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stranded in afghanistan. also declassify the president's phone call in july. reuters reporting he pressured the afghan president to mislead the media around the world, make like the taliban was losing. also homeland security today says it is catching high-risk afghans trying to come in. we've got new controversies. the bind agenda in jeopardy -- biden agenda in jeopardy. nancy pelosi approving pork for her home state, her home district in california. but we begin9 with the most critical question of the hour, who did the white house leave behind in afghanistan, and how will they get out? jackie hineing rick is live from the cows with more -- the white house with more. good to see you. >> reporter: liz, four days after u.s. troops withdrew from afghanistan, so far none of the 100 or so remaining americans have made it out of the country. secretary of state antony blinken only saying that the state department is in constant contact with them. also we're waiting to hear just how many afghan allies have been

left behind, and blinken did pass some of the blame to the trump administration. listen. >> so let me give you a little bit more context on this. when we took office, we inherited a backlog of more than 17,000 siv applicants. the program was basically in a dead stall. there had not been a single interview of an siv applicant in kabul in the nine months prior to us taking a office. >> reporter: blinken will head to do aha next week, he is not scheduled to meet with any taliban official, but the state department says they'll keep it on the table if it's in the national breast. in the meantime -- in the national interest. in the meantime, fresh questions about whether the taliban can be trusted to keep their promise of safe passage. the white house says it's one of the reasons the u.s. is not rushing to recognize the taliban, but the pentagon says there might be informal collaboration going forward in

the fight against isis especially. senate republicans want answers on why a majority of afghan s is iv who -- sivs who helped the u.s. were not liberated. yesterday press secretary jen psaki said 77% of the evacuees who made it out to the u.s. were at-risk afghans, but homeland security secretary mayorkas said some people were flagged f quote, derogatory information and denied entry to the u.s. in the meantime, kabul's airport remains inoperable, and the white house is saying there are some risks associated with these charter flights trying to potentially extract americans from afghanistan and bring them home. one of the biggest issues is the u.s. cannot get a clear read on exactly who is on that flight passenger manifest and also who it's being organized by, especially considering this ongoing threat from isis and their keen interest in striking u.s. aviation targets including military bases. meantime, president biden has

not talked about afghanistan since tuesday, liz. elizabeth: jacqui heinrich, thank you so much. great reporting there. it's good to see you, thanks for joining us. with us now, tennessee senator marsha blackburn of senate armed services and retired lieutenant colonel daniel davis. he deployed to afghanistan twice. it's great to have you both on. first to you, senator. given what jacqui heinrich was just reporting, how exactly will the president rescue americans behind terror lines and hunt down those who killed 13 u.s. troops? is it just cruise missile diplomacy? what's he going to do? >> we're very concerned about that because they do not have a plan. we found out that they did not have a plan for how they were going to handle this withdrawal. that is why you have had such chaos and such confusion. and it is why many of us in the senate are demanding to know what those answers will be. our office has had 2,000 cases

that we have been working on to help americans, tennesseans, to help our siv holders and siv applicants out of the country. these are people that have been vetted or were in the process of being vetted. and it is astounding that here we are this far in the process, and we don't have further instruction on how we're going to proceed with that. elizabeth: given what the senator just said, colonel -- and thank you for joining us -- you know, the president promised we were going to stay until all americans were out. how can we as a country have left americans and allies on the ground? >> yeah. you know, i think it's, it's pretty clear at this point that the president probably shouldn't have made that promise or he should have stuck with the promise. you know, just as someone who's been on four combat deployments, it was sort of an a article of faith that we never leave anybody behind. that was taught to us as second is lieutenants growing up.

but we have to be honest also and say that it was not without risk because as we could see, the attack by isis, the only way they could attack us is if we were there. and to stay longer, it would have increased that risk and maybe more troops died in the process of getting them out. but i'll just tell you, i probably would have taken the risk, but it does not come cost-free. elizabeth: senator, the president did not say that we would leave hundreds of americans behind and that after the fact do cruise missile diplomacy, use drone strikes and the like. cruise missile diplomacy didn't work when president bill clinton used it in '98 after al-qaeda attacks u.s. embassy says in kenya and tans tanzania. we have troops on the ground in yemen and somalia, but the president is talking about pulling troops out of iraq too. when you hear lawmakers getting these phone calls as you have

just pointed out, we're hearing americans and allies calling in to lawmakers saying the taliban is shooting up the front of our safe houses where we are hiding inside. you've got to say is why is the president walking away again today from questions from reporters about all of this? >> they wanted to have a date certain that they could say we are out of afghanistan. that date was september 11th. and what he is missing is the war on terror which is what this has been, fighting an ideology. that is going to continue. what he has done and because of his action as, he has given -- actions, he has given the terrorist organization, the taliban, a country where they can now go about training terrorists, exporting terrorism. we know they're been working with china, we know they're working with iran, we know this has made the world much more dangerous. and it has made the u.s.

