this is. brian: pete, it s pretty amazing. we are willing to leave and leave americans there. supposed to register with us. when they didn t, it s their right. we don t know where they re. so, you have democrats and republicans senator jean shaheen just came out and said we need to extend this deadline. congressman chris smith, a republican, says we need to extend it elise slotkin we need to extend this deadline. adam schiff it s not possible to get people out. general milley and austin yesterday we are not going to be able to get people out on this deadline. is joe biden doing this on his own and is he taking the reputation of the american military with him? pete: yes. i mean, the taliban timeline isn t going to work and be advantageous for us? i don t understand joe biden s insistence on committing to a deadline that everyone knows is false and fake and worse
reconciliation package no one believes should pass and salutes nancy pelosi who had a fundraiser over the weekend rather than look at this catastrophe. ainsley: all he talked about from the beginning of it was infrastructure. brian: it s unbelievable. then he goes into this. pulling out on the august 3 st date. opportunity to know about the human cost? do you want to know about americans being trapped? you don t have to look at antic doghts evidence or hearing from eyewitnesses. how about the people themselves? this man escaped from afghanistan last week. listen to what he told sean. that u.s. soldier took my hand, pulled me from the gate and my father pushed me from the back and i jump into the airport and i find my way to come back home. it was really hard, really tough. and you cannot even imagine how hard that i can escape that situation. there was a lot of gunfire.
member travel to afghanistan and the surrounding countries would unnecessarily divert needed resources from the priority mission of safely and expeditiously evacuating americans and afghans at risk from afghanistan. now, the two lawmakers said that they flew on empty seats to avoid displacing any evacuees. there is a lot of focus on getting americans out of average, rightly. so but it is increasingly clear that loyal afghans, folks who have helped us for years, some them will be left behind. back to you guys. brian: yeah. thanks, doug. it s so clear even his own aides don t think this time sideline feasible or plausible. he says i want my staff to come up with a contingency plan. real have any you are gradually pulling them out to get them out by 31st and if it doesn t work calling it a contingency plan? you think toy soldiers come in and out wind them up? they re human beings. you are going to pull 5800 out
chart. dozens of veterans organizations to meet with president biden and convey his concerns. they were unsuccessful. meanwhile, people are working behind the scenes through and around the government to help people because the government will not this administration does not care about americans trapped. some say as many as 10,000 still need to be out. but they don t have a master list. that allows them to say it was the americans fault for not register with the beaments. , which by the way, you abandoned for no reason which secretary of defense austin says i want to defend the embassy instead of the bagram air base. i made that decision in a table top exercise. meanwhile, you didn t defend the embassy yourselves pulled everybody out and stuck them in an airport in the middle of a city surrounded by hostile forces. where are the brains with these people? steve: well, you know, brian, you mentioned the administration, the dod, they say we don t have a master list. we don t know how m
unfolding right now. taliban checkpoints control the airport. they control every single piece of movement. if one rocket is fired on kabul, we are not moving at all. they control everything. everyone in america right now in that country is a hostage to the taliban to include our troops, our citizens, and people like habib and saboor who served our country and we made a promise to them and we are forsaking it. ainsley: saboor, you trusted america. you made a decision. you risked your life. your brothers did too to help americans out thinking that the taliban wouldn t come back. america would fight them off and you would be free. you got a taste of freedom and i assume your sister was got to go to school. was it word it now that you are looking at the taliban taking over afghanistan again? you know, it is it breaks my heart, you know, all of the work we did with me the seven years in afghanistan especially