bret baier, your thoughts. >> bret: it's a major problem. taliban is one of the best armored governments. they have more equipment, more helicopters than australia. they have night vision. they have all this material we left. at the end of the operation, the evacuation, the u.s. dismantled and destroyed some equipment at the airport, but before that, all of the equipment with the afghan national army is now in the hands of the taliban. it's a major deal. it becomes a huge boost for the taliban. whether they can use that and defend kabul from isis terrorists and others is going to be the test. it's going to be messy and chaotic over the next couple of weeks. >> emily: k.t., can we depend on the alleys whose relationships we have freighted in the last weeks or surrounding countries, the allies, to help and crushing the rising threats here, or potentially continuing to dismantle these operations/vehicles we left behind? >> k.t.: no, i think what has happened -- there are a couple of reasons why those so-called allies are not going to help. the

as the situation in afghanistan rapidly deteriorates my colleague bret baier talks tonight with "the k who has covered the war extensively. >> bret: thank you, trace. joining me now is craig whitlock, investigative reporter for the "the washington post." he is also the author of the upcoming book "the afghanistan papers: a secret history of the war." thanks so much for being here. it's fortuitous that we are talking about this because, obviously, the mast-moving events on the ground in afghanistan have changed the could i am in mic. a lot of people thought the taliban was going to take over -- were going to take over eventually but they are taking over a lot faster than even intel thought. your thoughts as this is all transpired over the last few days? >> the rapid pace at which the taliban has been sweeping through the country, including into urban areas has really been breathtaking. i think as you point out the biden administration had kind of come to terms with the idea that the taliban might take over eventually, but the idea that this could happen, you know, as days and weeks go

"special report with bret baier" we are not going to talk about. love you, bret. >> bret: welcome to washington. i am bret baier. president biden national security team warns another terrorist attacks in kabul is likely. this comes after a suicide bomber killed 13 u.s. service members and scores of afghans. the air lift of remaining americans and afghans fleeing the country presses on. president biden maintains that the u.s. will hunt down those responsible for the bombing as he sticks to the drawl deadline 4 days away. jennifer griffin joins us live from the pentagon tonight. >> the president biden's national security team told him the u.s. forces in kabul face terrorist attacks and it's likely to get worse nearing the tuesday deadline. >> these threats specifically virtually and in real time. >> new details about the attack at the kabul airport forced the pentagon correction. 1 suicide bomber and not 2 and no explosion at a nearby hotel. the pentagon unwilling to blame the taliban. >> i understand you rely on them for protection around the airport

i am bret baier.iden national security team warns another terrorist attacks in kabul is likely. this comes after a suicide bomber killed 13 u.s. service members and scores of afghans. the air lift of remaining americans and afghans fleeing the country presses on. president biden maintains that the u.s. will hunt

brett: i'm bret baier in for chris wallace. a bill that would end years of gridlock in washington. brett: the senate works the weekend as both parties rush to finalize a may investigator infrastructure bill. but it faces an uncertain future in the house where progressives push democratic leaders for more. and republicans promise zero support for the president's next massive agenda item. eye they want t

i want to go to bret baier, "special report." bret, you try to take every up with at their word when they say this, even the president of the united states. when he said he's not heard from foreign allieses and we've reported on it quite the opposite, they made it very clear how they feel. so much so that some of them including britain and france and germany are getting their people themselves and going outside that perimeter rather than deal inside the perimeter.what to you make of that? >> it's a huge deal. i love dave. he has some interesting points but the forest through the trees here, we are where we are. you can't hinder the military's ability to get these people out of there. the fact that the u.s. military is here and not getting people like the britts and the french, the aussies and the fact that the president of the united states said that he hasn't heard reports about americans having trouble getting to the airport. an hour later, the defense secretary said on a call with lawmakers saying yes, we have reports of americ

