president, the pentagon, and places around the world. but it was reminiscent of that photo of donald trump signing a blank piece of payment at walter reid during his hospitalization. let s talk about the communication shop. politico is reporting tonight, they re going to adjust their communication strategy and make it more in line with, you ll forgive me, but this botched evacuation that we re all witnessing. that s exactly right. the initial approach was to change the time frame of what they were talking about here and get people to focus on the 20-year time frame. something generally americans are supportive of. most american don t want to remain in afghanistan. rather than the somewhat disastrous four or five days. that has been very unsuccessful and i suspect that president s comments in the interview that he always anticipated this chotwick drawl is not going to help.
taliban or telling the taliban about getting the people through the cordons to the airport? you went right to the heart of the matter. i was shocked at president biden. i ve had more experience. i got provoked into that answer about staying beyond 31 august, if we have to get the americans out. we do not want to be putting down red lines in public. chris donahue who is now going in as a direct negotiator to the taliban military get through these things. it could possibly be that the majority of americans will be out by 31 august. it sounds highly unlikely that 18,000 interim rhetters and 20,000 commandos and 30,000 people who work for the u.s. directly, and ngo s, would all get out with their families and prior to the end of the month. this is something, that air
field is now strongly defended. nobody but nobody is taking on, training marines and paratroopers, but they can close down the interdisk. we won t expand the foot print. we need to talk privately to the taliban. we re going to get out of there without fighting and get out of there with all the americans and as many afghans as we can feasibly transport. lisa, this biden administration is getting dragged and roasted in ways and with severity that they are not used to. visually, people point to the big mistake over this past weekend. and that was showing the president all alone at the conference table at camp david, while the world seemingly melted around him. he was on video link with among other people, the vice
investigations on the chaotic withdrawal and intelligence failures will keep afghanistan front and center in the coming months as the administration tries to pass biden s economic agenda. remember, they re talking about fellow democrats here. back with us tonight, eugene robinson and mike murphy, strategist for the center for political future at the university of southern california. short answer, they have discovered one. he is also co-host of the hacks on tap podcast. gentlemen, good evening. and eugene, i would like to begin with you by reading a quote from our mutual friend, matthew dowd. he writes this. the response by the gop and so many democrats in d.c. to events in afghanistan underlines what i have been saying for years. gop feel no shame. democrats feel shame way too quick liflt biden is right in
government. the leadership in afghanistan. hell, the president got on a plane and left the country behind and maybe someday, we can ask him about that if we find him in the south of france. i got one for you though. what in your view looked worse? the sacking of our own capital by our own people or the botched evacuation from afghanistan? well, that s a close one. i would have to say the sacking of our own capitol. you have to go back to the red coats for that. make no mistake. this is a disaster in afghanistan and there s been a tremendous amount of damage. my friend matthew was debating the song the white house wants to sing, in the big picture, it was time to leave afghanistan and most people agree. what biden owns and doesn t want