>> secretary pompeo: well, chris, it certainly looks like it.looks like the biden demonstration has just failed in its execution of its own plan. it looks like they are now trying to get folks out. this remind me of when we have seen previous of ministrations allow embassies to be overrun, it's starting to feel that way. it also looks like there's a bit of panic having to reinsert soldiers to get them out. the plan should have been, much like we had, that we would have an orderly condition space wait to think about how to draw down our forces there. we actually delivered on that promise. i hope we get these folks out. i hope they will bring the airpower. they should go crush these taliban who are surrounding kabul. we should do it with american airpower, we should put pressure on them, we should inflict cost and pain on them. we shouldn't be begging them to spare the lives of americans, we should be imposing costs on the taliban until they allow us to >> chris: there are a lot of questions here. let me start with the one that i think is most imp

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joining me now mike pompeo and fox news contributor, mr. secretary. how can the intelligence on patella ban strength be off by so much? >> floor this was a terrible execution at the incredible mission. president trump campaign done him for years demanded that we find the path forward in afghanistan where we got the young men and women in the right path we were headed down appeared to be tried to work to try to find peace and reconciliation but make no mistake about it patella ban new. they didn't do the things that we asked him to do and didn't honor the agreements and threatened america is scared to an american that we would bring real cost. we did that. we did it time and time again and drew down 15,000 to just 2500 by the time we departed. we managed to keep it stable place. we managed to protect americans and we had the embassy secured with all the things you see fall apart over the last 96 hours in a way that reflects so poorly on the blood and treasure and work that we have done for those 20 years. it didn't have to be this way. it is not whethe

mike pompeo is going to cut this deal with the taliban. mike pompeo and donald trump are the two biggest traders. they need to be looked at. host: in altoona, pennsylvania. every time somebody is in power, other party blames the other party. it started with bush. he went into afghanistan with a purpose and mission to get bin laden. then we got switched to iraq because we didn't want to have his family, and especially cheney not getting hussein right away. i believe part of it on the asking -- i blame part of it on the afghan military. we gave their fighters all this money, and we decided we didn't want to pay them anymore, we want to get out. maybe we botch the whole thing. but this is from bush to biden, and biden inherited what trump negotiated. if we would stop the blame game and start looking at where the failure was, what the failure was, the people of afghanistan don't want to fight. if you want freedom, you have to fight. they did not want to fight because we were not paying them anymore. we have to stop politicians complaining abou

interests as we just heard from mike pompeo.t now house minority leader kevin mccarthy, he's demanding that the gang of 8 receive classified briefing on the biden administration's plan to evacuate american citizens out of afghanistan. congressman, good to see you. thanks very much for being here. have you seen that plan yet? >> no and this is not what happens when you leave. i have heard the taliban has more blackhawk helicopters than australia. can you imagine that? even if the taliban cannot learn to fly those, where would they go? they will go in hands of iran and russia. they have built military. imagine iran will be in there collecting drones and missiles and this has set us back decades and for democrats to bring us back into congress to try to pass another new election law that would ban -- unconstitutional but ban id voting to spend $5 trillion, the only focus of this congress or this administration would be to get every single american out but when you listen to secretary of state and secretary of defense, they will use

as i said, mike pompeo will be here soon. and breaking moments ago, a bomb shell in the world health organizations inconclusive investigation into covid origins. the scientist leading that investigation said china did pressure their organization to leave out the lab leak theory and discuss basically the phraseology that they were comfortable with and not comfortable with in that regard. the state department, our state department's former lead investigator in to covid origins under secretary pompeo, dr. david asher responds to what we're now learning about this huge story and to the shocking prediction as well from robert redfield who we spoke with here on "the story" who believes that because it's an engineered virus in the first place, the variants are super charged. >> sadly i'm going to predict in two, three, four months, we'll have another variant and that variant will be more infectious than the delta variant. that's how this evolution is taking place. this virus got a jump start by being one of the most infectious in hu

joining as former secretary of state mike pompeo.elcome back to "fox news sunday". >> thank you for having me on this morning. chris: how dire is the situation in afghanistan as we talk today is a full, band takeover of the country now inevitable. >> it certainly looks like it looks like the biden administration has failed in its execution of its own plan and looks like they're trying to get folks out and this reminds me of previous administrations to allow embassies to be overrun and feels that way and it looks like there's a bit of panic to reinsert soldiers to get them out in the plan should've been much like that we had an orderly condition to think about how to draw down our forces, we actually delivered on that promise. i hope we get these folks out and they bring the airpower and they should crush the taliban surrounding kabul and we can do it with american airpower and put pressure on them and inflict cost in pain we should not be begging them to spare the lives of americans we should impose costs on the taliban until they al

