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Do you think thats true? >> largely yes. i think the key point is the media is understandably obsessed with what is going on today, the catastrophe that has unfolded but i think that focus distracts attention from the previous 20 years and so the story of how we got here which i think is the story that demands attention yes the biden administration certainly has failed in mismanaging this final withdrawal but by god, there is plenty of blame to go around.s doug mcgregor focused on responsibility...

In the media and you a retired general and they think youre the numbskulls that got us into this to begin with, we dont want our servicemembers dying over there for afghans who are not even willing to fight to defend themselves. thats a very prevalent view. what do you say to that? >> well, i would just say do you expect a president to lead or do you expect a president to as one of your panelists said meet the people where they are? i think it should come as no surprise that the vast majority of...

Leave. that if american troops after 20 years were there for 20 years, and this is what they saw, afghan forces folding this quickly, what difference would another six months or year or two years make? but president biden and his team certainly watching whats happening here know they have to address it. plans underway for president biden to address the nation about the situation in afghanistan, potentially assumed tomorrow when he returns from camp david to the white house for those rorkz. rep...

Afghanistan falls, but i dont think that we should reserve our condemnation of leadership just for the biden administration. the desire to leave afghanistan have spanned three different presidential administrations. the management of this campaign for four different presidential administrations has been with the military grab, and i have trouble accepting that the best we can do with leaving afghanistan is to manage the chaos that we see before us. the military brass has been advising the situat...

Conversations with officials and they did exactly the opposite on the ground in afghanistan. they continued with their military offenses. as you see they came into control with no negotiated political settlement in sight. >> it may have taken the biden administration by surprise. for months, even years many people warned that afghan allies who risked their lives to help americans would be in mortal danger when u.s. forces packed up and headed home. among those forces are kirk johnson. kirk, why ...

>> just on whether it needed to be this way, have a listen to secretary of state blinken speaking on cnn earlier today. >> weve known all along, weve said all along, including the president, that the taliban was at its greatest position of strength at any time since 2001 when it was last in charge of the country. that is the taliban that we inherited. but at the same time, we had invested over four administrations, billions of dollars along with the international community, in the afghan securit...

Not theyre going to allow these terrorist organizations to re-emerge. there are extremists and hard-line elements within the taliban, and thats where i think the biden administration is going to have to continue to watch very carefully and take appropriate action when there does seem to be some type of terrorist threat that is going to emerge. >> director brennan, can i just -- >> we want to bring into our conversation -- >> oh, im sorry. >> go ahead, nicolle. im sorry. >> i was just going to as...

The trump administration, one of the things that president biden has suggested is that his hands were tied because of decisions that were made, put in place in the last administration. >> yeah. >> what were those decisions? >> so, i mean, first point, ri right, of course, biden could have reversed that. he could have kept the troops in. hes the commander in chief. he could have reversed that. that said the trump administration agreed to leave by may 1st this year. by the way, you have a lot of d...

Still facing this white house over what this is going to look like as they are trying to secure the only airport they have left to get out of. >> jeff, most of bidens staff, most of his aides are staying at the white house even as he heads back to camp david. behind the scenes any second guessing, any questions about the presidents position, his speech, tone, anything? >> jake, there is no doubt from the moment that president biden assumed office, this has been one of his chief goals trying to e...

Right? while that was happening, we heard from nancy pelosi commending president biden on the job, the good job he has done. if you could have done a split screen at that moment between wherever she was and wherever the enemy were outside kabul. >> emily: a go so far beyond the usual covering up we are subjected to. this is just absolutely heartbreaking because again, that tragedy which cannot be overstated is now being dismissed as a political thing that now the tribes are gathering together wi...