qaeda. then but what was once thought of as the, quote, good war, as opposed to iraq at the time, afghanistan became a forever war and run that for americans who did not have friends serving in the fight eventually became the forgotten war. then on thursday president biden said enough was enough and they

would complete withdrawal by the end of the month later, actually, than former president trump had planned. and also left behind, those afghan translators and contractors. american nation building along with the hopes of establishing a greater level of freedom and more independence for women in that country in fact, even as they announced the withdrawal president biden admitted mission hasn't failed yet. so even if most americans forgot about this war, as richard engel reports from kabul, for those left behind this is still real. >> reporter: they are laughing it up by applies spokesman and why not? the taliban have taken control of most of afghanistan in weeks often after firing a shot.

troops are sur ending handing over posts and weapons the taliban give each soldier the equivalent of $80 pocket money for the trip home. the united states spent more than $80 billion to train annie equip afghan security forces the return on investment so far is low. >> corruption is the main defense for some of the taliban. >> reporter: this member of parliament extremists have tried to kill her twice. >> i had a meeting yesterday who tried to run away. they were steeling me stories because there was no food for them. >> reporter: when we visit the air base it was empty, i was able to bike down the runway no one even asked what i was doing. the soldiers seemed almost unaware there is a war going on. but two units are fighting

afghanistan small air force and the commandos on a mission i saw them on the attack advancing into gun fight but there are just 30,000 commandos up against around three times as many taliban. the commandos are doing 90% of the fighting so perhaps no one is holding afghanistan together more than the commando's general. >> everyone was relying on our american colleagues and friends hereinaf here in afghanistan. we will learn to fight this fight. >> reporter: what about extreme fighters, terrorists we are starting to understand they are starting to come back in zbin. are you seeing evidence of that? >> we are. you may have been tracking just in the last month we have killed dozens of al qaeda in different

parts of the country. >> reporter: do you think afghanistan could once again be a spring board for international terrorism? >> even worse than 911, i'm telling you. because over the past 20 years, you are the main enemy now why do you think you will be safe why do you think you'll be protected? you have killed people in afghanistan. >> reporter: the threat afghans face are more immediate, especially women who flock to schools and take up careers denied by the taliban. and no one is at more risk than the thousands of contractors and interpreters that work for u.s. troops men like tom that americans called him is now in hiding. >> if i stay here i will be killed. >> reporter: tom worked for the u.s. military two years and five months he has numerous letters of

recommendation including from his former commander. >> i trusted tom 100%. as things deteriorate he has a legitimate reason to fear fom k. before we get into the debate should we stay or going, how we are leaving looks very haphazard and rushed we don't seem to have a plan in place yet how we'll deal with the translators. that's what it looks like from here is that what it looks like to you? >> reporter: very much so. the translator tom, just as an example, it took us 45 minutes to connect with his former company commander. and he has been waiting for his visa for four years. so it's been very organized to et go the troops out of here, to make sure they are evacuated safely but in terms of a plan and dealing with all the people who worked with us, that seems very,

as you said, haphazard, and could be done better. >> all right let's talk about the larger debate here, which is, and we may not know the answer to this debate for 20 years let alone 20 days or months and that is, are we going to see history repeat itself as the taliban takes over afghanistan will it be a safe haven for reconstituted al qaeda or islamic state? >> reporter: many senior analysts, military officials in this country and beyond believe that's what's going to happen because of the vic vital a ban has been given right here. they achieved what isis couldn't they were able to achieve a victory over the united states and establish a new safe haven for islamic extremists and that is drawing them in but just a few minutes ago before coming here i was speaking to the former senior adviser, national security adviser for the ex taliban

leader, and he assured me it won't happen that the taliban learned a lesson from hosting al qaeda that keeping bin laden here won't be a spring board for international terrorism. they will bring islamic law here and tradition but focus on afghanistan not causing problems for the rest of the world. the question is do you believe that and can they control it? >> let me ask you this about bagram air base. what's the more likely future, that the taliban controls it, that u.s. controls it, or some day we'll have to attack something we built because our enemies are somehow using it. >> reporter: well, the big factor of bagram right now there are thousands of taliban prisoners and others inside. some of them top leaders from the taliban. and military officials have told

