alicia: jennifer griffin getting answers to so many questions. is live at the airbase, thank you, sense of. be sure to check all exclusive interview jon scott 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox news. mike. mike: the biden administration and afghan stop from entering the u.s., here is alejandro my office on that yesterday. >> if and when we obtained derogatory information, we know how to address that, those muscles are well exercised. we have and we deny access to individuals whose derogatory information is not result. >> reaction michigan publican congressman from oklahoma security affairs committee visited afghanistan during the u.s. evacuation last month for. >> thinking. mike: you hurt the homeland security secretary alejandro my office, are you convinced the vetting process for evacuees is were graphs enough? >> i will be convinced until we get more details. we saw some of the vetting undercoat at cutter and kuwait, they had a number of dhs officials comparing biometric data whether it fingerprints, facial id, we have a large volume of infor

jennifer griffin, thank you very much.e on the new afghan interim government i want to bring in retired four star general jack keane and chairman of the institute for the study of war. general keane, you warned us. you looked over the horizon and said here is what's coming. we're seeing some of it come to fruition. >> no doubt about it. certainly this is a barbaric thugs and killers and not surprising they will fill their cabinet with the leaders of those barbaric thugs and killers. they are all hard liners. one is worse than the other. as jennifer pointed out, haqqani, who is going to be kind of like the state police in charge of repressing the people and keeping them in line, yeah, wanted by the f.b.i. in 2011 his organization killed 77 soldiers in a single incident in a province when a truck suicide bombing incident. he laid siege to the u.s. embassy also in 2011. somewhere in the neighborhood of two plus weeks. so yeah, these are the thugs, these are the killers, this is expected. there is no surprise here. let me make

>> jon: jennifer griffin from ramstein germany, jennifer, thank you.will have more this hour on afghanistan with former u.s. ambassador to nato and retired lieutenant general, as well as a congressman and iraq war veteran. >>> the white house announcing president biden will travel to new jersey and queens, new york, on tuesday to survey the damage from hurricane ida's remnants, as people in those areas spend the labor day weekend cleaning up from the storm. bryan llenas is live in hard-hit new jersey with the latest there. bryan? >> jon, good evening. that's right, you drive all around new jersey this labor day weekend, and all the people's personal belongings and furniture are out on the streets, and we are at a home here where the floodwaters from the river just came in and demolished the basement entirely, almost killing a mother and her two children. take a look at this surveillance video. in it, you see a young man walking past the wall to leave the basement, when all of a sudden, the wall begins to collapse, and then the water starts rushing in,

fox news correspondent jennifer griffin took an exclusive tour with joint chief chairman general markley of the ramstein airbase were evacuees are being held in jennifer asked the general if he believed u.s. troops will have to go back into afghanistan. >> i don't know if the taliban can establish governments, they may be moving on but is a good probability and that will then lead to commissions that could in fact be the reconstitution of al-qaeda or isis or other terrorist groups. >> just a few days ago before the 20th anniversary of the september 11 attacks president biden who spent the weekend in wilmington when family is defending his decision to withdraw all troops before the anniversary including the state department officials. there are 100 americans still in afghanistan. jon: david spunt from wilmington, delaware. thank you. we will have more on this story with chris stewart who is on the house intelligence committee. meantime the taliban is expected to announce a new government in afghanistan next week amid nationwide economic instability. meanwhile qatar and turkish teams ar

jennifer griffin doing some independent digging of her own into this story. she has been told today by multiple sources that key aspects of the reporting in this are not accurate. she's in the pentagon briefing room at this moment waiting for this to get underway. we've been questioning specifically about some of the underlying story here to get to the bottom of what is true and what is not. that is moments away. as we wait for that, general jack keane, four-store general and fox news strategic analyst. general keane, good to have you with us today. to sort of frame this a bit, general, the questions about these conversations occurred shortly before the election and shortly after january 6. john kirby has stepped to the podium. we'll listen together and get your thoughts. >> you may have seen last night, the dprk fired two short range missiles to the sea of japan. they're in violation with many security council resolutions. this highlights their elicit weapons program. i think you saw the statement earlier today about that. this morning secretary austin welco

