other than bagram i was going to get out. i was not keeping bagram for afghanistan. i was keeping it for china because it is one hour away from where china makes its nuclear weapons. we have a lot of great things happening in our country. i am really thrilled about doug and his friend chris right, who is a legend in the oil business. they keep telling me he's like a legend. he is a legend too in a lot of businesses. we have an amazing group of people working with us. the man behind me became a tremendous success. was not a wealthy man. he ended up a wealthy man. that is a great talent. he's willing to sacrifice so much to put it to work for our country. watch the job he does on the interior, but in particular on making our country very wealthy by utilizing it properly. at the same time environmentally he is very much an environmentalist. he will do it painstakingly good. you watch what happens. working with the department of energy, his compatriot, his friend and considered the most talented man in the oil business is the head of the department of energy. it really i

a 68-year-old detained for a long time in bagram prison. it words highlighted the profound consequences of russian actions. prioritizing short-term military objectives over long-term governance and development lead to missed opportunities. the failure to adopt lessons from past experiences like the one ambassador newman talked about. additionally the policy of pushing against demands for justice and accountability for past crime allowed bad actors and gave rise to corruption. for many of us, this is about how empowering bad actors undermines long-term goals of strengthening state institutions. there are many questions about the impact of negotiations between the u.s. and the taliban. particularly, about the afghan government and the team of negotiations that elevated the taliban to the status of credible actor. transparency is owed to afghans regarding the decisions and actions taken during the process. understanding the root causes of this moment is a failure by afghan leaders and the u.s. is essential for afghans both in the country and d

certainly the case when i first arrived in istalif, a small market town about 45 minutes west of bagram air base in 2005, the taliban had leveled most of the town in 1997, and over the almost two years i spent there, people were building homes, opening businesses and getting married. the international presence was welcomed and upcoming elections were viewed with some curiosity. attitudes towards the us changed dramatically in the decade that followed. as afghan commanders and other politicians bought up gardens around the town, the economy increasingly revolved around a small set of power brokers who enriched themselves largely through contracts on bagram air base or through other international connections. the town never embraced the taliban but there was more and more sympathy for anti government groups and disillusionment with international presence. as i went on to work for the united states institute of peace, the afghan research and evaluation unit and a series of other organizations i got the , opportunity to travel across the country and observe how variations of this pattern re

he told me he would have kept bagram air base.ad a military base go after the terrorist and conduct counter-terrorism operations and carry -- and have intelligence. we didn't do that the other thing is he, you know, we look at the southern border where biden has allowed hundreds of people on the terrorist watch list to speak across the border. after the afghan withdrawal he brought them in on military aircraft. we left our afghan allies who had risked their lives for american troops behind by the thousands but we brought people into the country hundreds of people not put through the biometric data and they had derogatory information on them including fingerprints on ieds in afghanistan who are known terrorists who were brought into the country and they couldn't find them. it's not that just people sneaking over our border that were terrorists. they were brought in by the biden administration and let loose in our country and couldn't find them. >> you know, doj and the fbi and the biden administration, i mean, they use this whole w

it's the fact that they closed down bagram and still, after all of that after losing 13 member and womenthey didn't have to die as a result of his foreign policy. they labeled it as a success. how do you label such a catastrophe as a success? is it's like there is no introspection still from this administration. >> ainsley: yeah. how do you call it a success when you have these americans that died at the abbey gate. was that not successful. >> lawrence: no. >> brian: genius they look at him as a genius. he does have great academic record. doesn't realize when vladimir putin saw we were retracting from the world and left afghanistan. he said this is the time to take added a vantage of america and retreat. 2500 troops left in afghanistan makes us vulnerable you have one hell of a bad military. i'm pretty sure america could have left 2500 in afghanistan and had a looking glass on china, pakistan and russia, who surround them that statement doesn't fly. >> ainsley: let's hand it over to carley who has headlines for us. >> carley: i certainly do. starting with a situation in california. a man

