joe biden seems to care less. take a look. >> when you see what happened over the last week was it a failure of planning, execution, or judgment? >> look, it was a simple choice, george. >> we've all seen the pictures, hundreds of people packed into a c-16. we've seen afghans -- >> that was four days ago, five days ago. >> what did you think when you first saw those pictures? >> i thought, we have to gain control of this. we have to move this more quickly. we have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport. and we did. >> you don't think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? >> no, i don't think it could have been handled in a way -- we're going to go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there is a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don't know how that happens. i don't know how that happens. >> so for you that was always part of it? >> yes. >> sean: joe, let me ask you, when you saw the taliban was on the march and took over 10% of the country

the only thing biden seems to care about is joe biden and those close to joe biden making money. now come august 31st, that is seven days from now, i fear that those left behind will face certain death. here with reaction, two individuals from afghanistan now in the united states, ahmad worked with the u.s. for two years as a translator and his wife is currently trapped in kabul. we are disguising his name and identity for her safety. will you tell us your story? >> yeah, actually, my wife, she just made her way to the airport last wednesday. she couldn't make it inside there because the taliban don't let the afghans get into the airport. they don't even let u.s. citizens enter the airport, but she made it to the airport and she was -- there and after three days she couldn't manage to get on board to the plane, so she had to come back home, but i am still worrying about her, that after the deadline, 31st of august -- >> sean: i didn't hear you correctly, let me ask you, did she leave the airport? did i hear you correctly? >> yeah, she had to return home, back, because she couldn'

he doesn't resign, joe biden should be impeached. i get what many of you are saying, kamala harris spent, ladies and gentlemen, it can't get any worse right now. the decisions this man is making when he's conscious or catastrophic and costing people lives and relationships and reputation of the united states. the damage right now is incalculable. i have another message. during the trump years we had all the time in the intelligence community, donald trump wakes up and drink diet coke in the morning, whatever it was. we need more. we need people to start telling the truth. when did the president know, did he do it anyway? there's only two possible scenarios right now, but the president was want that or he wasn't. it's simple, isn't it? 's simple equation. now some people are starting to speak out and i'm glad you're doing it. we need more. you may have seen this explosive article in the "wall street journal" later in the week, the state department warned almost collapsed. what did joe biden do? did he ignore it, did he care? did he re

we didn't hear from president biden until monday and he did not take questions, biden's abc interview raised questions about the team's decision-making skills. it wasn't until late this morning that the president's team realized he shouldn't head to his delaware beach house today. he will reportedly go tomorrow instead. after hearing his news conference today, we can conclude the biden white house and cabinet are members of the gang that can't shoot or talk straight. they are basketcase teeming with contradictions and incompetence. after a week of mixed messages biden epstein still isn't even on the same page. >> what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone? >> we know that al qaeda is a presence in afghanistan. >> it is now clear biden is being kept in the dark by his team, completely lost touch with reality. >> criticize not to withdraw the conduct of that withdrawal and made them question their credibility. >> i've seen nothing like that. i've not seen that, the opposite. we are acting with dispatch committing to what we said we would do. >> someone shou

do you think joe biden is down? to see diminished or stubborn? what is going on with the commander-in-chief? >> all of the above. first talk about the marines and the families going through terrible grief right now. that is a tough job when you have to be that kcal - - see acl and then you have to tell the families. we are not compromising the people on the ground here is a very brief summary of what is happening on the ground 13 flag draped coffins arrived at dover air force base this morning telling the president has a card in his pocket to remind him somebody should have met the aircraft even though the formal presentation for the families is set for tomorrow. a group of brave and exhausted americans have been trying to get hundreds of pre- manifested then and women and children including american citizens to get them out through aggie at the kubul airport with political military establishment in the pentagon could not get them out it took the president of the united states to authorize a gate to be opened and because of our in action giving u

i hope that president biden is up to the task. today he's demonstrated that in afghanistan he's failed. the incompetence of the administration has been tragic, will have long-lasting implications. i hope they are able to ride the ship and get this right. i know that every american wishes that for our own country. maria: of course, and we are all patriots. thank you very much for weighing in this morning. we will talk soon along the lay. former secretary mike pompeo, coming up will president biden's massive blunders in afghanistan blow up his tax and spend economic agenda in washington. nancy pelosi still pushing for passage having called the house of representatives back tomorrow to vote. house minority leader mccarthy is here and weigh in on priorities and dangerous state of affairs right now. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last

