so michaelle mccall, tell us about the bagram airbase and this monumental mistake of going dark, becausehink there is also breaking news that you're going to share with us about putin pressuring biden to close that airbase. i would not be surprised if xi jinping said get this airbase out of here so that america would not have eyes and ears in this partca of the world. your thoughts? >> well, the reason why it is so important is because it's a national security asset for the united states or it was until the taliban took it over. this provided eyes and ears not only in afghanistan, but russia, china, and iran, our adversaries. they are now emboldened. we can't see. we're going dark you now. and that's very dangerous. the administration talks about over-the-horizon capability. this is like six, eight hours ixaway in qatar, uae. bagram, the loss of bagram, i can't emphasize how destructive this is and maria, i'm getting reports now that the chinese as they met with the taliban in late july are negotiating not only for the rare earth minerals, but also they want access to that base. the idea

every soldier that came in and left flowed through bagram airbase.had important intelligence capabilities and sensors that could see in the region. i wrote an op-ed and sent a letter to the biden administration and asked secretary of defense austin directly during a hearing months ago why we would give away the only base in the world that we have that physically borders china and its backdoor and also sandwiched between russia and iran? it is a 12,000-foot runway, maria. if you want to get beijing's attention, if things start going south in taiwan or south china sea, put azelate bomber at bagram their backdoor, which is 100 miles away from their new ballistic missile fields. as you mentioned the uyghurs, the only thing beijing cares about the most is an uprising from its own people but things like its major semiconductor factories and other critical infrastructure we could have held at risk, even had eyes and ears into from that base but there is another critical piece too and that's india. i think it is one of our most critical strategic alliances i

want america to have eyes and ears on china and russia, did he. >> we don't have that in the bagram airbasecitizens out and help their citizens over there in history will not look on that kindly. it does leave the back door wide open not only do we have the terrorist threat renewed in afghanistan but china and russia will happily tell, time is not stupid enough to do terrorist attacks and do things overtly except for on the side realm but they don't have the perfect proxy in the taliban they cannot prop them up financially in the tears activities in afghanistan and here in the united states. maria: which is leading some people to believe that the ccp, the chinese communist party will move into the bagram airbase and take over that airbase which would be an incredible blackeye on america international security professionals. while all of this is going on you just went through two crises, afghanistan of the wide open border why are your colleagues talking about money being spent on a green economy. this is the priority, why don't you talk to us out of these talks, house ways and means committ

want america to have eyes and ears on china and russia, did he. >> we don't have that in the bagram airbasep their citizens over there in history will not look on that kindly. it does leave the back door wide open not only do we have the terrorist threat renewed in afghanistan but china and russia will happily tell, time is not stupid enough to do terrorist attacks and do things overtly except for on the side realm but they don't have the perfect proxy in the taliban they cannot prop them up financially in the tears activities in afghanistan and here in the united states. maria: which is leading some people to believe that the ccp, the chinese communist party will move into the bagram airbase and take over that airbase which would be an incredible blackeye on america international security professionals. while all of this is going on you just went through two crises, afghanistan of the wide open border why are your colleagues talking about money being spent on a green economy. this is the priority, why don't you talk to us out of these talks, house ways and means committee of the three have

china may use bagram airbase as a hub for its belt and road initiative. china denies that.sia. reaction to all of that news? >> china is moving in everywhere. that is really what the problem is. even very close to our homeland here, 90 miles away in cuba. you see what they're doing in south america. afghanistan is the latest thing. that is the thing when secretary blinken says they have leverage against the taliban i don't know what leverage he is talking about quite frankly because if it is monetary leverage, china will fill in the void and so, this is something that should be very much concerning and this is paul of president biden's doing. elizabeth: congresswoman, you grilled the secretary of state. we had representative michael mccaul of your committee, house foreign affairs, he is the ranking republican, he brought up this issue, he asked secretary of state antony blinken whether russia's leader vladmir putin threatened president biden. blinken didn't answer the question. watch this. >> and my last question is is, is it true that president putin threatened the preside