pompeo was on fox news sunday and was asked about his efforts to negotiate with the taliban. here is a bit of that back and forth yesterday. [video clip] >> you were the first american secretary of state to ever meet with the taliban, and you talked about how they had agreed to join us in the fight against terrorism. here you are, sir. >> the gentleman i met with agreed they would break that relationship and that they would work alongside of us, to destroy, deny resources to and have al qaeda depart from that place. >> do you regret giving the taliban that legitimacy? do you regret pressing the afghan government to release 5000 prisoners, which they did, some of whom are now back on the battlefield fighting with the taliban? >> the statement i made that day was absolutely true. you can ask the military leaders on the ground. we did good work to crush al qaeda. when we left office, they were fewer than 200 al qaeda left in afghanistan ash there were fewer than 200 al qaeda left in afghanistan. we did not trust the taliban. you can ask them yourselves. we made abundantly clear

you just heard secretary pompeo lay that out.iban looked and they saw what happened to soleimani, who president trump took out. they saw what happened in syria, when they gas to their own people and president trump took immediate, swift action. there was no misunderstanding as to what president trump would do if the taliban acted out. i talked to the president this week, he talked to me about some of the conversations he had, some of the very ones pompeo mentioned, he was tough, he was firm, and the actions and results showed. this would not have happened, sean, and it is amazing we have a president today, who you have reporters saying "why do you trust the taliban," when you look back at joe biden's interview with abc, i'm paraphrasing here, but he said something like "the taliban is going through a reckoning where they are deciding their place in the world." do you think the taliban cares about their place in the world as they gunned on women without burqas, beat up americans -- and yes they are beating up americans -- and he w

that is completely the opposite of what mike pompeo negotiated.s a lot of things in the negotiation. the first of all how you do a successful negotiation? you walk in from a position of strength. so then under president trumps watch so whenever pompeo came into the room they knew he was part of the team who ways ahead of the rg on —- eight ka the world's biggest terrorist and he said to them multiple times if you touch one american it is your head i am paraphrasing but not really. so when it comes to negotiation there is a lot of things so that they have to break with al qaeda and another was not that they would militarily take over the country but what we set forth the taliban had to come to the negotiating table with the government of afghanistan, women, civil society, a political reconciliation on —- reconciliation. the biden only handed the negotiations they could not get to that political reconciliation. so to pretend the team had the same deal going on that president trump and mike pompeo had going on is a lie and a totally different negotia

you have secretary of state mike pompeo. laura: we do. i'm curious what he has to say about what the state department said, conditions for recognizing the new afghan government. >> the taliban fears pompeo, they feared it trump, they believe both of them. that's not the case anymore. laura: great show tonight. i'm laura ingraham, the establishment has no clothes, that the focus of the angle. the collapse of afghanistan represents another catastrophic failure of our political establishment other examples include the collapse of the southern border and before that the collapse of our once unrivaled manufacturing base. they keep doubling down on failure insisting if they have a few more years they could make americans understand why their policies are smart and proper and to distract the public from their own failures these old packs do their best to stir up phony crises. >> is their influence by the russians? >> his behavior doesn't done much to all a that concern. >> my warning training is an intelligence professional, i've seen in terms o

caller: i think donald trump and mike pompeo.rump with the taliban, they negotiated with terrorists but did not negotiate with the afghan government. show trump talking to the man who is now running the taliban. it was negotiating with terrorists. all of this was a set up. the withdrawals -- withdrawal date was set two months after joe biden got out of office because the taliban had already taken over afghanistan when joe biden took office. this was a set up. host: president joe biden, not afraid to point the finger back at the trump administration in the speech he gave monday about the situation in afghanistan. this is what he said monday. [video clip] >> when i came to office, i inherited a deal president trump negotiated with the taliban. under his agreement, u.s. forces would be out of afghanistan by may 1, 2021. just a little over three months after i took office. u.s. forces had already drawn down during the trump administration from roughly 15,500 american forces to 2500 troops in the country. the taliban was at its strong

joining us now with more, former secretary of state mike pompeo. yi know you have plenty of contacts in the region. out what without asking specific questions i want you to give your best assistance of the situation on the ground and what we might need to do to get our fellow americans and allies out safely. >> he pretty much catalogued the chaos and the tragedy of this past six days that we now have credit lines. i haven't heard a single thing from him today, still no thing about giving component to the area i spoke a lot. >> they are frightened by the american co-ops that we have power that we have frankly collects how man for play. i didn't hear a single thing that would frighten a singleou tall man, thinks there's any risk with this administration with the cost on any of them for their activities and what they are doing for americans today, holding them hostage is, not that many will get -- we haven't seen anything like this in a off online to ants to destroy some of these billions of dollars of equipment that we left behind but it's going to s

