it's a little different to be the american taliban. but the taliban still back? they are good.need to update or talking point. still, this msnbc a group most fiery and their lineup due to n if you tell people what to do with their bodies, you're a bad person unless your fauci your. the whole thing reminds her of that book she once read. maybe the only when she read. listed. >> by next summer we could be living inea our own version of handmaid's tale. were forced birth is the law. in large sections of the country . senator warren, people think it's hyperbolic what i tweet about the handmaid's tale comin to america. i don't think it seems hyperbolic now. is it to you? >> no feedback like the greates question ever asked elizabeth warren does as he hyperbolic to you? is there anything you can say t elizabeth one where she might reply that seems hyperbolic. >> you're going to far there. >> a slow down a little bit whe msnbc chopped elizabeth the matter what she says the point is that she's that's a serious moment cnn had a topic they wen farther than msnbc to associate yesterday's c

it's different to be the american taliban but the taliban's still bad? no they're good.need to update our talking points. but, still, this msnbc anchor, the most fiery in their lineup, wants you to know that if you tell people what to do with their bodies, you're a bad person unless you're tony fauci in way case you're america's doctor and hero which reminds her of a book she read maybe the only book she read. >> by next summer we could be living in our own version of the hand made's tail where forced birth is the law in large sections of the country. and senator warren, you know, people think it's hyperbolic when i tweet about the hand made's tail coming to america, but i don't think it seems hyperbolic now. does it to you? >> no. >> tucker: like the greatest question ever asked. e liz bit warren, does that seem hyperbolic to you? is there anything you can say to elizabeth warren in which she would reply that seems hyperbolic, slow down a little bit, reign in your rhetoric. but when msnbc gets elizabeth warren doesn't matter what she says, cnn had aen to i can and they

job widen hand it's americans over to the taliban. you guys refuse to talk about this. we should not talk about anything else until all americans are home. i am disgusting that you are going on and on about subjects that don't mean squat to anybody until our american others in systems come home. host: we opened this segment talking about this issue and raising it on fox news. caller: fox news, that is right. no one else. people just -- fox news, and newsmax, and these are the only people putting out the truth. the rest of the stuff does not matter until the rest of these folks come home. host: the second clip was about the state of the union on it yesterday. caller: i did not see it. i do not watch the media for the most part for that reason. they do not talk about anything but. joe biden left them there. that is treasonous. host: fran from jacksonville, florida, democrat. >> i called to say something else while i was listening to that man talking about how joe biden -- if they stay there long enough, they do not need to worry, they will be acclimated to the taliban beca

now fast-forward 40 year, and we have a situation in texas tonight where the american taliban -- becauset wing movement, there is an machinery taliban, is so similar to the middle eastern islamist terrorist. here's another weird one. you know a few years ago, some of the islamists were murdering vaccine doctors and nurses who were coming in to try to vaccinate against polio with some mythological conspiracy theories. the evangelical voter in texas who backed donald trump is also the voter that is calling vaccines some government conspiracy and wanting to stop joe biden's program to deliver our country from the covid virus. there is a weird convergence of factors here, whether it's handmaid's tale and taking away women's rights, or whether it's the vaccine movement that has grown out of conspiracy theories and misinformation. wherever you touch it, the evangelical movement is no longer the one my dad and i tried to talk into radicalism, and sadly we're too successful in doing back in the '70s. today, and i want to say this again, there is no evangelical political movement, there is a new

thousands desperate to flee over land, state department officials tell cbs news an american family of four got across and the taliban did not stand in their way but dozens more americans remain stranded here. the mazar-i-sharif airport show six airplanes on the tarmac. >> the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. we, the state, has cleared the flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. the taliban denies the ban. marina legree is helping girls to get out. >> i've told a whole bunch of teenage girls to come. we've got teenage girls traveling away from their families in this unsafe condition and it's gone on for too long. >> reporter: amid the urging crisis, an tow any blink ken arrived in doha for talks with the government. this country has played a vital role in the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from afghanistan hoping to find a new home for those too terrified to risk staying behind. the secretary of state's visit to doha is seen as a thank you to the qataris and the amir. this country has emerged as a key player in the region and in providing a diplomatic bridge betwe

