maria: a big thank you to dagen mcdowell and monica i crowley. ladies, great to be with you this morning. "varney & co." begins right now. ashley webster in for stu, take it away. ashley: thank you. good morning, maria. indeed, i am ashley webster in for stuart varney. i stand what squarely by my decision, that's what president biden said in his first remarks following the devastating explosions in kabul that a killed 13 soldiers. at least 95 afghans were also killed making it the deadliest attack in more than a decade. we are going to have live reports from across the globe throughout the next three hours.

and take a look at this image from yesterday's news conference. president biden clearly looking defeated. stuart has been asking the question, is the president up to the job? and we will continue to ask that question today. if now, let's take a look at the markets. yesterday snapping a five-day win streak, falling as news spread of those attacks in kabul. here's where we stand today, all the major markets, as you can see, up around a quarter of a percent after losing half a percent yesterday. meantime, those markets also will be looking for clues from fed chairman powell. he'll be speaking at 10 is a.m. eastern this morning. edward lawrence, by the way, has an exclusive interview with st. louis fed president james bullard coming up at 11:30 eastern. we've got a big show ahead, former navy if seals, bret baier and steve hilton all here to react to the fast moving developments out of afghanistan.

president biden says the deadline sticks. august 31st is just four days away. it is friday, august the 27th. "varney & co." about to given. ♪ -- about to begin. ♪ ♪ >> you said the buck stops with you. do you bear any responsibility for the way that things are have unfolded in the last two weeks? >> i bear responsibility for, fundamentally, all that's happened. imagine where we'd be if i had indicated on may the 1st i was not going to renegotiate a evacuation date, we were going to stay there. ashley: president biden breaking his silence nearly seven hours after the deadly kabul terror attack that killed 13 servicemen. and as we said, marking the

deadliest day for the military in more than a decade. let's bring in dave spears, former navy seal team 35 commander. good -- team 5 commander. good to see you this morning. the president took preselected questions. as i was watching that news conference yesterday, i saw a person that did not look strong and ready to respond. he appeared weak and, quite frankly, a bit befuddled, if you like, shellshocked. what is the leadership here? what's your opinion in. >> that is the big question, ashley. and, you know, i don't like to get political or attack one side or the other. however, that said is the president is the commander in chief. he owns everything that has happened since january 20th. and you could see this coming. and his demeanor, the messaging that his administration is coming out portrays no responsibility, no accountability and definitely no

leadership. and it's really damaging to our nation. ashley: well, this is a tough question to ask you, but is this commander in chief competent? is he up for the job? >> i mean, right now from everything i've seen, no. he's turned and he's -- he is callous towards the lives that have been lost. he's made political decisions, so, for example, the september 11 date of the pullout seems to be simply about optics and that he wanted to make a speech on september 11th that he had pulled out of afghanistan. that drives the decision that has lost a lot of lives, refugees, has caused enormous damage to our nation's reputation, betrayed allies all for politics. ashley: yeah. >> and in terms of that, you know, i think the voter has to determine at the polls is he competent or not. ashley: right. yes, you're right. dave, president biden was also pressed on whether sharing our

very own u.s. intelligence with the taliban was a good idea. listen to his answer, and then i'll ask you. >> -- when our military has contacted their military counterparts in the taliban and said this, for example, this bus is coming through with x number of people on it made if up of the following group of people. we want you to let that bus or that group through. so, yes, there have been occasions like that. ashley: dave, i'm shocked by this, but what do you make of our military sharing intelligence with the enemy? >> i feel like we're living in some kind of alternate reality. this trust in the taliban is unbelievable. giving them a list is unbelievable. i mean, he should get them on the phone, talk to them, have them gather at the capital and

then drop j downs right where he's talking to them. if i mean, it is amazing. it's unbelievable that we're doing this. if. ashley: yeah. very quickly, there were reports that we should never are have given up the bagram air base many early july because -- in early july because that is a place that we could have easily secured and would have avoided all this chaos and danger if kabul. in can kabul. was that a monumental mistake? >> i believe it was a huge strategic blunder. so you also had the prison at a bagram that let out 5,000 different isis and hardened al-qaeda and taliban troops. it gives you a second point to launch operations from, to have rotary wing helicopter from. kabul airport sets up as a single point of failure in an urban environment. it's just strategically a terrible decision. ashley: talking of that, how can we trust the taliban? we'ring them to -- we're asking them to provide security.

i mean, you talk about an alternate world, that's the ultimate. >> it is. so here's an indication for you. look at the video that's being shot of the people, the afghan people charging towards the airport, the afghan people charging towards the border points in pakistan. they're telling you everything that you need to know about taliban and how they're going to rule, how you can trust them and what they're going to do. they are doing -- people hanging off of airplanes to escape the taliban. that tells you everything you need to know about the taliban. ashley: yeah. all right, we'll have to leave it there. dave, thanks so much for taking time to chat with us this morning. we do appreciate your perspective. thank you very much. >> thanks, ashley. ashley: thank you. parts of president biden's speech really raised some eyebrows, and it's going to be the question we'll be asking this morning. i already just asked, is the president -- dave, i should say, is the president really up for the job? take a looked at these moments. take a look. >> we have so much to do.

it's within our capacity to do it, we just have to remain steadfast. steadfast. they gave me a list here. the first person i was instructed to call on was kelly o'donnell of nbc. ashley: yeah. i mean, who is in charge? who's instructing the president to call on reporters? who's really in charge here in we're going to have more on that issue throughout the show. all right, let's get our attention now to the markets, bring in kenny bull gary. the markets actually dropped yesterday once word spread that our troops were injured in those athe taxes. i think that's the first -- attacks. i think that's the first reaction we've seen from afghanistan. are the markets now watching more closely? >> well, listen, i think there were two reasons. i think they started to be weak

on those very hawkish comments we got out of some of the fed members, and then the afghanistan news only exacerbated kind of that negative tone, the angst that was then created, nervousness that was created. so, yes, i think the market's paying attention to it, but i think it is still -- and i hate to say it like this -- i think it's simmering on the back burner. i do not think that's the driver. the futures are up strongly today in kind of a rebound from yesterday on expectations about what jay powell is going to say this morning. ashley: well, that's it, you know, mr. powell will take the stage at 10a. in jackson -- 10 a.m. in jackson hole. what do youment expect to hear from him? >> i expect that he's going to reiterate his narrative, saying that while we're there, we're not there yet and, yes, we're talking talking about it, but we haven't made a decision yet. it'll be in complete contrast to what we heard yesterday out of the three fed voices, right?

but i made a point in my note this morning, which is very interesting and people may not realize it, the three hawkish voices yesterday are non-voting members of the fed. so while they can say all they want, they do not have a vote, and that's going to be jay powell's recourse. he's going to say, listen, they are members of the fed, fed presidents, but they are not on the board. so you have to make your own decision about what they're saying. i'm telling you this is the way it's going to go, and that's what i think we're going to hear. ashley: well, i would say, and i don't know if you agree, that the fed chair can use the resurgence, if you like, of the delta variant to kind of hold off on any, you know, sense that, oh, yes, by the end of september we're going to start ending the qe program. if he does say that, if he turns hawkish, do we see a big selloff going into the weekend? >> i think if he turns hawkish, he's going to catch everyone by surprise and, yes, i think you're going to see a turn-around in the market,

right? if he starts to indicate a september-october event which is not what the market's expecting, enthen, yes, i think. if he does exactly, reiterates his current narrative, enthen i -- then i think the market looks towards november-december as the real start date, and that's what i think he's going to do. ashley: i think you're exactly right. kenny, thanks for joining us. have a great weekend. >> you too, ashley. ashley: thank you. taking a look at those future, we're rebounding a little bit. all the major markets sold off a half a percent yesterday, we're already back a quarter of a percent on those very same markets. lawmakers are demanding president biden resign over the crisis in afghanistan. california congressman mark -- is one of them. listen to his take on the catastrophic situation. >> there's going to be blood on his hands that are americans, the blood of our allies. we're, unfortunately, likely not going to get everyone out, and the taliban's going to take over and kill those folks that we do leave bemind.

