or military and white house only option given sec. of state psaki: maybe both. i will say, i won t get into semantic debate, it is worth repeating as often as i can, we don t trust the taliban. this is not about trust. there is reality on the ground. the reality is taliban control large swaths of afghanistan, including area surrounding the perimeter of the airport. that is our option to get individuals eligible for the range program the united states has out. we have evacuated more than 105,000 people as result of those coordinated efforts of getting people out. but i will say that as the department of defense noted earlier today, clearly something went wrong here in the process. we saw the isis-k attack occur yesterday. we don t have additional
nation when we see what has happened, general keane, first we ve been able to speak with you since all this happened and learned of the 13 service members that died in this attack. we know that the airlift operations continue. it s a massive effort. the priority still to get americans off the ground there. general keane, walk us through what the next few days look like as we approach tuesday, august 31st and what the days following up to the deadline may look like? we have our hands full, we are trying to protect ourselves from another suicide bomber ark tack and certainly that is very real threat given the pronouncement of it and multiple sources now. that is all hands on deck to make certain that is not happening. obviously, try to expedite as many people as we possibly can through this process. at the same time, dealing with
bret: right. we may physically leave. we are going to speedup this process and there will be a time when the music stops and all the military leaves. however, leon panetta is right. we re going to be back in there to play whack-a-mole with terrorist groups that pop up and are a threat to us. the war on the ground in afghanistan may be over for a short time, the war against terrorism is not over and really, if you talk to most people, it can t be. one more point, president biden in the meeting with israeli prime minister said we stand with you. we are allies with you, almost like he s trying to shore up world allies because they are questioning that. sandra: bret, i want to finish up with the washington post this morning, put it up on the screen. biden embrace with military that is grieving. rest assured when histories written, there will be enough blame for all to share.
airport. by necessity, that is our option to coordinate with to get american citizens out, to gets our afghan partners out, individuals eligible for the range of programs the united states has out. we have evacuated 105,000 people as result of those coordinated in large part of the coordinated efforts of getting people out. i will say that as department of defense noted earlier today, clearly something went wrong here in the process. we saw the isis-k attack occur yesterday. we don t have additional information to suggest that it was intentional or anything along those lines, which was a question asked yesterday. clearly there was a break in the security process, no question about that. john: admiral, whether pacific commander or head of com some years back, she said we don t trust the taliban, entrusting them to security and
departments were left to themselves. they would have been operating off the same sheet of music and having resolved issues at the beginning, not the end. we ve seen this, evidence of the special visa program for afghan allies, a disaster. no effort to shut down bagram air force base as jake ellzey said, big mistake. no sloppy process of planning and execution and we re seeing finger pointing as a result. john: yesterday the president held the news conference and peter doocy asked the question, the president on one hand accepting responsibility and blaming his predecessor, listen here. do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have unfolded in the last two weeks? president biden: i bear responsibility for fundamentally all that s happened of late. here is the deal, you know, i wish you would sayeh tavangar