american mission, he didn t want those optics. as a result, what we asked that administration to do, what a bipartisan group asked us to do to speed this up backlog to get folks who would be killed by the taliban because of their work for the u.s. out. they delayed, delayed, delayed. they start finally started at the end of july by august 15th, the taliban had taken over kabul. steve: that s extraordinary. what he said is we have been telling you for months about the problem on our southern border. he is saying that the poll-driven optic oriented white house is more concerned with the optics of well we have this problem with migrants on our southern border if we bring people in that will look bad for us. even though all these congressman said in april you are going to have a problem you better start it now. will: they could have been
after withdrawal. that s when the clock is supposed to start. and then in early august oh it might be 30 to 90 days but, again, after august 30th. didn t make it to august 15th. steve: it s just a disaster. congressman, i have been reading, apparently boris johnson, the prime minister of the united kingdom, was so upset with what was happening because nato didn t want this to happen like this. joe biden pretty much unilaterally decide are for all of nato they were going to pull a plug on it the president would not call back boris johnson for 36 hours. then you look what other countries are doing. you got france they said this week very a bunch of french nationals stuck behind enemy lines. they sent an elite unit of police officers in to kabul and got people out and flew them away. same thing with british paratroopers. at what point does the president of the united states say, you know what? we still have a lot of people left over there, we re going to have the troops leave the
bret: juan, what do you think? anecdotally we hear tough times getting through taliban checkpoints. well, i think if you or i were there i would be concerned. i don t think there is any question if you have a loved one there you have got to worry you can t trust the taliban in my opinion. i think that what we re talking about here is the evacuation and there is no question it could have been done better. it s been badly handled on so many levels. but i don t think that no matter how the evacuation was handled, that the big picture, which is could the afghan government have held? could the afghan military have held its own and not folded? i don t think those things would have turned out much differently. if you will recall, president trump, secretary pompeo wanted out by may 1st. biden wants out by august 15th. i think in either case, those big picture items, the brass tacks of this would have been much the same. you know, i think that s why that poll that jacqui heinrich
joe, what are you doing? 6,000 u.s. soldiers now or in the process of regenerating afghanistan, taken over by the taliban to try to not secure the airport to try and save americans. without a doubt, a complete and total failure of leadership, planning, and execution and true to form has a disaster unfolded over the weekend, joe biden was nowhere to be found. aside from this bizarre photo crouching over an empty table during a zoom call and we ve got nothing from nothing from biden all weekend while this was unfolding in real time. his press secretary wasn t available to circle back on anything, jen psaki was on vacation. you wrote her, you got an auto reply saying i will be out of the office from august 15th to the 22nd, hope you re having a great vacation. vice president kamala harris was also m.i.a. but today finally,