to host afghan families and i was basically asking at dinnertime but luckily these group of friends are interested and eager to help so we brainstormed and started working on it right away. the group is called 75 vies for 75 afghan refugee families. why 75? what is the meaning of that number, specifically? that was the year when our country fell and also when many of us became refugees, and so we picked that number as a reminder of essentially where we came from and where we are right now. it s definitely not a cap in our project. we want to overshoot that by a lot but we wanted to name it specifically 75 as a reminder for our own connection to the refugee experience and our connection to the afghan experience. that was uyen nguyen, the
military mistake that s been made by administration even in the past 20 years, just stop. stop. and be a serious grownup leader. that s not what you re being. the stububstantive point is getg americans out. the president said they will keep trying to do it. the bigger question is seth s more important point than kevin mccarthy s and serious point is the war goes on, what brings america back in? president biden may want to quit afgha afghanistan. afghanistan may not want to quit on us. the war on terror doesn t want to quit the united states. but there is a chilling if he can and kevin mccarthy is not in touch with this. 20 years of 9/11, what is america prepared to die for? i don t know the answer to that question. we ve been fighting and dying in iraq and afghanistan for 20 years and we didn t win those wars. at best, it was a draw or we lost them and the war on terror continues, the enterprise was to
all right. we will continue to stay on all of the breaking news involving afgha afghanistan, the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. we re following other breaking news, including the death toll from hurricane ida. and in the storm s wake more than a million people are still without power. they re suffering amid all the scorching heat and the humidity, and this could go on for weeks. brian todd is joining us from new orleans right now. brian, it is clearly a desperate situation for so many people where you are. reporter: that s right, wolf. we re in southern new orleans. heavily damaged by the storm. this massive tree just slammed into this house here and into this house over here. so two houses out at once. we went to these houses today knocking on doors to see if people were okay. we got no response from everyone inside. but this neighborhood very badly hit. some people here also taking their own desperate measures
pentagon press secretary sent over the horizon from outside of afgha afghanistan. we did hear kirby also say that it is very, very good that these two facilitators, planners, these isis-k terrorists, are no longer, in kirby s words, on the face of the earth. suggesting that if the u.s. can, they will try to kill others, as well. arlette saenz, you re at the white house. the president, i take it, has been briefed by his national security team today. is that right? reporter: wolf, the president is currently in a meeting with his national security team to receive all of the latest updates on afghanistan. we saw the defense secretary, lloyd austin, as well as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general milley, and jake sullivan arriving a little before 11:00. that s when the meeting in the situation room with the president and vice president was set to start. and it was just yesterday that the president s national security advisers warned that another terror attack in af
given to people. to be fair to them, america is a free country. when we travel abroad, we are not required even in places like afghanistan and iraq to register with the consulate or the embassy. even if there is a requirement, nobody does it. so there is a genuine issue here. but, again, the most startling bewildering part about this is how could this not have been anticipated that if you were going to withdraw forces, americans would want to leave. and if americans were going to leave, you want to get them out. how much pressure do you think the president will be under tomorrow when he faces these g7 leaders in this virtual meeting? because many of them, including publically have expressed their disappointment, not necessarily that the u.s. and the nato allies are completely leaving afghanistan, but the way in which the evacuation has