jennifer griffin spoke exclusively with the chairman of the joint chiefs mark milley. part of thaifr conversation was about the vetting process. >> getting the names registered. doing the biometrics. check iriss and do fingerprints and full facial photo and run that against the 20 years of databases that we have in the interagency and run it against the nctc checks and f.b.i. checks. if the individual has some sort of derogatory information or something suspect at all. it will pop up as red or yellow. >> a lot in that interview over the weekend. in a moment we get reaction from andy biggs, republican congressman from arizona demanding answers from dhs on this vetting process. first jennifer griffin joins us live at the pentagon with more of her exclusive look at the screening process. hi, jennifer, good morning. >> we were given access to anyone we wanted to interview at three u.s. military bases in europe. ramstein, italy and spain where the f.b.i. customs and border patrol and ncis had agents overseeing the screening of 17,000 afghan evacuees. we saw the biomet trick

national security correspondent, jennifer griffin is still outside the pentagon and it appears the presidenthat you mentioned earlier, not making remarks, anticipating he's present but he's apparently not planning to say anything. >> i think from what we are seeing, he's going to let the images speak for themselves. solemn moment and remember, he traveled to three locations and by the time he got here to the pentagon, the survivors and their families had already left because they had been here for a ceremony at 9:03 a.m. and at the moment of impact, the plaintiff at building, the defense chief and there was beautiful amazing grace in the song. i think they are letting the images speak right now, there are no longer any family members over there at the memorial site where the president is right now. remember the security threat is still very high particularly in the wake of the pullout from afghanistan and we don't know what decisions may have been made as a result of security considerations today. jon: our national security correspondent, jennifer, thank you. forty passengers and crew member

we have news from jennifer griffin.are been flagged in the process of vetting. several were sent to kosovo. what will the u.s. government do with these individuals? they could not pass the initial screening process. they made it out of the country. what happens now? >> it is a big question. it goes back to the completely poorly planned and executed process that resulted in this. you have people coming to america. secretary mayorkas said we will take a minimum of 50,000 people from afghanistan here. i am very concerned about having them vetted. look at what happened at the southern border and the disaster the biden administration created there. we have every reason to be concerned. >> i have to wrap things up. you are one of more than 2 dozen republicans on the hill who are asking and demanding that the biden administration is more clear about who gets on the planes. have a nice labored. labor day. >> thank you very much. >> so much to hit on. we have a problem trying to get people on these planes and get folks who mean

president biden set to lay a wreath later today and jennifer griffin with the very latest on the observanceseric. a lot of wounds were reopened with the fall of kabul and the return of the taliban. that anger was reflected today in remark by the chairman of the joint chiefs and the defense secretary. >> daily lives were paid for with the blood of the fallen on this place at 9:37 on september 11th, 2001. those ideas were and still are hated by our enemies, the fascists, the nazis, communists, al-qaeda, isis, the taliban, authoritarians, dictators and tyrants of all kinds. >> at dawn this morning at the pentagon a giant american unfold over the exact spot where the plane hit. 184 people killed, 59 on board american airlines flight 77 which took off from dulus airport for los angeles at 8:20 a.m. i spoke to many pentagon survivors who crawled out on hands and knees and many deployed the next day to begin hunting attackers and until a few days ago constant deployment of u.s. troops to afghanistan for the 20 years. among those, ramon colon lopez, a tier 1para-rescue man or pj, now senior enlisted

let's get the read from the pentagon and jennifer griffin. jennifer? >> today's hearing was supposed to be about afghanistan. there were a lot of heated questions from republicans about general milley's decision to book to bob woodward. >> you spent more time with bob woodward on this book than analyzing the prospect that the taliban would fall? >> not even close. >> i was quoted in the book when 100% was conflated and not portrayed. >> democrats focused on how the withdrawal began with the agreement signed with the taliban by the trump administration going down from 13,000 u.s. troops despite the taliban complying with all but one aspect or only one aspect of the conditions based agreement. most importantly that the taliban never broke with al guide. general milley said he learned of the taliban agreement days before it was signed. general mckenzie said that he and general miller recommended keeping 2,500 american troops. >> what do you call a retreat of enemy forces? >> i don't know. i've never done one of those operations. >> you just did. >> i disa

