you are on with kristina peterson. caller: good morning. want to say something about what congress should talk about. one of the reasons why biden won, because they had their soldiers gone. and imagine how much -- the rest of the americans and -- had in order to get along each day. host: kristina peterson you spoke earlier about the potential gang of eight briefing, explain what that is. guest: those are for the top elected leaders in the house and senate, and the leaders of the intelligence committee. so that is their chance to get the highest intelligence information from the administration. and it sounds like that will occur, but there will also be many other briefings for all lawmakers. they started last week, and they are expected to continue. there are questions and concerns about the evacuation. many lawmakers have been working to get individual constituents out of afghanistan, so there is a lot of questions and concerns on the hill about the situation there. host: before the august recess got underway, the speaker, based on the posi

you are on with kristina peterson. caller: good morning. say something about what congress should talk about. one of the reasons why biden won, because they had their soldiers gone. and imagine how much -- the rest of the americans and -- had in order to get along each day. host: kristina peterson you spoke earlier about the potential gang of eight briefing, explain what that is. guest: those are for the top elected leaders in the house and senate, and the leaders of the intelligence committee. so that is their chance to get the highest intelligence information from the administration. and it sounds like that will occur, but there will also be many other briefings for all lawmakers. they started last week, and they are expected to continue. there are questions and concerns about the evacuation. many lawmakers have been working to get individual constituents out of afghanistan, so there is a lot of questions and concerns on the hill about the situation there. host: before the august recess got underway, the speaker, based on the position of

then come out commercial reporter kristina peterson will give us a preview of the house of representativesnda this week. breaking defense editor-in-chief aaron mehta will discuss the military impact of the taliban takeover of afghanistan. later, dr. robert pearl will talk about the covid-19 pandemic's impact on the u.s. health care system. join the discussion with your phone calls to my facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. -- phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. washington journal is next. ♪ host: the evacuation, the rescue of americans and afghans from kabul's airport becomes more fast-paced but perilous by the day with the u.s. military going thousands out daily and president biden announcing some commercial airlines will join in moving evacuees and refugees around the world. the president's deadline for u.s. troop withdrawal is august 30 first, next tuesday. it is monday, august 23. we will spend this first hour here on the program playing some of the news briefing yesterday by the p