with larry elder joining me live from los angeles tonight. thank you, joe. thanks very much to all of you for joining us. watch "out front" or anything on cnn go. "ac 360" starts now. president biden tried to defend how he ended afghanistan, when he did and how it unfolded. the other headline could be longer reaching with greater impact on how this country maintains its presence in the world and what cost in dollars and lives of american service members. the president's commitment to avoid fighting another war like the one he just ended. we will talk about both tonight. new polling showed americans by a 12-point margin approved of the decision to withdraw. however, as the president's overall handling the situation,

42% said the president did poorly, more than rated fair, good or excellent. this part of his remarks spoke to that. >> let me be clear. leaving august 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. it was designed to save american lives. my predecessor made a deal with the taliban. when i came into office, we faced a deadline, may 1. the taliban onsloaught was coming. we faced one of two choices. follow the agreement of the previous administration and extend it to have -- or extend, add more time for people to get out. or send in thousands of more troops and escalate the war. >> the president said between one and 200 americans with, quote, some intention to leave, unquote, remain in country. most he said are dual citizens who decided to stay because of

family roots there. for them, he said, every diplomatic effort would be made to get them out whenever they want to leave, which falls short of the commitment he made a couple weeks ago. >> some americans should understand troops might have to be there beyond august 31st. >> no. americans should understand we will try to get it done before. >> if we don't, the troops will stay? >> if we don't, we will determine who is left. >> and? >> and if there are american citizens left, we will stay until we get them all out. >> today he said staying longer was not an option, nor was any third wave possible such as keeping several thousand troops in afghanistan to prop up the former government and hold the taliban at bay. there are experts who disagree. some differ with the president saying the risk and cost would have been low compared to seeing the country fall. we will look at that. here is how the president made

his case. >> we have been a nation too long at war. if you are 20 years old today, you have never known an america at peace. when i hear that we could have, should have continued the so-called low grade effort in afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost, i don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on, willing to put their lives on the line in defense of our nation. maybe it's because my deceased son served in iraq for a full year before that -- well. maybe it's because of what i have seen over the years as senator, vice president and president traveling these countries. >> agree or disagree, it's a long-held belief of this president to avoid future

afghanistans could have long-term implicamplications. jeff zeleny joins us with more from the white house. the president gave i guess a defiant defense of the withdrawal. what was his message to those who say that the administration should have started evacuations sooner? >> president biden did not give an inch to any of that criticism. he has been hearing it for the last several weeks. of course, all of those questions will be answered in the weeks to come. this didn't dismiss those questions. he was going straightforward at his -- a message he has long wanted to deliver, it's time to end america's longest war. a lot of this criticism in recent weeks has been about how the operational ending has gone. he said simply, he had no other choice. he also said, he takes full responsibility. >> now some say we should have started mass evacuations sooner. couldn't this have been done in

a more ordinarily manner? i respectfully disagree. imagine if we had begun evacuations in june or july, bringing in thousands of american troops and evacuating more than 120,000 people in the middle of a civil war. there still would have been a rush to the airport, a breakdown in confidence and control of the government. and it still would have been very difficult and dangerous. >> again, he did not necessarily resolve all the questions that many critics, democrats and republicans alike, have about the rushed exit of this. he was simply trying to redraw, refocus attention on the overall strategy here. it's one he believes to his core. i got the sense listening to president biden today, this is a speech he wanted to deliver for at least a decade. finally, as commander, he can

push back against the pentagon. this is a core belief here. one aide said, the politics will fall where they will. he firmly believes this. they also firmly believe deciding this any earlier in the spring or early summer would have caused the chaos earlier. the questions will be answered on capitol hill. this is pure joe biden. conviction coming out, also his anger. > >> cnn is reporting that the taliban escorted some americans to the airport. what more is known about that? >> we have nknown the u.s. has been working alongside with the taliban in terms of getting out evacuees. we have not known how specifically. barbara starr is reporting that there were secret channels of communications, secret gates that taliban members were

