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[chanting] >> john: new at 2:00, add this to the countless examples of chaos we have seen on college campuses. students shutting down a conservative speaker with a conga line. but aveiling themselves of the free papa john's pizza given by the speaker's group, turning point u.s.a. and the irony, the speaker was on campus to talk about free speech. >> anita: can't make this stuff up. at least no one got hurt there. former college swimmer riley gaines posting a firsthand account the aggressive response she received in a school in san francisco. wow, riley has been an advocate

for fairness in women's sports which could be in further jeopardy after biden administration guidelines issued last night. shannon bream will react to all of this. >> welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour for this good friday, i'm john roberts in washington. good to be with you. >> good to be with you, john. anita vogel in for sandra smith. we are going to unpack all of that straight ahead this hour but start with a report on the withdrawal from afghanistan which puts the blame on biden's predecessor. >> it's a fox news alert and crickets from president biden who drove off to camp david after reporters got the look at the long-awaited afghanistan report, dropped just minutes before the briefing. exposes major flaws in how it was executed, and tries to place the blame on the former administration.

>> anita: i don't know, even mainstream media outlets are slamming the timing of the release, one reporter calling it the very definition of a holiday news dump and still no word from the president on the matter. >> john: americans are still seeking answers to why president biden green lighted the withdrawal of all u.s. troops so quickly, even when his top generals advised against it. >> no one told your military advisers, no, keep 2500 troops. an no, no one said that to me that i can recall. >> i recommend we maintain 2,500 troops in afghanistan. withdrawal of the forces would lead to the collapse of the afghan military forces and eventually the afghan government. i'm confident the president heard all the recommendations and listened to them very thoughtfully. >> anita: the white house sounding defiant in yesterday's briefings, even defending the withdrawal that killed 13 u.s. service members. >> children being killed, people hanging off of air force jets

that were leaving and you are saying that you guys are proud of the way that this mission was conducted? >> it doesn't mean -- >> proud 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, our former allies and partners living in this country and working towards citizenship, you bet. nobody is saying everything was perfect but a lot went right. >> john: not how one marine there boot on the ground recalls it, listen here. >> a flash and the pressure, i'm thrown 12 feet on to the ground, instantly knew what had happened. i opened my eyes to marines dead or unconscious lying around me.

>> john: in a minute we will talk to retoward general keith kellogg who served in the previous white house and had the afghanistan issue on his plate. anita. >> anita: looking forward to that. first, right to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with more on all of this. >> no one is satisfied with the 12 page unclassified report the white house sneaked out before a holiday weekend on the so-called lessons learned from the afghan withdrawal. >> completely ridiculous, it's a rewriting of history, look, president biden came into office he had several options he could have chosen. he could have ignored the plan and walked away from it, just the way president trump walked away from the iran nuclear agreement. >> the white house report blamed the trump administration suggesting the president's hands were tied when he came into office. >> president biden inherited a forced presence in afghanistan of some 2500 troops.

that was the lowest since 2001. he inherited a special immigrant visa program starved of resources and inherited a deal struck between the previous administration and the taliban that called for the complete removal of all u.s. troops by may of 2021. >> firsthand accounts of discussions in the situation room revealed that all of the president's national security advisers, especially the pentagon, argued against pulling out all u.s. troops. >> all of his military leaders to include the on scene commander, all the nato countries who had troops in afghanistan some 7,000, the c.i.a. director, all were telling him to stay. >> some of the chaos should have been prevented, that's one of the key findings from the after action review, which concluded evacuations of americans and afghan allies should have started sooner. what it does not say, there was

incredible tension between the pentagon and state department that summer with the pentagon blaming the state department for not expediting the special immigration visas and allowing for the evacuation to begin when it was clear the afghan government was likely to collapse. the report also said the united states will "now prioritize earlier evacuations when faced with a degrading security situation." but the state department and u.s. citizenship and immigration services are still not moving fast enough to screen and naturalize the afghan evacuees. a senior u.s. defense official says more than 19,000 s.i.v. or special immigration visa applicants remain in the pipeline at u.s. camps overseas, despite the major hurdle of chief of mission approval. many u.s. veterans who i have spoken to, anita, say the administration could heal some of the wounds from the withdrawal by expediting the claims, just one example, 30

