the withdrawal? plus, hundreds of thousands of people in louisiana are still without electricity or running water in the aftermath of hurricane ida. with temperatures soaring, the question is when will power be restored? and in less than two weeks voters in california will decide whether to recall democratic governor gachb newsom. the question is could we see him replaced by a it is way too early for this. hey, everybody, good morning again. welcome to way too early, the show that has not yet been recalled, i don t think, i m jacob soboroff on this wednesday september 1st, we are going to start with the news. amid backlash from both sides of the aisle president biden is forcefully defending his decision to end the 20-year war in afghanistan. in his first public speech since the last u.s. troops left kabul the president yesterday said he refused to prolong a forever war and credited his administration s evacuation efforts as an extraordinary success. my fellow am
let s begin with our meteorologist danger van dam on the ground in louisiana not par from port fourchon. we ve seen conditions deteriorating there rapidly. what are you experiencing? reporter: yeah. wolf, this is the stuff of nightmares as we eye down a monster hurricane that is only 30 miles away from the location where i m located. it s unfolding before our eyes. conditions deteriorating as you mentioned. an extreme wind warning continues to pop up on our screen. my team, our phones continue to blare, because that is held specially for these moments. the national weather service reserves it for critical life threatening winds in excess of 110 miles per hour. that is approaching, because we understand that the eye of major hurricane ida is moving toward this direction. now, the concerns here is that the storm has made land fall. there are people within the path of the eye. just like homa, louisiana where i m located. what you re going to see so you understand what you re g
is likely. we hope that doesn t happen. the sad truth is this is what being at war and extracting yourself out from the middle of a civil war looks like. it s precisely why biden is trying to bring it to an end and why most americans agree with that. it seems republicans are doing nothing but searching for a position that will pay off for them politically in 2022. except they can t seem to decide between the usual warmongering or calling for the president s resignation. remember, it was the clown show of the past administration that brought us here in the first place, including releasing 5,000 taliban fighters, one of whom is running afghanistan. something they would very much like for you to forget. i ll be meeting with taliban leaders in the not too distant future and we ll be very much hoping that they will be doing what they say they are going to be doing. they will be killing terrorists. they will keep that fight going. when i hear general mckenzie say that the talib
but we won t know. it s true, and it is humbling, but i am going to try. i m going to try, and that is all i can say. i think you will get it done. thank you, rachel. thank you, lawrence. i appreciate it. we ve been through this only once before in our history. before the evacuation in afghanistan, the american military had carried out only one major evacuation from a war that we lost. that was in vietnam in 1975. in vietnam when the airport we were using came under rocket fire from the north vietnamese army, and two marines were killed, the final two soldiers killed in combat in vietnam, republican president gerald ford immediately ordered the abandonment of the airport, and the switch to helicopters, dangerously taking people from the tops of buildings to finish the evacuation. president ford immediately ordered the evacuation speed it up. the president never gave a thought to try to avenge the deaths of those two marines, or in any way prolong the dangerous situati
they were tortured by the taliban, but since yesterday, the afghan people are more bullied. do you think it is another civil war, and everybody now, they show up one more time for their activity, do you think that is one? before i take that question, i want to take the opportunity to make sure that we express our con don lens for the afghan people who suffered in yesterday s attack. we know there was a number of people killed and wounded people at the airport. there are families dealing with the same devastating terrible news that gold star families are dealing with. on behalf of the secretary we offer our thoughts and brayers. we don t, we obviously don t want to see the country torn through civil war, but that is why whatever the future is from a governance perspective, we want to make sure that afghanistan leaders are held to proper account for the way they re governing and that afghanistan s neighbors also try to play a constructive productive role in whatever the futur