escorting afghan partners and americans right up to the gates of the airport. then american forces were dragging them in. there were call centers between the two. this is really a first look at how deep this partnership was going on between the u.s. government and the taliban. this isn't anything new. we should remember, president trump during that administration, he negotiated with the taliban, allowed 5,000 members to be released from prison here. this is a continuation of that. very much on the ground they were working together here to get some of those afghan allies and the americans out. >> jeff, appreciate it. president biden has a personal connection to one afghan still trying to get out. an interpreter who helped rescue three senators, including then senator biden, back in 2008 when their helicopter was forced down in a remote part of the country during a snowstorm. the interpreter is now in

hiding, pleading for the president's help. "the wall street journal" broke the details just before the president spoke today. the white house press secretary was asked about it. >> he told "the wall street journal," hello, mr. president, save me and my family, don't forget me. what's your response to him? why is he and other afghan allies like him still in the country if the president believes as he said today that the mission was an extraordinary success? >> i would say first, our message to him is, thank you for fighting by our side for the last 20 years. thank you for the role you played in helping a number of my favorite people out of a snowstorm and for all of the work you did. our commitment is enduring, not just to american citizens but to our afghan partners who have fought by our side and our efforts and focus is to the diplomatic phase. we will get you out. we will honor your service. we are committed to doing

exactly that. >> just before air time, i spoke with him and "the wall street journal" reporter who broke the story. for his safety, we have altered his voice. can you explain your situation? i understand you tried to evacuate. you made it to the airport. then what happened? >> you are ridine hiding in you. you tried to make it to the airport. what happened when you got to the airport?

>> you worked for american forces from 2001 to 2008? >> in 2008, you helped rescue senator biden, karerr kerry and after their helicopter came down after a snowstorm. >> today, white house press secretary addressed you directly. she said, we will get you out.

we will honor your service. we are committed to doing exactly that. do you believe her ? >> what's your sense of how serious white house is taking this situation? i don't know how many special immigrant visa applicants can say they had direct contact with the person who is the president of the united states. >> let's see the plan. those of us who have been covering this have seen a lot of chaos and disarray and people don't have plans. we don't see a plan yet for this. there isn't a lot of time. the taliban are out looking for people, him. where is the plan? what is the plan? you committed to getting people like him out. how are you going to do that?

>> how difficult do you think that will be in his case? >> it's increasingly difficult by the day. he is in hiding somewhere. that's first difficulty. the taliban are out everywhere. they control all points of entry and exit. any deal will have to be worked out with them. you are not going to be able to smuggle people like him out. you have to find countries to take people. there's talk about trying to get people out to the countries to every corner. there are still americans here. there's lots of people that are trying to get out. as far as we have seen so far, there isn't a plan coming together for making that happen any time soon. >> do you believe that president biden is going to send people to

help you? >> thank you very much. i wish you the best. thank you so much. >> a short time ago on peacock, the white house chief of staff was asked about the claim. he promised to cut through the red tape. we are joined by evan osnos. you probably listened to just about every speech joe biden has given. what stuck out in this one? >> there are victory speeches, concession speeches, then this realm in between. the dominant message from him was frustration with what he called endless military

deployments and the philosophical project of nation building. it's not going to appeal to everybody. he did not accept the criticism people have lumped on the operation. he touted the scale of what they have undertaken. this was a case in which he wanted to leave the american public with one message above all. as he said, the choice was leave or escalate. he said, there is no such thing as low risk, low cost war. i think he wanted americans to think about not just 17 days but 20 years. >> how much of the tone do you think might have been the president trying to kind of frame or reframe the beginning of his legacy? >> very much so. i think he wants people to say that this was a hard choice that had to be taken. on some level, what he believes, whether you agree or not, is that it was incumbent on a president to finally say that this was a war that was not being waged by all americans. he talked about the fact that it

was 1% of americans, after all, who had been deployed in the war since 9/11. i was thinking about it. as you go over the list of the 13 u.s. service members who died last week, you look at the small towns that they came from in many cases, a lot of these -- a lot of the casualty, statistically more than twice the number of casualties of the post 9/11 wars have come in small towns and cities, rather than large cities. he talked about. 18 suicides among veterans ever day. up to $300 million in investment that's gone overseas every day. what he was trying to say was, look, this is going to be something that people will fight about for a long time. i think it's about what the united states owes to the people that have been doing this fighting. >> is there -- one talks about a doctrine associated with a president. is there a biden doctrine? >> we are beginning to see the outlines of one. one of them is a term that he

