tony blinken sit there the defense department told me this, without the cia there and intelligence failedk it was pretty amazing, too, that antony blinken was able to blame donald trump just like he did from day one. most democrats outside of senator menendez let him get away with it when it dime stranding americans and green card holders and allies. when it came to not knowing whether kabul would fall, when it came to not being effective in getting our military hardware out of there, he had no effective answers. here's a little of what we heard. >> mr. secretary, the execution of the u.s. withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed. there has to be accountability. >> we had a terrible status quo as is by your own admission the afghan government even after billions of dollars in 20 years was not self-sustaining, was not resilient, we should have known that as we began to draw down support. we were going to see the potential for a collapse. >> since the disaster began unfolding in afghanistan, we have seen the biden administration making political excuses. joe biden is the president of the u

admiral, doctor, member of congress, ronny jackson giving us a preview of what he is going to ask tony blinken later today. sir, thank you very much for joining us live and starting your week with "fox & friends." >> thank you, guys. rachel: thank you, congressman. brian: i would love to know why regeneron remdesivir is not in every hospital. we know it works. why are we not talking about therapeutics and treatment makes no sense? rachel: early treatment is something we often talk about with any other illness. it seems to be taboo subject. brian: you can't breathe? here is a hospital gown and lay in bed. rachel: get on a ventilator. steve: very troubling. 7:16 here in the east. jillian joins us with more news. >> that's right, good morning. let's go ahead and begin with this story a 22-year-old woman is missing after setting out on a road trip with her boyfriend. the family of gabby says the trip began in july but they had not heard from her in over two weeks. gabby's mother is pleading for help and says their next stop was yellow stone national park. the couple was traveling in this white van

why was tony blinken in the hamptons as kabul fell? r the taliban to use? well, we are about to find out soon. secretary of state antony blinken will be in the hot seat next week testifying before congress. and in two weeks, thanks to pressure by senate republicans, senior officials at the pentagon will have their day of testimony as well. alabama senator tommy tuberville led the way for these hearings and he joins me now. senator, welcome. >> thank you. >> rachel: so, tell me, what exactly do you want to hear? what questions do you want answered from, you know, general lloyd mille and blinken? >> well, first of all, everywhere i go everybody is wanting to know what the heck happened? to ho made these decisions? was it a political decision made by the state department or was it a military decision made by the -- our generals. everybody is asking that question and we can't get a direct answer so i wrote a letter to chairman reed, armed services, and asked that we have hearings and that will be next week. so, we will get some answers, hop

any moment, america's top diplomat, secretary of state tony blinken, will testify before the house foreign affairs committee over the deadly and chaotic u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. now, we expect tough questions, frankly, from both parties over how the u.s. failed to foresee how quickly afghanistan would collapse into the hands of the taliban. according to a preview of his prepared remarks, secretary blinken will say that there was no intelligence predicting that it would happen in the 11 days that it did. >> as of today, the state department believes about 100 americans remain in afghanistan. we are awaiting numbers of how many afghan allies are still stuck there. the united nations today warned that afghanistan is on the verge of famine. secretary blinken is expected to call the u.s. evacuation effort of more than 124,000 people a, quote, historic success. and the largest military evacuation in american history. >> with us is cnn anchor and chief national affairs analyst, casey hunt, cnn national correspondent kylie atwood, cnn editor nic robertson and zac geler who founded an orga

the murder there was no immediate comment from henry >>> back in the u.s., secretary of state tony blinkenlled for a second day on capitol hill over president biden's handling of afghanistan. and blinken acknowledging at least 100 americans are still trapped there. our richard engel is back inside the country, where the taliban is rolling back women's rights. >> reporter: secretary of state tony blinken again facing a barrage of bipartisan criticism, slamming president biden's pullout from afghanistan. >> mr. secretary, the execution of the u.s. withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed >> president biden has described the evacuation from afghanistan as an extraordinary success. this has to be the lie of the 21st century. >> reporter: blinken insisting president biden inherited a deal with the taliban and its may 1st withdrawal deadline >> when president biden took office in january, he inherited an agreement >> reporter: but he was pressed why president biden, who postponed that withdrawal date to august, didn't delay it again to get all americans and afghan allies out >> you didn't inher

