Live Breaking News & Updates on Tens of thousands out
Stay updated with breaking news from Tens of thousands out. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
administration is going to look at those numbers and make decisions moving forward. how overall this period, jonathan, is going to shape our thinking as a nation about our role in foreign affairs? >> well, i think if they can get through this period and execute on these evacuations over the next month and get tens of thousands out, they're not going to get everybody out. but to get tens of thousands out and we settle in the united states, whether right wing republicans want them there or not. they need to take a leap from jimmy carter, who brought in the boat people after the vietnam war and resettle these folks in the united states. if they can kind of take a mulligan, if you will, on this week and bring their policy into some kind of coherence, then moving forward, they have the backing of the american people on the bake decision, the core decision, to end this war and
the government and the military forces in afghanistan would, you know, collapse a lot quicker than we anticipated. so this is a really unfortunate situation that we're in right now, but i do think that there are options on the table. >> you know, jonathan, this is all happening against the context of a u.s. public that did have an appetite to see those troops withdrawn. can we pull up that polling, biden and trump both saw the need to get out of what was at this point a deeply unpopular war. and i wonder how the current administration is going to look at those numbers and make decisions moving forward, how overall this period, jonathan, is going to shape our thinking as a nation about our role in foreign affairs. >> well, i think if they can get through this period and execute on these evacuations over the next month and get tens of thousands out, they're not going to get everybody out, but to get tens of thousands out and