interpreter, let alone someone who maybe didn t even help the united states that we have no information about them. i m going to stick with you really quick, congressman waltz, we got out of afghanistan leaving a i mean, they are debating whether the people left in afghanistan, the americans are hostages or not. i tend to agree with you that they are. there was an actual hostage that we knew about prior to this withdrawal. his name is mark frerichs why was he not part of the deal to get this american out before the withdrawal since now the afghans are our partners or the taliban? yeah. you would the thing the taliban wanted the most for 20 years, is for all-american forces to leave. and for us to close down our bases, and get out of there. you would think we could have gotten one american hostage navy veteran mark fakir out for that. and we didn t. and the guy who is taking him, the head of the haqqani network that s been holding him hostage
would have had all-american forces out of afghanistan by may. it was biden that extended it until september. so this was a forgone conclusion that biden followed after trump did it. remember, also, president trump gave 5,000 taliban prisoners and released them. in order to get the deal a pretty bad deal in the first place. and many of those 5,000 taliban fighters have rejoined the taliban. will: david, i don t think anybody on this program have want forgotten that trump leaving aching it s possible you might have been getting your ifb plugged in during that. we make a point factual and truth seeking point whether or not we leave afghanistan with how we leave afghanistan. and the point we are getting at today is who steps into our vacuum when we step out and leave chaos? the way that joe biden and our military leaders have left in the last 72 hours, we see immediately that our adversaries in china and russia step up.
afghanistan to assist the evacuation of americans from the embassy in kabul. meantime the taliban could be closing in on the capital of kabul in a matter of hours. lucas tomlinson live for us at the pentagon. lucas, good evening. good evening, trace. tonight the taliban have kabul surrounded just 30 miles outside the capital. john kirby admitting the soldiers and marines going to kabul face a dangerous situation. these soldiers and marines, they are fulled kitted out. putting on night vision goggles landing in kabul putting positions at the airport they are going to a combat zone, are they not. they re certainly going into harm s way, lucas. [inaudible] they will have the right of self-defense. they will be armed. the sudden decision to rush 3,000 troops to kabul just weeks ahead of president biden s deadline withdrawal all-american forces by august 31st drawing into question that the pentagon will be able to meet that goal. the u.s. military s authority to carry out airstr
mass migration, which will change the european continent dramatically. most of these people are muslims who are simply trying to survive. the world was stunned when a picture of a 3-year-old syrian boy was published. evidence drowned in the medicine ter mediterranean sea as family tried to reach the coast. mother and brother also drowned. this is happening because the u.s.a. and western europe retreated from the middle east. once president obama removed all-american forces from iraq, isis moved in and chaos broke out. the president has never, never acknowledged that his policy of disengagement has led to thousands of people being murdered and the catastrophe we are now seeing in europe. it is simply stunning that the american press has said so little about the disastrous foreign policy of the obama administration. the reason for the silence is that the liberal press despise the iraq war so
one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. but the real fight is with mitt romney and it is anything but nice. there is enough journalists swarming around newt gingrich under this pharmacy to givefully candidate a migraine. just enough room to talk with handful of voters and a parrot in the store. but the real squawking in gingrich s ear is coming from mitt romney who said the former speaker should give up the big money he earned advising the housing giant, freddie mac. one of the things that i think people recognize in washington is th