i am 43 in this country was at war in afghanistan for 20 years. almost half of my life country was at war and afghanistan and i personally watched the men in my platoon and also my larger on that team and the third brigade, i watched my men do extraordinary things in support of the mission there and to watch afghanistan be surrendered in the way that it was extremely difficult. president trump and headset understand what america makes a decision to get involved in any conflict, we have the moral obligation to help clear cut and state to what that looks like in a clear exit strategy for the operation looks like and make sure victory is clearly defined. in iraq and afghanistan the last 20 some years, we've struggled a little bit with those minor points and president trump and secretary headset understand when america gets involved, it is our job to and that might as fast as possible because we have the moral obligation to win decisively. otherwise you have an entire generation wondering what it was all for and every day i wake up, i think about the

he left out afghanistan. he released 5000 prisoners.e reduced the soldiers from 13,000 to 2500, making it less safe. he agreed to all of these terms. he agreed to close the airports in northern afghanistan and that is why it was difficult to get the people out of the one airport that was open and my concern is the same would happen again with not including zelenskyy in the spirit he gives all these concessions to who i would consider the aggressor and does not consider the people. for anyone who says that donald trump is a great negotiator, it seems like he is if you are on the side of the tyrant or the aggressor rather than zelenskyy. i am concerned of what will happen to europe and nato and the freedom of other independent countries in europe if there are no checks put on these agreements with just donald trump and putin. maybe there is someone out there because i do not think the news ever cover the fact that donald trump negotiated only with the taliban for that withdrawal. i do not remember hearing anything about it. but of those 5

well, the included afghanistan and guantanamo. and i mean, if i'm trying set up my conversations in such a way that as an earnest young man, you went to a canada thinking that you might actually enjoy living in a society whose values you shared. i just wonder whether your exposure or to let us say the war in afghanistan, the way it was conducted, or indeed that crime against humanity known as guantanamo bay made begin to question whether indeed the liberals are views of north america. i'll implicate canada with the united states forgive me my canadian listeners did your journalism career in any way it caused you to go whoa, what just happened. yeah. i mean, i think when we talk about something like that, the first assignment in afghanistan for which was late 2007, i think i was 25 years old. i had read way too much hemingway. i had a sort of warped view of what it is a war correspondent does and i don't want to give anyone the impression that i was a correspondent. i was a guy who very covered a war. but you show up and you have t

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he agreed to closing the airports in northern afghanistan.at's why it's very difficult to get the people out of the one airport that was open. the same thing would happen to again not including zelinski he gives all these concessions who i would call the aggressor. and doesn't consider the people. for anyone who says s that dona trump is a great negotiator, it seems like he is if you're on the side of the tyrant or the aggressor rather than i'm concerned it will happen to europe what will happen to nato and what will happen to the freedom of other independent countries in europe is there are no checks put on these agreements with just donald trump and putin and maybe there is somebody out there because i don't think the news ever covered the fact that donald trump negotiated only with the caliban for that withdrawal. i don't remember hearing anything about t. >> ..

let's first talk about afghanistan. you have said it is your biggest regret, not the strategic decision to withdraw but the chaos and seeming incompetence and humiliating position which the united states was placed as a consequence of the process of that withdrawal. any thoughts on how that could have been preempted and/or avoided? not great intelligence, too quick to leave, poor planning? what happened? jake: let me start by saying something i think that's very important, which is when you end a 20-year war with all of the decisions that had piled up over those 20 years, all of the dependencies and pathologies that were policy in afghanistan for 20 years, there was not going to be a straightforward or smooth way to exit. it was owing to almost by definition be beset by challenges. it was the deep tragedy of the loss of 13 brave american servicemembers. and i'm not saying that to say there's nothing we could have done better. i will come to what i think we could have done better. but i do think it's important for people

like me, he was sent to afghanistan. and because of me, he went there on a blood mission bent on revenge. daniel looked for every opportunity to be in combat, making it his personal mission to cause as much destruction possible to the people who had nearly succeeded killing his brother. he went back to afghanistan on a second deployment. he went back on his third. each daniel was looking for a fight. his weapon of choice was the mtu forte. bravo, one of the biggest machine guns in individual can carry. and very unusual for a medic, since they're also responsible for all the medical equipment. in addition to the normal load and ammunition for their weapon. but true to his nature, he was never afraid. he overcame every challenge. protect the men around him. always ready for a fight with the people who were responsible for nearly killing me. and threatening his team. during three deployments, daniel was exposed to countless grenades, mortars, recoilless rifles and the constant concussion of the 7.6 millimeter machine gun ro

