of 9/11 that organization has done incredible work over 20 years. >> bill: great stuff. on this day september 1st, 1939 hitler invaded poland, the start of the second world war. that was not the most important thing that happened that day. my mom was born. happy birthday, mom, love you.

>> harris: the >> the fall this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravery and selfless courage of the united states military and diplomats and intelligence professionals. the former president signed an agreement with the taliban to remove u.s. troops by may 1st. there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges and threats we faced. >> republicans ripping the president's remarks there. congressman jim banks tweeted this. so which is it? was the withdrawal a success or a failure that is trump's fault? this from congresswoman stefanik blaming the american people and shouting is not what was needed in this speech. congressman tweets this is such a disgusting display. nikki haley who served as u.s.

ambassador under president trump says biden has failed america's allies and our military. >> he has lost the trust and confidence of every member of the military and the military families that i'm proud to be part of. he has lost the trust and confidence of our allies now negotiating without us because they don't know why we're doing what we're doing. he has lost the trust and confidence of the american people. you couldn't ask for a more embarrassing, humiliating situation than what we have now. >> set to weigh in congressman mike mccaul and congressman mark green of tennessee, afghanistan veteran who sits on the foreign affairs committee. we begin about peter doocy with the latest there at the white house. >> one of the afghans who helped the united states who remains in kabul is an interpreter who once helped the then senator, now president joe biden. he has a message for mr. biden. it reads like this.

hello, mr. president, save me and my family. don't forget me here. but as of last night after the close of business. >> i don't believe the president has seen it. >> mohammed was part of a date so impactful on president biden he told the story of it many, many times at the white house in 2021 but also all the way back in 2000 . >> president biden: if you want to know where al qaeda lives and bin laden is, come back to afghanistan with me. come back to the area my helicopter was forced down with a three star general and three united states senators in the middle of the mountains. i can tell you where they are. >> taliban fighters own the streets of kabul even though president biden once said the chances they would own everything were unlikely. >> i don't think anyone

assessed that they would collapse as quickly as they did. anyone in this room, or anywhere n. world. if you had anyone who did i would be surprised. >> the president didn't stay in kabul until everyone was out as promised. he claims if you're stuck it is because you didn't listen. >> president biden: since march, we reached out 19 times to americans in afghanistan with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave afghanistan as far back as march. now we believe that 100 to 200 americans remain in afghanistan with some intention to leave. >> the president's schedule today lists meetings about hurricane ida and the economy and ukraine but for the first time in several days nothing on there about afghanistan. julie. >> thank you so much. the president meantime is also facing a barrage of criticism

from the media. newspaper covers blaring headlines like dishonor and the "wall street journal" with a blistering editorial a dishonest afghanistan accounting. biden spins a tragedy for u.s. interests into an anti-war victory. joined by mike mccaul and mr. green. thank you, gentlemen for your service and for your time this morning. i want to ask you first congressman green, first of all obviously there was no going back now. 13 service members lost their lives as a result of this. thousands are suffering in afghanistan and here in the united states who have lost their loved ones. what is your reaction to the president's address to the nation yesterday calling this mission a success. >> i was appalled, julie. thanks for having boat of us on the show with you today.

i was you a pald and frustrated to see some of the things. blatant dishonesty talking about giving warnings and doing a great exodus of all the people when they didn't get started until the last minute. we know that. handing lists off. they are suggesting they never handed lists off. d.o.d. personnel told me personally in a phone call they handed the manifests of aircraft to the taliban. the continuous dishonesty from the president is infuriating to myself and many veterans like myself. >> congressman mccaul, your thoughts. >> first of all i'm proud to stand next to my friend who is an afghan veteran. i thought it was very -- he likes to blame everyone but himself for this decision. the reporting that he is blaming now american citizens for not heeding the warning. americans who have been left behind enemy lines now. there are hundreds of them. hundreds that we have tried to get out over the last weekend which was a nightmare.

