ainsley: right. so the neighbor who lived above them said the water had already gone up to her knees. so she said imagine the basement floor. steve: all the way. ainsley: basically a swimming pool with stairs. the little by died and both of the parents died. little boy s teacher was coming for a home visit yesterday. it was not canceled. she shows up. she realizes the 2-year-old was killed and she starts sobbing. she said he was such a sweet little boy and great family. brian: ida hit. devastating in louisiana where those get the power on and standing that state up again. the president is looking forward to change the narrative to anything at all except afghanistan which has turned out to be the worst disaster in american military history not because our men and women who fight but because the one who lives in the white house. even pushing back on his aides even though is he desperately trying to throw them under the bus. it looks like the american people are on to it under a degree. a
career in the street because he can t believe what is he witnessing. let s add something else to this. the tiktok what went down chronicled by the washington post. they go to bat for joe biden every single day. the taliban waited outside the city and told the americans, which i think is us, we ll take the city or you will, tell us what you want. general mackenzie said you can have the city. we ll take the airport. that caused the death of 13 americans and possibly more as we try to get them out. that s what happened. the travesty series of the worst. most inexplicable decisions in american military history. they all should be embarrassed. ainsley: i wonder what the conversations were like when the president met all 13 of those families? brian: unbelievable. i don t know i wouldn t know where to start if i was a family member. steve: well, we have these two twin stories we are following all morning, ida, and, of course, what s going on as they close the gates at the airport in kabul
against him in a bigger way than anything he s done so far has been. laura: john, i also have to believe that this refusal to take questions a pivotal time in american military history, really with this debacle in afghanistan, then running as he did twice this week away from reporters. they are shouting at him, not a question, and then sending out the two generals who just don t reassure anybody about anything. that whole confidence thing i think people hoped for for biden, that s out the window. absolutely, that s why a quarter that number to you where majority of americans don t think is going to serve the term, but i tell you what, i have clients and democracies in europe and other places and when biden was elected president, they felt they were going it alone. they felt that they had lost the leadership of the united states because they knew it was going to be weak and biden has not disappointed them.
he has to own it and is being held against him in a bigger way than anything else s been. laura: i have to believe this refusal to take questions in a pivotal time in american military history, running as he did twice this week away from reporters shouting at him not a question, that will confident thing people hoped for is out the window. the majority of americans don t think he will serve the term but democracies in europe and other places, when biden was elected president they thought they were going it alone, does not disappoint them.
fact to be in as great risk is they fear. but they are afraid and we should have had that responsibility to let them come, let them go somewhere else, even if it doesn t fall within the very narrowly defined 15 separate points, that people have to answer if they re going to get one of the special visas. there is no evidence in american military history that the pentagon knows how to manage an evacuation like this. i wouldn t, noncombat and evacuations are a very common activity for the u.s. military. they have done in a variety of times, they know how to do that. let me just pause on that for a second. i m not talking about evacuations from other areas. i m talking about an evacuation of a country, that the united states invaded, had a war more than a decade, and lost out right. there is no model.