he will appear today before the house foreign affairs committee. ow, the testimony before the senate foreign affairs committee beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. that's life on c-span -- live on c-span. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] >> this is open form until 10:00. you can call us on the lines or text us at. here's what he had to say yesterday. >> this $3.5 trillion play -- [laughter] it is not a time issue, it is a cost issue. >> it is going to be a lot more than $3.5 trillion. with that being said, that is social reform. we should be looking at everything in we are not. there are some deadline we are meeting or some is going to fall to the cracks. i want to make sure children are getting taken care of. that they have the opportunity to go back to work. something is not matching up. with that being said, we have people talking all the time, that we can't find help -- >> what with the bill look like if you were writing it from scratch? >> i would be adjusting the tax code. i have always said that. the 2017 tax code was weighted unfairly to the weal

if that's where your standard is, how the heck does omar get appointed and stay on house foreign affairs committeeforeign affairs i'm with waters, green, tlaib, aoc and others on financial services and with omar on foreign affairs. i'm saddened about this moment we're in right now, but i'm also encouraged that as long as all of your viewers are doubling down and triping down for their passion principles and beliefs to do something about it, we can correct this november 8, 2022, we have to for sake of our great country. >> mark: very well said it is amazing that joe biden has decided he wants to be the civil rights president. the greatest civil rights issue of our time has nothing to do with what he's talking about, critical race theory. that is a racist, anti-american, marxist theory. no. right in front of his face he sees what's been taking place in this country. he wants it to be the klan and the neo-nazis, and as i've said a thousand times before, crush them. who is stopping you? go get them. get them. crush them. but what's happening on our streets, joe biden is either silent or passively supp

andy barr of kentucky who sits on the house foreign affairs committee. year aware of your criticism of the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan and also your demands for blinken to resign as a result. he's testifying today. i wonder, what do you want to hear from him today and would it be beneficial to hear an acknowledgment of the failures here? >> well it certainly would be. because in my view this is the most humiliating disaster of my lifetime and i think this country is less safe today than we were on september 10th, 2001. it is telling that my 10-year-old daughter is last week and this week learning the history of 9/11. not having been alive when that happened and yet it seems that our own president hasn't learned the lesson of 9/11. so we've got a lot of questions and the american people deserve answers to those questions. one of those questions to this president and to the secretary of state is national security team is who made the decision to abandon the bagram air base before we extracted all americans, all of our allies and our advanced military

there are nearly 15 members of the house foreign affairs committee and the chairman has promised that all of them will have a chance to ask the secretary of state about the u.s. decision to pull the remaining 2500 troops out of afghanistan in august as well as not anticipate the swift takeover of that country by the taliban which as we all know now has an interim government in place. the secretary has been saying in speeches in recent weeks in which he has repeated in this hearing on capitol hill that not only was this something they did not anticipate, but the biden administration's hands were tied the moment they came into office. >> upon taking office, president biden immediately faced a choice between ending the war or escalating it. had he not followed through on his previous commitment -- his predecessors commitment, attacks on our forces would have resumed. that would have required sending substantially more forces into afghanistan to defend themselves and prevent a taliban takeover. there would be casualties and at best restore a stalemate and leave us stuck under fire in afgh

he will face questions from the house foreign affairs committee about last month's chaotic u.s.ithdrawal from afghanistan and the taliban's quick takeover. over the weekend president biden defended his decision to pull out u.s. troops amid concerns of al qaeda regrouping. >> can al qaeda come back? yeah, guess what, it's already back other places. what's the strategy? every place where al qaeda is we're going invade and have troops there? come on. >> on the heels of america ending its war in afghanistan, a new cbs news ugov poll found the majority of americans oppose using the u.s. military to create democracies and want the u.s. to intervene less overseas. >>> california votes tomorrow whether to recall governor gavin newsom. the historic vote will have irchl cases across the country -- irchl cases across the country. >> reporter: gavin newsom is fighting for his political life. president biden is set to join him for the final hours of his campaign today. the latest polls are trending in newsom's favor. a recent survey by the hoover institution and stanford's lane center estima

