your fellow congressman peter meyer was on our program last hour.sident agreed with the taliban that u.s. forces would be out by. he doesn't think that extending that is possible or even good. -- even a good idea. >> let me say this, i don't necessarily agree with him. there's many of us, as a matter of fact, that are on a bill to try to push that. we've asked nancy pelosi to call us back in so we can vote to make sure we stay past that date. but the real problem is if you want to be able to defend that airbase, you don't let terrorists try to keep terrorists from coming in to and across the secondary line. what we need to do is make sure we have the troops out pushing back that line so the people that they have to come through are not terrorists, but american personnel. >> jon: you would be in favor of deploying more american forces to the hamid karzai airport in afghanistan, or are you talking about bagram airbase? >> now, bagram would be the best place, where we can take it back. first off, giving that up was a bad military mistake in the first p

>> as the member designated by representative peter meyer, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. meyer will vote yea on s.325. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. degette of colorado, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. degette will vote yes on on s. 325. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from utah seek recognition? >> as the member designated by representative doip curtis, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. curtis will vote yea on s. 325. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. newman of illinois, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. newman will vote yes on s. 325. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. hagedorn of minnesota, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform t

democrat seth moulton and republican peter meyer both military vets said they flew to kabul to conduct oversight of evacuation efforts but they did not give advanced notice to house leadership or the defense department triggering swift and fierce blowback. the pentagon calling their trip an unhelpful distraction. >> nick paton walsh is live in doha for us. and the president made an admission that would have been unthinkable a few weeks ago, completing the mission is dependent on cooperation from the taliban and you have new reporting this morning about whether they really are cooperating, don't you. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, look, important to point out it is an exceptionally chaotic situation around the airport right now even when the best of planning comes off. and it is quite clear that this is the final phase with the 31st of august deadline being stuck to. we have in a very tight window for the remaining desperate afghans to get on to the base. i understand some of that is occurring through kind of negotiated access with taliban who are running the southern side of the airport. r

also today, the white house, the military have two congressmen, military veterans both, peter meyer traveling secretly to kabul yesterday, taking up seats on a military aircraft for their return flight, what many call political grandstanding. on the coronavirus johnson & johnson supporting data for a booster shot eight months after the single-des vaccine, the vaccinations ramping up nationally with 6 million americans getting shots in arms in the last seven days. the delta variant continues to wreak havoc in communities across the country. nearly 1 million new u.s. covid cases in the last week and a 23% increase in deaths. also today the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection is submitting their first broad records request, giving agencies two weeks to produce materials, but we begin the hour with kelly o'donnell at the white house and courtney kube at the pentagon. they're wrapping up a briefing. give us the latest. >> they've been getting better every single day. the number of people that the military and these charter flights are able to get out of kabul every single d

. >> oren, we've learned of these two congressmen, seth moulton and peter meyer who right field at that to afghanistan. the pentagon said they had no idea about this. do we know if their presence affected the evacuation mission? >> certainly any time you have two u.s. lawmakers on the ground in kabul, it would require its own security effort, it's own logistics effort once they're on the ground and once the pentagon knows they're incoming so that pulls away from the core mission, which is not only the evacuation of afghans but security around the airport to make sure the evacuation can continue. did it do so in a large way? i think you can look at the numbers and say although it pulled from the effort and was a distraction, it didn't pull too much away from the evacuation effort. the number was not quite 21,600 from yesterday but not very far off those at all. >> okay. oren liebermann, nick paton walsh, kaitlin collins, thanks for the reporting. now let's get analysis. kimberly dozier is a columnist for "time" magazine. colonel cedric leighton is an air force veteran. and counterterrori

i'm asking michigan congressman peter meyer coming up he has seen the situation on the ground firsthands week. saving all americans house republicans are demanding more from president biden pushed back to afghanistan date past this tuesday and calling for speaker pelosi to bring back congress for a vote prevented u.s. troops from leaving until all americans have been rescued congressman kevin brady leading the charge you will hear from him coming up. markets and how they entered the week a new string of record highs the terrorist attack in afghanistan the jackson hole federal reserve meeting all among the catalyst joining me now chief investment strategist markley sheena, great to have you thank you for being here. >> thank you. maria: what's driving your investing right now the big event of the week was the jackson hole speech by federal reserve chair jay powell and we've all been wondering when the actual tapering will begin, how do you see the macro story and how does that play into the fence thinking in your view? >> importantly the macro story is very favorable even though were pro

