mentions what ghani said to biden about what was actually happening.said, mr. president: we are facing a full scale invasion composed of taliban, full pakistani planning, and logistical support and at least 10 to 15,000 international terrorists predominantly pakistanis thrown into this. so that dimension needs to be taken account of. ghani also complained to biden that quote: your air force was extremely cautious in attacking them. referring to the taliban, as they swept through the country. so, yes, it matters that biden told ghani to lie to change perceptions about what was happening, but what also this tells us is that biden knew that the taliban were on the offer and that there was international participation in that offensive and that he had been told by ghani it was so bad it was a full scale invasion. this means biden was lying to the american people, our allies, and even congress when he said publicly multiple times that there was no expectation that the afghan government was in trouble or that there was any indication that the collapse would h

but then the president met with president ghani on june 25 in person, and ghani specifically said please don't start that evacuation in a major way because that in itself will lead to the collapse of our government. it will lead to a loss of confidence. so please don't do that. so the question became when if we withdrew our troops would the afghan government fail? and we will be having hearings here this week, next week, the week after, to discuss that very question. what was the intelligence? and i'm a member of the select committee on intelligence, and i can't talk about what i learned from the intelligence officials leading up to august of 2021, but the question is did the administration expect the afghan government to fall in a matter of days -- eight days, i believe. i think clearly they did not. should they? was it a failure of intelligence? i don't believe so. intelligence is about data. it's about -- it's about how many troops, how many guns, who has the arms, who holds what territory. the most difficult intelligence questions are psychological. will the afghan army fight? will t

ashraf ghani is an academic he — say to that? ashraf ghani is an academic he spent _ say to that? working and observing the country would say that he was not. but as to whether or not he fled with hundreds of millions of dollars as it has and what he reported, but as you noted he denies it. what he reported, but as you noted he denies it— he denies it. yeah, he says that he fled on the — he denies it. yeah, he says that he fled on the advice _ he denies it. yeah, he says that he fled on the advice of— he denies it. yeah, he says that he fled on the advice of his _ he denies it. yeah, he says that he fled on the advice of his security i fled on the advice of his security team and there are some reports to say his security team urged him to stay and to negotiate. as others did. i mean the chair of the reconciliation council, he stayed, the hominid car i stay for talk so why did ashraf ghani decide it was time to scamper? i why did ashraf ghani decide it was time to scamper?— time to scamper? i suspect in his mind was the _ time to scamper? i suspect in his mind was the history _ tim

ashraf ghani apologises to the afghan people.ormer president says he fled the country to avoid more bloodshed. a statue of confederate general robert e lee is taken down in virginia's state capital after a year—long legal battle. the world health organisation urges wealthy countries to halt covid booster programmes as vaccination targets in the global south aren't met. and the world's biggest industrial complex to extract carbon dioxide from the air opens in iceland. how significant is it in the battle to reverse climate change? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman from the islamist gang which murdered 130 people in paris six years ago has told a court he is a fighter for the islamic state group. salah abdeslam is one of 20 defendants in what is the biggest terror trial in modern french history. the prosecution says they were all involved in the shootings and bombings of november 2015, which targeted locations including bars, restaurants and the bataclan conc

and ashraf ghani apologises to the afghan people. the country to avoid more bloodshed. the united states' top covid adviser, dr antony fauci, the memorial to robert e lee in the city of richmond in virginia — the former capital of the confederacy — became a focal point during last year's black lives matter protests. earlier i spoke to william b gould — the first ever black law professor at stanford university, who has pieced together the diaries of his great—grandfather — a literate, educated slave who fled to freedom in 1862. i began by asking him to describe the significance of the statue removal. i think it was important because we and the confederacy and the statues, confederate statues that exist throughout the united states, particularly in the south, represent something which is antithetical to the idea of equality, of protection of all people and the united states and highlights the hypocrisy that has continued to prevail on at the race issue in the united states. but not all black americans and black rights advocates would a

and ghani was asking joe biden for help. biden tells him in that phone call, we may give it to you if you stage this fake event for me, but it will only last until august 31 when he -- his self-imposed deadline to withdraw paired after that he said, who knows. all joe biden wanted to end the reason this has happened is because he wanted a big event for himself to show himself on september 11 on the 20th anniversary to pose as the president who pulled us out of the endless war. after that he did not care what happened. he did not care if we brought out every american. it was all about deception. but i think the american people are seen through this at last. >> sean: status part, miranda, rick, we do not have any options now. they are trapped behind enemy lines, hostage to the whims of the terrorist organization. god help everyone of them. they are in our prayers. that's all we have left is what joe did to them. thank you both. we come back, the great one, mark levin, he has a message for joe biden after his reckless and unnec