also we've got reports coming in, china, moving to occupy bagram airbase which the white house surrenderid. the secretary of state appears to downplay the terrorists of the new taliban government saying they have quote a challenging track record. all of this ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this week. joining us tonight, senator bill hagerty, dr. omar hadad, michael burgess, steve forbes, vince collagnese, former nypd lieutenant. he is darren porcher and arizona attorney general mark brnovich. angry voters heckling the president on tour of hurricane damage. he is moving on to a covid speech to rescue his plunging approval ratings now hitting record lows nationwide. we have a preview of his speech. top democrats say no to nancy pelosi and chuck schumer racing to ram through as fast as they can historic spending and tax hikes without reading the bills first because democrats face losing control of congress just as they did under both clinton and obama. plus tonight, even more newly revealed government documents strengthen the case that dr. fauci did in fact mislead under oath and ston

threat and the consequences to come from handing over there strategically located and fortified bagram airbaseo the taliban as congressman michael mccall told us on this program last week. >> thegr reason why it is so important is because it's a national security asset for the united states or it was so the taliban take it over, this provided eyes and ears not only in afghanistan, but china, russia and iran. they are now emboldened. we can't see. we're going dark now and that's very dangerous. the administration talks about over-the-horizon capabilities. this is like six, eight hours away in qatar, uae. bagram, the loss of bag rap, i can't -- bagram, i can't emphasize how destructive this is. maria: as the biden administration promises green cars for afghan refugees, the southern border is overflowing with migrants. there are 15,000 people waiting to apprehended under one bridge in del-rio, texas. joe biden's refusal to close the border as terrorist want-to-bees join the fight, as michael waltz predicted last week. >>>> we are on a road to a futue attack. the samewe team that's around biden wa

allies trying to flee but you gave it up they use bagram airbase as a hub for the road initiative china is moving in everywhere and that's what the problem is even close to her homeland 90 miles away in cuba you see with the doing in south america, afghanistan is the latest thing that's a thing when secretary blinken said they have leverage against the taliban i don't know what leverage he's talking about if it's monetary leverage china will fill in the void, this is something that should be concerning and this is all president biden's doing. elizabeth: red representative michael mccaul of your committee house foreign affairs a ranking republican brought up this issue he asked secretary of state blinken whether vladimir putin threatened president biden, but anthony blinken did not answer the question. >> my last question, is it true that president putin threatened the president of the united states saying he could not build intelligence capabilities in the region? >> this is an abort question and one in detail and substance we need to take up in another setting. elizabeth: you see him n

biden and his generals, they closed bagram airbase in the dead of night, and so by august, yeah, august 15th, it was over. they had controlled the perimeter along the national airport in kabul. in april, in may, in june, in let's slow things down a little bit. look at your screen. this was afghanistan. we are going to leave -- remember we have the time lapse, we are going to leave it up there. this is may, taliban, this is one -- the red part is where the taliban had control of they country. not really that much, enough to be concerned about. they had begun their offense of a real a little earlier. now let's take a look at the month of june and see what that looks like. now they're taking over bigger portions and taking control of dozens of other provinces. now let's look at the month of july. that's when the taliban-controlled the vast majority of the country and were headed straight for kabul. we still controlled kabul, we w controlled the i international airport at this time, we had time to get everybody out and our military equipment, and h or allies, and our families and the green

drone strike killed 10 innocent civilians by mistake and of course abandoning bagram airbase are alldocket. this is new reporting reveals a general milley asked russian counterparts to use their military bases to respond to any emerging terrorist threat in afghanistan. joining me now was senior strategic analyst general jack keane appeared thank you for being here appear wow, what a turn of events as the u.s. is asking russia to use their bases because we don't have a base anywhere in the neighborhood because we abandoned bagram airbase. >> actually it's the reverse, when president biden met with president vladimir putin in a june and they were talking about united states having some capability in the region to monitor terrorism, vladimir two and did not what the united states dealing with his russian surrogate countries in the region, so-called purchased and ect. and it was at that meeting he said there's always the possibility to put your capability in one of the russian bases inside that country and national security staff jake sullivan and company asked general milley knowing the

