blair, said the uk stood shoulder to shoulder with the americans. now that the military operation is over, and the taliban once again in charge of the country, it is up to the diplomats to work out how best to work with people who until very recently considered implacable enemies. tonight, downing street has confirmed a uk government representative has met senior taliban leaders in doha to discuss safe passage for british nationals and afghans who've worked with the uk. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. for 20 years, the relationship between the west and afghanistan has been shaped by military force. but those boots are no longer on the ground, so how now might the world engage with the taliban from outside? well, it certainly requires a new kind of diplomacy. western powers want the taliban to ensure afghans can leave if they want. they say the rights of women and children should be protected. i shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. and that's what they called for last night but the united nations works better when, well

blair said we were shoulder to shoulder with america. now that the military mission is over and the taliban is in charge it is up to the diplomats to work out how they deal with those who were sworn enemies just weeks ago. 0ur diplomatic affairs correspondent, james landale, has been looking at the options. 20 years, the relationship between the west and afghanistan has been shaped by military force. but those boots are no longer on the ground, so how now might the world engage with the taliban from outside? well, it certainly requires a new kind of diplomacy. western powers want the taliban to ensure afghans can leave if they want. they say the rights of women and children should be protected. i women and children should be protected-— women and children should be rotected. , ., , ., protected. i should put the draft resolution to _ protected. i should put the draft resolution to the _ protected. i should put the draft resolution to the vote _ protected. i should put the draft resolution to the vote now. - protected. i should put the

what grew out of a personal disaster for tony blair? >> julie: i've got some thoughts. who were you the most nervous to interview for that? >> you know, i think viola davis. honestly, she's my -- she's the top of the top of the top. i do the same thing for a living. >> julie: i did a commercial with her with miss piggy. [ laughter ] we were in the bathroom. it was a miss piggy -- i don't remember. it was for a car, i think. but there's viola davis. and i just was like, she sees through me, she can see my soul! >> it was a brilliant podcast. if i may say so, she was a brilliant guest. >> julie: you've done one season. how many episodes? >> oh my god, at this point -- i mean, i've done -- i feel like 25? >> julie: oh my god, that's a lot. >> yeah. i'm about to take a little break. because i've got to go to work. on a set. >> julie: oh, very mysterious, minnie. is it porn? [ laughter ] >> it's not porn. not this week. >> julie: ah. well, i have an idea. i was thinking, because for next season, if you've already done 25 of these episodes of the same seven questions, maybe i

well, the initial point, of course, was to get a war started in iraq, which tony blair wouldn't do if you wouldn't attack afghanistan. first, the point of keeping it going and escalating it so dramatically when barack obama came into office was to oppose the war in iraq without opposing all wars by finding a good war to support the city, the long list of other reasons. i have been just as absurd slash criminal and we all know the weapons dealers made out like bandits. we know that there was, there was the interest in having basis happening, weapons having access to resources. most of those, most of those endeavors failed. but the mission of getting rich off endless war until it had the end was extremely successful for certain people, even while doing great damage, even to the economy of the united states. all right, thank you very for your thoughts. david swanson, executive director of the world beyond war movement. thanks for being with us here on our international. i was interesting to hear thoughts. thank you. all right, now, thursday the suicide bombing in a couple. it claimed the

it 3 the failure of a strategy and policy first by tony blair on the back of donald ron fell. the achievements of the new generation are going to have to be... when taliban were last there, there was no mobile phone network. now it is pervasive if it continues and it has brought with it a new awareness, new connectivity and above all, a new literacy. that is the upside but this week, i think what we will get is a coming to terms with a failed strategy, where do we go from here? the implications are ominous for britain but there is this immediate prospect of getting those that you need to be got out and how you do it, are the arrangements really in place? and what you do about people who are staying on there? find what you do about people who are staying on there?— what you do about people who are staying on there? and when you talk about that new _ staying on there? and when you talk about that new awareness, - about that new awareness, connectivity and literacy among the afghan people, how much do you think has changed their in terms of people actually being prepared to ac

blair personally. he's a dedicated arm salesman and once you start a war you open and kind of pandora's box. you don't control it, it controls you. i did. good dennis and mad. did it. the bad better is that those in yemen who the united states deems to be attract the good terrorist and those who are inferior. the joke here is we've been there before. i mean, if you consider the amount of time story, nothing to do. if i say that the saudis are giving money to groups that are in the city and that not only but also the i s i s. people who say you want to come see me american salary. we put $1000000.00 each to give them arms training equipment. we are the ones who cleared all those people to go. we a new piece, that's what we want. freedom and the doctrine that is endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battlefield. and that united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operations. lethal operations, regardless of what international law says

