we should be doing and to stick with afghanistan for a minute. in the book, you wrote quite a bit about an nco that you work with afghan sumar, who was killed. yeah, seemed like a hard charger. he got it. you know, he looked out for his soldiers in a way that not every afghan and seal officer did. how? how how much of the fall? the afghan army. i guess i'm trying to ask here. so obviously they fought, right? taliban ended up winning. how difficult was it to try to train the afghan forces in order to be not the american military? that's not going to happen. but to be a competent military that could stand on its own and how much did it hurt to lose guys like that who wanted that right? they wanted a better life. yeah, they wanted to fight and they're willing to do it and understand how it understood how to do it. so sumar was an afghan sergeant major. he was a great leader, always putting his men first. i talk about him in the servant leadership chapter and and really, it wasn't about him. it was always about his men. he exemplified his servant lea

do you think they, they, to me and have a role to play in afghanistan in terms of expertise in terms of, i don't know, maybe ideological or religious a negotiation or liaison in whatever most definitely because low. so here be a is enjoy those. but i'm not on in bucks on, but i'll buy some as well and it's the place. so for a whole the whole it shines office long, no doubt. and then it is a very happy she'll be there to. so there is creating that media actually between douglas and russia. oh, well we hope that of some, for some of the positive will come out of transfers and we should be to the benefit of the entire work. and we had also offered the assistance in negotiating between immediate and rather between the americans in the iranians. and i know that you are very concerned about what may happen with iran and it's nuclear poster during the next 4 years of trump. what's more, is you the most about it? well, again, as you said, i think a pushing it on to the corner were the, the davis it on maybe down after the seed in a you can see up as or where do it on a search. and even thoug

and lay you went through that journey will help. >> we could not figure out what looked like in afghanistan and i would ask them, the highest generals we had what does victory look like? they couldn't answer that basic question so here's president trump, he made solid points, of course we will see it on other networks because they think it's all for putin. president trump said my allegiance is to the united states of america and i want peace and right now, i'm trying to help you but you're not willing to help yourself and he made good points that under president obama, they gave him sheets, literally blankets and sheets and the card weapons, javelins were given to them by president trump, otherwise they otherwise would have open overrun so they need to come to the conclusion but to have safety and security net of the united states and forcing that is important. >> i would imagine the. it didn't take long for the left to attack trump and now they are pulling a page out of the old playbook calling trump a russian assets. eric swalwell, saying zelenskyy went into the oval office and stood up t

and what's life in afghanistan really like nowadays under the taliban?e have an eyewitness account which may surprise you. they have installed, like, more than 90,000 security cameras in kabul. so, they are watching everyone. donald trump promised to get the ukraine war sorted on the first day of his presidency. it may not have been quite as soon as that, but it does look as though it could happen within the first few weeks. the pace has been remarkably fast. some of the basic principles of 80 years of american and western policy. making ukraine pay for us financial and military help by handing over some of its key mineral resources is something which seems new in western experience, though, in fact, it isn't. newsreel: 50 million | mouths had to be fed... britain paid very heavily indeed for the support it received from the us in the second world war, but at least britain won its war. when i spoke to the bbc�*s russia editor, steve rosenberg, he was clear that the winner of the three—year war there was vladimir putin. john, i don't know if there's an eq

told me before the interview that you're interested in afghanistan became very concrete. one is the soviet war or soviet invasion, whatever you term it. even though in the end of the union, they thought of it as brother really help whatever, as somebody, the enrollment didn't have dentist done began. and at that time uh, saudi arabia was a very important adversarial partner to the soviet union. but this time around the saudis play the very active role in bringing the russians and americans together. do you think they, they to may have a role to play in afghanistan in terms of expertise in terms of, i don't know, maybe i deal logical or religious uh, negotiation or liaison in whatever most definitely because uh, so here i be a is enjoy those. but uh, not on the influx, son, but as son as well as the the place. so for the holy shrines of the sloane, no doubt, and then it is very appreciable that so there is playing that mutual between the us and russia. oh, well, we hope that's of some for some of the positive we've come out of transfers and we should be to the benefit of t

