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surprised how rapidly the white house fled afghanistan. joining us tonight former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland, california gop party chair, she is jessica patterson, ford o'connell. nicole malliotakis from house foreign affairs, former governor mike huckabee and former va secretary colonel robert wilkie. secretary of state antony blinken again contradicting himself saying they did not anticipate a rapid collapse but they planned for all contingencies at the white house, admitting yes, he and the white house were on vacation when kabul fell and americans and allies were stranded. democrats again blaming president trump when the u.n. security council unanimously approved trump's doha deal. we have go the story. president biden met with new protests in california after he was hit with protests in idaho. the gubernatorial recall election now underway. we have a live report. growing questions over dubious mail-in ballots votes in

california. we have new york city teachers and school workers also protesting against president biden's vaccine mandates. look at this. arizona, the first state today to sue the biden administration over the mandates. 27 states fighting mandates. cdc with this story too. data unvaccinated 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and die from covid-19. alexandria ocasio-cortez wearing an elite met gala. it would play better at the dollar store. tickets at this gala cost 35,000. tables were worth a quart of a million. what alexandria ocasio-cortez weren't tell you, that the top 20% pay 90% of all federal income taxes, they want to raise your taxes higher with just democrat votes. "the evening edit" starts right

now. ♪. jackie: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. elizabeth: we start tonight with the secretary of state antony blinken getting grilled in his second day of hearings in the senate. more fireworks. watch this. >> what did we think was going to happen? all of those things were in place at the time. i think the most concerning part of is if we didn't have analysis that looked at auld of this, this is not a failure of intelligence. this is failure of policy and planning. we have the wrong people analyzing this. someone didn't see this, either someone didn't see this or someone didn't want to see this. >> i do read the news as most americans do, we realize this is a complete debacle. and i think what concerns me the most among many things is that the detachment from reality. >> never in my worst nightmares could have i imagined that an administration would leave,

leave $80 billion of worth of weaponry to the taliban, dozens of planes and helicopters, thousands of armored carriers, hundreds of thousands of automatic weapons and worst of all 13 of our brave young men and women. never in my worst nightmares did anyone conceive of such a colossal incompetence. abandoning bagram air force base will be remembered as one of the worst military decisions in our history. >> just like jimmy carter owns the disaster of the iran hostage crisis you own this. the biden administration caused this disaster. elizabeth: we've got news coming in. cia officials saying al qaeda attack on the u.s. may happen within a year. joining us now former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland. your reaction to all of this, good to see you. >> good to see you too, liz. i was horrified listening to that testimony.

secretary blinken lied, he lied because he said there were two options. one we were either going to send in hundreds of thousands of american forces to be there for years, or, we had to get out the way we did. he says there is no middle ground, either all-out war or all out leave. there were dozens of options in between. i've seen them. people have written about them. what did he do? he lied. he said that we had to get out and this was the only way we could do it. they also lied about other things. he lied leaving americans behind. you left americans behind. the allies said we did a great job. no they don't. in the written parliament they introduced a motion to censor the american president. the lies are mounting up. what is so upsetting, liz, the democrats on capitol hill, they are like parrots, they repeat what he says. the media, well they're like parrots too because they all let him get away with it, lies. elizabeth: kt "the new york times" reporting

that the even quote, the taliban was surprised how rapidly the white house left afghanistan. take a listen to what antony blinken say about staggering amount of u.s. permanent legal residents still left behind in afghanistan. watch this. >> how many of them approximately, you say we don't know the exact number, but how many legal permanent residents convinced are still in afghanistan. we don't have act number,. >> in the thousands? >> in the thousands? >> in the thousands. >> with regard to mazar-i-sharif you're correct there have been charter flights there, been there for some time have not been allowed to leave. we want to see those flights leave. elizabeth: your reaction to that, still in the thousands, kt. what do you say? >> they're living in some fantasyland and when antony blinken says we'll rely on the taliban, they're a responsible government, they have been serious partners with us, that is neville chamberlain trusting adolf hitler.

the taliban has no interest in getting us leaving out they want to string it out, make it as difficult as they can, the adversaries are pointing to this, the absolute example of america's inevitable and irreversible decline. elizabeth: republicans hammered the secretary of state, calling him out for the administration falsehoods. that the allies were perfectly happy with a rushed chaotic exit stranding citizens when the president promised no americans were left behind. the democrats was saying this is 20 years in the making. that the trump doha exit plan was flawed. what do you say to that? the u.n. security council unanimously approved trump's doha exit plan. what do you say? >> they didn't follow trump's exit plan. the trump administration had a plan. they wanted it to brief the incoming secretary of defense and his staff. the incoming secretary of defense and his staff refused to sit down. when they took office they ripped up the trump plan.

