man leverett, now to talk more about this, she is a former white house national security council and state department official. she joins us live for mclean. virginia, thanks so much for being with us. so what do you think of these files could reveal this? well i'm, i'm not sure to be, to be honest, either either files that are 20 years old in many cases or more than 20 years old. which so interesting and important to understand about files and documents collected and kept by the us government at the time is that they go over to administration of 2 different political parties. some of these files go back to the clinton administration to a democratic administration wanting which i worked. the next set of files go into the bush administration. again, another administration in which i worked for both clinton and bush in their white house and their national security council and both administration made mistakes. some of them are documented in the 911 commission and some are not. some are not matters of national security. some are just matters of embarrassment that would embarrass officia

we are reaching out to the white house, also the national security council.know congressman mccall specifically mentioned about an airport several hours north of kabul, that's where he alleges that americans are essentially being held on planes against their will. this is what he said just a few hours ago on fox news sunday. listen. >> we have six airplanes at sharif airport, six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak, also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. the state has cleared these flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> reporter: again, this is several hours north of kabul on the border, the northern border of the country. meanwhile, fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin traveled exclusively to ramstein air base in germany yesterday with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, general milley met with evidence ackey -- evacuees and jennifer asked him if we're safer as a country after we left afghanistan. >> this is something i thoug

former white house national security council aide kash patel. she likes her men tall, dark, and on life support. fox news contributor kat timpf. and even his inner child is bigger than most people. my massive sidekick and the nwa world television champion, tyrus. tonight we saw joe biden talking, did a presser. tyrese, you made a very good point. when you compare joe biden to trump in the world of vaccines and he saw the interview last night talking about persuading my wife to get the vaccine, there is a noticeable contrast between who can persuade and who can't. >> tyrus: he wasn't even that. he talked to someone who was a parent, a father, leader and how important it was me put some facts behind it. he was a very un-trumplike response. we are used to the narrative or he doesn't care and he selfish but he was giving you good reasons and he was respecting your wife's decision not to do it. from the other side of it, the side that is supposed to be that way, he was basically threatening us by telling somebody we are losing our patients with you.

what happened on the ground is right at the feet of those in the white house, national security council ultimately with the president of the united states. elizabeth: you know military experts agree the withdrawal was a fiasco. it came in the context of the entire 20 year chaotic war. generals milley and mckenzie confirmed they told the president don't do a rapid withdrawal, afghanistan will collapse. senator blackburn said the push to rush out resulted in the death of 13 troops and abandonment of countless citizens and allies. that is a heavy thing to deal with. what do you say? >> it's a debacle. the economist was right this is biden's debacle. 13 americans were lost. we were exposed to the world, at least under this administration as a paper tiger. he has ripped asunder the western alliance. don't just listen to me. listen to merck kel and macron and johnson who said this man has done more damage to the western unity than any president since nato was founded in 1949. this is a train wreck of cataclysmic proportions. we still have another three years left of it. elizabeth: the chair o

american citizens and permanent residents, but not everybody took the offer the white house's national security council says there will be more flights to come. >>> 15 minutes after the hour. let's get our first check of the weather. al >> good morning, guys. unfortunately, it has been a hot summer and it continues such and, in fact, you take a look, this is 2021, the hottest summer on record tied with the historic dust bowl summer of 1936 and, in fact, out west, it has been very difficult. five states with their number one hottest summer ever from oregon, idaho, down to california, nevada, and utah all western states had record warm summer nights and that means usually warmer days, as well and that causes big problems and highs near 100 degrees today. salt lake city, 95 degrees 13 degrees above average flagstaff. denver, near 100 20 degrees above average sioux falls, 88. tomorrow warm temperatures move to the northeast oklahoma city near 100 degrees st. louis, 11 degrees warmer than usual at 93 as we move into next week, temperatures fairly moderate, but still above average from raleigh, charleston, n

david: still no word from the white house or national security council specifically about what congressmanul 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. officials telling fox news, i want to read this here to make sure it's the specific quote. the u.s. government is trying to figure out who is on those planes, they have no way to verify the manifest. you have to remember after 20-some years, mike, a lot of those sources on the ground have dried up in afghanistan since the united states has left. now, specifically the chairman of the joint chiefs of

