katie. i think they think they can get away with it they think this is another news cycle. the problem is we are up on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this weekend. we will be commemorating that on weekend weekend as well. people s attention is on this we have 13 bleerns, soldiers who died honoring them. protect places for them. the american people are not moving on from this i just don t know, katie. this time maybe they won t get away with it in terms of the media. the media is going to let them get away with there when you have people like the congressman how just spoke to and really moving interview. rachel: right. what s happened is america has stepped up. the government is in the way. the government isn t saving americans. the government left americans behind. it s individual americans saying okay my government isn t going to do it i m going to help the people i know need help. god bless them. you know it, really gives you faith, i think, in the american people.
ago. the change is remarkable. mothers today are meeting their babies before they are even born. siblings are meeting their siblings before they are even born. they look like little babies. images are remarkable. it s really hard and perhaps this is why we are seeing heartbeat bills coming forward because i think americans are becoming more not less pro-life because of the science. now, charlie, i know you are not catholic but your wife is catholic. you have lot of catholics in your family. you are what the woke would say catholic adjacent, maybe? i m going to ask you about the politics surrounding this how fair is it that joe biden, you know, sort of as bill mentioned, you know, has these commercials, he are holding rosary beads at the same time at vice president he went up against the little sisters of the poor. here he is using his toj to go after pro-lifers. is it fair for him to have it both ways politically? well, i think in a lot of ways that s kind of the most
people were settling feud. it s hard to vet the targets if you re not on the ground yourself. neil: so for those americans that still might be there and don t want to be there and tens of thousands of afghan loyalists, nationals that are stuck there and now very much in danger, what will happen? i don t know. i feel for those people. i think our government has taken the military option off the table. we have capabilities but we don t have political will to exercise that option. so we need to exercise the other elements of national power. the economic, put pressure on pakistan. put pressure on afghanistan with the money. put pressure on the stands up to the north. put that on as well. they need to hold them to their promises and get those people out. neil: dave, thanks very much. the criticism that the
is how they started off potentially as a calamity. we all harken back to jimmy carter s hostage rescue in iran. we had a lead helicopter here fail. it wasn t looking promising. president obama went through with it. there was a lot of nervous moments there. a lot of people say it was the riskiest commando raid of this sort, special operations raid in the history of the country. one of the people against it, bob gates, he was an executive assistance to the cia director in 1980 on the jimmy carter hostage rescue when helicopters crashed into transport planes. eight americans were killed and didn t get any hostages out. he s very worried it was going to happen again. one of the things that people said is in these kinds of missions, no matter how careful you plan, something always goes
administration is getting on its handling this isn t only coming from the outside. now from the inside. those who might be frustrated that they have been blamed for a debacle that they say really stops at the front of the white house. jacqui heinrich is there with more. jacqui what is going on here? hi, neil. you re referring to this politco report. they spoke to two anonymous white house sources. one person telling politco that they were appalled and horrified that the american government left americans behind enemy lines. another person saying they didn t concern the mission accomplished if americans were left behind. fresh out of the briefing, still no update on whether any more americans have made it out since the troops with drew. the numbers we heard over the last few days have remained consistent with 100 and 200 people and the number closer to 100. the question that jen psaki