do you think they, they to may have a role to play in afghanistan in terms of expertise in terms of, i don't know, maybe idea logical or religious uh, negotiation or liaison in whatever most definitely because uh, so here i be a is enjoy those. but uh, not on the influx, son, but i will, i, son as well as the place. so for a whole, the whole it shines off as well, no doubt. and then it is very appreciable that so there is playing media travel between the us and russia. oh, well, we hope that of some, for some of the positive we've come out of transfers and we should be to the benefit of the entire board and react also offer the assistance in negotiating between immediate and rather between the americans in the iranians. and i know that you're very concerned about what may happen with iran and it's nuclear poster during the next 4 years of trump. what's more as you the most about it? what again, as you said, i think a pushing it on to the corner were uh the de jesus it on maybe down off or do you see didn't you pass it up as or where did it on as such, an even though trout you'd on is

and the war in afghanistan was a loss that took 20 years to realize was a loss. so the anti-interventionist was, say, this is what you're up to when you say america is number one and america has to defend the rest of the world. now, i mean, i could on with other things on argue arguments on both sides but the economic question is a bigger deal although neither side is saying we can't afford to do this stuff, but americans are increasing going to have to make a choice between. do we spend billions on foreign and maybe fighting other people's wars or do we fund social security or medicare? these weren't issues in 1945. social security was in its infancy. medicare didn't exist. but americans have come to expect more of our government domestically. and so it's taking that might have been used for foreign policy away. and americans are going to be making that decision and perhaps some of that influence the vote on tuesday how are we doing on time? yes. one more question. okay. i guess the single biggest institution. in goldman sachs for you boil water over here. what

the f as be added this amount intended to flee to afghanistan, and joined the ranks of an international terrorist group off to committing the crimes. the suspect will show that the off the he posts a fight wall office has tried to detain him, investigates, and say they found firearms on the improvised explosive components of his team. a full price is currently under way. it was more details on this story and everything else do head over to a website all to dot com. i mean you away next option. what time? see what the latest episode of getting on the ground. and with that was more news at the top of the i see it on the the i'm action routes and seeing welcome to going under the broadcasting all around the world. from the heart of the me least this week, a defeated european union scrambled it to lead us together for an extraordinary summit to double down on the proxy war and rush through grain fresh from forwarding trips to washington. france has been a good macro and the u. k, stop, i want to violate the russian red lines and send soldiers to die against russia after any trump row could

sent troops to afghanistan to root out al qaeda operatives responsible for nine over 11.nd so, with the war on terror officially underway, president bush adopted a policy to combat any potential threats from around the world. the bush doctrine of preemptive strikes hit them before they hit us. >> george w. bush had become convinced that the way to keep america safe from future terrorist attacks was to spread freedom, and the way to spread freedom in the middle east was to confront threats before they emerged. >> if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. >> i personally supported us going into afghanistan, routing the taliban. there's no question that was the root of what had happened with 9/11. but there was still smoke coming off the world trade towers when at camp david, rumsfeld is unfolding maps of iraq saying, now, here we have some real targets. >> amid upheaval and sweeping changes. >> the president of the united states. >> trump, heads to capitol hill to share what's next. follow cnn for complete coverage and in-depth analysis of t

because i had trained as a human rights lawyer people said the balkans, afghanistan. i spent a lot of time covering war crimes and i am angry every time i read about russian bombardments of ukraine. i wake up angry every bloody morning and go to bed angry about this. this is not ok. and i think i can tell you that many of my fellow europeans and people in my field feel the same way, a visceral, profound anger at russia. there is no going back for my generation to a comfy relationship with russia that goes over the head of a country that is attacked every day. i want to make that clear. i want to say, anastasiia, if we are fair, some of those air defenses protecting kyiv right now are danish and german and -- anastasiia: and norwegian. constanze: if you look at the numbers, we've a president of the united states currently telling us we do not do anything for ukraine financially. i think we all know if you look at the numbers those tell another story. benjamin: and sweden just made a major commitment. anastasiia: the other thing operating here -- constanze: the other th

