that s always been false. we need an asset-light, light footprint but a forward deployment of special forces that could stop these kind of terror attacks but now just for the purposes of this moment, and how the president and his team s incompetence got us to here, they put us in a situation where we have as hostage situation developing. they abandoned bagram air force base in one of the stupidist military blunders in all of u.s. history and now we re left in a situation where we rely on a civilian airport that has one runway. i don t think the american people fully appreciate the danger and the peril into which the president has put us. one rpg taking down a plane onto that runway means we re stranded. so the president needs to make sure that this hostage situation into which we re drifting, that the taliban knows we will not stand for it. chris: i got about a little over a minute left so i need a quick answer here. i want to drill down on this question of afghan refugees because ther
biden says he s considering extending the august 31st deadline to withdraw troops, but the taliban has made a pretty public statement. not gonna accept that idea. in fact, the taliban spokes person called it a red line and extending it would provoke a reaction, technically consequences is what they said. lawmakers are warning americans lives are at stake. they ve put us in a situation where we have a hostage situation developing. they abandoned bagram air force base in one of the most stupid blunders in u.s. history and now we re relying on a civilian airport that has only one runway. i don t think the american people fully appreciate the danger in which the president has put us. one rpg means we re stranded. harris: we couldn t really get from the pentagon an accurate accounting of what had been left on the ground there.
we need an asset-light, light footprint but a forward deployment of special forces that could stop these kind of terror attacks but now just for the purposes of this moment, and how the president and his team s incompetence got us to here, they put us in a situation where we have as hostage situation developing. they abandoned bagram air force base in one of the stupidist military blunders in all of u.s. history and now we re left in a situation where we rely on a civilian airport that has one runway. i don t think the american people fully appreciate the danger and the peril into which the president has put us. one rpg taking down a plane onto that runway means we re stranded. so the president needs to make sure that this hostage situation into which we re drifting, that the taliban knows we will not stand for it. chris: i got about a little over a minute left so i need a quick answer here. i want to drill down on this question of afghan refugees because there s a split inside
we heard on the radio that there was this hostage situation developing. atlanta was locked down. everybody was obsessing over where this man meegt strike next. i was attracted to the case. where was this guy going with this murder script. so i m interviewing the lawyer and we hear from the secretary, the lawyer, this news report that they have this unrelated hos tang situation developing in