homeland much less safe because of the actions of joe biden and his administration. it's the reason i think that he, vice president harris, secretary blinken, secretary austin, mark milley, susan rice, every single one of 'em, they should resign. elizabeth: we hear that from oh lawmakers -- other law makers too and from national security experts, what the senator just said is. colonel, do you think they should resign? >> well, you know, obviously, there's a lot of this things to find fault with about how this process has gone on. we do have to understand that this was under pressure, that the taliban, you know, they had a vote in this as they threw a lot of money and riches into it. but i tell you, i'm far, far more interested in saying let's examine how we got to this place, because the only reason the afghan government collapsed and the military literally disintegrated is because of the

disaster we had over the previous two decades. so, i mean, you're looking at george bush and obama, frankly, was the worst of all of them because they lied to the american people. they knew that the government wasn't being, not corrupt, they knew that the afghan military could not stand on their own, but instead of admitting that and maybe getting out earlier, they lied to us and told us that it was, and now finally the military got so big, we couldn't hide the lie anymore. that's what needs to be examined elizabeth: we hear you. colonel, we hear you. and, senator, you know, it should be pointed out president biden was vice president under obama and then ran senate foreign relations too. you know, the polls are really turning against the president. we've got five polls, emerson, washington post/abc, reuters/ipsos polls saying voters feel unsafe is. his approval rating is dropping. he botched it in afghanistan.

i want you to listen to how the white house press team is handling the white house press corps which has been hammering away at the biden topspin and the biden team's topspin on afghanistan. this was a bad week for the biden team. watch this. >> during this time -- [inaudible] government found out about -- [inaudible] we weren't included on the list from secretary of state antony blinken on the final day, august 31. >> how can the department of defense go before the american people, military members and veterans say the midge mission was accomplished -- the mission was accomplished? >> was there a decision made at some point to forget about those people -- >> no. >> -- and only allow u.s. passport holders in and onto -- into the airport through your checkpoints, not the taliban's, through your checkpoints and onto planes? because a lot of them feel like

they, frankly, got screwed here and that they were lied to. elizabeth: they feel like they were lied to. did you hear that, senator? and now you have house democrats in the defense bill saying, yes, probe this. yes, declassify information. report to us, administration, on how many americans are you rescuing. give us the real number. the tide is turning flight, senator. is that true? >> yes, it is definitely turning. and, of course, we're going to conduct oversight and get answers. president trump, secretary pompeo, our nato allies, our afghan partners had agreed to a withdrawal plan. it was conditions-based. joe biden wanted a date certain so he could take a victory lap. and it has created confusion and chaos. and what we have to do is commit to bringing these americans home. every single one of 'em. 90%'s not good enough, 95%'s not

good enough, 98% is not good enough. we bring everybody home. elizabeth: all right. senator marsha blackburn, colonel daniel davis, thank you so much for joining us. we hope you have a good weekend. up next, house armed services member, he is congressman rob whitman. we've got a new push by congress demanding probes of president biden's phone call where the president, according to reuters, urged the former president of afghanistan to mislead the media around the world. quote, change the perception, whether true or not, and make it look like the taliban was losing before the fall of kabul. this as the white house continues to dodge questions about that and downplay the botched pullout. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox fox business. >> you already saw one of the china foreign ministers meeting with the head of the taliban. they're already starting to have discussions. and think about all of the military equipment, black hawks,