blinken is testifying to the senate foreign affairs committee today. coronavirus cases are back on the rise across the united states. more than 1800 covid-19 deaths were reported monday and the u.s. is confirming an average of more than 170,000 infections a day. that is up from last week when the labor day holiday led to a gap in data about the u.s. outbreak. here in new york, nearly 1 million public school students returned to classrooms monday, most of them for the first time in a year and a half. teachers are required to be vaccinated, though they have until september 27 to get their first shot. in iowa, a federal judge on monday issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a republican-led ban on mask mandates in schools. the federal judge sided with parents of disabled students who argued their children were being denied equal access to education since they're at higher risk of covid-19. in florida, republican governor ron desantis said he will fine city and county governments $5000 per employee if they impose vaccine mandates. thi

the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee says the taliban is stopping six planes carryingu.s. citizens and gavin allies from leaving the country. congressman michael mccaul claims it's become a hostage situation. well to -- welcome to "fox news live," i'm griff jenkins. alicia: and i'm alicia acuna. prominent lawyer alex murdaugh shot in the head on side to have road, raising questions about the unsolved more of his wife and son who were gunned down nearly three months ago. and the death toll rising as states comb through the catastrophic damage from hurricane ida. officials say it could be weeks before power's back in some parts of louisiana. griff: we begin with afghanistan. republicans putting pressure on the biden administration as the white house defends its exit strategy. >> we should have never let the military leave, we should have maintained control of multiple air bases so we would have operational control of afghanistan until everyone was out, at least citizens were and noncombatants. but now we have diplomatic relations going through doha, qatar, and we can't e

speaking to the house foreign affairs committee from the state department, mr blinken said the decisionsary. upon taking office, president biden immediately faced the choice between ending the war or escalating it. had he not followed through on his predecessor's commitment, attacks on our forces and our allies would've resumed, and the taliban's nationwide assault on afghanistan's major cities would have commenced. that would've required sending substantially more us forces into afghanistan to defend themselves and prevent a taliban takeover. let's get some of the day's other news. norway's conservative prime minister erna solberg had admitted defeat in monday's election, paving the way for a left wing government led by the opposition labour party. its leaderjonas gahr store looks set to take power. the campaign was dominated by climate change and the future of norway's oil industry. apple has issued an emergency security update for its devices after reports surfaced of new spyware thought to be used by the israeli company nso group. an independent watchdog — citizen lab — said last we

he is now chair of a foreign affairs committee of the house of commons and this is the series in whiche conversations with, not interrogations of, those who shape our political thinking about what shapes theirs. their background, their values, their lives beyond politics. it was precisely that which led mps to listen to tom tugendhat in total silence as he spoke in the commons of his struggle with anger, grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. i've been to funerals from poole to dunblane, i've watched good men go into the earth, taking with them a part of me and a part of all of us. and this week has torn open some of those wounds, left them raw and left us all hurting. tom tugendhat, welcome to political thinking. hi, nick. nice to see you. have you had much sleep since those events in kabul? no, i haven't. i have got one of those trackers on my phone and i have noticed my sleep has gone from an average of seven and a half hours to three or four hours on average for the last three weeks and it feels a bit like being back on ops, actually. there is a network of retired off

and tomorrow the senate foreign affairs committee. our chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan? >> well, steve, i'm on the house foreign affairs committee as well. i will be asking him questions today. i have lots and lots of questions for him. i want to know first and foremost what led to this? how did we get 13 americans killed over there? how did we leave multiple americans behind enemy lines as hostages? and how did we instead of bringing all of these si vimplet interpreters that we wanted to get out of there that we had already been vetting how did we bring out all of these unvetted afghan refugees that we now really don't know much about that are coming back to the united states? i want to know about all of these failures. i want to know about why they are taking credit for things that they had no business taking credit for? we had a successful evacuation of american citizens from the state of texas and the first thing the state department did was try to take credit for that first successful evacuation after august 31st which they ha

