>> thanks to laura ingraham for allowing me to sit in. "gutfeld!" is up next. ♪ ♪ >> todd: emitter filing from the justice department overnight responded former president trump's response down act request for a special master for the mar-a-lago rate because it is brand-new, explosive accusations against the trump team just one day before that federal judge is expected to hear their motion in court because you're watching "fox & friends first" on a very busy wednesday morning. >> the fbi is also under intense scrutiny this morning. over allegations of bias within the agency. this follows a whistle-blower

claims and a surprise resignation of a top agent was not defending his handling of the hunter biden gets. >> marian rafferty has it all. >> good morning paper that your day responding to president dropped calls to appoint a special master to review the rate at mar-a-lago saying it's not needed and accusing trump's team of trying to hide documents, saying in a statement "plaintiff's motion to appoint a special master enjoying further review of these materials filter multiple independent recent." the government also develop evidence that records were like we concealed and removed to obstruct the investigation to former u.s. attorney brett robinson is the doj might not be able to clean up its mass. in the midst of growing accusations of political bias within the department. >> the politics of the agent, the politics of the office, not being able to contain it in house is causing them to say we better do something so that we can then the ones we sought in real time, then we took care of it because unfortunately, it's a

little too late. >> in a move to gain public trust, e.g. merrick garland has been political appointees are participating in part events in an internal memo which reads in part, we must do all we can to maintain public trust and ensure the politics, both in fact an appearance, does not compromise the integrity of our work. meanwhile, former fbi agent timothy faber, who resigned this week after coming under fire for how the hunter biden laptop probe was handled, breaks his silence back of his attorneys are stating the agent "firmly believes that any investigation will conclude that his supervision, leadership, and decision-making were not impacted by political bias or partisanship of any kind." the former president and his legal team not buying any of it back up because the fact that they're coming forward in saying that there is something wrong with what is happening in the fbi, i commend them, i encourage them to the portico merrick garland putting out a statement that you can't speak to congress, i've been i when tt

really ironic and hypocritical considering the january 6th as a point of pulling people out there are no knowledge because the court's steam not alone in its criticism of the fbi and doj is more republicans are coming forward, demanding answers and transparency. back to you guys. >> todd: marianne, thank you. here is a's take on the biden administration efforts to shield the fbi from criticism. watch. >> this is the same fbi, time and again, that has used their unlimited resources and immense power to target people for political reasons. this is the fbi that launched the greatest mass delusion in american political history, the russia hawks. they lied to the court, they doctored evidence. admittedly, they confessed to eight in order to gain search warrants. americans are right to be both outraged and second by the conduct of top officials at the

fbi. the rot begins at the top. merrick garland and director wray have done nothing to clean up that cesspool that continues to infect the fbi. >> later this morning, lara dropped on those with her take on attorney general memo and the doj's filing. >> ashley: president biden passing the buck on crime again during a rally in pennsylvania. is blaming republicans for the country is a surge in violent crime and political violence. >> todd: presidents owing more division along party lines, even after his campaign promise of uniting the country. kevin corke is all the details for us. >> model, guys. just over two months till the midterm elections, the president, as you point out, it's sowing division, but is also emphasizing the need for more law enforcement officers, not fewer, which actually contradicts the messaging from some of the most liberal members of the democratic party. it could be argued it's the sort of messaging that really is

tailor-made for voters in places like, say, pennsylvania, which is where he was yesterday. time running out before america renders its verdict at the midterm's. mr. talking tough on crime and taking aim at republicans. >> president biden: you hear some of my friends on the other team talking about political violence and how it is necessary. let me say this to my mag republican friends in congress. don't tell me your support law enforcement if you want condemn what happened on the sixth. >> meantime, mr. biden trying to get tougher on crime? unveiling a $37 billion budget request yesterday for crime prevention. also called for the hiring of about 100,000 officers over the next five years to stop the spread of violence and crime. >> president biden: there is no place in this country, no place, for endangering the lives of law enforcement act like i'm