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house armed services. congressman, let's talk about this phone call that reuters is reporting about and congress, looks like it's going to investigate. the president's phone call in july with the former afghanistan president. reuters said that he pressured the afghan leader to paint a false picture, you know, tell the media around the world that the taliban was weaker -- that the taliban was losing versus is what the reality was, and that was the leader of afghanistan is saying, no, the taliban is bringing in 15,000 terrorists, it's got pakistan, the wind behind its sails. so talk about the timing of this. that's what the media is missing about this is the timing of this. why was biden doing that phone call in july? why was he talking about that at that point? >> that's a great question, liz. that's a question that this administration needs to answer. it's a question that the congress needs to ask. we need to see all of the conversations that president biden had with president ghaani,

especially in light of what the president said is, and that is that this overtaking of afghanistan by the taliban was completely unexpected. that completely contradicts this conversation that he had with president ghaani. i want to understand that. but, listen, there's so much more. it's not just that conversation, but i want to understand other conversations. i want to understand why did we have no plan to get u.s. citizens out or afghans who helped us out? why did we leave behind $83 billion worth of equipment? i want to understand exactly the type of equipment that's there. much of that equipment, i believe, is advanced equipment, equipment that will fall into the hands of not only the taliban, but others. it will be used against the united states. there's a whole litany of questions that need to be answered -- elizabeth: yeah, right. >> especially -- elizabeth: but this phone call just feels like a manipulative breach of trust. we know he's risk-averse.

we know he told obama don't -- hold off going after osama a bin laden. we know that he was talking about september 11 areth to make like it was a victory that we're pulling out of afghanistan on september 11th. then that ca date got moved. so he didn't -- listen, he inherited a pretty solid deal from trump where it was conditions-based, but then he just threw it all out. and at that point in july, he was talking about optics instead of going in and saying, you know, let's stop this down. we're going to rescue americans right now. the timetable will be driven by rescuing americans. instead, he's talking about media perception ises. do you know what i mean? it's optics, which is so weird. >> liz, it is. i believe that this decision was 100 percent political. it's obvious he didn't listen to military leaders. if he did, held have been done much differently. think about this, it should be the military last to leave. instead, the military was out,

again for optics reasons, and then you with had to send is them back in to be able to evacuate americans. that just doesn't make sense. at every turn if you understand these decisions, it leads you to believe they're all political decisions. that's why it's so incredibly important we get to the bottom of this. elizabeth yeah. right, congressman? he's been around since the nixon administration. he was there during the vietnam drawdown in sigh began. how could you get it so wrong, and now you've got 13 troops dead and our americans abandoned behind terror lines? the media is now criticizing press secretary jen psaki for giving cover to the president. she's saying i'm not going to answer questions about this, but now she's topspinning saying nobody knew the taliban would so rapidly take over the country when the cia and intelligence was saying it would. when the united nations was warning the it would, when nato was warning it would, when u.k. said, yeah, it's going to collapse rapidly. nobody believes this white house

anymore. we have a white house that has a severe credibility crisis, congressman, and that is so bad reputational wise for how we stand in the status we are in around the world. >> it is, liz. we are in a terrible position with our allies. i have heard from a number of ambassadors from around the world that are asking the question what in the world is going on. this administration does not want to be transparent. they do not want to answer questions because they know the answers to the question will not reflect well upon them. again, this is all about optics, it's all about politics. this should be about what's best for the nation, about a what's doing right for the nation, and unfortunately, that's not job one for this administration. this administration is now about trying to put a lid on any information coming out about what happened in afghanistan because they believe -- elizabeth: and it's about stubborn vanity. you know what? it is about stubbornness. it's about vanity. it's about these guys thinking they're always the smartest guys in the room when they're not.

you know, let's listen to what leverage we have -- which we don't -- with the taliban. forgive me, let's listen to former secretary of state -- i just can't believe 13 troops are dead and americans are stranded behind taliban lines. let's listen to mike pompeo and kash patel. watch. >> i'm very concerned. i don't see that we have any leverage. i think that's actually, when you hear a spokesperson or the president talk about leverage, i think that's code words for money, american money going to these butchers, these men who are doing these horrific things today in afghanistan. if i think the president is signaling to the world he's willing to buy these americans back when it didn't have to be the case. >> under president trump that was part of our conditions-based withdrawal. anything we couldn't can remove, we were going to blow up in country. president biden had no plan, he had a reactionary evacuation that's failed the american people and is has left a disastrous amount of equipment in the hands of our enemies that's going to hurt us for years to come.

elizabeth: sir, we're in the middle of history. we've never been in a geopolitical crisis like this before. this is worse than the fall of saigon. military experts keep telling us that. congressman, your final world. >> yes. i think secretary pompeo is exactly right. we are many a terrible position with the taliban especially trying to get the remaining americans and afghans that have helped us. and the point about military equipment there, that military equipment, i believe, is going to fall into the hands of the wrong people. it will be used against the united states9 and our interests. we will regret the day that we left behind that equipment for others to use. elizabeth: well, it's basically funding a terror state, and i don't think the u.s. taxpayer wants that. congressman rob wittman, thank you so much. we appreciate it. you're watching the fox business network. up next, former top economic adviser to president trump, back with us is stephen moore. look at this, democrat senator joe manchin, looks like he's stopping biden's big plan saying, democrats, you've got to