ainsley: the white house national security council praises the are taliban's cooperation.ave been cooperating and facilitating the departure of american citizens. they have shown flexibility and they have been business like and professional in our dealings with them in this effort. steve: unbelievable. ainsley: what we hear from people who live there and know what the taliban is like. they lived through it 40 years ago. then everything changed in afghanistan 20 years ago because of american troops. they all say the same thing. they don't believe the taliban will change because it's tough to change their ideology and their belief system. steve: who have we ever heard in the last 20 years described the taliban as professional and business like. yesterday for the first time in american his stray white house correspondent held up a wanted poster in the white house to make a point. watch this. >> you are saying the taliban is business like and professional. their interior minister has an fbi wanted poster. he has a $10 million bounty on his head. what's the business? >> we are

national security strategy. it was something that was put together by an interagency consultation led by the white house. the national security council staff, i believe, took the lead and circulated drafts and had meetings with representatives from the defense department, state department, cia and other relevant agencies. >> let me ask, at this point, about the debate inside the administration of what to do with holding battlefield combatants. where just a phrase " battlefield combatants" come from and how did we get to having a prisoner at guantanamo? >> the fighting in afghanistan began on october 7, less than one month after september 11. by late november and december, we began to have people that we were holding in afghanistan, and it was clear that since we were focused on preventing the next attack -- we have to keep coming back to that because that is an extraordinary mission we were all given, and the whole national security apparatus of the government -- since we were focused on preventing that next attack, it was clear that the key to preventing the next attack was intelligence. this was a different war from the type of war

did the white house, did the national security council, the state department tried to rebut you, stop, call you off, that kind of thing, you broke it they did not break it. >> i do what i was saying was true, not just from state but we have a lot of contacts on the ground with the operation of pineapple for instance. we have veterans and active-duty and private organizations running a parallel state department if you will military to get thousands of these interpreters out in american citizens. what i was saying was accurate, but to your point it took them days to respond and they said that we cannot confirm, they did not deny it but eventually anthony blinken so they're not really hostages and then jen psaki said something to that effect. if you're not letting american citizens leave afghanistan injured demanding more from making demands of ransom, to me that sounds a hostage situation. larry: they hate that word hostage but as a practical manner i think you're right. i want to get to other quick things, and the house is it possible to get an intelligence finding so we can help the p

i was talking to her deputy, this awesome for time servant in the white house of the national security council, a retired army colonel. he was the one that kind of did the bulk of the interview because she was tied up in any of his educated came into the office. she glanced over and he gave a little head nod edges like okay, when can you join? okay, awesome. >> so i have to ask you this. as the preeminent russians could expert, as somebody who on day one of the security council was there at the day of helsinki, what the heck do you think happened went up and putin were talking? he can't break any security clinch stuff, but just generally speaking. like what is happening in those conversations? >> no. you know, it's interesting, i have frankly a little bit less,, i got less concern than the general public first of all. i won't . the interpreter at the center of this storm that was in the room with his conversation, somebody and you and actually i guess too much before probably about six weeks before she was my translator when we were taking the chairman of the joint chiefs to meet with his russ

to the white house, the security council, united nations, to everyone, basically.hen you talked about general miller, just for people who might not remember, he oversaw the enhanced interrogation techniques that was even miss him for torture at guantÁnamo, then brought from there to iraq to gitmo-ize abu ghraib, bring the same types torture techniques. when the report came out, cited miller for the mass level of abuse at abu ghraib. in that period, mansoor adayfi, you write so powerfully about what sustained you, about the relationships you had -- not only with other prisoners, as you say detainees, but with guards as well. can you talk about that? >> you know, amy, let me go -- i would like to make a point here. first of all, we as prisoners, we were not just the victims at guantÁnamo. also the guards were victims of guantanamo. that condition brought us together and through that we are human and we shared humanity first post up amy, what makes a human to human? what makes you unique is your name your language, your morals, your ethics, your memories, your relatio

nationals left on another plane with the taliban's approval. the white house is praising the taliban for all of that yesterday. the u.s. national security council the taliban have been cooperative in facilitating the departure of american citizens and were business-like. >> you say the taliban is business-like and professional. their interior minister has a $10 million bounty on his head. what's the business? >> we're here to celebrate the return of american citizens who wanted to leave afghanistan. in order to get those people out, we had to work with some members of the taliban to press them and to work in a business-like manner to get them out. >> harris: so the proof, the evidence, the facts are hard to look at but they are important to see. that's what the white house is saying. here is the truth of what's happening on the ground. new photographs paint a very different picture of what is going on. they are graphic images so i want to give you a preamble to pull little ones during the day away from the tv. these are pictures of injured afghan journalists who say they were brutally beaten in police custody after they covered a protest for wo

