evening and for this week with our thanks for being here with us. thanks for being here with us, goodnight. >> thanks for joining us this hour. happy to have you this here this friday night. as we were just reporting with that couple interviews. the news out of afghanistan is indeed dire right now. whatever illusion anyone might have had about afghan government control of that country is dissolving like it was made out of spun sugar and then left out in the rain. it is just dissolving. what we're watching is what i think can only be described as a snap taliban takeover of almost all of afghanistan, except the capital region, as yet. we don't know if that snap

takeover is permanent or semi permanent. but it is proceeding with lightning speed. and because of that, that has led multiple countries to activate contingency plans. multiple countries that had long-standing deployments along their, are now acting on an emergency basis to salvage what they can and to rescue their can. canada, great britain, germany, norway, denmark. all countries taking emergency steps right now to evacuate their citizens and personnel. to evacuate and then close or at least temporarily shut their embassies. it's not just us. it's essentially all of our allies who served alongside u.s. troops and afghanistan over the long war. the first contingent of u.s. marines returning to afghanistan to evacuate u.s. embassy personnel, that first contingent of marines is already on the ground right now. there should be something of the order of 3000 u.s. marines back in kabul before this weekend is up. jake listen machine and foot

foot tree commander. he's now congressman for massachusetts. you might remember we spoke with the congressman a couple of weeks ago about the urgent effort to evacuate afghan translators like the ones he worked with leading patrols in what is now taliban-controlled territory. we talk with him about efforts to evacuate those afghan alibi allies, now that the afghans are taking control. to talk about what is like to take to about what it's like to be best veteran of that war. we'll talk about the re-deployment of thousands of u.s. forces speed at the evacuations. including the news that president biden ordered the expediting of yet more flights to get afghan allies out of there as soon as possible. so, that discussion is ahead tonight. we also today saw the federal government deploy a different kind of expedited rescue force. this time here at home in the great state of mississippi. local officials today in

mississippi expressed gratitude for the team of federal doctors and nurses and pharmacists, and other medical personnel, that have been deployed from the federal government as disaster response personnel. basically to try to save the collapsing hospital system in the state of mississippi. system i >> our icus today are full. our patient beds are full. so, we continue to be in that situation where the bed capacity is extremely tight. we do not believe we are at a point where we've hit the peak or we are turning the corner. in fact, we think we are still on the upward climb. so, working with the department of health with the governor's office, we made a request for these federal resources. and just learned earlier this week that in fact, we would get the team. they have arrived. they are assembling. and we are eager to start tomorrow, actually having

patient care provided here in this facility. we are very thankful that we have got this federal resource team that has come in and it's going to be able to assist us in our efforts to take care of our covid patients. >> yesterday there was talk about the hospital system being on the verge of collapse in 5 to 10 days. are these enough beds? >> i think when you are seeing a field hospital in a major medical center, pretty much at a collapse type system. this is not enough beds to support the state of mississippi. if we continue to see that rise like we saw today, as doctor doff said, you can use arithmetic to say how much it is going to result in hospitalizations and deaths. we will continue to see problematic placement of patience and we will need more facilities like this, or some other pop-up that we continue to see that. continu to see that. >> we will continue to see

problematic placement of patients. will need more facilities like this. problematic placement of patients. by which he means, it's really not okay that they need to be building out a new hospital wing in the parking garage at the flagship university of mississippi medical center. they are grateful for the federal help. but the additional beds that the staffers will be able to man in order to take some of the pressure off of the hospital, but it is not enough. because this is where we are. every single icu bed in every single hospital in the entire state of mississippi is taken. and that has been true for days. and the practical result of that in the hospitals is that patients are stacked up in emergency rooms, waiting for pets to open. but being stacked up in an emergency room waiting room is not the same as being admitted to the hospital, let alone to the icu. the clinical clear director at the university of mississippi medical center, the person speaking to their, he said there is already a waiting list