if china takes over the bagram airbase, that would be an incredible black eye for the u.s. course i think it's possible. it would be just adding injury to the national humiliation which is the completely botched withdrawal from afghanistan. the thing to remember about bagram airbase is this is a sprawling installation, where the united states was able to conduct close air support, how much we've been able to continue to break up terrorism cells while the afghan army was doing ground operations, it's how we cooperated with nato. and members of congress are pushing back, saying let's narrow our mission in afghanistan to just doing counter terrorism, stay there and then keep bagram because that's even going to help us in our competition with the chinese. but if we vacate that, which we did, now china can come in in and take over that sprawling airbase which would be of great strategic importance for the chinese. maria: well, no wonder we have hostages on the ground. we don't have anybody there. that airbase was so strategically located, giving the u.s. an eye on china and the

general mckenzie blamed president biden's direction going to zero troops for why bagram airbase was abandonedthe suicide bomber that killed 13 troops was a former isis prisoner released from bagram airbase by the taliban. so the generals on capitol hill repeatedly rebutted and contradicted the president's claims. what is the impact of this around the world? >> well, that is why president biden is known as the commander of chaos in afghanistan. unfortunately afghanistan is now a haven for terrorists, not just al qaeda. the haqqani network. u.s. citizens are in danger and the rest of the world doesn't believe the u.s. is going to lead or provide for the sate of its own people. basically our trust is destroyed in the international community and they're afraid biden won't step up. elizabeth: ford o'connell. great to see you, up next, we'll deal with the this news. border towns bracing for another massive migrant surge. 60,000. that is what panama says. we'll talk to the mayor of uvalde, texas about the impact on the border. up next special counsel john durham issue as new opinion involving the la

he also would have kept bagram airbase. joe biden said i inherited a plan.ollow your father's plan. at your father's plan would have been conditions based on top of everything else. your father's plan was in may, it's a nonfighting season, as weird as that sounds, it's a nonfighting season, that's when the poppy crops come up, et cetera. >> yeah, all of that is right. i mean, sean, we're supposed to have the greatest military leaders in the world, the greatest generals of all time, look at patton and eisenhower and douglas macarthur. go through all of them, do you think they would be impressed by milley? you think they would be impressed by a guy who was literally beaten by the taliban when we are the greatest military fighting machine in the world? and what does that do in the eyes of every country on the world? what does that do in the eyes of the russian and the north koreans and the chinese and many of our adversaries around the world? it is such an embarrassing defeat, you told me you literally can't beat a primitive, underfunded army, and you're suppos

we know he was imprisoned in bagram airbase in the past. he spoke with fox about the u.s.rawal. >> translator: getting americans out of afghanistan was always the aim of the afghans. that is why they put suicide vests on their bodies. getting them out now is a big achievement for afghans. you would also be proud if your heroes kicked out invaders from your land. reporter: i also asked haqqani about his views regarding the biden administration. in an off-camera meeting he told me wants all countries to have consulates an representation in kabul though he claimed the united states is living up to their end of the bargain. >> translator: from the beginning of the agreement in doha the united states misused the agreement an broke the rules. islamic emirates we stand by our agreement. blacklist of taliban is also include. unfortunately the united states is not doing what they are saying. what they are saying is against the doha agreement. they're calling for a new war and causing more chaos. reporter: in addition with speaking with haqqani, we spoke with a special immigrant vis

we have been given access to the now abandoned bagram airbase and prison complex.ility is where suspects were held sometimes for years without charges or trial. this base is patrolled by taliban fighters. the testimonies may be disturbing. >> they call it little one, or afghanistan's abu ghraib. these are some of the former prisoners heading back. it is not easy to find their way in the early square kilometer town. even the taliban had to stop for directions. once you enter, the scale of the prison complex, which once held tens of thousands of people, becomes evident. building after building, door after door, the men once held here remember the humiliation and torture at the hands of u.s. soldiers and fellow afghans. imitating what the guards did, they wouldn't let me sleep, says this man who spent seven years in different cages. he was in physical therapy for extensive torture by afghan and american troops. he says tortured prisoners were hidden in another block away from media and humanitarian organizations until they healed. >> my legs are weekend in pain. they

