the secretary of state. state department is in charge over all of the evacuation. all the decisions made about the airport word, how down the troops. what happened with the 13 servicemen and women who died. that's all on the state department, it's on their hands. i have often said there's blood on their hands. >> democrat frustration over the evacuations have been bubbling over in recent days but watch their strategy today during this hearing. last week we heard from senator chris murphy and chris van hollen, members of the senate foreign relations committee. they want their hearing, tuesday, to focus on the past 20 years rather than the events that happened in august, with murphy going as far as to say he hopes republicans don't "turn this into a circus." a hard time out is 5:00. lawmakers getting 5 minutes each task both questions. >> jacqui: a lot of questions. thank you. >> john: let's bring in florida republican congressman brian mast. he's a retired army ranger and will be in that hearing expected to start in the next hour or so. congressman mast, like so man

those are heroes as well as the state department officials. my last question, bagram went down, the embassy went down, and we went dark. we have a lost intelligence capabilities in the region. that includes russia, china, and iran. this is a national security risk as china moves in. they may take over. over the horizon covid -- ability is exaggerated. you negotiate with -- the you negotiate with countries like you pakistan -- uzbekistan to put capabilities there? putin threatened the united states by saying president biden could not build in the region? >> in the detail i think we need to take up in another setting. you appreciate. you know this very well given your focus and expertise on the issues. this has metastasized dramatically in places like yemen, libya, a rack, syria, small you. -- iraq, syria, and somalia. in many countries around the world we deal with it with no u.s. boots on the ground. we have lost some capacity for sure in not having boots on the ground in afghanistan. we are very actively working on that to make up for that, t

they said the state department was not particularly involved. other americans spent hours on airplanes at the airport in northern afghanistan. they have yet to take off. republican congressman michael mccall said they're being held hostage. in qatar, secretary of state antony blinken responded to mccall's allegation. >> we identify a small number of americans that are trying to depart. we're not aware of anyone being held on an aircraft or any hostage like situation. >> outside the former u.s. embassy in kabul, a freshly painted taliban flag and coat of arms for the islamic emirate of afghanistan. a source on the ground says more symbols are appearing on the ground in kabul. taliban officials blame the lack of documents for some of these planes at the airport for not taking off. the u.s. state department says we don't even really control the airspace, but in announcing the formation of a new government, a tall span spokesperson said people with the proper documentation should be able to leave in the coming days. >> martha: i believe this family

we welcome the state department's support. we actually received some of that support when we were in this bordering country once we were kind of on that 99 yard line. i think the amazing guys i have been able to be on this team with -- i don't lead this team. i am not the organizers but i am a member of this team. what we have been able to do here i think sets the white paper, the proof of concept that with a little bit of help from the u.s. government i think it's joint kind of public/private partnership could help these americans to get out. >> corey, a couple of things. because you did it over land which i was just talking to the other vets who were doing that. they are like, that's so hard. it's so much easier to get them to a place to fly them out. for all the obvious challenges that are absolutely common sense to you. now, the state department's side of the argument is, listen, we want to do everything we can, but what if corey mills or your buddy sam rogers or these other groups are smuggling out isis people or people w

and then it says from our state department, it may require official approval from the state department before accepting a private charter flight, which our state department will not provide that approval. so we've got americans in chartered planes, don jr., in chartered planes ready to take off, a country willing to accept them and they are saying we won't let you come to the u.s. and we won't give you approval to go to the country that will accept you. are you kidding me? >> it's disgusting. american citizens are doing the job that the biden administration should have been doing from day one but they see the lack of leadership. they see the incompetence. it's literally the most biden thing ever. like you spoke about earlier in your monologue with bowe bergdahl. let's trade four terrorists for a deserter, for a traitor. that is the most obama-biden democrat trade ever. this is the next iteration of that. it's a continuation of biden's america last policy. >> sean: appreciate you being with us. tonight while the biden administration complaints about the lack of inclusion in the taliban'

