are concerning to some critics on capitol hill. he was wasting precious time this week pressuring democrats to vote for a $5 trillion spending bill a tax bill, that what he was wasting time on. every minute of his day should be getting all americans out. republican senator ted cruz writes this under no circumstances will we stay in afghanistan indefinitely the president biden must make clear this is the only condition unde which we believe in he must ensure that condition is met. if the presidents mind is made up, i think he s asking the pentagon for contingencies in case everyone he has promised t help leave afghanistan cannot b next tuesday, but that s not th plan, the plan is to leave by the deadline he chose in the deadline the taliban tries to hold him to. look, the completion of august 31st depends on the taliban continuing to operate i
everyone of those people out by august 31st. and we heard from a call to the senators that the number ma be 4100 although the state department said no, no, no, that s not the right numbers over not sure if that s the right number or not the right number, but there s been so muc conflicting information in so much happy talk on this coming out of the mouths of some members of the ministration tha in the youth he compared him to baghdad bob so for those who ma have forgotten was saddam hussein s spin master back in early 2000. a guy that suggested baghdad wa crumbling around him that everything was okay. he said no americans in baghdad. in joe biden has no said no in afghanistan, they re all gone. it is factually incorrect. it is just last october that th afghan forces killed al qaeda
right now the focus is rightly on getting people out of afghanistan, but this is going to have lasting implications fo the president in may be on into the long-term midterm elections. this is a big deal. such dire warning for general keane speaking about what whereabouts we re about to see happen in a matter of days in yesterday having the senator on this afternoon, she put this ou here, this is the beginning of the end for the biden presidenc very interesting words. there is something else that is popped up this afternoon tha we want to cover. new york governor to that was extolled earlier this week acknowledging that nearly 12,00 more covert deaths in new york state than the cuomo administration had publicized. let s bring in janice dean on the phone. dennis, the numbers were 43,400 it s now 55,395 with the
afghanistan because not all of them registered with the embass when they went into country. that s exactly right i think is jack keane has done in as we learned from that price that s an understandable situation to some extent but anybody reachin out to all the senate offices most people, they keep referrin to americans who want to leave, i imagine when the taliban has taken over the country you want to leave if your an american. in less there some sort of extenuating circumstances, that s going to be a small number of people that want to stay so i hope there is an effort to be transparent in to tell everybody everything they know in terms of the real number , but, this is a deadline we ve heard from the meetings behind closed doors with the pentagon in members of the on the hill, that the pentagon has made clear they don t think the can get everybody out by tuesday . so this is a president biden deadline which the taliban picked up on and said that s ou date as well, don t cross tha
second in command he was killed in the province last october he was on the fbi most wanted list for conspiracy to kill americans , so if al qaeda in afghanistan poses no threat to americans, why was a senior al qaeda leader in charge of operational external operations against americans, what was he doing in afghanistan and why right now is the second in command of the taliban is a u.s designated al qaeda affiliated al qaeda affiliated to the wris he the fbi most wanted list of five million-dollar reward for information on his whereabouts. he s in kabul, he is in charge of security in the city of kabul , he is the guy in the network that we are dealing wit on security in kabul as were trying to get people out to the airport rate of five million-dollar reward. make the check out to me. what do you think is going o