pie and corn this weekend. let's eat some of that. >> bill: have a great weekend. nice to be with you, smitty. >> sandra: back at 1:00. joey jones at the top of the hour. >> bill: at lot to say about what is happening in afghanistan. harris begins now. have a good weekend. >> harris: the entire nation of afghanistan under siege as the taliban now have crushed under their control city after city. and now rapidly closing in on the capital kabul where our u.s. embassy is. the pentagon deploying thousands of troops and even more on stand by in the middle east. operation allies refuge get our people out of there. i'm harris faulkner, you are in "the faulkner focus". the lightning speed at which much of afghanistan has fallen is stunning.

the taliban control 2/3 of that country after capturing three provincial capitals in afghanistan, including kandahar, in just the past 24 hours. they are terrorists who swept through the south, the region where american, british and allied nato forces fought. some of the bloodiest battles in the past quarter century. one republican lawmaker warned this way. >> what it means is that the basically the ability of the afghan government to resist the taliban is near zero. the resources that were at kandahar were significant. both from the air force capability and army capability, the special operations forces capability. if they have taken kandahar city i think we're talking about the demise of the country within weeks. >> harris: what's unfolding with our race to get to our people in kabul is triggering memories and comparisons to the

dramatic rooftop rescue of american diplomats in saigon. president biden leaving the white house today still for vacation scoffed as you may remember last month when he was asked if there were any similarities to what played out at the end of the vietnam war. >> president biden: none whatsoever, zero if i'm not mistaken. the taliban is not the north vietnam east army. they're not remotely comparable in terms of capability. there will be no circumstance where you will see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all comparable. >> taliban takeover in afghanistan now inevitable? >> president biden: no, it is not. >> do you trust the taliban, mr. president? >> >> president biden: is that a serious question? i do not. >> harris: you can set an egg

timer for how long it lasted for that to be true. more from the north line, jackie heinrich. >> the u.s. sending 3,000 additional troops to kabul to assist in the evacuation of americans and diplomat attention signals to many a deteriorating confidence that the afghan government would be able to prevent a taliban attack on the u.s. embassy. there are reports that american negotiators are trying to get assurances that the taliban will not attack the embassy if they take kabul. just a month ago president biden said it was highly unlikely that there was any scenario where the taliban takes over the entire country. >> president biden: first of all, the mission hasn't failed yet. there is in afghanistan and all parties there has been corruption. the question is can there be an agreement on unity of purpose.

so the question now is where do they go from here? that the jury is still out. the likelihood there is going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. >> taliban has taken 18 of 34 capitals as part of their week-long surge. the official number was 14 early this morning. showing how rapid it has deteriorated. critics say biden needs to admit the withdrawal was a mistake and -- if the taliban takes over they take the equipment left, helicopters, vehicles all become taliban equipment. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says afghanistan is careening toward a disaster. president biden should commit to providing more support to afghan forces. otherwise taliban may celebrate may burn down the embassy in

kabul on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. >> commit the air power. taliban are out in the open, exposed. it would blunt their offensive and buy us time not only for the afghan security forces but to get our local allies out. number two, pakistan is completely complicit. their military is supporting this taliban offensive. i want to see all aid frozen and possibly sanctions against the pakistani military. number three, we desperately need a new strategy. >> a growing chorus of voices adding to what critics believe president biden could do to prevent some of this from deteriorating any further. he left for wilmington yesterday, he did not take any questions before resuming what is to be his vacation. back to you, harris. >> harris: we know presidents can work on vacation and the press i have been told won't have much access to him.