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griff, what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning, ashley. well, the latest is the evacuations are are continuing, they are not slowing down in the wake of that deadly attack and amid these high terror threats. secretary of state blinken issuing a statement yesterday handling our lost service -- hailing our lost service members as heroes adding they put themselves in harm's way so we can do our jobs on behalf of the american people. even after the attack, they are doing that right now in kabul as they are in so many other parts of the world, and they will continue to do so as we complete the mission. and, ashley, we got a clear picture of how many americans may remain of the estimated 1500 who were stranded, 500 have been evacuated. and, they say, of the remaining 1,000, the, quote, vast majority -- over two-thirds -- are believed to be nearly or already out of the country with dozens who want to remain and not leave for a variety of reasons. they also say they've heard from an additional 500 people who say

they're americans wanting to leave. state department trying to contact them. meanwhile, the guidance for americans till in country is avoid returning to the airport and avoid all airport gates unless directed otherwise. but the fact is they don't have an exacting accounting, ashley, and they do not deny that some americans could be left behind dependent upon the taliban. >> we will continue to work to get people out of afghanistan even after the 31st, ask we will need to coordinate with the taliban in order to do that. i'm not going to label that a partnership or anything other than continued coordination. >> reporter: as for afghan allies who may be left behind, the administration fully admitting not everyone who wants to get out will get out. meanwhile, the administration is touting their efforts so far saying 105,000 people have gotten out, 12,500 is just the -- in just the last 24 hours. ashley? ashley: griff, thank you very much for the latest there. let's bring in congressman mike

garcia, republican from california and, by the way, a former navy fighter pilot. congressman, good morning. >> good morning, ashley. ashley: you say the catastrophe in afghanistan is cause for president biden to resign. make your case. >> yeah. i think he's clearly shown a level of incompetence that is unprecedented in the oval office especially in the last hundred years or so. look, he's not going to resign. if he resigns, we end up with kamala harris, so i don't know that that makes things any better. what i want is this president to be a little more upset about the fact that we just lost 13 u.s. military personnel. what i want is him to be a little more upset about the fact that we have thousands of americans stranded in afghanistan, and we don't actually even know the exact number still to this date. i want him to revoke the 8/31 pullout date and change this mission. i want him to hand the reins over to the department of defense instead of department of state. if this needs to be treated like a military operation and,

honestly, the threat is commensurate with that. we have a threat now on three fronts. they're killing our troops, they're killing dozens of civilians, and we need to treat this like a military operation rather than a diplomatic one. and above all things, i want our president to stop giving hope to the bad guys. this is a continuation of his unnecessary concessions to countries like russia, china, iran, venezuela, the tyrannical regime in cuba. we see this over and over again, a tend city to kowtow to the bad guys rather than giving hope to the good guys, in this case to our civilians and military personnel in afghanistan as well as our allies. we need to see a paradigm shift from the oval office immediately, or we're on an extremely dangerous trajectory over the next three and a half years. ashley: what i don't understand, congressman, is the president getting all of this advice from those around him including military leaders? they're the ones -- can they

possibly, you know, ad vise him that this was the right way to go? >> i don't know if they are or not. i do know he's a dyed in the wool appeaser, he's got a terrible track record when it comes to national security. remember, this is a president in 1975, a year before i was born, was tearing into the oval office demanding that we pull out of vietnam at all costs without any consideration for the fallout. this was somebody who was pushing president obama at the time as vice president to pull out of iraq at all costs and in a manner that ended up leading to the invigoration of isis in iraq as well as syria. so these are his true colors, right? this isn't something that is an anomaly or different than anything he's shown in the past. ashley: right. >> he's not listening to his military advisers, i can tell you that, expect fact that he's trying to keep -- and the fact that he's trying to keep this a department of state and a diplomatic mission rather than

military is at the foundation of the causal factors. ashley: all right. we'll have to leave it there. congressman garcia, thank you so much. >> thank you, ashley, appreciate it. ashley: house minority leader kevin mccarthy is calling for the house to return from recess to vote on legislation that would delay the withdrawal from afghanistan. let's bring in susan li. good morning to you. >> good morning. ashley: what details do you have? >> he wants the house to take legislative action that would force the pentagon to submit daily status reports to congress on the evacuation and troop reductions. >> this administration has put america in this position. this is unacceptable. nancy pelosi needs to bring us back into session, bring up this bill, move this deadline and make sure every single american is able to leave afghanistan. >> pelosi had called members back to d.c. this week for a two-day session to vote on that $3.5 trillion budget bill, but the house is now on recess until september 20th. the pelosi spokesperson pu

firing back at mccarthy calling it a dangerous stunt, counterproductive and a dangerous time the tie the commander in chief's hands. lawmakers in both parties have now urged a delay in that august 31st deadline after their intelligence hearings this week. ashley: yes, they have. all right, susan, thank you very much. taking a quick look at the futures, a modest gain at the opening bell which rings, by the way, in seven minutes. we'll be right back. (judith) in this market, you'll find fisher investments is different than other money managers. (other money manager) different how? don't you just ride the wave? (judith) no - we actively manage client portfolios based on our forward-looking views of the market. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions, right? (judith) no, we don't sell commission products. we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client's best interest.

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subhuman life under sharia law out of afghanistan, this true horror, ashley, it actually breaks me up to see our soldiers murdered by islamists once again, these people who kill a man because he's gay, whip a woman simply because she's uncovered. i mean, this is the middle ages. this is the dark ages right here, right now. i think it's disgusting, i would bet against it, i am betting against it. but then again, the islam arists are betting against us. what do we do all day long, making money, using futures, islamists i think that's immoral. look, i'm short the market, but i'm very short what i'm seeing in afghanistan and all throughout the middle east. it's disgusting and horrible what's happened to our american service people. ashley: couldn't agree more. you say you're short stocks, in particular apple. why? >> yeah. i mean, apple is a fan favorite. i think of it in a weird way, the oracle, ashley, the oracle of its day. in 2000 oracle was a great company and a great stock, but

it was overdone and basically underperformed for a decade. look, i appreciate all of what comes out of silicon valley. we've erased these people as liberals, but they're heroes, ashley. at the same time, i'm getting against exactly those stocks. i think they're overdone. at the same time, i appreciate the true innovations that silicon valley brings to us. i'm short those stocks, but i'm so appreciative of america and all that innovation that silicon valley pumps out day after day after day. ashley: i glee with that without -- agree with that without reserve, jonathan. and very quickly, fed chairman powell speaking today. are you expecting more of the same? >> well, absolutely. i mean, look, what they're doing, unfortunately, ashley, is creating inflation. we've talked about it on fox business for the last couple of months now. people think they got a 2% pay raise, they actually lost 2% because of that hidden scourge of inflation. it's not caused byville, greedy big business, it's caused by government money printing.

if we need to make more and more just to keep up with the fact that our dollars are worth less and less. ashley: that's a very good point, and we'll have to leave it there, jonathan. thank you very much. the opening bell just getting ready to be rung on this friday as we head into the weekend. yesterday the markets lost about half a percent across the board. already the futures pointing to a slight rebound. let's wait and see. the market is underway, and the opening bell has been rung. all right, there you go. everyone's happy, cheering. take a look at the big board, there you go. these are the 30 stocks that make up the dow and look at all the green led by chevron, dow, nike, caterpillar. right out of the gate the dow up 67 points. all right, let's take a look at the s&p if we can. that market also, this that exchange gained about half a percent if yesterday, back up again today. modestly so. up at 4478 for a gain of two-tenths of a percent. and let's take a look at the nasdaq if we can as well, also

in the green in the very early going, up about two-tenths of of a percent at 14,971. all right, now show me peloton, tanking. and it's not just about disappointing earnings, right, susan? >> reporter: injuries going back to their tread mill which it recalled a back in may after reports of one child's death. the department of homeland security has subpoenaed peloton looking at injuries going back to their equipment. they had a report card, and they're cutting the price as the most popular bike by 20% which now starts at 1495, so that's $400 cheaper. the peloton has had incredible growth, fitness subscriptions doubling and digital subscriptions almost tripling over the past 12 months. ashley: down nearly 7% alreadied today. also show me gap. different story for them, susan. they've getting a big boost from back to school shopping.

>> yeah. so so they're doing very well when it comes to apparel, $4 billion in sales plus, old navy, athleta doing well for gap, and they're raising full-year sales guidance which, i think, is a positive read on consumer spending. if. ashley: all right. and let's take a look at work f we can. they're getting a nice boost from people working from home, right? if. >> must be nice. [laughter] cloud-based and financial software maker, higher than attempted sales, and subscription revenue was up by a quarter. so, yes, remote work continuing to drive the stock. ashley: all right. let's take a look at hp and dell, also benefiting as people work remotely. >> yeah, they are. ashley: the question is, why are they both down? >> there's been a resurgence, a pc boom, but the problem is they can't get enough chips to make those pcs fast enough, so hp reporting lower sales because it

couldn't find chips to put into their computers and printers, and dell also benefiting from, yes, that work from home boom but, again, supply chain challenges which means they can't find the parts to put into their pcs. the takeaway, demand is there, i think supply, obviously, is the issue. ashley: yep. no chips, can't sell them. susan, you're also looking at some other movers. let's begin with apple. >> i think this is important to note this morning, the fact that it's not really moving the stock, but apple relaxing some rules in the app store in that possible settlement with the fortnite, epic games lawsuit and other developers as well. apple will now let developers e-mail users about alternative ways to pay outside of the app store. they're also setting up a $100 million fund for smaller developers as well. you want to get new some of the autozones and the auto stocks there, ashley? ashley: yeah, why not? i'm interested. go for it. >> you remember we had the used car boom because they couldn't

get the chips to make the new cars. well, that helped a lot of these autozone, auto parts companies. morgan stanley is downgrading them to equal weight because they've run up so much that there isn't that much more upside in their view. so autozone's 16.50, and advanced is going to be roughly worth around 2.20 or so. can't talk about cars without talking about elon miss, right, ash? -- elon musk, right, ash? he's filed to become an electricity provider in texas, they're going to build the battery, electricity and charge for it in the future. i always say it's a friday and you can't go without mentioning an elon musk tweet, so so here you have jeff bezos and this continuing billionaire battle, and musk tweeting that bezos retired in order to participate in a full-time job filing lawsuits. [laughter] blue origin, the 17th launch

yesterday, but also contesting that multihundred billion, million dollar contract with the defense department. ashley: great stuff. susan, thank you very much. aldi's market outlet, the retailer facing a tough year certainly because of supply chain issues, but same-store sales down 28%. throw that all together, and you see a stock down $7, down more than 9% at $70 for ollie's bargain outlet. are let's take a look at some of the dow winners if we can in this very early going, market open just five minutes. dow, chevron, boeing, not bad, up nearly 1%. goldman sachs also up nearly 1%. take a look at the s&p 500 winners, you have the gap, we just talked about that. energy names, occidental, apache, marathon doing well, and frontier vehicle also up more than 3%.

