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joining us tonight, senator bill hagerty, dr.mar hadad, michael burgess, steve forbes, vince collagnese, former nypd lieutenant. he is darren porcher and arizona attorney general mark brnovich. angry voters heckling the president on tour of hurricane damage. he is moving on to a covid speech to rescue his plunging approval ratings now hitting record lows nationwide. we have a preview of his speech. top democrats say no to nancy pelosi and chuck schumer racing to ram through as fast as they can historic spending and tax hikes without reading the bills first because democrats face losing control of congress just as they did under both clinton and obama. plus tonight, even more newly revealed government documents strengthen the case that dr. fauci did in fact mislead under oath and stonewalled congress by denying that the u.s. did fund lethal supervirus research in china. also florida governor ron desantis takes on dr. fauci for giving not so state of the art information about covid-19. plus tonight, that oklahoma doctor at the cent

senator bill hagerty is next. we did it again.izon has been named america's most reliable network by rootmetrics. and our customers rated us #1 for network quality in america according to j.d. power. number one in reliability, 16 times in a row. most awarded for network quality, 27 times in a row. proving once again that nobody builds networks like verizon. that's why we're building 5g right, that's why there's only one best network. charles: although the situation in afghanistan continues to dominate headlines out of washington, d.c., there is a race behind the scenes that would effectively alter america from its roots of rugged individualism to big government and cradle to grave financial assistance. this is not simply a battle between two political parties. there are a lot of nuances going on that might actually save the day. joining me now republican senator, bill hagerty of tennessee. the week began that your former colleague heidi heitkamp came out strongly against many taxes her party is pushing. i thought that was remarkab

senator bill hagerty, thank you very much -- >> great to be with you, neil.he pentagon. this issue of who's stopping who from getting anything done has become, like, the latest debate here. state department says it's not causing these bumps getting them here, other private groups say it is. what's the real skinny? >> reporter: well, i think if you're talking about the situation on the ground in ma sasha reef, or neil, you have to understand the state department has nobody on the ground who can verify who is on those manifests, so there may be some americans onboard. but what i'm hearing from sources is that while there may be -- most of those people onboard are worthy and should be flown out and might even qualify for p1 or p2 visas, some might be americans, there also is no way for the u.s. government to guarantee that. and if you look at the next week leading up to 9/11, they can't be with authorizing flights to land at the air base in qatar, one of our most, you know, one of the most sensitive air bases in the middle east without knowing who's onboard thos

. >> mike: big picture afghanistan, senator bill hagerty of tennessee said today he's worried about this your reaction. >> what we have done is we've actually precipitated the situation where the taliban now have declared victory. a great victory propaganda as well and that is inspiring jihadist around the world to step up the threat of terror. even worse, armed them. the threats that the allies proceed is more costly than her own because geographically they are much closer. they were concerned about humanitarian disaster. the refugees fleeing afghanistan elves destabilized by the taliban. >> mike: steve, you want to lead us off? >> steve: i think he is right. we don't have to match in this either. you have seen the jihadist on social media celebrating the victory of the taliban over the united states. and you have seen the taliban itself celebrate its victory over the united states. you have seen the taliban putting out videos making statements celebrating 9/11 attacks and saying that we would win all along. this will undoubtedly be a shot in the arm of jihadist not just in afghanistan

. >> mike: so big picture, afghanistan, senator bill hagerty of the great state of tennessee said today more jihadists. let's take a listen i will get you guys to react. >> what was done is we've actually precipitated a situation where the taliban now have declared victory. a great victory of propaganda as well, and that's inspiring jihadists from around the world to step up the threat of terror. even worse, we've armed them and the threat that our allies are perceiving is even more proximate than our own because geographically they are located much more close. they are also concerned about humanitarian disaster because of refugees fleeing afghanistan now that it's been destabilized by the taliban. >> mike: steve, do you want to lead us off? >> yeah, well i think he's right. we don't have to imagine this either. this isn't theoretical, you've seen the jihadists and their messaging channel even onon social media celebrating the victory of the taliban over the united states, and you've seen the taliban itself celebrate its victory of the united states. you've seen the taliban putting up v