from other hospitals to get people into the 20 bets they are putting in that parking garage. there is already a waiting list for that facility before it opens tomorrow. and at this is interesting. when we first reported that the federal government would be providing resources to put this field hospital in the garage, we thought it would be a 50 bed field hospital they were setting up there with that disaster team. it turns out it is about 50 beds. that they are going to use half the space down there in the garage, frankly, for something that we have been waiting to see for months. i have been expecting this turn and our response for months and we're now seeing it for the first time. they are going to use roughly half the space at this new the civility, to set up a treatment for people who have covid to come in before they are so sick they need to be hospitalized. so they can get treatment to keep them from getting worse. it's going to be an infusion

center for monoclonal antibody treatment. and that treatment really does work. if you test positive for covid and you get an infusion early before you need to be hospitalized, they carried miss your chance of having to be hospitalized by 80%. we do not have a cure, but these monoclonal antibody treatments are incredibly effective, if only people will use them. well now, they are taking steps to make that a key part of the process. watch this. i think this is important new thing about what is going on in covid with our country. this is new. this>> out front here we will operationalize a facility that will treat additionally 16 a.d., and maybe up to 100 patients a day that need monoclonal antibody therapy. we will have a public facing website with patients will be able to walk through some logic to see if they qualify. and self schedule themselves. be able to drive right up, walk-in, get the therapy. we do require a little bit of

monetary after this therapy and then they will be belief. we hope that by offering an ill treatment then you, we will decrease the number of patients that we have to see in here. by virtue of that, we will decrease the number of patients we have to transfer from here to the icu. so, there is a logical process of the medical components of this that we hope will help us have a band-aid to get through the next several weeks. as dr. doff mentioned, we are not at the peak of the yes. so we will need to think more creative about the medical paradigm of how we can prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed to the point where we just can't take care of patients anymore. >> preventing the hospitals from being overwhelmed to the point where we can't take peer care of patients anymore. well they're talking about their, that creative medical strategy in terms of handling this disaster in mississippi, this monoclonal antibody

treatment stuff is something that we've talked about a lot on the. you write might remember. basically try to raise awareness about the fact that people can get monoclonal antibody therapy in this country as treatment for covid. it is free. the government will pay for it. it is very effective. we try to raise awareness about this on the show as a treatment because not enough people have been taking advantage of it. it really can save your life. what we are seeing here in the ccp right now in that parking garage is the manifestation of what is a new concerted effort by the federal government to try to dramatically increase the administration of this drug. these antibodies to people who test positive for covid. not just to save those peoples lives, to keep them from getting gravely ill. but also, to save the hospitals. from the huge number of sick people who are now swamping, and in mississippi's case, collapsing the hospital system. massive increase in the availability and administration

of monoclonal antibody infusion's for people who test positive, who are only mildly sick. to keep them from proceeding to the part where they get into the hospital. we're seeing that now in mississippi. it makes so much logistical sense. and see the federal government priorities that, it will be interesting to see if that makes a dense. tonight will be talking with chief medical off hospital of the hospital that is two and a half hour south of that field hospital in jackson, mississippi. we're gonna talk to her tonight, she says her hospital is actually beyond its capacity to properly take care of patients in the way they want to. that discussion is coming up tonight. we've got a lot coming up tonight. but before we get to those stories. there's also a story what to give you an update on that we've been covering intensively all this week, over the last weeks even while i was away. it is the still unspooling scandal involving the u.s. department of justice at the end of the trump administration. and the ways that former president donald trump tried to use the justice department to

overturn the election results and see empower. he apparently hatched a plot with at least one senior justice department official to get the presidential election results nullified. the plan was to start in the great state of georgia, with the hope and expectation that other states where republicans control the state legislature, then followed georgia's lead. and the states would do that that trump would just succeed in making the election results practically not count. tsit was last week when we learned the details of how trump appointee jeff clark at the justice department had written a letter to the republican-led state the state legislature. his letter advise them that the justice department was investigating some serious problem in the election in georgia. the letter further advised them that the georgia legislature should convene itself into a special session to consider changing the states election results. two-cent electors for trump to the electoral college instead of electors for biden.

