host: john mclaughlin.uest: thank you for your service, and i am a veteran of the vietnam war, so i understand the feelings that people have about afghanistan. i did not serve on the ground in afghanistan and i think people like you are the ones that have the most credible testimony about what is happening there and what the future is. of course everyone has to agree, i am getting messages from various people who have either relatives or friends or acquaintances who need to get out, and i'm doing the little i can in terms of trying to activate context to help with that. yes, i have no comment other than i think that we have to get them out. obviously this is in some ways the most difficult military operation i can imagine because our military is not trained and prepared and geared to do this. thankfully they are capable and disciplined and can do what they are doing now, but to actually have to get people out in those circumstances. you have all seen the tv coverage of the press at the gates, the press of p

host: john mclaughlin. guest: thank you for your service, and i am a veteran of the vietnam war, so i understand the feelings that people have about afghanistan. i did not serve on the ground in afghanistan and i think people like you are the ones that have the most credible testimony about what is happening there and what the future is. of course everyone has to agree, i am getting messages from various people who have either relatives or friends or acquaintances who need to get out, and i'm doing the little i can in terms of trying to activate context to help with that. yes, i have no comment other than i think that we have to get them out. obviously this is in some ways the most difficult military operation i can imagine because our military is not trained and prepared and geared to do this. thankfully they are capable and disciplined and can do what they are doing now, but to actually have to get people out in those circumstances. you have all seen the tv coverage of the press at the gates, the press of

host: joining us this morning is john mclaughlin, the former acting director of the cia during the george w. bush administration. we are learning from reporting from the new york times that the president and administration was told by the intelligence community that it would take a year or two years for the taliban to gain control, that there was time. what do you make of that intelligence assessment? guest: first, thank you for having me this morning. i don't quite take literally what the media will say about intelligence because i know they have not read it. i have not read it either. i would be surprised if that was the only thing that intelligence said to the u.s. government because i sense is, without having been in the government myself recently that intelligence for years has been saying that this is a precarious situation, that the afghan military is not as strong as it is said and that the taliban has been draining strength. i suspect there was more to that intelligence. host: as you look back at the last 20 years, the lead up to the afghanistan invasion, was it worth it? guest:

becomes can biden's presidency withstand self-inflicted wounds, his trump 2020 campaign pollster john mclaughlinert colin, chief pollster of the tomato group, are we finally seeing buyers remorse? >> absolutely. it started sliding in may and june because of the economy, people thought would get worse instead of better for the first time all year but i tell you what, we are finding focus groups, people do not think this is a withdrawal from afghanistan. they think this is a surrender, the media is still being kind to biden calling this a surrender because it is getting good coverage from a lot of corporate left-wing media but his numbers are taking a hit and 62% of the voters think he's not going to finish the term. they think kamala harris will be president with four years so they already have doubts about his stamina and capacity and ability to serve four years. >> a new poll, you found democrats and independents disapprove of his handling of afghanistan, 69.3% of americans disapprove, that includes 48.2% of democrats and 74.8% of independents, with most of them agreeing with the withdrawal of

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we have been doing polling with john mclaughlin, and we found 16 issues in which there's an 85% rejectionare. the best example is this issue of whether or not you ought to have a photo id in order to vote. that's overwhelmingly supported by african americans, by latinos, everybody, except the hard left, which understands that they won't be able to cheat and steal, and so they're just trying to run over the whole country, and we will see what happens in this round. but historically these kinds of anti-people systems ultimately get repudiated in stunning destruction. i actually think by the way that there's a lot to be learned by watching john adams and the federalists, who were the first people with the act to try to legally suppress free speech in america. and they were desperately trying to hold off jefferson and the emerging democratic republican party. the result was in four short years, they were annihilated. and by 1812, they literally disappeared as a party. i think the democrats don't realize yet, they are playing with real fire, particularly in their more radical views like, you k

host: joining us this morning is john mclaughlin, the former acting director of the cia during the george w. bush administration.

. >> john: they are close to that point down here especially after that shooting of the 6-year-old little girl, niyah courtney. i keep for your perspective. >> sandra: u.s. hurdler sidney mclaughlin. did you see this, she's breaking her own world record. and smashed her previous record of 51.9 seconds set during the trials in june. the 21-year-old edging out her teammate,delilah mohammed. >> i think it's important to focus on the things that you can control and for me personally what really helps is personally god. >> favorite story of the day for me, and i say this is my happiest story of the day because there are such great things happening at the olympics. you don't want the bad to take away from the life changing moments that are happening. these two runners, i watch the race five times last night as you can imagine with my track background. the race is amazing, watch it at home if you haven't already. but my take is that this is the most difficult race to run in track and field. at 400 meters is an amazing feat but 400-meter hurdles, that takes an amazing athlete. these girls are impressive and they are so happy to represent the country. >> we watch them on bios last night a