i want to turn back now to president biden's afghanistan failure today, the secretary of state tony blinkent the expectation for the new taliban government. listen to this and get your reaction. >> there is an expectation that any government that emerges now will have some real specificity. the expectation is to see inclusivity in government. but ultimately the expectation is to see a government that makes good on commitments that the taliban has made. >> katie: they set the bar extremely low, especially when it comes to terrorist organizations that don't allow women out of the house. >> these are expectations. have you not watch the last two or 30 years of taliban? they're knocking to change their ways because they expected them to change their ways. if there is no vote in afghanistan and the taliban won. they took over afghanistan by brute force. if they are not going to listen to anybody in the world, their radical islamists, they will continue with radical islamic law in afghanistan. they don't care what 20 like it says, they're parading american caskets and american flags through the p

on tuesday secretary of state tony blinken was on the hot seat defending the way the biden administration handled the pull-out which ended america's longest war. here's nbc's richard engel >> reporter: secretary of state tony blinken again facing a barrage of bipartisan criticism, slamming president biden's pull-out from afghanistan. >> mr. secretary, the execution of the u.s. withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed >> president biden has described the evacuation from afghanistan as an extraordinary success. this has to be the lie of the 21st century >> reporter: blinken insisting president biden inherited a deal with the taliban, and its may 1st withdrawal deadline. >> president biden took office in january, he inherited an agreement. >> reporter: but he was pressed why president biden who postponed that withdrawal date to august didn't delay it again to get all americans and afghan allies out >> you didn't inherit the date the date was may 1st and you push it to august 31st why didn't you push it much later? >> we took some risk in terms of what the taliban would do or not do after ma

and the idea that tony blinken is so out of touch with who the taliban really is and they force youngls into sex slavery and marriage and subjugate women so they can't go to school or work in the fact that they don't know that and they are saying they are concerned about the lack of inclusivity and the government of the taliban, how dumb are these people not to know the taliban for who they are? >> it's not stupidity, they know exactly who the taliban are. they are counting on the fact that american people don't know who the taliban are common to sell you a pack of lies and this didn't stop with tony blinken. this started with the obama administration. you can go all the way back to right after obama was elected, this was the message from the very, very beginning, that there is good taliban and bad taliban. they packed the administration with apologist and just ignored all the evidence. the taliban has had control over limited parts of afghanistan and their rule has been identical to what you are seeing now. it's not a question of they didn't know, they had all the evidence. i receive

so what is tony blinken's plan to get them all out, to rescue the american citizen's truck tonight instan? as blinken told us the residents of haiti and the republican -- republic of congo have said, said, be where we meet up if you would not want to see the republic of congo when it is metropark that is the kind of week it has been purple but whenever you think we have reached peak insanity, they doubled down. this afternoon, supposedly president of they are states appeared out of nowhere and decided to speak in public -- public. did you see it? weird is just the beginning. so first off, for example, biden ns that the united states is done with afghanistan forever. we are gone and we are not going back ever. then biden announced that we "hunt down something called isis-k which sounds like a new line of cosmetics from kim kardashian. isis-k, biden said, maybe hiding in afghanistan. in which case, we will hunt them down there, in afghanistan. we are not woolite leading afghanistan. we could be back recent. the whole speech was like that. it was disorienting. and at one point, biden bra

we are awaiting multiple live events including a briefing momentarily from secretary of state tony blinken with the u.s. approach to afghanistan. >>> we are also awaiting a storm briefing and expect to see president biden, there he is, as he tours the damage from hurricane ida in louisiana. we will have that for you live. and hundreds of thousands remain without power in the sweltering heat. >>> in the northeast, we are trying to wrap our arms around the sheer scope of the damage in new york, new jersey and pennsylvania, and the death toll across six states stands with 49 people including children who were trapped in homes and basements and some in cars as they tried to escape. >>> as we await the president, it is going to be a long labor day weekend for the families grieving the loss of loved ones and for many more loved ones the loss of their homes. >> and so you, this is the first time that you are coming back to seeing your home like this? >> yes. >> and because of all of the flooding, the firefighters had a tough time getting to some of the areas, because of that flooding. did you eve