as long as the taliban stopped attacking american troops, all u.s. ked by washington wasn't even invited to the talks, destroying its credibility. >> so it's like a hail mary pass of all time. it's certainly for our region. but i think the question that we're asking, a lot of afghans are asking, well, if the americans really wanted to leave, then why give the taliban the legitimacy that they probably don't deserve? >> we have defeated british before. we defeated former ussr and now americans. >> reporter: the head of the taliban's negotiating team. so you think you have defeated america now? >> on the battlefield, americans were not coming to the negotiation table. it means they are tired. they cannot win it. so that's why they come on the negotiation table. >> reporter: even then, the taliban showed little sign of having changed from when they were in power in the 1990s. when they hosted osama bin laden, banned girls from going to school, and stoned women for adultery. >> there will be no problem. there was no problem for women. >> there was no probl

cameraman report from kabul on the day after the american exit. >> american uniforms, american guns, but these are talibanal forces. this unit is in charge at kabul airport. >> our message to the americans is, they should not have any plans to attack muslims again. our message to afghans is, we will protect them. >> surreal to enter what was a u.s. hub. whiteboards from a moment in time days before kabul fell, when u.s. soldiers plotted an orderly pullout. this is what they left behind, hangers full of helicopters, even blackhawks. all disabled, destroyed so the taliban can't use them. the best of american military hardware, the best of its generals, were part of its longest war and now it has ended in the worst of ways. it will live long in memory here in afghanistan, america, and far beyond. today, an airfield flooded with fighrs. their first task, repairing the runways so commercial airlines can fly again. >> as you can see, these infidels destroyed the entire airport. they haven't left any machinery in good repair. we had a team ready to fix this mess ever since we came to kabul . now that the america

there is an american taliban.anity, and force secular americans, non-evangelical americans, progressive americans, women, people of color, into that box and this is not hyperbole. this is happening right now, tonight, in texas. this is happening right now with the people dying of covid, children dying of covid, because pro lifers have seen fit to stand against joe biden's vaccine as a way to own the lid's. and their prices to be literally bio terrorists. that is where we are tonight, joe. this is not back when i was in the 1970s talking to billy graham. i was with him and mayo clinic. so doctor bomber from -- when he talks about this right-wing movement to sort of fuse the anger of anti integration with the beginnings of this thing called the anti-abortion movement. it is totally correct. >> wow. it is frightening. i'm just gonna put this up before we, go just gonna show this. we showed it on the show before. remember, the anti mask wing of the far-right that you are seeing now, they were pro mask at a time when i

americans are stuck on charter planes. >> six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. >> reporter: the white house says they're not aware of any hostage situation and are working to get americans out, but a top democrat now blasting the biden administration for americans still stranded at that airport. senator richard blumenthal saying, "i have been deeply frustrated, even furious at our government's delay and inaction." but the state department says they have no control over that airfield. then there is 25-year-old masria, an american from california who is pregnant and trapped in afghanistan, here speaking to voice of america. >> there has been days where, you know, i think to myself, i say am i going to make it home am i going to end up living here? am i going to end up dying here >> reporter: before u.s. forces withdrew, she scrambled to the airport with her american passport, but the taliban didn't let her through. >> i got a gun pointed to my head >> reporter: tonight she says the taliban are hunting down americans.

taliban worked with the u.s. at least in one instance, if not more, to get americans out. taliban celebrating and having mock coffins and a mock funeral with nato and u.s. flags, but this was a different instance. talk us through it. >> as you well know, we had many cases and many reports over the course of this evacuation mission of the taliban mistreating people at checkpoint, particularly afghan citizens and beating them in some cases, but what we are learning now, defense officials are speaking about the areas where the taliban are cooperating with the u.s. on the ground there. we knew there was a coordination and we didn't know about the extent until now. what would happen is american citizens would get a text message telling them to go to a couple of different locations and one is the ministry of the interior and the taliban command and control location on the west side of the airport. they would go there. the taliban would essentially process these people. they had their names. they had a piece of paper, the americans would have a piece of paper from the state depar

