executed by it turns out the saigon chief of police. americans are looking at this like, what kind of allies are we working with? what kind of monsters are these guys? the guy has a shirt. he looks like a civilian shot point-blank in the head. there's a story. the guy was vietcong and had done some really bad things. it was a spur of the most thing. it's a very chaotic time. the chief of police just shoots the guy. it's interpreted in the united states as, well, our own allies are cold blooded murderers. as it turns out, the photographer took the picture, would write to the chief of police and apologize for taking that picture, which was, from the photographer's perspective, eventually taken out of context by many americans. not to excuse the kind of random use of violence. but the image went along with helping the communist cause in vietnam and hurting the american venture in that same country. do you know who that is? johnson. johnson. presumably, i think it was his son-in-law was in vietnam during the tet offensive. apparently, he is

fell and that the government should arrange to send these refugees back to saigon. valparaiso, a town close to niceville, anxiety about refugees reflected anxiety about economic issues. the stagnating economy and weakening social safety net. we've got enough of our own problems to take care of, said a local barber. one of his customers agreed, they don't even have enough money to take care of social security now and they want to bring in more people. these economic concerns were also in keeping with national sentiment. many americans believe that southeast asian refugees pose an economic burden on the u.s. a survey in june 1975 found that 62% of americans believe that immigrants take jobs away from americans. only 28% believed otherwise. and then there were issues other than economic issues. for one, there is concern about security, about communists slipping in with the refugees. and this sounds a little bit familiar, doesn't it? robert carr, a realtor in nearby valparaiso, feared vietnamese refugees would bring communist infiltrators. how do you know we're not goin

no saigon style departure and that's what we had. >> two things to note about that, finally a critics admitting the same sort of things that happened the last time we evacuated from the war that we lost in vietnam happened in afghanistan. but he did it at the richard nixon presidential library, a monument built to honor a criminal. richard nixon lied his way into the white house in 1968, climbing to have a secret plan to end the war in vietnam. the war went on for seven more years. by the time we're evacuating, richard nixon was in california avoiding prosecution for federal crimes because he pardoned by general gerald ford after richard nixon resigned the presidency. joining us, reuben gagio and a member of the house armed services committee and james, former speech writer for former president jimmy carter. that setting, richard nixon's library, which is where the worst crimes, that's the president who committed the worst crimes of the vietnam war, that's the place where robert o'brien decided to say we shouldn't -- we weren't going to have an evacuation that looked as bad as what h

. >> trump made it very clear in the oval office, no saigon missiles from afghanistan. try, not the existential threat to our country, but we were willing to get out of afghanistan. no saigon style departure from afghanistan. >> to steal -- it has admitted that the same things that happened the last time we evacuated from a war, that we lost, in vietnam, happened in afghanistan. but he did it at the richard nixon presidential library, a monument build to honor a criminal. the war went on for seven more years by the time we were evacuating, richard nixon was in california avoiding prosecution for federal crimes because he was pardoned by president gerald ford after nixon resigned to the presidency. joining us now democratic congressman ruben gallego, of arizona, he is a marine corps combat veteran who served in iraq and he is a member of the house arms service committee and james fallows, a staff writer for the atlanta, former speech writer for president jimmy carter. congressman, let me begin with you. that's setting richard nixon's library, which is where the worst cri

in saigon, they speak vietnamese. now, contrary to everything they've ever done or said, the taliban have promised that this time they're going to respect women's rights, but the crack down has already began. taliban gunmen forced women working there to leave the bank, and told them male relatives could take their place. that's awful. also, not good hiring practice. (as doctor) mr wilson, unfortunately, as a woman, i cannot perform your open-heart surgery today. but you will be in great hands with my cousin dylan. he... uhh, he's not a doctor, but he does have a penis. (applause) because he's the president, president biden's getting a lot of criticism. here's abc's martha raddatz: >> you also had a really massive intelligence failure here that the u.s. did not realize how quickly the taliban could take over. >> stephen: massive intelligence failure. it's gotta sting when people describe your foreign policy the same way they'd describe ron desantis. the white house tried to get ahead of the bad press by releasing this

