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Good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning, thank you. steve: explain why the administration has been dragging their feet and how it relates to what is going on on our southern border. >> listen, president biden knows he has a problem. he knows he hasn't been able to control the flow of economic migrants come into this country across the southern border. and because of how sensitive he is to that, he slow rolled the process to get afghan interpreters who work for the u.s. military, individuals who put their lives on the line to serve our american mission. he didn't want those optics. as...

American mission, he didn't want those optics. as a result, what we asked that administration to do, what a bipartisan group asked us to do to speed this up backlog to get folks who would be killed by the taliban because of their work for the u.s. out. they delayed, delayed, delayed. they start finally started at the end of july by august 15th, the taliban had taken over kabul. steve: that's extraordinary. what he said is we have been telling you for months about the problem on our southern border. he is saying that the poll-driven optic oriented white house is more concerned with the optics o...

After withdrawal. that's when the clock is supposed to start. and then in early august oh it might be 30 to 90 days but, again, after august 30th. didn't make it to august 15th. steve: it's just a disaster. congressman, i have been reading, apparently boris johnson, the prime minister of the united kingdom, was so upset with what was happening because nato didn't want this to happen like this. joe biden pretty much unilaterally decide are for all of nato they were going to pull a plug on it the president would not call back boris johnson for 36 hours. then you look what other countries are doi...

>> bret: juan, what do you think? anecdotally we hear tough times getting through taliban checkpoints. >> well, i think if you or i were there i would be concerned. i don't think there is any question if you have a loved one there you have got to worry you can't trust the taliban in my opinion. i think that what we're talking about here is the evacuation and there is no question it could have been done better. it's been badly handled on so many levels. but i don't think that no matter how the evacuation was handled, that the big picture, which is could the afghan government have held? could th...

Joe, what are you doing? 6,000 u.s. soldiers now or in the process of regenerating afghanistan, taken over by the taliban to try to not secure the airport to try and save americans. without a doubt, a complete and total failure of leadership, planning, and execution and true to form has a disaster unfolded over the weekend, joe biden was nowhere to be found. aside from this bizarre photo crouching over an empty table during a zoom call and we've got nothing from nothing from biden all weekend while this was unfolding in real time. his press secretary wasn't available to circle back on anything...