opposed to defunding the police. i've also posted to defunding the fbi expect there is no greater responsibility for government than ensuring the safety of our people. >> biden's call to support police now, a critic, is practically exactly the opposite of what his vice president is that in the past with some hair is even going so far as to support a bill fund that helped to spring alleged criminals from custody. >> no one way to encourage political violence is to bail out people who attack the cops. the vice president of the united states staff raised money to bail people out of jail who rioted in new york, who attacked the cops and they went right back to crime. >> now, to refresh your memory, it was in fact, harris, who back in 2020, used social media to encourage people to help post bail for those arrested for protests. a fun which, by the way, apparently also help some people who have been accused of violent

crimes like murder suspect sean michael tillman, to be a sprint from custody. critics are calling the president's remarks in pennsylvania yesterday divisive rhetoric. noting that it's an aggressive posture, just ahead of his nationwide speech on thursday, which is supposed to be about the soul of america, guys. they. freeman kevin corke, life for us. thanks. we're going to bring american congresswoman is a video she joined us in. congresswoman, why do you think the president is more or less refusing to blame everyone but the democrats for this huge spike in crime which seems to be happening all over the country? >> because he's in trouble in his administration is in trouble and the democrats are in trouble. this whole notion of a defunding the police isn't working. all you have to do is go and look at violent crime in any city, and again, as yourself are you safer today than you were two years ago?

when we care more about the criminals that we care about the victims, we have a problem. he knows he has to change that narrative. if only, if only his actions would match his words. >> todd: biden clearly is trying together like the american people. anybody watching over the last four or five years now that republicans are the party of law and order. they are the party of funding the police. they are the party that, when you talk to cops on the street, you know this well, they are the party that they say wow, we trust republicans, we don't trust the democrats because biden was really serious about law and order, wouldn't he do two things? wouldn't he actually enforce the laws of the border on the one hand and then 2, wouldn't he used some of that money is using to hire 87,000 irs agents to, i don't know, by more cops? >> every policy that biden does is in complete contradiction with his words. i think the american people are truly waking up to that.

to your point, we are going to hire 87,000 more irs agents to spy on and have a complete government overreach of hardworking americans, yet we are not going to spend any money on any more border agents down at the southern border to protect our shores. that makes a lot of sense, now, doesn't it? the one i want to move on to this because it's basically just the reaction from the overnight filing from the doj. the doj responded to the special master request by donald trump. in part, it says, appointment of the special master would impede the government's ongoing criminal investigation, to the special master worked out with reviewing classified document, would impede the intelligence community from conducting its ongoing review of the national security risk and improper storage of these highly sensitive materials may have cost. i want your reaction of this as well as why do you think the doj seems to be pushing back so hard

on this appointment of this special master? >> clearly, they're hiding something. clearly, they don't want somebody in the business to find out the truth. listen, we already know that there is two different sets of rules depending on what party that you belong to. they don't want anybody in the kitchen, basically, to really lift up the hood and see what's underneath the hood. which is really surprising to me, since we had to have a special committee made-for-tv for january 6th. yet, my goodness, we don't want to have a special committee who is investigating the president of the united states that has a complete and utter double standard for everything that president trump has done compared to anything that this administration or any other administration in the past has done as well. we do it seems to me that last night's filing may reads like an

indictment more than a request to hire or do not have a special master, because they don't really explain how a neutral arbiter, which is what a special master's, would harm national security interests. that doesn't add up to go before we let you go, i want to get your thoughts on this decor you and other g.o.p. lawmakers are demanding answers from ag merrick garland over the doj ignoring doj ignoring anti-catholic attacks across our country. your letter to himself "millions of christians are under assault for merely exercising their constitutional ri right to freey exercise their religion to go in for to want of your department of justice will ever address the over 100 crimes against christian holy sites in america." congresswoman, white or crimes against catholics seem to matter to the doj? >> because it doesn't fit their narrative. the attorney general and the doj have an obligation to uphold the constitution and they completely

