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crocker, who you'll hear about. charles b. crocker who you will hear about in other instances was a large lucky thug, and a.a. cohen who is sometimes his partner and sometimes his enemy memorialized in the 19th century invected which is much better than the 21st century invected, but he called him a living and breathing monument of the vulgarity and viciousness and dishonesty. leyland stanford's whole career inspired a litany of dismay, exasperation and disdain, and it came from his own associates. the associates came to hate each other. huntington once wrote to, i wish you would tell me who to respond with in california when i want anything done. i have become convinced there's no use in writing to you. it was not huntington noted, safe to do business with him or in other words trust him to do anything. the other associates shared his disdain. the stanford is a chronicle of dismay and irritation in his laziness. hoskins thought stanford's key quality was a compound of stupidity with laziness. i'm not making this up. i'm just

. >>> joining us now, ryan crocker, former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, pakistan, syria, and iraq. ambassador crocker, appreciate you being on with us tonight. first of all, the -- the reporting that we got today that the top-american commander is in negotiations with the taliban to try and secure evacuations. i'm wondering, does that make sense to you? it seems like a practical thing. do you think -- would afghans be included in those negotiations in terms of is the -- i mean, obviously, the priority is american citizens but would it, also, be about afghans? >> i -- i think the admiral is doing exactly what he should be doing to -- to talk to the -- those on the ground who have the guns. on a narrow agenda, obviously. i would very much hope that the issue of our special immigrant visa folks who are desperate to get out would be covered in any understandings that are reached. we clearly have a priority to our own citizens. these are -- there are thousands of afghans with their families. 60,000. that we -- we promised we would ge

ambassador crocker is a true american patriot.h a privilege we have to hear him on your show a few minutes ago. >> martha: it was good to have him. he has decades of experience but dealing with all of the different parties. it has been obviously a very complicated several decades watching this up fold. the trump white house decided to sit down and discuss this with the taliban and try to work out an agreement for our exit, which they also wanted from afghanistan. one of these individuals was at the table during those talks in moscow. i mean, you know, what do you think about what the trump administration did? >> the trump administration should not have been involved in this. we should still have a continued presence in afghanistan. we have to make sure it's not a terrorist organization anymore. this is essential. it's wrong getting out. if we're getting out, should have been done in an orderly way. i don't believe the trump administration should have started this. they shouldn't have sat down with the taliban. joe biden has revers

this is a picture of charles crocker. mr. crocker was a member of four men, the big four, mr.kins, mr. stanford, mr. huntington. if these names sound familiar, it's because they were rich when they began and they became very, very rich later. that's a whole study unto itself. suffice it to say, mr. crocker argued the chinese built the great wall of china. surely, there's a possibility they could do this. others tried trial gangs, 20, 30 men at a time and discovered something. the chinese immediately elected their own foreman/spokesman. they elected a man whose only job basically was to boil water and prepare food. the boiling water was only for tea and bathing, something that amazed people who watched them. but they had a frequency to bathe and drink a lot of tea. in the end, 12,000 chinese men were hired to work on the transcontinental railroad. central pacific. here we have a photograph where the two trains are meeting at a place in utah. has anybody ever been to promentary point? i don't know why they call it that. there's nothing prominent about it. it's on a very flat sal

the evacuation has begun, ambassador crocker.ay this is an all hand on deck moment, it must be a presidential priority. what does that mean? what must be done right now? >> what needs to be done right now is to ramp up the evacuation, get more flights in faster. we are in a moment of crisis. the problem is the taliban now control the narrative. they can certainly shut down kabul airport if they choose. one place it's not going to be right now is the situation we put ourselves in. the taliban can wait. they have got the options and leverage and the capability. we've given that away. the ability we have to get our folks out, the others who served us, it determines now if that taliban want to let them go. >> janis shinwari, how do we break through the red tape? how do we speed up the evacuations? >> we have to ask president biden to start more flights and we cannot wait. since president biden announced the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan, and this process has been too slow. i have been in contact with a lot of people in a

charles crocker. mr. crocker was a member of foreman the big four. mr. hopkins, mr. stanford, mr. huntington if these names sound familiar it's because they were rich when they began and they became very very rich later. that's a whole study unto itself, but suffice it to say mr. crocker argued. the chinese built the great wall of china surely. there's a possibility that it could do this mrs. stowbridge and others tried trial gangs 20-30 minute at a time in the discovered something the chinese immediately elected their own foreman / spokesman. the elected a man whose only job was basically to boil water and prepare food. the boiled water was for tea and for bathing something which amazed some of the people who watched them, but they had a tendency to bathe frequently and to drink a lot of tea. which saved them a lot of problems later? in the end 12,000 chinese men were hired to work on the transcontinental railroad, central pacific and here we see a famous photograph. of the two trains meeting at a place called promontory point, utah. i don't has anybody here ever been to promonto