blair personally. he's a dedicated arm salesman and once you start a war you open and kind of pandora's box, you don't control and it controls you today. good, dennis, and matt did is the bad better said those in yemen who the united states names to be a threat. the good terrorists are those who are inferior. the joke here is we've been there before. i mean, if you consider the amount of time story, there was nothing to do. if i say that the saudis are giving money to groups that are in the city and that not only but also the i s i s people who say you want to come to me that can really put $1000000.00 each to give them arms training equipment, we are the ones who are clear, all those people to go. we a new piece, that's what we want. freedom and in the doctrine that has endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battlefield. and that the united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operations, lethal operations, regardless of what interna

for which tony blair and george bush were responsible. so i don't think anyone has been very keen... it is how you extricate yourself from where you already are because the problems in afghanistan and the presence in afghanistan goes back a lot earlier. but in any event, my final comment, if you will allow me, is afghanistan must never be combined with iraq. the reason for going to iraq was unjustifiable. in afghanistan, it was entirely justifiable. the biggest terrorist attack the world had ever known, the 9/11 bombings, 7000 people killed. but we are back to square one. we are back to square one with the taliban in control 20 years later as they were 20 years ago. no, we are not. forgive me, first of all, we have never seen the repeat because of the invasion of afghanistan and the elimination of the taliban 20 years ago, that effectively destroyed al-qaeda as an organisation capable of launching anything on the scale of 911. and we have not seen anything remotely like that for the last 20 years. so the concern is now that the taliban ar

blair, the former prime minister who referred to the decision as imbecilic so it is across the board this condemnation. no question that as long as biden is president he will not be taken seriously or trusted by the british or anyone else. look at how the germans, the leader of the german party said this was the worst debacle for nato since its founding. however the special relationship between britain and america i am confident that will recover as soon as biden is gone. ashley: there's this effort, there has been calls for impeachment, for him to resign but as i asked many of our previous guests do you really want a kamala harris presidency? >> that is such a good point. i addressed it last sunday. the truth is she is exactly like him in the sense that she's also a machine politician who has no beliefs and principles of been -- i think she would undoubtedly be worse than biden, that is true. however at some point there has to be some accountability for a catastrophe on this scale so i think it is important that biden is impeached and that is very likely to happen if republicans tak

blair personally. he's a dedicated arm salesman. and once you start a war. ready you open a kind of pandora's box, you don't control and it controls you today. good dennis and mad did is the bad better is that those in yemen who the united states names to be attract the good terrorist and those who are inferior. the joke here is we've been there before. i mean, if you consider the amount of time story, there was nothing to do. if i say that the saudis are giving money to groups that i insidious not only a little, but also the i s i s. people who say you want to come to me, the medical side really put 1000000 dollars each to give them arms training equipment. we are the ones who are clear on those people to go. we're a new piece, that's what we want. freedom and the doctrine that has endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battlefield. and that the united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operations, legal operations, regardless of w

amy: that was tony blair responding to jeremy corbyn just after the u.s. invaded afghanistan. corbynould go on to serve as labor leader party from 2015 to 2020. he is joining us from greece. to continue the debate, jeremy corbyn, if you could respond to blair, the former british prime minister, blasting biden recently saying the u.s. withdrawal of troops from afghanistan is imbecilic, saying the move as every jihadist group around the world celebrating. your response to what is happening now and what has happened over this 20ears? >> simply saying to tony blair and george bush, you toothe people to war that made no sense whatsoever in 2001. you exacerbated the problems. you created the poverty. you created -- the ly people who benefited have been the world's arms dealers and realtors in dubai. we are nw -- we have to look at this and is likely longer historical -- slightly longer historica context. [indiscernible] encourage the u.s. to fd the mujahideen which offially rmed into the taliban with pakistan because they felt they had to oppose what they believed to be thsoviet con

they have nothing to show for it except, you know, tony blair maybe coming out of the woodwork again to try and justify his project. but this is, this really speaks to the, to the level of wealth and quality, the poor living standards, the wealth disparity that is, that has been not just exacerbated, but it so heavily brought on by the occupation. and so they've not only destroyed the country, but now they're also making it difficult for people to get out, right. they're picking and choosing where people can go, the things spain will take a few 1000 refugees. this country will take a few 1000 and it's very, it's very ironic how they just barge into ghana spending just invade the country and stay there for 20 years. and then they pick and choose who can come into their country. people who are trying to flee and just, you know, find a better life for themselves. so this is very tragic, what's, what's going on. and if they did have any prior knowledge about the impact that's, that's on coming under the taliban has been trying to, you know, re brand themselves some kind of counter terror

