gibson always asks about elizabeth tells tells elizabeth bord the gibson to update elizabeth powell on nelly's life one letter. she says tell my dear friend mrs. powell that her little nellie has become a grandmother. so so elizabeth was very much connected with these with these descendants long after george washington had died. so the last thing i want to talk about before we take some questions. i'm so excited to hear that we have questions is this portrait and this little excerpt so this portrait is done by an artist named joseph wright who actually painted the portrait that i talked about earlier of elizabeth powell this was done in about 1784. i believe and the powell's actually owned. a copy of this portrait and this image is the exact portrait that the powell's owned. it was formerly at the philadelphia history museum now with drexel university, but this the powell's acquired at some time in the 1780s and it's it's a wonderful portrait of washington. this is actually one of the one of the best portraits but elizabeth powell's nephew did not think so. so this this is a very cool

elizabeth: in the u.s.at at the subcommittee and he agreed there is no way for them to control the dollars once they get sent to the lab it's very likely that money from the taxpayers of the united states with a gain-of-function research. elizabeth: john ratfliffe wrote a new op-ed saying is close to a certainty, not just the possibility, the details ofn the report are striking, we were reporting last year that this virus could have leaked or the pandemic and looks like it started and look like august or september of 2019 and that's what you guys are finding to and in september 2019 the wuhan lab removed from the internet the viral database then they put out bids for security guards, video surveillance, for their lab that they wanted more security for the lab and then they wanted a new and stronger hazardous waste and air conditioning system for the wuhan lab and a sister lab even though those systems are two years old. this is damning stuff. >> absolutely you couple that with coronavirus like infections th

elizabeth: u.s. allies around the world now slamming the white house over afghanistan and their false talking points. this is unprecedented. british parliament in an emergency session calls it quote shameful. top german lawmakers calls this, quote, the greatest debacle nato has ever seen. calls for biden's entire foreign policy and defense team to resign. this, multiple democrat led senate committees will investigate what is being called, biden's quote catastrophic failure to evacuate up to 15,000 americans trapped behind taliban lines. allies are trapped too. again biden doubles down. the white house tells americans over in afghanistan, we cannot guarranty your security. with us tonight staff sergeant joey jones, senator marsha blackburn, former obama advisor bret bruen, mike huckabee, scott pari, deroy murdock and texas attorney general ken paxton. we have pictures of the taliban brutal crackdown. they are seizing people's passports. they have seized u.s. aircraft. the mounting pushback against the

. ♪ elizabeth: okay.e've got the new york state attorney general and one of his accusers, the attorney for charlotte bennett, now firing back as governor cuomo's attorneys today tried to attack the investigation that found he sexually harassed 11 women. this is the same investigation that cuomo got in trouble for for trying to common deer and micromanage from the start. his team also attacking a former aide who filed the first criminal complaint against cuomo. legal observers warn this is a story about about raw power and the abuse of power. joining us tonight, former federal prosecutor jim trusty, dr. marty makary, former i.c.e. acting director tom homan, congressman rick crawword, daryl -- crawford, daryl ice a saw and joe concha. -- darrell issa. that aide who filed the first criminal complaint says she will take a polygraph test if cuomo will too. he's not answering that. this after cuomo demanded justice brett kavanaugh take a polygraph. also we've got this story, the white house now playing hardball

elizabeth: okay.ook who is back with us now. we have new york state assemblyman angelo santabarbara, former independent deputy counsel sol wise sendburg. great to have you on. first to you, sol, the albany county district attorney has the new york ag's report with the sexual harassment allegations against governor cuomo. he can bring criminal charges, do you expect that? he says any victim should contact his office with additional information. do you expect criminal charges, sol? what do you think? >> i don't know enough about the workings of that particular office but i can tell you if there are any criminal charges out of this it will be at the district attorney level, going to be at at state level there is nothing federal criminal here. that is where the danger is for governor cuomo. there will be an incredible amount of political pressure for that to happen. elizabeth: okay. let's turn to you, assemblyman santa barbara. the report alleges he violated pell state and federal laws including title vii