without biden. surrogates like terry mcauliffe will give democrats credit for the infrastructure bill and attack republicans. this makes me of the stevie nicks to her. it's announced, that she's not coming. neither is joe biden. if you're wondering why he's not appearing on his own bus tour, well, this is the president celebrating if a structure spending today with governors. >> laura: [laughs] >> you know, i think sort of breaking through this first, uh... big barrier in a bipartisan way, i really believe that it doesn't make everything easy, but it does have a way -- it has an effect on other things. and the highways that are being repaired. or build, and, you know -- for michigan, if i'm looking at my notes here, thank you for what you've done and continue to do. >> the problem is he wasn't talking to jennifer. he was talking to michigan governor gretchen whitmer. he thought it was his energy secretary. but, you know, uh, checking my notes, laura, uh, it happens. >> laura: it's easy to get all th

with the biden administration. if you look at is overall it really seems like there is a lot more here than just trying to keep americans safe. the reality is that this is so much about control. if you are trying to socialize a country and ultimately turn america into a socialist nation, then maybe you go along and you see just how far you can push people, how long can you lock people down, how long you can make everyone wear masks, hello you can make our kids in school wear masks. gosh, are we going to have to have a vaccine passport to drive on the interstate? it is ludicrous that anyone is suggesting this, especially whenever we have a fully open southern border with over 200,000 apprehensions we know of last month alone with covid positive people flowing over our southern borders, going throughout the country. yet the american people are being punished. it seems like if you wanted to get away with anything, quite frankly, just come over to the southern border and you've got a free pass. >> leo: absolutely. dr.

do we have any sense of what president biden will say? >> reporter: this will be the first time that we hear from president biden since the stun e stunning fall of kabul and amid these images of these hur riied evacuations from that city. people clinging to u.s. air force planes. what we can expect to hear is he will outline the rationale for ending this nearly two decades long conflict, withdrawing american troops from there before this fall of kabul that we saw here. you can expect him to go into his decision making here, expressing as officials have told us in recent days that the president is not experiencing any second thoughts, any regrets about his decision here. the real question is whether or not president biden will address the failure here. the failure to anticipate the speed of this taliban advance fp failure to anticipate how quickly these afghan government forces who have been backed with billions of dollars in funding and training and equipment over these last 20 years by the united states. how quickly they crumbled. that's

yes, joe biden too, fired. breaking tonight, 90, count the numbers, 90 retired generals in admirals are also calling on millie and austin to resign in if biden had frankly any honor at all, if he even knew what day it is, he would resign himself right now great leaving americans behind and putting their lives ins the hands of terrorists in this case, the taliban, and probably isis k and al qaeda, it's beyond heartless it's cruel, it is unacceptable. this is not the american way. according to a new abc news full, the vast majority of americans don't we don't get 84 percent of americans to agree out much at all. up but 84 percent agree u.s. troops should have stayed behind until every single american was evacuated. 71 percent say we should have stayed to make sure every ally of ours is evacuated. also, because we promised them that. our word is supposed to be our bond. not that they necessarily come here, but we get them out of there. no it could have been done. it should haveve been done parte have the most powe

biden and his son's behavior in ukraine. they were holding this eight hostage. in terms -- aid hostage. in terms of the u.s. or the ship with russia, that is a huge concern in ukraine. they want the u.s. to tell vladimir putin to back off. they are worried about nord stream 2, championed by germany that could make it much harder for the ukrainian economy continue to be strong. ukraine wants more weapons and foreign aid to help stave off russian aggression. host: he covers the white house for politico. thank you for the update. our opening topic this first hour is about the withdrawal deadline of u.s. troops from afghanistan. (202) 748-8001 four republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. (202) 748-8003 for afghan vets. caller: good morning. you have been a light in the darkness. the first thing i like to say is biden is doing the best job he possibly can. any republican does not have a leg to stand on to say a word about what he is doing after what trump did in syria and the republicans never said a

