cross the line. This guy had a bunch of Am Ammunition and could have well been unbalanced enough to carry out very direct threats, Death Threats he made against Senator Warnock and im very happy that prosecutors took it seriously. Paul, if you were the prosecutor in this case, what would you be asking as a sentence from the judge . I would ask the judge to throw the book at this defendant to give him something close to the 15years that hes eligible for under the Sentencing Guidelines. Make no mistake, lawrence, even though there was no actual violence carried out, this was an extremely serious crime threat from a person who was deranged. 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The governor has been testing daily and today was the first positive Test Result for Governor Abbott is fully vaccinated against covid19 in good health and currently experiencing no symptoms. Everyone that the governor has been in close contact with today has been notified. Governor abbott is not only fully vaccinated, hes actually more vaccinated than practically anyone else in america because as Nbc News is reporting, Governor Abbott received a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Last night, the governor attended a maskless republican fundraiser in texas. Joining us now is dr. Jason martin, an Icu Director and critical Care Physician in tennessee, which includes the Greater Nashville area. Dr. Martin, what is the situation youre facing tonight . Hi, lawrence, thanks for having me on the show tonight. The situation with the Delta Variant is typical for other parts of the region. Were seeing the virus really over run our communities. A few months ago, we thought we had this beat down to no covid patients in the hospital but now were seeing waves and waves of patients come into the hospital and this time they are much younger. What is the Age Group youre seeing now when you say much younger . Yeah, i would say in the first wave that happened last winter, we were seeing folks in their 60s and 70s and 80s but i think that group of folks is good about getting vaccines so were seeing a large group of unvaccinated younger folks in their 20s, 30s and 40s ending up with life threatening illness as a result of covid and, you know, its terrible anyone that ends up in the intensive Care Unit for covid19, its especially terrible when folks come into the icu with a deadly illness that is completely preventable. Youre working in a state where the governor is apparently taking this lighter than i think you might want him to. Tennessee Governor Billy has issued an Executive Order allowing parents to opt out of any School Mask requirements. Says a Students Parent or guardian shall have the right to opt out of any Order Or Requirement for a student in kindergarten through 12th Grade to wear a face covering at school on a bus or at school functions. What is your reaction to that . Its absolutely unbelievable to me our governor completely advocated his responsibility to lead throughout this pandemic and the fact that individual School Boards were having to act to create law to create policy to protect the Health And Safety of children is unbelievable to me. There was no statewide approach. There was no State Mask Requirement to protect the Health And Safety of children and so individual School Boards are being compelled to act and i think its really arrogant for the governor then to come in and over ride local communities when all theyre trying to do is protect the Health And Safety of their children and teachers. In tennessee we have a report indicating the number of 5 to 18yearold children testing positive in the last 14 days has increased by 950 compared to just over a month ago. What more evidence could the governor want for trying to protect School Children . Thats exactly right. Weve had over 11,000 cases of covid in School Age children in the last 14 days and that will go up when kids are unmasked in schools and here is what we know about kids getting infected. Despite what Governor Lee said on Fox News in may, kids can get sick from the virus. Unfortunately, kids can die from the complications of the virus and have long term effects. I dont love wearing masks but i think its a small thing i can do to show folks that i care and to decrease the spread of the virus. Not only can kids themselves get sick but they can take it home and spread the virus to more vulnerable populations. And so it really important we get this under control now. Dr. Jason martin, thank you very much for joining us tonight and thank you for the work that youre doing. Thank you for having me and thank you for telling our story. Thank you. Coming up, alabama has the lowest Vaccination Rate of any state in the Country But Panola alabama has the highest Vaccination Rate in the state thanks to retired Office Administrator Dorothy oliver that Made Vaccination her project. The remarkable Dorothy Oliver will join us next. Dorothy oliv will join us next. burke this is why you want farmers claim forgiveness. 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Dorothy olivers determination is featured in the panola project, a new documentary from the new yorker. I heard people saying they get sick but. Some people said their arm hurt. Their arm going to hurt sometime. I have no problems with mines at all. Had both of them. Had no problem at all. Didnt bother me. Uhuh. Kimberly. Kim. Kimber look at her smiling at me. You know i know her. You ready to Take That shot . You can put me down. Yeah, put him down. Woo see, i got him. Im good, aint i . The Vaccination Rate among adults there is now 94 and it is 100 among people over the age of 65. And joining us now is Dorothy Oliver from panola, Alabama And Jeremy Lavine And Rachel de cruz who directed the documentary. Dorothy oliver, let me begin with you. What gave you the idea to be the person that made sure everyone was getting vaccinated . Because i saw the seriousness of the disease and i decided that ill just take charge and just talk to everyone that come into the store or either wherever i go and talk to them and ask them, let them know how serious it is to go ahead and get that vaccination. So i didnt have any problem. Everybody just worked right with me. How long in your One On one encounters with people talking them into this, how long does it usually take . When i talk when im talking to them . Yeah. Oh, it doesnt take then long. Talk them into it, and i just tell them about how serious it is and how im working in my community to make sure that all of my people, my community get vaccinated and they it dont Take That long for me to talk them into. One person i had a hard time with but most of them agreed and go ahead and go get it. Asked me to go ahead on and, you know, schedule appoint for them. And do they tell you why they havent been vaccinated already . Yes, some of them are saying i hadnt got it, im just scared. I dont want to get it. Some will say it just it just i guess i just going to wait until somebody else, you know, see how everything going to go. Thats what they tell me. I want to wait and see how everything go and see how everything will go and then ill take it. How did you feel when you got to people 100 . I felt real good. I felt like we were making progress. When we got that far, i tell you. I wanted to shout. I know we did a good job trying to get everybody to get their shot. Rachel, how did you find dorothy and bring her story to us . Yeah, well, so we were living in tuscaloosa, alabama at the time and we heard about dorothy from an article in the new york times. We were really interested and inspired by her work. We drove out, met her at her convenience store. And as you saw in the film, shes quite an eni go matic presence. We had a wonderful conversation with her. It was really clear the more and necessary work she was doing in the community and we wanted to find a way to help elevate her story. Jeremy, what do you think dorothys secret is for convincing people . Yeah. I think we could all learn so much from dorothy. I was so impressed seeing her. She would show up. She would literally roll up on to peoples lawns. And you know, she would have these conversations with some folks who were scared as she mentioned, or some people who also have deep disagreements with her. And she was never, she would never talk down to people. She would never yell at anybody. This is what i feel like were all so used. To were at each others throats. Instead, dorothy meets beam love. She meets them where theyre at. She answers questions. She jokes around. And ive honestly never seen somebody so incredible at persuading people to make such an important decision. Dorothy, does It Help that you know just about everyone in town . Thats the key right there. Just about everybody knows me. They know how hard i work and they know im serious in what i do. And that makes a lot of difference. So dorothy, youre getting people to trust you the way they would trust your doctor. They would trust their own doctor. How do you do that . I guess because ive been working in the community on different occasions with things going on and they know im serious and they know ill do what i say im going to do and they know if i say it, its okay to do it, you know. So youre currently at 94 of everyone who is eligible for the vaccine. Do you think youre going to be able to get that to 100 . Im not intending to stop until the job is done. So i believe. And that has been the way youve treated apparently every day of this. You dont stop until you do everything you can do, every single day youre out there. Thats right. Thats exactly right. Ive tried. 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