in the decisions they made a year and a half ago. i haven t seen anybody ask dr. fauci or what eleven sky that. howard: gayle, president biden did get some media pushback for ignoring at home tests and how they ve ordered 500 million but we re not going to see those for some weeks. people are going crazy trying to get these tests. he said it wasn t a failure, then he admitted, as we saw, had a we known, we could have gone much harder, and the press just moves on. we see that over and over again. like the clip about dr. fauci who s been the chief flip-flopper on everything related to the pandemic during our experience with this, fauci didn t acknowledge there could be different rules for essential workers. so, yes, cut it down to five, and maybe five days is even too much given the fact that omicron is highly contagious and yet it s not very debill debilitative to people. we re not seeing a huge rise in
mean on a day like today? well, it makes a significant difference and what they re talking about there is the process of ingesting intelligence reports and how does the u.s. capitol police then process that to make strategic decisions and disseminate information to their officers. that s what we saw was lacking on january 6th. we know that this wasn t a failure of intelligence. the intelligence was there, it was a failure to action off of that intelligence. today thankfully that paradigm has been flipped. we re seeing that the u.s. capitol police, law enforcement officers are very transparent about the intelligence they have and the action steps that they re taking. there s been an increased public awareness of the potential threats and a lot of communication. you know, they re over indexing on this communication about what law enforcement is doing. why? because they have to. they have to show this show of force today because we have this unmitigated threat that s out there from viol
and transparency in terms of what the intel is seeing. and look i still think january 6th wasn t a failure of intel. all the intel was there. it s just the failure to act on it. you re absolutely right. even i was hearing everyone was hearing and trump said it s going to be wild. everyone who can read twitter understood what was coming. great new book. i hope everybody checks it out. it s really, really good. it s called race against time. appreciate you all. and meanwhile the ongoing debate over vaccine booster shots is making your heads spin, you are not alone. straight talk on boosters straight ahead. plus, ever wonder how you can win the popular vote but still lose an election? we ll talk gerrymandering 101 with former u.s. attorney general eric holder. and a texas high school principal placed on administrative leave after being accused of promoting critical race theory. and tonight s absolute work
any potential contingency including the re-emergence as a threat of al qaeda or the further emmencence and if we don t have the authorities we should get them, whether that that means writing new ones which is the most appropriate thing to do if necessary. we need to look at that. i appreciate your willingness to change your point of view and in part because of the conditions that have developed in the most resecent weeks. nothing wrong with conditions leading to a change in perspective. i for one thought some years ago that we should withdraw from afghanistan, the conditions that i saw in the ensuing years convinced me that i was wrong and i like senator shaheen was one of those that felt that president trump was in an agreement to enter an agreement or that president biden would continue with that agreement to withdraw and i was appalled by
east, and kabul faced the prospect of no fuel and unable to mount any viable opposition and sustained defense. what do we think was going to happen. and the most concerning part of it if we didn t have an analysis that looked at all of this, this wasn t a failure of analysis or this was a failure of policy and planning. we have the wrong people analyzing this. someone didn t see this or didn t want to see this because we ve established this that we want the to be out by september 11th so we could have some ceremony arguing that we pulled out of afghanistan on the anniversary of 9/11. the fact of the matter is where it leaves us now on top of the other things mentioned here from a geopolitical perspective is not a good place. i think china and russia and iran, they look at this botched withdrawal and what they see as incompetence that they think they might be able to exploit and lead to miss calculation. i think the europeans, our allies who have very little