to my knowledge we did not leave behind american citizens in afghanistan. anyone who wanted to leave, we availed them of an opportunity to leave. they said we wouldn't get afghan allies out, the people who had worked with us. we've gotten tens, more than 100,000 afghan allies out to the united states, far beyond what anyone would have anticipated. and critically, on the strategic decision it is a good thing we are not entering the 20 sixth year of the war in afghanistan today. the biggest thing i think we could have done differently is in the days leading up to the final withdrawal, we very much deferred to the afghan government who did not want us to be creating panic or a sense of imminent collapse and we were deferential to that and that is a lesson that in fact we should not do that, we should have moved earlier to indicate we were going to have an evacuation and we were concerned about deteriorating conditions in afghanistan. we were trying to avoid the very thing that came to pass which was a rapid collapse so that was based on the best information we

but when it comes to the nature of afghanistan and those who have helped us, the arrangements we have made in the past of getting as many people from that conflict here, certainly those who have assisted us in work attacks, that has been a policy and dynamic that we have worked on even in the previous administration, working to try to get that happening. that is not something that i can talk about, regarding something that doesn't exist. certainly when that review is done, we will have something we can discuss. reporter: them, yes also, the secretary view about the legality of a foreign country looking american citizen who has not been charged with any crime, holding his passport and not permitting him to return home, in the case of what is happening in the dominican republic with this young man and his family and his lawyers. they say he has not been permitted to leave the dominican republic. that he has been a cooperating witness and he is not charged with any crime. does the state department have any view about the rates of that u.s. citizen -- rights of that u.s. citizen? ms. bruc

in afghanistan i wanted a different experience. official state afghanistan was contracted by the state department but there was invented to an afghan downer ÃÃhelmet providence. that's where i met my wife eleanor she was british-born we met and fell in love songs on the campaign trail. >> when and how did politics in the picture. >> in the middle east we are working on democracy. where i felt the most happy is what i been doing something bigger than myself. i'm definitely feeling it here. >> one of the takeaways from experience in the state senate out of the congress. >> in washington state we have 10 delegates about 90% have come through state legislature i think it's good to play a little aaa ball but the idea that if you want to turn an idea into a loss you have to build consensus please in our state legislature there were 49 members of the senate used to say the magic code is 25 +50+1 here the magic code is 218+60+1. >> here in washington and congress you know hold the seat vacate by maurice rogers. take the retirement intervie

george glezmann, an avid world explorer, traveled to afghanistan in december of 2022, despite the state department warnings at the time. on his first day in kabul, the taliban grabbed him off the streets. glezmann coming home along with white house house taj envoy adam boller. the first high level u.s. group to go to afghanistan since it fell to the taliban. >>> tonight, what authorities are saying about these startles images here in a moment. >>> also, for the first time, ringo starr performing at the grand ole opry. we'll take you there tonight. >>> and next here, look at this. the massive home explosion. one person in critical condition at this hour. firefighters racing to stabilize that home, to try to save the dogs inside. and what they think caused all and what they think caused all when i was seventeen as a senior in high school, i bought the original jersey mike sub shop in point pleasant. a youth football coach of mine, coach rod smith, helped make it all happen. so now we celebrate 50 years and over 3000 stores with our annual day of giving. where 100% of all sales are donated

