military mission in afghanistan officially ended on august 31st. it s unclear if these americans are among those who were stranded on charter flights earlier this week. joe, again, a little bit more work on the biden administration, on the part of working to get people out of afghanistan beyond the deadline, and i think it s important to note, no matter what you think about the decision to leave, that the president was warning people for quite some time, i believe since last april. yeah. since april. it was one warning after another warning after another warning. there was a story in nbc news about a guy who was a contractor, kept being warned to leave and just his family tried to get him out of there, he said i ll just stay here, i m fine. sort of a fix-it sort of guy,
and he s a hostage over there right now. but there are americans who getting out now willie, but you look at these 200 americans, and let s hope there are a lot more. you look at the 120,000 or so that people we ve already air lifted out of there. the extraordinary bravery of our men and women in uniform and american officials and our allies that have allowed this to happen. and i ll tell you what, the further we get away from the chaos of that first day, the more people are looking at sort of more of a global view of what s happened there and said, wait a second, american troops and this country doing some pretty extraordinary things there. so matthew van dyke, who is the he s the founder of sons of liberty international, a veteran, talks about when he was
members. what s interesting from this number from the journal this morning, we re told there s 100 to 200 americans left in the country. so where does that leave us, if there are 200 american passport holders, i think this includes some foreigners also who have passports to get out of the country. so i don t think it s all americans. but this would represent, a large chunk of the americans remaining in the country who want to leave the country and show at least in this case the taliban, that the american government has been forced into a relationship now with to trust them to get people out, at least in this one case is upholding its end of the bargain here. you have to look at qatar and what they ve been doing. i think we re talking to the foreign ministry this week or next week about what qatar is doing, being a go-between between the united states and also the taliban. but, eddie, the great tragedy, as willie said, the 13 american service men and women who died there, just true he
cures your covid but it gives you 100% immunity, so i m up to the eyes with lobster droppings. i don t want to say more. is that what you were told? does it also cure that s what i learned in many maine, yeah. good to know. there are different things. don t give rogan a hard time. you go to a different part of maine than we do. that s certainly true. we love you, heileman. big news. we have big news. or should i say the wall street journal has big news. taliban leaders will reportedly allow close to 200 americans and other foreign citizens to fly out of the country today. officials tell the wall street journal the group will be flown to qatar before relocating elsewhere. this marks the first departure of u.s. citizens since the
north and south korea, make it into germany, have a small set of troops there to try to stabilize the region there, et cetera, et cetera. respectable point of view, i know it s your point of view, but it s not where the american people are. in the end we were going to come back to that, 70, 75% of the american people wanted to end the war, wanted to end it now. i think the administration had that long view throughout. i think there are two large questions that carry forward from there. one is the questioned eddie raised, i think there will be questions going on for a long time, not how the evacuation was run because that i agree with you and history will say this was an incredibly successful operation to get the all the americans, almost all the americans out safely. again, we know about the ones who died in the car bomb and some still left behind but the vast majority of americans are out. but there s the question what about the afghan allies, the