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gives us a lot more time to speak to a lot of very interesting people, and we have. the one recent conversation for example, we sat down with ted nugent to talk about attacks on the second moment in this country. it was an amazing conversation. here s part of it. i met a political firestorm. i ve always been confrontational, especially regarding theal second amendment and hunting rights. and i ve never been uncomfortable when they attacken me. i go so venison is you don t recognize its value? what you think deer are here for? if you don t eat them, what are they here for? carrying a gun, i would be attacked for carrying a gun. i go so by the way venison and self-defense are perfect and you re attacking me for carrying a gun and killing deer? what are you, nuts? and of course they were all stoned. so i suppose the inclination would be uncomfortable when you re attacked, but i was so confident. you may have noticed this. i am so confident that the weekend with my dad ....
you came down that escalator, you talked about securing our country s borders. you had to fight hard to get the money to build 500 miles of wall, the stay in mexico policy built the wall, ended catch and release, and now we see what s happening. your reaction to all of this? there has never been a time six months ago and never been a worse time. the tightest security, you could come our country legally but what else we are stopping is massive amounts of drugs, human traffickers, bad people criminals emptying their jails into our country. other countries are emptying their jails into our country.em we never had it better and now we ve never had it worse in the history of our country. i just saw the lieutenant i governor with a whole group, the largest contingent of congress congress people ever at the border from what i understand. i think they are mostly here, i see a lot of them right here. we had the largest we even have my doctor, the white house who became a con ....
team who risked their lives to bring them to safety say the federal government had very little to do with it that comes as the taliban s reportedly preventing at least six planes at an airport in northern afghanistan from taking off. secretary of state tony blinken claims the taliban not blocking americans from leaving and said the biden administration is working with the terror group. they said they will let people with travel documents freely depart. we will hold them to that. so will dozens of other countries. the international community is watching to see if the taliban will live up to their commitment. without personnel on the ground we can t verify the accuracy of manifests, the identities of passengers, flight plans or aviation security protocols. so this is a challenge. jesse: and if you think the situation is bad in afghanistan now general mark milley says things can get a lot worse. my military estimate is that the conditions are likely to develop of a c ....
they call that nonsense. john: 100 americans remained stranded. the taliban reportedly preventing at least six aircraft at an airport, mazar-e-sharif, from taking off. sandra: one week since biden most recent comments about that withdrawal. the white house as efforts to rescue americans left behind are still underway. john: former green beret michael waltz is standing by to join us. sandra: but first, peter doocy is live there in washington. sandra, good afternoon. the white house says americans want to leave afghanistan but can t because the taliban will not let them, not part of a hostage situation. no, that is not what we would characterize it as. those are comments made by a republican congressman this weekend. they are not hostages, and we know that this white house does not like to use the term stranded. we have been able to identify a relatively small number of americans seeking to depart from mazar-e-sharif. we have been assured that all americ ....
hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and the journalists who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. this week, back to school back to covid? afghanistan after america, and the dateline panel mark your cards with the news that s worrying them. the they this week are steve richards, author of the prime ministers we never had and after 30 years in the highways and byeways of westminster, he should know. eunice goes is a portgusese journalist and academic, and with me in the studio is bbc health editor, hugh pym. welcome, hugh, and welcome to both of you, as well. good to have you with us. now, here in the uk, covid has quietly slipped down news programme running orders. during the summer, newspapers and website front pages have had other headlines olympic and paralympic glory, and, of course, afghanistan. it was scotland s first minister who brought us up sharp tuesday, when s ....