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we were just listening to general mcmaster and to a women's rights activist. this is quite a grim assessment of the situation on the ground? that is riuht. what the situation on the ground? that is right. what was _ the situation on the ground? that is right. what was described _ the situation on the ground? that is right. what was described matches | right. what was described matches our research. i think she said, we have no rights. that is a fair description of the situation for afghan women today. general mcmaster and i, we know each otherfrom our daysin and i, we know each otherfrom our days in afghanistan, and we haven't always agreed on everything. but i certainly share his sense of disbelief and frustration that the international community has allowed things to reach this point for the afghan people, particularly women and girls. afghan people, particularly women and uirls. ., ., ., ., and girls. you wrote a letter today to afu han and girls. you wrote a letter today to afghan women _ and girls. you wrote a letter today to afghan women and _ and girls.

mcmaster. we are a year removed.had an explosion where 13 military members lost their lives. >> what's even worse is this was a self-defeat based on self-illusion. we were told the taliban would share power and put in a more benign version of sharia. guess who just got killed in airstrikes a couple weeks ago is the leader of al~qaeda. these leaders are completely intertwined. you see the hell they are putting all after begans through, especially women. it's time to recognize we defeated ourselves based on a fantasy about the nature of the taliban. brian: we are told the bomber at abby gate. he was spotted by marines. the cia identified him. but the rules of engagement did not impress the state department enough to kill him. it looks like he was the killer. your reaction to that. what do you think about when you remember the families that lost a loved one there. >> what we have seen is we have seen leaders across multiple administrations who don't fight as hard as they expect our servicemen and women to fight abroad.

mcmaster on that. >> it was not a 20 year war, it was a one-year war 20 times over. were a seriesf inconsistent and fundamentally flawed strategies. what was astounding to me, even after we saw the return of the taliban and the horrors they have inflicted again on the afghan people, you have to recognize as you look at this a year after the fall of kabul, why did it fall? it fell because we defeated ourselves and we delivered blow after psychological blow to the afghan government and security forces. >> are international correspondent lyse doucet is in kabul. >> the country has been turned upside down over the past year, starting with those dramatic scenes you've just been hearing about and the panicked brush by thousands of afghans and foreigners to flee this country, after august 15 when the taliban fighters swept into the capital. some will remember those images which came from the presidential palace at this time a year ago. taliban fighters with their guns and their big turns sitting at the polished desk of -- who had also fled the country with his closest aides

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i have been listening to general mcmasters' "dereliction of duty," he reads it himself, and his impressions of president johnson are not to be missed. in his reading it out loud, he is critical of the quonset, the whiz kids, as they begin to set the terms for power politics, for communication. this is one of the things butterfield gets to the heart of, human nature and the dominion of fear. he says we think about fear is this feature of the international system, it is there, whether we talk about whether it is natural, but he says it is not always something we can quantify easily. there is an emotional element to it. it is such a risk -- rich aspect of the english school. he says fear is a thing that is extraordinarily vivid while we are in its grip, but once it is over, it leaves little trace of itself in our consciousness and is one of the experiences we can never properly remember, one also which, since we may be ashamed of it, we have no reason for wishing to remember. we are in the position of those unsympathetic parents who, though they can recall concrete things that happened in thei

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mcmaster was saying the same thing to the press.f the people who saw donald trump's mishandling and leaking information be potential -- if he's charged? >> there's something called in the rules of evidence 4b, which is a rule of evidence that talks about prior instances of the same type of conduct so those kinds of stories and evidence about how he handled things are potentially something you could show. i have to say, just putting on my prosecutor's hat, this is -- as miles said, this is a cut and dry issue. i would not go there. i would try this in a clean, short, lean way. in other words, yes, we all observed many, many ways in which the president sell either cavalier or worse, but i don't think you need to go there, and i do think i need to be distracting for a jury. we were stepping way ahead in terms of where we are right now, but if you are, to answer your question, if you are the government, you may want to flush that out so you know what the possibilities are so you have that in your arsenal. one person that we talked to th

integrity of these candidates that have been trump supported, herschel walker, mehmet oz, blake mcmasters your thoughts between mcconnell and trump? >> well, not particularly helpful. i understand where the minority leader is coming from, which is to say we have to pay attention to these races. i took this as a call to action. i sense there's a lot of enthusiasm to get particular candidates nominated in a primary and once that is done, we walk away. so for example, peter teal who poured tens of millions in the ohio and arizona contest and let it known he would be around for the general election. mcconnell said he better be coming to the table. take, for example, ohio. president trump endorsed j.d. vance. now leader mcconnell has spent $3 million already to try to help j.d. vance in the general election and reserved $25 million more. the president is sitting on a war chest of $100 million. is he going to help the candidates that he felt strong enough to endorse. is he going to do anything in the general election. >> martha: a great question. when you look at the senate leadership fund as y

hr mcmaster, the former national security advisor, told him that he was considered a target. by foreign countries. that he was considered somebody who was a target of influence campaigns that his family's financial situation made him malleable. you have to ask -- >> because of money? >> because of money. and one of the big topics throughout the trump administration was, right, money. that they came, and they had a hotel. in washington. that dignitaries state. that they made money out of. jared kushner had all these conflicts of interest, the white house logs. it got close to that we can see it was going in and out of the white house. it turns out we did not know those contemporaneously. that one of his investors enough funds he hadn't disclosed on his investment forms. was meeting with him in the white house. this was not supposed to happen. this is crony capitalism. in the very worst thing that happened was that after his father got rebuffed by qatar, he has the qatari's for money to save his financial problems. jared kushner was involved in green-lighting the kid of qatar.

