eric: the islamic emirates of afghanistan appears to be on the eventual of a reality. after 20 years of american blood and treasure, afghanistan is back on the brink of a complete taliban takeover. insurgents entered kabul earlier today after seizing much of the country over the past week, defilefying all experts' -- defying all experts' predictions. the american embassy in kabul has been evacuated, we're told, and american citizens ordered to stay in place.

there's chaos, reports say, at kabul airport at this moment as people try to flee and the world waits for the next step. hello, everyone, ask and welcome to "fox news live," i'm eric shawn. hi, arthel. arkansas hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville. the situation is getting worse by the hour. president ashraf ghaani has fled the country, and the american flag has been lowered from the u.s. embassy. the biden administration continues to defend the withdrawal of u.s. troops. we're going to get the latest reaction from the if white house in just a minute. but first, we'll go to trey yingst live in jerusalem with more on the situation of on ground in afghanistan. on the ground in afghanistan. trey. >> reporter: arthel, good afternoon. we've got a number of updates for you. according to afp, a defense official says a couple hundred american embassy staffers have been evacuated safely from afghanistan. one piece of good news. on the flipside, a lot of bad

news. we know taliban has taken control of most of kabul. the afghan capirk tal. we saw images -- can capital. we saw images inside the presidential palace where they were speaking with one journalist basically describing the plans as they are hours away from starting what will be a completely new chapter for afghanistan. meanwhile, more u.s. troops are headed to kabul to help with the evacuation effort. just hour fox news confirming another 1,000 troops from the 82nd airborne division are headed to kabul to assist. that will bring the entire authorized troop number to 6,000 american forces on the ground not only to help evacuate u.s. embassy personnel and american government officials, but also those u.s. allies, the translators and the interpreters that have been promised safe haven by the united states government. as you described though, arthel, a scene of chaos right now at the airport in kabul.

there is one runway, and according to nato, that runway is being reserved right now only for american military aircraft. that means no commercial planes are taking off or landing, and you have thousands of afghan civilians who fear they could be kill or imprisoned by the taliban for working with the afghan government or american forces, and they are trying the flee, desperately trying to flee. these images coming out of the airport in kabul really heart-wrenching. but it gives you a sense of what these american troops on the ground will be facing in the coming days as they try to fulfill that promise to give visas for a all of the afghans who helped american forces over the past 20 years and also keep themselves safe amid reports of the airport being targeted. arkansas hell? arthel: that's what i want -- arthel? if i want to talk to you about 6,000 american too manies headed there to -- troops headed there to help with the process. how difficult or easy will it be for them to get out once this

particular mission has been completed? >> reporter: everyone has shifted their resources and personnel to the airport. not just the united states. we also confirmed tonight that the french, the germans, the british all moving personnel and resources. what they're referring to as sell con crews -- skeleton crews, basically the bare minimum number of embassy employees staying at the airport because it's considered a safe haven right now with these american forces on the ground. the concern though if this's chaits and you have the taliban -- escalates and you have the taliban attacking american forces at airport, it could unravel into a dire situation. we do know according to jacqui heinrich over at the house and our state department correspondent rich edson along with lucas tomlinson at the pentagon, our team across the board in washington working on this story tonight, those individuals confirming that there was a clear message sent

by centcom to the taliban not to attack u.s. forces or there would be a strong response that could come in the form of airstrikes or even some sort of ground response. the purpose of the mission right now for those u.s. troops is not a combat role. it is to simply evacuate american personnel and allies. but if combat is necessary, american generals are making clear they are prepared to fight and protect those troops that are on the ground assisting with the evacuation. arthel? arthel: okay. trey yingst live in jerusalem with the very latest happening in afghanistan, thank you, trey. eric: the stunningly rapid advance of the taliban has left the biden administration on its heels, scrambling to try and justify why it's moving forward with pulling all u.s. troops out of afghanistan even as it sends more troops back into kabul to evacuate our people. kevin corke live at the white house9 with the very latest from the administration. hi, kevin. >> reporter: good afternoon. senior administration officials