and let's take a look at the nasdaq, if we can. nvidia, again, applied materials up just over 1% and autodesk also up is 1%. all right, let's take a look at the 10-year yield, see where that is headed at this hour. as you can sees the -- well, we can see the dow jones is up 91 points, but the yield on the 10-year treasury down a basis point at 1.346%. take a look at gold. is any money going into gold? no, coming out, down $3 at 1791. and how about bitcoin? let's see where bitcoin is, up about half a percent if at $47,2 35. almost tried to take away $10. crude oil up, as you can see, about $68.69 for crude, nearly up 2%. the price of gas, by the way, holding at $3.14, that's down 3 cents in a week but still higher than a year ago when the

national average, remember this, was just $2.22. those were the magical days. all right, still ahead, edward lawrence will join us with his exclusive interview with st. louis federal reserve president james bullard. he'll be the very first fed president to react to ca chair powell's upcoming etch speech. do not miss that. president biden didn't deny a disturbing report claiming that u.s. officials provided the taliban with a list of names of our allies. roll tape. >> i can't tell you with any certitude that there's actually been a list of names. there may have been. ashley: bret baier, by the way, will be joining me with his reaction and, of course, his expert analysis next. ♪♪

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♪ >> there are reports that u.s. officials provided the taliban with names of americans and afghan officials to evacuate. were you aware of that? did that happen? >> i can't tell you with any certitude that there's actually been a list of names. i don't -- there may have been, but i know of no circumstance. doesn't mean it didn't exist, that here's the names of 12 people that are coming, let them through. it could very well have happened. ashley: well, that was president biden admitting that u.s. officials did give a list of american and afghan allies' names to the taliban. bret baier joins us now. bret, good morning to you. >> hey, ashley. ashley: yeah, the white house thinks sharing intel could, indeed, save lives. but i think this has raised more than a few eyebrows because, clearly, or at least wouldn't you think, it's putting them in harm's way? what's your thought. >> ashley it's raised a lot of eyebrows and a lot of ire up on

capitol hill and some privately inside the pentagon. remember, the taliban, we were bombing them two weeks ago. they have a lot of history killing american soldiers and really targeting american assets. the deputy leader of the taliban is a man called shah razz haqqani. he, as of today, still has a $10 million bounty on his head from the state department of the united states as a leading terrorist leader. so the trust factor, even though the administration says and the president said they don't trust the taliban but they're working with them in the situation, raises all kinds of questions. and if, in fact -- expect president kind of, sort of got there -- they've been providing names and lists including after an began allies, names of them, who have been working with the u.s., that is a big problem once we leave because once we've seen their activity when u.s. forces are on the ground which is

heinous enough, wait until what happens when the u.s. forces leave. ashley: you know, it's interesting, bret, in the aftermath of those bombings in kabul there was kind of an interesting silence from the white house. there was no public statement from the president for seven, eight hours after the attack. did you have any, do you have any insight into what was going on? we're being led to believe it was pretty chaotic. >> yeah. i think they were trying to get information and, you know, jen psaki was asked that question specifically about what the tick-tock was because we heard from the british prime minister about an hour and a half, two two hours after the bombing talking about the u.s. casualties. ashley: yeah. >> and we did not hear from the president, you're right, for about seven hours. you know, he said the buck stops with him, and the question with peter doocy, but then went on to put caveats on on it about a deal that he felt he was hamstrung from the trump administration and the situation

that evolved very quickly. everyone i talk to, military, intelligence, is telling me privately that it did not have to happen this way. ashley: no. and you know what's interesting, i waited with great interest as so many others did to see what the president had to say yesterday. you know, you want someone, a leader, who's clearly in control, angry about what has happened and forceful about how to proceed. i didn't see any of that from the president yesterday. would you agree? >> he had the one paragraph where he said he was going to go after isis and those responsible -- ashley: yeah. >> -- and that was a forceful moment. but you're right, the rest of the briefing and the q&a especially with the reporters did not convey that same, same messaging. and the other thing is, is that the military folks we talk to say it's really a heavy lift to get to the place where he is promising, you know, to get all americans out, to get all afghan allies out. it's just not going to happen

unless something changes, and he's not changing anything. he's leaving the deadline at august 31st. to track down those responsible requires intelligence on the ground, and because we don't have any troops there and our afghan allies are hiding in safe houses around the country to avoid the taliban, that intelligence dries up quickly. ashley: and i should mention, bret, you have been in afghanistan a number of years ago, you've been reporting from there. could you ever imagine this is how this whole thing plays out at the end? >> no. and you're looking at pictures of bagram air base back in 2001 when we first went with then-secretary rumsfeld. look a little younger there. [laughter] i've been there 13 times, and i know a lot of people on the ground -- ashley: wow. >> -- who helped us, and a lot of those afghan allies we talk about and translators, fortunately, fox has managed to get some of those people out with the help of others, and there are a lot of independent efforts going on to try to get

those people to safely. ashley: very quickly, how concerned are you with so many people that could be left behind, they become bargaining chips for the taliban? >> hugely. that that's the biggest thing we hear up on capitol hill, that this is going to be a massive hostage operation. there's a lot of trust in the taliban being somehow different, but, ashley, there's no evidence that that effectively happened x. there's -- happened x. there's still this inner web of al-qaeda and taliban. ashley: exactly. bret, we're out of time, but as always, terrific stuff. thanks so much sister joining us this morning. -- so much for joining us this morning. we do appreciate it. let's look at the markets before we head to the break. we are on the upside, about a third of a percent on the dow, s&pes and nasdaq. we only have a few days now to evacuate afghanistan, at least president biden's august 31st deadline. i'm going to ask former navy

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♪ ashley: 13 u.s. service members killed in yesterday's attack,

and we are still days away from that august 31 deadline. so let's bring in former navy seal sniper jack carr. jack, good morning to you. so my question to you is, what now? should we change our strategy or is it too late? >> i mean, after listening to the president's speech yesterday, it seems like he is locked into that arbitrary august 31st deadline, which is unfortunate. yesterday, obviously, a devastating day for those families who lost service members for the country. it's going to be a stain on the history of the united states for the rest of time. but what we did there, we had everyone that the taliban or terrorist organizations wanted to hit, we brought if them to one central location or a couple locations around that airfield. so if you're a u.s. citizen, if you are someone who helped us over the last 20 years, a family member of those people or just someone who didn't want to live under the new regime, guess what? they are all at this point trying to escape this country in

a situation that is just fraught with chaos and danger, very dynamic, very violent, and we put them all in one place really as sitting targets. and that's manager that should never have happened -- something that should never have happened, obviously, and we're going to go back and look at how all this happened, and people are going to have to be held to account. there is just no way that we cannot hold senior level leaders accountable for the disaster in afghanistan. ashley: and, jack, you know, the icing on the ca cake to what you just described is we actually gave names to the taliban. have you ever heard of such a thing? >> no, that seems very odd to me, but it falls in line with exactly what we're seeing from our senior-level political leaders and senior-level military leaders that came up last night from the centcom commander. they're with the taliban, the same people we've been fighting for the 20 years and now we're asking them for permission to move through the streets and get american citizen out while these same taliban and terrorist organizations are holding our

weaponry, in charge of our vehicles that we left behind, our aircraft we left behind, our night vision we left behind, our thermals we left behind. i mean, you didn't have to be nostradamus to see that this was going to be the end, but what is shocking to people is that we had 20 years to figure this out, to see this eventuality on the horizon and to prepare for it with the greatest military on the face of the everett. of and -- of the earth. and this is how it ends, this is how we scramble out of the country at the last second. there are things we can do to push back out, bring the military in, retake that city, get our american citizens and then get them out and then take the military out after that. it seems like we did things in reverse order, and we really couldn't have done this in a worse way had we been actively trying. ashley: you know, jack, also not given much discussion, but we've isolated ourselves from global and chest cantic allies -- domestic allies. the u.k. not happy it's all kind

of left in the lurch. there's been damage donen on that front as well. -- >> oh, absolutely. we talk about it in business as well there being, where there's chaos, there's opportunity. and what is the enemy learning, and by the enemy, i mean russia, china, north korea, iran, terrorist organizations, what are they learning from how we're leaving afghanistan? and on that global stage, i think what we're seeing is that the united states might not be that sole remaining superpower. there's a place at that table, and that place is going to be probably taken by china. they have some issues as well, of course, but there's an opportunity. ashley: right. >> it's chaos, and it's not going unnoticed by our enemies or our allies who are seeing us falter here. and learning those same lessons when we're talking specifically about terrorist organizations that they learned from beirut, from mogadishu, sadly. ashley: jack, i'm so sorry, we're coming up on what they

