and whether the taliban can be trusted. >> jacqui heinrich joins us now.od afternoon. there's no update on whether any americans made it out since the forces with drew. the numbers we have heard is consistent, somewhere between 100 and 200 with the belief that the number is closer to 100. a big question that jen psaki did not have an answer to is how many green card holders and siv applicants remain in the country. it's also a question that senate republicans have been really pressing for an answer on. they wrote to the president with concerns that ineligible people were evacuated or people with no status with the u.s. the number that they heard of eligible people in the country has been varied. i asked jen psaki on that. she didn't have any numbers. there might be people that are eligible that they're not aware of yet and she said it's very hard to define those numbers. meanwhile, we're getting accounts of prepry -- reprisals. >> i want questions of whether or not the taliban is keeping their promise for amnesty. there's reports from the bbc since the tal

live from jen psaki questions from jacqui heinrich about general milley. what does happen going forward? interesting going back to your original point, marc, general milley concern under trump administration over escalation and here what happened with general milley under the current administration, she just said the claims are anonymous and unconfirmed. it's been eight months and president biden has confidence in milley's leadership. what happened with the botched afghanistan withdrawal was your point. >> exactly. there was wide reporting in september of last year, general milley and leadership pushed back hard on president trump, zero troops in afghanistan, he wanted troops out of afghanistan before he left office and they convinced president trump to leave force of 2500 troops. did general milley try to press president biden to leave 2500 troops? president biden says no one opposed his plan to withdraw everybody, general milley proposed under trump, did he not under president biden? did he advise biden not to bagram air base or the security of our troop

jacqui heinrich at the white house with more on that. jacqui? >> good afternoon to you, neil. one headline that is getting buried in all of this drama that we're seeing play out on the hill is that the price tag of this reconciliation deal has dropped significantly as -- because of all the talks that have been brokered through the white house over the last few days. it's no longer at the $3.5 trillion that they were initially looking at. it's now been in the low to mid $2 trillion range. of course that number is very fluid. details haven't been hashed out. nobody has agreed to anything concretely. important to note there that it's not $3.5. it's not 1.5 as of these conversations that have been happening this week. so there was a lot of noise from the memo from july that leaked. senator manchin sent that letter to chuck schumer and sent to the president and he couldn't guarantee anything above 1.5 trillion. and schumer handed the note and said i'll try to persuade joe. but knowing what we know, the discussions higher than 1.5, lower than 3.5, somewhere in the $2 trillion area.

welcome to "america reports." >> i am jacqui heinrich in for sandra smith.here gabby is. glass template what does anyone saw gabby was august 24th. she checked out days

jacqui heinrich is doing great reporting on this story throughout, and she joins us live from the white house. >> good morning. the president has always cast this withdrawal is a binary choice, either get everybody out or add thousands and thousands more troops. he also told abc back in august that none of his military advisors recommended leaving 2500 troops on the ground to maintain stability, but leaks from the classified hearing suggested that statement may not be true. two sources and adhering to tell fox come at the former commander of u.s. troops in afghanistan general scott miller advanced comic advised against the full withdrawal and pass the recommendations in the chain of command that 2500 groups should remain on the ground. at miller's field was troops should maintain a holding pattern potentially supplemented by additional forces from allied nations making clear that he didn't know what the end of timeline would be. he strongly dissented with the intelligence assessment that afghanistan withdrawn from out the taliban and 1-3 years, he believed it would go much faster. mille

join jacqui heinrich and me at the top of the hour for america reports. its opening game with "lift every voice and sing" often referred to as a black national anthem. the league plans to play it during certain games are of the season but omar says it's a divisive trend we are seeing. >> maybe we should get rid of our national anthem but i think we should have won national anthem. i think when you go down the road where you have two different national anthems, colleges sometimes know how, many of them have different graduation ceremonies for black-and-white. separate dorms, and this is what i mean. segregation. inverted the idea. we are going back to that, under a different name. >> harris: bill marr has had a lot to say here recently. look. we have one flag. we don't have a black flag. we have one national anthem. lift every voice and sing came from a time when this country was struggling with civil rights, it's a beautiful song and it represents overcoming and moving forward and change. and we should never forget that. but, we have one national anthem.

