in first answer. jillian: sits on a throne of lies. todd: that was impressive i'm not going to lie. >> christmas iisstmas is comingy this year. todd: she is right on that prediction we can guarantee it. jillian: thanks, tomi. & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪ >> the taliban has announced their new government. >> four of the five elks gitmo detainees in exchange for boberg dal. >> genocide thugs warped interpretation of sharia law. >> here is the show the state department working against the veteran rescue efforts. >> if the u.s. administration had done what they were supposed to do, it wouldn't be necessary for guys like myself. >> explosive new reporting seems to reveal the nih did, in fact, fund gain of function research at the wuhan lab. >> dr. fauci definitely lied to the american public.

and he should be held responsible. >> vice president kamala harris is hitting the campaign trail today for embattled gavin newsom. >> they know they are in trouble. they know that he is unpopular. >> a university of texas at austin students filing a federal civil rights complaint over the school's song. >> it's outrageous that leftist would use such a bloody symbol of uc austin ♪ ♪ i feel so close to you right now ♪ ♪ steve: good morning, miami. 6:01 on the east coast. currently outside, 81 degrees as we look at the downtown area and feel so close toy. you are going for a daytime high in the mid to upper 80's. going to feel like the end of summer on this wednesday that kind of feels like a tuesday apes ains it does. short week. all the kids going back to school.

brian: don't you get the sense we tapped into the folks. steve: brian, there is a pandemic only club open is price club. [laughter] ainsley: they are all out there and a lot of light up i'm sure. steve: i have been to miami recently. ainsley: super bowl. steve: that was just before it hit. ainsley: a month before. brian: those were the days. steve: those were the days. brian: two minutes after the top of the hour. scrambled for this week. fox news obtained an email that appears to show the state department is working against the veteran rescue veterans that president biden left behind. ainsley: this comes as we are learning more about the known terrorists who were in gitmo. they were released from gitmo. now they are top taliban officials or posts. steve: none of this is good news. nonetheless, griff is going to fill us in on the very latest and, do you know what? the administration is saying one

thing, griff, but they are actually doing something else. >> a lot to unpack here steve, ainsley and brian good morning. we finally got a taliban interim government rolled out and may come as no surprise to you guys you won't find a single woman of in it. comprised of veterans 20 year battle against the u.s. including new interior minister haqqani a terrorist on the fbi's most wanted list with a $5 million bounty on his head. plus, four of the five gitmo prisoners that president obama released in exchange for army sergeant bowe bergdahl taking senior posts in this new government. the government released a acknowledging the composition of new government saying quote we note the announced list of names slides are members of the taliban their close associates and no women. we are also concerned by the affiliation and track records of some of the individuals we will judge the taliban by its actions, not its words.

this as we are learning, as you mentioned, brian, in the leaked email obtained exclusively by fox news showing the state department refusing to allow rescue flights to land at a dod base writing to retired marine eric who chartered some of the flights said this. no charters are allowed to land at dod base and most if not countries in the middle eastern region. saudi arabia will allow charters to land adding you need to find another destination country and it can't be the u.s. either. the email underscores the extent to which we have seen private evacuation efforts running into bureaucratic road blocks. the state department for their part says they don't officially approve these charter flights because of security risks allowing them on to military bases with full knowledge of all the passengers. brian, ainsley, steve? ainsley: they are worried about their background and worried about terrorists on these flights. there are 30,000 afghans in the u.s. 10,000 underwent additional

screening and 100 of them are being investigated for possible connections to the taliban. brian: wait a second, they are worried about the private contractors going out of their way because joe biden and his state department are perfectly happy leaving hundreds of americans behind. ainsley: even though they said they wouldn't. brian: that's importanted but he had to be baited into saying that by george stephanopoulos. he is the administration that says we plan on getting 90% of americans out. fantastic. i don't think eisenhower used that line. keep in mind, too. they are worried of a private contractor screening people owilling, crosscheck passports sending pictures back and forth. you have 122,000 people out. you saw the chaos around that airport. do you really expect us to believe that that's the screening process and the standards that the state department says these private contractors aren't living up to? that is inexclusive, unacceptable. and it's an insult to the american people that you can say that and expect us to believe that. steve: we just need to, with the

taliban in control now, we just need get those people on the airplanes out of that country. just figure out. ainsley: they won't let them though. steve: figure out a third country. you don't have to bring them to the united states. take them some place else, vet them there, and then figure out how to distribute them. what's interesting is that particular email. brian: can i just say there is something wrong with that thinking. if you land a plane, we don't know who is on the 122,000 including at ramstein, qatar and the uae, saudi arabia, he we don't know who was on that. we saw the chaotic scene with people in the cargo jet, 892 people. i don't think they were patted down landing and screened by marines on the ground. now, you have no standard for them but now we have to get private contractors to send a plane to a third country but they can't land? in order to pick up americans left behind that want to talk about climate change. steve: i'm not talking about the people evacuated before. i'm talking about the people who

are stuck in afghanistan if the u.s. government will not okay it because they haven't been vetted, fly them to a third party country and vet them there. just keep them right there. we have seen how good they are. ainsley: who is going to allow that? steve: i don't know. but they are in peril in afghanistan right now. we don't know. ainsley: should not have left the way we did. steve: right, ainsley. it's too late. i completely agree with all that stuff. those people are committees pratt. ainsley: i agree with you. steve: look, the guy who griff just highlighted, mr. haqqani who is the first interior minister. ainsley: most wanted guy? steve: he is a guy with a $10 million bounty on his head. close ties to al-qaeda. foreign minister of the taliban government. he is essentially the afghan equivalent of the director of the fbi, the director of the fbi in afghanistan has a $10 million

bounty on his head. is that a good place to be? i don't think so. ainsley: the state department in griff's report. he was reading what the state department says they were concerned about their affiliation. we will judge the taliban by its actions not its words. its actions? how about 9/11? how about the woman shot not wearing a head covering two weeks ago on the street shot by the taliban. the state department goes on to say we will continue to hold the taliban to their commitments and allow safe passage for foreign nationals and afghans that's not happening. their commitment is to the terrorists. tony blinken says this taliban has not denied anyone with valid documents to leave. really? did you hear here yum's story who tried to get out and. brian: senator richard blumenthal is not a republican. the information we provided the state department is above and beyond what judicially required to travel to afghanistan. provide with fan musts with

august 30th with continued updates. blinken is not correct. jeanine shaheen a democratic senator from new hampshire armed forces committee my offices submitted 2200 names to the department. obtained sufficient documentation still unable to evacuate women and girls who feel retribution. ainsley: meriam had an american passport. steve: now we have seen from this leaked document that fox news has gotten their hands on that apparently the state department is stopping the private rescue flights from taking off. that particular email was written the day before jen psaki and ned price the department of state both said the administration is not preventing planes from taking off. we know for a fact the administration is taking -- is keeping planes from leaving afghanistan. brian: they continue to lie to us and evidently steve hayes told me yesterday that ned price is a liar and everything that comes out of his life he is professional at it should be taken with a grain of salt most

likely totally inaccurate. he does it without any inhibitions. congressman michael waltz has been scream from the high heavens as a guy that fights our wars and adviser to dick cheney during both wars and now as a congressman in the house, the first green beret to get that position, is saying we are in deep trouble. listen. >> you look at the actions goings on on the ground. this is -- a bunch of genocidal thugs with a very warped interpretation of sharia law. according to biden's own intelligence community with very close ties to al-qaeda. they have been very clear that al-qaeda fully intends to come roaring back in the wake of all of this. and fully intends to attack the west again. this is going to be a repeat of what we saw in iraq the same obama-biden crew yanked us out too fast, too soon, recklessly and years later we are facing an isis caliphate the size of indiana with an economy the size

of austria launching attacks around the world. except this time we have far fewer tools to deal with. steve: the public opinion poll show that the majority of americans wanted us to leave afghanistan but a majority of americans now say we wanted to leave but we didn't want to leave that way. just look at the mess that we have uncovered in the last two weeks. brian: i want to add something else. if you told the american people the benefits of staying there, keeping a counter terrorist base there, operational bagram, we have -- we wouldn't have announced but we said there are covert opportunities in the region and you explain to the american people why our investment is worth it, we get it. if we can get this pandemic after two years we get the war on terror after 20. i was stunned by this statement on sunday when tolled when sue gordon, who is an intelligence official, for the last two decades said this: without presence on the ground we will have to double down our partnerships with nontraditional

partners to understand what's going on in the region. steve: like the taliban. brian: only option, russia, china, iran and pakistan, thank you, joe biden with all your knowledge you left us dependent on those terroristic nations. ainsley: i love it when our men and women come home, of course, you want them to be safe. that's their job. >> they are there to protect us. i wouldn't have minded a small presence to be -- to stay there. it's easier for us to monitor what the taliban is doing if we are there versus here and relying on, what? what source does we have there? brian: zero. ainsley: our bases are closed. we don't have a military base there. they are walking one with our guns and choppers and black hawk helicopters. brian the over the horizon operation is nonexistent. it's ineffective. it took us many, many f-16s to blow up one al-qaeda camp a few years ago and that's when we had airports in the region. we're not going to do it with

drone strikes. tens of thousands of miles away in the middle east. steve: but in the meantime the joe biden administration would like to change the subject and not talk about that because taps mess. ainsley: now the white house is asking for $6.4 billion in money to help resettle these afghans. brian: just to build on what you just said, axios had a report. it turns out two thirds of all the stories clicked on over the weekend afghanistan. it shows the american people are not ready to move on, nice try. ainsley: everyone is talking about that and this story. coming up, fauci is under fire this morning, senator rand paul says he has the documents to prove the white house's top covid-19 adviser lied about funding for the wuhan lab. steve: and from the world of entertainment, britney spears fights for freedom is closer to the finish line. we will tell her why she is feeling stronger than yesterday. coming up next. ♪ ♪

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jillian: good morning back with your headlines, alleged 9/11 mastermind ksm can a smiling and waving first court appearance in guantanamo bay in 500 days. nephew another gitmo detainee defending his client's good spirits. >> i'm sure he was smiling in court because he was happy to see us. the man has been in lockdown for as long as everyone else has been in lockdown. jillian: no date for the trial has been set for ksm and four co-defendants. overnight at least one person dies after a powerful earthquake rocks mexico. it struck the southern part of the country near the pacific resort town of acapulco.

