we can speak to david ross. he is professor national defense university on a former nato operations director at the joint chiefs of staff. he joins us on sky from the past that in maryland. many thanks for joining us. and i'll just, sarah. so as we've been hearing the tell about now, controls, monet, sharif, which means they now have control over half of the provincial capitals in the nor how critical a moment is this for the afghan government. so it is a critical moment. i mean this, the collapse, the african government has been unexpected, unexpectedly rapid. and it's also been an areas that you don't expect it normally that the taliban is passion, moving as hearts. but what they've been able to do is form alliances with leaders from other ethnic groups of beliefs in numerous province the respects and share begun province. and they've been able to, in effect, isolate the government of afghan garrison's. and for the most part, been able to just get them to surrender and conquer these capitals without shots bein

well, early i spoke to david this ross, she's the professor at the national defense university. he also served in afghanistan, and by asking him if the warlords had been extracted from the equation that is not enough chemist on 10 or 20 years ago with the crisis today, not be happening. so i served in afghans to 2000 to 2003 on the civil affairs task force. and quite frankly, what i saw was a, a military effort that was focused on cobble with very little done in the provinces . and basically, the warlords retained a lot of power even while the central government sought to move out there. i think part of the reason why the situation looks so bad is that the warlords, who really have a lot of the fighting power in these provinces, are stepping back, waiting for the central government to reach a point of crisis, where they empower the individual warlords and then they'll move in. i think that's probably the case in conduce, in, sorry, paul and taluk one. the taliban is clearly playing to strength if you will, in its heart land, in the bits of afghanistan that we've associated the p

well, david ross, she's a professor at the u. s. national defense university who also served in afghanistan . pieces taliban is not so united force and thinks the divisions within the group will make it harder to sustain is battlefield gains. so i served in afghanistan, 2000 to 2003 on the civil affairs task force. and quite frankly, what i saw was a, a military effort that was focused on cobble with very little done in the provinces . and basically, the warlords retained a lot of power even while the central government sought to move out there. i think part of the reason why the situation looks so bad is that the warlords, who really have a lot of the fighting power in these provinces, are stepping back, waiting for the central government to reach a point of crisis, where they empower the individual warlords and then they'll move in, the taliban is overwhelmingly a passion movement. and so areas that have large passion populations like conduce province, you know, you can see them active there, but it's also important to bear in

early i spoke with david ross, a professor at the national defense university of former nato operations director at the join chief of staff. he explained to me how the conflict will play out. so it is a critical moment. i mean this, the collapse, the african government has been unexpected, unexpectedly rapid. and it's also been an areas that you don't expect it normally that the taliban is passion, moving as hearts. but what they've been able to do is form alliances with leaders from other ethnic groups of blokes in numerous province. the respects ensure began province and they've been able to in effect, isolate the government of afghan garrison's. and for the most part, been able to just get them to surrender and conquer these capitals without shots being fired as the fall of cobble. now inevitable. i don't think it is. know what we're seeing is remote garrisons in isolated areas. ready that are ethnically different from them for the most part. busy and that, you know, are unwilling to risk their lives for you know, regime that it or leaders that have proven unable to support them. but

david ross, the professor of national defense university here in catherine, also a former pentagon director of rabies peninsula says, thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us on out there. so thanks for joining us. thank you. her. let's now return to the white house and speak to the correspondent kimberly how good, who's in washington d. c. kimberly. as you were saying earlier, present, biden's spent some time in the situation room today. can you give us a sense of where things are out there now? yeah, we're watching very carefully because the president had been scheduled to meet about now with the israeli prime minister nestali bennett. but so far we've not seen any cars coming down the driveway and well, there is, is really media assembled here at the white house. a lot of questions about what the upcoming schedule of the white house will be. now we should point out that the israeli radio is reporting, in fact, that the meeting has been delayed. the white house has not confirmed that. but we are being told by the israeli side that the meeting has been delayed due to the afghan

