i'm proud to be a part of aag, i trust em, i think you can too. >>> it is good to be with you. i'm geoff bennett, and as we come on the air, president biden has returned to the white house from camp david where he is going to address the nation and the world at 3:45 eastern about the escalating crisis in afghanistan in what might be best described as the surreal end to america's 20-year end there with desperate afghans surrounding the airport there in kabul and blocking military evacuation flights. scenes show hundreds of people climbing the tarmac trying to climb the airplanes trying to escape and at one point running alongside an air force plane down the runway and some grabbing on to the jet just before takeoff. on the commercial side of the same airport, we have seen the afghans climbing on to commercial jets grounded and reports of at least seven people dead. nbc news have said that two gunmen were taken down by u.s. forces. the state of affairs is so chaotic with the taliban swarming into kabul that the top u.s. general in the region met with the taliban leader warning th

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find out more, call aag for your free information kit i'm proud to be a part of aag. i trust 'em. i think you can too. call now! 82,000 people as of 3 am eastern time this morning, that's the astonishing number of people who have been successfully airlifted outside of afghanistan in just 11 days. 82,000. just in the past 24 hours, 19,000 people evacuated, in those monster numbers of evacuations that we are seeing on a day-to-day basis now, it points to the likelihood that we do not have many more of these evacuation days left. as the u.s. edges closer and closer to tuesday's deadline, by which president biden has pledged, that u.s. involvement in afghanistan will and full stop. the 80,000 plus people who have been airlifted out, in this week and a half long effort, some of them are americans, they have obviously been top priority for the american government. a large number of them know they are afghan allies, men and women who have insisted the war effort enough to understand. people who can no longer stay in their home country, without the threat of being killed by the taliban, s

find out more, call aag for your free information kit i'm proud to be a part of aag. i trust 'em. i think you can too. call now! >>> welcome back. it's time for what i call the "60 second rant." start the clock. one of the most annoying aspects about covering the bide withdrawal from afghanistan is the american public support the withdrawal and those of us who opposed this catastrophic war have been tragically vindicated and you wouldn't know any of that from the debate we're having right now. oop-ed pages and tv screens filled with getting it wrong and what should happen with what happened in afghanistan. journalist who covered it up and never talked about it. helped about the forgotten war and now they are talking about it, the top u.s. general and intelligence officials that false hi told us year after year that we were turning the corner and winning the war against a taliban and building an amazing afghan army. even then the bush administration officials who got us into this mess in the first place, the trump administration officials who signed the deal in the taliban, trying

find out more, call aag for your free information kit i'm proud to be a part of aag. i trust 'em. i think you can too. call now! >>> a new poll shows a drop in president biden's approval rating. thus far that is down four points from april. let's go to josh at the white house for us with a breakdown of the numbers. it was a big poll. what else are we learning from it? >> let's start with afghanistan. this new nbc news poll showing that six in ten adults say that no, the war in afghanistan was not worth fighting, but then when you ask about president biden's handling afghanistan, the numbers are actually flipped. six in ten disapproving and only 25% of adults say that they're happy with the way president biden has handled afghanistan. this is really interesting because the white house has been so focused on this argument about why we had to get out of afghanistan and what a mistake it would have been to leave troops there. almost to the point it's felt like of trying to change the subject from the execution of the drawdown and the humanitarian catastrophe that we're all seeing play

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