the members of congress are molten and peter meyer. both of them are veterans of the u. s. military and well, their trip itself has been controversial. they have been highly critical of the by the administration said that their trip was necessary to conduct oversight. and what they say has been nothing short of the debacle in terms of this evacuation. both men have been highly critical saying that this is something that would have been entirely avoidable. there is no way they believe that all of the vulnerable app, as well as american citizens, can make it out by the august 31st deadline. and they continue to argue that this should be a deadline but is extended. but i can tell you the white house standing firm on this deadline of august 31st saying it is on pace to get everyone who needs to be out or wants to be out in time. still, the biden administration saying that there are contingency plans being drawn up by the pentagon. should the taliban not cooperate and allow for the safe passage of people from the causal airport? so the white house is continuing to stick to th

on as far as how many americans are still there but i did to bring this up again, representative peter meyer hit back at criticism of his couple trip. listen to this and we will discuss it on the other side. >> the program from the defense department, from the white house, the state department is frankly laughable. they've done everything they can to obstruct the situation and deny this reality and hide facts from the american people. >> reporter: republican and democrat flew over there and announced and they want to see what is going on the ground for themselves. it does seem we are getting mixed messages between what the administration says is happening in reports from people who are on the ground so they took a lot of heat for flying over there. he was on with bret baer last night to discuss why they did it but i will be curious to see who makes a trip over there. i will guess know at this point. jillian: you would hope yes because i feel you cannot speak intelligently on what is going on. you can see the pictures and you grasp what is going on, they stay out of touch with what they are d

yesterday two members of congress, congressman seth mole ton, a democrat, congressman peter meyer a republican, both combat veterans flew unannounced into the kabul airport into the middle of kabul evacuation stunning resource soldiers on the ground. >> how tough was it having them there? >> it was certainly, there was, certainly a pull-off of the kinds of mission west were trying to do to accommodate that visit. they certainly took time away from when we had been planning to do that day. reporter: these young soldiers and marines are serving as air traffic controllers around the clock at the airport in kabul. evacuation flights are launching every 45 minutes, a race against the august 31st deadline with only a few days remaining. yesterday 19,000 people were evacuated. over 80,000 since august 14th, including 4400 americans. president biden announced he would not move the august 31st deadline hours after the taliban said they would not allow the u.s. to extend it. roughly 5500 troops remain at the airport in kabul. there are dozens of armored vehicles and aircraft, including apache gunships.

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jillian: we're going to bring in peter meyer, an iraq war veteran, spent a year in afghanistan. thank you for joining us this morning. before we get your reaction, i want to take you to a clip, this was the president speaking about the possibility of a taliban takeover which at the point on july 8th, he doubted that was a possibility. listen. >> the afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped, as well-equipped as any arnie the world. the -- any army in the world. the likelihood that the taliban will overrun the country is unlikely. .>> jillian: i want to ask you, in your estimation, how did we get the u.s. troop withdrawal more wrong? what is more stunning, is it appearing to be the lack of execution for the withdrawal or what appears to be total surprise and shock at what happened within the biden administration? >> it's absolutely been a failure to appreciate what the situation on the ground is and how quickly it can change, the underlying assumption behind our planning. i think the asudgesz had been that we -- assumption had been that we would have six to nine months with the af

upon themselves to make a secret bipartisan trip to the kabul airport, see seth molten we, and peter meyer republican -- both iraq veterans, insists that they went there to conduct oversight on the evacuation. tonight, congressman meyer defended the visit expressing concerns that their trip likely we -- >> have not had the information that we need from the administration and that we needed to run and see for ourselves. we did not fly in on u.s. military aircraft. we did fly on a military plane out, to the encouragement of the individuals there. we waited for a plane with open seats to make sure that we didn't take away from individuals who needed. it >> speaker pelosi, as you imagine, less than pleased with these congressman warned other members to not make their own similar trips. meantime the house investigation into the january 6th insurrection and riot is getting momentum today. that select committee demanded a sweeping list of records and other information from a different executive branch agencies. including communications involving the former president as well as several of his asso

