frustration is on everyone, and you have been covering this story from your own time in afghanistan and before that for so many years. and when you get to the end what is the end of a of the war chapter of this story, that s when all sorts of emotions take over. and so it s we re all going through this. yeah. and just to see the super human effort that had to be exerted to bring about a small rational human outcome that should not have been that hard to achieve, it is you exalt in the achievement and just you are equally horrified that this is what it takes and that the system isn t working and that you have to you have to, you know, connect this many hail mary passes in a row in order to make it work for somebody. it s just a lot. it s a lot. what i m always hoping for in the horrors of war stories which includes the horrors of the end of war stories is that it makes people think the next time about their decision to go to war because we aren t able to go to war
what is the end of the war chapter of this story, that is when all sorts of emotions take over. we re all going through this. yeah, and just to see the superhuman efforts that had to be exerted to bring about a small, rational human outcome that should not have been that hard to achieve. you exult in the achievement and you are equally horrified that this is what it takes, and that the system isn t working, and that you have to, you know, connect this many hail mary s to make it work for somebody. it s just a lot. it s a lot. what i m always hoping for in the horrors of war story, which include the horrors of the end of wars story, is that it makes people think the next time about their decision to go to war. because we aren t able to go to war without dealing with the horrors. that s the part that gets loss, when the first decision is made to go to war. that is exactly right. leaving the decision to end a war, it is usually much harder than the decision to start a war
mark milley saying today that getting americans out is the singular focus of the biden administration. the situation is still very dangerous, very dynamic and fluid and we can be proud of those executing this mission. they re currently in harm s way. that needs to be our focus. there will be plenty of time to do aars but right now our mission is to secure that air field, defend that air field and evacuate those faithful to us. there will be many postmortems on this topic but right now is not that time. there s troops at risk and we the united states military and fully intend to successfully evacuate all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan, all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan. they are our priority number one. in addition we intend to evacuate those supporting us for years and won t leave them behind. milley s comments hours after scenes of chaos unfolded on wednesday outside of what is the only way out of afghanistan. the airport in k
this after the vice president made a last-minute visit to capitol hill this afternoon, meeting with democratic senators to show support for the president s plan. and in the house, democrats are pushing their revised version of the voter protection bill named after the late john lewis, hoping to see a vote by early september. of course, the nationwide assault on the vote by state republicans will not abate in that time. case in point, texas, where legislators in the state are also in another special session, the second call by the governor in the past month to pass voter restrictions after state democrats fled the state to protect the vote. but one heavily watched democratic primary concluded this week, and shortly i ll ask chantel brown, the winner of that high-profile ohio congressional race about her state s political future ahead of next year s midterms. but first, joining me now, senator michael bennett of colorado, a democrat. senator bennet, thank you, vice president
today those african american leaders standing there in the a trans singing, and preparing to be arrested, putting themselves at risk, getting handcuffed and taken away, we but calling the moral question with such glaring dignity. it s a moving thing. and effective thing. it s the kind of moral sledgehammer that s going to be needed to knock down these stores that are otherwise shut. yes and one of the theories of this arrest is that your some way obstructing what s going on. in this case in the hard senate office building where that atrium is close to the size of grand central station. it is impossible for them to have created any sort of traffic situation in that gigantic space. all they did was make people choke up and think twice about their priorities and that was the traffic the cause. they re exactly. thank you rachel. well the two infrastructure bills moving on to legislative tracks in congress now have a timetable on those tracks. senate majority leader chuck sc