let's go to bret baier, anchor at "special report." the president has already indicated in the past that any arm, by the taliban that came to our troops they would pay dearly for that. paraphrasing. he always would stipulate the taliban. if it's a group that the taliban is pointing to 0 others are saying are behind this and not the taliban, what would he response be them? >> a great question. that is the focus of this speech. what is the action that will come from president biden as he speaks in 33 minutes or so. the general we just heard from earlier at the pentagon, general mckenzie saying he didn't think the taliban was involved. he said he didn't know. to trey's point, they were very good at preventing afghans trying to get the airport from getting through the perimeter but not as good from stopping the suicide bombers that were successful. during that briefing at the pentagon, also what was jarring is that the general said that they were sharing this intelligence about any threats they were getting with the taliban and the taliban

we'll catch you later, bret baier in d.c.the airport in kabul as the u.s. races to evacuate all personnel ahead of the august 31 deadline. what the impact could be on the region with a power vacuum in afghanistan. dan crenshaw will weigh in next. >> the terrorists around the world are cheering. the taliban has in effect in their eyes defeated the united states of america. it is an utter embarrassment. mes are at all time highs. that makes right now the best time in history to use your va refi benefit and get cash. you could take out $50,000 or more because the newday 100 va loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. use that cash to pay high rate credit card debt or plan for retirement. the newday 100 va loan. this may look like a regular movie night. but if you're a kid with diabetes, it's more. it's the simple act of enjoying time with friends, knowing you understand your glucose levels. ♪♪ growing up in a little red house, on the edge of a forest in norway, there were three things my family encouraged: kindness,

joining us on anchor bret baier. thanks to both of you being here, great to see you, karl and bret. if this is happening behind the scenes and there is finger-pointing and blame being thrown around, what could be consequences of that be or the impact of that be on the ongoing situation in afghanistan? >> bret: i take this back and forth between various components of the biden administration as evidence they did not engage in systematic toefrt arrive at concrete plan where problems were examined in detail, big decisions for the president to be made. it was haphazard thing, get out of by august 31st. the departments were left to themselves. they would have been operating off the same sheet of music and having resolved issues at the beginning, not the end. we've seen this, evidence of the special visa program for afghan allies, a disaster. no effort to -- shut down bagram air force base as jake ellzey said, big mistake. no -- sloppy process of planning and execution and we're seeing finger pointing as a result. >> john: yesterday the president held the news conference and peter doocy a

bret baier anchors "special report". a lot going on or maybe not a lot going on at the white house. having a national security meeting today but we won't hear from the white house apparently today. think about you've covered the pentagon, the white house, you were in afghanistan. what are you thinking this morning? >> well, i'm thinking it's just sad. i think it's really indicative of what we're seeing that there wasn't really a plan. all this stuff about the chaos was not avoid -- was not avoidable is just not possible to be true because there were contingency plans that could have happened differently. one of the things is these different countries are also involved. they are also expressing concern privately and publicly about president biden and what he is saying and doing. these different countries like the brits, for example, when it first started going south they took their paratroopers, got in vehicles and got british nation nls in shelter in place positions around kabul and brought them to the airport. the aussies are trying to do the same thing right now and i just spoke t

bret baier joins us now. think, stuart. listen this communication effort by this white house, the pentagon, the state department has really gone south. the fact that we haven't heard from the key players, the secretary of state, secretary of defense, chairman of the joint chiefs, president of the united states specifically. we heard one speech but not q&a. not talking about all of the reporting that we've seen about the warnings that they have received. instead what we've had is a lot of secret officials telling off the record, or on the record but anonymous reports about how they were right and the other agency was wrong. how they told the president this and he ignored it. i think there is a lot to go through here but the biggest thing to get is the people out of afghanistan. stuart: yeah, yeah. >> it really seems like it is going to be a tough challenge. stuart: isn't it a hostage situation? we have 15,000 or so americans in kabul and tens of thousands of our friends who want to get out? they can't get to th

i'm bret baier. days after u.s. and afghanistan forces took back control of the southern city of kandahar from the taliban, taliban fighters have now taken control again of the second largest city in the country. according to authorities on the ground. and today, 19 years 8 months and 6 days later, afghan officials and u.s. military leaders are concerned the

bret baier joins us now. bret, good morning to you. >> hey, ashley. i think this has raised more than a few eyebrows because, clearly, or at least wouldn't you think, it's putting them in harm's way? what's your thought. >> ashley it's raised a lot of eyebrows and a lot of ire up on capitol hill and some privately inside the pentagon. remember, the taliban, we were bombing them two weeks ago. they have a lot of history killing american soldiers and really targeting american assets. the deputy leader of the taliban is a man called shah razz haqqani. he, as of today, still has a $10 million bounty on his head from the state department of the united states as a leading terrorist leader. so the trust factor, even though the administration says and the president said they don't trust the taliban but they're working with them in the situation, raises all kinds of questions. and if, in fact -- expect president kind of, sort of got there -- they've been providing names and lists including after an began allies, names of them, who have been working with the u.