tell us, yes, the president has been getting briefings and, yes, we have certainly seen pictures of him but still silence from the president of the united states even as the situation in afghanistan continues to devolve. these are images of mr. biden at camp david where where he has been monitoring the situation and conferring with his senior national security cadre, but we have yet to hear from him despite what appears to be a day of historic proportion with the country and, indeed, the world trying to make sense of what's happening in afghanistan, what's transpired over the past few days and what the president thinks of it. even as the u.s. attempts a safe extraction of its personnel and afghan or partners from the country. i want to read part of saturday's white house statement, i think it is relevant today in particular. our hearts go out to the brave afghan men and women who are now at risk. we are working to evacuate thousands of those who helped our cause and their families. that statement comes amid grave concerns, eric, about safety and security of the afghans, and in

particular the women and girls who now face an uncertain future under sharia law. the white house is blaming the trump administration for the problems in afghanistan and even the afghan fighters themselves for the precipitous unraveling of the country. >> i have to tell you that the inability of afghan security forces to defend their country has played a very powerful role in what we've seen over the last few weeks. the fact is we invested, the international community invested over 20 years, billions of dollars in these forces. >> reporter: indeed, blood and treasure over the past two decades. this from utah senator mitt romney, a tweet which reads in part, i'll pick it up near the bottom of the tweet. he says today i mourn for my afghan brothers and sisters and struggle to hold sobs within me. my god, how could we have so

forsaken thy children? white house officials say the president continues to receive updates as he continues to monitor the circumstances happening on the ground in afghanistan. at least at this point, eric, still no schedule to tell you about in terms of an on-camera appearance by the president. should that change, i promise to tell you about it. for now, back to you. eric: an eloquent testament from the senator. kevin, thank you. arthel: we're going to bring in john bussey, "wall street journal" associate editor and fox news contributor. i want to start by playing a remark from secretary of state antony blinken on his concerns over human rights you were taliban rule this in afghanistan -- under taliban rule. >> i think it's incumbent upon the international community including the united states to do everything we can using every tool we have, economic, diplomatic, political to work to sustain their rights and at the same time, as i said, to make sure that if the taliban does not do that if it's in charge, that it clearly faces the

penalties for not upholding those rights. arthel: john, has the u.s. forfeited or lost leverage to enforce guardrails on the taliban? >> well, i would have to say yes. i'm not sure what secretary blinken is referring to there. we just spent 20 years trying to apply leverage, and it really didn't work. you know, at this point i think what secretary blinken said earlier today, he was talking on cnn if, he said, look, we were handed this deadline by the trump administration. the trump administration negotiated with the taliban, said u.s. troops were going to leave by may, and what he is said was, look, if we stuck around, if we extended that, the taliban would have started attacking troops again, and we didn't want to have that happen. now, he's saying that in accord with americans' popular opinion. most americans want the u.s. out of afghanistan.

there's afghanistan fatigue in the u.s. the also is absorb ised right now in this worsening health crisis with the pandemic. so the administration said, look, if we'd stayed on, we would have just gotten into more ground combat with the taliban and nobody wanted that. arthel: yeah, but it's not about staying there, it's how we left. look what's happening. look what we're playing on the screen right now. let me move on though, john bussey, and i want to play more sound, this time from congressman michael mccaul on warnings about the taliban leading up to the u.s. withdrawal. let's take a listen. >> for months we've been warning, ambassador crocker and i wrote an op-ed in "the new york times" about what we need to do now to save the intercepters, what we need to do to have disturb interpreters, what we need to do to have our isr capabilities in the region. now we are going dark? they totally blew this one with. they completely underestimated the strength of taliban, and yet

the state department, secretary blinken, "the politico"s in the white house with want to paint this rosy picture that somehow these peace talks at doha were going to deliver a rabbit out of the hat at the 11th hour. guess what? that didn't happen. arthel: so the question everybody's asking is why was america caught so so off guard. but i want to ask you, john, how does this impact president biden's effectiveness on the geopolitical stage, particularly his foreign policy, and the president has a big agenda here at home. how does the afghanistan debalking impact president biden's domesticking agenda the? >> i think you're right it's about how we're leaving afghanistan. this is an intelligence failure about how quickly the afghan army was going to capitulate and how quickly the taliban were going to sweep through the country. it's an intelligence failure on the part of the united states. it's a misjudgment. and american citizens are going to look at this, and they're

going to judge this based on that tail your of what happens with these civilians -- failure. just like in vietnam when we left behind people that had helped the u.s. government. they're also going to judge us on whether or not afghanistan becomes a base for terrorism again against the united states. and all those are wide open questions. china is trying to influence the taliban now. they are concerned about extremism in the western part of the country. how are we going to keep pack tan from becoming more influenced -- pakistan, spilling out of afghanistan into pakistan a nuclear-powered country. these are, these are major kind of broader strategicking concerns. and then there's the american position in the world. how do you formulate alliances with people, how do you say take a risk, join us in this effort if they feel at the end of the day you might leave abruptly and leave behind those who, in fact, had helped the united states?