i'm not saying the trump plan would have been perfect but to go in with no plan what they ended up with. now they blame everything on president trump. they blame it on the afghan military. they blame it on presidents the last 20 years. there is a lot of blame to go around. i'm stunned they managed to just say that everything they did was perfect and yet everything they did was completely wrong, liz. elizabeth: kt, senator bob menendez would use subpoena power to compel pentagon chief lloyd austin to testify after he didn't show up for today's hearing. the pentagon chief was at a closed hearing with senate armed services. greg stuebe fact checked blinken misleading america in blinken's opening statement. watch this. >> mr. blinken, even in your opening statement you can't be honest with the american people. you stated, and i quote, that by january 2021 the taliban was in its strongest military position since 9/11. i'm pretty sure their strongest

military position has been during your entire administration, not prior to it. in fact their strongest military position since the towers were hit in 2001 was this past septemberth 11th, 20th anniversary which happened on your watch, not your predecessors. elizabeth: what do you say about that, kt? >> i'm past caring about the politics of this. i'm caring about my country. i think the united states has been put in a horrible position. the world is looking at us, our allies are doubting us. our adversaries are dancing on the grave, liz. we have president lying to us. secretary of state lying to us. a media letting him get away with it. this is really dark day in american history. elizabeth: kt, reaction to a separate story. bob woodward coauthored a book that nancy pelosi called the joint chiefs of staff chair mark milley said after the capitol riots what would trump do with the nuclear arsenal and that

general mark milley took steps to protect nuclear weapons, even going so far as to call his chinese counterpart in china saying we will not do a strike on china? what is your reaction to this story? >> i would have fired general milley in a nanosecond. remember he is now the general in charge of the afghan withdrawal. the president of the united states wake up this morning, lean over the bed and say i will use my nukes and press the button. a lot of steps have to happen including chairman of the joint chiefs. if general milley felt so strongly, talk to one the national security advisor, one of china's foremost scholar expert? the whole thing smacks of dirty little politics. it is really upsetting to see the american media going along with it. the emperor has no clothes and nobody is willing to call it out. elizabeth: kt mcfarland, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: next up, it is recall day in california. stakes are high for governor

newsom and the democrat party. up next california gop party chair, jessica patterson on that story. mail-in ballots in california in focus today, how this vote is hitting the d.c. establishment for the democrats. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. stay right there. >> there is no real controls over one person over one vote and you get this kind of mischief that takes place. ♪.

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♪. elizabeth: okay, just hours from now we could find out if california voted to recall governor gavin newsom. okay, voters there are angry about newsom's botched covid-19 lockdowns and hypocrisy, sky-high taxes, the gas prices, out of control wildfires. his recall is rattling the democrat party. the president, former president barack obama campaigning to try to save newsom's job. connell mcshane live in citrus heights in california with us now. connell, it is great to see you. reporter: great to see you, liz. you know all those issues you mentioned driven by angry small business owners many who we have been speaking to over the last year plus in this state but the governor's team in recent weeks appears increasingly confident he will do enough to hold his job pause this is such a deep blue state.

huge registration advantage two to one for democrats. what republicanneds need to unseat this governor are lines like this. there have been a long line of in person voters. republicans likely to vote in person than democrats. take you 30 minutes in this line. temperatures at my watch, 97 degrees to get to this point. another 30 minutes inside. people are choosing, rather than mail in the ballot rather than dropbox say that matters to them. we'll see if he has enough to unseat the governor. we'll start to get results 8:00 p.m. local time. 11:00 p.m. back on east coast. we should get the first batch of results. watch with that, liz. it will probably skew fairly heavily in newsom's favor. that are early votes in mail. probably heavily democratic. the question over time can as the votes are counted can people

who want him out catch up? we'll see. elizabeth: connell mcshane, thanks for joining us, california gop party chair jessica pattern son. you just heard connell mcshane's reporting. president biden was met with proat thers when he landed in sacramento speaking out against afghanistan and cdc putting out misleading data month after month on this. talk to us about the mail-in ballots because i think 22 million in ballots sent out in california. you have ballot harvesting is allowed in california, right? 23 states out loud that. how worried you about this. >> i'm not worried. thank you, liz. -- [inaudible] protesters when he landed in sacramento. this is a man who has abandoned not just californians but americans in afghanistan. instead of saving those individuals that are still stuck there, he out there trying to save gavin newsom's job. we're looking forward to

