i wasn t rushing towards the television camera when there was bad news on our side. what would they tell you if they were on? they are going to claim to have hearings and hope that we forget. the images of people falling from airplanes, the images of women and girls and children being beaten to death by a group that we were negotiating with, how would you explain it? ? dana: how long will it take for america to regain the respect of the world, our allies and the respect that we need from our adversaries as well? you know, there is an old quote from the german philosophy. i m not mad that you lied to me. i m mad that i can t believe anything else you ever tell me. trust, once lost, it is so hard to regain. that s true in relationships that don t involve countries. so i don t biden told us america is back, remember? he went on his tour and apologized for the last four
what is the deal we cut with the taliban even allow us to have access to the airport? was it another million dollars on a wooden pallet? i don t know who is trump s special envoy to afghanistan and biden kept him, i don t know what he negotiated with the taliban. but bill: you have a scenario now where at some point the taliban will say we want the airport now. yeah. bill: and the commander-in-chief will have to step in again and say okay you can have it now. we believe we ve secured a sufficient amount of americans and afghans who helped us and we ve secured that s the next breaking point. right. you re right. that s a really good point. how long are the taliban going to let us land and ferry people out of afghanistan? and what are we going to do when they say time s up, right? are we going to say no, we have
dana: senior fellow at the foundation for the defense of democracy and steve hays and jessica do natty. we will try to do this as quickly as possible. steve, starting with you. at this point what you are looking at for the biden administration is a complete undermining of two pillars of its foreign policy, one, being that america is back because if you look at what our allies are saying right now, adversaries thinking and two, the emphasis on democracy. what do you think this means for the biden administration? it s an unmitigated disaster. the things you are hearing from the president himself and from people speaking on his behalf are so at odds with reality it is really would be laughable if it weren t so tragic. one of the most important things to remember here is picking up on what leon panetta said. it is not just al qaeda might have a safe haven if the
because that s how badly they want to get out of that country. your chances of having onto the wheel of an airplane are surviving are zero but you are willing to do it to try to get out of that country and then you ve got streets devoid of women and girls because they can t go out and the world s greatest yes, i want americans out but i would think the world s greatest super power could also protect women and girls in afghanistan. when i see images of them being killed outside the airport, everybody needs to give an explanation as to how this happened. bill: trey, they planned for all contingencies. that s what they say. i heard jake sullivan say that and i heard him say that in libya. i am stunned, bill. we were told that biden was the most experienced person to be president when it comes to foreign policy. that he is assembling this dream team. they are caught not just flat
the taliban have informed us they are prepared to provide the safe passage of civilians to the airport. and we intend to hold them to that commitment. earlier this summer the white house hosted the president of afghanistan and pledged support to him. now they are dealing directly with the taliban. really now at the mercy of how long the taliban is willing to grant safe passage to american citizens. this is a fiasco. it has grave, grave threats for our future if there is a massive hostage crisis and it really reveals joe biden s incompetence to the whole world. the afghan security forces cease to exist as we learned earlier in the summer classified intelligence briefings warnt that kabul could fall quickly if the taliban attacked according to the new york times. despite these warnings from the intel community president biden stuck