that does it for "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: we begin with the administration embroiled in blame games and downplaying chaos over in afghanistan. new polls showing support for the president dropping. all made worse by a white house presser today. again loaded with misleading and questionable statements. this as reports coming in taliban militants are shooting at people at kabul airport and there is no clear data how many americans are still stranded behind taliban lines. this is a 20-year war ending in

bedlam and disgrace. joining me jane horton a gold star wife. her husband was killed in action in afghanistan. also congressman ronny jackson, austin scott, jason smith, james comer. also former california republican party chair tom del beccaro. and former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland. tonight, the debate over crucial mistakes like giving up bagram airbase and military hardware to jihadists. the u.n. reporting that the taliban is now working with 20 terror groups inside of afghanistan including al qaeda and isis. it is turning afghanistan again into a safe haven for terrorism. more than 5500 attacks in afghanistan since april. thousands have been killed. al qaeda active in nearly half the country. the eeries echoes of biden attacking trump. this happened in 2017 after trump withdrew troops from syria. biden attacked president trump

empowering isis, betraying our partners. biden now being accused of doing that. we'll show you what trump did when syria gassed its own people and the warning signs the biden administration is ignoring today. also the double standards of twitter and facebook what's app, now accused of enabling the taliban rise to power including spreading propaganda and battle plans as they censor conservatives here. also "politico" reporting attacking house democrats as many amateurs as moderates demand a vote on infrastructure. a growing number of polls show increased support in california to recall governor gavin newsom. we've got the story. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you are watching the fox

business network. we start with gold star wife jane horton a former senior defense department official. jane lost her husband christopher to fighting in afghanistan in 2011, and texas congressman, he is a navy veteran, dr. ronny jackson from house armed services and foreign affairs. congressman, we start with you. jane, we'll talk to you in just a second. nsa's jake sullivan blasted for dubious comments today claiming that the biden administration planned for all contingencies. the president yesterday admitted they weren't ready. both jen psaki and sullivan saying they don't have any idea how many americans they need to evacuate. your reaction to that? >> the whole thing is embarrassing and shameful. obviously they didn't prepare for all con things sis. i heard them say that yesterday. i heard the president as well. is this one of the contingencies prepared for, did they have a

c-17 taxiing down the runway taking off with hundreds of people clinging to the aircraft? this is absolutely embarrassing. they created a worst out come because of a lack of contingency. they did not plan for this. they put thousands of lives in danger including thousands of american citizens are trapped outside the perimeter controlled by the taliban and i have in confidence whatsoever the taliban will expedite or cross the people through the perimeter to be evacuated. we're in trouble. elizabeth: you know the president is returning to the white house tonight at 8:40 p.m. from camp david. jane, thanks for joining us. we're so sorry about your loss. you endured a terrible tragedy like some gold star families. national security experts said it didn't have to be this way. it was inevitable. this could have been biden's dunkirk moment rescuing partners in afghanistan now overwhelming bedlam. taliban shooting at people in

the airport. it is nixon's saigon moment and, carter's moment. >> as an american citizen my heart goes out on all the people on the ground, to the troops on the ground, how many number of deployments. some people on the ground on deployment number 10 and some number 19. we as a country, this is what happens with we are a broken nation. we don't pay attention to the policies that our government makes and we don't pay attention to the all-volunteer troops on the ground that volunteered to fight, bleed, die for us and we owe them better, better policies. instead of blaming each other right now which need to come together as a country come together to move forward and how we can fix the situation. elizabeth: that's a good point. congressman, what jane just said, mistakes have been made. secretary of state mike pompeo would never begun to withdraw military first with so many

civilians left behind, 40 thousands estimates show. polls are going against the president right now. what is your take on the president and the administration moving to do this before the 20th anniversary of 9/11? that seems fatally naive. what do you think of that. >> absolutely. what image this creates on 20th anniversary of 9/11. what we'll see, the taliban flags flying over the embassy in kabul. that send as horrible, horrible message to our allies and adversaries that diminishes our capability to be a leader in the world community. it has done a great damage to our reputation. our allies will not trust us in the future. our enemies will be emboldened. they will test us. we have many more bad days to come as a direct result of the decision and debacle we're seeing play out on tv today. elizabeth: jane, the u.n. ambassador from afghanistan told the u.n. a couple weeks ago,

al qaeda, isis, are among 20 terror groups inside of afghanistan. 5500 terror attacks since april. thousands have been killed. your reaction to that report? we're seeing women pushed back to the 7th century in afghanistan. forced marriages with teenagers too with taliban any terrorists. what do you say about that? >> that is horrifying again. i've been hearing from people on the ground. i was just in afghanistan in june. went over there on commercial airlines to be with the afghan people. we have to do better as a nation. this is the time for our nation to work to the future. we have toying put out what went wrong, move forward and get our people off the ground we are better as america and all the -- go ahead. elizabeth: no, go ahead. finish your thought. >>, just we have to get work and do better again. i am seeing a lot of blaming.