and the interpreters who never had a chance. i said this president will have blood on his hands and now we have 13 draped coffins that came through dover air base. we have a lot of interpreters killed by the taliban because of this president's actions and also a lot of americans left behind. finally the school girls on the four buses, 250 of them, young girls in the choir, christians had visas and a plane waiting and they actually got through the taliban. it was our united states government that blocked them from safety and now they are turned back into the hands of the taliban. disgraceful. >> speaking of those left behind fox has confirmed the u.s. has left behind also some 600 journalists and their families and staffers. these journalists were hired by the u.s. to promote democracy in the region. they worked for outlets like

voice of america and radio free europe and now the state department is coming out with this quote today saying we did not forget about u.s. agency for global media employees and their families nor will we. they have served the united states and not only worked for us, they have worked with us. we remain keenly focused on getting them out safely. how could you possibly expect their families to trust this administration when they say that they will get them out safely when the deadline has come and gone, the president chose not to extend that deadline, and they refuse to use the word stranded? the white house doesn't want to use the word stranded. what else do you call them? >> they're abandoned. >> i don't care what word you use the airport isn't safe for them to get out safely and how are they supposed to get there. >> it's an arm of the state department. journalists like voice of america that help our messaging

abroad in afghanistan, and the idea the state department would leave them and abandon them behind enemy lines, their own people shows you how messed up this whole situation is. i don't blame the intelligence community. i don't blame the military. they did their job. i blame the state department. i blame the president for weak leadership. >> i will get your reaction to the next topic i want to get to, congressman green in a mom than. a growing number of republican lawmakers demanding of accountability. 50 calling for biden's resignation, impeachment and removal from office and similar calls for the defense secretary and secretary of states. no democrats have called for such action, several have been harsh with their criticism and referred to biden's handling of afghanistan with words like

flawed plan, mishandled and disaster. when will democrats demand accountability, congressman green? >> we need to make sure our colleagues across the street understand the ramifications to them if they don't speak up. as the furor over this. 85% of americans are upset americans were left behind. it is hard to get 85% of americans to agree on anything. they agree you don't leave americans behind. joe biden left americans behind. the fear amongst the people of our country is going to force these democrats to join the call for his resignation. and it is pretty clear his deception -- he is either intentionally lying, intentionally misleading the public or he is so out of touch with reality, the false statements that he makes about, you know, no one was against the withdrawal when we know for a fact that many at d.o.d. were against the withdrawal this way. continuous lies like that or he

is just completely out of touch. either way, he has to go and i think over time as the voice of america gets louder, the democrats will have to join us. >> congressman green and mccaul. thank you for talking to us. we appreciate you both coming on today. no power, no water, and scorching heat all adding to the mystery after hurricane ida. the state's governor now declaring and delivering a stern message to anyone thinking of returning to their homes. the storm is churning up the east coast. what to watch for. plus this. >> i cannot stress enough how much we're exposed 20 years after 9/11 to another attack originating in afghanistan because of the strategy we have in place will not work. >> senator graham sounding the alarm after america's exit from afghanistan. president biden however saying al qaeda is all but gone and we need to focus on 2021 threats.

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thousands of people still without power and what is left of the storm now causing dangerous flash flooding in the mid atlantic region prompting rescue efforts there. fox weather's robert wray is live in louisiana 30 miles east of new orleans. good morning, robert. >> good morning, julie. you can see behind me. this is someone's home. a roof. they've been trying to saw the stuff away with whatever tools they can to try to clear the debris from their house. you can also see, julie, this is some of the projectiles that went through this area, wood with nails in it. can you imagine? so here we are day three after ida has come in. there is no power to just under one million people in the state

of louisiana. here sandwiches between lake pontchartrain and the mississippi river miles of destruction. power lines down from every angle you see. people trying to survive. people looking for food and rations and water and we're starting to see some of those lines at some of the groups as come out to deliver it to the folks. but you can imagine this heat as you mentioned. here we are at 10:00 something in the morning central time and it is already almost nearly 90 degrees with a heat index near 100. you try to do your best and you can see the faces this morning of many of the people here in metro new orleans. yesterday there was a bit of a camaraderie with people trying to help each other. we'll see that again today but three days after this with no power or no running water, sewage and heat and i think people are going to have to meant haoe push themselves

