never forget 13 men and women who died last week in afghanistan. never forget 2372 americans who died there before last week and let's never forget the 2977 americans who died on 9/11 because of the people who now control afghanistan again. good night. ♪♪ >> breaking news, reaction pouring it to president biden addressing the nation today defending his decision to strand hundreds of americans and allies between allies in afghanistan. they are getting dozens of desperate pain phonell calls frm americans trapped there. biden and his team are not circulating talking points a month democrats and the media to spend what's being called the withdrawal. claiming biden church leadership by abandoning americans and

americans stranded in other countries all the way. it's the same group that harbored 9/11 terrorists. still working with terrorist like i platitude i. door-to-door execution, forced marriages, public hangings and more now and afghanistan. this news coming in, president biden kept congress and the public in the dark. back in june,gi biden waved a federal statute in june that would have forced the pentagon and administration to give a detailed briefing to congress about the terrorist dangers of pulling out. also this, president biden in the last barnacle with afghanistan before it collapsed told the leader, there's a perception around the world were failing in the fight with the televangelists. he to project a different picture. records show president biden and his team immediately and repeatedly misled the american public. edward is at the white house.

reporter: the withdrawal and extraordinary success and then he lays the blame for some of this at the president of afghanistan after fleeing after he says he fled in the fight that. on that, he mentioned the report, transcript of the call between president biden and the president of afghanistan that says i tell you, i do not tell you that perception around the world afghanistan, things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban and it goes on to say there is a need, whether true orer not, there isa need to project a different picture, true or not. tonight president blamed former president donald trump for signing a deal with the telegram adding the taliban was coming regardless. the president blames the 100 -- 200 americans stranded in country right now saying they had been warned since march to leave even though over the

summer president biden said the taliban would not rule. he took credit for one thing. >> i take responsibility for the decision. now some say we should have started mass evacuations sooner. couldn't this have been done in a more orderly manner? i respectfully disagree. >> president sankey august 31 deadline was not an arbitrary deadline in the decision to leave afghanistan was the best decision for america. liz: good to see you. joining us now, national security advisor for iraq and afghanistan under president bush 43 and u.s. ambassador to nato, douglas loop. national security advisor is with us as well. your reaction, doug to whatwe we were just reporting. >> i think americans are rightly

fixated on this for the last days or even several weeks but this goes back years before the events of the last couple of weeks. the telegram had slowly been gaining momentum for years now. i assumed, as someone whos, watches afghanistan closely that this would take a long time before they could come to power as they've done. i refer to it as a long, slow burning fuse. it turns outrn the fuse accelerated recently and led to the implosion of the afghan state. things did turn out much faster, it did turn bad faster than we anticipated. liz: what douglas is saying, the white house was warned repeatedly by the state department and u.s. embassy in afghanistan that this will be more rapidly than what they are being told. your reaction to the report

biden kept congress and the public in the dark i waving a federal statute that would force thee pentagon to disclose to congress the risk of terrorism and up a lot and basically the president decided not to brief congress about that to minimize them national security risk. congress did not have the ability to do oversight, he could have prevented the debacle we are seeing. what you say? >> i think the way the president handles the evacuation, it wasn't about the american people for the sacrifice men and women in uniform made, it wasn't higher purpose or nobility, it was all about i want to make sure i don't get stuck with the black hawk down incident or i don't want to have hostages like they did iran were in evacuations like they did in saigon. it was all about joe i biden and blame somebody else and what i

really wanted to hear from him, i wanted him to speak for a higher purpose and say to those men and women who fought and bled, their love front side, i wanted him to say your sacrifice was not in vain. we didn't create a brilliant modern democracy but your sacrifice was not in vain. instead it was petty, it was all about him and his decisions and blaming somebody else so iwh thk what he said today was emblematic of the 20 years of the effort in afghanistan. the dodging and reputation, popularity and something about the american people. liz: the foggy bottom is getting even foggier on the this administration. the president has been around since the nixon administration and the debacle of the vietnam pullout, why didn't he do better? he's been there for decades. pentagon indicated it's more