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♪ ashley: good morning, everybody. i'm ashley webster in for stuart today. it is 10:00 eastern, and we'll bring you the very latest developments, of course, from kabul and washington, but let's get a rook at those markets first. and as you can see, we are up across the board, modestly so. but after yesterday's half percent selloff, we've gained back some of those losses. the dow, s&p and nasdaq up about a third of a percent. let's take a look at the 10-year treasury yield. that was moving slightly lower, down 1.3 basis points, right around 1.34%. by the way, we're also coming up with fed chair jerome powell who is set to speak at any moment now so, of course, we'll be looking out for that. we've just gotten the latest read on consumer sentiment. lauren simonetti, come on in. good morning. >> hey, ashley. unfortunately, it's not such a good morning when it comes to our emotional response to what's going on across the country. the university of michigan

numbers, final numbers for august, 70.3. that's below the expectation of 70.7. this was that really surprising number a few weeks ago that came in at the lowest level since 2011. so, unfortunately, i'm going to sum this up, ashley, as dashed hopes. we thought we would be further i along in the pandemic and recovering from it than we are, and consumers not feeling too confident right now. ashley: we do not want our hopes dashed. all right, lauren, a little bit of reality there. the markets not really responding, still up around a third of a percent. fed chair jerome powell, as we said, will begin speaking any moment. edward lawrence is in washington and, edward, you have a copy of his remarks, so what's he going to say? >> reporter: very interesting, ashley. the chairman has said the federal reserve will not move asset purchases until substantial further progress has been made. i want to read this quote from his speech. my view is that substantial

further progress test has been met for inflation. so he continues that there will be clear progress towards maximum employment. now, he a says the federal reserve mostly agrees that asset tapering should start this year. there still is that hedge though, he says the federal reserve chairman says they'll be watching data closely related to the delta variant surge as they come up with the exact time frame for ending the buying of $120 billion a month in treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. powell quick to say that the reduction in asset purchases is not connected to any interest rate hikes, limiting that he wants to keep that rate near zero as they taper. now, he says that they will hold the rate until the economy reaches conditions for maximum employment and inflation that moderately exceeds 2% for some time, adding that there's much ground to cover for maximum employment. now, he will spend much of the speech talking about inflation, so on that front, powell makes the argument that an ill-timed move up in interest rates could

have a harmful effect on hiring. now, he says basing an increase on inflation that could be temporary would be a mistake. and he reassured the markets if sustained higher inflation becomes a more serious concern, the fed would respond with its tools. is so powell outlining how we are seeing an uneven recovery in sectors, and then he said that spending will normalize as the economy reopens so so, therefore, the inflation is going to fade away. ashley? ashley: same stuff, edward. thank you very much. as you been talking, i've been watching the markets, and they're coming up a little bit. we were up about a third a percent across the board, we're now up half a percent, even suggestion-tenths on the -- six-tenths on the nasdaq, basicallien on those remarks of powell saying same as it goes, which is what the market wanted the hear. president biden has vowed to retaliate after those 13 u.s. service members were killed in yesterday's bombing outside

kabul's airport. tammy bruce joins us now on the phone. my, good morning to you. -- tammy, good morning to you. you say the president is feeble and weak, and our enemies see it. make your case. >> well, yes. i think that president biden made that case yesterday. i was responding to the shocking appearance and delivery, attitude, the strangeness of the spectrum of his statements. crying one moment, apparently, to then winking at the camera another, the delay, the nature of how he was speaking. it was very, it was, i think, and i certainly was not the only one to respond, recognizing that and seeing it. ultimately, when one watched, it certainly -- weakness was apparent, but there was a feebleness, that there was somethingfectively -- something effectively wrong with the

president of the united states. and this is not a rhetorical approach here because i don't like him or, i mean, this is an american issue. this transcends politics, what's happening right now. it is a shocking thing to experience, to say the least, something that no one would have expected considering it's 21st century if we've seen and we know what the american military's capable of. the issue is it's not just emotionally troubling for us, all of this is. but america's allies not only see it, but, of course, they've been affected. the british now are saying that they are going to have to leave behind 150 british nationals as well as over 1,000 interpreters because they've had no time, even they've had direct extraction operations. but it's our enemy. and beyond the taliban and isis and al-qaeda, my god, it is north korea, it's china, it's iran, it's the nature of, you

know, malignant actors around the world who realize that america has no president. and it's something we should all be concerned about at this stage. obviously, with existential and generational issues, but right now immediate issues when it comes to violence and terrorism as we know the cells that have been placed by numerous terrorist groups around the world still exist. and and we've got to get serious about this. ashley: very quickly, tammy, you know, to your point, what i wanted to see yesterday was someone who came out, was angry, cheerily in control and very -- clearly in control and very forceful about what needed to be done. we got thing exact opposite, to your point. this is very troubling. >> well, it is. and, you know, the headline at foxnews.com right now is that

his administration is teetering. people, people must stop being afraid of what it would mean if he were to be, if he were to resign, in fact. yes, i know it's very strange to think about another person coming in who no one has any confidence in. but whatever infrastructure now is propping up joe biden would have to change. this cannot continue. and any structure, it wouldn't be about joe biden, it would be about the entire infrastructure. you know, whoever's advising him, actions have to be taken. and anything at this point would at least give us another chance to get back on our feet. ashley: yeah. i think there's no doubt that our enemies are emboldened by what they've seen out of this administration. tammy bruce, thank you so much for joining on the phone and catting this morning. >> thank you, ashley. ashley: all right, thank you. let's get back to the markets and bring in our good friend, ed car den theny. morning to you, ed.

what's the biggest threat for the markets right now? ed yardeni. >> well, right now there was some concern about a taper tantrum with the fed, but powell's speech in this morning again is very calming. i would say there is that geopolitical risk, but i don't think it's an immediate issue. but, clearly, there's a disaster in afghanistan, there are all sort ises of untold, unpredictable consequences of all that. and if some of these things unfold quickly here with terrorist activities around the world, that could certainly get the markets' attention. for now, the markets are focused on the fact that the economy's doing well, earnings have been extremely strong and remain strong, and the fed is going to taper but in baby steps. ashley: so where will you put your money? what's the smart move right now? >> well, i think at this point

if you've been in the markets, stay with it. i think every diversified -- having a diversified portfolio is probably the best way to go. i know that that implies indexing for a broad-based market, but if you're looking for value, some of the small cap, mid cap stocks are especially cheap right now. ashley: all right. great stuff, as always, ed yardeni. thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. now come back in, thank you, lauren seminet -- simonetti. movers starting with oil. >> up almost 2% today, and the energy shares are mirroring the strength in oil. you have this hurricane potentially approaching this gulf of mexico, and some of those companies are airlifting their workers off of the platforms. 45% of all refining along the gulf coast, that's where it happened, so valero, occidental, sharply higher today.

i also want to share you gas, look, highest second quarter sales in over a decade. they're betting on hot demand for old navy, and analysts say, you know, gap is managing their supply chain challenges maybe because of their size a bit better than most of their peer ifs. the stock was up a little more earlier, but it's up almost 2%: and finally, southwest, they've got to fix operational problems that caused the summer delays and cancellations. because starting in september, they extend new the holidays, and they're on top of the covid-related cuts, the demand cuts. i this i shares aren't down because investors say this is a pr move, trying to fix the bad stuff and come out stronger. [laughter] ashley: let's hope it works. by the way, china reportedly banning u.s. ipos. do we know which companies, lauren? >> technology companies with lots of data. and it's likely going to impact

the internet, the telecom and educational companies the most because they have that politically-sensitive data or data that beijing thinks is for national security reasons. "the wall street journal" is also reporting that china would make companies that want to list overseas get formallal approval from -- formal approval from a cross-ministry committee. we'll see, but you cosee a lot of downside. ashley: lauren, thank you very much. president biden admitting responsibility for the kabul attacks and hen turns around and blames his predecessor. roll it. >> i bear responsibility for, fundamentally, all that's happened of late. but here's the deal, the former president made a deal with the taliban that he would get all american forces out of afghanistan by may 1. ashley: so what does the former president have to say about

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♪ ashley: welcome back, everybody. let's take a look at the markets, if we can, and look at this turn around. a dovish jay powell, some of his comments released, the markets like what they hear. by the way, the s&p 500 and the nasdaq both hitting all-time highs. the nasdaq up nearly 1%.

and take a look at the dow 30. those stocks that are moving on this rebound from yesterday's modest selloff. dow, as you can see, walgreens, chevron, boeing, all moving higher. the only two laggards, jpmorgan chase and walmart. 28 of the dow 30 are on the upside. now this, 13 u.s. military members were killed in yesterday's bombingses outside kabul airport marking the deadliest day for u.s. forces in more than a decade. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon and, jennifer, with the threat of more attacks, have have the evacuation plans changed at all? >> reporter: well, right now the evacuation is continuing, and u.s. military sources, however, who i talk to tell me that the president is making promises he can't keep to get every american and special immigrant visa holder out of afghanistan by tuesday and also strike back at those who carried out yesterday's twin suicide bombings that killed american

forces. for one, when the u.s. military pulled out, so did the cia. those intelligence networks were rolled up as part of the evacuation and effort to get afghan partners out, and those who are left behind that the would typically rely on to track down terrorists are cowering in basements and safe houses trying to hide from the taliban. u.s. military sources tell me that the terror threats, realtime intelligence threat streams faced by the troops and jets taking off from kabul today are even greater than the day before. he's general frank mckenzie. >> we've been clear all along that we're going to retain the right to operate against isis in afghanistan, and we are working very hard right now to return attribution, to determine who was associated with this cowardly attack. 24/7, we are looking for them. >> reporter: general mckenzie vowed to continue the evacuation mission. the u.s. military admits they are reliant on the michigan to

