you can bet the issue of what is happening at kabul and the airport and the bedlam in and around there going on and on and disrupting thousands from even getting out of the country will come up. ahead of that, to jennifer griffin at the pentagon on where this stands right now. jennifer? neil, a somber briefing with very few answers. a defensive posture from the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs that said now is not the time for after action reports or discussion of regrets. the picture that they painted was bleak and dependent on the taliban. the bottom line is afghans and americans can not get to the airport due to taliban checkpoints. u.s. military planes are leaving halfful due to bureaucratic bottle necks. people told that their paperwork is not in order around turned away. the defense secretary said there were limit tos the u.s. forces on the ground and offered this frank admission. we don t have the capability to collect large numbers of people. t
mark milley saying today that getting americans out is the singular focus of the biden administration. the situation is still very dangerous, very dynamic and fluid and we can be proud of those executing this mission. they re currently in harm s way. that needs to be our focus. there will be plenty of time to do aars but right now our mission is to secure that air field, defend that air field and evacuate those faithful to us. there will be many postmortems on this topic but right now is not that time. there s troops at risk and we the united states military and fully intend to successfully evacuate all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan, all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan. they are our priority number one. in addition we intend to evacuate those supporting us for years and won t leave them behind. milley s comments hours after scenes of chaos unfolded on wednesday outside of what is the only way out of afghanistan. the airport in k
the name of the statue on the top? statue of freedom. the dome is made of cast iron and it weighs 8 million pounds as we look live on this tuesday. august 10th, 2021. live from new york and washington it s fox & friends. ainsley: next time on jeopardy i m prepared. 288 feet. steve: have to make everything in the form of a question. brian: i don t know if that s a category. i don t know if it will be that hard a question. steve: they are harder than that. $1,000 category those are hard questions. brian: michael jordan on the top. that s not a statue of michael jordan? ainsley: you wish. [buzzer] steve: female allegorical statue. ainsley: all of this time you have been wrong. brian: who knew? not michael jackson. i knew that. steve: welcome to hour one of fox & friends for a tuesday. yesterday started exactly where we started yesterday. that is with the murder of that chicago police officer over the weekend. she and her partner were involved in a traffic stop in chicago on
politico reporting that includes a draft executive order that would have seized all voting machines and election records. plus another blow to president biden. a federal judge in texas blocking his vaccine mandate for federal employees, and the battle over masks in schools reaching a new low. my children will not come to school on monday with a mask on, all right? that s not happening. and i will bring every single gun loaded and ready. that virginia parent charged after threatening to bring a loaded gun into school loaded guns to school all because she s against masks. so i want to bring in now cnn senior analyst laura coates to talk about this. laura is the author of the new book just pursuit. so much to talk about. good evening to you. let s talk about this politico reporting that january 6th investigators are in possession of a draft executive order from december 2020 that would have seized voting machines as part of trump s plan to overturn the election. it sai
and can t get anything done. the explosion in covid-19 cases on his watch after he promised to shut down the virus. meanwhile some schools across the country are actually shutting down again. let s ask about that if we could. our own sean hannity says today s news conference is really about one thing. they aren t concerned at all about their failing policies, spiking inflation, rising gas prices, open borders, supply chain crisis or of course the americans they left behind in afghanistan that we will never forget. instead the administration apparently believes that they have a messaging problem. just the problem is messaging and in order to solve the messaging problem some advisors want joe biden to spend more time communicating directly with you, the american people. harris: even cnn is calling out biden with this headline. an overdue presser. biden set to take reporter s questions in first formal news conference in months. they re right about that, jackie. it sure is