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indicates how quickly the story keeps changing. for example, when i was first looking at this just a few hours ago, there were some estimates here that as soon as we'd see the taliban being able to take control of things, if they even got to that point it would be early next week. some today talking in terms of hours. and at this point, there's a great deal of confusion as to what our response is. the 3,000 additional troops, many more to come to back them up and still no word yet about a strategy that will still maintain all u.s. personnel being out of afghanistan in less than 2 weeks. let's get the read right now from lucas tomlinson who has been following this closely from the start. he joins us out of washington. lucas. lucas: the reports u.s. jets are hitting the taliban outside of kabul over fear it is capital with fall anyday. the first u.s. marines arrived to start evacuating americans. marine corps chc helicopter,

preparing for full evacuation and closure of embassy in kabul, and if ordered by the state department. since the documents destroyed that cost $7 billion to build, neil, president vowed not to give up achievements over the past 20 years. the taliban seized half of the provincial capital. officials now say this crumbled. 3,000 u.s. troops rushed into kabul this weekend to evacuate thousands of americans. months ago the u.s. had 2500 troops from the ground in afghanistan. now same number heading back because of the deteriorating security situation despite the danger the pentagon refusing to call this a combat mission. >> these soldiers and marines are fully kitted out, landing in kabul, taking position in the airport, they are going to a combat zone, are they not? >> they are certainly going to

harm's way, lucas. lucas, they will have the right of self-defense and they will be armed. lucas: mitch mcconnell wants the u.s. to ramp up airstrikes and some u.s. veterans want to pull americans out and level the embassy, neil. neil: thank you. the white house and the reaction we are getting from there even though the president is not there as we speak. kevin corke with the latest, hey, kevin. kevin: all the days to have strong explanation for not only what we are seeing happening in afghanistan, but what you plan to do about it, most certainly this would be the day to do just that. right now here at the white house it is all quiet although, yes, the president has made his way up to camp david and yet still americans are wondering especially with all the headlines what will come of that massive investment that we have made collectively not just in blood but also in treasure over the past 20 plus years. obviously a lot of people have

been talking about this and that this white house is now faced with a prospect of a fall of sygone as the possible of fall of more major cities continue to happen. let me share a flashback, this from the president back in july about this idea that perhaps the taliban could overrun the country. >> there's going to 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 comfortable. likelihood there's going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. kevin: and yet neil, here we are with large swaths of the country effectively under taliban control. a policy nightmare say critics with potential fallout for years to come. jack: what happened here is the president has made serious miscalculations where he hasn't fully appreciated the

consequences of his decision in april when he announced the withdrawal. what we are seeing is an ill-conceived hasty withdrawal that's turning into an embarrassing retreat. and that's the simple facts of it. >> strong words there from general jack keane. i want to take you back to 2002, back then mr. biden excoriated the bush administration, washington post that year, biden chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. whatever it takes we should do it, history will judge us if we let evaporate if we stay the course. back from the washington post in february of 20022. mitch mcconnell did have an opportunity to speak with ambassador to afghanistan and the administration move quickly to hammer the taliban advances

with air strikes and critical support to the afghan defense ministry and the sort of personnel in the ground. neil, it's a real mess and we can only hope that the white house has a stronger plan. back to you. neil: thank you for that, kevin corke at the white house. let's go to former uss cole commander. we talk when tragic things are going on but i did want to pick your brain on the vietnam comparisons that you're hearing. much has said of viacon let us go ahead and flee the country in sygone and rooftop rescues in helicopters because they didn't want to do anything to jeopardize our leaving. the taliban is brutal, capturing, beheading soldiers. they are not being shy about it. what do you make of that? >> i think there's an order of

magnitude difference, neil, sygone and what is happening right now in afghanistan and is going to happen to kabul. the decision on how to withdraw from afghanistan was a strategic error by the biden administration. while every administration, bush, obama, trump and biden all own the failures of afghanistan that after 20 years they refused to go to the root problem and solve it, this is going to be a problem for the biden administration because it has huge strategic and national security implications for the united states. neil: all right. prevailing view within the biden administration has been that he's got public backing for this, that after 20 years most americans, i believe 6 out of 10, more than high time that we get out but it's the way we are getting out and the collapse of the government itself as we are getting out that could be alarming a lot of folks, clearly

is alarming a lot of folks. what is it doing in the region? >> i think in the region what it is doing it is sending a signal, if you can ride out the united states, they will eventually give up and walk away from allies and abandon them to be killed by the taliban. so what this is really saying is that anyone in the region that could think they can rely on the united states to stay the course and do what's right, we are not going to do it. i mean, the unfortunate thing, neil, we are sending a signal that the united states can be worn down and defeated and this is going to be viewed in the long view of history just like vietnam, it is a defeat. it is not going to be peace with honor. we are going to have to go in there with some specific targeting to be able to just escape off the inevitable because the way the biden administration chose the withdrawal of afghanistan. it'll have ripple effect for years because nations are no longer going to trust us to stay

the course with them if it's going to be difficult. >> you know, it's all about strategy, commander. and i remember it was back in 2018 when donald trump was president that the defense department had put out, i guess, what was the equivalent of a national defense strategy saying that we needed to focus our attention on china, russia, north carolina, even iran, but you can't focus on all those other activities, to paraphrase when you're myer in afghanistan and what's the biden position now? >> i would disagree with that, neil, if you're going to be a world leader like the united states has been since world war ii, you cannot be just a one-ball player where you focus just on afghanistan, just china, just russia. you have to be able to do all of them and if you can't, then what you are doing is telling the american people that we the government are going to assume risk on your behalf because we

don't have what it takes to be able to solve problems when it comes to difficult issues like afghanistan. we never addressed the root cause of the taliban which was pakistan that gave them safe haven, training, recruiting, arms and the ability to operate. we never took on the pakistan government in doing that, consequently we are now living with the result on the outskirts of kabul. we have to be able to do all of those things but the conversation needs to be held with the american people, they want what's right. they are willing to spend the money for defense with what's right but they have to understand why we are doing it and the ramifications and that piece of risk has to be done by the american people and right now they don't understand it because of the failure of politicians, admirals and generals to have that honest conversation with them. neil: you know, i just want today pick your brain finally on the notion that it was all for nothing and i -- i don't have