new video shows damage across the city as lights sway following the 7.0 magnitude kuwait quake. people report the ground shaking for at least a minute. vice president kamala harris is hitting the campaign trail today for embattled california governor gavin newsom. this as g.o.p. frontrunner larry elder continues to hammer newsom on hot button issues with the recall election just less than a week away. >> cost of living is going up. homelessness is going up. i can't think of any front where this man has done a good job. >> president joe biden is set to campaign for newsom early next week. and how about this? britney spears is nearing the finish line in her quest for freedom. overnight the pop star posting this video of herself just hours after her father asked a court to end the conservatorship. an attorney for jamie spheres writing in court documents, quote: all he wants is what is best for his daughter. britney's attorney calling the filing, quote, vindication for the singer but says

investigations into jamie's financial mismanagement and other issues will continue. the next hearing in the case is scheduled for later this month. i, for one, am rather excited to see what britney spears does with her freedom when she finally gets it. brian: i think she is going to sell out wimbley stadium so much interest. ainsley: she wanted to have a baby. she wanted her contraceptive out. jillian: she wasn't out to. ainsley: she could start a family and get married again. brian: doesn't she have a lot of kids? jillian: she has two. steve: two, yeah. are. ainsley: with kevin federline her backup dancer. steve: sounds like freedom around the corner for britney. ainsley: people were yell it free brit. brian: we don't neat private contractors. steve: we don't. no one needs to get her out in a cargo jet. let's talk about something really deathly serious, 651,000 americans have died from coronavirus. we would all like to know how it started. you know, there is a real theory out there that it probably got brewed up in the wuhan lab where

they were working on gain of function research which essentially take as virus and soups it up and makes it more contagious. new documents show that apparently anthony fauci has lied and lied before congress and lied to the american people because his organization is implicit in this coronavirus. we're going to play a clip between senator rand paul and dr. fauci from july of this year and this is exhibit a, according to rand paul, that dr. fauci is a liar. >> dr. fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to congress, do you wish to retract your statement of may 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded gain of function research in wuhan? >> senator paul, i have never lied before the congress and i do not retract that statement. this paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the

chain as not being gain of function. what was. >> let me finish. you take an animal virus and increase transability to humans you are saying that's not gain of function research. >> that is correct. senator paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. brian: really? that must have felt good at the time. now the intercept though has a report out. they had 900 pages they finally got out and details the work of echo health alliance used federal money to fund the coronavirus research at the wuhan lab. the bat coronavirus grant provided echo health alliance with 3.1 million, including 599,000 for the wuhan institute of virology who can forget that? forget about political hacks and senator rand paul and republicans and democrats, the intercept which by the way went out of their way to call anybody who thought the lab theory was valid was folly now has changed their tune after they got these documents.

ainsley: so dr. fauci is saying that's not the definition? you take the animal virus, make it a super vice, study how it affect humans that is called gain of function research. when you read the 900 pages of this intercept it was used the money that american tax dollars were used in the wuhan lab almost $600,000 that was set aside for this research of these bats. and it says in this intercept it says used in part to identify and alter bat coronavirus likely to infect humans. that is gain of function and rand paul tweeted out surprise, surprise, fauci lied again and i was right about his agency funding novel coronavirus research at wuhan. steve: here is the cover of the "new york post" today. it's a real wu done it. rand paul is calling for fauci's head. as it turns out, another report shows that the nih funded a total of 65 research projects at the wuhan lab. 65 dr. fauci when he was sitting

there in congress said i never heard about this. here is the senator from kentucky saying fauci has got to go. >> it's very dangerous to have public officials who we need to have trust in coming and lying to us but he has lied dozens of times. usually he tells us that it's for our own good. but, yes, he is desassembled and obfuscated there are other nicer words but he has definitely lied to the american public. he should be held responsible but not just that the judgment that we should continue to fund this lab and that the virus in all likelihood came through the lab is such incredibly important judgment that he should be immediately removed. ainsley: remember he originally said it did not come out of a lab and it was probably spread in this wet market and donald trump said no, i think it's a lab? and then it came out that some of those doctors had to leave the lab. they showed up at the hospital, and they had some signs of coronavirus. and then it starts to spiral. and then the question is, as he is saying, rand paul is saying, why is dr. fauci the head doctor

giving us all advice when it appears that he is trying to cover up the fact that it came from the lab? steve: well, sure, ainsley, to the larger point that the intercept discovered, this outfit, echo health alliance run by dr. peter daszak. brian: that guy again. steve: he is the same guy that reerched out and told all the eye on cysts, including dr. fauci, just down play the fact it came from a lab. we don't want that coming out. ainsley: that's right. that email he sent dr. fauci. steve: now it looks exactly like it came from a lab and we funded it but fauci probably, to his credit, he had the nih lawyers probably say okay, give me exact language on what gain of function research is and they have adopted a situation so that what he said is true but not really true. brian: but the thing is no one really cares about legal trouble. the american people are the jury. they know the intent. the intent was to go ahead and do that anyway, despite the danger. and here's the other thing as you drill down on it they say

the security in the wuhan institute was terrible. they say that these -- some of these scientists were bitten by bats and they keep records of it. where are the records that echo health alliance keeps of how many scientists or workers or lab assistants were bitten by bats. they're human test tubes and weapons of mass destruction and death machines. yet, anthony fauci didn't warp us this could be dangerous as it came ashore. he was on a tv show saying this pandemic and this virus is not going to be an issue here. in case you think it's just people with a vendetta against him richard ebright a molecular virology just at rutgers red these documents and said this it makes it clear that fauci has been untruthful about his gain of function research. the documents make it clear the assertions of francis collins and fauci that the nih did not support gain of function research potential pathogen is untruthful. he tweeted that out. so scientists to scientist they don't buy it.

steve: here's the worst part, that is it looks like we have a smoking gun right here. but, jen psaki told our white house correspondent there were no circumstances where dr. fauci would ever get fired. brian: will he ever get a tough question from another network on his book tour? ainsley: he is with the. in ih. they are in cahoots with echo health alliance. they got money. >> steve: 651,000 americans dead we deserve to know what happened. brian: he didn't give us a head's up. ainsley: a home schooling surge. why millions of parents are now taking control of their children's education after the start of the pandemic. steve: and 20 years later, a new jersey town is remembering september 11th after 17 resident were killed on that day. their message to never forget coming up straight ahead on "fox & friends." ♪

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democrat led states because the criminals know they won't go to jail. the house oversight committee top republican is going after hunter biden's controversial art dealings. fox news obtaining a letter. james kolmer sent to hunter's art dealer calling out the hefty prices for the untrained artist paintings, biden's artwork is going for prices ranging from $75,000 to 500,000. is he requesting any information regarding the dealings be turned over to the committee to help with its, quote: investigation of possible undue white house influence. have you seen this? a giant cinnamon toast crunch mascot is spotted behind home plate during a game during the miami marlins and new york methods. bubbly eyes and big smile being described by some as nightmare fuel. one commentator mistaking the cereal icon for sponge bob. some complained that the mascot got a better seat than them. i love cinnamon toast crunch i'm

not upset by this at all. brian: really the only cereal i have is krisp right now styer row foam looks like cats. ainsley: they don't make it anymore. steve: no comment. brian: i don't like military in cereal, i don't think they mix. thank you very much. 20 minutes now before the top of the hour. evacuation for americans and allies in afghanistan hitting a major road block as now we learn the state department is blocking and has blocked private rescue flights. an email obtained by fox says no charters are allowed to land at dod base and most, if not all countries in the middle eastern region with the exception of, perhaps, saudi arabia will allowed charters to land. you need to find another destination country and it can't be the u.s. either. with security concerns prompting delay, how will this impact private rescue efforts? here to react is former green beret scott mann. if they did their job and got the will sivs and americans out

you wouldn't have to do what you are doing. do you understand their concern? >> i understand the concern, brian, hey, thanks for having me on, that we have got to know who is on those planes, absolutely. one of the things that we are trying to put forward, we never put any boots on the ground. we have maintained relationships with our partners and allies all the way through. we know them. we vetted them. and, you know, we can help with things like this. those aren't our airplanes but the people that are on those airplanes have people in the united states that are talking to them and a lot of these citizen liaison networks they can help. they know who these people are they know where they're and they trust them. those are the kinds of local context things that i think our soft veteran volunteers and combat veterans can play a huge role without getting in the way. they have relationships with a lot of the these people, and they can help fill the gaps, because the state department is in the lead. and i get that but i think these citizen liaison networks like ours, team america and hundreds of others can help. steve:

brian: scott, the alternative is to take people like you who fought and whose friends have died for this country and willing to do just the same thing. you are verified a true american patriot going out of your way, a personal cost to get americans out of a country that the state department state department chose not to and they say we can't verify the manifest. the alternative is leave them in a hostile nation and many would argue is going to try to kill them. here's what antony blinken said without personnel on the ground we can't verify the manifest and identity of the passengers. you saw the chaos at the airport. do you think they were thoroughly investigating the identity of the passengers on those cargo jets as they left the airport in kabul? >> yeah. you are right, brian. that was absolute chaos. i think the one thing that's being missed that the secretary missed that i would submit is in particular our combat veterans we have worked there for a very long time the folks we are

talking to we know them and they trust us. and we do have an understanding and context of what is happening on the ground better than most people do. and our volunteers they quit their jobs at amazon, they're school teachers, they have shuttered their businesses and they are still here. they are not going away. they are going to stay with this thing. they are going to honor the promise all the way through. we can play a big role liaison network and we will do it responsibly. brian: you will work the halls of washington in order to solve the problem. >> that's it fill the gaps. in that great space particularly special operation does very well the government didn't and now look at you as the bad guys who are not to be trusted. unbelievable. scott, thanks for everything you have done operation pineapple. where do we go to help real quick? >> operation recovery.org or no one left behind. two great organizations that help with rover and