ashraf ghani apologizes to the afghan people. the former president says he fled the country to avoid more bloodshed. the british house of commons approves a rise in national insurance to boost funding for health and social care. the world's biggest plant to extract carbon dioxide from the air opens in iceland. how significant is it in the battle to reverse climate change? and emma raducanu's us open dream remains on course. the 18—year—old british qualifier is through to the semifinal at flushing meadows. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 6am in the morning in singapore, and midnight in singapore, and midnight in france — where the trial began today of the 2015 attacks in paris. a night of indiscriminate shooting and bombing in paris that left 130 innocent people dead. it was france's worst attack since the second world war. it led to intensified french military action against the extremists abroad and a security crackdown at home. today, the trial began of the 20 men accused of involvement i

and ashraf ghani apologises to the afghan people. now to australia, and it was their remote living that protected many indigenous communities when the first wave of covid—19 struck. but in the country's latest wave of infections — fuelled by the delta variant, cases in some communities are rising at an alarming rate. vaccinations are also lagging behind national rates, and its leading to fears that if the nation does open up soon, indigenous australians will be left especially vulnerable. i've been speaking to bardijabbirjabbir woman, dr simone raye, in darwin, northern territory. she's the vice president of the australian indigenous doctors' association. the growth rate at the moment, in the aboriginal communities in the western new south wales region are experiencing a high numbers of covid infections and, as of last night, we have had three deaths of elders within that community, which is very heartbreaking, and i send out my sincerest condolences to the family and friends, and those communities that have lost those elders. we are

ashraf ghani apologises to the afghan people. the former president says he fled the country to avoid more bloodshed. a statue of confederate general robert e lee is taken down in virginia's state capital after a year—long legal battle. the world's biggest plant to extract carbon dioxide from the air opens in iceland. how significant is it in the battle to reverse climate change? and emma raducanu and leylah fernandez are both through to the us open semis. could we see a teenage final at flushing meadows? live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. a man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman from the islamist gang which murdered 130 people in paris six years ago has told a court he is a fighter for the islamic state group. salah abdeslam is one of 20 defendants in what is the biggest terror trial in modern french history. the prosecution says they were all involved in the shootings and bombings of november 2015, which targeted locations including bars, restaurants and th

was that why he was pushing ghani to be more stern and confident?tently conveyed -- i just noted an example publicly, but the afghan leadership at the time needed to do exactly that. lead. come together in a cohesive manner, be united. show the afghan people they were going to fight and lead through this transition even as u.s. forces left. that's entirely consistent with what he said publicly throughout. >> reporter: one question on afghanistan and on covid as well. two colleagues of mine have determined that 13,000 afghan refugees are in u.s. installations as of tuesday while another 40,000 remain on bases overseas. i'm curious, how many of those afghan evacuees have other countries committed to resettling and what is the status of those ongoing conversations and will the u.s. resettle all of those 40,000 here in the united states? >> secretary psaki: not to refute the reporting of your colleagues but just to note, the secretary of defense just confirmed it's about 20,000 who have come into the united states, at a briefing earlier this afternoon.

and asked president ghani no lie about the situation in afghanistan or whether or not it's true thewe don't want that out there. can you give us the perception that it's not true? president trump was impeached for a phonecall with a foreign president in which he supposedly asked him to lie. what does this tell us about president biden and about his credibility? >> that goes to miranda's point that the president is concerned about his time on september 11. the problem with that is it's not reality on the ground and not addressing what president ghani said which is 15,000 international terrorist and his country fighting against afghan forces. that failure to address reality led to 13 servicemen and women dying last week and billions of dollars of american tanks and humvees and helicopters on the ground. i think americans understand the power of the american military and they understand what we can do in this thread or lack thereof of the taliban and they understand we could have had withdrawal and we could done it in an honorable way. we could have taken all of our equipment and peopl

because later on in that same conversation, president ghani said, "mr.sident, we are facing a full-scale invasion, composed of taliban, full pakistani planning and logistical support." that does not match with what he said, "we had no idea the collapse was going to happen so fast." is this another idea of the president's claims changing the perception from the reality? >> i think a couple of things are clear to me with the caveat i don't know what other decisions were made, and it seems clear to me that he uns that the situation was fraught, as least we could have foreseen the outcome, if not the speed. i stop short of having a problem with him telling ghani that he needed to project strength. regardless of what the situation is, i think it is a reasonable comment he needs to project strength. but it seems clear from that conversation he knew the situation was fraught. i think his challenge is how he will speak to the american people as more and more of these facts become est. >> jiang: sue, i could talk to you for another hour, but we are out of time. w

