they know. they will not trust leaders in our government. neil: michael, thanks very much. let s go to the former u.s.s. cole commander, commander, we re going hear from the u.s. president in a five minutes. what do you want to hear? the thoughts and prayers of the united states of america are behind those that lost their lives today defending our nation s freedom. it s tragic that civilians died in that. america abdicated their responsibility to provide an evacuation area where americans could go to. they were told to go there. we couldn t safeguard it. we left it to the taliban to do that. these are the consequences. it s one thing for the military to day for a political decision. it s another thing when civilians trust their own government and failed them and leaving them stranded and without the protection that they needed. if we don t extend that
the sunday of the northern alliance leader is continuing a fight. also you have you talked about it, the access to money, the dollars. who is providing the money? i suppose china and russia may offer some assistance. you ll have food issues. a lot of need in a short period of time. when that happens, the vaccite is created and sometimes a lot of bad things step in. if you don t mind circling back to the politco piece. the charge is u.s. officials in kabul were giving the taliban names of american citizens and others that we want to take out of the country. if so, that gives the taliban a list of the very people that they want to target. this is true, neil, it s
taliban for what they did, sees them as a terrorist group and believed they supported osama bin laden that led to that terrible tragedy 20 years ago. think about it, 20 years al, almost to 9-11 and dealing with these people. you have to do sometimes what you have to do, neil to get the job done. you know, for a week or so, seems like it was working. not perfectly but not working. we got over 100,000 people out. the fact of the matter is, you re dealing with the taliban and they cannot be trusted. there s other things that we should do. we should track them quickly, show them that they cannot get away with this. there will be opportunities to deal with the taliban down the road. the important thing right now is to get the americans and the siv holders and other afghans out of the country as quickly as possible. neil: you think we will,
terrorists and people that don t like the u.s. on the ground. i ve been there a lot and the taliban doesn t have a great track record. so if i can speak ahead to what happens now, five days from now. i can t imagine that we would stay beyond august 31, no matter what. if anything, it might speed up the process. what is afghanistan like after that? if you take it face value, that isis-k and taliban don t get along and maybe they it s a mess to put it mildly. it s civil war potentially. what are we looking at. looking at an ugly situation. a failed state. hard to believe the taliban will get a grip of it. they already have an insurgency in the north that is continuing.
these attacks that can tragically result in the loss of american life are going to discourage people from going to the airport. the other explosions that we re hearing about, we don t know the origins of those. they re likely to frighten people. so very, very difficult situation not only for those trying to leave but also for our people on the ground there and the commander trying to make policies that will affect this tremendous undertaking that is already think about it neil removed 100,000 people from afghanistan. a great accomplishment on the part of those folks on the ground, our military and diplomats in afghanistan. neil: peter the taliban said the explosions were carried out by the u.s. destroying their equipment. doesn t make sense to me. i think most of our equipment is inside of the perimeter of the airport at this point, either that it will be disabled, left