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Responsible. my two friends who are still stuck in kabul are, i m the only hope that they have to survive right now. i m like literally their last hope. marine battlefield after who brothers that also served were killed. it is frustration all of the way around. they work to rescue the afghans that helped them. you talk about your kids, four and two, how do you want them to remember this war? that of is a heck of a question. i don t want them to be ashamed of anything. we lost for a few weeks but we won for 20 years. i want them to be proud. one thing that came up again and again is the idea that while the taliban is making pledges that they will lead afghan more
In regards to the house foreign affairs committee, it has oversight jurisdiction. we want today make sure that the mission now of getting our people out of afghanistan, now we know they have dates, august 31st, et cetera. you can t go by that. we need to make sure that every one of those individuals are out. in a means if we have to stay longer, we should do that. we have to make sure our committee will oversee what is being done to make sure those individuals are out, and they are in fact out. a couple points to follow up
The airbase. the airbase now is secure. the base is calm and full of u.s. troops, it is very secure. there is air support above, but getting onto the base is a clalening. it s a challenge from kabul. imagine trying to get deep from the provinces, trying to get from a district. if you are in a district in central afghanistan or northern afghanistan, you may have to go through 50 taliban checkpoints to get here. right. how are you going to do that and are you going to show all of the documentation that says i was a translator? people are terrified to do that. of course. and americans stranded in these areas on what were bases or had contracts there because a lot of these are contractors, how are they supposed to get there? the logistics of working with the taliban now are fraught, to say the least. but on the base the people who do get on the base are that process doesn t seem to be
Making secret deals, bribing commanders, smoothing the way to surrender officials tell us, and all of that, hallie, contributed to making the worst case scenario a reality. mike over to you at the white house and the response, reaction from what you re hearing from folks about new reporting. hallie, what we heard from the podium yesterday from national security adviser jake sullivan was casting at least sidestepping the idea that this was the intelligence seen at the white house. he also was quick to say that he wasn t going to engage in the kind of finger pointing exercises that we re already seeing well under way here in washington. but it s notable that when the president spoke in the east room a month ago, he also denied that he had seen intelligence that the swift collapse of the afghan government was likely, if the president followed through on his plan to withdraw u.s. forces. now, what s also clear, though, at this stage is that the white house has had a fairly pessimistic