we had abdullah and ghani against each other. as we analyze and try to understand the rapid collapse, d id the, was there essentially a failure to create an effective decision making capability within the afghanistan government? >> i think there are a number of factors an this is something i hope we all look at going back really over the last 20 years. certainly there was a lack of unity in the government because it was comprised of different groups. different factions. and despite again very significant efforts to get them to act in a unified way, they couldn't or wouldn't. second, i think in terms of their effectiveness, there are serious concerns that manifested themselves and third, one of the endemic problems we've had over the last 20 years that we've not been able to address is pervasive corruption and that has so many consequences. one of the consequences though is that if you're being asked to fight and put your life on the line for a government, for an institution that's correct, that's a pretty hard decision to make. a

i think the president in his discussion with president ghani found that if he would have listened tohat they were asking for was a declaration of continued support for an extended period of time and that probably would have saved lives long-term and could very possibly have allowed the national government to have succeeded in maintaining some sense of peace for the country for an extended time the future. cheryl: instead we left in the middle of the night without telling them and that was a betrayal and also fox had an exclusive interview with the afghanistan interpreter who helped senator biden stranded in a remote valley. this picture was from that time and the interpreter is not shown here. he goes by the name mohammed for his safety because he's been left behind in afghanistan here's his message for the president. >> mr. president do not forget me. at the moment in afghanistan it is a very hard situation. i'm wondering how i'm going to get out. do not let me and my family get left behind. the man who helped to rescue joe biden i could not get his wife and four children out now is

ghani reportedly telling biden, mr. president, we're facing a full scale invasion. republicans now want the full transcript released and slamming president biden over the phone call. >> it's one example of the disastrous miscalculations that brought us to where we are now with hundreds of americans left behind in afghanistan because of joe biden's execution of his decision to recall. >> they don't call him quit pro joe about nothing. the most important thing about this is the fact that he had to lie means he knew six weeks ago that things were going to go bad. >> that's correct. >> he didn't address this strategy. he didn't warn americans in that country to leave. >> meantime white house press secretary jen psaki is being called a hypocrite for refusing to give details about the call. >> was the president pushing a false narrative in that call with the afghan president? >> i think it's clear. i'm not going to go into details of a private conversation. what we saw over the course of the last few months is a collapse in leadership. that was happening even before ghani

the fact he got on the phone with ghani, that's true, and said what it is, he said to essentially liebout what's really going on. i remember phone calls with presidents of foreign leaders, i remember my time, i was on that phone call with president zelensky. that pales in comparison to what president biden did. he wanted the american to hear a message through president guiden one of the most corrupt leaders during my time as secretary of state. he asked him to lie to the american people, unforgivable. and we now have a massive problem with americans held behind enemy lines. it's that kind of deceit and deception that was part and parcel of how we got to this place. >> sean: one thing i'll say for certain. president trump as president and you as secretary of state there's no way in hell a single american would have been left behind enemy linesment thank you for being with us, mr. secretary. we appreciate it >> in april, vice-president kamala harris, she was bragging, she's playing a big role in biden's plan to withdraw forces in afghanistan. but now she's totally mia, missing in action

i met with ghani and members of his cabinet, i think it was in july.. and they told me and other senators how frustrated they were with the biden administration because they wouldn't give them a straight story about how much aid we would provide, and when air support would end. i've been told that the afgans were told by the biden administration, you could not count on any air support after august 31st. now, that's a big deal because that spread throughout the afgan military. they were trained to fight with american air support behind them, and we took that off the table. so they're lying through their teeth about what they did and when they did it. >> sean: i keep showing this map. you've seen it many times. i'll air it again. and it shows, you know, we go back to april, and may, and june, and july. and you see large portions of the country falling into the hands of taliban. >> right >> sean: they're racing through the country up to kabul. they could have gotten everyone out safely when we were in control. why didn't he do it? >> well, number one, what