than just hundreds stranded, we're talking hundreds of hundreds of strata. people are sick of it. there's a lot of heartbreak. we've never seen americans stranded behind caroline's before and without the pentagon spokesman thinks americans get stranded in other countries all the time. not behind caroline's like this. they are done, what you say? >> i don't think this is overnight, it didn't break only under the biden administration, it broken through a period of time. eighteen months ago the previous administration signed an agreement with the taliban specifying may 1 of this year as the full withdrawal date. what happened to the americans during that period? i went back. liz: i thought to interrupt, i hear what you're saying but so many mistakes were made, surrendering the airbase, surrendering billions of dollars

worth of military hardware, uk nato saint telegraph ahead of time artificial pullout date, a recipe for chaos. people don't want to hear this anymore, they seek mistakes and hear it loudny and clear. >> i don't think you and i will agree on this. i'm just offering that there's another perspective worth paying attention to and worth considering. aside from the americans we are already focused on, there are tens of thousands of afghan citizens who worked alongside of us overfg this 20 year project. many of them left behind, to a. the program. reporter: have brought them safely and deliberately to the united states has underperformed four years so what i'm saying mainly tonight is simply while we are fixated on the last days in couple weeks, this problemed goes back over several administrations. liz: we know that, forgive me, with respect, we know that and it's a war, more than a project.

the president warned the former leader of afghanistan the fight with the telegram is failing, he told him that and you need to change the perception around the world, change the picture doug, i think would agree with this, there is the push that we've been at this for 20 years. it's just that the american say why did we lose 13 troops last week? why are we stranding americans behind enemy lines? >> again, i think it's all about perception and optics and that's what washington has become. for 20 years, american general have gone up to congress, phil william moore, six months, a year or more, we are going to have a moderate afghanistan military and they will fight the telegram in our political leaders said we are going to

build a modern democracy in afghanistan it's going to be speaking to the world, intelligence failure they didn't even seek this coming a month ago, they will failed and i wish president biden had that and said something to thehe american people but they've gotten it wrong for 20 years and what's happened to them? they're all the same. what's happening to all of them? i justre think the whole thing s the perfect academy of what's wrong with washington and the country to. liz: he tells leader of afghanistan to change the picture, that's what they are saying before it collapsed. reports have been president biden's out there and set it not going to be saigon or any chaos, we are going to pull out all americans, biden and his team

circulates talking points among the media and allies trapped behind enemy lines think it's in their best interest thing biden joseph leadership. let's show you what is going on out of the white house. >> i think it's irresponsible saying there strata, they are not. >> there are no americans stranded. this position was happening in afghanistan. >> we are stranding americans in afghanistan. >> there's a small number of americans, under 200, might be closer to 100 will remain in afghanistan and want to leave. >> americans understand we are going toe try to get it done before. >> but if we don't -- >> will determine at the time who's left and if there is american citizens left, we are i

going to get them all out. liz: we are not saying right now to pull out, n we are relying on the telegram, we've never been hereon before of americans stranded behind caroline's. >> i don't know if this is the first time ever in history but the reality the last two plus we evacuated 20000 people to include thousands of americans. there are some americans able to make their way to the international airport back to week. the challenge is between keeping the airport from about island open in the face of the insecure, security situation witnessed the isis attack the other day, six or 7000 americans guarding andca unsecure perimetr so yes -- the american troops

and yes, americans will have to find a different way out. i believe that by. liz: what is the way out pakistan or iran. we are sorry, we are coming up against the timer. we appreciate your insight heartbreak. we will have you back on, it was a spirited discussion. gold star families rebuking epresident biden after the children were killed in afghanistan by a terrorist bombing during the withdrawal. commander-in-chief talking more about their daughter killed in the line of duty. next, afghan war veteran on the follow-up the president is now facing. that's next.