americans out. but let me be crystal clear, this isn't the u.s. government's timeline, it is the taliban's timeline. right now, their four simple things -- when is the plan to bring americans home safely? not some, but every single american. what about the weaponry that has been left behind, accounting for that? i sit -- they taliban should not be recognized as the government of afghanistan, and a prohibition of any support or assistance of resources with money to the taliban. every member with me today has that simple question. the majority of every number behind me is a veteran. what is the plan to get americans out? never in my lifetime what i ever believe america would have an administration knowingly make a decision to leave americans behind. whereas, just two weeks ago, the president promised this nation that he would not leave until every single american was out. we're two weeks away of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. we now have americans stuck in afghanistan, the taliban in charge, with more weaponry than they have ever had in the past, and a border that is open. speaker pelosi, now

enough, so this is taliban fighters that are much more vicious, and we are using the taliban and giving lists of americansnd grabbed them and them out. this country has never seen stupidity like this, and our country is really in trouble. our country is really in trouble, and it's only going to get worse. what you are watching now is only going to get worse, it can only go one way. we had something where they did not get near us, they were petrified of us. i let them know that if they do anything, we hit them right where it hurts, which is their homes, and they know it, and they were waiting for us, they would have been very happy to let us go and take every american and anybody else we wanted, take our equipment, and for some reason, he botched the plan and took the military out first. now it is a very sad day for our country into great embarrassment -- beyond embarrassment, it is a very dangerous day for our country. >> sean: mr. president, let me go, because joe biden brought it up in his exchange with our own peter doocy today, and that is that he inherited your plan, and i want to go over it, because

americans abandoned and held by enemy lines. hostage to the taliban and the biden administration is as clueless as ever. it's worse than we thought. they don't know how many americans remain in afghanistan and whether or not they are being mistreated. they don't know if the u.s. is planning on handing over billion dollars to the taliban. i would do that in exchange for fellow citizens but that's called ransom. another hearing on capitol hill. the secretary of state anthony blinken could not answer a single question. more coming up and a lot of video. first tonight, accusations of treason are swirling around general mark milley. according to a book from bob woodard, milley is accused of conspiring with communist chinese. the book says milley pledged he would alert his counterpart in the event of a u.s. attack. the counterpart in china. the communist chinese. the book claims milley had general lee. if we attack i will call you a ahead of time. it won't be a surprise. they can attack us first. is this is true general milley would be a traitor to this cou

lawmakers warning more and more americans are calling them just really saying the taliban is blockingom leaving. this story, look at this, the white house telling the truth, that's what lawmakers are saying, lowballing the real number ofri americans trapped behind tariff lines and also white house press secretary ben psaki today a refused to answer questions about the president. pressuring the former leader ofe afghanistan in july to change the perception to the media around the world, make it look like the taliban was losing, whether true or not. live at the white house with mark, edward, good to see you. >> the president trying to project confidence and power, the americans will help the country the u.s. from ukrainian president today as work is released the transcript you preferred to last call july 2120 the president of afghanistan and president biden. president biden said true or not, the president of afghanistan should project a picture that he has any. today at thejeod pentagon generl mark billy said he understands the pain and anger from veterans as well as their families. >>

uniforms, american guns, but these are taliban special forces. airport. translation: our message i to the americans is they should not have any plans to attack muslims again. 0ur message to all afghans is we are going to protect them. surreal to enter what was a us hub. whiteboards from a moment in time just days before kabul fell, when us soldiers plotted an orderly pull—out. this is what they left behind. hangers are full of helicopters. all disabled, destroyed, so the taliban cannot use them. the best of american military hardware, the best of its generals, were part of its longest war. and now it has ended in the worst of ways, and it will live long in memory, here in afghanistan, in america, and far beyond. today, an airfield flooded with fighters. their first urgent task, repairing the runways so commercial airlines can fly again. translation: as you can see, these infidels destroyed - the entire airport. they haven't left any machinery in good repair. we had a team ready to fix this mess ever since we came to kabul. now that the americans h

mission has shifted from military mission to a diplomatic mission with leverage over the taliban to ensure any american citizens can get out. jillian: white house mission is changing after the withdrawal from afghanistan. the next guest leading a task force of veterans operating behind taliban lines and lieutenant colonel scott man joins me and thank you for your service, how difficult is what you are trying to do and can you do this without intelligence capabilities in the military and state department? >> we are not behind taliban lines but operating from all over the nation but not behind lines and doing what green berets have done for decades which is leveraging relationships and trust, putting it into play with modern technology and encrypted applications. when you have relationships and the ability to communicate there is no limitation. we are moving into more deliberate form of recovery. jillian: can you explain how you are doing this? this is unbelievable. >> reporter: one afghan commando is a friend of mine, a couple more green berets and change meat and a staffer, the we managed to guide this

