and i know all of my colleagues across government feel the same way. here are the three words that president george w. bush, who started the war in afghanistan, has never said, about that mistake. that we are living with. tonight i take responsibility. joining us now, our foreign affairs analyst in colonist for the daily based in usa today, he s host of deep state radio podcast, also with us this woman who served two tours in afghanistan with the 82nd airborne, you are both with us on the first night of this program s coverage of this evacuation, and lori, you had written movingly about it at the time, what you are feeling. i want to check in with both of you, especially you laura who had been there, and had fought in this war. on what you re feeling, in what you re seeing at this stage of the evacuation. honestly, david mentioned
this earlier today i believe on twitter, it s really quite amazing what is happened, it s not perfect. relieving people behind in that s awful but the number keeps going up this morning the number was 70, 000, the number is now 87,000. it should have gotten better, it should ve been more organized, but given what happened, i think this administration should be a little bit proud to take responsibility of this evacuation. david, your reaction of where we stand tonight. exactly where laura said she was. the reality is, this is a tough situation and as we said there is no way to end the war and make it look like you re winning the war, but this administration, has taken a bad hand, and a number of things that show a lot of character, in a lot of capacity. they said they would leave
our future insole, i think we have to end this and get back to living life without being in war all the time. life without being iand david, s in the coverage now and car meditators and partisans is the august 31st deadline, tremendous pressure on the president to move the august 31st deadline, as if that s completely up to the president of the united states in the country we are being driven out of absolutely right again, there is no happy ending when you lose. the president of the united states and his team are negotiating, as jake sullivan said yesterday, daily with the taliban about this. the taliban have said you have until the end of the month the president has said again, to his credit, that we have to make contingency plans if we are not done, we may have to do other things to protect our citizens. and i think there is a substantial incentive that the taliban to enable us to get