through this. that's the game here right now as this part of louisiana really, really struggling and people trying to just make it through the day and the coming weeks ahead with no answer as to when power will be restored. >> julie: thank you very much for your reporting there on the ground. a sad and dangerous new era in afghanistan. the taliban wiping out 20 years of american gains in just 10 days. now the focus turns to the future and it could be bleak. some americans were not evacuated despite president biden's promise to leave no one behind and we're hearing more reports of execution, torture and violence against women. one of the biggest concerns is that afghanistan could actually once again become a hot bed for terrorists. president biden claims al qaeda is, quote, decimated but is that true? president obama's defense secretary not on board.

>> one of the primary missions of our effort in afghanistan after 9/11 was not only to get bin laden, which which were successful at doing, but also to prevent afghanistan from ever becoming a safe haven for terrorism. unfortunately, today that mission was not accomplished. >> julie: joining us now is general jack keane chairman for the institute for the study of war. i want to ask you to respond to the president's calling al qaeda decimated because there are experts on the ground who say that is not the case, that is a lie. in fact, the numbers of al qaeda members are much greater than the government is revealing to us as americans. your thoughts. >> yeah. first of all i want to associate myself with former defense secretary panetta's comments and that is our whole purpose and reason for being in

afghanistan is to prevent the al qaeda or any organization like that has aspirations against the united states to be able to get a foothold in afghanistan to be able to do that. for 20 years we prevented that from happening. also our small footprint we had and listening cia outpost that we had also prevented the taliban from taking over. so those two things were being accomplished. what we got right now is a very serious situation on our hands because it's fairly obvious the american people get this. the fact is we have permitted a terrorist organization that enabled 9/11, that's exactly what the taliban did in cohorts with al qaeda. they shielded and protected them and they planned 9/11 from afghanistan. that terrorist organization is now in charge of afghanistan.

and as such al qaeda already has regained their safe haven. why? they can operate freely and set up their training areas and do whatever they want. no longer clandestinely, they can do it in the open shielded by the fact and knowledge that the taliban is running the country. isis and al qaeda both, julie, as a result of the taliban opening up all detention centers have gained hundreds if not thousands of fighters to explode their ranks and make them a more dangerous organization. to the point established here about the president biden and al qaeda, al qaeda has a presence in afghanistan right now as we speak. the u.n. said it believes they are in 15 of the 34 provinces. but they are not at a stage that they were prior to 9/11 where they had a robust capability, robust planning capability and training camps and the rest of it.

our concern is it can grow into that and if you take the listening posts away, if you take the presence that we had there than able to surveil and track them every day it will happen again. that's what the concern is. >> julie: it is going to happen again. the presence is not there. senator lindsey graham weighing in how he thinks the biden administration will work to get americans and allies out of afghanistan. administration refuses to call them stranded but i don't know how they get to a kabul airport after it is under attack and u.s. has fully withdrawn. how do you get them out? >> i think we'll try to bribe them out. if you release the hostages, the americans and allies who fought along their side we'll give you money. that's a dangerous way to do business. you are putting americans at risk all over the world because it will be open season on americans throughout the world by terrorist organizations. >> julie: what's next after the u.s. exit?

are we less safe after this mission? >> i think the world is a more dangerous place because having a terrorist organization take over a nation state which we have seen right before our eyes just emboldens the whole jihadist movement around the world and increase their recruiting and financing. much as isis when they burst onto the scene in 2014 and invaded iraq. the same kind of behavior happened. it emboldened terrorists around the world. because the united states regrettably has displayed so much weakness here that it emboldens our other adversaries, russia, china, iran are the beneficiaries pulling out of seven bases in afghanistan. they're thrilled we're no longer in the region. the other thing that has cascading effects what it has done to our allies. after all the allies that were fighting in afghanistan with us and with the afghans over the