raises a lot, the vital national interest. he said, we have to really think about what is in our vital national interest. frankly, that sounds like it can be harsh, because for the afghans who didn't make it out on the planes who are left behind, in some cases for americans who are still there, he drew the perimeter around american vital national interest more narrowly than some of his prede predecessors. what can the united states expend? did we want to embark on as he put it another decade of war in afghanistan? you are likely to see him return to this idea over and over. whether it comes to questions of the coming threats over the horizon, the challenge from russia and china. how does the united states define its vital national interest? where are we -- where do we need to be wise and prudent about where we expend it? >> the president taughted toute massive an airlift this was. it was a massive airlift in

terms of the number of people who got out. there were americans left behind. many more allied afghans as well. how does he square that reality with the commitment he had made to get them out? >> the tape speaks for itself. he made a commitment. i think partly based on the fact that there was this intel showing that the risk to americans was substantial, the risk to afghans at the airport gates, the decision was made to get out as fast as possible. now they are embarked on the diplomatic version. how do you get people to safety? this is not easy. the fact is, he made a commitment. in the end, u.s. forces were gone before that commitment was fulfilled. i think what we are about to enter into is a process in which part will be political. his critics will say over and over again that he failed in this initiative. there will be others saying, if we have a substantive debate, what can we do differently to ensure if we are in this

situation again that we are making promises to allies abroad that we can keep and once we make those promises that we fulfill them, let's have those hard conversations. >> what i don't understand is that a lot of the people have been in the process for years. this stuff has been slow walked by the prior administration, i assume even during this administration. for all these people who suddenly care about afghanistan and care about these interpreters, this has been going on for years. we have been doing stories about this. it happened in iraq as well. >> it's true. i know of cases in iraq of people who have been waiting to get what they think the united states owes them. i think this is one of the glaring questions that we now face in this after action part of the process. why is it -- what are the bureaucratic, functional impediments? if we make the commitment to people, if we expect to occupy a

position of moral presprestige, have to answer that question. it's stories about obstacles that go back years. part of this administration ran for office, president biden said put me in because i will talk honestly about what's working and what's not, part has to be a question about why this process is not working and what they can do to fix it. >> thanks. how the taliban, seen here right after u.s. troops had departed, is now coming to grips with actually having a country to run. gary tuchman and his team were the first crew to get access to one of the areas hardest hit by hurricane ida. what folks are facing. millions of vulnerable americans struggle to get reliable transportation to their medical appointments. that's why i started medhaul. citi launched the impact fund

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we brought you last night really drives it home. the country belongs to the taliban. we are joined by a correspondent for denmark's tv2 and has access to the taliban. what have members been telling you now that u.s. forces are out of the country? what are you hearing? >> they were victorious and embouldened. they said that they defeated the biggest superpower in the world. it was a warning to our countries. now they know what's going to happen to them if they are going to interfere in afghan affairs. there were also reassuring the international community that they had no ill intentions. they wanted to cooperate with other countries. they invited people, civilians to come to their country, invest

in the country, travel in the country as tourists. it was a two-way communication. it was a communication that was threatening but at the same time also trying to reassure the international community. >> there's cnn reporting that taliban members escorted some americans to the gates at the airport with a secret arrangement with the u.s. is there a sense they will try to help on the diplomatic front to get any remaining americans out of the country who want to leave? >> i think two different layers of taliban. you have the leadership, that part of the leadership who have communicated with the rest of the world, who have negotiated with the world, who have traveled extensively in western countries, china, russia, central asia. these people, they really want

to show positive signals. they want to cooperate. they are trying to reassure international community but also the segment of the afghan population that nothing is going to happen to them. at the saum me time, you have s of the leaders who have been -- who have been off the radar in pakistan in hiding or in rural afghanistan who haven't had contact with the international community, who haven't done any diplomacy. you have the fighters who have no clue about how to run a state. these guys, the question is whether these two layers in the taliban, they can cooperate and whether they are in sync. we hear stories about taliban members chasing people from the former administration. we hear about threats. it's happening. the question is whether it's going to be in a big scale. >> what's it like on the streets

