get started today. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: just before the break you heard the founder of blackwater eric prince his men rescued joe biden and john kerry from taliban control afghanistan.ha for a brand-new episode of "tucker carlson tonight," joining us on side and gave us the perspective of what is happening in afghanistan now. why it happened and what it u tells us about the leadership of this country, herere is part conversation. ♪ ♪ what effect does this have? you have worked in a lot of different countries anda likely still are, what effect is this going to have on the rest of the world? they are pretty clear lessons from this, are there not? >> much more than the democratss are looking and planning about trump damaging nato, this will destroy what is left of nato because they have so unilateral and so clueless for the president in the united states to be rebuked in the house of parliament is the first time it has ever happened. so we have shattered the competence of our european allies and every other ally around the world that america depends whether you are a cia agent trying tond recrui

that's it for us tonight, you can watch the interview with eric prince on foxnation.com, and of courseery night, 8:00 p.m., the show that it is a sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. sean hannity is up next. >> sean: hay, tucker, thank you and welcome to "hannity." break into night the state department is now at this hour issuing a security alert telling all americans in afghanistan to immediately leave the gates surrounding garside international airport as the situation now in afghanistan remains dire. thousands of americans and our allies are trapped behind enemy lines, the situation is deteriorating by the hour. >> the taliban whether we like it or not is in control, largely in control of the country.

eric prince to some people is the absolute devil. the villain in every movie about the military. he is someone who has honestly figured out how the world works. he stepped outside of government and found a way to profit off of it as a private citizen. having said that if i were stuck in afghanistan i think i would pay the 6500 bucks per. >> of course she would. that's the whole point what is your other option you pay the taliban with your life this is embarrassing. even jen psaki was happy on offense against somebody she has had an atrocity this week. jen psaki did not press for the titanic should put the iceberg on climate change it is embarrassing. i say this, really who might be watching somehow in afghanistan, i am a bit of an estate artist but i have owned bookies in loan sharks in my 20s and 30s i often had to flee perilous situations. i am amazed more people are not getting cabs or finding alternative routes beside the airport. that is the one place drawing the most attention breaks if i really was speaking for my history of d

eric prince knows a lot about afghanistan, he's a former navy seal, founder of blackwater, joining us. before i ask you what we should do, i just cannot resist asking why is it that for 20 years not just under biden but under previous b administration's, state department and pentagon felt the need to use american power for a some kind of social experiments, to rearrange their traditional society in afghanistan? how is that international interest? why would we do that? >> it's the same collection of national security elites in washington that have failed for the entire 20 years. they took what was a brilliant victory by special operations and the cia in the first six months after 9/11 and turned it into a massive failed nation-building exercise and it largely has been like a "star trek" convention where they sit and talk to each other and delude themselves into thinking they are making progress and it's been the same nonsense, they refused to think about any other ways to solve this problem. they took... afghanistan was never really a country and they ignored that and tried to make the

eric prince knows a lot more about afghanistan than a lot of people in charge of our policy, former navyl we are happy to have him join us now. thank you so much for coming on. before i ask you what we should do, i can't resist asking you that just just hunter biden but under previous administration, they felt the need to use american power for some kind of social experiment to rearrange the traditional society in afghanistan, how is that in our natural interest and why would we do that? >> it's the same collection in washington that has failed for that entire 20 years. they took what was a brilliant victory by special operations on the cia and the first six months after 9/11 and turned it into a massive fail nation-building exercise and it's largely been like a "star trek" cosplay convention where they just sit and talk to each other and delude themselves into thinking they are making progress and it's been the same nonsense and they refused to think about any other ways to solve this problem and afghanistan was never really a country and they ignored that and tried to make the central

tomorrow we will have eric prince on the show. interesting, interesting conversation. spend an awful lot of time there. meanwhile, january 6th commission is kicking into high gear. every bit as insane and authoritarian as you even imagine a probably more so. they've just announced subpoenas for the phone and text records of members of congress. can that be allowed? looks like it is happening. one of those members being targeted joins us after the break. (announcer) looking for a better way to lose weight and feel good? how about the one with a 98% success rate and a more affordable weight-loss solution? that's golo. there are no monthly fees and it's guaranteed to work or you don't pay. no stimulants, no starving, just results, results you'll keep for life. with over 2 million satisfied customers, golo is the new way to lose weight. go to golo.com and get your life back... -with golo. -golo! omega-3 from fish oil is an important nutrient for heart health. qunol's ultra purified omega-3, is sourced only from wild caught ocean fish, not farm raised and comes in bp >> tuc