joining me tonight former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland, former white house council of economic advisers kevin hassett, sean duffy, greg murphy from house education and labor the hills kristin tate and former acting ice director ron vitello. here at home biden t trying to shift the focus to domestic policies but with an in to unemployment benefits with more than 7 million americans will it spark employersha desperate to fill the 10 million vacant jobs nationwide. september looking like a rough month for democrats, progressive and moderates at odds over the biggest issues of the yearng including the giant infrastructure spending bill and also talks of adding more deficit to the supreme court. also in chicago and seattle backlash by the city's biggest unions over vaccine mandates for workers some even walking off the job, to the border where a new migrant caravan is working its way to the border of med reports that the biden administration of trump era programs for asylum-seekers. i am jackie deangelis and for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. >> w

house correspondent for politico and coauthor of the politico playbook. stdard, and retired four-star u.s. army generation barry mccaffrey, former battlefield commander in the gulf and former cabinet member and member of the national security council as well. eugene, what is the latest you're hearing from the white house tight with these two bills, aka the president's agenda, up in the air? >> i mean, what we know is that they're getting a little concerned, right? it's remarkable where we are in the process, legislating is messy, we all know that. the democratic party has to make sure everyone's happy from bernie sanders to joe manchin in order to pass legislation. but for months the focus has been about how impressive it is that democrats have been so united, that they were on this two-track process that everyone has agreed. and then the wheels started to fall off and i think a lot of people in the white house were surprised by how quickly that happened. we had manchin saying he wanted to have a strategic pause, who had now nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, did her coupling the two bills and taking the two tracks off the table. so much has changed. so now, as you see the president cancellation that trip, they're working on

>> well, i do think the white house is doing a lot with respect to the militia stuff. they put in josh meltser at the national security council to run this. and they have extensive work being done in this area. so i'm actually pretty happy with the white house and how they've respected. i'm a little worried about congress and the security there. i was just talking to just a college intern yesterday, and i asked him what was the most surprising thing about your internship over the summer? and i thought he'd answer like ben sasse or something like that. he said, the lack of security at the capitol. he said he can just walk around there, go anywhere, they barely check their i.d. i mean, this is eight months after january 6th. i'm very worried about that and what's going on in terms of security at both the u.s. capitol and then as was said before also state capitol buildings. >> i've heard that as well. neal katyal, juanita tolliver, thank you both very much. susan del percio, i'll see you again at the top of the next hour. thanks for sticking with us. >>> coming up, new backlash over gop governors fighting safety measures for st

there was one interview with an obama national security council official, someone who worked at the white houseaying that throughout the duration of the war they manipulated all the metrics. he called them all the statistics and measurements that show how the war was going well or not. he said they always manipulated them going up to the white house to make it look like things were going well. he said it was to, one, make the people in charge look good and, two, to make sure that popular support for the war didn't diminish. so, yes, they were lying and they were manipulating public opinion. >> robert gaetz who was the secretary of defense under bush said this in 2013. quote, the reality is that on 9/11, we didn't know jack -- about al qaeda. apologies for the language but i'm quoting a secretary of defense. did the intel improve more significantly after 9/11? >> i think the intel did improve. but the problem was there was a disconnect between what the intelligence agencies were saying and what the military commanders were saying in public. the intelligence agencies were very pessimistic about h

jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press, retired general barry mccaffery, former member of the national security council. and dr. nahid bhedalia in charge of infectious diseases and research. welcome back, all of you. dr. nahid, i would like to start with you. what did you make of these dual fda votes today colliding as they did with the policy and wishes of the biden white house from the president on down? >> brian, the question in front of the committee today was given the data on the safety advocacy, could you recommend for those who had pfizer a booster, a third dose. they said we cannot make that assumption because there's strong data that says in those who are older and those who now presented to those who have medical conditions, there is waning against both protection of infection and in severe disease. in those that are under that age group, you're not seeing that. it is not yet documented. you are seeing waning of infection but still protection against hospitalizations and deaths. then they considered, all right, if that's the case, what's the advantage of decreasing infections, the evidence t

