all of these signs, reports and indications that donald trump s team is at least concerned about a possible indictment in the doj classified documents case. that doesn t mean they ve given up. that doesn t mean it s inevitable and we are not reporting on a future possibility. we are reporting on a current set of concerns and let me walk you through it. if indicted donald trump will be the first-ever person who served in the white house to be indicted for a federal crime. here s what s brand new and we ve never reported this before, our cameras caught trump s legal team going into doj in washington today and we got footage of them leaving. they spent roughly two hours inside and wait until you hear who they met with. i will not make you wait longer than this. this wasn t some routine catch-up. we have reporting that they sat down face to face in a very rare showdown with the man who has been leading this high-profile rest gagz of donald trump. they sat down with special counse
saudi government, his son-in-law is close to the saudi government. who would be more, in documents about iran and iran s missile program and the saudis. this is a critical element that is a blind spot for all of us in this case, but if jack smith has a smoking gun there, this becomes a much darker chapter in the u.s. presidency because we ve never had that kind of a betrayal from someone holding the highest office in this country. david, i feel worse than at the beginning of this segment when i was somewhat right in, but sometimes feeling worse is how you get to feeling better because you have to deal with what the heck is possibly going on out there, so we thank you for that. david rothcop, good to see you, sir.
we have mechanisms to help facilitate the ongoing departure of people from afghanistan if they choose to leave. joining me now is former clinton administration official david rothcop, a columnist for the daily beast and host of the deep state radio podcast and author of traitor, a history betraying america from benedict arnold to donald trump. thanks for joining me on the show tonight. we know that more than 100,000 people have been evacuated from afghanistan since the middle of august, most of them afghans and we also knows that there are those who want to leave and dare to leave are being left behind. on a scale of 1 to 10 how would you scale the bidenp evacuation effort? i would give it a 7 or 58 in terms of the degree of getting the number of people out. i think the total is in excess of 115,000 people brought out in
if we want to fight violent extremism, i think we have to acknowledge that it resides elsewhere. david, one last quick question before we run out of time. you mentioned drone strikes. there are reports today that there may have been civilian casualties, kids among the drone strikes, against an isis-k combatant which nbc news hane yet confirmed. there s complete airbrushing of the fact that many lives were lost because of our presence killed by us either wittingly or unwittingly. why do so many politicians and pundits ignore that act? because it doesn t suit them politically. doesn t suit them politically that most of the lives lost women and children over the course of this war and 170,000 people died over the course of the past 20 years were lost because of the taliban. were lost because of the other side, were lost because of the support they got from other countries including pakistan so
so given everything you ve got to give them high marks. so you mentioned some of their critics. there have been a lot of critics and these are just republican or media critics. the washington post is reporting that even some house democrats have raised the prospect of whether secretary of state antony blinken and national security adviser jake sullivan should lose their jobs. david, this withdrawal has undoubtedly not gone according to plan but should a senior biden administration be forced to take the fall for that, do you think? absolutely no. that s just ludicrous. the amount of success that they have had in dealing with very difficult circumstances is enormous and frankly i think a lot of those critics are covering their own ground. many of those people are bush administration officials or obama administration officials. yes. or trump administration officials who created the circumstances that we re in. the problem is not all we ve done in the past two weeks. the problem