afghan women commandos, they want to join the u.s. army but cannot do so until their asylum is official. >> anita: indeed. thank you for the live report. >> john: retired general keith kellogg, adviser to mike pence and fox news contributor. the report basically blames the administration that you were a part of for this afghanistan withdrawal, you heard kirby say that their hands were tied by an agreement you were a part of making. what they forget to say is that that agreement was conditions-based and the taliban never met the conditions for a u.s. withdrawal. >> right. you know, the first thing i would say, john, thanks for having me, go to the u.s. constitution, 2, pretty clear, president is commander in chief. biden knows this. when it goes back to the doha

agreement, and i was part of this, with directors and secretaries of state, trump did which was really smart, he got somebody from the taliban and the guy we went and got to, we had to go to pakistan and get a guy, the second individual in the taliban, he was the designated survivor, we brought him out, put him in doha, worked as a negotiator, they came up with the agreement, signed the 29th of february 2020. four-part agreement. it was all conditions based. the third part, one condition clearly there would be an agreement between the sitting government and the taliban to have a conditional government. it doesn't say should, maybe good idea, it said there will about he an agreement. and our plan was to never withdraw forces below 2500, until that agreement was met and it was never met. the agreement was never fulfilled. >> john: and kirby seemed to

denigrate the 2500 troops left, enough to keep the peace, correct? >> agreed to by the pentagon, director of the c.i.a. said we could do it, not just the 2500. the fact is we were going to keep over 3,000 para military from the c.i.a., keep bagram air base, and it also held the largest prisoner count in afghanistan of former taliban and potentially al-qaeda as well, and they just opened the gates once they walked out. who was the guy who destroyed abbey gate, the bomber, unclassified report, he said that individual came out of the prison. so that's the one who eventually blew up the bomb that killed 13 americans. >> kirby engaged in revisionist history in describing what we see on the screen appears to be chaos. >> for all this talk of chaos, i

didn't see it, not from my perch. at one point during the evacuation there was an aircraft taking off full of people, americans and afghans alike, every 48 minutes. i don't buy the argument of chaos. >> john: as our colleague likes to say, ah, we have the receipts when it comes to this idea of chaos. listen to what john kirby said august 24, 2021. >> what i can -- the crowd size is smaller now than it was in those first few days, and so we are not experiencing to the degree we did last monday the phy physical crush and chaos. >> chaos, yes, he said the chaos was there but now no chaos. the definition of chaos, people falling off of airplanes as they are trying to get out of afghanistan. >> definition of chaos is different than mine.

and people were also falling off the outside of the aircraft as well. it was -- it's an amazing comment from john kirby and i hope he knows better. the rest of us know better. >> john: wall street editorial border. >> mr. biden's report for the decision-making process in afghanistan, makes it all the worst because it underscores the problem was the final decision, that is joe biden's awful judgment. you know, robert gates said that joe biden has been wrong in every foreign policy decision he's ever made. this would seem to fall into that category. >> and one point, people forget, only one national security council meeting on the 14th of august that talk the about evacuation. that was a deputy's meeting, one. they didn't even talk about it, and they surely disregarded all the information that came from

the military and the c.i.a. >> john: i want to ask you about evan, he is charged with espionage, in a hell-hole of a prison, he has an appeal hearing on the 18th of april. what are the chances of getting him out and what's going on behind the scenes as far as you know might be going on? >> nothing going on right now that we are tracking. he's just going to be another pawn and look at what happened to him, the prison they put him in is the worst prison of all the russian prisons. >> john: it's meant to suck your soul. >> they will use him as a pawn, negotiating piece in the future, i don't see anything in the near term coming out of this. the same thing has happened to a lot of people over there, and they should have somebody working it right now real hard but i don't think they are. i think honestly, i don't think it's the administration paying a real heavy look at anything in

