. >> and andy sheehan said me a few things to scales of stuff and how to read music. then i had a crazy cousin. cousin leroy. leroy played the piano but he played boogie woogie. he showed me how to [ music ] anyway, i got into it, you know and once i hear the boogie woogie. i was gone. >> that was it? >> that was it. all over for me. >> and what does your dad do? >> my dad loved the music so much. he would go and buy the roars. my mom didn't buy any. >> right. >> and he would get the records by i voro. >> reporter: hap a nat king cold. -- ivory johanna and nat king cole. i would sit there and listen to him for hours. >> it was great? >> yeah. >> how did you manage to get with people like lou rawls and bb king. esther phillips? >> at the time, there was a club owned by don barksdale. >> i remember him. >> it was caught called the show i case and there were two clubs. the showcase and sportsman. >> okay. >> and he would say bobby buble in one club and low remarks awls at the other. -- lou rawls at the other. and i got to play with everybody who was big, you know. they c

chairman. >> thank you, senator sheehan. before i recognize here, at conclusion of senator wicker's questioning, we will adjourn, 1:00 adjournment a little early, couple minutes and promptly return at 1:30, senator wicker, please. >> general mckenzie, let me ask you, as i understand it, primary missions in afghanistan was training the afghan armed forces. we also equipped them with approximately 83 billion dollars in military equipment, but we always provided them extensive support in the form of intelligence and surveillance, air support, logistics, including contract aircraft maintenance and special advisors. general mckenzie were afghans ever trying to fight taliban without u.s. support of any kind? >> senator, some elements of the afghan military can fight very well with our support, some elite commands. other elements were unable to do that and as we began to withdraw support during the withdrawal operation, we began to see the effects of that. we shifted to over the horizon model for aviation maintenance, that difficul

on record son sheehan -- enric a suncion and bloomberg's at right low.us has reported to keep production ramp-up's, that is 400,000 barrels a day. their next meeting will be october 4. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: live from new york, i am alix steel. this is "the european close." the next 24 hours there's still a lot happening. and just moments atlanta fed president raphael bostic will be speaking. president biden will be meeting with the president of ukraine. earnings coming out from chewy and cosco sales and revenues always a good barometer for the consumer. stay with the consumer tomorrow for u.s. initial jobless claims. jobs numbers coming on friday. additional -- initial jobless claims have been moving lower but there is such a demand for workers, it is confusing. u.s. factory and durable goods will be coming as well, plus earnings from broadcom. one more big event we are watching this week. our amazing, fantastic line producer nicole would getting married on sunday. there she is with her fiance joe. nicole is the one that is obsessed with disney. whe

before president biden took office, you thought it you told senator sheehan that you thought it needed to come to an end. and you testified that general miller had adequate resources to secure afghanistan. but you told senator holly you want today assess the situation to make recommendations to the president. is that the direction that you got from him? >> again, my recommendations were part of a very deliberate process where we presented a range of options for the president. if i could, i would like to go back to the first comment about the question they answered for a report near asked why don't you go out and accomplish create safe passage ways for people to move into the airport. at that early point early on, we had less than 4,000, or about 4,000 troops to secure and defend the airport. and our true presence continued to grow as we flew people in. we used a number of innovative approaches to go out and pick up and facility the entry of american citizens into the airport as the situation continued to develop. >> thank you we're all talking about did president biden know all of this

. >> sending kamala to help gavin is like asking charlie sheehan to be your sponsor at aa. >> harris: in david avila and leslie marshall. david, i will start with you and just get your top line thoughts on this. >> kamala harris going to california won't have nearly the impact that the ballot harvesting that democrats will do will have on this election. you remember, harris, ballots can show up 17 days after election day into election officials and they still get to be counted. democrats in california have made it the essential part of their playbook of having folks go out and collect ballots. doesn't have to be a family member or even know the person to be able to collect ballots and turn them in for folks. there is no limit to the number of ballots one person can turn in. so you factor that in and you also factor in can republicans do better in 2021, better than they did in 2020 in some of the key areas outside of riverside if that's the case? we have a really good chance and certainly i know there are a number of republicans complaining about the vice president going out there but

20 years since 9/11, but you have a team now, a coordination with people posted overseas and mike sheehanart of creating the federal presence working with nypd. tell me how things have changed. >> first of all, i'm not at the department any longer, but they carry on and they're doing a great job. >> i know. >> tom van essen was a real hero on 9/11. they lost 343 firefighters, just an incredible number and they persevered. but where are we now? when we came in, the bloomberg administration we were behind the times as far as technology was concerned and we were still using white out and carbon paper and we knew we had to be in the fight. the largest police department in the country and the most diverse police department ask of course, we had the first attack on the world trade center and i was commissioner then, and i was just infuriated by it, but we had to join the fray and we brought experts from the federal government and we brought in david cohn from the cia, frank from the marine corps. we brought in analysts from the ivy league to go through the information that we gathered and we pu

on january the 19th you told my colleague senator sheehan, quote, i think this conflict needs to come to an end and we need to see an agreement reached and in accordance with what the p president-elect wants to see. you said general miller and general milley had enough assets and you told others that you wanted to make recommendations to the president and others. did you give advice to the president on the withdrawal of afghanistan without conditions or is that the direction that you got from him? >> again, my recommendations were a part of a very deliberate process where we present a range of options for the president, and if i could, senator, i would like to go back to the first comment that you made about the -- the question that i answered for a reporter who asked why don't you go out and establish cordons and create safe passageways for our people just to -- just to move into the airport? at that point early on in -- in our deployment, we only had -- we had less than 4,000 or about 4,000 troops to secure and defend the airport, and our troop presence continued to grow as we flowe

shearer linda june sheehan hagay shefi antionette m.herry atsushi shiratori thomas joseph shubert mark shulman see wong shum allan abraham shwartzstein clarin shellie siegel-schwartz johanna sigmund dianne t. signer gregory sikorsky stephen gerard siller david silver craig a. silverstein nasima h. simjee bruce edward simmons diane m. simmons donald d. simmons george w. simmons arthur simon kenneth alan simon >> and my husband. mark, your whole family loves you and misses you every single day. your legacy lives on in your three children, they are so much like you. i can still feel you watching over us and i will love you forever. >> and my father, joseph p mcdonald, i miss you every day and wish you were here to experience all of life's moments. i miss your smile, hugs, and hearing never ending jokes. seven years was not enough time together but i am grateful for my memories and the stories that i hear about you from my family members, which makes me feel like you are still here. i love you, and i try my best to live up to your legacy ev

shearer >> linda june sheehan >> hagay shefi >> antionette m. shiratori >> thomas joseph shubert >> mark shulman >> see wong shum >> allan abraham shwartzstein >> clarin shellie siegel-schwartz >> johanna sigmund >> dianne t. signer >> gregory sikorsky >> stephen gerard siller >> david silver >> craig a. silverstein >> nasima h. simjee >> bruce edward simmons >> diane m. simmons >> donald d. simmons >> george w. simmons >> arthur simon >> kenneth alan simon >> and my husband. mark, your whole family loves you and misses you every single day. your legacy lives on in your three children -- i can feel you watching over us. i will love you forever. >> and my father, joseph p mcdonald. i miss you every day in which you were here to experience all of life's moments with me. i miss your smile, your hubs and your never jokes. seven years was not enough time together. but i am grateful of the memories and stories i hear from family members. it makes me feel like you are still here. i love you and i try my best to live up to your legacy every day. >> mich