me they are concerned because the power is out, base defenses are disrupted, and if the taliban tried to liberate their prisoners, and they are already in other towns and cities tried to liberate their prisoners, if they were able to free those, and anywhere from 5 to 10,000 prisoners inside, if they were able to free them, bagram is on the door steps of kabul, could become a tipping point and based on what i saw it's very vulnerable. so afghans think it's possible bagram could become a target because of those prisoners then will the u.s. have to attack it? watch it happen? come back? they'll be some very tough decisions that will have to be made in realtime if that happens. >> all right richard engel on the ground in kabul for us as he always is in these unsafe and unstable places richard, thank you. >> reporter: sure. >> all right joining me now is democratic senator of rhode island chair of the services

welcome back to "meet the press. i do want to make a note a lot of you were going to see jake sullivan here. the white house told us yesterday he would be unable to appear for personal reasons. senator reed is the current head line in the economist. america's longest war is ending in crushing defeat it's a pretty rough head line. do you agree with it >> it's not accurate the purpose that we went into afghanistan for was to degrade and disrupt al qaeda to limit their ability to project attacks outside of afghanistan to a great degree we've done that the job is not over. this is not a closure. this is a transition we have to maintain continual involvement, both with the afghan government, by supporting them financially, also providing the kind of technical assistance they need for their air

importance and other elements. but i think the president was presented with a bad series of choices. the trump administration had said we were leaving by may 1st. the taliban had no real responsibilities in that agreement, none that they carried out that i can see, yet that date would have prompted incredible increase of violence directed towards the united states so i think the president made a difficult but the best of many poor choices. >> you know, after your i believe it may have been your first trip to afghanistan in 2002, you said, you reassured the leadership at the time, of afghanistan, that america was going to be involved for the long haul. there was this constant fear among afghan reformists that whatever we did, we were going to leave well, isn't that what's happening? aren't their greatest fears being realized

didn't you basically, is that an empty promise that was made? we have now turned tail? >> no, i think some of the facts is that we have to consider is that in 2002, we were prepared, and we had a situation, we had to destroy the taliban one of the critical strategic mistakes was the pivot to iraq, which i opposed, and one reason i opposed icy thought it would eventually lead to compromising our resources and attention to afghanistan. and it did we tried to resuscitate that approach to afghanistan over several surges, they have not been successful. and 20 years of effort and thousands of american lives i don't think represents a shallow promise in 2002. >> let me ask you this, had president biden decided that, you know, because there was this debate are we at war or not at war? but some thought of a

stabilizing force, not similar to japan or germany. would there have been support in congress for stable ilizing for at bagram for an indeterminate amount of time >> perhaps but i don't think there was overwhelming sense in congress that we should say i think their reaction to the departure has been one of generally acceptance i think the other factor that should be considered is as long as the taliban had a safe haven, which they do in pakistan, they would continue to flow in, put pressure on, we can hold them perhaps a day, but i think at this juncture the president decided any type of increase enforce is an increase in presence would be long term

ineffective. and particularly in the taliban continues to gain strength. >> i want to show the taliban strength here. we have this map courtesy of the defense of democracy their long war journal and here in the dark red are where taliban control things as of april 13th. watch how this only gets reader as you see here. it gets reader and reader. gray area is what is controlled by afghan security forces. and the pink, by the way, is contested. the point is the taliban have control over half the territory. do you think kabul will hold >> i think kabul will hold the question is can it hold long enough to create a political solution between the sides what you've seen is the encroachment of the taliban most

of that without military action, most of it is persuading and pay tg off the local leadership and they have been preparing for that for many months they saw free road ahead indo high. >> you keep pointing back to this you think the initial agreement that tt trump administration made with the taliban was a mistake? >> i think it was because i think it set a fixed date rather than imposing conditions that would have then let us depart.