american. what about the list of weaponry? a sense in congress that the taliban should not be recognized, and the prohibition of any support or assistance. every member with me today is a veteran. what is the plan to get americans out? never in my lifetime but i ever believe america would have an administration and knowingly make a decision to leave americans behind. just two weeks ago, the president promised the nation he would not leave until every single american was out. we are two weeks away at the 20th anniversary of 9/11. we have americans stuck in afghanistan. the taliban in charge. more weaponry than we have had in the past. it border that is open. speaker pelosi, now is not the time to act like you could not cs on the floor, now is not the time to hide. we are a coequal branch. now is the time. i want to bring up ranking member. >> thank you, leader. ladies and gentlemen, we watch this week is americans left the field after 20 years. my son served their and thank god he came home. there were 13 members that did not come home. as of this last week on top

family of four got across today, and the taliban did not stand in their way. but dozens more americansemain stranded here, satellite images of the mazar-i-sharif airport north of kabul show six commercial aircraft on the tarmac amid accusations they have been grounded by the taliban. >> the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. right now, the state has cleared these flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> reporter: the taliban denied the claims. marina legree, the founder of ascend athletics, a group helping afghan women and girls trying to get out. >> i told a whole bunch of teenage girls that are under my purview to come, so we've got teenage girls traveling away from their families in this unsafe condition, and it's gone on for too long. >> reporter: amid the emerging crisis, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken arrived in doha today for high level talks with the qatari government. this country played a vital role in the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from afghanistan, helping to find a new home for those too terrified to risk staying behi

job widen hand it's americans over to the taliban. you guys refuse to talk about this. should not talk about anything else until all americans are home. i am disgusting that you are going on and on about subjects that don't mean squat to anybody until our american others in systems come home. host: we opened this segment talking about this issue and raising it on fox news. caller: fox news, that is right. no one else. people just -- fox news, and newsmax, and these are the only people putting out the truth. the rest of the stuff does not matter until the rest of these folks come home. host: the second clip was about the state of the union on it yesterday. caller: i did not see it. i do not watch the media for the most part for that reason. they do not talk about anything but. joe biden left them there. that is treasonous. host: fran from jacksonville, florida, democrat. >> i called to say something else while i was listening to that man talking about how joe biden -- if they stay there long enough, they do not need to worry, they will be acclimated to the taliban becaus

we're focused on it, this issue of leaving hundreds of americans stranded behind taliban lines. it's something that i feel it, americans feel it. certainly dana to your point my constituents feel it. you feel sick. i never thought we would see our government, our president, leave people in the most dangerous place in the world and then call it a success. so, you know in alaska we have more veterans per capita than any state in the country. my constituents are furious. they want answers and accountability and so do i as a senator. >> bill: talking about the mike gallagher request shot down by democrats yesterday. here he was talking about it last hour. >> the taliban wants to humiliate us. they have beaten us on the battlefield because we surrendered preemotion actively. we have no leverage. for the president to go on tv and call this an extraordinary success was shameful. it will go down as the lie of the decade. >> bill: you probably feel the same way. sentiments are mutual with you there in anchorage on that. do you think you will get any guarantees from this administration af

yet, they lay down their lives to help americans flee the taliban and find safety. s remain and afghanistan and thousands of our afghan partners who are likely to face persecution or death at the hands of the taliban have little hope of escaping the country. our own office continues the effort to try to find and help those individuals, remove themselves from a country where death seems so certain. i think my staff and i think the kansans who brought them to our attention. people at home worried about christians being persecuted for being christians and afghanistan. those who served in afghanistan worry about someone who saved their life, and afghan who saved their life or an interpreter who was there side-by-side with them, now being left to the fate of the taliban. i'm a member of the senate appropriations subcommittee that fund the department of defense and states. we must hold hearings to examine the decision-making process advice for intelligence community leaders. we need to determine what steps, if any, to plan for the withdrawal of americans especially visa ho

