oversaw the construction, didn't live in it. it wasn't until 1800 when it was almost complete that john adams and his wife, what was his wife's number? lauren lauren abigail. stuart: correct. [laughter] they became the first residents. so now, ladies and gentlemen, you knew. ashley, lauren, thanks very much for everything. we'll see you again next week. neil if, my time's up, but it is yours. neil: you knew about adams because you covered it when he, when he moved in the white house. [laughter] come on. stuart: very good, neil. neil: best i could do. all right, stuart, thank you very much. have a wonderful weekend. we are up about 206 points at the corner of wall and broad, stabilizing news on the afghan front though it's not quite all stable and some better than expected retail sales data that is fueling the belief that maybe we overreacted earlier in the week when home depot was getting clubbed and that despite pretty strong numbers. all of them cocoalescing around this right now. but we're still in danger,

whatever the strength today, of having a losing week on the dow. we're keeping a close eye on oil as well, that is drifting away, looking at a seventh day of potential losses here. a streak we've not seen in a good couple of years. for a while that was hurting energy stocks, a little less so, but it's something we are keeping an eye on. also other markets like hong kong, typically in a bear market at this time. it has fallen 20% from its highs, a spike in cases there, covid cases, that's alarming the central government and growing concerns that it could be repeated in other areas in asian markets. and end then i just want to tease manager we're looking at, we've been -- something we're looking at, we've been looking at the whole globe, but there is one region that has held up better than any other. what if i told you it was the middle east? i kid you not. we'll have more on that in just a second. let's go to jennifer if griffin first with the latest what we're hearing out of afghanistan and confusing reports that -- who is

shooting whom, i guess, right? >> reporter: well, neil, it's really interesting, there are more people being flown out today, about twice as many, as the day before. earlier today we heard from the air force c-17 flight crew who bravely evacuated more than 800 afghans onboard. not 640 as previously reported. this iconic photo was first published by defense one. fox news spoke with airman first class nicholas barron and the lieutenant colonel who flew the plane. they said there was no time to worry about seat belts. >> we saw what needed to be done in delivering hope and freedom. we knew the capability of our aircraft. with all the crew members i had, i had the utmost trust to get it done and to make sure that we could get them to safe passage. >> reporter: our colleagues at fox digital, however, interviewed a female afghan journalist as she was attempting to flee kabul. taliban, there were sounds of

gunfire in the background. her mother told her she must go to the airport. >> i have -- [inaudible] the taliban will kill you because you're a journalist -- [gunfire] >> you're a woman and you're working and on national tv. but today no one, no afghans and people, especially woman, feels safe. >> reporter: the u.s. military does not have the authority from the white house to leave the airport given the large crowds and danger of terrorist attack. pentagon officials tell us they have a constant flow of afghans in duress who are making it through the taliban checkpoints seeking to leave. reports from the ground suggest americans remain stranded, however. u.s. air force evacuation flights do continue to ramp up, though there hasn't been any flights in the last eight hours.

in the previous 24 hours, nearly 6,000 people were evacuated aboard 16 air force c-17s. that's over 300 people per flight, double the number in recent days. now billions of americans -- billions of dollars of american arms are in the taliban. u.s. taxpayer funded the afghan army to the tune of $85 billion over 20 years. 600,000 american weapons are in the hands of the taliban. over 75,000 vehicles, mostly armored humvees and pickup trucks, and over 200 aircraft including helicopter gunships and advanced weapons that we're told allowed u.s. military and and afghan special forces to maneuver around the battlefield unimpeded. you can be sure, neil, that the chinese and the russians would like to get their hands on those advanced weapons. neil? neil: yeah. and there are quite a few, to your point. jennifer griffin, thank you for that. jennifer was touching on this notion that we are not yet piercing that perimeter that has

been set up outside kabul, but a number of other countries, nato countries, that have personnel in the area are. we are learning that britain is trying to to evacuate more and more people outside the airport perimeter and forcibly get them through that perimeter. 1,000 evacuations have been handled by the brit in the last 24 hours. we're hearing that germany also dispatching helicopters if necessary to get people out, again, outside the airport. and finally, france which has some elite teams of police officers who have just entered the capital so-called green zone to do pretty much the psalm. the read from the white house -- the same. the read from the white house as the president prepares to address the nation in about an hour, fox business national correspondent connell mcshane with more on that the at the white house. >> reporter: hey, neil. we'll hear from the president if less than an hour, bookending his week with remarks in the east room about afghanistan. it's still an open question about whether he will take questions from some reporters in

the east room. he hasn't taken any questions on this topic throughout the week either here or else with where. the white house facing criticism from all over washington in terms of how the situation's been handled in afghanistan, and jennifer went through some of the latest numbers. things seem to be improving in terms of the evacuation. 6,000 troops are on the ground there, and most of the updates are coming from either the pentagon or the state department. an ominous warning still coming from the state department that americans are still in the country. you know, the government cannot insure safe passage of those americans to the airport in kabul if they haven't gotten there already, and even though we're seeing some improvements with every passing day, new security concerns also seem to pop up. >> we have to worry about all kinds of contingencies, one of them, laser focused on, is the potential for a terrorist attack by a group like isis k which, of course, is a sworn enemy of the taliban. so we will keep working to minimize the risks and maximize the number of people on planes.

>> reporter: the president this afternoon whether the wars in afghanistan and iraq were worth fighting. more than 60% of americans say that neither if war was worth it. so that's the backdrop for this president as he steps up to the mic one hour from now in the east room. the vice president, kamala harris, will be with him in the room here this afternoon. we haven't a heard from her that much or seen her that much this week. she's traveling tonight, has a scheduled trip to asia with stops in singapore and vietnam. that goes on as scheduled. we've heard from a senior administration official saying the vice president will continue to work on afghanistan while she's in asia. we've also just been told, neil, that the president will remain here in washington, d.c. this evening rather than traveling to delaware. neil? neil: all right, connell, thank you very much. connell mcshane. again, we are getting these details of other countries, nato countries, and what they are doing in afghanistan that go beyond what we are doing within the airport compound itself,

britain and france and germany among those outside that green zone as you often hear it called who are trying to get their own people. the brits, by last count, have taken a thousand of their people, got them through that perimeter, whatever you want to call it, if flown them out of the country. ambassador douglas lute with us right now, the former u.s. ambassador to nato, former deputy national security adviser for iraq and afghanistan under bush 43. ambassador, an honor to have you, sir. thank you for taking the time. >> good to be with you. neil: i don't know what the orders are for our troops in that airport compound, ambassador, but other nato countries are taking the matter into their own hands to try to get their people out of there. do you think we are sort of handicapped there if they cannot get beyond the perimeter? that is, are our forces to get more americans and those friend

