or put a tracker on american citizens traveling overseas. whether they are in afghanistan or any country around the world. does the president have a plan to evacuate americans from ukraine? we are already at a level 4 travel advisory for ukraine for covid and have add rised that u.s. and have been advising that u.s. citizens should be aware that russia is planning for significant military action against ukraine. we don t put a chip in americans when they go to countries around the world and track their movements. brian: bloomberg writes it, kimberly, u.s. pulling family members. deploys 180. according to embassy website that doesn t include family members. so the number of u.s. citizens living in embassy house something probably much higher, point being, here we are again on numbers of getting people out ahead of whatever happens on the ground. yeah, if you look at afghanistan, there is a direct line between that moment, that horrible disastrous withdrawal and president biden s
the testimony today indicates that the generals were advising something different. as that withdrawal came to be in afghanistan. let s bring this our panel. amy walter publisher and editor in chief of the cooke political report. mollie hemingway senior editor at the federalist and steve hayes editor of the dispatch. steve, what about that testimony today and what president biden said before about that. yeah, pretty extraordinary on several different levels. look, if the white house wants to defend the decision by president obama to withdrawal troops and effectively surrender afghanistan, that s well within their rights. what they shouldn t do, what they can t do is lie about the advice he was given. bret: you mean biden. yeah. we have clear that president biden didn t tell the truth about this as we heard from the generals today. i mean, he received advice from the generals that he should keep at least 2500 troops. you heard general mackenzie defend the decision to withdrawal