elizabeth married samuel on august 7, 1769.y purchased a house in kayla's gonna tell us more about kurt. >> that is where i am today actually. please come visit us we are open for tours, 11 to 3:00 p.m. tours on the hour we would love to s see you there. if you're on the philadelphia area it is great to have tours, tours are still happening right now given the current circumstances, this is the houses were sam and elizabeth moved into. it was originally built in 1768 by charles steadman. he is also a merchant. he unfortunately went bankrupt and shortly thereafter someone purchase the house. this place became the epicenter of social life in philadelphia that gather here frequently as well as political. while it is an important place to notnly host joseph family members and various friends, it wasas also a place where they hosted a number of intellectual salons of the time. the room i'm in, the ballroom is where i like to imagine that it happened. this is where elizabeth would have been hosting her salons. they noted in the trave

elizabeth: that's a great point.bout privacy, go ahead take on on. >> absolutely i believe i will pass under beam had partisan but there's many of us that will not vote to raise taxes on the american people particular in the middle the pandemic but werr not in the majority so democrats i would imagine would have the vote there's enough green deal to satisfy moderates they say one thing in public but what is happening is entirely something else, the middle class worker is going to be taxed i don't care what the biden administration says or all the different spending plans, it's going to lihappen. elizabeth: you're gonna see public awareness campaigns of a mileage tax out of the department with agege phony idea with theil trucking industry and your point about privacy is an important one we really want the federal government where americans drive when americans have been repeatedly hacked by north korea, china and russia and we have smart phone apps already tracking this location device services on their smartphone whe

i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" start ises right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: okay.et a check on your money first. the dow and s&p ending in railroad territory for the fourth day in a row, the nasdaq it should slightly. let's begin with former deputy national security adviser kt kt mcfarland and stephen schork of the schork report. let's talk about kandahar and now kabul possibly falling in afghanistan. and this is the taliban, this is a humanitarian crisis. what do you say, kt? >> oh, look, afghanistan is lost, it's been lost for years, and it was the -- the taliban was always going to prevail, they were always going to win because they knew they were just going to wait us out. tribal leaders told me that 15 years ago. i think you see going forward province after province, tribal leader after tribal leader will very quickly have a snowball effect. nobody wants to be the last man standing supporting a government that is collapsing around them, so they will throw down their arms, take their american weapons, trade them for amnesty, and i think you'll see the taliban i

i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show.'re watching the fox business network. we begin with the pentagon now struggling to increase evacuations of americans out of kabul airport in afghanistan. flights still not filled to capacity despite an order from the president. this as the uk is sending paratroopers outside of the perimeter of the airport to rescue uk citizens. the u.s. is not doing that. also reports of killings and widespread beatings by the taliban. we have desperate scenes of mothers at the airport handing over their babies to u.s. soldiers. joining us now, fox news senior strategic analyst, he is general jack keane. general, first your reaction, good to see you again, to the reports coming in, the breaking news that the white house did know afghanistan will fall after the withdrawal. two dozen state department workers in kabul wired that internal confidential moment memo over but they denied that through last month there would be chaos. what do you say to all of this? >> well i think it is well-established and pr

elizabeth: yeah.et's stick on that, rollcall, the house democrat margin of role is so slim. would take three to four house moderate democrats to say no to nancy pelosi. the strong arm tactics was not justified to begin with with nancy pelosi is doing. she can cannot afford to lose three democrats on part line votes. joe manchin said i will not guarranty that 3 and a half trillion dollar infrastructure bill will pass. alexandria ocasio-cortez says we'll block infrastructure. things like the strong arm tactics are not the way to go when you don't have the mandate, you don't have the margin of control. just three votes, three or four votes, it is done and over. >> you're absolutely right. get three or four democrats together they can stop this whole thing. the promise of joe biden and kamala harris they were going to bring together the country, they were going to bring together the congress. they have not been able to do that. they don't pretend to do that in the house of representatives with inviting re

