slow down, everybody. i want to talk about two things. first afghanistan. bill: that s how that went. singapore first, vietnam second. this trip the events in afghanistan clearly overriding the headlines. dana: her laugh is a way for her to gather herself before she answers the question but it that s how she ended up being in charge of the border. maybe she will be now put in charge of afghanistan. we ll see. pentagon scheduled to give an update on afghanistan in an hour. we ll keep you updated as it happens. the afghan interpreters who risked everything to help us. president biden s handling. u.s. withdrawal had a fiery rebuke from marc thiessen last week. the goal in afghanistan was to make sure there was a
operation warp speed history and the history of our fight against the pandemic. prior to this we had emergency use authorization. what that meant is the public health benefits outweighed the known and potential harms. what this says today is we know the benefits, we know the harms, and this vaccine is safe and effective and every confidence can be given to that and americans should feel very good, better than they did yesterday about getting the vaccine. what took so long? it is a complicated process. there are many, many good professionals and credible professionals at the fda. it does take a while because all the data is looked at in detail. every page is turned. the facilities are inspected. however, again as i said before, i think it s unconscionable the biden administration doesn t have an fda commissioner even nominated to provide leadership. it is complicated. there is a lot of material and
england. who haven t been hit directly by a hurricane in 30 years. bill: thank you, bryan llenas a lot of anxiety for the storm. for others turned out all right. for others not so much. nice to see you in rhode island. dana: we re just learning president biden will speak to reporters later today. supposed to be on covid following the fda approval of the pfizer vaccine. see if he takes questions on afghanistan. we re waiting to hear from the pentagon in moments. let s bring in a former senior intelligence officers and 26 years veteran of the cia. this happens regularly where an administration will try to blame the intelligence community for a situation that happened that has been happening over the last few days. how do you see that? unfortunately it is part of the business and this is certainly not new. i wouldn t call this an
with the white house and the secretary of defense and secretary of state who refused to say that we were going to go and get our people who are not at the airport. that is not the american way. we have to rely on germany and other countries to go in and get our people when they are stranded. that will be their legacy. it is awful to be a veteran who served our country to see this happening to american citizens. bill: that briefing was friday. a lot can change in three days. what else did you learn in that briefing? myself, congress needs to act. myself and a democrat, a california democrat filed a bill on friday to demand that congress declare that we will go in and get american citizens out and tell the biden administration to go in with any means necessary to get our citizens out and we are going to go in and get our vehicles, aircraft and our equipment so they are not in the hands of
president biden: we want you to be able to get to the airport. contact us and we ll see what we can do to get you there. we have to get you out. we are committed to deal with you, your wife and your child to get all three of you out of afghanistan. that s the commitment. dana: is there anything else that you think the administration should be doing in order to meet that commitment? well, he says contact us. i m not sure who he wants us to call. it has been me and my team having a guy in kabul driving around dropping pins and live locations of taliban checkpoints to move guys to safe houses or to the airport. we would love help who to contact. if you have a way to move them safely to the airport, i would love to talk to you. bill: how many people have you gotten out so far. can you put a number on it? i can tell you this morning