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Blinken said today, the taliban would have started offensive operations, on may 2nd anyway, and so he did something really, hard and it was messy as he said, and it will be messy for a while, but it was the right thing to do. >> there are very few good options, when you're president of the united states. but let me take the other side, let me talk about what would have been equally hard. what if joe biden had given his speech today, that said i know, i said we were pulling out, but i've watched along with, you i've been horrified along with, you i've decided to get back in. i've decided to sta...

The timing could perhaps have been better. i'm sure he wishes that. he said that candidly, everything unfolded a lot faster than they had expected. as we see tonight, they're going to redouble their efforts to get the special immigrant visas for people and get them out and try to kind of fix what went wrong. but, again, the big picture is, you know, it was time. the trump treaty had kind of set the clock ticking as secretary blinken said today. the taliban would have started offensive operations on may 2nd anyway. and so he did something really hard. and it was messy, as you said, and it will ...

Decisions that were in the best national security interests of the american people. he talked about that at length yesterday. and from that perspective, he believes that the decision that he made in this context was the right decision. >> thank you. the president has not been shy about these policies, many of them. the taliban, they have violated already what they agreed to with president trump. >> jake: you are referring to the agreement that president trump made with the taliban in february 2020, which set a deadline. be out by may 1st 2021. walking away from that was not just kind of a cost...

He has tried to do that. from that perspective he believes the decision he made in this context was the right decision. >> the president has not been shy about undoing many of the previous president's policies. why not undo this one, particularly since the taliban have abrogated already what they agreed to with president trump? >> you're referring to the agreement that president trump made with the taliban in february of 2020, which set a deadline, be out by may 1st, 2021. walking away from that was not a cost-free proposition for the united states. on may 2nd, the taliban onslaught was going ...

Yesterday and from that per perspective, he believes that decision he made in the context was the right decision. >> the president has not been shy about undoing many of the previous president's policies, many of them. why not undo this one particularly since the taliban aggravated already what they agreed to with president trump? >> you're referring to the agreement that president trump made with the taliban in february of 2020, which set a deadline. be out by may 1st, 2021. walking away from that was not just kind of a cost free proposition for the united states. on may 2nd, the taliban offe...