watching the change in california. we started ballot harvesting ourselves last cycle. while we would love to change the law, as long as it is the rules here in california we have to play at their same game. we knew that we were doing the right thing in the last cycle when the secretary of state and the attorney general tried to sue us to stop collecting ballots the way that we were collecting ballots at conservative businesses and churches. we're playing and beating them at their game. elizabeth: we hear you on that. so there is that issue, meaning you're taking your campaign workers are taking the ballots, physically as the democrats are on behalf of voters and delivering them, right? so that is what the issue is. the democrats are saying this is larger field operation. they have got something like, looks like 20,000 staffers and volunteers. they're targeting 10 million voters? what are you guys doing to stand

up against that? >> it is been phenomenal to watch the growth and the energy and the excitement. it is not just republicans. it is californians of all political stripes. we finished off the election cycle in 2020 with 42,000 volunteers. we're now up to 72,000 vol tears. this is 72% increase in what would normally be considered and off year. people are fired up and they're ready for change here in california. we had 50 million voter contacts last cycle. we have 18 million for the recall alone. elizabeth: got it. talk about the voting irregularities, because local tv are talking about them. voters are getting more than one mail-in ballot sent home and voters at multiple voting stations are told someone already voted for them. california there is history here. we have a woodlands hills election official, 70% of the votes at this precinct already shown as being cast when they were not. you know this, jessica.

that there has been a history here in california of voter fraud, right? so let's go through it. we had a guy arrested with 300 mail-in ballots stolen in his car, reportedly drugs and also had a gun. in the city of compton, half a dozen democrats were involved in , a thing, forging of mail-in ballots, right? and they got in trouble for that. how worried are you about voter fraud with mail-in ballots right now? >> we worked incredibly hard on the front end to make sure that people feel secure in the integrity of election this isn't something we started after 2020. this is something we started before the 2020 election cycle. we focused on the four congressional seats we were targeting. we won all four of those congressional seats. we made sure we had staff, volunteers and lawyers on the ground. we have only built upon that success. we have, we have lawyers

representing about 95% of voters, over 115 volunteer lawyers, all 5countys are -- 58 counts are covered. we feel about the work weigh have done in every single instances. people feel safe in casting their ballots. >> i hear you, jessica, it took a court to get los angeles county to get rid of million 1/2 voters that were dead people. this law had been on the books since 1993. california didn't follow it. good to see you. up next, gop strategist, ford o'connell, school teachers and workers marching across the brooklyn bridge, saying no, we don't want d.c. federal government, top-down d.c. control of our vaccine mandates.

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elizabeth: let's welcome to the show gop strategist ford o'connell. ford, okay, there is a trend happening. we're trend spotting here with you. protests against biden vaccine mandate in new york city from teachers and school workers? they were heard chanting against biden walking across the brooklyn bridge, my body, my shot. college footballs fans saying blank biden in texas, virginia, washington, north carolina. protests against biden popping up across the country, ford, what is happening here? this is a new trend, teachers doing it? >> look on several occasions dating back to december 2020, president joe biden said he would never implement a national vaccine mandate. lo and behold he has done it. you can understand and sympathize with the teachers in new york city. they're irate, they're saying hey, i either take the vaccine or i cannot provide for my

family. to them that is not a choice. on college campuses it doesn't take a wizard to what is going on. they're frustrated. they locked down for year-and-a-half. they missed their proms, their homecomings. won't deal with it anymore. they will live their lives how they see fit. elizabeth: arizona is now the first state to sue the white house over the vaccine mandate, saying it is unconstitutional. here on evening edit, we see time again and cnn, msnbc misreporting it. 50 years ago the court said health vaccines report to all states. that is state issue. not centralized by the d.c. or executive branch alone. smallpox, diptheria, breaking out a century ago, you know this. they went into centralized police to go into minority people to vaccinate them. they took away children.