but the state department is also claiming that the u.s. facilitated that saved a project, which the people who actually went and got those american say it is not true. >> we were told by the state department official here, hey, i'm sorry. the taliban issued an order because they are late to establish their government. nothing more that we could do. >> so the u.s. is continuing to coordinate with the taliban. leaders on the ground, trying to form their new government. and the head of security, interior security is reportedly a number of the unknown global terrorism group with a $5 million u.s. bounty on his head. >> sandra: thank you. john. >> john: for more on this, let's bring in michael waltz, and a former green beret. multiple tours of duty in afghanistan. congressman, always good to see you. >> thank you. >> john: he says it was him and his team of private veterans who got this group out. however, here's what the state department set about this on monday. "the u.s. has facilitated the safe departure of four u.s. citizens from afghanist

i'm responsible for the actions of the state department. i'm responsible for looking at any lessons to be taken from those decisions and actions. i'm also responsible for being accountable for those decisions. >> i asked you a simple question. >> if you let me finish, please. the way i'm accountable is doing what i'm doing today which is to you and through you to the american people to hold myself accountable. we made the right decision in ending america's longest war. we made the right decision in not sending a third generation of americans to fight and die in afghanistan. we did the right thing by our citizens and working feverishly to get every one of them out. we did the right thing by 125,000 afghans to bring them to safety. now we're working to do the right thing to hold the taliban to the expectations of the international community to ensure people can travel freely and th rights of afghans are up held. that's what we're doing. >> i hope you plan -- >> the gentlewoman's time has expired. i recognize representative castro for five min

secondly, i will defer to the state department. that's a matter within the state department's province, but let me say this. having been in government service for more than 20 years, i'm aware of the fact that some people have policy differences, and i respect and acknowledge that fact. i respectfully and vehemently disagree with what this individual, whom i do not know, articulated. we have a relationship with the government of haiti. we are exercising the public health imperative, as defined by the centers for disease control. we are surging resources not only here domestically at the border, but also in haiti, to ensure that the needs of the individuals whom we return to haiti seare addressed appropriately. usaid has surged resources. we're working with the international organization for my grates with the haitian government, and we are addressing the needs by devoting resources to them. >> i understand you're committed to speeding up these deportation of these haitians, but this special envoy also said this, that he cannot enfo

department under president biden, the state department under president trump which made it clear because the president priority to rescue americans overseas and whether president biden goes back to the obama doctrine of hostages and ignores families please and friends should they get their family members out. >> it's an interesting contrast. president trump rescued more american hostages than any president prior to him, any president. that was our model, no american left behind and he did not leave americans behind. you are seeing something very different with the state department, antony blinken, your hearing the narrative he's putting forward, their home is afghanistan. their families are there, maybe they want to be there. this is a narrative all 100 of these the americans want to be left behind. they also want to think of the americans in terms of percentages. biden said it's only 10% of americans left behind. these are percentages, these are people. i watched an interview with a woman, 25 years old. american citizen, she's pregnant with her boyfriend in afghanistan, trying to get to

>> we provided our input to the state department and, again, it's a call of the state department -- i understand that. i understand that, mr. secretary. i'm asking for what your judgment was and i'm asking specifically about your testimony that in april you developed evacuation scenarios and this is reported by multiple sources this morning in the news so i just wonder. as of late april it was your opinion that the evacuations of civilians should begin, should begin earlier than they did? >> we provided input to -- to try to get out as many afghans who have helped us along the way as, you know, as early as possible, but, again, the state department made its decisions based upon the fact that even.ghani had engaged them and said, hey, we're very concerned about the mass exodus of civilians from the country. >> general mill year, let me direct this to you. did you -- did you ever advise in the inter agency process that the rapid withdrawal timeline that the white house, the pentagon signed off on and general miller proposed getting us to zero by middle of july, that that would negativel

was that we know that this evacuation was conducted by the state department, the secretary of state and, yet, we didn't have the military experience gave advice but didn't stand their ground. so the entire withdrawal was a disaster. it was a debacle. there are americans left behind. there are afghanistan interpreters left behind. and, unfortunately, 13 u.s. service members gave their lives because they conducted an incompetent, inept operation of withdrawal. todd: does anyone come out looking good in this blame game. >> no one comes out looking good. our generals don't come out looking good because they should have pushed back against the state department and presidency. so they don't come out looking good. we lost bagram air base which we need in order to have counter-terrorism in that region. and now we don't have eyes on iran or china or russia. americans lost their lives. americans are still over there. so, on every level on humanitarian level on a military level, on a counter-terrorism level there was a tremendous failure. jillian: let's talk about this for a second dhs secretary a