take a look. >> this moment is what for joe biden, president biden? >> in many ways, i think of john kennedy and the bay of pigs. it unfolded quickly and the president thought that everything would be fine, and that was not the case, but president kennedy took responsibility for what took place and i strongly recommend to president biden that he take responsibility, admit the mistakes that were made. >> sean: joining us with reaction, lieutenant colonel oliver north. he spent a lot of time on the ground in vietnam and in afghanistan. i can only imagine what military families are feeling tonight. those that served multiple tours. hose that lost loved ones. those that came home with extensive permanent injuries. your take on all of this? >> well, this is biden's biggest blunder, it's his saigon moment. since 2001, since you're talking about those who served there, more than 780,000 u.s. troops have been deployed to afghanistan. more than 2,300 died. and nearly 20,600 were wounded and we're still counting. there are more than 50,000 afghan military and s

is biden lying to us about these things or are they telling biden and biden as forgetting something somehow is unable to address them to the american people? wherever the answer is, it not a good one and there's a good reason i think so many, pulling shows so many americans are deeply concerned about our situation right now. >> and the underlying question, you hit the nail on the head, what did the administration know, when did they know it and why was there such a disconnect? the pentagon press secretary john colby set two days before kabul fell the city was not in any imminent threat and that was a true statement backbend based on what they knew then but benjamin hall was in kabul and afghanistan in november on the ground on camera telling us how close kabul was to falling from at the taliban was essentially taking over the roads in that part of the region at night, targeting opposition, killing people that might so did our intelligence just fail us or did something go awry here? >> we have to wonder if this is being seen through a prism because reports on the ground were saying that this

biden: i do. >> [indiscernible] pres. biden: i'm sorry? >> [indiscernible] pres. biden: i don't think they need to do that, they just need to give the authority of those businesses to say in order to commend you have to prove you have been vaccinated. >> can i ask about the news of the day, governor cuomo. your calling for him to resign. do you think he should be prosecuted? what is your message to the women who have now accused him? pres. biden: what i said was if the investigation by the attorney general concluded that the allegations were correct, back in march, i would recommend he resign. that is what i'm doing today. i have not read the report. i do not know the details. >> [indiscernible] >> the eviction moratorium, can you explain more why it took so long to have a possible eviction moratorium put in place? this expired saturday, i am wondering about the folks who say it took too long for this to happen. pres. biden: the courts made it clear that the existing moratorium was not constitutional. it wouldn't stand. they made that clear in july. in the meantim

it wasn't president biden. but my point that they would like for you to bring -- give, i notice that c-span always broadcasting republican events. but you had a major marge on washington yesterday about voting rights and it was not aired on c-span. host: that's not true, milton. you weren't watching we aired it. we were there. caller: i didn't see it up there. host: well, we were there. cue the picture on "the washington post." protect your power. and marge on washington for voting rights yesterday. we covered it. go to our website. c-span.org. milton mentions the taliban. this is what president biden had to say a week ago on his view of that group. >> do you trust them now? president biden: i don't trust anybody including you, i love you. but there's not a lot of people i trust. look, the taliban has a -- the taliban has to make a fundamental decision. is the taliban going to attempt to be able to unite and provide for the well-being of the people of afghanistan, which no one group has ever done since before f

accordingly, because joe biden's decision to defy u.s. law, to defy the overwhelming bipartisan consensus of congress, to surrender to vladimir putin, to give him his number one priority, a multibillion-dollar pipeline that will provide billions of dollars of rewards for russia for decades to come, because that decision is a generation algae owe political mistake, on the order of magnitude of jimmy carter's giving away the panama canal, that even 50 years later the consequences of that geopolitical mistake still reverberates, 50 years from now, russian dictators will benefit from joe biden's weakness on russia. because that strengthens russia, because it empowers russia to attack our enemies to, to extort our enemies, to engage in blackmail against our allies, because our allies are begging us not to do this -- i met with senior officials of the ukraine. the ukraine is begging us not to do this and the biden white house is threatening ukraine keep your mouth shut because we have a political objective here, because that strengthens russia

dan: this is a biden created disaster. we had a perfectly functioning fairfield, what kind of idiot sleeves that behind in a landlocked country? just a military guy, smart man. there are no ports in afghanistan. even worse, it's surrounded by hostile countries. it's a small border with china surrounded by pakistan which has shielded the taliban for years and you can't swim out of afghanistan. hundred and 80 forfeits an airfield to try to secure one in a 4 million populated city surrounded by friends and folk? who does that? >> and 80 wrong about everything who's obsessed with whatever dedication he has to ending it and we all want to end it but just like a seven-game series, seven-game series you can play all seven games and sometimes all the last shot in the last 30 seconds. as all history will often remember. how we executed bungled this and created -- we've created a legitimized terran state. we have a legitimized taliban making them effectively the guards of our voice the same let the isis bomber through. now we've got

