Thing. This caught my eye in the daily punch today, a d. C. Publication, they interviewed a lot of people at the White House. The reaction there. To put it mildly, the White House seems a bit frustrated over The Public reaction to the crisis In Afghanistan. As if the people in america are to blame for the fallout. Bill a couple of things here. Hearing about reporters leave the country. Thats critical. A lot of times when western Media Outlets pull out of the country they rely on stringers Left Behind. Video are being beaten all over the country. In the villages where we cant be. It could be the beginning of what could be a gruesome period of history In Afghanistan. There are many people believe the hangings and beheadings could return. That was a period in our time in our Nations History we thought we put out of our mind and put behind us as well. The other thing with regard to your comment about the White House, it appears their calculations that the american people will lose interest
Might not be able to get her. bill: we ll do our best to try to reestablish the signal. if you can hear us, we cannot hear you. beautiful. there you are. go ahead. yeah. bill: you talked earlier about the future at stake. your lives at stake and then you talked about western countries including the united states as betraying you and your people. dana: hello? bill: this is a difficult connection. our apologies to viewers and for aisha. do you remember the young girl who was shot in the face by the taliban? she wrote in the new york times this. we will have time to debate what went wrong in the war in afghanistan. in this critical moment we must listen to the voices of afghan women and girls asking for protection for education, for the freedom and future they
Number but yeah. bill: what kind of day was this? it was pretty much the middle of the night. bill: how many people were unable to get on board before you closed the door? we don t know about that. we were focused on our aircraft and mission at that time. we were focused making sure we could get the people out of there to the expertise that we had and trained to. we can t speak to that. we know we were focused on the mission to deliver hope and freedom to these folks. dana: i wanted to ask you about your flight was not the one we have seen that was during the day where you had people running on the tarmac. what was the scene on the tar pack for you and tell us where did you fly to? where was the destination? so the situation like i said we were doing what we were trained to do. focused on crew position and making sure everything in on checklist and assess the
Leaving for wilmington, delaware. no glimpse what the remarks might look like. bill: we were talking about something else. all good. back to wilmington, delaware, a story over the weekend as the president once again leaves the white house. now to the desperation. it is growing for those trying to escape taliban rule. how many americans are trapped inside afghanistan. how many have worked with us for 20 years that are trapped behind enemy lines. neither the state department nor the pentagon seem to have any idea on that answer. this as we get terrifying new video from outside the airport in kabul. [gunfire] [shouting] [more gunfire]
Were promised. we cannot continue to fail them. we have no time to spare. of course look, i think, bill, the truth is whenever america was going to leave, as the previous president and this president decided, this outcome for women was a real possibility. it s a shame and do everything we can as we prioritize getting people out. we can t forget those left behind. bill: she is 22 years old. at age 22 as long as she can remember in her life she as a woman in that country had a future. all of that has been reversed in the past week. she talked about going to school on sunday morning and being turned away and said female students who made it to kabul university on sunday were given goodbyes by their own professors and it is gut wrenching. we hope to get in touch with her again. our apology for the connections. dana: the pentagon is taking heat for keeping u.s. forces