the military background, you do, commander, but i don't think it was for nothing. i mean, 20 years no attacks on u.s. soil since and attempts to be sure, so i feel for those men and women who lost their lives, you know, as well as so many who were permanently injured but what do you make of the argument that for two decades we've essentially wasted our time? >> i wouldn't say we wasted our time, neil, clearly when you look at it it's a new term, it's the drifter class and the politicians and all of the admirals and generals in the defense industry who made billions of dollars in not solving the core problem on why this was allowed to exist, why the taliban was continued to -- continued to attack and kill americans and quite frankly pinning a medal on someone's chest and handing mother of the flag of their son while making

billions of dollars and not solving the core problem it's the real tragedy, neil. needs to be shown that they caused this failure as much as the politicians who would not allow the military to do what they needed to do to make afghanistan a safe and democratic nation. neil: commander, thank you very, very much. remembering well the impact, the attack on his ship a year before 9/11, telegraph, reverberating throughout the world. that was then. this is the reality now. meanwhile something to pass, a little bit about them, earthquake in haiti, 7.0. magnitude earthquake in the coast of haiti, this happened a little more than an hour ago at the center of the quake was 7 and a half miles northeast, not all that far from port-au-prince

where tremors were felt but, again, in the capital, no signs of damage. very little coming through on the earthquake and the damage, we will keep you posted. also keeping you posted on inflation. you don't need to be reminded that prices are rocketed. the markets are okay with it, the administration is okay with it, i have a feeling a lot of you are not okay with it. after this.

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neil: first, here is the good news. americans are making more, here are the bad news, all of the gains are eaten up by price indices, dwarfing whatever we have been seeing in our

paychecks and they continue to hit record 4 in a row and the s&p 500 and from the biden administration and many on capitol hill it's sort of like a non-event but it's a very big event to you and charles watson putting it together. charles: they are starting to see that means spending more to get about the same or maybe less a product than used to. that may be the most evident in grocery stores where prices are tugging at the pursestrings according to bureau of meat now that prices have been going up. it's been a gradual change in a

point of view. >> the way that i used to buy them, no, i don't buy them as regular. >> the bureau of labor statistics say that there are a number of things at play in terms of driving prices up. experts point to more active economy more than following year of lockdown and businesses closures and whatever the case, it's got people on both sides of the aisle worried according to fox news poll, both democrats and republicans are concerned about inflation by a high margin. that would be 8% among democrats and 94% among republicans despite concerns the white house sees some good news in wednesday's consumer price index report, one being the slow down of monthly inflation gains and there is confidencee to overcome temporary issues that have rattled supply and demand as the

economy reopens and a lot of hope among the white house and econom to the grocery store to buy the steak dinner. neil: i wonder if investors or politicians go grocery shopping. hey, wait a minute. charles, thank you so much. popular place to buy food and related products, good to see you. what are your customers doing, stu, to deal with all of this? >> well, you know, neil, first of all, i wouldn't send out big panic alarms to everybody. prices are up a little bit. you're seeing it everybody that we talk to, trespasses, big issue. we just talked to our corn farmer out in long island and he

also buys cherries and apples from washington state, used to cost them $8,500 to get a tractor trailer of produce back out long island and now it's $122,500. some companies can eat it, privately owned. i'm glad i'm not public because i don't have to report increased earnings and profits and all that. the public companies have responsibility but we are seeing som this little spike right now. neil: please, my friend, tip away. people will shift from expensive meats to lower expensive. what are they doing?

>> that's the good point. first one look at the different cuts of beef. filet mingone. they are off the shoulder and just about the same and they're probably $5 a pound less. so you can switch a little bit. another thing you can do is you can switch to things like pork, okay, these are boneless pork shops right now. we have them on sale at the store under 3 bucks a pound. buy stuff on sale, okay, and freeze it. we learned that during the pandemic is to do that. the next thing if you can't afford because it's a little pricey but try to get wholesale. these are new york strip steaks, rather than buy one of them, buy the whole package right here and -- neil: all right, myriend.

stew leonard, jr., thank you very much and your customersment i do want to bring your attention on what's going on on vaccine passports arrests in paris. they don't like the idea. they think it's big-brother intrusion. also in new york, democratic assembly said it's nuts after this.

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>> impeachment probe dropped. that's democrats in the new york state assembly figured that since he was going to resign there's no reason to go ahead and get an impeachment

investigation, even trial going even after the fact and the democrats were perfectly okay with that and concerned donald trump in waning days and post days of his administration. be that as it may, no probe for the time being. democratic assembly -- assembly ron not to keen on that. assemblyman, good to have you back. what do you think of your colleagues did, let it go and let's move on? >> i'm very disappointed along with my other colleagues in the assembly that this was dropped abruptly and they're hiding behind the legal defense and the state constitution and they're not allowed to move forward once he's removed from office. so we consulted our own legal, own independent legal advice professor from cornell university and countered that their legal assessment to make it clear that we have a mandate and we have the right to pursue impeachment during this process.

neil: you know, technically this would allow the governor, predisposed, we don't know that, uphill battle to run again for office. if he does, how do you feel about that? >> well, neil, that's precisely the point. move and ban unfit official from seeking public office again. now the removal itself as -- as the assembly defines it doesn't mean just a literal and physical removal of andrew cuomo, the man. it means this qualification and condemnation of every criminality that you and i have spoken about that he has done to protect the integrity of the state government and the people that we swore to protect. that's our mandate. neil: let me ask you assemblyman, the governor did interview with new york governor magazine in which he said, i'm not disappearing, i have a voice

and i have a perspective and that's not going to change and the details aren't really important to me to tell you the truth. you know, i'm a new yorker, i've lived here and i've lived in queens and aye lived in the city, i lived everywhere, i came to washington. so i don't really care about any of that, i will figure it out and i think in this case talking about resignation did the right thing but what's interesting is that he's nothat did you make of that? >> well, we expected as much. he will go on his sympathy tour trying to position himself as the ultimate victim while going after the accused, the survivorrers, the victims -- survivors and victims and that's his style and try to make a comeback. that's why we have to hold him accountable. neil: your investigation, if you had your way would have gone way