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children's education, home school numbers have actually doubled in popularity. since the start of the pandemic with 5 million households now home schooling all across our country. our next guest is a stay-at-home mom who thought remote learning was a nightmare so she now home schools her two children. her name is kristin and she joins us now. good morning, kristin. >> good morning, ainsley, thanks for having me. ainsley: thanks so much for come on. i know as soon as this pandemic hit in march of 201, you heard kids are out of school for a while and when did you decide start home schooling? we heard initially two weeks and turned into much longer than that, the remainder of the year. and about six weeks from the end of the year it had just become such a struggle that i said guys we have two options. we can either continue on like we're doing or we can call it summer rate now. or, you know, we could just pick

and choose, i will let you know what's happening. and they chose to choose ola cart what they wanted to attend and we muldzed through the rest of the year. last year i was like not again. we have to home school. ainsley: you said the zooming, learning italian on duo lingo, all the stuff you had to print out. tears, isolation, shut ling the kids from your house. you called it a nightmare. how is home schooling? so many of us love it and would support it especially now but we are scared to do it because we don't know if we are equipped. >> you are equipped, ainsley. i would say to -- if any parent out there if you have children, you know your children. it's really about following their lead. and i had thought about home schooling when my son, my oldest was going into kindergarten, you know, 10 years ago. but i thought how can i do this? it felt so daunting. i did not know how many

resources there were. i didn't know the strength of the community. had i known the support, and the simplicity that i could bring to it and the excitement and the fun, i would have-maybe i would have been brave enough to try it way back then. ainsley: what about socializing? do you get together with other home schooled kids. >> we get together with other kids and home school families here in vermont we have a super strong home school network. and we kick off the year with our home school not back-to-school first day family picnic and we get to connect and share resources. materials, and really in small or larger groups there is opportunity to connect as much or little as you like. ainsley: kristen, thank you for opening our eyes to home schooling there were 2.5 home coolers in 2019 when the pandemic hit and now there are 5 million. in your state in vermont home

school applications are up 75%. it's incredible. kristen, god bless your beautiful children. we were seeing pictures of them. they are so cute. >> thank you, ainsley. thanks for being here. ainsley: thank you. well, 9/11 changed america forever and up next, steve went out to new jersey to a town there that lost 17 residents in the attack. you will hear why they say it's important that we never forget. >> my friend, my neighbors, one minute they were here and then the next minute they were gone. no rhyme, no reason. they were just going to work. my retirement plan with voya keeps me moving forward... even after paying for this. love you, sweetheart they guide me with achievable steps that give me confidence. this is my granddaughter...she's cute like her grandpa. voya doesn't just help me get to retirement...

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♪ steve: 9/11 is coming up on saturday. and right now we are going to check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. she is live this morning from the memorial in staten island as the nation marks 20 years this saturday since september 11th, 2001. j.d.? janice: steve, we lost 275 people from staten island on that fateful day almost 20 years ago. this monument stands as messages to those we lost. two postcards that look like wings from, you know, the earth

to heaven. quite a beautiful monument and if you walk right in the middle of it, you can see lower manhattan where the twin towers fell and the smoke billowed into the blue skies almost 20 years ago. i also noticed that there were a lot of fdny names in the monument, when you look and see their faces and their names steve stiller is one of those. we will be talking with his brother frank. helping first responders families after they lose their loved ones. i hope to bring that to you in the next break. the weather today is spectacular, steve. tomorrow we are going to see some thunderstorms. i will be on the fdny boat. that will be a fun day but also important to talk to members of the fdny that lost so many of their brethren, back to you. steve: all right, j.d., thank you so much. beautiful. brian: all right. stay with that same theme. the impact of the september 11th terrorist attacks could be felt nationwide, particularly hits home for those of us from areas

near new york city. ainsley: nearly 3,000 that died that day 17 were from one down in new jersey. steve: west here is basking ridge, new jersey i went there to talk to the residents about how they felt in 2001 and what they are too long now, 20 years thrirt honor those they lost that day. steve: it was on the morning of september 11th, 2001, there were hundreds of commuters on this platform here in basking ridge, new jersey. they were heading the 40 miles down that track into new york city. by the end of business, there were 17 unclaimed cars in parking lots because 17 commuters never made it out of the towers alive. 20 years later? basking ridge, new jersey is a town that never forgot. >> no one would have ever thought up until that moment that something like that could happen even here. >> i put on the tv and i saw what was going on. i just thought the world was

going to shut counsel. i was petrified. >> you could see the two plumes of smoke coming from the towers. >> people getting off the train covered in soot. covered in dirt came by a fire company. >> i chose to join the fire services. >> i distinctly remember going down, seeing all the people out there, thanking the first responders, unfortunately, once you got to ground zero, the realization was pretty evident that there was probably nothing we could do. >> we lost 17 residents and it really impacted our community. >> my friend, my neighbors, one minute they were here and the next minute they were gone. no rhyme, no reason. they were just going to work. and we lost them like that. >> our switch board was overflowed with calls. i can't find my loved one. what can we do? one of those calls was from a friend of mine about her husband that was missing. >> john was that guy that you

hear about that nobody had a bad word to say. he was a wonderful guy, wonderful friend, husband, father, has four beautiful children. >> my dad would do anything for his friends but especially his family. even though he was tired from a long day of commuting to the city, working, he would come home and still take my brother and i out for a run. people started talking about the world trade center. i knew that my dad worked pretty high up in the building. obviously, when i got home, life i had known it was forever changed. >> this park is kind of holy ground. this is one of the actual i beams from one of the world trade centers. 20 years later what goes on in your head. >> actually played soccer on the field behind it even though i didn't see my dad on the sidelines to know this was here. i'm actually pregnant. is he expecting his first grandchild. 20 years later still pretty fresh. >> it actually rallied our town. >> everybody felt a sense bonding. >> everyone helped one another.

>> people had taken a horrible and tragic event and turned that into what can i do to help other people. >> is she is one of those organizations heart works. >> our real main focus is replicating the kinds of things that everyone did is for families affected by 9/11 i cut grass. and snowplow before they even done their own. >> my nieces and nephews, when you ask them now what they remember of 9/11, they don't talk about crashing buildings and burning planes and all of that. what they talk about is people showing up at their doorstep. >> what you have described, that is a glimmer of something good that came out of it. >> i hope to instill remembrance of what happened on 9/11 to anybody i talk to, including my kids. >> when you are remembering, you are honoring, you are also teaching the young kids who don't know today really what happened because it can happen again. >> don't ever forget what happened. >> we can't forget it was these

little guys, we owe it to them. steve: you never forget. you can't. >> never. think about it every day. steve: while basking ridge, new jersey lost 17 this are towns all around new york city to lost an equal number of people. heart breaking. ainsley: young lady's story soccer field she knows her dad's presence was there. steve: she said after he was gone she would be playing there on the field and she would go past that area that i referred to as holy ground and she would say, dad, i got a goal. ainsley: wow, gosh. and then she is having a baby it would have been her dad's first grandchild. steve: i know. she is a lovely young woman who a cancer nurse. ainsley: beautiful. brian: a lot of people you work with firefighter a lot live together. cops a lot live together. i know a lot of finance people live in manhattan. and they were devastated same thing. you have a train 25 minutes outside the city live in an area there. well, that's where you go, the

financial center, and that's where the target was on 9/11. ainsley: we each went out to different communities and interviewed different families, see their stories throughout the week. steve: and that organization that was started by that woman, heart works continues to help people in that town who need help, regardless of what is going wrong in their life. ainsley: we all lived here whether it happened i was in south carolina. it's so true what you all are saying when you come to new york and talk to anyone on the street. steve: everyone has a story. ainsley: everyone has a story. everywhere knew someone. brian: especially people who worked on the pile with all those cancer agents they didn't know about that would slowly kill them still dealing with it. ainsley: still ahead, congressman jim jordan, dakota meyer, clay travis, lee brice, they are going to join us to tell us how they are helping our heroes.

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brian: fox news obtained an email appears to show the state department is working against the veteran rescue groups of americans. >> a lot of these citizen liaison networks can help. they know who these are people are and they trust them. >> the taliban has their new government. >> four of the five exgitmo detainees exchanged for boberg dal. >> a bunch of genocidal thugs. >> a group that kamala harris now accused of murder.

>> six weeks from the end of the area it's become such a struggle. not again, we have to home school. >> giant pop tart behind home plate. >> i think that's cinnamon toast crunch. >> you are good. >> you never know what's going to be behind home plate at home depot park. ♪ just trying to catch a good time ♪ even if it takes all night. ainsley: that is louisville, kentucky, i was told do not say louisville, it's louisville. can you say it, brian? brian: louisville. i would say louisville and no one has ever corrected me. ainsley: how do you say nevada? people say don't say nevada, it's nevada. brian: i know. yet again, people who live there from the outside we can do whatever we want. steve: it's like i'm from kansas, one state over is a state i always call missouri but half the state calls it missouri. as it turns out, people on the western side of missouri call it missouri and people on the eastern side call it missouri. so i bet people in louisville

call it louisville. ainsley: i think they say louisville. steve: i think it's both that's my point. how you were raised. brian: one thing pretty clear whether louisville or missouri or nevada, they care about what's happening in afghanistan. although the american people, we're told, over and over again we're tired and we're war weary, not with what's going on now. this has alarmed everyone and each concerned our allies by the way we got out. here's the latest news. the taliban unveiling its afghan government. giving top posts to several known terrorists. and it gets worst. ainsley: used to be at gitmo. steve: this as fox news has obtained an email that appears to show our department of state is actually working against the veteran rescue efforts of americans that president biden left behind. >> mark meredith is going it break it all down for us. he is live at the white house. good morning. >> ainsley, steve and brian, good morning to you guys. now that they are in full control of afghanistan, the

taliban has said who is going to lead the country. officials say the list is not great with hardliner being chosen as the acting prime minister and the interior post is going to be going to a name named haqqani is he a hardliner and believed to be behind the taliban's insurgency in kabul over the last several years. get this, that poster on the screen, the fbi was offering a reward for information leading to his arrest. some lawmakers they are outraged about this, including nebraska senator ben sasse. he says haqqani is the taliban's new inentingh year reason for the reason the are has $5 million bounty on his head. he is bloodthirsty terrorist. is he running a country we just abandoned, americans are still trapped behind taliban lines. it gets even crazier. four men once detained at guantanamo now hold senior positions within new government. same men released by the u.s. in 2014 under the then obama administration exchange for the release of boberg dal.

