. >> let's bring in general barry mccaffery. as you know, the last daysf battle are the most dangerous. i want to lean into your experience. give us a sense of the experience and advice that the president is getting? we know about the prepared contingency, but knowing the evacuation process, and what would you say? >> i have been utterly astonished of the language on tv by people who are smart and experienced like h.r. mcmaster and others like congressman kinzinger, and we would be nuts to decide to unilaterally stay on a kabul airport 7,000 miles from home, and 600 miles from the sea with one brigade surrounded by mountains and build-up area, unless the taliban extended it. en -- even then it is not good. it is nuts. you could not find one lieutenant colonel at university to sign up for that. thank god for admiral stavridis to state the obvious. we have to collapse that thing and get out of there on time. the marines and the paratroopers are terrific fighters, but which have been the last guy out on extractions is under fire, a

and general mccaffery. that redeployed, the dod announced another thousand troops in, but we're doing this noncombatant evacuation getting them out will be a real challenge. we're on the verge of watching not just a stationest for american civilians, but a larger failure, because the president, when he decided to pull out of afghanistan on a date certain, september 11th, 2021, said we needed to assure the allies, trance lators for who fought alongside or soldiers were being taken care of. now we're talking about 20,000 folks still in country supported us. those folks will be very vulnerable. it's a moral failure, one that the president bears for, but also president trump and president obama, all who said we should leave as soon as possible without making sure, unfortunately, that our allies are safe. now it's a troubling situation. >> i want to go back to something you just said when you described it as a moral failure. general mccaffery. just this morning, take a lynn to this first. president biden said in

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. >> i want to bring in general mccaffery, and i want your thoughts on the current threat, and you heard president biden say that u.s. forces and coalition forces every day they remain they face a grave and growing threat. >> look, there is a legitimate debate about president biden's decision to pull the plug when he assumed office. right now i am appalled at responsible people arguing biden's decision to leave august 31st and the failed coordination of negotiation to extend it. one runway surrounded by mountains and the air power is 1,200 miles away, and you are 7,000 miles away, and we do not want a shooting confrontation and withdrawal from afghanistan. we are not going to get all of the people out, and all of people who cooperated with us, and wed have to take other diplomatic means, but i am looking at congressman mccaul and others thinking, what do you want? a one brigade fight on the runway in kabul airport? this is nuts. >> and douglas london, you wrote a piece for just security, and you wrote about how this was not an intelligence failure, but political and ideological considera

. >> to ourer starting front line, eugene daniels, general mccaffery, dr.elia, thank you so much and enjoy your weekend, appreciate you starting off our conversation this friday night. >>> coming up for us, an open letter to joe biden from our friends at the bulwark, they want the president to change course. they are trying to remind him there's still time. and later, one of our favorite presidential historians with us on the state of the nation as the president deals with the two threats advancing at the same menacing pace. the delta variant, domestically and the taliban overseas. all of it as the 11th hour is just getting under way on the friday night. e. ♪ [band plays] ♪ a place where everyone lives life well-protected. ♪♪ and even when things go a bit wrong, we've got your back. here, things work the way you wish they would. and better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands with allstate. click or call for a lower auto rate today. this is the sound of change from pnc bank. it's the sound of a thousand sighs of relief and of a company wa