it could be a saigon. so they're lying through their teeth. but this is part of the puzzle you don't know about but i'm going to help you fill it in next week. i met with ghani and members of his cabinet, i think it was in july.. and they told me and other senators how frustrated they were with the biden administration because they wouldn't give them a straight story about how much aid we would provide, and when air support would end. i've been told that the afgans were told by the biden administration, you could not count on any air support after august 31st. now, that's a big deal because that spread throughout the afgan military. they were trained to fight with american air support behind them, and we took that off the table. so they're lying through their teeth about what they did and when they did it. >> sean: i keep showing this map. you've seen it many times. i'll air it again. and it shows, you know, we go back to april, and may, and june, and july. and you see large portions of the country falling

she moved from paris to saigon. she had zero experience as a photographer. she's in her mid- 20s it was 1966. she is essentially a high school dropout yet by her own work and outsiders view of humane look at photography, she took amazing photographs and became the first woman to win the board for photography and robert capa gold medal award, a conflict reporter. the next woman don is fixed dollars, an american. she's the most privileged by a long shot, a blue blood background, intellectual family of wealth and prestige, her dad was a cia director and her mother was a democratic party activist and socialite. she arrived on her own, no job, a couple of guys ideas for freelancing and she ended up taking a completely different view of vietnam, the vietnam war looking at the vietnamese review, be enemies history across the landscape and culturn and the people and what the war was doing to it. her work eventually led her to writing fire in the lake, the enemies and american vietnam which one every work possible in 1972. she was 31 years old. families intellectual,

capturing was already accomplished pianist, parachutist when she arrived in saigon. and she was the only journalist it turns out male or female, photographer or writer or reporter who was qualified to jump with the hundred 73rd brigade in the only aerosol of the war. look at her. she's barely 5 feet tall, weighs about 87 pounds but she's hurt equipment almost over taser. she's got three cameras around her neck. my husband who is an accomplished parachutist and a veteran said he can't believe she could jump the cameras didn't fly her face but she did jump. and next slide please. while she jumped he tookthese amazing photos . taking photographs with all three cameras while she's jumping into, so. she ran and she writes in her diary that is the softest landing he ever had and she was used two jumping over the burgundy countryside. needless to say that photograph has been reproduced everywhere. next slide please. this is one of her dress. she said, she's small. finally, whatever word you want to use. she used her size and her almost there abilities to get as close as she

there's an example of a huge difference where this fell in seven days and afghan and saigon, saigon wertant. for instance, the curfew, it's hard to say what the counter factual would be if you didn't put the curfew in place. here, we had invested for 20 years in an afghan government, in an afghan army. we were getting out. and you had the president of afghanistan say, do not start removing all the interpreters now. don't make a mad rush for the exit, because if you do, confidence in the government will drop. confidence in the army will drop and we'll collapse. and if you're leaving, if the united states is leaving and this is the government that's staying behind to fight the taliban, you got to give deference to the president of afghanistan. yes, we know what happened at the end of the day. but all the people squawking on twitter right now every 15 seconds attacking joe biden for listening to the president of afghanistan at that point, saying don't do that. you know, it's very easy to do that. it is extraordinarily complicated to figure out what would have happened. we will never know.

already and accomplished pianist and parachutist when she arrived in saigon. she was the only journalist who turned out, male or female, photographer or writer or reporter who qualified with the 173rdad brigade and the only aerosol in the world look at her, she is about 87 pounds, her equipment almost overtakes her, she's got three cameras around her neck. my husband, and accomplished parachutist said he can't believe she could jump in cameras didn't fly in her face but she did jump and next slide, please. while she jumped, she took amazing photographs. taking photographs with cameras while jumping into a combat zone, she lands and writes in her diary, the softest landing she'd ever had and she was used to jumping over the countryside. needless to say, that photograph has been reproduced everywhere. next slide, please. this is one of her iconic photographs. as i said, she's small, petite, tiny, whatever word you want to use.us she used her size and her almost acrobatic abilities to get as close as she could to her subjects even in the middle of combat. this is

she flew from paris to saigon . she had zero experience as a photographer. she's in her mid-20s. it was 1956. she was a essentially a high school dropout. yet by her own work and her outsiders view of certified humane look at photography, she took amazing photographs and became the first woman to win the george book award for photography and the robert the gold medal award which is the thing for a young reporter. the next woman down is francesfitzgerald, an american . she is the most privileged by a longshot of my three women. she's a blue blood wasp background. intellectual, family of wealth and prestige. her dad was a cia director. her mother was a democratic party activist and socialite. she arrived on her own, no job. with a couple of ideas for freelancing and she ended up taking a completely different view of vietnam. the vietnam war, looking at the vietnamese point of view, the vietnamese history. the landscape, the culture and the people and what the war was doing to it . her work eventually led to writing fire in the lake, the vietnamese and americans in vietnam which was