according to reuters in that july 23rd phone call, president biden said to ghani, i need not tell youthe world is things are not going well in the fight against the taliban. there is a need whether it's true or not to project a different picture. he continues we will continue to provide close air support if we know what the plan is." sean, you have a u.s. president asking a foreign president for something possibly to lie with the condition of american military support on the line. where are the democrats and why are they not lining up to impeach him? >> does that sound familiar? that's the reason why democrats impeached donald trump over a phone call. this is brutal for the administration. that's why jen psaki doesn't want to talk about it. the afghanistan president said the taliban is making advancement. we need close air support. instead of dealing in reality joe biden cares only about the perception. the left wing media skewered joe biden but -- president trump they are not using the same standard for president biden. >> john: this was all breaking when he was in the white house. >

ghani says yeah i need some air power.re outside forces there from pakistan organizing and pushing forward. we're going to need some help. he didn't get any help. what i think is also under reported is general milley had the same perception. he was worried about perception. you know the guy in camouflage so embarrassed that he force pod walk to a church to president trump and give a ridiculous speech the next day. on the call the global perception of events in afghanistan, millie said is, that the perception of the united states in europe and the other media sort of thing is the narrative the taliban momentum. a momentum of taliban victory. we need collectively to demonstrate and turn that perception the narrative around. excuse me, you are the military guy. don't worry about the perception. worry about what's happening on the ground and give ghani what he need and then we wouldn't be in that mess. ainsley: that call they spoke for 14 manipulates at the end of july, july 23rd. that about two or three weeks before ghani fle

the process of outreach both to president ghani and other members. it might have taken a couple days for that process but it wasn't kept from them. >> was the 650 included in the 2500 or is the 650 in addition to the 2500 number >> they were different capability. >> when we went from 2500 down and effective zero we would keep 650. >> they went from 2500 to 650 as i understand it on their way to. >> that's correct. the capabilities were different. they were different forces to do different things. >> crucial point. thank you. >> my first question on june 23 is why have you not started the evacuation of our allies already? you responded we have a moral imperative to save the afghans who worked by our side. secretary austin you said earlier today moving too slow with the evacuation would put our troops at risk. i want to know what you did personally, all three of you, between that june 23 hearing and august 15 when kabul fell to meet that moral imperative. i will take that for the record. let me ask you this. do you believe you did enough chairman mille

the resident tries to get ghani to lie. >> the two things, if i may. what i said was the situation was stalemate and if we kept advisors there, the government of afghanistan and the army would've still been there. that's what i said. whether that's right or wrong, i don't know. >> it seems wrong now. >> we withdrew. >> secretary austin, are you capable of assessing whether another has the will to fight? >> noel, we are not. that's the point that the chairman made earlier. >> it's and incredibly disappointing thing that the secretary of defense for simply to say i can't assess whether someone has the will to fight but it's consistent with your record. during the obama administration i think they gave you $48 million to train up some folks in syria to take on the assad government and i think your testimony was that only four or five survive first contact with the enemy. what confidence should this committee have in you or should the country avenue when you've now confessed to us and whether it's the swing and miss in afghanistan that general milley talke

ashraf ghani apologises to the afghan people.oid more bloodshed. a statue of confederate general robert e lee is taken down in virginia's state capital after a year—long legal battle. the world health organisation urges wealthy countries to halt covid booster programmes — as vaccination targets in the global south aren't met. and desperation in lebanon — a special report from beirut as essentials including petrol, medicines and drinking water are running out fast.

it reveals president biden appeared to pressure afghan president ghani to create a perception that theiban actually wasn't winning. he told him to lie in essence as he explained, i need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of afghanistan i believe is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban. and there is a need whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture. emily, over to you. >> emily: pete, how can this be an extraordinary success when americans were left behind in 13 service members were killed? >> pete: of course it is not. in the white house has been telling us not to believe our lying eyes. the evidence laid bare before us of chaos of retreats, of weakness, and now of total duplicity, of lying. this phone call is a bombshell, it is the evidence that they never wanted us to know that they knew precisely how quickly this could unravel. they knew their decisions would contribute like closing bob romero brace to that travel. and things could happen a lot more quickly than they say, no one imagined. they

he put faith in ghani, he failed. i was struck listening to the president yesterday that he quoted interestingly from president abraham lincoln's 1863 gettysburg address. what the president quoted is that "they gave their last full measure of devotion" making reference to the 24,161 americans that lost their lives in afghanistan. what president biden failed to do is complete the sentence. the balance of the sentence says that "we were here highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain." i'm afraid that we've had a lot of people that feel that way today. >> neil: i'm wondering moving forward with the taliban -- first this overture on the part of the taliban. you have this pricy embassy, might as well use it. we welcome that. you know, the president's top people talking about the possibility that some sort of dialogue could be coming. with all of that history, our argument is we can't control what is happening right now. but we can control where it goes right now. inherent in that is there's some trust wit

