Steve as we have been talking Steve as we have been talking, President Biden is under a lot of pressure this morning over whether to extend the deadline at the end of this troop to keep in Kabul. Burns secretly met with the Taliban feared Kabul. Just yesterday retired. U Dot S army, Colonel Fred. Do you March led special forces units in Afghanistan and he joins us right now, Colonel good morning to you good Morning, Steve. You know it sounds like if William Burns, the CIA guy for us, is meeting with the Talibans leader it sounds like and given the fact that this is the guy who years ago actually was a negotiator for the Taliban between the United States and Qatar. That could be a good combine that behind the scenes they are trying to move the goal post yeah its a good sign its sad upper hand to the Taliban and allowed them to be a in a position of power in this

negotiation, but is a good sign that he would negotiating Steve Sure Joe Biden has been adamant to this point that the deadline for the most part is going to stand unless things change. Is the caveat? What would happen if he just said at the end of the day after he talks to the group of seven leaders, you know what we are going to go ahead and hold on to that deadline of next week. A week from today were essentially setting up a massacre at the Kabul Airport based on the thousand of people that we know that are inside the airport awaiting flights and the untold number we know its thousands. We have photos. Obviously you have seen them as well miles and miles of people standing in line to get inside. So thousands of people and its inconceivable to me that the Taliban isnt to me that the Taliban isnt going to say as soon as were

gone, all of those of you trying to leave the airport are trade traitors to the Afghanistan. We know how they handled those types of situations. Steve lets say they are able to extend the deadline a week or two or three weeks, colonel you know there are still going to be Americans left in Afghanistan. What happens to those folks? They are essentially stranded and left on their own and we will be spending more lice, more resources in attempts to get them out of the country right now. There are some people trying to get into the airport, so many people in the airport, american citizens are being turned away and we know thats happening because we are in contact with people through our organization just trying to evacuate american citizens, our afghan friends that have special immigrant visas, green card holders and other refugees, people that we fought with- and we know all these classes of people at one time or another

have been turned- are away from the gate and unable to gain access to the airfield Steve, colonel we heard from the White House yesterday. Those people are not stranded, theyre, absolutely stranded. If you could hear and see, I know you have seen some of the desperation, but if you could hear and see the desperation that all of us that are involved in this evacuation effort, all of the veterans that have stood up and formed Task Force, Dunkirk and the other it nonprofits working to evacuate folks, its desperation that we see every day Steve. There is a lot of desperation. Everybody is trying to get out. It seems colonel. Thank you for joining.