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Fitzgerald in london. american troops on the ground in afghanistan as the u.s. embassy in kabul clears out. meagan what do these evacuations mean? lindsay, i can tell you there s growing concern and criticism as well in the way in which president biden has handled the withdrawal of troops in this afghanistan. just the other day we heard from a former ambassador from britain to afghanistan who expressed deep concern, saying that 20 years is not enough time for the afghans to build a solid democracy there. and fearing that, you know, the afghans are sort of left to defend for themselves. so as we see what the taliban has been able to do so quickly in taking over much of the country as they inch closer to kabul, there s this global scramble, if you will, of course the u.s. troops sending in about 3,000 troops to try and ensure the safety of the personnel ....
Country. it is a politically difficult position the president has taken. he has certainly come under a lot of criticism. not just from republicans but even members of his own party. former obama administration officials criticizing him for this. but this is a position that president biden has had, even long before he was president, where he has believed that is not the role of the u.s. military to be in afghanistan at this point, that there is no advancement in u.s. national security interests by keeping u.s. forces in the country. so let me pick up on that right there. there are those, some in the biden administration, who will argue that u.s. troops could stay in afghanistan for another year, ten years, 50 years for that matter. you d still see the same thing happen. but what s the white house s response to the sentiment that some feel we re really abandoning the afghan people right now? well, their response to that has been that they re going to try to help the afghan people thr ....
Prayers. yeah, well susan glasser did that comparison, i was happy to retweet it. the boss of foreign policy now, the new yorker, covering foreign policy longer than i have. there are a lot of frustrated, i think, reporters who have covered this war just as long as the veterans that have been fighting it, seeing what basically has been the pentagon throwing up its hands and the last few days announcements of sending in a few thousand troops to help with the evacuation, and folks should be clear that these are not troops that are going in to fight back. they re not going in to help the afghan army keep kabul secure. that would have to be some other kind of emission. there are very senior veterans, former obama administration and democratic allies like general john allen, former commander himself who s now the president of the brookings institution calling for president biden to ....
During trump s administration? i don t know. i mean, look, it started with the trump administration. trump, you know, ran on a platform of ending forever wars and he significantly decreased the number of troops, we reported a lot of veteran commanders who said 8,000 to 9,000 was the minimum, to keep the lid on the violence and keep supporting the afghans so that all this diplomacy could happen and trump took a chance by negotiating with the taliban and here we are. but it s on biden, who, you know, ran it over the goal line and made this decision to pull out and kristen s right, what can we do now? the pentagon is sending enough airframes to takous thousands of people, afghans and americans, per day, so we re as anxious as she is to see which airframes they are, and who s allowed to get on those planes. yes, we are, all right, we re going to leave it there with kevin barring and kristen rouse and our thanks to kelly cobiella ....
This week, and to get it they re withholding support, threatening to do that for their party s budget resolution. if you ll recall that s a $3.5 trillion human infrastructure plan but speaker pelosi is holding her ground, siding with progressives. we can t call people moderate democrats who vote against child care paid leave, and addressing climate change. that is a democratic agenda. it is the president s agenda and it s what we promised. nbc s julie tsirkin is live on capitol hill following the developments. how fragile is all of this right now? reporter: you heard from the chair of the congressional progressive caucus and she s basically saying those nine moderate democrats are threatening biden s entire agenda. that $3.5 trillion budget resolution is the framework. the first step in really getting the ball rolling on this reconciliation package next ....