people growing older and better medicine keeping people alive longer, the french people say no to the plans. highest constitutional court is expecting to give a ruling next week as to whether or not the law is constitutional or whether parts of it have to be reined in. the protestors hoping to put enough pressure on the french president already survived loss of his majority in the parliament and two votes of nonconfidence to back down, scrap the plan and then everything will stay as it is right now. we ll see if that happens. something happened, not sure if american would come. right now the war between russia and, you know, ukraine, probably they would support financially but not physically, not maybe just sending missiles, that kind of thing, not really helping us. is it worrying to you about a possible invasion? sort of, but not too much. sort of, yeah. john: some residents of taiwan reacting to the threat from china as we wait to hear from the white house about
given to him by the intelligence community, given that they failed to perceive how quickly the taliban would advance and kabul would fall. the president knows how hard people work across the administration to try to give him the best information that they can, but it did not stop them from asking. throughout the entire withdrawal, he was constantly posting the national security team about this or that assessment, and that thinking, and constantly looking for ways to better understand what was going on on the ground. some assessments produced as i put in the opening statement proved to not be correct. but he again, this was an honest effort by everybody to get at the right outcome. their assessment was flawed and failed in that assessment. anybody held accountable for giving the president a wrong view for things turned out on the ground? i don t know how much intelligence you read or look at, it s a mosaic, it s really hard. and i ve yet to see an intelligence assessme
approach, if you will, in ethiopia and in ukraine. but every instance is different, every capital that is under threat is under a different kind of threat and you have to evaluate it. that summer before the withdrawal there was a dissent channel cable written by 23 state department officials kabul embassy warning the administration in their view was not prepared at that moment for the withdrawal. i m curious, did this review take that dissent cable into account? you have to talk to the state department. the state department conducted an after action review and so did dod, and that s a question better put to them. and one then for the president and this administration. curious if there was a moment during the afghanistan withdrawal the president lost confidence in the assessments