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fox news correspondent jennifer griffin spoke to the joint chiefs of staff about those insights. joined general milley as he thanked the troops who set up the massive evacuation processing centers at ramstein here on the tarmac behind me and as he greeted afghans, many of them s i v s, like the one who served as his own translator 17 years ago who he hadn't seen since then, who caught one of the last flights out of kabul. is the us safer today since the u. s has withdrawn from afghanistan? well you know, this is something that i've thought a lot about. and i personally think that my military estimate is that the conditions are, uh, likely to develop, uh of a civil war. i don't know if the taliban is going to able to consolidate power and established governance. they maybe maybe not. but i think there's at least a very good probability of a broader civil war and that will then in turn lead to conditions that could in fact, lead to a reconstitution of al qaeda or growth of isis or other myriad of terrorist groups. so i think the short answer to your question is we don't know yet, b

let's get the latest from jennifer griffin. jennifer? >> hi, neil.inese counterpart were not secret. they were done with 15 people in the room including note takers in coordination with the civilian leaders of the military and briefed to the secretary of state and white house chief of state at the time i'm told. >> i have great confidence in general milley. >> the unnamed sources in the book said general milley told his chinese counterpart that he would give him a heads-up in the u.s. planned to strike. the officials say this is taken out of context and needs to be understood to chinese leaders that the u.s. was surprising a surprise attack, which they were not. a former defense official said it was done after mark esper said his civilian policy members do the same. u.s. intelligence at the time suggested the chinese were jumpy about all of the nice coming out of washington surrounding the u.s. election. u.s. pacific command sources tell fox then defense secretary esper was so concerned about not speaking the chinese that he asked for a delay in send

jennifer griffin has the latest from the pentagon.he cia, recalled the vienna station chief over his mishandling of new cases of havana syndrome, a mysterious set of brain altering ailments thought to be caused by a directed energy weapon being used to terrorize american diplomats and spies. the first cases were reported five years ago in cuba. the attacks continue. people are really getting hurt. mark polymer rapolas, a 26 year veteran of the cia, was forced to retire from overseeing clandestine operations in europe. he was targeted during a trip to moscow in 2017 and began having debilitating vertigo, dizziness and nausea. this is a terror weapon. this is an act of war we're looking at, uh, device that is designed to terrorize that is designed to incapacitated is taking our officers. off the battlefield. this week, the top state department official overseeing the havana syndrome response. ambassador pamela spratling was fired after six months on the job. senators jeanne shaheen and susan collins demanded accountability in a letter t

reporter: we are going to play a quick sound bite, jennifer griffin pressing mark milley earlier today. >> is the u.s. safer today since the u.s. has withdrawn from afghanistan? >> this is something that i have thought a lot about. and i personally think that my military estimate is the conditions are likely to develop of a civil war, and that will then in turn lead to conditions that could in fact lead to a reconstitution of al qaeda or a growth of isis or a myriad of terrorist groups. the short answer to your question is we don't know yet. but the conditions are very likely in my opinion. i testified to this and said it in public. we could see a resurgence of terrorism coming out of that general region in 24-36 months. reporter: i think the answer is no, we are not safer today. >> if he's estimating 12-36 months, it's probably 6 months looking at the way they predict things. reporter: meanwhile our president vacationing in delaware. >> blatant lies and misinformation from the highest people in our government is disgusting. reporter: their powerful message for decision makers and what

if you wore a uniform, your service mattered. >> at the pentagon jennifer griffin fox news.n new york the names of almost 3,000 names read out loud. terry estrada's husband and chairs 9/11 families and united for justice against terrorism. she joins us now. terry, i've read where you say this particular day, this 20-year mark is harder than the others, why? >> yes. because the realization that 20 years have gone by since my children were 7, 4 and 4 days old and now they are young adults and i miss all of that. he missed the birth of -- difficult times that we've had and it's just an accumulation of what has been lost. jon: the organization 9/11 families and survivors united were justice against terrorism. what's your main thrust right now? >> right now we are working with the white house. president biden put out an executive order of several documents, all documents related to the kingdom of saudi arabia and the role that they played in september 11th attacks so we are patiently waiting for the first report to come out due today and the white house is drags their feet a litt

jennifer griffin reporting u.s.elped that group gain control of the province north of kabul. as the taliban gets ready to unveil a new government, senator lindsey graham predicting the u.s. will have to go back into afghanistan at some point. >> i believe it's biden's fault. here is where we're at in the world. the taliban are not reformed or new. they will impose a lifestyle on the afghan people that i think is going to make us all sick to our stomach. they'll give safe haven to al qaeda ambitions to drive us out of the mideast at large and attack us because of our way of life. we'll be going back into afghanistan as we went back into iraq and syria. >> bill: general jack keane on tuesday morning. nice to have you today to answer that question there that we are going back into afghanistan just like iraq and syria. what do you think of that viewpoint? >> well, we know it is a fact. the administration has said as much. we'll manage the problem in afghanistan from over the horizon. that will be the initial commitment.

