something else, he was part of this movement, as a voice for dignity. and that was the ultimate kind of review can some ways, to trump, and to what the republican party has become. colin powell is a lifelong republican, he s like what republicans are made to be. and yet here he was, by the end, not just laboring over whether to back john mccain or barack obama but fully on board with a traditional democrat like joe biden. and seeing no place for himself in the republican party as it stands today. in some ways, he s the most powerful never trump voice of all. for the fact that he wasn t so clearly associated with that movement, just associated with the notion of honor and decency that he stood for in the political sphere, even as a non-combatant, so to speak. john heilemann, and jonathan thank you very much for joining us our discussion tonight. really appreciated. thank you. coming up, defended trump went under oath today, in a civil lawsuit. we ll be joined by ted boudreaux s,
screw this up at any minute, the second largest non-combatant evacuation in american history. this is not dunkirk. this is a semipermissive noncombatant operation. we are taking out just about anybody who is there who can prove they are u.s. aligned or u.s. citizens. you know, we have to maintain something. there are 38 million afghans. we cannot take every one of them and there s going to have to be a tiered system to get them out. let s get into this a little bit more. right. you had boris johnson, you know, talking about the number one condition we re setting for the g7 as they have a guarantee safe passage. so everyone agrees people need to come out. there was this great video, this clip of these young girls, these afghan girls who were on like a computer, a tech team, right? they were all together. they all got on a plane, got on
hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that happens. do you agree with that? i think there s a distinction to be made here about the decision to withdraw. i think you re wright. i ve been supportive of the ending of our combat mission in afghanistan. after 20 years it s proven there was no military solution here and i continue to agree with that. i do not think that the non-combatant or the civilian evacuation has gone well and according to plan. i m still trying to figure out what exactly that plan was and that s, why jake, i ve been calling since april to start this evacuation. as soon as the president said that he was going to withdraw american combat forces, i knew that we could be in this position, that we might be fatesing this challenge right now, and that s why i said let s start the evacuation, get american citizens out, our afghan partners out. we could have been so much further ahead and in a
past the nominees under investigation and view this as a partisan fight? i wrote about has in the paper today. extraordinary. tells how politics works today. you can t be a neutral actor, non-combatant in american politics. clinton folks acted gingerly when they heard the news. very respectful of fbi director comey. over the course of the weekend her tone changed. and by, you know, sunday, certainly by monday, they basically put comey in the cross hairs, because he has become somebody they can use now to arouse their base. everything in politics is now a sword or shield and they had to make comey wear a red jersey to galvanize their base. dealt a bad hand in the last few days. how do you respond? make him a part of this and use him to get your folks fired up. the problem is, if she selec he ll be the fib director and have to work on areas like terrorists. and bill clinton had bad relations with his fbi director.