jillian: turned back to president biden's afghanistan failures, tony blinken laid out his expectations a new taliban government. >> there's an expectation any government that emerges now will have inclusivity. more important still is what any government does. the expectation is to see inclusivity in government but ultimately the expectation is to see a government that makes good on commitments the taliban and have made. >> they set the bar extremely low when it comes to terrorist organizations that don't allow women out of the house. >> these are our expectations, have not the last 20 or 30 years of the taliban, the taliban is the taliban, they are not going to change their ways because blink -- there was no vote in afghanistan and the children won, they took over afghanistan by brute force so they are not going to listen to anybody, they are radical islamists, they will continue with radical islamic sharia law in afghanistan, they don't care what blinken says, they are parading american caskets with american flags over a parade route in afghanistan, time is their best friend. this is

remember when tony blinken or president biden's us ambassador sent white supremacy was in the originsof this nation, not just xi jinping but every diplomat goes into the foreign ministries of countries and tells them they should not listen to america, they should not lecture china about human rights because america has its own problems with human rights and that is because president biden and his senior cabinet members accepting those terms on anti-american grounds. >> a "national review" today was a piece how the republicans should not rescue the democrats at this point in the $3.5 trillion spending bill, reconciliation bill negotiation, do you agree with that given this big debate over the debt ceiling and where that is headed? >> we are not going to rescue the democrats in their efforts to implement the largest tax i can history, $6 trillion of things like welfare and health care for illegal aliens or welfare for in may 2nd won't work or look for work or tax credits for rich people so they can buy electric cars. of democrats want to spend $6 trillion on a party line faces the democ

how is that for professional and businesslike, joe and tony blinken and jen psaki? this updated image posted to social media about a week ago. we have not verified it, but it shows the taliban beheading an afghan soldier. "washington examiner," they have the video. we have this picture. very professional and businesslike, right, joe? no other videos not yet verified by fox show taliban terrorist now. we do have use of them whipping and beating women now all over the country. this is happening daily now and with regularity under taliban rule. it is illegal for women to protest. it is illegal for women to hold certain jobs. it is illegal for women to show any of their face in public. women are now segregated in schools and there are reports of young girls ripped away from their moms and dads and forced to marry taliban fighters and becomes like or becomes like. there are travel restrictions on women. clothing restrictions. schooling, work restrictions. breaking any rule resents ohmic results in whipping and beating or death. and listen to this gut wrenching video as e

tony blinken is on the hot seat today on capitol hill and tomorrow too.an: up to lawmakers be crisp in sentences and not give speeches. let's get answers. steve: good luck with that. brian: you can hope. the clock is ticking on the campaign trail with just one day left for the california voters to cast their votes in contentious recall election. steve: and one high school's patriotic tribute for 9/11 was canceled over fears that the red, white, and blue might actually offend some students. the backlash as the school attempts to defend its decision straight ahead on this monday "fox & friends." ♪ i've lost count of how many asthma attacks i've had. introducing xfinity rewards. our very own way of thanking you just for being with us. enjoy rewards like movie night specials. xfinity mobile benefits. ...and exclusive experiences, like the chance to win tickets to see watch what happens live. hey! it's me. the longer you've been with us... the more rewards you can get. like sharpening your cooking skills with a top chef. join for free on the xfinity app and wa

we got them up more than a true sweet, multiple checkpoints. >> tony blinken is busy thanking the taliban on these things, your message to him tonight given what you know about this case is what? >> my message is he will testify before the committee, i can explanation what they were thinking, and an excellent nation who made that comment. they did nothing to help the citizens from my district, they didn't know anything about it until they were on the border and it is shameful that we have americans doing what our government is not willing or capable of doing. >> they promised they were going to get all the americans out, and they didn't so it is a to private citizens, we got to roll but thank you for joining us. is president biden attempts to turn the page of the pull out of afghanistan, trying to change the conversation to climate. and we will expose how he along with the media's help are looking to enact a big green power grab. stay there. the covid-19 vaccines can be our chance to get back to our plans. who we are. what we miss. to get back to each other. to life. but... it's ok to hav

what is your message tonight to tony blinken and company? >> it is unbelievable. it is shameful.utely unbelievable. these are from my district, texas and afghan american woman and three children went over to visit extended family and her husband stayed back to work. they got over there and had no idea that they would be trapped behind enemy lines. eventually hunted basically by the taliban and isis and abandoned by their own government. that is exactly what happened. i found out about it two weeks ago when the father called my office and told us what was going on. we started frantically trying to call the state department to find out what we could do with this. we were getting literally nowhere from the state department, no actionable, no useful information to get them out of there. they were basically being told like everybody else text message, go to the gate. if you get to the taliban checkpoint tell them you are an american citizen and let you through. they did this every single day they went to the gate. i got more and more dangerous everyday until eventually, like you said,