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terror bombing in kabul during president biden's botched afghanistan withdrawal. the family slamming commander-in-chief saying he acted selfish in their interactions talking more about his own son than he did their children killed in the line of duty. what's your reaction? >> they have read every right to slam him, he's too busy checking his watch instead of honoring fallen soldiers. this administration is so obsessed with scoring political points it seems to be all president biden seems to care about and he keeps not listening to the family members, he rather talk about himself and that's the problem the whole time, he never listens to theou people wo actually knew the information that this would be a problem, the taliban would take over and future attacks. isis k that are conducted this attack, where is the authorization to strike months

before this? they clearly had information get they waited 24 hours after the attack occurred? i think it could haveee been stopped and it's discussing what happening. he keeps talking about all of these unanimous recommendations for military leaders and advisors to keep the august 31 deadline and who are these advisors? i don't know if one military soldier who says it'sy okay to leave americans behind. liz: everybody knows this is our problem 20 years in the making. the fact that he didn't surge troops in like george h double-breasted and george w did like obama did in iraq. he pulled troops out and left americans stranded. the debate in washington as president biden hass been in d.. since nixon and the vietnam debacle. how does he get the afghan prolapse around? let's watch the families here. >> i felt i owed it to my son to at least have some words with him how i felt and it didn't go

well. he talked more about his own son than we did my son that didn't sit well with me. the checking of his watch, that didn't happen just once. that happened on every single one that came out of the airplane. >> i couldn't look at him anymore after that considering especially the time and why we were there. i found itt to be the most disrespectful thing i've ever seen. liz: rights, when you saw family members there saying the president checked his watch multiple times, not just what, they are saying every time a coffin came out, he was checking his watch were moving to do so, what do you say? >> it's disgusting, disgraceful and the sad part is, unfortunately, we are soft because they are going to

continue in the future because the administration basically is going to be joe biden's legacy and he will go down as a president who took his boots off to these terrorist groups anddme are more vulnerable than we've ever been before. he's not focused on national security are too inept to understand what it means, he keeps talking about this war on terror and removed one of the most important capability from one of the most and w read important regions of the world. what he doesn't seem to understand is having these in afghanistan, it's not just about afghanistan, it's protecting america's overseas globally the strategy on the global war of terrorism so we don't have more families seeing their sons and daughters killed innocently. there's going to be more attacks and more strikes and that's what i fear. liz: what watch the washington post reporter, ashley parker. jen psaki rebuked the president biden by the sister of u.s. marine killed in the kabul terrorist bombing. watch this.

>> the sister of one of the smarines killed in the attacks told the t president of family d she said he can't f up as bad as he did and say you're sorry, this did not need to happen. >> the president made clear as the secretary of state and national security advisor made clear we are all responsible they feel irresponsibility and the buck stops with the president. liz: scripted, shallow, you can't quote f this up. every life is on u your hand. what we are hearing is reaction to that from these families and this is about optics, a victory lap, getting a pullout, ending of a 20 year war of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 but there's real pain and suffering out there among the families who lost their children. your reaction?

>> i truly believe the blood of the soldiers are on present biden's hand and could have been avoided, this was the wrong way to do it. i don't want a ground war in afghanistan, that's not what i'm saying. it's a duty between iraq and afghanistan. i've seen enough war between multiple lifetimes. there are disasters crosswinds us for letting our guard down and allowing groups like the taliban and isis and al qaeda to function over there. i just hate these family members are grieving because of something the administrationi did. liz:mu rights, thank you for yor service to our country, thank you for coming on. good to see you. come back soon. we are staying on this, michael mccall, president bidenl facing democrat demand for congressional pros into the botched afghan withdrawal.

going to resign or be impeached. thirteen service members set hundreds of americans and allies left behind terror lines. you're watching the evening edit on foxbusiness. >> we have a president that went to the ends of the earth to give up, back down and not hold the line. holy un-american. ♪♪