amy: that was tony blair responding to jeremy corbyn just after the u.s. invaded afghanistan. corbynould go on to serve as labor leader party from 2015 to 2020. he is joining us from greece. to continue the debate, jeremy corbyn, if you could respond to blair, the former british prime minister, blasting biden recently saying the u.s. withdrawal of troops from afghanistan is imbecilic, saying the move as every jihadist group around the world celebrating. your response to what is happening now and what has happened over this 20ears? >> simply saying to tony blair and george bush, you toothe people to war that made no sense whatsoever in 2001. you exacerbated the problems. you created the poverty. you created -- the ly people who benefited have been the world's arms dealers and realtors in dubai. we are nw -- we have to look at this and is likely longer historical -- slightly longer historil context. [indiscernible] encourage the u.s. to fd the mujahideen which offially rmed into the taliban with pakistan because they felt they had to oppose what they believed to be e soviet cont

blair, standing alongside george w. bush immediately after the september 11th attacks, and ending now under boris johnson's premiership, there's been a sense that this war is coming to a fairly chaotic end. we've heard relatively unusual public criticism from british officials of how the u.s. has handled this. the british defense secretary is a former soldier. he actually got emotional during an interview last week, saying that it was pretty much inevitable that afghan allies of the uk were going to get left behind in kabul because of this timeline set by president biden. there has not been the same level, i would say, of political interest here in britain that there has been in the u.s. about the war in afghanistan. there's not much discussion about forever wars in this country in the way there is in the u.s. but the uk has suffered fewer casualties than the u.s. has. it has spent less blood, less treasure. but still it is something that is being very closely followed here in the uk, especially as british forces remain

but the harshest criticism this biden has come from former prime minister, tony blair, who took britain into afghanistan 2 decades ago. it is so over decision to withdraw from again, his son in this way was driven by grand strategy. but by politics, we did it in a b, d, and soon imbecile of political slogan about and in the forever wars as if our engagement in 2021 was remotely comparable to our commitment 20 or even 10 years ago. while it was british prime minister, winston churchill, who 1st used the term special relationship in 1946 and it was popular when margaret fletcher and ronald reagan were in car, withdrew from us on a stone, has exposed the fact. it's an unequal relationship, and when the u. s says it's leaving its allies must follow. and in a post bracket world where trade deals are ti, the british might protest, but ultimately need to keep their closest ally on side 3 quarters of americans recently. paul, now believe that ive canister will once again become a breeding ground for international terrorist, just like it was 20 years ago. what do you think is selma reports on wh

blair visited washington after the 9/11 attacks. in the months to come, he'd provide uk support for america's invasions of iraq and afghanistan. 20 years on, he's had this to say. many people, as a result - of what happened in afghanistan, are going to have a deep doubt - as to whether we can be relied upon. and that is not a good thing. and mr blair's fierce criticism of mr biden's withdrawal also raises a question about whether the uk can rely on the us. but when the uk foreign secretary, dominic raab, was asked today if the us refusal to extend that deadline meant the special relationship was over, he replied... and if that's the uk perspective, this is us state department spokesperson ned price last week. we certainly have an extraordinary partner in the british government. to back that up, mr price added... what i can say is that our coordination with the british government, with all of our nato allies, has been consistent, it has been clear, and there has been a consensus on this. but only if consensus is the us deciding a pol

that's why former prime minister tony blair said this week the decision is imbassilic. brian: it's a joke. now we're asking for nato to help us with china while when taiwan gets invaded we'll need the world united behind us? forget it. douglas it's impossible to quantify the amount of damage done to our allies let alone how our enemies are hardened. you are on tucker carlson today in an extended interview. he doesn't roll commercials so we'll get to hear you speak in great detail about this afghanistan disaster. it's available beginning today at 4:00. steve: that's when you can see eric prince of black water. thank you very much, douglas. >> thank you. brian: meanwhile let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. she's outside. >> the sun is coming out. it's wonderful let's take a look at the maps you know it's going to feel like summertime and we've got the humidity so it's going to be even warmer than 75 here in new york. we're going to get into the 90s feel like 100 degrees in a lot of these areas showers thunderstorms some of them turning severe across the