course the state department taking the credit, and this woman interestingly, she says the state department told her to go to the airport and when she got there the taliban and put a gun to her head. but i thought president biden told us of the taliban was guaranteeing safe passage to americans. that doesn't appear so, emily. >> emily: this story is so disheartening on multiple levels. at every moment and every junction we have nothing but lies coming out of the biden administration and i thought actually texas congressman ronnie jackson it quite well. he said that the only thing that biden administration seems to be good at is putting itself on the back for a job that was horribly done. as he points out, my constituents were left behind and then when veterans got these guys out, the biden administration lies about its role in evacuating them. and here's the thing, let's take sacramento which has the largest afghan population in the united states. they are, almost 30 children are stranded in afghanistan and a congressman has been working with the school district back and forth to get them o

furthermore, the state department explicitly stated that charter flights, even those containing american citizens would not

the state department was in charge of the operations on the ground in afghanistan. so the department of defense was responding to what they were telling them to do but at the end of the day president biden is responsible for the decisions that were made in afghanistan. he was the one that had this arbitrary date and pulled our forces out before every american could get on a bird and fly to safety. that is unconscionable, never in the history of our country did i think we would be standing in a place where our president, our government abandoned american citizens behind enemy lines. elizabeth: you know "politico" also reporting that white house officials are saying they are quote, horrified, appalled about how americans were abandoned behind terror lines. so the leaks are going to keep on coming. we have this new geopolitical landscape after afghanistan, how the administration handled it. we'll deal with it for years to come. there is the issue with china. now white house press secretary, congressman, is saying it is wrong to think that china can undercut u.s. levera

they are having to work against the state department. so, is the united states government lying to us about how many americans are stranded in afghanistan? >> absolutely. the united states government is lying to the entire world right now. the biden administration, they have proven one thing is that they cannot be trusted at all. the numbers they are putting out, i do not believe them part i will not comment on any types of operations that may or may not be conducted right now to help x filtrate american citizens are allies but the biden administration cannot be trusted. i want to stress there are deputy chiefs of mission there are the average foreign service officer, their junior members of the united states and military that are doing what can only be described as ultra stick god's work to remove people from afghanistan. because the biden administration is refusing to do so. those aircraft that are being held, i've been there at least 50 times for their there solely because the state department refuses the dental allow them to leave th

but the state department says it's because now we're able to talk to them. we can actually have these sort of piece conversations with them because we don't because we don't recognize them as a terrorist group. do you think it is in the best benefits of the us engage in these diplomatic relations with the taliban? which is what is being said by the state department, the pentagon and the white house right now should occur and possibly could have here occur here in the near future. no, i think honestly from so i deployed over 30 times to the country. i've spent most of my adult life there. i know those guys inside and out is categorically and same to approach this from a diplomatic approach and think that it's going to work and work well. which is how this, that it's the posture of the state department, the white house right now, but, but to, to think that that's going to end well, for the united states, it's just, it's not logical. there's, there's, there's no way where, like congress, here's my question. you know, what would be the goal here? the deal was th

department everybody disappearing at the end of july and the state department already knew he had planned to go at the end of july and everybody else in britain was staying on there was something very wrong in europe and they thought hitler was going to move again instead the reason he wanted to go was to prevent harting ten asking him to marry him it was good to be his 21st birthday and joe feared he would ask her and she would accept the last thing he wanted was his daughter to marry a protestant critically as peter grace was madly in love with her as well and he only love billy the picture below is jack with his sister and his picture the whole family in front of the cabana at the beach and i have him here with his mouth open while he was there he was shooting his mouth off about how morgan was useless and thunder whales was useless and cordell was useless in the whole state department if it were in his hands they did not think it was broken of course. his next door neighbors heard about it and actually edward was so perturbed he let the royal family know in england there is a problem

