it sets up yet another stalemate. the house comes back not this coming monday but the monday after that. it is going to be interesting to see the way it shakes out. the reconciliation process is long, thorny, procedural, not the sort of thing that moves on a fast track. if there is one thing that has been through of infrastructure from the moment they started this push, this administration through to where we are now, it is slow moving and a grind for lawmakers. the long and the short of it is september and october, once lawmakers are back here in the capitol, it is going to be dizzying in terms of the number of things they try to accomplish but pretty slow moving in terms of how they actually and if they actually accomplish them. dizzy and slow moving. ally vitale on capitol hill. thanks. new reaction and headlines from that speech former president george w. bush delivered commemorating 20 years since 9/11. he alluded to the january 6th insurrection when condemning
these capitals. what s your biggest fear for not only the residents in afghanistan who will be left behind but also women and girls there in the future? that s where i ache with the greatest pain because they have been so many great benefits that have accrued to women. i just had an e-mail this morning, there s 1500 human rightsadvocates that are desperate to get out of there now. are desperate to get out of there now. status in the united states. we owe them that representative jackie speier, thank you for your time, for joining us on this fast-developing day. thank you so much. we want to get the ally vitale who is reporting on the
all of our guests mentioned is making sure that american personnel and allies on ground will are evacuated and able to be done so safely. at the same time, though, we are also talking about kevin mccarthy asking for a second briefing from the white house. i think at this point this isesque t there is the political reasoning for that at the same time, though, there are a lot of questions broadly about how this situation could have deteriorated so quickly many of the same questions that you have been peppering your experts and your guests with are questions that lawmakers here on the hill have as well. because even though they have been briefed on this before, even though they have done policy work to make sure that the visa process could be expedited, they are still wondering how the intelligence could have been so wrong on how long it would take for the taliban to get to kabul. at the same time, just general questions about what was the plan here. ally vitale live for us on capitol
afghanistan is a foreign policy quagmire that has the fingerprints of two democratic and two republican administrationsover the last two decades all over it. it is not placed in one political box over another. certainly as we continue to track this from capitol hill we are likely to see this in lawmakers comments as well. ally vitale, thank you. joining us now, jeff mason, reuter s white house correspondent. the president released a statement saying this in part quote when i came to office i inherited a deal cut by my predecessor which he invited the taliban to discuss at camp david on the even of 9/11, 2019. it imposed a may 1st, 2021 deadline on u.s. forces. how can you interpret that statement being made, a genuine assessment from the white house, from your perspective.
family in afghanistan that you made, thank you. and thank you for your book, the 20-year war . appreciate your perspectives and help in understanding. kevin mccarthy is requesting a second meeting with top white house officials after both chambers of commerce received an unclassified briefing this morning. ally vitale is on capitol hill. what do we know? that s just in the last few minutes. house minority leader kevin mccarthy saying he asked for a second briefing from that group of white house officials who briefed the house lawmakers this morning. it was an unclassified briefing. they also then briefed the senate. this is a second classified briefing scheduled the come the week of august 23rd when house lawmakers all come back to washington. right now these two briefings this morning unclassified and virtual because lawmakers from