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secretary pompeo told us that the taliban was going to renounce al qaeda.t has happened. none of it has happened. >> while the biden administration faces criticism over the collapse of afghanistan, former secretary of state mike pompeo was confronted about his own record of legitimatizing the taliban during an interview on "fox news sunday." >> do you regret giving the taliban that legitimacy? do you regret pressing the afghan government to release 5,000 prisoners, which they did, some of whom are now back on the battle field fighting with the taliban? >> chris, you make peace with your enemies. the statement that i made that day was absolutely true. you can ask the military leaders on the ground. we did good work to crush al qaeda. when we left office, there were fewer than 200 al qaeda left in afghanistan. chris, we never trusted the taliban. you can ask them yourselves. we made abundantly clear if they did not live up to that piece of paper, to the words they put on the ground. we weren't going to allow them to walk away from any deal they struck. we wer

secretary pompeo is coming up, and are you ready to give up gas?lectric. the green agenda paves the way for even more and bigger problems. >> john: crickets from andrew cuomo, the disgraced governor skipping work to focus on a survival strategy. we are live as we wait to see the governor's next montage. >> sandra: we look forward to that, all that, plus the feds so sobering crackdown on bze and america's airports. >> john: we begin with developing news this afternoon, vaccine makeroderna annncing it believes a booster shot will be needed to stop a winter brea. >> sandra: though before americans rolled their sleeves, the united nations is pushing to stop all bster shots until the rest of the world is able to catch up,hey say. >> john: the hold of the world health organization is saying the vaccine supply shod first go to developing nations nea gives us countries of the united states of "greed." it's even sparked a new term on the left, vaccine privilege. >> sandra: mike pompeo is ready to react to that but first to benjamin hall in london with us. >

here is mike pompeo and former secretary of state. this is terrifying to me. there are some democrats who wish this was playing out the same way in the united states. >> laura, thanks for having me on. it would be a mistake to try what you just described happening in germany. it makes no sense for the united states. there is scant evidence these lockdowns do good and they do an enormous amount of damage to the economy and the mental health of the people that live there. when i see democrats in washington, d.c. who want to head down that path and go back to lockdowns and the things that we tried. 15 days to stop the spread want the answer was to give people good information and truthful information and let them make their own decisions. the work our administration did to develop warp speed delivered good outcomes. >> laura: these are allies. biden is lavishing praise on them. they have a great new relationship. this is like china and hong kong. >> everything about the biden administration demonstrated it wants to look more like europe. bigger government and peo

but president trump, secretary pompeo, they bear significant responsibility for this. president trump told us the taliban was going to fight terror. secretary pompeo told us the taliban was going to renounce al qaeda. none of this happened. faith: faith of debate -- abub ay, abc news, washington. dion: -- interview afghan president in 2015. the group is based in san rafael and its co-founder told abc 7 news reporter that she is worried and frightened about what could happen next in afghanistan. it's a story you'll see only on abc 7 news. >> it's absolutely not only a crisis. it's catastrophic. reporter: the roots of peace founder was up all night, desperately trying to help her 360 employees stuck in kabul. he just sent this letter to president biden, pleading for help. >> please, to safely get my staff and their immediate families out of afghanistan right now. reporter:veeeg work in afghanistan for two decades, helping farmers thrive. but her employees are now at double risk of being targeted by taliban forces since they work for a u.s. government-funded nonprofit run

there has been, you know, a lot of criticism from trump and pompeo but as "the new york times" notes,at the taliban had violated up till now. they were talking about conditions based withdrawal. if you go back and read this four-page document, it says the afghan government, former president ashraf ghani should enter negotiations with the president but doesn't say there should be a cease-fire plus they left the ghaani government out of the negotiations. there was a lot of concern on the hill, there was some secret side texts that were classified that we still haven't seen, hasn't been publicly released that was supposed to address some other issues. but again, you know, the american public hasn't seen it and it's clear that the trump administration hadn't thought through the withdrawal to the point where they were, you know, going to be able to carry out in an orderly manner. >> what are you hearing about the latest on congressional hearings about this withdrawal? >> there's going to be hearings on this. there's, you know, chairman bob menendez, democratic, who has been critical of the