white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has that part of the story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jackie. >> good evening, bret. that's right, the biden administration is lining up immigration cases faster than the courts can process them. right now there is a backlog of 1.3 million cases and the average case takes about two and a half years to complete, that is double since just last year. now, as another grouch migrants is making its way to the u.s. southern border, the biden white house is not shifting gears. >> mixed messages from the biden administration. the 12,000 haitians released into the u.s. after illegally crossing is an appropriate figure. >> the numbers that are placed in immigration court proceedings have a function of, um, our operational capacity, um, and, also what we consider to be appropriate. >> but more shouldn't come for the same treatment. >> they should not take, um, the journey. >> the white house says this is not a problem unique to president biden. >> until we have an asylum processing system that works at the border, we are going to cont

jacqui heinrich at the white house on this back and forth and whether we should or will be talking toard some new sound on that from the state department and the pentagon this afternoon. meantime at the white house, there's new polling posing a challenge for the president. the polls from "the washington post" and abc show the majority of americans believe the president bears some blame for the isis suicide attack that killed 13 u.s. service members and up to 170 afghan nationals. democrats, members of the president's own party are among the people calling for investigations and despite hearing from antony blinken, we have not been told whether any more americans have made it out of the country. they didn't outright say none have made it out. they said we're in touch with people but they haven't given us an update that anyone has made it out. we also don't have numbers on how many green card holders and afghan refugees that want to get out of the country remain. we're hearing more and more reports of the taliban killing afghans that helped the united states going back on their promise

the latest from jacqui heinrich at the white house. >> good afternoon, neil. president biden said nobody knew how quickly the afghan government would collapse. he said nobody knew how fast the taliban would take over. according to a report from reuters, president biden acknowledgele that it appears the taliban takeover was imminent. he told the afghan president that i need not tell you about the perception around the world that things are not going well in terms of the fight against taliban. there's a need whether it's true or not to project a different picture. i asked jen psaki about this in the briefing. listen. >> was the president in any way pushing a false narrative in that call with the afghan president? >> it's clear. i'm not going to go into details of a private conversation. what we saw over the last few months is a collapse in leadership. that was happening even before ghani left the country. the president has conveyed privately and publicly that you need to stand up and lead your country. that's something that he said in july in a public forum as w

elizabeth: jacqui heinrich, thank you so much. great reporting there.s good to see you, thanks for joining us. with us now, tennessee senator marsha blackburn of senate armed services and retired lieutenant colonel daniel davis. he deployed to afghanistan twice. it's great to have you both on. first to you, senator. given what jacqui heinrich was just reporting, how exactly will the president rescue americans behind terror lines and hunt down those who killed 13 u.s. troops? is it just cruise missile diplomacy? what's he going to do? >> we're very concerned about that because they do not have a plan. we found out that they did not have a plan for how they were going to handle this withdrawal. that is why you have had such chaos and such confusion. and it is why many of us in the senate are demanding to know what those answers will be. our office has had 2,000 cases that we have been working on to help americans, tennesseans, to help our siv holders and siv applicants out of the country. these are people that have been vetted or were in the process of be

>> bret: jacqui heinrich on the north lawn, thank you.assachusetts democratic senator elizabeth warren will not support the renomination of jerome paul second term of federal reserve chairman. >> your record gives me grave concern. over and over. you have acted to make our banking system less safe and that makes you a dangerous man to head up the fed and it's why i will oppose your renomination. >> senator warren sights powell's record and restrictions on the industry in recent years. stocks plunged today amid concerns about inflation, a drop in consumer confidence and rise in treasury yields. the dow lost 569. it's now on pace for its worst month since october. of the s&p 500 fell 90. it's worst day since may. the nasdaq dropped 423. meantime, your gasoline prices are rising. the latest aaa average is $3.19 a gallon. the price of crude oil topped $80 a barrel a day first time in three years. jen psaki says the administration is staying in communication with opec and looking at evidence tool to address the cost of oil. cost of natural gas

