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>> president biden: those who carried out this attack, no this. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. jillian: it is 4:00 am, 12:30 the afternoon in kabul, afghanistan where us troops are on alert and thousands are desperately trying to evacuate after an isis terror attack killed 13 american servicemembers and dozens of others applicable airport. jillian: president biden vowed
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revenge as some in congress demand his resignation. carley: we have team coverage this morning with doug lose 8 or in washington. jillian: we stay with marion referee for the latest on the situation in kabul. >> evacuation flights just resuming in kabul the day after two suicide bombings targeted thousands of people, 13 us service members were killed in the attack making it the deadliest day for us troops in 10 years. 18 other servicemembers were injured when the explosion occurred, they were flown out of kabul on c 70s with surgical units. the attack occurring at the abbey gate where thousands of been gathering to get into the airport to try to leave the country, the second attack happening at the baron hotel nearby. americans have gathered there in the past for rescue and evacuation. he was general mckenzie says airport checkpoints are dangerous assignments for servicemembers.
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>> the danger is very real. we expect those attacks to continue. we assist the threat is high right now. we know isis would like to go after those aircraft. they've taken shots of those aircraft on occasion. >> isis claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 60 afghans and left 40 injured. this came after the state department warned americans outside airport gates to leave due to the increasing terrorist threat. officials say they expect further attempted attacks ahead of tuesday's deadline. >> we have to check people before they get to the appeal and make sure they are not carrying a bomb or any weapon that could make its way to an aircraft. we share versions of this information with the taliban and so they can do some searching and some attacks have been thwarted by them.
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>> reporter: the general telling reporters the us is prepared to take action against those responsible and insisting the evacuations will not be slowed by the bombings, 100,000 people have been evacuated since august 14th, british forces are in the final stages of evacuating people from kabul. britain's defense ministry says processing facilities were closed and no one else will be called to the airport for evacuations. jillian: thanks so much. the president vows to avenge the death of 13 us troops and many afghans after the isis k terror attack but still stands by his decision to withdrawal. carley: the political fallout of the deadly bombing. >> it took several hours for the white house to formulate a response to this attack. an unusually long time.
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when the president emerged at the white house he had a warning for those who carried out the attack. >> president biden: to those who carried out this attack, no this. we will not forgive, we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. >> reporter: the reaction has been swift, there were calls for the president's resignation, for his impeachment and critics in both parties say this withdrawal has been mishandled. >> al qaeda or isis externalizes attacks meaning do it on the homeland sooner and later. this is what we've allowed to happen, we need to fix it. we need to go on offense. that is what i want to see happen. not sure mister biden has the stomach for it.
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>> reporter: the bombshell report out of politico that has been confirmed with fox news, the allegation is the us was providing names of individuals to the taliban, names of people who needed to get out of the country. these may be names of afghans who assisted the us military. these could become death warrants because we know the taliban has been targeting some of these people and they were provided the names. the president was asked about this after he made a statement. >> he said the buck stops with you. do you bear any responsibility? >> president biden: i been responsible for all that has happened. of late. >> you stand by your decision to pull out? >> president biden: yes. it was time to end a 20 year war. >> the thing we were waiting for the president to say is he did in fact confirm names may have
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been provided to the taliban and. this will be a big issue in the days ahead. the president will be briefed by his national security team later this morning. jillian: thank you. senators hong kong warned against president biden's august 31st withdrawal deadline saying it would empower the taliban and. >> reporter: the news tonight gives an example white is so ill-advised for president biden to be rushing to the august 31st deadline. they were told to leave because of a terrorist threat. let's hope is not a terrorist attack, the safety of our troops, the fact the president biden sticking to this august 31st deadline indicates all it takes is for the taliban, isis or al qaeda to continue these threats to prevent hundreds if not thousands of americans from being left behind enemy lines. >> reporter: as of yesterday a state department spokesperson confirmed 1000 americans are