it doesn't look good. arthel: no, it doesn't. so i am guessing that those questions you just laid out will be the focus of your reporting in the next hours and weeks and months to come, john bussey. is that the case? >> yeah, that is the case. in fact, you can read some of that right now on wsj.com. i mean, the issues that the united states are going to have to deal with go way beyond just this misstep on the a abruptness of the departure. we had planned on supporting the afghan military, and they -- it relied upon the united states kind of as sort of a morale booster for their own army, but they also relied upon contractors that supplied expertise in keeping the afghan air force in the air. when the pulled out and pulled out more abruptly than people expected, the contractors left. so did the rest of nato. so the afghan army was looking

around for, well, how do we stay mobile, how do we stayfective, and they decided they couldn't. and, as a result, you saw this capitulation, you saw this collapse. you saw the same thing in south vietnam in 1975. you saw the same is abrupt departure by the united states out of saigon. you saw the same abandonment of those who had helped the united states in those years of the vietnam war. you're seeing the same thing play out now in afghanistan. arthel: and now the afghan president has fled to tajikistan. >> yeah, so much for saying i'm going to stay to the death as afghan president had said. arthel: unbelievable. john bussey, i are to leave it there. thank you very much. take care. >> pleasure. eric: continuing our live coverage with the unfolding disaster that's happening in afghanistan. former bush white house staffer and now owns a research firm that has an office in kabul,

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♪ eric: the evacuation of u.s. personnel from the afghan capital of a kabul continues. trey yingst reported at the top of the hour that some embassy personnel have been evacuated safely. reports say the embassy is evacuated. commercial flights though in kabul are stopped. u.s. military using the one runway there. reports say hundreds of people are crammed into the terminal there waiting, trying to get out. meanwhile, new video now out of taliban insurgents, look at them, inside the presidential palace in kabul. they captured the palace, you think? they're there to announce a new government. the potential new president very well known to the united states because he was the chief negotiator in doha. he signed the agreement with the trump administration last february, the so-called peace

deal. with us now is the ceo of an international global research firm dedicated to conflict prevention based in washington but, scott, you also have an office in kabul. so, first, how are the people who work for you, your employees, what's going on with them in how are they doing? >> yeah, thank you. they're panicked. this is a very, very difficult time for them. there's not a lot of information coming out any which direction. so right now they're looking at all their options, we are working with every single one of them to make sure that they are safe and eventually evacuated out of the country. eric: you know, obviously there are fears that something could happen to them. the taliban says they won't go into homes, and they hope for a peaceful transition. do you believe that? >> right now it's hard to believe much. we've heard a lot of promises from the taliban before. but what's important right now and i think is important for the world to understand is that our

last stand there, the lives of many afghans depends on the u.s. holding the airport. for as long as possible. i can't stress this enough. i understand that the military is evacuating u.s. personnel, but there are tens of thousands, or thousands and tens of thousands of afghan civilians who have worked for the u.s. government, given their lives to the u.s. government for our national security purposes who are now stuck in the country, and their only way out is if the airport stays open to allow commercial flights to continue and to allow evacuation, air lifts in as well. as well the dod has to make available landing spots for these charter planes to come in. this is critical. without this, as soon as the marines and 82nd airborne depart, that's the end. and it's going to be very difficult to get anybody out. eric: look, we had the berlin air lift. this could be that in reverse. do you think we will be able to hold the airport, keep it and

cut a deal with the taliban? there are 20,000 afghans who have helped us, to get many or all of them out? >> yeah, something called the guam option has been talked about a lot in the last couple of weeks. there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that we leave that country before we do every single thing in our power to get out not only afghan civilians that worked for the u.s. government, we have women's rights activists, civil society members, journalists, people who have been under threat for a very long time x they -- and once that patient closes down, it's anybody's guess what will happen to them. we've lost, we've lost plenty of friends and colleagues over the years to extremist violence, and we are pleading right now to hold this airport as long as possible. eric: there is a group called no one left behind. no one left behind, we're going to show their web site.