>> bret: jacqui heinrich in the white house briefing room. thanks.rug administration commissioner dr. scott gottlieb says there have been many failures in the u.s. government's covid response. >> what do you think the biggest mistake was during this entire covid situation? >> well, i think there is a lot of focus on the political narrative, whether or not there were political mistakes made and certainly political standpoint when people don't focus as much on is more systemic features of government where we had failures in the structure of the response. one of the biggest failures in the structure of the response in my my view we turned too touch cdc and had this misperception that cdc had operational capacity to actually mount a response to a public health crisis of this magnitude when they never had that capability. >> bret: gottlieb is the author of the new book "uncontrolled spread" why covid-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next page. let's bring in cdc director dr. rochelle walensky. dr. walensky, thanks for being here. you just heard sco

>> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. thank you. let's bring in brit hume to discuss what we are learning about president biden during this crisis. good evening, brit. for 30,000 feet here, what do you think this says about president biden, his leadership, and where it goes from here? >> >> well, bret, i think people have to begin now to assess whether this president was the man, the president they thought he was and would be after all this was the seasoned foreign policy expert, former chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, a post he held twice. the kind of man they believed, i think, would not make serious foreign policy mistakes. and, yet, this is the first big foreign policy issue of his presidency, the first big crisis, and the condemnation of it has been virtually unanimous across the board, including many democrats. not to mention that it has gotten a level of criticism from the mainstream media one rarely sees directed at a democratic president. not to mention the fact that the public can see with its own eyes a

>> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn, thanks. arizona is suing the biden administration over the sweeping vaccine mandates that affect federal employees and private businesses with more than 100 employees. that also includes, obviously, weekly testing for that mandate. it is the first lawsuit against the policy that republicans have slammed as an example of federal overreach. this lawsuit notes that there is no such mandate for immigrants at the southern border. the lawsuit also states the rule violates the equal protection clause by allegedly favoring migrants who have come into the country illegally over american citizens there will likely be more states to file in days ahead. facebook has a system that exempts high profile users from some or all of its rules. that is according to the story a in the "wall street journal" it cites company documents alleging the program shields millions of vich users from the site's normal enforcement process. ceo mark zuckerberg has publicly said the company allows all users to speak on equal fo

sandra. >> jacqui heinrich, see you in a bit. white house briefing has been pushed back to 2:30. >> john: bring in mark teson now. when you look at bernie sanders, he is actively campaigning against this bipartisan infrastructure bill saying pass the build back better bill. he tweeted, i strongly urge house colleagues to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the build back better f. progressive wing kills this bipartisan bill, could the president be left with nothing? >> that is quite real possibility, quite a day on capitol hill for president biden. house armed services committee grilling him and other end of the gap, domestic agenda is imploding in the worst debacle of his presidency. we had self-inflicted crisis at the border and in afghanistan. he needs a win. smart move, you have bipartisan infrastructure bill pass with overwhelming bipartisan support in sant, put on the president's list, let him have a signing ceremony, has the white house ever needd that more than now? the left is holding the bipartisan bill hos

earlier today jacqui heinrich asked a professor, this mission might persuade the feds to give the civilian astronaut we. >> i know they play games because they are not official group so they changed the wording, they have to be a crewmember. i think it's a little silly to give it to them. they flew 100 miles above the space station. they have the right to be an astronaut personally. >> returning to earth can be quite a process so we will keep you updated on that as it happens. benjamin: thank you and again, welcome to the fox family. move over, tennessee. manhattan's over a century, open for business. you can get 90 proof rye whiskey, 500-gallon and still the fda 28000 square-foot in the cocktail bar restaurant and speakeasy. i'm not about you but i would have thought whiskey comes from scotland. >> you are right, technically but come on, new york can do anything new york wants to do. [laughter] we have to go for now. we'll be back tomorrow at noon eastern. join us then. have a good evening, everyone. ♪♪ hello, i am raymond along with marley, tyrus and tammy. welcome to the big salary show

jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich. charles, from north port, florida, let's start with you. hello. >> hi, jacqui. this is a double missing person's case and now brian laundrie is now missing and hasn't been seen by his family in days. north port police department just posted to twitter a short time ago that multiple officers and the fbi are currently conducting a search of the vast carlton preserve for brian laundrie. and his family says they believe he entered the area earlier this week. on friday, north port police showed up to the laundrie residence and they spoke to the family at their own request for the first time since gabby petito was reported missing by her family. and by that encounter, the family told they had not seen or spoken to brian since tuesday, but didn't say whether or not the family knew anything about the disappearance of gabby petito. >> it's not that you're not helping anymore, it's hindering investigations. you're using up people's resources and time and it's been beyond days that you could have talked. >> now, the petito family released a statement t

jacqui heinrich has more from the white house. jacqui? >> for the second day in a row, the white house insisted that what the president told abc last month that none of his advisers recommended keeping 2,500 troops in afghanistan is not being contradicted by his own generals, testifying underneath on capitol hill. >> i don't think we need to dumb this down for people. it's an important issue. what we're talking about here is an initial recommendation in the short initial period of time of having a troop presence that would continue. >> the president answered that point blank question from abc with a point blank answer. >> your top military advisers warned you from withdrawing. they wanted to keep 2,500 troops. >> no. it was split. that wasn't true. >> the transcript of that interview did not indicate that there was any additional context that we were missing from that, even though that's what the white house appears to be claiming today. >> i think it's important to understand the context here, too. obviously we know more now than we knew

let's go to jacqui heinrich on the significance of all of that. jacqui? >> hi, neil.to you. the former president defending his v.p.'s handling of the border crisis passing blame to the gop for blocking comprehensive immigration reform. cut from that interview and appearing only in the article online was president obama saying "we're a nation state." we have borders. the open that we can have borders is something as a practical matter is unsustainable. little reaction from the biden white house. >> does biden agree with president obama that open borders are unsustainable? >> we don't have borders. yes, he agrees. >> republicans say the numbers speak for themselves. >> the largest month on record for illegals crossings when 212,000 illegal migrants encounters on our border. >> up to 20,000 more migrants are now making their way from southern mexico up to the u.s. border. the white house says they're using paid media to tell migrants their message not to come and continuing to claim that the thousands that have been released into the u.s. waiting for their claims to be h

jacqui heinrich is there with more. jacqui what is going on here? >> hi, neil.'re referring to this politco report. they spoke to two anonymous white house sources. one person telling politco that they were appalled and horrified that the american government left americans behind enemy lines. another person saying they didn't concern the mission accomplished if americans were left behind. fresh out of the briefing, still no update on whether any more americans have made it out since the troops with drew. the numbers we heard over the last few days have remained consistent with 100 and 200 people and the number closer to 100. the question that jen psaki didn't have an answer to is how many green holders and siv card holders were left behind. the pentagon said that ineligible individuals were evacuated, including people with no pending application or status with the u.s. and that that number of eligible people remaining behind is varied. i asked the press secretary about, this jen psaki did not have any number of green card holders and siv applications remain. let

jacqui heinrich. >> that's right. more americans are flying and the unruly passenger with covid-19.s. wearing mavengs makes some people angry. complaints on the rise. faa logged 4300 unruly passengers since january.angry. complaints on the rise. faa logged 4300 unruly passengers since january. delta has 1600 people on its no-fly list but they want a national no-fly list. delta said a house hearing on rage in the skies is a starting point. listen to an airline worker. >> we are the target for all kinds of frustration. every day flight attendants are disrespected for the job we are trained to do. our colleagues are anxious and fearful. >> of course, opponents argue it's all gone way too far. what constitutes unruly behavior per se? having rules and regulations it seems reasonable, but context matters as well. >> neil: thank you. we are still awaiting word on capitol hill whether they will vote on that lean, mean infrastructure only package. i say lean and mean. only these days can a trillion dollars be deemed as such. i wonder what conservative thinker george wills thinks. i will ask

jacqui heinrich is at the white house with more. >> the numbers speak for themselves.30,000 migrants encounters in the del rio sector in the last 2 1/2 weeks, only 2,000 were expelled via flights. another 12,000 are in the process of having the cases heard by judges, a process that is taking 2 1/2 years, by the way. another 5,000 might enter that process. the white house did not acknowledge that this message of deterrence that they continued to put out of do not coming, the border is closed is failing. they called it a cycle that we've seen over republican and democratic presidencies and even as we're tracking another group of 20,000 migrants expected to reach the southern border within the next month, the white house said it's on congress, they need to take action on the president's immigration bill which has gone nowhere since he introduced it. >> you're saying that this can't move is because there's not enough border security provisions in it. is the president going to bolster border security in order to pass immigration reform? >> if republicans will have a convers