beyond 111 women with accusations, one who has filed criminal complaint and looking into handling of the nursing home crisis and the needless deaths there as well as who helped him and when regarding his book and the payments for that book. all of that goes away and all of the examination into those issues go away, right? >> as the speaker had pointed out yesterday uncovered the truth behind the nursing home, book deal as well as nursing home deaths. there's evidence that implies that he did something terribly wrong and it is our duty because this investigation, neil, don't forget, i didn't pay for it, you paid for it, the taxpayers paid for it, we have to turn over to you the media and the public so everyone has access to what we found. neil: makes you wonder whether there was a deal, was there a

deal? >> i know the speaker personally. he said multiple times that there was no deal. he has not communicated with the governor since the budget on any of this and i believe him. what i do believe also is that he's the first speaker to have same party in the history of new york to file for impeachment investigation and historical pressure, it's tremendous. i don't know, i can't imagine what he's actually going through right now but i do -- i do personally want to advise him every time i get that there's an opportunity here to do the right thing, to transform albany not just for one party but for everybody to get this right moving forward. neil: you know, you are dealing with the pressure and there are ways to respond for the pressure, buckle under or fight it. assemblyman, good seeing you. >> thank you, neil. neil: vaccine mandates are all

the rage right now but demanding that restaurant and shop owners, police who is coming in and being liable if they slipped through? >> 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? schwab. own your tomorrow. well, would ya look at that! schwab. it was an accident. i was— speaking of accidents, we accidentally left you off the insurance policy during enrollment, and you're not covered. not even a little bit?

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>> i have certain employees who have had it before and they feel their immune system is good enough. do i have to let them go, how do i find new people and they want us to be the sheriff and i'm supposed to put a vaccine checker at the door and if somebody gets mad and punches my employee in the face, what do i do? neil: by the way, not just out in california where she was, but a number of restaurant and shop owners discovering requirement

that is they check vaccine status of their customers. it's going nationwide, jacqui heinrich with the latest from washington, jacqui. jacqui: starting next week new york city will provide -- require proof of vaccination for indoor activities lik a gym, attending a concert and after a grace period the enforcement will begin on september 13th, now the mandate applies to customers and employees. it's the first of its kind in the u.s. and new york city city mayor bill de blasio said the mandate has acted as an incentive and the numbers showed when the mandate was announced people who first hesitated to get the vaccine got the shot. >> there's no question the incentive is helping, can i tell you exactly what parts incentive, what part is mandate and what part is legitimate fear of delta. i can't parse that. jacqui: many have used vaccine

passport but allowing customers to bring in vaccine cards and while some owners say a majority of their customers are comfortable with the endorsement, some owners are also saying the mandate has placed an undue burden on stores, bars an gyms to be regulating and they are not trained and prepared to do and city hall working on logistics and many headquarters began mandating vaccines for in-office employees in new york city, facebook, sales force, twitter and villo and many allowing employers to work from home who those who don't want to comply and teachers be regularly tested or vaccinated. infection prevention strategies promoting vaccination for those able to get it, consistent mask wearing, physical screening, contact tracing and regular cleaning and disinfection. president biden said in march he was using the federal power in march to get every educator,

school staff member as well as child care worker vaccinated but only now in august are the teacher union who lobbied to keep schools closed during height of the pandemic and access to shots and figuring out stance on vaccinations. many of them are saying it should be negotiated in employee contracts, neil. neil: all right, jacqui, thank you for that. a lot of companies aren't only cracking down. some are pushing back, growing number of u.s. firms delaying their in-person return in the case of companies like facebook and amazon until well into next year. let's get to read on all of this from infectious disease doctor at john hopkins school, senior scholar there. doctor, good to have you. the companies that are delaying in-person return, most are about a month or so but some are pushing into the new year. what do you think of all that? doctor: it's understandable because the delta variant has

kicked off and something companies don't want to deal with it. they are going to get cases and breakthrough cases and disruption and contact tracing and it may be something that's too hard of a burden for them to have and work from home and distance and remote learning and all of that seemed to have worked in the workplace better than it has for schools, so this might be something that they want to continue to do because so much is uncertain about the trajectory of the delta variant and what the status of the vaccination, vaccination levels will be in the population. neil: what do you make of the businesses that aren't doing that or the localities that aren't doing that, all right, it might be a little bump you but we are full speed ahead with in-person work like now or just a couple of weeks? doctor: there's not a one size fits all answer and all depends on the niche of the businesses, how much can be done successfully remotely and what's going on in the community in terms of spread, what are the vaccination levels of the

employees and the community that you live in and what's the risk tolerance of the business. all of that is going to be something that reflects whether or not they go back to -- go back to work for everybody or whether they don't go back to work for everybody and they do hybrid model. it's going to be transitional and very, very depending upon local conditions. >> let me ask you -- if i can go back to the vaccine requirements here. we already had seen the job postings demanding vaccinations have risen 90% versus a month ago and a growing number of companies aren't just requesting it, are demanding it, some are going so far as far as firing employees who -- who don't go along. now, legally and i talked to many, many lawyers in the subject. they have the right to do that, but it's scaring people as well. in other words, even among the unvaccinated they think, well, these seem like draconian steps and i don't like the strong arming going on here, how do you

advise them, the unvaccinated hearing this, seeing this, the alarming response to this that it's a good idea? doctor: these vaccines are safe and been put in the arms of hundreds of millions of people and we can see with our own eyes how powerful. the people there with covid-19 are almost all virtually unvaccinated. the vaccines are really, really important. the other point is if you're a business, you want your workforce completely vaccinated because you have less disruption, less absenteeism, less issues with public health and contact tracing. so from a workplace continuity, workplace safety issue, i think that companies should be thinking about mandating their vaccines for their employees because it's going to make them for resilient in the face of the delta variant and face of covid-19. i think private companies have the right to set terms of employment. i work at some hospitals where it's mandated that i be vaccinated and there was no

controversy at least for me that i was forced to be vaccinated to work at certain hospitals. neil: nevertheless there is this stubborn percentage of the population that's not getting quite right, doctor, the vaccinations have gotten up, maybe in response to all of this news and development and the fear factor, whatever you want to call it. they have gone up but, again, the stubborn, i don't want to categorize but resistent plurality is saying, no, not for me. so what is your sales pitch for a better term to those reluctant americans, maybe for medical and other reasons. i get that but otherwise that are leery of the vaccine because they hear news in the case of pfizer that apparently effectiveness to the delta variant is 42% and they use that and see, it's not really worth it. what do you think? >> what i tried to do is figure out exactly is holding somebody

