say there s nothing on the ground in afghanistan, nobody, that has the capability or capacity to hit the american homeland. i hope that is true. a big bet there. heraldo, the president as gone back on his words. he said that they wouldn t be left behind, he said this was an orderly process and planned for and here we are with stories of school age children that are stuck in afghanistan without american forces to get them to the airport. jen psaki kept emphasizing over and over that the people that are still in afghanistan are duel citizens, some are children, some are pregnant ladies who for reasons of their own health didn t want to move. i thought that she went over trying to convince us and i don t disbelieve her that the vast majority of americans are
we re going to stay until we get them out. the president explained his rationale for leaving the 100 plus americans behind but can you tell us about why he allowed his credibility on this issue to go out the door on making a flat promise and not keeping it? first i d say that the president remains committed to getting every american it is sin that wants to get out out. that s an enduring commitment. one that won t change and we ll focus on every single day. i would also note that over the course of the last two weeks we have seen a terrorist attack that took the lives of 13 service members. there was part of our assessment always is going to be the risks a risk assessment. the question is do you believe 6,000 service members as that are heightening threats every day or do you work through a diplomatic process and efforts to ensure that we will have the
this was his extraction. this was his exit from afghanistan. there are still americans that were left behind. he blames them in essence. he said we ve been reaching out to you since march. if you didn t get your act together, it s not our fault. for some people there might be truth to that but doesn t line up with the texts and the accounts and terrifying accounts neil of people that made it in to the airport in some cases and got pushed out of the airport or people that got to the gate and they wouldn t let them through with their families like mohammed and his family who rescued senator biden and john kerry from a mountain top in afghanistan. so it s not the case that these people are twiddling their themes at home. we have a bureaucratic nightmare mess that these people face. which goes to how febrile the function of the government can be when it comes to this. so this is squarely on his shoulders.
probably numbered for being members of the house of representatives. you take redistricting that is already going to give you the possibility of a house-led republican congress. now what i have seen in the last couple days is that the republicans might be able to actually flip the senate as well. if that s the case, they go into 2024 in a different position. i think the president was banking on his image of calm, confident, competence and that s all blown away. i think that the republicans have an excellent chance of sweeping the board in the mid-terms as of today. i would say i hope that americans remember. i think depending how bad this gets, if it gets worse, there s hostages and people can t get out. it will drag on. the white house wants it to go away. they re trying to shift the debate on how we should have left afghanistan. i hope americans pay attention. it could drag out.
anyone that is looking what is happening right now knows this is not true. if you walk back from that the last half was a strawman. as if we were debating about whether we should get out or not. that litigation has been done for quite some time. he also presented a false choice of you have to leave or escalate. built around that strawman as well. for me, it was a lot of blaming. who did he blame? he spent a quarter of the speech blaming donald trump for where he is and then blaming suzette sens for not doing enough to get out of the country. i also go back to where he started. he talked about only the u.s. would have had the capacity to do something of this size and scale. emphasized the numbers time and time again. we ll get to the number of u.s. citizens. a lot of americans looked into their screen and said, only the united states would have had the capacity do not have to do it this way. there were so many decisions