pompeo was the first secretary of state to meet with the taliban. that was a huge mistake. the document they signed was a surrender agreement. it required concessions including release of 5,000 prisoners. it completely eliminated, set aside the afghan government. didn't allow them to participate. that was a huge mistake and one that emboldened the terrorists that we find threatening our people on the ground. but president biden didn't have to go along with it. he reversed many decisions that he agreed with that president trump made and ultimately he's the commander-in-chief. he made the decision to withdraw our forces, to do it in the way it's being done now that is just absolutely shameful and will certainly heighten the terrorist threat to the homeland. it will make it more difficult to defend ourselves and for our adversaries to fear us and friends to trust us. >> neil: i'm sure you're aware that president trump in a number of interviews said this would no have happened if he was in charge. what do you think? >> he set this in motion. he began th

secretary pompeo told us the taliban was going to renounce al qaeda. none of that has happened. today as we watch the taliban release prisoners across afghanistan, there is very real concern that they are not just fighters in those prisons who will join the battle and afghanistan, but the terrorist groups globally will be fed new soldiers from those prisons. this is a devastating set of circumstances, but the delegitimization of the afghan government, the notion in the trump administration, the suggestion that they were going to invite the taliban to camp david. this disaster certainly began

here is mike pompeo and mister secretary, great to see you tonight.rsonally but you do get the sense that there are some democrats who wish this was playing out the same way in the united states. >> it would be an enormous mistake to try anything remotely like what you just described in germany to go to the lockdowns happening in other countries across the world would make no sense for the united states, this can't evidence these lockdowns do a lot of good and they do an enormous a lot of damage to the economy and the mental health of people that live there. when i see democrat governors and even democrats in washington dc who want to head down that path and go back to the kind of things we tried, 15 days to stop the spread, the right information was to give truthful information and let them make their own decisions for themselves in the work the administration did to develop or speed and the vaccines. jillian: these are our allies, our bonded allies, president biden is lavishing praise on them, great new relationship. china and hong kong. >> everythi

secretary pompeo told us the taliban would renounce al qaeda. none of that has happened. dion: america went to afghanistan 20 years ago to defeat the forces that attacked the u.s. on september 11. the biden administration set may 1 as the official start of the withdrawal of remaining forces, about 3500 u.s. troops. that met the exit deadline the trump administration to go to -- negotiated with the taliban last year. president biden called an end for the u.s. military mission in afghanistan august 31. officials authorized sending 2000 troops to safely evacuate u.s. personnel as well as afghans who helped american troops. with the increase there will be 6000 troops in afghanistan. a very -- bay area nonprofit is pleading for help to evacuate their employees in kabul. cheryl jennings spent time there with the charity roots of peace and interviewed president ashraf ghani. the group's co-founder told abc 7 that she is worried and frightened about what could happen next in afghanistan. it is a story you will see only on abc 7. >> it is absolutely not only a crisis, it is catast

mike pompeo, brilliant guy, and many others worked on it endlessly. meetings with the taliban, of course you have to meet with the taliban. they are the ones who are negotiating with. i spoke on numerous occasions to the head of the taliban and we had very strong conversation. i told him up front, i said, look at, before we start, let me just tell you right now that if anything happens to americans or any body else or if you ever come over to our land, we will hit you with a force that no country has ever been hit with before. a force so great to that you won't even believe it and cure of village and we know where it is, and i named it will be the first one. >> sean: mr. president, i want to interrupt, you said this to who? >> to mullah bar adar who is probably the top person, nobody knows who the top person is, but i would say that that is probably the top person and it seems to be -- that's the way it is rolling right now. but i had a very strong conversation, i also had a good conversation with him, we talked after that, that was the primary point