when i talked to ambassador crocker, we think it is going to be worse than saigon. flag of the taliban over our united states embassy, think about that visual. >> president biden released a statement yesterday defending his decision saying, quote, one more year or five more years of u.s. military presence would not have made a difference if the afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country and an endless american presence in the middle of another country's civil conflict was not acceptable to me. what do you make of that argument if after 20 years the taliban could take over so easily, the afghan military would fold so easily, that no amount of time would have solved the problem? >> well, i think history is repeating itself. remember it was obama and the vice president at that time biden who decided to withdraw completely out of iraq. look what happened. isis reared its ugly head. you know, i persuaded president trump to keep a residual force in syria, and now you are looking at a very light footprint, very, if you will, insurance policy for stability in t

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crocker. they were rich when they began and became very, very litsch later. chinese built the great wall of china as a possibility it could do this. others tried trial gangs, 20, 30 men at a time and discovered something. they immediately elected their own foreman/spokesman. a man's only job was to boil water and prepare food. the boiling water was only for tea and amazing. that saved them a lot of problems later. in the end, 12,000 chinese men were hired to work on the trans pacific railroad. here we have a photograph where they are meeting in utah. the photograph shows the two sections meeting. there is something very, very wrong with this photograph. what is it? there are no chinese in this photograph. they were not invited. that's known to some people, but is more interesting it the already did not own discount or free package, so the chinese men who worked on this project walked back to utah. they didn't realize what they had done. more interesting is the railroad did not offer a discount or free passage. so the chinese men who worked on this project wal

i'm joined by the former ambassador under president obama, ryan crocker.en very critical of this withdrawal process. what was your take of -- on what the president had to say just a few minutes ago? does it sound like they are trying to or starting to get on top of the situation there, do you think? >> in terms of the specific challenge at hand, jim, the evacuation of our citizens and others for whom we have responsibility, i think they are starting to get a handle on it. i would emphasize that that handle and the people getting it are not in washington. they are at kabul airport. the foreign service officers and the marines and soldiers out there are the ones doing this. and what we see is that they are -- they're dealing with the situation that they got pushed into after the fact and they are making adjustments as they go. these are competent professionals, foreign service is pretty familiar with evacuations. as are the marines. so i think they are adapting to circumstances and turning an utter disaster into a, touch wood, a workable proposition. but the

ambassador ryan crocker joins us. thanks. good to have you back here. i want to get your reaction to a few different things today. this is an exchange that happened moments ago between our reporter at the white house, peter doocy and the press secretary, jen psaki. let's watch. >> most of the criticism is not leaving afghanistan. it's the way he ordered to happen, by pulling the troops before getting the americans that have been stranded. >> first of all, we're not stranded. >> martha: are americans stranded, ambassador? >> i'd be interested in hearing how we're going to get those americans to safety, particularly those outside of kabul. they can't make the trip by road. it's way too dangerous. the taliban are in control of it. so what are we going to do? send in helicopters into unsecured landing zones with no eyes on the ground but a lot of taliban with guns? we've had a lot of broad assurances here. the deadly little questions of how actually to do it are the ones that count. those are the questions that they're not answering. >> martha: i just spoke

ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker. plus the crisis here at home as tropical storm henri threatens the northeast coastline, and the potential forb flooding is cause for great concern. and with more schools open this week and with cases and hospitalizations and the number of deaths continuing to surge, the delta variant will undoubtedly get worse. we will talk to republican larry hogan and dr. dr. scott gottlieb. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >> garrett: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." we begin with the storm threatening the east coast. henri has been downgraded to tropical storm status, but that doesn't necessarily mean the threat is any less severe. jeff berardelli is on long island, and, jeff, what are you seeing? >> yeah, major, this is the worst it has been. we've been seeing gusts 55, 60 mile-an-hour. things are getting worse. but the core of the storm has missed us to the northeast. take a look behind me. pounding surf. we've seen swells 10 to 15 feet, and now we have this sideways r

