approach, if you will, in ethiopia and in ukraine. but every instance is different, every capital that is under threat is under a different kind of threat and you have to evaluate it. >> that summer before the withdrawal there was a dissent channel cable written by 23 state department officials kabul embassy warning the administration in their view was not prepared at that moment for the withdrawal. i'm curious, did this review take that dissent cable into account? >> you have to talk to the state department. the state department conducted an after action review and so did dod, and that's a question better put to them. >> and one then for the president and this administration. curious if there was a moment during the afghanistan withdrawal the president lost confidence in the assessments

given to him by the intelligence community, given that they failed to perceive how quickly the taliban would advance and kabul would fall. >> the president knows how hard people work across the administration to try to give him the best information that they can, but it did not stop them from asking. throughout the entire withdrawal, he was constantly posting the national security team about this or that assessment, and that thinking, and constantly looking for ways to better understand what was going on on the ground. some assessments produced as i put in the opening statement proved to not be correct. but he -- again, this was an honest effort by everybody to get at the right outcome. >> their assessment was flawed and failed in that assessment. anybody held accountable for giving the president a wrong view for things turned out on

the ground? >> i don't know how much intelligence you read or look at, it's a mosaic, it's really hard. and i've yet to see an intelligence assessment that ever was 110% certain of something. they get paid to do the best they can weaving in multiple sources of information, sometimes in realtime, without even a lot of time to process. and they do the best they can. do they always get it right, they'll be the first ones to tell you, and clearly we did not get things right with afghanistan, how fast the taliban were moving across the country, i don't think we anticipated the degree in the hinterlands, and the security forces would fold, not fight for the country after 20 years we trained and equipped them.

i don't think we fully appreciated the degree of corruption in the officer ranks, i could go on and on and on. it doesn't mean people are not trying and doing their best effort, but intelligence, right every time, it's a tough hill to climb. does not mean that they don't try. >> john, thank you for being here. it seems like page after page this places the blame on the previous administration, starting with page one, president biden's choices how to execute withdraw from afghanistan -- >> john: jump away from the white house, john kirby taking questions on a report, it was released by the white house, a summary at least to this report just before the briefing, did not give reporters a whole lot of time to look into it, ed o'keefe was really grilling about the report. a classified version sent to

congress and unclassified version of the entire report sent out as well. at this moment we only have a summary. mark meredith on the north lawn of the white house. tell us anything new than president trump was to blame? >> i have had a chance to go through it, reading as quick as i can, it's 12 pages long and the white house said they are going to put it out publicly later on this afternoon. as you mentioned, members of congress are going to get more details in a classified setting what the report spells out. but they say, the white house, through this report, that they were able to go back and review what happened back in august of 2021, john. >> john: right. so they are saying president trump is to blame, he laid the conditions here. if you talk to the former president or somebody from his administration, particularly mike pompeo who we have had on the air a number of times, the trump agreement was conditions based and never would have been a withdrawal given the fact the

taliban was not coming to the table. this does not seem to indicate that. >> the report spells out they believe it was the previous administration that set them up for the situation in august of 2021, they felt their hands were tied because of the agreements reached by the previous administration. and we have heard say that's not the case. i'm being told to wrap. >> gillian: just in as well, breaking news out of tennessee, steve joins us with details. >> waiting for a likely attempt for the republican super majority among the representatives to expell three democratic state representatives. we expected it from the morning hours, it has not happened yet, not sure what is behind the delay. the reason for the anger was the behavior of three democratic representatives in a protest over gun control. these three members used a bull horn in the house and they

brought along a lot of spectators in the gallery and anti-gun chants. this really produced an extreme reaction from the republicans, we expect them to pass a bill to expell three of those republicans. it has not happened yet. this comes on the heels of a school shooting in nashville that left six people dead. the democrats are ratcheting up the rhetoric, saying it's a basic attack on democracy. not only tennessee but the whole u.s., the whole world is watching the republicans are saying it's an attempt at insurrection by people who were trying to get media attention, the democrats are just trying to stir things up. we have rules, we have to abide by the rules. so the stakes have gone up high. it's something that has only happened in tennessee twice since the civil war. it's usually about an investigation, criminal violation, in this case rules were broken, is that enough for