of kabul? what have afghans been experiencing in the last 24 hours? in the pictures, we see it's -- it looks like mostly men are on the streets. it looks like there's hardly any women on the streets. >> the thing is that the women, they are really scared because some of them, they are old enough to have memories of the former taliban government who harassed and put pressure on the women to live up to their picture of being a modest muslim woman and who threatened them. we have seen pictures of them getting beaten if they didn't wear the clothes the taliban said was obligatory. you have the other segment of women who haven't experienced the taliban. they heard all the stories about how the taliban were treating women. a lot of them, they are staying

home. they don't dare go out on the street. they are scared, because of the memories or things they heard. it's true, you don't see as many women on the street in kabul as you saw before. you see them but it's not the same amount. the question is, is the taliban going to keep it this way? or are we going to go back a little bit to those times? everybody is waiting. they are nervous. >> i appreciate your time. thank you. be careful. >> you are welcome. we will turn to other breaking news. the damage left behind in louisiana after hurricane ida swept through the state. we will take you to the southern tip where gary tuchman and his team were the first to get to the area after the storm. what they saw when we come back. oh yeah! honey, you still in bed? yep! bye! that's why we love skechers max cushioning footwear. they've maxed out the cushion for extreme comfort. it's like walking on clouds! big, comfy ones! oh yeah!

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to breaking news from louisiana. more than a million people are still without power there tonight, two days after hurricane ida tore through the state. residents may have to go without electricity for weeks. in new orleans, the mayor has ordered a curfew at 8:00 p.m. local time. few places have been harder hit than grand isle in southern part of the state. gary tuchman and his team were b believed to be the first television crew to reach there after the storm. how is it?

>> reporter: grand isle is 100 miles south of new orleans. it takes an hour and a half to get there. because of the destruction along the way, it took us longer than four hours. we expected it to be bad and bad it was. when you get your first look at the town of grand isle, which sits on a barrier island on the southern tip of louisiana, you gasp. devastation. colorful homes destroyed. vehicles still under floodwaters. most importantly, there are no known deaths or injuries here. which is clear evidence how seriously evacuation orders were taken. a peaceful, beautiful place. that's why it's emotional ly wrenching to see it like this. between 700 and 800 people live here year round. motion are in the fishing or oil industry. there is lots of damage during katrina 16 years ago. the eye passed over mississippi. this eye passed over louisiana.

only a few miles to the west of this very town. this man built this home with his family when he was 19. he is now 58. he and his family evacuated. he fears ed what he would find when he came back. his worst fears realized. >> katrina we lost the front porch and steps. the house was intact. roof was intact. everything was intact. >> reporter: his house now like so many other homes unlivable. >> try to get a few things. my wife wants me to get wedding video and stuff from our wedding. trying to find that right now. >> reporter: i'm sorry. how are you coping with it? is it disbelief? >> trust the lord. he gives and he takes away. >> reporter: he doesn't plan to rebuild. after almost four decades living here, he and his wife will move to kentucky where they have family. most residents have not yet come back.

they will face similar decisions to rebuild or not to rebuild on this wonderful but vulnerable barrier island. >> so sad. what was it like in some of the small communities you passed on the way to grand isle? >> reporter: on this drive, there were hundreds of utility poles and wires on the street, leaning precariously. many flooded roads. many properties are flooded like this behind me. we saw one gas station on the 100 mile drive and that station had one pump operating. there were 100 cars in line to get to the pump. i want to mention one thing that will stick with me. we were saying good-bye to ricky, he came up to me and he was holding an old bible. it was totally soaked. he told me it was a family bible that his family has had since 1873. i thought about this. this family had the bible for nearly a century and a half. seeing this man grateful, it was wet and soaked but it wasn't gone. it didn't disappear.