i want to see action. i want to see what we do next. make sure we learn from this and that more servicemembers are put in this situation where detached from something like this. people have given so much. elizabeth: we hear you. >> for our hearts which is america. elizabeth: we hear the emotion in your voice, jane. you're upset right now what you're seeing, right? >> of course i am upset. it is horrifying. i haven't slept in four-days. i finally slept last night. i've been on the phone with 400 calls yesterday from servicemembers trying to get their translators out. this is, you know, this isn't red or blue. this is something as a country we got to fix. if we don't start looking at us as a whole of this country we'll never fix it. and so you know, when i lost my husband i started investing in the military community and the afghan people. my community of military completely is broken. afghan people are in shambles right now. their hearts are broken. all i have left is my country. i don't want to see it so

divided because all we have is each other. i don't care what you think. i don't care if you're democrat or republican, you are my people. we will come together as a nation. we will learn from this. we will do better. elizabeth: people would say that is exactly the message we need to hear now, congressman. you know in order to come together so we can stop getting distracted with division and you know, disunity. it is, in order to come together to avoid the mistakes. we have nsa sullivan today, he wouldn't answer why biden reportedly ignored generals and intelligence reports. why did the u.s. give up bagram air force base to the taliban? you know, the nsa sullivan he admitted the taliban has quote a fair amount of our military hardware. we're talking guns, ammunition, helicopters. listen to this from the pentagon presser yesterday. watch this. >> there is no u.s. actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the taliban by destroying or

anything else? >> i don't have the answer to that question. elizabeth: what do you think? >> look i agree with his horton. we need to get past the blame eventually but we have to find out exactly why this happened. i hope in the house we have hearings, bring people in, figure out what information was passed to the president. did he not get the information? did he ignore the information? who dropped the ball. i think people need to be held responsible and move on. we obviously got some people in certain roles that are incapable of you know doing their job because wouldn't let this happen. we need to figure out what happened. we need to refocus. we need to keep our eye on the ball. for for inaffairs, since i've been in congress january 3rd. we not talked about things like this. we've been talking about gender no, nomenclature, white supremacy and extremism in the military, critical race theory. we're not talking about issues

important to us for our national security. we've got to get back. we have to protect this nation first and foremost. we have to come together as democrats and republicans. we have to take our national security seriously. elizabeth: okay. we hear you loud and clear. democrat senator jack reed of armed services, he is going, talking about launching hearings after we evacuate our americans. you know reports are coming in that you know, this was a, of course a fast taliban take over that the biden administration didn't see coming. that is the question, even last month, jane, the president was putting out statements this would not be like the fall of saigon when it did turn into that. he has been criticized in the past. he has been vice president sate years, senate foreign relations as a senator during this 20 year fight in afghanistan. remember president obama said he biden opposed the raid that killed osama bin laden.

this is about who is leading us and whether or not they're acting on the intelligence, right, jane? >> i'm not going to play the blame game. what is left of my heart cannot play the blame game. multiple administrations involved in this. incredible conversations happening right now. i ask the american people what happens again when we're divided, we don't pay attention to what is going on in the country. i noticed that for years. i get asked that all the time. we're still in afghanistan? 2 breaks my heart. people are leaving their families. people are dying. little babies are left behind. little girls lost their dad. we got to pay attention. our government represents whether we like it or not. elizabeth: we hear you. it is an important message. congressman, final word on this, why the intelligence failure? why? >> i don't know. we need to get to the bottom of

that. i don't know if there were intelligence failures, intelligence wasn't produced. but you know we've been around for in afghanistan for 20 years. we should have known, there are a lot of simple problems happen here. we should not have one way out of the country before we got everybody out. we should have kept a presence in bagram. we should have maintained the airfield and should have got people slowly over to bagram. got american citizens and afghan interpreters, everybody we need to get out of there. we should have started that process. should have drug out a long time so we were clear before we created this situation. now we're in a bad spot. we don't have a lot of good answers right now because we have the taliban controlling the perimeter. i don't know we can get the people in in time. i hope we can. i pray we can. elizabeth: thank you for your comments and thank you for your insights, jane horton and congressman ronny jackson, thanks for coming on and your service to our country. good to have you on. we'll have you back soon.

