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reminiscent of the retreat from saigon with would be refugees hanging to helicopter skids. and woke up this morning and realized it was much, much worse. as we saw images of the bodies of would be refugees falling from the wheel well of c-17s leaving kabul airport. let s just take a moment and realize that over the past year, we have talked about and debated how oppressive this great country is while we watched people literally cling to the opportunity to be american. but from president joe biden, silence. silence until today. in one breath in a speech before the nation, biden told us that he planned for every contingency and then in the next breath, he explained why he quickly and suddenly sending thousands of marines to secure the airport. we were clear-eyed about the risk. we planned for every contingency authorize and i did 6,000 u.s. troops to dally no afghanistan. for the purpose of assisting in the departure of u.s. and allied personnel from afghanistan and to ....
do that i think is just absolutely so essential to be able to give us the capacities to make this next essential step that micchio was talking about. 11 minutes 10 seconds away from launch. let s just quickly go to poppy harlow and jim sciutto. guys? good morning, everyone. what a morning. i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. 52 years to the day after those words were uttered by neil armstrong on the surface of the moon. moments from now we will witness a new leap for mankind. poppy, two private launches to space in the span of nine days. i mean, a remarkable new normal. still a pricey ticket to space, no question, but does this over time become even more normal, more accessible? we re witnessing a moment of history right now. we certainly are. as one expert put it, the dawning of the public space age. what you re watching if you re just joining our coverage live here on cnn is the final count down. literally ....
jeff bezos is about to lift off to the edge of space and back. the flight comes on the anniversary of another historic mission. it s one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. more than five decades after neil armstrong mesmerized man with his step into space, space tourism and beyond that, the privatization of space. this is a project 20 years in the making for bezos. the founder of blue origin and amazon will be the second billionaire to blast off from earth in his own spacecraft. richard branson and his virgin galactic soared to the skies from new mexico earlier this month. the youngest and oldest humans will be on the blue shepherd rocket along with jeff bezos and his brother mark. wally funk was trained to be an astronaut in the 1960s. part of the group known as of the mercury 13. they never made it to space because only men were sent at the time. women proved they could pass the rigorous physical requirements that nasa had set up. also aboard today, a ....
tonight is about celebrating our bond as friends. family. good to see you, too, girl. where you going? carnival. your friends, sometimes is more family than the people you re related to. something is bothering you. i ve never been happier. trying to make you a way in the world having a safe harbor where everybody knows your name. i m out. what? yeah, i m out. i m out of the contest. ugly naked guy is having thanksgiving dinner with ugly naked gal. friends or seinfeld you want me to choose? i can t answer that. it s subjective. challenge accepted. contest. a contest? seinfeld will win, i think. seinfeld is smart. sin feinfeld is a brillian half hour of television. seinfeld . seinfeld is my favorite all time show. you want to play-off? we can play rough. i love friends . one of my favorite shows of all time. so watchable. friends . friends . friends . i really appreciated friends . one of the top ....
intelligence community. cia, dia, nsaitibir and over 1,000 other affiliated government agencies with even more obscure acronyms. by the time your intelligence bureau get big enough to be a, quote, community, you may have a problem. insofar as most of us ever think about intelligence agents we think of 007, ie, it s supposed to be a very low number, which suggests that this is an elite activity for a small number of persons. when you have, as america does, some 5 million people with a security clearance, that s equivalent to the entire population of immediately to all running around thinking they are james bond. you have a dark, bloated bureaucracy with massive powers to violate the privacy of anyone they want to. they should be using this against foreigners, the massive expansion of 24/7 surveillance state since 9/11 has done nothing for america s position in the world. we know so little about afghan adversaries that we have taken 20 years to lose the goat heads with fe ....