they knew things were going bad. why didn t we stop the withdrawal and why didn t we go to ghani and say i m stopping the withdrawal, i ll give you the air support you need. we ll push the taliban back and i ll get back to you with other plans. i ll give you my advisors to help come together with a better defensive plan. we should have been all in to help them and stop the calamity that was on the cusp of happening. julie: it makes you question the exit strategy from the get go. thank you so much general jack keen. appreciate you coming hearing your expertise. more backlash to president biden s behavior at a solemn ceremony for the fallen. the white house deflects as a gold star mom speaks out plus this. [inaudible] julie: the growing calls for the president to address the crisis at the border as
of people who are questioning why this didn t happen faster and why this particular withdrawal was conducted the way that it was, leaving so many american partners just lost. i think that s going to be the hardest question for biden to have to justify is how we left this way, right, if we had been going through this process and a number of administrations have dealt with the challenge, how do we leave and what s the next chapter with afghanistan leaving the way we did where we have our closest allies publicly admonishing this exit strategy, saying they were not communicated with, and had little knowledge about how this would unfold. i think that s going to be hard for him to justify, and of course he says that if we had stayed past this deadline, we would have seen more u.s. troops killed, and had those 13 servicemen and women not been killed, perhaps that would have been something that he could have seen as an achievement. that wasn t the case unfortunately. let me throw this out
again. and we were successful at the bin laden mission. i m proud to have been part of that effort. i think once we got bin laden and eliminated al qaeda maybe we should have stepped back to see what our mission should be. i think we needed a clearer mission, a clearer strategy, and an exit strategy as well. we never really focused on that. we just basically tried to continue what was kind of a hit and miss effort to try to get afghanistan to secure and governor themselves and that didn t work very well. it felt like, let me ask this, do you think we ended up in the containment strategy. because nobody wanted to be the president whether it was obama,
biden s exit strategy. it is a sad day for our country and a great embarrassment. beyond embarrassment. it is a very dangerous day for our country. because of what they are doing, we are leaving in disgrace. we could have left with great dignity. so much to say there by the former president and a number of americans, obviously listening to what he had to offer tonight in the interview by sean hannity. in the meantime, the vice president kamala harris to campaign for california governor gavin newsom in the golden state later today, but given the unfolding drama in afghanistan, she has pulled out of that appearance. meanwhile, as you see the sun is up in kabul and we will monitor the situation on the ground as the fate of perhaps thousands of americans, trace, hang in the balance. trace: kevin as the news comes out kabul afghanistan, kevin corke from the nation s capital, thank you the briefing