ghani says he is open to an official audit monitored by the human he says he regretted his term ended without stability and apologized to all afghans. he's been granted political asylum in the united arab emirates. the head of the red cross has called on other aid groups to return to afghanistan to address the humanitarian crisis. victor morris says the world bank should be unlocking funds to support the country's lapsing health care system. afghanistan has plunged into crisis after the taliban seized power, marking an end to billions of dollars of foreign aid. >> i believe the crisis is so deep, so long-lasting, and the needs are so short, medium and long-term that no one single country should bear the responsibility to help. it's the collective responsibility of the international community. lauren:lauren: the west african block has suspended guinea after sunday's military coup. regional leaders have demanded they release him from custody. a high-level delegation will be sent to guinea's capital thursday. the country's army has released political detainees held by the opposed governm

the president said ghani needed to project an image of strength.ell you the perception around the world and parts of afghanistan i believe are things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban and there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture. >> was the president in any way pushing a false narrative in that call with the afghan president? >> i think it's pretty clear. i won't go into details of a private conversation but what we saw over the course of the last few months is a collapse in leadership. what the president has conveyed is you need to stand up and lead your country. >> members of congress have a lot of questions. >> the answer how they will be able to fight back even though they weren't winning then. now we are getting reports it could be true that president biden pressured him to give a false impression that could have been giving congress a wrong impression. >> we'll see the president this morning for remarks on hurricane ida. don't know if he will take any questions. >> s

the former afghan president, ashraf ghani, has broken his silence to explain why he fled the country when the taliban took over kabul more than three weeks ago. in a statement on social media, he said he left to avoid widespread violence in the capital. anti—racism activists have celebrated the removal of a controversial statue of a confederate general in the us. the memorial to robert e lee in the city of richmond in virginia became a focal point during last year's black lives matter protests. people really don't know how going to prison for something you didn't do, a crime you didn't commit, especially for a long, long time... ..what it does to a person. i was accused of killing a white man in a drug deal gone bad. this is a case they're going to be teaching in law school 100 years from now. what could dontae have become? it was a travesty ofjustice. it took 26 years to make it partially right. i was exonerated on august 22nd, 2019. a lot of people think the ultimate goal is just getting exonerated and getting out of prison, getting your freedom back. it's a lot more than that. som

what the president said in that conversation with then president ghani is exactly what he was saying in public. that the issue is not the capacity at that point of the afghan government and the after again security forces to hold the country and to hold kabul. it was their will and whether they had a plan to do so. we were concerned they weren't demonstrating that will or that plan. he pressed president ghani on the need to consolidate his forces on the military advice from our leaders to make sure that he could defend the places that needed defending and not overstretch the forces and -- >> i understand. my question is -- >> that's what he said -- >> i have two minutes. was it a real -- is the transcript untrue? >> i'm not commenting on any purportedly leaked transcripts. i telling you what the president said and what he said is in public. second, with regard to american citizens remaining behind. the ones we're in contact with were -- we have 500 people on a task force. teams dedicated to them to be in regular contact with them. i have not heard from those people. i can't say wheth

on saturday, i spoke to president ghani. we were working on a plan to have a transfer of power to a taliban led but more broadly represented government to include many of the different actors in afghanistan working on that. i was calling president ghani to make sure he would support that. that was critical. hoe told me he would but said if the taliban wouldn't go ahead with it he would -- i'm paraphrasing it -- fight to the death. that was saturday. he left afghanistan the next day, on sunday. >> thank you. >> for the awareness of senators, vote going on, subsequent vote going on as well. it's my intention to try to continue through the process but i just want to keep this going. senator paul. >> i have advocated for an end to the afghan war for over a decade. i'm glad it's finally over. but never in my worst nightmares could i have imagined that an administration would leave and leave $80 billion worth of weaponry to the taliban, dozens of planes and helicopters, thousands of armored carriers, hundreds of thousands of autom

the former president of afghanistan — ashraf ghani — apologises for the taliban takeover in his country abrupt departure was the only way to keep the guns silent. and all eyes on britain's emma raducanu — as she battles for a place in the semi finals at the us open in new york. and... the meteorite that landed on a family's driveway in gloucestershire — the scorched tarmac is now destined for a museum. good evening and welcome to bbc news. mps are to vote this evening on the prime minister's plans for a national insurance rise to pay for the nhs and social care. yesterday borisjohnson announced what he called the biggest catch—up programme in the history of the nhs — £36 billion, raised over three years, to deal with the backlog caused by the pandemic. the move breaks a conservative manifesto pledge not to raise taxes, justified said mrjohnson because of the effects of covid. this lunchtime, at prime minister's questions, the labour leader sir keir starmer attacked the government, saying some people needing care would still have to sell their homes. good afternoon that vote will happen