i want to move onto what secretary of state tony blinken said today. answering the question, our allies and americans exactly, the u.s. needs to help evacuate from afghanistan. here is that exchange. >> do you have the numbers for siv? >> the siv numbers, we're tabulating now because we're trying to account for every one who has come in. some people remain in transit countries. other people are now in the united states. >> congressman, do you think that should be easier to answer? >> no, i don't. let's go back to where we were two and a half months ago on the 25th of june. ghana was in the u.s. capital assuring all of us that everything, that the military was strong. a month and a half later, he left town. the total government collapsed and chaos ensued. most of which was on cnn and other stations. the reality is it was a very chaotic situation as people suddenly became aware there was no government and that the taliban were going to take over kabul. they were evacuated in a 14-day period. incredible show of the ability of the american military to do s

tony blinken says there are about 100 americans left in afghanistan who want to leave. blame for a messy afghanistan exit. he argues biden was dealt a bad hand by trump. and he says no amount of time or money would have changed much. >> there's no evidence that staying longer would have made the afghanistan security forces or government anymore resilient or self-sustaining. if 20 years, hundreds of billions of dollars in support, equipment, training, did not sur face, why would another year, another five, another ten? >> let's get insights from kylie atwood and nic robertson. anything new, secretary blinken was up on the hill yesterday. some of the testimony was combative. this is on the senate side on day two. what stood out most to you in terms of significance? >> the secretary reiterated what he said yet in terms of the defense of the biden administration and their decision to withdraw from afghanistan. as you heard him saying staying longer wouldn't have made the situation -- saying the processing for the siv process was sped up when senators asked why, he said it i

i was speaking with tony blinken as he makes an approach to the allies. they have been dictating to allies and they mentioned the land crossings. they're not getting people out, they're evacuating people at this time which means your options are o to go over land. only of them are registered, many are not, we have been watching two border crossings really closely. the government officially says no refugees without documentation are allowed in. that means the people getting in have visas to a third country or they need serious medical attention. now the border crossing lead to people in the last few days. the one that we're really watching is the border crossing that rough for a minute of about 6,000 people. what we're watching is to figure out if a lot of people are coming in in ways that the unhcr call irregular crossings. this is a long border. we're going to try to figure out if they're coming in in bigger numbers than maybe it appears. >> david, i want to bring you in, you were held for more than even months by the taliban starting in 2008 and they we

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so if you go online recently and look at the state department owned by tony blinken, you will find a what they call welcoming communities where afghan refugees in particular visa holders will be settling in the united states. and if you look at that list long enough, you may notice something, especially the government policy, you notice that these communities include a lot of swing districts and swing states all over the united states. it's not just virginia. three of these communities are in texas, the state that the democratic party has tried to eclipse for years now. their first priority. one of these cities is allston. the other is dallas. the other is houston. the state department urged afghans to go to pennsylvania. does pennsylvania need more people? probably not. a lot of unemployment between pittsburgh and philadelphia, pennsylvania is also a state that donald trump won in 2016, so maybe they should go there, florida, atlanta, georgia, nevada, colorado, also on the list. are you surprised by this? funny, one swing state is not on the official list as wisconsin, but they are

these are the people and tony ay blinken allows to get on the airplanes.ve intel that says there could be some bad actors in this crowd. it's tragic. it puts america at risk and it's all antony blinken's fault. judge jeanine: while we leave americans behind. we bring in people we don't have biometrics on. they don't speak english which tells you they are not interpreters. the interpreters we are leaving over there and the journalists. this is crazy. you are in congress. give me aned a verb. give me -- give me an adverb. >> we don't even know who were evacuated when our own friends and allies were left linds. i think it lies on the state department. the dod was telling state during this draw down. we are drawing down, start moving these people out. the state department failed to move. the president had the you a disastersity to say they didn't want to come here. there were 90,000 applications pending when the president of the united states said they didn't want to come here. it's a as far as and a lie. it's all the president and secretary of state's fault.

