dan hoffman, the president is going to meet with the g7.upset over what happened. they are saying they are upset. watch former president trump here. watch this. >> biden's botched exit in afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by nation's leader perhaps at anytime, that anybody has ever seen. name another situation like this? vietnam looks like a master class in strategy compared to joe biden's catastrophe. this will go down as one of the great military defeats of all time. it did not have to happen that way. this is not a withdrawal. this was a total surrender, they surrendered for no reason. elizabeth: let's show the u.n. security council and nato signing off on trump's conditional deal, saying 5,000 taliban prisoners will be released. that is being called into question but 1000 afghan soldiers, dan, were also released. trump put conditions on the deal. no power vacuum. we will strike back if you touch a hair on american's head. what do you say to this? >> well there were two parts to that doha deal which was ne

played right into the taliban's hands. >> harris: battle wise, dan hoffman. also there is this, why not go get our people before this point? right now, before they even get to kabul. do we have enough time? your thoughts on what jack keane said? >> dan: general keane is absolutely right. the summer fighting season is now. it would've made great sense to plan our withdrawal during the winter. nothing says a lack of operational planning like having to send 3,000 troops to go protect our people at the embassy. the administration i think wouldn't have liked the optics of doing that but they're being forced to do it. let me emphasize that the mission of the intelligence community and the department of defense has changed. it can detect and preempt threats before they are visited on our shores and protect our people in that region and beyond. it just got a whole lot harder. we know the one lesson from 9/11 is that when you give the taliban ungoverned space, they will allow al qaeda to homestead there and al qaeda will plot and plan against us. we're going to have a

possibilities. ♪ elizabeth: back with us now, former cia station chief and fox news contributor dan hoffmanble breaking news. house lawmakers indicating that the end pentagon chief is saying that, yes, the taliban is beating americans at kabul airport. your reaction to that? >> yeah, i was just tracking that moments ago as well. as, apparently, general austin was briefing lawmakers and said that u.s. citizens were being harassed and beaten by the taliban. frankly, this shouldn't be a surprise. it's a bottleneck on the way to the kabul airport. the taliban knows that americans and our afghan allies are trying to get there, and they're easily able to detext and intercept our people -- detect and intercept our people, and that is a reflection of the chaotic and horrifically poor planning that went into this withdrawal. elizabeth: you know, this poor planning, there's also growing concern that president biden and general mark milli, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, inflated the size of the afghan army's strength than more than double it was to support their case that they could defeat the ta

let me go to the intel news side of this first with dan hoffman. ding is the cia left 6-8 weeks ago. they pulled all their people out. they didn't do that without telling the biden administration. now we are getting evidence, more every day, as biden today was contradicted by both his state department and by his own defense department, and the intelligence communities been very clear, we told them. how can this happen? >> well, i think for sure the president had his own policy he wanted to pursue, and he might have listened to the cia analytical assessment, but it wasn't going to influence his decision. you know, today was really important because dod press spokesperson admiral kirby said that yes, there is al qaeda in afghanistan. and he was contradicting the president when he said that. but he also said he didn't know how many. and he didn't know where they were. and the reason why is because we took away our intelligence footprint, we closed bagram air force base, we closed the embassy. we don't have the capability to detect the threats that are

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. >> sean: now formery country station chief dan hoffman, former speaker of the house newt gingrich. both fox news contributors. mr. speaker, there is a clear distinction. ollie north touched on it. the trump plan was based -- was going to be based on conditions on the ground. factor number one. factor number two is donald trump was believed. if donald trump made a threat they believed it because he had a track record while isis grew under biden and obama, isis was systematically destroyed and defeated under donald trump. he said it. he did it. and the taliban knew damn well what would happen if, in fact, they didn't abide by any agreement that went on. they wouldn't have tried this under trump, would be my argument, your thoughts? >> first of all, i don't know that joe biden has threatened anybody with anything so there is no way of knowing. the biden world seems to be attack your allies, ignore your enemies, pretend that bad things aren't happening. i watched his speech this afternoon and i thought, for most people, if you took what you were seeing live coming out of afghanistan, t