i'm bret baier. breaking tonight. [gunfire] >> bret: gunshots ring out near the airport in kabul.ear to show the barbaric reality in afghanistan under taliban control. this is the group tries to sell itself as more compassionate; however, saying different things to different people. and now we are hearing of

. >> bret: good evening, i'm bret baier. breaking tonight the conflict over the covid resurgence. the president singled out governor ron desantis and his counterpart from texas telling them to get out of the way of new restrictions. texas and florida squeezed ahead of a new federal covid crackdown. tonight, growing concern along the

refusing to resign despite the blow to his record no one could see coming "special report with bret baierll clinton. -- especially bill clinton. >> the investigation found that governor cuomo sexually harassed current and former new york state employees with touching and making numerous offensive comments of a sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women. >> greg: and cuomo thought he was putting the sensual in nonconsensual. this might make grandma blush so tie her up. >> he reached under her blouse to grab her breast. this was a pattern of inappropriate sexual conduct. in a hug the governor held her so closely her breasts were pressed against his body and he grabbed her butt. >> greg: cuomo said he kisses and touches everyone so it doesn't count. >> there are hundreds if not thousands of photos of me using the same gesture. i do it with everyone. black and white. young and old. straight and lgbtq. powerful people. friends. strangers. people when i meet on the street. >> greg: in other words no one is safe from the octopus. we know cuomo is a perv. >> even lifelong rep

brett: i'm bret baier in for chris wallace. resume debate on a trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure package. >> it's a bill that would end years of gridlock in washington. brett: the senate works the weekend as both parties rush to finalize a may investigator infrastructure bill. but it faces an uncertain future in the house where progressives push democratic leaders for more. and republicans promise zero support for the president's next massive agenda item. eye they want t unleash a

i'm bret baier, breaking tonight. [one fire. [gunfire] >> they don't know how to control crowds. ling new video obtained by fox news shows afghans taking

i'm bret baier. breaking tonight. [gunfire] >> bret: gunshots ring out near the airport in kabul. desperation only growing there as people attempt to flee afghanistan. these graphic photos appear to show the barbaric reality in afghanistan under taliban control. this is the group tries to sell itself as more compassionate; however, saying different things to different people. and now we are hearing of the plan to evacuate americans from afghanistan by the end of the month is in question. in fact, president biden just moments ago said in an interview that american troops will stay beyond the deadline until all americans are out of afghanistan. that is new. the president insisting all in that interview that he was clear-eyed about the chaos that would ensue following the u.s. departure. >> you don't think this auto could have been handled, this actually could have been handled better in any way? no mistakes? >> no. i, i have, i don't think it could have been handled in a way that -- we -- we are going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there is a way to have

i'm bret baier.ust six days away, a bipartisan group of lawmakers and american allies now voicing concerns over evacuation efforts as they have been over recent days. they don't believe it's possible to get u.s. personnel and afghan allies out of afghanistan by august 31st. today the state department was forced to clear up confusion about the number of americans remaining in the country. secretary of state antony blinken says there are roughly 1500 who have left to leave. secretary blinken

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bret baier is here to talk about it.s passing but also the strategy to have passed the 1.5 trillion infrastructure bill and on the heels of that at 4 a.m. this morning passing this out of the senate. >> they have to link the two. the pitch on the second is much more heavy burden to get moderate democrats to sign onto it and that's why you saw nancy pelosi say she wasn't going to put the first one on the floor without the second one structure of it being passed. i think the second part, the 3.5 trillion first of all is months away. it is going to be churned out in the sausage making factory of capitol hill and a really heavy lift when you look at the money and all of the priorities that are in there. even though democrats only need 50 votes in the senate. the first one, however, i think there will be some pressure. you peeled off 19 republicans out of 50 in the senate to vote for this. that's a big number. as you head towards 2022, both sides need some sort of a win to take home. they have to say they are doing something.