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omfeature, michael mccall. great to have you back on. growing calls, congressional siprobes, good to have you on. democrat asking for congressional probes into the boston withdrawal from afghanistan. more republican private they say biden should resign or bee impeached, what's your take democrats pushing for more probes? >> i think there's a lot of interest bipartisan into what happened. it shouldn't be a partisan issue, it should be un-american issue. what happened, it's a disaster. the way the drawdown was done, biden basically in may decided we are going to pull all troops out with no conditions on the ground the date and that was the beginning of the end. they had no plan how to withdraw americans, american citizens had

to draw interpreters out, special immigrant visa holders and i had a horrible story this weekend talking to high levels of just trying to get little girls and a choir at afghan university who were christian, orphans, they sath at the gate friday, got through the taliban only to be turned by high officials in the u.s. government at the hands of the taliban. there are so many unanswered questions, there's a lot of anger, not only with members of congress. when we got to our constituents, the american people wanted uss o wind this down but they didn't want to have an unpleasant unconditional surrender to the top element and that's what we gave them. you could see them celebrating in the street last night. all what they got, the cash and the helicopters, i can only

imagine what 9/11 will look like at the 20th anniversary, ashamed disgrace on this country. we want answers to the questions if the democrat join us, great. if they don't, we will go with our own investigation. liz: now we've got the taliban harbored the 9/11 terrorist raising the flag of the u.s. embassy in kabul on the anniversary of 9/11 so we've go0 times president biden since 2018 said nopr american will ever be left behind anywhere domestically, foreign, both policies. biden said on abc news august 19 if there's american citizens left, we are going to stay to get them all out but we didn't stay. he said that nearly 2000 times since 2018, no americans will be left behind. i don't know how you recover from this. >> i don't either.

he said it would be a saigonu ad also said al qaeda is gone from afghanistan. all of it, he's either lying or it's incompetent, i don't know what it is but the american value, particularly the military is no one left behind in this is cicely what we did. we left american citizens behind because we had an arbitrary deadline, not mission based but an arbitrary deadline, that was a mistake. liz: now you've got nine retires saying the pentagon chief lloyd austin and joint chief of staff more clearly said they should step down over this debacle. either they didn't do enough or should resign in protest. your reaction to reports that joe biden cap congress and the public in the dark back in june when joe biden ways is federal statute and blocked the pentagon

from giving a briefing to congress about the terrorist dangers of pulling out. the statute said he had to brief congress if he was going to cut troop levels below 2000. he stopped that saying it would undermine national security interests and basically h says that effectively biden walking congress meant the public couldn't do properhe oversight e ahead of time of the debacle they were created. could this be grounds for a push to really say presidentnt biden, is it possible grounds for impeachment? >> now you're getting into the meat of the matter and this is something the leader on foreign affairs armed services, house and tell, all three committees will conduct this oversight investigation but what you just cited violates the law and it violates the law in a bad way

where congress is kept out of the loop ont a serious national security issue. this is not about a phone call to ukraine or perhaps dealings with an intern, this really deals with lives and american lives. they are going to be lost because of how this was handled. the lies along the way to me, i did get the briefings in may, june and july detailed community, a dire assessment, they predicted exactly what was going toas happen and it was the state department has this rosy idea were going to negotiate with the taliban and poultice peace deal out and biden will blame his top generals and intelligence community, i think they got it right but he will blame anyone but himself. he owns this, it was his decision. liz: he didn't searchnd for tru.

thank you for joining us, good to have you on. come back soon. we are coming out of the bottom of the hour, you're watching the foxbusiness network. congress and scott fitzgerald, major fight between democrats and nancy pelosi. democrats joining republicans think you got to call the house back and. pelosi still refuses to call the house back in session while hundreds of americans remain trapped behind terror lines. keep it here on the evening edit. ♪♪

welcome to the show, congressman scott fitzgerald. thank you for joining us. we have right now, we are hearing democrats are saying pelosi reports coming in from you should croak the house back into session, she still refuses to do that, why?