ros: secretary of state mike pompeo called it the best opportunity for peace in a generation.een the taliban and the u.s. was done. note, also present was the taliban chief was the taliban official who signed the deal. he had been released from a pakistani jail at the request of the u.s., and this is at was in the deal. first of all, input a date on the u.s. departure. there would be a full withdrawal by may 2021 of u.s. forces, and the taliban cap to its side of things, and the date was pushed back to august by the bite administration, but the deal said exactly when the americans would exit. in return, the taliban made a number of agreements, agreeing to not attack u.s. personnel, to restrict any activity that would threaten the u.s., including terror attacks abroad. there was a sanction that said the taliban would not allow any of its members or other groups, including al qaeda, to use the soil of afghanistan to threaten the security of the u.s. and its allies. in return, the taliban got the release of thousands of fighters who were in prison. here is a text of the deal. ita

you heard secretary pompeo talk many times how they treated the communist party who they really is so for the first time they brought that back to foreign policy. not only that they were the first administration for those challenges because today one of the most powerful armies the second most powerful economy so too many of the governments especially with the administration because they do not want to bear the cost but it was the first so if they sign a human rights act for hong kong and they blacklist chinese companies and they targeted and sanctioned senior communist party officials this had never happened before. i would call that a backlash. the trump foreign policy is always about going along that's not entirely true. many of you heard about 5g networks so that the chinese company called huawai the state —- it is a state-sponsored it's not really private. they have very deep tie with the chinese government and military it is one of the national champions and then to build the 5g network and the trump administration say do not use it with your 5g networks because it's a huge secu

morgan, you were with secretary of state pompeo.icans behind, our allies behind and women will be subjugated in ways, very rightly described by laura. it couldn't get any worse. >> i could not agree anymore and i've been in the room with secretary pompeo whenever you got on the wrong side of him in a negotiation and it is not pleasant for the other party but that is the kind of leadership we need, that is the kind of tone and attitude we should be taken with the taliban right now and not begging them and cajoling them right now in order to get our citizens out of the country and that is the fundamental difference that this administration does not understand whether it is negotiating with the taliban or the iranians or dealing with the chinese communist party. they don't understand negotiating from a position of strength. one thing laura just said that it's really important, she talked about this push to start to legitimize the taliban. why is that important? because china and russia still have embassies in afghanistan that they have

that's completely the opposite of what mike pompeo and his team negotiated. first of all, how do you do a successful negotiation? you walk in from a position of strength. when mike pompeo and the team walked into the room they were backed up by a president who released the mother of all bombs, the description for the bomb that's basically right underneath a nuclear weapon in terms of the capacity, so they had done that under president trump's watch. right. so that's number one. number two, whatever pompeo came into the room, the taliban knew that he was part of the team that took the head off of qassem soleimani, basically the world's biggest terrorist and so he walked in from a position of strength and he said to them on multiple times, you touch one american and then it's your head. todd: a part of the biden administration's policy reportedly included handing over a list of u.s. citizens and allies to the taliban as part of their negotiation was the terror group to help with evacuations. at least 100 afghan evacuees headed to the u.s., also appearing on the

i mentioned in my book his administrationy was the firt american administration to have secretary pompeo talk and visit the friedin conference and he's my favorite from the trump administration. so, the trump administration was the first american administrationti that understood the true nature of the communist party. and you heard secretary pompeo talk about it many times that the trump administration treated the communist party as who it really is and not who had wished it to be. for the first time they brought us back to foreign policy. not only that, the trump administration also was the first administration not afraid to bear costs to challenge for its aggressions especially domestic aggressionsns because today china is one of the most powerful armies and second largest economy since it is very high there is no cost. too many of our government to successions in the u.s. administration as well as our allies are so afraid because they do not want to bear that cost but the trump administration was the first one going to bear the costs and they didn't know so they did these things i don

earlier on "fox news sunday" former secretary of state mike pompeo calling out biden administration.it looks like biden administration has just failed in its execution of its own plan. it looks like they're now trying to get folks out. this reminds me of previous administrations have allowed 'em was pass says to be overrun, it starts to feel this way. it feels like this is a bit of panic having to reinsert soldiers to get them out. we reduced our forces in a minutely, and the taliban didn't announce on capitals. >> trey yingst live in the middle east with the latest on what's happening in kabul. hi, trey. >> reporter: good afternoon. we know the biden administration has authorized an additional 1,000 u.s. troops to head to kabul and assist with this evacuation not only of u.s. personnel, but also u.s. allies. there are major concerns that the interpreters and the transa laters, those to who help -- translators, those who helped in afghanistan over the past 20 years, will be left behind. there is a visa program in place by the american government, but it's moving extremely, extremely