state department. you said you didn't necessarily want to be talking about this in the press, but here you are, and you're taking very much issue with how the state department is characterizing this, so i just want to get to the bottom of what you're taking issue with because the state department said the u.s. has facilitated the safe departure by overland route. amba just to be clear, are you saying they did not facilitate the overland departure of these four or embassy staff were not present at the exit? >> they got present on the second day. we traveled over 300 miles with miriam, not we personally, not me me personally, i was in the united states, over 300 miles from kabul. i'm going to leave where we brought her across out of it because we hopefully will get more people through. we had her there for 24 hours before the state department realized she was there. they showed up a few hours after she got across. for them to say they facilitated, that's a lie. we had to go through 20 check points. each

what is the state department doing with 5000 left behind? we didn't leave deceased americans behind from battle. we're negotiating to remains back from the korean war. yet this administration is willing to leave 5000 americans who are alive, told you 19 times to get out. really you? also told us the afghan army would be able to stand up, that you couldn't have anticipated this type of collapse. you can't have it both ways. stuart: then give us socialism as a sort of palliative because of the failure in afghanistan. >> cradle to grave. not affordable. not in this country. stuart: well-said, well-said. exactly right, brian. see you real soon. >> go get em, stuart. stuart: attention to the dow, the dow is down 271 points. look who is coming up on the show shortly, ric grenell, formerly director of national intelligence. representative claudia tenney, she wants to know a lot more about that july 23rd phone call from president biden to ghani, the afghan president at that time. matt schlapp, he will deal with whether or not the president's up to t

has left while the state department scottie, so the u. s. is basically reviewing specifically how the afghan government will function. what it's going to look like and it's formation in the wake of the us is withdrawal. now that the mission has turned from a military operation into a diplomatic one. state department spokesman that price. so the u. s. is waiting to see how a new afghan government is formed, how it will function and what the composition of that government will ultimately look like. further he said the u. s. is keeping a close eye on the taliban and how it's living up to its various commitments. including the potential for any forms of assistance will be the action, the actions of any new african government that is safe passage, respect for the rights of the people of afghanistan. including women and girls and minorities, a government that is inclusive, a government that follows through on its counter terrorism commitments and a government that respects the universal international norms. now asked about the u. s. influence over

i'm not blaming the people in the state department. i think they need more funding and we need to re-examine how they operate. >> i agree with you completely. the co-coms are filling a vacuum. dod has the resources and dod has the skilled personnel and they can at a moment's notice assign people where they need them and move them immediately and so the combatant commands over time has grown because they are filling the vacuum. in the war we live in today, you to have a hold on government approach. you can't lead the department in the world we live in. you really need to lead with the whole of government approach but i'm 100%. jim mattis, one of the best war fighting generals, bob gates. secretary of defense, we need to reinvigorate the state department and when i was young staffer and traveled around these were the elite people of our government along with our military and we blocked a lot of that and so that's why goldwater nicoles we emphasized duty and look at what happened since. i would urge to do the same thing the armed services

state department spokesperson responding with the statement. quote, "we understand the concern many people are feeling as they try to facilitate further charter and other passage out of afghanistan. we do not have personnel on the ground. we do not have assistance in the country. we do not control the airspace, over afghanistan or elsewhere in the region. given these constraints, we also don't have a reliable means to confirm the basic details of charter flights, including who may the organizing them, the number of citizens and other parity groups on board, and where they plan to land, among other issues." michael mccaul claiming passengers on some planes trying to leave afghanistan are essentially being held hostage by the taliban. watch. >> we have hundreds of american citizens left behind enemy lines in afghanistan as i speak. we have six airplanes at sharif airport with american citizens on them as we speak. also wheaties interpreters. and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. >> emily: kennedy, this is a tragedy of our own makin

then there was news the state department blocked the exit. as of yesterday, midday, the state department was telling the press it no longer was in the country and couldn't control who leaves but this is just an example of the mess and marass left behind by the u.s. and the very people we abandoned, americans. >> yeah, it brings into question what kind of a plan we really do have here now that we're out of the country entirely. i received the same anecdotal feedback that you're reporting here from various veterans groups that are working to try to get people out. that is the state department, that is indeed the obstacle, specifically the case at the airfield. they're telling the taliban not to let those flights go. one of the reasons i understand, this is not the exclusive reason, is that the flight is heading to another country. that country does not want the people to stay there. they'll keep them there for a temporary period of time, like hours, as opposed to days, so that they can onward move to another site where the united states and its