the republicans to kick out, at least temporarily, three members of the democratic house. we are waiting for this vote, a vote that has brought a lot of people around the courthouse, heavy security in as well. people are concerned that the 45 minutes of chaos which actually led to a scuffle between two lawmakers could evoke -- could erupt into more unrest if this does go through. a lot of angry tempers on both sides, watching and waiting for a vote here. >> steve, i know you can't predict the future, do you know anything about politically what happens going forward, at least what the options are for the legislature there if these three democrats are in fact expelled this afternoon? >> i think right now both sides are really making hay on this. they are getting a lot of attention, a lot of publicity and both sides are raising money. the real question is, what will change if these three do get kicked out? local officials can simply

reappoint them as interim members of the house, so in effect, a real chance nothing significant could change and yet it's being portrayed as a fight between fascism and democracy, a battle for the soul of tennessee. nothing may change. >> they may serve in the same roles even if they are expelled later this afternoon. steve, thanks so much for joining us. we'll bring you in shortly. let us know as soon as something starts to happen. >> john: so it will be interesting again to see what happens, because we saw what happened in the legislature last week and the wake of the horrific shooting at the covenant school, people flooded into the building, there were confrontations with the police who were in there guarding the lawmakers, the protestors formed something of a corridor, a

gauntlet they had to run, and one was grabbed, and now they will vote whether there is a vote in the affirmative to expell three tennessee lawmakers even though it may result in no change in terms of their ability to serve in the legislature. >> gillian: that's quite a political scenario, if i've ever heard one. it's interesting to note, too, john, one of these democratic reps, i want to make sure i get her name, gloria johnson, she's pointed out several times over the last few days since facing this potential expulsion that she has first-hand experience with the school shooting, she says her own experience was about 15 years ago in the state, also johnson, another lawmaker was a teacher at central high school in knoxville in 2008 when a student fatally shot a

15-year-old classmate during a dispute, she was in the school during that time. she has felt silenced by the majority republican led house for not bringing a gun control measure to the floor. she's making the argument this is our only means of sel self-expression, guaranteeing our first amendment rights because republicans have silenced here. it's inherently a very explosive political argument. >> john: taking over the statehouse in the eyes of her fellow lawmakers. in the wake of the horrific shooting at the covenant school, obviously you have people on one side saying we need gun control, that will help prevent school shootings, and others say we need to harden the school so

people with weapons who are mentally unstable cannot get into the schools, and there needs to be a resource officer who can meet force with force. which way is the debate going at the moment in tennessee? >> you are exactly right, john. the debate is going for the republicans, two-thirds majority, passing bills in efforts they are trying to harden the schools and make them safer and we are learning they are going to begin to address now the attempt to expell the three democratic state representatives. each of those representatives will be given 20 minutes to address their colleagues before a vote is taken. the so, what we are really seeing now with the crowd chanting outside you can hear bleed through, a political battle, showdown and standoff between the super majority republicans and democrats, attempt to kick out three who broke the rules, they say, caused chaos, a scuffle between

lawmakers and the democrats on the other side saying it's an attempt to just stifle dissent. so a real battle here that tennessee and the nation watching. >> gillian: the gop house speaker cameron sexton likened their actions on the house floor to an insurrection. he said this amounted to the same thing. an argument that painfully echos, an argument that washington, d.c. has been having now, lawmakers here for more than two years, obviously following january 6th. pt do you think the temperature could get more heated in light of that accusation? >> i think it certainly can and i think the accusations and the rhetoric make that a possibility. when you do watch the video and you see the heavy security out in front, you see the lawmakers trying to get in, and you see the angry crowd around, certainly a potentially explosive situation. now compare this with what actually happened on the floor of the house, three democrats