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secretary pompeo told us that the taliban was going to renounce al qaeda.ppened. >> liz cheney whose father played an outsized role in getting our nation involved in afghanistan after 9/11. let's talk about it with our guests, pollster and veteran of the obama campaign, and matthew dowd, former george w. bush strategist and founder of "country over party." it's great to have you both. matthew, i would like to begin with you because of something our mutual friend nicolle wallace said this afternoon on live television after the president spoke. she summed up his speech this way. 95% of the american people will agree with him. 95% of the kind of twitter media complex, the people i refer to as the cheap seats will disagree with him. do you concur with that assessment? >> i don't know about the percentages, but i think the american public will agree with what he said tonight and i think there's criticism coming from a lot of different people which i find amazing. people that actually pushed the war to begin with which was a huge mistake and people that were part

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he was laying the blame at former secretary of state mike pompeo. let's listen to that. >> our secretary of state signed a surrendered agreement to the taliban. >> you're talking about mike pompeo. >> yes. this collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. the tyab didnaliban didn't defe. we defeated ourselves and threw the afghans under the bus on our way out. >> we have images from 2020 from just last year of then secretary of state mike pompeo and members of the taliban. the taliban putting together this piece deal. this was just last september of last year. secretary cohen, what is your thinking on this? i'm sure you've been contemplating this. >> president biden sits behind the resolute desk and there's a reason why he's resolute. he made a resolution decision. it's not, i think, becoming for him to point fingers at the trump administration or anybody else, because he's accepted the responsibility knowing just how bad it could be. but leave it to me or the general mcmaster to say this was equivalent to neville chamberlain saying pea

mike pompeo meets with the taliban and tries to negotiate something.ay, they end up getting rolled harder than-- almost as as neville chamberlain because they knew what the outcome was. they set this up to fail but always, of course, joe biden could have easily turned this around and instead used it as the excuse to get out. both parties have failed the american people. it can't continue. it particularly can't continue with just pointing fingers while america is embarrassed in front of the world. >> you mentioned the efforts that you are undertaking and many other veterans are joining you in this as well, trying to get afghans, their friends, ou of afghanistan. you are seeing in your party what appears to be a trend for some politicians seeing opportunity in this. they're painting afghan refugees as invaders. you know, there are undertones even of racism here. what is your message to people in your party who are doing that? >> for sure. look, here is the thing. most republican members of congress, for instance, i think when we talked about doing this a

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secretary pompeo empowered our undersecretary who is essentially the fuel of the state department to get this done in he put people directly reporting to him who would be responsible for getting the 100,000 americans home. why has secretary blinken still not done that. where is the point of failure a the state department? is anyone in this entire administration going to be held accountable for this debacle? i don't think they're going to fire anybody. >> i hope if secretary blinken starts to take questions, that they are tougher on him than they did in that previous pentagon briefing that we got o like to ask questions on the same thing in we have given all of those details. general griffin was trying for fox news, others in the room were trying, but they simply, their goal today was seen with major general, just don't make any headlines. just you know, keep the line tight right now. it's a very military thing to d right now. i want to get to this before i come to you, we have two republican congressmen on last hour, one was the first elected to congress from the state of florida. an

and this is mike pompeo, former secretary of state. >> i would've let my ten-year-old son get away from this kind of prophetic blame shifting. >> critics say for the u.s. to cut a deal with the taliban, without the afghan government even in the room, was hugely demoralizing, and led inevitably to where we are today. >> that's just simply not true. i was at the center of working to deliver that. we had the afghans all in the room for the same time in 20 years. we negotiated a deal that performed a basis for the conditions based withdrawal of american soldiers, i'm proud of the work we did there. >> so peter talk about blame shifting, how much are trump and his people protesting too much. and looking back and just the recent past, how much responsibility do previous presidents bear for what we're seeing play out? >> well, i think this is one of these stories brian where there's a lot of blame to go around. certainly for presidents and now presiding over this, war of different misjudgements. and certainly president trump, negotiated exactly this kind of a situation. this is not only what p

big top from pompeo. big talk. the hold on mike. who is this, in doha, are standing next to taliban official, who is now the de facto leader of afghanistan. a way that's you mike. that is of course then secretary of state mike pompeo. with him who was released from prison in pakistan in 2018, at the request of the trump administration. so that he could participate in negotiations. the two of them first met in september 2020, and again two months later, in november. because one meeting with the taliban was not nearly enough, for tough guy mike. up until a couple of months ago, trump himself was still touting his great deal, and his decision to pull all u.s. troops. >> i started the process, all the troops are coming back home. they can stop the process. 21 years is enough, don't we think. 21 years. they couldn't stop the process. they wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process. >> that was at the end of june. he wanted credit for bringing the troops home. he did not want joe biden to get any credit for his deal. and now, tr

