scott lucas, thanks so much. be was thank you. in other news hospitals in the u. s. state of louisiana. i have been forced to move dozens of patients. that's off to hearken. i've knocked out power to many areas, including the city of new orleans. i made landfill on sunday and since been downgraded to a tropical storm, at least 2 people have been killed. full of l reports now from neighboring mississippi. hurricane either took everything it had passed. this is the grand aisle of the coast of louisiana. one of the 1st places she roared into it was back from above either ripped off the roof after ruth. down below, she brought in the water with ankles, me almost chess level. so we just put the dogs on the counter. and then we climbed into the attic across louisiana. they watched as either cause the payoff and devastation, one of the worst storms to ever hit the us, mainland. i beg of damages data profit. this is worth it being in the 20 years that i've been the parish and we've seen several hurricane. even hospitals were not imbued from ida inside code with patients f

scott lucas is an expert on us foreign policy at the university of birmingham in the u. k. he believes jo biden's policy on the withdrawal has put the u. s. first. on leaving afghans behind in this is and a fact the 3rd big hit to american credibility with the idea that america leads and the rest of the world follows. we saw it after the iraq war in 2002 in the disastrous approach. the americans took there. we saw that their failure to protect civilians in 2011 and beyond. in the middle east. and now we see it here, or european allies are not going to leave nato. they will continue to work with the americans. but the idea that they follow was joe vine, put it in january americans back to leave the world that's been damaged by the war . specifically, it's the region it's, it's the area around afghanistan, the united states has left the building and handed the keys to the taliban in afghanistan. but now pakistan takes on a key role because they are linked with a tower and have been for years behind pakistan. is china. huge investments with pakistan and now f canister becomes

now we're joined by scott lucas, the emphasis professor at university of birmingham, and he's joining us from that by skype. great. so have you with us on the news or let's talk about the politics of this. do you think you'll binds his rights in his calculation that americans just looking at those in the usa, they aren't going to be troubled by afghan, asked on, as long as all those americans are a list. because that does seem to be the pragmatic political approach that he's taking. i can't tell you if joe biden is right or wrong. what i can do is, as an analyst tell you that joe, by noon is advisors when the age plan this withdrawal and to withdraw quickly from afghanistan this summer. they price $10.00, that there would be a short term shock. they had the intelligence reports that the taliban were going to take over, were likely to take over. i'll be at possibly not as quickly as turned out to be. but they thought that by labor day, this mark or 1st monday in september, in the united states, that attentions would have turned elsewhere for americans back to the economy. to the corona