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unfolded. that s one headline from his address to the nation today. one that s of immediate importance, especially in a domestic political sense. the other headline could be far longer reaching with much greater impact on how this country maintains its presence in the world and at what cost in dollars and lives of american service members. namely, the president s commitment to avoid fighting another war like the one he just ended. we ll talk about both tonight. today new polling from pew research showed that americans by a 12-point margin, 54% to 42%, approved of the decision to withdraw. however, as the president s overall handling of the situation, 42% said the president did poorly. substantially more than those who rated it either fair, good or excellent. this part of his remarks spoke to that. let me be clear. leaving august the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. it was designed to save american lives. my predecessor had made a deal with the taliban. when i ....
in other words, in july, biden knew things were going bad, going south. the intel community, and we have been reporting this, has been correct from day one. that s why the cia left six, seven weeks earlier. but instead of stopping the taliban and stopping a withdraw, and protecting our interests, joe biden was only worried about optics, projecting a different picture. this is a disgrace, because what that means is, joe biden knew that it wasn t working and was getting dangerous and he didn t expedite the withdraw, at a point in time when he could have done it safely. and not leave americans behind enemy lines, and our afgan allies to be murdered, and they will be. every american tonight should be furious, to be blunt, we don t have a president in the white house. we don t have a real commander in chief. we don t have a leader. instead, we have a dishonest self involved incoherent mumbling and bum bling commander in chief who firmly believes he deserves all the credit fo ....
or thank you all for your service, because so many of these afghans, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, have worked closely, have fought alongside and have died alongside american military service men and women over the past 20 years. and so i do think you will likely get some kind of response from afghanistan as the news of that speech trickles out, jake. so, dana bash, president biden 13 days ago said that they would get every american out by august 31st and would stay longer if every american wasn t out. obviously events overtook them. there was a terrorist attack, and the president said that it was the unanimous advice of his military and civilian advisers to withdraw august 31st. he said in addition in his speech just now that 90% of the americans who wanted to get out would get out and the administration was still going to work on getting them out, just not through military means. how do you think politically the american people are going to respon ....
with russia, instead of them, giving russia too much influence in a place where britain thought that they should be in charge. so in 1839, the brits invaded afghanistan, they tried to install their own, guy who they had handpicked to run afghanistan. who they thought would make afghanistan more closely aligned with them. the british army state for several years, fighting that war, but in the end that did not work out. the brits left in 1842. but then, 30 5:40 years later, the british army tried again. the brits were freaked out all over again, that a place they thought out to be aligned with them, was actually more inclined toward russia, same thing that has driven them 30 5:40 years before. in so in 1878, the british invaded afghanistan again. and again they installed their own handpicked guy. this time for a hot minute they actually thought they had one. in that afghanistan would have a long term alliance with britain, which is what they were seeking in that first and ....
the president s national security advisor, jake sullivan. but first for our ongoing coverage we are joined by helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the new york times, an msnbc contributor, former top state department official rick stengel, now also an msnbc political analyst and paul rieckhoff is here, founder of veterans of america and host of the podcast independent americans. helene, i start with you. if there s any question as to whether or not this president and this white house cease the criticism of this decision, i think it was answered by the president going right at this very sort of specific line of attack that you hear frankly from the right and the left. he talked about this, quote, we shoulda, coulda maintained a small force and not taken on any casualties. they felt it was important to knock that down. what did you make of the specifics that he had and the attempt to knock back the critics? hi, nicolle, thanks for having me. it was a clear effort ....