we did x, y, z right. it s this other agency that didn t do it right. that has been really surprising because that has there really hasn t been a lot of that at all with this administration. and you are clearly seeing tonight that some white house officials, some administration officials realize they are taking water on this. you are seeing officials trying to fan out at some news outlets and give a response. but at the end of the day, it is the president who the public wants to hear from. and he has not been heard from very much other than a pretty defensive interview that he gave to abc. yeah, kaitlan, one of the big remaining questions is whether the white house actually knows how many americans and allied citizens, particularly afghans, are still in kabul trying to get to the airport. i just spoke to former ambassador crocker, who said he think he would imagine that the state department has a pretty good idea of how many americans at least would be there. if they do, they h
one heard about this white house. certainly this is the first major policy crisis and it s not going well. anderson, there s two factors. the white house seems overwhelmed by events on the ground which is to some extent how he says there was always going to be chaos, that was true, it just wasn t necessarily on the withdrawal. there are reports that are leaking out and then officials who are speaking publicly saying essentially, it weernlt us. we did x, y, z right. it was the other agency that didn t do it right. there hasn t been a lot of that at all with this administration. you re clearly seeing tonight that some white house officials, some administration officials realize they re taking on water on this. you re seeing officials trying to fan out and at the end of the day it is the president who the public wants to hear from and he has not been heard from very much other than a pretty
attention on that. there s a good possibility this whole story may drift away. how would that possible. there are some that want to keep it going for whatever reason. they can do it, but at the end of the day it s what gets covered and gets out there and who gets a platt to remember to talk about it. there s an internal investigation, and after a while there will be a release of all this information long after the story will have died. i think this is liable to come up again with susan rice if she s nominated for secretary of state. molly, we know it will come up again. there will be public hearings, that take on a whole different level. z right. there could be a nomination fight, and both sides natural they plan to dig in their heels on. that was be an intensely political and i think intensely controversial nomination if it comes. you are right. thank you very much, molly.