administration, in successive administrations for it i want t ask you about the political fallout for president biden. critics can say he needs to ste down or he needs to be impeached , we all know that s not going to happen. but take a look at this finding by the usa today suffix whole o his handling of afghanistan. only 26 percent of people approve, 62 percent disapprove, in his overall approval rating is really fading now. he s underwater only 41 percent approved, 49 percent disapprove. obviously the focus right now should rightly be on getting people out of afghanistan. beyond that, what do you think the lingering political blowbac on this is going to be particularly if americans are left in afghanistan? i think the democrats are scared to death right now that this is going to have a massive impact on the midterms. i think we already are expectin to have we re going to take
against the surge in afghanista as well as iraq, he was against the bin laden nation. he said over and over again to obama, your being rolled by the military. he stopped general portray us from having poster at this. he held another 20,000 back the had to go to nato to get them. this is his policy. he s got to keep to this in the worst thing is, sandra, he doesn t seem to care. he opened up with his marks about the reconciliation packag and not heat leaves pentagon officials out there to defend the policy they don t believe i when so much is at stake, he ha a reputation in his hands he s throwing it in the ground and walking over a. before we jump, i want to keep mccarthy, he spoke on this just a moment ago, but he teed off this in the implications for joe biden goin forward. listen. we watch every crisis in thi new administration that he ran
important point when you said perhaps they don t want the rea number out there because if tha number of americans doesn t com out before august 31st, that s going to look really bad. by the way, president biden and members of his cabinet in national security team are now talking about cybersecurity. he hasn t spoken about afghanistan at all so far today. it may be an opportunity that h will take questions at the end of his remarks here, and if he is asked about afghanistan we will bring that to you. that is happening right now. now we are moments away from th update that we are expecting from secretary of state anthony blinken. will he take questions? it s going to be his first remarks to the nation since afghanistan collapsed, even before blinken speaks, lawmaker are singing that he should get the boot. congressman mark green is all worked up about this and he wil make his case for that coming u
are concerning to some critics on capitol hill. he was wasting precious time this week pressuring democrats to vote for a $5 trillion spending bill a tax bill, that what he was wasting time on. every minute of his day should be getting all americans out. republican senator ted cruz writes this under no circumstances will we stay in afghanistan indefinitely the president biden must make clear this is the only condition unde which we believe in he must ensure that condition is met. if the presidents mind is made up, i think he s asking the pentagon for contingencies in case everyone he has promised t help leave afghanistan cannot b next tuesday, but that s not th plan, the plan is to leave by the deadline he chose in the deadline the taliban tries to hold him to. look, the completion of august 31st depends on the taliban continuing to operate i
everyone of those people out by august 31st. and we heard from a call to the senators that the number ma be 4100 although the state department said no, no, no, that s not the right numbers over not sure if that s the right number or not the right number, but there s been so muc conflicting information in so much happy talk on this coming out of the mouths of some members of the ministration tha in the youth he compared him to baghdad bob so for those who ma have forgotten was saddam hussein s spin master back in early 2000. a guy that suggested baghdad wa crumbling around him that everything was okay. he said no americans in baghdad. in joe biden has no said no in afghanistan, they re all gone. it is factually incorrect. it is just last october that th afghan forces killed al qaeda