analysis from generals keith kellogg and jack keane, ari fleischer, congressman michael mccaul and peter meyer. a busy two hours ahead, join sandra smith and me for "america reports" at the top of the hour. >> emily: president obama's former secretary of education is getting slammed for comparing those who oppose masks or getting the covid vaccine to the terrorists who killed the 13 service members. suicide bombers at cobbles airport, anti-vax people here -- "they both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom." >> bret: this is crazy. this is over the top. it's a former education secretary getting to this point. rightfully so, he got bombarded on twitter after he put that tweet out. listen, across-the-board, public officials need to realize the moment. the moment right after 13 american marines and service members die defending america in the airport in kabul is not the moment to make the linkage he makes. it was pretty disgusting, and rightfully so, he was bombarded. >> emily: >> kayleigh: hard to compar a more disgusting compariso

maybe peter meyer of michigan could do the same. sort of shut up they are heroes.'t like white guys in beards. race doesn't have anything to do with this. take it off the table. a country deeply dedivided ours, divided ours. country refugees whether people from guatemala or haiti or any part of the world that might come here. how does that effect us? it's not only a fair question but it's the main question and never asked by anyone in charge? that tells you everything about how they feel. >> will: here is a great example of that by the way. exactly what order of priority do americans maintain and in most of these politicians mind? right now americans behind enemy lines in essence in afghanistan. and wendy sherman she stood up to the podium today. this is the first thing she said before she talked about, it was yesterday before she talked about americans or anybody else, this is the first thing she had to say. watch. >> before i take your questions, i want to speak to a situation that's very personal to me. ing [inaudible] could not flourish and prosper without the

take on something else we learned overnight, which is two members of congress, seth moulton and peter meyerade this unannounced trip to afghanistan to assess the situation on the ground. two veterans who say they want to go on a fact finding mission. it's sharply criticized by people in the administration, everything from unhelpful to basically outrageous. i wonder what your view of it is. >> reprehensible, sharply criticizes, too polite. look, the president of the united states who is responsible first and foremost for american national security said the situation is so dangerous that the u.s. military can't stay on. that we have to withdraw u.s. military. so two members of congress, without the support of their leadership decide they're going to bypass disneyland and stake an instagram trip to afghanistan because they want some eye candy for a bunch of constituents. if our nancy pelosi and kevin mccarthy, i would see this a chance for bipartisan ship. both those guys on their committees out. done. and by the way, ask them for the two seats they took out, for all their concerns about refug

i'm asking michigan congressman peter meyer coming up he has seen the situation on the ground firsthands week. saving all americans house republicans are demanding more from president biden pushed back to afghanistan date past this tuesday and calling for speaker pelosi to bring back congress for a vote prevented u.s. troops from leaving until all americans have been rescued congressman kevin brady leading the charge you will hear from him coming up. markets and how they entered the week a new string of record highs the terrorist attack in afghanistan the jackson hole federal reserve meeting all among the catalyst joining me now chief investment strategist markley sheena, great to have you thank you for being here. >> thank you. maria: what's driving your investing right now the big event of the week was the jackson hole speech by federal reserve chair jay powell and we've all been wondering when the actual tapering will begin, how do you see the macro story and how does that play into the fence thinking in your view? >> importantly the macro story is very favorable even though were pro

let's bring in republican michigan congressman peter meyers, member of the homeland security and foreignsman, thank you for joining us. first up, can nato or human rights groups do anything, or are they hamstrung? >> utterly hamstrung right now. right now the goal is to secure the airport, kabul international airport, where there are thousands or ten of thousands who are gathered awaiting an evacuation out of the country. the taliban control, essentially, all of afghanistan with the international military presence strictly at the airport as far as i understand. arthel: right now the airport is closed to commercial flights, so what's going to happen this. >> we need it to be reopened to commercial flights or drastically increase the amount of military flights ferrying not just american civilian,, but also afghan civilians who support the mission and other members of the international community. kabul is a powder keg. it's nighttime there. the next hours will be telling in terms of the future of afghanistan. arthel: what if the taliban forces u.s. military extractions not just of our peopl