in the 90s at the break—up of yugoslavia, tony blair's speech in 1999 and a responsibility to protect and the idea that we were going to go around the world making everybody, look after people and so on and so forth. we are coming to the end. what we are watching now is the end. what we are watching now is the and of i think 30 years of western strategic policy which is gone completely wrong. far too much wishful thinking, lacking in leadership. i think us foreign policy and the execution of it having lived through baghdad in 2003 and been involved in the balkans, this is a really important time. i am just depressed, set up, irritated, angry that we are watching western values being pushed back for the plato, g7, not being able to talk to the taliban. that is in absolutely _ able to talk to the taliban. that is in absolutely damning _ able to talk to the taliban. that is in absolutely damning verdict on i in absolutely damning verdict on notches recent events but obviously the last few decades. you mentioned the last few decades. you mentioned the g7. borisjohnson saying he wants assu

maria: yeah, tony -- tony blair called it an imbecile move. you're a doctor, do you think we will start talking about the 25th amendment? is he fit to lead? congressman: so that's, of course, a decision for his cabinet under the constitution, but i mean, there are going to be a lot of people who start going, wait a minute, this makes no sense. how can he possibly come to this decision? this is a bipartisan statement. i have democrat friends who are scratching their head going, we don't know what he's doing. we are confused. so that begs the question is he fit to lead and i think he should step down. i've been saying that since the debacle began. maria: congressman, great to have you this morning. thanks very much and we will continue to follow this. thank you, sir. congressman mark green. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you know me, i'm a fighter and my instinct is to fight this because it is unfair and unjust in my mind. i believe the right thing is that my service comes first. prolonging the situation can only cause governmental paraly

maybe that's why tony blair called the whole thing imbecileic. get your people out. people you made promises to you get them out. you get your assets out. the last thing you do is get your troops out. i want to know who made decisions like let's goes bagram? where was the conversation on that? was there something in the intelligence community that said that was a good idea? did that come from our military leadership or was that a lone decision by the president of the united states? does the president of the united states really believe that al-qaeda and isis are not present in afghanistan? we really would like to know. is that the information is he getting? because we hear to the contrary or is that just something that he decided was -- and, also, i want to know right now, does this administration recognize the taliban as a legitimate government? and now we have -- we have the head of the cia over there, and i read about that this morning. ainsley: would he be able to change their mind taliban warned us if we extend the deadline they said it will provoke a reaction.

time to sit down and talk i me ah ah, i use the former british prime minister, tony blair, who sent you k troops into a gun is done 20 years ago. criticize the u. s. decision now than to pull out front of the justifications behind it. imbecilic, we didn't need to do it, we chose to do it. we did it in a b, d and to an embassy really political slogan about ending the forever was. blair added that britain's involvement in the region was not hopeless despite the color bands advance and the has a moral obligation to stay in the country until the afghans who need to be are evacuated. the journalists, international affairs spaces, which had met her to scathing about place claims. he calls the slogan about ending forever, was in basilica. but he's the one who followed george bush, the laughing stock of the, of the western world in 2001 into 2 wars, both of ghana, son and iraq. and he's the one who can not finish the war or 20 years later now in 2021. and he's still offering excuses, trying to justify what he did, the united kingdom and the united states to not invade afghanistan to help women

with me now is jack straw, the former labour foreign secretary under tony blair, from 2001 to 2006. welcome. as foreign secretary you are the first minister from a foreign government to go into kabul after the fall of the taliban. if you are in government now what would you are in government now what would you be doing? i you are in government now what would you be doing?— you be doing? i think there are very limited options _ you be doing? i think there are very limited options for _ you be doing? i think there are very limited options for the _ you be doing? i think there are very limited options for the british i limited options for the british government right now and ben wallace, the defence secretary i think has spelt those out that it is frankly not practical for the british to try to hold the airport without support of the us. we have got 1000 troops which is the second largest contingent at the airport for the us has got 5000 troops and they have also got surveillance and other crucial support which we don't have. you could get it in but i think it is fanciful to think th

the former british prime minister tony blair, than who sent u. k. troops into i've gotten this done today. years ago, criticized the u. s. decision now to pull out branding with justifications behind it. imbecilic. we didn't need to do it. we chose to do it. we did it in a b, d, and to an embassy political slogan about ending the forever was. blair added that britain's involvement in the region was not hopeless despite the taliban to advance, and the u. k. has a moral obligation to stay in the country now until the afghans who need to be are evacuated. but journalists, international affairs specialist, richard med hers is scathing about blaze claims. he calls the slogan about ending forever wars imbecility. but he's the one who followed george bush, the laughing stock of the, of the western world in 2001 into 2 wars. both of ghana, son and iraq, and he's the one who could not finish the war for 20 years later. now in 2021 and he's still offering excuses, trying to justify what he did. the united kingdom and the united states did not invade of gar

