toward a civil war. president biden, meanwhile, is expected to address the threat of political violence head on as he hits the road today. the white house says the president will call out the far right for its dangerous rhetoric and challenge the republican claim that it is the party of law and order. we re also following major developments out of ukraine, where officials in kyiv say russian forces are in retreat as ukraine launches a counteroffensive in the south. president zelenskyy says, quote, we will chase them to the border. major news out of ukraine. we ll get to that in a moment. boy, it really is something. and you look at the poll numbers. first of all, fascinating it is joe biden s poll numbers that go up, willie, as democrats seem to be doing far better in the midterm elections than expected. the same group of people, donald trump, lindsey graham, those type of people, who challenged the 2020 election, or with lindsey, went back and forth, back and forth, th
two week later, he was back in the fight. this was the loyalty and teamwork we had almost 20 years in afghanistan. when he called for help, it was, without question, something we jumped into. he was always there for us. on this show, we don t let questions get eluded or evaded. mika asked a question about the title, and i need to understand the title. i m a fan of the movie pineapple express, and i m guessing it is not the same thing. appreciate you bringing it back to that. nothing to do. so within 4 feet of the marines, we called in. they were about to toss him out of there. we get no paperwork. we called into a diplomat who was behind the airfield perimeter and told the story very quickly. he was a little agitated. phone was getting blown up, as you imagine. he was a green beret, had been through our qualifiation course, shot in the face defending us. the diplomat said, i was a green beret before i was a diplomat. tell your buddy to say pineapple and say it now. he did. next
way. all of the people in line outside of the airport walls urk would like to bring them in and shelter them and sort through them and who are you, some people are not going to be our friends. and if you go out with the taliban and say look you have to help us right now, we have people all over this country, you could help us get these americans and say what is it worth to you? we want our money released. we want this, we want that. so now you re in a diplomatic bargaining position with your opponents. the people you tried to kill for 20 years. so there are many different wrinkles of this being sorted through an the inside i m sure. it is can you get for how little you have to give to the taliban. what does it say about future relations. how much can you push on the airfield perimeter without getting into a fire fight with taliban check points. you don t want to do that. that makes it worse. so, then how do you accelerate the flow?