that we were being lied to up and down and we needed to see for ourselves republican congressman peter meyer and democratic congressman seth moulton and secretly flew to kabul on tuesday. based on what they saw. they say it's unlikely every american and afghan ally will be able to get out by the end of the month especially since evacuation started so late both seth and myself have been actively engaged on what's called the special immigrant visa issue there have been tremendous backlog of these cases but many lawmakers are still hoping to push the exit date back the bipartisan house problem solvers caucus voted on a formal call on the bite administration. to extend the august 31st withdrawal deadline more than 75% of the caucus endorsed it. there's a lot of people that helped save americans lives in afghanistan and we should take care of them if we can the pentagon however says its priority on the last few days before august 31st will be flying out american troops and equipment commanders on the ground and power to make any adjustments as they see fit when they see fit. that includes changes

advantage and i trust his judgment tuesday to lawmakers congressman seth moulton a democrat and peter meyerrepublican made an unauthorized trip to kabul aimed at pressuring the president to extend the deadline but after talking with commanders and observing evacuations at the airport. two concluded in a joint statement we won't get everyone out on time, even by september 11 others agree. we're on the cusp of having the biggest mass hostage situation in american history it's going to make 1979 in tehran look like a sleepover in a dear colleague letter house speaker nancy pelosi urged lawmakers to avoid the region saying unnecessary trips divert resources from the current mission. this is deadly serious do not want members to go with the collapse of kabul roughly $6 billion in defense spending once dedicated to afghanistan is now considered up for grabs, although some of it is expected to go to counter terrorism. in washington lauren blanchard fox news many afghans say they know time is running out to escape from the taliban footage from outside the kabul airport shows crowds of people who ar

i want to bring in republican congressman peter meyer of michigan, a member of the foreign relations committee. thanks for joining us. i know you served in iraq, later worked in afghanistan for an ngo based in kandahar. you know the challenges there. but do you accept the argument from president biden that this wasn't a failure, this withdrawal, that the chaos we're seeing now was simply the price the u.s. had to pay in order to withdraw after 20 years of warfare there? >> i don't accept it. there certainly was never going to be a positive outcome. but we could have prevented it becoming this nightmare scenario. the thing that we really missed was in the mid to late july and early august the degree of local level negotiations, regional level negotiations between power brokers, between warlords and the taliban companions. everyone was looking for their own skin. and as a result, that moved up, accelerated greatly the taliban takeover and led us to being completely overwhelmed by the timeline. >> you've heard the breaking news. president biden now hinting that the u.s. could stay in af

advantage and i trust his judgment tuesday to lawmakers congressman seth moulton a democrat and peter meyermade an unauthorized trip to kabul aimed at pressuring the president to extend the deadline but after talking with commanders and observing evacuations at the airport. two concluded in a joint statement we won't get everyone out on time, even by september 11 others agree. we're on the cusp of having the biggest mass hostage situation in american history it's going to make 1979 in tehran look like a sleepover in a dear colleague letter house speaker nancy pelosi urged lawmakers to avoid the region saying unnecessary trips divert resources from the current mission. this is. deadly serious do not want members to go with the collapse of kabul roughly $6 billion in defense spending once dedicated to afghanistan is now considered up for grabs, although some of it is expected to go to counterterrorism. washington lauren blanchard, fox news president biden is looking for ways to collectively improve the nation's cybersecurity the president says he made it clear to russian president vladimir pu

i want to play for you what congressman peter meyer, a veteran who went to kabul last week, what he saidcially in the last two weeks, some of the best of our troops on the ground and the heroic way they're carrying out this mission and also seen some of the worst of american leadership. >> do you agree? >> i absolutely agree about the troops. the people who were over there doing this evacuation in dangerous conditions as you've seen are doing absolutely the bravest, most impossible job in the world and i'm very proud of them. as far as the overall picture goes, here is the deal. all these people are playing the blame game over what's happening right now because they want to distract us from the fact that we spent 20 years for absolutely nothing. the same people right now saying one more day, one more month, one more dollar, are the same people who said that for 20 years, and what we saw last week, what that means is one more marine. it means one more marine over and over again, it we reminds me of the saddest day you have my entire line, standing on the flight line helmand afghanistan wa