elizabeth: okay.gressman, phil is making an important point here and you too as well you're making important points. it was just six months ago the president, the first thing he did day one was kill the keystone xl pipeline. we know there are hundreds of miles of other pipeline in the country. that is grandstanding. had little impact but killed thousands of jobs. we have a fragile economic recovery. delta variant. inflation is rising. inflation is becoming stickier. we have the western energy alliance, 200 oil and gas companies out west, they're saying what the president is doing is going to kill like 59,000 jobs in the oil and gas sector by 2024. what do you say to that? >> absolutely. everything that they're doing. i think it was the, you know the congressional budget office that basically said it could be as many as 30 to 40,000 jobs lost in the very near future just with the cancellation of the pipeline. but remember, all of the people who drilled for oil in those areas, they have to get the oil o

it's not us as parents to teach our kids by elizabeth: we begin with president bid elizabeth: we begin with president biden drawing criticism to afghanistan falling to the taliban and calling on opec and adversaries russia and iran to drill more over there in order to lower gas prices but don't drill here. the administration geopolitical policies backfiring. joining optional security advisor kt mcfarland,nd energy analyst stephen short, doctor marty mccarron, nancy mace from house oversight, ford o'connell and house border security talk is co-chair representative brian babin and of texas. pressure mounting on democrats blocking probes into the origin of the pandemic in china and the bomb cell report from the w.h.o. china investigation that allowed leak is a probable cause. and we got congresswoman nancy mace that is leading the republican push who want vaccine passports. the republicans say they have demanding more fromo voter ids e have news coming in the white house considering mandating vaccine passports to travel in between states. also the white house and nancy pelosi stepping in

elizabeth? elizabeth: laura engle, thanks for joining us. good to see you.et's bring in, joining us is former independent counsel sol wisenberg and new york state assemblyman jared began golf foe. what does he face next and faces half a dozen d.a. probes and other probes out there as well. what comes next. >> i'm not an expert on new york state law but i would say that the, given the portions of the report that i have read any criminal liability he has at the state level looks like it would be fairly small potatoes. i don't mean in any way to downgrade what he did but compared to some of the other sexual harassment and assault allegations we've seen against politicians in the last five or 10 years it is mild by comparison. if you want something to compare it to in a way think about what caused al franken to resign but this is like al franken for two straight terms and it is happening day in, day out in the governor's office. so that is the best analogy i can think of. it's a corrupt system there. we talked about before, the good ol' boy atmosphere in the exe

elizabeth: hang on. billion to pay for the spending that sounds like an illegal system to do that you're gonna hire more people to bring in money to pay for your government rollout the talking again about a new irs reporting regime where the irs is going to get everybody's bank account information their investment account information for loan account information paypal, then no. >> i was just going to saynt remember the last time we saw an expansion of the irs under president obama and we saw the rabbit politicizing should have the irs where they wereiv targeting conservatives faith-based groups and the fear if you empower the irs even more even unto the guys seeking out every last tax dollar you're empowering them in the danger it's going to become evermore political even more so than it already is. there are huge dangers here and we already experienced incredible inflation, this is going to be child's play compared to what's coming down the pike if they get the additional pike to $6 trillion in spendin

elizabeth: u.s.llies around the world slamming the white house over afghanistan in their false talking points this is unprecedented. british parliament in an emergency session calls it shameful top chairman lawmakers call this the greatest debacle nato has ever seen calls for bidens entire foreign policy and defense team to resign, now this multiple democrat led senate committees will investigate what's being called bidens catastrophic failure to evacuate up to 16000 americans behind taliban lines allies are struck too, biden doubles down, the white house tells americans that in afghanistan we cannot guarantee your security with us tonight joey jones, senator marsha blackburn, former obama advisor brett brewin, mike huckabee, scott perry, dwight murdoch and ken paxton, we will show you graphic images viewer discretion of the taliban tracked down. the taliban actively seizing people's passports reports they also seized u.s. aircraft. plus pushback against the biden team including the government watchd