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still in afghanistan trying to evacuate. let's bring in corey mills, u.s. army combat veteran and foreign policy analyst who is on the ground in afghanistan. let's thank you for being here, and everything you are doing. can you give us an update on what you are seeing the situation is like on the ground? >> let me say my thoughts and prayers go to this important incident that could have been prevented in many ways had the biden administration looked at a proper withdrawal. the taliban and set up checkpoints. there was no out of report on the stand off from hia. we witness ourselves when they come in or come in as an american, americans were met through an being ransomed at the checkpoint by advisors or having
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passport stripped away in some cases, beaten and allowed to continue forward. the real issue is there is no coordination how they were going to go ahead and do this and that those coming out of the airport. right next to the gate, the old compound which has been a safe haven for many programs offered in afghanistan that was being overrun and no rhyme or reason how they close off and push people away. incident cases i was not there to see it personally but americans were let in and when the gates became overrun these americans were pushed outside putting them back out to the wall and this was poorly
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orchestrated and the adversary timelines. >> what do you think of this idea of sharing into with the taliban and and the fact there are reports that names were provided to the taliban. i understand what you are saying and operating without how a man, the first checkpoints people go through but so many people wonder how we got to the point that we are sharing information and intel with the taliban and. >> secretary pompeo had a conditions-based agreement handed over to the biden administration and while i am all for americans getting out of afghanistan we don't need to be in a sustained war for 20 plus years, we have to do that in a way to establish that from being a safe haven of terrorism doesn't completely arise again.
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every strength for appreciation or the table to create perfect case scenario for withdrawal. >> the deadliest day for us troops in more than a decade since august of 2011. this is a grueling task for this working day in and day out under tough conditions under a lot of threats, very intense threats. what is a loss of life like this do for them and how do you see operations ongoing? i understand they are tough it out there and want to save every single life as they possibly can but the time is winding down. >> a double-edged sword by loss of any brothers and sisters, at the same time we want to make sure it doesn't occur again, the
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proper safe haven stand out enabling aircraft to come out and essentially get this and this is why the approach, you have a great foundation, americans coming in, working ground assault forces capacity continuing to evaluate giving them a safe haven, this is being done by those making a difference because the biden administration is incapable of things the foundations at this time. >> the deadline is approaching the president said past the deadline we are going to keep our promise to get every american out but how do you see that being possible without a blueprint on the ground? >> it is not possible.
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majority of the evacuations are going to occur, former soft members, tier 1 elements, to choose together a plan, to northern kabul or helicopter assault force or a red line to get them out. the biden administration in my opinion has not looked -- every single american out when they are preventing, welded two of the gates of the four gates at kabul national airport shut which means to make further but also creating the next target price escapee or the television itself because it is down to two entry points. >> foreign policy analyst, thank you for joining us, appreciate it.
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4:12 on the east coast, following breaking developments on the terror attack. us marine rebecca heinrich and us congressman michael walsh will join us live. >> we are stranded. i'm afraid for my life. we are in danger. mister president, please help us. >> the woman known as fatima who we met earlier this week has made it safely out of afghanistan. we will be talking to her live along with congresswoman carol miller who helped make that happen. stay tuned. n class was brutal. well, you can try using the buick's massaging seat. oh. yeah, that's nice. can i use apple carplay to put some music on? sure, it's wireless. what's your buick's wi-fi password? it's buick envision. that's a really tight spot. i used to hate parallel parking. me too! the all-new buick envision. built around you. all of you. pay no interest for 72 months plus current eligible
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>> we could easily, as simple as telling them we are coming out, anyone with a gun we will kill them and find out people and bring them out and not giving them a timeline, doesn't matter what they think. we used to be the strongest military in the world and we can do that again whenever we want. >> frustration mount as president biden stays the course with his self-imposed evacuation deadline after the deadly isis attack outside the gates of kabul airport.