i want to brett in bret baier, anchor of "special report." he interviewed john kirby. bret, a big change of approach here since you spoke with him. compare what he said to you to what he's saying today. thanks for being here. >> good afternoon. it's night and day in less than 24 hours. the administration went from going to say that the taliban needs to understand that if they want to be welcomed into the international community, they need to do x, y and z. i pressed him saying you have u.n. people on the ground, human rights watch people saying there's beheadings and executions as they're taking over the big cities. he said we understand that. they had a different talking point. today after a briefing with the president and the defense secretary, they're deciding that more troops need to be put in. three battalions of marines and other soldiers to evacuate american citizens there. you heard those last questions, martha, about the images of saigon and marines going in to rescue americans at the embassy in vietnam that is where we are after almost 20 years on the ground i

i'm bret baier, breaking tonight the biden administration says the kabul withdrawal could take up toic day of evacuations that were cut short after afghan civilians clung to u.s. planes and flooded runways trying to leave the capital. we are told the taliban have the capital airport surrounded. they have created checkpoints around the outskirts telling afghan civilians to stay put while the u.s. military is controlling the airport itself. u.s. officials say

[laughter] ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening, i'm bret baier.ak into nights, a victory lap for president biden over positive job numbers for july. there also some major hurdles i had with the covid resurgence leading to massive problems on the southern border. we have new exclusive images and details from south texas and we will take you live there in just a moment. but first, the u.s. economy gained 934,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate dipped to 5.4% pair that ignited a one had a 44-point game for the dow today to close in a new record close. the s&p 500 was up seven, that's also a new top finish for the nasdaq lost 60. however, the covid related labor shortage and rising inflation are still significant problems throughout the country. luscombe of the fight against the delta variant of covid-19 presents many unknowns. white house correspond to peter doocy leads us off tonight live from the north lawn, good evening peter. >> good evening, bret. officials think it's the way to keep the economy on the right track by keeping as many peopl

welcome to washington i'm bret baier.that can you run without the kinds of a complexities, challenges, threats we faced. i refuse to continue a war that was no longer in the service of the vital national interest of our people. >> bret: a combative commander-in-chief defending his decision to end america's

i'm trace gallagher in for bret baier breaking tonight the desperate rush to get americans out of kabulet of the rampaging taliban. thousands of american troops are head to the region to try to ensure the safety of u.s. personnel. there is even a report that the biden administration is asking the taliban to spare the american embassy in kabul there are also reports of heavy fighting near the capital city and speculation that its collapse could be just hours, maybe days away. we begin tonight with white house correspondent peter doocy.

i'm shannon bremen in for bret baier.ower.

the americans, a former senior defense official in contact with commanders on the ground tells bret baier that the taliban have a ring outside the airport and won't let anybody outside of it. the big issue is no people outside of the taliban ring will get in. no way that they get 30,000. 4,000 troops will be on the ground tomorrow we're told and they hope to avoid scenes like these from yesterday, which caused them to had flights in to and out of kabul. the goal for the u.s. military is to begin one departure flight per hour in the next 24 hours. they can get 5,000 to 9,000 passengers out per day. neil? >> neil: thanks to jennifer's point, we have heard again repeatedly that the taliban has said that any civilian that wants to reach the air field can. thousands of afghans that had been employ by the western embassies or not government organizations, they're unable to reach the airport at these taliban checkpoints. in other words, at the checkpoints they won't let you in. jacqui heinrich with more. >> this is the first q&a with the taliban since the white house started the withdraw. the fa