elizabeth: d.c.ers, colonel, report shock that the administration was surprised that the taliban would capture the country this quickly. that the white house had no plan for that even though biden announced the withdrawal four months ago. "the washington post," "politico," biden ignored the advice of his generals. we have u.s. soldiers and families upset. they lost their lives and limbs in afghanistan, what do you say, colonel? >> the headline here biden has a political problem as well as strategic problem. we have the failure in afghanistan we have to deal with that. biden went on national television said none of this is my fault. said a bunch of things not true, can be shown demonstrably false when people talk to the military and intelligence community and look at the documents. there will be a lot of time. biden made it all about his decision. he said i made the right decision. we'll debate that now. what we'll find out he lied to the american people. so it's a political disaster now and a strateg

elizabeth: yeah. fbi to get powerful fisa wiretaps meant for terrorists to go after citizens on the trump campaign. this could be about potential perjury right, before the fisa court? >> exactly. a whole bunch of things. would you think that the court would stand up for itself. thus far they haven't. you have director comey and others who signed these fisa warrants. at the very top of it is john ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence, somebody who was on the intel committee has said, at the very top of this application it says verified. people like james comey and others said no, i didn't verify it. you would think there are legal consequences, losing your law license something along the way if not prosecution. so far the department of justice is fairly impotent in terms of actually prosecuting one of their own. they just won't go there. elizabeth: misleading congress. jason chaffetz, it is good to see you. thanks for joining us. >>> up next former top border official ron vitiello. we

elizabeth: yeah.ts throughout asia, myanmar, pakistan, middle east, they're trying to claim rights to the arctic. they're trying to seize back taiwan. to your point about wuhan, cnn is reporting this that u.s. intelligence agencies are investigating the genetic data from the virus in the wuhan lab, that it possibly leaked from the wuhan lab. this is china's achilles' heel. they're using supercomputers at the energy department to do this bork. 30 house republicans give cash award, give a whistle-blower reward to anybody with information about the wuhan lab and the coverup. will that pass? the democrats are saying yeah, do this? >> you would think it would, right but too many times in the house here our democratic colleagues have done things regarding china i sincerely shake my head why in the world would you not allow us to do that? why in the world would you put forth policies that appear to protect china? this is one example about it. this is about them creating the belt road initiative, essentially

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elizabeth: thank you so much for watching, ink am elizabeth macdonald, human watching "the evening editn the conversation about infrastructure and budget reconciliation is running hot and heavy, the good, the bad and the ugly, right now nothing is completely clear, not the outcomes, not the spending, not the scoring not even the taxing, let me tell you there will be plenty of spending, plenty of taxing and unfortunately plenty of weird scoring to go along with

elizabeth: yeah.y're working working with the powerful sinaloa cartel in mexico. they're doing things like trying to bribe dea agents to get fake passports. they're doing things like dropping babies over border walls or abandoning them in deserts or in highways in order to distract the border patrol away from parts of the border to move massive amounts of fentanyl in, 2400 pounds seized since the beginning of the year. two milligrams can kill you. china is in on this, is that true? they're using casinos and front companies to launder the profits for these drug cartels. that is what chinese nationals are doing. >> there is different countries throughout the entire world they're involved in. i will tell you this the amount of drugs entering the united states right now, the sex trafficking that is going on, the unaccompanied juveniles, everything that is happening right now, down to the covid and agents died of covid, it all falls on the hands of this administration and their lack of enforcement. instead

even republican history -- breath elizabeth -- elizabeth: right.would say the white house needs to hear your message and what you're saying. it just doesn't seem to be happening like that. they're on the back foot and reactive instead of thinking what i think you would suggest. dr. steele brand, thank you so much for joining us. >>> up next, fox business contributor sean duffy. the white house handed another supreme court loss are, the second in just one week's time. could there be more supreme court losses and battles ahead in we've got the list. keep it here on "the evening edit." ♪ muck usaa is made for the safe pilots. for mac. who can come to a stop with barely a bobble. lucia. who announces her intentions even if no one's there. and sgt moore. who leaves room for her room. with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. get a quote and start saving. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. [relaxed summer themed music playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. sav