house is doing a lot with the militia stuff. they appointed josh getser at the national security council to run this and have had extensive work beingworried about congress and the security there. i was just talking to just a college intern yesterday. i asked him, you know what was the most prizing thing about your internship over the summer and i thought he'd answer ben sass or something like that. he said a lack of security at the capitol. he said he can lack around there, go anywhere, they barely check his idea. this is eight months after january 6th. i'm very worried about that and what's going on in terms of security at the u.s. capitol and also state capitol buildings. >> i've heard that as well. neal katyal, susan, i'll see you at the top of the next hour so thanks for sticking with us. coming up, everybody, new backlash over gop governors fighting safety measures for student as the delta variant surges across the south. plus the biden justice department stepping up to protect women's rights after that anti-choice law in texas. we're going to explain. and later on, a big update on the criminal probe into the trump organizatio

house has promised that this would be a kinder, gentler, more humane approach to immigration. but as we've seen in recent days, that's not been the case, not nation sector general has told the security council, it must take action to stop the effects of climate change worsening conflicts. and tony, voters is warning that dwindling resources are likely to exacerbate tension, is in already unstable regions. and council members are running out of time to take measures to tackle or problems or window of opportunity to prevent the worst climate impacts is rapidly closing. no region is immune wildfires, flooding routes, and other city weather events affecting every continents. first, we need an ambiguous commitment and credible actions by all countries to limit the global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. i am all member states to show more ambition in their national contributions by cop 26 and to translate their commitments into concrete and immediate action. serene forces have entered several more villages around dara, bringing the country's southern region on the government control. it comes 2 weeks after president bashar la sad troops cap

at highest levels, both at the pentagon as well as in the white house, those close to the oval office, those on the national security council the president was increasingly as sources put it to me unhinged after the election. that he was obsessed with january 6th. he was also obsessed with that, that, he would have been proven to have won the election. there were a lot of discussions and there were meetings, particularly when it comes to iran about possible military action against iran. at that time i can tell you that then secretary of state mike pompeo and general milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs, they were involved in meetings in which they again tried to lower the temperature about any possible military strikes against iran and at the same time here at the pentagon there was concern about reassuring china because there was a lot of talk, not necessarily from the president, the president had not given this indication but people around the president had been quoted as suggesting that the u.s. should perhaps act during this time perhaps between the election and inauguration with regards to taiwan and the pentagon d

nationals were on board. the cutaways charter flight. the white house has welcomed their taliban corporation over the flight, calling it a positive 1st step from the new government. the un security council is meeting to debate the situation in afghanistan and how to extend the organizations operation that you and envoy address kind of san deborah lyons says the country could be set back for generations without economic help. there is an immediate and pressing need to deliver on a huge scale is central humanitarian aid. in areas such as health, food security, non food items and sanitation. and still, secondly, there is an additional looming crisis to which i must draw your attention. billions of assets and dollar and donor funds have been frozen by members of the international community. the understandable purpose is to not is to deny these funds to the de facto taliban administration. inevitable effect, however, will be a severe economic downturns that control many more millions into poverty and hunger. may generate a massive wave of refugees from afghanistan. and engage, setup, gather, stand back for generations. the us justice department is taking the state of texas to federal court o

immediately reached out to the state department and the national security council yesterday because these were very serious claims that the top republican on the houseee was making. we heard from the nsc was crickets. they did not respond to a request for comment, but the state department did issue this revealing statement, and i want to read that to you. it says, quote, we understand the concern that many people are feeling as they try to facilitate further charter and other passage out of afghanistan. however, we do not have personnel on the ground. we do not have air assets in the country. we do not control the air space, whether over afghanistan or anywhere else in the region. and poppy, this just really goes to underscore what a serious and difficult situation it is on the ground because we do not have u.s. forces on the ground. remember, that is what the whole withdrawal was about. and the fact that we are not able to get quick information about what's happening is one of the reasons why mccaul has serious questions. a group that is trying to get americans and afghan allies out of that country, they said that they have a group of people that i

nationals were on board the cutter. railways, charter flight. the white house has welcomed taliban corporation over the flight, calling it a positive 1st step from the new government. the un security council meeting to debate the situation in afghanistan and how to extend the organizations operation that you and envoy to kind of san deborah lyons says the country could be set back for generations without he can only help.

