the shoes of why is the president doing what he is doing? he must have a good reason. when you hear the tone in those snippets of his interview with george stephanopoulos he sounds so exasperated with the questions he is getting. he sounded that way at that july news conference. why are you asking me questions it s a three kay weekend? i don t want to talk about afghanistan. joe biden strikes me as one of these people that s been around so long, has seen it all, heard it all, he knows it all. and so when he says to the military you are out. we re coming home. that s it. he doesn t want to hear all the complications the other problems that will ensue as a result of it. he just says i have heard all your excuses before, just bring them home. and i think he has checked out. i think that s the only thing he was interested in and that s why this has backfired so much. bret: i want to play the extended part of the first clip of the interview we got from abc and then there is another part w
about what you are seeing about this takeover. it s really are. [lost audio] just happened so quickly. people were slowly going into their homes or going to the bank and collecting all their money, yet, when i talk to penal, everybody was guaranteeing no. [frozen audio] last few days a what we are seeing is people are starting to see it as a new normal. people are coming out there. are a lot of announcements being made over. [broken audio]qa today. bret: yeah. as we mentioned this is freezing and coming to us live from inside of afghanistan. you do take some risk in broadcasting from there and doing stories from there.
jesse: does your upper chest just go right to your hips? deign be deign yes. jesse: stand up for the audience. god help you. greg: is that an h.r. jesse: i didn t say anything. you of all people, geraldo. jesse: that s it for us. special report is up next for bret berry. bret: lower hipbone to the rib? dana: lowest rib and hipbone almost touch. bret: all right. thank you. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight. [gunfire] bret: gunshots ring out near the airport in kabul. desperation only growing there as people attempt to flee afghanistan. these graphic photos appear to show the barbaric reality in afghanistan under taliban control. this is the group tries to sell itself as more compassionate; however, saying different things to different people. and now we are hearing of the
swift taliban takeover in a matter of days. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is following it all for us from the pentagon. good evening, jen. good evening, bret. finger pointing has already begun. some of the images you are about to see are very disturbing. u.s. military continuing to land in kabul. more than 5,000 u.s. troops now on the ground after pulling out completely a month ago and shuttering their main air base. the tenth mountain division in full battle gear guarding the u.s. embassy just weeks after all u.s. troops withdrew from afghanistan. marines are helping process the paperwork of afghans and american citizens seeking to flee as u.s. bureaucratic bottlenecks force military planes to leave kabul half empty. british paratroopers are leaving the airport to help rescue their citizens as the taliban maintain a cordon and control all the checkpoints around the airport. u.s. troops are not. we don t have the capability to go out and collect a large numbers
whose leader used grave language to describe covid-19 trends. i m going to lose and reflect on the recurring feeling i have of impending doom. unclear if mask mandates will return to the white house. if individuals decide to wear a mask for whatever reason we support that and that s their personal choices. but democratic leaders don t see masks as being on par with vaccines. if you are talking about fighting covid and the delta variant and winning this battle once and for all, a mask is like a pea shooter and the vaccine is like a cannon. when the biden administration suddenly dropped mask mandates in the spring, critics accused the president of just looking for a distraction from a rough news cycle. but now that contagious variants are causing minor illnesses in the vaccinated and major illnesses in the unvaccinated, there are questions about whether or not those mandates were lifted too soon. bret? bret: peter, president biden is in ohio this evening. what s he pitching