elizabeth: okay.hink we lost the sound. we'll work on that technical problem. let's move to david sears. david, thank you for your service to our country. do we still have the congressman? go ahead congressman. >> i don't think we lost sound. i am concerned we put ourselves in this position. we are concerned about -- [inaudible]. what's happening the, move forwards, i mean don't see how we -- [inaudible]. successfully move people out of afghanistan, particularly since we're also -- to try to bring back afghans who were promised promised -- [inaudible]. to be evacuated and some of our allies. i think it is going to be even more difficult after august 31st to, without any of our forces there, without, most of our allies moving out to really have any kind of operation other than the private ones that me and some of my colleagues are working on. so i believe that is what we're going to be seeing the real challenge. elizabeth: okay. david, they are now armed with american weapons the u.s. left behind. cont

elizabeth: okay. show the cbs, "washington post," "new york times," reporting that yes, americans are stranded. what would jen psaki call it if she couldn't get her o taliban? would she call it babysitting? is this setting up to be a global hostage crisis? >> that is the real fear and you know, ask any american who is desperately trying to brave taliban checkpoints to get a flight to freedom, whether they feel stranded. i think they probably give you a different answer than what we just heard from the white house. look if we don't get americans out we're going to see them again in hostage videos put out by the taliban. the taliban and al qaeda have been taking americans hostage for years and with 15,000 of our fellow country men and women in harm's way, we've got to get them out because if we don't the taliban will go door-to-door, hunt them down, find them. we'll not like what happens next. elizabeth: guess what happens next? because the administration is freezing afghanistan's assets at the federal

elizabeth: the u.s.lling americans in afghanistan you have to get yourself to the airport let's watch press secretary jen psaki first say she doesn't know how many americans have been evacuated in behind terrorist lines and then try to claim it's the responsible to say they are stranded. >> i know my colleague jen kirby said a few thousand americans have been evacuated earlier today, the vast majority have been afghans given the size of the population that we are moving outut and i'm happy to follow up after the briefing and see what information we can achieve. >> most of it criticism is not of leaving afghanistan, it's the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before getting the americans who are now stranded. >> into responsible to say americans are stranded, they are not. >> there is no american stranded, the white house official division on what's happening in afghanistan. elizabeth: let's show cbs, washington post, the new york times according to yes americans are stranded, what

elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show fox news medical elizabeth: let's welcome back nicole saphiertor anthony fauci going after south dakota upcoming motorcycle rally saying it could turn into a super spreader event, they were talking about it with south dakota governor say not this time everybody said 10000 people and they were saying the models are fond. >> thank you for having me on with you, last year there was infections that were related to the motorcycle event and it is what it is, were in a different place now that we were a year ago we have large amount of natural immunity and a large amount of population who areh vaccinated in our hospitals are in a much better place because the majority of the country then lost until this time last year we have to be smart of overseeing g and we don't want people to go out and do the activities especially those that are outdoors. again you have to speak to people and say we all know if you're the place we have low community transmission, you probably could do a lot more, community transmission ohio, try to stay outside the bus that you c

even republican history -- breath elizabeth -- elizabeth: right.ur message and what you're saying. it just doesn't seem to be happening like that. they're on the back foot and reactive instead of thinking what i think you would suggest. dr. steele brand, thank you so much for joining us. >>> up next, fox business contributor sean duffy. the white house handed another supreme court loss are, the second in just one week's time. could there be more supreme court losses and battles ahead in we've got the list. keep it here on "the evening edit." ♪ muck ♪ why do you build me up ♪ ♪ build me up ♪ ♪ buttercup baby just to let me down ♪ ♪ and mess me around and then ♪ ♪ worst of all ♪ ♪ you never call ♪ baby daydreaming again? but i love you still you know i'm driving, right? i do. ♪ buttercup baby just to let me down ♪ if you ride, you get it. geico motorcycle. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. there's a line between drinking and riding. alcohol limits your reaction time, and even one drink can affect your ability to ride. then before you know it, yo