pompeo explained they told the taliban that if they move against the people we are going to evacuate,he allies that we had, the afghan people that worked with us, all of that plan was placed. biden turned it upside down. anything trump had planned and done, biden turned it upside down. host: how so, specifically? caller: yes specifically. host: how so did he turn it upside down in your mind? caller: the troops were pulled out first. the troops kept everything in place and you pull them out and leave everybody else defenseless. definitely the people were going to be pulled out. kept everythin place and you pull them out and leave everybody else defenseless. definitely the people were going to be pulled out. the civilians, the americans that were there, and the afghan interpreters, all the ones that were going to be pulled out -- we would not have had this type of evacuation where people cannot get to the airport because the taliban is in control of all the exits. host: michael is in dixon, tennessee, democrat line. caller: good morning to you. i want to speak to a bigger issue. he inhe

let's bring in former secretary of state, mike pompeo. a fox news contributor. as always. >> great to be with you. >> martha: a very tough thing to watch. you hear from the u.n. representative of afghanistan. it's painful to watch. afghan children are bearing the brunt of this violence. so i'm going to ask you the same question this lucas asked john kirby. are you surprised at the speed with which this has happened? >> yes, i'm a little surprised. we spent 20 years building the forces there, giving them weapons, all the skill sets that they need. it's their time. everyone knew this day would come. eventually the security forces had to stand up to protect their own, their children, their women, their nation. i hope they're able to regroup. i hope president ghani can lead them forward. our mission was set -- we're a month short of the attacks in new york city. our mission set was two fold. one was to make sure that we took out al-quaida and destroyed it and second to make sure that something like what happened in new york that day could never happen again. we have

other folks that had access to the most sensitive information like pompeo have long believed that thekely outcome of where this virus came from was the wuhan institute of virology based on intelligence. how much could we publicly disclose in i worked with sect pompeo to put out a fact sheet is the factors you just outlined about circumstances at the wuhan institute of virology, we wanted to put as much information as we could without jeopardizing our sources into the chinese communist party. >> tucker: the biden administration controlled the federal government for 6 months now still seems to be hiding this information. if this is true and it's almost certain it is true, what are the implications? the chinese government destroyed american society and our economy. how do we respond? >> that's where i wrote the op-ed. one of the first opportunities for the international community to do something instead of a letter or rhetoric is to take action. tucker, if you look objectively at china's conduct over the last year, millions of muslims murdered, tortured, raped or imprisoned and 4 million

and trump -- in doha, where pompeo and trump released the taliban. have you talked about that? guest: no. caller: you keep saying you want to take care of these people, two weeks ago they told all americans to get out of afghanistan. they stopped people from traveling. do not keep the scrap up that all of a sudden it is joe biden's fault, that is nonsense. host: ambassador wayne. guest: all of a sudden it is not joe biden's fault, as i said for the last 2.5 and three years we have taken a series of steps that undermined the credibility of the government in kabul. and that agreement negotiated with the taliban without close involvement with the government in kabul, and then after the agreement was signed forcing the government in kabul through diplomatic pressure to release 5000 taliban, something they had not negotiated, was a serious blow. i think there was a tremendous amount of damage already done during the trump administration, including the consistent messages that we were leaving, and we were not in a sense at that time preparing for a good tr

secretary pompeo told us the taliban was going to renounce al qaeda. none of that has happened. none of it has happened. the taliban released prisoners across afghanistan. there's real concern they're not just fighters in those prisons who will join the battle in afghanistan, but the terrorists globally will be fed new soldiers in their war on terror from those prisons. it's a devastating set of circumstances. the delegitimization of the afghan government, the notion from the trump administration, the suggestion that they were going to invite the taliban to camp david -- >> on september 11th. >> yes. this disaster certainly began -- look, the notion of we'll end endless wars, that campaign slogan, what we're watching in afghanistan is what happens when america withdraws from the world. everyone who has been saying america needs to withdraw we're getting a devastating real timeletime lesson on what that means. >> let me tell you what justin amash said. the taliban's gains in afghanistan, the united states wasn't able to shape circumstances through 20 years of war. we would have s