the formerl leader of the labour party and prime minister tony blair has spoken strongly and said the decision to come out of afghanistan from america was imbecilic. come out of afghanistan from america was imbecilic— was imbecilic. would you go that far? the decision _ was imbecilic. would you go that far? the decision to _ was imbecilic. would you go that far? the decision to withdraw i was imbecilic. would you go that far? the decision to withdraw is l far? the decision to withdraw is from the united states and nobody can say we were not warned and we have had two successive presidents who made clear they would end involvement in afghanistan after 20 years and thousands of lives lost. while the us deserves criticism for the decision to withdraw quickly with a hard deadline, which signalled to the taliban it was simply a waiting game and if they held tight, the us would be gone and they knew when they would be gone and i suspect that is why we saw a rapid advance. there have been mistakes made in terms of afghanistan including the past 18 months when the government has not put pla

tony blair is spot on. we as members of congress and led the efforts on the senate and we have been pushing this administration it says early this spring to start moving americans and afghan partners have afghanistan of the present has known for months that it was going to poll our troops out and the makes no sense the way took our troops out and left americans in the country. we have seen the rapid rise of the taliban them another extremist organization as you stated, isis, al qaeda, other extremist organizations predict reconstitute. liz:ho shall pelosi's stuff happens moments when she spoke to a local tv station interdistrict out there in california and we have new data showing with the delavan itself, skating in terms ofon military hardware. you're going to see tens of thousands of four vehicles, 600,000 weapons and more. new york times abc and cbsn washington post, there calling at the present for inaccurate comments about al qaeda and now threat read and then senator biden in 2004, said yakima terrace

. >> i would say tony blair is spot on. we as members of congress and i led the effort on sivs in the senate, we've been pushing the administration since early this week to start moving americans and african partners out of afghanistan. the president has known for months that he was going to pull our troops out. it makes no sense the way he took our troops out and left americans in the country. we have seen the rapid rise of the taliban. we will see this with other extremist organizations. as you stated isis, al-qaeda, other extremist organizations. they will just reconstitute. elizabeth: let's show pelosi's stuff happens moment when she spoke to a local tv station in her district out there in california. we've got new data showing what the taliban is now confiscating in terms of military hardware. you are going to see tens of thousands of war vehicles, 600,000 weapons and more. you know "new york times," abc, cbs, "washington post" is calling out the president for inaccurate comments about al qaeda not a threat. al qaeda n

tony blair is just a prominent example. i am curious what this tells us in your view about how hard it is to make these type of moves, change u.s. foreign policy, and whether washington is weirdly stacked with microphone for people that have been wrong a lot on mid east policy. >> and the irony, if you flashback to 10, 15 years ago when the vote was had, joe biden deserves credit to moving for withdrawal and advocating, explaining while it is necessary, while other hawks stuck their heads in the sand, say no, the original terrible decision must be maintained, for infinite periods of time, right? there never will be a comfortable time they would advocate for withdrawal. to his credit, joe biden campaigned on it, remember hearing it on the debate stage when he was asked the question about did the obama administration get it wrong about surge in afghanistan? he said yeah, we got it wrong. i have been advocating to get out of afghanistan. put me in ofs as president of the united states, i will get us out day one. he is staying

bret: former british prime minister tony blair talking about the situation currently in afghanistan. over the weekend you may have seen on "fox news sunday" current secretary of state tony blinken talking to chris wallace, asked about the contradictory statements of president biden, and his various press conferences. >> does the president not know what's going on? >> this is an incredibly emotional time for many of us. >> the president said al-qaeda is gone. it's not gone. the president said he has not heard any criticism from the allies. there has been a lot of criticism from the allies. words matter. and the words of the president matter most. >> chris, all i can tell you is what i have heard and, again, this is a powerfully emotional time for allies and partners as it is for me, as it is for us. bret: let's bring in our panel guy benson host of the guy benson show on fox news radio. harold ford jr. former tennessee congressman and trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina. trey, i was struck by that answer by the secretary of state that it was an emotional time for all of

