military coalition, is to make sure you can take care of each other and that goes for the junior partner as well as the senior partner. in these cases where the united states is almost assuredly leaving people behind, that really portends a grave issue for us going forward. it's a grave mistake because other countries, other groups are going to look at what we do in afghanistan, and they're going to look at it, i think, with a very jaundiced eye. they're going to look askance at this, and they're going to say if the united states abandons its afghan allies, what are they going to do with us? this is something we have to be careful of going forward. >> thanks so much as always. >> you bet, michael. anytime. there's more to come on the deadly terror attack on kabul. how president biden's political future might be affected by all of this. we'll talk to one of the best political minds around when we come back.