back in april, tony blinken and the state department announced spending hundreds of millions of dollarssocial programs in afghanistan. and to destroy the patriarchy, because that is really our goal: impose our modernist social values on prehistoric countries. we are going to pay for programs and support "women's empowerment." where did that money go? people like this, who posted this on social media, "for 8.5 years, i taught at the university in afghanistan, i found her the first gender studies program in afghanistan in history there. all of our hopes, dreams, progress, only to have it snatched away. "we used to call this cultural imperialism to imagine that other cultures want your family structure, for example. isn't it up to the afghans what families they want? no. we tried to impose our customs on them and they hated it. maybe that is one of the reasons the taliban took over in a weekend we heard people to leadr diplomacy. meanwhile, we have been leaving with our diplomacy and leaving billions of american military dollars worth of equipment to the taliban. >> row upon row of sophist

he's one of those people who was calling for the resignation or firing of tony blinken, lloyd austin and more accountability from the president. what he has said, these people are entering harms way. they are putting themselves in danger in order to save the people who are left behind, people who have been blamed by the federal government, by tony blinken himself, saying the only reason they're there is because they have chosen to stay. all you need is testimony from some of these people who are desperate to get out of the country, whose lives are in danger. there are voters like the people in new jersey who aren't going to forget any time soon. the president tried to shirk responsibility saying those people, they aren't even from here. first of all, you don't know that. second of all, their anger is real. their sense of outrage is very real. i got the sense that they are going to continue to go back there. they're going to go back to either afghanistan or some of these third countries in order to process people to get them to safety. the othe point that he made that was so important

try nervivenerve relief. >>> secretary of state tony blinken faced a second day of grilling from lawmakerso evacuate the roughly 100 americans and our allies who are still in the country and want to leave. once again, the top diplomat placed blame on the previous administration. >> when president biden took office in january he inherited an agreement his predecessor had reached with the taliban to remove all remaining u.s. forces from afghanistan by may 1st of the year. as part of the agreement the previous administration pressed the afghan government to release 5,000 taliban prisoners including top war commanders. by january of 2021 the taliban was in its strongest military position since 9/11. >> cnn national correspondent kylie at wood and congressional correspondent lauren fox. they're with us now. lauren, you first. how about today's senate hearing aside from the secretary being there in person compare to yesterday's hearing in the house? >> well, look, i mean they're in these hearings, there's always sort of two sides. there are the people who are using their time to question the sec

any moment, america's top diplomat, secretary of state tony blinken, will testify before the house foreignstan. now, we expect tough questions, frankly, from both parties over how the u.s. failed to foresee how quickly afghanistan would collapse into the hands of the taliban. according to a preview of his prepared remarks, secretary blinken will

tony blinken called to say to the president we have to stretch this out. we think it. the president was not willing to do that. boris johnson trying to smooth that over with savannah but it was clear that he was kind of covering the tracks and being a good ally. >> look. it is hard to imagine a worse backdrop for this president to give a speech talking about quote/unquote relentless diplomacy and the diplomacy we saw with afghanistan many of us would argue was flawed in substance and this administration flawed it in execution and even those who agree like i do with the thrust of what the united states did the australia and the uk the way france was handled makes no sense. it reinforces the message we care less about europe. they have a large role in the indo-pacific region and didn't make a great deal of sense and we have to acknowledge that there is a large gap between what the united states is saying and doing vis-a-vis china and what european countries beginning with germany are saying and doing about china. they see china in commercial transactional terms. the unit

kennedy: tony blinken said these people are not hostages, ones were trying desperately to get out ofhe country and secured private flights were not being allowed to leave, not being allowed to land in third countries. he said they are not hostages. when will the u.s. government designate them as such? >> look i think in the next week you're going to see them become hostages. you're going to see them go over and get them out. i've got friends who are personally over her nongovernment organization, always veterans going over trying to get out americans like the government should be doing force. the state department has gone out of their way to stop them, stop them at the front gate. i know for a fact that many americans, passports, all the documentation at the front gate of the kabul airport they would not let them in. it is atrocious but how far the state department is going out of their way to try to set this up. kennedy: to set it up and take credit for the work on the not only not doing but obstructing. dakota, last question. you like texas? i love texas texas on the greatest state