jacqui heinrich., the prime minister, of course, talked -- the president, of course, talked of a stalemate yesterday, so it was not quite the happy talk we were hearing from those on capitol hill on where this is going. lucas tomlinson with the latest from the white house. lucas? >> reporter: neil, president biden says this massive $3.5 trillion spending bill, the largest in history, will cost nothing. >> it's all paid for. it's all paid for. but a lot of these are flat tax cuts that exist within my proposal. and they're being calculated as if the cost of the childcare tax crept is a cost to the government -- credit is a cost to the government. it's not. it's the reducing taxes, reducing taxes, not increasing taxes. >> reporter: biden says the massive spending plan will be paid for through tax hikes on wealthy americans along with corporations too. increased spending on health care, climate, education, other social safety nets is worth the high cost. republicans and budget hawks are worried about infl

jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich. we're starting with jeff in del rio. what are you seeing? >> a few seconds e saw a family cross the rio grande here and basically intercepted by texas dps out here who will and them off to border patrol to be processed, but it's a stark contrast to what we saw just a week ago. nothing compared to that, that's when we saw thousands upon thousands of mostly haitian nationals crossing the bridge and camped out for several days, building makeshift tents, as they figured out what the next step was, that camp has now been cleared out, but as far as for the estimated 30,000 who crossed the border near del rio in the past two weeks, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas says so far 2000 have been flown back to haiti and 5,000 could be held and released and another 8,000 they say went back to mexico, but he says, assuming they will all show up, 12,400 will have their cases heard by an immigration judge. >> some have been returned to haiti, indeed. others have been moved to different processing facilities along the border in light of operatio

. >> john: we will jump out of the white house briefing after questions from jacqui heinrich there onperfect jumping off point for our next guest. let's bring in republican senator joni ernst of iowa. senator, welcome to the studio. you are our first in person guest, which we really, really appreciate. we've heard a lot from to government officials so i don't want to bring in this long sound from chris wallace and alejandro mayorkas over the weekend but he suggested, mayorkas did come up that at least 12,000 of these migrants down in del rio have been released into the united states. what's your reaction to that? >> we do have patients being released into the united states. will they return for a court hearing? we do know that there are another 20,000 plus that are in columbia, and until this administration secures the border. >> cyclical challenges is the way jen psaki labels the crisis and catastrophe at our southern border. obviously that comes on this the hills and that surgeons at the border. we know the numbers speak for themselves, and you think they will ignoring but not prope

." >> i am jacqui heinrich in for sandra smith. gabby's family pleading -- pleading to tell them where gabby is. glass template what does anyone saw gabby was august 24th. she checked out days before this. police found a newlywed couple shot to death at the camp ground. it at the same location where they got into a fight. >> a witness his calling police to report a possible domestic violence incident. the encounter seen here on body cam footage. >> kim foxx coverage now. laura ingle has been talking. >> are jonathan serrie kicks things off where people are anxiously awaiting to see if brian laundry will ever emerge from his home. jonathan? >> reporter: no public statements coming out of brian laundry or his parents. the man who called 911 from moab you talk to report that keith witnessed gabby fighting with her fiancÉ brian in the parking lot of that? restore, officers determined the argument was more of a mental health issue than domestic violence. they do not proceed with criminal charges but require the coupled to separate for t

jacqui heinrich is inside the briefing room as we wait for it to begin the and i'm a lot of questions and that reconciliation bill. >> you can say that again. there was so much noise this morning after that memo was leaked from senator manchin, sent to chuck schumer over the summer and also presented to the president this week saying that he would support a 1.5 trillion reconciliation package but couldn't guarantee his support for anything else than that. he set i will try to dissuade joe on any of these things. but to cut through the noise, i can confirm with multiple sources that the reconciliation price tag that's been discussed this week is no longer $3.5 trillion. it's also not as low as the 1.5 and that's all very fluid, with a range that's being discussed this week with them the low and made it to train dollar area. discussions are still ongoing including over the specific topline amount and no agreements have been reached from senator manchin kyrsten sinema on what amounts will be acceptable. we are safely out of that $3 trillion range and as of yesterday one progressive sourc

