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Surprised me the most is how for the most part when biden speaks they give hem him the benefit of the doubt. they were disappointed overall with the message. that to me was the most surprising. steve: first soundbite watch the dials, folks. here he is sounding a lot like harry truman, kind of. i will not mislead the american people by claiming that just a little more time in afghanistan will make all the difference. northerly shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today and how we must move forward from here. i am president of the united states of america. and the buck stops with me. steve: you know, what s interesting is the independents gave him an f. i understand the republicans. buff the independents. yeah. you can see that they were really disappointed with this. in fact, one independent said this, and i think is this is really important. i like the idea not passing the ....
Fighting? because america was there with air power and support and command and control. now, you if someone would whisper into his ear that we are the kernels and captains and we commander of the operation. they are on the front lines and getting bloodied and dying but we are using intention not just to help afghanistan this has got to be clear. this is to help america. our presence there had us front and center in the war on terror islamic extremism while keeping an eye on china, russia, iran and pakistan in the region. we have now lost all of that. steve: there is an item in the new york times today that and this goes to the point that mark meredith made a moment ago about how the taliban pictured right there in the presidential palace, they are going door to door. and they are looking for people who were involved in the old government. the new york times says today that apparently in this instance the question, ainsley and brian is why didn t the special ops ....
The plane, the pilots decided you know what he? we are going to save everybody s life and going to take off. are those guys in trouble? we haven t heard of any u.s. personnel that are going to be held to any sort of punishment or anything like that. based when you look at that photo you imagine what any of us would do in that situation. steve: absolutely. my god, all of those people just desperate to survive. not just the u.s. have sent planes. french have sent one today. there is concern about the international community how they are going to respond. we heard from boris jobs. he said he is going to be holding a call with world leaders. this is not just american and afghanistan problem. everyone is going to have to deal with it. steve: absolutely. those pilots are heroes by the way. ainsley: imagine the people on the ground who didn t get on the plane and how they must feel. brian: more planes come in today. 640 estimated on that plane. keep in mind, too. there is going to be a ma ....
Ever accounted for when it came to our defense department. ainsley: just five weeks ago joe biden said he doesn t trust the taliban and that was a silly question to the reporter. now the white house says they re willing to transfer power to the taliban with conditions if they uphold rights. steve: they took the power. ainsley: they protect the rights of women and girls. is that a smart move? pete: what condition? what condition are they going to honor? we left. we left and we left with our tail between our legs. we left looking like fools. we left looking weak, unfortunately. and i don t like saying any of those words. but we are on the way out. we are setting conditions? according to whom? it s not going to happen. and so ultimately the taliban will be exactly who they are. the question is, brian, and i think this is an open question. how willing are they to openly work with al-qaeda knowing that connection with al-qaeda and isis would be the nexus by which we would go in start killin ....
After the disaster that unfolded on their watch. don t buy it. what they have been selling us for 20 years didn t work. steve: you know, because the images are so bad, pete, you know, the white house and the state department is in damage control mode. the secretary of state blinken yesterday got on the phone and called united kingdom, china, india, pakistan, russia, turkey just. why? steve: had to explain, hey, listen, you know, apparently this is why we did it because he didn t have a good answer. pete: here is another lie of the afghan war. that we were part of a coalition. i had a patch on my shoulder called 9 isap. we called it i saw americans fighting. there were 50 flags at the embassy. 50 flags at the airport of countries that were supposed to be art pa of this coalition. do you know how many of them fought? one. the united states of america. sure the brits had some good troops. brian: australia. pete: i worked with good australian troops. ....