. >> reporter: in the chaos of the american exit from afghanistan in 2021, tamim satari was separateds wife and newborn baby. a captain in the afghan army who worked with u.s. forces, satari was evacuated to new jersey. his wife and child escaped to pakistan, where she was too afraid to show her face on camera. for three years, satari lobbied the u.s. government to bring them over. >> i left behind them, and they are in a bad situation. i keeping trying and struggle to reunification my family. >> reporter: in january, the family finally reunited. >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: their baby, now a little boy. since then, scenes like these have virtually stopped, because president trump signed an executive order suspending the refugee program, and his administration froze financial support for the more than 40,000 afghans in the pipeline already approved to leave afghanistan. veteran sean vandiver coordinated with the state department to help satari's family. >> the fact is that these commitments were made to these folks, and now it's becoming some sort of political footb

other hostages from afghanistan were released on the day of trump's inauguration. in addition to terrific envoys who know how to handle this situation, it's also the impact of a strong america led by a man who is known to do what he needs to do to accomplish his mission. that is i think often an unusual situation. i hope that answers your question. reporter: why were they there? ms. bruce: i can't speculate on that. i'm not in a position to speculate about why they were. the white jacket and that will be it for today. reporter: [indiscernible] there are indications that -- is canceling the opposition parties commission. what is the u.s. governments reaction to this? there are opinion reports mentioning the operation came right after president trump --? ms. bruce: welcome aboard. i can tell you a few things. we are following the events in turkey, including the reported detention of the istanbul mayor and a large number of municipal employees, journalists and other individuals but we would refer you to the government of turkey for comments on internal judicial matter

but there are also many hostile, violent people in afghanistan.id the biden administration adequately vet afghans before granting them parole? ms. lang. ms. lang: thank you for that question. the screening and vetting of afghan evacuees at the time was subject to one of our reports -- kristen? ms. bernard: sure, yeah, i can take that. we did do an audit in 2022 to to look at the screening and vetting of the afghan withdrawals. in our population we did find that i believe it was 35 who were allowed to board a flight that hadn't been fully screened, and generally we found that cbp did not always have accurate and complete data for conducting the screening of those evacuees. in some cases they were just missing their identification, so we didn't even have biographic information to screen. since that time, the department has provided documentation that all of the evacuees have been screened, and that's something that we're still looking at now to validate. rep. ogles: so to be clear, at the time that they were granted parole, we did not have the entir

s who were approved by the state department during the fall of afghanistan, the withdrawal, should be a carveout and that these people who helped the state department, the c.i.a., the d.o.g., can come and have refugee status? >> first of all, there's no list. what people are looking at over these last several days is not a list that exists here that is being acted on. there is a review, as we know through the president's executive order, for us to look at the nature of what's going to help keep america safer in dealing with the issue of visas and who's allowed into the country. but what has been touted is something that is an item through the state department, simply isn't the case. so the premise -- i have to say i certainly can't speak to because it's not accurate. when it comes to the nature of afghanistan and those who've helped us, the arrangements we've made already in the past, getting as many people from that conflict here. certainly those who have assisted us and worked with us, that's been a policy and a dynamic that we've worked on from certainly even the previous administr

what would happen if you were forced to go back to afghanistan? like me, who have all of this information -- their family, their friends. they are going to torture them, their family, their friends. nick: he was an afghan special services who served with green berets. he says in the video their missions often at night, always dangerous, were against a common in. >> serving shoulder by shoulder for so many years against the taliban. we lost a lot of our colleagues, 150 people that i personally knew them. nick: during the biden administration, chaotic, so many -- chaotic evacuation, mohammed like so many other afghans tried but failed to evacuate. eight months later, he walked across the border into pakistan. he was not eligible for the special immigrant visa, so he applied for the refugee visa and was approved in april 2024 through a program designed for afghans left behind to do all that remained, a new american home. >> to align with american principles. nick: soon after inauguration, president trump suspended the admission program. the order rea

>> as far as a career it never entered my mind until the fall of afghanistan.i did enter my periphery when i was at west point obviously having a number of very senior military officials. river presidents come politics became a part of my military experience when he joined the special forces. we sought help politicize a lot of our operations have become part of the rules of engagement what we are allowed to do, what we are not allowed to do. the 30s we have we did not have. political decisions that's one of the reasons i decided to get out of the military. kind of put that all back aside and switched back on when it years later a wash afghanistan fall. and i knew that was a horrible event in our nation's timeline. very likely condemned the next generation of american combat. it did not have to happen that way. i'd like to do everything i could possibly do to avoid that moving forward. >> tell us more about your ideology were you always a republican? >> i've always been conservative, yes. i think part of that is common to some extent growing up in san diego gett

