yeah, andry a the state department coming under fire as you might expect and democrats like senator blumenthal who is furious at how this situation is unfolding. the state department has been very vague for a couple of days now about why exactly these charter flights have not been able to take off. the explanation that secretary blinken gave here in doha today was that there are american citizens as well as afghans with the correct paperwork waiting to get onboard those flights, but they are mixed in with people who do not have the necessary travel document, and so the taliban are saying until everybody has the travel documents, nobody can leave, and of course, this is what everyone was worried about, that when u.s. troops left the americans remaining in afghanistan would be effectively at the mercy of the taliban as to whether they could go or not and the taliban, the new government of afghanistan are in a position where they can say, look, we re
venice. we shouldn t bring them in one at a time. bring them in a boz at a time and put them to work. the seems the oil spill is stimulus for red tape. they want today drop rocks to protect the jetties but had to go approval from d.c. is there too much red tape going on to fight this like we need? the rocks have been denied. i got a call from the white house. they will not allow the rocks. brian: why won t they allow dropping rocks to create the break with water. they say it will cause scuffing of the islands and cause more damage. same thing when we talked about the berms early on. you know, the red tape, we ve got stacks of paperwork waiting to get approved by bp for skimmers as the oil continues to come ashore and destroy the