made, and as general mccaffrey said, the trump administration did negotiate a farcical agreement with the taliban. but the biden administration had a decision, whether they were going to continue to go down that path or they were going to make adjustments. unfortunately, when it was announced we were going to get out, and we were going to get out before the end of august, i think, again, that sends a very strong signal to afghans including those that were on the fence, those who were not taliban and they were not afghan government officials or the afghan government, but i think when they saw that the taliban was going to be ascendant, when the afghan government s primary benefactor and supporter and military advocate and trainer was going to be leaving wholesale, that clearly sent a signal to a lot of folks, as general mccaffrey said, this is the end game for the afghan government. i don t think a lot of intelligence officers were surprised by how quickly this happened. but, again, thi
congresswoman chrissy houlahan, former congresswoman donna edwards, thank you both so much for starting us off today on a day like this. i m grateful. john heilemann is sticking around with us. when we return we will be joined by former cia director john brennan and retired four star general mccaffrey to talk to them about how we failed to see this coming. the speed with which the taliban has advanced has surprised everyone as we brace for the fall of the afghan government. plus, the urgent need nor the january 6th committee to investigate not just what happened on that day but the flood of new details we are learning about the disgraced ex-president s pressure campaign to overturn an election he lost. what we know about how long we can expect the delta variant to circulate in this country from other countries where it has already left as the white house marks the biggest vaccination day in more than a month. that s good news. deadline: white house continues after a quick bre
reporter: so as i talked to sources today, the message i m get secretary they re not going to make a big deal out of this that s not good optics for them. a terrible terrorist has been killed and a great victory for the united states of america. they don t want to whine about the process here. they will make sure people at the cia and dod, that they expect to be notified about these specific operations. our thanks to you, ken. all right, so all the raid on psaosama bin laden s compoun was carried auto by seal team 6, this particular raid was carried out by another arm of the joint special operations command, the delta force. joining me no you to talk more on that is msnbc military analyst, retired u.s. army four star general mccaffrey. thank you for being here. so al baghdadi was targeted in idlib province, what s the significance of that, that he was found there?
command miles away where all of this is playing out thousands of miles away, doing so it strategically. general mccaffrey, the president alerted turkey and russia to this happening. did he need to? well, that may have been somewhat overstated. you know i think certainly they didn t want the aviation regimen being fired on as they moved into position. it was a long, apparently it was launched out of iraq. it may have been as far as a 700 mile flight each way, low level, nighttime. they didn t want to run into an air defense problem with the russians or the turks. the turks would have seen the particularly the air force cover and noticed something was going on. so, yeah, they had to notify them. but again, this was a u.s. unilateral operation, probably launched out of iraq with incredible technical capability that did knock in the head a
bouncer at the club that is deciding what is in and what is out, what is allowed in and what is allowed out. he is for a lot of people in the country the person who is determining what is appropriate and what is not appropriate. he savers oig thfevors that pos think that his voters have given him that rope so far. i think that the problem the president will run into when and if he abuses that. and general mccaffrey, a viewer could turn the channel now to fox news and see them talking about this perhaps. this has been a crusade there to get these individuals pardoned. you look at the role fox news has played and the lawmakers who have advocated for this as well. steve king calling for these pardons. what does that say to you about who the president is listening to? you, martin dempsey, there have been men who have had great careers in the military coming out against this. and yet he is listening to this