national security. i don't care if it's saudi arabia, iran, i don't care if it's russia, ukraine, china, i just don't see it. >> john: praying for him, hope to get him out. >> anita: israel retaliating with rockets of its own this morning as they launched rare strikes into southern lebanon and bombed targets in the gaza strip, after 34 rockets were fired into israeli territory from lebanon yesterday and over 40 rockets were shot into israel from gaza overnight. the largest bombardment since 2006. trey yingst is live with the latest in southern israel. what can you tell us about this escalation overnight? >> anita, good afternoon. there was an escalation and exchange of fire overnight as israel struck back against pales

palestinian factions. a look at what unfolded. israeli fighter jets target positions along the gaza strip. they are striking hamas tunnels and weapons manufacturing sites, retaliation after palestinian factions in lebanon fired 34 rockets into israel on thursday. hamas ordered fresh attacks, launching more than 40 rockets into southern israel. an overnight, a rocket from gaza slammed into this house, you can see the damage, a family was inside at the time. air raid sirens were sounding. >> she lives next door with young daughters and was woken up. >> it's scary to live here, not easy, she says, and the kids are afraid. exchange of fire along the gaza border took place as israel conducted rare strikes in southern lebanon, sending a

message to those that target the jewish state. >> responsibility with hamas, they are the guys who did it. i'm sure hezbollah knew about it and hamas has strong iranian support. >> tonight fox news is told they are working to deescalating the unraveling security situation between the israelis and the palestinians. >> anita: trey yingst live for us, thank you so much. >> john: san francisco, anita, is beginning to face the consequences of pandemic lockdowns and progressive crime policies as rates of homelessness and violent crime sore. >> anita: a suspect is still at large in the fatal stabbing of cash app founder bill lee. brand-new images showing the moments after he was attacked. >> a couple days prior to that another man lost his life in the

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>> tragic situation. >> this is just beyond comprehension. >> for someone who contributed so much, who was a founder, creator, i'm really, really shocked and upset and i feel unsafe. >> john: bay city on edge after the murder of cash app founder bob lee earlier this week, drawing attention to san francisco's decline as the city falls into a cycle of setbacks that economists are terming a doom loop, and proclaiming what analysts are thinking, san francisco could be in for the

biggest doom loop of them all. scenes like this playing out nationwide, city officials are struggling to bounce back from the pandemic. fox business's kelly o'grady is live with more in los angeles. another city in a so-called doom loop. kelly. >> well, that's right, john. and today i'm on melrose avenue, iconic area known for its shopping, but instead you drive up and down the street now and it's pretty commonplace to see shuttered shops like the one here. you have the chain link fence, graffiti, for lease sign as well and the doom loop spiral you mentioned began during the pandemic, businesses left, so did the people, and the desolate streets allowed homelessness and crime to spread unchecked. and share a few stats from the lapd, personal theft in the first quarter this year versus last have seen 5% spike, but versus 2021, it's risen 33.9%

and that is a major problem in los angeles, especially in the melrose area. and one says it reached the third most dangerous sector in l.a. but the government support is lacking. >> i don't think -- i don't think any community in los angeles is getting enough support from our city government. comes on, it's murder, mayhem, you know, smash and grabs, kidnappings, drug-related overdoses. it feels inconvenient to them to have to talk to groups like us. >> the remedy then most often becomes don't walk alone, avoid the area, and the economic doom loop in cities like san francisco is here as well, and certain pockets, people don't want to return to work, go shop, crime rises and reinforces the decision to stay away. i don't know if you can hear it, but we have three helicopters circling above us because right

down the street there is a shooting suspect barricaded in an apartment building right now, and so you know, this is commonplace. people are walking around like oh, that's everyday in los angeles.o ghlight this is not a bad area. we did not go to a traditionally seedy area for the shock value for the report, john. this is happening everywhere. >> john: melrose used to be a pretty good place. stay safe there, kelly. anita. >> anita: it was a great place, john. now north to san francisco, the police chief says he is 100% confident they will solve the murder of tech executive bob lee. this as we get exclusive new video from dailymail.com, showing lee stumbling along a street calling for help after the attack. in a city decimated by population and police loss, help came too late. the san francisco mayor is asking for federal help in prosecuting and arresting drug

dealers, which is contributing to the city's crime problem. bring in bill daily, thanks for coming today. san francisco mayor, london breed, she was one of the first politicians in the country to speak in favor of defunding the police, and now asking for federal help. the headline from the chronicle, says san francisco mayor breed asks new u.s. attorney for help against drug dealing. the problem is beyond our local capacity. let me ask you, what do you make about that beyond the fact that it seems a little hypocritical? >> anita, it's very tragic and sad for a city so beautiful i've visited many times on business and pleasure and to see it head in this direction is truly troubling. this is a city now but police own reports increased the murder up to 20% over last year, increase the similarly in the number of robberies and also arsons and assaults.

