your top military advisors wanted you to keep 2500 troops. it was split. that wasn t true. they didn t say we should keep 2500 troops, a stable situation and we can continue to do that? president biden: no one said that to me that i can recall. dana: enraged critics on both sides. some arguing the president decisions cost 13 am troops their lives. ignored military advice, ignoring congress and ignoring the american people who do not think that this was the big resounding success that he does. with all due respect to the secretary of state, he provided no real responses to my questions because at the moment there aren t responses. there is nobody in charge. his own general on the ground warned him, warned biden the afghan government would fall and yet biden did nothing. i do think it needs to be clear that the advice was given and the advice was rejected. he was lying about it. he wanted political cover. dana: do you remember one of the reasons president
we understand that. they ran for office to come and get things done for their constituents, to fight for particular issues important to them. whether it s child care, community college, climate. we re seeing that play out. some also have strong views about what should not be in a package. so we understand that they are looking to many members look to have confidence in their priorities moving forward. that s playing out now. i don t know if the president has a sense of trust. he wants to be an arbiter of key components of the party. how were you advising him of the end phase of this will look like? should we expect to see it done more publicly talking about the issues? will we see him in a more front stage role? since you can t talk about the negotiating behind the scenes, what tea leaves should we look where the plane will land? in advance of something passing or after something passing? before. before. it s important for people to remember the president announced
dana: pent up demand. hearing today and another one in the senate and tomorrow in the house. here the players. you have it ready. joint chiefs chairman mark milley, lloyd austin and centcom commander general mckenzie and be pressed whether president biden ignored their advice leading to the chaos in afghanistan. bill: so many images seared into our mem re. six weeks ago yesterday afghans clinging to a parting u.s. cargo jet. some of them falling to their deaths on that tarmac. dana: parents handing over newborn daughters and sons desperate to get them as far as possible from the taliban. bill: days before the august 30th withdrawal deadline an isis suicide bombing targeted the crowd outside the airport. 13 american service members killed, two women. dana: lawmakers will press the generals on a retaliatory drone strike. the pentagon claimed it killed terrorists responsible for that bombing. we later found out it wasn t true. the victims were 10 innocent civilians, mo
with president biden s agenda hanging in the balance. lawmakers have a lot to do in essentially 72 hours and this morning they do not appear to be getting any closer to getting it done. overnight speaker pelosi made it clear she does not plan to hammer out the details or the price tag of the massive human infrastructure bill before holding a vote on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. despite a whole lot of pressure from progressive members of the party, the speaker says the thursday infrastructure vote is still on track. the big question, does she have enough votes to get it through? we will be asking one progressive member of that party that very question later this hour. meanwhile, in the senate republicans blocked a house passed bill that would have funded the government and suspended the debt limit at the same time. please note, not one single republican signed on. a purely political play that could cost our economy billions and billions of dollars. wh
to four loyalists of the former president. that as president joe biden is nearing the end of a rough week for his administration, especially with the big ticket items at the top of his domestic agenda in peril. can he turn things around? also tonight, an arrest warrant issued for brian laundrie for his alleged activities after the death of his fiancee gabby petito. this as investigators continue to search for laundrie in a swampy nature reserve in florida. there s a lot to get to this evening. i want to get to jeffrey toobin and analyst laura coates. thai for joining me this evening. jeffrey, this is big news. the select committee going to four of trump s aides with subpoenas. what does that tell you about the investigation? it tells you what they re looking at is what donald trump knew and when he knew it and what complicity he had in this riot. what it also tells you is that the democrats shouldn t get their hopes up that these four are going to testify, because one of