20 years, even though the roles changed from fighting to advising, the fact is they wanted to stay. they saw this as a danger to their security by taking away the military bases and the c.i.a. listening posts. so we have weakened nato as a result of this. more so than putin has been able to do is my frustration. >> julie: reaction to your next story. audio of a phone call between president biden and afghan counterpart before the taliban seized control. the president is framing the issue as a matter of optics saying i need not tell you the perception around the world and parts of afghanistan i believe is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban and there is a need whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture. what should we make of this report which clearly shows biden pressured ghani to change the perception that things are not going well in the taliban

fight? >> yeah, i mean, this is a very revealing conversation and it certainly points to the fact that the president was involved in this one and also some of our other national security leaders including the chairman of the joint chiefs i believe in a subsequent conversation the same day. it points to the fact that the president and national security team obviously had lots of concerns that things were not going right. remember, the president makes the withdrawal decision in april. taliban start a major defensive because of it in may. now we're seeing the results of that offensive. rural districts starting to go down. beginning to surround provincial capitals. this is not what was supposed to be happening. the taliban were not supposed to roll up the afghan national security forces and the government. so what concerns me about that conversation based on the calamity that we could see immediately they didn't think it would fall in 10 days but

they knew things were going bad. why didn't we stop the withdrawal and why didn't we go to ghani and say i'm stopping the withdrawal, i'll give you the air support you need. we'll push the taliban back and i'll get back to you with other plans. i'll give you my advisors to help come together with a better defensive plan. we should have been all in to help them and stop the calamity that was on the cusp of happening. >> julie: it makes you question the exit strategy from the get go. thank you so much general jack keen. appreciate you coming hearing your expertise. more backlash to president biden's behavior at a solemn ceremony for the fallen. the white house deflects as a gold star mom speaks out plus this. >> [inaudible] >> julie: the growing calls for the president to address the crisis at the border as

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better way of helping our armed branches get those people who are there out safely. there is no man or woman in afghanistan mr. bide than would like to tell me how i can sleep better at night right now, or any american can while he is serving an add minus traition. give me a call to let me know how i can sleep tonight. >> julie: gut wrenching. today's "new york post" sums up the backlash this way. every life is on his hands. other gold star mom posting on social media that the president rolled husband -- his eyes as her when she was talking to him about her son. it is hard to believe but these

accounts of gold star moms is just utterly gut wrenching for any parent out there who lost a child. to know the government could have potentially prevented all of this and the president's lack of empathy just makes it harder and salt in the wounds. >> god bless them and thank them for their service and ultimate sacrifice for this country. i hope even though they were offended by the president of the united states, that they understand that the literally millions and millions of americans love them, care for them and are thankful for them. look, president biden and kamala harris made a very conscious decision to close the bagram air force base where we were in control. this is about 25 miles to the north of the kabul airport. so i think congress needs to get their act together and figure out how that decision was made and why that decision was made and why the president seems to be telling us a fib

that is just not true about why they elected to go with kabul as opposed to a united states air force military base where we were in total control. the other point i would make, julie, about this is that what really matters even though i care about it, it makes my heart so sad and you cry over this, it is what those families felt like. i saw two gold star fathers with sean hannity in a gut wrenching interview and they talked about how the president on more than one occasion was looking at his watch. when they did have a chance to talk to him joe biden was talking about his own son who unfortunately did die but he didn't die in combat. >> julie: it has nothing to do with this. >> it had nothing to do with this and instead of talking about them and the sacrifice of their daughter and their son, guess what? he wanted to talk about his own family. that's what matters to me most

