casey is live from arlington, texas with more. yes, more than $3 on average. 2.85 here in texas for a gallon of unleaded regular. just a little bit under. but last year at this time texans paid $187. it s about a dollar higher now this week. the white house in an effort to ease pain at the pump called on opec to boost its overall oil output. the rise in prices is simply because more americans are traveling and the bad news is costs are expected to go even higher. a triple a survey show that gas has to be well over 3 dollars before drives change their plan.
lindsey graham put out a message to those veterans saying to all americans who served in afghanistan and their family members this is important. you provided protection to our nation for 20years against another 9-11. you and your comrade s did your job to defend america. this allows american freedom to flourish. an important message in the middle of this. trace: to be of that into a peter doocy was saying, the fact the pentagon has said over and over, this is a narrowly focused mission. these three battalions, two marine and one army, they are to go in and get the civilians out from the hamid karzai airport, and they themselves are going to apparently get out, and the question is it goes from narrowly focused to suddenly,
a combat deployment. this is a narrowly focussed mission of safe guarding civilian personnel out of afghanistan. the marines are going to kabul and this is not combat. lucas, they will have the ability to defend themselves. the u.s. military officers are demoralized watching afghanistan melt away. others want to pull all americans out and level the embassy. trace: thank you. sandra: joey jones. purple heart recipient. went to iraq in 2007 and 2008 and was sent to afghanistan in march of 2010. welcome. your thoughts on this moment? did you see this coming? yes, we saw it coming in the
he said. he said well is no imminent threat to kabul but the taliban is trying to isolate the city. they will use karzai international airport to get these civilians out. both afghanistan and americans and others. in the taliban takes kabul by the end of the weekend, as many suspect they might, how do you secure the airport? he won t talk about rules of engagement on the ground. but there has to be concern that the taliban is moving in and we are trying to get these people out you? could have combat on the ground in kabul by sunday. it s very possible with the speed that the taliban is moving. with 3,000 american infantry adding to the forces already there and the 82nd soon to be sitting in kuwait the taliban will probably slow down. there is no way they could
advantages. is the u.s. military prepared to evacuate all americans from kabul and close the u.s. embassy in kabul? our commission is to help the state department reduce their civilian personnel in kabul and assist in the special immigrant visa process. how close are they to closing the embassy? you would have to ask the state department. visa. they are reducing their presence in kabul. are 3,000 u.s. troops going to kabul, is this a combat deployment? i didn t sleep on that question. i answered it well yesterday. john, these soldiers and marines putting on night vision