congressman austin scott, talking about eerie echoes of biden attacking trump in 2017 after trump withdrew troops from syria. biden claiming trump was empowering terrorists back then, betraying our partners. now president biden accused of that. we'll tell you what trump did when syria gassed its own people. the warning signs the biden administration ignored in afghanistan. the question is why? you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. ♪. what? it looks like a face. ...hearing about it 24/7 is painful enough... i don't want to catch it. well, you can't catch shingles, but the virus that causes it may already be inside you. does that mean bill might have company? - stop. you know shingles can be prevented. shingles can be whaaaaat? yeah prevented. you can get vaccinated. oh, so... i guess it's just you, me and bill then. i'm making my appointment. bill's all yours... 50 years or older? get vaccinated for shingles today. ♪♪

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and gunshots are being heard fired in the neighborhoods inside of kabul. so this is happening right now, right as we speak. joining us now is georgia's austin scott from house armed services. congressman, your reaction to these developments right now and what the nsa said today? >> it's horrible. you flash across the bottom of your screen, that number was given us in june of 2021. so the fact that al qaeda was in 15 of 34 provinces in june. the whole world knew about it in june. it was in the united nations report. i've been to afghanistan. with some of the usa missions with the marines at forward operating bases. it breaks my heart to see what is happen in that country. i want miss horton and other gold star families what your family did mattered. we have not had terrorist attacks in the united states

since september 11th, that would have happened had men and women like her family and others who lost somebody in afghanistan had not gone over there and done what they did. elizabeth: okay, to recap we're in breaking news mode. we're hearing gunshots fired in residential areas in kabul and other areas of afghanistan. we have u.n. reports coming in that 20 terror groups are now inside of afghanistan. they have launched in 31 of the 34 provinces terror attacks and battles involving also al qaeda and isis. we need to recap this too. remember when, this is, what is going on in our government. remember president biden went after, he was then, not yet president. biden went after trump in 2017 when trump withdrew troops from syria saying trump empowered terrorists, abandoned our kurdish partners.

now biden is accused of that. what do you say to this? >> look, turkey was in the middle of an offensive. president trump operated, of the advice of our military commanders in removing the troops. i mean candidly the kurds had been extremely good partners. we all felt extremely bad for the decision that had to be made but when you're in a war you know the enemy gets a vote as well. so i think the president trump listened to the military advisors. i think he followed the advice of military advisors. joe biden followed advice of his military advisors he would have been prepared for what is happening on the ground right now. he did not do that president trump listened to the military advisors where joe biden candidly simply did not. he listened to what the state department people told him. that he could trust the taliban and doha agreement. elizabeth: trump also hit back hard at syria after syria gassed

its own people in chemical attacks. in 2017 he fired 59 tomohawks hitting petroleum, logistical storage, ammo defense systems. trump shut down isis. that is what critics said. shut down the chlorine attacks. got the aa ham "abraham accords" going. so there is that too, congressman, your word on that? >> i think he ignored the advice of the military leaders of the united states. i think he listened to a philosophy that ignores the fact that the taliban is still in a jihad with the united states of america. now whether or not we want to be at war with them or not they want to be at war with us. so what has happened over the last several days, if you look

back to even august the 11th , the, the people in afghanistan for the united states at our embassy were putting out press releases about the usaid mission in bringing education. there is complete refusal to accept facts on the ground from washington, d.c., and from the president of the united states and candidly congress needs to be back in washington getting the facts. i heard what miss horton said very clearly. i don't want to fight with the biden administration. what i want is the facts. i want to know what we'll do with regard to the intelligence pushing forward, not yesterday but i want to know tomorrow what are we going to do with the intelligence that we need to keep america safe from al qaeda and other terrorist organizations that now have safe haven in afghanistan. they not only have the geography to operate but will have the finances to operate now. elizabeth: congressman austin scott, thank you so much for joining us, really appreciate it. >> thank you so much, ma'am.

elizabeth: sure. next up, congressman jason smith. we've got this other geopolitical story happening now. republican senators led by senator john kennedy now demanding president biden reverse his call on opec and russia to increase oil production over there to lower gas prices here. it is being called an embarassment on top of what is going on in afghanistan. americans are feeling the pain at the pump. biden es approval ratings on the economy taking hits. keep it here on "the evening edit." >> today's democrats are no longer willing to exploit the resources of america's energy industry. we would rather negotiate with despots in tehran, moscow and our friends in riyadh.