and utterly are not doing that. instead, this department of justice, and merrick garland, is focusing on parents at school board meetings. they took an oath to uphold the constitution, which includes a first amendment. over 160 attacks on the catholic church, you don't hear about it, you don't have any investigations going on about it. what's going on? i'll tell you what's going on. it doesn't fit their narrative. they would prefer to deal with parents going to school board meetings and labeling them as terrorists than they would deal with the over 160 attacks on the catholic church. it's shameful, it's disgraceful, and that is why the american people are so frustrated with american government. and clearly, all i ask is for just that get some answers on why are you not looking at it and please, would you look at it? i'm tired of going to church on sunday and being surrounded

by -- >> ashley: do you expect a.j. garland to give an acceptable response? >> no. is an. if he gives me a response, i will be shocked, quite frankly, let alone actually do something about it. the problem in this country today is everyone -- this administration is extremely hypocritical, and there is a set of rules for one person or a set of rules for another. at the end of the game, at the end of the day, when we play a football game, we all come to the same way. if you get a touchdown commits 6.. you kicked the extra point, you get 1. that the same score. what's happening right now is that one team scores a touchdown, it's 10. on the other team, if they score a touchdown, they don't even get to count the points. we have the rule of law, we have this thing called the constitution. this administration needs to begin to uphold, and shame on

you, merrick garland, picking and choosing winners and losers. >> todd: covered a lot of ground this morning of our. congresswoman speier seven, thank you. former soviet president mikhail gorbachev who's oversaw the end of the cold war has died president biden releasing a statement calling him "a remarkable man of vision." adding "after decades of brutal oppression, he embraced democratic reforms because the result was a safer world and more freedom for millions of people." he resigned in 1991. 13 month after the fall of the berlin wall which lifted the irish gotten over eastern europe and russia in the rapid end of the ussr. see that it was also instrumental in working with present one of and up to 1987, the u.s. and soviet union signed a treaty eliminating intermediate range and shorter range nuclear muscle systems for a russian news agencies that he died after a long health battle. mikhail gorbachev was 91 years old. >> ashley: nasa will try to launch a moon rocket again after

further -- on saturday, after being forced to scrap monday's blast of the 22 problem is discovered du of the first phase test is successful, nasa plans to return 30th to the moon by the middle of the decade >> todd: again, we have the story every day to go we are still not going. we want to stay right here because they were still a hard task echo patterns on board chief is blaming him for the overwhelming migrants urge. we'll play you part of it. >> todd: california lawmakers passed a bill to make the state a transgender refuge for others not the only new law that will take your head spin. we are talking to a concerned california dr. and for the bus, actually, that's not all we have to go we have sean duffy, jimmy failla, and lara trump on here on a wednesday morning. do not go anywhere. ♪ ♪

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[screams] because the daughter reportedly ended the relationship 18 months prior but the 22 years or continue to call before showing up to the housework of the grand jury decided not to charge the father, citing a higher the stand your ground law, establishing that homeowners can legally use lethal force when threatened. ashley. 31 thing is, to decor in california, it's now officially a transgender refuge after lawmakers passed a bill to make it a sanctuary state for children seeking january procedures. the bill will allow california to intervene if a child is seeking gender affirming treatment prohibiting the enforcement of other state laws while in california, and stopping police from arresting a person if they broke their state

laws outside of california, california dr. and father, houman hemmati a joint winner. doctor, thanks for being with us this morning to go first, right out of the gate, as a doctor and father, what was your initial reaction when you heard about this bill? because you know, i think a lot of it is political posturing on the part of the governor during an election cycle and in preparation for potential presidential run. really, what does this change? i don't think materially change is very much at all. california wasn't really enforcing other state laws to begin with, and i don't think this was ever a state that was going to try to extradite parents or kids for breaking some of the law especially when it had basically no sense in this state to enforce. villa, i don't see this as a big deal at all. it seems more of a political move, medically, there are a lot of issues around this. there are kids who do want this and there is a lot of controversy over whether kids are able to have the