. ♪ ♪ >> mike: foreign affairs committee texas congressman michael mccaul telling chris wallace on fox sunday today that the taliban are holding americans and others, quote, hostage in planes waiting on the runway to leave afghanistan. welcome to fox news live. i'm mike emanuel. we will get reaction from medal recipient and afghan veteran dakota meyer and david spunt in wilmington, delaware. david: still no word from the white house or national security council specifically about what congressman mccaul said. very eye-opening, very serious allegations that he made talking specifically about 6 different planes that are holding americans against their will specifically at airport 265 miles north of kabul. i want to play what congressman mccaul said and we will talk about it after, listen. >> well, they are not clearing the airplanes to depart and sat at the airport for the last couple of days, these planes and they're not allowed to lever. we know the reason why because the taliban wants something in exchange. >> mccaul saying this is about 265 miles north of kabul at airport, senior u.s

hearing is expected to go on for several hours here in washington because of the house. foreign affairs committee has a sizable membership and the leadership of the committee has promised that every person is going to have the opportunity to question antony blank. and who essentially is the person that they get to criticize directly. this is their version of our congressional accountability or oversight of the executive branch. it's an accident and sonya essential part of the us government. but there is, as you might expect to see, a lot of anger coming from members of congress, not just here on the house of representative side, but also on tuesday on the senate side was in jordan. thank you very much. indeed. international donors have pledged more than $1000000000.00 to help the people of africanist on the donations followed a plea for help from the un saying afghans were an urgent need of a lifeline for night. had dried up off the taliban take over. you and target was at least $600000000.00 to would, would cause a humanitarian crisis center. general antonio tor says, he's concerned about the co

back with them now republican congressman and afghan war veteran brian mast, house foreign affairs committeehis, do you push for the 25th amendment, do you push for impeachment, what's your solution? congressman: i think all 3 of these are realistic options if this were not the most partisan world that we lived in. no member of the cabinet is going to push for the 25th amendment so i would say that one is out. impeachment is absolutely something that should be considered i would say no less than 10,000 counts of reckless endangerment, all of the american lives over there, that's the minimum which is actually a real crime. beyond that as i said already, we absolutely need to look at what is the truth about the phone call with afghany president and we know the taliban is a sworn enemy of america and i would consider the manipulation of intelligence giving aid and comfort to the enemy, all three of those things are part of what meets the constitutional definition of treason and then you go beyond that and talk about impeachment. i think we all know prior to any changes in the majorities of hous

we are joined by congressman michael mccaul, the top republican on the house foreign affairs committeeus, the fda scrambles to study the benefits of covid boosters as the biden administration pushes a deadline to start rolling them out. if we will ask dr. ashish jha, one of the nations popped public health experts, about criticism the white house is getting ahead of the science. and president biden blisters the supreme court for refusing to block a new texas ban on most abortions after six weeks. >> president biden: the most pernicious thing about the texas law is it sort of creates a vigilante system. >> chris: we will ask our sunday panel what it signals for roe v. wade. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ >> chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. more than 60 people are dead as the country faces a long recovery from hurricane ida. the devastation stretching from the gulf to the northeast, the storm disabling the power grid across louisiana and creating miserable conditions for people facing high heat and humidity. and in the northeast, folks are still digging out fr

. >>> plus, congressman michael mccaul, the top republican on the foreign affairs committee says the taliban are blocking plane loads of americans from leaving afghanistan. details on what they're demanding to clear those planes for departure ahead, and we're live in louisiana as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power. this is a week after hurricane ida slammed the state. >> announcer: "cnn newsrsroom" broughght to you by pella windo and doors, tested for extremes, designed for your home. what happens when we welcome change? we can make emergency medicine possible at 40,000 feet. instead of burning our past for power, we can harness the energy of the tiny electron. we can create new ways to connect. rethinking how we communicate to be more inclusive than ever. with app, cloud and anywhere workspace solutions, vmware helps companies navigate change. faster. vmware. welcome change. renae is not an influencer, she's more of a groundbreaker. renae runs with us on a john deere 1 series tractor. because out here, you can't fake a job well done. hear renae's story at deere.com

