the news today, a qatari evacuation flight will take off in a few minutes, it will have not only afghan civilians on-board but also american citizens, back to you. carley: trey yingst keeping the story alive for us. the situation is real and dire in kabul, afghanistan, thank you, trey. todd: robert gates used the afghanistan withdrawal as an example to reiterate his rebuke of president biden's foreign policy decisions. listen. .>> he opposed every one of ronald reagan's military programs to contest the soviet union. he opposed the first gulf war. >> you think he made a mistake in afghanistan, the way he handled the withdrawal. >> yes. it probably did not need to turn out that way. >> president biden said any withdrawal is messy. >> certainly military considers