U.S. Ambassador to U.N.: 'Our Friends and Allies Are Not Hanging off Planes' - Afghanistan Situation 'Not an Unplanned Situation'

On Tuesday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield denied parallels between the situation in Afghanistan and the fall of Saigon by stating that "this is not 1975. This is 2021. We are in a different world. We have planned and we are responding. This is not an unplanned situation that we are in." Thomas-Greenfield also said, "our friends and allies are not hanging off planes."