army lieutenant colonel, he is james carafano.ssee congressman mark green on house armed services. the good doctor was deployed to iraq and afghanistan. congressman, first to you. your reaction to the president today? >> thanks for having me on, liz. i was blown away honestly by the dishonesty of his comments. he made it sound like the afghans are not fighting. they have been essentially the ground force in this war for several years. thousands of them have died. it is dishonest to say that they don't want to fight. we abandoned them. that's the sense they have. in the middle of the night we left bagram airbase without even notifying our ally, the afghan military that we were leaving. they just discovered an empty airfield and empty airfield. they felt abandoned. they lost the will to fight. it is not, it is not their fault. this is joe biden owns this. elizabeth: d.c. insiders, colonel, report shock that the administration was surprised that the taliban would capture the country this quickly. that the white house had no plan for

army lieutenant colonel james carafano and doctor mark green on house foreign affairs and armed servicese doctor was appointed iraq and afghanistan. first you your reaction to that president? >> thank you for havingct me oni was blown away by the dishonesty of his comments he made it sound like the afghans aren't fighting they have been the ground force in this war for several years, thousands of them have died, it is dishonest to say that they do not want to fight we abandoned them, that is the sense that they have in the middle of the night we left bagram air base without a be notifying our allies, the afghan military that we were leaving they discovered an empty airfield and empty military they felt abandoned and they lost the will to fight. it is not their fault this is joe biden that knows this. elizabeth: d.c. insiders report shocked that the administration was surprised that the taliban captured the country this quickly in the white house had no plans for that even though biden announced to withdraw for month ago the washington post of political reporting biden ignored the advice

with the quincy institute of responsible statecraft, a marine veteran, 20 12, afghanistan, and james carafano, jim carafano the heritage foundation, a 25-year army veteran. let's go to your calls. we will hear first from wanda in new jersey, democrats line. caller: hi. good morning. , gentlemen. good morning to my beautiful country. i am so grateful to have president biden as our leader to put an end to this senseless war that we cannot win. those people are totally different. they will never be westernized like our country. they hate us. they are the seed of ishmael, the seed of war. you will never, never change their minds! and look at their leaders. they took off and took the money with them, over $100 billion these people ran off with. the president of their country took off, but they want us to stay indefinitely? to do what? set up our own government there? host: all right, we will get a response. jim carafano, if you want to take that first. guest 1: i find that call quite racist. it is light brown lives don't matter and these people are subhuman. i think adam and i agree. adam served i

with the quincy institute of responsible statecraft, a marine veteran, 20 12, afghanistan, and james carafanofano the heritage foundation, a 25-year army veteran. let's go to your calls. we will hear first from wanda in new jersey, democrats line. caller: hi. good morning. , gentlemen. good morning to my beautiful country. i am so grateful to have president biden as our leader to put an end to this senseless war that we cannot win. those people are totally different. they will never be westernized like our country. they hate us. they are the seed of ishmael, the seed of war. you will never, never change their minds! and look at their leaders. they took off and took the money with them, over $100 billion these people ran off with. the president of their country took off, but they want us to stay indefinitely? to do what? set up our own government there? host: all right, we will get a response. jim carafano, if you want to take that first. guest 1: i find that call quite racist. it is light brown lives don't matter and these people are subhuman. i think adam and i agree. adam served in that cou

colonel james carafano. congressman garcia is back with us.olonel, this is his toringic day, worst at take on our u.s. troops in decade. the president's polls numbers are plummeting. george will says never seen a rapidly fall in a president's approval rating since herbert hoover. europe is saying biden made strategic disaster, catastrophic decision to pull out like he did. he is sledding hopes of evacuation of our citizens and u.s. citizens -- it is always chaos when you stick to a symbolic deadline. colonel, your reaction shun to that? >> i think that criticism is probably fair but it is probably going to get worse. this is setting us up for a whole set casone kaeding things. if you're for example, isis-k, anybody else, scouring the country looking for americans to take hostage. because that will get you more publicity, more attention. guy and girl in blindfold in some room, that will hammer biden to death. right now it's a race between those people trying to get out of the country and somebody trying to find them because are the new coin of

talk about the scheduled withdrawal of troops from afghanistan with the heritage foundation's james carafano. then adam weinstein from the quincy institute for responsible statecraft. watch c-span's "washington journal," live, 7:00 eastern this morning. be sure to join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> president biden delivers remarks on the complete u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan today at 1:30 p.m. eastern, live on c-span, c-span.org and the seas -- and the c-span radio app. >> the pentagon announced the end of the war in afghanistan, one day before the president's deadline for withdrawal of u.s. troops. pentagon press secretary john kirby and general kenneth mckenzie spoke with reporters.

i want to bring in lieutenant colonel james carafano and, colonel, the post analysis on this it willairbase there, bring home the military before the civilians. of course right now all eyes are focused on getting everyone home safely. what are your sources telling you? what is going on right now? >> look i just talked to a guy five minutes ago who has 300 people that he is trying to get to the airport and he has no way to safely get them to the airport. that is the third contact i have had today about these kind of groups. so people are desperate to find people who can safely conduct them to the airport. so there is a huge pent-up demand to fly out of there. there are planes sitting on the tarmac, empty, waiting for their passengers because people cannot find a safe way to get to the airport. i don't think that we have, i think we've got a significant population that is still trying to get out and they won't get out, they won't all be able to get to the airport by a deadline. it is not a taliban deadline. we came up with the stupid deadline of august 31st. charles: apparently they ha