the terror threat in afghanistan is still terribly real. let s bring in elliott abrams, former deputy national security advisor and representative foriran. one of the things that i ve always learned from you is that setting a date certain is a terrible idea and august 31st, who set that and why and look what happened? well, the answer dana is joe biden set that date and the proof of what a terrible idea is wasilewski the segment you did. we ll leave some american citizens and thousands of afghans who sacrificed to save americans, we will leave them hanging there for no particular reason other than joe biden chose august 31. first he chose september 11th, which was really crazy. it is a terrible, terrible mistake and he could have used the horrible events of yesterday to change the date but he is being very stubborn
million acres. listen to governor rick perry s reaction to this. there s a point and time where you say, hey, what s going on here. i mean why are you taking care of alabama? why are you taking care of other states? for some reason other the letter didn t get lost in the mail. it s not easy for a tea party backed governor to say, is it? this is a governor that at one point talked about succession. he said i don t need the federal government. particularly that language of take care of. there s an attack on the notion of the nanny skate. we want the government small enough to drown in the bathtub. if it s drowning, it can t throw