the secretary is still testifying at this hour, there are nearly 50 members of the house foreign affairs committee, and the chairman gregory makes of new york has promised that all of them will have a chance to ask the secretary of state about the us decision to pull the remaining 2500 troops out of afghanistan in august as well as basically not anticipate the swift takeover of that country by the taller bond which as we all know now has an interim government in place, but the secretary has been saying in speeches in recent weeks in which he has repeated during this hearing on the on capital on monday is that this wasn't something, not only did they not anticipate, but also that the buying administration's hands were tied. the moment they came into office upon taking office, president biden immediately faced the choice between ending the war or escalated. had he not followed through on his p. s is commit a tax on our forces and those are allies, what region and the taliban nationwide assault and i can stand, major cities would have commenced that would require setting substantially more us forces

and we are going straight they are now to hear dominic raab in front of the foreign affairs select committee

al jazeera, called yes, extra state entity blinking has been testifying before the house. foreign affairs committee on the u. s. withdraw from afghanistan. that's getting from us in jordan who lives in washington d. c. question to think and faith. while the secretary of state has been facing basically, generally supportive questioning from his, from a, from democrats to support the bye and administration. but as you might expect, he's getting a lot of harsh criticism from republicans, but for the most part, these republicans have been polite in their questioning. it was one moment a few moments ago where a junior member on the house weren't affairs committee got into a shouting match with the secretary of state. and that's something that we did not expect would happen because tony blinking is known as a rather cool and calm character. that said, the overwhelming question was, why did the bind administration decide that it needed to leave afghanistan and flying? now this was the secretary state answer from his opening remarks earlier on monday . upon taking office, president biden immediately faced

i would urge the foreign affairs committee to do the same thing our services committee was done over the objection of every single person in the pentagon. so don't expect the state department to walk on this review with open hands but look at the result for our military after congress took the lead and we need to do this . china today as more embassies around the world than we do. if you look at their expansion in south and central america, expansion in africa we can do all this with the military. our whole of government and state department has gotto be more influential andmuch more engaged . >> i'm going to far down this radical . >> when you pass something like that there is, is there hope in the congress that long-term work to get home? >> i really think so. i'm not going to say you're kind of thing is not easy to pass but the potential for benefits for country and for the state department, nobody in dod what today wants to be going back to pre-goldwater nichols. there's a lot of discussion about how toreform it and move ahead . i think if we can hold out this vision to our forei

, america's top diplomat, secretary of state tony blinken, will testify before the house foreign affairs committee over the deadly and chaotic u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. now, we expect tough questions, frankly, from both parties over how the u.s. failed to foresee how quickly afghanistan would collapse into the hands of the taliban. according to a preview of his prepared remarks, secretary blinken will say that there was no intelligence predicting that it would happen in the 11 days that it did. >> as of today, the state department believes about 100 americans remain in afghanistan. we are awaiting numbers of how many afghan allies are still stuck there. the united nations today warned that afghanistan is on the verge of famine. secretary blinken is expected to call the u.s. evacuation effort of more than 124,000 people a, quote, historic success. and the largest military evacuation in american history. >> with us is cnn anchor and chief national affairs analyst, casey hunt, cnn national correspondent kylie atwood, cnn editor nic robertson and zac geler who founded an organization that's be

the . people asking the questions will be tom tugendhat, the tory mp who chairs the foreign affairs select committee, even on a good day is quite critical of the government that he is a member of the political party for that government, he is also a former veteran who served in afghanistan and he gave that a very powerful speech when parliament was recalled to the week before last which went viral, around the entire world. kind of capturing some of the emotion around the us withdrawal from afghanistan. he will be in the chairfor from afghanistan. he will be in the chair for that from afghanistan. he will be in the chairfor that session, and from afghanistan. he will be in the chair for that session, and they will be quite a lot of outspoken mps on that committee who got quite strong opinions and quite a lot of experience of foreign affairs. the labour party have put a whole list of questions in ten different areas they want dominic raab to answer, whether it is about the previous mission in afghanistan, about his own personal contact, whether he went on holiday at the right time, and stayed on holid