joe biden wasn't vetted. no one voted for joe biden. it was a vote against donald trump. you end up with an empty suit. and incapable of handing a cry us you yourself create. but it's more dangerous than carnival music would imply. we have planes flying over kabul. we have americans stranded. you have beheading. but the biden administration didn't imagine any of that. this is what you get when you vote against someone instead of for someone. jesse: probably the craziest teacher we have ever seen on fox news. she is a chemistry teacher at the alpine school district. she is blasting students and their parents. >> we'll just getting variants over and over until people get vaccinated. i hate donald trump. i am going to say it. i don't care what y'all think. turn off the fox news. this is my classroom. if you are going to put me at risk you are going to hear about it. because i have to be here. most of y'all parents are dumber than you. i'm going to say it out loud. my parents are freaking dumb. okay? i could go off on your parents if you want me to. but i'm not going to. if y

i would argue and the bidens copper mines based on the money that hunter biden god and his admission that they have compromising materials as adam schiff said. we see these cyberattacks against this country. joe biden then grants vladimir putin a waiver to do a multibillion-dollar deal with our western european allies while simultaneously canceling our own keystone xl pipeline and eliminating high career paying jobs and offers him a summit and i'm trying to understand why we would reward that behavior. can you explain it? >> this is bad national security policy and bad economic policy. i'm heading this weekend to kansas to speak to the kansas independent oil and gas association. president biden is making it impossible for them to keep their employees, and he's demanding tyrants like the iranians and russians to produce oil so that we can buy it from them. this makes absolutely no sense. it's bad for american workers, bad for the american economy, terrible from a national security perspective as we've delivered american independence, we were shipping these products around the world bu

i have known president biden as a vice president biden and senator biden peered this is a good man. this is a person who really does understand the world. he's got one of the best and most experienced administrations as seen in a long time coming into office. i say that's all disagreeing with this and hoping that this incredibly high integrity purposeful president will take a lesson from this, understanding that like john f kennedy, the bay of pigs disaster was early in his presidency. you don't remember him for the bay of pigs disaster. he can get past this but he has to double down on allies and counterterrorism and on containing the taliban, and then he can focus on his structure plans, economic rebuilding, obviously taking on covid-19 is the highest priority. he has a lot in front of him, but if he takes charge of this situation and finds a better way out of it, you could still have a presidency, and that is what you brought up in my column. he can still have that. if they don't do that, then this will be what the administration is remembered for. host: miles in new jersey, demo

biden expressed as the u.s. did not withdraw as planned, our troops would have faced talismanic tax. he said former president trump reduced to a bare-bones 2500. "i faced a choice. follow through on the deal with a brief extension to get our forces and allied forces out safely or ramp up our presence and send more american troops to fight once again in another country sizzle conflict. i was the fourth president to reside over this. two republicans, to democrats. i would not and will not pass this on to another." also expressing deep disappointment in the afghan military. speak of the president did not think it was inevitable that the taliban would take control. he thought the afghan national security forces could step up and fight because we have spent tens of billions of dollars training them, giving them the best equipment if you're giving them support of u.s. forces for 20 years. speak out that challenge now is keeping kabul international airport open. the pentagon confirmed that we are preparing to send some

biden and members of congress. for more on that we welcome correspondent to garrett tenney with the story. hi, garrett. >> tonight's drone strike is significant. u.s. officials are expecting another terror attack at kabul airport at some point in the next few days. the pentagon describes the threats as specific and credible. the white house is warning that the next few days of the mission will be the most dangerous period of time for our troops in kabul. despite those threats, afghanistan wasn't the first or second item jen psaki addressed at today's white house briefing which was led by the covid-19 pandemic and children's mental health of the ongoing threat did come up during the q&a. >> they are taking maximum force protection measures that the kabul airport and surrounding areas. our troops are still in danger. that continues to be the case that they are there. this is the most dangerous part of the mission. stick with the white house is facing sharp carry -- sharp criticism. democratic congressman seth moulton