use mega phone, they delay things for 45 minutes, they cause some consternation and some delays and from that action, which seems fairly harmless, not a crime, now we have a really inflamed situation where you have people travelling from all over the state to be here, people feeling democracy is being threatened, and a real sense of potential unrest around the statehouse in nashville. >> john: steve, do us a favor, in case some folks at home missed it. walk us through the potential actions if there was a vote in the affirmative to expell these three lawmakers. >> that vote is likely. republicans have voted by party in this so far. if they do get the two-thirds to expell the three, there are several different options that could be followed. likely is local officials from the county can choose to reappoint these three on an interim basis. also by of these three, even

though they are expelled, they can run for that seat again in a special election. so, kicking them out now does not mean that they are gone for good. they can come back and if they come back they can't be tried again or blamed again for the unrest that they caused. but the sad thing and the worrisome thing, in the wake of a horrific school shooting which traumatized the city of nashville and much of the state as well, now you have really new waves, new repercussions, both sides at each other's throat, lawmakers having a tough time getting in the building and charges this is an attempt to bring down democracy in the state of tennessee. >> john: some pictures on the left side of the screen inside the tennessee legislature, the proceedings are televised. we do know that in terms of the calendar into other business where we expect that this motion to expell will be taken up. i don't know exactly what that lawmaker is saying at this

moment, but this is in the time area where we expect, gillian, this will be taken up. >> gillian: steve, we have heard reporting from various channels the three democratic lawmakers believe they might face a penalty for their actions earlier in the week but none of them anticipated that they might lose their seats in the legislature over this. have you heard anything about that? >> sure, one of them was warned that she could lose her health insurance and they have already been pulled off their committee assignments and some of their i.d.s no longer work outside of business hours. so they have begun to feel repercussions from their protest just several days ago. >> john: they are talking about a video here in the legislature, could we listen into this for a moment, i don't know if it's talking about the expulsion or what, but talking about showing a video which may be with we are on this topic, video of what was happening during the whole

dust-up in the legislature. listen in here. >> please, we need some information here before we vote so we can vote in an informed manner and i know representative mitchell and towns and other have questions as well. >> leader lambert. >> thank you, mr. speaker and back to the motion at hand directly. the motion says i move to suspend the rules to allow video depicted events occurring on march 30th, 2023 be played in the chamber at this time. there may be one member has a video ready, the motion itself to suspend the rules to allow video. if others have video that is ready, a road we can obviously go down, but the motion is to allow video depicted events occurring, so i understand the objections, but i for one would like to see whatever video so before i vote on a motion of expulsion i can see video of what exactly occurred. i was here on the day, most of us were here that day but if there is video of what exactly occurred here i may want to see

it during our debate and i for one have not made my mind up yet. i would like to look at the video, listen to the debate and determination at that time. >> representative mitchell. >> thank you, mr. speaker. you know, folks, this is more or less a trial, so what we are doing right here is we are presenting evidence to the jury before we know whether it's prejudicial or not, which is totally unfair to the defense. from my understanding, the three individuals have not been allowed the video from the leadership. now, how is that fair when you will not let the people that you are trying to expell have a fair defense when you won't even let them have the video but you are

willing to show a video that you haven't even allowed the defense to see, you are going to show it to the jury and the defendants will see it at the same time for the first time the jury sees it. how is that fair? you know, not just the folks in this room are watching, not just the folks in this state are watching, but the entire nation is watching us today. so if you want to go down this road and show the entire nation just how things work here, just go right ahead. or let's pretend to be fair one time and do the right thing. thank you. >> representative towns. >> mr. speaker, thank you. i'm also troubled by what i'm hearing on this house floor today. i've been here a very long time, i have seen a lot of activity,

