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What he did today. >> is that also true in terms of nursing home staff? i mentioned that the president had previously used his leverage over federal funding for nursing home facilities to require nursing homes, essentially to get all of their staff vaccinated. as weve talked about before, unvaccinated staff ended up being the lynch pin to explaining so many of the deadly and tragic outbreaks in congress agree gant and elderly care facilities like nursing homes. did the previous mandate he announ...

Argument is fair. like the domino effect when you give an inch they take a mile. if they get what theyre looking for, what are they looking for next? it seems like and i dont know tell me if you see it any other way it seems like never ending cycle when you give them even one little thing that they want thats never going to be enough. >> i think you are right that assessment. look, the taliban get, this and i think, many unfortunately our enemies and allies are looking at this as well. when you ...

To you, why, mr. president, did you just exit the country and leave us hanging and assume that we were going to finish the job you said you were going to do? >> thats the real problem. we never should have put ourselves in a position where american citizens could be used by the taliban as pawns or leverage to extract concessions from the united states. the white house should have followed through on president bidens promise when he said were not leaving until every american gets home. the minute...

Hostage. but if the taliban has the power to let flights go or not, and as you say wants something in return, i mean isnt that in effect what theyre doing, is holding those people hostage? >> well and this is the issue with how the biden administration has approached our withdrawal and now trying to manage the refugee crisis. they departed without having put in place the process, the plan and they are trying to negotiate without having the benefit of a lot of leverage or for that matter even any...

Looking ahead at some of the potential consequences and collateral damage. i think biden, now that were out of afghanistan, needs to take a look at how we got into this situation. >> yeah, one writer described it as biders team of nonrivals in reference to that. final question before we go, what will you hear from the biden administration is that theyre leverage is money in effect. that now the taliban is running a country. afghanistan doesnt make a lot money. it relies on foreign aid. it needs ...

Antony blinken, our ability to get those planes in the sky is pretty limited without the control of an airport or boots on the ground. watch this. >> as of now, the taliban are not committing the charter flights to depart. they claimed that some of the passengers do not have the required documentation. while there are limits to what we can do without personnel on the ground, without an airport with normal security procedures in place, we are working to do everything in our power to support those...

Foreign passengers out of kabul since the u.s. evacuations with the departure of u.s. forces. join egg ging me now is brett bruin from global engagement for the obama white house. >> good to be with you, jim. >> this took some time, it took days and negotiation, it appears. does the departure of this flight in your view signal that well see more of them, right? that there could be some sort of working arrangements between the u.s. and the taliban to get these people out of the country. >> ill te...

>> republican lawmakers said th president has lost control of the situation at. >> it appears we are in the midst of what is an unprecedented hostage situation pair im also hearing multiple reports from private efforts on the ground wrote efforts to get people out on private charter flights that the state department is still is in many ways an optic cable obstacle telling these lights dont expect any help from the united states government so we find ourselves in this crazy positio of being entir...

Something i dont particularly understand. the new taliban government which is really the old taliban government snot a surprise to many of us. with the precipitous withdrawal and the chaos and u.s. troops not on the ground anymore, i think it is fair to ask why we thought there would be any leverage we had over the taliban. these are questions that congress and others really should ask. >> dana: the overall issue and clarity in crisis in the book you wrote makes sense. if the after-action report...

Several hundred afghan units. when we talk about the afghans helping the u.s. government they are still there and theyre there in the tens of thousands. many of them are marked for death. so i think that part of our moral obligation after this 20 year war the next phase is to get them out. while i welcome certainly that americans are going to be flown out today on these flights, we cannot forget our afghan allies who are still there. >> bill: we mentioned what blinken said yesterday. taliban are...