president biden is he -- our allies before the trial and the equipment that was abandoned leaving bagram airbase he absolutely botched this withdrawal? >> i don't think he listened to his closest advisers and i don't think you really listen to the folks who in our department of defense would be people we would consider the experts. i think robert gates and 2019 gave us a heads-up as to what we could expect. he indicated he didn't think the joe biden had made a good policy decision in the last four decades when it came to foreign affairs were national defense issues and i think that says a lot. i think it was his lack of judgment in this particular case and the stubbornness, sticking to a date certain rather than allowing the conditions to determine our approach to getting out of afghanistan. once the decision was made to get out certainly americans wanted to see an end to the war but very few americans wanted to see what happened when we lost 13 of our men and women that we should never forget gave their lives and now we have left hundreds of americans there abandoned at this point and we have t

but clearly what president biden did, just pulling everything out, giving up the bagram airbase, that is the best place to inma taint order -- maintain order, and leaving americans behind and our allies behind, many of whom are being hunted down and killed now, is a disaster. there are many, many other options how we could have gotten out of there. i think president biden was advised about that but he still claims that no one ever told him so. that's what he told george stephanopoulos on abc. caller: good morning. my name is darlene. mr. johnson, i think you are so awesome representing donald trump at the impeachment trial. host: thanks, darlene. caller: thank you. i am a proud republican. and the question is, where is biden's mindset when it comes to the immigration laws? by knowing -- letting illegal immigrations coming into the u.s. without being stopped at the border? host: that's -- mr. johnson: he appointed kamala harris, the border czar, so to speak. when she did finally visit she went to el paso which is not ground zero for the problem. it's down in the rio grande valley where

>> first thing is why allow strategic victories, why did they allow bagram airbase to go way, why didn't we have more runways to house 40,000 people and would have prevented the iv gate exclusion and wouldn't have stopped international flights, many of the americans i talked to at international flights booked and would have been willing to get out but international flight ceased 20 days prior to the actual drawdown on august 30th. why allow china by the way sees bagram is a major major asset, why did we allow that to be the first thing we let go circling ourselves into a tiny bubble letting them surround us in every way, they extort americans and threaten others coming in. >> listen to one republican congressman with very harsh words for our president. >> the president repeatedly assured the american people the television takeover was not inevitable, that we had plenty of time to safely evacuate americans. the president has misled us more than once. i fear the president is delusional. >> how is president biden so consistently ron foreign-policy? >> let's go back to secretary gates who sa

when we had to go back in whether it was briefed to the white house the course of action to take bagram airbase to the north of kabul, kabul international is sitting in middle of the city of 4 million people, it is indefensible, the marines killed a few days prior to the bad strike was put in a possible position to leave the gates open to conduct the vist -- evacuation that biden should have started a couple of months forward. and the city replete with taliban and isis suicide bombers. and number two, mckenzie said they were rushed and on an -- impossible time frame, i want to know if they were pressured to take the strike because of the suicide bombing. you may as well call it over the rainbow counterterrorism. it is a talking point. you have to have multiple forms of intelligent to pinpoint the bad guys and be sure that is who is in your crosshair before you take a strike. you have to have people on the ground, sensors, signal intelligence. double check your work. we don't have that any more, none, it has all been pulled out. we pulled troops out, intelligence left, contractors left, diplomat

the bagram airbase, leaving bagram airbase and $86 billion of weaponry behind, not to mention leavingns, brits, canadian, ukrainian, all of our allies behind. blowing off the supreme court, the he eviction moratorium after the supreme court said this is up to congress. the wide open border. you i mean, the list goes on and on of items that could be impeachable and yet there's zero accountability. we'll see if voters bring that accountability in 2022 and 2024. tiana, thanks very much. >> thank you, maria. maria: good to see you. coming up, extending pandemic era poll policies, aoc's plan to keep the unemployment payments flowing long after they've expired. oh, yes, another blowoff of the supreme court. then, self-driving delivery, walmart has some new plans for its new technology. it is making a buzz this morning. we've got it for you. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ black rock silver is bringing new life to a historic silver district, the second largest in the silver state of nevada with multiple recent high grade discoveries, black rock is well underway on the largest sil