final thought they came with us to afghanistan after we were attacked on 911, fought and died with us. you and i were both there in afghanistan and saw it to walk away from all that makes no sense reduces our security. isolationism will not succeed for the united states. >> well, we may be headed for a grand experiment in that space. admiral james stavridis, really do appreciate your time and your analysis. >> thanks, jim. >> coming up next, more breaking news, a critical new detail in the investigation into the deaths of the actor gene hackman and his wife. and later, the vatican says the pope is not out of danger after suddenly requiring a breathing machine. we're going to have the very latest on his condition. >> ocd is more than what you see on tv and in the movies. it comes with unrelenting, intrusive images, thoughts and urges. if you have ocd and need help, you can get better with specialized treatment. go to. com to learn more. >> what's this? >> my new pony. and i love him. >> yeah. >> no no no. thank you. >> i ran the numbers on quicken. it's totally in my budget. bad. mr. s

that horrible withdrawal from afghanistan. i think when russia saw what happened in afghanistan they said, it's a paper tiger. by the way, pete hegseth is doing a great job. we didn't have wars, we didn't have inflation. we had a strong border. we had everything going good and then biden got in. i think jimmy carter was a very happy man when he passed away two weeks ago. there will be a cabinet meeting and unlike right and i will preside over my own cabinet meeting. >> how do you compare your cabinet in your second term to the cabinet you had in your first term? >> i had some great people in my first term this is better because it's deeper. i had some people i didn't really like in my cabinet. i didn't know washington. i was a new york person. i had to rely on people. i had great people. we did so much. even right to try. somebody said they were saved by right to try. we did right to trite medically. we did transparency medically. that was a big thing but biden canceled that one. he didn't cancel right to try. he didn't cancel

you and i were both there in afghanistan and saw it.walk away from all that makes no sense reduces our security. isolationism will not succeed for the united states. >> well, we may be headed for a grand experiment in that space. admiral james stavridis, really do appreciate your time and your analysis. >> thanks, jim. >> coming up next, more breaking news, a critical new detail in the investigation into the deaths of the actor gene hackman and his wife. and later, the vatican says the pope is not out of danger after suddenly requiring a breathing machine. we'll have the very latest on his condition. >> liberty. >> liberty mutual is all she talks about. she talks about. since we saved hundreds by bundling our home and auto insurance. >> it's pronounced. >> liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. nice try kid. only pay for what you need. >> liberty, liberty, liberty. >> liberty with hotels and vacation rentals. booking.com has something for everyone. she sells. you got anything more boutique? oui oui, oui. right this way. >> now we're talkin

you and i were both there in afghanistan and saw it. to walk away from all that makes no sense reduces our security. isolationism will not succeed for the united states. >> well, we may be headed for a grand experiment in that space. admiral james stavridis, really do appreciate your time and your analysis. >> thanks, jim. >> coming up next, more breaking news, a critical new detail in the investigation into the deaths of the actor gene hackman and his wife. and later, the vatican says the pope is not out of danger after suddenly requiring a breathing machine. we'll have the very latest on his condition. >> cookbooks. >> corporate fat cats, swindling socialites, doped up cyclists and yes, more crooked politicians. i have a feeling we won't be running out of those anytime soon. >> a new season of united states of scandal with jake tapper, march 9th on cnn. >> it's time. >> yes. >> the time has come for a fresh approach to dog food. every day, more dog people are deciding it's time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs fresh food from th

we also have two of our four children here, william, my oldest was born while i was in afghanistan and his younger sister caroline. back at home in texas there were two literal -- littler ones who we decided would be a bit too squirmy for a judiciary committee hearing. also at home or my parents donna and paul. my father is undergoing surgery on friday for kidney cancer. we lift him up in prayer. thank you to those that have had an outside influence in developing me professionally over the years. my first commander and company commander isaac moore now chief justice of the texas supreme court, texas attorney general and of course senator cruz. thank you to attorney general pam bondi for answering the call to serve as our attorney general already making historic strides in restoring law and order and to increase for the justice system. i am honored to serve under her. lastly and most of all thank you to president trump for entrusting me for the legal policy. testing by transparency, integrity and devotion to the constitution that inspired millions of americans to overwhelmingly voted hi