the supreme court said it is up to the states. fauci, biden, pelosi, saki, talking top down when they said awhile ago no to vaccine mandates. now they are for them. >> well look, to your point, emac we cannot get caught up in the fog of covid hysteria to distract from the fact that president biden is truly trying to do an end-run around the constitution through osha regulations. i believe supreme court will strike down this executive order with the same fervor they struck down the eviction moratorium. elizabeth: look at this, ford, look at cdc data, we saw it, fully vaccinated people are 10 times hospitalled with covid-19. do they take into account of natural immunity at all? what about natural immunity, israel talking about natural immunity is 13 times more powerful.

cdc 15 billion-dollar budget, dr. makary, with 20,000 workers, why is dr. fauci always on camera, misleading american people about this. fda, "the lancet" scientists say this may boosters is it may not be needed. you don't hear that from fauci, why? >> biden and white house not only trampling on the constitution and discounting science. they like to redefine science whatever it may be. to your point, they are discounting natural immunity which is very effective. to your point they mismessaged the vaccine. i'm fully vaccinated. so is my entire family. it is not the a silver bullet. it limits prevents you from serious illness or death. frankly they have been not honest with the american people about the fact covid is here to stay. we have to live with it. protect yourself and family the best way you think possible. elizabeth: we are vaccinated. we get it. vaccines work. we get it. we feel these guys time and

again misleading the american people. them doing it. their credibility is shot. watch governor ron desantis, how does it follow the science for the white house to mandate vaccines for everyone else, not for congress, not for the congress, federal courts, not for the post office? watch the governor here. >> they're issuing this mandate for private sector employees but for all federal employees but they're exempting the post office. they're exempting members of congress and members of congress' staffs. so how does that work? con someone explain the science to me? if you're somebody a nurse who has been working in the icu for a private hospital year-and-a-half treating covid patients, likely already has covid somehow you will get fired unless you follow the mandate. how does that make sense at all? it doesn't. this is all political. it is all about using government and it's wrong. elizabeth: it is unconstitutional, ford. sorry i'm getting hit up here.

when i see what is coming out of washington it is shocking. the executive branch is now trying to tell people to get vaccinated, setting aside the congressional branch, setting aside judiciary, setting aside legislative powers. they're writing rules top down, ford. your final word? >> that is exactly right. look it, if thank god for florida governor ron desantis if he wasn't the governor of florida, would we be be one party socialist nation. to your point not only doing an end-run around the constitution, because if you allow this sort of unilateral federal bureaucracy to take hold, the next thing you know, emac, we might have federal lockdowns for climate change. the democrats this is massive power grab. they're lying about the law and science. elizabeth: ford o'connell, good to see you. thanks for joining us. coming out of the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. we have breaking news coming in. "the financial times" reporting that china is rebuffing, not answering the president's phone call for a summit.

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to demand the origins be fully and thoroughly investigated to determine it came from the wuhan lab. then he re-enters the paris accord which gives china and india a upper hand, doesn't require them to be on a level playing field as america. and you know, now they have been watching everything that happened in afghanistan, this hasty, disasterous withdrawal. i'm sure thinking about taking steps with regards to hong kong and taiwan. that is their priority right now. unfortunately the president put them in a position where they have have a position of strength. elizabeth: reports came in that china wanted to use the bagram airbase that republicans are saying to the secretary of state and the white house, this is epic historical failure thaw abandoned bagram airbase. it could have protected americans and u.s. allies trying to flee but you gave it up. china may use bagram airbase as

a hub for its belt and road initiative. china denies that. china is moving into afghanistan. so is china and russia. reaction to all of that news? >> china is moving in everywhere. that is really what the problem is. even very close to our homeland here, 90 miles away in cuba. you see what they're doing in south america. afghanistan is the latest thing. that is the thing when secretary blinken says they have leverage against the taliban i don't know what leverage he is talking about quite frankly because if it is monetary leverage, china will fill in the void and so, this is something that should be very much concerning and this is paul of president biden's doing. elizabeth: congresswoman, you grilled the secretary of state. we had representative michael mccaul of your committee, house foreign affairs, he is the ranking republican, he brought up this issue, he asked secretary of state antony blinken whether russia's leader vladmir putin threatened president biden. blinken didn't answer the question. watch this. >> and my last question is is, is it true that president putin

