is decollusional. and that s incredibly dangerous. we re not a third world country. also not a dictatorship, but this is something else and it s scary. of course, the new administration, including kamala harris, the first female u.s. vice president ever, had other issues to tackle. there was the pandemic to manage, the economic fallout, and democrats vowing to turn things around, which was not so easy. yeah. i mean, the democrats are kind of blowing this moment. on this vote, the yays are 69. the nays are 30. the bill as amended is passed. a rapidly developing rift between progressives and centrists nearly scuttled one of the best wins for the white house. the infrastructure bill. sometimes, simple decisions are made hard by the other baggage brought into the situation. i was not extending a forever exit. and that came well after the worst stumble by the new white
even divided families. you know, both sides believe the other is deranged and delusional. and that s incredibly dangerous. we re not a third world country. we re also not a dictatorship, but this is something else, tom, and it s scary. of course, the new administration including kamala harris, the first female u.s. vice president ever, had other issues to tackle. there was the pandemic to manage, the economic fallout, and democrats vowing to turn things around, which was not so easy. yeah, i mean, the democrats are kind of blowing this moment. on this vote, the yeas are 69. the nays are 30. the bill as amended is passed. a rapidly developing rift between progressives and centrists nearly scuttled one of the best wins for the white house. the infrastructure bill. sometimes simple decisions are made hard by the other baggage you bring into a situation or what s going on. i was not extending a forever
choice, between leaving or escalating. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. president biden with a vigorous defense of his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from afghanistan. i want to bring in a former senior official in the clinton administration and host of the deep state radio podcast. his op-ed in the atlantic has been getting a lot of attention which he says biden deserves credit and not blame for afghanistan. that s where i want to start, david. this has been getting a lot of attention what you wrote there. basically what you re going to say here which is narrative, you re saying that the narrative is out there other the last few weeks that what has happened in afghanistan the last few weeks is somehow a disaster. and the criticism that has been levied on the president. you are basically arguing it s all wrong.
to evacuate more than 120,000 people from kabul in recent weeks. the extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravery and selfless courage of the united states military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. for weeks, they risked their lives to get american citizens, afghans who helped us, citizens of our allies and partners and others on board planes and out of the country. but this was a president on the defensive, widely criticised for the way and apparent haste with which america withdrew from afghanistan, leaving some us citizens behind. mr biden insisted he was right to end the forever war and not to extend what he called the forever exit . he laid the blame in part at donald trump for doing a deal with the taliban, but also with
divorces, loss of limbs, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress. i was not going to extend this forever war, and i was not extending a forever exit. president biden today announcing the end to the war in afghanistan, striking a tone, i saw described today, as both defiant and vehement. i think that s fair. vehement in response to criticism of the evacuation and the drawdown of all u.s. forces from the country. president biden is not the first president to promise to end america s longtime military engagement in afghanistan. he s just the only one who actually did it, who actually succeeded in getting it done. and while ending the war was clearly a difficult decision to follow through on, it was not an unpopular decision. poll after poll over the past few weeks have shown consistent support among the american people for ending the