wily to america out -- and those friendly to america out of afghanistan? >> right. you know, neil, i can't corroborate the reports that some nato allies are venturing outside the airport perimeter. that's possible. i just don't know. i think our focus right now based on the situation on the ground is in that innermost circle of the airport, the perimeter of which is secured by some 6,000 american troops, there's a sufficient flow of evacuees to that point that we haven't ventured out so far. so we'll have to see. if, in fact, the reports are correct and the brits or the germans or other allies are venturing beyond that perimeter, my guess is it's not by way of military strength, but it's by way of a political handshake with the taliban that's allowing them the move elsewhere into the city. neil: so the taliban are saying, all right, this is fine. but what if people, you know,

secreted out of there, ambassador, are not the people that the taliban wants secreted out of there? presumably, we've not come to that point, but we could. >> we could with. i mean, that's a potential. the reports that i've seen indicate that it's the brits and the germans who are evacuating brits and germans. so western is citizens, not yet afghan citizens. but, look, this is a very dynamic situation. the reality is that while we've secured this innermost perimeter, just outside are taliban checkpoints. and, of course, it's through those checkpoints that afghan citizen who is want to make it into the inner circle or westerners, american citizens, they have to pass through those taliban checkpoints. so far it's been a relatively permissive setting. but the problem, of course, is that with armed americans right across the street from armed taliban, the slightest mistake

could be a spark that upsets the whole situation. neil: i know there's this thing of the carrot and stick approach with the taliban to get them to be cooperative in this exodus, but we've already shown that we have a pretty powerful sticking in freezing their assets, i believe close to $9.5 billion right now. do you think that will keep the taliban in line with getting our people out of the country, or given the fact that they were never looking for, you know, a good reputation within the international community, that kind of stuff doesn't move them? >> well, i don't know that the funding has proven yet to be a stick because these are such, so much the early days of taliban rule. you know, the taliban are transitioning from 20 years as an insurgency, trying to overthrow the government, to now the first few days of actually

governing. and what they will discover, and i think they are discovering right now, is it's much easier to destroy and to impede a government than it is to actually be in government and rulement so they'll -- rule. so they'll face things like shortage of funding, the humanitarian situation, international recognition and so forth. and as they confront these problems of governing, it's very hard to predict how they'll turn. will they revert to something that looks more like the taliban 20 years ago or, because they're more politically savvy, more internationally alert, more media savvy than they were 20 years ago, will this be a different version of taliban? neil, it's just too soon to tell. neil: do you trust the taliban? >> no. no, absolutely not. and we should not. we should judge them by what they do, not what they say. and so far in these early days they're been saying much of the

right things, much of the things they know that we want to hear. so the proof here will be in how they act. and so far they've seemed reasonably responsible in terms of actions. for example, they're not cutting off or isolating the airport. they're allowing -- well, there are checkpoints that are allowing people to pass through those checkpoints. we'll have to see if that continues. i also think it's important to keep an eye on what happens outside kabul, because kabul itself is saturated with international media. and that is much less the case in the hinterlands, out in the more remote areas where the international eye is not so focused on taliban actions. so it's important for us to try to keep track of what's going on outside kabul. neil: got it. ambassador, thank you for taking the time. i want to talk to congressman mike turner right now, ohio republican, sits on the house armed services committee. next week nancy pelosi wants to

get a hearings going into what happened here, who screwed up and when and how and how wide and how far this dose. congressman has a good many questions as well. er is, good to have you. >> thanks for having me, neil. neil: are you surprised that speaker pelosi is moving as quickly as she appears to be on this? she just wants it out of the way or what? how do you sense it? >> yeah, i think she wants to change the narrative. really all the information we're hearing from the biden administration turns out to be not true. the president said we weren't going to run for the exits, and that's exactly what he did leaving in the middle of the night. now he says we're going to get americans out, and we see planes that are flying out that are empty, and, of course, he said most famously recently that no one had told him that afghanistan would fall, the intelligence community did not report this to him and that the military advisers that he had were split. and, of course, now we're finding out that that's not the case either. so i think she's working diligently to try to change the

narrative. but what's going to happen here is the more information that we know and we find out what the president knew and the decision making, it's just going to give us a greater picture of this unfolding travesty. even without the actual intel that was handed to president biden, we all intuitively know that afghanistan was going to fall, that it was going to be -- it was not a plan, disastrous for the american public and for afghanistan, and i think it's going to be very difficult for her to change that narrative. neil: all right. now, i'm getting a sense and, obviously, i know this intelligence has been provided that there were state department cables indicating, you know, as recently as last month that afghanistan could fall very, very quickly are. we don't know all the details, whether this specifically got the president's anticipation, but there are others who were saying that there could be some problems 20 years, you can find excuses to keep push it back, pushing it back, but then he chose not to. because whatever the risks, the risks of our staying there any

longer were just as severe. what do you make of that? >> well, i think this is very curious because, fist off, biden served in the senate, he served as vice president. it was not as if he was handed afghanistan without an understanding of what the circumstances were. and there's never been a time where this type of an unplanned, immediate withdrawal in august where always every year the taliban is at its strongest would ever have resulted in anything other than the collapse of afghanistan and threat to the american people. you know, this was a nato command under which the united states was integrated, the united states commanded this in conjunction with the afghan national military. when you rip out the u.s. chain of command, you leave the afghan national army without, the military without a plan and without a chain of command that they can respond to. this would be the natural result. neil: all right. congressman, i would love to touch base with you again next week as these hearings begin and what intelligence is being made

available. thank you. in the meantime, we are getting some updates about what's going on in afghanistan and more specifically this exodus of leafing planes, but for the last eight hours, we're told, no planes have been leaving. qatar, one of the countries that is responsible for handling a rot of this paperwork, is simply overwhelmed. if that is, indeed, the case, this will slow things down dramatically. remember, we wanted to beef it up to the point of 2,000 people leaving a day, then 4,000, then 5,000. right now it's stopped for the past eight hours. today with us, you're watching fox business. stay with us, you're watching fox business.