even though biden actually won. now, that letter was not sent because the attorney general and deputy attorney general at the time, refused geoff clark's demand that they sign. that apparently resulted in a showdown where trump try to install jeff clark as attorney general himself. which would have been among other things, that he definitely could've signed in sent that letter himself. as you know, the disturbing thing about this revelation of this plot of the last few weeks is that had that letter actually been sent, it is more than imaginable that republicans in the georgia state legislature would've said, yeah, sure, let's do it. let's at least. right it was an official request. almost a demand. from the u.s. cuffed justice department that they reconvene themselves and consider their electoral college -- consider their slate of electors that they were sending to the electoral college. and if they wanted to do it, they had the back of the u.s. justice department, claiming something went terribly wrong with the election. you think they would not have done it?

trump they thought they'd would do it. we know from notes taken by an official during this time period, trump believe the georgia legislature was quote, on our side. and would definitely do it. e. this was a fantasy. this was a real plot. so, as i said. we've been covering this play pretty intensively this weekend over the last couple weeks. couple of developments to tell you about tonight. first of all, and this is exclusive here, we can report tonight that these new revelations about the postal post election trump in georgia -- this effort spearheaded by trump justice department official geoff clark to get georgia republicans to effectively nullify the election results, we can report tonight that according to a person familiar with the investigation, these new revelations about how trump and jeff clark apparently targeted georgia in this plot, those revelations are considered, relevant and useful by the investigators in the fulton county district attorney's office, who have opened a

criminal investigation into president trump's election efforts to interfere with elections officials in georgia after the november election. again, that is an ongoing criminal investigation led by fulton county district attorney bonnie willis. there have been some recent vague reports that the criminal investigation in the office into president trump's action after the election in georgia, that investigation might have been cooling off or put on the backburner somehow. we do not believe that is the case. and again, according to a person familiar with the investigation, that new recent revelations about details of the plot against georgia's election results, those newly reported details are considered quote, relevant and useful to the case that is being assembled by that prosecutors office. so, that is one thing you need to know. sothe other thing to know is tht the former u.s. attorney in georgia, the top federal prosecutor in georgia, byung pak who suddenly and this theory sleeves and without

explanation, right in the middle of jeff clark apparently trying to enact this plot in georgia. as we know, byung pak testify to the two missed judiciary committee in the senate as part of their investigation into this scene series of events. the atlanta journal-constitution then reports that after his senate testimony this week, byung pak is also expected to testify to the january 6th select committee that is investigating the post election coup attempt. and the agency also reports that he's expected to speak with investigators from the u.s. justice department. i should tell, you pak and his testimony on this matter we're also invoked this week by georgia democrats who right now are trying to sound the alarm about republican efforts it georgia to use these false fraud claims trump has been making about the georgia election, even now, to justify a partisan republican takeover of the administration of

elections in georgia's largest county, fulton county. which of course, is a diverse, dynamic and very democratic stronghold in that state. >> former u.s. attorney republican byung pak provided hours of testimony to the u.s. senate judiciary committee. in his testimony, he reaffirmed that investigations into fulton county by state officials and the fbi did not yield any evidence of voter fraud. it is simply not exist. republicans are acting in bad faith because they did not like the results of the election. >> that's georgia democratic state representative being when, who this week stood with her democratic colleagues from the state house and the state senate, and fulfilled county. to try to sound the alarm about georgia republicans news using the new powers they gave themselves and their anti voting laws they passed after the november elections.

