mask on. the whole point of the vaccine, cdc guidance is what we re following. republican senator ted cruz refusing to wear a mask while speaking to the press yesterday. official guidance from the cdc advises to continue regular precautions in public places, like wearing a mask, even when fully vaccinated. thanks, ted cruz, for guiding us. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, march 25th. with us, we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire, and president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book, the world, a brief introduction, richard haass is with us this morning. jonathan, you heard kasie just talk about it, president biden holding that press conference today. what can we expect? it s president biden s first press conference. it s 60-some odd days into the this administration. he s gone the longest without having one of these events, and there s some talk among west wing aids that this matters more insid
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
embassy and personnel. i defer to frank mckenzie to talk about the neo planss at that time. general mckenzie. we hold a neo plan, we had a plan to bring out mainly american citizens and people associated with the embassy, planning later began to encompass the larger population, like every other plan centered on americans and their families. when you say the plan grew to include that, what was the timeframe? early spring of this year. so under this administration? yes, yes. and general milley, in your testimony yesterday you testified trump administration plan s had not been developed via robust interagency process, how closely were you consulted on president trump s plans as they were developed? i wasn t consultod 11 of november order that i received. that is why i went over to the white house with acting secretary miller and white house chief of staff patell, i wasn t consulted on. my time has expired. mr. waltz. thank you, mr. chairman, here is where i t
claims illegals plus 25 olympic files and 200 pages of records include then vice president biden talking about hunter biden s business deals. stone walled on getting those records he told maria what is potentially in those files. we learned that when he was receiving e-mails pertaining to ukraine his son hunter was copied on them which we ve always heard that white house said hunter biden wasn t a employee or any part of the government. meantime president biden laughs off a reporters question about congress s request for his bank records on thursday. talk to me about do you want [laughter] let s talk about why i m here. meantime house speaker kevin mccarthy has to get the vote on spending bills or face a government shutdown in 27 days mccarthy told maria he wants a stop gap funding bill or else everything including the biden investigations will be halted. i would actually like to have a short-term cr only to make our arguments stronger. because maria, if we shut
claims illegals plus 25 olympic files and 200 pages of records include then vice president biden talking about hunter biden s business deals. stone walled on getting those records he told maria what is potentially in those files. we learned that when he was receiving e-mails pertaining to ukraine his son hunter was copied on them which we ve always heard that white house said hunter biden wasn t a employee or any part of the government. meantime president biden laughs off a reporters question about congress s request for his bank records on thursday. talk to me about do you want [laughter] let s talk about why i m here. meantime house speaker kevin mccarthy has to get the vote on spending bills or face a government shutdown in 27 days mccarthy told maria he wants a stop gap funding bill or else everything including the biden investigations will be halted. i would actually like to have a short-term cr only to make our arguments stronger. because maria, if we shut