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three-quarter inch rockets, hubs of thousands of other various sizes. they've got 'em all. it's all their stuff. they went from having no air force to having now, technically, one of the biggest in the middle east. startling developments that were kind of hidden by the fact that the whole government toppled so fast. to the victor go the spoils and the goodies including all our military stuff that was meant for the government. we'll keep an eye on that, whether the president addresses that in about half an hour, 40 minutes when he speaks to the nation. all right, some things very big in this nation right now, the spike in covid cases that has already got a lot of companies pushing back a return to work as well as even keeping their businesses open in the new york metropolitan area. lydia hu following all of that. >> reporter: yeah, neil, the latest data from the cdc shows a seven-day rolling average of more than 130,000 cases for americans. we haven't seen a number like

that since november of 2020, and that is prompting some big companies to reevaluate those return to work plans. ibm is temporarily closing its new york city offices for now but stopping short of delaying a return to the office. that's still on for september, but many others are delaying the return. according to reports, apple's staff won't go back to the office until january. the return had already been postponed before to october. financial giant bny mellon, well, it's pushing back its return to the workplace. employees were to go back until september, and now no new return rate has been announced, but the bank says they'll give workers a 30 day heads up about that. and charles schwab pushing back the return until january at the early, it said. and when it does reopen its offices, employees can look forward to a hybrid work schedule, they say. the u.s. brokerage firm is also

giving its workers a 5% pay raise starting in september, they say to recognize their workers' unwavering service to clients throughout the pandemic. so why all the reshuffling? yes, covid cases are rising, but some say this is also about employee retention. this has been a surge in employees quitting, moving between jobs. we also see a record number of job openings too, so workers here arguably have the upper hand. so it's an accommodation to the work force that might be reluctant to return to the office because of a rise in covid cases, but maybe they have new expectations about what a return to work should look like, whether at home, hybrid or elsewhere, so we're seeing a pushback on that front. neil. neil: yeah. we see a lot of pushback on a lot of things when it comes to this virus, aren't we? lydia, thank you very much. that queues up very nicely my next guest, dr. marty makary.

i urge people to read his book. back in, i think, the fall of 2019, "the price we pay," long before covid and all of this, he was addressing this distrust we have of the medical, you know, community, health care in general in this country, and it was borne out by the way people have been responding to mask orders and all this other stuff since. he seized on that long before this. this is why i always find it good to have him on, a guy who's prescient enough to see some of the problems we're experiencing today. doctor, very good to have you. everything you wrote about years ago is coming back in spades now given the confusing marching orders we get from, you know, those, you know, in government. now the push for a booster, for example, a third shot. others, masks, no masks, indoors, outdoors. i guess they mean well and you know all of them far better than i, but they are confusing people, and they are angering

people. and it continues unabated. what do you make of it? >> well, thanks, neil, and good to see you. you know, there's a tremendous amount of group think in the medical establishment, and that has predated covid, and that's what i wrote about. we're seeing it right now with the boosters play out. we don't have the data on boosters reducing the risk of breakthrough infections or or whether or not they reduce the risk of hospitalization and severe death. it may turn out that they reduce the risk by with, say, 30% and reduce the risk of a severe illness by, say, 2-3%. if that were the decision in front of people, would they get a booster? i think some might say no thank you, some might say yes. that is where we've completely lost our priorities because right now the flu vaccine became available this week, and by far the risk factor calculation is there that we should be urging everyone to get it. we're conflating two entirely different problems right now in the u.s. non-immune adults are still

non-immune, that's where we should forget about debating cloth masks and 3-year-olds and focus all of our efforts on the consensus of encouraging vaccination in that group. neil: but, you know, going forward here for whom would a third shot be advisable? official hi you hear those with compromised immune systems, the elderly. that alone is quite a large group of people, right? >> that's right. and so even it's depressed, it's about 3% of the population. we've got to remember they've never mounted an immune response to the vaccine, 40% of the time. that's why we're end aring a third dose. it's not that the vaccine failed or waned, it's that they never mounted a strong immune response, and we've seen that with studies on influenza shots. people over 70, about half of them don't mount a good response, and that's why sometimes we say that's a special population where we may want to give a second dose. neil: real quickly, doctor, a

lot of companies now, growing number, seems like a new every day pushing back their in-person return to work, some of the case with apple, amazon, facebook, well into next year. is that advisable? >> we're seeing two entirely different mentalities on covid. one is to say, look, let's move on. we've got everybody we need in our company, in our community immunized, and breakthrough infections are sort of a fifth seasonal virus, let's move on. another group is saying, no, we have got to wait, we've got to wait on behalf of those who are still unvaccinated. if you look what's happening with delta, it may very well be a boom and bust. we're seeing cases in the states where they had an early outbreak that was pretty bad, missouri, arkansas, now their new cases are below their seven-day moving average, so we are seeing signs this is peaking right now, and we could be in a much better place in 6-8 weeks. neil: dr. marty makary, i urge all of you to read that book,

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the overall markets today if you look at saudi arabia, relatively flat today, up on the month if, up a lot on the year. look at that, close to 43%. and it plays out in market after market including bahrain and a host of others. we'll sort of whip through these for you to illustrate it. it's a fascinating development. it reminds me of manager my friend gary caught -- something my friend gary kaltbaum always reminds me, don't assume one area of consensus applies to the other area. gary's with me right now. that's rather intriguing because it's held up this week, in other words -- and even to this day. why is that? what could we, should we take away from that, anything? >> i think it tells you a lot. you have stable and modern economies in a lot of the middle east. and leave no doubt, there are hot to spots and bad places. but if you go on google and put in pictures of some of these countries, it's -- they're metropolises. and, again, the world stable

does come to mind. we don't hear of a lot of -- in a lot of these places, and i think that's what's doing the trick here. and when we also hear qatar is taking in these people, they're the answer to a problem, so i think some of that is playing into this. neil: you know, we're very close to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and there's all this fear building that the taliban is going to want to do manager to spoil that. -- something to spoil that. there's just as convincing a financial argument that if you buy their pr and what they've been telling people, they don't want that. leaving aside whether you can trust that sentiment, is there a concern you have and should we be thinking of that, god forbid, as we approach this anniversary? >> it's not at the front of my mind, if at all. you know, 9/11 happened now 20 years. i think we're pretty well

insulated if the taliban does something stupid. i think we'll get -- that's something that doesn't factor into miuation at this juncture but something you always are to think about especially when you get around anniversaries and especially when you know there's bad players out there that would love to take advantage of that day. neil: all right. gary, thank you for that. i do want to go to the growing concerns in afghanistan right now particularly among women who were making major breakthroughs; dressing as they wanted, working, showing an independence that was unrivaled, certainly, throughout the middle east. and now a new power in town that wants to bring back sharia law and all the limitations and cruelty with that. arizona state university thund orerbird school, global director. thank you, doctor, for joining us. what's in store for women and, more to the point, anyone who

