what he meant but that is something that that there had been lots of questions about and people had been urging the army to do that. and up until now, to my knowledge, we were told that wasn t happening he seems to suggest it has in some way. he talked generally about making it about getting americans there, clicking people and bringing them there, perhaps this is more of these helicopter missions were seen, but we are seeing statements that i think waters here will dig into to find out exactly what the army or military will have done to make evacuation smoother in terms of getting to the airport. finally i would say what you said, he talked about the success of the operation, he gave numbers saying they had moved nearly 30,000 people in a week, and now he said in less than 36 hours, they ve moved 11,000 people, and he called the airlift
bureau, that was back in june, he dismantled that. that was set up by president trump and secretary of state pompeo to provide aviation, logistics, medical support to americans if they get trapped abroad. why would a view of gotten rid of that program? and joe stood by and did nothing as the taliban made all of these rapid advances, all over the country in the past two months. they acted like it wasn t happening. in fact, an internal state department cable in july actually warned of kabul is imminent collapse. joe did nothing. and now we are experiencing what is the single worst foreign policy crisis and debacle ever. the lives of thousands of americans are literally in the hands of evil terrorists. our afghan partners, they have been abandoned and left for dead, and i can promise you, those left behind will die. gruesome deaths. our allies rightly no longer
what you showed at the beginning of the segment was just a slice of the psa that we did. if anybody wants to see the whole thing, you can see it across our social media platforms, to kill a mocking bird on broadway. you can see it on cnn s website. i think it will put a lump in your throat. even just that snippet, you stole my promo, aaron. i was going to tell people all about it, i promise, because it s amazing and we want people to see it. we really appreciate you coming on to talk with us this morning ahead of this very exciting reopening. so thank you. it s my pleasure. sorry for stealing your opening. hey, it s your promo. i m fine with it. i hope people will get a chance to look at it. it is very special. thanks, aaron. it s on their social media platform and the social media site. thank you for having me on. aaron sorokin stepping on your lines, brianna. wear it with honor, wear it with pride. a programming note, join cnn for the we love new york city, the homecoming
it is a decision by military leaders, not saying a good one or bad one, but 2,500 to 3,000, maybe more in that neighborhood, in that area at bagram or some other similar base, because of the neighborhood, because pakistan is right there and russia is right there and iran is right there, that it would be a good idea. but, you know, president biden did not agree with that. look, i don t know their basic argument now, jake sullivan and the national security adviser began addressing this i think yesterday, the basic argument of, you know, everyone we keep being told that a 2,500 residual force, counterterrorism, would be a good idea and there s been such low cost because there have been no american combat deaths in more than a year in afghanistan, et cetera. but that would not hold that s the argument you hear president biden and jake sullivan and others beginning to make, which is the reason that
do we commit the leave within the time frame we extended to september 1st? or do we put significantly more troops in? i hear people say, well, you had 2,500 folks in there and nothing was happening. you know, there wasn t any war. but guess what? the fact was that the reason it wasn t happening is the last president negotiated a year earlier that he d be out by may 1st, and when they returned there would be no attack on american forces. that s what was done. that s why nothing was happening. but the idea, if i had said i had a simple choice. if i said we re going to stay, we better put a whole lot of more troops in. this time line, they wanted you to keep 2,500 troops. no, they didn t. it was split. that wasn t true. that wasn t true. they didn t tell you they wanted troops to stay? no, not in terms of whether