knowledge man of foreign-policy this is clearly not true. robert gates alerted us to this saying president biden has been wrong in every foreign-policy decision, barack obama learned this saying never underestimate his ability to mess this up. this is a situation we are in. we need to figure it out and figure it out now. team coverage of the taliban takeover continues. jillian: brian morrow is working to rescue americans and congressman johnson has words from the white house. knows everyone s unique. that s why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn t mean you eat off the floor, or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication. oh, yeah. that s the spot. only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty
address these issues? how do we deal with the taliban over a bigger horizon? you began talking to me about the short-term. job number one. let s deal with the problem on the ground right now. and i want to play for you some sound, from jennifer griffin. she is pressing the pentagon on why it is it seems the british and french are capable to getting their people out listen to. this paratroopers are leaving the airport to rescue an evacuate some of their citizens. why isn t the u.s. doing that? our main mission tips to be to secure are hk to allow those citizens to come and be processed at the airfield. so back to your job number one general keane what do you make of that that the french and british are making grounds or doing work and it seems that we re not yet? well, we know from antidotal evidence. most of us who have connections in afghanistan all have people who are connecting to us and asking for assistance. that certainly has happened to
that he wants you to be the last person in the room particularly for big decisions just as he was for president obama. yes. he just made a really big decision. afghanistan. yes. were you the last person in the room? yes. and you feel comfortable? i do. steve: so the vice president we haven t really seen her in public, obviously, given the blowback that the administration is getting, you know, she is trying to stay away from this you heard right there on cnn in that interview where they were 75 yards apart. ainsley: are social distancing to the extreme. will: more concerned with social distancing than getting americans out of afghanistan. steve: she said like president obama and vice president biden i m the last one in the room. i m the last one talked. to say this is part of her decision as well. and her newspaper out in l.a., the biggest one, the l.a. times says kamala harris has touted her role on afghanistan policy. now she, too, owns it. they write in part. v.p. har
get their people behind enemy lines. this week, a team of elite french police officers went into the green zone where the french nationals and vulnerable of a gaps were hold up at the embassy and took the people at the airport. ainsley: look at this video. steve: bypassing the taliban. clubbing people. british paratrooper left the airplane local allies. it is time according to senator tom cotton for the president to authorize the military rescue plan to go out and get people, americans and afghans who are trapped behind enemy lines. twitter is still allowing the taliban to stay on their platform, the spokesperson has 300,000 followers. and now twitter is apparently recommending to other people to follow the taliban and jake sullivan was talking yesterday and he said that we don t really know the number of people. the number of americans over there because, you are told to register with the embassy. but he said some people have
vulnerable afghans. the president is committed to ensuring that every american who wants to leave afghanistan gets out of afghanistan. he believes that we can accomplish that by august 31st. griff: but there is one big problem. the pentagon admitting it really doesn t know how many americans are on the ground trying to get out. how many american citizens remain in afghanistan? i don t know. the state department would be a better place to go for an estimate of how many americans are in afghanistan. griff: in an internal state memo reported by the wall street journal and confirmed by fox news, two dozen officials at the kabul officials warned secretary blinken that the afghan government would rapidly collapse as u.s. troops withdrew. it s the clearest evidence that the administration was made aware the taliban s takeover was imminent with afghan security forces unable to stop it so we will see what the president has to say today at 1:00 p.m. he will address the nation with vice p