threatened the president of the united states saying he could not build intelligence capabilities in the region? >> this is an important question and one that in its detail and substance i think we need to take up in another setting. elizabeth: okay. when you see him not answering, congresswoman, does that tell you that happened? >> well, some of it is classified and he can't say it publicly and other he may not even know. yesterday myself i asked the secretary about terrorism and what kind of counterterrorism measures are they going to be taking now that we have nobody on the ground? asked straight out about the likelihood of al qaeda reemerging, also what the taliban has told them about isis-k. he literally stood there at this hearing and said that the taliban said that they are not going to allow afghanistan to be a base for terrorism but the taliban is terrorist

organization itself as is isis-k. as is the haqqani network and haqqani as you know serving in the cabinet of this taliban government. so the reality is is that we have a lot of questions than we received answers to yesterday. then today you saw what happened with the cia and the dia both saying indeed al-qaeda can emerge and do something to the united states of america and our homeland within one to two years. so did the secretary not know this, or was he lying straight out at the hearing to me yesterday? elizabeth: that is an important point you just made, the cia, there are intelligence officials warning that al qaeda could attack the u.s. within a year or two years time. let's, let's move to this. that is serious stuff. so we want to stay on that story with you in light of this. representative ronny jackson saying to antony blinken, you were vacationing in the hamptons. the white house was on vacation when kabul fell and american

citizens and allies were abandoned. watch this. >> the family remained hidden and terrified for 12 long days, until my team, a group of brave patriots on the ground facilitated evacuation. during that time the state department did nothing to help the family. you told them to go to taliban check points where mother repeatedly had a pistol put to her head. all while you were vacationing in the hamptons in and your diplomats were safe in doha. miraculously after the arrival, the state department jumped in to take responsibility for what happened. elizabeth: your final woman, congresswoman? >> reality many members of congress had the experience trying to evacuate citizens including myself. the state department helped me with one family. others we had to go to other sources to try to get these individuals out and back to the united states of america. the state department clearly is not coordinating very well, not

only with members of congress but i think with other agencies. this is just, just another example of how the withdrawal has been botched, how this president continues to make bad foreign policy decision after another. elizabeth: congresswoman nicole malliotakis. thanks for joining us. good to see you. former governor mike huckabee on the blow back much alexandria ocasio-cortez wearing a tax the rich gown to the elite met gala. tickets cost 35,000. tables were worth quart of a million. not exactly the event people with socialist views attend. it should be point out that aoc had a bill leave a committee for a floor vote. one of the most ineffective congresswoman ever. next on "the evening edit".

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kirstie alley is saying that alexandria ocasio-cortez designer gown saying tax the rich would play better at the dollar store, not the swanky met gala where tickets cost 35,000, tables cost more than a quarter of a million. what is with the socialist going to this elitist kind of event? >> it makes no sense at all. here she is showing up at this nice little soiree, nipping on cheese, sipping on wine, congratulating each other how much better they are than the rest of the world, she shows up basically to say, hey, i would like to take all of your money away from you, here is the irony, somebody gave her a 35,000-dollar ticket and they loaned her this fancy dress looks like from graffiti was sprayed on the back of it with spray paint while she wasn't looking. i would like to know did she

report it on the statement of financial interest which is required of members of congress and will she pay taxes of the value of the gift, because that is required by law? so let's just see when she does her taxes whether she decides to let everybody know that she paid taxes on the exist that was given to her. if not, let's tax oc, she is getting rich by the things people are letting her use. elizabeth: we'll stay on that. the jewelry too is often given gratis to show off the goods there. stephen miller you say who was not at the met gala, was joe manchin. the twitter backlash is coming in fast against aoc for doing. this the thing is, she has never written a bill that has gotten out of committee. vanderbilt university did a study, she is one of the least effective congressman of all time. she has never written a bill,

governor, never gotten any floor votes on anything. she is not doing anything. she is claiming she is antiauthoritarian. she wants to raise taxes higher than china only with democrat votes, right? at the same time she is that'sing away amazon jobs out of new york city. she wants tax rates eeffectively 60% for small businesses, governor. >> remember in any legislative body there are two kinds of people. you have really workhorses, people that do the job. they don't typically get a lot of attention or make the front pages. then you have show horses. people who just like to be seen. aoc is clearly in the show horse category. not a workhorse. doesn't get anything done. very accurate pointing out she merv never had a bill gone through the process, not one signed. she likes to be seen and heard from. she likes to be a celebrity. that is why she felt so