state department and others. from the start many of us have said what we do there needs to be based on conditions from the ground. quite frankly the president's decision was not based on decisions from the ground. that is why it was a disastrous withdrawal. that's why it put so many people at risk. should have been orderly withdrawal under the cover of u.s. and nato forces. many were shocked at what happened but they were surprised. there was not good coordination. it was a lack of coordination with the people who had stuck with us. we talked about bagram. there was also a lack of integrated interagency planning. of course we've seen this in terms of how the chaotic withdrawal occurred. these were preventable problems. and they put our military and your diplomats in this impossible situation. they did the best they could. and i commend them for that. in an impossible situation. it is amazing they were able to perform. but it was so rushed and so chaotic that again, we didn't get the right people out and many who

state department. a leaked email reveals charter flights from northern afghanistan and other parts of the country are not being granted permission to land at u.s. air bases or other third party locations. some important context. the state department has a reason. according to a senior u.s. official no way to verify who is on the private flights and taliban is in control of security. anyone boarding a flight there afghanistan in the northern city is only vetted by the taliban. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken addressed it yesterday visiting doha. with the kabul airport still not operational for international commercial flights many people continue to flee on foot. neighboring pakistan has seen an influx of refugees. no camps will be set up along the border with afghanistan. pakistan has an estimated 1.4 million displaced afghans in the country. you still have thousands of people both afghan civilians and foreigners trying to flee afghanistan. protests and the taliban responding forcefully. >> dana

these are under different combatant commanders so the state department and as you look at the way state is organized and the way defenses organized on the policy side they are foreign-policy heroes don't match up at all.so they have different responsibilities. you really need this whole of government country team approach that frankly was so effective in the cold war and we've just gotten away from . >> i want to switch and to talk about personnel. you and i did do the task force on personnel with leon panetta. and jim jones and i very much appreciated your contribution to that. so i do want to inject as i did at the beginning of our discussion of other kinds of defense reforms . we do have to recognize do we not that in all volunteer forces in 2021, is going to cost a lot more for servicemembers than the force we had in let's say 1960 even adjusted for inflation because and again, kelly number one, the skills required in a modern mechanized technologically superior military are so great and really there's not any such thing as a grunt anymore as there was at one time. number two compet

secretary, state department were killed in kabul? >> members of the state department? none. >> okay, your earlier testimony, is that members of the state department given to the airport and were serving side-by-side with the remains although i think we appreciate any andst al effort of the state department personnel on the ground to rescue american citizens, for you tott say that 13 service members who gavee their lives is shameful and shows the american people how continues to be. >> for your information, the men and women of my department -- >> now is not a question secretary blinken, exactly one week ago for of my constituents escaped afghanistan. the first known too leave the administration since your demonstration appended them on the 30th of august. the youngest was two years old in the family, they remained hidden and terrified for 12 long days into my team until patriots on the ground facilitated their evacuation. during this time, the state department did nothing job the family but you directed them to go to the taliban checkpoints repeatedly but the motor mot

this was >> state department was given to us of the holders. my question to you is can you tell us that these people and i prescient those who have been able to get out successfully who have not been assisted who are there in harm's way, will you give us a commitment that are american citizens and our legal permanent residents and others will get out safely? >> just to clarify, again, i invite you to share that with me . here is my understanding. in march we issued 19 separate -- >> no -- >> just to be clear, i believe this is what this belongs to. >> can you just make the assurance that these people will be out safely? i have a assistant family family -- i have a citizen family of seven there were told by the state department only one parent can accompany the family home or this to your old home. the other five are left in afghanistan. i want to make sure that all of the family will be not be separated at the afghan border. >> i would be happy to address the question if i could, please. your committed to or may -- bring -- we are committing to

the state department taking credit for it. there's one report of former veterans saying they were the ones who got them out, but that said, these are four americans and not the hundreds that we know were left behind. there's been a -- if you will, a pretty big public pub-like effort here. the state department is working it, but i'll tell you, i know literally a hundred veterans ngos and media organizations that have been working very diligently, privately to get their people out, and in this particular episode, these four people regardless of who engineered it and who wants credit for it, a, it's a good thing and b, it's an example of what i spoke about a moment ago. andrea, this idea of creating a kind of underground railroad safe houses, handler, people on the ground, get them to a refugee camp, pakistan is a pretty smart guess on your part and then you can swoop in and get them out of there. >> thank you so much, admiral stavridis. our thanks to raf and among those stranded in afghanistan are hundreds of afghan journalists