>> liz, we had our conference last week as the event started to transpire in leader mccarthy dewas adamant talking to members saying what you think? how do you feel about this, should we come back? i think a lot of members felt there was a sense of urgency there, we needed to be in d.c. and start to wrap our minds about what exactly what's going down so not only the invitation but the request was made that members of congress return to d.c., the focus was on veterans, the committees appropriate as congressman just discussed and we did that. the republicans came back in force and we tried to make the push today to bring congress back to deal with these issues. liz: the pentagon is saying hundreds of americansyi are stil behind terror lines. we havein generals saying that's

what's happening. we've got house republicans democrats saying they continue to get phone calls from americans in afghanistan sayingn we still need to get out. we've got dozens of house lawmakers saying president biden needs to come up with a plan for rescuing them but nancy pelosi still doesn't seem to think it's a desperate situation according to her critics in congress democrat lose control of the midterm in the house next year the democrat are trying to change the headlines away from the. >> we offered that plan. what we discussed as a conference in one of my wisconsin offered was a piece of legislation that would have defined where we are at, i believe the biggest concern i have right now is the administration and jen psaki

doubled down on this today, they are trying to normalize relationships with the taliban. what you have to remember is this is 75000 members of what basically is a militia. this is not a formalized government, there is no elected body, there is no hierarchy other than what youer would find in any type of militia so what comes next after they make the push toe say the taliban is budget and secretary bring talked about today, they are going to try to push cash, try to find the taliban and that is something any member of our congress is not quick to stand for. liz: thank you for joining us, good to have you on. next, we'll take an update on this story, a crisis unfolded,

millions without power still after the deadly hurricane ida slammed the gulf coast. storm making its way northeast. stephen sure, the impact on all of this in that region, gas prices, oil, electricity, the power grid and o more. keep it here on foxbusiness. ♪♪er

okay, let's get you updated on this story, crews working around the clock to rescue people trapped by hurricane ida floodwaters and more. this is the fifth most powerful storm to hit the continental u.s., category four storm, trying to restore power, over 1 million people, all of louisiana lost power, all of new orleans in a blackout including surrounding suburbs. this could last longer than a week, your complete shutdown of new orleans and surrounding cities and towns which is a

report founder and editor, stephen, this is it, what's going on with energy production down there? >> the power grid has shown it vulnerability being knocked out so yes, 100 people without power right now a significant amount of refineries that don't cap power also so you don't have a refinery that has power and if you are not boiling crude oil, if you boil it, it condenses and makes gasoline and fuels so this is typically the way you would expect from a hurricane trading for you, with no oil going into the refinery, crude oil has taken a hit, you are seeing muted response with oil prices, they are taking back hit.

on the other side, you've got product markets, oil and gas -- gas, jet fuel and so forth while if you don't make the crude oil into, what happens? you get a disconnect in prices in fact what we are seeing. prices are muted right now, we are not seeing an overwhelming response either way but the market is playing out pretty much the way you would expect and that is to say it products and diesel and jet fuel or the crude oilil market. liz: by the way, lady, reporter a foxbusiness reporting 7 billion in economic damages to the region, talk to us going forward how long does this last it comes to gas prices? >> it's the position because we are hitting an area responsible for 50% of making gasoline in

this0% country taking a significant hit. we areco at dy over dx, the inflections where we are transitioning from the peak fore gasoline into the weakest demand season for gasoline so with that said, as long as we do not see an outage more than three to four weeks, we have enough cover of supply to cover that if we get any prolonged instruction to the ability to produce gasoline going into late september, october than that presents a significant problem. we've already seen a major year-over-year increase in prices which is translating into inflation running out at an annualized basis of herfl for 7% so we are dodging the bullet right now price action we are seeing, oil, crude oil, product a little higher, we are taking a wait and see attitude so the