back from getting vaccinated, is it fear of needles, waiting for full fda approval and they have questions and answer the questions the best i can and these are easy questions usually to answer to anybody who is being honest, honestly looking at the data. when it comes to thinking about efficacy and the pfizer study of the delta variant, t important to remember that our vaccines were not designed to be bug zappers or force fields, what they were designed to do is prevent severe disease, hospitalization and death and even if you might see decrease efficacy against the delta variant in terms of breakthrough infections, what it counts the vaccines are holding up that's why like i said, when you go to the hospital the people that are being hospitalized, the people dying from covid are almost all unvaccinated. that's what's important. that's what we are trying to do with the vaccine. tame the virus. it's not going to be eliminated or eradicated. we are trying to make it like other respiratory viruses. it's probably one of the best vaccines when it comes to that that humans have ever invented. neil: doctor, thank you, always

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♪ born to be wild ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ born to be wild ♪ see disney's jungle cruise. applebee's and a movie, now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. neil: not as bad as originally feared but florida ron desantis issued state of emergency for 23 counties as tropical storm depression, whatever you want to call it right now approaches. there is another storm behind fred, though, here to bring us up to date rick from the fox news weather center. >> we think it will strengthen

before it makes landfall in florida. rain showers at times, across parts of the keys, there's one big batch of moisture that will move in parts of south florida. that said, the center of fred not at all organized yet. tropical depression below tropical storm strength, that's the center parts of west cuba, there isn't really any significant organization from it. it's going to get back over water here and the water is really warm. we do think it would likely strengthen and probably across areas, some time early damon and mid-damon making landfall, we haven't talked to places like mobile, alabama, potentially in the path of this as well. then eventually significant rain across parts of the appalachian. watch out for flooding as well. next storm behind it.

tropical storm grace to get in the lesser antilles here and the path would bring it over the mountainous terrain in puerto rico and potentially dominican republic and haiti had an earthquake. in 2010 had earthquake. not equipped to handle earthquake. just as strong, further away from the city, my point is, though, within a few days potentially this storm going over that area bringing a lot of rain to a place that just had the hurricane. so we are certainly going to be watching out with friends in haiti. really unfortunate news. once it gets closer to the u.s., if the storm stays away from the land masses, we could be talking about a much stronger storm impacting florida around 5 days from now or so, if it does interact so much with the land masses here it would be exactly what happened with fred, storm not really able to get itself

together which would be good news for florida, bad news here for the folks across the greater antilles. neil. neil: rick, thank you for that. we are getting confirmation that the second wave of u.s. troops have arrived right now in kabul. the military is preparing for a full evacuation and the closure of u.s. embassy if, indeed, ordered by the state department, more after this.

neil: all right, maybe it's a spike in covid cases, maybe the reports that people having time particularly at spirit airlines, waiting around for flights that just got canceled. southwest was not part of that, southwest talking about slipping demand here. not so with my next guest,

founder and chairman, booming business as people are interested in getting back at having fun and doing things they couldn't do for the better part of the year and a half. good to have you. how are things looking right now? >> well, things look much brighter. of course, it's been a hell of a year and a half, but i'm pleased to say that currently back in business. we are getting ratings which are higher than before and we have 44 ships on stream right now so we are very delighted. we are hear and booking to next year. the main thing is what we have done to get here and we were the first cruise line to stop operation in march last year and we said we couldn't operate

under those circumstances and then have done things that no other cruise line have done. so we -- we have studied the virus, we have a chief health officer who, doctor, previous admiral in the navy and -- and we have a protocol which is second to none. neil: how do you deal in various ports of call where you might be experiencing spikes? you have to deal with that. what do you do? >> we have selected a few countries where we operate and doctor has been in contact with the authorities where we are around iceland, around bermuda, we started in england may 17th and so our protocol has been --

i wouldn't say only approved, but implemented by many of the countries we go to. now it can happen that some port, but we have done quite well. the main ingredient of what we are doing in our prosecute call is that we are doing pcr testing and that is -- we set up a system for having safe travel on our ships even before the vaccines came. and the pcr testing that we do, we require all passengers and all guests to be tested every day. and our pcr test is not what you get up your nose or down your throat but we have a saliva-base one which makes it much less uncomfortable and something that people do like brushing their teeth. i must say we have really got the protocol down -- neil: i'm jumping on you,

unfortunately, we have to go to a commercial but your commercials are hit with folks, they have calming and seem like they want to get out there and have fun. founder and chairman. meantime we want to bring your attention to afghanistan where we are following the story, second wave of u.s. troops now, 3,000 at minimum will be there by tomorrow night. we will have more after this. ...

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reason, or fun. daring, or thoughtful. sensitive, or strong. progress isn't either or progress is everything. >> how much more can haiti take after the assassination of its president and dealing with tropical storm fred that's going to do a lot of, at least rain damage in the area and then reports of 7.2 magnitude earthquake on the epicenter, about seven and a half miles from st. louis. and there is potential for what could be massive casualties. no confirmation of that, the earthquake in 2010, more than

200,000 people died. we know of some collapsed buildings. a little more to go on right now. this was outside of many urban areas, even though they did feel tremors in port-au-prince. we'll keep you posteded on that and also posted on the rescue, some call it almost frantic rescue campaign going on in afghanistan as we speak. a second wave of up to 3,000 troops making their way into kabul, the capital there. at the same time we're learning that the taliban might be little more than a few miles from there. lucas tomlinson following all of this in washington. lucas. >> good morning, neil. that's right, a second wave of u.s. marines arrived at kabul's international airport. there are reports u.s. jets are hitting taliban outside of kabul over fears the capital hit could fall at any day now. the u.s. military is preparing for a full evaluation and closure of the embassy in kabul, if ordered by the state

department. sensitive documents now being destroyed in the diplomatic compound that cost over 700 million to build and in a speech to his nation, ghani vowed not to give up on the achievements over 20 years. and the taliban has taken half of the capital. officials say it's now crumbled. and the 3000 just troops in kabul by the end of the weekend to evacuate thousands of americans. months ago the u.s. had 2500 troops on the ground in afghanistan and now roughly the same number coming back and insisting they hold the upper hand. >> you say afghan forces have the advantage. what proof do you offer? >> the resistance that they've faced has been insufficient to stop and check those events and it does not mean, lucas that the advantages aren't still there.

