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Take responsibility. it was my fault. >> let me break down -- let me bring douglas in on that point. i want to hold your thought. i want to hear about the context lizing of the history of this because that comparison you draw and responsibility weve heard president biden talk about the buck stopping there, douglas, four presidents have presided over americas longest war. as i mentioned, president biden was the first now to actually end it. its all significant as i mentioned. hes the only command...

Commander in chief. but i wonder why hadnt we seen president bidens trademark empathy until today? what do you think of this shift? >> i approve of the shift and agree with david. i thought president biden did a better job today communicating emotion and concern. i think hes doubling down as we -- everybody in america is in agreement we must bring the americans back but talking about bringing on the afghan visa applicants, people that have helped us in the 20-year war back in i think ramped up w...

Treated at a hospital and returned to the father but we dont know if they were able to leave. the pentagon releasing photos tonight of troops sharing water with an afghan boy. fist bumping another boy. and holding a baby. i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst david gurgin. glad to have you both. under these circumstances there is a lot to talk about. david, when you see all the chaos and all the desperation, literally thousands of people trying to get through dangerous check points on ...

Cnns team and root from kabul to qatar with a crowd of some 400 afghan nationals desperate to flee afghanistan. but, the journey began at the airport in kabul where as david was mentioning, clarissa ward filed this report. >> reporter: after three weeks in afghanistan, we joined the crowds at kabul airport, now the only way out of the country. there is a huge block here. lots of cars. hundreds of people wait in the blistering heat hoping for a flight out. so we just managed to get into the airpo...

Highest standards under difficult dynamic circumstances. our nato allies are strongly standing with us. their troops keeping entered alongside ours in kabul as is the case whenever i deploy our troops into arms way, i take that responsibility seriously. i carry that burden every day. just as i did when i was vice president and my son was deployed to iraq for a year. >> i mean, the president is talking about his late son beau. how important is it right now that he is reminding people that when he...

And biden came in and kind of stumbled into this this summer sped up the time of pullout. it was done in the middle of the summer when we just had the surge of covid and his poll numbers are sinking right now. let hope by, say, september 15th, there will be a success story this airlift has really brought not just the americans home but our afghan friends and allies, at least 30, 40,000 of them into the united states if not many more. hopefully, other countries will take these evacuees, also. >> ...

From afghanistans helpers, the people that worked with us trying to sabotage visa applicants and biden should have been more aware of that instead tony blinken i thought has been very weak and president biden got off to a very bad start this week. lets hope next week there will be more images of the airlift thats successful not people falling off of airplanes. >> those images are gut wrenching to think about. youre saying youre talking about the idea this of course was the withdrawal successive ...

Will move from the house to the senate. john. >> all right. thanks for this reporting. really appreciate it. joining us is cnn legal analyst and political analyst west wing analyst david gurgin. let me start with you. what are the legal boundaries here for what meadows and jordon are doing? going from the secure room, everything is supposed to stay secret in there and going to the oval office. where is the law and have they crossed the line? >> they are bound by rules that the procedures are for...

Sure its not mischaracterized, i dont know how they do that. rub their nose if thats the wrong characterization. they have to be giving something specific in order to be helpful. >> david, you want to clarify. >> i just have to say, democrats are up their shaping the story every day when these things are over. frankly, i think you could argue in fur plok, if the republicans didnt talk to the white house and give broad characterization, you can almost accuse them of malfeasance. thats what they a...

Jd, you first. good evening to all of you. our latest poll shows the president having a dismal approval rating, 44%. he is at the bottom compared to other presidents around this time. is this why were seeing the white house scramble for a win with less than 100 hours to go to 100 days? >> its not good news for the president. >> not only scrambling -- >> its jd. >> im sorry. >> like you said, its not good news for the president so far. i dont know if i describe them as scrambling for a win. the p...