i stood at many of their ramp ceremonies at bagram.'m associated now with the gold star family association in the inland northwest. for them that war will never be over. we have an obligation to those who are afghan allies who serve bravely with us every week. at international security assistance force headquarters, there was a ceremony to memorialize those who had been killed the previous week. um every single week, the name or names of american killed in action were read by an american officer less frequently, coalition officers would read the names of their dead. the last speaker was always an afghan officer. he didn't read names. he just said a number 110 126 85. those are the number of afghan security forces personnel killed that week. so the notion that afghans were not willing and ready to die for their country is frankly obscene. we all we owe our efforts to other afghan allies, those who served with our forces and at our embassy, the special immigrant visa eligible individuals who we left behind by their tens of thousands. we

harris and biden made the political decision to let terrorists of bagram air force base and.e of them strapped a suicide bomb to his vest and blew up our heroes. then they, milley and austin, come in and thump their in drone strike. seven children. that is not justice that murder. so if you are with me and if you with the greatest president of our lifetime then it is up to us to stand him. it is up to us to unify this country. we are not to separate. we are not the racist. we are the greatest set of americans we have ever had. and we an equivalent, powerful in donald j. trump. so i leave you with the following. our mission is simple just to do exactly what our brave leader donald j. trump has always done and put americans first and not to run this country by diy and white rage and climate. i. i am proud to be an indian american, am proud to call las vegas my home. i moved out here after our administration. you all have welcomed me with open arms and i cannot thank you enough. i will fight every single day for this great state. and as president trump said, if we win nevada, we

. >> he told me he would have kept bagram air base.e would have had a military base there where we could go after the terrorists and conduct counterterrorism operations and carry and have intelligence. >> we didn't do that. >> and the other thing is he, you know, we look at the southern border, where biden has allowed hundreds of people on the terrorist watch list to sneak across the across the border after the afghan withdrawal. he actually brought them in on military aircraft. we left our afghan allies who had risked their lives for american troops behind by the thousands. but we brought people into the country and then didn't vet them. and the dod inspector general in 2022 found that hundreds of people had not been put through the dod biometric data, and they had derogatory information on them, including fingerprints on ieds in afghanistan, people who had been who were known terrorists, who were brought into the country and they couldn't find them. so it's not just that people are sneaking over our border who are terrorists. they we

that the covert bounty program was linked to several attacks, including a sophisticated assault on bagram air base. the taliban members boasted about the payments. they posted photos on social media showing stacks of american dollars that they were paid, paid by russians, american dollars to kill americans, and then said the russian military's money was being laundered through gems like this that you're looking at here. that is an uncut emerald that was smuggled into afghanistan out front. now, christo grozev, the investigative journalist who broke this story, also, of course, the reporter who uncovered those responsible for alexei navalny's poisoning. christo, we were just showing some of your exclusive photos and video. the stacks of money that uncut emerald. so all of this you found this is russia directly offering tens of millions of dollars to kill americans. >> that is true. i mean, the story about russia possibly being behind this bounty program did come out in investigative reports by the new york times a few years back, but it was bluntly denied by the then trump administration.

stated from day one any withdrawal would be conditions based and would actually maintain control of bagram airfield, which is so critical. that this disorder and chaos that led to the murder of 13 of our service members at kabul airport should not be forgotten. and then countless civilians, we understand, were the first to fall in the biden/harris appeasement policy. and also this year, it should be remembered we lost 13 at kabul airport, but we also had three reservists from georgia killed january 28th by the hamas puppets -- excuse me, hezbollah puppets of iran, and 60 were injured. and many with traumatic drain -- brain injury, it's just heartbreaking to three of the life-long injuries people will have. today in afghanistan, women have been banished from public life, unable to hold any jobs, including nursing. i still cherish seeing little girls -- i visit afghanistan frequently, to see little girls going to school with their hijabs and little guys going to school with baseball caps. so that doesn't occur now. terrorists have a free reign to regroup and coordinate additional attacks on