so you know, it's a place where you see the sad tragic incident with mr. lee, where people would not come to his aid, perhaps people afraid to stop, don't know whether it's a rouse, where they themselves will fall into some other criminal behavior as a result of it and maybe the aid he could have gotten did not come too soon. on the other hand, you look at what the mayor is calling for here, it's really -- she's calling for federal help when it really is a local policing matter. the fbi and dea, justice department, who may be involved in the larger criminal investigations involving gangs, maybe bringing drugs in or involved in other illicit activities are out there doing their jobs, but this is local policing and ask those agencies to give up the small number of people they have actually to, you know, handle all the crimes in the country. fbi with only 35,000 people which only 13,000 are agents, and similarly with the dea,

10,000 employees with around 4,000 plus dea agents. they are not suitable, they are not properly the people to do the policing. policing is from the local resources. >> anita: they definitely don't have enough resources there for sure. you mentioned what a beautiful place san francisco is. it certainly is. let's take a look, though, at these crime statistics there. you see let's put them up, you see homicide up 20%, robbery up 13.6%, arson up 6.3, assault 2.2%. you know, san francisco growing up in los angeles, san francisco would be a place everybody wanted to go, just like where our correspondent kelly o'grady was on melrose, that was a hot spot. what's happening to these places and what's in the future? how can this get any better? >> well, in my view, boils down to simple applications here. one is criminals take advantage when there is a vacuum, when

there's no either law enforcement or no prosecution. criminals don't want to go to jail, so they go to jail and they know it's going to happen to them, they'll stop some of these behaviors. also need the heavy policing we talked about. and also talk about san francisco, over the years is a sanctuary city not just migrating legally, but also living on the streets, people who are drug addicted, needing to commit crimes to get the money to sustain their drug habits. combine that with a lack of police activity or reduction in police activity because of defunding, you create this maelstrom, the void with criminal behavior. >> anita: i want to add the police chief in san francisco says his men and women are working very hard and he is 100% confident that they are going to

get the person who killed that cash app founder, bob lee. bill daly, thank you for joining us with your thoughts. appreciate it. >> thanks, anita. >> anita: john. [chanting] >> john: a speaker on free speech is silenced at a college event by activists in a conga line looking for confrontation and free pizza. and riley gaines a similar experience after being ambushed at a college appearance she was speaking at in san francisco. >> anita: on the heels of a department of education proposal that could forever change girls sports in schools. shannon bream weighs in on this next. your supply chain and ryder makes sure you're ever delivering with freight brokerage

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[chanting] >> anita: look at this. yet another event on a college campus ambushed by protestors. it's a scene that's becoming all too common. it happened earlier this week in albany, new york, protestors crashed the event where conservative speaker ian scheda talk about, what else, free speech. even stranger turn, when protestors formed a conga line, others danced in front of the podium. they even ate the pizza organizers provided for the event and that was not it. demonstrators even went as far as t destroy a bible by ripping up the pages and throwing it in the trash. the event went on in a separate room while suny albany said it would protect its students'

right to protest. >> john: right to protest, right to destroy a bible, right to eat pizza that the fella provided. it's -- you know, college is not the same as when you and i went, now that was a while ago in my case. >> anita: me too, me too, but you are right. it is a different time now and they are protecting the protestors but what about the people who come to speak to them? i guess they need a little protection, too. >> john: we still want t see what the ultimate situation at stanford was, too, involving judge duncan. we'll keep watching all of this with fascination. because it's nothing short of fascinating and it continues right now. meantime, a wild scene at san francisco state university, former ncaa swimmer riley gaines was ambushed by trans activists following a speech she gave on saving women's sports. gaines had to barricade herself in a room for three hours and

wrote on twitter she was hit by one of the protestors twice. listen here. [yelling] >> john: this comes after the biden administration released a proposed change to title ix yesterday that would forbid schools that receive public funding and colleges that do the same to enact bans on transgender athletes. it followed a ruling from a supreme court that a 12-year-old west virginia boy who identifies as a girl could compete on her middle school track and cross country team. who better to talk about all of this and put on the spot than the host of fox news sunday, correspondent and author of "love stories from the bible speak," shannon bream.