they take contributions and donations. if you want to help, to help someone who helped us, we have a moral obligation as a country and as a nation, don't we in. >> absolutely. i can't -- you know, i've been working with the afghans for almost 19 years now, and these are the -- i met some of the most amazing, incredible people in afghanistan. ones that now live in the unite and it's the classic american story, raising a beautiful family. and they are thankful to be in the united states. so many of them, if you -- if americans really, you know, were able to meet some of these afghans at american university, for example, the young, talented individuals who just want education, who are so ambitious to do something in this world, and so many of their lives have been essentially snuffed out by this extremist violence. and so many of them right now are terrified. i can't tell you the messages

that we have coming in all the time, people pleading for help right now. and we are trying to do everything we can and we do, again, call on not only the u.s. government, but the international community to make sure that an atrocity does not occur in afghanistan. eric: valedictorian at my son's college class was a young afghan student. we pray and hope for him and for a all of his countrymen and women. scott, thank you so much is. >> thank you very much. eric: arthel? arthel: indeed. eric, thank you. another fox news alert. now more than 700 people are dead and thousands more injured in haiti after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked the country yesterday. the haitian government declaring a state of emergency for the next month as rescue crews work around the clock to be assess the devastation. alex hogan has more on the aftermath. >> reporter: hi, arthel. the death toll climbing as predicted, at least 724 people are dead and thousands are

missing. we have new footage giving a bird's eye view of the damage of this massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocks the island. more than 2800 people are injured, roads are destroyed. 700 buildings are gone including hospitals and schools, and thousands are newly homeless. 3,770 homes are completely leveled according to the u.n., but the full extent of damage has yet to be seen. [speaking in native tongue] >> since the earthquake i cannot go home. our house is destroyed. we can't drink the water. some people have resigned themselves to drinking the water because people have to drink water. >> reporter: the earthquake hitting the western part of the island around 8:30 on saturday morning. ngos on the ground are calling for help after the country has already suffered so much. >> but at the same time,

concurrently address this crisis along with the other crises we are facing and the country is experiencing. >> reporter: it's been about one month since the killing of the president in his home. the country is also recovering9 from the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people in 2010. usaid administrator samantha power is in charge of the white house's response, she says the u.s. is sending a 65-person search team to help with rescues there and also bringing specialized equipment. again, arthel, so many people are still missing at this time. arthel: so devastating and heartbreaking to see. alex hogan, thank you very much. eric? eric: arthel, haitian-americans are reacting to the latest updates on the mass casualties, the deaths and the damage from that earthquake. it struck just weeks after haughty's president was assassinated in -- haiti's president was a assassinated and still struggling to recover from

that 2010 earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people. phil keating live in miami's little haiti the neighborhood with more from there. hi, phil. >> reporter: hi, eric. in the words of locals, haiti just can't seem to get a break. as you mentioned, the president assassinated a month ago, there are food and medicine shortages on the island, gangs control access to roadways for a toll or else, and also there's just massive political instability, kidnappings are up for ransom and, of course, now they have the rising surge in deaths from the earthquake with. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in miami's little haiti neighborhood -- >> -- why, god, why? why we are going through so much. >> reporter: eleven years ago a 7.0 earthquake devastated

port-au-prince. it was a lot closer than the current earthquake which was 125 miles west of the capital. the country still rebuilding from that, more than a quarter of a million people died a back then. one now lives in miami. >> and those people are really poor. you imagine with crumbled houses, with no parents or to family or no kids. i'm a survivor from 2010, so i know how they feel. i'm having chills, goose bumps right now. >> reporter: yet another tragedy. florida's senator rick scott as well as most miami area elected leaders have all put out statements of condolence for the people of haiti. local charities here are also accepting donations for relief supplies like much-needed food and water and medicine, especially to haiti's southwestern peninsula where the