the biden administration has given the taliban the upper hand from the very beginning and now americans are in the middle of a hostage crisis. they are just coming hat in hand to the taliban and begging them do more. this is a moral and strategic failure and karl rove says the president wants this all to magically go away. >> what the white house is telling reporters, oh, the president is not going to speak about afghanistan any longer. we are going to have the secretary of state handle it all. by the election time it will be a non-issue because we will pass the american jobs plan and give new welfare benefits and this spending will guarantee the american people rally to our cause. bread and circuses. they'll forget afghanistan. that's a cynical view of the american people and a cynical view of how they can compensate for the mistake that they have made. >> harris: well, the president and peter doocy joining us now. the president got a taste of that cynicism when he visited new jersey. under flood conditions people were shouting over the fenceline afghanistan. they do care. peter. >> ye

start with the news of the top were hearing about planes and stranded about americans held hostage in northern afghanistan, the talibanoing door-to-door hunting americans not women and not just the people were all fearful might be in americans now despite all of these shortages what can you tell us from the state department or anything else that's going on right now. >> if there's one thing i'm tired of hearing is a state department and president biden that we have assurances from the taliban. clearly the assurance of the taliban have given them aren't worth a darn thing, these people think that somehow because the taliban want humanitarian assistance or international recognition that we are going to be able to convince them to get americans out of the country after we surrendered territory on the battlefield. they're completely deluded and operating at a conference in high school not a matter of life and death we have abandoned hundreds of americans behind enemy lines in the report that you reference at the start of your show about flights, i have multiple sources on the ground telling me that is true and i've heard

embassy staff at that border describing the americans as in "good condition" and saying the taliban were "aware" of the crossing and "did not impede their transit." but about 100 more americans are still thought stranded in afghanistan, desperate to leave. the taliban stationed at every airport gate in kabul as domestic flights resume. the militants claiming they want to keep peace. but at this airport in mazar-e-sharif, satellite images show a standoff. commercial planes that could evacuate about 600 passengers, some believed to be americans, reportedly blocked by the taliban. a top republican calling it a hostage situation. >> this is really, chris, turning into a hostage situation, where they're not going to allow american citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the united states of america. >> reporter: the state department says it will hold the taliban to its pledge to let people depart the country, but they admit they do not have "reliable means" of knowing whether americans will be aboard those planes. this, as the taliban today claim they've taken full control of t

taliban's lack of inclusivity. i wish i was kidding but i am not. day 25, americansd hostage. >> with h regard to the composition of this government or interim government, it includes people who have very challenging track records. >> allowing the taliban to pick its most wanted, it's top draft picks out of guantanamo, to see them in charge of what is quickly becoming a terrorist superstate is just a slap in the face. >> so i guess we shouldn't be surprised when terrorists, people have been let go and everything else are running the very organization that the state department and administration is trying to negotiate. it makes absolutely no sense. >> every time i don't think the situation could getit worse, it does. >> americans held hostage behind enemy lines, day 25. >> sean: abandoned behind enemy lines. let me say this one more time. all of this could have been prevented easily, from april to may, from may to june to july to august, we had months to withdraw all of our people. we had a duty, we saw the taliban advancing, we could have easily maintained control of

and the americans and the others on the bus went and they fled and they hid in a drainage ditch until the talibanill are in afghanistan. they didn't make it out of the country. but what's important to point out here is this is a case, as others that we are now hearing about, where the taliban seem to have potentially stopped a suicide attack and may have saved american lives. this is someone who the u.s. fought for two decades in afghanistan and in these last days they may have actually been saving american lives, willie. >> yeah, courtney, i think a lot of people would hear this list of stories and say of course the taliban wanted to put on a good face to help usher the united states out of town and begin their celebration of what they call the defeat of a superpower. so what will the american government be watching out of the taliban? what would be a punitive measure that we've been hearing about? we heard from the defense secretary, we just heard it from ron klain that they'll be watching with a skeptical eye and they reserve the right, does the american military, to do something about it. wha