you may remember sergeant bergdahl was taken prisoner after deserting his post. hundreds of people still desperate to leave an airport in northern afghanistan. the group which includes some americans want to get out of the country via charter flight. but those planes so far have not been allowed to take off. fox has been asking what would happen after those planes would eventually get in the air and officials telling us that they will not be allowed to land at u.s. air bases even though there may be some americans on board because of security concerns. they won't be able to say for sure who may be on those planes. but the white house is still facing a lot of questions. and the president is still facing a lot of pressure to get americans still trapped in afghanistan home sooner rather than later. steve, ainsley and brian, i thought it was interesting how many democrats we have heard from speaking up making it clear this is an issue that they're looking past. brian: should be an actual interesting series of hearings on both. >> house and senate. thanks, mark. appreciate it i guess one of those that we should maybe

highlight now is senator richard blumenthal. is he beside himself as the member of the senate armed services committee. when they talked about well we don't know who is on those private flights therefore we can't allow them toe land on american air base. they don't trust these retired veterans, special operators, that's a problem. they show you the passports, they answer your questions. you still don't like it, that's a problem. you can't put them in an airport and have someone board it. that's be a pro. we saw the cargo jets with hundred people on it do you think they were patted down? do you think they checked their irises to find out if they let on terrorists or not? >> recall assistant marie says the senator's office provided state department plane's manifest as early as august 30th. senator jean shaheen said my office submitted 2200 names to the department. sufficient documentation still not able to evacuate the women and girls who fear retribution on those planes, on those four

planes there is at least 25 americans let alone the sivs that have been screened and helped our special operators proven themselves in battle but that suddenly is not good enough for a state department. steve: our statement department has for years been dragging their feet. there have been applying for special immigrant visas the sivs for years to get out of afghanistan. and then in a span joe biden pulls the plug and they are all stuck. you, brian, were talking to scott mann, he is one of these vets who is trying to get as many people out as possible. you know, the state department says we don't know who is on the airplane so we have got vet them first. they can't vet them in afghanistan. there is nobody there. so what is he saying and we have talked yesterday to somebody who said, you know, we had a plane up full of people and it was flying some place and essentially the state department said you can't land anywhere. brian: cory mills. steve: got those people out the mother and three children. ainsley: by having to lie and saying we got permission to go because they couldn't get on a plane. steve: they were on a plane.

ainsley: but 'wouldn't take off. steve: it's just all screwed up. anyway, the guy brian talked to made it very clear, we, the vets, are vouching for these people. let's -- we just want to take them to neutral territory. the state department. ainsley: we want to help. let us. steve: absolutely. but the state department, despite what you hear from the podium at the white house and the department of state is standing in the way of these heroes who were trying to rescue americans. watch this. >> got to know who is on those planes, absolutely. our soft veteran volunteers and combat veterans can play a huge well without getting in the way. they have relationships with a lot of these people and they can help fill the gaps. the state department is in the lead. i get that but i think these citizen liaison networks like ours, team america, and hundreds of others can help. the folks we are talking to,

but, the state department, you know, they have got rules. just not going to do it. sorry. ainsley: you said at :00 a.m. they say one thing but they do something else. like they will say we are getting these people out. you talk to people amazing individuals meriam amazing citizen. we told you her story yesterday came over with her kids and cory mills had -- she relied on him to get her out because she couldn't get on one of these planes. they held her up at gunpoint when she tried to get on one of the planes. the state department says we will judge the taliban by its actions, not by its words. saying let's just give them some time and see what their actions are like. we should judge them on 9/11. we should judge them on killing the woman remember she didn't have her head scarf on shot in the middle of the street? that was just a few weeks ago. then they go on to say we will continue to hold the taliban to their commitments to allow safe passage for foreign nationals and afghans. that's not happening. their commitment it seems to be

to the terrorists because this lady, meriam, told us her story. she could not get out if it were not for this outside agency and cory mills. steve: he would still be there. ainsley: exactly. brian: when joe biden tries to run for re-election if antony blinken sticks around the group that runs on joe biden we leave 10% of all americans behind at least. t. and upset that other people are trying to get them out. they want to change the subject and talk about climate change. ainsley: hold on antony blinken said the taliban has not denied anyone with valid documents to leave. brian: liar, liar and we have it on video. they say they are saving us money so costly to the american people. they now want financing to bring 95,000 afghans to the u.s. i'm sure they have all been thoroughly investigated and background checked and patted down and their irises much match up perfectly. independent estimates of the number of is iv applicants could be well over 100,000. right now going to military

bases. they say on average immediately given access to our welfare system. on average every person is going to be costing $250,000. that's how much this administration is saving us. in all of these men and women want to do is get the americans out because joe biden wouldn't. because they wouldn't plan. because general milley is a terrible centcom commander and had no problem playing politics because he couldn't anticipate the collapse of an army that he was on the phone with the president and the president of the country says there are 15,000 terrorists invading our country. we need air power and when you didn't give it to him you are surprised the army ran? and the ghani ran? you didn't know about the president of afghanistan? you couldn't have done a background check on him? he's a college professor at johns hopkins. he's not a war tore veteran what do you think is he going to do

if the taliban starts zeroing. in these are the men and women in uniform that we counted on. instead, they gave in to politicians and now america is in more danger than ever because of it. ainsley: the 30,000 afghans that came here to the united states, 10,000 underwent additional screenings. and there are 100 that are being investigated for possible connections to the taliban. steve: the biden administration cut and run and, unfortunately, there are a lot of people who are left behind and now it turns out it is just private citizens trying to figure out how to get them out. hurt, 7:11 now. talk a little bit about this. remember last summer when there were all the protests across the country in the death of after the death of george floyd. one of the worst places was, obviously, minneapolis. kamala harris put out a tweet promoting the minnesota freedom fund. and, you know, that is one of the protests right there. and she tweeted out a year ago. if you are able to chip in now to the minnesota freedom fund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in

minnesota, you know, obviously help them out. well, after that tweet and some other publicity, that group raised an amazing, according to the "the washington post," $35 million they didn't just provide bail for people involved in those protests, and later there were riots and in some cases looting. it turns out they were able to use that money to spring a lot of people, including a fellow who is now in the news, george howard, who was an accused domestic abuser, he was actually freed by the fund now he is accused of murder. ainsley: he is 48 years old. there is surveillance video that shows he is in his white volvo, another driver in a blue bmw confronts him. there was some sort of a road rage. they pull over on the side of interstate 94. and the victim, he got back in his car. apparently this guy right here punched the victim.

and then they got back in their car or maybe it was the other way around. one of them was punching. the victim gets back in his car and then drove into the median. he was pronounced dead at the hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest. steve: unbelievable. brian: here's what the minnesota freedom fund is saying. we are aware of the report of this tragic and fatal shooting in minneapolis earlier this week allegedly involving george howard. an individual the minnesota freedom fund had previously provided bail support. mff believes every individual arrested is innocent until proven guilty. if a judge deems them eligible for bail they shouldn't have to wait because they don't have the same income or access to resources as others. say it to the family of the slain individual. steve: that tweet has since been deleted; however, by the way back machine and stuff like that we have been able to see it fox 9 in minneapolis says the fund has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to free an alleged knife murderer and convicted rapist who is facing charges of

sexual assault and kidnapping. so how many people donated money to that fund thinking we're going to get the people who were protesting and illegally arrested get them out of jail and their money instead went to all these other people who have allegedly committed crimes. ainsley: we covered all those presses, we saw it in all these major cities across the country. because of that crt so many people moving out of these cities and coupled with covid as well. so many people moving down south or different areas that they felt were safer or maybe out to the suburbs. a lot of moms and dads decided they wanted to home school their children. the numbers are staggering, back in 2019 at the beginning of code and all these protests, there were 2.5 million children being home schooled. look at it today. it's doubled. 5 million. steve: think about it between the pandemic and the lockdown and to your point, ainsley, the crt, so many parents are just fed up with, you know, the

immediate okay credit at this of what is -- if our kids were of school age again my wife and i have talked about it we would actually be home schooling our kids as well. in alaska, more than a quarter of the kids are home schooled now. in north carolina, a site for registering home schools has crashed. in california the applications have tripled. in jupiter farms elementary down in jupiter, florida, 10% of the students for the public school withdrew for school this year. so many are just saying, you know what? i'm going to teach my kids because i know what's important to our family. ainsley: we interviewed a lady. her name is kristen vrobel, she decided ainsley, when i was zooming, she said it was chaotic. there were a lot of tears. her precious children.

single movement dead lives 30 minutes away. driving back and forth. having to print out all the material the teachers were sending me. we were all fed up and made executive decision as a family we are going to home school and kids agreed they wanted to do it. she said it has been wonderful. listen to her. >> any parent out there if you have children you know your children it's really about following their lead. and i have thought about home schooling when my son -- my oldest was going into kindergarten, you know, 10 years ago, but i thought how can i do this? it felt so daunting? had i known the support and the simplicity that i could bring to it, and the excitement and the fun, i would have -- maybe i would have been brave enough to try it way back then. brian: what you are missing is the social interaction, the friends that you make in your class you are not going to get. you exchange it for a tighter, closer family that you are going to have bonds for the rest of your life.

you can also do sports. i was amazed about how the home coolers are associated still with the local district. steve: they're. brian: that could be a positive. ainsley: she did say that i asked her about that stick together. brian: huge salute to the parents. the teachers skills they acquire when they become teachers and how they get better and better each and every year. it's not easy for a parent to be a parent and teacher because that's a school. quick thing on kamala harris, she is going to be stumping for governor gavin newsom. will someone throw out a question about that minnesota bail story how do you feel about urging people to put money to a bail fund that sprung a murderer? steve: that's a good question. regarding the topic we were discussing and home school, if you are thinking about it, you would not be alone because according to this article that they all read by bari weiss, according to the united states in america 11% of american homes are educating their kids outside of traditional school so one in

ten. ainsley: i think a lot of people probably said look we don't have to have to zoom anymore. let's try it for a year. let's see if we like it since we are going to be out of school anyway. some schools closing down and they might end unjust loving it or might decide to send their kids maybe to high school so they do get that prom and whatnot all those fun things. steve: if you are home schooling your kids email us friends@foxnews.com. tell us how it's working out for you, what the best surprise was and what the hardest thing is. ainsley: i think a lot of kids don't want prom though, do they? brian: i know what i used to do call it on cable. i don't know if you saw it, jillian as i toss to you gradually, i used to call homework on cable television. teacher after school. like on cablevision. jillian: call in? oh my gosh, of course you did. brian: the guy would always do it so different than my teacher wasn't a big help. because it was great like hear

your voice i'm having problem with homework and call in. steve: you were watching cable tv. jillian: what grade was this? brian: i needed extra help. jillian: college or grade school? brian: no, high school. ainsley: it it is true though asking for help. ler asking for parents for help? back in the day that's how did i algebra. steve: thank goodness invented google. ainsley: lost more time getting help from the parents. jillian: i bet tried real though. ainsley: he did. great dad. jillian: president biden dismissing hecklers criticizing his decision to leave afghanistan as he toured ida damage in new jersey. listen. leave you behind. >> it's sad. it's sad that america has come to this. it's sad.