crosses with the taliban or shows links to the old government and the old way of doing things? >> well, the the best predicter of future behavior, as you know, my friend, is past behavior. we know what the taliban did in their five-year reign, and it was horrific. we have to start with that presumption. as you mentioned in the last segment, they are speaking a different tune. billions of dollars of their assets are under their control, so there could be a different possibility here. but i fear the worst, and i think that's how we have to act as an international community and here in the united states. neil: you know what worries me, doctor, is the women who do try to leave. when they get to that perimeter the taliban has set up, it's not u.s. soldiers greeting them. it's taliban of i cannot imagine they'll just clear the way for them, but what do you think? >> well, look, i'm a refugee, i think you know that. a long time ago idi amin in you

began a da, most americans don't remember him, we were takening out by the international rescue committee, welcomed by an incredible family here in the united states, and that's how i became an american and now in this honorable position to make a difference in the world. refugees will find a way to get through if we provide them support, and that's our greaters concern at arizona tate university right now. we want to make sure that they're safe of in every way that we can, we want to work with all parties, public and private, here in the united states and around the world to get those out that can get out and then to support them to realize their lives. now, will the taliban be a block in that? most likely, but i have a great faith in our capabilities as a country and as a human community, and certainly we are all in to make a difference. neil: you know, doctor, what did you make of the president saying the other day, i think yesterday, that -- the day

before yesterday, that the rights of women and a necessary offense after the way they're treated under sharia law, there's only so much you can do, that you can't militarily correct that, that you can't force the issue, and if you did and if you had to, be doing it all over the world. i don't know whether that was signaling there was a limit to what he was going to do and how many he planned to rescue, but what did you think of the argument that to topple, you know, a military entity that is threatening women, to do so militarily defeats the cause? what did you think of that in. >> well, i took it a different way, and it's true whether it's president biden or someone else. we know to empower women in all of humanity is not just militaries that can do that. we at the thunderbird school have been around for 75 years empowering individuals around the world, 46,000 alumni, 1.5

million. we've worked across administrations in 2005 with project artemis empowering after ap began women, hundreds and hundreds who have empowered thousands and thousands, government leaders, business leaders, nonprofit leaders. it is an entire effort that's needed not only in afghanistan, but all around the world. and we believe absolutely that inclusion of women, their empowerment, training programs, entrepreneurship not only benefits them, but benefits societies. so militaries are actually necessary, but they're just part of that. now, the thunderbird school was founded by air force pilots that came back from world war ii. they saw the horrors of that war, and we know now that we have to step up again in the midst of this covid pan demic and what's happening in afghanistan to do that in this, now, next decade ahead. and women's empowerment is a much broader effort that we will continue to advance at the school and at the university. neil: all right. doctor, thank you very, very

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entrepreneur, he's a political activist, and i spoke with him yesterday. and during our interview, this was the interesting part, he was most animated when i talked to him about his political career. he's a senator from his home country in the philippines, and he's feuding with the philippine president duarte. listen to what he has to to say. >> when you are passionate, passionate with sports and passionate to help people, you're enjoying it. you don't get tired. i just want to serve the people and protect the people. i don't like corruption. i hate, i really hate corruption. because of corruption, we don't have economic growth and development. we, the people are suffering. >> neil, during our interview he clearly suggested that he might run for president, but first he

has a fight this saturday in vegas. it might be his last fight, he told me, and if he does retissuing he's going the retire -- retire, he's going to retire woo an interesting entrepreneurial career including one into crypto. listen up. >> help me to develop a crypto and path token. to we just started right now. it's good. good business. my plan this time is just one at a time, finish this on saturday and then another fight, if there is more. but it could be this is my last fight or there is more, i don't know. i mean if, i have another job that i need to focus on. >> neil, as you could tell, like, you know, it was not an easy interview. manny's a man of few words except on the political stuff.

i mean, when i started -- and, listen, we're a business channel, so i tried to get him to talk about, he has this souped-up water drink to help you, essentially, recover from workouts. i've tried it, it works really well. i tried to get him to talk on all this business stuff because boxers got taken advantage of for many years and then they have of to go into business. he's trying not to be that guy. but i am telling you the politics thing and the stuff with duarte got him going. he does not like president duarte and, you know, dollars to doughnuts, i bet he runs for president and, you know, he's going to retire from boxing, and that's what he's going to do, neil. back to you. neil: no. you don't want to get on the wrong side of that guy. [laughter] i know you follow boxing closely as well, probably the tyson era, he was bigger than that. pound for pound maybe one of the best with.

he's capped about a $200 million fortune, so he's not doing it for the money. i meaning he's like 42, 43 years old, so he's like the tom brady of boxing here, and he's still as good as he was in his younger days, but he seems to pick and choose his battles, right? >> well, i mean, when you get older, this is the problem boxers have, especially boxers like manny, who's a brawler, mayweather could get into the ring at 41, 42, doesn't take too many shots. if you're a boxer and you're in your 40 and you're still getting hit, you're rolling the dice, and i'm pretty sure one's telling him that that. that's why he's diversifying into this water drink, crypto and politics -- neil: what is the water thing about in now, i had recommended and sometimes back pumpkin lattes -- [laughter] and he passed me on that advice. i've heard a lot about this water drink. >> it's a great, it's like extra

h or -- h2, 0 in the h2, 0. what happens is you actually -- h2o. i do it before a 6-mile run and after, and you feel better, and you recover better. you know, listen, he didn't come up with the product, he's part of crew, but it does work. so he's doing this, he's doing clip -- crypto. you would think he'd want to pump his products a little. he didn't want to. he wanted to talk about duarte and corruption and the philippines and how he -- and he didn't say that much about the fight. he was like, ah, might be my last fight, but this is where i really want to go. it's fascinating. when was the last time a boxer had a political career? muhammad ali, i guess you could say, he didn't run for office -- neil: larry holmes had a big real estate empire that he tended to. a quick take also, is he accepting -- i know he's into bitcoin, is he getting paid in

bitcoin? >> no. no, i think what he's doing -- neil: diversify. >> well, i mean, it's like, listen, i don't want to dodge doge coip, but it's one thing to create a blockchain and develop a payment system using bitcoin's another thing, put your name behind a digital currency that may or may not take off. i think he's doing the latter, and we'll see what happens. i'm going to do a cavuto coin next -- neil: yeah, there we go. >> it's going to have a little -- neil i'm going to try that water with my next hoegy -- >> it works. it works. neil: all right. >> ill tell you -- i'll tell you. neil: got it. there we go. the next time we go running which is -- i'm driving next to him. anyway, charlie gasparino, thank you very much. no respect for bitcoin. spread it out. just spread it out. more after this. ♪ ♪