using those new powers to try to mount a partisan republican takeover of the administration of elections in georgia's largest democratic committee. >> when republican lawmakers passed bill 2:02 earlier this year, we knew that a state takeover provision was the most dangerous provision in this bill. and we knew that provision was specifically aimed at fulton county, the most populous county in one of the most diverse counties in georgia. this is a power partisan power grab. >> there was no fraud and there was no malfeasance in's election administration. this is just a political sham to demonstrate fealty to trump. and his big lie about the election because they cannot accept the results. we will do everything we can to fight this partisan and unnecessary takeover attempt of the fulton county election board. >> i am here today to

specifically address the attempt to take over the local county elections board of fulton county. i want to start specifically by talking about what we need to know about the takeover of provisions. this isn't just about triggering some kind of investigation. the state elections board now under espy 2:02 can on its own motion, alone. take over the local election board in fulton county. >> why is this all about? it's about suing the seed of doubt for 2022 and 2024. if they can continue with this big lie, that is what this is all about. but it is not going to succeed. we have these ladies and gentlemen here who represent us, i do a great job of representing fulton county. if we stand united, we will prevail. they may have won a victory, but we will win the war. y,>> today, was the day that

promoters of the conspiracy theories that something was wrong in the election and actually president trump won, not joe biden, today with the day they said donald trump would be reinstated as president. if you heard people tongue and cheek wishing each other happy reinstatement day today, that was what that was about. i have checked but i think someone would have let me know if trump being reinstated as president has happened since we got on the air. since no one has come and talk to me on the shoulder, i think we are seeing from that prospect. trump was not reinstated as president today, even though they promised he would be. a promotion of these false conspiracy theories about trump's supposedly having been the victim of great fraud in the election so far has resulted in sanctions and potential disbarment for lawyers who helped trump promote that. the new revelations about how trump enlisted senior government officials to try to actually enact a plot to nullify the election results

started in the state of georgia. we are now reporting tonight that is playing a role in an ongoing criminal investigation into the actions of the former president. that even as these ridiculous conspiracy theories about the election, supposed fraud in the election are collapsing into punchlines and worse. this is right now. these are democrats in fulton county, georgia, right now. democrats elected office in the county who represent fulton county in the state house and in the state senate, they are trying to sound the alarm. they are doing their best to try to fend off republicans right now, in their efforts to seize partisan control in the election process in the biggest democratic stronghold in the state of georgia. on the basis of these fake fraud claims that are otherwise completely falling apart. tonight, as we went to here, we got word that the second ranking officials and the elections administrations office in fulton county has

just resign, after more than 12 years on the job. after lots of harassment and attacks. by people who have been promoting these election fraud lies about georgia. and in the midst of this attempted republican partisan takeover of the elections administration office in fulton county, where he's worked for more than a decade. joining us now is robert pitts who is chairman of the fulton county board of commissioners. mister chairman, thank you so much for joining us tonight. it's a pleasure to have you with us tonight. >> good evening, rachel. thank you so much for having me. let me start by saying this. i'm just flabbergasted that after nine months after our 2020 elections, i'm still here the elections that took place in 2020 in fulton county, georgia, as a result of the big lie. so when does it end? so one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you tonight is that while i have seen it alongside your colleagues, see you

leading this effort trying to protect this balanced administration of fulton county elections, as republicans attempts take over, i know you are among the officials in fulton county who has paid the price of the attacks. from people who have been promoting these election fraud lies. and i understand from watching local news reports that you have had to had police protection recently. really explicitly, simply for being a local official in fulton county. that is correct. >> being on the chair of the fulton county government, and one who is taking the lead on defending our election process, against these ceaseless and nonsense kotex, when they targeted me, the threats have been serious. they come in the form of emails or voice mails, and they are very, very troubling. for example, one that was

particularly interesting to our chief of police, where they asked me, well, to choose how i wanted to die. whether it would be electrocution, hanging or firing squad. and they said, did you ever see the movie training day, with denzel washington? one scene of it, because we will be coming after you this way. when that happens, we simply passed those on to our chief of police and he goes up the line to homeland security, the fbi and so forth. so we have had as a result of these threats, security for me in my family. it's unthinkable in this day and age, in a country like ours and a county like fulton county that we would have to go to these extremes to protect someone who is simply doing his job. but i'm not concerned about it. but what i am concerned about is that when they make these threats against many people who volunteered and work as volunteers, in our elections process, they receive threats

as well. that's where, from my perspective, it crosses a line. and all of this is because of the big lie. it's alive and well, it's not going away, it's going to continue. i say it as often as i can. the 2020 election is over with. the votes have been counted three times. not once, not twice, but three times. one by hand. and the election has been certified. so if that's the case, what is all of this nonsense about? it is my opinion, and i think proof is coming more clear each day, it's about sowing doubt before the upcoming 2022 and 2024 elections. if they can continue to sow doubt and have people believe that, well, my vote won't count, they will continue. and our secretary of state, he can't have it both ways. at one point, after 2020, he praised fulton county for a job well done.