market is not indicating any concerns going forward so we probably have, three to four more weeks. keep in mind is a big opec meeting takes place tomorrow we should start to see an extension of what the cartel agreed upon in their last meeting, increase in membership output so that will help keep a lid on prices going ahead to next month or two. liz: great to have you on, thank you for joining us, come back. next, congresswoman tim -- we got republicans ready to launch dozens of probes and inquiries, afghan withdrawal, american still crying lawmakers saying we are stranded behind terror lines. the president c himself repeatey

said this could not happen. democrat about to join republicans in these probes. you're watching evening edit on foxbusiness. ♪♪ >> are we less safe now than 20 years ago? >> i wouldow say we are going to stay vigilant about whatever terror or threat that might eminent for afghanistan. ♪♪ b

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joining us now, congressman tim from house foreign affairs, great to have you on. we got top republicans on house armed services. gop 50 amendments to the defense spending go to lunch probes ande inquiries and more into biden's handling of the withdrawal. you think it's going to cover? >> topic is going to cover all aspects, it's going to held accountable, i hope. we still know how many americans are over there how many are that's our number one focus be to thehe house minority leader kevin could you possibly here. when we look at the failures, he says he disagrees with the assessment they should have started the evaluation sooner.

but didn't give an explanation to why. what was your take on that. >> i'm not really sure and we know this august 31 was a ridiculous date, there wasn't enough time to get everybody out and we know that. seventeen people we know not able to get out, 435 congresspeople across the country and the number multiplies exponentially but the thing is accountable to giving folks home and it doesn't seem to be the focus of this white house or speaker pelosi. today she wasn't even acknowledging what's going on overseas, totally denies the reasonable piece of legislation, the great we need to know how much we have, who stopped him and we need to know what their

intentions are and it doesn't seem to be anything democrats and leadership are aware of or even encouraging. liz: we've got the general saying privately elation was not completed americans are left behind? are say to me keep speaking more loudly, it doesn't make them the fact isrect so the mission is not completed, thus the issue. the air force base and other basis didn't need to, used for the evacuation, they didn't search more troops to protect existing troops and americans te help them get out. george h.w., george w and obama did this, why didn't president biden? >> i just don't think he's cognitively data, they are all just surrounding themselves and

telling how great they are. he took a victory lap today and claimed the fact that we have possibly over 200 americans still there, the larger situation of hostagetaking's of american history of our country. yet he and the left-leaning media refused to focus on that. there's a history of us leaving people behind. the left people behind p in present allies, russians in world war ii, we did in korea and of course southeast asia, unaccounted for americans and found people contacted our own congressional officers and state department is basically hands off and it's a total habituation and fortunately we will have a launch pad for terrorist in the future and our friends no longer allied with us and enemies are laughing at us. we better get ready for china because that's the next thing, the worldwide impact will be

incredible. liz: we hear your. there are five times more americans stranded in their work during the hostage crisis in iran under jimmy carter. the pentagon and white house ... no, it could be hundreds more, we just don't know. your final word on the report that the president waste statute, he waved inid june requiring the pentagon to brief congress about the dangers of doing withdrawal and leaving behind a terror -- we've never been here before. this is a terrorist run country. americans are trapped behind terror lines, your reaction to that? final word. >> y-coordinate? you think congress of the u.s. will hold this president accountable? nancy pelosi is trying to change the directive of all of this and so is schumer. they stayed in line kissed the

president but and we've got to get out of that mindset so i appreciate it. liz: thank you for joining us, good to see you and thank you for watching. i am elizabeth mcdonald, you been watching the evening editt onpr foxbusiness, that is a for us. hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪♪ larry: hello, president ofbidenh and going have some direct average on larry kudlow and welcome back to fellow have avoided turn to business network edward lawrence of the white house for the latest on the biden speech. edward lawrence tell us what you took away from it please predict. guest: very interesting the present obviously thinking military members on the ground getting 124,000 of people including 5500 americans the president said in