Trump Admin Negotiated Withdrawal From Afghanistan

the US policy on Afghanistan is working we're closer to talks with the Taliban and the peace process than we've seen before this is an unbelievable scenario where literally the Taliban has our Americans held hostage I'm concerned about the safety of our Afghan allies you cannot trust the Taliban I met with them myself when I was in Doha I looked them in the eye they revalidated that commitment we never trusted the Taliban if the Taliban and the Afghan government live up to their commitments and they may they may not but I think we have a lot of reason why they will I think they will there would have been no emergency Embassy evacuation and no taking down of our flag they took down our flag because we would have established clear lines that the Taliban would have never dared to cross worse than Afghanistan how about that worse than Afghanistan where by the way I started the process all the troops are coming back home they couldn't stop the Press 21 years is enough we think 21 by a government that wouldn't last the only way they last is if we're there what are we going to say we'll stay for another 21 years and we'll stay for another 50 the whole thing is ridiculous GOP officials have been working overtime to rewrite history about the Afghan withdrawal in some cases pushing out andout lies our friend Aaron Blake at the Washington Post reports this quote The Lure of misinformation has proved irresistible to its GOP credit they've trafficked repeatedly in recent days in false misleading or unproved allegations involving the Taliban hanging someone from an American Helicopter President Biden skipping a ceremony for 13 Americans killed last week military dogs being left behind and 80 billion dollar in military equipment being left for use by the Taliban with the assistance of some high-profile conservatives and even Congressional Republicans these reports have proliferated on social media there's no better person for us to talk to about this and everything else going on in the world than our good friend former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt hi there my friend how you doing good to see you Nicole so what do you make of um the I guess audacity is the right word of Republicans to criticize this president for ending a war that the ex-president tried to end and wasn't able to and then trotting out all this disinformation from their disinformation toolkit well Donald Trump in a fact Nicole did end the war in Afghanistan by precluding really any options for the current president as he took office and I think it it Bears mentioning that during the transition uh the Trump Administration was wholly uh uncooperative with the incoming Biden Administration uh the Visa processes some of the ministerial functions involving getting our allies out of Afghanistan were sabotaged by the Trump Administration and strike and strike and