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♪. elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show house budget ranking member jason smith. it is great to have you on, congressman. this is about freedom, the perilous situation in afghanistan. it is also freedom from opec and russia dictating our oil and gas prices here. we have republican senators led by senator john kennedy. they're demanding president biden retract his demand to opec and russia to produce more oil over there to lower gas prices . they said no. >> let's be clear joe biden's domestic policies are making oil prices shoot through the roof.

he has failed to keep inflation in check and his reckless government spending is actually driving gas prices higher. remember this, on day one joe biden halted domestic oil and gas production. he fired tens of thousands of workers in the process so that he could buy it from countries that hate us like russia and solely to appease his wealthy environmentalists in the name of climate change. this isn't just failed policy. it is failed leadership by president biden. under the trump administration, the united states became energy independent and we led the world in oil production. now in less than a year this president is literally begging for scraps and being turned down by russia and opec. it's a disgrace. gas prices are the highest they have been in seven years. and just in my state alone it is up 50% from this time last year. that is not even counting the rapid pace of inflation which is

rising at the fastest rate in four decades. it is absolutely unbelievable and it is all on the backs of the working class. elizabeth: infrastructure is now in limbo. there is talk there may be a vote next week on a 3 1/2 trillion dollar bill first before the infrastructure bill. there is nine to 10 house moderate democrats will say no to that. pelosi can't lose three of them or it all goes kablooy. rett's go back to afghanistan, even before it happened there, bide's numbers on economy were dropping. majority of polls say the nation is on the wrong track. when you talk about what is going on with the green energy deal inside of infrastructure and republicans and other economists are saying china will benefit from the trillions of dollars that is headed toward green infrastructure, green energy as thousands here lose their jobs in oil and gas and the keystone pipeline and coal mines. so you know, it is, people are saying what are you doing?

it feels unfair what you're doing to workers here? >> it is. it is completely unfair and you're exactly right, whenever you implement the policies of the biden administration is proposing. you know 50% of electric cars by 2031. well guess what? electric cars are ran by batteries. guess what? batteries are created by critical minerals. where are the critical minerals? china. so president biden wants us more reliant on communist china. it is unacceptable. it is ridiculous. but you know what? it is all about trying to make his wealthy environmentalists happy and to placate to the progressives base. unbelieverrable but it is all at the expense of the working class. that is why in his first three hours he fired, tens of thousands of union workers just

on the keystone pipeline to help push the initiative to increase gas prices, to make sure more people reliant on electric vehicles. elizabeth: you know the other thing too is quickly, china is, is now looking into afghanistan, talking to the taliban there. there is talk that they want to basically take advantage of afghanistan's rare earth minerals to make a lot of green energy equipment. that would be kind of an irony there. final word, china is basically saying watch out, taiwan, the u.s. abandoned afghanistan. watch out taiwan. watch out for what the u.s. could do there. your final word about taiwan here? >> you know, i mean taiwan is a country that i'm at least excited and happy that this administration decided to go forward with like prior administrations and selling arms to taiwan. the issue is is that we cannot

allow china to overcome taiwan. we cannot allow china to continue to grow. we cannot allow china to have an economic advantage over us but that is exactly what joe biden and the progressive democrats are trying to do with this 3 1/2 trillion dollar spending bill by trying to raise our taxes higher than that of communist china. i don't understand why they want to incentivize companies to close their doors and to move to china but that's what biden is trying to do right now. elizabeth: congressman jason smith, thanks for joining us, really appreciate it. come back soon. up next, congressman james comer on this double standard. twitter, facebook's what's app accused enabling the taliban rise to power as it shuts down conservatives here. we've got the story next.