good to see you. what part do you want to tackle first? >> shannon: we need more love, wow. >> john: the idea of transgender athletes is a 1 way street. not hearing about biological females competing in men's sports, it's all about biological males competing in women's sports and how many people believe it absolutely crashes up against title ix, supposed to promote women in women's sports. >> shannon: that's the irony. the administration feels it's doing the right thing, but saying gender identity, undermining the purpose of title ix to give women a chance to compete in sports and be able to achieve and win scholarships and do things in that field. the administration said a school cannot make a blanket statement, like nobody born biologically male can be on a female team,

but you can have consideration based on health and safety, based on the sport and competitiveness. >> john: clarify the waters, right? >> shannon: cue the lawsuits, like the case out of the west virginia. what the justices did, they say we are not going to get involved what it's playing out on the merits. for now, the west virginia law that bars boys born biologically male who may now identify as female from competing on girls teams in the schools, the law is on hold. but the people who support that law say they feel confident when it actually gets to the supreme court on the merits, they feel good about the possibility. >> john: now, the supporter, or the opponents of the ban in west virginia have chosen an interesting case, because the person that they are holding up as this is our example is a 12-year-old biological male who identifies as a female, 12 years old, has not gone through

puberty and taken puberty blockers. question the wisdom of that. but the big argument about biological males competing in women's sports, like lia thomas, you have gone through puberty, 6 foot whatever, however many pounds with gigantic muscle mass, unfair playing field. but this is more murky. >> and they have chosen somebody who has not gone through the puberty situation and has blockers. and i wonder how much pressure is on the 12-year-old. to be in the middle of a big legal case that's probably going to end up at the supreme court but you know, very supportive family and friends, aclu and other groups have come to get involved in the case. >> john: a couple of stories about becky pepper jackson as well, she comes last in all the girls events in cross country, does not appear to be imminent threat at the moment.

idaho and indiana the latest states to ban gender reassignment surgery among minors, prompting karine jean-pierre to say this. >> something for a child and their parents to decide, it's not something we believe should be decided by legislators. so i'll leave it there. >> john: she's coming under fire because people are saying wait a minute, plenty of restrictions on other issues regarding what minors can and cannot do until they reach a certain age and these are life altering surgeries that in many cases are irreversible, and should teens or tweens in some cases be subjected to them. >> shannon: critics say driving, drinking, voting, getting married, all of these things have age restrictions on them. we'll see. as gosh, you are not going to put a lower limit on the ages to this. shocking for some folks.

>> john: fox news sunday is coming up on sunday, but celebrate your book "love stories of the bible speak," amazon best sellers list. not only a time in the calendar but in american history we could use some love stories. >> we could. and i believe god has unconditional love for us, we think about through the holy week and passover as it's combining with easter this year, but listen, the toughest assignment from god to love our neighbor as ourselves. and no outs on that. >> john: it's sometimes hard when you are fighting traffic. >> as i might have revealed during a commercial break. but the romance relationships, friendships in the bible can teach us a lot, and take a pause and love our neighbors as ourselves. >> john: and god's love, too. >> his love story to us, i'm here for you, it's unconditional you can't outrun it or earn it, it's here for the taking. >> john: and the students ripped up the bible. >> and we'll have senators from

both sides of the aisle. >> john: you can rip up the bible but it's not going away. shannon, you are one of the best people i know. >> anita: good stuff there, you guys. well, just in time for the christian faith holiest holiday, religion and science come together in a new exhibit. how the museum of the bible is telling the intertwined story of religion and discovery. >> john: is the tennessee gop trying to keep order in the chamber or making a huge mistake? and, what's kamala harris's visit to nashville this afternoon going to add to the debate? byron york shares his thoughts coming up next. ♪ ♪it takes two to make a thing go right♪ ♪ ♪it takes two to make it outta sight♪ ♪one, two, get loose now! it takes two to make a-♪ stay two nights and get 8,000 bonus points. book now at bestwestern.com there's always a fresh deal on the subway app. like this one! 50% off?!

