avoided this degree of chaos, and the administration did not. period. and today president biden, frankly, sounded like president donald trump, feigning that what we re all seeing could not have gone any better. no, i don t think it could have been handled in a way that we re going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that happens. i don t know how that happened. they say they were prepared for all contingencies. clearly you were not prepared for all contingencies. clearly could you have gotten your people out first and done this early. and if this president doesn t grasp the urgency of doing more and better here, some words of his may come back to haunt him these.
idea that somehow there s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensu ensuing, i don t know how that happens. i don t know how that happened. they say they were prepared for all contingencies. clearly you were not prepared for all contingencies. clearly could you have gotten your people out first and done this early. and if this president doesn t grasp the urgency of doing more and better here, some words of his may come back to haunt him these. there s going to be no circumstances where you re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states from afghanistan. the likelihood there s going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. happened. and that picture of saigon, we don t have to compare it to anything else. it s bad enough on its own.
know, again, this is the thing that has is motivating republicans, that republican legislatures across the country from a local to a federal level are focused on doing everything from, you know, perpetuating former president trump s big lie to trying to implement suppressive voting measures. all of these things are interconnected here, and if the biden administration doesn t grasp that yet, then they are in for a serious surprise this mid-terms. yeah, and i mean there s still time. i think president biden should look at it, a dave moment, you know, filibuster, shmilibuster, mitt romney, could you live with making sure the election officials get to decide? joe manchin, we will give you your voter id. i think presidential leadership is one thing no one talks about. we debate whether manchin could
customs and border patrol people, you would have started i think with the national guard, because you wouldn t be taking active duty troops off their training missing unless it was absolutely necessary. the fact is those troops are down there. you have to look at this inside the pentagon and ask, can t the national guard there be re-missioned? it s in everybody s interest to get the active-duty troops home as soon as possible so they can maintain their readiness. too early to say if this is more posturing, but we ll certainly keep an eye on that. you wrote broughtly today that in your view donald trump doesn t grasp the role. in your op-ed, you said the u.s.
of the united states telling leadership in congress, pay no attention to the president. he s a child venting with a temper tantrum. he ll get over it. it was amazing what was coming out of the white house this morning. air aides are saying he just needs to get it out of his system. we re talking about funding the federal government. there was ample opportunity to get it out of his system yesterday, so if the president were perhaps to be watching cable news right now, which i think is probably a decent possibility, and hearing that his aides are saying, ignore him, don t pay attention to him and then as a result follows through on the veto, there s nothing lawmakers can do right now. they ll have to come back and the government will shut down. it s as if he, more than a year into office, doesn t grasp the magnitude of the decisions he makes. the republicans yesterday were trying to make a show that the president did win on border security. you heard paul ryan, the house speaker, com