good and bad, especially during the time of the income tax invasion against the state income tax the state, quite a bit going on and quite a bit was done and was said but what we are doing today is seemingly we are selecting a video to be shown that's going to obviously show the harshest side where the emotions were inflamed and high. what that's going to do, members, is this. we are one week removed from that. what you are getting to experience, you are getting to resensitive yourself how you felt that day. the purpose of leaving and coming back is where we should have cooled off, better judgment, cooler heads prevail, but if you are showing a video we are in the thrust and the heat of what's happening you are going to go right back to how you felt that day. that does in the give these men

and women an even chance, because you have those same feelings you had then, it's a done deal. it's a stacked deal, it's a done deal. that's not fair. that is not fair. and then they have counsel and they didn't know anything about it. that's called an ambush. secretly behind the bushes, hit somebody in the head with a brick. that's not fair. they have been sitting here by people of the state of tennessee. fair is fair, and fair when it ain't fair is wrong. we are attempting to sensitize members to make them feel how they felt last thursday, that's not right and you know it's not right. why? you had the numbers, you have the vote, why do that? why would we do that, go down that road?

give 'em a fair chance. give everybody a fair chance. treat 'em like members, whether you like 'em or not. give them an opportunity to defend themselves fairly, but not with their hands tied behind their back, not with duct tape on their mouths, they can't fight for themselves. nobody likes a stacked deck, nobody likes to be treated unfairly. if you when in a man fair and square he'll shake your hand but you feel resentment when you don't do it fairly, you build resentment. you have the numbers. treat 'em right! in a fair process. and that's not too much to ask, that's demanding fair treatment as i would for you and anybody on this house floor. you treat people right, not because you have the bigger gun, the bigger muscles, or the most money.

you treat them right. and they are not being treated right right now because it's ambushing them. they don't know how to fight and develop their strategy to retort what's going to be said on this house floor and i know many of you very close and personally and i know that you are good people, and you know how to do things the right way. don't stack the deck. this comes back to haunt us. this comes back to haunt every member on this house floor. untie their hands. allow 'em to fight for themselves. do what's right, members. we don't need to see that video. that video, we don't need to see today because you are going to make everybody upset again and that's the goal of it, the only goal it could be. some members probably cooled off and want to do something different, but when you see that damn thing you are going to have a problem. that's not right.

treat my members fairly. treat everybody fairly. thank you, mr. speaker. >> representative -- ok. chairman clemens was next. >> thank you, mr. speaker. we need to get to the authentication of this video. we need to know who made it, edited it, why was it not provided to leadership, authenticity is certainly in question and certainly is he very least necessary before we introduce it into evidence so to say in this hearing to the extent we are going do have any due process on this floor at all sod. so my questions to the sponsor would again be as a fellow attorney, would you please authenticate this video, speak to who recorded it, who edited it and why was it not provided to leadership. >> representative gary.

>> thank you, mr. speaker. and i understand all your comments, questions, all of us were eyewitnesses of what happened to the people's will, every one of us. it's going to depict the response that day and the members' response to the same. nothing nefarious, nothing edited other than what happened and depicted that day. with that i ask for your support so this body can see what it took to overcome this will. >> chairman clemens. >> thank you, as the sponsor of this motion, say everybody witnessed what happened that day so i again, if everybody in here are the ones who get to vote on this, then why do we need the video. everybody in here already saw it. >> john: we are going to pause from the floor of the tennessee legislature for a second and give you some context, you hear

talk about the video and whether or not it should be shown to the tennessee legislature and the members contained therein, as they debate to vote on the expulsion of the three members, steve is familiar with the debate that's going on inside. and steve, i take it this is a video of the day that the protests took place and the participation of the particular members in question, am i right? >> exactly right, john. and you can really hear the passion and anger on both sides. it's a debate over whether or not to show the video and the members of the house well aware the nation is watching as well. there seems to be a sense of embarrassment about this video and what the video is, it's really a scuffle after about 45 minutes of three democrats with a mega phone really leading the cheers from the gallery, there is actually a republican is

