The Biden team looking for an exit strategy from the exit strategy.

The lead starts right now.

The fallout from ending America's longest war, the White House now hoping to move on

publicly from the crisis in Afghanistan, but the American citizens and Afghan allies still

trapped there, they don't have that luxury.

President Biden voicing the outrage of millions today after Texas banned almost all abortions

and the U.S. Supreme Court failed to stop it.

Plus, no power, no water, no gas hurricane, Ida knocks part of Louisiana back into the

18th century with no relief in sight.

Hello and welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, topping our world lead this hour, President

Biden grappling with the fallout from the way the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, a senior

State Department official telling CNN that the majority of Afghans who worked for the

U.S. and applied for those special immigrant visas or SIVs, while they were likely left

behind Pentagon officials today saying that the SIV program was never meant to be used

in a hurried evacuation.

The SIV program is obviously not designed to accommodate what we just did in evacuating

you know over 100,000 people and so perhaps this program should be looked at going forward.

It is a design to be a slow process.

Indeed, it has been a historically slow process, one that a former Trump administration

official claims that the Trump administration quote sabotaged, but that said President

Biden took office in January and his administration failed to expedite the process to get these

Afghan allies out despite months of warnings.

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