but there are also many hostile, violent people in afghanistan. did the biden administration adequately vet afghans before granting them parole? ms. lang. ms. lang: thank you for that question. the screening and vetting of afghan evacuees at the time was subject to one of our reports -- kristen? ms. bernard: sure, yeah, i can take that. we did do an audit in 2022 to to look at the screening and vetting of the afghan withdrawals. in our population we did find that i believe it was 35 who were allowed to board a flight that hadn't been fully screened, and generally we found that cbp did not always have accurate and complete data for conducting the screening of those evacuees. in some cases they were just missing their identification, so we didn't even have biographic information to screen. since that time, the department has provided documentation that all of the evacuees have been screened, and that's something that we're still looking at now to validate. rep. ogles: so to be clear, at the time that they were granted parole, we did not have the ent

but there are also many hostile and violent people in afghanistan. that the biden administration adequately vent afghans before granting them bro -- did the biden administration adequately vent afghans before -- vet afghans before granting them parole? ms. lang: the screening of afghans. ms. bernard: we did an audit in 2022 to look at the screening and venting of the afghan withdrawals. in our population, we did find that i believe it was 35 that were allowed to board the flight that had not been fully screened. in general, we found cbt did not always have accurate and complete data for conducting the screening of the evacuees. in some cases, they were just missing their identification. we did not even have biographic information to screen. since that time, the department has provided documentation that all of the evacuees have been screened. this is something we are still looking at now to validate. rep. ogles: to be clear, at the time they were granted parole we did not have the full picture of who these individuals were or even their identificatio

let's first talk about afghanistan.ou said is your biggest regret, not the strategic decision to withdraw the chaos and seemingly incompetence and human position which the united states was placed was a consequence of the process. any thoughts on how that could have been preempted. what happened. >> let me start by saying something i think it's very important. when you end a 20 year war with all the decisions that have piled up over the 20 years all the dependencies and pathologies that were attending to the policy y to 20 years, there was not to be a straightforward smooth to exit. it was going to almost by definition be beset by challenges it was deep tragedy of the loss of 13 great american servicemembers are not saying that to say there's nothing we could have done better and better but i think it is really for people to recognize that when we are faced with the question of continuing the war or ending the war it's going to have a certain amount of challenges associated with it and that's .1, .2 which i also think i

the taliban have freed an american who'd been held in afghanistan for more than two years. the state department says he is on his way back to his family this morning. certainly some good news there. let's bring in cnn chief national security correspondent alex marquardt. so how did this come to be? >> yeah, this is very good news. and it is years in the making. george glucksmann was in afghanistan on a personal trip, as he said, to explore the cultural landscape and rich history of afghanistan back in december of 2022, so long after the taliban had taken over, after american forces left and he was taken by the taliban. the the biden administration had been working feverishly to try to get him released. now, thankfully, he has been released after more than two years in custody. this was brokered by the qataris. the qataris have a much better relationship with the taliban than the united states. there was a breakthrough. we understand in their conversations with the taliban a couple of weeks ago, and in those weeks, the u.s. and the qataris have been working to get glaesman h

the silvia iraq afghanistan. residents of the affected countries, a screaming about the catastrophic danger posed by depleted uranium. the ukraine will soon join this moon from the list. as thousands of tons of contaminated shows have already been delivered, the depleted uranium, depleted uranium shells depleted uranium innocence samsung together with its challenge it to your tongues. it will also be sending ukraine on which piercing cells containing depleted uranium, depleted uranium, munitions to crank. following the u. k, in september 2023 us secretary of state antony blinking, announced the transfer depleted uranium shelves to ukraine. you possibly hit them up, but you have the setup between just a bunch of them each and the 2. so 2 plus now you have the menial music beach. yes . specialist. thank you. study of the for these boys on the new speaker pieces, but the will ship will do. yeah, it will give you a little me to do, will get simple start, you must and will ship them comfortable and he will slay, of co

