Hey, pull up a chair.

It's axon tap with David Axelroth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

I'm now the fourth American president to preside over Warren, Afghanistan, two Democrats

and two Republicans.

I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth president.

I will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little more time in Afghanistan

will make all the difference.

Nor will I shrink from my share of responsibility for what we are today and how we must move

forward from here.

I am president of the United States of America and the buck stops with me.

And of Murphy, kind of, the buck stops with him.

And I thought he made a persuasive case on why he felt we should get out of Afghanistan.

He didn't make a very persuasive presentation about how we were getting out of Afghanistan

and the sort of desolate Tory way we're getting out of it.

And so this is such a big thing, this story that we had to all get together and bring

brother Gibbs in as well.

Yeah, no, this is an all hacks on deck situation here.

Look, I think he broke, I thought the speech was mediocre and clumsy.

He broke the first rule of presidential big moment emergency speeches, which is the

key point you got to make should not be so far into the speech that if some listener is

holding their breath, they will be dead by the time it comes around.

So this speech should have started with him taking responsibility for this moment on

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