recent days i've received numerous messages from afghans desperate to evacuate their country as the taliban closes in on kabul. neil. neil: i didn't understand what he was saying about the advantages are still there, lucas. the advantages appear to be with the taliban. they control two-thirds of the country. they control the entire south. they're miles away from the capital. i'd say that it looks like the taliban has all the advantages. >> i thought that was pretty clear to everybody watching that press conference at home. it was very clear to me. however, john kirby insists the afghan forces do have an air force, they do have an army although many question whether there are actually 300,000 afghan troops in the ranks, they think there are many ghost soldiers and decades of corruption and money not going to soldiers who may or may not exist, neil. neil: or many who may have skipped town. lucas, great reporting on this. lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. let's go to john byrnes, not only an afghan war veteran, but

concerns for war veterans and this is tied to what happened there and tied up there. john, thank you for taking the time. what do you think and all the colleagues and friends of yours who have dealt with this, many of them i'm sure passed away among the 2400 plus americans who did. was it worth it? >> that's a hard question to answer, neil. thanks for having me on. what's going on now is sad and it's shocking. but it's not really surprising. you know, i spent nine months in afghanistan back in 2008 trying to train afghan national police and army forces. we've given them 20 years as you pointed out almost 2400 of the best young americans, we've given $2 trillion maybe overall, certainly over a trillion dollars as was reported, you know, billions went to the army, and billions more to reconstruction and after 20 years this government and military is still not

prepared to stand up for itself. it demonstrates not only was it the right decision that president trump made to negotiate with the taliban, president biden made to follow through, but it's the right thing to do to get out. as hard as it is to watch, this is the right decision. neil: so i guess the argument has always been, our 20-year presence there, we didn't get any follow-up attacks on u.s. soil. there were attempts, but we didn't-- they never materialized. now the fear is the taliban takes control of the country and if that happens, we're in danger. are we? >> i mean, there's always a risk in everything you do and in international relations, you know, there are lots of people throughout the world in places besides afghanistan who want to kill americans and some of those governments aren't friendly to americans. we can't occupy every single patch of land that, you know, that the taliban or al-qaeda or isis might plan something from, but the fact of the matter is that most of the terrorist attempts that have gone forward in the last 20 years have been planned on the internet.

the internet's become the new safe haven. you know, the current model for islamic terrorism isn't that they need a safe haven live afghanistan to train people. and we in america, i think we'd be so much better off letting afghanistan sort itself out. frankly, i don't think the taliban would have any interest in doing the kind of things that would bring back 10,000 or 12,000 or 20,000 american troops to overthrow them one more time. neil: you know, a number of u.s. presidents have and you just mentioned donald trump and before him barack obama had a game plan to eventually pull our troops out and it was hard to pull off. do you see anything here that could change even this pull out, mitch mcconnell says it's not over yet. we could have air strikes against approaching taliban troops and finish them off. what do you think of that? >> well, you know, to myself, to americans who thinks as sad as it is and hard as it is to watch, the taliban making the

moves they're making, it's still et right thing to do. for those of us who believe that, we've got to follow through. it's the right thing to do, it's hard to watch. ultimately we put in 20 years of supporting this afghan government and for the last year, we've been talking about the game plan, the exit plan, right, for a year and a half, since february and the signal that the leadership of the-- the political leadership of afghanistan, the military leadership of afghanistan, the law enforcement didn't take the time to say, hey, this is really going to happen and we've got to get ourselves together. they continued to believe we would support them forever. as hard as it is to watch, this is what the american people chose. our polling indicated more than half of americans wanted to get out of afghanistan and two-thirds of veterans indicated consistently they wanted out of afghanistan. this is just the hard part to watch. this is just the pain point from making the right decision. neil: all right. >> and every hard decision has

that pain. neil: yeah, you're right, but to your point, and this comes up in poll after poll, after 20 years, the afghans are not ready to fend for themselves, they probably never will be. john, i want to thank you, first and foremost for your tremendous service, and all the looking out for all of your friends and colleagues. john byrnes, the afghanistan war vet. much more, in the meantime i want to take you back to our continent and what's happening at the border right now and surprising acknowledgment on the top biden administration official, yeah, it's a mess down there. jonathan hunt in la hoya, texas with more. >> good morning to you. it's shaping up to be a busy weekend here on the border through this morning, we've seen a fairly steady stream of migrants coming up from the rio grande river, about a mile behind me. last night, friday night was very busy indeed. our cameras were out pretty much all night. several hundred migrants coming through just this one spot in

la hoya, texas and that's perhaps why in the audio that was leaked to fox news of secretary mayorkas, talking to border patrol. he acknowledged further how bad the situation is than anybody from the biden administration previously has, listen here. >> the first line of defense or-- we can't continue like this. our people in the field-- >> and all day friday in the blazing hot sun, those migrants kept coming. it is frustrating and it is exhausting for the border patrol agents who have to deal with them and process them as humanely, professionally and quickly as they can. secretary mayorkas also seemed to acknowledge that. listen again. >> i know that people and

others-- here in this sector and it's our responsibility to make sure it never happens again and don't get that close again. >> and take a look at live pictures from our incredible drone team, neil. up right now over the bridge that's about 15 miles or so east of us on the border. and that's one of the spots where my grants are being taken for further processing. our team tells us there are about 100 migrants sheltering in the shade there right now. it's obviously a very difficult humanitarian situation as well as what many have said is a national security situation. so, the white house has tried to clean up secretary mayorkas' remarks a little bit about this being unsustainable, but if you talk to many people on the

ground here, particularly those border patrol agents dealing with it every day, neil, they would agree it is indeed unsustainable. neil. neil: jonathan hunt, thank you very much for that. with us right now is joe, the rio grande city texas mayor. very good having you back. you heard it there and you know it better than anyone, unsustainable, seemed to be the acknowledgment of the homeland security at the rate we're going. i take it, you agree? >> absolutely. i mean, by the way, good morning and thank you for having me on your show. neil: no, thank you. >> that's absolutely correct. there's no doubt that we have a humanitarian crisis on our hands and we've had this humanitarian crisis under every president for the last several decades. and it's true, it's not just sustainable.