let's bring in dan hoffman, former station chief, also served in moscow, iraq and pakistan and is a foxe have two people killed in this, dan, as you know, one as trey just said a british subject, a british citizen and now the israeli foreign minister joined the u.k. foreign minister in blaming tehran. what do we do? >> well, i think first of all we have to recognize that there's a real escalation going on in the gulf between iran and israel. israel reportedly did take a lethal strike against an iranian -- the commander of an iranian proxy militia in syria and remember, israel launched significant attacks against iran's nuclear program as well, while iran has been very active in launching attacks against shipping in the gulf. iran's widespread use of drones, the houthis in yemen as well as by hamas against israel and so for the united states there's significant concern about freedom of navigation but in a greater issue for us is the nuclear deal and the biden administration is very interested in getting back into they that very flawed deal and i'm sure that president biden is asking the

worse than saigon joining me tonight navy veteran congressman mike garcia former cia station chief dan hoffman, woman hmarionette tiller meeks, krisn tate, former top i.c.e. official tom homan, the president said no to special evacuation missionsua from france and the uk are doing not claiming he has not seen intelligence and americans cannot get to the kabul airport and report to beatings come in and of americans and the taliban gotau lit delaying evacuees up o 48 hours the president saying he will not expand the perimeter around kabul airport to get americans out he also denies any international criticism, this two days after the british parliament condemned his actions, allies saying he harmed nato biden blaming trump for afghanistan, security experts say that is who is falling apart speaker pelosiel criticized for her stuff happens comments about brilliance of new orleans of military equipment now abandoned to terrorist reuters is reporting thene administration s considering new airstrikesen against the equipment in d.c. watchers say watch this it could go into reverse for the entire biden

if mark meadows and dan hoffman. joining is now alive is the 45th president of the united states mr. donald j. trump. let me go back -- i have had a number of people tell me that they were very specific conditions and very specific warnings that you gave personally to the taliban, and joe biden is trying to blame w you. i'd like to first give you an opportunity to respond to that, your assessment of what's going on and what was that conversation to the extent that you are able to share it with us? >> it's good to be with you but it's terrible time for our country. i don't think in all of the years our country has ever been so h humiliated. i don't know. would you call it a military defeat or psychological defeat?l we can go back to jimmy carter with the -- that this is many times worse and you are doing with thousands and thousands of americans and others are stranded and very dangerously -- billy stranded in afghanistan. so it's something, you can't even believe that a thing t like this. i looked at that big monster

dan hoffman, i have to believe years from now we will be studying how is it possible that the president on the united states and our intelligence agencies could have been telling us last week, even though they have taken over 60% of the country, they are 60 or 90 days away from getting anywhere near kabul. i was hearing that last week. how could you be so wrong? how could biden tell the country that all this confidence in this afghan military when in fact, there was no confidence to be had at all. how do you mess up that badly? you have been in intelligence for decades. >> we knew all of this, and i absolutely expect that there will be a lot of hearings to follow and expect director cia burns and dni admiral haynes to be in the hot seat testifying before congress and talking about what assessment they were providing the president. but let's make it clear, it was not a secret that the government of afghanistan lacked a lid of legitimacy, only 200 people voted in their last election of 40 million people. there were significant problems with the military, but as we have noted repeatedly in

jillian: here's for cia station chief, fox news contributor dan hoffman. thank you for being here. i know you've been all over, appreciate you waking up early and your insight, every day and every moment that passes do you feel as though americans and afghans who need to get out of the country are more in harm's way, what is the taliban capable of and is it realistic to get everyone out by the end of the month? >> i'm concerned about that. kabul is a war zone and we've withdrawn our capacity to help our citizens. we don't have the intelligence footprints we used to have. our embassy is closed. we've withdrawn the military except those at the airport, we can't guarantee safe passage to the airport. the taliban even if they did want -- agreed to provide safe passage to our citizens the taliban, militants who are hell-bent on exacting revenge against us and our afghan allies. this is a precarious situation that is reflect or thickly bad contingency planning on our part and put our people at risk. jillian: what do you make of the taliban claiming to be a new taliban and that is going t

let's bring in dan hoffman. i am not sure if you heard that.on july 8th that the afghanistan government was unlikely to fall. there would be no saigon evacuation. the "new york times" said the intel agencies predicted this back in july. where is the disconnect and what do you make of this? >> yes, i caught the press conference. i have a few comments. the intel picture. it was clear we knew that the taliban was mounting 120 attacks on the afghan national army. their strategy was to target the border areas and then the capitals and make their way to kabul. i have no doubt that the president was briefed by good intelligence. we have excellent sources inside the afghan national army and inside the taliban as well. during the hearings what is really important, what we used to do with the cia, the president would say i am thinking about these 3 different options. tell me what the intelligence speaks and how it would play out. if i remove all of my troops how long about the government of afghanistan last? will that impact our ability to protect innoce