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♪. elizabeth: back with us now house oversight ranking member. he is kentucky's james comer. congressman, great to see you. this is a really serious double standard with twitter and facebook's what's app accused enabling the taliban rise to power. the taliban is using social media platforms to spread their propaganda with a propaganda blitz and with the government they're blocking conservatives here. what do you say to this story? >> another slap in the face by big tech. the double standard is unbelievable. one thing to be partisan towards the democrats, if you're a liberal big tech company from california but to allow the taliban, and other jihadists to use your platform, not only to plan on the battlefield but to recruit fellow terrorists unacceptable and we talk about ways to hold big tech

accountable but congress will have to lay down the law. there is a lot of talk about repealing section 230. the fact that facebook is buying ads in business publications encouraging congress to repeal section 230 makes me think this might not hold the big tech companies accountable like we want. i think we're going to have to look at the sec fining companies like twitter who refuse to do anything about terrorists who continue to use their platform. this was a big part of the taliban communicating with people and allowing them to take over kabul and i just don't see how members of congress can continue to sit back and allow big tech to continue to censor conservatives but work with terrorists. elizabeth: you know, congressman, the taliban is using twitter and whatsapp to actually establish control over afghanistan. the taliban spokesman has

287,000 followers. they use twitter to assert that the overthrow has been peaceful despite reports to the contrary. we broke the news of gunshots fired now by taliban, by the taliban in neighborhoods in kabul. you know the propaganda blitz that kabul welcomed the taliban. the situation is under control. they're using it to organize their troops, their battle plans. they use whatsapp phone numbers to negotiate surrenders, announce new governing rules to the country on twitter, official statements on twitter, emergency broadcast system via whatsapp. we're talking about something deeper than just propraganda. they're using it to run the country. that is something different. this is a terrorist country now. now the social media platforms are being used to run it there. what do you do about that? >> it is almost like an act of war what twitter is doing. it is criminal. they're aiding terrorist organizations and they have no

shame when they have been asked over the last 48 hours if they were going to ban the taliban like other social media platforms have and twitter said no. we'll continue to as long as they're doing things truthful. it is not truthful. you talk about fake news and misinformation to say that they took over that city without any bloodshed is not an accurate statement. we know that for a fact. so it is very disappointing. there is no shame with twitter. of course facebook is playing both sides of the issue. facebook says they will not allow it but they own whatsapp and whatsapp was an important part of the taliban strategy to take over afghanistan and to recruit members. as you said, to negotiate peace treaties with our adversaries. so it is another slap in the face by big tech not only do they censor conservatives and take people like president trump and some of my republican colleagues off of twitter or banned from twitter they're

allowing this continue and they admit it. elizabeth: okay. congressman james comer, thanks for coming on. it is good to see you again. come back soon. >> up. >> next former california republican party chair, he is tom del beccaro. he is going to give us an inside look at what is going on in california now. growing number of polls show increasing support to recall the governor there. >> when you look at the polls in california they have been trending in the direction of removing gavin newsom. ♪. it's just a saying. but today, for women living with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer. more time is possible with verzenio. proven to help you live significantly longer when taken with fulvestrant. verzenio + fulvestrant is for hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer that has progressed after hormone therapy. diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection. at the first sign, call your doctor,

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emerson college and san diego tribune. gavin newsom is now telling voters in california it's a quote matter of life or death if he is not reelected. what do you say to this. >> he is desperate. the polls are moving away from him, the poll showed 51-40 in favor of recall. the california model kamala harris calls it is failing in california. we have the highest gas prices. worst homelessness and crime in california. 65% of californians say crime is rising. a staggering poll in a blue state. all the issues are moving against him including the tragedy of the northern fires and out handing pizzas in san diego, not helping those fires. elizabeth: and also high taxes and regulation. you know, it is interesting the new swing voters are democrats who are undecided. this is going to be about turnout. now you see 25% are saying we don't know who we're going to

vote for. republicans are they the ones who are more motivated to vote right now inside of california? what do you think? >> 100%. all the polls show including our internal polls at rescuecalifornia.org show republicans at around 80 to 84% with democrats down around 30%. the reason for that, as he wrote about fox news, they don't personally like gavin newsom. never has done anything. doesn't visit state voters and care for them but beyond that they live in areas that are ravaged by homelessness and ravaged by crime and news some is doing very well to nothing about it. so they're fed up. these issues across the state, lack of water, fires, crime, gas prices, all these things are hurting working class democrats and they don't like gavin newsom and that's why he is in so much trouble. elizabeth: well it is striking that the swing voters of the undecided democrats say they may not even go out to vote.