neurocognitive potential to consent, really, to have these sorts of procedures, but that's a separate issue. really, they're talking about allowing kids to come here from other states and not report them to their home state where they may not be legal, and i don't think even before such a law, this was ever going to happen to begin with because they were going back to when you are talking about, more orders, the mental capacity of a child, has there been any scientific evidence to show when someone is really cognitively capable of making that decision? >> it's really difficult. i think in terms of literature, this is a relatively evolving area, and i think we have laws around what age of consent is for alcohol, what age we can vote, what age we can drive, and i think we don't really have those sorts of rules that like right now, and i think this is a sort of area where we need to really examine -- look at the medical literature, not politicize it. i think the politicization of a

medical issue creates problems anytime you do that. i think it's important to really focus on evidence, two studies, actually examine the facts as they stand with our political influence and really make a decision at that point from a medical perspective because for one year is what one state senator said about the bill because it's california must stand with lgbtq kids and their families, especially when they are under attack across the country. parent should never be separated from the kids or criminalized for simply to be who they are. is this really a matter of standing within the lgbt community or, as you said earlier, this strictly poli political? take a look i think it's a little bit of both. right now, when everything has been politicized, it's difficult to tell whenever governor newsom makes any kind of decision orders talking to people in the legislature state senate to make any decisions, whether these are genuine or whether they're trying to do it for political purposes are to gain points. right now, i think a lot of what we see coming out of 329's

office is political. do they have compassion for other people? i'm sure they do, but i think really what we're seeing is a lot of these things, a whole lot of different bills coming through, all of which are coming at the same exact time without coincidence, right before a big election. >> asis even later this. california is also preparing to allocate up to 20 million taxpayer dollars to pay for out-of-state abortions per governor newsom's office thing we all need to step up and support women who are being denied reproductive freedoms by their state governments and are forced to come to california for abortion care. doctor, with all the issues california is facing, and really a lot of the country, but especially with california, with health care, housing, inflation, is this really were taxpayer dollars need to be going right now? say koya, i think that's the real victims of the common, the question is is a genuine or is he doing this to gain political points outside of our state? is a governor was already been seen running ads in florida even though he is a california governor and he is not

officially a presidential candidate as far as anyone knows why would he be basically doing things to spend our taxpayer money outside the state? there's a huge suspicion, and i think it's probably true that he's doing it largely to gain political points, gain recognition outside the state, especially in areas that he thinks will potentially swing over to him if he does the right things. the timing of this is a suspicious vehicle when you look at california, is it, this is a state where there are large amounts of people who can't afford rent, gas, food even be a governor at a crisis like this for so many californians, to be really want to be prioritizing how we spend taxpayer money in this sort of manner outside the state or do we want to spend that money for our own taxpayer's? >> ashley: now to this one because i think it odd that it perfectly earlier because this will make your head spin. another bill meant to combat so-called covid misinformation as doctors like you worried. tell us why you're so worried about this.

>> yeah, this is a very big issue, and i'm glad that this is getting national attention because 2098 which is something that passed the california state and it is a bill that will threaten to revoke or suspend the license of any medical doctor licensed in california if they are believed to be spreading covid misinformation back of the problem is who's defining covid misinformation? it's defined by them, defined by the government. it's not something that is defined in any way that is related to the medical literature or ongoing medical fact. it's based on so many things related to these ideals of consensus and, in fact, in the bill itself, in the text of the bill, this site are major media sources believe that it is physicians who are a primary source of covid misinformation to cover the citing mainstream media as the reason for targeting doctors, there is a big problem. >> ashley: and really quickly, do you think something like

this, if they were to go through with this, do you think that it would destroy a lot of physicians' careers? take a look, it has the potential of destroying physicians' careers, but a lot of physicians are going to make the decision to a mother myself and just not talk about covid iy way or just accept what the state has to say? do i retire? do i move? do i speak the truth is i believe it based on scientific fact, evidence, and experience and risk having to go through a process where they attempted to revoke the license and then go through the courts? if this goes to the court in the end, i think it will make it to the supreme court supreme court. undoubtedly on first amendment grounds among other things, this track it down and make it the law of. in fact, in some ways, i hope they do, i would hope that governor vetoes it. it makes no sense whatsoever to quit only going to alienate physicians and erode trust between patient and physician. >> ashley: it's dangerous waters were treading on you.

