the country. bret: biden administration putting out this report about the withdrawal from afghanistan and essentially reaching this conclusion. this is part of the 12-page document. president biden s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor. during the transition from the trump administration to the biden administration, the outgoing administration provided no plans prior to conduct the final withdrawal or to evacuate americans and afghan allies. as a result when president biden took office on january 20th, 2021, the taliban were in the strongest military position they had been in since 2001. let s start there with our panel. mara liasson national political correspondent of national public radio. mollie hemingway editor and chief at the federalist and jeff plafn white house correspondent for reuters. mara, it is quitsomething to this report. it was president biden who made this decision and we have c
faith and credit of the united states in the process. so we are waiting it find out. bret: yeah, it seems like they re getting closer to negotiation though, katie. yes. bret: it s not going to be no talking. yeah. i mean, kevin mccarthy confirmed that he is going to meet with the president on wednesday. that he said about a week ago in a tweet that he is willing to raise the debt ceiling with republicans so long as there is something in return for spending cuts. and the bottom line is someone is going to have to touch the third rail. social security and medicare and medicaid are programs that do need to be reformed if we re going to have them in the future. and the idea that washington, d.c. refuses to touch them and to reform them is a reason why we do have $31 trillion in debt and refuses to talk about mane trying to make sure that those programs are solvent for the future is something that i think republicans and democrats should try and talk about in a way that helps them p
the weekend on the sunday shows. are you willing to consider any reductions to social security and medicare. no, let s take those off the table. completely. yeah. if you read our commitment to america. all we talk about is strengthening medicare and social security. so, i know the president says he doesn t want to look at it. we have got to make sure we strengthen those. what do you mean strengthen? you mean lift the retirement age. no. no what i m talking about social security and medicare keep that to the side. bret: mara, what do you think. always it fraught subject strengthen can mean reform so they last longer with some kind of what some people would call cuts or strengthen can mean as he seems to suggest like let s not talk about them at all. look, social security, medicare, medicaid are the biggest parts of the budget plus the defense department. if you put those if you make those untouchable, what are the spending cuts that republicans want? i mean, that s j
we know they are the world s largest state sponsor for terror. we know the regime rye easy the butcher of tehran we know they want to wipe israel off the face of the earth. they are happy to come after america next. they are striking to strike americans here at home. three folks indicted arrested here in the united states for trying to kill an american civilian. these are bad actors, bret. bret: former secretary of state mike pompeo talking about iran there. this as the wall street journal and other publications reporting that israel used drones to attack a missile nuclear facility inside iran. want to start there with trouble in the middle east. bring in our panel. katie pavlich news editor at town hall.com. marc thiessen and mara liasson national political correspondent of national public radio. mark, there is all this tension, obviously on what happens with
russia and ukraine. but, this iran situation and whatever happened with this attack, obviously is tense as well. yeah. we don t know all the details of it, but, you know, israel has been under a lot of criticism for not cooking more to help ukraine. a lot of israeli citizens came from ukraine to escape anti-semitism. now got a jewish president in ukraine fighting the russians and israel has not been helping. if they, in fact, did launch a drone strike against a facility in iran that is helping russia producing weapons for russia, that s a big help. and it probably has something to do with the fact that iran has been fomenting these attacks against israelis and they wanted to retaliate. so probably had both the domestic and ukraine angle to it. bret: mara, we haven t heard a lot about iran from the administration. at one point they were trying to reinstitute and get going with this iran nuclear deal which teamed to fall apart. they have given up on that,