do have the president on the line, thank you both, mark meadows, dan hoffman, joining us live is the 45th president on the united states donald j. trump. mr. president, thank you for being with us. let me go back, i want -- i have had a of people tell me that they were very specific conditions and very specific warnings that you gave personally to the taliban. joe biden is trying to blame them, i went first to have an opportunity to respond to that, your assessment of what is going on and what was that conversation to the extent you feel you are able to share it with us? >> well, it's good to be with you, sean, but it is a terrible time for our country. i don't think in all of the years our country has ever been so humiliated. i don't know what you call the military defeat or a psychological defeat, there is never been anything like what's happened here. you can go back to jimmy carter with the hostages. we all thought that was a great embarrassment, and we were pulled out of that by ronald reagan. this is many, many times worse. and you are dealing with thousands and thousands of am

thank you dan hoffman former c.i.a. lucas tomorrow lin son said overnight u.s. military officials at the pentagon talked about the images of the taliban moving are demoralized for u.s. forces who sacrificed so much. >> why do this during the summer fighting season? that summer fighting season is obvious to the generals advising the president. so it brings into question why they moved forward and not wait until fall or winter to carry out this strategy. >> bill: the president is at camp david. >> pain at the pump continuing for americans at home as gas prices top $3 a gallon nationwide as the biden administration is pleading with foreign oil producers to up their production just months after tightening restrictions for american oil companies here at home. casey stiegel is live in arlington with more. hi, casey. >> good morning. 2.85 a little cheaper is the average for a price of unleaded regular here in the state of texas. last year at this time texans were paying $1.87. roughly $1 higher this year. this week as you just said the white house in an effort to ease

dan hoffman, former cia chief of station. good morning. unicef says the following.sical suffering is a personal tragedy. these children are much loved and longed for daughters and sons, brothers and sisters and cousins and friends. all children whose right to protection under humanitarian law has been disregarded by warring parties. why has the president been so inflexible in changing the withdrawal strategy? >> well, i think the president set his course and he did it without a real transition plan. one that would guarantee the united states an ability to find, fix and when needed finish the terrorist threats that still exist in afghanistan and are only going to grow. we know the taliban has a long history of conducting ruthless attacks where they draw no distinction between civilians and combatants. they often use young teenage boys as suicide bombers. the petri dish that pakistan will be growing into. taliban was an insurgent force. they could lose every battle but they will win by staying in the fight. >> dana: i scoffed at a headline that said the biden administ

dan hoffman, you worked for the c.i.a. ce act to this. willian burns meets with the taliban two days ago in the secret meeting. he tried to get us to stay longer. they denied that. he tried to propose the withdrawal by four days. that was denied. a promise to hand over and airport to the taliban after we clean it up and get it working properly and let the turks run it. they denied that. you are 0 for 4 in that meeting with the taliban. you call your boss back at the white house and say sir, they aren't giving an inch. you as an an sis. -- analysis, how would you react to that? >> the reaction of the meeting haven't been divulged yet. >> bill: this is what nbc news is reporting as of this morning. continue. >> right. i think there is probably a lot that happened in that meeting that hasn't been divulged. what i would expect some to be is director burns may have even shared some of our intelligence on isis. the u.s. government was targeting isis in eastern afghanistan with really very, very effectively and also probably director burns asked

. >> sandra: let's bring in dan hoffman, fox news contributor.e we are about a minute or so away from the briefing at the white house. what do you want to hear the press specifically press jen psaki on when she steps up in a minute? >> i would like to ask do we need more resources? are people are under grave threat. they are under threat from isis and al qaeda and from the network designated terrorist organization by the united states, which is responsible for the security of kabul. our people are under great threat. how are we going to get our american citizens out of harm's way? those who are trapped in the city. do we need more resources? time is wasting, and the threats are growing. >> john: jen griffin asked a very prudent question. she said to john kirby what about a reopening block from air force base to get more planes? he goes into this whole thing about we are not going to you monday morning quarterback it. she says why don't you open it back up again? there is like a rigidity and lack of fluidity to respond to the situation. >> i think