epicenter was. six years ago hurricane matthew, a category four, destroyed much of the island with massive mudslides, and those could be coming yet again in a couple of days as another tropical system will be arriving there this week. eric? eric: all right, phil. phil from little haiti in miami. and, you know, the earthquake that hit haiti is not enough, tropical storm grace may be slowing down, but it's still on track the slam the caribbean nation on tuesday. peen time, fred -- mean time, fred is a tropical storm yet again expected to hit the florida panhandle as early as tomorrow afternoon. meteorologist adam klotz has the full forecast. i tell you, haiti, the poor people, they just can't get a break. hi, adam. adam: absolutely right. both of those storms, here they are. grace lined up to hit haiti perhaps in the next couple of days. i'm going to end with that, begin with the tropical storm moving across the gulf of

mexico. some of those outer bands of rain battering into the western side of florida, likely making landfall as a tropical storm. here is your forecasted path, and we are looking right along the panama city beach area, perhaps stretching over to fort walton beach, an area like that getting into monday afternoon. winds likely 40 to 45 miles an hour. it'll be a rainmaker. not the best circulation for a tropical storm, but a wide area where you're seeing a whole lot of rain before this eventually lifts on up into alabama, plenty of rain in georgia as this system lifts on up monday into tuesday. rainfall is going to be the big west concern, and you see some of those areas where this makes landfall, mexico beach, panama city beach, areas where you could see a foot of rain, at least 4-8 inches. but as you mentioned, this is not the only tropical system we're paying attention to. drop. call storm grace is still forecast to pass over the island

of haiti perhaps monday night into tuesday morning. still a little bit of indecision as you take a look at our forecast models where where exactly this'll pass, but with either way i think it's going to be close enough to they do see at least some impact for it. and remember, we are just at the beginning really of the tropical season. it should only intensify here in the next couple of weeks, eric. eric: oh, man. especially in haiti. all right, adam, thanks so much. arthel? arthel: regarding the ore breaking news of the day, one of the many concerns of the taliban takeover of afghanistan, will the country become an even safer haven for terrorists who may plot more attacks on our homeland? a former state department senior adviser weighs in on that coming up investigation. euriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance?

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islamic state following sharia law, there are fears the country could once again become a safe haven for terrorists just like it was before and after the september 11th attacks. that's when taliban-controlled government offered refuge for al-qaeda, refused to give up osama bin ladennen which, of course, led to the invasion in 2002ment of -- in 2002. the taliban, they apparently promised not to let the country become a launching pad for terrorism again. do you have any faith that they really mean that? >> i have concerns, of course, because in order for the taliban to have the current victory that it does have and it continue to have in the coming days, it's had to rely on foreign fighters, it is opening up the prisons to find new insurgents, it has some support from nefarious forces coming out of pakistan. so this reminds us of the past.

it follows the taliban's method of building out its support which leads to more insurgency and leads to greater terrorism. at the same time, and this may sound a bit counterintuitive of, eric, the great powers surrounding afghanistan like pakistan and india and iran, china and russia all have an interest in having a afghanistan that is a lot more specific than it's been in the past. this is not 1990s. these countries have a lot to worry about. for example, the russians have central asia, they don't want an activated insurgency there. the chinese don't want with insurgents among the uyghurs. iran doesn't want a refugee crisis. all of this in an odd way may help the united states in terms of its own security of not

having a safe harbor for terrorists be the main marker of a taliban-.com the nateed afghanistan -- dominated afghanistan. eric: there's been some mention of the fact that the taliban would certainly know if they tried that, they know what happened back in 2002. the administration has threatened that against them. sounds line you're saying all those other nations, china, once they recognize them, and it looks like they're rushing to the table to do that, they all have a commercial and cultural incentive to rein them in? >> yes. and you made a really important point, eric. this is not the past of the 1990s, but again, 2002 and the earlier years in this century are still in the background in the taliban's thinking. and the reason i say that is that we have an administration that i think is actually

prepared for strong, a strong military response. i have enormous if faith in the secretary of defense, general lloyd austin iii. i've worked with him in the past. i've visited with him when he was that head of central command. i do believe it's the important that a we have a sec-def who has commanded the middle east in the past. i've seen him work in equal parts of diplomat, military officer, military separate just. i think taliban will take him seriously. eric: i certainly hope so, and i'm glad you have that confidence. we'll see how it rolls out spsm what's so ironic about the situation is that the new potential president of afghanistan is the cofounder of the taliban mullah baradar, and the u.s. knows him very well. there he is. he's the guy who negotiated and sat down with american diplomats in doha for the trump