. >>> joining us now, ryan crocker, the former-u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, not to mention pakistan, syria, and iraq. am ambassador crockerings thanks so much for joining us. you heard what the president said tonight to abc, that chaos ensuing was unavoidable. doesn't square with past statements that he made about a safe and orderly withdrawal. but i am wondering what you made of what the president said? >> the president's comments, anderson, not just this -- this evening but going back several days now are -- are deeply disappointing, to say the least. he seems to be blaming everything that's happened on everybody but him starting with the afghan national security forces. belittling the fight they have put up for -- for months and years now. the 70,000 dead for their country. deserve a little bit better than they are getting from the president. the irony here, of course, is listening to clarissa's reporting, that this may be the good moment. there may be worse to come because who are the afghans trying to get to the airport? well,

i thought it was notable that the former afghanistan ambassador under president obama ryan crocker toldn coop wh er what he believes broke the will to fight is that the trump administration negotiated with the taliban, cut the afghan government out, and that was a key moment in what has become a complete deterioration. listen to what he said. >> i was a key taliban demand. we acceded to it and it was a huge demoralizing factor for the afghan government and its security forces. >> do you agree having helped build them up to what they were believed to have been? >> yeah, absolutely, ryan crock ser correct there. this is -- i started in 2002 with the first couple of battalions, the nasf was on the way and still a young army at 19 years old. give me a break. a 19-year-old kid. one thing that we wouldn't do and crocker wouldn't do is stop the pakistan isi from running a terrorist pipeline out of their country and in afghanistan. when we made a deal with the taliban to get ourselves out, the afghans, all afghans, government and military and civilians knew they had been completely betrayed ove

ryan crocker, great to see you and thank you for coming on today.nd actually the whole world needs your expertise there. and this is a tricky one. in any case, then they began, you made a few public statements about this year, very concerned about president and biden in the state department and their ability to lead and i understand that everybody is coming down against this thing, very poorly constructed operation. but one thing, it bothered me a lot, this vivian article in the wall street journal on the scoop that against 20 or so diplomats from american diplomats in kabal and blinken essentially said predicted that if we left right away is fine, the taliban with over the country and it will you make of that. why was that morning he did do you think. ryan: that came through a special channel, just for such issues, major policy disagreements call the distant generally of use it myself. and so that was what this was, the dissent against the prevailing policy. and it requires it to be read by the secretary of state himself. and he acknowledged that h

and and i want to lead with a quote from my favorite ambassador, that is ryan crocker, who we had on, in an interview on fox news just about an hour ago, ambassador crocker simply said right now there are no good options. now,

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you talk about ambassador crocker. we did an op-ed in "new york times" asking -- advising the administration exactly what to do. start evacuating the americans months before this time. get our afghan partners and interpreters out of there. establish an isr capability close to afghanistan. and they did none of this. so now, we're down to the 11th hour. the isis-k threat is very real and they are the worst of the worst. a lot came out of the prisons. khorasan, the k stands for that. i think you will see another attack. i think our goal right now all we can hope for, the best, jake, is to get every american we can out of afghanistan by august 31st. the airport is not even -- the gates are closed right now. and the only way we can get americans out is mckenzie -- general mckenzie told me they're running joint special operation command units to -- to get these americans and get 'em into the airport. mostly by helicopter and by air. with respect to the interpreters, and you know i have talked a long i'm about. i believe thei

listen to what former ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker said about how this is all unfolding. >>biden did was basically double down on a really bad policy decision by president trump in saying that, yes, indeed, we're going, and here's the date certain. again, this didn't happen with a snap of the fingers. the process that unfolded with our talks with the taliban, including, for example, pressing the afghan government to release 5,000 taliban prisoners, which the government didn't want to do, we forced their hand, and they were immediately on the battlefield. that's context now. >> i think the thing that a lot of people need to understand is what the alternative could have been here. >> right. as ambassador crocker said, this started with president trump's deal with the taliban in february 2020. president biden obviously wanted to carry that through and insisted on it. the things that could have gone differently is, number one, they could have chosen to insist on withdrawal in april. they ahead that announcement in april before the fighting season in afghanistan. it's a horrible

ryan crocker, obama's former ambassador is saying it is, quote, it is insane, it is quote idiotic to the taliban is listening to threats from the president or nancy pelosi about you know, don't do bad things or we'll come after you. the taliban is doing what it wants right now. what do you say? >> look, the bay of pigs was a failure. the cuban missile crisis was a intelligence failure. 9/11 was a intelligence failure. this is not. this is a president that made a bad decision. this is real red flag. this is not a jimmy carter presidency, a bunch of rookie mistakes the first year. all of biden's team are veterans of eight years of obama. these are well-seasoned guys who have been through benghazi, iraq, isis, libya, the red line. they have had crisis after crisis. they failed on all of them, they're back and they failed again. that should scare people. elizabeth: we hear you. you know congressman, nancy pelosi is saying, talking about the wisdom of what the president decided to do. we've got the taliban leader claiming he spent eight years in guantanamo. al ban is releasing prisoners f