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eight tours in afghanistan with the marine corps. you heard rob o'neill say we need to stay and fight. a lot of my military friends share the sentiments. what about you? >> we don't have to negotiate with terrorist. i don't know when americans started negotiating with terrorists, we have a duty to american citizens and our allies. we have the largest hostage crisis in american history and the strongest military force in the world. we don't need a timeline, we don't need to negotiate. we need a strong president will set up on television and warn the taliban we are coming to get our people. get out of the way or there will be consequences and we need to do it. we have every bit of military might and capability of getting it done and the president has chosen not to, turned his back on the american people at our
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allies. like chris was saying, your last guest. i'm in an undisclosed country in the middle east, with amazing teammates, special operations community, and in the last 6 days 5289 people, we are doing it by ourselves. we shouldn't be doing this, we will keep doing it but we should not be here doing it, the military should be doing it. jillian: you serve eight tours in afghanistan and personally involved in these types of evacuations. can you walk us through what the evacuation situation looks like for not only the military but also people they are evacuating in kabul?
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>> i jumped out a lot of them. very close relationships with interpreters we work through and right now we are -- we have joint operations command center in washington dc and one in the middle east, thousands of emails of people trying to get out. we have a team in washington dc segregating them out to triage them and in the middle east coordinating the ground team outside the wire on target and targeting people who want to rescue, moving in, two different methodologies and flying them out with the use of charter planes and military aircraft to a safe location in the last 6 days over 5000 safely out. >> last question how do you see
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this playing out in the coming days. a lot of people share the same concern that there will be more terror attacks on us soil in the coming days and years ahead. how does this play out until the august 31st deadline? >> there is no way this ends good. the attacks will continue. anyone who has read a history book and knows afghanistan always chases their enemies out, attack their enemies on the way out. they will continue attacks. it is isis now. the white house covering for the taliban. isis, taliban, all the same because they are in partnership. isis claims everything, isis will claim it. isis claims everything and they will keep doing this until we leave and afterwards they have free reign on 10,000 plus american citizens and our
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allies. this is horrific and it will not end good. america still needs to act in the white house needs to act, they need to help the refugees we already got out. the state department has been absent in helping these refugees. jillian: good luck wherever you are and thanks for your service. >> thank you so much. jillian: 22 after the hour, us troops deployed to afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, 20 years later many feel the troop withdrawal he raced every progress made. a 9/11 survivor shares his thoughts next.
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and others who died at the terror attack on kabul airport. the 20 year war ends with more. and the taliban is back in power. tim, thank you for being here, tell me where you were and what you saw. >> real briefly, as opposed to talking about myself it is important we talk about the issues. i was in the south tower 20 years ago. carley: you were at your desk on the eightieth floor, you helped people and made your way back down and you are alive to talk about this today but i am curious, 20 years later when you think about what you experienced that day, everything that happened in the last 20 years,
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seen events that unfolded in the last two weeks. >> it is this heartening. the taliban worked without heidi in planning the attacks of september 11th. from places like afghanistan, president biden is in a unique position, the 9/11 families are hoping that president biden will release documents concerning saudi complicity in those attacks. we know that if you don't have saudi support behind the taliban 20 years ago, there is no taliban and the taliban has
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hosted usama bin laden in 2001, from the kingdom of saudi arabia. jillian: let's talk about what is going on today, watching the events that unfolded over there. afghan allies risked their lives, trying to get out and you saw the suicide attacks yesterday with 13 servicemembers using their lives. i'm curious if you think everything we have done the last 20 years has been for not. you hear people saying, and and how do you feel about that.
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>> i'm grateful that we haven't been attacked as most americans know. it appears as if we have a hotbed developing in afghanistan, and that is something i'm very much aware of. the other thing it is important that the truth regarding what happens and who is behind these attacks comes forward. president biden is in another unique position to make that happen. to implicate the saudis and the idea they were fighting the
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taliban as well as al qaeda. jillian: thank you for giving us your thoughts. carley: many as 1000 american still trapped in afghanistan and even after dozens including us troops were killed in the kabul bombings, president biden is sticking with deadlines. congressman jack borman is one of many lawmakers pleading with the president next.
