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defense briefing in the next hour, in the meantime though, go to army veteran arkansas congressman rick crawford so much for joining us. just your thoughts on what's happening here, and i just, before i even start i think what hurts me a lot is it feels like it was you could see this coming , with the abrupt way we left, without a plan, military first, civilians last, afghan citizens who helped us not even considered, your thoughts? >> you just nailed it. we have to fight the temptation to go back and say here is where we went wrong. the fact is we need to identify a course going forward now, get our americans out of there and if that means we've got to take a different attack on rules of engagement, this is what we need to do and i'm waiting for leadership from the white house. this has been a failure in every regard and i'm looking for leaders to step up here in the defense department and in the white house to take control of this situation and do the right thing by our americans that are being left behind in afghanistan and by those interpreters and others, that applies for special interest v

congressman rick crawford. and great writer.ressman, your reaction to president's pressure, we now have 13 soldiers dead, president called out of touch. your reaction? >> it is stunning to see him conduct himself the way he does. what is more stunning that people continue to send him out there to be the face of our nation. >> i could call for his resignation it would be meaningless, h democrats need to h realize he is not up the job, he lacks mental a-- he does not fully and the gravity of this. elizabeth: joe? >> i say i watched this press conference, i understand the congressman a frustration. the president starts this way, they gave me a list here could the first person i was instructed to call on is -- who is they? you are being instructed by youres handlers, he looks weak, takes responsible then blames his predecessor done, he could have done whatever he wanted to, the two big keys, i wish reporters would press him on more, why did you close the airbase. and do evacuations from there and not a commercial airport, and why no

army sgt rick crawford is back, welcome back. >> hey, you have the crazy thing is the taliban has a pressecretary, that is mind blowing. kennedy: it when you e-mail that press secretary i'm guessing you do not get an automated out of office reply. sing about his job as a present using words like stranded, irresponsible there stranded outside a kabul around the country the white house are not doing a good job of addressing who is going to rescue them. >> they were not stranded they were deserted i asked these questions have yet to receive these answers but first of all who was the genius is that we should give up the airbase. number two how many americans are still in afghanistan? no answer to that question producing the rate of evacuations are to art 20000 afghans and 2000 americans? it is ten to one, that is ridiculous. i stopped to say we should not honor our commitment to the afghans who serve there, we certainly should we ought to honor those commitments. however we have a responsibility to american citizens first and foremost. >> we have little over a week until that august 31 deadli

but republicans like arkansas congressman rick crawford want to know exactly how many are still there. simple math would dictate that there are still several 100 if not thousands left behind. and that's just unacceptable and tennessee. congressman mark green who served in afghanistan says leaving like this sends the wrong message to the rest of the world. you sure as heck. >> can't abandon americans in a war zone and expect our enemies to respect us. that's why many like alabama senator tommy tuberville are pressing the administration to answer questions. find out one world. we did it the way we did it and others including louisiana congressman clay higgins are calling on president biden to resign. we expect performance and performance right now. >> for president biden calls for him to step down. >> and we recently learned a bipartisan group of lawmakers is traveling to the middle east tomorrow to visit refugee camps. there live in washington. i'm jessi tenure. jessie, thank you for that. >> back here at home in east contra, costa county and east bay. congressman meets with concerned