and if we continue with the comprehensive immigration reform, 10 years, five years we'll have the same conversation because we need to exercise the political will to address it. but the immediate, the short-term, we did meet with secretary mayorkas and part of that, he did address and making assurance, there were mayors and judges at this round table conversation and some of the immediate concerns are are we going to be reimbursed for all the expenses associated with managing the flow of migrants? and it's one of those things that's not sustainable to continue in this path as i was mentioning before. we just cannot. neil: did he say you would be reimbursed? because cities and towns like yours now have to deal with the covid issue besides. >> yes, he did, and in fact,

that's one of the concerns addressed on our end, the orderly release of migrants. let's be clear with something here, too. there's the rhetoric and then there's the reality on the u.s.-mexico border and sometimes it gets misconstrued. for example, the rhetoric, you just mentioned covid so the rhetoric of do undocumented immigrants, are they responsible for the surge of covid-19? the reality is, at this point we do not have any scientific evidence to support that claim. now, there is rumor, speculation and conjecture, the same thing with the rhetoric, we have wide open and unsecured borders. the reality is we have every conceivable law enforcement initiative to safeguard the public and secure the border. we're utilizing highly advanced technology to fight the narcotics arms and human smuggling. we have cameras and sensors and

surveillance systems, drones, planes, boats, helicopters. directional listening devices and surveillance systems. so, but going back to some of the points that you've mentioned, it is also important to recognize that, yes, the majority of individuals that are being apprehended are being expelled under title 42, for the month of june, 64%, month of july i believe it was 45%, that were expelled under title 42. so, for the month of june i believe it was 28% that were allowed to come into the country, to pursue or challenge their deportation in the month of july somewhere around 39%, having said that, the majority of asylum claims will be denied, but 90% of these claims will be denied, but again, it is something that for us, it is imperative that we find ways to address it in the short-term,

but again-- >> no, i agree, mayor, i wish we had more time. my only point of mentioning certainly on the covid cases not whether it was exaggerated or not, but how you deal with that as well as the other issues you just outlined. thank you for explaining that to me, mayor. i do want to get you back, sir. i do want to focus, very, very quickly what's happening in this country with inflation and spikes going on. you're worried, but a lot of investors are not. why? ♪ someone once told me, that i should get used to people staring. so i did. it's okay, you can stare. when you're a two-time gold medalist, it comes with the territory.

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>> all right, what doesn't belong and why. 86% of americans in a fox news poll are indeed quite concerned about inflation. yet, we just had the market averages racing to new highs four days in a row, the dow and the s&p 500 hit records. so what is it about investors not seeing what average folks

seeing it or worrying about it. and liz peak. liz, that seems out of sync with what main street is thinking. worried about the price spikes, but wall street not so much? why? >> i think you can look to the fed for answers to both of the questions. the fed has continued to pump so much money into the economy it has to go somewhere. a lot of it is going into asset purchases like stocks, bonds and housing and it's driving the prices of all of those assets up and at the same time, it is fueling inflation and to your point, consumer sentiment, which just was reported by the university of michigan, a day or so ago, showed an unbelievable drop in the last month. one of the six biggest drops ever, back to the levels of 2011 and remember, this is even as the economy is growing on a nominal basis over 10%.

so, yeah, consumers see it everywhere and businesses see it everywhere. business confidence is also down. investors, i think, are bee guiled by the 10-year treasury note. they have fastened on that as sort of harbinger of inflation or what they should think of inflation, i think that's totally wrong and it's fed orchestrated. neil: liz, thank you very much. you're a genius and i want to unpack a couple of the points you made here. the federal reserve referring to that and referring to the 10-year note a lot of people look at as a proxy on inflation, and lower than the inflationary worry first started. and you could make the argument as many have in the administration, that this is short-lived and they point even to the latest increases as slowing from the earlier ones. and that when you start comparing, you know, apples to apples, in other words, not in a pandemic low, but

post-pandemic to post-pandemic that they will not look nearly as severe. what do you think of the argument. >> that's the argument the white house is using and invests are using, it's temporary, could be temporary for a lot of reasons and one is coming off the crash. but if the spending continues it won't be just borrowing from the feds, it's taxed and once it's taxed and pay for spending, inflationary, in fact, it could cause a recession, it won't go on forever unless the government can keep borrowing money often purchased by the fed and giving it to people. that's an inflationary concept that only works in a deep recession, briefing like last year where it didn't cause prices to go up. and consumer, they're already-- they're consumer comments, they're plummeted in august, basically. investors confidence is actually at an all-time high. there's a reason for that. businesses are selling things at the higher prices, and consumers don't sell anything, they're buying things and

they're seeing the prices go up and they're sad about it. the and the pork prices, the pigs were growing a long time ago. and the early phases, it boosts earnings. we saw amazing earnings across the s&p 500 and globally. but inflation is not magic. eventually the businessbyproducts -- and byproducts, it's kind of a one-time bump in earnings. neil: i wish we had more time. to put it in perspective inflation can only continue if you keep buying it, keep buying those goods, as long as you do, it will keep going up and up and when you stop doing that, things will change. all right, we have a lot more coming up, including what's happening with the spikes in cases in this country and concerns that they could really start spiking as soon as our kids are back in school after this. retirement income is complicated. as your broker, i've solved it. that's great, carl. but we need something better.