the biden administration in swing me but also remember texas is suing the biden administration. when stepping into all of this, hopefully the courts will enforce the law, forcing the biden administration to start enforcing border security. in the meantime, texas will step up and do that ourselves. >> sean: and people spend in the middle of the pandemic time and overcrowded cages, the middle of a pandemic, then given free transportation to states that are responsible for what, food, shelter, education, health care? is that happening? >> the biden administration is exporting some of whom have covid across the entire country, causing location across the entire country to have to fit the bill for biden's refusal to enforce immigration laws of the united states. >> sean: governor come all the support we can give you my support everything you are doing but it is said you have to work this hard to uphold the law of the land and to look out for the health of the people of texas and the rest of the country. it's sad. thank you for being with us. coming up public health. what about public

no, joe biden's failed withdrawal exacerbated it. al qaeda, isis, the taliban, now have a safe haven to regroup, increase in strength, and plan their next evil attack. the truth is, we were fighting this war before 9/11. if you remember back to 1993 and the twin tower bombings, and we will have to continue to fight this war on terror going forward. we as a nation have enjoyed 20 years of safety and security since 9/11 because of the ability of our military and intelligence agencies to take the fight onto foreign soil, so we have not had to weather the storms of more terrorist attacks at home. they've done a great job. our veterans deserve tremendous praise and honor for the sacrifices of the last 20 years, keeping america safe. but the war has not ended. it just entered a new chapter. no longer will that be the case since we withdrew without eliminating the threat, and left behind approximately $80 billion in advanced weapons and equipment that is in the hands of the taliban. president biden and the administration cap parroting the p

was just extended alone time biden needed with jill? very on and when word leaked that president biden's cia director william burns met with the top taliban leader monday we weren't surprised. relying on the good graces of albania they can deal with the television we don't know about or we are making another disastrous calculation. this raises lots of questions, first wives and the cia director and not a state department official and what were the parameters of the talks, the cia director push to get the august 30 first deadline extended, did he ask if any americans were held against their will or did he demand their immediate release? of so presumably something like that, what did we give up for that guarantee? hard to believe the televangelist promised anything out of the goodness of their hearts. this entire scenario has been so fraught with lies and mishandling, misrepresentation we don't know what to think. one thing we do know is after making a cold political calculation president biden announced today that he was in fact bowing t

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it is not just biden but entire washington swamp establishment. tammy bruce we've talked about it many times, rarely been more true than tonight, i fear it will get worse. >> this is heartbreaking, atlantic's headline biden's betrayal of the afghans will live in infamy. this is more than just a disagreement with all roads and which roads you take to rome. not even about conservative or liberal this is about decision making that was about revenge, hatred, obsession of donald trump, because he committed the crime of showing the american people, that you could do things differently, there was a way to make this country elevated and make her better for everyone, economically and otherwise. and now you have got whether it is the chaos, elimination of our border, and a nonsensical economic plan. a congress that is aiding and enabling this is trillions in spending, without thinking that what shap -- what is happening in afghanistan might change your needs for the budget. my god, it is a betrayal. it is a betrayal first of us, then the rest of the world t

and biden looking at his watch, now that's the real joe biden. not the phony empathizer the media tried to pretend that he was. the real joe biden who only looks out for himself and the real joe biden who can't even be bothered to take responsibility for his failures. we have a president who is deteriorating cognitively, disconnected from reality and it's getting worse by the hour. i will ask again where is the accountability? this is a complete and utter failure. what exactly will it take? we have to ask for the biden administration to finally admit it. isn't it unconscionable that we live in a world where we all walk on egg shells we fear something we said or tweeted years ago will destroy our professional careers. the pentagon and the president can make such poor decisions that lead to death and destruction but nothing changes. no one is fired. and no one takes responsibility. here we are tonight with still more questions than answers. it was biden that broke his promise that we wouldn't leave until every american was out. and even today the s

, did president biden ignore it? we have to get answers. >> emily: it's absolutely right and it was a confidential memo, not classified. as americans and afghans desperately try to flee the country in fear of their lives, literally clinging to the wings of evacuating planes, the biden administration planned to charge them $2,000 to board flights. that incredible story, next. banks can loan you some of it. newday can loan you all of it! the newday100 va cash out loan. your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire as someone who resembles someone else... i appreciate that liberty mutual matching your job description. knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, or yell at th

