congress about the thousands potentially of a gains who could be left behind when this operation is finished in its in its in its most earnest forms. what were your takeaways from the secretary s briefing today? credit to the administration for regularly coming out and providing the information that they do have but there is a bit of a disconnect between the messaging that they are going and many of us in contact with people on the ground who are inundated every day with requests and desperate pleas with people trying to flee and what we are hearing is unfolding there. i do have to say what we heard from the secretary of state there was probably the most conciliatory we ve heard any white house official so far in terms of acknowledging that there are many people who will not be helped in the days ahead, these final days before the u.s. final withdrawal. the important number i know a lot of people were looking for is how many americans remain. we now know that the u.s. governments
0 these are known passport holders. okay. but have have lprs also been contacted? yes. and what about siv applicants, people who are we re in contact will we get i m sorry. i don t expect you to have all of it, but then, you know, since this whole thing began there s been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it handled it and there s been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically dealt or what you say you were dealt by the previous to deal with the taliban in terms of the siv program in terms of the broader refugee program. you guys have been in office for eight months. it s been five months since the president s decision was made. is there anything about the shortcomings have about been so readily identified by all sorts of people that you are actually willing to take responsibility for yourselves? thanks, matt. let me say two things. with regards to numbers in these different categories, as you ve
missteps by mulvane? i m sure he s a nice person, but these were pretty big blunders. what can be put in place? in the godfather movie, when the godfather the opponents come after the godfather s family and he says, we need to have a wartime conciliatory. we need to have a wartime governor, a wartime chief of staff. i m afraid after watching mr. mulvane s performance, that is what trump has to do.f. he has to gear up for it impeachment war that will go on for months and he needs to have a white house that is purely and singularly focused on winning that battle. it s not going to be politics as normal. presidents who have been under investigation in the past like reagan, clinton, they all took this step. it s a key step. in order to win this fight with the democrats.
does the president need a different structure given these missteps by spa mulvane? i m sure he s a nice person, but these were pretty big blunders. what can be put in place? in the godfather movie, when the godfather the opponents come after the godfather s family and he says, we need to have a wartime conciliatory. we need to have a wartime governor, a wartime chief of staff. i m afraid after watching mr. mulvane s performance, that is what trump has to do. he has to gear up for it impeachment war that will go on for months and he needs to have a white house that is purely and singularly focused on winning that battle. it s not going to be politics as normal. presidents who have been under investigation in the past like reagan, clinton, they all took this step. it s a key step. in order to would make this fight with the democrats.
don t have to agree with people to work with them. david, we ve also just learned that joe biden called cory booker after those tough words that we just heard right there in our piece, the tone of that conversation, reportedly, conciliatory. all right, cecilia, thank you very much. and it s you and me tomorrow morning on gma. reporter: see there. see you right and early. to other news tonight, the supreme court has ruled that a 40-foot memorial cross on public land in maryland does not violate separation of church and state. the monument was raised in 1925 to the memory of 49 fallen world war i soldiers. by a 7 to 2 majority, the justices agreed it could remain because of its historical significance. and alabama republican roy moore is taking another shot at the senate. the controversial former judge says he will run in 2020, after narrowly losing to democrat doug jones in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct that he has denied. president trump had urged him not to ru