hastings lucky cuff lings. a give i understand from your wife? >> a wedding gift from my life elise jordan. >> who is on "up with chris hayes" tomorrow morning.n, the fundamental question here. i'd like to come to you, congresswoman, after michael takes a shot at it. why are we in afghanistan? ten years later, why are we in afghanistan? >> look. we are there because we are there, you know? it's amazing. i went back and looked at what some people were saying in october 2001 and famously johnny w. apple at "the new york times" said be careful we don't get stuck in a quagmire. he was laughed and mocked for that. the policy was let's not get stuck in a quagmire. but as iraq happened, the military response to this sort of disaster in iraq coming up with this counterinsurgency plan to stabilize iraq and turn their attention to afghanistan and say, okay, well, it worked in iraq, let's roll the dice here. so there is no -- it doesn't make us safer. it's extremely expensive. and a lot of people are dying. and so -- but it's sort of momentum. it's the momentum of the war. >> congresswoman, you voted for the authorization to use military force. you're a