how likely is that to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer what are you hearing? >> hi, neil.ust came out of the pentagon briefing. so a point of clarification. general wolters that we just spoke to, the head of the u.s. european command, he said that he had about 24,000 afghans come through three bases that fall under european command. 58 people were flagged in the screening, the biometric and bio graphic screening that has been done at the bases. but of those 58, only one was really deemed that had to be flagged red and pulled out and taken in to some sort of custody arrangement. but general wolters said that person was not a serious throughout. so in terms of working with the taliban, i asked john kirby, the press secretary, whether anyone from the military had reached out to the taliban since the last u.s. forces had left. he said no. what is interesting, the new relationship between the u.s. government and military is yet to be determined with the taliban. the taliban continue to brandish american weapons captured from the afghan army. the fighters expressed anger that al

i jennifer griffin on the colleague our colleague on the radio yesterday.ources are saying the stories being blown out of proportion and the meeting was not secret. some of the characteristics on this book from bob woodward will not stand up under security. i trust jennifer griffin that her sources are telling her that, but i think we need more than just a no minutes say so and all of this. >> we need people like the secretary of defense putting his name on the record saying that he did not know about the china call. it was secret to him. but i worked with him and passed them in the hallway. we have some pictures that will pop up. i was there when he was very complicit in walking to st. john's church and walked to st. john's church, smiling with the president only to come out and apologize the next day for that. and i say this because i do not trust woodward at all, but if this is true, this is the deep state. it is those who smile at you in the whole of the west wing but throw you under the bus when a new administration comes in and the going gets tough. >

telling jennifer griffin those two allegations are not true and the calls with janet were not secret.ley's office issued a statement saying the actions were routine is part of his normal duties. some are calling for milley to step down. >> general milley has a lot of explaining to do and i think he ought to stop bellowing and honking on like a goose about rage and actually try to make our country more secure. >> i think joe biden is senile, and you know what? i'm not going to follow his orders -- or our future president, i don't think he is in his right mind either. it is the essence -- in essence, a military queue. he should be questioned under oath, if not with a polygraph test, if it happened, if it did, he should be relieved of his duties. jesse, another one of these folks with blind quotes, nothing like that to get the juices flowing. >> jesse: and never say this, dana, but i don't know what happened. i do know that my sources in trump world are saying that he probably had his team leak this, milley, to make himself look heroic, and it's blowing up in his face. they say this guy

>> bret: jennifer griffin life at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you.gain, more with the panel and senator fisher in a bit. border up flux of 15,000 immigrants currently planning to head north through mexico. their path would send them through tapachula which is already overwhelmed with migrants. correspondent griff jenkins is in southern mexico again tonight. >> this is like a dream, let's see a dream. >> griff: for many migrants a feeling of betrayal. joseph is one of the 0,000 haitians stuck in tapachula who thought he would be welcomed to the united states. >> biden has promised we can go over there and also have the opportunity, you know, to start over. so now, we're going to the state and we get deported to haiti, not to chile, not to colombia, not to mexico, it's to haiti. this is the worse situation. >> now mexican officials have expanded refugee operations to this soccer stadium to address the unprecedented surge of migrants. >> right now we are trying to attend to 2,000 people every day. >> the surprise visit from the director of the u.s. base

first, jennifer griffin joins us with more on those running the interim government in afghanistan. , jennifer. >> hi, martha. as one former female politician said, the u.s. legitimized the barbarians when they started negotiating with them. let's look at the men now. the new prime minister served in the last taliban gone from 1996 to 2001. the new defense minister is the son of mullah omar. the most sinister choice is the new interior minister. he will overlook if police and security forces. he's holding an american hostage, has been financed by the pakistan government for years and has up to $10 million bounty on his head from the fbi. also in the new cabinet, four taliban senior leaders as you mentioned, once detained at guantanamo bay. they were released by the obama administration. in a controversial prisoner swap for bowe bergdahl who was kidnapped by the taliban, traded to the haqqani network after deserting his army post. absent in the new cabinet, any women or ethnic minorities. >> it certainly does not meet the test of inclusivity and it includes people who have very challe