and leaving homes shredded for dale crocker, a total loss he spent today with his service dogs, salvaging whatever he could, recalling the moment ida turned his home inside out. >> i can't hear, but i heard that >> reporter: in nearby shelter, dozens try to figure out what comes next >> they're going to push me homeless, me and my family. seven people in the household. >> reporter: jerome and his dog rocky rescued by police when storm surge started rushing into their home >> the water was right here on me. >> reporter: they were lucky because help came the city's police chief says his officers couldn't immediately respond to so many of the desperate calls because sending teams out would put them in danger cruisers unable to compete with degree-covered roads. >> we had a lot of calls for rescues. >> reporter: what do you tell them? >> i can't save you if i can't save myself first. >> reporter: ida leaving nothing untouched. even a power plant specially built to withstand a category 4 hurricane no match for the storm, knocking out houma's power. at the medical center, a delicate but urgent

. >> i talked to admiral -- to former-ambassador crocker last night who, at one point, was ambassador there. and -- and obviously, has a long career in foreign service. he was saying something that not just this administration but the prior administration, basically, had direct negotiations with the taliban. and agreed to taliban demands to not have the afghan government take part in those negotiations. essentially, pushing them to the side, delegitimizing them, which crocker believed caused a huge, kind of, body blow to support for the government among afghan-national forces. that it kind of took the wind out of their sails. i'm wondering if you think there's truth in that? or -- because i don't understand another explanation for an army that has more weapons, has more personnel, has had 20 years of training from u.s. forces, and is not fighting. >> yeah. well, first off, keep in mind, afghan-special forces are extremely capable. um, and -- and they're really good. you're -- you're kind of rank and file a and a. they are obviously still struggling but they were fighting, again, with

ambassador crocker, i want to get your reaction to the attacks. 12 u.s.is inevitable? one of the things that we've been hearing from the white house is they have been fearing of a terrorist attack like this. it's been a terrible day, jake, one of the very worst. it gets right at i think the point that a lot of us have made that when the taliban come back. some really bad guys are going to come back with them. certainly al qaeda. they kept that relationship through two decades in the wilderness and the islamic state as well so the issue is not that the taliban control the country right now. the issue is nobody really controls the country. they had a breeding ground for these kinds of actions and people to come back and take road. that's what brought us 9/11 and we've got the same dynamic. >> right now none of those groups at least according to u.s. intel think that those groups have the capability of attacking the united states at least as of right now. what do you say to the average american whose first response to the 12 service members being killed and

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. >> ambassador crocker is a dear friend of mine. we wrote that together in the new york times. what we decided was, the decision has been made. we disagree with it, but it has been made. what is our best advice to the administration, constructively, moving forward? did light -- lay out guiding principles. one was to get the interpreters and afghan partners out of country in a safer country to be processed. the second, which is more important, is to establish isr capabilities in a country surrounding afghanistan. this is not a country next to water like vietnam. this is a country in the middle of nowhere, with our adversaries surrounding it. isr capabilities are very difficult if you're out of country. there was talk about uzbekistan. i have seen no progress from the administration on this front. i do not know how we are going to be able to see inside afghanistan, much less this intelligence capability we have with russia, china, and iran. china has already recognized the legitimacy of the taliban, as has russia. china will be moving in, there are rare earth minerals in china .

or this recorded interview with ryan crocker, former ambassador to afghanistan, talking about the afghanice. >> they'reless as a security force. and they're useless as a security force because they are corrupt down to the control level. >> this endemic corruption is also one of the key reasons of the success of the taliban. when we poured money like manna from heaven in afghanistan, what would you expect? they grabbed it. we contributed to the corruption by just pouring too much money. >> reporter: $145 billion went into rebuilding afghanistan, producing, according to president biden, an afghan army and police that should have been capable of holding its own against the taliban. >> we trained and equipped an afghan military force of some 300,000 strong. incredibly well equipped. >> was that a real 300,000? >> that's what the afghans reported. but we knew that there were serious problems with what we called ghosts. that means people on the rolls but who don't exist, but whose salary and everything else is just stolen by the afghan off jers aofficers and generals. >> reporter: it was more

my deputy staff director, nick crocker, my director of member services and my general counsel. jen called me and said, i think you better get back here, they are talking about closing the four down. i hurried up and ate my sandwich as i was walking out my office door, and i was walking onto the floor as leadership was being evacuated. i stopped -- i saw steve scalise and his team going out as i was going in. >> did you have a conversation with them? rep. davis: let's just say my comment can now be summed up via text as "wtf." >> did anybody from leadership tell you what was going on as they were coming out, or did they have any comment? rep. davis: we already knew what was going on. i had seen the outer perimeter being reached, so i was going onto the floor while they were leaving, and just minutes later, that's when all the doors were shut. we were seeing footage of the senate being breached, so everybody was on pretty high alert. i was talking to new members, helping them to open up the hoods that i had never touched before in my eight years as a member of congress. now we ar