filming with his iphone, a democrat is also, and the two of them actually get into a scuffle, the republican is accused of pushing the democrat and grabbing his phone. now there's two sides to this. the democrats do not want this video to be shown, they do not want it to be released, probably because it shows the chaotic nature of what the house was dealing with at the time. the republicans say this is just the facts, let show the video, let's show people what happened and what we were dealing with, so the first battle in the fight to expell three democrats from the house, over whether or not to show video of a scuffle between two lawmakers. >> john: so it looks like they have decided they will show the video, so it does not sound like there's any sound with it, steve. so, let's see, is there? yes, here we go, we can hear it. [indiscernible]>> enough is

enough, enough is enough, enough is enough, enough is enough. >> our constituents are asking us to ask and pass laws that have nothing to do with the crisis at hand. what are we going to do today, how would you address the crisis at hand. people are asking us to act, thousands of them and we are here hiding from the people. we need action. we need action. we need action. and to each of you who decided to make the fight for a better tennessee possible -- >> john: that's justin pearson, the other one is justin jones. >> and nra don't have the final say for the future that we have for you who believe in justice

and advocacy and who believe in democracy, thank you. our fight is not over. i can tell you today we are going to win, we are going to win. i can tell you the bill we are going to pass like righteousness and justice, it's going to come. and stand up, [indiscernible] these are not going to last into the future that we have created and crafted together. [gavel pounding]>> leaders like gloria and justin and me do not quit. we say kids should go to school without worrying about guns. teachers should go to classrooms without worrying about -- [gavel pounding] >> and not just today, but tomorrow, and in the days to

come. surely justice will come. to the media, do something out of the ordinary. occupy the will, our colleagues refuse the people of tennessee. what will we do? you ignore the calls of the people today. we don't want to be up here but we have no choice but to find a way to get in the way and disrupt this as a normal, normal in our children's eyes. this is as normal as the pr proliferation of military weapons in the communities. the choice is your, the choice is yours, the people are asking us. [cheering] >> to the people -- to the people, power to the people. power to the people. power to the people. power to the people.

power to the people. power to the people. not to the nra, not to our beliefs that allow us to be silent in the face of injustice. power to the people, the people who march, the people who speak out, the people who advocate. power to you, and we are not going anywhere. and they can take as long as they need. we'll be here. [cheering] no justice, no peace. no action, no peace. no action, no peace. no action, no peace. no action, no peace. who's house? >> our house. >> whose house? >> our house. >> whose house? >> our house. >> whose house? >> our house. >> whose house? >> our house.

gun control now, gun control now, gun control now, gun control now, gun control now, gun control now, gun control now. >> john: so we are going to jump out from the legislature there, and what you see on that screen is tape of the three lawmakers in question, gloria johnson, on the screen right there, justin jones to her right and then justin pearson as they took the bull horn, there are the two justins right there, took the bull horn back and forth between them and appealing to the crowd to support them in their efforts to be heard on the floor of the tennessee legislature, and now the three of them face an expulsion vote there, i imagine this vote is going to take place after this video is viewed. the viewing of this video as we

bring in steve again was of some controversy because it was believed, and we saw the three members also standing there, or sitting in the legislature watching themselves on video, it was believed it could prejudice the vote, steve, but you would think that if you are going to vote on expulsion, you would want to see the evidence again. >> i think there's real concerns, especially among the democrats about showing this video. it shows the fact that they basically have taken over operations in that house for about 45 minutes, and later a scuffle between two lawmakers. so really the debate is this the voiceless trying to get a voice about gun control or is this simply mayhem, people breaking the rules and taking over, this is not a street protest here, this is in, on the floor of the statehouse. so you have the two different arguments. the republicans clearly wanting this video out there, wanting to see what they were up against.

