country have come to expect says the u.s. will accountable. knowing about these statements addition to relying on taliban leadership. looks like changed deputy secretary of state kabul out of the tens of thousand sands. bret? rich edson at the state department. thanks. freelance journalist holly mckay u.s.s. border spent a lot of time over those years. holly, thanks so much for being here, we have a delay. it does freeze up some times. like to toss it to you to say paint a picture for our audience
sophisticated. dana: they re an american company and they want protects from the regulations coming from europe. maybe not twitter initially but it s happening with google, youtube and facebook. i think that you can rightly call it taliban twitter and get away with it, right? so figure out a way to do that. the other social media companies have a way to maybe do that if they wanted to press their competitive advantage. i think to dagen s point, one, it hasn t hurt twitter at all. twitter has hurt the world. two, i feel like the taliban will probably get banned if they re true to their word by probably by friday. geraldo: you do? dana: because in terms of atrocities. if they dagen: the islamic state uses twitter as a recruiting tool for a very long time. posting just horrific images all over it and they only stopped allowing it when they got called out by the media.
embassy alert today that ended with the united states government cannot ensure safe passage to the harmid karzai international airport and went on to say that they re asking the taliban to ensure that safe passage. yeah. i mean, the messages from the white house are so confusing. i mean, basically the message from biden today on abc is it had to be this way. there was no alternative and he seems to suggest, since he said it was priced in, that he knew it was going to happen. but then you have general milley saying that there was no intelligence that suggested that the afghan government and military would collapse in 11 days. you also have joe biden back on july 8th, when he was asked your own intelligence community has assessed that the afghan government will likely collapse, he said that s not true. so, was he blindsided? was he not blindsided? we can t get a kind of straight picture of what happened. and to say that this was the
once again the situation on the ground not exactly hatching up with what those officials in washington are saying. bret? bret: that s why we need watch it trey yingst live in our middle east newsroom. trey, thanks. the scramble to get americans out of afghanistan more complicated by the moment. you heard what the president said in thatizens are being told to shelter in place. others have been informed ahead to the kabul airport but they can t be provided security. with none knowing if they will actually be granted safe passage past taliban checkpoints. state department correspondent rich edson has specifics. [gunfire] the state department is telling americans to get to kabul s airport though acknowledges, quote: the united states government cannot ensure safe passage. contacts in kabul say there are taliban checkpoints across the city. and taliban are arbitrarily letting some people pass, denying entry to others, or just beating them.
september 11th with no preconditions. that is when the taliban advance happened and it went day by day and they briefed biden as it happened and they didn t want to do anything about it. he didn t want to tell the american people that he might have to pivot. he stuck to the deadline and he prepositioned people there in case this went to hell. it went to hell and now he s trying to say i planned for this. you don t plan for stranding americans in a war zone. dagen: in terms of the 11-day excuse, geraldo before i let you go, milley and austin were asked about this today. they were asked, wait, the taliban was threatening kandahar a month ago. what are you talking about? they didn t answer it. geraldo: they ve been threatening kandahar for a month. i m surprised it lasted as long as it did tell you the truth.i want to use this little bit of time for this fox news alert from general campbell, who was the commander in afghanistan who