75000 faces and has made significant profits from controlling the heroine trade that sold out to david this ross, she's professor of national defense university and he served in afghanistan. he joins us on skype from washington. david, good to have your thoughts here on the news are again, if the warlord being the distracted from the equation that was afghanistan, say, 10 or 20 years ago, would what we're seeing today not be happening. i think that's a good, good question. and i think that's the nub of it. so i served in afghan, sent 2000 to 2003 on the civil affairs task force. and quite frankly, what i saw was a, a military effort that was focused on cobble with very little done in the provinces . and basically the warlords retained a lot of power even while the central government sought to move out there. i think part of the reason why the situation looks so bad is that the warlords, who really have a lot of the fighting power in these provinces, are stepping back, waiting for the central government to reach a point of crisis, where they empower the individual warlords and then they'll move i

was just - you know, watching him talk to my brother and i see out of the corner of my eye, ross gellar, davidlike, "pivot!" [ laughter ] >> jimmy: pivot? you were yelling pivot >> pivot >> jimmy: pivot! of course, yeah. >> he was like, "hello." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you fan-girled out you just went crazy. >> yeah, i cried a little bit. i got to take a selfie with him. i wanted to, but then i realized that my phone was dead for some reason, i don't know why, i never charge my phone >> jimmy: it just happens. >> for moments like this and so i was like, to my friend, who's here, i was like, "noelle! phone! now! and she brings over, and i'm like, "so sorry, thank you so much." i was like, "i want a selfie noelle, i want to take a a selfie." so, took a selfie with him it's so blurry it's like, oh -- >> jimmy: i disagree i think it's the greatest photo. there he is, you and - [ cheers and applause he's a great guy isn't he nice? >> oh, he was super nice i think scared >> jimmy: yeah, yeah frightened, but still. you're great in "stillwater. >> thank you >> jimmy: as is matt as well can you set this

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david jolly. both are msnbc contributors. two of the most assuring voices out of florida since bob ross. david, i'll start with you.antis? he remains popular amongst republicans. but it seems from the quinnipiac poll, that he never had democrats but he's got to be losing independents now with people being concerned about how he's handled coronavirus. >> yeah, jason, florida is a state like many others where elections are 50-50 and they're won by turnout. what ron desantis has done very well is speak the republican narrative. we want freedom, we don't want shutdowns, we don't want mandates. i did the governor that's going to save the economy. for sympathetic republicans it's been very effective. what you just referred to in the numbers is he's picked the wrong fight. this is a rare miscalculation by ron desantis, at least when you look at the raw political numbers. it is clear that what we knew was inevitable, right, we're going to send tens of thousands of floridian children into a classroom unmasked and now we're surprised apparently by the outbreak of covid and the number of people that are quarantined. i think w

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so my boss at the time general ross said, okay, david, you've had two years of command there, why don't you step down and let ron get his command time and then we will make you chief of staff. so i said, okay. so ron making short story long, ron and i -- ron comes back to work at the 81st after 449th is enact visited and he goes to work as the head of personnel and he's doing things that really aren't kosher. going behind me back and this and the other. i sent him a note and i did it, i learned when miller was governor and he fired the general of the national guard. >> i remember that. >> he sent letter through channels. i don't know who it was at the time firing him. i sent a letter through channels so that everybody would see it to ron and i said don't ever go around my back again. he came in to my office with a three-page letter written just moaning and groaning and ron and i had been close friends. i had hired him back in desk log section but ron was civilian life worked at port mcpearson so he marched to his own drummer. ron, we've been friends for a long time. you know better than

