in country to defend it with the cap on the personnel that president biden gave. that was the only reason why our military chose to close that down. we should have continued that as a backup site. it would be a lot easier for our final presence to be at bagram than to be at the kabul airport. you mentioned it before, two runways, easier to defend perimeter. it is not in the middle of the city. where our troops are right now, if talks break down, if the taliban choose to advance on our forces, we are in a very vulnerable position. this is kind of a moment. we have a run away that could be disabled with a single mortar round. we are not operating from a position of strength. we should have put our soldiers, marines, airmen in this position but this is where we find ourselves today. it is happening. jon: a veteran of afghanistan, congressman peter meyer, congressman, thank you. thank you. jon: back in the united states, louisiana is preparing for hurricane ida. it is forecast to be
siv applicants who are not able to get past some of these taliban checkpoints. sometimes even getting to the gates but not being allowed in because those are closed. now, listen, the president has been briefed. he was briefed yesterday morning, we know, on these contingency plans for staying. but originally we do know the military had been asking for by this past tuesday to know whether or not the president wanted to extend past august 31st. one last interesting thing to say. amid this controversial trip by congressman seth moulton and congressman meyer, one of the things they came away with which was interesting, was this idea that they actually believe now that they the u.s. should get out by august 31st in order to have taliban compliance going forward. and that certainly does seem to be part of the calculus as we get to this point where, as you were saying, it seems inevitable that some people will be left behind. the question is will those be americans or will those only be thos
you plus the spokesman controversial take on to some of enlighten, later on in this broadcast. there was criticism today from the pentagon, the white house, and congressional leadership from those two congressman who took it upon themselves to make a secret bipartisan trip to the kabul airport, see seth molten we, and peter meyer republican both iraq veterans, insists that they went there to conduct oversight on the evacuation. tonight, congressman meyer defended the visit expressing concerns that their trip likely we have not had the information that we need from the administration and that we needed to run and see for ourselves. we did not fly in on u.s. military aircraft. we did fly on a military plane out, to the encouragement of the individuals there. we waited for a plane with open seats to make sure that we didn t take away from
country. richard engel had a chance to ask a taliban official about the u.s. pullout directly. we will air that interview for you, plus the spokesman s controversial take on osama bin laden later on this broadcast. there was criticism for the two congressmen who took it on themselves to make a secret bipartisan trip to the kabul airport. both iraq veterans insist they went there to conduct oversight on the evacuation. tonight, congressman meyer defended the visit, responding to concerns that their trip likely interrupted the evacuation. we were lied to up and down, and we needed to see for ourselves. we flied on a military plane on the way out, at the
of folks getting sick or hospitalized are the sick and unvaccinated. dr. carlos del rio, thank you very much. glad to be with you. just moments ago speaker pelosi addressing the visit to afghanistan of two members of congress in recent days. let s have a listen. when did you learn that congressman molten, congressman meyer traveled to afghanistan and is that what prompted your letter instructing members not to travel to the region? around the same time a little before it was in the public domain. i ll tell you why it wasn t we didn t make it known, because it would be dangerous for them. a matter of hours, but still, until they were airborne, it would not have been safe for them. the secretary of defense, secretary of state, there is a real concern about members being in the region, and so with the,