let's go to jacqui heinrich that joins us with more. hi, jacqui. >> hi, martha.g shows a majority of americans believe that the isis attack was not warranted. the members of the president's own party are calling for investigations. the democratic chairman of the senate intelligence and armed services committees and house foreign affairs committee are all asking for answers and house and senate republicans have their own questions for the president. >> we left the vast majority of loyal afghans that served alongside of our american troops there in country. even if they had a visa approved. apparently we evacuated tens of thousands of afghans that had no clear or direct connection to american troops and who we have no idea who they are or ability to vet. >> yesterday press secretary jen psaki said 77% of the evacuees were at risk afghans. alejandro mayorkas did not answer today whether any of them had been flaked in the vetting process. despite antony blinken speaking this hours, we're not clear if any more americans have made it out or how many green card holders

. >> jacqui: i am jacqui heinrich in for sandra smith. secretary of state antony blinken faced a tough -- facing tough questions before congress. lawmakers expecting to demand answers about the death of 13 service members in kabul and how the afghan government fell apart in ten days despite president biden singing collapses unlikely. >> john: there's been no new information from the state department on american stranded in afghanistan. as far as we know, the taliban still refusing to allow planes ready to evacuate americans from taking off. >> jacqui: florida congressman standing by. you will have a chance to question blinken. first, to congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. >> hi, jacqui. good afternoon. we could expect some fireworks today during the hearing. ranking member michael mccaul told me he is ready to hold blinken's feet to the fire that he will be bringing up prior previous testimony to this hearing. secretary of state is set to appear virtually in front of the house foreign affairs committee at 2:00 this afternoon. you w

someone other than fox news would want to ask her about that tweet in the briefing, but only fox's jacqui heinrichript. look at what is being asked, ed o'keefe from cbs. he has had two softballs in the last seven days. speaker were you affected by this at all? >> no, the state was affected. lines were overflowed. >> how is his mood? how is he dealing with the incoming information? how was he in asking the questions of military commanders? >> anyone who has watched the president up close, which is most of you, knows that putting the lives of servicemen and women at risk, those decisions that you have to make as commander in chief weigh heavily on him. >> kayleigh: come on, ed. "how is he doing in afghanistan," as he is leaving afghanistan behind? how is he doing as americans are -- >> emily: it is disheartening, especially because the time that we have to ask questions of our commander in chief is so limited, if at all. the fact that these "journalists." are asking these questions, which sure, they have merit on their own, but when we are dealing with so many other pressing, emergent issues that ra

jacqui heinrich has more. >> good afternoon, neil. the president met with ceos and company presidents representing more than 200 major businesses that are really pushing these vaccine requirements. their argument being that vaccine mandates are good for the economy with fewer people that are stick at home, unable to work and fewer people sick and dying. the president said the labor department is working on emergency rules that would require all employers with 100 or more workers to ensure that their employees are vaccinated and regularly tested, including new requirements for nearly all healthcare workers to get vaccinated. listen. >> these vaccination requirements will cover 100 million workers. 2/3s of all workers and builds on previous requirements that we've installed so far. the vaccine requirements work. >> the biden administration is encouraging local leaders to mandate vaccine, it's being met with pushed back in texas and arizona. arizona's attorney general says the white house's push is inappropriate pointing out that migrant

but we begin on the north lawn of white house correspondent jacqui heinrich and what jen psaki calls precarious and important time. precarious, jackie, may be the word. good evening. >> no kidding. good evening, bret, to you. here at the white house, the president and the democratic leaders of both chambers have been huddling there have been talks over the last few days with the warring wings of the party trying to stakeout a middle ground. both sides are putting out statements indicating that they are dug. in but, privately, everyone knows the $3.5 trillion bill is shrinking. >> with his multi-million-dollar spending plan on the brink and legacy on the line. the president canceled his trip to chicago to talk m. vaccine mandates staying in washington to try to bridge the divide within his own party. >> we knew part of this would be potentially coming down in numbers. >> after back-to-back white house meetings tuesday with senate holdouts on the $3.5 trillion social spending plan, house progressives have started talking about a different number. >> one source told me that anything les

