griffin bio safety program at georgetown university. she's calling on global cooperation to understand where the outbreak of covered 19 started. it's very challenging, i think without having transparency from the government of china and having access to bills, clinical samples, material, and data from early on in the outbreak, it would be very challenging to be conclusive on the origins of the outbreak. i think unfortunately, this outbreak in this panoramic has become exceptionally politicized. and i think what's important right now is to stop laying blame and to stop politicizing the issues and really get at hand at what we need to find out in order to stop this outbreak. and to stop this pandemic, and that's going to require global cooperation, global collaboration, and primarily right now that, that train transparency of understanding, again, where this outbreak originated. i think what's important to consider is, what are we going to do with that information? once we have it, understand the origins will help us think about risk asse

griffin buyers safety program at georgetown university and directs the masters program in buyer hazardous threat agents. she joins us live from washington dc via zoom. hello, the aaron, thanks for joining us now without child corporate corporation now. and also when the virus 1st emerged, how difficult is it to come to any conclusions about the viruses origins? thank you for having me. it's very challenging, i think without having transparency from the government of china and having access to bills, clinical samples, material, and data from early on in the outbreak, it would be very challenging to be conclusive on the origins of the outbreaks. paging, describe the report as political instead of scientific as an assistant professor and an expert in this field. you agree with that assessment? i think unfortunately, this outbreak of mis panoramic has become exceptionally politicized. and i think what's important right now is to stop laying blame and to stop politicizing the issues and really get at hand at what we need to find out in order to stop this outbreak. and to stop this pandemic. an

elizabeth: thank you, jennifer griffin, it's good to see you. okay, we're staying on this subject. joining us now, an afghan interpreter, california congressman and navy veteran mike garcia. first to you, zack. thank you both for joining us. your reaction to the president today. a lot of rhetoric that doesn't match the action on the ground. what did you think? [audio difficulty] elizabeth: okay, we're going to -- we're having trouble with your sound. we're going to come back to you as soon as we fix that technical difficulty. congressman, we've abandoned american allies to terrorists. this is worst than saigon. it doesn't make sense to take out military personnel when you need them to take them out, now we're putting military possessor until back in, but the president saying we will not do special force evacuations like france and the u.k. is doing. what do you say to that? >> it's amazing, liz. you must have an amazing intelligence committee working for you to come to those conclusions. this is something we could see coming for months, and unfortunately, our commander in chief cou

watching this fox business network we begin with the situation on the ground andta afghanistan jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with more. >> good evening following the 6 - 7 hour pause the u.s. evacuation flights weren't transport planes have now resumed, but not where they had been going instead they are flying to ramp stein airbase. >> they were at capacity and there was no room to put additional people. >> air force evacuation flights continue to ramp up nearly 6000 people were evacuated in the past what he for hours with over 300 people per flight much higher capacity than two days ago, earlier today we learned rn a marine from the 24th expeditionary unit off the u.s. sc rescued this afghan baby after the family pleaded for the marine to pick him we have learned the baby has beens reunited with his father after receiving medical care earlier today president biden said one of the reasons he was leaving afghanistan is because al-qaeda no longer has a presence in the country. >> let's put this thing in perspective what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al-qaeda and