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leader to say the taliban wasn t winning. ghani reportedly telling biden, mr. president, we re facing a full scale invasion. republicans now want the full transcript released and slamming president biden over the phone call. it s one example of the disastrous miscalculations that brought us to where we are now with hundreds of americans left behind in afghanistan because of joe biden s execution of his decision to recall. they don t call him quit pro joe about nothing. the most important thing about this is the fact that he had to lie means he knew six weeks ago that things were going to go bad. that s correct. he didn t address this strategy. he didn t warn americans in that country to leave. meantime white house press secretary jen psaki is being called a hypocrite for refusing to give details about the call. was the president pushing a false narrative in that call with the afghan president? i think it s clear. i m not going to go into details of a priva ....
but is this the time to be asking for more health? hello and welcome. i m christian fraser in london. the british foreign secretary told a committee of mps today that his government had ordered british embassy staff to destroy anything that would hand the taliban a propaganda coup. yet we now know, in the haste to evacuate, they left behind the contact details of afghans who d worked for the embassy and the cvs of people who applied. fortunately, they were found by a british reporter, not the taliban gunmen scouring the building. as for the propaganda coup, well, they don t come much bigger than the celebration in kandahar today, at which the taliban paraded the humvees, a helicopter, and an arsenal of weapons they have captured. to the victor goes the spoils of war and the keys to the presidential palace. the taliban are working to form their new government. it will be announced in the coming days, but without any women in senior positions. in an interview with bbc p ....
veteran who has serious doubts about negotiating with the taliban. he s dealt with them himself. he says it s a waste of time and a dangerous thought in our head. yesterday our top defense officials were talking about the possibility we could do that. from the defense secretary to the chief of the joint chief of staff. the argument goes something like this. better to talk to them because the alternative to them in afghanistan is isis-k. is it really that simple? we have jennifer griffin at the pentagon and jacqui heinrich monitoring these developments as well as the white house. jennifer, first you at the pentagon. the idea of entering into discussions with the taliban might have seemed unthinkable 20 years ago. given everything that s transpired not so much now. what are you hearing on this. it s really important to point out that the taliban were legitimized in march 2020 when the trump administration signed a peace agreement, so-called peace agreement with the tali ....
vaccinated with limited exceptions. notices haven t been made yet but that is a process john going and we understand it being resolved and completed. thanks, jen. it s been a couple days since troops left afghanistan. you continue to say the mission will continue and bring people home through diplomatic and other ways. yesterday the white house didn t have an answer on whether any americans or refugees made it out. is there an answer today? again, this is an operation over seen by our state department. they have a briefing today. if there s updates, they ll provide them. we re working through and what we knew would necessarily be operational after the departure are a couple of steps. one is how we get the airport operational again. we re working with the qataris and the turks and others, the civilian side of the airport had a lot of destruction to it and we need to make repairs and partnerships with them to get airplanes up and running. that will have a huge impact. ....
the right thing to say. so i might get with my needle and thread posse and make a pillow out of its. that s the one. america should hear this again. elections have consequences, even if impeachments don t. [laughs] coming soon to a t-shirt near you. [laughs] thank you rachel. thank you lawrence. president biden left a marker for history today, he delivered the most accurate and most honest speech by an american president about afghanistan. the bar could not be lower for honest and accurate presidential speeches on afghanistan, especially considering the woefully inarticulate presidential speech that started the war in afghanistan, with george w. bush making promises that were filled with absurdity by the time his presidency came to an end. in fact, by the time his first term ended. promises such as, we will win this conflict by the patient accumulation of successes, we will not fail. peace and freedom will prevail. to deliver the best presidential speech in hi ....