jacqui heinrich tried to get answers from press secretary jen psaki. take a look. >> was the president in any way pushing a false narrative in that call? >> i think it's clear. i'm not going to go into details of a private conversation. what we saw over the course of the last few months is a collapse in leadership. that was happening even before ghani left the country. >> but remember, jen psaki was very outspoken in 2019 when she demanded more information on then president trump's call with the ukrainian president. she said "it's not just the call transcript, the whistle-blower complaint would likely add more details. we need booth and not just the call." let's bring in the "outnumbered" panel, mollie hemmingway and iraq war veteran, john james. there's one word, hypocrisy. >> that is the word that you meant. you don't have to know that. this is blatant hypocrisy. last time i checked, it's the american public that pay this president's salary. we should demand a refund. not surprisingly, we'll see a media that will be complicit in this. they will not h

white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight life on the north lawn. good evening, jackie. >> good evening, bret. on the third day since the troop withdrawal no answer on whether any more americans have made it out of afghanistan or how many green card holders or siv applicants remain. the white house is directing those questions to other departments and there a distinct feeling president biden is trying to move on from afghanistan to his domestic agenda. >> there is a lot of damage. >> president biden addressed the nation about storm recovery but gave no update on afghanistan and took no questions from reporters as more than 100 americans and countless at risk afghans who helped the u.s. in the 20-year war remain behind enemy lines. >> there are people who are eligible, we may not each know they're eligible yet, right? it is hard to define those numbers. >> meanwhile, accounts of reprisals, those afghans face, are getting more dire. >> this person said they killed 1 members of special forces in kandahar, 3 soldiers in gilad bad as well. the taliban to

earlier today, our jacqui heinrich asked aerospace engineering professor if this mission might persuadeofficial astronaut wings. >> i know they are planning some semantical games because they are not official crew. so they changed the wording to say you have to be a crewmember to get your astronaut wings. i think it's a little silly. i think just give it to them. they flew 100 miles above the space station. i think that earns them the right to have their astronaut wings personally. >> the civilian crew went through seven months of training prior to this mission, which in a few minutes will come completely full circle. jon? >> jon: thank you, alexandria. we will see you shortly as part of our special coverage for the splashdown again expected to happen about 10 minutes from now. we will be right back. this is wealth. ♪ ♪ this is worth. that takes wealth. but this is worth. and that - that's actually worth more than you think. don't open that. wealth is important, and we can help you build it. but it's what you do with it, that makes life worth living. principal. for all it's worth. in 20

white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has details. >> leaked from a classified hearing on the hill tuesday, further make the case president biden rebuffed his commanders and pressed on with a full afghanistan withdrawal against military advice. >> he did say that it's all right to acknowledge that he opposed the effort that took place. >> two sources in hearing tell fox the former commander of u.s. troops in afghanistan general austin scott miller passed his recognition through the chain of command that 2500 troops should remain on the ground to maintain stability given the taliban threat assessment. miller's view with troops should maintain a holding pattern, potentially supplemented by additional forces from allied nations. giving no recommendation on how long they should stay and making clear he didn't know what the end timeline would be. but he strongly dissented with the intelligence belief afghanistan would fall to the taliban in one to three years. miller saying it would go much, much faster. >> he did not tell the president of that because the president wasn't there. >> fox

. >> bret: jacqui heinrich lyon the north lawn, thank you. stocks were mixed today the dow lost 63. the s&p 500 was down 7. the nasdaq gained 20. up next, the story of a missing woman that is gripping the nation and her boyfriend is named a person of interest. we'll bring to you that story. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 10 in phoenix crews searching for a missing man at grand canyon national park make an unexpected discovery. they find the remains of another person who authorities believe was last seen at the park in 2015. the medical examiner's office is working to confirm the identity of those remains. fox 45 in baltimore as a former school principal says she believes there is an organized effort to push kids through the system at any cost. even if it means enrolling them in classes that do not exist. an investigation into one west baltimore high school revealed grades were improperly changed while upwards of 100 students had questionable enrollment status. and this is a live look at los angeles from our affiliate fox 1

