and those are exactly the organizations that can get the money directly there. dr. dave campbell, thank you very much for being on and for your work on this. it is just past the top of the hour on this monday, september 9th. still with us we have political writer for the new york times nick confessore, richard haas, washington bureau chief for usa today and author of the mate tr mate tree yark, susan page, and tom nichols. great day to have tom on. we are learning more about the secret meeting that the president planned with the taliban at camp david. take it in before abruptly announcing on twitter that it was canceled. the meeting would have happened yesterday just days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11.
all right, mike allen live in washington, d.c. thank you very much as always. we re going to be reading axios a.m. in just a bit and you can sign up at a newsletter by going to axios.sign up.com. morning joe starts right now. on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the retaliatory regime in zblans after 2014, we will support a unified afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future. our brave troops have now been fighting in the middle east for almost 19 years. and afghanistan very much in the news this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s monday, september 9th. with us we have political writer for the new york times and
good morning, it s monday september 9th. we are learning more about the secret meeting the president planned with the taliban at camp david before abruptly announced on twitter it was canceled. the meeting would have happened yesterday, days before the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. the president says he canceled the meeting after the taliban claimed responsibility for a bombing in kabul. trump tweeted in part what kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position. if they cannot agree to a cease fire during these important peace talks and would even kill 12 innocent people, they probably don t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway. discussions about meeting with the taliban leaders began about a week ago. we re told president trump first decided to hold a meeting with the group and the president of afghanistan in washington, but later came up with the idea
newly elected women of color, a newly member of the squad, ilhan omar will travel to ghana with pelosi as part of a delegation. republicans push a narrative of infighting. this is a war and a few. socialist democrats inside that party are taking the party over. reporter: nancy posey wants her caucus to be unified. that is not the case when it comes to impeachment. will the number in favor of impeachment grow? the house is back on monday, september 9th. shannon: we are going to debate this with the political panel. growing out of kentucky tnf lawsuit, falsely labeling him a racist. after an encounter with a man at the lincoln memorial.
thank you. here s what we know happened after those 911 calls on the morning of monday, september 9th. we know it was not two but actually four people who were taken to the hospital as a result of that car accident. we know that it took emergency responders more than twice as long to respond to that accident than it should have under their normal protocols. it took them nine minutes to get to the scene of the accidents. it should have taken them less than four minutes. we know why it took them so long to get to those injured people in that accident it was traffic. emergency responders were stuck in absolutely epic traffic. this is a letter from the head of emergency services in ft. lee to the mayor of that town. this letter is dated september 10th. it s the day after the ems coordinator was not able to get to the scene of that big car accident on time. in the letter the ems coordinator explains to the mayor of that town that because of the terrible traffic, he had to jump the curb