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elizabeth: yeah. know also the use of state health workers like doctors and nurses who work for the state to do vip testing of his family and friends, that is up there too. that is a great point that the congresswoman just made, assemblyman santa barbara. reports are coming in that governor cuomo is trying to cut a deal with top state officials. i don't know if you heard about this but the reports are he is promising not to seek a fourth term. he won't seek to be reelected if impeachment talks are scheduled, if you stop impeachment. have you heard about that? >> that is a report i heard just hours ago, that come in, almost unbelievable that he would now try to make some kind of a deal. impeachment is moving forward. he is it not getting out of it. he is just trying to buy more time. he has been trying to do that all along. he has been trying to stay in office as long as he can. at same time he is using government resources that he asked for that ag investigation, he asked for that report. now he is us

elizabeth: okay.hear you loud and clear. democrat senator jack reed of armed services, he is going, talking about launching hearings after we evacuate our americans. you know reports are coming in that you know, this was a, of course a fast taliban take over that the biden administration didn't see coming. that is the question, even last month, jane, the president was putting out statements this would not be like the fall of saigon when it did turn into that. he has been criticized in the past. he has been vice president sate years, senate foreign relations as a senator during this 20 year fight in afghanistan. remember president obama said he biden opposed the raid that killed osama bin laden. this is about who is leading us and whether or not they're acting on the intelligence, right, jane? >> i'm not going to play the blame game. what is left of my heart cannot play the blame game. multiple administrations involved in this. incredible conversations happening right now. i ask the american people wha

even republican history -- breath elizabeth -- elizabeth: right.r your message and what you're saying. it just doesn't seem to be happening like that. they're on the back foot and reactive instead of thinking what i think you would suggest. dr. steele brand, thank you so much for joining us. >>> up next, fox business contributor sean duffy. the white house handed another supreme court loss are, the second in just one week's time. could there be more supreme court losses and battles ahead in we've got the list. keep it here on "the evening edit." ♪ muck go on... put yourselves through all that pain. don't be silly ... nothing's tougher on pain than advil. nothing. pain says you can't, advil says you can. [relaxed summer themed music playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. savor your summer with lincoln. age-related macular degeneration may lead to severe vision loss, so the national eye institute did 20 years of clinical studies on a formula found in preservision. if it were my vision, i'd ask my doctor about prese

elizabeth: d.c.iders report shocked that the administration was surprised that the taliban captured the country this quickly in the white house had no plans for that even though biden announced to withdraw for month ago the washington post of political reporting biden ignored the advice of his generals. we have u.s. soldiers and the families upset they lost their lives and limbs in afghanistan, what do you say. >> the headline here biden has a political problem as well as a strategic problem with a failure in afghanistan that we have to deal with that beau biden went on national television and said none of this is my fault and set a bunch of things which are not true all of which can be shown false when people talk to the military and the intelligence community and look at the document there's going to be a lot of time because biden made all about his decision he said i made the right decision we will debate that in what they're going to find out he lied to the american people so it's a political dis

elizabeth: okay.[inaudible] zack poyan, congressman mike garcia, thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. >>> up next, former cia station chief dan hoffman. this was biden's worst week ever. we're going to talk about whether or not his botched handling of afghanistan sets the united states back on the world stage and undercuts u.s. power. we also look at the shadow it's casting over the president's entire agenda. you're watching request "the evening edit" on fox business. ♪♪ ♪ [band plays] ♪ a place where everyone lives life well-protected. ♪♪ and even when things go a bit wrong, we've got your back. here, things work the way you wish they would. and better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands with allstate. click or call for a lower auto rate today. you're in good hands with allstate. time. it's relentless. we do everything but control it. and when it's running out. we relentlessly try to protect it. because "all the time in the world" it's just a saying. today, f