this is what jacqui heinrich was asking about, general.s asked specifically did anybody advise you to leave 2,500 troops on the ground in order to keep the situation stable so that the taliban couldn't overrun afghanistan. here's what he said. here they've exchange. >> military advisers say no, we should keep 2,500 troops. it's been a stable situation the last several years. we can do that, continue to do that. >> no, no one said that to me that i can recall. >> martha: okay. classified briefing with general known has scottie miller on the ground, very well-respected commander on the ground in afghanistan, he claims he told him exactly that. how is it the president doesn't recall that, general? >> yeah, martha, thanks for having me. that story doesn't age well. i know scott miller very well. how that -- everybody agreed to it. scott miller agreed to it. mackenzie agreed to it, mark milley agreed to it. gina haspell agreed to it. we had over 3,000 paramilitary support. we kept the air power and bagram air place. that was the agreement in pl

but jacqui heinrich reports that mark milley recommended he do that and we heard from the new woodardoyd austin. the president ignored them all and forgot about it, steve. >> that's right. we said this for weeks. he keeps trying to blame everyone else for the catastrophe: ex-president trump and the afghans who stayed behind. from the beginning he had one idea to get out by the deadline when he set for september 11th. it was all vanity. he wanted that moment to say i was the one that ended the forever war. that's what drove this. the narcissism of biden overruling everyone that pointed out what a disaster it would be. it goes to something that is at the heart of all these crises for biden. what i have observed the most dangerous politicians, the machine politicians. they don't believe in anything. they have no principles to fall back on in a crisis. it's about climbing up the ladder. doing what is best for your own career. biden is the ultimate machine politician. he's been around for 50 years. been on both sides of every argument and doesn't believe in anything. it all falls apart. >>

. >> john: jacqui heinrich asking questions of press secretary jen psaki.ting terrorism given reports from the bbc that the taliban is carrying out executions. former national security advisor for former vice-president mike pence keith kellogg. mark milley said we may need to partner with the taliban to go after isis-k. is this a case that the enemy of my enemy is my friend? >> yes, john, thanks for having me. to you and sandra. we have an option. we will have to work with the taliban. they won and we lost. after 20 years they now own the country. what is important to understand and this is important for me to say. that's not a result of the great work that our young men and rem in uniform did over the last 20 years.women in uniform did over last 20 years. yesterday and weeks before that the president stood in front of the american people and said that all of his decisions were unanimous. that's the reason why i have been so strong on accountability going forward. look, we made the decision to leave 10% of the americans behind. we made the decision to not e

. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich, thank you.ak to charlie, let's get you to talk about this phone call between >> john: charlie, let's get you to talk about this phone call between president biden and then-president ghani. "things are not going well against the fight with the taliban. there is a need whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture. "shades of vietnam, charlie. >> no kidding. and shades of the pentagon papers that came out ten years ago revealing just what a disaster the effort in afghanistan was back then. honestly, let's remember it wasn't that long ago that the president had been impeached over far less than this. we bring it back domestically in terms of the politics here in the united states, this is one of the things that puts enormous pressure on democrats right now. my goodness, if republicans were in control of either chamber of congress, we are talking about a very fruitful ground for devastating, devastating hearings into this whole thing. that particular phone call would be c

pete: so jacqui heinrich was in the white house press briefing room and asked jen psaki about the factoned, general miller made this recommendation, what does the white house have to say about it? listen. >> the president told abc back in august that none of his advisers recommended leaving 2500 troops in afghanistan. general miller told the senate armed services committee that that is exactly what he recommended. was the president's answer in that interview an honest answer? >> first of all, i'm not going to get into details of private advice that the president gets from his national security team or military advisers. what is clear is that the president asked for, welcomed candid nonsugar coated advice on afghanistan and what we should do given what we walked into. steve: what she continued to say was, you know, the president gets all sorts of opinions and then he is the decider. but, that's not exactly what the president said. the president said all my guys are on the same page with me. not true. ainsley: that's right. pete: the word from day one on the white house on this and they