the taliban, designated terrorist group, now equipped with american weapons that most countries in thethe worst of the worst were all released from prisons as the taliban overran the country. the situation we find ourselves in is far worse in my judgment is a former chairman of homeland security committee, far worse than pre9/11. to make matters worse, we abandoned americans behind enemy lines. we left behind the interpreters who you, mr. secretary, and the president both promised to protect. i can summarize this in one word. betrayal. the america i know keeps its promises. the most important promise in our military is no man left behind. no one left behind. but you broke his promise. unfortunately it wasn't the only promise this administration broke. in april, president biden promised "will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit, and we will do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely." with that promise was broken. that in july the president said "there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the united states embassy in afghanistan." that promis

i would be the taliban dressed up as the american soldiers checking out the helicopters we left for theme no choice but to leave, $90 billion of sophisticated military equipment to the taliban. we armed the taliban, 20 years after we arrived in afghanistan to beat the taliban back to the stone age, they are not one of the best armed militaries in the world. and that was a great success. why didn't the biden administration figure out how to take this equipment with us or at least destroy it? no one has answered that question. but the key thing is, they are not ashamed by it. at all. effective now they are telling us they wanted to give the taliban more aid direct cash payment. it is not that we are making this up. yeah, because it is real. watch the initial security advisor to the stothert jake sullivan -- stothert jake sullivan explain a perfect when it comes to our relationship with the tell been to that will be the taliban's actions. for americans -- their commitment to not allow afghanistan to be a base from which terrorists can protect the united states or any other country. their co

united states needs to pick up the phone and call whoever they're negotiating with, the taliban, and demand our americans be able to fly out there. we can't -- we cannot allow the taliban to continue to pull the strings on this and make the decisions in this. this is going to end very badly. jillian: i want to get your reaction to what rob smith had to say, he was on the next revolution last night. take a listen. >> we have effectively made the taliban one of the most of well-equipped armys in the world on the taxpayers' dollar. this is the stuff that keeps me up at night. jillian: of courses talking about all of the military equipment, all of the guns, all of the helicopters and everything that they now have of ours. not to mention we're hearing the reports, we had breaking news at the top of the show, that the taliban has made strides in the valley where some of the last remaining afghans were trying desperately to try and continue on their fight. what do you know about that? >> $85 billion in u.s. equipment and technology. we have some of the best equipment in the world. mrap vehicles, armored vehicle

americans. >> businesslike and professional, and fbi want did poster. the taliban is cooperative. >> as americans remain stranded in afghanistan and warned that al qaeda could be making a comeback. >> the 9/11 terror attacks. they lost lives in her like first responders. >> >> president biden ordering sweeping vaccine requirements, and he would not make vaccines mandatory. >> republican governors prepared to fight back. no more carrots, time for the stick, the president orders these new federal vaccine mandates. >> this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. our patients is wearing thin and refusal cost all of us. >> reporter: an about-face from december. >> will be mandatory? >> president biden: no, it shouldn't be mandatory. i will do everything in my power, i don't think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide. i will do everything in my power as president of the united states to encourage people to do the right thing. >> reporter: the new rules from the department of labor you see here private businesses took 100 employees must be vaccinated or test weekly. it a

how many americans that were supposed to take out from this airport got to kabul and pass the talibancheckpoints, it's a question we need an answer too. >> and close is not nearly good enough for americans, for our allies, for life or death situations. california rep the front runner larry elder gets. we have a lot to say on this. coming up next. thousands of veteran homeowners have discovered the power of using their va home loan benefit to get money for their family. we called and we got $58,800. newday lets you borrow 100% of your home's value. i called and got $54,200. near record low rates means lower payments. turn your equity into cash with the newday 100 va cash out loan. if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, now might not be the best time to ask yourself... 'are my bones strong?' life is full of make or break moments. that's why it's so important to help reduce your risk of fracture with prolia®. only prolia® is proven to help strengthen and protect bones from fracture with 1 shot every 6 months. do not take prolia® if you have low blood calciu

the american and his six daughters got off the bus. the taliban fighters there saying that there was a potential explosive device on the bus and two possible suicide attackers. this american citizen and his daughters hid in a drainage ditch until the taliban said that it was clear for them to get through. so this is a case. we don't know others at this point. again, general mckenzie said the taliban were helping, coordinating with the americans, with the united states to help get americans through. but, steph, i have to point out, there are also many cases that we've heard of that the taliban did not let people through those checkpoints. we've heard about people being beaten, particularly afghans, and when i asked the defense officials, look, is this an opportunity for the u.s. to potentially work with the taliban or have some sort of a military to military coordination, there was skepticism all across the board. there is not a lot of optimism that this is a new and different taliban that we've seen from their brutal ways in the past. >> to that p

