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but we won t know. it s true, and it is humbling, but i am going to try. i m going to try, and that is all i can say. i think you will get it done. thank you, rachel. thank you, lawrence. i appreciate it. we ve been through this only once before in our history. before the evacuation in afghanistan, the american military had carried out only one major evacuation from a war that we lost. that was in vietnam in 1975. in vietnam when the airport we were using came under rocket fire from the north vietnamese army, and two marines were killed, the final two soldiers killed in combat in vietnam, republican president gerald ford immediately ordered the abandonment of the airport, and the switch to helicopters, dangerously taking people from the tops of buildings to finish the evacuation. president ford immediately ordered the evacuation speed it up. the president never gave a thought to try to avenge the deaths of those two marines, or in any way prolong the dangerous s ....
hello, everyone. i m alisyn camerota. this is cnn blaking news. hello, everyone. many are being treated for their wounds. the pentagon says a number of afghans fell victim to these attacks. a source tells cnn at least one of the blasts was the result of a suicide bomber near the main gate of the airport and another was at a nearby baron hotel where 169 americans had to be extricated, evacuated from the country there just a few days ago. so we have this new graphic video. it includes disturbing audio of the aftermath of one of the blasts. here it is . it is just chaos and carnage there. you see rows of bodies, you see some of them bloody. some appear lifeless. one man is heard saying he is alive, pull this guy out. cnn s sam kiley says he believes it was taken in the sewage canal that was just outside of the main gate. u.s. officials believes isis-k was behind these attacks but they re still working to confirm it. the state department had been warning for days ....
going to abandon some american citizens because he capitulated to the taliban 1 august deadline. jesse: we should have seen this coming, sleepy joe s handling of afghanistan has been a disaster on all levels. we know it doesn t take much to impeach a president these days. democrats tried to impeach george bush for a lot of things. including global warming as we all remember donald trump was impeached over a phone call. some would say a perfect phone call. and what happens when you ignore intelligence and strand thousands of innocent americans behind enemy lines in a war zone? and then blame them for not being able to get out. particularly given the security situation in afghanistan, for many years, we have urged americans not to travel there since march of this year, we have sent 19 separate messages to americans enrolled with the embassy in kabul, encouraging and then urging them toe leave the country. there could be other americans in afghanistan who never enrolle ....
has sustained over affeghanista he has centered around trying to get the coronavirus pandemic under control and deliver benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, and in the form of a human benefit, child tax credits, pre-k, expanded medicare benefits. free community college. a whole range of things in the budget bill that was advanced today in the house of representatives. he is facing tremendous resistance from republicans, legislatively on covid and the states and voting rights and he said going in to 2022, and 2024, his best chance of surviving the democratic majority and also winning a second term is by acting not talking about what you want to do for people, talking about what you have done for people. today was a step on the path. mr. brownstein the budget package, huge. it could transform american lives. but, you are not convinced it s going to actually help biden or democrats politically. why? why is that? in the near term. yeah. look, i t ....
president biden is touting the progress towards what looks like another set of wins. the liberal big spending investment is worth it. the house of representatives taken a significant step that s going to transform america, cut taxes for working families and position the american economy for long-term, long-term growth. speaker pelosi found a breakthrough with a few members of their caucus who have been making demands. because it is breaking news, we ll get right for our experts. every democrat is back in the infrastructure bill with over $3 trillion spending for healthcare and family leave and earlier government preschool and education funding. these are simply put the progressive and humanitarian priorities that had been hold out for the democratic party for generations. let s get right to it, i have katty kay and josh marshal, the founder and editor of talking point memo. this has not been sold as a liberal dream and yet it would seem like a lot of spending and ....