are those 13 families. >> julie: right. jen psaki as you saw the news conference we played there didn't deny that the president looked at his watch during the ceremony. many parents said it happened more than once, multiple times looking at his watch. why he would need to do such a thing there is no explanation but she did also not answer a question about what biden would say to all those he has offended. what should he say and is it too little too late? >> it probably is too little too late. he still is the commander-in-chief unfortunately and i feel for the hundreds of thousands of people still serving. i don't think he is up to the job. i noticed when he gave his victory speech that kamala harris was not at his side yet she was supposedly the partner in making these vital, critical decisions. they said they planned for every contingency. obviously not. and i guess what i worry about, too, there are still americans

with american passports who are behind enemy lines and the president made a promise to the american people that he would stay there as long as it took to get them out but we're not there and they are still behind enemy lines. >> julie: i mean, one gold star mom told laura ingraham she spoke to her son who was killed and he actually said to her that the kabul airport was about to become a mess but that he would be home soon. he never made it home. they knew that the kabul airport would be a mess. they new there was a safer place to evacuate these people and chose not to do so and now they call the whole mission a success. it is mind-boggling. jason chaffetz. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. with schools open across the country the fight over masks in the classroom shows no sign of ending. the latest state to require masks for students. and this, president biden facing crises on multiple fronts. what is it doing to his poll

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school rages on. 19 states plus the district of columbia have such rules if place. critics are arguing the decision should be left up to parents. at the center of the debate is florida where republican governor ron desantis has banned mask mandates and is he have than withholding money from school districts that implement them. despite a court ruling that says his order is unconstitutional. here is the florida education commissioner. >> initial two counties now additional counties who basically said okay, we don't care about the rule of law. we're above the rule of law and do what we think is right regardless of what parents decided. if you want your child to have a mask or you don't, it is just up to the parents. >> julie: phil keating is live in atlanta with more. >> school is back in session nationwide. with the surge of the delta variant that is generating new lessons on exactly how to deal with it.

specifically inside classrooms in schools. the latest volatile school board meeting last night in daytona beach, florida. a crowd of protesting parents brought signs and loud voices with 10 times more covid positive kids now compared to the same time last year. the board voted to mandate masks with no parental opt out. they join other 12 florida school districts defying republican governor desantis's order banning the mandates. first lawsuit challenging the governor's order won in court last week with the judge ordering school districts can require masks for public safety. the governor is appealing. director of cdc said monday masks in schools do make a difference. >> we're seeing in some schools as well as distancing, screening protocols, we're seeing schools not following these guidance, specifically not masking and having lower rates of vaccination are dealing with outbreaks

especially in the context of this very transmissible delta variants. >> 18 states in blue plus d.c. require masks in schools. and those in yellow allow for local flexibility. starting today masks are mandatory for every boy and girl in class in pennsylvania. >> the guidance has evolved based on lessons learned. the goal is to keep students in classrooms and keep the surging delta variant out. >> the pushback on republican governors led by the biden administration includes the secretary of education who is investigating five states that have republican governors imposing mask mandate bans because they are looking into whether those violate the civil rights of kids with disabilities and fragile immune systems. >> julie: phil keating. thank you so much. we have a power panel now.

rachel campos-duffy co-host of "fox & friends" weekend and host of moms on fox nation. kevin wallings a biden campaign surrogate. rachel, you have experience as a parent. how many do you have at home? >> i have nine and one has special needs. i should say that -- i am very troubled that the biden administration is investigating states who have banned the mandate for the masks on children using special needs children. some special needs children have underlying health risks but also mine has down syndrome and needs facial interaction. so we know with masks there is no study that says that kids -- there is any difference with the masks. in europe we have entire countries that we can look to who haven't seen a rise in virus or transmission based on

masks. we also know that this is a 99% survivable virus for children. what we also know there has been a record number of antidepressant prescriptions given to 5 to 16-year-olds over the last year. record breaking and what it tells us is that terrifying children over a virus that is entirely survivable for them, banning smiles and normal human interaction and isolating them in any way with masks and other measures is not good for their psychological health. that is one of the costs that is not being measured in this. really quickly can i just say the one thing parents agree on, there was a poll, fantastic article in the "wall street journal" shows that parents are very divided on masks. some want it, some don't. what they agree on is school choice. parents should have the funding to go with their child. they asked them about this. the funding should be attached

