mr. president, are you going down to the border? dana: biden dodging questions on whether he plans to visit the southern border as a steady stream of migrants crossing into the united states shows little sign of slowing down from immigration, foreign policy and economy the problems keep piling up for the president. let s bring in karl rove former white house deputy chief of staff. one of the things we have is the wall street journal joe biden s lose/lose week. is the white house in a pickle? they are in a pickle. i think our former white house colleague put his finger right on it. remember roll back the tape. it s 2009 and 2010 and they passed the stimulus bill and they passed the affordable care act and part of the theory is among democrats that by passing these big achievements they ll gain the support of the voters
required to take as part of that agreement. one of the critical issues was the agreement to withdraw contractors, which are basically the engine that maintains the air force of afghanistan and many other logistical operations. and that was just as critical as the troop departure i would assume? chairman, it was. we had plans in place to try to conduct those operations from over the horizon. they were not as effective as having contractors on the ground on site with the aircraft. the momentum appeared to be shifting to the taliban. indications were their penetration in parts of the country in the northern sections particularly which traditionally opposed the taliban, the northern alliance,
morning in anticipation for that onslaught of the 15,000 strong caravan. you see behind me where the migrants are checking in but also the national guard called in for the crowd control to make sure things remain under the civil protection that they want here as these migrants try to get their refugee status and work papers. one of the migrants we talked to was ?aimd stephenson and he has a message for president biden. i would like it for president biden, haiti bill: will you go back to haiti? no, never. never. there is anger towards the biden administration for sending a mixed message. you see migrants still wearing the same biden let us in t-shirts we saw in tijuana in march. they see their fellow countrymen being deported.
terrorism objective of degrading al qaeda and that mission while the u.s. presence in afghanistan drew down significantly over the last few years, the lack of defined strategy continued to erode the mission. one of the clearest inflection point was the ill-fated decision was to go to war in iraq just as we began to achieve momentum in afghanistan, bush administration s invasion of iraq threw critical resources, troops and focus away from the afghan theater. our best opportunity in afghanistan was squandered and never able to get back on track. throughout the war we were also unsuccessful in pakistan s support of taliban. even though we cooperated on mission the taliban enjoyed sanctuary in pakistan to regroup. it can be tied to the flawed do
talk to the president about general miller s recommendation? sir, i was present when that discussion occurred. i m confident that the president heard all the recommendations and listened to them very thoughtfully. one of the recommendations that was made by the three of you would be the recommendation that was made by general miller two weeks ago? during the august 18th interview on abc george stephanopolous asked president biden whether u.s. troops would stay beyond august 31st if there was still americans to evacuate. president biden responded, this is a quote, if there is american citizens left, we are going to stay to get them all out. this didn t happen. the president biden s decision resulted in all of the troops leaving but the american citizens are still trying to