stop bombers from getting to the airport. >> you still trust the taliban, and is it possible that they let this happen? >> so whether or not they let it happen, i don't know. i don't think there's anything to convince me that they let it happen. >> reporter: and general mckenzie blamed isis-k for the attack. it was a complex attack, two suicide bombers and multiple isis gunmen opened fire at the airport gate after the initial bombing. general mckenzie is still counting on the taliban to continue protecting his 5200 troops who remain at the airport in kabul. >> very, very real threat streams, very, very what we would call tactical, that means imminent, could occur at any moment, if they range from rocket attacks. we also know they aim to get a suicide, vehicle-borne attack in if they can. they're working all those options. we're doing everything we can to be prepared for those attacks,

that includes reaching out to the taliban who are actually providing the outer security cordon around the airfield to let them know what we expect them to do to protect us. >> reporter: the evacuations continued, as i mentioned, yesterday even after the suicide bombings. new numbers, 12,500 people were evacuated on 35 military planes. unfortunately, some of those c-17s were medevacs. ashley? ashley: all right, indeed. jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thank you. let's bring in now steele brand, former u.s. army tactical intelligence officer. good morning to you. steele, what's your message to veterans who served in afghanistan? >> well, thanks for having me on the show, ashley, i appreciate it. ashley: yeah. >> i look at my fellow vets, and i see that they're hurting. they're going through a sort of cycle. they're in disbelief, they're shocked, they are angeredded, there's a lot of anger with them, and i think what they need

to hear, they need to hear that a what they did wasn't in vain. when you circle, you look around on twitter or you're on web sites or you're looking, and these people are saying did i lose my life in vain? did i lose my buddy in vain? no, you didn't, and here's why. because you behaved honorably. and despite all the things that american leaders are doing right now that appear dishonorable, your sacrifice is, your loyalty, your discipline, your trust, these things were honorable, period, regardless of whether we won or regardless of whether we lost. ashley: another one for you, steele. president biden has admitted that u.s. firms gave the taliban -- officials gave the taliban the names of american and afghan allies. i mean, i find that more than shocking. a lot of people upset. doesn't that essentially put these people on, basically, a kill list? >> yeah. you know, it defies military logic. you don't give your sources, you don't give names to people who who used to be your enemy and actually are probably still your

enemy. but it fits with the entire pattern of foolishness and dishonorable decisions that are currently coming from the administration. we could talk about all of that, but what i'm concerned about is this general culture in the united states and how we actually recover these virtues that our veterans are feeling were just all wasted. and that's what we have to focus on right now for all the veterans that we know. ashley: this is a tough question and and one that we've been asking our guests, steele. is president joe biden up to the job? >> well, america's at a crossroads. they have selected joe biden. this is the man that they picked for this office. and he seems to be making decisions based on a plan to get out by a certain date regardless of what the advice may be, regardless of what the military logic may be. but that kind of decision making doesn't help the guys on the ground, because they have to stay, they have to do their job, they have to honor what they

said they would do. that's not being told right now. what we're getting from our political leadership is that they're going to do whatever is politically experiod credibility. but, no -- experiod cent. but, no, you have to fulfill your obligations. you have to be loyal, you have to maintain duty. ashley: yeah. i couldn't agree more, i'm not sure we're doing that. steele, thank you so much, we really do appreciate it. >> appreciate as well. ashley: all right. well, now this: critics are questioning the sergeant major of the army's priorities after a particular tweet. what did he say, lauren? >> okay. is so, ashley, he wrote -- because yesterday was women's equality day, and he wrote wrote this: diversity's a number. do you have people that don't look or think like you in the room? and he goes on, so what was yesterday? it was also the day 13 american service members were killed in afghanistan. the best ponce that i saw came from retired gunnery sergeant, a

woman, jessie jane, and this is how she responded. i am positive they didn't look or think like you, sergeant major, every flag-draped coffin looks the psalm. his tweet -- the same. his tweet was shameful and really ill-time thed, ashley. ashley: it was. nancy pelosi also, the first tweet she put out after the bombings in kabul was, again, about women's equality day. kind of missing the point. hawn, thank you very much. and as if all of this wasn't enough, tropical storm ida is taking aim at the gulf coast. lauren mentioned it. it could make landfall as a major hurricane. we've got the forecast from janice dean straight ahead. plus, who is the group behind the attacks that left 13 of our service members dead in kabul? what you need to know about isis-k after this. ♪ ♪

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♪ ashley: all right, now this, president biden vowing, that is, to strike isis-k, the group believed responsible for yesterday's bombing outside kabul's airport. this, of course, as evacuations continue there with the deadline ticking down. hillary vaughn is at the white house and, or hillary, we know there's an alert for more

potential attacks, so has that changed the evacuation plans at all? >> reporter: it has not, ashley, and, in fact, i asked white house press secretary jen psaki about just that yesterday. right now americans and afghan allies till in afghanistan -- still in afghanistan are facing two choices, either they stay where they are and risk being hunted down by the taliban, or they try to get to the airport and risk being blown up by isis. how does this evacuation continue without advantage see wees risk -- evacuees risking their lives? >> we are in direct contact with every citizen, and we are working with each of them and their families on an individual base-- basis on how to get them to the airport. that's the process. >> reporter: but that process getting complicated by isis-k. just because isis has been able to target americans in afghanistan, that's a lot different than isis coming here

to attack on the homeland. at least 13 u.s. military service members were killed yesterday in that isis-k suicide bomb explosion outside of the airport, and the pentagon says there is still an ongoing, active threat around the airport and around kabul. there are as many as 2,000 isis-k fighters in afghanistan right now. isis-k is the afghan affiliate of isis. they are the rivals, they are rivals with the taliban, but they do have one enemy in common, the u.s. so there is a concern from intel officials and military officials that taliban fighters could defect to isis-k or that the taliban could be coordinating with isis-k to attack americans. the pentagon said yesterday that they have no reason to believe that the taliban was in any way involved in letting that suicide bomb attack happen because they were in charge of the checkpoint that that suicide bomber came through and ultimately made

their way to military. ashley. ashley: all right, hillary, thank you very much. do we have the congresswoman? not yet. all right. so let's, let's go, if we can, we mentioned -- all right, we can. we've got to tell you, with we've been having some technical difficulties bringing in our next guest, that would be congresswoman cath tam act, republican from florida. welcome in, i'm so glad we got the gremlins sorted out, congresswoman. [laughter] you're calling on the president to resign. but my question to you is wouldn't that put vice president harris in charge, and, to be honest with you, is that any better? >> i mean, our options aren't great at this point in time. [laughter] but if the president is serious about his comments of the buck stops with me, well, then that means that the commander in chief as chief decision maker responsible for the total and

utter failure of this withdrawal, the lives that have been lost, this is on him. and i say, you know, he seems to be a fan of political deadlines. let's give him until august 31st to make that resignation effective, and if he doesn't, then we will be working every single day to take back the house and then given the process of holding him accountable the way that nancy pelosi won't. ashley: you know, yes, the buck stops with president biden, but you know what? is he getting this advice from all those people around him? because collectively, they're all failing. >> absolutely. there needs to be resignations across the board starting with secretary blinken. you know, this is truly an utter and total failure of leadership across the board for sec-def which i opposed personally the waiver that congress granted so that he could be confirmed as secretary of defense, of course, down to general milley. and we know that there are

positions of leadership that come with accountability, transparency and responsibility, and when things go sideways, you have to be accountable to your action. but beyond that, you look at what this president has said and hasn't said. he will not give us a number of americans and our allies and our sivs that have been left behind on the ground, so i am calling on my colleagues, republicans and democrats, today to release the numbers in their offices that they have of individual haves, americans that they are working to try to bring home. in my office it's 682. 682 people from my district that have been left we mind. now, we know -- behind. now, we know that this is going to be an estimate, but it gives us a baseline so we can plan how many military assets do we need to have, how many private contractors, ngos do we need to mobilize in order to bring our people home. whether you're a republican or democrat, i'm calling on every single congressional office today to release the number of individuals that they are working with to get home.

that is how we can start the process of really understanding how many people this president and his administration have have left behind. ashley: yeah. and i have a feeling they don't really know, but we'll have to leave it there. woman cam act of florida -- congresswoman cammack, thank you so much for joining us. great to speak to you this morning. another major story, the governor of louisiana is declaring a state of emergency as tropical storm ida, as you can see there on that map, is barreling towards the gulf coast. senior meteorologist janice dean joins us now. janice, i mean, i see a number 3 on there just south of new orleans. this is expected to make landfall, and new orleans if could be in the bull's eye. >> reporter: yeah, and that's the concern. new orleans is one of the most vulnerable if not the most vulnerable cities along the gulf coast and the atlantic coast. and if we've got a category 3, a major hurricane making landfall

with storm surge of over 12 feet, that is going to be very difficult because they have to start pumping out the water as the storm is making landfall. so it's expected to strengthen quite considerably over the next 24 hours, and we don't have a lot of time for evacuations. if that's going to happen. sea surface temperatures which is the fuel that this storm needs to strengthen especially as it gets into the gulf of mexico, it's got an area here with where we could see some rapid intensification, and it's going from a hurricane, just a, you know, cat 1 to a cat 3 in a period of just hours. so that's going to to be a concern if you have a strengthening storm making landfall along this vulnerable coastline, that is not good news at all. and all of the reliable forecast models that we use, ashley, coming into very good agreement that it's going to be on the west side of new orleans which is the worst side of the storm. it's the right-front quadrant as the storm comes onshore that a

brings the worst of the storm surge, the worst of the hurricane force winds and, unfortunately, this is the most vulnerable coastline, below sea level. and you can see these are the two reliable forecast models, the american and the euro, very good agreement. and and, you know, if it comes right in this bull's eye here, the worst of the storm is going to funnel right into new orleans. so we have to watch it. not a lot of time, sunday into monday is the potential landfall. ashley: yikes. all right, jack mis, thank you very much -- janice, thank you very much. okay, let's get to this. even the mainstream media admitting that yesterday was, indeed, a dark day for president biden. take a listen. >> i think it's fair to say this is the worst day of the biden presidency. >> it's the worst day of the biden presidency. ashley: well, there's no doubt about it. joe concha will be here to break down the media's reaction in the next hour. it was the deadliest day for u.s. troops in decade. but vice president s&p harris, well, she spent it avoiding the

press during a stop in hawaii. we've got that story straight ahead. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪

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ashley: well, we've talked about recente hikes on this program, no doubt, but now the price of lobster is rising. jeff flock, there he is, on a lobster boat in maine. jeff, what's driving up the cost of a lobster roll? [laughter] >> reporter: you know, it's funny, ashley, with so much going on halfway around the world, we're almost forgetting about what happens here at home. this is kristin porter's lobster boat. we've just got a trap ready to come up here, as you can see. as you can imagine, these lobster boats don't run on solar or power. take a look at that. what have you got in there, brandon? the cost of fuel if, cost of bait and these guys are also

taking a hit from environmental concerns. look at what they're doing here, by the way. i just want to see. this is brandon, this is kristin's son. is that a good one or no? you've got to throw that one back? >> see right there? >> reporter: that's pregnant? >> you can't keep it. >> reporter: gotcha. these are the ones they keep. you're under pressure are from a lot of things these days, warming waters affecting the crop up north of canada, and now they've got a map that shows where they want to shut you down because of whales, they're concerned about the whales getting caught in your lines. >> yeah. i mean, it's too bad because, you know, that area that's being shut down is going to do very little for us to save these whales, but economically for those guys that fish that area in the prime time of the season and the price of lobster is, it's going to hurt those guys in the winter time. >> reporter: the cost for you fishing lobsters is also up. >> yes, it is. fuel, bait. i mean, lobsters are up,

everything's up. i can't tell you -- we're up just because everything's up. we've done a pretty good job of marketing people to get us through the pandemic, pushing everything to home sales now. we're just, we're -- yeah -- >> reporter: bait, by the way, ashley, this is what they use to bait the lobster traps, sushi for you. sushi for the lobsters, perhaps. keeping an eye on the home front while, you know, the rest of the world blows up. ashley: yeah. well, the good news is, jeff, it's a very calm e sea. but the bad news is i don't think i could afford a lobster roll these days. anyway, it looks like a very nice, please e santa day out on the boat. -- pleasant day out on the boat. let's check the markets, we're seeing them rise after the opening bell more than an hour ago now p. as you can see, the dow up half a percent, the nasdaq up eight-tenths, the s&p

also up. basically, we're regaining all the losses from yesterday. all right, come back in, lauren simonetti. you've got some movers. you're watching health care p and dell. >> yeah, and they're both down at least 3.5%. both companies came out and said we blame parts shortages, chip shortages for our inability to meet the demands. customers want computers, we just can't fill the orders fast enough. so morgan stanley says they like dell over hp, they expect hp to lose market share, and they downgraded them to equal weight. that stock down 3.4%. take a look at play, the ticker symbol for dave and buster's. they say the recovery is intact and they've managed their cost pressures, up 5%. and i've got a loser, big loss, the discount retailer, look, they forecast a current quarter loss and they're blaming, what else? if freight costs and supply chain issues. i told my husband the other day

k let's start our christmas shopping now. he thought i was nuts, i'm like, no, really, we need to start it now. ashley: it may be too late now. i want the take a look at peloton, if we can. big drop in this morning. they just got subpoenaed, i understand, by the justice department and homeland security? >> that's right. so they want documents relating to peloton's reporting of injuries caused by treadmills. the sec is also asking for information on how they disclosed that information. nearly 40 people were injured and one child actually died after being pulled underneath a treadmill, so peloton recalled 125,000 of them. so you have that, you have higher commodity costs, higher marketing costs and a 20% price cut for their original bike, all of that weighed on their profits. they did report a wider quarterly loss, and they're warning of a future hit to the bottom lewin as well. stock to down 8.5%.

ashley: okay. tesla wants to sell electricity directly to customers. where's that happeningsome. >> in texas where the energy grid is deregulated. so the tesla subsidiary has applied to become an electricity retailer in texas where more than a hundred companies currently sell electricity to texas households. the system came under fire after that winter storm left many cold and in the dark for days, so this move if widens the energy ambitions of elon musk to who recently predicted that tesla energy could be the same size as tesla automotive. i know you're saying, well, how does this work? one of two ways. they could sell kilowatts drawn from the grid, or they could let homeowners who have, like, solar panels on their roofs share the power with the grid. i'm not done. [laughter] they want to build two huge batteries at the plant where they build the cyber truck in austin and also in houston.

ashley: they could have used some tesla batteries this past winter with that horrible power outage. interesting stuff, as always. lauren, thank you very much. one msnbc analyst facing backlash for eling people to, quote, deal with it after u.s. service members were killed in kabul. the details of that ahead. plus, president biden getting some of the blame for the deadly afghanistan -- pitting some of the blame for the deadly afghanistan attack on his prettied successor. well, we've got former president trump's response. don't miss it, after this. ♪ ♪ ♪

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american forces out of afghanistan by may 1. ashley: that was president biden taking respondent for the afghanistan -- responsibility for the afghanistan crisis but then immediately blaming former president trump for the withdrawal. here's what mr. trump had to say is. take a listen. >> we have been put in the worst position we could possibly be put in, a position that nobody would have even thought possible even two weeks ago. nobody would have thought this would be possible, that we could be in a position like this where the taliban and others are dictating -- and they're the ones saying get out on the 31st. what kind of stuff is this? these are the people that we had at bay to a level that you wouldn't believe. there was no way that -- they never even fired on our troops. if. ashley: all right. former deputy assistant to then-president george w. bush brad blakeman joins us now. great to see you, brad. the evacuations are happening

under president biden's watch, so why is he blaming trump? >> was the buck -- because the buck doesn't stop with this president. he's not competent to be the commander in chief, it's clear when you watch him on television. you're sitting on the edge of your seat hoping he can just mutter through it. it's a schizophrenic response. in one sentence he'll tell you that he takes full responsibility, and the next he will blame his predecessor. one thing is for sure, there is no greater change of circumstance in american policy than a change in administration. biden was not slow to get us back into the paris accord. he wasn't slow in the reapproachment with iran. so the president picks and chooses those policies that he seems to reengage in. yet afghanistan with the change in circumstance, with the disagreement of policy that biden had with trump, he didn't change the policy in afghanistan. he claims he was handcuffed by trump. it's nonsense. everybody knows it.

testifies caught flatfooted. either he was incompetent, or he deliberately made decisions that put our troops and and our innocents in harm's way. the american people know exactly what the deal is, mr. president, and that is you have let us down. you've let our troops down. you've let every american who served there down. and i don't think he's competent enough, unfortunately, ashley, to get us through this. ashley: well, that's my, you know, my next question, the follow-up. he was sold to us, touted as an able president with solid instincts, but is he really up to the job? >> i don't think he is. and it hurts me to say that. i take off my partisan hat when american troops are involved in harm's way and innocents are involved. i said over a year ago, i sit on the board, the advisory board of no one left behind. our mission as a charity is to help our sivs get out of afghanistan because they helped

us, they were interpreters. and over a year and a half ago i said we should be concentrating, as the president is drawing down troops, in preserving life and protecting those who helped us and getting third parties like qatar and others the take in those who helped us so that we can process them to america in time. none of that was done. and now it seems that america only acts through crisis after lives have been lost. this is wrong. we need to protect those who have end helped us, every to protect our troops, we have to protect innocents, and we cannot let our enemies dictate to us, harm us. my greatest fear as we reach the 20th anniversary of 9/11 is that we're more vulnerable than ever by the same enemies who attacked us 20 years ago. ashley: all right. we're going to have to leave it there. very sobering stuff, brad blakeman. thank you, brad, for joining us today. >> thank you. ashley: appreciate it. thank you. take a quick look at the markets as we head towards the break.