dr. houman hemmati, things were getting up early with us. >> my pleasure. thank you. for one not a wave of crime that taking of a day or consider getting criminals of the seats, the governor would rather attack, you guessed it, republicans. >> trump and seldon and molinaro just jump on a bus and head down to florida where you belong, okay? get out of town to the data we hear from a new york democrat who is backing republican lee zeldin because he's been pushed away by hochul's far left policies. ♪ ♪

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saint poll showing that the economy is still the top of a georgia voters followed by abortion at 20%, crime 15%. they want republican senate nominee dr. mehmet oz continues to pressure his opponent, lieutenant governor john fetterman, to debate after fat and refuses yet another request a copy sent tuesday, he would not participate in the face of proposed by us for next week's articles need to recover from a recent stroke. 's campsie fetterman's refusal was insulting the intelligence of voters. pressing fetterman on its criminal justice platform which includes an end to mandatory life sentences and that they come in decriminalization of drugs economy or democrat are turning their backs on kathy hochul pack of fed up with a soft-on-crime policies and now they are throwing their support behind g.o.p. challenger,

lee zeldin. >> john orlando is one of those are democratic of the president of the new error democrat he joined us to. john, thanks for getting a pack of what was the final straw for you? because the final straw, so many things back up to fight in the bronx with that revealed to problems we are one of the bail reform, the second problem as per as per rule is. the gentleman was on parole. why were they released? they created another bureaucratic process within the crime system where he had to have 24 hours to have a hearing in order to stay romantic. why? he was on parole. he should have been kept in jail when he was arrested. that is just too much going on. too much. they once were tribeca crime is what the final straw was back when you look at this, the new york crime stats about crime is up 36%, transit crime 51.5%. burglary, 32%, robbery 39%. when you see this, you've lived here your whole life, how does this make you feel being a

new yorker, seeing the city to scramble to crime? >> i was born and raised in brooklyn, still live there, raising my family there. 70s and 80s, i know what it was like if i feel like going back to that because we are back to the ticket is not going back to equity. are back to that. not safe feeling in the streets because it is very tangible to create and walk around and see the vacant stores, you can walk, it is a homelessness because you see it. it's right in front of us. it's terrible. wouldn't want that if i want my kids to be safe, i want your kids to be safe, i want everybody to be able to walk around and left free in the city and not worry about what's going to happen. >> todd: i just take myself if i was born in jersey, i currently live in connecticut, i lived in california for 12 years, 11 day, all i need is illinois and i will complete liberal state bingo, right? most of my friends are democrats, but to a man and to a woman, they're not recognize the democratic party or their priorities. while the democratic party abandoning what, for so long,

was their base? because there's a lot of good, moderate democrats in the party. unfortunately right now, they're either going along to get along, they're being silenced by the left wing of the party or there or they're just afraid to speak up vehicle than they don't get any coverage on issues that are important that they should be speaking about. that's why we don't recognize the party as it was. >> ashley: i feel like a lot of democrats don't know where to go right now because the party has gone so far left. we do need to get to this topic. governor hochul, she's also alienating republicans with this comment. take a listen. >> trump, and zeldin, and molinaro, just jump on a bus and head down to florida where you belong, okay? get out of town. >> ashley: so wow. that was heavy to say -- what was your thought on that when you heard that? >> that why we are supporting lee zeldin. that's one of the reasons

because the big tent party is not a big "if" you can't invite republicans, conservatives, moderates to the table for conversations on reasonable solutions to get it to move into your crowd, get it back to the empire state that it was because she is just another partisan politician, unfortunately. the left wing in the party is dragging on this estate. she's got to open herself up to some more conversations. >> todd: hears governor centers in response. listen. >> you have the governor of new york saying all republicans need to get on a bus and leave the state and come to florida? who would say something so ridiculous to say if you don't agree with me, then you don't even have a right to be here? >> todd: isn't this a bigger problem throughout the democratic party? you heard what kathy hochul that, you heard much about that earlier in the week basically think if you're a republican in the current day and age, your say my fascist. i can't imagine you, john, think that your republican friends at the my fascist. >> no, and my organization takes in a lot of people like new

