going to hear about it. and you re going to hear about mine. first up, joe , biden calling for unity. our politics has gotten so angry, so mean, so partisan, and too often we see each other s enemies. i sincerely hope this holiday, this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another. but let me remind you, this is the man who accused half of the people in this country of being semi fascist and says our country is steeped in racism. that s the guy who wants to have this big kumbaya moment now that christmas is here in santa is watching. but then, of course, there are his policies, which basically sent our economy into the toilet. all the indications that we see would point to a recession sometime within the first three to six months of next year. i think the greater risk is that at some point during 2020 three , the economy will head towards recession. so recession is very much likely in the coming 12 to 18 months.
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go well beyond afghanistan. they argue the administration failed to plan and execute a competent withdrawal which has cost the u.s. standing among its allies. they are not turning to us and saying leadership at this moment in time and we can t just continue to promise to be the partner of choice. the biden administration says it warned the taliban taking kabul by force would complicate aid to afghanistan. a country heavily reliant on international grants. officials also say years of drought, conflict, massive financial problems fraud and corruption have brought afghanistan to this point. as for the withdrawal, the defense secretary lloyd austin says he regrets the u.s. lost 13 service members in a terrorist attack and an air rant u.s. airstrike that killed 10 civilians. i want to make sure we don t lose sight of the fact that our american forces in 17 days
steve: well, it s mostly cloudy here in new york. 73 much like it was 18 years ago today when america was under attack and responded promptly. about an hour from now a moment of silence south lawn of the white house and then they will start the annual commemoration by reading of the nearly 3,000 names of those who lost their lives 18 years ago today. ainsley: such an emotional day. it s been 18 years. we all have stories. we all remember where we were on that day. steve: brian and i were right here. we were working. brian: smaller studio, studio a. we thought every immediately speculated a small plane that was air rant. people say wow it s a clear day for some pilot to hit a building and then it became clear there was something going on bigger when it
the world is a big place. we have threats from all over the globe. and for him to be that flippant and air rant to say he doesn t need intelligence briefings when this man had no background in this at all before he ran for president. so i think it s very frightening. i think it s consistent. it s consistent with him not having very much intellectual curiosity is and taking the presidency very lightly. i guess u he s going to triage that to his secretary of state o o, whose background is e we make good deals in oil. how about the topic of russian hacking? the washington post report this weekend that it the cia think it was deliberately meant to help donald trump win the election. is that report plausible? and secondly, do you think russian involvement changed the election outcome? i certainly don t know. if the intelligence community is saying that this is what took place, and we do have tons of why did all of the hacking