we'll have to see how this weekend lays out for him. disturbing new video showing the taliban completing its takeover of southern afghanistan. capturing its third regional capital today. the fighters surrounding government officials who ultimately surrendered. the terror group's area of control is encircling kabul. today's "new york post" with a blistering front page calling the afghan crisis biden's saigon. general jack keane, retired four star u.s. army general and fox news senior strategic analyst and chair of the institute for the study of war is in focus. general, thank you for joining me with your expertise. you heard the president. we played clips from him in recent past. he says the mission has not failed yet. is that true? >> well, it's failing right before our eyes. what has happened here is the

president has made some serious miscalculations where he hasn't fully appreciated the consequences of his decision in april when he announced a withdrawal. what we're seeing is an ill-conceived hastey withdrawal that's turned into an embarrassing retreat. and that's the simple fact of it. it's not something that president biden intended to happen but the reality is simply this. when we announced that withdrawal, that meant that the united states military had to close seven military bases and remove the resources at those bases and get it all done by 31 august. that left absolutely no time and no resources to assist the afghan security forces. the taliban recognized that the united states military will be completely preoccupied with getting out of the country. therefore, they launched their offensive according to the i.g.

report that was just published recently, the taliban launched the offensive in may because of the biden decision that was announced in april knowing full well that there would be no u.s. support for the ground forces and they would have their way with them. and that's exactly what happened. no decisive air support for them. in intelligence, drones to speak of. limited support but not sustained enough to be effective. it cannot stop the taliban at this point. all of this was preventable. that's what is so sad about this. i'm not relitigating whether we should stay or go. reasonable people can be on boekt sides of that argument. what i am saying is that this withdrawal plan doesn't make any sense. because we should have done a deliberate and methodical withdrawal. do it during the wintertime when the taliban is off the battlefield and they are seeking refuge in pakistan.

not conduct a withdrawal in the height of the fighting season which is what we're in the middle of right now. and that is what is so ill conceived about this withdrawal. it just played right into the taliban's hands. >> harris: you've taught us two things in the past, general. we've been talking for years about the ramp-up to war, the endgame, all of that. and the bottom line you always tell us is this. you've got to have a plan for exiting. and it should be only your plan. so when that plan was shared so widely by this current president, he put the whole world, including the taliban, on notice and now we're up against it. would you compare this, as some are, to saigon and those rescues that we saw play out? >> well it's inescapable. you can't help to compare it to that debacle as well. certainly i don't think we should have announced a date certain. i think what the president

should have said is yes, we intend to leave. we will pull our forces out but we'll set conditions for a successful transition with the afghan government and the afghan security forces. and that would have -- no date. likely sometime next year should have been the response the probed on it. say that would give him time to provide the adequate support the government needed in terms of contractor support. it would have given us time to coordinate the bases that we need in the region, not back in the middle east which is what we're using right now. given us more time to do that and also get -- recognize full well if we're going to sustain air support once we're out of the country, they are going to have to be some enablers that the afghan military will have to have that they don't have now. all of that needed time to do. this hastey, ill-conceived

withdrawal robbed us of the benefit of setting those conditions properly. that's why this thing is unfolding so unsatisfactory to everybody that looks at it. >> harris: i don't mean to cut in but i want to get to this. it's important. the ceo of the independent fund told foxnews.com our gold star families in particular are carrying a heavy burden and a hard one to swallow as people casually say was it worth it? they have to know that their spouse or son or daughter has made the ultimate sacrifice. you have led so many and you have lost some, too, in war. what would you say to the gold star families? >> this is where i separate the comparison to vietnam. i was a platoon leader and company commander in vietnam. it was a gut punch, frankly, to see what happened in april 1975 in saigon. i held our military leaders somewhat in contempt over it. their strategy was wrong for

three years and national leaders did not have the stomach to stand up to it. put that aside. what has happened here is very different. what we went to afghanistan to do we have been doing, and that is preventing another attack on america's homeland. we lost soldiers doing that, we've had some catastrophically wounded and families have made significant sacrifices. i commend them for their service and what they have achieved. we have protected the american people for these 20 years. that was the mission. did we get sidetracked in that mission with nation building and building a constitutional democracy? yes, we did. those were mistakes. the essential purpose has been achieved. my argument has been well, if you want to continue to sustain that we still have a war with radical islam, afghanistan can become the epicenter for international terrorism again and a prudent thing to do would be to leave some residual force. you have heard my argument. in terms of what we have

accomplished there, we have done that. but i do think the taliban take over there will likely be a resurgence of international terrorism in afghanistan again. it is indisputable. >> harris: we don't know what it would look like if they get to kabul. we have a lot of resources headed in that direction. while you were talking and we'll continue to do it this hour, we're putting up support information for our veterans who served who may need a hotline to call, someone to talk to, and hear those very things that you just heard general keane say over the phone personally with that support. general, leading in many ways as you always do. great to have you on the program. thank you. >> always great talking to you. >> harris: california governor gavin newsom hitting to road to save his political life as a recall election is looming.