elizabeth: it's an important message.n this why the intelligence failures, why. >> we need to get to the d ended the bottom of that i don't know if the intelligence failures in the intelligence wasn't produced but we've been around for afghanistan for 20 years we should've known there's a lot of simple problems happening we should not have had one way out of the country before we got everybody out we should've kept our presence in bagram air base and get the american citizens and afghan interpreters and everybody we needed to get out of there we should've started that and that shouldn't of drugged out for a long time until we were clear before we situation here now were in a a bad spot and we dont have good answers because we have the taliban controlling the perimeter and i don't know we can get these people in on time, i pray thaty we can. elizabeth: thank you for your comments and insight in ronny jackson we really appreciate you coming on in your service to our country it's good to have you both on will have you both o

that's a-e-r-o trainer.com. ♪ elizabeth: back with us now, former cia station chief and fox elizabethan hoffman this is terrible breaking news house lawmakers indicating the pentagon chief is saying yes the taliban is beating americans on kabul airport, your reaction to that. >> i was just tracking that moments ago as well, apparently general austin was briefing lawmakers and says the u.s. citizens were being harassed and being by the taliban they should not be a surprise at the bottleneck on the way to the kabul airport and the taliban knows that americans and african allies are trying to get there and they are easily able to protect and intercept our people. and that is a reflection of the chaotic and horrific poor planning that went into this withdrawal. elizabeth: the poor planning is growing concern theer president biden and mark miller chief of staff inflated the size of the afghan army strength to double to what it really was to d suppt their case withdrawal that the afghan army could fight and defeat the taliban, there is that and there is also, is this a concern this will set

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elizabeth: the u.s.oldiers pay highest price to abandon back ram air force base where that could have been a secure base. how do we rescue 1000 americans. secretary of state admitted that is rolling number a calculation they are refining based on estimates. they still don't know how many americans are there. we have people racing to the borders of pakistan and iran. your thoughts on that? >> right. so you know when you plan a military operation so you plan it as you go along you open yourself up to more opportunities and you limited enemies. we'll he have done exactly the opposite because we are being run by the diplomats. as the operation progressed we narrowed the options we have. i think we'll be out of kabul airport in new york minute. they will bug out. i know at this point they don't have any options. it is completely indefensible. they will set up rat lines. they have assets they piece together. a lot of these are not coming from the u.s. government. coming from folks putting this together. they w

elizabeth: okay, we're staying in breaking news mode.f state antony blinken is about to hold a press conference potentially with reporter questions. they are about to drill him on why the united states stranded hundreds of americans left them behind in afghanistan. the pentagon saying these americans wanted to get out. it is heart-break, they couldn't be accommodated that is the story. take you to an update on this story, hurricane ida blasting onshore, the fifth most powerful ever to hit the u.s. on the anniversary of hurricane katrina. hitting in the same region of the country. grady trimble is live for us with more. grady. reporter: liz, ida left a wake of destruction in its path. it has been a day of assessing the damage, cleanup and most critically search-and-rescue missions. we just got word from the governor's office that about 190 people were rescued in three parishes surrounding the new orleans area that has been critical over the last several hours. about 3:00 this morning it when it was finally safe enough for those rescue cre

elizabeth: joe?watched this press conference, i understand the congressman a frustration. the president starts this way, they gave me a list here could the first person i was instructed to call on is -- who is they? you are being instructed by youres handlers, he looks weak, takes responsible then blames his predecessor done, he could have done whatever he wanted to, the two big keys, i wish reporters would press him on more, why did you close the airbase. and do evacuations from there and not a commercial airport, and why not in winter when taliban retreats to bases in pakistan. we have a difficult situation, it is only going to get worse before it gets better, you have taliban, isis, all of the bad actors and americans still behind enemy lines with no plan to get everyone else. elizabeth: we're seeing an historic plunge in president's approval ratings. dc media, saying, pelosi is out of touch too for talking about vote reform and equity today in a day an historic day when 13 of our soldiers are now