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>> anita: we are keeping an eye on nashville where vice president kamala harris is making a surprise trip to meet with two lawmakers expelled from the general assembly after they led a protest on the chamber floor. the vice president is calling the move undemocratic and dangerous and it seems the media has been quick to pick sides. >> major political controversy in tennessee. the republican controlled statehouse voted yesterday to expell two black democrats. >> republican super majority in the statehouse made historic

decision. >> tennessee's republican led house voting to expell two black democrats. >> they walked in hand-in-hand as the tennessee three. only one walked out still a lawmaker. >> anita: all right, let's bring in fox news contributor byron york. thanks for coming today. so the vice president going to nashville for a visit to meet with the lawmakers giving this story even more legs. what do you think her visit is going to add there? what do you expect? >> it will just add another political dimension to an extremely politicized story at the moment. if republicans thought they were settling anything in the house yesterday, they were wrong. i mean, it has started off a series of protests, it could be going on for quite a while, maybe kind of an occupy wall street kind of thing going on in nashville. so i think we are looking at a

lot of protests and also national democrats see political benefit in this. that is why the vice president dropped everything and is racing to nashville this afternoon to have her picture taken with the two expelled lawmakers. >> anita: yeah, no doubt. one of the lawmakers, gloria johnson, is white, she was not expelled, the other two, justin pearson and justin jones are black men. they were alleging white supremacy and attacks on democracy, take a listen to justin jones. >> heard from the other side they may not seat us even if our council appoints us, even if we win a special election, then another afront to democracy, i hope the nation sees and alarm is blaring loud. if it could happen in tennessee it could happen anywhere, the first expulsion for first amendment activity in tennessee. >> anita: byron, you have a

piece in "washington examiner," you talk about both sides and maybe they could have been censored instead of expelled. is any of this good for the gop? what do you think? >> well, a lot of the coverage doesn't pay much attention to what these lawmakers actually did on march 30th. three days after the shootings, the killings in tennessee. and a large anti-gun crowd had gathered in the capitol and they were in the galleries looking down on the house floor. and what happened was is these three essentially occupied the house. one of them, representative jones, who you just heard from, had sneaked a mega phone on to the house floor and the three of them took over the lecturn and began shouting and chanting with the protestors, working in tandem with them, to take over

the house of representatives in tennessee. and it was about an hour before the leadership could sort of regain control and impose order. so that's what actually happened there. so the question was -- i think even some democrats might agree that some discipline was needed. the question was, did it merit expulsion, because censuring is something republicans might have done to indicate this is wrong, punished but not create martyrs out of the two lawmakers who are certainly fitting that role today. >> anita: yeah, all right. well, the story continues there with the vice president meeting with lawmakers on the ground today. we'll see what happens there. byron york, thank you so much for coming in today, appreciate it. john. >> john: anita, the museum of the bible has got a brand-new exhibit showing the relationship between faith and science. chief religion correspondent lauren green is live in new york. the two things are not

necessarily mutually exclusive, lauren. >> that's correct. a recent pew survey shows a majority of team, six in ten, believe science and faith conflict. but a museum is design the to counter that and one of the voices endorsing that, a former nasa astronaut. colonel jeff williams, spent over 500 days in space, and now showing the link between science and the scriptures, a god of order and law could be known through the natural sciences. >> you look at scientists like kepler and newton and boyle and many others, they were theologians first and their understanding of scripture is what drove as they saw as their calling in life to scientific endeavor. >> on display as part of the scriptures and science exhibit is a book by a renaissance

scientist, with notes from astronomer galileo, and what buzz aldrin took to the moon and dorothy vaughn, one of the human computers of math featured in the movie "hidden figures." exhibit runs through next january. >> john: thank you, lauren. thank you for joining us, i'm john roberts. >> anita: i'm anita vogel.

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