make this happen for the safety of students. you may not be angry at the governor but a lot of texans are. very quickly, did you ever think that you would end up here? no, absolutely not. i m a former government teacher and i color inside the lines but this time it was different. i had to take a stand. and i m disappointed at some of my superintendent peers falling off the wagon when it s gotten really difficult here. well, i admire you for taking a stand dallas county superintendent michael hinojosa. appreciate your time tonight. thank you. that is all in on this monday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening and thank you my friend. much appreciated. thanks at home for joining us this hour. we re going to start tonight if we can, we are battling technical difficulties, but we re going to try to start tonight live in kabul.
part of the afghan special operations, who were trained by u.s. service members who are now hiding from the taliban. the taliban went into their home, luckily they escaped just minutes before hand because they saw them outside. this is in kabul. i m begging people to let them come in to the kabul military airport. they said they would sleep on the ground. they said they know they would die outside of those gates. but there is no one to help. they re stuck there. a female politician that i was talking to had no idea this was going to happen and now the taliban have sent people to stay right in front of her house, trapping her inside with her three daughters. she can t get out. she could try to get out but the problem is she said even if i try to get out right now i couldn t make it to the airport. no one is there to let me in. so these are our friends we left without any way out. atia abawi, the former nbc news bureau chief in kabul, journalist, author, atia, thank you so much for bei
roads and roundabouts and schools and water projects. absolutely it. did part of the reason, even that scale of investment over 20 years, did not materially change more about what it s like to live in afghanistan, is because so much of what we put into afghanistan, was shoveled off and diverted by the boatload, by a fantastically corrupt elite. from the very beginning. this was ten years ago. this verge of me and richard looking at this neighborhood in kabul. but this was true from the very beginning. and it s still true to this day. you might have seen this weekend the taliban footage of them lounging around inside the home of an afghan government official. this is this weekend, you re a government official really. it reminds you of the footage of the golden toilet fixtures, in the private museums, in the incredibly techy ornate palace, they got to see you in the ukrainian dictator was ousted in 2014. and had to flee to moscow to save his skin. dictator chic is the same the
and gates and would rent for lots and lots of money but none of those houses, the whole neighborhood in kabul, none of those existed before the war effort. they only sprung into existence once the u.s. shipped thousands of troops into afghanistan and started regularly churning billions of dollars every month into that country into one of the poorest countries on earth. i ll never forget that because i feel it taught me something that you can only sort of experience by being there because it makes you feel it in your bones in a way you can t forget it. i mean, it does say something just mathematically right? if you do churn billions of dollars a month every month into the economy of one of the world s poorest countries you send over billions of dollars a month every month, month in and month out for a whole year and then you do that month in and month out for a whole second year and then month in and month out for a whole third year, billions of dollars every month ultimately you do bil
ultimately secured their deal in kabul. indeed, the army we built and paid for and the government we supposedly propped up with the boat loads of billions of dollars a month for 20 years, they really did just hand over the keys when the time came. and now president biden of course has taken it from all sides for this takeover happening on his watch. the sickening consequences and prospects of what it means for the taliban to be reassuming control of that country. president biden admitted today that is happening faster than they thought it would. he said they planned for this as an eventuality but this is faster than they thought it would happen. because it s happening faster than they thought it would happen, he said today they are scaling up evacuation plans, even now, to belatedly try to meet the pace of developments on the ground. more on that coming up this hour. when it comes to whether or not the u.s. should in fact be leaving, president biden is taking the criticism and saying h