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well, also weighing in former british prime minister, tony blair, who sent new k troops into afghanistan 20 years ago. he criticized the u. s decision to pull out branding the justifications behind it. as imbecilic. we didn't need to do it. we chose to do it. we did it in a b, d, and to an imbecility. political slogan about ending forever was a. blair added the britons involvement in the region was not hopeless despite the taliban advance. and that the u. k. has a moral obligation to stay in the country until the afghans who need to be are evacuated. but journalist and international affairs specialist rich of met, hers is scathing about blood claims. he calls the slogan about ending forever wars imbecility. but he's the one who followed george bush, the laughing stock of the of the western world in 2001 into 2 wars, both of gunnison and iraq. and he's the one who could not finish the war for 20 years later. now, in 2021 and he's still offering excuses, trying to justify what he did for the united kingdom. and the united states did not invade of garrison to help women go to university, ev

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over the british prime minister, tony blair, who sent you k troops into afghanistan, 20 years ago, criticize the u. s. decision to pull out, running the justifications behind it as imbecilic. we didn't need to do it. we chose to do it. we did it in a b, d, and to an imbecility. political slogan about ending the forever was blair added the britons involvement in the region was not hopeless despite the taliban to advance and that the u. k. has a moral obligation to stay in the country until the afghans who need to be reevaluated. but journalist and international affairs specialist rich of met has told me last time that he's been escaping about. bless claims, he calls this slogan about ending forever wars imbecility. but he's the one who followed george bush, the laughing stock of the, of the western world in 2001 into 2 wars, both of ghana, son and iraq. and he's the one who can not finish the war for 20 years later. now, in 2021 and he's still offering excuses, trying to justify what he did, the united kingdom and the united states did not invade afghanistan to help women go to university, ev

so, you know, tony, tony blair has lied from the beginning over time. even right now when he's talking about the withdrawal, he's saying that the taliban failed to give up all kinds of leadership. this is, this is blatantly fault you tell about actually offer to hand over osama bin lot. they just wanted proof that he was actually guilty of $911.00 before doing it, which is called due process, right? something that they came to believe in, in western democracies. and so he's, he's still lying about that right now in 2021. and he's still saying that, you know, the whole effort was noble. you know, this guy has blood on his hands from 2 countries. he's killed and displays millions of people. and he thought the adapted to talk about noble pursuits. it's on believable. there is a generate, a post $911.00 generation of africans now hitting their twenties to where you have women go go going to school women and jobs. and that's not wild in jeopardy to something to be said for that though. surely. yes. so tony blair here he brings these off, he says that the eco

it is tony blair in london, marc. >> wow. labor prime minister who supported joe biden's candidacy saying twaes right man for the right moment. joe biden says he hasn't heard anything from our allies about loss of credibility. when is the last time you heard a foreign leader call america's policy like an imbecile. he is right except the biden administration is even getting the politics wrong. the reality is if you asked a man on the street should we get out of afghanistan after 20 years most people would be yes. but no marches on washington or backlash for keeping our troops there. i'll tell you what, if al qaeda reconstitutes itself in afghanistan and carries out attacks on the west, there will be a backlash, all right. the politics will be very bad for joe biden. >> dana: thinking about this being an ideological struggle. war for a generation, right, when we were attacked on 9/11 it brought it home. america goes on offense. we won't sit back and wait to be hit again. that's happened. a lot of progress has been made certainl

the former prime minister the united kingdom tony blair, a really interesting interview, thank you to ap for bringing that to us. a real impact over the weekend, and it dovetailed with the request made to our team thursday, would someone get peter trubowitz on the line. he is at the london school of economics but for years held court at the university of texas at austin thinking every day about government. usually we talked to peter trubowitz may be about china, and now on how we pick up the pieces from afghanistan. wonderful to have you with us. we went from a washington consensus. there was a clash of civilizations. a post-american world. what does the new world look like? does joe biden have a theory to go on? peter: great to be with you as always. right now it is hard to see biden's theory. we are in the midst of a real debacle and crisis in afghanistan. i am sure we will talk about it. the decision to withdraw from afghanistan was in fact informed by larger international or geopolitical as well as domestic considerations. internationally the larger goal is to reorient american st

over the weekend prime minister tony blair said the u.s. never should've withdrawn calling the decision imbecilic and for the taliban that cannot come soon enough. >> if the extended that means there extending occupation, there is no need for that. it will create mistrust between us, and will provoke a reaction. >> the president has warned that airport itself could become the target of a terrorist attack and i think the gun battle that we saw over the last 24 hours indicates how perilous and precarious the situation remains. ainsley: thank you very much for the live report in europe. to see the younger the gun battle, it is such people trying to desperately to get to the airport, seven people crushed including the toddler that lost their lives, i could not savor the mother said, the mother said i am done i tried to go and it did not work out i'm going to die here. >> she said made 2-year-old was a trooper and anytime they would hear gunshots outside the mother would say those are firecrackers every time they would go off a child under child