and he fell out of favor with then president trump, who sort of ostracized him. so he and some others, they're doing everything they can to curry favor with trump and his circle. and the way they do that is to bashful tim county, the largest county in the state of georgia, the most democratic county. and therefore, he picks on fulton county. i am not going to stand for it. i'm going to fight for fulton, and the good news is that our democratic members, of our delegation, they are standing side by side, shoulder to shoulder with me. and we are going to fight all the way and we are going to prevail in the end. >> rob pitts is the chairman of the fulton county board of commissioners, essentially the face of felt and county government. standing up against this republican effort to assert a partisan republican control of the administration of elections there. i know this is an ongoing fight, and this is early days yet, keep us appraised as to how this fight goes overtime.

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everyone. this is not necessary. again, you know, almost all the cases are unvaccinated and most of the deaths and on hospitalizations. we were off to a fabulous start with our vaccinations. we were doing 100,000 a day. we've gotten over 1 million mississippians vaccinated. but too many people are getting information from the wrong sources. i'm still baffled why anyone would think that some random source on facebook is better than the entire army of

physicians health care system, doctors, nurses, researchers, who all want to end this dang pandemic. these facebook conspiratorial theorists are going to spread and run and have no accountability for the people who are dying. and we're here to pick up the mess. >> that is the state health officer of the state of mississippi speaking with evident exasperations. what was effectively the grand opening of the covid ward at mississippi's largest hospital, which had to open a parking garage. that new hospital has 20 beds and is staffed by federal health workers. it's got 20 beds and waiting list already for them. mississippi broke its record this week for the most new covid infections in a single day, since the start of the pandemic. close to 7000 new cases in the day. look at that. that's more than double the previous record from back in

january. this is a for real crisis situation. with hospitals running out of beds, and even when they have beds they don't have staff. as we reported earlier this week, the republican governor of mississippi, tate reeves, requested that the federal government sent a military hospital ship. fema denied that specific request in part because it could be problematic to send a floating hospital during the start of hurricane season. but the state health officer says that mississippi has also asked the federal government to send hundreds of personnel, dozens of doctors. hundreds of respiratory therapists, hhs also tells us tonight that already they have started deployments. about 70 federal public health staff are being deployed to mississippi. they are either on already or on route to help out that medical center in jackson. and also at a facility up in the northern part of the state. next door, in louisiana, that

states government has also turn to the federal government for help. nment fo help one of the major medical centers in the state of louisiana. that team as doctors nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, even pharmacists. trying to give that louisiana hospital some relief. trying to keep them from falling apart at the scenes. the ap reporting today that hospitals in louisiana are under such intense strain right now because of the ballooning number of very sick people with covid. that some louisiana hospitals have started doing the unthinkable, turning away patients even with heart attacks or stroke. they are patients who need very very timely care, as you know, but there are simply not enough resources to care for everyone at once. this is the doomsday scenario in terms of the u.s. health care system failing, while we are still on a unprecedented

new upswing. joining us now is dr. catherine o'neal, chief medical officer of our lady of the lake medical center in baton rouge. the same hospital getting help from that federal team. doctor catherine o'neal. >> thank you for having us. >> you did an interview with a no local news station that i saw that just made my heart just sink into my stomach. you said that you're starting to feel like you and your hospital are not able to provide either the white standards of care already, because your stretched so thin from the number of covid patients are handling. i just wanted to ask if that's true? if you could explain to our audience what you mean by that? >> sure. so, today, we have 189 people with covid-19 in our hospital. our hospital usually runs 600 to 700 patients at any given time. we have 68 patients with covid-19, just in our icu. our icu usually has about 90