he was grateful he had it. >> great that it lasted through. gary tuchman, appreciate it. in other parts of louisiana, concerns about power but about the ability of first responders to get to people. flooding, downed trees are restricting access in some places. there's a gas issue as well. nearly 13% of the stations throughout the state are without gas. that number jumped to more than 35% in baton rouge. brian todd joins me from a station where the lines are very long. gary was saying he saw long lines. what's the latest on getting critical services restored? >> reporter: the lines are very long here. i will give you a visual. the sometimes desperate measures people are taking to get the things they need. it's not just gas but food, water, other supplies. a line for gas here in new orleans. look at this line. this line goes down this street and i will have our

photojournalist film as far as he can. you can see cars going that way. that line goes as far as the eye can see. talk to motorists who waited three, four hours to get gas. this is their destination. just outside the downtown new orleans. we tried to talk to the owners of how much gas they have left. there was a shell station we were at just next door yesterday. he ran out of gas as of last night. there were long lines of desperate people to get gas in his station. there were altercations along the way. it's a tense situation tonight as the gas shortages continue here in new orleans. we did get some good news tonight from the mayor of new orleans and from the energy corporation. they believe they are going to restore some power to the city of new orleans by late wednesday evening, tomorrow night. they said in a statement they will do it one of two ways.

they will either try to tie the new orleans grid somehow to the larger grid in the leaarger regn or create an island -- somehow create an island of a small power grid to service just the new orleans area. they did say they think they will be able to bring some lights on by this time maybe or late tomorrow evening. that's a welcome sign for the people of new orleans. of course, for the authorities, for the police, for everyone there. >> what's been the impact of the power outages on oil and gas production? >> reporter: it's been horrific. word from louisiana state officials that so many of the production platforms, i think 278 is the number they gave, 278 production platforms remain offline. nine oil rigs remain offline. nine refineries remain offline. i think the figure was more than 90% of the oil production and 90% of the natural gas

production facilities are just -- remain offline. some of the refineries and other facilities i talked to you about, the oil rigs, they are evacuated. they have to get people back. then try to get the facilities back online. that gives you an idea. when you lock atok at numbers l this, you may see lines like this several more days. breaking news from capitol hill in the january 6th investigation, the threat to companies that cooperate.

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more breaking news. a turn in the house january 6th committee's effort to find out who was talking to whom about it and when, including perhaps lawmakers. kevin mccarthy issued a threat to any social media company that cooperates on this. a threat to their ability to do business in this country. the committee just responded. explain what kevin mccarthy has been saying. >> he didn't offer too many specifics. he put out a veiled threat where he suggested if these social media companies and telecom companies comply with the january 6 committee's request to turn over records that they could be in violation of some law. he doesn't say what that law is. when we tried to follow up with

mccarthy's office, they didn't give us any other specifics. he warned of political retributions for the republicans that run the committee. he said republicans wouldn't forget they are taking this step. this comes after jim banks, the chair of the republican study committee was a member of the select committee until he was blocked by the house speaker nancy pelosi put out a similar letter earlier in the week suggesting that republicans would offer payback if the democrats continued down this road. we should point out that this, of course, is part of cnn's exclusive reporting on the january 6 committee. the committee has not revealed the names of the individuals that they are interested in. we have obtained a list that did include lawmakers. they are republicans. mccarthy is nervous about what this committee may uncover. >> just to be clear, mccarthy is no nervous about what this

committee may uncover with republican congressmen around january 6th. he is saying companies that cooperate with a congressional committee investigating the insurrection would be going against u.s. law? >> that's what he said in the statement. he did not say what law that might be. this is essentially an empty threat any way you look at it, especially when we tried to get that information. there is precedent for this. these committees have subpoena power, they have the right to ask for this information. it should be pointed out that they haven't turned over a single document. this is just a request to preserve the records if over the course of the investigation they determine that they want this information. we aren't even at the stage where they have to turn a single thing over. it begs the question, is mccarthy attempting to get in the way of that process before it even begins? >> what are members of the select committee saying in response to mccarthy?

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>> those kinds of fights and outrage sadly not uncommon these days. however, a new poll finds people who say they won't get the vaccine is at a new low and the latest axios poll 20% of respondents said they won't get a shot. back in march it was 34%. it may be because of the spread of the delta variant and subsequent spike in covid deaths and hospitalizations. in recent weeks several prominent voices on the right opposed to vaccines have died. mark bernier was a conservative radio host from florida who told husband listeners he would not get the vaccine. he is now dead. his employer did not list a cause saturday but the station who broadcast him previously said he would not be on air quote due to complications from covid induced pneumonia. we have been unable to reach a family member. his story is one of several of prominent vaccine skeptics on the right. >> do not be vaccinated. you must survive the genocide.

