if we had gotten out differently would we have had a different outcome in who they are right now? we do know terrorists are paying attention to how we feel about things here. a heritage everywhere are saying about how we are handling our foreign policy position everyone was talking about how we are weaker for the way that it was done, not that it wasn t the right decision. they are certainly measuring that and to add to katie s point about how she was just hanging out at our balcony and in the capital his wife and daughter came a few months earlier and they were just roaming around like normal people there as well. and we know how valuable families are in these kinds of terrorists. what i think is interesting looking forward is what s next for al qaeda. so the number three guy he
on china. look at trying to make saudi arabia a pariah while cozying up to iran. every stated foreign policy position we have seems to be undermined or soft pedaled by this administration. i want to take a step back and say i hope president biden is successful. i would rather eat crow on this network than see our country be less secure and the world less stable two weeks from now because it doesn t yield any kind of product. this is not a personal interest partnership. i m not running for office any time soon. between abraham accords and knowing how to handle the atrocity saudi arabia did commit and i wish president trump had done something more immediate and obvious and more sticking in the wake of jamal khashoggi s murder to have moved past it by now. we don t get to make our friends pass a purity test and they do commit sins and be
situation road. we are seeing here is a situation that is unprecedented, macron situation that is unprecedented, macron did an enormous gamble spending macron did an enormous gamble spending a lot of time dealing with russia spending a lot of time dealing with russia and ukraine, this is a bit up for grabs russia and ukraine, this is a bit up for grabs right now in how the french for grabs right now in how the french voters will see it, but they look at french voters will see it, but they look at her french voters will see it, but they look at her foreign policy position, which look at her foreign policy position, which theoretically should go against, which theoretically should go against, we see whether polls are in much against, we see whether polls are in much of against, we see whether polls are in much of europe, very much on the side of much of europe, very much on the side of this much of europe, very much on the side of this western alliance, with a punis
afghanistan. the secretary of said that s not completely true. he said we have no troops in syria. the pentagon said we have 900. there s been so many instances, especially considering when he said there were no problems with americans getting to the airport and we ve seen image after image of people having trouble getting in, the pentagon had to send a helicopter to get americans out. howie: when your words are contradicted by the pictures everybody sees it s not a good situation. a washington post columnist said many white house officials are shell shocked by what s happening, the magnitude of the failure. what s your sense? i think that might be true of some people of the press, people that ran the president s campaign, who are used to talking about hopes and dreams for building the country back better but the people who are making decisions i think that these are people who have been around the block. i mean, blinken was he served in two administrations over 20 years, senior fo
colonel alexander vindman worked for the president. and so, you know, in many ways it s, you know, corroborating what you hear from other witnesses. and lawrence, if she said something today that exonerated the president or was an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of where all the arrows are pointing in this scheme, i could tell you that. but that s not what occurred. we saw more corroboration of this shakedown scheme from president trump. but also to you your point about rudy giuliani, we now have a number of witnesses who have described rudy giuliani being told to them by president trump as rudy is our guy in ukraine. so you have this agency relationship between rudy giuliani and president trump. a sharp straight line between the two of them. even if rudy giuliani is carrying out some foreign policy position, that is donald trump s foreign policy position. and the two are inseparable.