every american knew that if we surrendered to the taliban and left americans behind enemy lines, thatliban was going to go door the door trying to find them, try to use them as lev rang, use them in -- leverage, use them in any way they can, and that people were going to die. alicia: i want to point to an article in the "wall street journal" really giving a breakdown of the decision making that was underway when all of this was going on in the biden administration. inside biden's withdrawal plan warnings, doubts but little change. a quote from that article, a state department official defended the administration's performance given, he said, the unare precedented circumstances. unprecedented. quote, if there was an expectation that this team could prevent crisis, that's not how it works, the official said. people will question certain decisions, but the fact is no one has been confronted by a situation like this. congressman, you supported president trump's plan for withdrawal. is it possible that he could have run into a similar is crisis? >> no, because he had a conditions-based wit

american citizens on them as we speak. also with the interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage. >> we've been able to identify relatively small number of americans seeking to depart from mazar-e sharif with their families. the taliban cannot deny access to anyone holding valid documents. but they have said those without documents, at this point, can't leave. >> we don't have a great deal of understanding of every individual. >> they are not clearing airplanes to depart. they sat at the airport the last couple of days. we know the reason why, the taliban want something in exchange. >> american held hostage, day 24. >> day 24 the biden administration still don't know how many americans officially left behind and there is zero plan to get them out. the hostages abandoned by joe biden. they have not been abandoned by fellow americans. six charter planes from great americans around the country, including retired special ops, officers on the ground risking their lives and other private organizations are now on the tarmac in an airport in northern afghanistan. they are ready to take off, caring americans and/or allies to qatar

mobilized in the thousands, their incense that the american troops could have left behind these dogs right there next to the runway. at the mercy of the taliban, the americans lift the dogs to get out from the specific places. but our teens are officially called the in charge of those dogs and to dave, they came to the port and they're trying to collect the docks. and they are trying to the facility for them and what they need to give them all, we can say that the safe, these may be just what the taliban needs. a p r stuck collect the dogs and the move with the activists and reap the humanitarian glory. alternatively, they may have enough on their plate. the other interesting thing about the airport is the, the hundreds of armored diplomatic vehicles that have been left here abandon during the evacuation. they used these vehicles to block off roads while the evacuation was on the way. this is passport control at capitol international airport. this is the states that it was left in after the evacuation was complete for some reason, other than destroying all the military vehicles and aircraft that the united states left behind. they also destro

american woman from texas. they got out through an overland route. they had to go through a tremendous amount of challenge going through taliban checkpoints and the like out the rest of the americans who are still in the country right now. but, erica, this is a quickly evolving situation, so we'll keep watching what happens at the kabul airport and, of course, at this airport where congress and mccall said americans were not being allowed to get out. >> yes, certainly a lot of interest in both of those. alex, i want to bring you in here, too. the story of americans who made it out on an overland route, we know there is a gop lawmaker disputing the state department's claim that it was the state department that facilitated the rescue. it's frankly a little bit confusing based on the conflicting stories that we're hearing there. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, this is a conflict and, therefore, there is a fog of war, erica. this started because the state department on monday claimed they facilitated the evacuation of these four americans that kylie was just talking about. so it made it seem like it was their operation. not so according to republica

american citizens. you know, he kept his promises to the taliban and he's breaking his promises to americans, to get themwill happen if they can't get out. ashley: and then there's a couple republicans that actually tweeted, slamming biden for his trip. mark meadows said american citizens are still stranded behind enemy lines in afghanistan and meanwhile joe biden is vacationing in delaware. others shared that sentiment. who can americans look to now? because kamala harris has been pretty much nonexistent as well in this. who do we look to for guidance and support right now? >> well, i haven't seen her. i haven't seen her really publicly, i haven't seen her on capitol hill or at the white house, i haven't seen joe biden and, you know, they want to go vacation. she's more concerned about campaigning for gavin newsom than she is taking care of the border crisis. you know, who is in charge? that's the question that i have as well as many of my colleagues. who is in charge? who is pulling the strings? because all people want to know is for someone to be accountable and we need to be reassured. that's the bot