house reporter for the associated press. retired four star -- combat veteran in vietnam. former battlefield in the persian gulf. former member of the national security council. and doctor nahid but delia, back with us as well. infectious disease physician, founding director of boston university center for emerging and defections diseases, policy, and research. good evening and welcome back to the broadcast to all of. you doctor but delia, indeed, given the importance of public health tonight, i would like to start with you, what did you make of these dual fta votes today colliding as they did with the policy and wishes of the biden white house with the president on down? yeah brian, the question front of the committee today was given the data on vaccine efficacy, could you recommend those who had pfizer a booster. and the committee rightly said, based on the evidence that has been given to us, we cannot make that assumption. because there are strong data that says that in those who are older, and those who have medical conditions, there is oh waning of both protection against infection and severe disease. but in those who are under that age group, they are

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national security of this country. vice president dick cheney, was defense secretary during the gulf war, rumsfeld served during the -- and as white house chief of staff, condoleezza rice is the staff of the national security council, during a previous administration. back here in new york as you can see behind me, the billowing smoke, the continuing dust and debris from the collapse of the world trade center earlier today. and then trade center number seventh went down. the world trade center, one of the targets of the terrorist today is one of the most distinctive architectural edifices in the world. >> the world's largest commercial complex completed a 1976. an architectural marvel. it's details immense. a massive twinge structure, 110 stories tall, build of 610,000 feet of glass. 1350 feet tall. 43,000 windows. 99 elevators. and a home for 1200 businesses. businesses worth 50,000 people work. businesses that include commodities exchanges, investment firms, law firms, banks, restaurants, a hotel. government offices. at top an observation deck, the trade center could drop 90,000 additional visitors on a busy day. today, the twin towers, many of those inside gone. that's just one of the many reasons of course tha

nations security council had approved unanimously the trump dough hop lamb the exit plan that means china, russia and other countries signed off on the plan unclear why the secretary of state white houseout the 13 service members killed, watch this. >> marine corporal daegan page his family deserves to know if that is why they are missing their son because intelligence was manipulated. marine sgt nicole gee 23 years old, holding a young child her family deserves to know if that's why everything went wrong because intelligence was manipulated. david espinoza, just 20 years old, the family deserves to know if that's why everything went so wrong because the intelligence was manipulated. marine corps sgt giovanni mccarty a. they deserve to know if that's what went wrong because you manipulated the intelligence of what went wrong with the taliban. marine lance corporal dilemma rollo, he always had a smile, the kindest person, they deserve to know if that's why everything went so wrong because you manipulated intelligence. liz: he read all of the 13 troops names who were murdered, was intelligence manipulated by the white house. >> as i said i don't have inside information but either path t

you know, national security council staffers, whoever, talking to them on the street as we saw the smoke rise up from the pentagon. i remember sitting next to a pentagon from the white houseit was long before cellphones, long before cellphone video. i watched with her in black and white as the twin -- one of the towers fell. after that i remember being, you know, very alarmed. i went back to the bureau, and jill abramson, who was then our bureau chief, assembled us all downstairs in the conference and said to us, i will never forget what she said, this is what we do now. and she was right, for the next number of years that is what we did. >> mark mazzetti is with us now. i gave you credit for inspiring the segment. i was saying we were on the air when the war in afghanistan ended, when the pentagon announced that war ended. you made a comment about having been at the pentagon, covering the pentagon on 9/11. i wanted to take some time to ask you about that day and ask you about covering the pentagon in the days and weeks that followed. >> thanks for having me, nicolle. the four months earlier i was asked by my editor at u.s. news and world report whether i wanted to cover

security alejandro mayorkas admitting that thousands of those migrants were released into our country. it's bring in brandon chaidez, president of the national border patrol council. we heard that the white houseaking their way to the u.s. border, i'm wondering what was the white house's plan to deal with them when he arrived? >> they have no plan just like the last haitian crisis that we just faced. we knew those individuals were already working their way up to a southwest border and we knew that they were going to cross and we knew exactly where they were going to do it. yet, we had nothing in place to deal with it just like we don't have anything to deal with this new group that's coming up. we see large numbers of people across the board border every single day. the difference between the del rio situation is it allows the public to see pictures of what was going on. it painted a picture of the crisis that is at the border right now but when all those groups are dispersed throughout the entire is hopeless to border you just don't get that same picture for the american public. but now that we know what's going on, you would expect that the white house would have done something about it but