most part we wouldn't bother you until we get out and that was to protect the evacuation of u.s. forces but it ended any sort of conditionality and it set a date. and the most important thing was that people can grasp that, they can see may 1st the americans didn't leave, they promised to leave, the taliban was right, et cetera, et cetera. so i think it was -- it did not help at all. >> all right we are not going to be in afghanistan or in iraq what's the future of get mo? are we go to shut it down as a prison facility? >> i don't think we are. i think we are in a situation, again, this is both legal and policy and political, there is still reluctance particularly on my colleagues on the other side to bring these prisoners on tob

convicted most of the terrorists that we captured and then the legal situation has been so confused over the last 20 years in terms of what's the proper procedure that's another complicating factor one of the concerns we have and we are trying to address it in the next national event still is that at least the health care of these individuals will be appropriately monitored. now they are getting into their 60s and 70s and we have a humanitarian and legal obligation to have adequate health care. >> and the debate the legal translators whether they are legal standing in u.s. territory. are we debating to give these afghan translators due process rights i mean, why shouldn't she get refugee status on an american

territory like guam? >> i completely agree with you we have been trying, the prop ra appropriations process, but we have about 18,000 visas that are still being processed. sam, the gentleman that you interviewed, is one of those we probably need 20,000 more so that we can legally get them out and others have been leading that effort. we hope we can get that done quickly. but i know the military is planning contingency operations to get them to a safe place where we can process them effectively. we have a moral obligation to help people out helping us. >> that's for sure i appreciate you coming on with the last minute invite thank you, sir. >> thanks, chuck, take care. >> you got it. when we come back whitewashing history, the many republicans

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congress, you were there i want to ask you about the headline in the economist basically calling it a crushing defeat do you agree with that >> not agree it's a crushing defeat the taliban had a saying, america has the watches, but we have the time. i'm proud of the american people for sticking by this mission for 20 years we actually needed to do it longer and we still have troops in kosovo, but unfortunately it worked the taliban has out lasted will of the united states it was not a hot war basically it was a peace keeping and we may have to go back now. ilts a crushing defeat and i'm really sad about it honestly. >> what do you think is going to end up i mean, is this look at bagram air base, do you think we are more likely to occupy bagram or somehow attack it because our enemies have taken it over >> oh, i do think it's quite likely we'll have to either, when we return to afghanistan,

because, you know, existential threats to us or allies, reoccupy bagram or may have to bomb it if there is an air mission. and it's sad the big thing is this, we set out, look i hoped it was a shorter mission, but we set out afghan government could hold itself we only have 5,000 nato troops and afghan government was doing 90% of the fighting against the taliban. no wonder they are collapsing when the u.s. says we are gone but it was really a small price to pay for frankly holding off the inevitable bad that unfortunately we are going to see. >> i want to turn january 6th. i think it's safe to say on january 7th majority of people even in congress or republicans in congress said okay this was going to be the turning point. this was going to be the moment that republicans realize trumpism is a virus inside the republican party that needs to be eradicated. here we are six months and five

days later and boy let me read you this head line in oklahoma this is a censore resolution in oklahoma. not for people that voted to impeach like you did, this is to sensor senators for failure to delay the certification of frau fraudulent elect or votes in the 2020 election. but the actual reading in this republican party and just so you think i'm not picking on one in oklahoma, burr senator langford was standing up there to object to the electoral votes in arizona when vice president pence was take edge off the senate floor senator langford is a traitor now inside trump's republican party, congressman, seriously? >> ex os, look, here's what's happened it's just like donald trump's method biggeste most

faithful people to donald trump. if you enemy i eves not li an o against donald trump, yoe z cheney it's mike pence let me say this to you a zombie today or tomorrow, based on donald trump's whims or stand up and tell your constituents the truth. that's what we have to do is tell people the truth. we all know what the truth s you guys know what the truth s the american people and your base deserve to hear it that's the moment we are in. just this kind of chaotic people scared to do anything, scared of their own shadow, absolutely desperate to get re-elected. and meanwhile the innocent people of our base that in many cases have been led to believe that the election was stolen is not hearing anything from any of the people that they trust. >> and actually there are members of this base are so believing misinformation they are getting themselves killed from the coronavirus let me ask you this, congressman, you are running for re-election. you are running sort of unabash