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♪ elizabeth: let's welcome back former economic adviser to president trump steve moore. steve, what the heck happened with that august jobs report? it missed by half a million? if they expected 728,000, they got 235,000 jobs created. steve, that's like throwing gutter balls in bowling every night for ten months straight. how'd that happen in enter well, look, the report itself was not great, but it wasn't horrible. we did get 240,000 new jobs which in a normal time would be a pretty good number. we also had an upward revision, about 100,000, from previous months, so that's good news. here's the big story, liz, that people are missing. we have roughly 10-10.5 million open jobs in the united states, so that's our all-time record. and yet if you look at this report and what it's telling you, we're still 5-6 million jobs short of where we were in 2019. and that really raises the question of why aren't we able to get workers back on the job.

it's just, it's been really difficult for small businesses to get people back on the job. now, you know my answer to that question. i believe we've been paying people way too much money for not working for staying unemployed, supplemental benefits, food stamps, the checks the government is sending to people, rental assistance, all of this stuff is allowing people to live at an income that's at or above what they would make if they were working, and i think that is the big story -- elizabeth: it is. >> let me just mention -- elizabeth: yeah, go ahead, finish. >> sorry? get. elizabeth: go ahead, finish. >> if you look at the sectors, liz, for example, there were job losses in the leisure and hospitality industry. every restaurant you go to in the whole country has a help wanted sign, right? elizabeth: you know what? let's talk about this, we keep hearing from restaurants, bars and small businesses, the construction jobs -- companies,

rather, they can't find workers. we've got the administration blaming the delta variant. why don't they just blame the guy on the grassy knoll too? i mean, come on. the policies are so off the wall. now you have senator joe manchin saying to democrats in that opinion piece that he wrote for "the wall street journal" that, listen, democrats, you have got to pause the massive spending, hit the pause button. did he just kill the biden agenda? because now he's giving cover to house moderates and vulnerable democrats who say, you know what? we don't like this massive multitrillion dollar spending package, the most in u.s. history, that pelosi and schumer wants when they don't have a mandate. they've got the slimmest majority since world war i. policies are made in the middle. policies are made in a centrist way. why do we let the far left hijack everything right now? >> well, the answer was given by joe biden a few days ago when they actually a passed the first version of this bill out of the

senate, and joe biden in a statement said this is transformational. the left wants to transform america liz. they want to lurch us to the left towards a more socialist economy, and they're not kidding, because this bill would do that. it's the biggest tax increase in american history, a massive -- elizabeth: but, steve, stick with that, yes. they want to raise taxes with this democrat vote. that's taxation without representation. why does the far left who won with maybe a net 2 million votes get to dictate to everybody else, right? we've got new polling, 36 states say, you know what? we disapprove of what biden and the democrats are doing. voters in 36 states don't like it. final word, steve. >> liz, the left doesn't care. they don't care about that. they don't care about the rules of the game. why do you think they want to change the voting rules? why do you think they want to get rid of the filibuster? why do you think they want to pack the supreme court? they want to basically gerrymander everything so they

can get all the things that they want, and they don't allow these democrats in these moderate districts, you know, just walk the plank for us because this is our magic moment. but that piece by joe manchin today i think was really important because he said no way am i going to vote for this bill. it's going the add to the debt, it's going the make inflation worse, and it's going to hurt our kids, and he's right. elizabeth: you know, steve, i raised my voice. i got a little heated up. i wasn't yelling at you, i'm just astounded looking at the underlying data and the power the progressives hold when they don't have a mandate. they don't have the fat margin of power in the congress that warrants what they're doing. steve moore, you've been terrific. thanks for playing a long. you'll come back soon, it's good to see you. >> thanks, lizment. elizabeth: okay. we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. up next, congressman and dr. ronny jackson, we've got this new controversy. just exactly what science and