error democrat and independent political -- we have ripped down a republican, we have democrats, we have independently or that the tone that they've been using because that is not welcoming to a lot of people. to it in the close. more importantly, people are leaving new york to go to florida, but the living -- it's not just republicans, it's not conservatives, democrats commit independence day, and actually booted mood of the people he's a democrat vehicle is registered as a democrat. what are we talking about here? you should bring in new ideas. social justice reforms, which we can all agree that there could have been something to change to help out disadvantaged that they were talking about, but they only defense attorneys and the activists had the conversation, shoved it into the bill, the new york state budget at the end because there was no conversation with detectives are prosecutors to save what are low-level crime you can maybe not have bail on? those are the types of conversations we should be having to come up with reasonable solutions and it's

not happening. >> ashley: do you think regardless of these comments that you hear coming from kathy hochul, do you think she's going to pull out a win? >> i think, in my opinion, lee zeldin has a chance. i think the republicans you have to step up a little more and get involved in those issues. in the gazette, the social justice reforms because there is something there. concentrate more on poor people. lee zeldin is the other. is a family man, is a wife, two daughters, is fighting for inverted for his kids and my kids to go he is a mixed marriage, so he looks like new yorker is not like a sprinter from outside new york. is from the area. i think he's got the right message because i think he is a lot of disadvantaged and disillusioned people that want to change, and that our victim by a lot of these reforms because >> todd: is a congressional district 19. republicans didn't get out the vote there. if zeldin wants to win, republicans need to get out the vote. a mexican cartel member caught on camera pointing his rifle at a texas dps drone.

will show you how agents were quick to respond to everyone at one year after president biden's botched exit from afghanistan, three americans are rescued by a group that is promised to leave no one behind of the landed on u.s. soil one year to the day that the final troops withdrew. we are talking to project an anime about the incredible rescue. ♪ ♪

>> ashley: not abide in the fodder crisis. horrifying video captured a suspected cartel member aiming his rifle at a texas dps drone. the man was kneeling on the mexican side of the rio grande river. texas dps talent fox news one of the gun boats was deployed to the scene in response to the threat. one trooper sent a warning shot to the suspect, who fled seconds later pack of those gunboats are heavily armed with machine guns. the chaos at the border is not lost on border patrol chief ortiz who is blaming president biden's policies for the migrants are typical here is what he had to say under oath during a july 28th deposition with the florida attorney general's office. president biden was elected, did the number of aliens trying to illegally enter the united states increase or decrease? >> objection.

>> increase, in my experience, we have seen increases. >> when there are no consequences. >> increase at an exponential rate? is that what is being suggested here? >> i do think it will increase, yeah. speak of the question comes after a 2021 to buy the product it is it is accusing the white house of failing to follow established federal immigration law. now republican leaders are saying ortiz should speak out beyond that the position. california congressman, darrell issa writing in part on twitter, "let's see him stop covering for biden and start living the truth everywhere." happening right now, a delegation of republican women is getting a first-hand look at the crisis specifically addressing the dangers faced by migrant children. in a press conference yesterday, texas can congresswoman my viewers may display to the white house after several days at the border. >> he needs to come down to south texas. i am begging you to come to such taxes. i am begging the vice president to come to such taxes to see

what their policies have done to south texas. we've had enough. >> ashley: congresswoman floris spoke to us about what she is seeing and we are going to have a full interview with her next hour. you do not want to miss it. >> todd: one year after the absolutely disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan, project dynamo arrived back in the u.s. as the team is still rescuing american living under taliban rule. project dynamo co-founder, brian stern, an operations manager at abul wasit along with masouda noorzad, who was evacuated from afghanistan last year and is now volunteering for project dynamo. thanks for all four of you for being. brian, out of this mission? >> rescues are the same. there is nothing cookie-cutter about anything that we do. it one of these are hard, it one comes with complexity is based on even things like the weather. security environment changes,