secretary tony blinken testifying before congress for the first time since america's chaotic withdrawallinken telling lawmakers that the white house inherited a deadline to withdraw without any plan from the trump administration he insists the trump administration's deal with the taliban left them with two options, pull out or send in more troops, escalate the war, and take casualties. >> there's no evidence that staying longer would have made the afghan security forces or the afghan government any more resilient or self-sustaining 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars did not suffice, why would another year, another five, another ten? >> but republican lawmakers on the committee are pinning all of the blame on the biden administration calling the afghanistan withdrawal a debacle, a disgrace and a betrayal >> this was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions i never thought in my lifetime that i would see an unconditional surrender to the taliban. >> secretary blinken says nobody in the u.s. government predicted the country would fall so rapidly to the taliban while u.s. troop

because the last time i heard from tony blinken, he actually said, if you have a chartered flight with americans on it, you're not allowed to land in the united states. if you get a third party country to accept her charter, that's fine, but if you need our approval, it will not be forthcoming. why would we allow a plane chartered with american citizens on to land in america to get them the hell out of that hell hole of afghanistan run by terrorists? >> i have no earthly idea and you are absolutely right in terms of they are not being a plan, if there is one i didn't hear about it today and here's the other thing, sean. we also learned today the reason all of those americans, our fellow citizens, got left behind, is because joe biden waited too long to order an evacuation. he didn't have the guts to order an evacuation when they needed to be one. he allowed our military to draw down to zero with american civilians all still there and when they needed to be evacuated, he wouldn't do it, he was worried about how it would look, and now here we are, americans are left behind, he has abando

. >>> today was the second day of testimony for secretary of state tony blinken.efore the senate. today's testimony was at times heated as blinken defended the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. and republican senators expressed their frustration with how that exit ended. >> we factored in everything we heard from our allies into our own decision making process. >> just like you planned for every contingency, i got it. >> if i can continue -- >> it's bureaucratic speak. >> joining us is nbc news correspondent lanne caldwell. we saw a lot of grandstanding, a lot of posturing. what stood out to you the most from today's testimony? >> reporter: it was another difficult day for secretary blinken up here on capitol hill. he did receive a lot of tough questions, not just by republicans, who there was a lot of grandstanding, but also by some democrats as well. for example, the head of that committee, senator bobmenendez of new jersey asked if the administration and blinken planned for a worse case scenario. blinken said they did, in fact, plan for that. they just did not

in our nation's capital, tony blinken back in the hot seat. the secretary of state set to testify before the senate in the next hour after a day of grilling from house members over the chaotic exit from afghanistan. the congressman who led that hearing will be here soon. >>> and moments ago, we got the latest report on inflation, the rise in prices may be starting to cool down. hallelujah, praise the lord. we have to start in the state of california where today is election day. 40 million people are waking up to a rare recall and they have until 8:00 p.m. local time to cast ballots, deciding whether their democratic governor gavin newsom should stay or go. if he is voted out, there's a chance a republican could take over. last night, newsom called him the biggest political gun he could, president biden, to make sure he doesn't lose his seat. watch this. >> i'm not sure you know it, but if you didn't know it, you should. the eyes of the nation, this is not hyperbole, the eyes of the nation are on california. the decision you're going to make do

and tony blinken is to take tough questions not only from the democrats, but from the republicans.is expected to do some blaming and finger pointing including to the trump administration to pull out which set the process in motion and including a backlogged visa process. it is to keep the focus on the biden's trillion dollar plan to create a social safety net. it is a critical week for at least today and tomorrow, lawmakers are shifting the focus back to u.s. involvement back overseas. joining us to start the hour as we are keeping our eye and the start of the hearing, we have with us washington post military reporter dan lamoff and allied commander correspondent admiral stavridis, and joining us back is a valued voice that we are happy to have back in the fold amna anhoff. welcome back. and before the congressional hearing, they send out a prepared text, and we know what he is going to say, and he is going to defend the decision to withdraw from afghanistan, and he says that it is the trump administration that made the deal with the taliban and leaving them with two options, endin

here's my question, tony blinken, you had his job, is now taking -- thing you can't take the charter plane even if there's americans on it, you can't land in the u.s. and if you get a third country party to accept your charter, they will need approval and it will not be forthcoming. can you give me any rational, explanation for that policy? because that makes zero sense to me. >> that's what i was referencing earlier. we have our own government opposing private citizens trying to get home. this is crazy, there's no rationale. we've got people willing to risk their own lives to get their fellow americans home. the state department, president biden should be calling them to be thinking them, not telling you can't bring an aircraft. there are lots of people are prepared to assist us, ultimately onward to their final destination in a our governments opposing that today. it is on expendable to me, seano >> sean: mister secretary, i say this is a friend of yours for a lot of years. it's great to hear from an adult on an important national security topic because -- thank youou for being wit