>> where is president biden? why is he not communicating and he said, i will own any mistakes, this is a mistake of epic proportion and our enemies are watching, the real impact here. russia and china are watching. >> harris: emily. >> emily: and the ambassador said, it is ineftablt, it was avoidable and our president came out saying this was potential, it seems as if the entire world realized ineftablt except our commander-in-chief. the 25th amendment possibility is unrealistic, but situation of absence of demonstration of leadership, coupleed with catastrophic effects of decision-making, absolutely we should be asking questions and questioning the commander-in-chief? >> harris: why does he get a pass yesterday? >> kayleigh: empower schumer and nancy pelosi doing nothing. ryan crawford, david petraeus, david axelrod, what do they have before their name? former? nancy pelosi is praising biden, i commend him for his action, i praise the wisdom of biden's actions. no, that is shameful, cowardess and rick scott is r

now, no one respects joe biden. not the taliban, not our geopolitical flows, russia, hostile regime, china, the mullahs in iran, they are all wr allies don't even trust us at this point. and according to a breaking new report from bloomberg, biden promised to g7 leaders the u.s. would keep a security presence in afghanistan kabul safe, and then utterly failed to keep that promise. well, tonight, i always say let not your heart be troubled, my heart is troubled. our fellow americans are in deep trouble tonight, behind enemy lines, our friends, our allies are in deep trouble behind enemy lines. you know, leave no man or woman behind? well, great britain and france, to their credit, they sent in troops to kabul to escort citizens from kabul, successfully, to the airport. why haven't we? we have the best military fighting force on the face of the earth. yeah, americans now can't get to the airport, held hostage, and they are behind enemy lines day 6. joining us now with more, former secretary of state mike pompeo. i kno

i want to redo what president biden said in his statement. when i became president i faced a choice follow through on the deal to ramp up our presence and send more american troops to fight once again in another countries civil conflict, mr. secretary what do you think of president biden's attempt to blame and pin all the blame on what's transpired in last few weeks on the deal that he says he quote inherited from president trump and from you. >> of the risks weren't so serious it would be pathetic, i would not let my 10-year-old son get away from this pathetic claim shifting, he should be less focused on trying to blame this on someone else then dissolving the problem making sure that we protect and defend american security, it's worth noting this did not happen on our watch we reduced our forces and they did extend all the cost afghanistan is a plain old fact that this is happening in the biden administration leadership almost a quarter of our way into his first term. this is not the way leaders lead by fighting backwards, we had a bad deal

i feel like biden has gotten away so much. people have cut him slack because he has cognitive issues and he is older. somebody meads to stand up and take responsibility for what's going on. he hasn't done that. she won't do that. it's time for him to go. i think he will resign or i think his own party will remove him through the 25th amendment as the days advance. there is too much liability with this map. they can't cover for him anymore. todd: as you sit here today you think the 25th amendment will be invoked by the democrats in congress against joe biden? >> i absolutely think that's what's going to happen. i have been talking about this for about a year and a half. i have been saying even when he was candidate biden that he wasn't cognitively fit to be our president. i'm telling you as days go on it won't be ronny jackson it will be the democrats talking about it because is he failing on all fronts. when he gets up in front of the camera he is an absolute embarrassment. is he so unprepared for what's going on in this count

months ago were faulting biden for not abiding by the may 1st deadline and saying, oh, biden is a proponent of forever wars, he's going to keep us in afghanistan forever. they were faulting biden for doing the exact opposite of what they're faulting him for now. so that hypocrisy is just rank and offensive, though i do think obviously, as we all have been covering it, the bigger issue right now is saving americans, saving afghan allies, the chaos at the airport and i think the focus the biden administration has right now behind the scenes, which is how do we prevent a disaster in the next three weeks while we're trying to do this massive evacuation. >> you have a sea of people that as we speak is outside the airport there in kabul. jake, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we will, of course, see you at 4:00 p.m. on "the lead." >> thanks, guys. always great to see you. >> always great to have you on, jake. >>> president biden in a brand-new interview we've been talking about here, he said nation building never made any sense to him. we have a cnn fact check coming up. >>> who sho

to your point about the president achraf gani he met with biden at the white house and according to biden and aides later, asked the president not to mount some massive evacuation of americans or vulnerable afghans because it would undermine confidence in his own government. that really was the president biden's opportunity to say, you know what? dude, like we're out. and we're going to start bringing people out no matter what. and he chose not to. pete: of course, the war in afghanistan spanned 20 years and four presidents. but much of what's happening now can be traced to some recent decisions. earlier this year, for example, president biden pledged to withdraw all troops from afghanistan by the end of this month. and on monday, the president addressed the nation and defended his position. president biden: i stand squarely behind my decision. after 20 years, i've learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw u.s. forces. pete: the taliban surged to power caught the u.s. off guard. u.s. intelligence as recently as last week simply underestimated the speed of the takeo

