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 theres 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 to knock down criti
Department are only compounding the problem. Biden is americans are able to get to the airport we have no indication they havent been able to get problem through the airport. We made an agreement with the telegram far, theyve allowed them to go through, so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are carrying american passport trying to get through the airport. The u. S. Military last night had to rescue 169 americans by helicopter were just 200 yards outside of the airport, on the other Pentagram Back president , Revealing Americans are being attacked on the way there. We know of cases, a small number we know of, we are aware of the radical cases were there is no harassment going on some physical violence has occurred. Aishah to make the issue even more obligated tonight, the u. S. Embassy and afghanistan Issue Security Alert that reads, because of potential Security Threats outside the gates at the kabul airport, we are advising u. S. Citizens to avoid traveling to the airp
Cohost harris faulkner, along with emily, former Trump Deputy national security advisor katie, and Iraq War Veteran and former Army Captain John James. Pentagon announcing commanders are communicating with the Taliban And Hope to get one flight per hour within the next 24 hours with goal of evacuating five to 9000 passengers a day. This as we get striking images out of afghanistan as thousands try to escape the devastating taliban takeover. This is a photo showing 600 afghans packed inside u. S. Cargo plane. People were reportedly pulling themselves on to the Halfopen Loading Ramp as it was taking off in a desperate attempt to escape. Much like we saw yesterday with this stunning and tragic video of afghans clinging to the side of u. S. Military plane, despite the rapid collapse of afghanistan, President Biden defended his Decision Yesterday and get this, tried To Paz the blame for the disastrous withdrawal. President biden i came into office, i inherited a Deal President Trump negotia
As afghans flee. [speaking in native tongue] it was just two days ago that the Pentagon Press Secretary said this kabul is not, right now, in an imminent threat environment. President biden remains at Camp David. Earlier on Fox News sunday former Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo calling out biden administration. It looks like biden administration has just failed in its execution of its own plan. It looks like theyre now trying to get folks out. This reminds me of previous administrations have allowed em was pass says to be overrun, it starts to feel this way. It feels like this is a bit of panic having to reinsert soldiers to get them out. We reduced our forces in a minutely, and the taliban didnt announce on capitals. Trey yingst live in the Middle East with the latest on whats happening In Kabul. Hi, trey. Reporter good afternoon. We know the biden administration has authorized an additional 1,000 u. S. Troops to head to kabul and assist with this evacuation not only of u. S. Personnel
The taliban and the southern city of lasker. God is it might fall to the group, and millions of chinesE Under locked down to battle spreads of the delta therein to the corona virus. Ah, welcome to the program you see has been officially endorsed as irans next president by the supreme Leader Alley harmony. The ceremony in terra now right, you see bow to take steps to live, what he described as tyrannical sanctions imposed by thE U. S. The conservative cleric who won the election in june, also pledged to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. More at mann middle. We are going to make sure the sanctions are lifted, but we are not going to connect our economy to lifting the sanctions. There are a few issues that the government is facing right now. The budget Deficits Investment and the stock market, and also controlling the inflation corona virus, and many other basic needs. So i appreciate what the 12 government has done, but we need a short term immediate program to resolve the issues we are faci