it's sickening. >> the people who stand on the other side of the fences who don't live there who are yelling that we're talking about and interfering with free enterprise by doing something about climate change, they don't live there. they don't live. they don't understand. jill the president blaming climate change for the northeast storm damage. the storm damaged several calling it existential threat to the u.s. jillian: the minneapolis city council calling emergency meeting after minnesota judge rejects ballot language aimed at getting rid of the city's police department. the ballot would have asked residents whether minneapolis should replace its police force with an undistrict attorney phiing state department. the judge struck it down ruling the language was too vegas too vague.trying reword the quen hopes of getting approval. >> two indiana boys get the attention of their neighbor with a surprising gesture.

look at this, a woman spotted woman pulling over their bike when a funeral procession passed by. he says they immediately stopped and paid their respects without any prompting or knowledge of anyone watching. the boys respectfully listened until taps began playing and then road off. incredible. steve: very respectful. brian: back in a moment. knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪

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♪ >> roe v. wade protections no longer exist in our nation's second largest state. >> that said it could effectively end roe v. wade is that an overstatement. >> there is no more status quo. the status quo in texas is that roe is done? brian: the left is fuming over the supreme court's decision not to block texas' new abortion law accusing the court of

essentially overturning roe v. wade but in his new op-ed our next guest setting the record straight writing quote the court's ruling doesn't threaten roe but democrats' overreaction might. jonathan turley joins us now. jonathan, what do you mean they're overreacting? >> well, first of all, speaker pelosi has said that they want to pass essentially a federalization of abortion laws. that could very well create a new challenge to abortion rights. they may actually make the situation worse by creating a federalism issue. the supreme court has always said that states have a right to legislate in this area. the question is how. but these statements that this order overturned roe or that it yep held the state, the texas law are absolutely looney. i mean, the supreme court made its decision and said there are serious questions of constitutionality. but they said you basically picked a judge and a crerk at random. these people have no enforcement

duties. and what the court said is that we can't enjoin laws. we enjoin people. and these people don't have a role into the enforcement of this law. brian: and so just to give you an idea aoc also hysterical tweeted this production promised to overit turn roe v. wade and they have. democrats gave abolish the filibuster, expand the court or do nothing as millions of people's bodies rights and lives are sacrificed for far right minority rule this shouldn't be a difficult decision. so, i guess you would put her in the hysterical category? >> what's breathtaking is it doesn't seem to matter anymore what an opinion says or an order might say. it's completely detached from the narrative. you know, the desire was to say that roe is now overturned or that the texas law was upheld. it didn't matter that none of that is true. there is a threat to roe in terms of possible roll back. but that's not coming from texas. it's coming from mississippi. there is a case on the docket

right now called dobbs. and dobbs is going to look at the question of whether states can enact what are called previability limitations and that case has roe and its sister case casey written all over it the fascinating thing is that there is something for people to talk about, it's not coming from texas. brian: you think this law will ultimately be struck down? >> i think it's very likely the lower courts are going to find this unconstitutional. a georgia law that set a six week line in terms of criminalizing or banning abortions was struck down last year. this is not consistent with existing case law. i think the drafters knew that this was designed to get to the supreme court, to test the new majority. but the court could ultimately decide not to take the case. they have a case on the docket. they have dobbs. and that's all they need to review roe. brian: wow, here we go and talk

about packing the court again. jonathan turley thanks so much. everyone calm down and read his column. >> thank you, brian. brian: straight ahead, hundreds of l.a. first responders told to get vaccinated or get a new job. one firefighter taking on the strict mandate. he will join us next. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ i'm steven, i'm 52, and i'm a makeup artist. i met my husband in 2002. i miss those eyes.

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needs to be processed as of december of 2020. next, 41 years old, tampa bay rays nelson cruise becoming the oldest player in league's history to hit 30 home runs in a single season. the right fielder achieving that mile phone against boston red sox. cruz passing to lame the top 5. 50, that's how many limited edition happy meal toys will be given away at mcdonald's to celebrate disney world's 50th anniversary. each toy is a figurine of a different disney character. ainsley? ainsley: i guess i know where i'm taking my daughter for lunch. thanks so much, jillian. hundreds of los angeles firefighters and police officers are challenging an ordinance requiring all city employees to be fully vaccinated by october or submit to regular covid testing. the group called firefighters for freedom launching an effort to fight for the right to do choose whether or not they should get the shot. our next guest is one of the group's leaders john knox and he joins us now. good morning, john firefighters

coordinating with some of the police officers in l.a. why don't you want to get vaccinated. >> it's not necessarily whether i want to get vaccinated or not. the point that we are bringing to the table here is that we should have a choice in the matter. this was mandated by the city. and we feel that that's absolutely unconstitutional both federally and at the state level. and so for us it's -- we feel that we have the right to have informed consent. and that we should be able to make the decision what we do with our bodies. not be told what we need to do. ainsley: is there a chance that you will get your way? because i know city council voted for this 13 to 0. >> the city councils, yes. they did vote for that again, that's just a mandate. we have the constitution of the

state of california that stands behind us. and we also have federal law as far as constitution and our rights to privacy. and this violates that and that's what we're standing on. ainsley: are they able to force you to do it? i know you are worried about losing employees, some are saying i will just walk away from the job if i have to get vaccinated. how can they force you to do it? >> that's a good question. that's what we are bringing to the table. they can't force us to do it. so we have made a stand that we are owe-we're not going to walk away from our jobs. we have been here a long time. you know, we took an oath as citizens to do a specific job, but that does not give the city or any bureaucracy or government the right to tell us what to do with our bodies. they are telling us that we have to do this. yet, they are asking the citizens to do it. that's not okay. if we fold on this, next they will tell everyone else that they have to do it, and that's not right. ainsley: i know the mayor is in support of it. he signed it he says the delta

variant continues to spread more important than ever that people get vaccinated right now this requirement is critical to protecting the health and safety of our workers and angelenos. what is your reaction to that? >> my action to that is that i think everyone needs to make an informed decision. and a lot of that information is being hidden. and so we have put together a website that basically allows people to go and look at the data. you should be able to look at the data and decide for yourself what it is that you want to do with your body. ainsley: are you planning to fight this in court? >> absolutely we are. ainsley: you have hired attorneys? >> we have attorneys on board. we are building out our legal team and strategy at this time. ainsley: what do they say? can you fight this? do you have to get vaccinated. >> no. you don't have to get vaccinated. there is no law. there is no mandate. >> we have different than a law. this is a bunch of politicians, bureaucrats for the city that got together and have made a

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♪ brian: pay attention this is big. it's been nearly two weeks since a suicide bomber in kabul killed 13 service members. now, sources tell our next guest an american predator drone could have taken out the suicide bomber but it was denied the shot. ainsley: the u.s. central command is pushing back on this claim and they say, quote: there is no truth to the allegation that u.s. forces were

tracking the suicide bomber who murdered 13 service members at the abbey gate and that permission to take the strike was denied. steve: here with more medal of honor recipient and fox news contributor dakota meyer and army vet dan holloway. guys, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: so, dan, let's start with you. if true, and, you know, we have heard centcom has already denied this, if they were tracking the suicide bomber and they had eyes on him with a drone and they could have pulled the trigger but somebody up the chain of command said no, that's terrible if true. >> right. i mean, and i think the if true part is unnecessary at this point. one thing that tier 1 operators don't do is make up things, right? their jobs and lives depend on it our country depends on it my understanding is the u.s. had this intelligence and then it went up the chain of command and that the reason that it got kicked back or said no to was

that there were negotiations going on with the taliban. dakota has a little bit more information on what exactly those negotiations were. steve: all right, dakota? tell us. >> yeah. i mean, look, the state department is trying to set this up to where they can get this cash. look, the taliban can't -- they want to set them up as a government. the taliban can't go in and pay -- they can't afford to run a government just off of the opium trade which is primarily where their money comes from. look, all of this is set up. it is all a -- all this hostage situation is a mechanism for the u.s. government, the biden administration to pay off the taliban so that it doesn't look like the iran deal. brian: do you think that they knew that americans were about to die and they still thought the risk -- i would rather have that happen than get on the bad side of the taliban is they let the suicide bomber blow up at the gate. >> that's exactly what happened. from the very beginning of it none of it made any sense that

the entire chain of military command would approve this horrible plan that follows none of our ttps for an operation like this. now we are getting more clarity on why what dakota is talking about here. their plan is to fund the taliban government in the same way after the 2006 election with hamas and the palestine that we funneled money to do the same thing. the current administration clearly feels that arming the taliban wasn't enough. that attempting to cover up their botched exit with weak diplomacy to make themselves look better is worth the lives of 13 u.s. service members and i respectfully disagree. brian: the taliban said they didn't do it, it was isis-k. >> yeah, i mean, look, no matter what you want to call this, isis-k, hamas, you want to call it al-qaeda, the taliban, whatever it is, it's all the same soup just a different bowl. you know, you are looking at like we were asking why would the state department give the taliban the manifest of the americans that we are trying to get out of there? this is the enemy?

well it adds up, because they are going to use -- let the taliban go and gather up all these americans. why are they setting all these americans on the runway out there and you have got this hostage situation but they are not killing them? well, it's simple the taliban is going out and rounds up americans that the state department wants to get out. this is why you see the state department as me and dan both know plenty of people who have brought americans to the gate and the state department has denied them coming on the base to get them out while we had u.s. troops on the ground. they said no. and now they are getting mad at all of these nongovernment organizations over there, these veterans who are going back over trying to do right by the afghans, the americans over there and trying to help them out and they are getting mad about it. all of it adds up. because we are spoiling them trying to funnel this money in the taliban which is what we need to keep from happening. because as soon as the taliban gets this money, we have got an even bigger problem. and the fact that if we ever as

a united states as a free world recognize the taliban as a formal government, they are nothing more than a terrorist organization and they should be dealt with accordingly. >> that's absolutely right. ainsley: dan, antony blinken says the taliban not denied anyone with valid docs to leave. interesting when you hear him say that and yet we hear your stories and connections over there and men and women that have been on our air they were denied. they had to get out because cory mills, who is a hero, went in and got the lady out, meriam, with her kids. >> right. ainsley: thank you all so much for your service. we appreciate it. brian: yep. >> thank you. brian: they are lying and you guys are not. ainsley: dakota medal much honor recipient and served in afghanistan. he knows the region very well. steve: a dozen minutes before the top of the hour. let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. she is live from the postcards memorial in staten island, new york. right behind her, janice, those are two sculptures to look like

postcards in the wind, right? janice: that's right. postcards to loved ones that we lost here in staten island. i want to take you inside the memorial because it's one thing to see this beautiful structure in the clear blue skies but what's inside is quite remarkable. the architect sono, and this is one of the first memorials we have ever had in new york in the tristate area, 2004 was when it was built, featuring two fiberglass structures, resembling those postcards. and we think it is to share love to loved ones that we lost honoring each victim and profile silhouette against a granite. steven siller is listed here. we know frank siller and he lost his brother. this is steven and this is his plaque from staten island. back to you. steve: all right, janice, thank you very much. of course, september 11th is this saturday. ainsley: he ran through that tunnel from staten island and went there to the towers. tunnel 2 towers.