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♪ elizabeth: back with us now, former white house doctor, he's texas congressman, he's dr. ronnie jackson. it's great to see you, congressman. so we have dr. fauci, he's going on television again talking about variants saying the new m if u variant is, quote, not a threat. the government has no idea what's going on with variants, it's only genetically tested less than 2% of covid samples. that's according to its own data. so how can dr. fauci talk about following the science when it's not based -- it's based on the most paltry of data sets? can you explain this? >> i can't, elizabeth. only to say it wasn't too long ago that dr. fauci told us that he was science, so i assume he

means just follow him blindly. i don't know the answer to this. what i do know is dr. fauci has been so wrong so many times, and he's appeared so dishonest in some of the stuff he's said and done since this virus started, since this outbreak started that i can't believe he's in a position of authority right now and the reason we're listening to rim -- to him anymore. this washington post article that recently came out is just unbelievable, some of the stuff that was going on at nih dr. fauci was intimately involved in. i think we will ultimately find out that dr. fauci had a very big role in this particular pandemic and in a lot of it's going to be traced right back to him and the money he provided to the wuhan lab. elizabeth: so what we're talking about is "the washington post" story where it gives, it a basically supports what senator rand paul was saying in his fight with dr. fauci. dr. fauci went after senator rand paul. senator rand paul saying, yeah, you guys are funding dangerous

gain of function research, this franken stein -- frankenstein, supervirus research. guess what? it was nearly $50 million, that's probably tip of the iceberg, from 2012-2020, and the washington post found that dr. fauci and the nil director were making up their own definitions of gain of function research, arbitrary definitions so they could avoid accountability. that's what's happening. and this story is flying under the radar screen. >> it is, but it should be out there. it's hugely important, and it's going to end up giving us a lot of the answers we needed about what was going on. dr. fauci picked a fight with the wrong person. dr. rand is a physician, obviously, and he understands a lot of this, and he wasn't deterred by dr. fauci's, you know, intellectual rhetoric that he was throwing around. so he went back and looked and not only did they change the definition of what was gain of function research so they could get more of these projects by, they actually, they had a committee that was in place that

was supposed to be overseeing a lot of this, and they were make every effort to sidestep this committee and go around this committee and not let them have the information and authority that they were given to shut a lot of these projects down. if you go back, there was not just one episode, it wasn't just the coronavirus that we suspected that there was gain of function testing that dr. fauci was involved in, but like you said, there were multiple, as many as 18 over the last few years, and this is not research that we need to be doing. there is no reason to be doing this research. this is research that really has one purpose in my mind, and that's bioweaponses, the development of bioweapons, and we should have never if been involved in this, and we definitely shouldn't have been giving money to the chinese, of all people, to be doing this kind of research. and i'll also tell you they didn't give it directly for that, but they gave it to a lab in china that has been known to be doing research on bioweapons. this is totally irresponsible. elizabeth: yeah. i mean, the fact that they gave themselves veto power over that

oversight panel that was supposed to sign off on this dangerous supervirus research for dr. a few exist and the ni -- dr. fauci and the nil gave themself veto power. they pushed back on the washington post story, but they wouldn't talk to the washington post reporters about how much money went out the door toward the supervirus research, right? the reporters had to do a deep dive inside the government to get the information out, so why is that allowed to happen? they work for us, we don't work for them. they should be telling us what they're doing, right, doctor? >> absolutely, 100%, and we're going to make sure we get the answers to that. we're going to dig into what happened there. this is the perfect example of how people like dr. fauci and dr. collins that have been in roles for way too long, they have way too much authority, they control way too much of a budget, and they get a god complex to some extent thinking that they're the ultimate

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pelosi approved for herself, her home district $200 million in pork for a park in her san francisco district. this is as the democrats' massive $3.5 trillion budget resolution. what do you say to this? >> well, this is more bad government by nancy pelosi. i mean, the democrats want to keep spending money, money we don't have, money we're borrowing from china, money we're printing which is leading to inflation. any democrat who votes for this budget reconciliation fund will be voting for another san slushn for nancy -- fund for nancy pelosi is. this goes to a park which claims on a web site that they don't take taxpayer money. $200 million is a fifth of a billion dollars, and it's just more pork that nancy pelosi's putting in the budget. the democrats, i hope they don't keep going along and blindly

following her off a cliff, because that's what they're doing. elizabeth: why does the park need $200 million? >> that's a great question. that's something that we should have already debated, but the democrats don't want to debate this bill. we've had mark-ups in the oversight committee, we're going to have a mark-up in the education committee next week, each committee has a little bit of jurisdiction on this budget reconciliation bill, but they won't let any republicans file amendments. we'll have amendments filed to strip the $200 million, and the democrats will rule it out of order or they will just vote against the amendments. we had an amendment to save millions and billions of dollars, but the democrat, they just want to keep spending money. elizabeth: okay. let's talk just person to person here. what happens to somebody when they walk into power many congress? in congress? i mean, so the democrats are focusing just on massive pork spending. they're not focusing on rescuing