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>> when you talk about your worries about, you know, covid crisis wasn't the word, but enough that would warrant potential school closures and the like, what were you seeing? what are you saying? >> i think we're going to-- we're going to end up seeing more schools that have to shut down for short periods and then reopen as they're able to contain covid. it's a very different situation in terms of the virus we're facing this school year to what we faced last school year. neil: all right, the former c.d.c. director saying he's quite concerning kids returning to school and a spike in cases, we're seeing it in young people particularly those underage of 12, vaccines are not required and not even available. and joining us the former assistant secretary of health.

admiral, always good to have you. what do you think of what he's saying, prepare for some big old spikes in cases? >> well, we are having a spike in cases among adults and children because of delta. the issues with school, people have to remember that children are getting the infection now from the community, and that doesn't mean you need to close schools, it means you need to identify the children who are infected, let them stay home, but with appropriate precautions as we saw in the united kingdom, the rates among children actually go down when they're in school. it's among the safest places for them to be. so we need to be cautious, but we can't overreact. there will be cases. that does not mean you need to close schools. neil: do we need to have a vaccine for those 12 and under? what do you think? >> so, if we had a vaccine that was shown to be safe and effective, yes, i think it's important to have that option. a year ago, i was sort of less

perhaps enthusiastic because children had not been that affected. delta is a new variant. we had over 100,000 cases among children and the data are not very good because states don't report. about you we have an estimated 1,000 children admitted to the hospital with covid and that's significant. and you're going to see some long-term effects. yes, it's reached the point if the vaccines were proven to be safe and effective in that age group, i think they will be an important option. neil: i guess all of this can explain why, in a number of surveys, including our own here, admiral, half of all parents are leary under these conditions to send their kids back and more worried on the mask requirements, you know, that that is another reason to just be alarmed. and when it comes back to the vaccine itself. whether a kid should get it, leary again.

what do you think is going on? and maybe it's vaccine or pandemic fatigue, but it's showing up in all sorts of numbers. >> well, there clearly has been pretty poor messaging over the past few months. mask, no masks, vaccine protective, not protective. have gatherings on july 4th, can't have gatherings. so i understand why parents and the american people are really confused. the bottom line is really this, vaccines and natural immunity are both highly protective against hospitalizations and deaths. if you are eligible to get a vaccine, meaning 12 and over, it is very important to do so. if you've already been infected, you're highly protected against hospitalizations and deaths, quote, natural immunity, but a vaccine on top of that makes your immunity even stronger. so, vaccines are important and they are our way out. that's really the bottom line. we don't have enough information-- >> when you say that's the

bottom line and you're saying the mixed messages out of this administration, i'm not here to fault you or the priority administration and i get that, things go along and they change as they go along. but getting the vaccine itself. even though president trump did get the vaccine you and others led the cause to push the vaccine, even now, it's not a loud push. i'm wondering why not. would you think it would be beneficial for someone like president trump to come forward maybe do a psa, look, we're not the vaccine party, we're pushing it. get vaccinated. >> well, i've said it before. that president trump has tens of millions of loyal followers and i would be highly supportive of president trump, vice-president pence coming out and being vocal about the importance of vaccines, this is not a party line issue. in fact, the trump-pence administration has much, if not, most of the credit for our

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>> all right, novak, no job. that's the message that a lot of companies are sending when it comes to forcing employees to get vaccinatedment if that doesn't work, how about hiking your health insurance premiums if you don't get vaccinated? tom on the legality of that. it's still in the early going, to be fair, but some companies are pondering that as well and their insurance companies are more than happy to go along with it, it would seem because you're a greater risk. so let me just ask you as a lawyer, can they legally do it? >> the answer, neil, is probably yes. employers have a pretty good deal of flexibility in terms of setting the amount of premiums and we've seen in the past that they, for example, could increase the premium if an employee is a smoker, for example. i think what the employees

would argue here, is increasing the charge to persons who are not vaccinated simply adds the amount of risk, the additional health risk that that employee would pose and therefore, it's permissible to do that. >> so, it's in line with some of the other requirements that companies can enforce, like getting vaccinated, like testing negative for the virus, that this is within their realm, it's when governments try that that it gets to be a slippery slope. this is clearly the direction that we're going in here. what do you think about that? >> i think you're right, neil. this is the direction that we're headed in. i suspect for a lot of employers, they might view the idea to charge more for employees. maybe they don't want to impose a vaccine mandate on employees. but maybe, look, maybe we can incentivize people to get out and get vaccinated and improve that way for those who didn't

get vaccinated to pay more for insurance premiums or significantly more. neil: and the argument that companies or government can force or strong arm you into it, that the responsibility of businesses, increasingly now, has to inspect or play vaccine bouncers to make sure those coming in. and a few business owners said they will not, and resources are stretched thin, they can't do that. are they on the hook to be fined or worse? >> well, i think you're right in drawing a distinction between what the government can do and what private employers can make the employees do. i think when the government tries to enforce vaccine mandates, if a government said everybody in the state must be vaccinated. that poses a lot more problems and it's much more challenging than if an employer tries to impose the vaccine mandate on

employees, particularly if you're in an industry where those employees either work closely next to one another or come into frequent contact with the public, for example, flight attendants on airplanes and things of that ilk. i think it's much more to sustain that mandate than for a government entity to impose the vaccine mandate rit large. >> what if you're the employer? you run a restaurant and you don't have time know are any interest to start checking people's vaccine status. so you don't do it. i talked to a sheriff at l.a. county and he says he's got enough on his hands to just deal with crime, let alone, you know, playing vaccine police. in other words, there's a counter to that, where people say, no, no, no. what do you think? >> there is a counter to that and i think that would be a much stronger argument. we saw similar arguments, you

recall, neil, when mask mandates were implemented and there were some businesses that simply stayed we're not going to enforce a masking requirement on customers that come into our shop. and if you can imagine the pushback that that generated, i think that would be a quantum leap upward if they r required to check for proof of vaccination and the like. i'm not saying that that couldn't be done and in some cases a matter of sense for public safety. if you're talking about the broad scale mandates, you would see a lot of pushback and difficulties in insurance compliance. >> you know, the more spikes in cases we get, if you think about it though, tom, the more these issues are going to keep coming up which explains why americans are exasperated by the latest wave and what they see, down them. and i always think there's going to be a collective of no. the answer is no on everything you're telling us to do. no. what are their legal rights? >> right. and look, it's -- it depends on

who is telling them and the reason why they're saying that you have to get vaccinated. that's what the legal inquiry is going to turn on, but i think you're right to take in the picture. look, we've long been ready to be done with this whole period of our history and to move on and return to life as normal and the fact is, the virus doesn't cooperate with what we want and what we hope and that we are going to continue to see spikes, see increases in particular geographic areas and unfortunately going to continue to get mixed messages from the government as to best practices, ultimately i think is a bit corrosive on people's ongoing willingness to comply and to take the precautions that they need to be taken. >> tom dupuis, thank you very, very much. and i think to calm down. tom dupuis on all of that. following a storm, an actual one, and not one by the