the democrats fighting against it. looks like each member will get 20 minutes to defend themselves before a vote in this really super majority republican house, which can pretty much do what it wants, but the question is, will expelling them for rules violation be overstepping or is it necessary? >> gillian: steve -- the republican lawmakers here have been arguing that these three democrats, what they actually did on monday was hijack the house floor, and distract from the tragic events which were the shooting at covenant. what are you hearing about the defense from that from the democratic side? >> the democrats will make the arguments they were not being listened to, they represent tens of thousands of people, that those voices needed to be heard, that the whole issue of gun control was being tabled, that the only way for their voices to be heard was to take what they call good trouble, that that was

a necessary step to make their voices heard. the overwhelming republican majority thinks it was disruptive and brought business to a standstill and they want to kick these three out because of that. >> john: looks like the video is over, at least that part of the video is over. we are going to keep watching what's going on in the tennessee legislature here as we anticipate the next little while a vote on whether to expell the three members of the tennessee legislature who were involved in the disruption, and whether or not it actually means an end to their career in the legislature or as steve pointed out they could be reappointed in their local district or run for election again in a special election. it may not be the end of the line for them just yet. a lot of breaking news to cover, including what's going on with the protests in paris, 100,000 people take to the streets lighting fires and clashing with

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>> john: the fbi is assist in the investigation into the mysterious killings of three teenagers in central florida. their bodies were found abandoned in separate locations, all within 72 hours. 16-year-old layla silvernail was found shot and left for dead late thursday night, hours later police found a male teen, also shot and killed alongside the road, and by midday saturday, 16-year-old camille was found in a partially submerged car owned by the first victim. police say a wannabe gang could be behind it. >> they are not the typical gangs that you see, it's more of a neighborhood gang. there is no evidence, no information that would even suggest that it is a serial killer. these individuals worked together, everything points as it was all the same event. >> john: bring in pat dias,

former miami-dade homicide detective, another very, very strange case in the northern part of florida. remember what happened with those kids who were all killed because they had stolen somebody's truck engine, i think it was last year. when the sheriff says wannabe gang incident, and called it a hybrid gang. what does that mean, pat? >> what he's talking about, this area that this occurred is a community about 1500 people, just outside ocala national park. what he's suspecting, a lot of leads from the community in, and these three may have been active and had a lot of friends so they get a lot of good leads in from people that may have known what happened. >> john: so and this idea, kind of like a neighborhood gang type of thing, it was not an organized gang as we would think, like an ms13 type of thing. what -- what would lead in a neighborhood gang situation or just kids who knew each other and hung around each other for

one, to kill three people? just seems a little extreme. >> yeah, i think it could have been more clickish between young kids than a gang. i don't think it was that many members, like an armed individual, criminals out there, i think it was just a click, between one click and another and got dangerous and led to this point where three individual teenagers were murdered. >> john: said one of the really unusual aspects of all of this is the car, and i think we have a picture of the car we can put on the screen as well. looks like a chevy to me. this car was found on saturday partially submerged in one of the many lakes that dot the area. the third victim was found inside the car, but the car belongs to the first victim who was found dead on thursday night, raising the question,

where was the car between thursday night and saturday. do investigators have any idea of the whereabouts of that vehicle and where it went? >> that's a good question. the car does have a computer system in there, which will be able to -- they'll be able to download and track where the car have been. also the teenagers may have had cell phones which police were able to zone in where they were most likely they tried to dump the car in the water to get rid of evidence but you have three good crime scenes that the police can work off in addition to their cell phones that will lead to pretty good clues as what -- where the car was and what may have happened. >> sheriff billy woods saying there is a ton of evidence at every part of the crime scene of the three victims. also told bill hemmer yesterday they had a number of suspects in mind and he believed they would be making an arrest very soon. however, more than 24 hours has passed since he made that declaration, and we still don't have the announcement that anybody has taken into custody.