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, we are expected to hear from president biden any moment to address what's going on in afghanistan and what's been at least, exodus of folks from afghanistan. the problem is the airport processing individuals who want to leave. some of that process in other countries throughout the middle

east but the fact is, it led to closer than an eight hour halting flight out of the country. mcshane, chief national correspondent at the white house what we might expect from present biden corporate along we can certainly the president starting at cap david at the white house, a round-trip at camp david in schedule changes in between as he deals with the crisis in afghanistan for any minute now he will step up to the mic in the east room it's te second time this week we've seen the president in this setting talking about afghanistan as we wait for remarks, is a 32nd flashback if you will, same room, same topic, same president four days ago. >> the truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we anticipated. i will not mislead the american people by claiming that just a little more time in afghanistan make all the difference. did i believe to my core it is

wrong to order american troops to step up and afghanistan's own armed forces would not. >> the basic headlines from back, the president danny squarely behind his decision to pull up, it happened faster than he anticipated. with heavy evacuation efforts continuing, a number of questions have come up. we will see if he answers them in his remarks today even though there has been some signs of progress in the last couple of days in terms of the number of people getting out of afghanistan. you still have state department warning americans they can't ensure their safe passage to the airport in kabul at this time and the latest issue that has come up, no flights in the previous eight hours in kabul, the u.s. has been to keep afghan refugees because the military didn't have permission to fly them to the u.s. they can't process americans so

we will see if the president addresses that and if there's a new plan. we are waiting for changes from the president this week, the vice president kamala harris will join him ahead of her trip starts tonight to singapore and vietnam, proceeding a schedule for the to asia. president biden is going to stay here in washington d.c. rather go to delaware as far as we know this will be his only public appearance on afghanistan second time in the east room this week. neil: thank you for that. the state department, this processing of paperwork, you need a piece of paper, a visa, something to get you out of the country, easier said than done when you're talking thousands of people. >> also only a handful of staff there, yesterday the number was about 20 state department officials processing to get people out of the country. the state department are only going to search more but not telling us what the number is going to be. this is at a time when news reports service with confirmed wall street journal broke the

story that there was a dissent memo my secretary of state anthony late july embassy staffers in kabul warning about the situation intelligence ongoing fact, all of that information saying the situation in afghanistan was a real problem. we've heard from others think they were looking at intelligence week about afghanistan for quite some time. a source familiar with this situation says the secretary of state did see this memo he responded to it immediately and put a plan in place which was basically an ongoing effort to bring afghans to the u.s. while they waited for the government to approve their visas. the administration argues that the memo noted afghanistan could fall after the u.s. left august 31, not before that.

contacts in kabul say it's still chaotic at the airport, state department told americans to get to the airport but once the u.s. can't ensure their safety on that trip. also telling them to use their best judgment in getting to the airport. then there are tens of thousands of afghans who worked with the u.s. over the past two decades. we spoke to a former interpreter who says he's trying to get his family to kabul and then to the airport, we've obscured his face to protect his identity. >> now we are in afghanistan. i'm hiding in my friend's house. two or three times the caliban came and asked me, so this is very much for me. i wish i didn't work with the united states corporate and official is telling us there was a brief operation pause getting out because so many people had gotten out yesterday, there was a bit of backup in processing the commander on the ground has issued an order to start the fights back up again and again, getting to the airport is a

major challenge. neil: thank you for that. congresswoman susan of pennsylvania democrat joins us now, one of the committees that will dig into this and look at what happened and how everything imploded so quickly. thank you for taking the time. what you want to hear out of the president and a couple of minutes? >> thank you so much. i want to hear answers, i want -- most of all what i want to hear right now is that we are expediting the situation, moving this along and getting people out of afghanistan. that's what i want to hear first. later i'm going to -- i want answers to a lot of questions about what has happened. don't get me wrong, i think pulling out of afghanistan is long overdue but there are many questions about the execution of this as we all know.

neil: obviously it depends on how the president outlines this, a lot of people are surprised how quickly the government fell. you think the president himself was aware that it could happen in a matter of days, the state department what we don't know whether that made its way to him but if he had, do you think he would have slowed this down? in other words, he would have taken another look and said all right, we have to arrange for what could be an administrative nightmare getting these people out? >> i can't get into the president's and, i hope if you knew of this he would have taken steps before we would have executed on the plan to withdraw. that's obviously going to be front and center of the question next week when the house foreign affairs committee has hearings on this but what i want to hear from him right now today when he gets remarks in a few minutes, what are we doing to get this process through and done and get all those people out of

afghanistan? a delay of eight hours we've heard about is unacceptable. we have bases all over the world, thoughts get those people, if carter doesn't have the ability to process anymore, let's get them somewhere else. we've got the ability to do that. now let's do it, get the americans out, who got afghan allies out, we've heard countless stories of people who work so hard along with our military troops. we owe it to them and the families they are safe. whatever we have to do to make that happen, let's do it. i think all ants need to be on deck. speaking for the congress, i don't know of a single member who's not actively member acting whether they are foreign affairs or not. we are fielding calls, texts and all kinds of communications trying to help people get out to get to the right gate at the airport, i want to know the administration is doing that by

a force multiplier what we are doing. neil: we are getting reports, they're not reputable so i apologize if we can't nail these down, the countries like britain and france, germany have got into the outside the airport to get their people. we are not, and i guess it's by orders the army and marine people on the scene are not penetrating that because that's not what their mission is. do you think they should be? you think our soldiers have to go up and pass back perimeter to get people into the airport and out to the airport and not leave it at the caliban's discretion? >> first of all, those are unconfirmed reports, thank you for saying that. i do not want to see any of our troops put in harm's way.

having said that and whatever we might ultimately decide after the fact once we know all of the answers about whether it was done properly or not, we have got an absolute obligation to get every americans who want to leave afghanistan out of there along with afghan allies. to me, afghan allies, the people who work alongside our troops, i have colleagues who served in afghanistan who told me personally the tales of their interpreters who work so closely with them, those people might as well be americans. they are not but they are, they are absolutely deserving of safe transport to the united states or another location because they worked so hard the perpetuation of our mission in afghanistan. having said that, i think we have to do whatever it takes. this is not a time, we have to be cautious, but at the same

time we need to make sure we are working at warp speed to get this done. neil: thank you very much. susan in pennsylvania, a crucial domino of what happened on how it happened and how to prevent it. mark joins us right now, retired u.s. navy commander, commander, thank you for joining us. this issue of how we get more people out might involve the president giving a directive servant to allow our soldiers to go to that taliban's perimeter circling the airport and circling the issue, is not necessary? you think that's necessary? >> thanks for having me on today but i listen closely to the comments of your previous guest and i think the congresswoman

