to assume things were going to go down hill once that withdrawal was complete. brian: also critical of president trump as soon as signed that deal we should have started bringing people out then. your reaction from what you heard from bob gaetz? look. president trump was bringing people out. even before we signed that deal. and so the continuation of bringing those people out would have meant by the time you got to the deadline they would have got out. the biden administration came in and stopped taking people out. in fact they added people. they wanted to shore up the afghan government. the bigger point that bob gaetz makes. i have known him since 1970 when we shared an office together in henry kissinger s suite in the nixon white house. when he says joe biden has been wrong on everything. joe biden has been wrong on everything. i worry about what joe biden is going to get wrong going forward. i think that s china. brian: right. so let s talk about china. over the weekend it became
around the compound that can t identify as bin laden he says i want this just among us and among us meant the closely held panetta and his top aides at the cia and the president and people like tom donilon and john brennan at the white house. it did not include the secretary of defense bob gaetz. it did not include the secretary of state hillary clinton. hillary clinton was read into this operation in march of 2011. they understood the wider the circle here the greater the likelihood there is a leak. the best lead they had had since bin laden disappeared after torah bora he will disappear again. mike: great reporting. no surprise there chris wallace, congratulations. thanks for your time this evening. chris: thank you so much, mike. i appreciate it. mike: chris new book countdown bin laden the story of the hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice is
bagram prisons and kabul by the taliban as they made their lightning strike through to the capital to take over. so that is inconsistent. the allies as alluded to are really furious. and i ve heard people, brits and french and the germans talking about this. because joe biden came to brussels. we were all this for the nato meeting. america is back. i won t do what donald trump did and not only undermine nato but withdraw from syria against the advice of his defense secretary who quit over it at the time. this was against the advice of the defense secretary and the charmt of joint chiefs and the president decided to go his own way. and i think it is because he was so burned in 2009 by being the lone voice in the national security council. ben will clearly remember this. he was the lone voice against the surge and he was really eviscerated in bob gaetz book, fellow cabinet member to the
and i live with my parents. would you like it go out with me. and the girl says yes. let s go. george steinbrenner he gets a raise. i swear on my life on our friendship, my friend, i bring that example of that seinfeld episode up all the time. he has got to try that joe, if you are listening, joe biden, whatever your instincts are follow the castanza model do the opposite and we ll be okay. even the obama people famous bob gaetz line this guy has been on the wrong side of every foreign policy decision in years. the problem is this the guy with the nuclear codes right now. the military can t do what we know they are capable of doing. this is not you know well, our boots on the ground. they goal get our people tomorrow. they will door kick tomorrow and get our people out of there. it is this guy on the screen right now who created this potential hostage crisis pending. and i hope that doesn t happen.
as bob gaetz would say to be wrong again on a foreign policy decision. saboor estimated 5,000 lost their lives with americans. do you think about them right now. yeah, among some of those people that it hiding is my own brother and sister. you know, for the past 48 hours, we have been living in a state of scare. my brother has gone into hiding. is he burning every evidence he has got, including english books, proof of his service with armed forces. the u.s. armed forces in afghanistan. so, he is out hiding. without any hope or any possibility of not knowing what will happen in the future. listen, this is not this is not an enemy that we don t know. you know, clearly the situation, circumstances in afghanistan are only three options. you either end up with a settlement in a country where the leaders come together, you