bring afghan nationals into the united states after president biden's disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan in 2021. multiple inspector general reports from dhs released afghan nationals into the united states without adequate screening,nt without adequate vetting or monitoring leaving our country vulnerable to a national security risk. in addition to the failure to protect america's aborted bite-size heresy menstruation favor the use of federal emergency management, fema's agency resource to support sanctuary cities and ngos nongovernment organizations for sheltering and caring for illegal aliens. money that could otherwise be used elsewhere securing our southern border. fema's process of focus has been worsened by fragment approach to disaster assistance resulting in the government accountability office, gao adding federal disaster delivery to its 2025 a high risk list for waste, fraud, and w abuse. i want to reiterate that resulted in the gao adding federal a disaster delivery, fea disaster aid to 2025 high risk which we will talk more about other dhs components under the bite-size heres

and afghanistan. back here at home, san francisco's japanese american community joining city leaders to condemn the trump administration's use of the alien enemies act. they're raising concerns that the move echoes the historical and unjust treatment of japanese americans after the bombing of pearl harbor. here's nbc bay area's christie smith. in 1941, our religious leaders, our community leaders, our school teachers were branded criminals. when president roosevelt invoked the enemy alien act in san francisco, people gathered at the japanese cultural and community center of northern california with a message many in our community have often talked about. we need to ensure that history does not repeat itself. and yet, here we are. they denounced the alien enemies act of 1798, invoked by president trump to deport people who the administration argued were members of a venezuelan gang. it's a wartime power that allows non-citizens to be deported without being given an opportunity to go before a judge, the

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in afghanistan i was in a hotbed of taliban activities and of all things that is where i met my wife, elinor, she was british-born. i'm now we have five kids. >> winded politics into the picture? for you? >> when i was in the middle east. i have seen good things about american national security and some steaks -- mistake so i thought this would be a good time to use my efforts had been in the public and private sector and where i felt the most happy is when i am doing something bigger than me. i felt that when i worked with the jesuits in mozambique and in the state senate and here. >> what other takeaways from your experience in the state senate and how do they translate to a career in congress? >> in washington state we have 10 delegates at 90% of them have come through our state legislature. the idea that if you want to turn an idea into a law you have to build consensus on how to work in a team and bring people with you and in the state legislature there were 49 members of the senate and one governor so i used to say the magic code is 25 plus 50 plus one and hear the magic code is

citizen held captive in afghanistan is now on his way home. american detainee released by the taliban since january. secretary of state marco rubio called the release a positive step and said president trump will continue efforts to release all unjustly detained americans held overseas. chief foreign affairs correspondent trey yingst reports from tel aviv. >> american citizen, george glezman is coming home. the 65-year-old was held by the taliban in afghanistan since december of 2022 now, after weeks of negotiations conducted by american and qatari mediators he will be reunited with his family. >> they identified george's case as a priority on the first day of the trump administration. since then i know they have been working every single day to secure his release. >> u.s. secretary of state marco rubio thanking qatar in a statement saying its steadfast commitment and qatar reliable partner and mediator facilitating complex negotiations. sources familiar with the release say the trump administration did not have to give up anything in return f

he traveled to afghanistan in december of 2022, despite the state department washings at the time. on his first day in kabul, the taliban grabbed him off the streets. he came home, along with white house hostage adam boller. the first high level u.s. group to go to the u.s. since theal listen bay takeover. >>> coming up tonight, for the first time, beatles star ring starr performing at the grand ole opry. >>> and the images at this hour, firefighters trying to save this home, to save the dogs inside. when they think caused all of when they think caused all of this, in a moment. a youth football coach of mine, coach rod smith, helped make it all happen. so now we celebrate 50 years and over 3000 stores with our annual day of giving. where 100% of all sales are donated to local charities across the nation. so please join our celebration of giving and make a difference in people's lives. at ameriprise financial we know our clients are so much more than clients. they're conquerors and champions, and what matters most to them matters most to us. it's no wonder we have a 4.9 out of five

what sort of support briefly does the bill i received from afghanistan? i'm talking about a i think a little i did this time of, of, of, of, i'm not sure why they wouldn't actually be a hand lives across a grandson, but one who is but the fact was that the 1st contact which they met with the media outside below, just on was with the indian india to day. so the focused on this has started could be a suspecting in alleging the b and the other data networks was updating and boxed on a daily basis. and i've done is done. so might be a, by that box starts to get with you have intercepted the communications which they were in contact with the a 100 across or vanished on. so maybe they were communicating about be a successful debate. the, the operation is done successfully are made before the informations. uh for the instructions. they were waiting for like what to do with the hostages. how not to keep the hostages, and what are the proper, the minds to put to the government. okay. uh and how to yes, yeah, let me just jump and quickly um has time because, you kn