makes a lot of good points. what i would say is we absolutely have to keep our focus on the task at hand and while there will be time for hearings and thinking about what could have been done better, we have a major military operation here, which is an evacuation, the largest we've had in a couple decades the philippines. i'd say two things, we need to expand the safety zone around the airport and i think we need to ensure transit quarters that allow safe passage for those trying to access the airport, those are two things i would say and it may be, the ground commanders will make their determination here, where a few extra troops could make this operation go more smoothly, i think it's better to add more now than to wait and risk if it gets worse having to bring in a

much larger footprint. neil: you know, general, where time to figure out how many have to get out of there, somebody said as many as 60000 in other states 100,000. do you have any idea how many should be rescued? for that matter, whether we could pull that off? >> that's a great question, i know the state department has a center man up and they are working 24/seven around-the-clock to identify, it's a difficult challenge of who would qualify because we do need some betting, we can't just open up the gates and have people run on airplanes and fly them to delhi and theoretically to the united states at some time. it does take time and the numbers we get from anything from afghanistan are all over

the map. we thought at one time we had maybe 300,000 troops but maybe not and we found a period of weeks, they all just melted away. i think that is concerning. neil: i believe i called you general, i apologize, i want your sense whether other branches of the military should be brought in helping here, i'm just wondering especially now it's come to light that vladimir putin mixed joe biden's message some u.s. forces in the area around afghanistan and i'm just wondering what role we play in that region countries like russia are saying we can't or do we force the issue? >> that's another great question, i think you've put

your finger on it that if left adrift, russia and china clearly have plans how they will advance their interest and that's not our interest. my view is we need to stay engaged with the international community, with nato and allies and partners. we do have interests in this region and it will be messy, it will be unpleasant but again, if we learn any lessons from one we last departed the region in 1989, unfortunately 12 years later, it came back around to hit us with 9/11 so afghanistan is a difficult equation but i think it's in our interest to stay engaged, as challenging as it is thought i would say with allies, partners and international community. neil: i try to do this here but

i am curious about criticism that this president is getting, there's no right or proper way to leave. you can plan for certain things, because of debate how much they knew how quickly the government would collapse but could this have happened under the prior administration? was there a plan that could have robots that could have taken place earlier back in may? >> back in may president trump said that it would be wonderful and positive if we were able to leave afghanistan. president biden also thought we should withdraw from afghanistan so i think there was bipartisan consensus on this. what i would say, if you had a little longer of a timeline, say potentially a year versus the timeline we have now, i think

that could have provided a more orderly transition. again, it's monday quarterbacking, i do think at the end of the year you probably get the same result with the government would collapse after three weeks. i don't think -- again, my question is, after 20 years of u.s. nato international involvement, although money and equipment and the training, also loss of life we've sacrificed here in the u.s., the fact that the afghan government was not able to gain the trust of their citizens after 20 years, that's pretty unsettling and i don't think we were there another 20 years that would necessarily change. neil: commander, thank you very much. thank you for your incredible service to this country. mark bruner. where we stand right now waiting to hear

operation continues right now, the president has indicated one of the things to get everyone we want out, out but who is everyone? what is he talking about? how far does everyone extend just u.s. personnel, those are concerned whether they can live in a taliban regime? who? that will decide a long way how long this goes on. some say weeks, others say months.

where waiting for the president of united states, i'm wondering one of my favorite yes on the show, he can croak with the punches here, we are trying to get a sense about what's next for us when things calm down, interestingly enough, it's not the market today, having nothing to do with afghanistan so what kind of a factor is this for the market? >> i don't think afghanistan is that much of a factor because if you look at what goes on with afghanistan other than a major terrorist attacks, which it becomes out of afghanistan would

be problematic but the market is in predicting that. afghanistan is really producing a lot of stuff that we are using soak the extent that this problem, and it serious, stays contained in afghanistan. markets are not going to be fazed by this at all and clearly we are seeing that. neil: you know what kind of wild, looking at the global market reaction to this every day, you would think that at least if you're in the neck about afghanistan which, i'm talking the entire middle east, that would have been under intense pressure certainly this week, certainly leading up to this month, even this year but look at saudi arabia market, stable today, it's up 4% on the month, 43% the year, this is a similar theme throughout the region. it is alarming to me or surprising to me because they are right there. if any market would feel that craziness and concern about the next domino would be and yet

not, why do you think that is? >> you know, i think what we have to do is look at it from the perspective of being in that part of the world. uncertainty, craziness, volatility, status the norm for the markets over there are used to this unsettling activity. this is a bigger one but again, i think a lot of people saw this coming. maybe we didn't but i think it came down to we were going to pull out, i think those markets anticipated that there was going to be chaos. the telegram are running right through the country and let's see what's going to happen from that brett this is normal over there. neil: there is something to that. let me ask you about another thing, i don't think afghanistan

is one of them but maybe it come back after this week, that's what we are seeing play out today or maybe we overreacted to this in the federal reserve but could it be a possibility that the afghan situation and now it calls for hearings, that could begin as soon as next week are going to delay and with tax hikes that will pay for them. what you think? >> neil, it is only going to delay that if they don't have the votes. once nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have the votes to be able to rambis wild spending through, that is going to happen. all of these things happening with afghanistan. neil: do you think -- some are wondering now, it's a 2022

event? >> again, i collectivists. if they have the votes before the end of the year, they are going to go for it. i doubt they are going to ram through something this big in an election year so i say this, if they get it through this year, they will. if they don't, but i'm not so sure it will happen. i think the vote on tax increases and all this spending and what could come out of it, may be a little risky and an election year so i say this year or bus. neil: what you make of it fact that interest rates, all of this, it's things for oil, i get that but is it a reflection of a nervous world, quite a few foreign buyers this week, that doesn't shock me but it could also be a reflection and appears of us). what is the? >> how about this basic concept, how about jay powell wants to

keep his job at the fed if he starts raising interest rates, that closes, causes all kinds of chaos within the stock market so i hear what you are saying, those are good points but if you break it down to what's importao me, meaning the fed, it's like a politician. keeping your job. the status quo of keeping low interest rates will be helpful. again, market is going to be impacted by interest rates, nothing else. so that's what i'm thinking could be behind the determination not to raise rates. neil: we will watch that closely. thank you for joining us for breaking news. i wanted to pick your brain on this. i want to go to -- she's keeping an eye on some other things including what's happening with

tesla right now, there's a pickup and buying, not a bunch. flat money on the year but must is 20 with something that goes way beyond cars but what is he up to? >> you are looking at it. the robot except it's a human dressed as a robot so basically elon musk want tesla to be more than a car company and enticing to any went into artificial intelligence. listen. >> world's biggest robotics company because our cars are semi- cynthia's robots on wheels, it makes sense to put on to a human so we think we will probably have a prototype sometime next year. >> that tesla time next year, so many years. that's a translation because what you saw last night was a human dressed as a robot called optimist can go shopping, iron flipping, basically do all of this stuff you don't want to do.