turned down and what about bagram airbase, why did we close it, why didn't we keep it open?be probed. and finally, the evacuation itself, could we have secured the air a port any better than what we did and prevented the loss of our 13 servicemen and the other civilians that were killed there? and what about the date certain? we knew we could not get all of our people out by 31 august. the taliban were opposing it and just the sheer scale and size of that evacuation denied us that. why didn't we keep it open for another week, for another month? what was your recommendation? it's been reported that the pentagon did agree with keeping the date certain, in other words, evacuate 31 august and a leave american citizens behind. i think they're going to have to answer all of those questions and i'm confident had they will. maria: general, real quick, let me end where i began and that was taiwan. the beijing olympics are in february 2022, just a few months away. would you expect beijing to of move into taiwan right after the olympics? >> no, i don't see that as that near term an iss

his top generals were telling him to keep 3500 troops in afghanistan to keep things in check at bagram airbase the catastrophe we witnessed in august and americans left behind and 13 us servicemembers dead. there is no defending this but you will find some folks that do that because it is in their dna at this point and we will continue moving forward. >> like defending the giants and eagles. i had to go there. in all seriousness do you think enough people will be demanding transparency and accountability that we will get questions that the american people deserve? >> i saw that happen at the press conference yesterday where you didn't just have peter doocy or jackie heinrich asking tough questions but terry moran for abc who pressed jen psaki and there was a notable back and forth as far as asking can you give me one military leader as far as recommending to the president that he should pull all troops out of afghanistan and not leave any peacekeeping force behind, she got very defensive which is rare for her, more defensive than usual. it is done too sporadically. of donald trump and dennis a

unilateral brushed on plane withdrawal imbecilic, dangerous, unnecessary, why did you surrender bagram airbasee dead of the night and not tell anybody. did you have a travel ban for america to not flight into the hotspot of afghanistan, should they assess questions. >> yes they should but here's the better question that i would ask. who is accountable and what are the ramifications for their decisions that they made. i don't see anybody leaving the administration, we lost the war, 20 years of war we had almost 3000 killed in action and thousands more wounded, trillions of dollars him based on the decisions that they made we lost the country. who is accountable for that. when i was in the military if you lost a piece of equip me you were personally accountable and if you were asleep at three in the morning and an officer runs into something else the captain is relieved, howard is saying it's okay we lost the country let's go to the next subject. it's amazing to me i would hold their feet to the fire and ask them those hard questions and the decisions that were made. >> we were showing video of

taxpayer money, with our weapons and now we hear that they are talking to china about handing over bagram airbasethem. >> sean: thank you come appreciate it. coming up you will not believe what joe biden did to trump appointed members of military panels. kellyanne conway, one of those appointees will join us next. we will also get her take on afghanistan and joe biden earlier today. that is straight ahead, stay with us. eczema why hide yourn if you can help heal your skin from within. with dupixent adults saw long-lasting, clearer skin and significantly less itch. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. if you take asthma medicines don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. talk to your doctor about dupixent. hi, my name is cherrie. i'm 76 and i live on the oregon coast. without talking to your doctor. my husband, sam, we've been married 53 years. we love to walk on the beach. i have two da

taxpayer money, with our weapons and now we hear that they are talking to china about handing over bagram airbase. >> sean: thank you. appreciate it. coming up you will not believe what joe biden did to trump appointed members of military panels. kellyanne conway, one of those appointees, will join us next. we will alsoon afghanistan and joe biden afghanistan and joe biden r skin and significantly less itch. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. if you take asthma medicines don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. talk to your doctor about dupixent. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: now tonight joe biden is trying to purge any trump appointees from the advisory boards of our u.s. service academies. nonpolitical positions providing even more evidence biden is needlessly politicizing even the military and trying to purge any and all conservatives from these prestigious schools. and of course, it's just an