the state department is in the lead. i get that but i think these citizen liaison networks like ours, team america, and hundreds of others can help. the folks we are talking to, but, the state department, you know, they have got rules. just not going to do it. sorry. ainsley: you said at :00 a.m. they say one thing but they do something else. like they will say we are getting these people out. you talk to people amazing individuals meriam amazing citizen. we told you her story yesterday came over with her kids and cory mills had -- she relied on him to get her out because she couldn't get on one of these planes. they held her up at gunpoint when she tried to get on one of the planes. the state department says we will judge the taliban by its actions, not by its words. saying let's just give them some time and see what their actions are like. we should judge them on 9/11. we should judge them on killing the woman remember she didn't have her head scarf on shot in the middle of the street? that was just a few weeks ago. th

other way assisted by the state department. when i question the secretary on something, he says do know count on your government, he said that is not true even though it came off his website and his email to us by state department officials. >> sean: i've seen those and i quoted a lot of them. congressman's before, the is saying the taliban's professional and businesslike. now we see them beating women almost on a daily basis. we see the segregation in schools now. it's only a matter of time before women want go to work or schools. we get these reports of young girls ripped away from their moms and dads and married off to taliban members. is that professional and businesslike in your view? in the videos of women being beaten and your view, how does somebody make such an ignorant statement as they have? >> it's so naive. and let's introduce the new taliban government, the new team. one actually harbored bin laden. a network famous for tying itself with al qaeda. in the taliban five that got reliefs from guantanamo courtesy of pr

listen to this from the state department when challenge not letting planes take off. this is an actual official statement. we understand the concerns many people are feeling as a try to facilitate further charter and other passage out of afghanistan however we do not have air assets we do not control the airspace. exactly. that is the whole point he ran away. and talk about it as it is the immutable fact of life you took the air assets out of the country you did this and now you turn around and wring your hands? you really are the lowest of the low actually there was a lower point. what was the word the white house used to describe the murderers professional and despicable just like the drone strike wag the dog we are learning. they mistook water canisters for bombs killing an aid worker and nine other civilians and this is a great over the horizon anti- terror strategy it says over the horizon is somewhere over the rainbow got help us if they are looking at bombs and think their water canisters. and then have the nerve to suggest all this strengthens america to freez

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that shows the position the state department and defense department put the united states of america and the americans stuck in and where in. we have very little leverage when it comes to getting niece people out. ron qulain said he hopes -- ron klain says he hopes the qataris are able the get the flights off the ground at the hamid karzai airport, but hope is not a strategy. the taliban promised they would be allowed to leave. we are talking about a hostage crisis today. but this hostage crisis started three weeks ago when it became obvious the taliban was taking over the country and the administration was going to stick to that august 31 deadline before they were able to get everybody out. that woman was 14 steps from the airport. she turn around and left for the taliban to take care of and negotiate with. that's a hostage crisis. you can't tell me the taliban is going to be disciplined here. we should pray this doesn't get much, much worse. i'm concerned about one of these guys who is a member of the taliban having a lack of discipline and getting angry. god forbid that happens. b

we called the state department about this. the state department said we are not in control of the airspace. we're not handling any of that well it's our mess. i don't care which way you think about it. it's our mess. the united states created this vacuum to allow the taliban to come in. the president president biden and his horrific withdrawal has caused this to happen. >> bret: do you have any regret about what did you? >> absolutely not. i would do it again tomorrow. we were saving people's lives. >> bret: what if 535 members decide to get on a plane. >> everybody is helping right now. i don't care if they are republican or democrat. everybody is helping. i have heard from a lot of different members that are trying to do their thing. everybody has a different way of helping. do you know why those all those other governments are picking up their individuals and bringing them back in? there was three taliban checkpoints before you could get to high kia, all three of them would charge you a tax. and a tax was anywhere between 5