so my boss at the time, general ross, said, okay, david, you've had two years of command there, why don't you step down and let ron helmly get his command time, and we'll make you chief of staff. so i said, okay. so ron, make a short story long, ron and i -- ron comes back to work at the 81st after the 449th is inactivated, and he goes to work as the head of personnel. and he's doing things that really aren't kosher. going behind my back, this, that and the other. so i sent him a note, and i did it -- i learned this when miller was governor and he fired the adjutant general of the national guard. >> i remember that. >> he sent a letter through channels to the adjutant general is, i don't even remember who it was at the time, firing him. so i sent a letter through channels so everybody would see it to ron helmly, and i said don't ever go around my back again. anyway, he came in to my office with a three-page letter written just moaning and groaning. and ron and i had been close friends. i hired him back when i was in the desk log section. but ron was a civilian with, worked at fort pearson

ross suddenly for interesting reading. take one example before the iraq war, david sanger and michael gordon's report from iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction made dramatic headlines, helping shape public opinion before the invasion in 2003. in later years there employs themselves or forced to admit that mistakes, but by then the damage had been done. a devastating conflict with consequences still felt globally to this day. we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. that report concerned the aluminum tubes that the administration advertised insistently as components for the manufacturer of nuclear weapons fuel. it should have been presented more cautiously. the series of times, articles in 20022003 strongly suggested sadam. hussein already had all was acquiring and awful of weapons of mass destruction. many of those articles turned out to be an accurate. it's not like things stopped off to a rock. the focus shifted to russia. one report, speaking of russia, linked masked men in ukraine. again, a retraction, swiftly follows, but the pattern is clear to see even to the

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ross sorkin who spoke with him. andrew, bold words there >> bold words, this was before the adam aaron interview that took place with jim -- jim and david the street." i think there is a real question right now within the meme stock world about what is, quote, unquote, investing mean. by the way, what's investing and what's trading maybe we should say they're two different things in in instance, that the meme stock folks are into trading, which is maybe a different thing than investing and then the secondary layer of it, which is, you know, you can have collective wisdom, also collective delusion. but are these groups of meme stock traders, if that's what we call them, can they manifest their own destiny. that's because that is that's a large part of what we're seeing here if ano a company like amk can raise enough money over time that they can pay down debt and use it to make lots of acquisitions, can you manifest your own destiny you could argue tesla was that, that tesla was able to manifest its own destiny by repeatedly coming back to shareholders willing to put up more cash until it created a real success. and maybe that is a strat

ross and rachel for real. according to new report friends' stars jennifer aniston and david are dating.actors denied report and two have been spending time at aniston's home and strolling together at her famous vineyard. dagen: she deserves a good man after brad pitt. are they trying to whip up publicity for some project that they have coming up? i don't know. it's hollyweird. maria: eagles, birdies and now cubs, check this out. 3 baby bears were caught on camera playing around on the green in a golf course in north carolina. i love this video. look at the little bear while two of the cubs wrestled, the third bear playing with the flag stick but the cute cubs would run off on their own and witnesses say momma bear was nearby. rob, you don't want to get near cubs with mama bear watching. rob: where there's cubs there's a mama bear and beside bad swing i have another excuse that i can use to stay off golf course, bears, bad swing. dagen: i would argue down south gaiters are a bigger threat than bears. just a piece of advice. maria: yeah, good point. all right. we will take a break. when w

> hi, david, good morning to everyone >> american sprinter, allyson has won more medals than any other female track athlete the most decorated u.s. track olympian, surpassing carl lewis. april rossklinman win. and the u.s. women pflgsz basketball team will play japan after a 79-59 win against serbia it's the team's 64th consecutive olympic win, a streak going back to 1992. and the u.s. has 97 medals, followed by china with 79, and russian athletes have won 62 medals hard to believe it's almost over, carl >> i know. we're going to watch the weather in japan after the break sephora-live at kohl's so you can quickly check the markets? yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard before we board. excellent. and you have thinkorswim mobile- -so i can finish analyzing the risk on this position. you two are all set. have a great flight. thanks. we'll see ya. ah, they're getting so smart. choose the app that fits your investing style. ♪♪ ♪ someone once told me, that i should get used to people staring. so i did. it's okay, you can stare. when you're a two-time gold medalist, it comes with the territory. >>> the trade. this is andy, my schwab financial consultant. here's andy