to the child. if you don't like what your school is doing with mandates whether it's to have masks or not to have masks, you should be able to take those dollars to either homeschool or private school. >> julie: cdc is saying this, schools without masking and proper distancing are seeing higher covid outbreaks thanks to the delta vair -- variant. do you believe it's enough to mandate masks? >> i'm not a parent. you have three kids and rachel has a basketball team of kids. i want to do all i can to protect them the kids under 12 not eligible for the vaccine. the cdc has guidance and scientific backing as cdc talked about. 1% of the kids are a lot of kids in this country that are dying from this virus or getting very ill. again, i understand there should be special carve-outs for special needs children. i know development is taking a hit with these kids.

it breaks my heart. we have to keep the schools open. the fact we're talking about masks is a distraction from the fact we saw 14 million americans get their first dose of the vaccine, the good news of pfizer coming out with full authority by fda. we need to focus on vaccines and not get bogged down in the mask discussions. >> you can't have it both ways. does the vaccine work? the teachers who were at the front of the lines to get the vaccine. if the vaccine, fine. so if the vaccines -- if the vaccines work why are you worried about have masks? >> i'm worried about kids under 12 that don't have the vaccine. >> kids survive covid. they don't die from covid. it's very rare. >> i hate wearing a max. if it saves one kid under 12 that doesn't have a vaccine i'll do it. >> they are more likely to get hit by lightning or die on their way to school. the safety thing doesn't make

any sense. for people who claim to be following the science, this is not making any sense to parents. >> julie: they are also not exempt from getting it. >> julie: the argument of parents' choice during government and you don't want the government telling you how to run your children i get rachel's point. i understand both sides. we have to move on. want to talk about this. democrats are getting more nervous by the minute as the mid-terms approach because of crisis after crisis after crisis. the biden administration is facing some of them self-inflicted. there is the afghanistan debacle, the aftermath of hurricane ida. rise in covid cases and the mess at the southern border. none helping the president when it comes to the polls. >> his approval on what happened in afghanistan is really quite low. remember he is also getting low marks on immigration. those sky high marks on the virus were coming down. look, if i were him i would

have moved this bipartisan infrastructure bill and gotten it across the finish line or do it now. right now all of his major things are looking quite negative. >> julie: recent headlines show how much all the crises are raising alarms among democrats. so rachel, democrats hold the majorities in both house and senate. the party of the president loses seats historically. how threatened should democrats feel now with all the crises we're going through coming from the biden administration. >> it will be a bloodbath if november and i suspect in the presidential election in 2024 as well. this is a debacle for him and not just the southern border and all the things that you mentioned. remember, this president was sold to us as the consoler in chief. could he have failed more when those heroes came to dover air base with those parents there

looking at his watch talking about beau biden when it had nothing to do with him. it was about the young men and women who died because he had a deadline, a fake p.r. deadline of september 11th. and looking at his watch. all of this was just so unbelievable and callous. you add that. this presidency is done. he is a lame duck. and frankly he is fading fast. the question is how soon will kamala take over? >> the president isn't fading fast. we've had a difficult couple of weeks and months with the rise of the delta variant and loosing 13 american service members 18 wounded on the ground. through the political lens, i hate to do it through the political lens it has taken an effect on the approval rating. we don't know the issues likely

to come up before the election 433 days away. >> probably terrorism. >> absolutely. economy and everything else, rachel. >> inflation is horrible. >> julie: thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". "outnumbered" is next. i will see you back here tomorrow. to cash.your home equo because home values have climbed to all time highs. and so has your equity. turn it into cash now, while mortgage rates are near all time lows. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. you could take out more than $50,000. use it to improve your home. pay off high rate debt. pay for big expenses. or put it in the bank for real peace of mind. now's the time to use your va home loan benefit to get cash before mortgage rates begin to rise. call now.

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