post office in saigon as the general dao post office and this renaming would mean so much to those in the vietnamese american community which i am so proud to represent. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> madam speaker, i ask to address the house for one minute and vise rise and revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you. today i rise in support of the infrastructure proposal. this week the president said his build back better agenda cost zero dollars and adds zero dollars to the national debt and with all due respect, i disagree. the c.b.o.'s record says it will add $398 billion to the deficit. mr. baird: further, this multitrillion partisan spending spree is projected to add as much as $1.75 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. this bill only generates less than 10% of the multitrillion dollar price tag to highways, bridges and other projects, less than 10%. last month's republicans offered our own counter bill, the starter

, then the capitol of vietnam, save saigon from attack. president forward mentioned none of that. the third president that week, president minh tried to achieve a cease-fire but the air base was bombed by north vietnamese pilots, rocket attacks on the airport followed in which u.s. marines charles mcmahon and darwin judge were killed, becoming the last two americans killed in combat in vietnam, their bodies were left in the hospital in saigon by mistake. president forward did not say one word about their deaths, not one word. because the americans couldn't use the airport anymore, they used helicopters touching down on the tops of some buildings, which could not bare the weight of the helicopter, so the helicopters had to whoever as the people clamored aboard without being checked in, who they were or what if anything they had done during the war to help the american effort. i mentioned vietnam tonight as i have been from the start of the evacuation from afghanistan because it is the only model, the only model we have for an evacuation fro

reports have been president biden's out there and set it not going to be saigon or any chaos, we areng to pull out all americans, biden and his team circulates talking points among the media and allies trapped behind enemy lines think it's in their best interest thing biden joseph leadership. let's show you what is going on out of the white house. >> i think it's irresponsible saying there strata, they are not. >> there are no americans stranded. this position was happening in afghanistan. >> we are stranding americans in afghanistan. >> there's a small number of americans, under 200, might be closer to 100 will remain in afghanistan and want to leave. >> americans understand we are going toe try to get it done before. >> but if we don't -- >> will determine at the time who's left and if there is american citizens left, we are i going to get them all out. liz: we are not saying right now to pull out, n we are relying on the telegram, we've never been hereon before of americans stranded behind caroline's. >> i don't know if this is the first time ever in history but the reality the la

a french photojournalist to pave their own way to vietnam she flew from paris to saigon she had zero experience as a photographer in her mid- twenties. and was a high school dropout that yet by her own work and her outsiders view she took amazing photographs and became the first woman to win the torch pork award for photography and theh gold-medal award. the next woman down is the most privilege by a longshot of a blueblood wasp background intellectual family of wealth. as a cia director she arrived on her own, no job and she ended up taking a completely different view of vietnam and the vietnam war looking at the vietnamese point if you and the vietnamese history. and what the war was doing. it actually led her to writing fire in the lake. that won every award possible in 1972. she was 31 years old at the bottom is an australian a family of intellectuals born in new zealand raised inec australia and then with her typewriter no job. yet work a very different path as a combat reporter into the cambodians and theth vietnamese telling the story that had a human dimension the others hadn

immigrant communities, especially those who fled communism, those who came here after the fall of saigon and so forth and they are , really concerned. can we trust the united states leadership in the world? i think what has happened in the last few weeks and the last month, what we are seeing, is that under u.s. leadership, america's standing in the world has been eroding. despite all these challenges, i have to say america is strong and we will come out of this. we still have leadership in the world. we will show that the united states can lead, and i would like to echo my colleague's comments that my friends in korea, my korean american community, and those who are watching, united states commitment is in south korea. we are there as a deterrent to any potential conflict in the peninsula. i want to assure you that we are -- as long as we are in congress, serving as part of this congressional study groups as members, and cochair of the exchange group. we will be there to lend our voice and to be your advocate, and please trust us. united states can lead, and we will lead once again, and