the largest exchange, our safe passage into all kinds of variables because none of them are easy. my blood pressure is pretty high every time we do one of these things back up the matter where we do it in afghanistan or ukraine or other places. speed without giving too many details, you want to maintain operational integrity for the next time, what with the biggest challenges? take a biggest challenges, the setting environment in afghanistan is very dynamic. any western affiliation is becoming more of a problem, not less of a problem. because these books that we've pulled out our american lprs, you can't hide the fact that they live here. that could be reason enough for a rest or torture or or even death. that part of it, this new dynamic threat environment is by far the biggest challenge. >> todd: with so many of our allies are still tough in afghanistan, what made

project dynamo just this particular group of three individuals to rescue? >> the unique thing about project dynamo is, stuff we do, nobody else can do it. basically we are doing the impossible, the correct way, the better, the easiest way possible, and we make it very, very special in the best ways possible. to describe the significance of this rescue coming one year to the day that the united states and at military evacuation flight out of afghanistan. >> when i was back in afghanistan, so, i was the one stuck in there with the taliban took over the country, so it was terrible. everyone was scared so much, and they were trying to run to the airport, and these things. they are fighting for their lives. i was so scared and came -- i,

fortunately, to get into the airport with my baby, was a really hard time. >> t>> on the one-year anniversy of the u.s. military leaving, these people have been in hiding for one year. an entire year, they've been trying to get out, trying to find a way, and 365 days or more is just entirely too long for an american to be in hiding anywhere. >> todd: with so many requests that you ultimately to get, why did you choose these three? how did you make that really, really tough choice? recover us, that is worth a prepare, especially if you're an american, there is not we will command get you. if you're an american and you're in a bad spot, you'll find us, we will find you and will bring you home. >> todd: what's remarkable about this mission if you actually into afghanistan from ukraine why are also conducting rescue operations back of how dire and day difference is the

situation in both afghanistan and ukraine? take a terrible. i was a 9/11 first responder. i tell everybody. in ukraine, everyday is like 9/11 to go every day, thousands of people are either hurt or killed or impacted or made refugees or idp's or whatever. it's pretty catastrophic. the opinions are given the russians are run f for the money very bravely and honorably, but the russians are brutal. their brutal to the taleban are equally as brutal, but in a much different context i wouldn't want to be -- i wouldn't want to be a civilian in either one of those places, to be honest. >> todd: one thing in your research that really stood out to be. something i think we all suspected. both of those groups are basically capturing american to hold in negotiations with the u.s. government to give a little bit more detail about. >> oh, absolutely. so project dynamo, we are not a bus service because if you're in love even you need to get, you don't call us back our work in the occupied areas, the denied area committees and other people can get.

if you have an american passport and you are in the russian occupied territory and you come up to a checkpoint of which there are thousands, you are arrested. immediately arrested, probably for espionage before your torture, you're interrogated and probably held and used as trade bait. we've gotten people out of captivity from the russian intelligence service before, so it is very serious. it's not a you might get in trouble. i actually agree with the state department when they say that all americans should leave. i agree with this statement they should pay for its extremely dangerous because it is very volatile. and people get caught, it's very hard for groups like ours to get people out there, it is difficult and dangerous. >> todd: what you make of the lack of help from the u.s. government? >> i will leave this to bryan stern. >> we have good communication with the u.s. government to commit up to date all the time, we talk to our partners at your day on the type of the reality is the policies don't allow them

to help groups like ours and get involved with a political thing and that's okay. we are a political. we are not part of that, were not anything to go with your patriots, where american record of the calling 911 bigoa nyuon and one, the dispatcher doesn't take a you are republican or democrat? were the same way. i don't care if you're an american citizen and your passport is we the people on it like my passport is with the people on it, i will come for your virtual. >> todd: thank god for you. thank god for all three of your vehicle welcome to our country. thank you for what you're doing we appreciate it. la trump, jimmy failla, a 15 your life. are very busy rest of our show coming up. >> president biden: our military mission in afghanistan will conclude --

>> todd: major filing from the justice department overnight for a special master to oversee a review of the mar-a-lago raid an