did he speak too soon or is this just the normal investigative process? >> what happened is like i said, this is a close knit community, so they pretty much have a good idea who is involved, but it takes a lot of time to put a case, and remember, he has to go through the state attorney's office, so he's letting everybody know they are on their trail and they are going to get warrants. so i think he is just sending a message out there, we know who you are and we are coming to get you. >> john: i was watching some of the local television coverage and people in the neighborhood, and it's a small close knit community, 1500 people, but there are residents there afraid to let their teenagers go out, afraid to let their teenagers go to school by themselves. they would insist on driving the teenager to school. you can expect, pat, that with this mystery out there and these three kids who are all said to be good kids, the first one killed, silvernail, was apparently a terrific athlete. you can expect the parents and

the entire neighborhood would, as we saw in moscow, idaho, be in fear for what else could happen. >> oh, absolutely. because you have the first young lady who just passed away was a softball player, very good athlete, and good kid in the community. so yes, parents are scared as to what happened to these young teenagers. so they are worried, but i think the police have a good handle on this case and like the sheriff said, i think they are closing in on them. >> john: let's hope sheriff wood is correct in this case. pat dias, thank you. >> gillian: california's governor newsom is taking a tour of america's red states. he says he's looking to bring some carnaval use to republican strongholds. critics say he's trying to increase his own visibility. is the governor eying a 2024 presidential run? brian kilmeade knows the answer and will tell us next.

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>> problem in our country right now, authoritarian leaders, so hell bent on gaining power and keeping it by whatever means necessary that they are directly attacking our freedoms in state after state. >> gillian: that was california's governor gavin

newsom in a new political ad explaining why he's spending to much time in republican led states like arkansas and florida, his critics are calling out his track record. first in the nation lockdowns during covid, bans on gas powered cars and recently, yank allstate business from walgreens over a political argument. here he is, though, in florida, telling folks "i'm crawling out of my skin for you guys, i'm a member of the larger community all bound together." let's bring in brian kilmeade, brian, he's crawling out of his skin for them in florida. >> brian: i don't understand that expression. i don't know what he's talking about. >> gillian: i don't either. >> brian: he's going to red states to say i want to fight for your freedom. think about this for a second. in a couple of years, he went from $100 billion surplus to

$30 billion deficit. 50% of the nation's homeless, i believe nobody kept their schools locked down longer or people longed down longer, i remember going there a year and a half into the pandemic and you still could not get a sandwich. you could not get a place to have breakfast, a place to eat outdoors in 70° they would not do that. in california, they are choosing to leave. more people have left california than any other state in the union bar new york, and with all the homeless and the crime running rampant, the only things to make you feel good about in los angeles, to see san francisco. oh, yeah, he was mayor of san francisco. never seen a guy on a greater losing streak take his losing ways to states that are winning. mind boggling. >> gillian: he says this is all about improving the lives of californians, obviously republicans and his critics say it's all about improving his own

political visibility. as you mentioned, you know, all eyes for him are on 2024. >> brian: gillian, i find it bizarre to say the president of united states may way until the fall to say i'm going to go for re-election, and challenge him, jimmy carter, incumbent challenged by ted kennedy. r.f.k. junior is new in. gavin newsom, looks the part, the right age, plenty of energy. the only thing he's bad at, oh, governing. his policies are terrible. pie in the sky. he can't get his taxes under control, he raises them. can't get the people to stay in the most beautiful state in the union, i would argue, and force everyone to convert to electric cars even though we have rolling blackouts in california because he doesn't have enough energy. absolutely insane. if there is anybody that should go away and not represent

democrats its him. jared polis in colorado, people think he has a good track record. gavin newsom, besides looking the part, will be somebody to help. he could hit the ground running if joe biden's numbers crater or his health prevents him from running again. >> gillian: brian this came in, ron desantis responded to the governor's -- the california governor's time in his state, he says this, stunts from political opponents don't matter and have no effect and also it's interesting the state of california has banned, we should have this full screen if we can put it up there for the viewers, the state of california has banned employees from visiting florida but governor newsom traveled here anyway for the stunt. he seems to exhibit a pattern of behavior like this. i guess we don't have the full screen. you get the point. >> brian: i know what he's