brian: he has been working from shanksville excuse me pentagon to shanksville and end up at ground zero and joining us, too. steve: today. brian: ohio congressman jim jordan joins us at the top of the hour. former nfl star greg olson will share his predictions before the nfl kicks off on this sunday. ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪♪ ...

steve: get ready because football is coming back with a new season kicking off this weekend, on fox. our next guest is a three-time pro-bowler here to give us his week one predictions fox sports nfl analyst greg olson joins us right now from sarah sandersl good morning to you, how are you , sir? >> good morning, how are you? steve: i'm doing okay. it's going to be different this year than last year because last year for the most part the stadiums were quiet. you guys used to have a dial where you just pipe in crowd noise. >> for anyone who watched college football last weekend adds so much to the atmosphere, the crowd, the band, the cheer leaderrers just adds a whole different element to the game, playing last year in empty stadiums across the league no matter how much you try to get yourself going and how much you try to self-motivate there's

just when you're used to fans and 80,000 people screaming, it's just a whole different experience so i think everyone is excited to kind of be back to a new sense of normalcy. steve: i think you're right and people are just craving getting back to normal and this is, you know, it's outside. it's safer than being inside, so , it's going to be great. let's take a look at some of the games on fox 1:00 seahawks vs. colts, what do you like? >> first off i think it's a great slate and i'm just thankful this year that i'm not worried about playing in one of those games. i think some of the big matchups you see seattle, they have a new offensive coordinator, i played with them last year, playing against a really good colts team , but that doesn't really know what they are doing at quarterback so you got russel wilson on one end and a million wide receivers and skill players and just a traditionally great team led by pete carroll and the other side carson who they traded for , pete hurt his foot and had surgery, anytime you have uncertainty at the quarterback position i think

it's kind of stuff starting the season so it's a good game to watch. the game i'm broadcasting the falcons, you know, against the eagles down in atlanta, two new coaching staffs, two new teams, you know, one side has a veteran quarterback with matt ryan. the other side has an unknown guy, so i think this week one matchup, the entire fox slate is going to lead for a great day. steve: sure i'm going to be watching of course this weekend, because i want to mill win a million dollars of terry broad shaw's money this weekend. how is your son tj, because i know he got a heart transplant in june and people all across america have been praying for your family. >> i appreciate you asking he's doing great. he's about 12 weeks now post- transplant. he started school a few weeks ago. his doctors cleared him to do that. he's back playing on his baseball team. running around, he's doing so well. we're just so fortunate for the recovery he's had. as you said, the amount of people throughout the country, throughout the world we've heard

from just sent us their prayers, their well wishes and thoughts, it meant a lot to him some of those long nights sitting in the hospital waiting for his day he would get out and you see him there. he's doing awesome. he's a special kid and we're just so thankful. steve: we are thankful your family is doing better and i'm sure tj is watching his dad right now, hang in there, you're doing great. >> appreciate it. steve: we'll be watching this weekend, thank you, sir. >> thank you so much guys take care. steve: meanwhile, download the fox bet super 6 app and enter for a free chance to win $1 million of terry broad shaw's money he apparently has a lot of it all you into ed to do is pick six outcomes from this sunday's games and watch to see how it all plays out, absolutely free, so download the fox bet super 6 app right now. we'll step aside, frank siller from tunnel to towers is set to complete his 500 miles never forget walk, an update today. >> ♪ shingles doesn't care. i keep my social distance. shingles doesn't care.

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gain of function research. >> he should be immediately removed. >> less than a week to go vice president kamala harris is for newsom hoping to give a last minute push. >> staten island to new york is set to mourn the hundreds of residents lost in 9/11. >> the monument stands as messages to those we lost. two postcards that look like wings from earth-to-heaven. >> ♪ brian: that be the combination of florida georgia line and ocean city maryland. leave it or not, it's a city by the ocean, and that's how it got its name. ainsley: [laughter] very profound. brian: it took me all night. the surrounding waters are active with kayaks and tour boats and some of the journeys are popular, something else.

ainsley: [laughter] brian: nice. steve: fascinating. ainsley: learn so much from the brian. steve: when i lived in the district of columbia, when we want to look at the ocean we would drive across that scary bay bridge and wind up in ocean city, maryland and be along the boardwalk and have a funnel cake. i loved it. ainsley: nice. brian: very good for you. i mean, they're great. steve: delicious. brian: they just don't have any nutrients. steve: so what. brian: it's good brush your teeth right away or they just fall out of your head. ainsley: [laughter] steve: you should not write a cookbook. ainsley: [laughter] what's your favorite fair food. brian: what? ainsley: fair food. brian: i don't really go to fares i'm always studying or helping people out. steve: i hear you're always working on zip codes. brian: [laughter] actually would you ever feel comfortable having be of those drum sticks walking through a park? steve: those are kind of big. by the way, something you said yesterday, a viewer actually tracked me down. brian: what? steve: you said that when john,

was it john roberts was at the white house, they had not yet invented the -- brian: britt hume. steve: the leaf blower and according to my friend, dr. ken, the leaf blower invented in 1959 brian: i asked joe to look that up. ainsley: our family does a text chain and my brother after you made that comment said oh, that reminds me, can i borrow your leaf blower because mine is broken. steve: the answer is no. ainsley: we tell you all this news for three hours and everyone wants to talk about the leaf blower. brian: that's what happens when you go out on a book tour they find the little things. steve: that's what they remember anyway, thank you very much for joining us hour three of fox & friends and the taliban has unveiled its new temporary government in afghanistan giving a number of top spots to known terrorists, including one of the fbi's most wanted list, who has a $5 million bounty on his

head. brian: wait but tony blinken said the world is watching they would never do that, this as fox news on obtains an e-mail that shows the state department is working guess the veteran rescue efforts that president biden left behind. ainsley: mark meredith joins us live from the white house. reporter: ainsley, steve and brian good morning to you, no lawn mower going i should mention but we are getting a much better idea of whose leading afghanistan going forward and none of these names are on the u.s. christmas card list. the taliban tapping this man to lead the interior post, hakani, i hard-liner and the fbi was already offering a reward for information leading to his arrestm lawmakers outraged calling him a blood thirsty terrorist and it gets wilder. four men who were once detained at guantanamo now hold senior positions and those same men were released in 2014 under the obama administration in exchange for the release of bowe

bergdahl. sergeant bergdahl was taken prisoner so we have the new reaction from the state department and they say we are also concerned by the affiliations and track records of some of the individuals. we will judge the taliban by its actions, not words. meantime, hundreds of people are still desperate to leave an airport in northern afghanistan. that group which includes some americans are trying to get out of the country via charter plane but those planes have not been allowed to take off. fox has been asking what's going on behind the scenes want will happen once those planes are allowed to leave the country and the state department says they will not be allowed to go to u.s. air bases because of security concerns. they would not be able to say who is going to be on that aircraft even though they know that some americans maybe among the groups they are still trying to figure out where they maybe able to go once they can eventually leave the country. president not expected to speak about afghanistan today. he's going to be holding one event in the late morning, but at this point we aren't expect ing to talk about afghanistan. we'll see what the rest of the day brings steve, ainsley

and brian. brian: i know, mark you got a question about afghanistan and he says no, no, i want to talk about ida. steve: everything else. brian: even though he was being heckled from people saying you left people behind. a couple of things if you were a little disturbed by who was included in the government, you know who else is included? mulah omart's son, so they have really turned pages and also bar ador, the butcher that's why we had him in jail. he's one of the deputies, so that's fantastic and akani has a nephew also part of the government, and a known murderer and al qaeda affiliate. steve: and runs the foreign ministry so essentially this guy with the $5 million bounty on his head is essentially the director of afghanistan's fbi. unbelievable. let's bring in republican ohio congressman jim jordan ranking member of the house judiciary committee and author of the upcoming book "do what you said you would do" good morning

to you, congressman. >> good to be with you. steve: so what do you make about this line-up. this all-star line darn of former, the former taliban is the future taliban. >> yeah, i mean, frankly, it shouldn't surprise us. i'm thinking about the president 13 service members killed, americans left behind, allies left behind, billions of dollars of equipment and weapons left behind, some of the afghans coming haven't been properly vet ted. he calls that alan extraordinary success, so i guess we shouldn't be surprised when now terrorists people have been let go and everything else are running the very organization that this state department and this administration is trying to negotiate with. it makes absolutely no sense but nothing this administration does make any sense, so while it's frightening while it's scary frankly it's not surprising. ainsley: how are we going to get them out these americans over there or even our allies when they are saying no charter flights can come here because you have all these organizations trying to help and also the vet ting process. you're getting all these people

jumping on the planes with the americans. there's no one there to vet them except the taliban. >> well, one thing that would help is not hinder the efforts of people like corey mills who were going there and risking their lives and doing heroic work to get people out so that's one smart thing to do. when it comes to vetting we know some of the folks that the state department and this administration is allowed in coupled with what is going on on our border what's been going on on our border month after month where each month we get a new record of illegal crossings that's a dangerous recipe for this country but again, nothing this administration has done has made any sense, so let's hope somebody gets, but here is the thing that i always come back to. these are the same people who are in charge of foreign policy back when we had the terrible tragedy in benghazi, lib rail entitlement, on september 11, 2012. it's wendy sherman, tony blinken , susan rice, jake sullivan. i remember deposing jake sullivan when i was on the benghazi select committee. they are the exact same people

with their arrogance making the same kind of mistake. again that's what's so frustrating but god bless corey and what he's doing let's hope he's not hindered by our state department anymore. brian: i think what's also noteworthy is there was a study about what people were clicking on over the weekend and the administration wants to move on and talk about the reconciliation package, natural disasters blaming climate change. name it. instead two-thirds of all clicks were afghanistan-related and when he walks through new york and gets yelled at for leaving americans behind and they were chanting in front of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of fans over the weekend in college football games, leaving americans behind, hindering special operators, retired from getting americans out is not acceptable in any era at anytime for any party member. it doesn't matter your affiliation. that's clear. >> yeah, you don't leave americans behind. this is the greatest nation in history that is just not something this great country