during the fall of afghanistan install should be a car valley, and that is people who help the state department c i a d o d can comment, have preferences status. i do have, well, 1st of all, there is no list. what people are looking at over these last several days is not a list that exists here that as being acted on. there is a review, as we know through the president's executive order. for us to look at the nature of what's going to help keep america safer and dealing with the issue a visa is and who is allowed into the country. but what has been touted is something that is a, an item that through the state department just simply isn't the case. so the, the premise i have to say i, i certainly can't speak to because it's, it's not accurate when it comes to the nature of afghanistan and, and those who helped us the arrangements we've made already in the past getting as many people from that conflict here certainly those who have assisted us and worked with us, that's been a policy and a dynamic that we've worked on from from that certainly even the previous administration working to

we flew a mission to afghanistan when i was there to pick up detainees and bring them back to guantanamo bay. going to iraq i was a squad leader in iraq and then later i'm going to flight school, learning flights with some of the most advanced and amazing hospitals in the world. each were really formative for me and experiences i really reflect on the lot. >> what did you learn about the world in those experiences that you have brought forth? >> the world is a dangerous place, but the world is both small and large, you can get around the world quicker than you might think that it's also separated by long distance when you are homesick and wishing you were back home with your family. but there are really dangerous places out there and we also have really amazing opportunities around the world. i think there are people that respect the mission we have and they respect the stature that the united states have and what we really set out and sitting sample to the rest of the world of what freedom and economic prosperity and individual rights and liberties are unique in the world that we have a

and atlanta man named george glassman is free from taliban detention in afghanistan.ma nation of weeks of negotiations by american and qatari mediators. a source familiar with the release telling fox news trump administration envoy adam boehler traveled to kabul. secretary of state marco rubio put it out a statement on the mediation efforts, quote we extend our deepest appr apprecin to the state of qatar whose commitment was instrumental in securing george's release. qatar has consistently proven to be a reliable partner and trusted mediator facilitating complex negotiations. this is the third american to be free from afghanistan under the trump administration, although this time no one was exchanged in the release. the move was seen as a goodwill gesture by the taliban who has been in control of afghanistan since 2021. the release today a rare piece of good foreign policy news out of the region, and yet another example of how american and qatari negotiators can work together to get things done. john? >> john: all right, trey yingst for us. trey, boy, it's got to be a

he was a delta airlines mechanic who was detained while visiting afghanistan as a tourist in december never charged with a crime. >> halfway into my trip to afghanistan, the taliban be abducted me, there is no other word, abducted me in the streets of kabul and threw me into a dungeon with no windows, no nothing. >> at least 24 unjustly detained americans have been released since president trump returned to the white house, two with help from the biden administration. president trump's special envoy for hostage affairs, adam boehler suggest there is more to come. >> the taliban understand there is a new sheriff in town; that president trump is that new sheriff. that's why you are seeing something like this. and i expect to see more. >> for this american, the nightmare is over. >> state department is still pressing for the return of six american detainees in afghanistan and the remains of one u.s. citizen. u.s. officials thanked qatar for its help as it maintains close ties with the taliban. shannon? >> shannon: such relief, i'm sure to his family and loved ones. thank you, mike. >> mi

and once again, afghanistan came in last. to come on the "news hour," we speak with the houthi foreign minister as the u.s. resumes strikes on yemen. a restaurant owner's view on the lasting impact of the covid pandemic. and how one artist transforms everyday objects into surreal sculptures. >> this is the pbs "news hour" from the david m. rubenstein studio at weta in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: while republicans currently control both chambers of congress, they've been losing control of many of their events back home. amna: lisa desjardins attended one of the only town halls held by a republican member during this congressional recess, catching up with him and the constituents seeking to give him an earful. lisa: the line is long at columbus high school in eastern nebraska, and it is also unusual. >> is your cousin coming? lisa: republican congressman mike flood is greeting people at his town hall, one by one. there is no organized protest, but