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out. >> tracie, thank you >>> the taliban quickly declared victory after the last american troops left, celebrating as they roamed the kabul airport nbc's richard engel has the latest on what comes next for afghanistan. >> reporter: victory day for the taliban entering the airport there are fighters inspecting the spoils the u.s. left behind at what was the last american tow hold in afghanistan. the taliban spokesman saying the group wants new relations with the west and are even open to foreign investment they looked over the aircraft and weapons u.s. troops abandoned and decommissioned so they can't be used but american forces did not damage the airport itself. the united states is relying on the airport to reopen quickly to evacuate american citizens and translators who never made it out in the airlift some of them now in hiding from the taliban, and who one day once they have documents will have to pass through here to leave. the taliban insisting they'll let them go. the taliban also promising to fight isis and never allow afghanistan to be a sanctuary for terrorism. b

it is bitter because americans surrendered 20 years of blood, sweat and tears to the enemy. the taliban now control more of afghanistan than they did in 2001. and they are better armed with american guns, vehicles and aircraft. it is bitter because it was entirely preventable. it was a bitter because those who work in national security no in their hearts the president is wrong when he says the war is over. mr. president, the war is not over. the war is over when your enemy accepts defeat. our enemy, the taliban, are not defeated. they are emboldened. president biden has handed them the greatest victory of their pitiful, pitiful history. a victory greater than they could have ever dreamed. using that to see against united states will be recruiting make no mistake another theyni spent america or sent america running for the exitso, and afghanistan they intend to bring the tariff we sought cobbles airport home to us, right here in the united states of america. we cannot allow that to happen. because in now, after our commander-in-chief decided to leave behind, let a repeat that, leave it b

americans out of there. white house correspondent peter doocy shows us tonight. >> if the taliban isn't letting americans leave afghanistan, does the white house thinks that counts as a hostage situation? >> no. that is not what we would characterize it as. that those are points -- those are comments made by a republican congressman this weekend. >> the democrat senate leader chuck schumer says the americans all of whom wanted to come out have come out. praise god. but that's not true. republican senator ben sasse says americans are still trapped behind taliban lines. the biden administration is still refusing to disclose how many of our people they left behind and the state department keeps talking about how they really hope the taliban will live up to their commitment. pathetic. >> the international community is watching to see if the taliban will live up to their commitments. >> some democrats are more than mad at the biden white house. senator richard blumenthal says i have been deeply frustrated even furious at our government's delay and inaction and senator tom cotton fears the administration is negotiat

the state department now saying about 100 americans still stranded. the taliban reportedly blocking commercial planes from leaving. and what we're now learning tonight about the new taliban government already. martha raddatz live in washington. >>> as this nation prepares to mark 20 years since 9/11, the alleged mastermind behind the attacks appearing in court in guantanamo bay. khalid sheikh mohammed, ksm, and four alleged co-conspirators, what played out in court today? terry moran reporting. >>> back here at home tonight, one week after texas banned abortions in texas after about six weeks, tonight, texas governor greg abbott now signing into law a sweeping new voting law, one of the most restrictive ever. >>> the tragic amusement park accident in colorado. a 6-year-old girl plunging 110 feet on an underground ride. >>> the scene onboard an american airlines flight. the unruly passenger and what he was saying about the president. >>> and news tonight coming in from ethel kennedy, the widow of rfk. some of her children split. she's now weighing in on the possib

lap and he provided veer 0 solutions for now the scores of our physical 0 americans held hostage abandoned behind enemy taliban lines. >> could this have been done in a more orderly manner? i respectfully disagree. >> there is not an end to our commitment to american citizens in afghanistan who want to leave. >> never in my lifetime would ii ever believe america would have an administration knowingly make a decision to leave americans behind. >> it's not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world.. we have americans that get stranded in countries all the time. >> extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of the united states military and diplomats and intelligence especially. >> abandoned behind enemy lines day 13 >> sean: every single american this is not political, whether this is not political, whether conservative, liberal, this should make every american blood boil, our americans are behind enemy lines and hostage to the wims of the terrorist group taliban. i guess after ten, 20 cups of coffee today, a very annoyed looking, seemi

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