this where are the democrats coming out to recognize and was warren he should become to the foreign affairs committeethe house veterans committee to report on the casualties that are pursuant to the national defense authorization. he failed to do that and use a saudi waiver to get out of it so there's a lot of questions that need to be answered plus he has been conversing with former president donnie - - donnie that i thought was revealing asking him to cover up the situation but it is the course of conduct where are the democrats are the never bidens out there? they know this is a problem. they are struggling at home they also commemorated the horrible tragedy of 9/11 yesterday. i would like to see answers from them as well and name may be showing up in a bipartisan way. if we don't ask it will not happen. jon: the 9/11 attacks and the taliban are raising the flag while at the same time incorporating members into the cabinet and government. people who were released from gitmo. >> another terrorist organization and khalid shaikh mohammed is in the middle of his trial so he may went to negotiate with

british foreign secretary dominic rob is expected to face a grilling when he goes before a foreign affairs committee. later on wednesday, ministers have been getting a lot of heat over the government's policy in afghanistan in the past few weeks. robbie himself, though, recently blamed the k defense ministry for being unprepared for the taliban. swift victory. so it was an intelligence thing. i think there's clearly questions around this session was clearly wrong, but under some festival that was shared widely across international partners and certainly not the the, the foreign office lead responsibility, but we've course planned accordingly. okay. like the next 2 westminster studio k partridges that hi kate. so what's the biggest question about british foreign secretary is going to answer later? well certainly if you key questions calling for secretary tony rob will soon appear before the foreign affairs select committee in the house of commons facing questions. fine back bench m p 's over his actions during the withdrawal from afghanistan by the us and its allies. well, this comes a day off to the

rob has been facing some rigorous questions by the foreign affairs select committee over his actions during the withdrawal form. a gun is done by the us and its allies. it comes a day after a tv interview where he indicated that military intelligence failures led to the rapid fall of the country to the taliban in effect, blaming the ministry of defense. but a form ahead of the army. hit back at rob over suggestions that thousands of afghans eligible to come to the u. k were left behind and said the government had been forewarned about the situation. and numbers were a key question for the committee. did the foreign secretary know how many u. k and for a national, long, vulnerable people were still in afghanistan, which apparently he couldn't answer. confident numbers remaining, but we think that they would be in the low hundreds. why? 100, you mean $110.00 sort of area or do you mean to under $3400.00? they will be low, hundreds 100 sounds that it could be $400.00 or it could be 10510115 . i'm. if i could give you any more precision, cuz i would let me somewhere between 10500, so let

's on the foreign affairs committee. ministers have been getting a lot of heat up over the government policy and i've got to stand in recent weeks. rob himself though, recently blamed the u. k. defense ministry for being unprepared for the taliban. swift victory reporting from westminster. his k. partridge. foreign secretary, dominate. rob is appearing before the foreign affairs select committee in the house of commons to face questions by, by bench m. p 's over his actions during the withdrawal from a gun histone by the us and its allies. and this comes a day after the tv interview, where he indicated that military intelligence failures led to the rapid fall of last got on to the taliban in effect, blaming the ministry of defense. so it was an intelligence threatening. i think there's clearly questions around this session was clearly wrong, but allison festival that was shared widely across international partners and certainly not the the foreign offices lead responsibility, but we've course planned accordingly. but for the head of the army as hit back at the foreign secretary over s

the british foreign secretary has just finished around 2 hours of grilling from foreign affairs committee and peace. dominic rob and other senior ministers have been getting a lot of haste over the government's handling of the afghanistan pull out. described by the opposition as the biggest failure of foreign policy and a generation by watching across for us live in westminster, corresponding k paul to tie again. so for those 2 hours then what came out of it? yes, foreign secretary dominate raw has been facing some rigorous questions by the foreign affairs select committee in parliament over his own actions during the withdrawal from afghanistan by the us and its allies and the committee grilled him on several key issues. rob was on holiday is the afghan situation was unfolding. returning on the evening to cobble fell to the taliban. but he said a modern foreign secretary was capable of working from abroad. the committee repeated the asked rob to give the dates when he was on crete, which he wouldn't. another crunch point was about numbers. did the foreign secretary know how many u. k. in