talking about. >> gillian: he went to that fancy restaurant in the middle of lockdowns, on and on and on. >> brian: he says don't go to red states like montana but he goes to montana. and florida, and like aoc, they have freedom. and no one is for banning books unless sexually explicit books to children. that's what they are trying to do in florida and other places. wait a second, should we have books like this in elementary school, making kids make a decision on gender in send and third grade. if you say a book talks about that for second and third graders, put it on the banned list if you want to inaccurately portray what's going. say appropriate books for people of that age and clear choice, what are people going to say, here is governor desantis's policies. here is donald trump's four years in office. and here is gavin newsom's 5 to

6 years as governor and mayor. and afterwards, they are going to say what report card looks better for the future of the country, and then see how it goes, i think desantis and trump have to feel good about how they'll, they grade out. >> gillian: all correct except they are not doing report cards anymore in a lot of california schools, there you have it. brian, thanks for joining us. thanks for sticking with us. we brought you in later than we planned because of all the breaking news. appreciate it, and see you tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. on fox and friends. >> brian: absolutely, thank you. >> john: he never leaves anyway. peter doocy pressing the white house on this summary of an afghanistan report that was put out just before the briefing happened causing consternation among the reporters there, by and large the biden administration seeks to blame the trump administration for the situation in afghanistan and then also says none of the intelligence agencies foresaw the country would fall as quickly as it did, prompting our peter doocy to ask this of john

kirby. listen in. >> john, who's going to get fired over this? >> peter, the purpose of the document that we are putting out today is to sort of collate the agencies that did after action reviews. it's not -- the purpose of it is not accountability. it's the purpose of it is -- >> military leaders -- doesn't sound like it was good, you admit the intel was bad, so how can president biden ever trust when they come into the oval office with the pdb that anything in there is r legit? >> what i said was. >> intelligence is a mosaic. >> intelligence is hard business, and they get it right a lot, too. there were some pieces that were not accurate and we are being nothing but honest with you and

the american people about what the inaccuracies were and how they shaped some decision-making for the president and the questions he asked. this document and this effort isn't about accountability today, it's about understanding and i would also add that as i said to ed, the review process is not over. this is the next muscle movement in what will be a long process to better understand and comprehend and adjust to what we learned and what we did in afghanistan. >> but it doesn't seem like after the country has had a couple months to review this and the government has, people don't have an issue with the decision to order troops out of afghanistan. it is with the way that this president ordered it done. there were children being killed. people hanging off of air force jets that were leaving and you are saying you guys are proud the way this mission was conducted? proud of -- of that? >> proud of the fact that we got more than 124,000 people safely

out of afghanistan, you bet. proud of the fact that american troops were able to seize control of a defunct airport and get it operational in 48 hours, you bet. proud of the fact that we now have about 100,000 afghans, former allies and partners living in this country and working toward citizenship, you bet. does that mean everything went perfect in that evacuation, of course not. i've talked about it from a different podium that after action reviews are now being reviewed by members of congress way out, things that could have gone better, nobody is saying everything was perfect but there was a lot that went right and a lot of afghans are living better lives in this country and other countries and the world because of the sacrifices and the work of so many american government officials. so yeah, there's a lot to be proud of, peter. >> john: peter doocy back and forth with john kirby on the withdrawal from afghanistan in the new after action report that has just come out. kirby said that nobody saw that gahni would take off, nobody

foresaw the taliban would take control quickly, i'm not in intelligence or a particularly intelligent person but i knew it was going to happen. >> gillian: and he said many afghans are living better lives but most are living under taliban rule once again. >> john: the ones who got out are. >> gillian: the few thousand who got out, fine. >> john: we'll talk to mike pompeo next on "the story." >> i'm trace gallagher in for martha maccallum. a biden white house review of afghanistan is laying the blame on president trump. president biden's options were "severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor." a suicide bombing at the kabul airport killed 13 u.s. service members. the white house relied on

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