was the original mission was over m that has been the whi house rationale and they feel they say that their hands were tied by donald trump s decision to get out on may 1st, that as secretary blinken is telling meet b the press today, that on may 2nd, we would have been embroiled in this brutal civil war and having to send thousands andha thousands of troops back in order to stop the taliban because they had said that they would startth fighting the day after the may 1st withdrawal that had been agreed to by the previous administration. whether that is true or not, whether we could have kept 2,500 troops and then added more and still stabilized the country, i don t think anyone will ever know forhe sure. but that is going to be the debate that you are already seeing now. at this hour, i should point out nancy pelosi has arranged a briefing for all members of theh house, bipartisan. it s an unclassified briefing. there was supposed to be a
0 going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, it s important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. yeah. the current plach is according to defense officials is to continue to flow those people in. but this is all happening so in quickly, you have to wonder in the next 48, 72 hours f they are not in there, are they going to have time to get all of them in. a looking at pictures, with helicopter evacuations from the green zoneli to the airport, th are looking to get this place cleared out faster than it would probably take those extra troops to get in there. let s reset. it is sunday, august 15th.h. i m ali vel