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today. dozens of republicans are running against him and democrats now seem pretty concerned about the whole thing including president biden who tweeted this. governor newsom is leading california through unprecedented crises. he is a key partner in fighting the pandemic and helping build our economy back better. to keep him on the job registered voters should vote no on the recall election by 9/14 and keep california moving forward. also circling the wag yons for newsom house speaker nancy pelosi. >> i want everybody to get out the vote. i have my own operation working to get out the vote, making calls to defeat the recall of our governor. we do not like it and we will not -- we will defeat it, the recall. >> we do not like it nancy pelosi says. mary anne rafferty is live in

los angeles. mary anne, good to see you. >> bringing in those big names a sign the recall may be more of an uphill battle than expected. the "l. a. times" reporting the white house is heaven working on getting president and the v.p. involved. with 46 republicans vying to replace him the newsom campaign is kicking off a vote no campaign with a rally in san francisco later today. the governor has been zeroing in on his opponent stances on big issues. during a homeless encampment visit in the bay area. >> what is at stake. the leading candidate in this effort calls climate change a crock, calls climate change a myth. wants the minimum wage to be zero dollars. take us off the covid cliff by eliminating masking is schools and vaccination efforts. this is very consequential. >> larry elder argues newsom's approach to minimum wage and

pandemic restrictions hurt californians. >> i know how difficult it is to run a business. many of them never succeed. those who do succeed often run on thin profit margins often from payroll to payroll. a third of all small businesses in california are gone forever because he ignored science and slammed the state down. it is outrageous. >> ballots are being mailed out this week for the september 14th recall. back to you. >> harris: thank you very much. power panel now, david avella, laura fink, great to see you both. david, first of all, why do you put a lifeline in the water for somebody like gavin newsom if you totally believe in him? is he is trouble and why big names are coming out? >> gavin newsom and andrew cuomo were the two stars of the democratic party last summer and by the end of this summer they both might be out of office.

and it destroys the narrative the democrats are trying to portray that they have a handle on covid and they know how to lead. this recall, although comes down to what happens in the inland empire. areas that republicans had historically done quite well even in orange county that democrats have made much inroads the last few cycles. in 2020 they all snapped back to being republican strong areas. if those areas turn out strong, if northern california turns out strong, and if an unenthusiastic democratic base because of what they see out of the white house, biden not inspiring, then you get turnout low in l.a. and san francisco and the fact newsom is attacking larry elder says he thinks he is in trouble. >> harris: laura, you put on top of that the fact with the pandemic and everything else.

how do you put where gavin newsom is. you have to listen to the voters who don't like the restrictive lockdowns and all that. nancy pelosi can't wave a wand and say i don't like this, vote no. >> the only way republicans win this is if democrats stay home. you see the traditional effort on behalf of the president. california is the nation's largest economy and frankly the economy reopening is going well. hospitalizations are down and vaccinations up. that means we need continued leadership in the state house. so that's what president biden and nancy pelosi are trying to insure. it just means getting democrats to pick up the ballot, fill it out on mail it in. democrats don't feel under threat. they're trying to raise the stakes and remind voters they could lose it all. i think that's important. democrats turn out, republicans lose this thing. >> harris: people don't usually give you a lifeline if they don't think there is a threat. business owners and a lot of