he ha edly on this if you lose your primary, what does that say, does that mean misinformation is winning? does it mean our democracy is as fragile as it appears? >> yeah, i mean, look, i think that's a choice. no matter how a primary comes out, i know i will put it all on the table and have done the right thing. and that's a choice for the republican party to make because it's not going to be people like me or some oklahoma state committee men, it's going to be the people that vote in these primaries. and if our party decides that covid vaccine hesitancy or covid denialism or january 6th was blm or antifa but we don't want to investigate it, none of that makes sense, if we want to be that as a party, that's the party they want to make. and the american people will find something to replace you because this is unsustainable.

but i'm going to fight for the soul of this party right now it's like being on a plane that's been highjacked screaming towards the ground and may seem like a fun ride but it isn't. >> they have a decision to make on what members to a point i'm doubtful he's going to pick you as one of those five but maybe it's possible. do you think he's going to a point folks whose job it is to a point this committee where is he going to fall on this >> i think he's going to find people not controversial, besides like maybe jim juordan that they'll act to be smart scholars and all this, but their job is going to be to scuttle this if i was kevin mccarthy i would be very fearful.

if i was a deck mo crat, i wanto make sure i know all the answers. >> do you think a complete accounting can be found without subpoenaing former president trump? >> i do. because i think everybody around him knows what happened. i think if you subpoena trump, it should be only if you need tochlt because i think the bottom line is that can create a spectacle. but i also think look ininformae future ere's this narrative thatt wasn't an armed insurrection it was there's guns, there's arms all that stuff will come out if i'm a republican member of congress, i would be careful of the sides i'm taking because in the very near future people will

know the truth i want to be on the side of truth. >> what do you think of toyota bowing to the pressure campaign to not give money to those who voted to not certify the election what do you make of this style of politics? is this something that is needed or do you think this is more polarizing >> i personally don't like a lot of the -- i don't want to call it cancel culture, because that's been hijacked, too. the kind of forcing people to make decisions based on that look, i also can understand why a company would not want to help somebody -- and why a pac made up of employees of that company, would not want to help somebody that didn't vote to carry out their constitutional duty. i can fully understand that. i'm not critical of the decision to stop giving to those members. >> congressman dnz, readam kinz thanks for coming on.

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runoff gagt rin garcia after ranked-choice voting there's sort of a pattern here is the democratic party's electorate more moderate than some of its members these days >> well, you know, i always hesitate to draw national conclusions out of a local race, and that's what that was eric adams won by one percentage point against some new bies to democratic politics. the one thing that is true is crime is rising all over the country and people are worried about it eric adams has a unique resume to deal with it, more credibility on this issue than anybody. number one, he was brutalized by police when he was 15. number two, he joined the police force and made a name for himself for reforming the police

force. he has credibility to go out there and say we need public safety, we need to protect people, but we also need accountability in the police force. we need reform that's a pretty authentic message that very few other people can say now, the takeaway is that democrats -- large majorities of the american people believe we need safety and accountability we need strong police forces to keep us safe, but we need police forces to protect all americans, including people of color. now, we need to find a better way to talk about it defunding the police is not a winning message. accountability and safety is a winning message. >> here is what eric adams says. he i think disagrees that what happened in new york stays in new york here is what eric adams saide a the future of th

i if the democratic party fails to recognize what we did here in new york, they're going to have a problem in the midterm elections, and they're going to have a problem in the presidential elections >> a member of leadership in the house democratic party is hakeem jeffries who, by the way, endorsed maya wiley, it's interesting to me. how many congressional democrats agree with eric adams? >> i think there are quite a few, to be perfectly honest. i think there's this growing sentiment, especially around these cultural issues that i hear privately from moderate democrats who are hoping to hold on to their seats is just that sometimes it's a little bit too much they don't necessarily disagree with progressive messaging around helping working people, that billionaires are too wealthy, wealth inequality is a problem, all these problems. the culture wars the way it unfolded is risky and gives it's interes