department has told us that is due to pressure being applied by the state department. >> harvey, as i said to everybody i've been working with on the digital dunkirk side. one, it's not like you are just a bunch of nobodies. almost all of you have an aspect of military intelligence work and veterans work, where you understand the processing and you know these people involved so it's not like you are coming at this blind. but you have my number. i will be, always, a text away or a call away. and we are gonna put pressure on the state department, starting yesterday. harvey graham green, thank you very much and good luck with your work. >> thank you, chris. thank you for your support. >> absolutely. somebody's got to do it. listen. i am going to go to break on this. um -- but people in the government, i know you're listening. this is one of those situations where, when these situations, not if, go bad and people were waiting and it can be traced back to you not doing something because you don't have the process because it doesn't fit how you usually do things, you will regret it. we'll

furthermore, the state department explicitly stated that charter flights, even those containing american citizens would not be allowed to land at defense department air bases. the state department defended the decision, raising concerns of possible terrorists being on board while having no one on the ground to verify the flight manifest. but these actions go against biden's promise that he wouldn't leave any americans behind. >> 90% of americans in afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave. and for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. we remain committed to get them out if they want to come out. >> rachel: well, that was clearly a lie. as the administration is now actively working to stop american citizens from escaping the failed nation. and we don't even know how many americans are left stranded in afghanistan. >> we have been able to identify a relatively small number of americans who we believe are seeking to depart from the airport with their families. we have been assured, again, that all-american citizens and afghan citizens with valid travel documents will be

the pentagon blames the state department and homeland security for delaying. movie slowly to evacuate americans now abandoned behind caroline's in afghanistan. look at this, the same agencies are turning around blaming the whiteg house for moving too slowly. we are staying about tonight, the white house with leaks against the president. we've got that story and the d.c. debate, the mistakes the.c president made that stranded americans into this, dozens of senators don't believe the white house. they demand president biden declassify all government information on exactly how many americans are now stranded. paul s numbers just hit a new l. tonight we begin with this, another new story coming in. joining us now, congressman mike of veterans affairs. we've got thisra report, the bin administration demanding federal agencies to scrub from their government website any details about u.s. weapons and training given to afghanistan. first to you, the gao and report from the inspector general getting wiped out here. what is your reaction to this? >> there could be a sec

that will be led by the state department. notably, however, it comes after the chairman of the joint chief of staff mark milley met with some of these private outside actors earlier in the week and proposed that there was such a organization that came to fruition. but the state department will lead this effort. we'll learn more about that in the days to come. it's also significant that on that flight yesterday that got out, the qatar airways flight. there were ten american citizens, 11 permanent legal residents of the united states on that flight. we're waiting to hear about how many americans were on that flight that left the kabul airport today. but it's significant that earlier in the week, secretary of state tony blinken voiced frustration, saying that the taliban were preventing flights from taking off from another airport in kabul. yesterday we saw a different tone from the administration when these flights took off. i want to read to you what the spokesperson from the nfc emily horn said after those flights with americ

that's interesting state department spin. mark meredith is live at the white house as the administration finds itself in the middle of a new scandal, it's only tuesday, and there's trouble in the administration. reporter: steve, ainsley and brian good morning. there are two different stories emerging about how four different americans were able to get out of afghanistan. the state department says it helps facilitate their departure from the country but the men behind the rescue are telling fox news that that is not accurate. texas congressman ronny jackson tweeted out a photo showing these people as they were getting out of afghanistan. he says it was former military members who risked their own lives and not the u.s. government who deserves credit. the congressman went even further saying the state department "didn't do a damn thing" and he's accusing the department of trying to take credit for the work of others. we're still watching what's going on on the ground in northern afghanistan where americans and others are desper

and we can't get the state department to engage to get them across the border. there are hundreds and thousands of american citizens, green card holders, allies, siv holders that are still trapped and left behind. so my question is we can go anywhere around the world and kill a terrorist we can go anywhere around the world and go rescue an american get our people out that's what their families would expect. we are seeing shoulder shrug from the administration. >> brian: general, how many tours in afghanistan for you? >> i had ten tours in afghanistan. almost six years on the ground. >> brian: how dedicated were you personally to getting our men and women to safety, even when they lose their lives behind enemy lines? i hear these stories about the determination to get their remains. what happened to that ethos? >> well, i don't think anything happened to that ethos among our service members. but it certainly has disappeared among our senior leaders. and it's embarrassing. and what we saw in both days of testimony was a lack of humility, certainly, no accountabili