we didn't even tell the president, the democratically elected president of afghanistan, ashraf ghani, until the deal was already signed. it feels exactly like that. and it led to his downfall, as we know. and this feels exactly the same playbook. and i just hope that enough senators, republican senators might remember what they said just a few months ago about how it's vital to stand up to dictators and support democratic countries. i hope that the american people will make sure their representatives know that they do not support this, because this will be a disaster for ukraine. and again, i want to emphasize it will be a disaster for america's place in the world more generally. the stakes really could not be higher. >> i also am sad to say this ambassador, as i say thank you for your time. that i think trump has now adopted a policy of appeasement. and we all know what happens when appeasement occurs. thank you, ambassador michael mcfaul, for taking the time. i know you've been very busy since yesterday. >> thank you for having me. >> still to come on the katie phang show, money tal

i did over 20 trips to afghanistan with him. he uncovered $4 billion in savings rooted out in afghanistan. chair greene: the gentleman's home has expired. i recognize the gentleman from texas >> how much of other people's money. the spending was given out of care and compassion. for far too long with the due diligence to ensure tax dollars. for far too long, those of us that have worked to uncover waste, fraud, and abuse, we have worked too long to obfuscate, deny, and frustrate our efforts to oversight. over the last few weeks the doge effort has begin to uncover how massive the waste, fraud, and abuse is and the extent to which d.c. politicians and obstinate bureaucrats have coordinated to create essentially the largest money-laundering scheme in history. while americans have been working to make ends meet they have been using taxpayer dollars to fund unnecessary, egregious, even evil things at home and around the world. thankfully, in does we have a president bringing the leadership needed at a focused effort along with the t

money have been diverted to buy the terrace and gaza strip human in afghanistan ngos have been hit withvy fines for violating our anti- terrorism financing laws printed in the post to scrutiny has wanted for the pen to beginning culture last year, the launches $45 million global civil society program and based on the social theories the marxist literally we been funding medical around the world that oppose capitalism and democracy nato and christianity none of this is come to china this counter america and again resounding yes the foreign aid can be a powerful tool of diplomacy to promote freedom severity and peace in accordance with our national interest in our values but not in an instrument of progressive imperialism printed and regardless of which party continue controls executive branch it officials must be intricate that every single morning program the best middle america unleased waste fraud and abuse and we always secure suppl transparency and is being funded doing and only the members of congress, and especially for the american people that the fiduciary failure of our eight o

forces in iraq and afghanistan during the post 911 war on terror, which eventually led to the tragicwas there that blackwater contractors shot and killed 17 iraqi civilians and wounded 20 others. several contractors were charged with manslaughter and four were convicted. in 2014, the company came under intense scrutiny, leading to prince stepping down as ceo in 2009, and blackwater was later sold, and it's changed names at least twice since. now largely shunned by the american public, prince left the united states for the united arab emirates, where he was hired by their government to build an 800 member battalion of foreign troops. and over the next several years, he tried to sell his vision of this kind of new mercenary warfare around the world. but when trump came onto the political scene in 2015, he saw an opening to get back into the business of the us government, becoming an unofficial adviser to trump's presidential campaign. well after trump won the election, prince began sending defense and intelligence policy proposals to his team through his longtime friend steve bannon, i