does, and when they come home for their ceremony at dover you don't check your watch while families are standing there receiving their loved ones remains. you don't do that. you don't go vacation in delaware. you don't go campaign for navalny next week. you focus on the fact that there are still americans left behind in afghanistan and that should be the number one focus of this administration so no wonder , no wonder the president got heckled by people because people understand that everything he is doing is wrong and not connell: consistent with what this nation is about. steve: jim another big story today on the cover of the new york post, the headline is it's a real who done it because the intercept got documents that showed echo health alliance actually funneled money into the wuhan lab under the national institute of health. part of what they found was this , and here is an excerpt. the intercept obtained more than 900 pages of documents dealing with the work of echo health

alliance, a u.s.-based health organization that used federal money to fund that coronavirus research at the chinese laboratory. the bat coronavirus grant provided echo health alliance with a total of 3 million and change including about 600,000 that the wuhan institute used to , in part, identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans. dr. fauci was grilled by your colleague, senator rand paul, and he said we had nothing to do with that stuff, but now, it looks like there's a smoking gun unless the into nhl nih lawyers have a different definition of what gain of function is. that be the only thing that the would save fauci. >> yeah, no, no, dr. fauci knew from the get-go that this thing, there was gain of function most likely going on in the lab, and he knew from the get-go that that's where the virus started most likely from the lab. he gets an e-mail never forget this 10:32 p.m. on january 31, 2020 so a year and a half ago he gets an e-mail from dr.

christian anderson, who received american tax dollars and grants from dr. fauci and mr. collins. he gets an e-mail that says virus looks engineered, not could be cyst entertainment with evolutionary theory. that's a fancy way of saying this came through the lab and dr. fauci goes into overdrive over the next 24 hours , next few days to cover his back side and he's e-mailing people after midnight at 2:00 a.m. in the morning that very next day on february 1 to try to off could up everything. they do a conference call and the same guy, dr. anderson, who said the virus looks engineered not consistent with evolutionary theory four days later who says anyone who believes this came from a lab or this gain of function is crazy. what changed in four days? i think they got their stories straight. senator paul talked about this last night on your network. this is scary that they knew from the start this thing most likely came from a lab and then they spent the last year and a half downplaying that to the american people. i don't know why anyone believes anything that dr. fauci now says ainsley: does this mean american tax dollars were used to possibly create the coronavirus?

>> that's what it looks like. it sure does, and yet, they keep trying to tell us this thing, you know, this thing came from a bat to joe rogan, that's how we all got it when we all know the evidence points to this thing came from a lab and our tax dollars, our tax money, was funding this very virus that disrupted our lives hurt so many small business owners over the last two years. brian: i had one thing to say i know you're trending on twitter because of your tweet over the weekend you took a picture of the penn state/wisconsin game and you said real america is done with covid-19. you saw other networks feast on the big crowds at college football games. we have a disjointed message when it comes to america. we have to learn to live with this that's what i'm getting from you. >> yeah, and look, i graduated from the university of wisconsin , my wife did, a bunch of our boys did so we love the badgers unfortunately they didn't win the game but it's great to see fans back in the

stadium. it's so good to get back to normal and real american life. what better way than to have fans in the stands for college football. ainsley: we're hearing there's a new variant. the wu variant so we'll continue to see variant after variant after variant. brian: i don't want to stay in my closet for the next 20 years. >> yeah, no one does. we want to be americans and exercise our freedom like we're supposed to in this great country. steve: he's got a book coming out shortly "do what you say you would do" you said you were going to show up today you did, thank you very much for joining us live. ainsley: jillian has headlines. jillian: good morning to you. to you at home as well. let's begin with this. the alleged 9/11 mastermind mohammed also known by his initials ksm smiling and waving during his first court appearance at guantanamo bay in 500 days and the attorney for his nephew whose another git mo detainee defended his client's good spirits. >> i'm sure he was smiling because he's happy to see us.

the man has been in lockdown as long as everyone else has been in lockdown. jillian: no date for the trial has been set for ksm and his four co-defendants. >> a group and vice president kamala harris urged followers to help free and alleged domestic abuser now now accused of murder minneapolis police say george howard shot another driver in an act of road rage out on bond posted last month by the minnesota freedom fund. that is the same group that harris got behind last summer. its organizers now say they are looking for the best way to fulfill the mission. >> britney spears is nearing the finish line in her quest for freedom. overnight the pop star posting this video of herself, just hours after her father asked a court to end the conservatorship. an attorney for jamie speers writing in court documents, "all he wants is what is best for his daughter." britney's attorney calling filing vindication for the singer but says investigations into jamie's financial mismanagement among other issues will continue.

the next hearing in the case is scheduled for later this month. >> and how about this? billionaire entrepreneur mark lu re wants to build the nation's first woke city. it be called pelosa which comes from an ancient greek word meaning "highest purpose." the community's mission is to be the most open, fair and inclusive city in the world. lure is still looking for possible locations, with sites set of the american desert including nevada and arizona. he hopes to welcome the first residents by 2030. feel like brian would have something to say about that. brian: yeah, i know i'm not going i'm not applying for citizenship in the woke city steve: you'd think all of the houses be free, right? brian: absolutely. ainsley: you'd be building homes on land you don't own. brian: right. and not going to work. jillian: great idea. brian: and over-taxing people that aren't there. ainsley: so they could take your house at any moment? brian: exactly and condemning people for saying things politically incorrect but you'd never say that or else you

wouldn't be in woke city. steve: okay. brian: how do you know you're woke if everyone is woke? steve: wait that's new york city that's the city that never sleeps. ainsley: you're right. brian: i think plato thought about the same thing. steve: maybe. all right 8:17 now. after tunnels to towers ceo frank siller finishes his never forget walk, that you've heard about across much of the northeast, he and country star, lee brice, are planning a special performance to honor the victims of 9/11. they will join us live with their special tribute straight ahead on this episode of "fox & friends." helen knew exercise could help her diabetes... but she didn't know what was right for her. no.

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>> america has decided that for the foreseeable future, it is a very limited appetite for military engagement, that its short-term political has squeezed the space for long term thinking. it is this sense more than anything else, in my judgment, which gives our allies anxiety and our opponents a belief that our time is over. ainsley: our allies are anxious opponents believe our time is over, former british prime minister tony blair slamming the failures of america's withdrawal from afghanistan. author douglas murray joins us on the response from america's strongest allies to president biden's strategy. good morning to you, douglas. >> good morning. ainsley: what did you think of that statement? pretty profound, right? >> it was. there are many criticisms that

could be made of former prime minister tony blair, but there are many things to be said to him as well most obvious is he has always retained this grand strategic view which is frankly missing not just from america, but from all the nato countries at the moment. what tony blair said in essence was this is a generational problem, the problem of radical islam. it has to be countered by soft power and hard power, and we have a disadvantage, he said this clearly in his speech once again, we have a disadvantage in the west about this. we think in two year electoral cycle, four years electoral cycles, that's the longest time scheme we can even think of, and our opponents in the field of radical islam think inception alley long timeframes and blair said, we should be doing that as well, but where is the vision on this? where is the strategy? and to refine that, he didn't make this explicit in his speech

but it was implicit in it. where is the thinking in the biden administration about this whole issue, which erupted in america two decades ago, and two decades on, the american administration seems to have just sort of wished away. ainsley: when he talked about the term "ending forever wars" he said, this is a deeply mistaken phrase. we haven't ended this war. we have ended our participation in it. do you think that's a fair point and if people are very fearful of what's to come and the taliban was not defeated. they are taking over afghanistan once again. >> that's right. blair compared it to the fight against communism, which we were engaged in for almost seven decades. that was, of course a cold war. the war on radical islam has been a hot war as well as a war of hearts and minds but the real point here that he was trying to bring across and i agree with this , is that there are things

worse than keeping a light footprint in other countries. there are many things that are worse. the one thing that's most obviously worse than the so-called forever war is losing, is retreating, is being seen to have lost by your enemies and your allies. ainsley: especially when you were winning. >> that's right. the tragedy of all of this is as we come up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, which the trump adminitration and to some extent the biden administration clearly hoped be the sort of moment when they could say look, we're out of this. we're finally out. we're done. in fact, 20 years on, all we are seeing is the return to the status quo and the return to the pre-9/11 situation. afghanistan has been returned to the pre-9/11 situation, with billions of dollars of american money having been poured into it , with thousands of lives being lost by american, by hundreds of lives being lost by america's allies in afghanistan,

what do we see? the taliban back in afghanistan. is that problem going to go away clearly not. we can't wish it away. the biden administration seems to have no policy about it, but just hoping that it is over will not mean it is over. it's far from over. ainsley: especially now, knowing what we know, that happened 20 years ago, that's why our allies that's why americans are anxious , because we don't want it to happen again. douglas thank you so much for coming on. >> exactly. ainsley: coming up, the countdown to the california recall it is on. hear whose hitting the trail with governor newsom as republican challenger larry elder makes his closing arguments plus meet some of the members of the afghan girls robotics team able to escape from afghanistan. >> ♪

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>> so crime is going up. the cost of living is going up. homelessness is going up. i can't think of any front where this man has done a good job. jillian: president biden will also campaign for newsom. he's set to hit the trail early next week. >> a man's plane he was injured by a tesla in a hit-and-run is quickly debunked when the car's camera reveals what really happened. watch and you'll see the footage from louisiana showing the mana peering to throw himself at the slowly-reversing car and then crying out for help. he filed a report saying he had been hit but after viewing the video, police arrested and charged him with filing a false police report. oops. steve? steve: oops indeed. all right, thank you very much. all right, members of the afghanistan girls robotics team are now safe in the country of qatar after fleeing afghanistan in the wake of the taliban takeover. despite having to arrange their own escape with no help from the u.s. government, members of

the team met with the secretary of state yesterday and here is what he had to say to them. >> we're committed to supporting you, and helping you as you're making transitions. we're also committed to doing everything we can to help people who are still in afghanistan and are looking for a different future. steve: a different future indeed and here right now are three members of the afghan girl's robotic team we've got samoia ro ya and ida. ladies, good afternoon to all of you there in qatar today. >> good morning. thank you for having us. steve: you bet. roya, let's start with you. when you heard that the taliban was taking over, you knew you had to get out of afghanistan, because for a number of reasons, but when the taliban was last in control 20 years ago, they did not allow girls to go to school. no school, so you had to get out , didn't you?