meanwhile, fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin traveled exclusively to ramstein base in germany yesterday with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, general milley met with evidence ackey -- evacuees and jennifer asked him if we're safer as a country after we left afghanistan. >> this is something i thought a lot about and i personally think that my military estimate is that the conditions are likely to develop of a civil war. i don't know if the taliban is going to be able to consolidate power and establish governance. maybe, maybe not. but i think there's at least a very good probability of a broader civil war and that will then in turn lead to conditions that could in fact lead to a reconstitution of al-qaida or growth of isis or other myriad of terrorist groups. >> reporter: homeland security officials will be on high alert leading up to the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks coming up in just under a week, on saturday. i reached out to the white house national security council, waiting to hear more, to see what they have to say about cong

here is what the chairman of the joint chiefs mark milley told our jennifer griffin yesterday in an exclusiveg the names registered, biometrics, they are doing irisis and finger photo and they run against that at 20 years of databases that we have in interagency, they run it against the nctc checks and the fbi checks. if the individual, if evacuee has some sort of derogatory information or something suspect at all, it'll pop up as red or yellow. they popped about 30,000 or so people through here. jason: joining us robert o'brien and served as the national security adviser to former president trump. thank you so much for joining us, ambassador. this vetting process, i mean, i've been to afghanistan a couple of times, only been there equivalent of a few days but it's definitely a third-world country and not as if everybody has a driver's license or birth certificate. this vetting process, how much confidence do you have on it? >> the american people are big hearted and generous and we want to bring the folks from afghanistan that helped us and helped sailers, marines to stay safe during the 20

at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. eric: it's outrageous.pproval ratings, well, they're falling in several state polls and with the midterms approaching, republicans have set their sights on vulnerable districts as they win the work back control of the house and senate next year. chief washington correspondent mike emmanuel explains. >> reporter: president biden's job approval nationally has slipped six percentage points in a new gallup survey to 43%. that could be a drag on swing district house democrats. in michigan the president has dropped to 39% approval in the detroit chamber poll. the national republican campaign committee has two top targets there, congress we'll elissa slotkin and haley stevens. republicans suggest the $3.5 trillion spending and tax package could eliminate swing democrats. >> any one of them that votes for these tax increases is not going to be coming back after the next election. >> reporter: in new hampshire the president's approval has dipped to 46% in the new granite state poll. there congressman chris pappas is

we have jennifer griffin at the pentagon and jacqui heinrich monitoring these developments as well as the white house. jennifer, first you at the pentagon. the idea of entering into discussions with the taliban might have seemed unthinkable 20 years ago. given everything that's transpired not so much now. what are you hearing on this. >> it's really important to point out that the taliban were legitimized in march 2020 when the trump administration signed a peace agreement, so-called peace agreement with the taliban, which had certain conditions that they had to meet. prisoners were released to negotiate. so that process started in march of 2020. now, today here at the pentagon, it was the first time the press had a chance to question defense secretary lloyd austin and general mark milley since the war was declared over. they took three questions. >> now, we just concluded the largest area evacuation of civilians in american history. it was heroic. it was historic. and i hope that all americans will unite to thank our service members. >> asked about lessons learned and the fact that 1

and 11 are stable, bret. >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon, thank you. at least 43 people have died in the east after massive flooding from record rainfall produced by the remnants of hurricane ida. correspondent bryan llenas shows us the devastation tonight from queens, new york. good evening, bryan. >> bret, good evening. the rainfall in new york city was extraordinary and unprecedented. at least 13 people have died in new york city. 11 of them drowning in their basement apartments like this one behind me. the flash flooding stunning residence and state officials. >> tonight new york city is in a state of emergency after cascading water falls shut down the city's subway trapping train cars and flooding stations wednesday night. the historic rainfall turned the city's highways and streets into rivers forcing first responders to save drivers from trapped vehicles. at least 11 people in the city died in heir basement apartment in queens, new york including a 2-year-old boy, a mother and 22-year-old son drowned in this apartment when 4 feet of water rushed

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>> general wolters, jennifer griffin with fox news. can you give us information about that individual and what kind of security threat that he posed? was he a member of the taliban, isis-k? there's no covid testing done of these individuals. why? >> first, jennifer, the individual that is currently in custody is not of a high threat as far as i know. the rest of that information is protected. that's with our agencies here that are representative of that individual. with respect to testing based off the requirement and the timelines of the nations allowing us to use their soil for ten days, it become an administrative challenge with respect to moving people. as i said, jennifer, commanders on the ground have the right to conduct testing and administer vaccination if conditions on the ground warrant. that is a commander's call, that they're equipped to make and they have the resources to support that. for the purpose of facilitating the flow of our evacuees, in order to comply with the restrictions of the nations, this is a current polic

