a better way to love. if the decision was made to pull out, it should not have been a precipitous, chaotic, and unfortunately deadly departure. this afternoon, i ll be speaking on the floor and max soviak, one of the soldiers and marines killed on the wall trying to help others escape from the tyranny of the taliban. he should never have been put in this position. it was an impossible position. for our troops, for your diplomats. and the impossibility that they faced was due to our policy decisions. there was an alternative. bagram air base, it was shutdown in the middle of the night with no notice to anybody. it was a surprise. i ve talked to people who know a lot more about the military side of this than i do who tell me that yes, the afghan troops were a disappointment, but that s partly because they were used to having americans provide that close air support and if they had had that, they could have pushed back against the taliban. if the general were here, we would hear
martin savidge has been monitoring the situation. martin, what do we know? reporter: well, we have some positive news coming directly to us now in the form of information from the county sheriff s department. they co-responded to this event taking place at mt. tabor high school on the northwest side of the city. they report that one student has been wounded and that police and the sheriff s deputies are now actively searching for a suspect. they say that all the other students are safe. now, that school continues to be in lockdown and authorities both from the city and from the county sheriff s department are methodically going through the buildings of this campus. it s about 1,600 students, grades 9 through 12. the initial report came in around noon according to local news reports. they say there was a resource officer who called in the shooting. but again, forsyth county sheriff s department twieeting out that one student has been injured, the suspect is being sought but
america s withdraw from afghanistan. we re waiting for a update from the secretary of defense. we also have new exclusive nbc reporting that another isis terror attack may have been forwards by the taliban one aide says it is absolutely instrumental in saving american lives. let s get the latest on afghanistan. courtney, let me start with you. a little less than two hours from now we dpopt here from the charge of defense. you have extraordinary exclusive reporting here on the extents that the taliban cooperated with u.s. forces during the withdrawal? tell us more. the military was very open that they were cooperating with the taliban there. the u.s. central command met in doha about two weeks ago, and they discussed the cooperation, how the u.s. wanted to get americans out and the taliban gave them essentially a coordination on the ground. what we now now is the extent to which that was happening. the state department would reach out, tend a text mess an, and tell them to g
closing chapter and a coda to the speech that started it. good afternoon. on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. now the taliban will pay a price. the name of today s military operation is enduring freedom. we will not waiver, we will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail. that, of course, was then-president george w. bush announcing the start of the bombing campaign that began on the night of october 7th, 2001, in kabul. it s also where the last u.s. plane carrying american forces lifted off 7,269 days later, marking the end of america s longest war. this iconic image of the last american soldier with boots on the ground in afghanistan, major general chris donahue boarding that final c-17 out of the country. in that clip we just played you heard then-president bush announce the name of that operation enduring freedom. if that word rin
and the horrifying images that we ve seen as a result of yesterday s attack. we are learning a little bit more. two suicide bombers essentially targeted two different gates. one, abby gate, which is a major choke hold with thousands of people lining up, pushing to get into the airport. and the other one outside the barron hotel. this is where we were just about a week ago. this is where the british had been using as a standing operation, a place from where they do their processing, their evacuations. they have said now that evacuation operation is completely finished, but they hasten to add that this is not because of the attack. this was already on schedule and they have simply finished the evacuations they needed to do. but to give our viewers a little bit of a better sense of how this happened, just based on our experience, what you had was the taliban guarding the outer perimeter, and then the next line essentially were u.s. forces. while the taliban were doing sort of cu