other people around the nation are not happy about new covid restrictions, new orleans, the latest city to announce that people need proof of vaccination or a negative covid test to enter a bar, a restaurant, or a gym. similar restrictions go into effect in new york city and san francisco next week. los angeles drafting it its own restrictions. one of the city's small business owners is not having it. >> i can't find enough staff to keep the service going here. now i'm going to say well, you have to be vaccinated? i have certain employees that have had it before and they feel their immune system is good enough. do i have to let them go? they want us to be the sheriff? i'm supposed to, what, put a vaccine checker at the door and if somebody gets mad and punches my employee in the face, what do i do? >> harris: all excellent questions. one new york city restaurant with a smackdown of mayor bill deblasio' rest stricted posted a sign reading that says, it will not discriminate against

any customer based on sex, gender, race, creed, age, vaccinate or -- how do you not listen to the voter? what happens here, laura? >> it is all about keeping people safe. local businesses open and economy thriving. the small businesses we heard one. many others that are happy to see this restriction. they want the delta virus to be stop being spread. so this -- >> harris: we all want that. >> if you don't -- it is very reasonable. frankly in places like texas and florida we're seeing hospitalizations get to the point you can't get an icu bed if you get in a car accident or if you have a heart attack. so it's all about keeping those hospitalizations down so that people have the freedom to move and continue to have that economy be open.

it is working in california and frankly, americans agree, majority of americans have no problem with vaccine and testing requirements. they support them. there are a handful of republicans that do not. so those are the dynamic and what people believe? . >> harris: if your small businesses are under threat in the pandemic are you in favor of that? if this were small is best and hurt your local economy. that's a different question. and i think -- we have move on when we have you back i want to go there. i don't think that the polling that we're talking about is broad enough then. it's a different type of thing and about survival of the local economy. missouri attorney general eric schmidt on the issue with strong words. >> someone says using fear is good, it's what every tyrant in the history and dictator in the history of the world has ever said to accumulate and maintain power. people can make these very

important decisions themselves. and i don't want to live in some futuristic dystopian biomedical security state. i'm going to do everything i can as attorney general to protect the rights of individuals in the state. >> harris: david. >> the policies of the current democratic party are good at doing two things. creating criminal activity and hiring more federal bureaucracies. what is going to happen here? now you have an entire new industry of people making fake voefd vaccinations cards so people can go in and say they do have the covid vaccine. which means what, now you will have to have covid card compliance officers coming in to make sure that cards are actual real cards and not fake cards for these businesses. businesses are going to have to have agents for the government enforcing this. the only government they don't want to increase is police actually doing things to keep

people safe. >> harris: real quick. >> i mean, i think this is patently ridiculous like saying they've microchip everybody. these are reasonable things that will encourage people to get vaccinated, >> how do you enforce the policy then? how do you enforce the policy if you aren't going to have people making sure the cards are real? >> honestly, i think let's cross that bridge when we get to it. right now we need to encourage vaccinations. >> we have to do it now. you are making small businesses make people show a card to get in. you've got to enforce it now. this isn't wait until later. >> they've been doing it at concerts and in areas. >> again, creating criminal activity. >> you just show your card. >> show a card that a if a criminal sells it to somebody it is an illegal card. how effective is that policy, laura? >> harris: would you need a clearinghouse like what they've done in new york.

you need something above or adjacent to the small to mid businesses to help them out to verify the cards. i hear from both of you, the crisis, another one for the white house. the crisis here is that you are going on the honor system. we know people cheat. let's break it real here. now you are putting all of that responsibility on a small business owner that is just trying to stay above water. there has to be another layer as david is saying. i didn't hear david yelling at you but i will say for everybody here it is worth getting into for sure and i'm glad we did today. thank you both of you. you've seen the packed migrant facilities at the border. the other biden crisis. but have you heard what president biden's dhs secretary is saying behind closed doors? we have exclusive leaked audio of that. and this.