patients and it. so, you can see that this creep of care into our usual number of patients has caused a studio lake airport people. people who need tumors taken out. people who need to have their back plane relieved and are crippled by the pain. all of those surgeries have been put off because we don't have icu beds anymore, because so many of them have been taken by covid-19. and the rest are taken by trauma and acute heart attacks. as you mentioned, a few strokes. things that come into our emergency departments. where we start to put off the air like that, we know what happens. we saw that last. what we're also seeing no is a waiting list of people who need an icu bed. people calling and begging, please put our patient that we can't hear of in our small hospital in your regional medical center. and we say no. we see know every day to about 25 to 30 patients one and icu bed. and we don't have any room for them. and that is our job. we are the safety net from that as the largest hospital in the state. we're supposed to take these difficult patients and we haven't been able to do that in about a month. so, all of those people have

waited for care, or have driven hours and hours with their disease to hospitals in houston, hospitals in new orleans, hospitals in mississippi there are now also seeing no. because they are full as well. g no >> that kind of gridlock in the hospital system. i think those of us outside the medical field to think of things in terms of follow-through of patients. receiving people, often that the emergency room. moving people into hospital beds. in cases of severe acute pretty. getting them into intensive care and there being a flow through a few care. including between hospitals with yours being the hospital of last resort. the largest hospital in the state. if there is now gridlock in a system that counts on movement, how do you solve that? where can there be relief valves? where can the or be targeted resources to free things up again, so that people don't effectively get locked out of care? >> what we are doing right now

is we are creating that's. how do you do that? you ask people have never taken care of an icu patient, to take care of an icu patient. you continue to create beds. well that does is leave another person behind. what you really have to do is stem the tide. this is not a disease in which we can continue to take more and more covid patients and not put somebody of. the only way to truly create capacity again and undo that gridlock is to stem the tide. and the only way we're going to see that happen is through vaccination. we have a mask mandate in place. we have not seen the effects of that yet. we have been telling people to socially distance, but our restaurants are at full capacity. businesses are going back. schools are going back. we want those things to happen. so, really the only answer is vaccination. and it needs to happen today, in the south and tomorrow, through the weekend. and as fast as we can. so that we can undo that gridlock in several weeks. i think we have weeks and weeks ahead of us in which this gridlock will continue to hurt people. hi gr>> we went through such a

terrible year and a half as a country. with this virus. and louisiana went through one of the early bad waves of this. what you are describing right now look, can you just put it into context? is what you're experiencing now the worst that you have seen? >> what we're experiencing now, we've just never seen before. and we have -- this is our fourth wave. what we are seeing today is a much younger population, and we keep saying that. but whatever that really means is we have teenagers coming into the icu to tell their parents goodbye. we have teenagers face timing with their parents to tell them goodbye, because they have covid and can come to the hospital. we never saw that amount of young death before. we have people stocking up for care, which we never had to do. we made it work in previous surge is. it was hard, it was taxing, but we made it happen. and now, we can't make it happen anymore. we can't just make a bed. we can't make another nurse. it's impossible to do.

and we've tried. we tried for the last month. we sounded this alarm a month ago. and at this point, we do our best every day. but we know that people don't get the care they need. we know people are dying. and that we're going to take care of the person in front of us, because that's what health care workers do. and we're going to depend on everybody else to do their part to stem the tide. we can't do it for them. >> dr. catherine o'neal chief medical officer at our lady of the lake medical center, thank you so much for being. here god bless you and your colleagues. come back. join us again. >> thank you so much. take care. >> all right, more ahead. stay with us. stay with us ♪ ♪ ♪ rock the boat don't rock the boat, baby ♪ ♪ rock the boat don't tip the boat over ♪ here we go. ♪ don't rock the boat, baby rock the boat ♪

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post 9/11 era in our countries that we've had these incredibly long wars, in which a very small proportion of the u.s. population has actually fought. that means that the people who have fought in our post 9/11 wars have often served multiple tours, redeployment after redeployment.