immigrant communities, especially those who fled communism, those who came here after the fall of saigon, and they are really concerned. can we trust the united states leadership in the world? why have been the last few weeks and the last month, what we are seeing, is that under u.s. leadership, america's standing in the world has been eroding. despite all these challenges, i have to say america is strong and we will come out of this. we still have leadership in the world. we will show that the united states can lead, and i would like to echo my colleague's comments that my friends in korea, my korean american community, and those who are watching, united states commitment is in south korea. we are there as a deterrent to any potential conflict in the peninsula. i want to assure you that we are part of this congressional study groups as members, and cochair of the exchange group. we will be there to be your advocate, and please trust us. united states can lead, and we will lead once again, and we will show that we can come out of these difficult challenges. >> thank you for those comment

the fall of saigon and joe biden has been committed to this analogy. vietnam and we can get away with ban doning afghanistan. if in fact the taliban takes hostages not just the ones republicans call hostages but literally rounds up these people and says open up the spitting of aid for these kinds of things. you are not looking like vietnam analogy but iran analogy and jimmy carter's presidency was morally wounded by the hostage crisis and we could have a much bigger one on our hands because we don't know the nuns on numbers who are there and whether they can get out. >> bret: we are going to follow it every day. we're not going to turn the page on that. we are going to talk about the california gubernatorial recall next. listen to charles krauthammer, charles krauthammertalking about biden in 2012. >> the vice president has been over the last 30 years hold the american record for wrong on the most issues in foreign affairs ever. and the list starts with the nuclear freeze in the early 1980s against thatcher and reagan and coal which sun before the foll

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echoed throughout the vietnamese-american community, recalling harrowing images from the fall of saigont really horrifying stories of how they got out of vietnam, how they lost family members along the way. and the vietnamese flag being pulled down, people rushing to the airport trying to leave with the last military plane. people handing their babies over into the plane so at least the babies would have a better life somewhere else. >> reporter: over the next two decades, more than 1 million south asians would seek safe haven in america. thuy was 9 years old when her family came to the u.s. in the '80s after years of trying to escape communist rule. >> when i look at abdul's kids, i see myself in them 30 years ago. so the obvious biggest challenge was language. we didn't speak english. i could count to 10. i knew dog, pig, cat. i knew the abcs. and that was it. i remember a lot of uncertainty, a lot of unconnectivity. i'm not sure i would describe it as fear, just a lot of hesitancy. >> reporter: thuy hopes to lessen the obstacles she encountered for this new wave of refugees. we asked

and you explicitly told the committee that in your professional opinion, you did not see saigon, 975 in afghan, a stan. so i'm just trying to figure out why we missed or it from a public perception. it appears that we didn't anticipate the rapid fall of cop afghanistan and cobble and the rise of the taliban. and the way we sought play out on television. and what did we miss? i think center, we absolutely missed the rapid 11 day collapse of the afghan military and the collapse or their government. i think there was a lot of intelligence that clearly indicated that after we withdrew that it was a likely outcome of a collapse with the military and collapse of the government. most of those intelligence assessments indicated that that would occur late fall, perhaps early winter cobble might hold till next spring. it depends on when the, until the assessment was written. so after we leave, the assessments were pretty consistent that you didn't see a general collapse of the government any military while we were there though. up through 31 august. i don't, there's no intel assessment that sa

know, we have the famous photos of the helicopter leaving, you know, the, the roof of the embassy in saigon. and joe biden said that wasn't going to happen. you know, we had a helicopter leaving the embassy in couple like the next day. so yeah, americans don't like to to be involved and lose american lives and then have it turn out not to be a very positive outcome that happening vietnam. and it happened unfortunately here and off canister. do you think that other administrations bear responsibility for the crisis that unfortunate enough ghana stun, george w bush beginning the whereas as you say the what were the war in terror? and then you had perhaps donald trump reaching withdrawal agreement with the taliban. that didn't very much for me. i think the question she has to know, but obviously you have the george bush administration, in spite administration and trumped up maintain the american presence there. we just made a miscalculation at the beginning that we were going to be able to change and how i how afghan stan operated. i think the president bush, when he went in there and we went

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military withdrawal would be pretty orderly and there wouldn't be a saigon moment. he said that in july where we would be evacuating people off the roof like we had do in vietnam in 1975. clearly the images weave seen from kabul show that, you know, biden was completely wrong about that and they hadn't anticipated that the taliban might sweep through the whole country, seize all these provincial capitals and walz in kabul the biden administration put too much faith in the afghan army and police forces they thought they could hold them off for a few months if not longer. but despite the billions of dollars we spent to prop up that government, they collapsed very suddenfully just a matter of days. yamiche: and your nodding your head here, courtney. we left about 200 americans behind. how do we get those people out? and is the corporation with the taliban going to be part of that? courtney: there's no way that the taliban won't have some role in getting these americans out appeared any afghans that are hoping to get out people who are at high risk in afghanistan right

