the government has lost a lot of credibility through public health officials making stuff up when the answer should have been we don t know. bret: controversy over booster shots about data coming from the cdc and now a new study from harvard, tufts and the veterans affairs agency, veterans affair department our most reliable pandemic number is losing meaning. the study suggests that roughly half of all hospitalized patients showing up on code data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely or had only a mild presentation of the disease. meantime you look at the latest polls from quinnipiac the president s job approval numbers upside down 42 approve. disprove 50%. for the first time disapprove number slightly higher basically tied but still slightly higher on the issue of response to the coronavirus. next slide 49, 48. there you have it. let s bring in our panel mollie hemingway senior editor at the
the administration, bret, admit that they don t see the taliban as a trustworthy partner until they have demonstrated it in deeds not words and obviously only time will tell whether that bears fruit. bret: all right. griff jenkins at the state department, thanks. we will continue to monitor. the state department will bring you the secretary of state as he comes out live. every single u.s. service member is now out of afghanistan. i can say that with 100 percent certainty. you would like to bring out everybody who wanted to come out. we aren t able to do that. the situation wouldn t allow it i think we can a very good job of getting everybody out that we could get out. given the unique challenges of the tactical situation on the ground. bret: 20 years all the u.s. troops are now out of afghanistan. it s a major moment but as we mentioned americans are still on the ground in harm s way. let s bring in our panel mollie hemingway senior editor at the federalist. juan williams fox n
you heard a little bit about it from mollie and trey. here s g.o.p. backlash about how this has gone. we are now less safe. the taliban has more black hawk helicopters than australia. we have weaponized them. just because we decided to quit fighting doesn t mean the terrorist goes away. so they are still out there. they are invigorated and emboldened and excited about the success they see in bringing america to its knees. bret: thoughts on that, juan? well, i think two things to say and, let me just say i think this is a bold headline day for america the forever war is over. i think we accomplished the goals that we set when we went in there 20 years ago. that afghanistan was not used as a terrorist launching site. the american people want this war over. and when you think about the 13 heroes whose bodies came home
just getting to the airport i hope they do. we all hope they do. they re holding an american hostage currently. yeah. i mean, going through tsa is one thing. how would you like to go through the taliban to get to the airport? look, biden said americans we re not leaving until americans are gone and we re gone and there are still americans there and equally, importantly there are people who sided with america who will be killed because come hell or high water joe biden decided august 31st, that s it. we are out. bret: mollie? people keep conflating the proper decision to end the war in afghanistan with the manner in which it was done. we just heard about president biden saying he wasn t going to leave until all americans were out. he also said it would be a safe and orderly withdrawal e said it was highly unlikely that the taliban would fall to the taliban it is the withdrawal that has been the problem and this ending of the war does not
congressman from south carolina. i want go around the horn and i might interrupt you if the secretary of state comes out and just think about this moment, this time what it means and what we have seen over the past 0 days. trey, first to you. 0 years, the same group that we ran off is running afghanistan. women and girls are still second class citizens. religious minorities are still being targeted. journalists are still being beaten. terrorists are still killing americans as evidenced by this week and the best we can do is diplomatic pressure which is an oxymoron. bret: yeah. mollie? yeah. that s exactly right. the taliban are bigger, stronger, they control more territory, they are more well equipped as a military presence and than they could have dreamed of being on september 11th. people are very focused on how incompetent this withdrawal was and it was and contrary to what we just heard about how it couldn t have gone better, it was a disaster.