u.s. president that the collapse of the afghan government was somehow a forgone conclusion, whether it happened sooner rather than later. clearly, it happened an awful lot sooner than planned for and the issue was how much he planned for. he attempted to show more compassion but these pictures and reactions to them reveal, not so much. dec desperate for a child salvation a baby handed to u.s. marines over a razor wire att kabul s airport. security airport enabling flights to resume, not just military flights but civilian charters from other countries and the ngo is taking out civilians and vulnerable afghan vulnerable afghan knks. reporter: through the hours of daylight today, no evacuation
indication that russia has little or no intention of abiding by basic fundamental human rights. it would be a tragedy. it would do nothing but hurt his relationships with the rest of the world in my view. that sounds like a forgone conclusion. sounds like is he already spinning something that he expects to happen. he i went back and looked at a column by 1987 by richard cohen in the the washington post about joe biden s first foreign major policy address as a candidate back then to hard. harvard. he had a line a generation renowned for not doing its homework may have met its next leader. to say me that s a real problem we see with this approach. it fails to learn from even recent history in terms of dealing with russia.
you are also right whether you have google and the government of china against you. it s going to be a slog no matter what. since we are both in the media, and you made such a great point that they didn t really lose justin amash changed parties but they didn t lose any republicans, certainly no number of them. that s not what the press predicted going into this. you kept hearing people saying republican also abandon him once they hear the evidence. that was firmly predicted again and again and again. why do people in the analysis business keep getting it so wrong? it seems like that s a trend that s accelerating. it is i think partly it could be wishful thinking. tucker: yeah. dana: also, perhaps, because talking amongst themselves. brit hume as he was saying there at the diner today in pennsylvania with people who are interested in politics, as he said they are very successful so presumably they have run businesses and maybe now they are retired. they care about the future
that it s a forgone conclusion. we know what s going to happen in the senate. i think when will hurd, the congressman from texas, who is retiring next year. former cia agent. served his country. when he came out and said that he was not convinced on impeachment, he would be voting no, i think the wind really went out of the democrats sails on that. and this is the first partisan impeachment. it s also the first happening in an election year. you will didn t have this kind of thing where bill clinton was out on the road doing rallies during his impeachment because his two terms were about to be over. this is going to fuel the 2020 debate unlike anything we have seen before, which is saying something, given how divisive our politics have been. tucker: it s such a good point. dana perino, thank you so much for that tonight. appreciate it. let me go back to our senior political analyst brit hume, and as we do, we want to play a piece of tape for you that we have pulled off the televis
of these members are. and a lot of those moderate democrats were national security democrats. they were part of what you could see the movement on this was crystallized the moment when that house freshman who were national security freshman who wrote that op-ed in october really gave the sense of the politics is different and we ll see what happens as we head to the senate. and one of the things taken the air for a lot of people is the sense it s a forgone conclusion. and there s a question together with nancy pelosi is where this is headed. congressman maloney, i think one of the things most difficult for people out there to believe is there was no political pressure put on democrats in the house to vote for impeachment. speaker pelosi said it again tonight at the press conference. i know for people who have worked in the house and senate