america s exit from afghanistan has given way to a complete taliban takeover and prompted thousands of people to flood the airport in kabul. you can see it there. trying to force their way onto any departing flight. the taliban set up shop, an office inside the presidential palace. that happened sunday. the afghan president left the country, that happened on sunday. all this appearing to catch the biden administration entirely offguard. we have not heard from the president in nearly six days. he has no public events scheduled for today. here is what his national security advisor jake sullivan said earlier this morning. the president did not think it was inevitable the taliban would take control of afghanistan. he though t the afghan national security forces could step up and fight because we spent 20 years training them, giving them the best equipment, giving them the support of u.s. forces for 20 years and when pushed came to shove they decided not to step up and fight for their c
expected to increase by 83%. bill: what s remarkable about that sound bite we had bill bratton on last hour saying the same thing. in your coverage in chicago, are you hearing that from the police officers in that city also? they re extremely discouraged and i m hearing from police chiefs in some of the gulf states who say we re welcoming these guys who are leaving the forces in these metro areas where they aren t getting enough support. some are leaving and some taking early retirement, bill. thank you, mike. we had an officer on here who moved to iowa for the same thing. mike, thanks, mike tobin in chicago. dana: with the return of school right around the corner dozens of cities are rolling out mask mandates for kids. former health and human services secretary giroir says it s not the right way to go.
arkansas. dana: simone biles back in action winning a bronze medal on the balance beam today. bill has thoughts. her only individual medal. she also won a team silver comes one week after she withdrew from multiple events after developing a case of the twistese. she has a seventh olympic medal and tied with shannon miller. bill: i was up at 4:30 watching it. i thought she did great. she was better than the other two chinese gymnasts. they were really good but i thought she was dana: she earned the gold in our minds. bill: she comes home with a bronze. the medal count we re leading by a little bit. the chinese are crushing us in the gold medal, not the overall. they re at 32, we re at 24. dana: can we catch up in the track and field? bill: maybe, there is hope. stand by. emotional day in court.
there is no end in sight right now unless you go back to the policies that worked under the last administration, the remain in mexico was a humane way to do things because it fast tracked those that had real asylum claims and discouraged all the people that are coming across right now finding those loopholes in our immigration system. dana: the point about covid cases in the rio grande valley, 135 detainees tested positive for the first two weeks of july. 900% increase compared to previous 14 months and now with the delta variant you can imagine that is going to be even higher. a lot to deal with here, art. we appreciate you coming on. we ll stay in touch with you. thank you. bill: so a judge reaching his decision on whether molly tibbetts convicted killer can get another trial. more than 25 years after she went missing the body of kristin smart still has not been found. could it jeopardize the chances of this case heading to trial?
670,000 cops and we lose them by the thousands. we re going in many wrong directions at the moment. bill: what changes that, the mayor, governor, president, who is it? it s in new york where we once described ourselves as the safetyest large city in america. we had something to do with that. we have a new mayor coming in in january, eric adams. more in the center than many counterparts around the country. talking a good talk at the moment. see if he can put it into action. he will deal with district attorneys going in a different directions and a liberal city counsel and albany, liberal. he will be up against a lot of adversity. we wish him well and i will support his efforts. i think eric, his heart and mind are in the right place.