jennifer griffin has reports tonight from the pentagon. cia recalled the station chief over onew cases of havana syndrome set of brain altering ailments thought to be caused by directed energy weapon being used to terrorize american diplomats and spies. first cases were reported five years ago in cuba. >> people are really getting hurt. >> mark, a 26-year veteran of the cia was forced to overseeing clandestined operations in europe. he was targeting during a trip to moscow in 2017 and began having debilitating vertigo illness and nausea. >> it's terrorism. an act of war. we are looking at a device that is designed to terrorize and designed to incapacitate. taking our officers off the battlefield. >> this week the top state department official overseeing the havana syndrome response. ambassador pamela separate pland susan collins demanded accountability to antony blinken after state department employees were denied treatment at walter reed. >> if this were a soldier injured on the battle field there would be no question about getting his or

let's get the read from jennifer griffin. getting our people out, where are we?statements by the state department and jen psaki, those were travel documents are being allowed to leave don't match the reality on the ground. now the u.s. is no longer in afghanistan-related, they rely on the taliban. they don't want to give charter flights to land at military bases for obvious reasons. there's three bases where the fbi customs and border patrol and ncis had agents overseeing the screening of 17,000 afghan evacuees. >> getting their names registers, doing the biometrics, check irises, take a few facial photo and run that and the 20 years of databases that we have in the interagency. i'm comfortable that these folks are being properly run through the fbi. >> they're being checked three times with their biometrics before they get to the u.s.? >> that's right. >> we saw the screening process first hand. we learned anyone flagged for drugs or terror ties is sent to kosovo. thousands have been screened three times before arrival. most of the people we interviewed had some

we will follow it jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thank you. there is increasing confusion really in afghanistan about who is in charge now that the taliban has taken over. that is affecting people trying to get out of the country. meanwhile, the group continues to celebrate the withdrawal of u.s. troops showing off u.s. personnel -- u.s. material, u.s. weapons and u.s. vehicles. correspondent trey yingst has the latest tonight from doha, qatar. >> a helicopter flies overhead displaying a taliban flag. the group is parading their american made weapons and humvees through the afghan city of kandahar. declarations of victory continue across the country though in the capital of kabul. the challenges of governing are already setting in. >> we ask the taliban to bring peace, which develops the economy. the situation is very poor. the taliban has entered kabul, people have been facing more economic problems. >> today the taliban appointed a new central bank governor, to address problems with financial institutions. long lines at banks and withdrawal

>> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. president biden's assertion that his top generals were in favor of his afghanistan withdrawal strategy is taking new hits tonight. there are reports he actually disregarded advice from some of his top military advisers. here is correspondent jackie mine rick. >> classified testimony from the last commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan that he warned the biden administration of a likely rapid chance and urged keeping 2500 troops on the ground putting a spotlight on the president's claim last month he never received such advice. >> no. no one said that to me that i can recall. >> was the president's answer in that interview an honest answer? >> i'm not going to get into details of private advice that the president gets from his national security team or military advisers. >> the white house maintains the president heard a range of advice and made his decision because 2500 troops would not have been sustainable. but republicans say he was more motivated by politics. >> he was hell bent

>> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. it is once again testing weapons that could threaten u.s. personnel. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot has details. >> north korea is at it again. state media claiming it successfully tested what it calls a strategic weapon of great significance. specifically a long range cruise missile experts say could be capable of carrying a nuclear war head. the missiles maneuvered 1,000 miles before going down off the countries' coast. long enough to threaten the region including u.s. troops in south korea and japan. the north hasn't mastered the technology of nuclear war head minute tourization yet they are working on it all. >> north korea hasn't stopped expanding refining nuclear arsenal. >> following the parade marking the founding light on weaponry and trimmed leader kim jong un the launch was sent to sandy signal to the domestic audience as well as south korea doing its own testing and the biden administration, which is talking to seoul but made little headway with pyongyang

national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details tonight from the pentagon. >> it's a who is who of radical islamic terrorists the new interim taliban calculate net includes as prime minister a man who faces u.s. sanctions. he served in the last taliban government until 9/11. the new defense minister is the son of mullah omar the spiritual founder of the taliban who welcomed usama bin laden to afghanistan. the new interior minister will oversee the brutal taliban police and security forces. haqqani has the blood of hundreds of american troops on his hands, is currently holding american hostage mark feerk has been financed by the pakistan government for years and has up to $10 million bounty on his head from the fbi. also in the new cabinet, four taliban senior leaders once detained at guantanamo bay released by the obama administration in 2014 in a controversial prisoner swap for the release of sergeant bowe bergdahl kidnapped by the taliban after deserting his army post. absent in the new cabinet, any women or ethnic non-pashtun minorities. >> it certainly does not meet t