[laughter] ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening, i'm bret baier.urgence leading to massive problems on the southern border. we have new exclusive images and details from south texas and we will take you live there in just a moment. but first, the u.s. economy gained 934,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate dipped to 5.4% pair that ignited a one had a 44-point game for the dow today to

bret baier is reporting this at this hour from a former senior defense official in contact with commandersthe field in cab bull they have a ring outside of the airport and won't let anyone inside. the 82nd airborne is securing the airport. the big issue here is that no people outside of the taliban ring will get. in no way they can get 30,000. not even close. getting anyone outside of the taliban ring from the safe passage needed to get to an airplane is going to be a real challenge. now the challenge is mr. biden you don't want to put anybody else in arlington? have you thought about this? are we going to let americans in that country tri outside of kabul just die because you were tired of the war and wouldn't listen to your experts? now, when the people outside the ring of the airport want to make their way in with their paperwork and the taliban say no, are we going to stay outside and say oops, i guess you are going to have to stay and live under this regime and be beheaded maybe we can see that video a little bit later. that's the choice you have left it can country. steve: at the air

i'm bret baier. breaking tonight new york democratic governor andrew cuomo is resigning amid the enormous controversy over shower. allegations. of the democrat saying today that he wants to let government, state government get back to governing and avoid months of litigation and impeachment proceedings. governor cuomo said he accepts full responsibility for what he calls his misinterpreted actions but blamed politics for his persecution. we have fox team coverage tonight david lee miller in new york city tells us how cuomo may still have legal problems despite his resignation and bryan llenas is in albany tonight with the blockbuster details of this day. good evening, brian. >> bret, good evening, governor andrew cuomo's reputation in albany is infamous a bully and fighter who gets his way no matter what. tonight, facing the biggest political fight of his life, cuomo did what few believed possible, he gave up. >> the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing.

good evening from washington, i am bret baier, the take over from afghanistan is accelerating, the bidensident biden reiterated the troop withdrawal is going to happen and afghans must fight for their own country. we will talk live with pentagon press secretary john kirby in just a moment, but first, state department rich edson has specifics on what is happening on the ground. >>

i'm bret baier.at and around the kabul airport in afghanistan, president biden said today he hasn't heard of problems from americans trying to get to the airport and insisted his administration will do everything it can to provide a safe evacuation. >> let me be clear, any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. >> bret: and fox news has learned defense secretary lloyd austin acknowledged to lawmakers there are reports, in fact, that american citizens had been

good evening, welcome to washington i'm bret baier.e taliban's rule, chaos turning deadly today after a fire fight outside the airport kills afghan soldier. back at home president biden says is he considering the august 31st deadline to withdraw troops completely but the taliban is rejecting that idea calling a red line and ethics tending it would provoke a quote reaction. house intelligence committee members receive their first classified

bret baier tonight talked with john kirby, admiral john kirby and trying to have a relationship or conversatione taliban and this is what he said. >> the newest military consider the taliban and our focus right now, the thing that we are working against right now is time and space. we want to get as many people out of kabul we can and as little amount of time as we can. there are no hostile interactions right now between american forces and the taliban. and we want to keep it that way. >> shannon: okay there might be hostile interactions involving people trying to get into the airport that are americans. david marshall with fox quoted and he says, an american citizen over there, he says he went to the airport wednesday trying to get out. for me to be 10 feet from the experience with 3-year-old son and passport and not being able to get to the airport, that is problematic. david, what do we do? >> well, when president trump signed a deal to pull our troops out in february 2020, there was a lot of optimism about the taliban. i guess the biden administration continued to be somewhat optimistic of

i'm bret baier, breaking tonight. [one fire. [gunfire] >> they don't know how to control crowds. so they do these things. >> bret: chilling new video obtained by fox news shows afghans taking cover as gunfire rings out around the perimeter of the of the kabul airport. some protesters waived the afghanistan flag in defiance of the taliban as it retakes afghanistan. thousands of americans and afghans are waiting their turn to leave. flights at the airport have picked up, but fox news has learned that each transport plane that took off today was only at 60% capacity. and moments ago, breaking news, a "wall street journal" report that fox news has now confirmed saying state department officials, two dozen of them at the kabul embassy sent a memo to top brass last month warning of the potential collapse of kabul soon after the august 3 st troop withdrawal deadline. we will have more on that breaking story in a moment. first, correspondent trey yingst is in our middle east newsroom with the latest on the ground in afghanistan. good evening, trey. >> bret, good evening. according to nato