tony blair said as much, you hear other leaders, china knows he is weak. look at how they have talked to our representatives and how they have acted, how they are supporting the taliban. you know that russia thinks he is weak, they can't believe he approved the nord stream 2 but he shut down the keystone pipeline at the same time, he had no plan, he tossed away the plan that president trump and secretary pompeo and our allies and partners put together. it didn't have to be this way, but when you have a weak leader who is not taking ownership and not give the guarantee he will get everyone out, and he wants to date certain on the calendar. the general said this is probably 6,000 additional troops. and probably several more months, we have to make certain every american, every ally, every afghan partner. the vulnerable women who will be killed. if they say we have to get them out. steve: quickly, what about the political accountability. >> well, with the political accountability. we have to look near-term and long-term ramifications of this, near-term is the

we had two former prime ministers of great britain, theresa may and tony blair, condemn this operation, condemn his leadership. tony blar called it an i am bo si lick withdraw. the speech there's going around from a veteran of the afghan war, he speaks of the united states with a level of bitterness and contempt that i can't imagine has been heard in the british parliament for decades. the united states has taken a blow to its credibility around the world. china is sending messages to the people of taiwan saying you can't count on the united states. >> what about joe biden's reputation, michel? this is a man who touts his foreign policy experience. he said it's all about the withdraw. it's not about the withdraw. it's about the way it was handled. how much does joe biden's reputation suffer in this? >> i really do think this has complicated our picture of joe biden considerably. let's acknowledge the thing he didn't do that his predecessor might have done. he didn't attack reporters like stephanie. he didn't throw his commanders under the bus and throw all the blame on them. he didn't

a strategy that was initiated, in fact, when tony blair was prime minister. that strategy involved, after ousting the taliban in 2001, in partnership with the northern alliance, it then entailed creating, moving to create and afghanistan, a highly centralised state in a country that is geographically and ethnically very diverse, concentrating all power in kabul, and in kabul, all power with the president, who can only represent one of the multiple ethnic groups. and the other part of the strategy was a counterinsurgency. and a counterinsurgency involves having to have a local partner, as architects will tell you, and the trouble was there was no partner. the government in kabul was corrupt, ineffective and illegitimate. but peter, hindsight is 20/20 and president biden says he does not want to hand this war over to another american president. what could they have done? do you suggest that us troops stay there indefinitely? no, my point is the opposite. that the strategy failed. what can you say about a conflict where you spent several trillion dollars, in the

blair described the us decision to withdraw from the country as "imbecilic". the guardian reports that the taliban have criticised the us for what it described as "anarchy" at kabul airport, suggesting that its own fighters were the only ones capable of retsoring order. meanwhile the metro focuses on the story of a british paratrooper who was filmed helping a baby and her mother over a wall at kabul airport to safety. so let's begin. kick us off this time, the guardian says number ten plead to biden after taliban show of strength.— taliban show of strength. yeah, i mean, basically, _ taliban show of strength. yeah, i mean, basically, what _ taliban show of strength. yeah, i mean, basically, what we - taliban show of strength. yeah, i mean, basically, what we are - taliban show of strength. yeah, i i mean, basically, what we are seeing at the moment is the us calling all the shots, and britain and other countries like france are really trying to almost begged the us to stay longer in afghanistan rather than hastily retreat before we managed to put out all our

tony blair says that afghanistan is being abandoned. it is tragic, dangerous and unnecessary, imbecilic to walk away. many people, as a result of what has happened in afghanistan are going to have a deep doubt as to whether we can be relied upon and the trouble with this decision is that our friends are now anxious and those people opposed to us feel heartened by it and that is not a good place to be. it is a conflict that cost the lives of a57 uk servicemen and women. thousands more were injured. as veterans ask themselves, if it was all worthwhile, the man who first sent them to afghanistan says yes. the fact is, the country did have a chance and it was really our own internal short—term politics in the west that has driven, in the last couple of years, us to put at risk what we gained and i think it is only now that we are realising, in this moment of crisis, exactly how much we gained and how foolish it is to lose it. it is managing that crisis here at kabul�*s airport that remains the focus for british soldiers and the governme

