Today on Velshi, the sycophants and acolytes of the twice impeached former president

have spent the past week crowing about how Donald Trump would have made a cleaner exit from Afghanistan.

I'll talk to a former member of the Trump administration who actually knows better.

She has the receipts and joins me later in the show.

Plus, if shamelessness took on

human form, it would look a lot like Texas lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, telling Fox's Laura

Ingram that African Americans are driving the COVID surge in his state will take a hard look at what's

actually behind the deadly spike in Texas with a doctor who's fighting it. And he's drawn a straight line from the American response to 9-11

to the political and cultural atmosphere that brought us Donald Trump.

Author Spencer Ackerman will join me to make the case laid out in his provocative new book.

Then, why is the Taliban so adept at social media?

We'll talk to someone who's tracking them.

Velshi starts now.

Good morning.

It's Saturday, August the 21st.

I'm Mehdi Hassan.

In for my friend Ali Valshi, who's taking some much-deserved time off.

We begin this morning with breaking news on the situation unfolding in Afghanistan and the fallout here in Washington, D.C.

Just moments ago, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a warning to American citizens not to travel to Hamid Khazai International Airport

unless they are specifically told to

due to, quote, potential security threats outside the airport gates.

It comes less than 24 hours after President Biden held a press conference yesterday the first

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