former national security adviser to the vice president mike pence jeff kellogg and dan hoffman.uments prove that joe biden and his staff knew the risk of this pull out and saying he was surprised means he wasn't paying attention or he is lying. i guess you would notice your people are sounding off through the media. >> well, i think there is a bit of frustration here frankly and calling this an intelligence failure is really just a red herring. this was a policy decision by president biden. he made it clear during the campaign that he wanted our troops out. i think he mischaracterized our involvement in afghanistan as an endless war, really we were deployed out there. and i served in that region for two years. we were there to detect threats and preempt item before they were visited on our shores. this is a policy failure and a failure of execution of the withdrawal of our innocent -- of innocent civilians as well as our core of diplomats and other officials. we removed our capacity to deal with those contingencies by closing bagram air force base and removing our footprint. it'

here at "fox news @ night" and i'm sure our viewers agree as well, i want to play something from dan hoffman. a former cia station chief, here's what he said last night on the show. >> we are watching afghanistan being transformed into a terrorist state. the taliban has sheltered and provided sanctuary for al qaeda for years. it is a petri dish of terrorist threats to our nation and right now our military is there, but not with the kind of force that we once had. >> shannon: mark, you have up close and personal experience with this region and with many of those groups. what is your reaction to dan talk about the fact that that is a petri dish for terrorism and now we have lost partners in that fight? >> you know, for the last two months we've been getting reports from sources on the ground that i know of that there have been processing stations set up by the taliban to bring in foreign fighters and within that we are seeing isis and al qaeda. you know, and then you look at our southern border being as open as it is. how much influence that the iranian republicans are has any human traffickin

benjamin: dan hoffman is a perform cia station chief. he's also a fox news contributor.y much for being with us today. i want to start off with the new security threat, the warnings of potential attacks from affiliates in isis in syria, they're at war with the taliban who they say are nationalists. what are the immediate threats to the airport and what is the long-term threat in the country from this group. >> there's massive threat. i think it's telling that admiral kirby admitted that we don't know how many al-qaida are in afghanistan. i served in the region for two years. , to detect and preempt threats before they're on our shores, we don't have that capability a anymore. we have a triple threat to our citizens, an immediate threat from isis, al-qaida and the taliban. and if you think it's safe for american citizens than kerr down in place -- hunker down in place, i would argue that it's not. it's not safe to hang out in kabul without security for you. this is an immediate crisis an i fear our administration is not taking appropriate action by sending our military ou

destroying sensitive documents and equipment as evacuation preparations are deepened away joining me is dan hoffmane process that you understand is under way at our embassy in right now. >> i can't say enough how tenuous and dangerous this is for our presence in kabul. we have been fighting for 20 years, we are at war with the taliban. they are not a discipline fighting force. we should have no expectation whatsoever that they will respect the sanctity and our diplomatic mission. i've gone through evacuation drills and destruction drills many times. they are doing it in real time in kabul, and with a purpose. i think we have to be extraordinarily concerned about the situation right now in the coming hours and days. >> martha: what are your biggest concerns in terms of the safety of the people there, when you imagine, i can envision what could happen? do you agree with those who say we should get out as quick as we can handle up the embassy? there was one idea that was floated today. >> i think the taliban is encircling kabul with an eye toward attacking the capital city. that has always, i think, b

nonprofit no one left behind, janice also former cia chief in fox news contributor, back with us is dan hoffmand the world. tony blair included an biden his withdrawal in for silicate what say to that. >> i would say like what is happening right now. guest: is a disaster it identity expect this thing would happen within a week, even though we train the afghan army for 20 years but we did not expect everything to last within a week. it is a disaster i would say yeah read. liz: area and the presence going to meet with the chief and our allies are really upset that he is basically saying in the not upset aboutth what happened from there safely are, watch former president trump year. >> biden it has botched the exit in afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by a nation's leader and perhaps an any time in anybody's ever seen. name any other situation like this great event and almost like a massive strategy compared to joe biden catastrophe release will go down as one of the great military defeats of all time and it did not haven't happened this way. this is not a withdrawa

joining me now, darrell issa and dan hoffman.gress month, are we going to get our americans out? the white house is now saying there's no guarantee that will happen. >> we're going to get the vast majority of americans out. if they're in kabul, we'll get 'em out. we're working on both u.s. and non-u.s. citizens that are outside of kabul their a ability to move in the country now is extremely difficult. so there will probably be some that a do not get out initially. and that's unavoidable. the important thing is, of course, that every day that goes by the risk to the 5,000 marines and other military personnel grows. the attack we saw will only be repeated if we stay there much longer. elizabeth: you know, dan, the president last night said a forceful response to isis and the terrorists who did the suicide bombings, do you believe that? because, you know, the mistakes are pretty numerous. biden, for example, said the military advised him surrendering bagram air base was the right thing to do, but it shows out of the pentagon it sho