tomorrow we will have eric prince on the show. interesting, interesting conversation.nd an awful lot of time there. meanwhile, january 6th commission is kicking into high gear. every bit as insane and authoritarian as you even imagine a probably more so. they've just announced subpoenas for the phone and text records of members of congress. can that be allowed? looks like it is happening. one of those members being targeted joins us after the break. ♪ ♪ r the break. p ♪ ♪ t ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ p♪ ♪ t ♪ ♪ >> tucker: so the january 6th commission will not answer any basic questions about what happened that day and why. who shot ashley babbitt, how many fbi informants were in the crowd, what they are holding from us. we are not going to find out any of that, shut up and obey. but what they are going to find out is subpoenaed the phone records of sitting members of congress. it doesn't matter. adam schiff, natural authoritarian if there ever was one, is fully on board with this. speak of the committee chair confirming to cnn that he wants telecom companies to preserve phone record

that's it for us tonight, you can watch the interview with eric prince on foxnation.com, and of course we will be back tomorrow and every night, 8:00 p.m., the show that it is a sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. sean hannity is up next. >> sean: hay, tucker, thank you and welcome to "hannity." break into night the state department is now at this hour issuing a security alert telling all americans in afghanistan to immediately leave the gates surrounding garside international airport as the situation now in afghanistan remains dire. thousands of americans and our allies are trapped behind enemy lines, the situation is deteriorating by the hour. >> the taliban whether we like it or not is in control, largely in control of the country. certainly in control of the city of kabul. >> they are fighting their reality of the taliban. >> encouraging the president to stay on, but he has a way of the equities of the danger versus the advantage and i trust his judgment. >> what are you telling the americans, may be they are not in kabul but they are somewhere in afghanistan

steve: that's when you can see eric prince of black water.and we've got the humidity so it's going to be even warmer than 75 here in new york. we're going to get into the 90s feel like 100 degrees in a lot of these areas showers thunderstorms some of them turning severe across the midwest and the ohio valley today we'll watch for that. heat advisory over the midwest, the mississippi, ohio, tennessee river valley as well as the southwest and look at those temperatures, real feel temperatures in the 100- degree range, so it's going to feel really warm make sure you're indoors, in the air conditioning, take care of your pets and the elderly and kids too. all right, steve ainsley brian, back to you. brian: thanks so much janice dean. ainsley: thank you. brian: meanwhile straight ahead , a high high school is -- steve: student athletes. brian: by forcing them to wear ankle monitors in washington all in the name of covid for the vaccinated and un vaccinated, our founder clay travis is here to react. ainsley: but first let's check in with dana perin

eric: right now dozens are reported dead after a powerful earthquake rocked haiti this morning. that quake centered about 93 miles west of the capital of port-au-prince in a country that has suffered so much for so long. hello, everyone, welcome to "fox news live," i'm eric shawn. arthel: hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville. the u.s. geological survey says the quake was measured at magnitude 7.2. officials say it was bigger and more shallow than the 7.0 tremors that devastated haiti back in 2010. we have fox team coverage. alex hogan is standing by with reaction from a haitian community in new york city. fox weather meteorologist adam klotz is live, but we first go to ryan chilcote live with what we know so far about that earthquake. ryan. >> reporter: hi, arthel. well, haiti just a country that can't catch a break, can it? this earthquake, as you said, had a mag magnitude of 7.2. that's a big quake. it occurred about 5 miles off the haitian coastline, about 90 miles from the capital of haiti. and at a depth of about 10,000 meters, that's 6 miles beneath the surface. that is actually a relatively hallow depth for an earthquake like this. and when you

eric: right now dozens are reported dead after a powerful earthquake rocked haiti this morning. that quake centered about 93 miles west of the capital of port-au-princei'm eric shawn. arthel: hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville. the u.s. geological survey says the quake was measured at magnitude 7.2. officials say it was bigger and more shallow than the 7.0 tremors that devastated haiti back in