than they have been. there is obviously aerial reconnaissance to monitor the area. these are the measures they ve taken. the president spoke about more drone strikes against jihadists that could possibly prevent more planning operations by these people, like the two that they took out. of course, there is the extraordinary situation on the ground and having to rely on the taliban. an enemy that the u.s. fought for two decades, to provide them with security against further isis attacks. i mean, it s amazing to think about. less than a month ago, lindsey, the u.s. was dropping bombs on the taliban. and today, they need their protection. it sounds surreal. but that is the chaos that has unfolded in afghanistan. ali, we re two days out from the august 31st deadline on tuesday. we ll do things stand right now? we ll do things stand ri the s evacuations. mostly now it s the withdrawal of u.s. troops. their numbers are down to about
new warnings again this morning from the state department urging all americans to keep away from the vicinity in and around kabul airport. they say that there is a specific and credible threat stream coming through, again. the warnings say that u.s. citizens should avoid traveling to the airport, avoid all the airport gates. they ve have been be specific about which gates to avoid, the south gate and the northwest side of the airport. the president said commanders have told them that another attack is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours, even as soon as today. we know that the last phase of this evacuation was always going to be the most dangerous phase. at the gates, the airport security has been beefed up, the service members are being even more vigilant than they have been before. there s aerial reconnaissance monitoring the area because they re so worried about a
have to deal with at home of, domestic crisis, infrastructure, other things. the debt is constraining us massively and we need to deal with that. jason: yeah, the interest on the debt alone, we re spending about $1.5 billion per day, that s just in interest payments. we don t get anything for that other than paying off an interest where rates are near zero. dan, i ve got to shift again to another part of the world and talk a little about afghanistan. because i know you ve been deeply concerned about our withdrawal from afghanistan and particularly what s going on in the bagram air force base. as soon as we pull out some bad things happen. yeah, it s already been looted. and it was such a key strategic location. i ve been there. it s a place from which we conducted aerial reconnaissance in afghanistan and other parts of the region. look, if there s one thing we learned from 9/11 it s that
whatever crisis we have to deal with at home. domestic crisis, infrastructure and other things. the debt is constraining us, massively, and we need to deal with that. jason: yeah, the interest on erthe debt alone, we re spending about $1.5 billion per day, that s just in interest payments. we don t get anything for that other than paying off interest where rates are near zero. i ve got to shift again to another part of the world and talk a little about afghanistan. because i know you ve been deeply concerned about our withdrawal from afghanistan. and particularly what s going on in the bagram air force base. as soon as we scuttle, as soon as we pull out, some bad things happen. yeah, it s already been looted. and it was such a key strategic location. i ve been there and it s a place from which we conducted a lot of aerial reconnaissance in after afghanistan and other parts of that region. look, if there s one thing we
confirming president biden called off a second air strike against an iranian-backed militia last week. hour before f-15es were ready to bomb separate targets. aerial reconnaissance spotted women and children at the second site and so couldn t rule out civilian casualties. when that information got to the president, he called off the mission. the other air strike in syria did kill at least one iranian-backed militia fighter. shortly after, the administration sent a confidential message to tehran, part of a combined diplomatic and military strategy to communicate the message america wasn t trying to escalate the situation. all this as we re learning more about those ten rockets fired from a truck at a base housing u.s. soldiers in western iraq yesterday. at least three of the rockets were shot out of the sky using a defense system which fires thousands of rounds at an incoming target. and in the middle of these rising tensions, iraq s awaiting the first visit of pope francis tomorrow.