>> reporter: there is a growing number of conservatives who have used their platforms to bad mouth covid-19 vaccines but did not live long enough or are too sick to tell their public just how much they regret it. >> i didn't want to be a guinea pig. he didn't want to be a guinea pig. >> reporter: amy lee hare is talking about her friend florida conservative radio show host dig ferrell who repeatedly told people not to trust the vaccine. why get a vax promoted by people who lied to you he posted. and vaccine bogus bull he proclaimed. that was early july. a few weeks later he was in the hospital dying from covid-19. >> they told me this pandemic ain't no joke and he said you need to get the shot and he told me he wished he had. >> reporter: the statistics that more than 600,000 americans have died from covid hadn't swayed him or her. why did it take dig ferrell's dying from covid for you to say i'm taking it? >> there is a pandemic of

misinformation out there and i think there is no truer thing ever was said. >> reporter: didn't dick ferrell add to that misinformation? >> oh, yeah he did. >> reporter: but she is sharing his last words to her hoping they resonate. >> there are a whole bunch of people who said because of dick i went and got it. hopefully he did some good in the end. >> reporter: ferrell's story is not an anomaly. two weeks after his death conservative radio talk show host and vaccine skeptic phil valentine also died of covid-19. before he got sick he wrote a song mocking the push to get vaccinated. ♪ and i don't care if you want me ♪ >> reporter: changing the beatles' tax man to vax man. valentine told everyone he was not getting the vaccine. he got covid instead. his family had to relay his regret. >> he recognizes now that his not getting the vaccination is probably caused a bunch of other people not to get vaccinated and

that he regrets. >> reporter: valentine died but his brother said his story influenced dozens to get the shot. no surprise to behavioral scientists. >> when there is a vivid story about someone you trust, you know got sick, got hospitalized, or even died that story will carry more waut. >> reporter: but there are a litany of other vaccine skeptics who got covid and have yet to acknowledge the benefits of the vaccine. from kconservative cardinal bure who used his pulpit to spread baseless conspiracy theories about the vaccine and ended up on a ventilator. >> and even a microchip needs to be placed under the skin of every person >> i am not going to be vaccinated. i am going to be one of the survivors. >> reporter: he, too, was hospitalized with covid but remains defiant about the vaccine. how big an influence is our own ego? >> they don't want to recognize that you have made a mistake especially publicly. >> reporter: but hair has no

problem saying she changed her mind to honor her friend's wishes. >> i just thought it was important i put it out there because i did change my mind. >> reporter: cnn, los angeles. >> i hope more people do. up next a bill in texas now just a signature away from becoming law. in 2016, i was working at the amazon warehouse when my brother passed away. and a couple of years later, my mother passed away. after taking care of them, i knew that i really wanted to become a nurse.

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tonight in texas a republican authored bill to overhaul elections has been the source of an intense summer long fight between both parties is headed to the governor's desk. both chambers passed it along partisan lines. house democrats have scored an initial victory back in may, a walkout at the end of the legislative session blocked the bill. that was just temporary, though. the governor called a special session when democrats went even further, flying to washington, d.c. to deny republicans a quorum, which resulted in threats of arrest if they didn't return. you may remember the stand-off ended almost two weeks ago when several democrats broke ranks

and returned. the law will eliminate a lot of the new voting procedures born during the pandemic, 24-hour voting, drive through voting, and creates new i.d. requirements for mail-in ballots. the news continues. let's hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. >> appreciate it. welcome to primetime. the president says our withdrawal from afghanistan was, quote, an extraordinary success. why? because america air lifted over 120,000 people in just a few weeks. that is impressive. in fact, it has never been done before. but perception is often reality in politics. and president biden's assessment must compete with the fact that the evacuation was forced because, why? because of the way america ex exited threw the place into chaos. still, biden says nay sayers missed the main point. >> some say we should have started massat