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general jack keane minutes ago in focus. and former secretary of state mike pompeo is also among the critics calling out the biden administration over the crisis now in afghanistan. >> looks like they have not been able to execute the strategy depends on planning and execution, looks like there is a bit of panic. i hope they have the right number of folks to get them there quickly and protect americans in the way the trump administration had every intention of doing. >> harris: wow. did you hear that word panic? the "new york post" with a scathing editorial head lined this afghan route is entirely on joe biden. an excerpt we didn't disagree with biden's move to remove the last ground forces as donald trump promised as well when he was in office. that's plainly what most americans wanted, too. afghanistan has become an endless war but any pull-out had to have a plan, not an utterly disastrous cut and run with virtually no provision for the afghans who worked with us

all these years. the end of that quote let's go to k.t. mcfarland national security adviseor under president trump and has a piece on foxnews.com entitled afghanistan was always mission impossible. biden is living in fantasy land with this endgame. she is in focus now. i want to start with this because i am burning to know what we do next. a "new york times" piece on the united states has asked the taliban to spare its embassy in kabul calling it quote, unquote, demand that seeks to stave off an evacuation of the embassy by dangling aid to future afghan governments even one that includes the taliban. critics are calling it a defacto bribe. how desperate is this situation now? >> completely desperate. i wouldn't mind bribing. the chinese are standing by

ready to acknowledge and legitimize the taliban-governed afghanistan within a couple of days. no afghanistan government that we can trust and any idea that somehow they are going to really care about american citizens, or care about their standing in the world? they don't care about any of that stuff. they will use taliban and the chinese and a propaganda victory. we need a few more billion thousand and a couple,000 more troop and a couple of years we'll win in afghanistan. we were never going to win in afghanistan. the taliban would always wait us out. they knew we would eventually get tired and fed up and leave. and so the thought that somehow they will do us any favors right now in dangling aid in front of them, harris? negotiating without leverage is begging. it sounds like what they're doing now.

>> harris: you mentioned china and the irony. we're in a pandemic, year two, 18 months, started in china coronavirus. another "new york post" op-ed puts it this way. the u.s. withdrawal plays into china's hands. if the main withdrawal is redirect energy toward china's expansionist game. ceding territory to china's orbit. >> the taliban sees weakness and russia sees we canness. the list goes on. these folks can sense america is apologizing. you can see the impact. chinese aggressiveness, iranians enriching nuclear weapons. they're all a direct result of america failing to lead. >> harris: does president biden

and the white house, are they giving us an indication that they get this? >> no, no. they are living in fantasy land. they are stuck in the 1980s they think if america asks or demands or issues a few strong words and strong statements everybody will follow the line. those days are done. the united states is now in a position where they the chinese are pointing to us saying see, look at the failures of america, look at their economic failures and social failures and governance failures, look at the failure in afghanistan. democracy, america is finished. the 21st century belongs to us, china. that's what china is telling the world and they will use this afghanistan route where we are going to be withdrawing, we'll have 3,000 troops we're sending, combat forces to evacuate american personnel. now we have to shoot our way out. it will be as bad as our evacuation from saigon. >> harris: i want to say this.

i read this. the contingency plan in case an embassy evacuation turns into a fight, we can't read the future. the pentagon is moving an entire infantry brigade combat team, 3500 troops from fort bragg to kuwait in the next week. that's where they will be so that they can more easily deploy. we know they are being moved around but that's position specific. k.t. mcfarland thank you very much for the conversation and your expertise in focus. good to see you. we expected record numbers on the migrant surge in july. well, we got them. republicans say president biden owns this. >> we just got the numbers, june was the highest until july. no conclusion you can reach but this is intentional. biden administration is responsible for the chaotic situation on the southern border. >> harris: numbers announced publicly are bad enough. wait until you see the stunning

