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taylor hoover's mother at one point saying she feels her son left thinking command cared nothing for him. what was your reaction to what you just heard in the room there, general? >> yeah, sandra, first of all, thanks for having me and thanks for fox for carrying this. i think it's really important for the american people to see what you saw today because what you saw was a raw emotion. this is what i saw when i went up with the president and vice president for the dignified transfers at dover air base, when you walk in there when the remains would come off the aircraft and you would go talk to the families inside the holding area, and they would talk like you heard them today and think of the rawness and how that started with just within hours of their loved ones dying and i used to -- it just, not to just -- it breaks your heart but hits you right in the gut and this is one of those i tell the american people, look, this is why every night you should get down and pray and thank god that we have great men and women who serve in our armed services and we have families willing to give

that describes who they are. >> nicole was an encourager loved life. >> staff sergeant gerren taylor hoover. fearless leader and great protector. >> taylor, taylor hoover. champion of the people. lover of humans. >> seth sergeant ryan christian canel. brave, influencer. full of joy. >> hunter lopez. united states marine corps corporal. noble, marine, or your. >> hunter lopez. jedi worrier. >> fence corporal marla. lovable, strong marine. honorable. >> kareem, born-again christian. >> dagan page. huge heart, tough outer shell. >> corporal sanchez. he was a great defender. >> lance corporal jared schmitz. passionate warrior, honorable. >> jared marcus was humble and dedicated. >> i thank you, i yield back. >> are next speaker is a veteran of the vietnam war. this will not be another vietnam. we will not see helicopters flying on top of the embassy. yet, that is exactly what we saw. i would submit, it was worse than vietnam. >> thank you. i really appreciate having this opportunity for all of you to be here and share your very compelling stories. for whatever is -- for whatever is worth, paula

i'm the father of marine corps staff sergeant darin taylor hoover.d different middle names, he's a self-made man, man to himself, that left a hole in our families when he was taken from us by terrorists. he's left behind some pretty big shoes to fill and if i'm being honest with you and with myself they will never be filled. not for lack of trying, as we strive every day to do, but that's the measure of the man he is and that he was raised to be. we miss him immensely and time will never heal that wound. kelly and i were blessed with taylor, and as his parents, like all other parents, given the sacred responsibility to protect and provide for his well-being. we were tasked with also teaching him about life. now he's taught us so much more than we ever did with him. we raised him to know right from wrong. we raised him to be a patriot and to love this country that we are blessed to call home. we raised him to help others as they needed it or saw the need to do so even if it seemed insignificant at the time. we never know the hearts that we are able to

. >>> last week i spo spoke to is a gold star mom who lost staff can't taylor hoover.er view, the biden administration lied to her about her son died. here is what she said whether i asked her what would she want to say to president biden, if she could? >> he needs to come out and say, yeah, i made a mistake, i showo chose wrong, i was looking for a photo op, and i messed up. that's what he needs to do. >> do you think president biden is willing to meet with any of thinks gold star families or talk publicly more about what happened two years ago? >> her certainly has talk about oaf, the addition to withdrawn, the eveeck wags. we've shared information with congress and public to the degree we can. they continue to grieve with all gold star families, espy already those killed at abbey gate. this he understand the anguish they're still feeling. we understand that. we're going to stay with them and support them for the rest of their lives, as we should, as they deserve. but pulling out of afghanistan was the right decision. we're not bogged down in a war in afghanistan. we

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marine staff sergeant darren taylor hoover on the killed in action august 26, 2021. army staff sergeant ryan christian, killed in action august 26, 2021. reading corporal hunter lopez, killed in action and august 26, 2021, lance corporal dylan, killed in action. august 26, 2021. lance corporal kareem, killed in action. marine corporal, killed in action, august 26, 2021. corporal sanchez, killed in action, august 26, 2021. marine lance corporal jared schmitz. killed in action august 26, 2021. marine lance corporal david l espinoza, killed in action august 26, 2021. marine sergeant rosario pichardo, killed in action august 26, 2021. navy corpsman killed in action august 26, 2021. not easy to say the names of those that you remember. sometimes, a song, a smell or a restaurant to make us think of those that we lost. it is important to say their names. our president will not say is -- say their names. he has not said their names out loud. people continue to do so, so that we never forget the sacrifices that were made, that can never be repaid. thank you for convening this

taylor's parents, darren hoover, and kelly barnett joined me now, along with congressman darrell isa, who sits on the foreign affairs committee and who orchestrated this hearing and also the hearing that happened earlier on capitol hill. thank you very much. so they could not of been easy for you. always wanted to remember your son and the other 12 u.s. service members who died on that horrible day. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> it must've been hard for you. to stand up there today -- but you talked about your son in such a deeply loving way. what you want people to remember about him? >> he was an incredible human being. he loved others more than himself, enough to give his life, which he did. just an incredible person. i just want people to know it's okay to ask questions that i'm asking. that's what i live for, to talk about him. i just want people to know that he was an incredible human being, and that he loved others more than he loved himself. >> no doubt that there are many afghan families who are grateful to him for saving their lives, a