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among those direct -- in the direct line of fire of this. we'll keep you posted on this, i guess. but fears of mass casualties are still out there. anything new that comes in we'll, of course, share with you. and closer to this other storm right now and that concerns fred, a tropical storm. and that has actually been hitting much of the south coast of florida, and actually more around to the left of the gulf and up into eventually the southeastern states of alabama and georgia and later on through the carolinas. so, that's more of a super soaker event for the sunshine state, and some of the other states involved. in fact, by and large, florida has avoided most of it, but it doesn't mean that it's from all the rains. and what concerns a lot of folks is the follow-up storm that's falling not too far away, right now named grace and here to get that from the

natural hurricane center, acting director. jamie, good to have you back, just when we were enduring this brief lull in the hurricane activity, it seems to be building up again. what can you tell us? >> yeah, i mean, it is august and so it's probably going to be for, you know, the next four to six weeks and this is the meat of hurricane season and you know, it will be pretty much one after the other here for the next several weeks. so we're looking at the remnants of fred and which, it looks to be mostly a rain maker, primarily along the western coast and along the western coast of florida and moving on up into the northern gulf coast and there is some potential for fred to regain some of the prior strength from a tropical storm again, but for now, primarily, a rain threat. and then right on the heels of fred, it's great, great, and move off the west-northwest and approach the coast of the united states for four or five

days. it's too soon to say what sort of impact because there's a lot of land interaction, i think, including, as you alluded in the opening segment, potential impact with haiti, which would be the last thing they would need after this. neil: well, that's an understatement. i'm curious, as well, what you make of the breeding ground from all of this, and the water temperatures in the area. i'm told that-- not quite as warm to make this turn into something more potentially problematic as it is, update me on that, what the conditions are and how ripe they'll be for future storms, et cetera? >> the conditions are generally good this time of year, from mid august to the end of september and concerns are just in general, the temperature of the water is sufficiently warm. we get into a period where

shear, generally vertical wind shear, and every system out there has some potential to develop and i wouldn't think that it's necessarily exceedingly favorable environment, but probably favorable enough that we could see some strengthening over the next several days as it approaches. neil: jamie, thank you for taking the time. the national hurricane center director following this and there's a lot to follow, isn't there? when we get back the latest from afghanistan. the second wave of our soldiers there will try to get people out safely and quickly and the goal of the administration is to get them all out by the end of the month. the taliban is celebrating on their heels after this. what else can go from your car's cup holder to a crystal bowl and seem equally at home? i guess the most well-rounded snack isn't round at all. it's more cashew-shaped. planters. a nut above.

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>> the security situation on the ground is certainly deeply concerning, neil. there's no question about that. the taliban continue to make advances on the ground. what we want to see is a political negotiated end to this war and we believe that that's still possible. neil: all right. i don't know if that's possible. if the taliban say they don't seem to be interested in what the international community thinks or even negotiating any sort of settlement right now. so they appear to be winning and right now could explain why 3,000 u.s. troops are doing their darnedest to make sure that we can clear out of there and everyone safely. lt. colonel bob mcinnis is here now "give me liberty not marxism" is his current book. good to have you. what happens now? the administration seems to put its trust to respect the international community and don't do anything crazy.

they've got two-thirds control over the south and they don't seem to be paying attention to the international community or any of that. what do you expect out of the taliban? >> well, neil, the taliban is a revolutionary movement, a religious movement. they, of course, have fostered the defeat of the russians, the defeat of the arguably the brits before that. they'll continue what they've been doing. they are going to be successful. now, what will likely happen is, afghanistan will be divided between the reemergent northern alliance, and then of course, the balance with kabul to the south and southwest will be under the control of the taliban. i expect president ghani will probably crumble as he's demonstrated a lack of willpower the last couple of months and likely will happen october, november at the latest and that's a, i think, a reasonable assessment to where

we are right now. neil: you know, colonel, there's been a lot of comparison to our, you know, leaving saigon, you know, back in 1975. this whole panic, but what i do remember about that is, the north vietnamese were happy to see us go and they weren't going to interrupt that or disrupt that. they just let us leave. what do you think about the taliban? of course, they have a far more grisly trag record on these sort of things. i'm wondering if they might complicate this. >> i was in asia in 1975 when saigon fell and we helicoptered off the embassy roof. i think afghanistan, you're right, it's different and the taliban have no love for foreigners. in fact, afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires for good reason. what will likely happen is that we will secure karzai international airport.

we will evacuate our embassy, likely never to go back there for at least a decade plus. the brits will do the same. other international players will do like wise. and the taliban will retake kabul. and you know, neil, we've had in place for the last 20 years, and i've been dealing with this issue for far more than that, we've had people that really have done and made some very strategically bad decisions. counterterrorism today is no longer the threat that it was, say, when the u.s.s. cole was struck in 2000, or when, you know, tanzania and kenya, our embassies there were struck, so, things have really radically changed. we have a better collection capability. we have a better anti-terrorism. now, i will argue, the southern border is very porous and very vulnerable to terrorists coming in, but the threat isn't what it used to be, quite frankly. >> all right. well, we'll be watching it he very, very closely, colonel.

i want to thank you in the meantime, lt. colonel bob mcginnis, and so many crisis and his book "give me liberty not marxism" what we see in afghanistan, a second wave of soldiers have been brought into kabul to help with what will be evacuation of the american embassy. it's a very pricey embassy, a cost of 800 to $900 million for it. there's a back and forth as to whether the president did, in fact, tell the taliban not to destroy it, and they're arguing that that was never communicated. be there as it may we want to make sure it's cleared out. a lot of documents are right now being gathered up, destroyed, so that the taliban, should it take the area, will not have access to them, but already the taliban is in control of two-thirds of the country. the second and third largest cities in afghanistan. its target right now is the largest city of them all kabul and right now the capital that is under threat, something we

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>> the footage out of haiti after a 7.2 earthquake hit just off the coast. today's quake could be worse than the tremors that leveled the capital port-au-prince in 2010. welcome to fox news, i'm jacqui heinrich. griff: they're warning there could be casualties. it great to be with you, unfortunately with this bad news, jacqui. i remember as the first reporter in haiti in 2010 for fox news, the absolutely