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>> harris: dhs secretary mayorkas was at the border yesterday and we covered it. he announced the number of migrants detained last month was now over 200,000 for the first time in 21 years. he publicly called the situation complicated. but he had a different take when he spoke in private with border officials yesterday. here is exclusive leaked audio fox news has obtained. >> this is unsustainable. these numbers cannot continue. we cannot get to the point where we were a couple of weeks ago and we have to make sure that doesn't happen. >> harris: jonathan hunt live at the border in la joya, texas. >> we got that leaked audio around the time we were back out here in last night once again witnessing the ongoing surge of migrants coming across the rio grande river and up the

pathways in this area to be processed again by u.s. border patrol. it is exhausting for the border patrol agents who are out here every night and that's why in that leaked audio you also hear secretary mayorkas saying help is on the way. listen again. >> i know very well -- [inaudible] >> you can contrast those very open comments with the more guarded comments secretary mayorkas made at his public news conference yesterday. listen here. >> the situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. it is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people

at a time of a global pandemic. >> and harris, as you look at pictures from our drone team live over the border, a drilldown on some numbers. for instance, unaccompanied minors in july more than 18,000 encounters with unaccompanied minors. you compare that to one year ago. it was just 2 1/2 thousand. the numbers are increasing month-by-month by month. border patrol agents here really need the help. >> harris: thank you. officials in border communities are dealing with the problem firsthand as we know and they are going after mayorkas and the biden administration over all of it. >> he knew what the problem was. and he knew that the model that the federal government is using is not sustainable and it's not working. so for us to try to define the problem over and over again

does not solve the problem. >> this has been ongoing. the message was clear. whatever system they are using is broken and needs fixing. we've -- i even questioned the genuineness of the policies that are in place. >> harris: wow. questioning everything. congressman andy biggs from the border state of arizona has filed articles of impeachment now against secretary mayorkas saying the homeland security secretary has enabled this crisis. congressman biggs joins me now. first of all, tell me the focus of what you are doing in terms of that impeachment and how reality-based it is in terms of making a difference. >> well, harris, this is such a huge crisis and we are focusing on probably four areas of many areas that we could focus on but he has violated title 8 by releasing people into the country. so he has imposed a catch and

release that's illegal. that program. he has also -- the secure fence act requires him to obtain and maintain an operational security over our border. he doesn't have that by any stretch of the imagination. it's because of the policies they have enacted and those policies have produced six or seven months of record growth in apprehensions. every month. that's just a failure on his part. also the title 42, covid releases that have come into our country, he is allowed to under title 42 to prevent people from entering due to health concerns. what they actually weakened that and so that's why you are getting all the unaccompanied minors coming in and why you are also getting these family units coming in and being released into the country with covid. 1500 last week in mcallen, texas alone were released in that community with covid.

>> harris: i took notes on those four areas. this is not about a feeling. what you are doing is you are putting forth a case now. when you hear the leaked audio, he thought microphones might not be there. maybe he didn't care. when you hear the difference between what he says publicly about the situation and what is said in private what's your reaction? >> well, i guess i'm not surprised by that. in reality when you look at it what is happening is they will publicly stand up and say this is complicated, we're dealing with vulnerable people that we have to have compassion for and he has said that multiple times. the number one characteristic of the immigration policy needs to be compassion, right? and yet at the same time there is no compassion for american citizens. our national security and our safety. so he gives lip service, i think, to the border patrol agents and then turns around and publicly provides the real

biden focus, the real mayorkas focus to not enforce our laws. i'm not surprised there are such differing viewpoints. >> harris: only 35% of people approve of president biden's job performance on immigration. what do you say about that? >> well, i think -- i'm surprised it's that high. biden did campaign on an open border and that is what it looks like. we're getting increased drug trafficking, increased sex trafficking and human trafficking. drug trafficking. all of these things are going on and it's inhumane policy. the videos we've seen show us the inhumane quarters these people are kept in and we release them into the country with covid, etc. this is not good. this is a national security threat. >> harris: we're hearing from

leaders all across the southwest that their hospital beds are filling up with people who are covid positive and migrated into this country while they await to see what will happen next legally if there is even a legal road for them. that's taking beds away from americans. i'm sure it will be talked about. congressman biggs from the great state of arizona, thank you, keep us posted on the impeachment. thank you for watching. right after the commercial break "outnumbered." or 32 years like myself.4 y, one of the benefits that we as a country give our veterans is eligibility for a va loan for up to 100% of your home's value. so if you need money for your family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no. veteran homeowners. three reasons to do a cash out refi right now. home values are high while rates are low.

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