circumstance for you to see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the united states from afghanistan, probably the next day, or watching your for of a friends shop print up underway almost exactly like that day that you'll south vietnam being trained to flight, you'll north and brothers, and the next day you'll grabbing it aloud as then so now one day you'll pass it will be the next day. you'll persona non grata a quick glance at a history book, put a shows the landscape, but the all to the trail runs deep in washington. so the question was always when to know if, just as the question now is, when know if it's all finally going to come out. i asked this congress commute to investigate. where has this money gone? the american people are owed that answer because it's our money. our tax over now and well by and stop with savanski is bank accounts and the baby i believe cyprus. then i'll check out his transaction history with his thoughts and how to apply to. and then i'd have a chat with somebody going freight, you know, the smallest mind behind the reported scam the, so millions of dol

you're going to be like afghanistan. well, here we are. yeah, they followed the us europe followed the us. now they don't know quite what to do. yeah. but you know, so i'm still coming to washington in this kind of pathetic way to sign over in it, almost a meaningless document, the mineral half the mineral rights. this is just sad, desperate, confused behavior. this is not strategy, this is not national policy, this is not continuing award. this is not, not big. i was just going to say what reckless policy, whether you go back to the, by the administration or the freed assessor obama. and so on and so forth. what a reckless policy to pick a fight with the world's biggest nuclear power you called, i mean icon. you know what you said? how do we get our heads around this foreign policy that's being enacted over the past decade and as you say, even so if he is now you mentioned a moment ago about expanding influence. we all, we all know united states. so maybe we don't all know, but it's been meddling and was 70 or 80 elections in the past cen

i explained that to them, you're going to be like afghanistan. well, here we are. you know, they followed the us euro followed the us. now they don't know quite what to do. yeah, but you know, so i'm still coming to washington in this kind of pathetic way to sign over in almost a meaningless document, the middle or half the mineral rights. this is just sad, desperate, confused behavior. this is not strategy, this is not national policy, this is not continuing award. this is not nothing. the latest talks in a stumble following the discussions and react between the russian and american officials. we are witnessing, as you said, moments ago, a reproach. small indeed, do you really think there's a chance that a true piece can be arranged between bruton and trump, regardless all the noisy chihuahuas in your? well, 1st of all, a true peace can be arranged for a fundamental reason. there is no fundamental conflict between the united states and russia, so there is no fundamental reason for conflict. if the us had not asserted unit polarity after 1991, there would be no con

you're going to be like afghanistan. well, here we are, you know, they followed the u. s. europe followed the us. now they don't know quite what to do. yeah. but you know, so i'm still coming to washington in this kind of pathetic way to sign over in almost a meaningless document. the mineral half the mineral rights. this is just sad, desperate, confused behavior. this is not strategy, this is not national policy, this is not continuing award. this is not, not big. i was just going to say what reckless policy, whether you go back to the, by the administration or the freed assessor obama and so on and so forth. what a reckless policy to pick a fight with the world's biggest nuclear power you called. i mean, i con, you know what you said, how do we get our heads around this foreign policy that's being enacted over the past decade and as you say, even 30 years now, you mentioned a moment ago about expanding influence. we all, we all know united states, so maybe we don't all know, but it's been meddling in was 70 or 80 elections in the past century. it is the number one ful

the source of it 10 years ago in this very same building, that was a meeting of solidarity for afghanistan, which was then an ally of all of these countries. what happened to us kind of some a and a 10. so we're just going to stay with you because we are expecting any moments now . the u. k. prime minister keeps stomach to speak. we just, i think of some live pictures from inside a lancaster house with a meeting was held. the media has begun together so we do understand that kissed i'm is going to speak a very, very shortly james, while we, why can you just talk us through the possibility of u. k. and a, you troops actually being on the ground and you cry. and how likely is that, that we could potentially see that in the coming months. it certainly is being floated by the by the u. k. m by from so they have said they were prepared to take this role. we had the us saying, perhaps that could be european troops past the property, norm, your to pay and trips a, some sort of force, a reassurance force for ukraine, because ukraine is so large that it, it could be invaded again by russia. it does

simply mathematics to propose to mix for you told me before the interview that you're interested in. afghanistan became very concrete as the associate war or soviet invasion, whatever you term it, even though in the end it's always union. they thought of it as brother, really help, whatever, as somebody, the involvement didn't have again, his son began. and at that time, uh, saudi arabia, it was very important of your serial partner to the soviet union. but this time around the saudis played the very active role in bringing the russians and americans together. do you think they, they to may have a role to play in? i've got it done in terms of expertise in terms of, i don't know, maybe idea logical or religious uh, negotiation or liaising, whatever most definitely. because uh, so here i be a is, enjoys us for a not on in bucks on, but i was son as well as the place. so for the holy shines office long, no doubt. and then it is a very appreciable that and so there is playing that mutual between the us and russia. oh, well, we hope that some for some of the positive will come out of transfers and we