the parents of 31-year-old staff sergeant darin taylor hoover say the administration lied to the family about his death. an outpouring of pain and raw emotion, watch. >> confusion, deceit, lost, angry, sad, heartbroken and disgusted. he died on impact is what i was told and that is not true. the only reason that i know this is because witnesses told me the truth. i was lied to them basically told to shut up periods the biden administration, lincoln, , cowards, evil. accountability come away but i not just say we made a mistake? >> you are a [bleep] grown man. admit to your mistakes, learn from them so this doesn't happen ever, ever again! >> julie: a d.o.t. spokesperson told fox, by the way, they express condolences to the gold star family and forever grateful for their sacrifice and committed efforts during the evacuation operation. the statement notably leaves out success. even after that horrific suicide bombing near the kabul airport the biden administration still called the exit mission a success. remember that? the pentagon success to the gold star family noted that word and said

this is kelly barnett and darren hoover, gold star parents of marine staff sergeant taylor hoover. >> my son, 12 others left this earth thinking their command cared nothing for them. the wounded feel that their command felt nothing for them. the survivors felt that their command felt nothing for them. i feel this as well. all i wanted to know, where my kid was, where he fell, how long did he last, did he fight. i was told to my face, he died on impact. that's not true. >> those who had power over our military know that they made a conscious decision that throwed the chaotic and frantic withdrawal from afghanistan. ultimately, the president, do what our son did. be a grown [bleep] man. admit to your mistakes. learn from them. so that this doesn't happen ever, ever again. you all need to resign immediately. our sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes than every one of them combined. joey: i had close friends that were there that day. they start ad support group -- started a support group. it was such a traumatic thing that combat experienced marines had to find suppo

kelly barnett says she knew something was wrong when she spoke to her son, staff sergeant darren taylor hoover his words were chaos, no communication, lack of leadership. >> to date, the biden administration refuses to take any responsibility for the tragedy. >> i want answers. i want the truth. >> even denying there was anything chaotic about how the withdrawal played out. >> for all this talk of chaos, i just didn't see it, not from my perch. >> to have individuals like john kirby come in and say that he did not see from the chaos from his perch is both tone deaf and ignorant. >> now these parents are calling for secretary of state antony blinken and joint chiefs chairman general mark milley to resign. have little hope that will ever happen. >> i have no allusion that anyone will be prosecuted or terminated for ignoring intelligence or making bad decisions. >> now i hear is him and his -- avenge me. >> and tonight the pentagon is responding to all of that damning testimony, writing in part now the department of defense expresses our deepest condolences to the gold star families who lost love

spoke out about their loss for the first time publicly, including the mother of staff sergeant taylor hooverncern started the moment he landed. his words were chaos, no communication, lack of leadership he told me, mom, i now know that the command knows nothing for us. my son and 12 others left the earth thinking their command cared nothing for them. why have been decided to publicly talk about it. give me a little leeway, when i first saw the text that cnn wanted to talk with me, i was so happy. where have you all been? we need you, jake. we need the country to come together my son fought and died for this country, not for conservatives, not for liberals. my job is to make sure this never happens again, and that all of our voices our truths been always able to be sold it's just heartbreaking. tell us more about what the biden administration told was wrong. >> first they told me my son died on impact, which was completely 100%. he lived, he put a tourniquet on himself. he handed out helmets. he did live for a little while. i know now because of witnesses who were there, how he was when he pa

darren hoover is the gold star father of marine staff sergeant taylor hoover, russell johnson a rancher lindsey stafford is a single mother of two and they all join me now. thank you so much for joining us this morning. russell, i'll start with you. for a lot of people, we just hear about this border issue, but for you, you are living it every single day. so let's listen to the candidates and how they addressed this last night. >> the president of the united states has got to use all available powers as commander in chief to protect our country and to protect the people. i'm not going to send troops to ukraine but i am going to send them to our southern border. >> and as the next president of the united states, i will make that border wall complete. >> yes, we will stand for the rule of law, yes, we will close the southern border where criminals are coming in every day. >> when joe biden took over he threw open the southern border of the united states and the wave of humanity, the wave of fentanyl. >> carley: russell i should mention that the unused border material sits on your ranch in

well, for one thing, taylor hoover was a very powerful man. he had information on the kennedys, too. that's what i thought. that's exactly what robert talked about, that in his own oral history with kennedy library, he talks about the fact that. he didn't know if it was true, but he said that hoover had information on a hotel incident that he threatened to use against them. but i also think that in general, there was a culture of fear around communism that was part of it and fear of edgar hoover. so the kennedys kowtowed and gave in. even though robert kennedy like to think of himself as a great supporter of the civil rights movement and we could go on and talk about lbj because think in some ways he was worse. i think he encouraged it. he didn't just that's what i had a question. is he a friend or foe because on one hand he was talking to martin luther king about being and then the other hand it was he didn't stop the fbi from doing things that were absolutely vicious, uncalled for. i think lbj is both a friend and a foe. he's a friend and th