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They're responsible leaders and the world should trust them and they are saying hey, we would love to have women join the movement and things like that has the taliban actually turned over a new leaf or is this just spin? >> oh, give it time, steve. give it time. good old fashioned taliban propaganda. what they have a legitimacy advantage and legitimacy problem. their legitimacy advantage was that the afghan government was so corrupt and so incapable that when they rolled in they could prove hey, i can solve your land dispute that otherwise someone else with a different ethnic background will ...

Them tiptoeing out in the middle of the night. their optics are going to get people killed. this is the biggest problem in my opinion. ainsley: congressman, thank you for joining us this morning and for serving too. brian: what do you think of the former president ghani leaving with four car loads of cash and chopper full of cash and in uzbekistan right now. should he not be arrested? that is our money? >> it was the most predictable thing. i have been sadly joking about this for months that we were going to see this guy become an expatriot living in london somewhere with a couple billion doll...

We can quit them. they won't quit. the calculation we have to make is within ascendant communist chinese how much do we invest in trying to build infrastructure and nation build in countries in the middle east with no infrastructure at all like afghanistan versus small counter-terrorism measures seriously executed like not releasing gitmo prisoners and killing people who deserve to be killed while then staring counsel the communist chinese. empires fall when they try to do too much in too many places. that's happened to us in afghanistan. scale back, realize this threat isn't going away. other...

Of afghan refugees. and our military bases here in the united states i know cori bush and aoc have been asking for us to take in those refuse we dids. steve: that's right. joe biden said yesterday from the east room of the white house, the withdrawal has been messy. what he didn't say was what went wrong and how it's going to get fixed. because, obviously, everything went wrong and we don't know exactly how it's going to get fixed. because everything has played out as joe said it would not. he said there would be no choppers leaving the embassy. there were choppers leaving the embassy. of the ...

To escape. steve: president biden plays the blame game. he wasn't exactly quoting harry truman yesterday the buck stop stops here but i blame everybody else. >> it was a long speech but were notable moments like the one you mentioned right there. you also have been talking about the situation in afghanistan. certainly chaotic and, however flights are resuming at the kabul airport today as thousands of of a fans look for any way to get out of their country. you showed that dramatic photo underway of the evacuations. this one hundreds of people packed on to a u.s. air force b-17. we think it was...