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conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. that was ten years ago. think about that. we re going to stay until we have a deal or we have total victory. i ve learned the hard way, there is never a good time to withdraw u.s. forces. the taliban is continuing its offensive across afghanistan. taliban fighters have broken through the front line. the afghan army has collapsed. the central government has fallen. panic fills the air in kabul. president biden said this is not going to be saigon. but guess what. there s been an explosion outside kabul airport. 170 afghans killed. 13 american troops killed. i stand squarely behind my decision. it s time to end america s longest war. is it a mistake? i think it is, yeah. because i think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. i must say that it s a moral defeat for the united states. i think is the president is right. enough is enough. what was all of this for? that has to be the ....
says i want to get out and get on a plane, we will make that happen. nato allies holding an emergency session today about the rapidly deteriorating situation for allied troops and diplomats on the ground. we discussed our approach to those in power in kabul. the eyes of the world are on afghanistan. we expect the taliban to uphold their commitments and assure that afghans that afghanistan does not again become a safe haven for international terrorism. and today my interview with the parents of a brave young foreign service officer killed by a taliban ied just outside the afghan capital in 2018 while working to give afghan children a chance for a better future. i think a lot about all of the different work that ann was doing especially with afghan women. she was reading books to the children when this terrible thing happened. she knew that that was the key, to educate the children of afghanistan. joining me now nbc national security correspondent courtney ....
haiti where the death toll is climbing from a devastating earthquake. welcome, everyone. the afghan army has collapsed. the central government has fallen. and if nothing changes, the taliban look to be the new rulers of afghanistan. the militants racked up a blistering advance against major cities over the weekend, ending in the surrender of kabul. ousted president ashraf ghani fled the country, and this video that you re looking at from al jazeera shows heavily armed taliban looking very comfortable in the presidential palace. now, the u.s. military s withdrawal set up the taliban takeover. the u.s. says all of its embassy personnel have been evacuated to the airport, and many other countries have followed suit. this was the kabul green zone earlier. the former hub of military and diplomatic activity now a ghost town. but things have been very different at the airport. [ sound of gunfire ] gunfire ringing out earlier as these crowds raced to try to catch a flight out ....
nine. i m aware however some of you aren t watching. it s not by choice, according to kamala harris if you do not live in this city where the politicians live, you re living in 500 bc. because you live in rural areas where there s probably no no tv or cable. probably not a faucet for running water. if you re in the south you have no idea what i m talking about because the language of english hasn t reached you yet. you don t even have xerox machines. if you want to make a copy of something you re going to have to break out the silly putty. right, kat? i don t think that we should underestimate what vaccines mean. because in some people s minds that means you re going to have to xerox or photocopy your i.d. to send it in to prove you are who you are. there s a lot of people who lived in the rural communities where there is no officemax near them. greg: boy howdy, what a double 80! don t you know we keep our xerox is down by the creek? under the bridge by the shopping ....
crowd. plus new reporting on unnamed lawmakers working with the white house. why a judge tossed trump s lawsuit to keep his taxes away from congress. and a closer look at the ongoing human victims of the big lie. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. right now as we speak the house of representatives are preparing to vote on holding donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows in contempt of congress, a body in which he once served, for refusing to comply with subpoena from the january 6th committee. the debate on this resolution started this afternoon around 4:15. there was a bit of a holdup by republicans over accusations that house majority leader steny hoyer disparnged republican congressman jim banks. once they sorted through all that they picked up the debate around 5:30 p.m. the debate is done now. there s some other house business happening. we re waiting for them to vote on whether to refer mark meadows to the dep ....