the president apparently has some line of communication open to the taliban. why not just lay down a marker and say hey, we need another couple of weeks to get our people out? because sadly that was not the agreement that was struck between the biden administration and the taliban. there was originally the september 11th deadline. the taliban were okay with it. then president biden didn t like the optics. he moved it forward to august 31st, and the taliban said okay that s the new deadline. if we try to go back and renegotiate that, we don t have leverage. we don t have a position of strength. we are in a very vulnerable position at the airport. i went to afghanistan thinking that we were trying to push that deadline forward. what i saw on the ground, my conversations with commanders there, strongly suggested that that would be a mistake, that if we broke down that agreement with the taliban, we would be putting more american lives at risk. we would be preventing any additional folks
the taliban had only ever taken control of one city, and that was temporary, in kunduz. now in the last eight days, they have taken the entire country. it s remarkable, and frankly breathtaking to watch the speed with which they have done it, especially less than a month out from the september 11th deadline. ali arouzi, thank you very much for being with us. meanwhile, back here at home, president biden is monitoring the situation from camp david let s bring in shannon pettypiece. do we have any word right now from the white house about the taliban s movement? really are there any updates to u.s. plans? we haven t heard from the president recently, assigned from a lengthy statement he put out last night. no public remarks today, no public remarks planned. as you mentioned, he was briefed at camp david, where he was intending on having a vacation.
galactic. your thoughts on all of this? i know that you and president trump created the first space team, the first new military arm since 1947. that s a exciting to see what s happening this morning. i wish them well. i hope everyone gets up and gets back and does so safely. what really goes on is to see american innovation, private sector at work. this is good stuff. i m sure they ll learn a lot from the continued efforts, not just this company but others f that continue to st. pete compete for stases space tourism. it s about american nationalha security. we worked hard on that, creating the space force, building out intelligence capabilities and all the tools that america will need in space to be able to the next century.t see our troops coming home by august 31st. i want to get your take on how president biden is approaching this. initially september 11th
hear about the senseless murder. they for revealed the motive but believe he s armed and dangerous. the 11 suspects shutdown part of massachusetts interstate during a standoff are due in court. police arrested them in a boston suburb, suspects say they are part of a pro morocco group but had they are not antigovernment or anti-police. they face a slew of charges including unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. jillian: recent analysis from the us intel community says afghanistan s government could collapse within 6 months after troops withdraw from the country. president biden is facing criticism from lawmakers who say he s more focused on hitting his september 11th deadline than he is with what is happening on the ground. when we fully withdraw the
the u.s. is taking a major step toward ending the country s longest war this fourth of july weekend. american troops are now out of bagram, the largest u.s. airbase in afghanistan. it s likely pushing the time line for a full withdrawal months ahead of the president s september 11th deadline. but the taliban is moving in, capturing several districts from fleeing afghan forces overnight. they now control about a third of all 421 districts and district centers in the country. the top u.s. general in afghanistan expressed concerns earlier today. the loss of terrain and the rapidity of that loss of terrain has to be concerning. hope actually matters, and morale actually matters. as you watch the taliban moving across the country what you don t want to have happen is that the people lose hope and