i will give you an example of one. crowd favorite condy rice. a lot of people might not realize work for george w., she started at the security counsel under 41. how he trusted her and it made a huge difference. she writes the president s comment wasn t meant for gorbachev. this was a great act of mentorship for which i will always be grateful. in the time we have talk about how he could recognize what a young person, a young black woman in particular, who needed that vote of confidence in order to do her job effectively. condie s story is one of the favorites in the book. people reading the book are all emailing me saying wow, her story is amazing. dana, one of the things i learned about him while putting this book together, he was way ahead of his time when it came
to get more people. yeah, okay, buy buy. bye-bye. bill: they want for all the contingencies, right? that s what they said. right. look, war is a messy thing. bill: you are telling me. you can do it better than this. it s what the american people expect after 20 years. they wanted it to be better. they don t want to see people suffer. there are thousands of people suffering. it wasn t necessary. with a little check out the piece that condy rice wrote in the washington post . she nailed it. with a little more thought and a little more time so much of this could have been avoided. thank you for your time, sir. dana: good to see you. thank you very much. dana: with the taliban back in power in afghanistan could al qaeda be far behind? why a former c.i.a. director is sounding the alarm about the country become a safe haven. will the taliban protect
years. america is back. and the reality is the taliban is back. i don t know that america is back, but i guarantee you the taliban is back. bill: trey, thank you. it s heavy stuff. when you think about a story that we ve been watching for 20 years waiting to see how it ends, this was not among the options. it was not among the choices. we re watching this play out together. trey, thank you. come on back. you mentioned the condoleezza rice piece in the washington post dana: wall street journal. bill: if we do nothing else we must demonstrate we still believe in them. a few quotes here. no, they didn t choose the taliban, she writes, they fought and died alongside us helping us degrade al qaeda. no, they didn t choose the taliban. they seized a chance to create
a modern society where women could enter professions and human rights respected. they didn t choose the taliban. they elected leaders who often failed but didn t brutalize their people. that s in direct response to what jake sullivan and the president said about how the afghans did not fight. part of this blaming the afghan government. one last thing. more time would have served our strategic interests, she writes. now we have to live with the consequences of our haste. condoleezza rice, washington post . dana: general mark milley secretary of defense will brief at 3:00 p.m. today. bill: we ll watch for that. administration sending mixed message. we ll talk to bret baier coming up shortly. dana: twitter is letting the taliban post on its platform.
airport. 80% have paperwork that proves they worked with americans and now the tall ball are light there. how do you know they can videotape every one of those guys and when you leave next month they can one-by-one get them out of their homes and kill them. dana: condoleezza rice former secretary of state. we must provide refuge for the afghans who believe in us and that we still believe in them. it didn t have to be this way. it did not. just stop and think. the world s greatest super power spent 20 years, how much life and limb was lost, a trillion dollars and you ve got people falling from airplanes