dan hoffman with insight into the potential terrorist attack. griff jenkins live at the white house with new reporting coming in. reporter: good morning. the deadly debacle in kabul continues department of state saying to every american left in country, get away, stay away from the airport. the president issuing a warning in a statement, saying the situation on the ground continues to be dangerous and threat of terrorist attacks on the airport is high. our commanders inform me a attack is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. pentagon spokesman john kirby echoing that. watch. >> the threats are real, dynamic and we're monitoring them real time. >> is it as serious as yesterday. >> it is deadly threat. i'm not sure how any terrorist threat can't be serious. reporter: they used a reaper drone, over the horizon capabilities not naming them leading military experts saying exactly high level they are. here is what kirby had to say about them. >> the fact two of these individuals are no longer walking on the face of the earth, is a good thing. foo

dan hoffman was on earlier today and made a really compelling argument on how something as simple as attack won't be possible in a couple weeks, and that's important for the american people to take into consideration. >> yeah. and, of course, we thank you for your of service, we thank the gold star families and everyone who went over to afghanistan as well. >>> coming up next, we are tracking the impact of hurricane ida as it slams the gulf coast. fox weather coverage is coming up. ♪ ♪ when you're on the lanes, they're right behind you. reunite with your team. go bowling. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. ♪ music playing. ♪ there's an america we build ♪ ♪ and one we explore one that's been paved and one that's forever wild but freedom means you don't have to choose just one adventure ♪ ♪ you get both. introducing the all-new 3-row jeep grand cherokee l jeep

humiliation >> there's no doubt it's a remarkable development, and then as far as what we do now, dan hoffmanve been done. it would have taken longer we wouldn't have made this deadline initially, but there needs to be a time for a coordinated strategy outside of there. i don't know things have gone pretty far at this point though, so i don't know that we hear from president biden today. this weekend he's on vacation. stuart: that's right. >> but it is remarkable and i sit down and see that stuary varney's main question in hisa block is did you get a puppy during shutdown? stuart: that was before we dealt with afghanistan i've got more serious stuff for you so hold on >> i'll stand by. stuart: you've seen this , the new fox poll 86% of voters are concerned about inflation, 81% concerned about violent crimes, 73% concerned about china. these are biden problems, they surfaced on biden's administration, and he's on vacation. >> i was just talking to the co -anchor with bill hemmer this morning asking the questions. what is happening right now that is moving us in the right direction when it come

we got my husband coming on, sean duffy, dan hoffman, mike huckabee and graham allen, obviously we'llher things as well. brian: hopefully we aren't talking about another attack, because they are still vulnerable thanks so much guys. >> thank you. brian: up next, lawmakers on both sides want to hold the white house accountable for the botched afghanistan withdrawal which is not over yet with some calling for officials to resign. senator tom cotton, live. steve: still ahead after the deadliest day for the u.s. military in a decade, america is in need of healing. retired navy seal jocko willink shares his powerful message to help the nation straight ahead. let's go walter! after you. walter, twelve o' clock. get em boy! [cows mooing] that is incredible. it's the multi-flex tailgate. it can be a step, it can even become a workspace. i meant the cat. what's so great about him? he doesn't have a workspace. the chevy silverado with the available multi-flex tailgate. find new adventures. find new roads. chevrolet. ♪ ♪ for deb, living with constipation with belly pain was the same old story fo

here's dan hoffman. appreciate your time.we hearing about the haqqani network, the interplay between those groups will determine who controls afghanistan, what does the consolidation look like? >> those groups have us in their crosshairs and for sure the taliban and isis have been in contact with one another but when they have common interests, no question the taliban and responsible for the outer perimeter was not doing their job when they allowed suicide bombers in a couple days ago. also the haqqani network notorious for ruthless suicide attacks against innocent civilians and coalition forces -- eric: hasn't haqqani been absorbed into the taliban, doesn't that tell us about the marriage of those groups? are they more or less one and the same? >> they've been part of the taliban and forever. when you say marriage, there's a lot of intermarriage going on including the haqqani network and al qaeda. they are very much linked together and we should expect that al qaeda will enjoy the same sort of sanctuary they did before 9/11.