we asked tony blinken about the struk at yesterday's hearing. here is that interaction the strike happened when there were a lot of eyes on kabul. it is not unusual for u.s. drone strikes to kill civilians. it is not unusual for the u.s. government to claim it killed terrorists instead. how can you possibly ensure us that our drone strikes and over the horizon capabilities will actually reach their targets? >> that is being looked at very, very, very carefully by others in the administration. so that we understand exactly what happened. or what didn't happen. >> joining me now is one of the reporters who broke this story, evan hill, a journalist on "the new york times" visual investigations team. first off, walk us through the process of reporting this story. how did you manage to fact check and get to the conclusion that you guys have? >> thanks for having me. this was a story that began with tweet from kabul showing an explosion that took place in a residential neighborhood west of the karzai airport. a member of our team located that video an

we have the back-to-back hearings and tony blinken for a long time was his staff director.e knows full well the kind of grilling he's going to be facing himself today, but it doesn't make the preparations for it any easier as we see the real focus here going forward. >> richard, let me turn to you. you are back now in kabul today, a place you've been a lot over the years. talk to us about the changes you're seeing this time, what looks different to you. >> reporter: the last several months the city seems radically different. when i was here earlier in the summer, it was a u.s.-backed government, that was in charge, the government was still fighting, i was out with the commandos fighting against the taliban. then watched the afghan government collapse as u.s. troops pulled out under the deal, and then that mad rush to the airport, when hundreds of thousands if not millions of people were trying to get out of the country headed to kabul international airport and the airlift that brought in so many nations and now the taliban are fully in control. they are trying to demilitari

overseas secretary of state tony blinken saying that the united states has denied a hostage situations with americans stranded at an airport in northern afghanistan, but he acknowledges with no diplomats on the ground they have no way of verifying these reports and thousands of citizens don't know if they'll ever get out. raf sanchez in doha, qatar and admiral stavridis. i want to play what we heard from the secretary today and he was there with secretary of defense lloyd austin with the situation at mazar-e-sharif at the airport during a press conference in doha today. >> one of the challenges has been that, as we understand it, there are groups of people who are grouped together some of whom have the appropriate travel document, an american passport, a green card, a visa and others do not, and it's my understanding that the taliban has not denied exit to expect holding a valid document, but they have said that those without valid documents at this point can't leave, but because all of these people are grouped together, that's meant that flights have not been allowed to go. >> now, r

tony tony blinken is a diplomat messaging to the taliban. the way to direct strategic diplomacy.t way for him to get the job done is to treat the government with enough respect to recognize this is who they're dealing with now. when you look at the caretaker government that was set up today, it was established as a hard line government with members whose names we know ties to the haqqani network. people and groups that the u.s. considers terror organizations, and it's also a network, an affiliated government now standing up without firm central control. and so they can -- the taliban can tell tony blinken one thing and someone else can do something else. this is a precarious, not ideal situation. >> in that uncertainty, you have people making arguments. mark wayne mullen is a member of congress. he is trying to help americans and afghan translators get out. he said don't believe what you just heard from the secretary of state, essentially. >> we found ourselves not being able to get herself out through the kabul international airport. when the administration says that every ameri

tony blinken is trying to calm things down and said france is a vital partner in the into pacific and welcome to european cooperation in that sphere as well. i do not think he is going to get too much of that in the immediate term. we will see what happens well tempered school, because that they have got their own problems with trying to develop a strategic and coherent foreign policy between those member states of the eu. anchor: thank you. to lebanon now where hezbollah organized a shipment of oil from the patron iran. lebanon is on the brink of economic collapse and has enough power to keep the lights on, but getting fuel from iran is complicated and a violation of u.s. sanctions against tehran selling oil. our correspondent reports from lebanon. correspondent: scenes of joy in a country that has little to celebrate. lebanon is gripped by one of the worst economic depressions in modern times. but away from the jubilation, this is the reality. this bakery runs for 15 hours a day on just two generators. every afternoon means a scramble for diesel, polling and flavors -- favors or sca