maria: well, on the tony blair comment, i was reading the story tony blair calls this an imbecile move. that was reported earlier. you mentioned the hr1 voting bill and i want to get back to that because i've got to tell you, there are viewers of this program who have lost faith in the republican leadership, lost faith in mitch mcconnell and in you because we do not know if you have your arms around free and fair elections. how come there's no discussion about all of the states that are changing their voting laws right now, how come there's no discussion about the audit going on in arizona right now? what are you going to do? can you prove to the american people that you are in control here and able to ensure that we will have free and fair elections in 2022 and 2024? >> well, first and foremost, maria, you can see it's not in law. the answer is, yes, we can. secondly, if we watch the states, georgia passed an election law that more people are registered to vote than any time before and difficult to ever cheat again. state after state where dem kravitz have left the state. that's where

blair spoke about imbecilic, but it was tony blair who, 22 years ago, made that great speech saying the west should intervene and change regimes and government, bring goodness to the world. this was a new form of imperialism not all that removed from what alfred milner said more than a century ago. but this is what the west is now paying for, going into countries and not understanding what is there, and trying to change them. what's happened in afghanistan? a corrupt regime where the army and everything else, the president leaves and flies away with a pot of gold, things like that. and basically, we have created this mess. and instead ofjust bringing our hands, we should admit the mess we've created, and that goes back to several politicians, notjust what biden is doing at the moment. the seech to biden is doing at the moment. the speech to which he is referring to the game known as the chicago doctrine, because it was delivered in chicago. anyone who wants to find that can find the text and indeed the video of tony blair speaking. it's interesting, this is a role that boris johnson

tony blair says that afghanistan is being abandoned. it is tragic, dangerous and unnecessary, imbecilic to walk away. many people, as a result of what has happened in afghanistan are going to have a deep doubt as to whether we can be relied upon and the trouble with this decision is that our friends are now anxious and those people opposed to us feel heartened by it and that is not a good place to be. it is a conflict that cost the lives of a57 uk servicemen and women. thousands more were injured. as veterans ask themselves, if it was all worthwhile, the man who first sent them to afghanistan says yes. the fact is, the country did have a chance and it was really our own internal short—term politics in the west that has driven, in the last couple of years, us to put at risk what we gained and i think it is only now that we are realising, in this moment of crisis, exactly how much we gained and how foolish it is to lose it. it is managing that crisis here at kabul�*s airport that remains the focus for british soldiers and the governme

here, the former labour prime minister, tony blair, who sent troops into afghanistan 20 years ago, has described the us withdrawal as "tragic, dangerous and unnecessary." mr blair said the decision to end what us president biden has called "forever wars" was wrong. here's our political correspondent chris mason. he's the former prime minister most often remembered for the war in iraq. before that came this moment in 2001, shortly after the september 11th attacks. military action against targets inside afghanistan has begun. i can confirm that uk forces are engaged in this action. two decades on, chaos, desperation. let's hear what president biden has to say now in the roosevelt room of the white house.— the white house. after a series of meetin . s the white house. after a series of meetings throughout _ the white house. after a series of meetings throughout the - the white house. after a series of| meetings throughout the weekend the white house. after a series of- meetings throughout the weekend with my national security team, i want to update the american people on our ongoing ope

k. prime minister, tony blair has criticized the u. s. military withdrawal saying it is not in the interests of afghanistan or the west of blair sent troops that 20 years ago after the 911 attacks. i support a lot of what president biden has done since becoming president. i mean, i have a great respect and admiration for him as a person, and i understand he inherited disagreement of february 2020 which, which was very difficult. and i also understand if you are a political leader, you're under political pressure, people, people want the engagement to end. but we've got to realize we were in a situation where our engagement was dramatically different from where it was 10 years ago. never mind 20 years ago. and where we could have managed the situation and the problem with what, what's happened now, and this is, this is my worry is it's not just about the african people and our obligation to them. and, and obviously you feel that mean distress when you see where you see people realizing what they're going to lose as a result of the talib

we heard from tony blair who is calling the biden administration response to this imbecilic. president biden will attend the meeting virtually. jake sullivan, the national security adviser was speaking this morning about why the chaotic situation at the airport is making things so much more complicated. here is what he said. >> one of the challenges is once arriving at the airport, the three main gates coming into the airport have been crowded with large numbers of afghans. just ordinary afghans who want to get on a plane out of the country. we have been spending the last period working out various operational solutions to get americans onto the air base. >> reporter: those massive crowds are a problem not only because of how hard they make it to process all of these folks and figure out who is who but because of this new isis k threat. the group who has voiced a specific threat to americans and the international airport. that makes those folks who are all being told to congregate in one place a real soft target for a suicide bomber or other types of terrorism attacks. the ad