during a fractious session of the house foreign affairs committee, mr blinken defended america's withdrawal from the country. now on bbc news, yalda hakim examines the rise of the taliban after the soviet occupation of afghanistan. back in control. after nearly 20 years of conflict, thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent, the taliban has seen off the us, nato and their afghan allies. a stunning success for them and another superpower humbled in the streets and fields of afghanistan. but to understand these events and the origins of the taliban, we need to go back to the cold war. the bloody aftermath of the soviet occupation set the ground for a new force to emerge. they were really seen as angels, these young angels who had arrived to save the country. on december 27th, 1979, soviet special forces stormed the presidential palace in kabul. the president, hafizullah amin was killed. this was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. the soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. afghanistan's communists had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition t

so just the foreign affairs select committee actually have any teeth then in regard. so you have the whole african crisis was handled not a great deal. it's got no real legal foreign in that sense, it's got the authority of the house of commons, the, the assembly behind it. so the report, but it will writes at the end of this inquiry that it's, that it's engaged in a line and will be read by diplomat by, by civil service, by politicians. my mainly across the whole of the, the, you can assembly, the house comes in the house a lot and by the media. and of course, if it's a scathing report, then it's going to look bad for the dominant, rob and for the foreign office. and indeed, i hope it is a scathing report because it needs to be because there are significant flaws. and what happens if it's, if it papers over those then, then i'm afraid we're not going to see any improvement. okay, henry let, we'll leave that. but when you get to talk to you tonight, that was henry bolton, former leader of the u. k. independence party. thanks for coming up. you're welcome . i mean, wal,

host: the top republican in the house foreign affairs committee yesterday on fox news. also the house -- white house cheese -- chief of staff was asked the same question about americans left behind in afghanistan and the status. >> more than 100 american citizens were left behind when the last military flight left earlier this week. what is their status right now? have any gotten out and how many are still there? >> we believe it is around 100. we are in touch with all of them who we have identified on a regular basis. we are hopeful that in the coming days, air service will be resumed, and we will look to see if americans can be part of those flights. we will find ways to get them, the ones that want to leave, to get them out of afghanistan. we know many of them have family members and many want to stay, but the ones that want to leave, we will get them out. as the president said, we have transitioned from a military mission to a diplomatic mission to get the remaining out of the country and we continue to work on that. host: that was from yesterday, and this news, the

-- foreign affairs select committee-— safety? vided notice specifics _ committee. dominic raab provided notice specifics of _ committee. dominic raab provided notice specifics of assurances. - committee. dominic raab provided notice specifics of assurances. he l notice specifics of assurances. he did not mention the international agencies he was working with. all he said was that there had been talk to the taliban and that the test for the taliban and that the test for the taliban and that the test for the taliban will be the management of this humanitarian situation. the situation that they have created. so this is extremely worrying. what situation that they have created. so this is extremely worrying. what has our this is extremely worrying. what has your exoerience _ this is extremely worrying. what has your experience been _ this is extremely worrying. what has your experience been like _ this is extremely worrying. what has your experience been like in - this is extremely worrying. what has your experience been like in the -

that, the focus is on afghanistan, whether antony blinken is slated to apt before the house foreign affairs committeetes, and the senate foreign relations committee tomorrow. lee ann, there's math problems, policy problems, just how far are democrats to coming to a consensus that they can bring to the floor in either chamber this. >> hey, gar. there's a couple things, democrats are plowing forward on crafting this $3.5 trillion bill. the key is they're still crafting at $3.5 trillion bill. once they're done with that, which their expectations is supposedly their goal, i should say, is to be done with the crafting of that this week, then they have to start negotiating that. as senator manchin has said over and over again, that's not a number he can support and not something he's going to vote for. hi vote is extremely necessary. voerkz are going to commence, because there's no way at this point that $3.5 trillion is going to pass. they're going to have to work with manchin, senator sinema of arizona, and other moderates as well who are uncomfortable with that price tag. we're really only in the first