here, mark, there's clearly a moderate coalition that wants to vote for democrats, but a little uncomfortable with the wokeness. if you just follow social media and cable news shows, you would think kyrsten sinema is really unpopular. she's the most popular politician in arizona. she's someone who thinks the left is standing in the way of a bunch of progress. what should the national democratic party take away from this >> obviously every race is different. if you pay attention to social media, eric adams wasn't very popular in new york. new york is a very liberal city. again, the coalition that eric adams won with is not unlike in new york what kyrsten sinema would win with in arizona, what joe biden won with in the national democratic party beginning in south carolina. i do think, obviously, some

synthesis of national issues, but certainly very local, and the same mixes do apply here. >> miami-dade county eric adams could win in miami-dade county, couldn't he >> he could. as a republican, i looked at it from different perspectives, that race. i think there's a new way for voters that want new faces eric only got less than one-third of the vote, and he's been around for a long time. more than two-thirds of the people wanted to see new faces three, the other thing that i thought is the candidates still matter he was the best networker of the group. in new york, you've got to network with interest groups in order to win

he did it better than anybody else having said that, i think the democrats and republicans have the same problem that is, both parties have gotten more to the extremes, and there's a whole voting and middle of about 40% of the voters who feel like, hey, that's not me. >> stephanie, this seems to be both -- on one land, democrats, if they run as biden democrats, that's a winning coalition if the republicans successfully paint the democrats as the defund-the-police emocrats, it's almost like the wokism versus trumpism, pick your poison here. does that make it a harder midterm? >> midterms are always difficult for the party who holds the white house. that being said, democrats are not going to be running on defunding the police they're going to be running on creating jobs, a strong economy, a competent government who can deploy vaccines and keep people safe, on passing a bipartisan

infrastructure bill. all of this republicans voted against, the rescue package they're trying to campaign on. they voted against that. that's what this election is going to be about. it's not going to be able defending the police or some other cultural issue that republicans will try to leverage now, as long as trump stays on the map and as long as trump is dictating who is running in these local races, that's nationalizing this election in a way that democrats could never nationalize the election, and we welcome that. >> by the way, we'll have a deep dive on this in a couple minutes, on what donald trump is doing in snatching victory from the jaws of defeat she brought up congress, rescue package, infrastructure. i don't want to get bogged down into the weeds here, but this looks like a train wreck that is coming. >> no pun intended >> this doesn't look like it's going to go swimmingly this bipartisan deal, how fragile is it? >> it is still fragile, chuck.

i spent the weekend talking with half a dozen senators and a bunch of aides to figure out where they are they're actually in the process of writing things right now. that means it's at a fragile point. suddenly people, interest groups are finding out, hey, is my priority is this, is it not? af be on the same page. does that help >> i think we have to see. the chamber of commerce is in a different spot than in the past. the bottom line is republican and democratic senators are looking to see what mitch mcconnell is going to do, whether he's going to say to his caucus, to his conference, it's fine if you vote for it. mcconnell's people will dispute that they say he'll just stand back and listen, the whole conference will decide. i think that's the underlying dynamic. the one thing that can save it, chuck, if republicans decide

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welcome back as we said, we want to focus on the republican side of things. al, this is fascinating. j.d. vance, the author of

"hil "hillbillyilogy," a pretty high profile trump critic as we's wanting to be an ohio senate candidate, here is how he put it trump is the leader of this movement if i care about these people and the things i say i care about, i need to suck it up and support him. circumstance months and five days after january 6th, after lindsey graham said enough is enough, i'm off this train where has the republican party gone at what point, that now you have to suck it up and deal with this trumpism >> there's a winning at all costs commitment, i believe, to get through 2022 j.d. vance personifies it. when you watch something on tv, it hits you different ln than when you have a personal conversation i've had personal conversations with j.d. vance along with mitt romney so this is particularly shocking to me. after you talk personally to somebody about what their values are and how they feel about something, and now this is it --