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your strategic advantage. >> reporter: callous to as the lives that have been lost, the voter has determined that the poled is he competent or not, we living in some kind of alternate reality, distrust in the taliban -- >> should level of incompetence that is unprecedented in the oval office. >> no week when not been seen you'll leaders accountable for the disaster in afghanistan listed things in reverse order. we couldn't have done this in a worse way. >> to get all-americans out, to get all afghan allies out is not going to happen unless something changes. there's a lot of trust in the taliban being somehow different. there is no evidence that effectively has happened and

there's this dinner web of al qaeda and taliban. ashley: it is 11:00 am on the east coast this friday august 20 seventh. breaking news at this hour from the pentagon. there was only one bombing yesterday at the airport in kabul. the pentagon also saying 5100 troops in afghanistan have been evacuated. military members who were injured in the attack of landed in germany. look at the markets as we begin the 11:00 hour on the east coast. we are higher. we have erased the losses of half of one% yesterday, the nasdaq up one%, record highs on the s&p and nasdaq, dow jones up 250 points. let's look at the 10 year treasury yields. that has been dropping not by

much, now down 3 basis points. 10 year yield at one.32%. now this was fox come from the political report that says he was officials provided the taliban with names of americans and afghan allies to help them with evacuations. the time to bring in our friend rachel campos stuff he, good morning. the president doesn't deny this report. we are providing the names of americans and allies to the taliban while relying on the taliban to provide us with security. i thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists. >> reporter: that list is basically a kill list. i will have you know frank mckenzie, commander of uscentcom, and the head of us forces in afghanistan also call the taliban our afghan partners.

this is a very bizarre and cynical turn of eventss. i was listening to the speech last night and so many things were frustrating and horrible and not at all comforting about the speech. the thing that most frustrated me was our president invoking bo biden in the speech. i think our president needs to allow bo biden to rest in peace. bowl biden died of cancer, not combat on american soil. the mothers and fathers of those men who died yesterday, those were totally preventable death. last week when i was on fox and friends we were talking about it on saturday, on sunday saying they are sitting ducks there. of course we knew isis was there, al qaeda was there. the taliban could have had information we are giving to them right now off to those other terrorist groups they weren't involved themselves,

they were rich targets. you have american military with one entry point right there, people coming who have worked with americans are claimed they worked with americans. now we are hearing that americans are being told sit in your house where it is dangerous and wait for us to tell you when to leave, to come to the airport so you can get out but once they leave you got isis, al qaeda, the taliban knows who you are and where you are. this is like a videogame we are asking them to make their way on their own to the airport with enemies jumping from any corner out from anywhere. this is dystopian and weird. we have to get to the bottom of what is going on with president biden, doesn't look like he is in command or his judgment is so bad what are we to do, the next in command isn't much better. this is a very troubling time

in american history. ashley: i thought he looked very weak yesterday in response to the bombings and nikki haley come marsha blackburn and a long list of the republicans polling on president biden to resign. listen to what a congressman told us later on the show. >> if the president is serious about his comments of the buck stops with me this is on him. let's give him into law august 31st to make that resignation effective and if he doesn't then we will be working every single day to take back the house and begin the process of holding him accountable. ashley: that is fine but i asked the congresswoman this question. if that happens do you really want a harris presidency?

>> a great question but we had a president who was impeached for far less, for a phone call with a ukrainian president. this is a dereliction of duty, there is blood on a lot of people's hand starting with president biden, kamala harris who has been a -- awol and everyone else who allowed this president who helped to get them into office knowing he had poor judgment and was mentally frail and unable to assume a position of so much responsibility of i say the media, big tech, his wife, the democrats and every single never trumper who helped him to come into office all of them have blood on their hands and this is an entirely preventable massacre we saw at the airport that weekend we all knew a week ago that those young men wherein harm's way and needed to change their strategy and create a larger perimeter and it is absolutely unbelievable against the advice of his military commanders the president biden closed bagram

air base, this is a scandal, we need to get to the bottom of it i think it is impeachable. if he's impeached or removed or resigns i don't know if we are any better with kamala harris. ashley: we will leave it right there. great stuff, thanks for joining us. appreciate it, let's look at the markets and bring in luke lloyd. do you think the chaos in afghanistan not affecting the markets today. we did see a slight drop following the bombing yesterday but overall was this market shielded from what is going on in afghanistan? >> personally i think it is disgusting what is happening in afghanistan. leadership needs to step up as soon as possible. the tensions in afghanistan

couldn't cause volatility down the road especially if the events are dragged out, this could last a couple months. what would concern me most is tensions spread to other parts of the middle east like saudi arabia. this could affect oil production, the global economy but the united states is energy dependence. all you have to do is go to texas, turn on the oil spigot and produce more oil. my biggest concern is these tensions lead to other tensions with russia, china, north korea. if that happens we could see a big impact on the market. i don't think it is likely but who knows at this time? ashley: wasn't that long ago we were oil independent but won't get into that now. i want to talk about names you like, you like match group, planet fitness, draft kings. why those names? >> match group people are looking to socialize again, they own hinge and tinder. go to your local bars and clubs. they are jampacked everywhere you go. stock is down 16% and hinge has worked well in the past so that

is a good sign. planet fitness, health and wellness more important than ever. after the cruise i just went on i'm looking to join a gym, i put on 15 pounds, harder to cancel membership as well than pay the monthly fees, this is one stock you want to own and draft king, football and basketball return, more engagement, fantasy sports, make games more interesting between $50 and $60, down 20% at these levels. stuart: so glad tinder has worked out so well for you. we won't talk about those experiences but i want to know what your experience was like on that cruise. >> i went to belize, met some good people, had good food but the bad part is i drove through hurricane grace. the ship rocking back-and-forth, i made the

mistake of looking out the window. told myself not to. that was a horrible idea. we drove right through it and that was an interesting experience but 4000 people, 2800 people were on the boat, it is operating at 70% capacity. that's good for the consumer because it is not as crowded but it's not good for the cruise lines because they need to operate at 100% capacity to make up for lost time over the past year and a half of nonoperating. i wouldn't own any of the cruise lines right now until they get back to operating close to 100% capacity and the debt is crazy right now. ashley: what a whirlwind segment that was. go to your local bars, appreciate it. bank of america upgrading, onto a by, that stock down 9%, they say the price cut will bring in more subscribers. lauren: be of a says it is a by, they think the price cut

for the bike brings in more demand, if you look at the number of work outs it was lower than it was this time last year so they say that price cut, getting more subscribers, more important to the bottom line. and enterprise software company, their traditional software business did well but there cloud business didn't do as well. investors would want at the other way around, cloud doing better and then there is workday. they sell cloud stock for hr departments, lifted their guidance for the year. ashley: thank you very much. a big show still to come including an exclusive interview with james bullard because we know was the deadliest day for our military in a decade so the question is

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hillary vaughan is at the white house was our their concerns the taliban is working with isis k? >> reporter: there are and these concerns are growing with this new information. we heard from the president yesterday evening and he alluded to this in his remarks. he mentioned for weeks us military officials and intelligence officials have been aware that essentially numbers of isis k that were in prison were set free by the taliban and when those prisons were open when the taliban overtook afghanistan from the afghan government so now there's a question of the taliban is sitting isis k free. they are considered to be arch enemies and nemesises of each other but the taliban set these prisoners free. a number of isis k individuals the government says they have been aware have been planning a

complex attack and series of attacks on americans and us military in afghanistan and then those isis k affiliated suicide bombers make their way through a talent and checkpoint yesterday, reach us military officials, blow themselves up killing 13 us servicemembers. there are questions if there's any coordination between the taliban and isis k. one last point from our own reporting on capitol hill senior source confirming to us yesterday evening that the us military has been sharing intelligence with the talent and but other than that giving them a list of names and identities of people they are trying to get through the airport but the concern is if you can't trust the taliban which we heard yesterday, there is a mutual interest where they are trying to work together to get america out of afghanistan by the deadline why are we handing over the identities of

americans, green card holders and other refugees we are trying to get through when we are seeing that the taliban is letting isis k through intentionally or unintentionally but also the ones who set them free from prison. ashley: it is a question everybody is asking and no good answer so far. now take a look at this photograph, president biden resting his head on the podium as he took questions during the news conference. let's bring in steve hilton on the west coast. you say this image will be the defining one of his presidency. >> totally defeated. as i said last sunday on my show on fox, he's an empty hollow husk of a man. there is nothing there. there is no leadership, no plan, no strategy, nothing there and there never was

anything there because what we are really saying is the truth about biden being revealed as i argued for a long time, the reason he is so dangerous is he is a classic machine politician, no principles, no beliefs, just going where the power -- advance -- when there's a real crisis, a really difficult situation he has no bedrock to fall back on and that is why he is so crushed and humiliated but worse than that the humiliation for him personally but the conciliation he has inflicted on america, that is what we are enraged about. ashley: i want you to look at the headline in the telegraph, influential newspaper in the uk, the headline reads joe biden has blood on his hand and his presidency will not recover. do you think the special relationship with the uk has

changed for good, they have been let down by the us. >> they are furious and it is right across the board. that is one influential newspaper, the telegraph but you see the total condemnation on all sides. you saw reports that boris johnson has to be polite in public but all sources are reporting he feels let down, betrayed, furious, the leader of the opposition, the labour party leader, called it publicly a catastrophic error of judgment and tony blair, the former prime minister who referred to the decision as imbecilic so it is across the board this condemnation. no question that as long as biden is president he will not be taken seriously or trusted by the british or anyone else. look at how the germans, the leader of the german party said

this was the worst debacle for nato since its founding. however the special relationship between britain and america i am confident that will recover as soon as biden is gone. ashley: there's this effort, there has been calls for impeachment, for him to resign but as i asked many of our previous guests do you really want a kamala harris presidency? >> that is such a good point. i addressed it last sunday. the truth is she is exactly like him in the sense that she's also a machine politician who has no beliefs and principles of been -- i think she would undoubtedly be worse than biden, that is true. however at some point there has to be some accountability for a catastrophe on this scale so i think it is important that biden is impeached and that is

very likely to happen if republicans take back the house in the midterms next year which is looking more and more likely. ashley: watching president biden at the news conference made me miss donald trump because donald trump would come out and show he is in control, he would show he is very angry at the development and would show very clearly how to proceed forward. all of that was nonexistent with president biden. he looked befuddled, he looked weeks, he looked hollow to use your word and instilled no confidence whatsoever. >> it reminds us that in the end one of the most important characteristics we look for in a leader especially here in america is strength and whatever you say about donald trump there is no question that he in reality and in projection was a leader of strength and that is what we need in good times and especially bad times. what he was saying to sean

hannity, how to exit, and if he had been present. stuart: we are out of time but fabulous stuff. thanks for joining us and of course you know we will be watching you in the next revolution sunday night at 9:00 pm eastern only on fox. evacuation flights out of afghanistan resume following yesterday's deadly attacks and you have more details. >> officials say 5100 americans, 5000 people await evacuations at the kabul airport, the president racing against his tuesday deadline to get everybody out. the pentagon saying they will fly out evacuees until the last moment but look what is happening around the world. canada, spain already evacuated

their citizens in the british and french will finish later this morning. remember the families from california in afghanistan, we have an update on them, three families have been evacuated but five, eight parents and 14 children remain in afghanistan. cam airlines flight, the biggest private airline in afghanistan flew all their aircraft from kabul to iran for safekeeping for the planes. nobody was on board. they were completely empty. ashley: now this. house speaker pelosi spent her day a women's equality event and made no mention of the deadly bombings in afghanistan. molly hemingway will take that issue on and jerome powell wrapped up his jackson hole speech but coming up st. louis