tell us why. >> well i have to say that at that time i was in new york, but when they captured kabul, we were like many other people at the time, we were panicked and they were in kabul, and the situation was dangerous. it was unpredictable and not only because the taliban captured the city but also that we had this fear of death so we tried to take over the same day, but then the airport was closed, and we couldn't get to the flight and then we tried the next day and then the next date and for three days it didn't work out but then i decided i had a relationship with the people that you went to qatar so i contacted them and i asked them that if they can help me and the government actually responded very fast and then

sent a plane to afghanistan, and they take us to the airport. so still we have a large number of our people and ours in kabul and there are number of thousands in afghanistan. steve: sure so essentially you rescued yourself which is fantastic. somoya, now that you're in qatar, you're away from the taliban. you're looking at the entire world. where would you like to live? >> so we are safe here, we are comfortable and we can continue here, but a safe environment to continue our education, but our family members and teammates and

coaches and trainers were in afghanistan, because then you can continue your education. steve: right. ida, it must have been hard to leave your family behind. >> yes, exactly, as well as the situation that we had to leave afghanistan without saying goodbye to our family and relatives and also now, we are really worried about our families, our teammates, in offing. steve: right and roya, while you're out, now, the girls, as they start a life outside of afghanistan, need money, in particular, scholarship money, so what are you guys doing? >> as i mentioned, we have still lots of students and right

now, as of yesterday, qatar provisions both of them are helping. they are giving us scholarships so we can have a high school here, but still we are looking to see if we can get funding for the members that they are in afghanistan so if we can get opportunities for some of the students that they can go to the university that they can learn about robotics and ai. steve: well the important thing is you're out, and now you're going to start your life away from the taliban. somoya, roya, and ida, thank you very much and good luck to all of you. >> thank you for having us here steve: you bet. all right straight ahead, tom brady unloading on the nfl's new policy on player' jersey numbers , calls it very pointless clay travis says he's not surprised by the super bowl

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numbers matter, right, clay? >> it does. it helps for people like tom brady and others who are trying to figure out who is assigned to block who, who is supposed to be covering who, based on the number they're running in on , and brady's a perfectionist. we know this , and also, he's already been to 10 super bowls i would imagine that anything that helps the defense, tom brady is going to be opposed to he's 45 years old here soon, he's played under existing rules for uniforms for a long time. it's not a surprise to me that he's not in favor of anybody being able to pick whatever number they want, and let's be honest. i think it's just exciting that we got brady mad about something , considering the nfl kicks off tomorrow. i'm ready for football to be taking place there as well. brian: i also like traditional numbers. i see a guy in his 50s, the he's a line backer now it could be 90 to 99. >> that's right. brian: randy white threw me off for years, but let's shift gears again and talk about sports, as

well as trade. small minnesota town braces for outsourcing of a factory, that makes major league baseball gear. we're now going to make major league baseball bats in china? >> yeah, look. major league baseball wiffed on this one and i would think, in the wake of covid at a minimum, but certainly, in this modern era, that all sports leagues would try to source as much of their gear in the united states as they possibly could. that's particularly the case, by the way, when major league baseball is offended over voting rights bills in georgia, and pulling their all-star game out out of atlanta, but they're perfectly fine with their own gear being shipped overseas and made in china? this is a big miss by major league baseball. they should have gotten involved here, and ensured that their products or sourced here in this country, and i feel bad for the people in minnesota who are going to lose their jobs over not being able to produce things for the national passtime brian: clay, you got a supply

chain issue even in china, so you make some bats, are they using aluminum or wiffle ball bats if they don't come in? at least you would say louisville, can i have one of your bats? now you got to go to wuhan. can you produce something that's not glowing? >> yeah, no doubt, and again, i think this is a larger issue and certainly one that american companies everywhere should be focused on, apple in particular, which obviously produces most of its products or many of them in china. we have to start sourcing our products. brian: thought so. far less often in china. not only because of global supply issues but because we're putting more money in chinese wallets, while we're still not having any support from them in terms of investigation as to you who covid-19 emerged, the last thing we should be doing and brian i would add we shouldn't be going over to the olympics in beijing in 202 something i'm beating the drum on already because it gets here sooner rather than later. february is the winter olympics and we're just going to show up

in beijing and act line nothing happened at all of a negative nature with covid or we want to honor the chinese government? i think it's an absolute failure of american diplomacy we would consider that. brian: what's clicking on out kick? >> everybody is fired up about the return of the nfl, but also, this ridiculousness with fauci and lacks like he lied in his testimony, it's really blowing up people reading it in high numbers. brian: got it clay thanks so much. meanwhile, you got it, up next, country music star lee brice is teaming up with tunnel to towers foundation to honor america's heros as we near the 20th anniversary of 9/11. he joins us live along the group 's founder frank siller and that's him singing but first let's check in with dana perino for what's coming up on her show where she carries bill for two hours. dana: that's right i really do and if you'd like to come over brian we'd love to have you love that you have lee brice on i can't wait to watch that.

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ainsley: let's check in with our senior meteorologist janice dean she is live from the postcard memorial out there on staten island. hey, janice. >> hi, good morning. you know, all week we've been at different memorials across new york. we have 1,500 memorials across the country, and several of them obviously are in the new york area, staten island is where we are. this memorial is quite something it was constructed in 2004 one of the first memorials for 9/11 first responders and those we lost that day when the twin towers came down almost 20 years ago, and you can see it frames lower manhattan perfectly so those that came down here almost 20 years ago could see the smoke billowing from the twin towers when it happened that fate full

day. it's almost a carbon copy beautiful day, when the towers came down, blue skies, temperatures in the 70s i remember it well. of course the last hour that we were on, we talked about steven siller who is frank siller's brother who was one of the firefighters that we lost on that day and of course, all of the wonderful work that frank does for tunnel to towers i know we'll talk to him in a few minutes so i wanted to show this beautiful stone and on all of these memorials, there's a silhouette of their face which was actually done by the artist sono, so a beautiful tribute. it's very intricate it looks very simple with the wings that come up from the ground and reach out to the sky, but everyone is just so tastefully remembered by this wonderful memorial on staten island, a day that we won't forget and i'm so glad there are so many of these

beautiful memorials around new york to remember them by. steve, ainsley, brian back to you. ainsley: it's beautiful so the postcards in the shape of wings like they are sending them to heaven. steve: with their profiles. unbelievable. brian: thanks janice meanwhile this saturday tunnel to towers ceo frank siller will finish his never forget walk. its been awesome honoring the men and women lost on 9/11. ainsley: it's inspired by his brother stephen who died in the attacks, siller has walked 500 miles after starting at the pentagon back in august. steve: that's right. country star lee brice is also helping by raising money for tunnel to towers with a special performance, and they both join us now. good morning, guys. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. steve: it's good to have you both frank let's start with you you'll wrap this up and you're going to follow in your brother 's footsteps. that is his legacy that now, you have started tunnels to towers and you're trying to help as many people as you can. >> yes, i'll be finish the 537- mile walk, i'll be

walking through the tunnel on the morning of september 11, to honor what my brother did 20 years ago and i'm here with the fire and police department who greeted me this morning. i'm about ready to go over the bayonne bridge, and walk through staten island so i've got to tell you so many people have joined me on this jury. its been remarkable and they have carried me its not been difficult because of the great americans that have helped and prayed for me during this whole trip and i also want to thank lee brice. lee what you have done for our foundation already for the other concerts that we had and what you're doing now, raising money, so we could take all police officers and firefighters to that beautiful concert that you'll be doing on the night of september 11 so i want to thank you for what you're doing for us lee? >> we're so honored to be there thank you all so much for having us it's going to be a really cool night. steve: so frank is talking about the annual stars and spring series and what we like right now, what you guys would like is for people watching to donate to

tunnel to towers to do what, lee brice? >> well, we're going to, it's going to give back to all of the firefighters during this show, so at pier 17, so if you get out to t2t.org, and click "donate now" it's going to be given to our new york firefighters. brian: get a vip experience. >> yeah, it's a vip experience, for a pre-show and then there's a whole different deal there and then really the whole night is just going to be really cool and it's all really amazing what frank is doing. ainsley: so frank, you'll end the walk by taking the same path that your brother did. he drove his truck, he was going to go play golf with some of his brothers i don't know if you were supposed to, he says call my brothers tell them i'm not going to play golf i just found out what happened at the north tower, drove his truck to the brooklyn tunnel and noticed the tunnel was shutdown so he

picks up his equipment, 60 pounds, runs through the tunnel, and goes to the towers. so to honor him that night, is it 9:11 at night the stars and strings series? >> yes, it is at night. ainsley: whose performing? we know lee is, obviously. >> so janelle arts, caroline jones, zach brown, chris young, a bunch of buddies of mine who are all great folks who are honored to be there. brian: now you know, frank i think you mentioned but frank you've been training for a while to do this walk. are you concerned that lee will slow you down when he joins you on the final leg of the journey because he just plays his music. he's not training anymore. >> well, lee will walk with me and i'm proud that he's going to be walking with me because lee loves america and that's why he's doing this concert and raising money for the tunnel to towers foundation but when i come out of the tunnel i'll be looking at a lot different scene

than what my brother did 20 years ago i'll look at the freedom tower where he saw two towers where people were trapped above the fire line and faced with a terrible decision. he saw hell on earth, but meanwhile, so many people died that day, but my brother and first responders gave their life that day, and that's the difference between our first responders and our men and women in uniform and tunnel to towers will always be there to take care of these families left behind. ainsley: stephen had everything to live for , great wife, five children, wonderful brothers, family, he was 34 years old and he lived by these words st. francis of asiss i'm, while we have time let us do good. brian: help utility the vip experience, lee and frank, talk to you. >> thanks. centrum multigummies aren't just great tasting... they're power-packed vitamins... that help unleash your energy. loaded with b vitamins... ...and other key essential nutrients... ...it's a tasty way to conquer your day. try centrum multi gummies. now with a new look.

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>> guys, check out tonight i'll be on tucker at 8:00. a great show planned. catch you on the radio. >> bill: good morning, so much for that kinder, gentler taliban. the group staffing its interim government with former gitmo prisoners and zero women. as if you expected anything less or more. good morning, i'm bill hemmer, how are you doing? >> dana: i'm dana perino, how are you? >> bill: stunner there, right? >> dana: the state department might be stunned. i don't think the rest of the world is. as greg gutfeld said the world is watching. but they're rolling their eyes in the situation.