administration. we know him. is he tempered? if is it possible to have a reformed taliban? is he i don't want to say a little more liberal than his predecessors, what do to you expect from knew la baradar -- mullah baradar? human rights violations, crackdowns, executions or something more tempered? >> you know, the idea of a reformed taliban, i think, is a bridge too far. but, and i do, and i am disappointed that the biden administration announced in the spring that it was planning to leave afghanistan by september 11 and then by the end of august, then in june left bagram air base with the afghan military not prepared to fully defend itself. and and if it appears that it had no con tin general city plan for -- contingency plan for what

is actually happening and that the afghan taliban just was kind of laying in wait and watching all of this take place. eric: wasn't it -- [inaudible conversations] eric: was that their strategy? get a peace deal, talk, talk, talk and then, you know, as you say, lay in wait for the data they knew they would come in and take over? >> and if that's the case, and i think there is a strong empirical case, they start ised on the outskirts, they moved inward, they went province by province, city the with by city, town by town with uneven airstrikes as we were leaving, it suggests to me that this is not a reformed taliban, this is a strategic taliban. and it is a great loss of our humanitarian process over two decades for women, for girls, for schools. just rebuilding and restructuring a country around freedom, i just can't say the taliban is ready to maintain

that. we're already seeing evidence that they're going back to a lot of their, you know, historic ways. eric: yep. they want an islamic state. they want a sharia law. sadly, it appears the taliban have won. thank you. >> thank you. ash arkansas and with the taliban taking over afghanistan, it's nearly complete. so how does the u.s. move forward with that new islamic government? a congressional lawmaker joins us on that. that's up next. (upbeat pop music in background throughout) finish it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest.

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first up, can nato or human rights groups do anything, or are they hamstrung? >> utterly hamstrung right now. right now the goal is to secure the airport, kabul international airport, where there are thousands or ten of thousands who are gathered awaiting an evacuation out of the country. the taliban control, essentially, all of afghanistan with the international military presence strictly at the airport as far as i understand. arthel: right now the airport is closed to commercial flights, so what's going to happen this. >> we need it to be reopened to commercial flights or drastically increase the amount of military flights ferrying not just american civilian,, but also afghan civilians who support the mission and other members of the international community. kabul is a powder keg. it's nighttime there. the next hours will be telling in terms of the future of afghanistan. arthel: what if the taliban forces u.s. military extractions

not just of our people, but of others as well? what happens? what if they don't cooperate and reopen the airport there? >> i think anything, i struggle to go into the nightmare scenarios, but i think we're just about there. we could be dealing with an armed civilian uprising of those who feel frustrated and abandoned, can there's the possibility that the taliban may try to attack the airport. we have 5,000 troops either there or shortly enroute there. this is an incredibly unstable situation. we should never gotten to this point to begin with, but we need to make sure we do everything we can to protect american lives, protect those who fought alongside us or else they will be victims of revenge killings. arthel: 6,000 troops now, yes, and you mentioned that because i know you're very concern canned about the afghans who worked alongside the u.s.

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probably 95% of those eligible are still in the pipeline, some of who are crowding a kabul airport right now desperate to get out of afghanistan a because they know the taliban will hunt them down. and yet we have not seen action that we need to see. and we're not talking about weeks or months. we have days, maybe even hours to get this situation right. this is urgent. this is critical. it needs to happen now. arthel: congressman, thank you so much for so joining us. thank you for your time and your perspective, and we'll be right back. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients

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listen here to the cho. >> with your 30 year' experience, is there a way to slow or even stop this flow of migrants? >> yeah, you're never going to stop migration especially when you hook at the conditions in some of these countries and then the conditions here. our economy's starting to open up. certainly, the health situation is much better here than in mexico or central america, so there's always going to be push and pull factors. >> reporter: as you took a look at live pictures from our drone team, there are republicans who believe this can be stopped despite those push and pull factors. congressman jim jordan is one of them. he talked to maria bartiromo earlier today. listen here. >> you've got to build the wall, you've to got to have the remain in mexico policy, and you need to, imagine this, maria, enforce the law. >> reporter: but no one would claim doing any of those things is easy. the biden administration said that it's doing all it can and

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