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ashley: some updates from the pentagon briefings namely some us military equipment will not come back from kabul and will be disposable is the pentagon says there are specific credible threats against kabul airport and they are monitoring these threats virtually in real time and they are clarifying there was only one bombing yesterday outside the airport. there was no bomb it turns out at a nearby hotel. the briefing goes on. let's listen in. >> detailed questions will continue to be collected. i can't answer numbers. just knowing the facts, the incredible devastation that happened, just leave it there.

>> hold on a second. my question, yesterday the president said we will hunt down and get revenge on the isis attack yesterday. to the american public, we had 25 troops on the ground, what does that look like, where we will hunt down -- >> as we currently look, adding to the question of options that we can ensure the commander has the ability to take action, those opportunities present them. i'm not going to think about how a decision general mckenzie would make in future operations. >> to follow up, was there more than one gunman and was that

gunmen killed? >> that information is still coming in. what we do know, there was a suicide ied and gunfire. that is for sure that we know. >> the other question is this, 31 american casualties overall is a significant number. how can we explain were they concentrated in one area? was there a shift change underway, or were they spread apart? >> this answer is not going to be -- ashley: the pentagon briefing, now this, federal chair jay powell focusing heavily on inflation during his remarks at the jackson hole symposium.

substantial progress test has been met for inflation. you've got an interview with james bullard reacting. and and substantial further progress has been met for inflation. tinkering could possibly begin. there were no specifics from the federal reserve chairman. how do you persuade other members and what did you think of what you heard? >> i thought it was a good speech and i will do my best by being reasonable in my argument. >> what is that argument? >> it makes sense to wind down

asset purchase program and the chair has to get to the specifics of that but markets are expecting a taper with communities in process to deliver the market. the most important thing about this is when you get done, what is the date at which you want to make your last purchase, that will be at the end of the first quarter. by the time we get to the first half of next year we are going to have a better view of what inflation will moderate in 2022 or not. we need the option that if it doesn't moderate, it will be more aggressive in 2022 than we would otherwise be.

if it doesn't moderate we are in great shape for that so we can raise the policy rates in the future. if it doesn't moderate we may have to be more - >> do you have a preference on what should be tapered first? talk about concern for a possible housing bubble on inflation. >> we could go relatively rapidly. we tapered a pace of $20 million on treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. most of this, most of this is priced into markets we saw in reaction to the speech that went up and we, the chair has done a good job in bringing this discussion into the open in july/august and great shape to go ahead at this point.

not sure these purchases are doing anything. and the housing bubble feeding that. >> on inflation, 3.6%, most people can't take away food and energy costs but looking at 4.2%, an increase, will it settle back down? where are your thoughts on where inflation will settle down and if and when it could? >> i think it will moderate 22022 that are open, even in 2022, a difficult person in the

economy can't avoid paying for their gas or groceries, those rates tend to be more volatile but not sure that will happen either. >> i appreciate, we've got a lot of news going on today in addition to interest rates and federal reserve, thanks for your thoughts, back to you, ashley. ashley: thank you so much. great stuff. the dow up 200 points. great conversation. msnbc analyst is telling people to deal with after military members are killed in afghanistan. he's facing backlash. we've got the story. it took president biden eight hours to address the bombings in kabul, a lot of people asking where is our leadership. molly hemingway will be a long to respond next.

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>> we have an election coming up in california in just a couple of weeks and we must all vote in that election. this is all about empowering women. ashley: that was house speaker policy to women's equality event after the deadly effects in kabul. the first tweet after the attacks was about women's equality. let's bring in molly hemingway, senior editor at the federalist. we are in a major crisis. my question to you is where is the leadership? >> it has been very disconcerting to watch. when president biden said he agreed with the decision to

leave afghanistan he said the departure would be orderly and the evacuation would be handled properly. he resisted congressional oversight the was looking into the manner in which he was doing evacuation. people were worried the chaos of the evacuation would lead to a problem like what we saw yesterday. when it happens, where were people? people were tweeting about women's equality, worse than being tone deaf. it is incompetent and scandalous at a time when 14 military members lost their lives, something that was not relevant to the news of the day. ashley: president biden has always been projected as this able president, he has solid instincts, steady hand. when i watched the news conference i don't think any of those attributes were evident.

>> claim made by the media was he would be the adult. none of that was scrutinized because of the role the media player, not to analyze what type of leader, was frail and feeble and strong. on the global stage in weakness. ashley: donald trump would come out angry, forceful, show he is in control, not only botched this whole affair but alienate our closest allies. >> he stayed focused on departing afghanistan, that is

right and good and proper. he needs to tell everybody who could hurt a hair on any americans had you better not do that and didn't convey that. it's dangerous to show weakness at a time like this. and ashley: let's take a look at this dow 30 stock. 27 in the green, salesforce, walmart and 3m, the letters, leading the way 220 points. even the mainstream media cannot ignore the disaster of afghanistan. >> this is the worst day of the

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>> so much to do with an hour capacity to do it. we have to remain steadfast. gave me a list here. the first person i was instructed to call on was kelly o'donnell of nbc. ashley: it is painful. president biden losing his place as he fumbled through remarks on afghanistan and admitted he follows a list for answering questions. the president hid from the media for eight hours after the deadly attacks. we will see who holds them accountable. >> it is supposed to be the media. what we are seeing is team

biden running their communication for the 2020 campaign where everything is homogenized, scattered, rehearsed because they can't what the president, and that was instructed. and and ask you, and his decisions have ramification, it is a predetermined list of reporters in these situations. it looks like it was, weak and cowardly. >> the mainstream media has been fawning over the president for months. we don't seem to be defending him as much now. listen to this. >> this is the worst day of the biden presidency. >> the worst day of the biden

presidency. >> worst day of his presidency. does the media ask those hard questions and hold him accountable. >> not just on afghanistan. you really ask for that even before this happened. in afghanistan and kabul following, several fronts where he's not doing well at all. 6% of americans are deeply concerned about that. it is more expensive to live in this country and feel less safe, 1.4 million people since the beginning of the year which is equivalent to the population of 11 us states.

several fronts where the president isn't doing well, you have a media, and not just on afghanistan but other items. ashley: this tweet from outcome and, and intelligence analyst, nearly daily in afghanistan. hashtag deal with it. your reaction. >> nbc news intelligence analyst that said on twitter before he deleted like he deleted that tweet, he was hoping the trump tower in istanbul, the killing of innocents and says deal with it when servicemembers are killed, how nbc still employs this guy, is not suspended and getting

paid as we speak, paolo the standards are in this industry when that person is representing you as an intelligence analyst. ashley: if ever there was a misnomer. vice president harris blocked reporters in hawaii in the aftermath of the kabul attacks. there was no access to the vice president during one of the biggest stories of the decade. >> there's never any access to the vice president. think the last time you sorry do a sitdown interview in any capacity. she's more hidden than the president of the united states, you can't script a presidency. you can't say let's do this, this, this if conditions on the ground in places like afghanistan or inflation out of control or the crime we talked about in american cities you can't script that to point you hide the vice president and say she's not allowed to be exposed to the press and this is supposed to be plan b for 2024, i don't think so.

ashley: the exposure is on, the mainstream media continues to hold them accountable. let's move on. lauren, air b&b updating its afghan refugee policy. >> allowing anyone to host the refugees, not just the regular hosts signed up with air b&b, and outgoing of the man to take these refugees, just over 7000 special immigrant visa applicants have been evacuated to the us so air b&b helping out, waving all fees, big need for housing particularly in jacksonville and expect in all 50,000 afghans. ashley: thank you very much. we will have more varney right after this. ♪

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points, good for a six-tenths of a percent jump. the nasdaq up more than 1%, the s&p up close to 1 is % by the way, both the nasdaq and s&p recording intraday highs. so there you have it. the markets responding also to dovish comments from fed chairman jay powell. our time's up, neil cavuto, take it away. neil: all right, ashley, thank you very, very much. we are following these developments you nicely outlined there including the comments from jerome powell that seemed to be very market-friendly. in other words, he was signaling that the tapering, that is the federal reserve buying less in terms of treasury securities and treasury notes and bonds, that was offset by the fact that he's in no rush to do it even though he signaled that it could be happening this year. but the offsetting news that the markets really hiked is there's no imminent h