that is what is really striking. usually the democrats are fired up in california. to your point what you're saying is now, what we're seeing is top democrats in the party, nancy pelosi, white house, now, very worried that gavin newsom could lose. it would be the second governor, democrat governor who is pushed out following andrew cuomo. we don't know what is going to happen yet but this is what is happening. you know when you talk about the wildfire, the biggest in california history, year after year we keep hearing historic, gigantic fires, the biggest in history, we keep saying that year after year. they keep getting bigger. what is going on with forest mismanagement in california and the way california saves water? it doesn't save water for non-rainy day, that is what you talk about. can you talk to us quickly about that? >> sure. this is 20 years in the making. they haven't managed the forests. it is overgrown across much of the state, mostly in the north. because it is built up so much, they're so far behind and newsom

isn't leading the charge. this is the most dangerous thing facing california and he doesn't take it seriously. you know why? there is not a lot of votes way up north. so that danger, that fire which is bigger than manhattan more than manhattan keeps going on, he doesn't go up there, he is not leading the charge. people see that. he is only political. elizabeth: environmentalists stopped saving of trillions of gallons of water coming from mountains, runs off into the ocean. nancy pelosi calls this recall a nuisance. 10 second. >> gavin newsom knows his career is jeopardy. not a nuisance to him. this is a saving grace on california. this will happen on september 14th. elizabeth: might be a nuisance to nancy pelosi herself. thanks, tom del beccaro. thanks for joining us. up next, former national security official kt mcfarland, the u.s. is in talks to bring as many as 30,000 afghan refugees

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>> deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland your reaction to 30000 afghan refugees could be heading here the u.s. is about as a barber nation official keep telling us the border has been abused under the biden administration what is the plan to bring them in, who is bidding them. >> nobody here's the problem they're knocking to get those people out of afghanistan will be really hard-pressed to get all the american citizens out despite the happy talk that divided the administration of the pentagon are saying they can have a really hard time to get

out 8000 - 10000 americans who are still left in their spread all over the country and right now the only way out of the country as the kabul airport and is surrounded by taliban fighters who today are saying americans can leave but there is no guarantee the granola americans leave tomorrow there is no way they were getting out 17,010,000 people in the next couple of days. >> your say nobody is betting the refugees coming in? >> is my understanding they have a process to vet them but they're not getting to it when you see the number of people who are piling on and coming to the united states these are all political refugees there is a definition of who were supposed to accept in the refugee program is my understanding there is no systematic vetting, there is

personal at the american embassy who themselves are trying to get out and supposed to be vetting but it's all happening in real time, we should've been vetting people months ago of people who come potentially come to the united states as afghans collapsed. when i was on the trump administration the plan was to get all-americans out by the end of may by the time the spring fighting had started and we had started the vacuuming earring americans in bringing friendly afghans who had worked for us we started bringing them home but when president biden came in to undo anything donald trump ever did, they stop that they stop bringing americans home that's what we had the big crisis right now. speak. elizabeth: we have video coming in shots being fired in residential neighborhoods in kabul and the taliban has been taking to arm trucks and patrolling the streets shots were fired at kabul airport as

well the fall of afghanistan has been heard around the world germany, france, the uk reacting the president gave until a printed script yesterday, he blamed trump, the afghan government, he blamed afghan people for not leaving when tens of thousands wanted to leave biden could have renegotiated trump's withdrawal deal but he did not and we forgot to blame the taliban in his speech here's the thing 22 groups are operating inside afghanistan what's to say anyone of those groups could say to somebody one of the members go to the southern border paid a human smuggler, go into the u.s., what is to stop that? >> there is nothing to stop that and that is a big vulnerability we have an open border and we know it's no longer people from central america or mexico as people from 50 or 70 countries coming for the southern border.

i'm worried what happens next americans will be taken hostage and kidnapped and americans will be assassinated in the tribal leaders in afghanistan, the taliban leaders they are currently, this week are all united but they will fight each other because they've never been united when there's not been a national enemy to them. there is going to be a multiparty civil war in afghanistan and you can bet that some of those tribal areas some of those tribal leaders are going to try to send people into the united states. some of them might be good guys but i worry because there is no bedding at our southern border right now that it's hard to see when we will get ahead of bedding the tens of thousands if not million people who are coming in a year on our southern border. elizabeth: should the president call a national emergency at the border right now? >> of course he should and he should institute the policies that were in place and working before at the southern border and he has the ability to override a lot of the

regulations about who you ludden as a political refugee 80s not doing any of it he's blaming somebody else. elizabeth: kt mcfarland thank you for joining us i'm elizabeth donald you been watching "the evening edit" that doesn't for us thank you for watching we hope you have a good evening. ♪. >> hello and welcome to "kudlow" i am david asman in for larry kudlow, air operations resuming at kabul airport as thousands attempt to flee taliban control in afghanistan. more than 600 people were seen in this photo cramming into an american plane headed for cutter and president biden says he stands