. >>> plus the bombshell revelation in the criminal fraud trial of elizabeth holmes. the disgraced theranos founder is now reportedly set to claim she was the victim of an abusive relationship with her former boyfriend and sissartn. >>> as ida slams new orleans, why so much of the big easy's battered ninth ward still remains in tatters 16 years after hurricane katrina. it's monday august 30th. >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now." >>> second to last day of august. are you ready? >> almost there. almost there. >> i don't know where there is. but we're almost there. >> time goes by fast. >> it's september before we know it. but that also means we are in the heart of the hurricane season and that is where we begin with a catastrophic hurricane unleashing destructive wi flooding along the gulf coast. >> one man was killed by a falling tree as ida pummeled louisiana overnight hours after making landfall as a category 4 storm, and it could dump as much as two feet of rain as it inches northward. this is the moment, check this out, when power went out in new

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elizabeth: tens of thousands desperate. the embassy advising u.s. citizens and afghanistan to avoid the airport altogether. and seek shelter unless they have individual instructions from the u.s. government representative. >> we're going to look at every means possible to get american citizens, third country nationals, special immigrant visa applicants into the airfield. elizabeth: the united states has agreements with 26 countries on four continents to accept evacuees. >> in the last 24 hours, the united states alone flew out 3900 people on military aircraft. and our partners with flights we facilitated flew out 3900 people for a total of 7500 people. elizabeth: the pentagon activating a civil reserve air flu program, compelling commercial -- airlines to provide aircraft. >> we need more planes to move them from the initial points of landing on to the places they will ultimately resettle. elizabeth: several airlines announcing they have partnered with the department of defense. scott mann is part of task force pineapple, a group of veterans using c

elizabeth, we appreciate your time.re you seeing signs of lagging demand out of the chinese market? >> i think we are seeing signs of moderation in the iron ore price and that is a reflection of a number of factors. there's been some weaker macroeconomic data out of china, efforts to curb crude steel production, and also more transitory impacts, whether that is the recent covid outbreak or wet weather. all of those have combined to create some volatility in the iron ore price. but it is still higher than the average for all of the financial year we just reported, which was fy 21, so the average for fy 21 was 154 dollars and we generated record results. currently it's around $157. supply is still relatively constrained, there has been challenges with supply of iron ore. despite cooling in steel production, it is still up 8% from july last year and we expect rebounding construction activity and demand in the fourth quarter of this year, which is usual. we continue to see strong demand. we are still seeing very strong mark

. >>> and elizabeth holmes on trial in san jose. the impact this trial is already having on silicon valley, and what's at stake as testimony unfolds. and we'll tell you about a crucial deadline hours away in the recall election of governor newsom. >>> good evening. this is nbc bay area news tonight. i'm raj mathai. we begin this week with a favorite vacation spot for the bay area. a lot of prayers at this hour that south lake tahoe avoids major damage. the entire south lake tahoe basin is under evacuation orders. let's take you out to a live chopper video now of the caldor fire. one final ridge stands behind this fire and the entire south lake tahoe region. you can see sun setting near the sierra. the fire continues to burn along highway 50. homes, businesses and other structures are gone. this is a shot near the homes at sierra at tahoe resort. some are gone while others have been saved. and that kind of hopscotching the of the fire line, we've seen this kind of behavior in the prior years. about 20,000 people were told to leave to

elizabeth: tens of thousands desperate. the embassy advising u.s. citizens and afghanistan to avoid the airport altogether. and seek shelter unless they have individual instructions from the u.s. government representative. >> we're going to look at every means possible to get american citizens, third country nationals, special immigrant visa applicants into the airfield. elizabeth: the united states has agreements with 26 countries on four continents to accept evacuees. >> in the last 24 hours, the united states alone flew out 3900 people on military aircraft. and our partners with flights we facilitated flew out 3900 people for a total of 7500 people. elizabeth: the pentagon activating a civil reserve air flight program, compelling commercial -- airlines to provide aircraft. >> we need more planes to move them from the initial points of landing on to the places they will ultimately resettle. elizabeth: several airlines announcing they have partnered with the department of defense. scott mann is part of task force pineapple, a group of veterans usin