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my name is kathrin naught and i'm speaking on behalf of the crocker national bank building. first of all, we want to thank supervisor peskin for bringing this forward. one montgomery is certainly one of the most iconic buildings in downtown san francisco, worthy of landmark designation, and we wholly support it. on another note, we note a pattern of changing banking halls to private office space. we urge you to look at strategies for keeping the banking hall interiors publicly accessible as will happen at one montgomery in a somewhat robust way than the building was originally experienced -- designed and experienced, but we do -- are watching this closely, especially with the -- the over availability, some would say, glut of available office space in san francisco at the moment, and just urge you to be cautious about that in the future. but we support this landmark nomination and are very happy to do so. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. seeing no other public comment, public comment is now closed, and commissioner, the matter is now -- commissioners, the matter is now before

sunni, shiite and kurd and ambassador crocker, ryan crocker, he spent the last 20 years of his life inaid this. it's insane and idiotic to think we can tell the taliban if they don't play nice the international community with withhold recognition and support. i'm left with some grave questions in my mind about his ability to lead our nation as commander-in-chief, to have read this so wrong or even worse to have understood what was likely to happen and not care, end quote. >> yeah. robert gates said it best. joe biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy decision in the last 50 years. it is just a fact. the other thing that angers me is how they are out there blaming the victim. blaming the afghan army for a kol answering them. we gave them and gave them the best equipment and they decided not to fight. we transferred the combat mission to the afghan army in 2015. and since then there have been between 54,000 and 58,000 afghan soldiers killed in combat fighting the taliban. just this year 2600 afghan fighters killed in combat. they've been fighting and dying and sacrificing thei

now unfortunately, it's funny news media like policy her allows crocker. they're based on these things because most of the made ministry needs are in the policy. you take up the line, which means no plot points. so it's a pretty terrible situation. we're not many people that thousands of doctors take it totally different. so there's a doctor and what would happen if you said, where are they going to treat patients who haven't been back? somebody to because i'm going to show you the arguments go the other way around. the bottom line, they said your doctor's to see what our progress situations. i mean we, we, the out on so i mean look at all the switch being denied. so. ready these. ready are the public as sure that the countries of the which i blocked on got the last coded 19 deck, right. so it was a big mistake for the child, any form of law and we have to bad mind the outage. just somebody from target on chain is 82 and people who die out primarily people who are in the formal cast, a great people who have got people who don't i from other you know, diffe

here is ryan crocker with the ambassador when biden was vice president. >> it is disingenuous to sayto embrace the process he owns a lock stock and barrel, guaranteeing that. steve: in another interview unless there are grave questions in my mind about biden's ability to lead our nation as commander in chief to have read this so wrong or even worse to have understood what it was likely to happen and not care. his attempts to avoid accountability are shameful but even worse, the disgusting spectacle of the authors of two decades of death and destruction to extract a sick vindication seeing that we are right all along with more troops over there and then to assist the neocon lunatics the media tries to blame trump one president and one administration that deserves to be held accountable. it is george w. bush who scorned that the world's goodwill for the legitimate intervention in pursuit of al qaeda and instead lying to iraq but that media was anything to push because they hate trump and the brazen neocon keeps going like bloodthirsty zombies the dark queen of them all is cheney who sa

i had a joint op-ed with ambassador crocker, "new york times," spelling out exactly what needs to be done. and these were all the points we immediate. -- we made. my democratic colleagues agreed. but we are dark. when we're dark, there's danger. especially in a country like afghanistan where we know al qaeda's numbers are probably more than they were before 9/11. and they have a safe haven. not -- don't forget, i used to chair homeland security committee. isis-k, were one of the biggest threats to the homeland in tells of external operations. they fight with al qaeda and the taliban but they have the same radical islamist intent. that's to kill the infidel and kill americans. i think we have to be very, very aware of that fact. >> time for one more question. >> they're going back to l.a. >> is parker single? >> no. no i'm not. >> i just want to say it's a lot less humid in california. jeez louise. look, we play dressup for a living you guys are the real hero. we're honored to stand up here with you and share this message, we hope to continue to share this message every thursday night