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my whole world just died right there. for months the murder stayed cold. didn t have witness, didn t have video, didn t have dna. we had everything going against us. we would go down and talk to the detective. we wouldn t let it go. then a break, another victim. he would duct tape me, duct tape my mouth. and she knew a secret. could she risk revealing it? something is going to happen tonight. a killer ready to run, face-to-face with the one person who might be able to stop him. he just reached over the glove compartment and he pulled out the gun, and i said, please don t kill me. i wanted to get out of there alive. it was a monday morning in january 2007. 9:08 a.m. a young woman in san antonio, texas, texted her boyfriend. i love you, that s all it said, nothing more. downtown, the alamo had just opened its doors. a few tourists began boarding little boats to gaze at remnants of texas history along urban stretches of the san antonio river, and ....
with nick robinson. a national tragedy, shameful, a staggering failure. britain s biggest foreign policy disaster since suez. that is how my guest has described our withdrawal from afghanistan. he is a former soldier and adviser to the government, former adviser to the chief of defence staff. it is now chair of a foreign affairs committee at the house of commons and this is the series in which i have conversations with, not interrogations of, those who shape our political thinking about what shapes theirs. their backgrounds, their lives, beyond politics. it was precisely that which led mps to listen to him in total silence as he spoke in the commons others struggle with anger, grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. i grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. unfold in kabul. i been to funerals across the unfold in kabul. i been to funerals across the world unfold in kabul. i been to funerals across the world and unfold in kabul. i been to ....
who never got that meeting with president trump, but he will be getting that meeting in white house today. and now, a new abortion law that is going to ban most abortions in texas and that is after the supreme court did not act to stop it. and now, a new evacuation in afghanistan and we have heard from defense secretary lloyd austin and the joint chiefs milley and watching that last plane leave and then it got personal. my pain and angry is coming from the grieving family and the soldiers who were injured on the ground, and war is tough stuff. it is brutal and unforgiving and yes, we have pain and anger and seeing what has unfolded over the last 20 years and the last 20 days, that is creating pain and anger, and mine is coming from 242 of my soldiers killed in action over 20 years in iraq and afghanistan, and so, yeah, i have that, but i m a professional soldier, and i will contain my pain and anger and continue to execute my mission. joining us now is courtney ....
weeks. 13 americans are dead. 20 more injured, joe biden has sur renikered to the taliban, americans have been left behind. those who assisted us abandoned. there is now a new terrorist safe haven across afghanistan. and the world is less secure because we are witnessing the absolutely devastating consequences of the president s massive foreign policy failure, his der rejection of duty. his smug rejection to face any accountability, and his utter refusal to admit his mistakes for what is now an undeniable catastrophe and the worst foreign policy failure in modern political history. and how is the biden team responding to all of this? not by taking responsibility, not by admitting any of their mistakes, but by blaming others. my are predecessor, the former president, signed an agreement with the taliban. we reached out 19 times to americans in afghanistan with multiple warnings. my predecessor had made a deal with the taliban. we were left with a simple decision: eithe ....
criticized withdrawal process that has left 13 u.s. service members dead and at least 100 american citizens and thousands of afghan allies who helped the u.s. trapped in afghanistan. president biden called the u.s. evacuation a, quote: extraordinary success. the president took responsibility for the operation during an address this afternoon at the white house. one day after the final u.s. service member left afghanistan. he says he is committed to getting the last americans home in a diplomatic way but one republican congressman a former green beret, says those americans and those afghan allies are now hostages. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jackie. good evening, bret. president biden defended the withdrawal saying the august 31st deadline wasn t arbitrary but a decision kept to save american lives after 13 u.s. service members were killed in a suicide attack last week. but, on the first day, w ....