comfortable wearing a ridiculous dress last nightsticking it in the face of people who were rich and ones she would like to take their money away. i have to wonder when people look at her at an event what are they thinking? are they thinking oh, she really represents me? then you wonder all of the people who are struggling, barely making a live, i'm so glad aoc can real relate to the common people? dan crenshaw, said sometimes you want to get mad at her. in this case you laugh out loud. that is the best reaction to what happened last night. they're not wearing masks either, right? >> of course not. you have got to remember the democrats they don't get covid. it is the rest of us. they don't have any problems. they don't have any rules. we have rules. and they insist that we carry out the rules that they create. so that is why gavin newsom can go to the french laundry and hang out maskless with his

lobbiest buddies, eat appetizers that cost more than the grocery bill for the average american family but they want the rest of us to get vaccinated, wear a mask, not go anywhere, more than two or three people at a time. elizabeth: okay. >> stay 20 feet apart. ridiculous. elizabeth: governor, great to see you. thanks for joining us. up next former va secretary robert wilkie. served assistant secretary of defense under president george w. bush. the gop is now demanding even more hearings. did the biden administration manipulate intelligence on afghanistan? the story next. think again. ♪ (energetic music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ introducing the first ever at4 lineup.

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larry: joining us now former va secretary the u.s. reserve colonel, robert wilkie, it is good to see you, it's great to have you back on you served as assistant secretary under george w. bush now we have republicans including brian masse saying i want more hearings he says the president manipulated the intelligence when he made the phone call to the former afghanistan president in july saying change the perception make it look like the taliban was losing whether it's true or not, the credibility of the white house is at stake what is your reaction to all of this.

>> more portly i was under secretary of defense and planting scenarios across the globe. i don't know if it is so much a case of manipulating intelligence or egg noreen in. both of them are equally bad and they both had a disastrous result. what amazed me is a former planner, we could see the taliban coming out of the mountains they were out in the open and the biden administration went ahead with its plans to remove the military the one barrier between the taliban and our citizens and afghans who helped us, as they were moving in the open they remove the airpower which would have deterred them one of the things that you have heard often today they were deathly afraid of president trump when he took of the world's number one terrorist he went after hezbollah and syria including the russian mercenaries and they understood what the consequences

would be if they violated the terms of the agreement and what was so disturbing as the last few days and blame a prior administration that hasn't been in office for eight months with actions on the ground and responsible, he's absolutely right there shows a lack of understanding of how to handle an emergency and how to protect american citizens speak to the secretary of state claiming they inherited no plan with the united nations security council had approved unanimously the trump dough hop lamb the exit plan that means china, russia and other countries signed off on the plan unclear why the secretary of state white house inherited no plan. let's listen to congressman nast he's talking about the 13 service members killed, watch

this. >> marine corporal daegan page his family deserves to know if that is why they are missing their son because intelligence was manipulated. marine sgt nicole gee 23 years old, holding a young child her family deserves to know if that's why everything went wrong because intelligence was manipulated. david espinoza, just 20 years old, the family deserves to know if that's why everything went so wrong because the intelligence was manipulated. marine corps sgt giovanni mccarty a. they deserve to know if that's what went wrong because you manipulated the intelligence of what went wrong with the taliban. marine lance corporal dilemma rollo, he always had a smile, the kindest person, they deserve to know if that's why everything went so wrong because you manipulated intelligence. liz: he read all of the 13 troops names who were murdered,

was intelligence manipulated by the white house. >> as i said i don't have inside information but either path that they took was disastrous and people's heads need to roll because of that. as you know we known each other for a while i'm a son of a greatly wounded combat soldier i don't think my father's service in vietnam he was ever put in that kind of situation that the biden of administration put those young americans and is not just young americans at their afghan allies, british allies, german and french in this president didn't have the decency to tell the prime minister of britain who lost 450 soldiers in afghanistan that he was leaving and refused to take his phone call and they call donald trump the great disruptor i think you will find from merkel and from johnson that this administration has done more to rip asunder the western alliance than any administration since nato was created in 1949.

liz: final ten seconds, how concerned are you. >> very concerned for our place in the world. liz: thank you for your service to our country and your families as well, it's good to see you i am elizabeth macdonald and you been watching "the evening edit", that does it evening. ♪. larry: hello everyone welcome to "kudlow" i am larry kudlow there is lots of breaking news tonight, up on capitol hill secretary of state blinken went into day two of the catastrophic afghanistan hearings, this time in front of the senate foreign relations committee and he continues to blame donald trump and maintain that nato and her allies were completely behind the effort and continues to argue it was a smashing