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jillian: fox news alert, us troops bracing for more isis attacks, 13 servicemembers killed in two suicide bombings outside the kabul airport. carley: the first detonated where thousands gathered, the country, the second attack happened nearby at the baron hotel. jillian: 18 servicemembers were injured, 95 afghans were killed and another 140 injured. the bombings came hours after the state department warned of increasing terrorist threat and told americans to leave the airport immediately. carley: president biden is out to avenge the death of 13 us service members as he stands by his withdrawal decision. jillian: the political fallout
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over the deadly bombings. >> the president promised to go after the terrorists and blamed his predecessor for some of this but he also took responsibility for things that have happened in afghanistan. >> you said the buck stops with you. do you bear any responsibility? >> president biden: i bear is positively for all that has happened of late. >> you stand by your decision to pull out? >> president biden: yes i do. it was time to end a 20 year war. >> reporter: the president seems more determined than ever to stick with the end of month troop withdrawal deadline that hits next week. despite both parties, the deadline should be extended. some say the president needs to be more aggressive in his response. >> he is tying the hands of special forces who are chomping at the bit to go out into the
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city at outside the city to get americans that are stranded, he won't let them do that either. their hands are tied. >> reporter: the president was asked about a report in politico that has been confirmed by fox news that the us handed the taliban and lists of individuals who were seeking to leave the country. these may include americans, may include afghans who cooperated with the us, critics say this amounts to handing the taliban kill lists, the taliban has been targeting some of these individuals. the president was asked about this yesterday. >> i can't tell you with any certitude that there is a list of names. there may have been but i know of no circumstance. doesn't mean it doesn't exist. that he is the names of 12 people coming, let them afford. it could have happened.
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>> reporter: meantime representative mike walsh will join us with his take on this and the president will be meeting with his national security team first thing this morning. jillian: thanks. donald trump is tearing into president biden for his handling of the situation in afghanistan. he joined sean hannity last night. >> all of us in biden administration takes over and they say we are taking the military out. first you take the people out and then you take the women's out. we left $80 billion worth of equipment. i think our soldiers, even civilians, our soldiers are in tremendous danger. airplanes flying in and out of the airport are in tremendous danger. they have the best equipment, the best rockets, the best tanks and helicopters, apache
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helicopters, it was the dumbest move anybody has ever made perhaps in the history of our country. >> bombings near kabul's airport made the deadliest day for us forces in afghanistan since august of 2011. president biden standing by his pledge to pull out of afghanistan by august 31st a growing number of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are pleading with the president to extend the deadline. >> call on the president to extend the deadline. many democrats and republicans did. >> the president of the united states should say all bets are off. i would get every american out and start killing bad guys. jillian: here to discuss is lieutenant general and michigan congressman, democrats and republicans literally begging the president to extend the
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deadline yet all we heard, he is holding firm with that deadline. do you think there's a chance for him to extend the deadline? >> he has entrenched himself in an attitude of he's not going to change no matter how bad the fight goes, the answer is no. the first thing you do in any battle is assess the risk and manage it. this is but a diplomatic failure of historic proportions when it comes to assessing risk and being prepared for it. failing to evacuate americans is disgraceful and dereliction of duty. those in the state department are supposed to be experts. i commanded second lieutenant to have more common sense than what we are seeing in some of these leaders today. a failure of epic proportion.
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jillian: i want to get from the soundbite of biden doubling down on the deadline. >> president biden: we will not be deterred by terrorists. we will not let them stop our mission. we will continue the evacuation that present the opportunity for the next 30 days to get them out. >> the reports that they started their evacuations back up. what comes next for these people, what option does this leave them if they don't get out and it is a 2-part question. my other question is at some point we have to consider the safety of people on the planes and before we came to you, over
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kabul -- >> absolutely correct. we need to have those pilots going in by risking their lives. will: shoulder fired missile away from a tragic situation but we have to go in. we talked to members of congress, we have to go to the sound of a gun. that is our mission and they are trained to do that. we need to give them the air cover so we can make sure we do everything possible to continue the evacuation until such time it is not a possibility but continue the evacuation, troops on the ground or whatever it happens to be. failure is not an option. jillian: as a former marine
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corps lieutenants, it is detrimental, and i can imagine how they feel mentally and physically but a mission has to be done. what gets them to move forward to put it behind them and pushing on. >> as marines we train to fight for the marine on our left and t and win. >> president biden said officials would have numerous opportunities to evacuate more individuals after the 30 first deadline by various methods
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including cooperation with the taliban and, since this all started a few weeks ago. is this the only way they are thinking this could work, to cooperate with terrorists. >> running the state department, you don't have seasoned leaders. you have policy people who were never in commander-in-chief positions before. i suggest they are next to clueless and not listening to the good advice offered over the past period of time. it is like petting a snake. you can pet it all you want but eventually it will bite you. you have to understand that is the risk you are taking here. jillian: thank you for your take on this.