jennifer griffin says it is not all it appears to be. she is doing looking back at history here. others have forgotten to connect. jennifer, what have you found out? reporter: thanks, neil, the two calls made to the chinese were not secret i'm told by u.s. officials who were involved in the phone calls. they were done in coordination with the defense secretaries at the time. general millly plans to address revelations under oath during testimony on september 28th. that testimony was supposed to focus on withdrawal from afghanistan. i spoke with a former senior trump defense official told me the phone call to the chinese was done after then defense secretary mark esper requested his policy people to do the same t was designed to lower the temperature and prevent the u.s. and china from stumbling into a conflict. u.s. intelligence at the time suggested that the chinese were jumpy about all the noise coming out of washington surrounding the election. the phone call was made at the request of the civilian leadership of the military. general millly was asked to follow up. at no time di

let's go to jennifer griffin following all of these developments including the back-and-forth of gettingnnifer. >> first of all in terms of what the acting prime minister has just told us we know from sources in afghanistan that so-called taliban night letters have already started to be delivered to the homes of those who used to work with the u.s. government suggesting that they don't turn themselves in, hand over their weapons that they will be killed. these are very different actions versus the words coming out as the new government. take a look at the new government. that was announced in the last 24 hours per the new taliban government this is what happens when you negotiate with the taliban and elevate their leaders, many of whom are terrorist as a u.s. government did two and half years ago in february of 2021 former afghan female politician put it to me the u.s. government legitimized the barbarians. let's look at the new interim taliban cabinet. the prime minister is hassan akhund and he welcomed osama bin laden's afghanistan. the new prime minister served in the last taliban gov

some sources tell fox's jennifer griffin that milley never promised china a head's up. follow this story closely. milley is the highest ranging uniformed office in the u.s. military. two top "washington post" writers reported he undermined the commander-in-chief promising to provide one of our country's most serious enemies with advanced notice should we need to attack them. many are wondering if this is true, is this treason? will milley be punished and tried and court martialed? should he be trusted. the great one, 8 consecutive weeks number 1 "new york times" best seller, mark levin. take it from here on general milley. >> well, we are experiencing american marxism. woodard and costa are reporters for the "washington post." it takes 3 months to print a book. that means woodard and costa and the "washington post" if this is true sat on this story for months and months. why would 2 reporters sit on a story like this for months and months and allow this man who i believe if this is true is unhinged to serve as the head of the joint chiefs of staffs you? have 2 journalis

let's do to jennifer griffin with the latest. jennifer?th americans still stuck in afghanistan and finger pointing and confuse over who is halting six charters from leaving the airport, the secretary of state called on the taliban to open the airport and allow the flights to leave. >> the flights need to deport. we'll work every day to make sure that they are able to do that. we will continue to press the taliban to allow the charters to leave and critically to open hkia, the hamed karzai airport to allow people to leave safely from afghanistan. our efforts to help people that want to leave afghanistan will continue. >> the problem is those that they must negotiate with include a new cabinet filled with some of the world's most wanted terrorists. the new interim prime minister is facing u.n. sanctions with mullah omar. the new prime minister served in the last government. the new defense minister is the some of mullah omar. the most sinister choice is the interior minister who will oversee the brutal taliban police. he has the blood of ame

the latest right now from jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? >> neil, what came out loud and clear from the hearing is that the president's military advisers did not advise pulling all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. suggesting that the president made the decision to withdraw in spite of the recommendations of his top military advisers. >> recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in afghanistan. i also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time. those are my personal views. i also have a view that the withdrawal of those no, sirs would lead to the collapse of the military forces and eventually the afghan government. >> that's not what president biden told abc in an interview august 19, four days after kabul fell. >> so no one told -- your military advisers didn't say no, we should keep 2,500 troops, we can do that hand continue to do that? >> no, no one said that to me that i can recall. >> all three witnesses today said that their recommendations as well as those of general scott miller, the last u.s. commandn

