i think at this point, the security situation has deteriorated so rapidly, i m going to follow the advice of the administration and our commanders on the ground as to getting our troops out and personnel. that being said, we re going to have to receive cooperation from the taliban as to anybody who is remaining past tuesday. they have every interest to cooperate and make sure they get out. we have to hold them to that. congressman, krishnamoorthi, thank you for joining us and stay in tougch. we appreciate it. thank you, wolf. breaking news out of afghanistan. diplomatic presence in kabul will be down to a skeleton staff in the next 24 hours. the next hour, we re expecting an update from the pentagon on the evacuation efforts under way.
reason for this chaos that we re witnessing, has not been adequately address by the administration. and i do appreciate the focus on getting americans out. what we re seeing with the helicopter airlifts with the airport, what we re seeing with the president of afghanistan leaving the country. there is so much more that needs to be explained, as to why is the embassy staff did not go down to the skeleton staff as troops left the country weeks ago. and so much more that could ve been proactively prevented here. including the visa process for the afghans you are trying to seek refuge in the united states. matt, i mentioned that secretary blinken was on meet the press this morning. here s part of how he explained, the administration s perspective on the outcome of this mission. watch. we went into afghanistan, 20 years ago. for one mission. and that was to deal with the folks that attacked us and 9/11. to bring them to justice, and to make sure to bring him to justice and to make sure
welcome to bbc news. thank you for joining us. small gains, big differences. would that be a fair assessment of today s events? i assessment of today s events? i think it is but i do think that the biden think it is but i do think that the biden administration achieved its major biden administration achieved its major goal, which was to reestablish a baseline major goal, which was to reestablish a baseline for engagement with russia, a baseline for engagement with russia, to have ambassadors go back to each russia, to have ambassadors go back to each other s countries and to try and refill to each other s countries and to try and refill the embassy. we have a skeleton and refill the embassy. we have a skeleton staff there at the moment. and also skeleton staff there at the moment. and also one thing that was not mentioned, the agreement to begin strategic mentioned, the agreement to begin strategic stability talks the most mangy strategic stability talks the most mangy of
it achieved its major goal which was to re establish a baseline for engaging with russia have our ambassadors go back to each other s countries and refill the embassy. we have and refill the embassy. we have a skeleton staff there at the moment. and one thing that was not mentioned, the agreement to begin strategic stability talks which means you have a group of officials who meet regularly and talk about nuclear weapons, they may talk about other kinds of weapons, about trying to make sure that regional conflicts don t escalate, so it is really to try and contain the dangers of nuclear and other types of escalation and they have agreed but i also believe that really you have to wait and see what happens in the next 3 6 months. will they talk about cyber intrusions? will they make any progress? will they make any progress? will they make any progress? will they agree to rules of the road and in six months if the
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