it has a body or will have a body looking like hours but it's basically going to be a screen using the same autopilot camera to inform what it sees. some brokers and even myself today are calling this a distraction from the real issues, technology issues being investigated right now by safety regulators related to tesla's software. critics say the software is reckless because it lets real technology to early and makes them feel like they can stop watching the road. that covers basically all the cars tesla sold in the u.s. in the past seven years so the same technology powers the humanoid robot, i think i'd appreciate the fact that i can run faster than that robot which is 5 miles an hour, i know the robot can longer than i can but he supposed to be a friendly robot but i think people were worried about job threatened or worried.

neil: it creeps me out, freddy krueger, friday 13th. i don't know. stick to the cars. >> is this the future? robotic personal assistance? we get paid by the government like a monthly stipend, universal basic income because we can't get a job unless we know how to design a robot? neil: what's next, robotic anchors. wait a minute. thank you very, very much. i'm following all of that, we are still waiting on the president of the united states, he's going to react to criticism earlier in the week, he's going to let it fly away from him, speaking of flying, they are talking about resuming flights. the problem is in the paperwork because no matter where you are in the world, if you want to leave, he better have corresponding documents and for those thousands trying to get out of afghanistan, they don't

have that. that is the problem. no one was prepared for that.

we are just learning u.s. appeals court rejected this move to help the cdc eviction moratorium. cdc pushed back a little bit to say people are in duress because of the virus and etc., you can't just throw them out right now. a lot of people protested back from a class action lawsuit a lot of landlords have said you have to stick to something and make sure we stick to the original schedule. their appeal dropped, appeals court saying essentially the eviction moratorium stands. that is the crucial part. in the meantime waiting for the president to outline exactly what he wants to do and how he sees things unfolding and getting people out of the

country quote what's on the back and forth on this, and here a lot of certainly what the taliban is thinking because they are up on twitter sharing that news. donald trump is having a devil of a time sharing his news unless he goes on networks talks outside of twitter. it's a double standard, a lot of people want to wait a minute from fortis on this tolerant account? lydia has more on that. >> it seems at least for now, it seems taliban will continue its presence on social media platform for now and there's a feature called auto recommendation feature seems like it could be helping taliban following. a user follows a taliban spokesperson, it seems to recommend other accounts to follow including other members of the taliban. a spokesperson that i checked

had nearly 60000 new followers since just tuesday reaching nearly 340,000 followers. when we contacted twitter social media platform didn't say it would turn off auto recommend feature but said they are taking action on content that violates twitter rules and specifically policies prohibiting violence, abuse of behavior, hateful conduct. some experts say the talleyrand of twitter is like a weapon they are using it to legitimize themselves to a western audience. >> this is a group that commits mass executions, oppresses and enslaves women, deprives children of rights, teaches men to hunt down workers, suicide bombings and get this organization is on twitter and platforms as legitimate. >> facebook and linkedin have

not only banned the talleyrand but they launched safety features, a one click button allowing users in afghanistan to free their accounts so the taliban cap access and follow them on facebook. twitter says they are taking steps to protect their users but they did not specify exactly how. neil: thank you for that, lydia. we are also following the money we've already frozen that could be available to the talleyrand, nine and half billion dollars former treasury department financial to afghanistan, good to have you, sir. money we are freezing, the talleyrand want that, they want to get their hands on back but the oath government money are arguing we have a new government. where is this going? >> thank you so much for having me.

they mentioned during your show yesterday that this money is for the afghan people, it's their rainy day fund and doesn't deserve to go to the taliban, especially not right now. this money should be held in new york and i commend my former treasury department colleagues and other interagency and other partners in seizing the money in preventing the taliban getting access to the huge fall. neil: did it go to the people of afghanistan in the prior government? >> it stayed as a rainy day fund for truly economic emergency. the ims classified as an import reserve so if afghanistan ran out of money for could still have enough buffer to deal with the crisis to provide for basic imports until something else came into place to help the afghan people. neil: do you know, former

afghan, i'm sure you have good connections what's going on in the government right now, the taliban has a big jobs on its hands and all associated with it and all the mechanisms and infrastructures, they will no doubt make a case they will need that money and other money and health to go beyond just rainy day fund, do you think they'll just get it? how do they play the global stage to get it? >> that's a great question, it depends on which tolerant and showing up and they have to speak not just by their rhetoric but deeds and actions and i'm concerned about their actions on the ground right now but for the international community to support the taliban including the united states, they have to radically change their behavior and be responsible international citizen the afghan people and regional and global security. with that, the u.s. government my former colleagues and while in government advising both obama and trump administration,

the u.s. government does an incredible job to support humanitarian assistance on the ground while denying unjust enrichment of a government led by the taliban and they did this around the world so it's a big challenge right now but i have full confidence in the way that professional civil service as well as current political leadership treasury by secretary ellen and deputy secretary can navigate this. neil: they have a lot of confidence about their handling and the sudden fall of the government, do you trust the economic guys faced with this to do better? >> i have the opportunity to work for deputy secretary of the white house, former deputy national security advisor. secretary yelling is no ranger to financial crisis. the challenge here identified in wall street journal recently 12 republicans holding up denomination for to keep

national security positions national security. while i was in afghanistan, i had direct access to those and we had a process but by the national security treasury so i have full confidence in the political leadership but in a time of crisis we need all hands on deck and everybody in their confirmed position were eligible and qualified for those roles. neil: do you have any sense they're going to reestablish order and processing that apparently a lot is just logistics of getting recess stamped and approved and done for tens of thousands of people? is a large undertaking but are you confident that could be stabilized? >> i have full confidence in our military and diplomats, i have the opportunity to work with them on the ground for 15 months in afghanistan and i was incredibly encouraged the state department, ambassador john

bascom at the ambassador i worked for whose work across multiple democrat and republican penetrations and but disease to take the lead on the diplomatic response at the airport right now so guess. neil: all right. alex, thank you very much. we are about a minute away from the president from what producers are telling me, we have to go to commercial and we will right now.