mcmaster is double digits down. very extreme candidate -- talk about that and i think mark kelly is sitting on the kind of money he is, a lot happier these days. although the whole ticket in arizona is an election denying ticket, which i oppose. j.d. vance. tim robbins doing much better than expected. herschel walker. donald trump, who lost, the gift that keeps on giving for georgia democrats. rachel record now about his former wife -- [indiscernible] -- a terrible candidate. on the state front, brad raffensperger and governor kemp. there's four seats there that are not looking great. [no audio] [please stand by] >> people were talking about the huge red blowout. the number one reason is instead of having your number one issue being the economy, biden's poor ratings, trump is back in the front seat, driving the clown car for summary republicans. if you are in a swing state, that is a nightmare. i have been in a swing state when trump was in power and it didn't matter what your numbers were. trump's numbers. after th

mcmaster ran, did not walk to assure the press he had not endangered sources and methods or allies ands constantly trying to push sensitive information into the public domain where it served him. >> so anytime information was shared outside the channels that would normally be used to control it, we routinely assessed what the impact of that would be. now, it is true that a sitting president does have many authorities to make decisions in his role about national security, and i just think this is one of the things that gets so lost. we have access to classified information to serve the nation's interests. individuals when. the president did as i did and some others, you are a steward of the nation's interests, and so you need to be considering those interests when you make every decision, right, so a sitting president makes those decisions that is in his role as the president about what's the nation's interest. that an entirely different role when you are a private citizen as he is and i am now. that doesn't mean at some point the nation can say we need the former president or we need s

h r mcmaster is a former us national security advisor.general and served in afghanistan. he told the bbc the west defeated itself in afghanistan. we were inept across those 20 years, so it was not a 20 year war, it was a one year war fought 20 times over and there were a series of inconsistent and fundamentally flawed strategies. what was astounding to me is, even after we have seen the return of the taliban and the horrors that they have inflicted again on the afghan people, we are still deluding ourselves. i think we have to recognise, as we look at this a year after the fall of kabul, why did kabul fall? it fell because we defeated ourselves and we delivered blow after psychological blow to the afghan government and security forces. joining us now is michael kugelman, a senior associate for south asia, the wilson center and a leading expert on afghanistan. thank you forjoining us. do you agree with his assessment of what went wrong? to agree with his assessment of what went wrong?— agree with his assessment of what went wron: ? ., . ,

earliest point we knew he was doing that was when he had sergey lavrov in the oval, and i think hr mcmasterwhen he shared classified stuff, he hadn't endangered national security or sources and methods within minutes of that meeting. it was the first time we really knew how much his own national security advisors worried when trump was in possession of classified information. so, the history of his mishandling classified material dates back to the earliest days of his presidency, and most of the way we know that he did that was from nonreadouts of meetings with people like vladimir putin, when he went into meetings. so, the mishandling of classified information has gone on for so long, i have so many questions about what it -- and you know, chuck rosenberg explained to me last night that it can't be something he did 18 months ago. the search warrant went before a judge with current concerns, recent criminal activity for which there is probable cause to justify yesterday's search. so, you know, i have a million questions about what it is, and what he was doing with it that represented a thre

mcmaster and dina powell racing out to reassure the public and reporters that trump hadn't leaked anything since they were classified. not sure that is a fact, but you have an incredible new piece of reporting that puts all of this history together, and i want to read some of it, katie benner. you write about meadows' role specifically in standing between trump and his sticky fingers and the national security documents and you write this, meadows assured aides from the hurried packing up of the white house would follow requirements about the press vagsz of documents and he said they would make efforts that they would comply with the records act. the white house emailed all its offices detailing instructions about returning documents and cleaning up spaces. meadows followed up on those moats and encouraged offices to comply and that's according for a person -- he said he would talk to trump including one stance here -- katie, meadows didn't have much confidence and he said he would make efforts to make sure the administration complied. he was sending it to the commercial economic counselor,

mcmaster's, the former u.s.l security adviser talks about strategic narcissism also it's the idea that everything that happens in the world is a reaction to the united states. i think we have to guard against that. we are powerful and there are ripples that go far and wide. not everything that happens in the world because of us and that everything that happens is a reaction to us. our stakeholders have their own interests to pursue regardless of what we do. the only question is how we respond. there are terrorists who just want to kill us as we learned on 9/11 and we might consider that beijing just wants to establish authoritarian control over taiwan the way had they have done wrong. he will push as far as he can go until he hit something hard so i think we need to bring a little humility that not everyone is a reaction to us and some people have agendas. host: hobby air in laredo, texas, republican. caller: good morning. on the situation with the overwhelming stuff at the border , these people coming in and th

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