not for joe biden to be a coward. i would really appreciate if he would just honor the sacrifice that we paid over these 20 years rather than use it as some ornament to hang on his christmas tree while kamala talks about shopping. this is not something to be light-hearted about, joe biden. be real. be honest have. a little bit of courage and do the right thing. we are literally begging you to do it. >> jesse: you sacrifice and i know your other guys out there are willing to sacrifice in order to bring our guys home. the people that you talked to that may be serving right now at the airport, are they telling you have that they want to go out and get these guys from behind enemy lines? i can't imagine they just want to sit there like sitting ducks and process paperwork. i bet they want to go out there and do some search and rescue. that has to be the fact. >> jesse, i'm old. it's been 11 years since i was active duty. i don't know a lot of the junior marines on the tarmac. i can tell you the leaders i searched with they

"new york times" biden faces tragedy. "politico", darkest day of biden's presidency. without question seven months in. on the resignations, the reason why no one has been fired is likely because they were giving him advice and he overruled them. no matter what they said or suggested this was his call. so you can't blame anyone else. that's kind of how it works in d.c., does it not? >> that's true. when he says the buck stops with me it does. but then he went on to peter's -- to answer peter's question by saying but i was put in a corner by the previous administration, but other things. from everything we're hearing, this was the president's call. over and above some of the advice from the intel and the military community. i think it's also striking, guys, that the administration keeps on trying to say this is the biggest, best airlift ever. yes, they have gotten a lot of people out but it is not like this was of a choice. this was a chaotic catastrophe that we're in this place, not because in is some great moment. they are doing what they have to do like military alwa

joe biden isn't the next, for he is the next fdr, he is the next jimmy carter and they write biden's failure is inexcusable. he has been in politics for far too long not to have learned from his predecessors' mistakes. at least carter could claim the guise of inexperience. >> this tells you that leadership matters. that one person matters. everyone thinks maybe this is the whole point of bringing biden in. the bureaucracies will run the country. president trump showed us one individual can matter even when everything is against him. in this particular case you have perhaps a bureaucracy that has not known what it has been doing. explains catastrophes in america and problems in the world stage and never ending wars. we couldn't get rid of isis, it would take 30 years and trump says yes we can and we do it in 18 months. this is a disaster that is one of many, should not have been a surprise. if you can't control the environment in your own homeland how can we expect you to have any reality about what is happening in a place like afghanistan? >> harris: our americans abroad are dependin

and biden's response? >> well joe biden's response to this is very weak. because he is weak. tony blair said as much, you hear other leaders, china knows he is weak. look at how they have talked to our representatives and how they have acted, how they are supporting the taliban. you know that russia thinks he is weak, they can't believe he approved the nord stream 2 but he shut down the keystone pipeline at the same time, he had no plan, he tossed away the plan that president trump and secretary pompeo and our allies and partners put together. it didn't have to be this way, but when you have a weak leader who is not taking ownership and not give the guarantee he will get everyone out, and he wants to date certain on the calendar. the general said this is probably 6,000 additional troops. and probably several more months, we have to make certain every american, every ally, every afghan partner. the vulnerable women who will be killed. if they say we have to get them out. steve: quickly, what about the political accountability. >> well, with the political accountability. we hav

biden knows that the supreme court will rule this is unconstitutional. he is so scared of the squad he will extend a ban on evictions anyway on grounds that several key scholars think it could survive constitutional muster? that's the new standard for democrats? scholars with trump the supreme court? i must have missed that in law school. >> the president would not have moved forward with a step where he did not feel confident in the legal justification. asked the cdc and his legal experts to look at what is possible them is a narrow and targeted moratorium that is different. signing an extension is a legal standpoint. >> laura: that's just embarrassing. this new and targeted moratorium applies to 90% of all rental properties in the united states. this is lawlessness because democrats are terrified of saying no to the squad. >> it's a huge victory for the power of direct action and not taking no for an answer. >> laura: never has someone spouted such gibberish with such confidence. is she referring to the white house? or the supreme court saying no? is t