Continuing to deploy thousands of american troops, we will maintain the fight against afghanistan and other countries, we just don t need to fight a ground war to do it. Paul: let s bring in retired army general petraus served as commander in coalition services in afghanistan and director of central intelligence agency. General, great to see you again. Thanks for coming in. So now that we are out, the u. S. Troops are out, how do we get those americans and afghan allies who are still there out? well, we are going to have some kind of relationship with the new rulers of afghanistan. Obviously the taliban. They have still not completely formed their government but it s taking shape. We know the leader will be some of the key ministers, we have a diplomatic presence in qatar which is the location in which the negotiations with the taliban were carried out. A lot of countries have removed embassy from kabul and establishing a shadow embassy again in doha, qatar. That s where that will take
The let s bring in retired fourstar general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war. General keane, always great to see you. As i look at it, it looks like here with three days to go, they re really closing down the evacuation to a much lower number, and is that how you see it, and is that the only choice they have given the security risks? yeah. Given if security risk and the date certain of 31 august, there s not much choice here but to keep people away if they have actionable intelligence and given they were right about the last intelligence they reacted to, we did have an attack, so i m certain this intelligence is very, very credible and taking precaution their measures to avoid a mass casualty situation like we experienced is certainly in order here. And that will, obviously, deny more people from getting out of afghanistan, american citizens, to be sure, followed by likely tens of thousands of our afghan partners. Paul: yeah. Let me ask you about this strike o
Agenda next deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger, a columnist, chemist rasul and mary anastasia o grady. Let me start with you, dan. These inflation numbers are mindboggling if you don t have to tell people on main street because if you like washington d. C. , the irony is on one hand, president biden want to take victory laps for economic achievement and yet keep the pressure on for emergency spending. That s for sure, charles. Finally free visiting the wonderful world of inflation. In that world, an economist talk about push inflation and demand, we are not going to talk about that. We are going to recognize that prices are being pushed higher and yet you have the white house and federal reserve in the chairman jerome powell trying to pull back expectations inflation is going to go much higher or persist in the economy. The struggle here is between consumers out there worry about the effects of inflation on their budget and conceivably pulling back their spending. Reporter: no
Jeff bezos said his blue origin rocket crew blasting off to the edge of space in an historic flight that could lead to a new age of tourists. He is having the time of his life floating around. Oh, yeah. Wahoo! jesse: before the capsule landed safely on the ground. The billionaire describing what it was like. On how it felt, oh, my god! my expectations were high and they were dramatically exceeded. What we are doing is not only adventure. It is adventure and it is fun. But it s also important. Because what we are doing is the first step of something big. Jesse: but right on cue, liberals are attacking him for spending an estimated $42,000 per second. I don t think i ve heard of a bigger oxymoron than talking about billionaires going up into space and then using the word democratizing. These tech leaders view the social good as equated to technological progress and market value. Why did bezo and a few of his friends get to make these decisions and why are they using money that should hav
Hurt is here along with florida congressman byron donalds. We begin today, new reaction pouring in after the biden administration invites the united nations investigators to the united states to examine america s record on racism and human rights. I m john roberts in washington. This is america reports for a friday eve. Sandra: it is. Hello, john. Reaction pouring in to that. Secretary of state anthony blinken making that announcement yesterday saying the u. S. Should lead by example on the world stage. Critics say the biden administration should be focusing on oppressive regimes like china, russia and iran instead. Tony blinken like his boss, joe biden, is sticking a kick me sign on uncle sam s back. They should tell him to head to china. We don t need this. It s divisive and benefits status quo and the liberal elite. I thought the biden administration was extreme leftist. This is insane, martha. The u. S. Is asking the united nations, a cess pool to come in to the united states and i