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>> new fears in afghanistan is becoming a breeding ground for terror organizations as an isis affiliate claimed responsibility for the deadly do suicide attack. thank you for being here. thank you for your service to the country. who exactly is isis k and what do we know about them at this point? >> isis k is an offshoot of the isis we spent so much time and energy on in iraq and syria,
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primarily, they are basically rejects of the taliban in afghanistan and pakistan of the most violent members too violent for the regular taliban and got an offshoot so they are jillian: i'm curious the relationship, between groups like isis k, al qaeda and the taliban and and the haqqani network. >> al qaeda is the arabic fighters that come from the
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middle east and isis k our splinter group of the taliban and but more fundamentalist in disagree with the taliban's political control in afghanistan and once more violence as we saw yesterday. the taliban is about political leadership in control in afghanistan and isis k and the taliban are at odds with one another but i wouldn't make much of it because the enemy of my enemy is my friend so to presume the taliban and isis k are going to fight one another with americans withdrawing from afghanistan is a bad assumption the president has made. jillian: now the terrorists can operate freely in afghanistan what do you see as the future of the region and nearby countries and the rest of the world?
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can you hear me? it seems we've lost don for a second. we will try to get him back. now that they can operate freely what does this mean for the region and countries nearby and the rest of the world? >> what this english the taliban from other groups is they are a nationalist group, they are not a classic terrorist organization we think of like al qaeda that wants to come to the united states and attack us. they've been clear from day one they don't want to attack the united states. they would be happy to not fight the us and that is why they are being relatively supportive and helpful of us getting out. they want us out so they can run their country. they don't have any designs even on neighboring countries. we will find things are not as bad as people are afraid they might be.
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jillian: we got your audio back. not sure you heard the question but the ideas that you have all these groups that can essentially operate freely in afghanistan when it comes to terrorism what does it mean for the rest of the world particularly us? >> since 1977 afghanistan, we have al qaeda and isis k and the talent than, anywhere from 8 to 10,000 on the ground at any given time, now they come together, they are competing for space. and you have extremists from the fundamental groups that once they come together the opportunity to be a bigger threat than 20 years ago is there. jillian: the president said the
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military said bagram airbase is not much of an asset. a lot of questions on the decision to leave that airbase. do you think it proves to be a fatal flaw in everything we've seen happen? >> it is the fatal flaw in this operation. i served 13 months in bagram, two runways, you can see miles from guard towers, russian minefields around it, a fortified point of injury, it is impenetrable to the types of attacks that happened at kabul airports, it is like somalia surrounded by tenements, and the standoff, a vital piece that proved to be the fatal flaw.
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jillian: one more question to you real quick. this over the horizon capability, do you think that's going to be possible without footprints on the ground? >> those capabilities are only valuable if surrounding countries allow us to penetrate their airspace. without that authority we must use carriers in the persian gulf. makes it more complicated. i think the taliban will be more restraining on this administration. a lot remains unseen. jillian: thank you for your service. still to come, "fox and friends first," an update on the american mother who was trapped in afghanistan when we spoke to her earlier this week.
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>> those who carried out this attack, no this. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. jillian: 13 servicemembers and dozens of american allies are dead after a deadly terror attack at the kabul airport. the explosion happening as hundreds were gathered at the gate desperately trying to flee the taliban and find a better life. carley: this marks the deadliest da
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