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neil: jennifer griffin, thank you very, very much. jennifer's been there from the beginning continuing breaking news and conference insights second to none since. we appreciate that. as jennifer said, it's hard to imagine anything like this could happen and look at the coverage of the pentagon itself. take a look. >> individuals who committed these attacks on the people of the united states in new york and at the pentagon located in the state of virginia, sought a decisive strike, one that was designed to remake the world and in the post-cold war era. the goal was to prove that the great democracies are not the way of the future. the goal was to in fact, establish a new future based on tyranny and force and fear, and which the united states stand as the ultimate statement and symbol of the human freedom and liberty across the world. ladies and gentlemen, the people who committed these crimes with those goals in mind have failed. neil: you know, he might have been the first to coin that phrase, the post-cold war era, and it was talked a

defense official described it to jennifer griffin this way quote multiple suicide bombers struck by u.ses today in kabul. significant explosives in the area led to second explosions. they belong to isis k and they were en route to the airport. so it's perfect, all the bad people were dead, all those isis k operatives, and virtually every news organization in the country credited this account. the washington post assigned five reporters i to the story ty dug deep and concluded that biden's drone attack had hit an islamic state target. on television, where there's mostly no reporting at all, they just read the paper and repeat it. not a single person seemed very skeptical of this. >> our ability to demonstrate effectively that we can strike such targets, we can strike them from outside afghan borders which is a critical part of the biden plan. once we withdraw. this over the horizon capability was demonstrated and was effective. >> you called this strike remarkable. >> this is a realization of what president biden calls the overes the horizon strategy. >> the military event today is so mu

was clearly sensationalized and you have actual journalists supporting it like our very own jennifer griffinot happen in secret. the first call that happened with the chinese general and with milley involved was a call that was initiated by the defense secretary expert. before we get into this, and we also had every old jack kane who talked about this and said, before we jumped at this can all of the facts and let's not call for transcripts are because many times, when these calls happen, they have been in secret because they could be talking about a lot of things. and we destroyed back channels that we have between us and other foreign governments. foreign governments that we have that relationships with because we want to be able -- >> the rick -- ukraine phone calls. that is the pentagon's opinion. dana do you think woodward and costa reported this? that maybe they got a leak of the transcripts? do you think someone told them who was on the call exactly what happened? it is not like they would make something like this up. >> okay. well, all right well, i don't know if there's a transcript

reporter: jennifer griffin, fox news. can you give us more details about that individuals and what kind of security threat he imposed? was he a member of isis-k, the taliban question mark and just understand what you told courtney, there is no covid testing. none -- being done with these individuals before they come here, why? gen. wolters: first, jennifer, the individual in custody is not of a high threat as far as i know. the information is protected, that is with our agencies here representative of that individual. with respect to testing, based on the requirement of the nations, allowing us to use their soils, it can become an administrative challenge with respect to moving people. as i said, commanders on the ground have the right to conduct testing and in mr. vaccinations if conditions on the ground warrant it. they have the resources to support it. for the purpose of facilitating the flow for evacuees to their final destination, in order to comply with the nations this is a current policy we have in place. mr. kirb

join us now is national correspondent, jennifer griffin. general milley said it's unclear if the taliban will change from what he called "the ruthless organization it is" into something else. jennifer, your thoughts? >> sandra, it was frustrating sitting in that briefing. the decision was taken to have the defense secretary and chairman take just three questions. my question at the end was "how can you assure the american people, given the threat that isis-k and al qaeda pose and the fact that they still remain in afghanistan, how can you assure americans that american troops will have to go back into afghanistan?" the commander that oversaw the withdrawal from iraq in 2011 and when isis grew over those three years, american troops were sent back. it's a very fair question and the fact they did not take very many questions is an admission that they know there's a lot of very, very difficult questions right now that they don't really want to answer. the long statements at the beginning were very heartfelt, emotional, fearing an admission that

start with jennifer griffin live from the pentagon, hi, jen fer. >> jennifer: hi, sandra, the president's military advisors did not advise pulling all u.s. troops out of afghanistan, suggesting that the president made the decision to withdraw in spite of recommendation of his top military advisors. >> also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020, maintain 4500 at that time, my personal views. i have a view withdrawal of the forces would lead to collapse of the afghan military forces and eventually the afghan government. >> jennifer: general mckenzie said he recommended 4500 troops stay in afghanistan, that is not what president biden told four days after kabul fell. >> no one told your military advisors, no, keep 2500 troops, been a stable situation for the lasts 16r8 years we can do that and continue to do that. >> no one said that to me that i can recall. >> jennifer: all three withins said their recommendations and those of general scott miller in afghanistan, made it to president biden. >> just because we're generals and it would be incredible act of political defiance for commissione