hostage situation in afghanistan, congressman michael mccall, the top republican on the house foreign affairs committeeling fox news sunday there are six planes with american citizens and afghan interpreters on them being held by the taliban. good afternoon, welcome to "fox news live." i'm griff jenkins. >> i'm alicia acuna. two other stories we're following at this hour. new jersey continues the big clean-up after last week's record flooding. president biden will visit the area on tuesday and prominent south carolina attorney, alex murdoch, shot in the head while changing a tire by the side of the road. three months after his wife and son were shot and killed. police say alex murdoch is expected to survive but the attack is raising questions about the unsolved killings of his wife and son. we have fox team coverage. charles watson in atlanta on the south carolina murder mystery. brian llenas in new jersey on the recovery from ida's remnants. first, david spunt in wilmington, delaware following the president this weekend. david. >> reporter: hi, alicia, hi, griff. with what griff said, we had to listen

it is now chair of a foreign affairs committee at the house of commons and this is the series in which i have conversations with, not interrogations of, those who shape our political thinking about what shapes theirs. their backgrounds, their lives, beyond politics. it was precisely that which led mps to listen to him in total silence as he spoke in the commons others struggle with anger, grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. i grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul.— unfold in kabul. i been to funerals across the — unfold in kabul. i been to funerals across the world _ unfold in kabul. i been to funerals across the world and _ unfold in kabul. i been to funerals across the world and watched - unfold in kabul. i been to funerals - across the world and watched goodman go into the earth taken with them a part of me and a part of all of us. —— make good men. the speakers torn open some of those winds. left them raw and left us all hurting.— raw and left us all hurting. welcome to politicalthinking. _ raw and left us all hurting. welcome to politicalthinking. ni

during a fractious session of the house foreign affairs committee, mr blinken defended america's withdrawal from the country, saying that staying longer would not have improved anything. a court in new york is hearing the next stage of a civil case being brought against prince andrew, the second son of queen elizabeth. it's in relation to allegations of sexual assault, allegations he denies. our north america correspondent nada tawfik reports those proceedings have now concluded, the first in the case against prince andrew alleging he assaulted her when she was just 17 years old. allegations that he strongly denies. this first hearing really focused on procedure more seo than the allegations in the charges. the court was notified today that prince andrew had chosen a lawyer who would represent him. now, in court, he made two main arguments. he said that the complaint had not been properly served to prince andrew and that court in the uk would have to weigh in to the legality of that. he was arguing that a settlement agreement between virginia giuffre in 2009 in florida of the prince whose s

we need the ranking members of the two foreign affairs committee. up with of the great bipartisan things that exist in the congress today is the bipartisan recognition and agreement that we've got to deal with china and china is not just militarily, diplomatically, it's economically and technologically. there was a concept in the old days called the country team of which the ambassador was the head and you need commerce, you need agriculture, you need the military. they all have to have a seat at the table and you have to do it globally because it's not just what china is doing in the south china sea, it's what china is doing in africa, it's what china is doing in south america. these are under different combatant commanders. the state department and as you look at the way state is organized and defense is organized on the policy side, foreign policy bureaus don't match up at all. they have different responsibilities, so you really need this hold of government, country-team approach that frankly was effective in the cold war and we've just gotten aw

sir, in my service on the foreign affairs committee, the global terrorism subcommittee, the arms services committee and the helsinki commission, i've been impressed by foreign diplomats world wide. that's why i'm shocked that your action super seeding military advice leading to the surrender in afghanistan to be a safe haven for murderous terrorists. biden/harris has opened the southern border. this allows identified terrorists of the terror watch list to enter american neighborhoods as lone wolf suicide bombers to murder as many americans as possible. american families have never been at a greater risk of attack at home than today. as the global war on terrorism is not over. it's been moved from abroad to american homes. as the grateful father of an afghanistan veteran, i see your actions as indefensible. with 12 visits by me across afghanistan to thank the army national guard troops, i know first hand they appreciated serving with their afghan brothers. i saw the united states agency for international development success in building schools, agriculture projects, hospitals and bridges a