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For president biden especially after what happened in afghanistan, what's a good outcome? >> well, stability think is what the regional players really want to see in iraq. from the united states perspective there's also interesting tleel iraq has been playing in reaching some kind of facilitating the early stages of context between iran and saudi arabia. de-escalate regional tensions separate really from the biden administration. from the american administration's perspective, u.s. troops in terms of combat role are out or leaving iraq. there's not going to be a flood of refugees or anything l...

People of afghanistan are under the age of 25. all they known is what they have seen in the last 25 years. a growing economic, people trying to become responsive, an opportunity for women, personal liberty that they have never seen before. and we ended our combat role six years ago. the last death was 18 months ago. we had 2, 500 people in the country and we were able to keep the taliban at bay by providing contractors to keep the air force in the air and if need be attacking the taliban from above. we gave that up and gave them a victory and they're celebrating in the streets of afghanistan. ...

He always ends his speeches trying to honor u.s. military personnel. this, by far, yesterday, the 13 american service members killed in a terror attack, was the worst thing so far for him. >> no question about it. look, this is the first time in his presidency that that card he carries in his pocket has been updated with the numbers of people killed on his watch. this is a reflection of his focus. you cannot separate this, wolf, from the personal element here. joe biden, after all, is the first president since jimmy carter to have a son or daughter in a combat role. before that it was eisenhow...

Severely at — get those people whose lives are so severely at risk, or foreign nationals— severely at risk, or foreign nationals who unexpectedly need to flee the _ nationals who unexpectedly need to flee the country because nobody expected kabul to be overrun like this, _ expected kabul to be overrun like this, that — expected kabul to be overrun like this, that the us should maintain its presence there at least for some more _ its presence there at least for some more weeks while we get this job done _ more weeks while we get this 'ob done. �* , more weeks while we get this 'ob done....

Would have this chaos with any retreat and that we thought. you know. and then he says no one told him about it beforehand. we're likely to find a lot more of these kind of warnings. i push back on the larger picture, you know, for some reason we have had three presidents that have concluded that they don't want to fight in afghanistan. our combat role was largely done. and it seems to me that the definition of failure we have that because in 20 years we didn't transform afghanistan into belgium, you know, a functioning democracy, you know, where rights are largely respected, means that it's a...