donald trump's plan, the one that he had in place, we would had to keep bagram airbase in perpetuity and held it taliban accountable by force. if they stepped 1 inch out of where they were allowed to step, he would've bombed them. if they harmed any american, not a single american died in 18 months in the last year of trump's presidency. antony blinken is living an alternate reality. if you had any honor at all, he doesn't, he would resign immediately. he should be fired, impeach, but guess what? he does not have honor or decency. and he is not bright paired in fact, he didn't even show up to his hearing at capitol hill today. instead, he appeared on webcam from his office like three blocks away. take a look. >> mr. blinken, assuming is not classified, can he tell us where you are today? speak of the state department. >> couldn't be bothered to come down here and see congress. on the afghans came to the united states that have not met the qualifications for special immigrant visa? >> we are in the process -- >> how many? you were just there. how many did you bring? >> we will have by

if you use bagram airbase for example to evacuate americans, that would have been better than using kabultional airport. like going to newark or jfk in new york saying you're going to handle this instead of the airbase controlled by our military and not the taliban. we would have done this in the winter when fighting season is over for isis and they're back in their bases in pakistan. we would have got americans all out before we started evacuating the military. these are three very basic things that could have been done. to say, well, this is a damn good job as that cnn analyst is saying, it's ridiculous. because an overwhelming number of americans jillian, believe the president has done a horrific job on afghanistan. a damn good job does not include leaving americans behind as we're seeing right now and this is going to be a story that isn't going to go away like the biden administration wants. it's going to go on for weeks, months, maybe years, based on what happens going forward out of afghanistan. jillian: we wouldn't have americans and others on planes right now in northern afghanis

very openly because of the botched withdrawal, lack of intelligence on the ground, giving up bagram airbasecan't conduct over the horizon counterterrorism. we've seen that in the drone strike you mentioned earlier which ended up killing 10 civilians, seven of which were children. we're looking on the booth. we're looking intelligence information and we're less safe now than we were before 9/11. so yes, maybe our intelligence age ses have less silos but the ability to gather information, to conduct counterintelligence missions to send drones or to act upon information we don't have that any longer and it's no surprise there would be those who wish harm to the united states and other western countries and our allies. no surprise. elizabeth: we've got senate republicans on homeland security really going after homeland security secretary mayorkas and fbi director wray on this on the president's weak national security policies. watch what happens. >> the catastrophic way the biden administration withdrew from afghanistan surprising our nato allies and abandoning our afghan allies has left us wit

when he was late to brief president obama and a young airman refused to let him into an area of bagram airbase will arms are flailing, watches are being tapped, so i'm thinking i'm a three-star admiral i will take care of this, and she looks me in the eye and says sir, i have a job to do. you are not on the list of approved people to enter. about 10 minutes later, we get the word, we passed through. on the way back, we come back to the same gait. i stopped, i get out of the car and i said airman, do you know that i was 10 minutes late briefing the president of the united states? yes, sir. and i said "you can come work for me anytime" and then she said something to me. she said sir, i was just doing my duty. doing your duty and life and doing it to the best of your ability is important. it is a noble virtue, it is a noble quality and i think it's what makes our heroes out there. >> chris: finally, how do we tap into what you say is the hero in all of us? >> i'm hoping that as people read "the hero code," they will see that these values can be learned. you can learn to be courageous, you can lea

this is so botched on so many levels, why even let up a safe and secure bagram airbase to affect withdrawalto do withdrawal from that airport and let the taliban form a ring around the airport to prevent americans, others getting in, to get out of kabul is unbelievable to me. there is substantial amount of oversight to be done. i applaud congressman meeks on house foreign affairs committee and congressman mccaul having a hearing coming up with secretary of state antony blinken. they will start asking the tough questions. there will be tough questions asking forward. we'll be a part of that oversight. ii want to know if the president was told this would happen, he stubbornly stuck to this, knowing disaster that would happen, there should be a lot of accountability for him as well. our job in congress is to have oversight and we'll do a hell of a lot of oversight going forward. that i assure you. elizabeth: congressman john katko, pleasure having you on. come back soon. >> for sure. elizabeth: we have this story coming up, the question who is advising the president, who did he decide to be on