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sam kiley is in doha, qatar, and with u.s. cnn military retired general. orrin, let s start with you. what do we expect to hear in these remarks? in terms of the expectation of how this plays out, we expect austin and milley, and then some time for questions. generally when these two spoke in front of the press, it lasted a tight 30 minutes and that s what we expect here. second in terms of what we expect to hear, i think it will focus on a message of support and a message of absolute confidence in the troops, and a message of mourning for those that lost their lives in 20 years of war, including the 13 service members of lost their lives last wednesday, and then support for 8,000 other service members that served in afghanistan over the course of two decades of war. i don t think we will hear too much insight on the disagreements and the insights of going into the withdrawal and the process of the evacuation, that they are almost certain to keep themselves, and we ho ....
welcome, everyone. i am sandra smith and this is america reports. john: i am john roberts in washington. talking about ending the mission in afghanistan as the u.s. now depends on the goodwill of the taliban to rescue americans and allies still stuck in the country. we now know that dozens of u.s. journalists and their families are among the stranded. this comes as new photos of taliban holding mock funerals. sandra: nikki haley joins us ahead of the pentagon news conference at happening in just a moment. first, a u.n. ambassador, your reaction to those photos, as outrage is pouring in? but also big questions as to whether or not those journalists left behind can count on this president and take him at his word that he will get them out of that country and out of harm s way? thank you, sandra. first, i can tell you that those photos are every reason blinken, sullivan, and biden should not be trusting the taliban. i think what we are seeing with the journalists a ....
veteran who has serious doubts about negotiating with the taliban. he s dealt with them himself. he says it s a waste of time and a dangerous thought in our head. yesterday our top defense officials were talking about the possibility we could do that. from the defense secretary to the chief of the joint chief of staff. the argument goes something like this. better to talk to them because the alternative to them in afghanistan is isis-k. is it really that simple? we have jennifer griffin at the pentagon and jacqui heinrich monitoring these developments as well as the white house. jennifer, first you at the pentagon. the idea of entering into discussions with the taliban might have seemed unthinkable 20 years ago. given everything that s transpired not so much now. what are you hearing on this. it s really important to point out that the taliban were legitimized in march 2020 when the trump administration signed a peace agreement, so-called peace agreement with the tali ....
security to baggage handling. and they may have actually prevented some attacks. all of this raises the urgent question of what comes next for the administration and the pentagon in this new and uncertain post-war era. as we await secretary austin, general milley joined by our own courtney kube at the pentagon, mike at the white house and former deputy national security adviser to george w. bush and nbc news national security analyst and ben hodges who served to the u.s. army in europe is also with me who wrote very eloquently that military leaders need to admit that mistakes were made, as well. let me start with you, courtney. what should we expect from this briefing and what shouldn t we expect? so we should expect to hear from general milley and secretary austin thanks to thep tos involved in this evacuation mission. as we heard from president biden yesterday they consider it a success they got 100,000 people out of aafghanistan, but it cam at a high cost. dozens o ....