we have competence. his priorities the president goes down and compares people that don t agree with him on two election laws. they re bigots akin to bull connor or george wallace. you know, basically execution. he promises us covid would be in the rear view mirror by july 4th. he compliments himself on the withdrawal from afghanistan. all of these things are a real problem for the sitting president. as a result, his numbers are in the tank and they won t get better soon. martha: thanks, karl. john kirby is done with his briefing and the podium. we ll talk to him on the prospect of deploying american military forces in ukraine next. limu emu and doug. and it s easy to customize your insurance at libertymutual.com so you only pay for what you need. isn t that right limu? limu? limu?
he s been told that no troops will enter ukraine. what has been made clear is that there will be severe economic consequences and the international community will respond as well. the purpose of these troops is to bolster and re-assure nato allies. that s what they would do. martha: they would be there to prevent russia going further than ukraine? we don t know what he has in mind. this is designed to make sure that we re meeting our commitment to the nato alliance. martha: what about our ukraine embassy? what are the plans? would the u.s. military be involved removing people from the embassy? we don t have plans to do that right now. some family members have been ordered to leave in kiev. i ll let the state department speak to that. there s no military role in that at this time. martha: there s movement of some materials, support for
and i think it s important for others to know that we re going to have a very significant debate in the united states about how to deal with the belligerent attitude china is demonstrating, notjust in the military field, but in politics and economic matters, as well. i said in my book, published injune of 2020, not knowing what would happen that if in fact there was a deal with the taliban, whatever administration carried it out, it would still be trump s fault. but the idea that biden was hamstrung by what trump had done is laughable, too. trump quite correctly withdrew from the 2015 iran nuclear deal that hasn t stopped biden trying to get back into it. it hasn t stopped biden from acquiescing to the nord stream ii pipeline i could go on at some length here. they re both wrong they were both wrong to think that american military forces should have been withdrawn from afghanistan, and sadly, i m afraid we will all pay for it for quite some time to come.
surge. even some people inside the levee system have been told maybe should evacuate. that s how worried they are about this system. all right, we ll have more throughout the hour. u.s. forces are on high alert this morning. another isis-k attack could happen at any moment according to the latest intelligence. president biden made that morning warning while doubling down on his vowed to retaliate on the attack president biden also saying the u.s. will continue airstrikes against isis and a hunt down and the people who were involved. friday strike killed two high-profile isis-k members who were believed to be involved in planning attacks against u.s. forces. joining us right now in iran s toronto bureau chief ali. also joining us right now is nbc news pentagon producer ali we re going to talk with you. first, tell us more about this imminent threat that we re talking about and what measures here in the military is taking. they re still trying to get
afghanistan. but it is going to be difficult once everybody is gone. all right, ali arouzi. thank you for that update. we appreciate. we want to now bring in a retired major general. paul eaton. major general, good morning to you. and thanks for your time. i first want to get your thoughts on what we are going to see today and that is the dignified transfer of the 13 u.s. troops killed in the capitol attack. we re looking at their images right now and seeing their names on the screen. we know thursday was the deadliest day for american military forces in afghanistan since 2011. what is going through your mind today? as a father of soldiers, when you re young men and women are deployed, every morning when you wake up you look outside to see if there is a government vehicle about to give you the worst news you can possibly get. that s what happens with the