well look, you and i weren t in the room. what is true is the military didn t want to get out. that was clear. president trump said that, president biden said that. it was true. obama administration. but in some point you have to get out. there aren t good we all know iraq. there aren t good options here. the fact that afghanistan forces decided not to fight for themselves, people didn t predict that including the military or the biden folks or the trump folks. and so we can t fix those things. dana: i think many people might disagree with that especially some of the military. i wanted to ask you about this from a communication standpoint. where is president biden? he has not spoken or been seen except a photo of him with his team. do you think he should speak to the nation? i think he will. dick sullivan said this morning he will. dana: he said in the coming days. don t you think it should be sooner? it has been several days already.
trump know this single fact. president trump never shut the door on keeping a light footprint of counter terrorism special operation forces in afghanistan to prevent the catastrophe that we ve seen occur over the last 24 to 48 hours occur in kabul and throughout the country of afghanistan over the last month. this never would have happened on donald trump s watch. that is a fact. donald trump never closed the door on keeping a light footprint there to prevent it. bill: we ll see what happens with the commander-in-chief today. right now he is awol. mark millie, the general had this quote yesterday. think about this now, okay? we re thinking about the events in realtime as they transpire when the president comes out to talk about it. this is a long-term statement. terrorist groups like al qaeda could reconstitute in afghanistan sooner than the two years defense officials had previously estimated to congress because of the recent
accurate. i was left with no choice. a bare minimum of 2400 forces left behind. i faced a decision to follow through on the deal with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies forces out safely or ramp up our presence and send more american troops to fight once again in another country s civil conflict. we did not lose a person to the taliban in 18 months. is that accurate based on the two choices that he thought he had as stated in there? no, i go back to this stubborn self-righteousness that he is the foreign policy expert and dismisses his own people advising him. we know for a fact that experienced military leaders told them our intelligence capability enabling afghan security forces to achieve this it is not only probable but