he also met with congress and at that time the pentagon, the white house were trying to bolster ghani and 300,000 afghan security forces hey, we're pulling out you need to step up. president ghani's message to congress, he was not encouraging those special immigrant visa holders to be evacuated from afghanistan. we need the people to build our country. the state department took the decision not to accelerate the evacuations. the pentagon had to have permission from the state department or white house to begin evacuations. they didn't receive that permission. there was a bit of a catch 22 at the time but president biden was trying to tell president ghani, hey, it doesn't look good outside of kabul, the scenes we're seeing and reports of the taliban taking province after province. you need to a, get your hands around this narrative, more importantly stop the taliban and what was clear is that it all fell apart and the white house was surprised when president ghani fled the country. president ghani, i've spoken to his aides says that by the time they decided to flee the taliban were alre

newsom is just like ghani. ghani left afghanistan with no leadership. army threw down their arms.o we have bureaucrats throughout the state who feel hopeless. no surprise why california is failing. we need a strong leader, not somebody who is failing the state like we have now. that's why i'm running and i will continue to run. >> dana: very strong comparison and invite governor newsom. he is always available and if he wants to respond to that we would take him. meet kevin.com, thank you. >> thanyou so much. >> bill: 22 before the hour. interesting development in d.c. president biden 3.5 trillion budget suggestion facing new uncertainty. axios reporting overnight that west virginia senator joe manchin is telling the white house and colleagues he will support as little as $1 trillion of the proposal. so that would be less than a third, folks, which could be a damaging blow to the president's agenda. democrats are unlikely to pass a budget packet without manchin's vote. the senator penned an op-ed in the "wall street journal" calling for a pause in new spending. he also gave a speec

in that leaked phone call president biden tells ashraf ghani that the perception around the world isnd urged ghani to paint a different picture, whether it's true or not. now, when asked if the president was pushing a false narrative, white house press secretary jen psaki had this to say. >> i'm not going to get into private diplomatic conversations or leaked transcripts of phone calls. what the president conveyed publicly and certainly privately as well repeatedly to afghan leaders as did our national security officials is that it's important that the leaders in afghanistan do exactly that, lead. and show the country that they are ready to continue to -- the fight against the tall within a. jillian: president biden's phone call being compared to another controversial call. new york columnist miranda devine writes that psaki's no comment wasn't the democratic standard when they impeached donald trump last year over a leaked phone call with wladimir zelensky others coming to the defense including nbc chris hayes who says the call is not a scandal anymore than the war itself was. the c

he says biden's phone call with ghani was appropriate but his afghanistan policy was disastrous.e warranted misconduct impeachment and removal. mitch mcconnell said yesterday there ain't going to be no impeachment because, he didn't say that i'm just saying this that way. there is not going to be any impeachment because the democrats run the house and the senate. ainsley: we all love this country and seeing what's happening in afghanistan, it makes me so grateful to be an american and see our troops that are fighting for our country. we all go to work every single day to put food on our table. also to pay our taxes. and our tax dollars went to buy so much equipment there that we gave to our afghan allies. now in the hands of the taliban. 33 helicopters, 169 armored personnel carriers, more than 22,000 armored humvees and almost 356,000 rifles. guess what? now they are having victory rallies and victory fladz afghanistan. look at this. steve: looks familiar. ainsley: used to be ours. heavily armed taliban fighters standing on long line of captured humvees, black hawk helicopter ev

they didn't start those evacuations earlier was that the government of the former president ashraf ghanise there was a real concern that would look back, it would impact morale, that it would seem the taliban was already winning. you have to remember, ashraf ghani, one week before the fall of kabul, was talking about hydrodam projects. u.s. officials had been talking for a long time whether or not he was fit competent. there were serious doubts about his ability to lead the country through this turbulent time. one does ask the question that given the fact that the taliban was moving so quickly in its offensive and given the fact that it was very clear that the government of ashraf ghani was unable to adequately respond to the situation should then a decision have been taken earlier by the state department to sort of contravene who he had asked for and get the evacuations moving much more quickly. general milley feels that should have been done at a much earlier time. it will be interesting to see how the state department responds to that. >> clarissa, you have been on the ground doing re