i say that because if you know anyone who served in afghanistan, this may be a time to reach out and be in touch. it is a super difficult thing to see what is happening in afghanistan for everyone. but for americans who shed blood trying to prevent something like this from happening, this is something different and darker and perhaps more potent than what the rest of us can know. so it's a good time to look out for the veterans in your life. the lightning quick taliban takeover of almost all afghanistan, except the capital region, has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee wherever they lived, to flood into cavill. we are seeing people sleep in parks and mosques. the wall street journal reporting that, having taken most of the country already, the taliban is now preparing for a march on kabul itself. today u.s. troops deploying back there to help with the evacuation effort, they started arriving in kabul. the washington post reports that embassy personnel had

started destroying classified documents and equipment. they call for the destruction of anything involving embassy or agency logos they are shutting down evacuating, and trying to make sure what is left doesn't fall into the wrong hands. this is the doomsday scenario that we are not shoring if anyone planned well enough. to help us understand what this means in practical terms, and what this means for afghan alice allies and people who served their. we're joined by jake auchincloss, now a congressman from massachusetts. thank you for joining us, i know it's a difficult day. >> good to be back with you rachel, thanks for having me. >> what is your reaction to seeing the news? we spoke a few weeks ago after the u.s. withdrawal was well and truly underway. obviously, this isn't something that wasn't predicted. but perhaps the speed of it is a bit of a surprise.

>> when i was a platoon commander in helmand in 2012, the taliban had a maximum. they would say, you have the watches, but we have the time. we could win battles for the next century in afghanistan against the taliban, and still lose the war. because counter insurgency does not admitting a military solution, it requires political leadership, and only the afghans can do that. with the americans must do right now is defend personnel from the united states who are in afghanistan. we must evacuate our allied interpreters and other contractors who served alongside us. and we must maintain over the horizon counter-terrorism operations and attacks on the homeland. those are three missions. >> in terms of the evacuation, when you were here before, you we talked about the effort to protect these afghan allies, who served as interpreters and support personnel for u.s.

troops there and for u.s. agencies, media organizations. we have seen efforts by president biden to order an escalation, essentially, in the pace of those evacuation efforts. but i think the wide consensus is that those efforts are still not enough. there is still too slow, even with him being speeded up this week. do you share that view? >> i share the concern that we need to have a sense of urgency around evacuating the tens of thousands of allies who served alongside us as truck drivers, interpreters, medical personnel in afghanistan. this president, though, has delivered on his promises to date. he has said that he was going to get 100 million shots in arms, i thought he was going to get a bipartisan infrastructure deal, he's delivering on that. i have confidence in this president to keep america's word and to evacuate really the majority of people who served alongside of us. >> in terms of the logistical

efforts right now, we are seeing thousands of marines, thousands of troops heading back in, to facilitate evacuation efforts. do you anticipate that those -- that that redeployment of thousands of u.s. troops, might not be a short term thing? that those troops maybe they are essentially as a re-deployed, stabilization force to facilitate the evacuation efforts that you were talking about, that can't be done instantly? and to protect the u.s. embassy, which will be a matter of -- a matter of a magnitude different in terms of its practical necessities, if the embassy in kabul that is now under taliban control. >> the security and stability of kabul is clearly a concern right now. and i expect that it will be raised in the security briefing that congress people will be getting soon. embassy security is core to the

marine corps mission, i have the utmost confidence that the marines are going to be able to do that mission for as long as the president directs them to. the larger concern here is can we maintain stability in couple long enough to maintain and broker a power sharing agreement, that provides the leverage necessary for there to be a diplomatic footprint in the country so that we can sustain some of the hard won gains we made in economic development, protecting the rights of women and girls, and civil society and the rule of law. the power sharing agreement really rests on the security of cable, and that's why the capital region is of critical importance right now. >> massachusetts congressman jake auchincloss, who served in afghanistan as a marine. thank you for joining us tonight. i know it's a tough time. >> thank you, rachel. >> we'll be right back. >> we'll be right back knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ]

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