>> the j.d. vance you met personally is a different person than the one we're seeing? >> without a doubt. >> the j.d. vance you could have heard talk two years ago, he went to yale law school. the second effort has been prevailing in the republican party for the last five years. what is the line what's the hurt in humoring him for a little bit longer? this is essentially cover your eyes and hope for the best in 2022 >> the big difference here, though, in making decisions now, is they've seen what happened for the four years of donald trump being in office and they saw what happened on january 6th. this has all unfolded after the riot on the capitol. in the beginning, yes, we had so many republicans saying i'm going to keep my head down, try not to rock the boat so i can continue to have some influence, we got that sort of in the beginning, maybe, let's see.

we saw how it works. the answer is it didn't. >> the beast is growing. look what happened in oklahoma. >> oklahoma! >> look what's happening in texas. the beast is growing the beast is not satisfied with just that premise. the beast wants more and i, to this point, don't know where the beast is going it's unheard of that an abbott would be challenged from the right, that a langford would be castigated by a party chairman these things i'm seeing are just unheard of. >> we spent a segment debating the progressives and pragmatists in the democratic party. there should be a debate there's not a debate on the republican side. he brought up greg abbott. yet, he's the moderate now compared to alan west. >> he's hardly a moderate. look what he's doing in texas. >> he thinks he has to do that. >> he has to, but i also don't

think he has a problem with it >> they are looking for the wedge issues which they think will drive out their base. the democratic party, we did just talk about progressives versus moderates, whether eric adams is the new face of the democratic party i don't necessarily agree with that but the democratic party is a big-tent party that's not true for republicans. al, as you said, that kbeeft is growing. that beast has taken over the republican party j.d. vance, although he is a complete phony, he is voicing -- giving voice to what every republican is thinking right now, that i do have to suck this up there's not enough republicans who have the courage to stand up >> the state party chair in alaska, mark leibovich is against the republican incumbent. the state party today is challenging the challenger donald trump has taken over these state parties. the elected leadership has

apparently no way to stop it >> look, they are absolutely playing to that base the question is are they going to lose a republican primary in that's states? probably not. >> are you sure? >> no, i'm not i'm not in oklahoma. but i also think you're right. these are very, very substantial voices in the party. what if you're lisa murkowski right now. you're up in two years you have all this friction coming from the right, from trump himself who is going to probably campaign. i don't know how you do this i think at some point this is not new york and eric adams, this is not suburban virginia where you have people voting for where you think the critical mass is. these are people who could not win elections because of it. >> there seems to be fear to call this out. mitch mcconnell, kasie hunt, when on tv and said he was, quote, perplexed by the

reluctance of some to get vaccinated apparently he hasn't turned on fox lately the amount of them passing on misinformation that's leading to the death of people. it's astonishing that this is happening. but i don't think we should be perplexed. >> no. i don't think we should be perplexed. however, i think mcconnell is speaking from a personal perspective when he said that because he suffered from polio as a child and has been, to his credit, one of the republicans out there the most saying you need to get vaccinated you're right the media ecosystem that travels through facebook -- pinterest has had a problem with anti vax. it's another example of how the republican -- the trump ecosystem is talking to itself in a way that is separating it so far away from the big tent that is kind of the rest of

america. that tent would include liz cheney, adam kinzinger, who you just spoke with. these people really don't have a home they don't have a place anymore. i think that's really where the danger lies going forward. >> al, this misinformation, this is in english and spanish in south florida now. >> yeah, it sure is. it's caught on in south florida. i imagine it's going to catch up in other places. to back up kasie, there's a direct relationship between the percentage of people voting for donald trump and the percentage of people vaccinated in those states throughout america. now we have 90-some percent of people hospitalized with covid because they didn't vaccinate. it's bad for america we need to do something about this. >> miss informers have blood on their hands. that's all we have for today thank you for watching enjoy the olympics let's go team usa.

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