. >> >> bret: good evening, welcome to washington i'm bret baier. the deadliest day for troops in more than a decade. two suicide bombers detonating explosive vests they were wearing outside the kabul airport as u.s. marines and other service members were helping thousands to try to make their evacuation point. at least 12 u.s. service members killed, 15 others wounded. dozens of afghans killed and wounded in those attacks. before today, the last americans

. >> bret: good evening, i'm bret baier. breaking tonight the conflict over the covid resurgence. florida's republican governor asking president biden why he's not doing his job. it comes after the president singled out governor ron desantis and his counterpart from texas telling them to get out of the way of new restrictions. texas and florida squeezed ahead of a new federal covid crackdown. tonight, growing concern along the southern border as thousands of covid positive for illegal immigrants released by the federal government without any federal facilities to house them. fox team coverage denied bill melugin in mission texas shows us what's happening on the ground right now. we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy live on the north lawn. >> good evening, elected democrats and republicans have access to the same data about covid-19. vaccines, treatments dating back more than a year but both sides are now using the same data to justify entirely different approaches to governing during delta. florida governor ron desantis who is bucking the biden's administration's ba

. ♪ >> mike: i'm mike emanuel in for bret baier.e officials to institute and contemplate more restrictions and fueling resurgence in vaccinations sparking resistance to any new government action to people saying they have had enough. fox team coverage. rich edson at the state department with exclusive news about another possible link to the wuhan lab in china. anita vogel washington bureau with pictures ofhe

bret baier, i was shocking to him saying he's not called a single word leader since the fall of afghanistanat is he doing? napping? it's unbelievable. he's victim shaming, he's blaming donald trump for the problem. he's blaming innocent victims for not wanting to leave the country fast enough. everybody is to blame but him. it's something that i have never seen in my life. >> it's very interesting. jake sullivan said we encouraged people to get out but we didn't want to. the same time, we're being told by the best intelligence in the united states of america that they had 60 to 90 days. kabul would be safe three months. they didn't have good information going into that. bill mcgurn, strikes me as odd in a number of levels that we haven't heard from the department of defense, the defense secretary or the chairman of the joint chiefs. there's been reporting that they didn't necessarily agree with this decision. that it was president biden who wanted to move forward with this. >> yeah, i think the one thing that is clear in this mess is it's all joe biden. joe biden saw the next anniversary of

i'm bret baier. amid the enormous controversy over shower. allegations. of the democrat saying today that he wants to let government, state government get back to governing and avoid months of litigation and impeachment proceedings. governor cuomo said he accepts full responsibility for what he calls his misinterpreted actions but blamed politics for his persecution. we have fox team coverage tonight david lee miller in new york city tells us how cuomo may still have legal problems despite his resignation

i'm bret baier. , you just heard it stunning video from the airport in kabul showing incredible desperation of of a danes willing to risk life and limb to escape the taliban's control. [gunfire] >> bret: as u.s. air force cargo jet a c-17 taxis for takeoff, people cling to the side. hoping for a way out of afghanistan. reports of some plunging to their deaths from that plane holding onto the wheel as the plane reaches altitude. thousands made their way to that airport trying to flee as hundreds of them were packed inside. a couple of those planes

let's bring in bret baier. it's great to see you.up where jennifer griffin left off because she's talking about the fact that when that last c-17 leaves, you might have these stadiums filled with the taliban beheading people, and i was surprised to hear jake sullivan talking about what the administration believes are the obligations of taliban. i want to play that sound bite for you. and i will get your response on the other side. >> what we expect from the taliban going forward. that is something that will have to be watched and observed over time. whether in fact they are prepared to meet their obligations to the basic human rights and dignity of people, to the safe passage of people to the airport, to the fair and just treatment of civilians. that is something they're going to have to show. i, that's with no expectations, but only the sense that they will have to prove to the international community who they ultimately are going to end up being. >> i was a little stunned by what happens if they don't? we are expecting a terrorist