i know this is waiting and waiting and waiting, this was supposed to happen about 47, 48 minutes ago to hear from the president of the united states to hear what's going on in afghanistan, we understand the administration is going to talk how things are stabilizing a little bit here but we are hearing reports written and germany and the front themselves are sending their own people

outside into their to get their people out of the country. it's not a real distress or, the reasons why we are selling off prior. the market so far as ignoring this, what you make of this? >> i think investors are more focused on earnings growth, what the fed is up to it etc. but this is an overhang that is significant, not only in overhang of the country's sentiment, i think the mood is so darkened and the country as people are horrified by what's going on in afghanistan and the administrations unbelievably terrible job confronting it. i think americans who have not seen joe biden or paid attention to his what seems to me diminished capacity to address the america public and etc. are

now aware of that and i think people are anxious about whether or not we have a president who can lead us forward. there are other ramifications here, i think joe biden political capitol is significantly diminished whether that means his aggressive agenda big spending plans will go forward or not, i think they are real concerns. the market loves that open path of government resources of government money flooding into the economy. if it doesn't happen and some of the bills, particularly three and a half killing dollar bill sidelined, some people will be relieved but i think there's a sense of disappointment so . neil: the president of the united states now. >> secretary austin, security advisor sullivan and other members of national security leadership team the situation room to discuss our ongoing

effort to evacuate american citizens. third country civilians, afghan allies and vulnerable afghans. i want to provide the american people a brief update on the situation afghanistan. since i spoke to you monday, we've made significant progress. we've secured the airport, enabling lights to resume, not just military flights but civilian charters from other countries and ngos taking out civilians and vulnerable afghan a's. now we have almost 6000 troops including 82nd airborne providing runway security, the army mountains division standing guard around the airport, the 24th marine expeditionary unit in the civilian departure. this is one of the largest most difficult chairlifts in history and the only country in the world capable of projecting this much power on the far side of

the world, to this degree of precision is the united states of america. we've already evacuated more than 18000 people since july and approximately 13000 since our military lift began august 14. thousands more have been evacuated on private charter flights facilitated by the u.s. government. these numbers include american citizens and permanent residents as well as their families. includes as ivy applicant, those afghans who have worked alongside us served alongside of us, got into combat with us and provided assistance to us such as translators and interpreters. united states stands by its commitment that we've made to these people and includes other mobile afghans such as women leaders and journalists. in fact, working in close coordination with management of new york times and washington

post, the "wall street journal", we've successfully evacuated all 204 of their employees in afghanistan and u.s. military aircraft earlier this week. we've established the flow of flights and we've increased the number of people we are moving out of the country. we've had flights from cobalt a few hours this morning to make sure we process evacuate the transit points. our commander in couple has already given the order for flights resume. even with a pause, we've moved out 5700 evacuate since yesterday and we are working on a variety to verify that number of americans still in country as we work on this because we are not getting the xact number of americans there and those who may have come home to the united states, we want a strong number exactly how many are there, how many american citizens and where they are. just yesterday, among americans

we've evacuated, 169 we've got over the wall into the airport using military assets. we are facilitating flights for allies and our partners and working close operational coordination with nato on this evacuation. for example, we've provided overwatch for the french convoy bringing hundreds of people from the french embassy to the airport. these operations are going to continue in the coming days before we complete our drawdown. we are going to do everything, everything we can to provide safe evacuation for afghan allies, partners and afghans who might be targeted because of association with the united states. let me be clear about any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. make no mistake, this evacuation mission is dangerous that

involves risks to our armed forces and as we conducted under difficult circumstances. i cannot promise the final outcome will be and what it will be, that it will be without risk of loss but as commander-in-chief, i can assure you that i will mobilize every resource necessary and as an american, i offer my gratitude to the brave men and women of the u.s. armed forces carrying out this mission. they are incredible. as we continue to work logistics of evacuation, we are in constant contact with the taliban to ensure civilians have safe ways to the airport. we are particularly focused on engagement making sure every american who wants to lead can get to the airport. where we have been seeing challenge for americans, we have thus far been able to resolve them. we've been -- look, we've made

clear to the taliban that any attack, any attack on our forces or destruction of operations in the airport will be met with swift and forceful response. we are keeping a close watch on any potential terrorist threat at or around the airport including the ice its affiliates in afghanistan who were released from prison and prisons were empty. because they are, by the way, to make everybody understand that the isis and afghanistan have been the sworn enemy of the taliban. i've set all along, we are going to retain laser focus on counter terrorism mission, working in close coordination with allies and partners. all of those who have an interest in ensuring the ability in the region, secretary blinking was with me today, met this morning with nato allies about the way forward so afghanistan cannot be used in

the future as a terrorist base of attacking to attack the u.s. or our allies. for 20 years, afghanistan has been a joint effort with nato allies. we went in together and we are leaving together. now we are working together to bring our people and afghan partners to safety. the past few days have also spoken directly with the british prime minister, chancellor in germany and president macron of france. we all agreed we should convene and will convene the g7 meeting next week, a group of the world's leading democracies so together we can coordinate our mutual approach, united approach on afghanistan moving forward. we are united with closest partners to execute the mission at hand. we've also discussed the work

within our national community to provide humanitarian assistance such as medical care for refugees who have crossed into neighboring countries to escape the taliban. to bring international pressure on the taliban with respect to the treatment of afghan people over all including afghan particularly women and girls. the past week has been heartbreaking we've seen got wrenching images of panicked people backing out of sheer desperation. it's completely understandable they are frightened sad, uncertain of what happens next. i don't think anyone of us can see these pictures and not feel that pain on a human level. now we have a mission, a mission to complete afghanistan. it's an incredibly and difficult operation for our military. we have almost 6000 americans

fighting men and women at the kabul airport. they're putting their lives on the line, they are doing it in a dangerous place to save other americans, afghan allies and citizens of our allies. i talked to our commanders on the ground there every single day as i did just an hour or so ago. i made it clear to them, we will get them whatever they need to do the job. performing to the highest standard under extraordinarily difficult dynamic circumstances. nato allies are strongly standing with us, their troops keeping alongside hours in kabul as is the case whenever i deploy our troops into harms way, i take that responsibility seriously. i carry that burden every day

just as i did when i was vice president, as my son was deployed to iraq or your. but now, now i am focus on getting this job done. i would ask every american to join with me in their lives on the ground in the service, as events evolve over the coming days, my team and i will continue to share the information and update the america people on exactly where things are. we need every resource necessary to carry out the mission at hand and bring to safety american citizens and our afghan allies. this is our focus now. when this is finished, who will complete our military withdrawal finally bring to an end 20 years of military action in afghanistan. thank you and me god bless our

troops and diplomats and all those serving in harm's way and now i will take questions. >> thank you, president. to live up to their promises, you promise -- you promise to help bring out those who helped america in these efforts. you see heart wrenching images at the airport people trying to, the people who can't get to the airport. you made the commitment to get the american troops and citizens out, will you make the same commitment to those who assisted the american war effort over the last 20 years? number one. then number two, what is your message to america's partners around the world who have criticized not with her withdrawal but the conduct of the withdrawal and make the impression on the world stage? >> i've seen no question fire allies around the world. i've spoken with nato