Hey, good morning, Playbookers.

It's Thursday, August 26th.

I'm Rogumonovalin.

And this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Today is the kind of day that candidate Joe Biden said he was uniquely prepared for.

Congress is out of office.

Domestic policy has been momentarily pushed aside,

and global crises are colliding. President Biden awakens to the burden of his promises,

with a busy public schedule today, completely focused on foreign policy. He receives an update

on the situation in Afghanistan from his national security team in the morning.

He has two bilateral meetings with new Israeli Prime Minister and Nautali Bennett before noon,

and he hosts a late afternoon Zoom with governors who have volunteered to help resettle Afghan refugees.

Here's what to expect in the day ahead.

There's a bipartisan critique in Congress that Biden should extend the Tuesday

deadline for evacuating Afghanistan and removing all American troops. As with a lot of commentary

here in the U.S. about what's going on, that argument has lagged behind what the administration

says is happening on the ground. Over the last 24 hours, we seem to have entered a system was

blinking red moment with respect to threats against crowds and military personnel at the airport.

The press warned of an ongoing and high threat of terrorist attack, while the Australian government

described a very high threat of terrorist attack. But at least 1,500 American citizens remain in Afghanistan, and the Near Times reports

that the State Department is frantically trying to track them down, while tens of thousands

of Afghan allies will all be certainly left behind.

...