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led to the assassination of the president and his brother, and of 24 hour period, the center of saigon was zone. the press retreated in effect that the caravel hotel. and many of the story is mentioned we were saying was from the caravel. ah! done is pledge $1000000000.00 in aid for going to be on warm future. economic collapse is still possible. ah, hello molly, inside this is al jazeera light dough. so coming up your bizarre bidding bug room feel live directly to 13 right. range, murdered, cobble. you should resign a grilling from politicians section of state to the blank and defend the us, pull out off on investigating claims or patrol these in ethiopia, ti gray region a you and report find both sides of the conflict are to blame a decades long dream becomes a reality in landmark get to make over ah, often urgent appeal, defend all for humanitarian crisis. international donors has pledged more than a $1000000000.00 for afghan stone. foreign aid has dried up since the taliban took the last month with poverty and hunger worsening every day. but as our diplomatic edison james bay's rep

no, joshua, when, when gerald ford was president, he witnessed the evacuation of saigon. he, his poll numbers dropped to me as a result, but months later, they lifted up again. i just have to wonder how much it's baked in here. you know, there's a big debate about how the us should proceed and interact with the taliban. how. what would be a realist way of doing it? okay, not a partisan one, not to score points against this guy or that party. what would be a realist policy in dealing with the present status quo in afghanistan? go ahead. well, it's quite clear that this new government wants to engage with america. they do not want the enmity of america. america still has leverage. we're holding that $10000000000.00 of further their there. there are an exchange account with a lot of aid is america can turn offer on much of a foreign aid and the attitude of europe towards afghanistan. so we hold some cards, but we have to do that realistically. we're not going to overturn this government. we're not going to shape the government in the future. this is going to be a taliban gov

folks have compared it to the fall of saigon and the people brought out in just a short. there. -- the short period there. that doesn't account for the hundred thousand plus who were brought out in a more orderly fashion. in terms of the actual logistics of the military mission, this was a fairly impressive airlift that mobilized a lot of people. the problem was what came before. the disorganized fashion, the number of folks who had to scramble at the last moment, why were they not route in june or may? -- brought out in june or may question mark -- may? a lot of it will depend on the stories coming out in the coming weeks. the message we are hearing from the state department right now is folks who came to the airport were vetted and let through. but we've also heard plenty of stories from folks on the ground saying they couldn't get through, the taliban blocked them. the various checkpoints made unsustainable to stay out there. or they feared so much what they would encounter in terms of beatings, threats that they did not leave you now they are trapped behind. it will t

abandonment in the sense of afghanistan was his cat as a cataclysmic if and uninterrupted as that from saigon in 1975. but in defense of biden, i suppose how else where they're going to ever get out. and i think it was never going to be pretty. and inevitably, whether they like it or not, they're going to leave countless people behind who would undoubtedly become victims of the of the taliban. or in the case of south vietnamese vietnam, of the, of the viet cong in the north. and me is so, but it's business of snobbery. i think it's true. i mean, i think, you know, i think a big part. i mean, i think the trump cohort, if you will, the supporters were not nearly as monolithic as they were often depicted as, as they were reduced to caricature. there is something on the left, particularly in the sort of woke orthodoxy that is particularly infected. the universities were all words walk on egg shells and there's a kind of a almost tear radical orthodoxy of opinion. that if you deviate from you are not only wrong, you are demonized. and this is, i'm not a university professor. i can, i can say that

s critics, midnight monday in kabul didn't look like the fall of saigon.end of the vietnam war has been, but the coda to an engagement which began thousands of miles away above the streets of manhattan, the pentagon and a field in pennsylvania. that anniversary, 9/11, will be marked for the 20th time next saturday. as americans and others look to their grief, what awaits the people of afghanistan? eunice, a government different from the one that the taliban led before it was deposed 20 years ago, or is it really the same old ideology and the same old approach to ordinary life? well, i think it's very early— to make any assessment of the nature of the new taliban regime. are they really different? are they new? |they've been very busy on a very| massive, and to a certain extent, successful pr campaign trying to convince the west - that they are more modern, you know, they like drinking cappuccinos, - they would like to have cafesj serving cappuccinos in kabul, they are very good at using social media they are not going to crack down on people watching telev

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