i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, you just heard it stunning video from the airport in kabul showing incredible desperation of of a danes willing to risk life and limb to escape the taliban's control. [gunfire] >> bret: as u.s. air force cargo jet a c-17 taxis for takeoff, people cling to the side. hoping for a way out of afghanistan. reports of some plunging to their deaths from that plane holding onto the wheel as the plane reaches altitude. thousands made their way to that airport trying to flee as hundreds of them were packed inside. a couple of those planes leaving. speaking for the first time since the fall of kabul in the face of today's chaos, a defiant president joe biden defended his judgment but conceded he was cut off guard. >> i stand squarely behind my decision after 20 years i have learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw u.s. forces. the truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. >> bret: he said the u.s. gave the afghan forces every tool t

i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, president biden says he is in favor of a plan to require all members of the u.s. military to be vaccinated. the coronavirus resurgence is prompting consideration of new restrictions and mandates which are generating considerable pushback throughout the country depending on where you live. this comes as the u.s. is averaging more than 100,000 new covid-19 cases per day. that's actually the highest level since february. white house correspondent peter doocy is with the president in wilmington delaware tonight with the latest want. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. all six branches of the military are constantly training and conducting exercises to make sure they can be ready for anything. but the commander-in-chief has decided if they really want to be ready, then all 1.3 million service members must get the covid-19 vaccine by mid september. >> you can consider this memo today as what we would call in the military a warning order a warning order to the f

i'm shannon bremen in for bret baier. breaking tonight, the president reacting in just the last hour to graphic and disturbing shower. accusations against new york democratic governor andrew cuomo. a state attorney general's investigation has unveiled an array of accusations with specific and luring details of cuomo's alleged comments and actions. the governor quickly issued a lengthy rebuttal in which he attributed the allegations to misunderstandings, misinterpretations and politics. still prominent democrats including president biden are calling for his resignation. correspondent bryan llenas has been following the story from the start, joins us live from new york. hello, brian. >> shannon, good evening, tonight a stunningly detailed and damning report from independent investigators finds, in part, that governor cuomo groped an executive assistant inappropriately touched a state trooper, and unlawfully retaliated against an employee who spoke out against him. >> the independent investigation has concluded that governor

good evening from washington, i am bret baier, the take over from afghanistan is accelerating, the biden administration projecting that the capital of kabul could fall within three months or even sooner. this comes after president biden reiterated the troop withdrawal is going to happen and afghans must fight for their own country. we will talk live with pentagon press secretary john kirby in just a moment, but first, state department rich edson has specifics on what is happening on the ground. >> these military successes in northern afghanistan have prompted questions about the country's capital, while this tele- ban advances not directly threatened kabul, the insurgents could capture the city. >> an already dire assessment that has gotten worse, u.s. officials now say the tele- ban could capture kabul, afghanistan's capital city within the next 90 days. in the past week the insurgents have secured nine provincial capitals. as part of a campaign that has captured significant territory in rural afghanistan. that taliban controls about two-thirds of the country despite the tele- ban advan

i'm bret baier.equire all members of the u.s. military to be vaccinated. the coronavirus resurgence is prompting consideration of new restrictions and mandates which are generating considerable pushback throughout the country depending on where you live. this comes as the u.s. is averaging more than 100,000 new covid-19 cases per day. that's actually the highest level since february. white house correspondent peter doocy is with the president in wilmington

i'm shannon bream in for bret baier. calls are increasing tonight for the removal of new york democratic governor andrew cuomo. following yesterday's bombshell report by the state's attorney general. accusing him of sexually harassing 11 women. so far cuomo is refusing to resign. state lawmakers are moving forward with impeachment proceedings and criminal investigations are underway. we have got fox team coverage. howard kurtz on the media reaction to the allegations against one of their favorite politicians. we begin with correspondent bryan llenas in new york. hello, bryan. >> shannon, good evening. there are now reportedly enough votes in the new york state assembly and senate to impeach new york governor andrew cuomo if he chooses not to resign. this, as the new poll says nearly 60% of new yorkers believe the governor needs to go. [chanting] hey, hey, governor cuomo's got to go. >> tonight 70% of new york state lawmakers mostly democrats are calling on governor andrew cuomo to step down. >> he stands alone, the execu