. >> even with us in afghanistan, you know, america's longest war and by the way, i just returned from budapest and hungary and the biggest issue and they're very supportive of president trump and jd vance is peace through strength. what we saw happening before the world, one of the greatest presidential moments in american history was peace through strength. we're not going to take it, i'm sorry, there's the door. take the deal or not. >> jason, you'd probably agree, vance would have been treated better if he went to a real ski town. gatlenburg, tennessee. vermont, come on? >> we have a big jam-packed weekend show for you. it's the comeback that no one wants to see and maybe no one wants. we'll see. luckily might just be a new york city problem but first, the mystery deetens around -- deepens around actor gene hackman's mystery death. stay with us. ♪ i'm thinking of updating my kitchen... ...thinking of redoing our kitchen. ...we are finally updating our kitchen. for all those people who never seem to get around to it... —...a breakfast nook. —chase has financial guidance. let's see h

which is why we still don't know the intent of the chinese spy balloon or the reason the afghanistanhdrawal was such a disaster. so why do we want all is to close the curtain again? isn't it time elected officials show us the things they were voted into accomplish? transparency is good but the process can be pad and the outcome can be ugly. still, having american citizens -- haven't american citizens been locked away in the figurative castle for long enough, haven't we had enough of these rapunzel politics? common sense would argue that its way past time that americans, americans let down your hair. let's bring in federal -- federalist correspondent breccan thies and former foreign policy advisor under margaret thatcher nile gardiner. great to have you both on. msnbc saying that meeting that should have been locked away, should have been in private, diplomacy is not a public thing, watch. >> diplomacy wasn't meant to be conducted in front of billions of eyes with tv cameras in the room. it's not meant to be seen by the world in the way that we just saw. >> usually president has the f

you think karzai in afghanistan came to the white house and lectured bush on live tv?enskyy really screwed up. even the ukrainian ambassador could not watch. zelenskyy has never done i like this in his life. >> trump has had a lifetime doing international business deals he is a two-time president. >> jesse: into the abraham before accords, renegotiated nafta, the china trade deal. it accosted just back all over the world, he has his party in lockstep and he has tycoons from all over flying to washington to announce billion-dollar investments. and what? zelenskyy is jumping up and down and picking fights? what will that do? what has gotten into the sky? >> the problem is i have empowered you to be a tough guy. and i don't think you would be a tough guy without the united states. your people are very brave but you will either make a deal or we are out. and if we are out you will fight it out to. i don't think it will be pretty. what you will find it out. but you don't have the cards. once we signed that deal you are in a much better position. but you were not acting at a

diplomats, all these globalists, the same people who failed america in negotiations and meetings, iraq, afghanistan the middle east, they love having an all play out behind closed doors. that way there is no accountability when they screw up. but it was very important for america to see zelenskyy's entrance sense today. >> i think it's good for the american people to see what is going on that's why i kept it going so long. he knows the show. sunlight is the best disinfectant. right now zelenskyy and his enablers biggest obstacles towards peace. >> we are not looking for somebody who is going to sign up a strong power and not make peace because they feel emboldened. that's what i saw happen. we are looking for peace. i'm we're not looking to go into a 10 year war and play games. we want peace. and it was just my impression that if we do that, if we sign up, he is looking for something that i'm not looking for. he is looking to go on and fight, fight, fight. we're looking to end the death. >> laura: joining me now karoline leavitt white house press secretary. caroline, you were in the room where it a