americans in afghanistan. they're not talking about, you know, drought and wildfires and how -- i know they're talking about climate change, but we're talking about people on the ground who have to deal with their policy choices day-to-day. what happens to people when they walk into the hauls of -- halls of power and do not talk about the 13 troops who are dead, the americans who are still stranded behind terror line, the sivs and the green cardholders, our afghan allies, stranded behind terror lines, our nato allies, their people stranded behind terror lines? nancy pelosi put out a statement, said this is a tragedy, what happened with the 13 troops. not calling the house back in, won't talk about it anymore, only talking about spending. what happens to somebody when they walk into the halls of power and -- she was big on talking about leading by example. is this leading by example? what happens to somebody when they step into office like this? >> well, i can tell you if the republicans were in power and we

had a speaker of the house that was behaving this badly, this disrespectful to our troops, this disrespectful to the american taxpayers, there would be a revolt. that's why you had the creation of the freedom caucus and other splinter groups in the republican party. republicans are more democratic than democrats. democrats are almost being ruled by a dictator here. pelosi's pulling the strings for joe biden as well, so employees employees -- so pelosi's going to get her $200 million. no telling what else is in that budget reconciliation bill. we're still digging trying to see what's in there because they won't have true committee hearings, and they don't allow republican amendments. so it's just very dispinting to see so many democrats -- dispints to see so many -- disappointing to see so many democrats be followers to a person like nancy pelosi. elizabeth: got it. congressman james comer, we'll continue to cover the story. it's good to have you on. okay, up next, security or

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but they have created a crisis. is this a story that has importance quick. >> it is unbelievable as if customs border protection didn't have low morale based on the ministrations decision on the southwest border to begin with. the incompetence of this administration has been on

display since day one and poor decision after poor decision leading up to afghanistan as we just saw with this disastrous exit. it puts the national security apparatus homeland security agencies at a disadvantage this is an administration causing its own national security agencies problems and they are always catching up and they still haven't learned that every action has a reaction we saw first on the border with trump's policies the supreme court had to step in to say remain in mexico should be we instituted. and the same with what the mass that we're in with the afghan refugees. >> it feels like things are done ad hoc and on-the-fly with no plan in place to deal with the aftermath now secretary mayorkas says today

that dhs flagged more afghan evacuees as a security risk they did block them from reaching the us and makes america safeties core the airlift but it is after-the-fact on-the-fly. >> exactly right you are reading that perfectly you saw the mess down at the border. everything was reactionary they stopped the construction of the wall they didn't have that technology of those encountered on the southwest border we know that 30 percent of that population are coming from outside central america and mexico this is a global problem and there is a large percentage of getaways. those that we don't other backgrounds or anything about them make it free and clear into the country. and as far as afghanistan and

the vetting the system has failed on the tarmac of the us airport and nobody can get off because you need six dollars to clear. >> trying to change the headlines from away from these problems in afghanistan and away from the problems at the border it's interesting to see the texas state legislature moving to spend $3 billion for its own border security including a border wall. nearly 50 million from unnamed donors in texas that say yes. we have nancy pelosi adam shift, jerry nadler, the squad, how in the heck are they not outraged over women and children being beaten? how are they not outraged usa is not diminished by the actions of this administration

and the dishonesty? this is for a more perfect union but it seems it's about unbridled devices power. the fact that they did not condemn rioting and killing americans, violence and murder with falsehood after falsehood to attack the biden caused global calamity. >> they have no moral compass. the word of america doesn't mean anything to them how are we as a country abandoned americans and special afghans who worked with us for over 20 years side-by-side with our troops and other government agencies and left everybody

there? it is unbelievable. that will not go away. is much as they wanted to it's not. >> thank you for joining us i have a good labor day weekend. im elizabeth mcdonald. you are watching the evening at it on foxbusiness. enjoy your weekend. we'll see you next time. ♪ >> a new government in afghanistan made up only of taliban members. concerning reports tonight about the future of afghanistan, we're going to take a look at what it could all mean for the americans and afghan allies still left behind in that country. also tonight there's a chilling new warning to the u.s. on any potential interference. plus, the secretary of state, antony blinken, saying the u.s. is in constant contact with the americans remaining in a afghanistan. so who are these people and how do we get them home? peter brooks will join