>> as the member designated by by representative peter meyer of michigan, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. meyer will vote yes. i inform the house that mr. curtis of utah will vote yes on motion to recommit on h.r. 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. cuellar pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. cuellar will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek rebg initiation? >> as the member designated by mr. emmer of the state of minnesota, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. emmer will vote yes on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by mr. diaz-balart, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. diaz-balart will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. timmons, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. timmons will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. steube pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. steube will vote yes on the

peter meyer and they were -- about the administration. >> explain to them i doesn't think they should. i think it creates a greater risk. you've got enough americans over there to be held hostage. they would make a point out after member of congress. reporter: house foreign affairs committee chairman greg meeks called the free-lancing selfish. meeks said the members were trying to get attention for themselves. neil? neil: you know, chad, we were just from jeh johnson the former homeland security secretary, the deadline, the august august 31st deadline could boomerang on us and put pressure on those at the kabul airport of something happening to them. it's a big target for those that wish us ill. he thought the administration might want to seriously consider pushing that deadline back. that seems seriously unlikely now, right? reporter: it cuts both ways. large coalition are saying extend the deadline. not impose a artificial deadline to get people out. this cuts two-ways the idea if you bought more time, said you were going to stay longer, even if you didn't say you were going to stay

joining me right now michigan congressman house foreign affairs homeland security committee member he peter meyerd. i found most committed heroic group of individuals i have seen in my entire life i served in iraq spent time in you afghanistan as conflict analyst for aid community a conflict i know well people impossible portion president's botched withdrawal put them there they are doing everything they can lifting heaven earth to get americans out loyal, allies out the reality is it is impossible, it is impossible by deadline the president moved up from september 11, taliban would have been happy with frankly impossible to do that just with the airport that we have, and our logistics as we have them right now. maria: i mean there are so many holes in this plan it is incredible. to put our troops and leave our troops in such harm's way, every american should be outraged by this, i mean first they close bagram air force base on july 5th on july 8th joe biden comes out says there is no way we are going to see anybody airlifted, out comeest in embassy in afghanistan no way it is exactly what happen

>> as the member designated by representative peter meyer, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. meyer will vote nay on the previous question. as the member designated by representative john curtis, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. curtis will vote nay on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. defazio of oregon, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes on ordering the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. duncan of south carolina, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. duncan will vote nay on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. deutch of florida, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr.

and wages as the new delta variant of covid spreads across the country joining me now, michelle meyer and peter quigley. thank you both so much for being here michelle, if you don't mind we're going to start things off with you a lot of data to unpack here unemployment helped slightly, huge gains for hospitality, 380,000 jobs education had big gains as well. we'll get to that in a minute. what does this mean for the markets and maybe for some people even more importantly the potential of tapering coming this year? >> well, i think it's just as steve suggested. it's a lot of relief for the market because they were so much focused on what was going to go wrong in the economy, wrong in the data a lot of the down side risks, and then the jobs report comes, which was, you know, really everything and more and i think longer on the jobs report, the strong overall, number of net positive revisions, low unemployment rate, increase across the board so, i think that market participants saw this as okay there's more fundamental stress in the economy we do need to be cognizant of the risks in the coming wee

let's bring in michigan republican representative peter meijer who serves on the house foreign affairs committee. congressman meyer is also an iraq war veteran and just returned from afghanistan. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. i want to talk about how this trip came to be. you traveled there with congressman seth moulton from massachusetts. how did it come to pass? >> thank you, bret. both seth and myself have been actively engaged on what's called the special immigrant visa issue. those were visas in a program for individuals who had loyally served the united states in places like iraq and afghanistan. there have been tremendous backlog of these cases and in april, when president biden announced that he was continuing the initial plan for withdrawal, that started under president trump. we urged the administration to address this backlog. we had to know what was going on on the ground in kabul. and we have not had information we need from the administration and realized that we were being lied to up and down and we needed to see for ourselves. >> bret: so, congressman moulton tweeted out today with