All happening at the same time, the fallout from afghanistan which gets rougher by the day it seems and the fallout from all the Flooding And Damage that now has claimed close to 60 lives. Questions about how it happened and how we could have known better. First to the fallout half a world away because it continues and growing continues and so what if anything can the United States do about it . Lets go to David Spunt with the president in wilmington, delaware, david. David, hi, neil its been almost a week that people want today get out as safely as they can. Its been almost a week since u. S. Forces completely withdraw. There are still many people including americans that are in afghanistan that want to get out. The United States said to be in contact with members of the taliban to exit at some point. Secretary of state Antony Blinken says that not getting into specifics about some of those discussions with taliban leaders. We do know that President Biden is getting updates while hes
Joe biden is right now politically. Polls show him losing astounding levels of support from virtually every group of americans who voted for him to stay year ago. That would include hispanics, moderate democrats, africanamericans, and by big double digits, and dependence. At this point the white house is down to just two core constituencies. Anxious up women and members of the National News media. And even that might be overstating bidens support given that theyre such dramatic overlap between those two groups. Essentially they are the same people. And now, because it can always get worse, biden appears to be losing even the media. This is an ominous development. Its not an exaggeration to say that if this trend continues, it is the end of the biden presidency. The media are the only reason joe biden is president and the first place. Biden didnt campaign for the job, he didnt hold rallies or give speeches or tell the public what he might do if elected. Now, for nearly a year, joe biden
neil: protests in new york city and around the world today as israel prepares for a massive ground invasion in to the gaza strip. we re on top of all of these faster moving developments. we ll talk to senator marco rubio and why he says israel has no choice but to wipe out hamas. welcome. i m neil cavuto. to mike tobin in israel. we re learning about raids on a hamas targets in the last 24 hours with more to come. mike? certainly will be. a lot of tension at the northern border, a deputy to hezbollah leader says they won t listen to out seed pressure to not start another fight in northern border. meantime, u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin is in the area. he had a warning for hezbollah. any country, any group, anyone thinking about trying to take advantage of this atrocity, to try to widen the conflict or bestow more blood, we have just one word. don t. israel had a warning for the civilians in the city of gaza that the time to get out for your own safety is now. cl
confirmed in that time are actually hostages? less than 10. that s not a number. i want a number from you. less than 10. why can t you give a number? i ve given you an answer. what is your next question? you ve given an answer. you ve not been responsive. let the record show. the other question has to do with israeli warnings. the israelis have said their objective and they ve been very explicit about it is to destroy hamas. from you and other administration officials, we hear the objective is to ensure that hamas can never terrorize israel again. those are two different objectives are. you having a problem with the israelis in terms of a clear communication here of their objectives or have their objectives appeared to change over time? no and no. how does does the united states support the goal of destroying hamas? we support what israel is trying to do to protect citizens from the threat of hamas. james, you know this. we re not on the ground fighting in
lost a true anchor. wednesday night legendary bob simon died in a car accident on the way home from work here in manhattan. he had just finished a story that will air tonight. on thursday night my friend david carr died. david was the man who knew all these men, who covered them all, held them all to account. david helped us and helped them understand the revolutionary changes that keep coming coming coming in the media industry. david was the wisest most wired media reporter in this country. his monday column was the definition of a must read. he collapsed in the new york times newsroom he loved so much. david used to say, i just want to get in the boat and row. he just wanted to help cover the big stories in the world of media. today we will pick up an oar and try to row without him. i m joined by the best person to make sense of this week s news carl bernstein, one-half of the team that exposed watergate to the world. i wanted you to join us on set today because we ve be