On Monday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Sam Aronson, a State Department official during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, stated that he arrived to "complete chaos" where "rules on the ground didn't necessarily match the reality" and he had to learn "how to hotwire cars, hotwire buses in case I needed to get people to safety" and kept flashbang grenades in his pocket, "in case we had to fight for our lives."