administration, in successive administrations for it i want t ask you about the political fallout for president biden. critics can say he needs to ste down or he needs to be impeached , we all know that s not going to happen. but take a look at this finding by the usa today suffix whole o his handling of afghanistan. only 26 percent of people approve, 62 percent disapprove, in his overall approval rating is really fading now. he s underwater only 41 percent approved, 49 percent disapprove. obviously the focus right now should rightly be on getting people out of afghanistan. beyond that, what do you think the lingering political blowbac on this is going to be particularly if americans are left in afghanistan? i think the democrats are scared to death right now that this is going to have a massive impact on the midterms. i think we already are expectin to have we re going to take
many people out of afghanistan is possible in the days we have left. on that point, with less than a week till the u.s. troop the taliban poses a problem to getting more citizens and allie out of the country. how much can the extremist grou be trusted wes morgan joins us he has reported on the u.s. military in this war since 2007. morgan is also the author of th hardest place the american military, good to speak with you , wes. you wrote a very interesting piece in the washington post about lieutenant colonel who wa an interpreter turned commando who struggled to get out of candle hard to get to kabul where he took up a position trying to help people get out o the airport. you re right that his entire life had been in service to the united states. when you look at the threat tha is looming there in afghanistan and you put that together with
against the surge in afghanista as well as iraq, he was against the bin laden nation. he said over and over again to obama, your being rolled by the military. he stopped general portray us from having poster at this. he held another 20,000 back the had to go to nato to get them. this is his policy. he s got to keep to this in the worst thing is, sandra, he doesn t seem to care. he opened up with his marks about the reconciliation packag and not heat leaves pentagon officials out there to defend the policy they don t believe i when so much is at stake, he ha a reputation in his hands he s throwing it in the ground and walking over a. before we jump, i want to keep mccarthy, he spoke on this just a moment ago, but he teed off this in the implications for joe biden goin forward. listen. we watch every crisis in thi new administration that he ran
important point when you said perhaps they don t want the rea number out there because if tha number of americans doesn t com out before august 31st, that s going to look really bad. by the way, president biden and members of his cabinet in national security team are now talking about cybersecurity. he hasn t spoken about afghanistan at all so far today. it may be an opportunity that h will take questions at the end of his remarks here, and if he is asked about afghanistan we will bring that to you. that is happening right now. now we are moments away from th update that we are expecting from secretary of state anthony blinken. will he take questions? it s going to be his first remarks to the nation since afghanistan collapsed, even before blinken speaks, lawmaker are singing that he should get the boot. congressman mark green is all worked up about this and he wil make his case for that coming u
country will be fully vetted, documentation or not before the enter, so let s hope they make good on that promise. the end, always good to spend time with you. as we wait to hear from the secretary of state on afghanistan we just received th two minute warning our next guest is calling on him to resign. he served as a in afghanistan and iraq. we will get right to it because it might have to get to blinken and just a moment, but your thoughts as we re about to hear from him for the first time publicly since the fall of afghanistan to the taliban? thank you for having me on bright and egg have a quick window. i will just tell you that secretary blinken in the state department has been the major failure here for the department of defense was cautioning against the withdrawal, but whe they were told by the president withdrawal, they executed all throughout the process they wer telling state ketchup, ketchup, get people moving, get people