u aunts, even our children if there are car accidents, because our hospitals are full. i don t care if you re republican or democrat or independent, we re talking about people getting health care. at the end of the day that s why we have to all come together just to take care of all of our families. lieutenant governor josh green, we really appreciate your message and all that you re trying to do in the hospitals and elsewhere for the people of your state. thanks so much for the time. thanks for having me. okay. a major step forward in a divided house. speaker nancy pelosi struck a deal with a group of moderates to advance the president s infrastructure bill, but will it be enough to pass in the senate? we re live on capitol hill with an update. any minute now we re expecting to hear from secretary of state tony blinken. he ll update us on the effort to repatriate americans in afghanistan. we ve learned from the state department that one of its briefers apparently misspoke in
whenever you have a mass gathering like that it is an opportunity for improviseed and other explosive devices. schiff and intelligence committee got the first classified briefing about afghanistan last night. fox learned that members were not told that c.i.a. director william burns met with taliban officials. the briefers today are secretary of state tony blinken. defense secretary lloyd austin, mark milley and director of national intelligence haines. dana: we ll keep in touch with you today. americans trapped in afghanistan behind taliban lines are begging for help to get to the airport in kabul. the white house, however, is pushing back on the notion that any americans are stranded. watch. first of all, i think it s irresponsible to say americans are stranded. they are not. we re committed to bringing americans who want to come holmstrom. there are no americans stranded is the white house official position on what s happening in afghanistan? i m calling you out for
to a large extent, the u.s. can t. that is out of the u.s. s hand. it also was in the u.s. s hand as an invading party. so you know, we re going to be dissecting this and doing forensics for many years to come. i m sure. that s for sure. it s good to see you. thank you for your reporting, vivian. also happening today, the house intelligence committee is set to receive a classified briefing on the situation in afghanistan briefed by representatives from mutt pl intelligence agencies. the white house is also briefing members of the white house today. joining me is a man who sits on the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you for being here. what questions do you have for the briefers today? i have a lot of questions, but some of them include how many americans remain and need to be evacuated. how many allies need to be evacuated. and then what is our security posture in and around the airport?
welcome back. the house of representatives was getting a briefing about the situation there and their decision making process. top u.s. officials told house members that while they had training they lacked the will to respond to the taliban s events. kevin mccarthy called for a second briefing saying he only heard executions from the briefers. joining me now are the two chairs of the house s problem solvers caucus. congressman, what can you learn about the situation and how it happened? a lot, unfortunately. as a current fbi agent, i was there as an al qaeda interrogator in is so bad on so many different levels. some of which will manifest quickly and other it s a will
this is an intense and frankly risky mission that they are on right now. but nevertheless, the first in a series of briefings that lawmakers are going to get from the administration. this one was virtual and unclassified. lawmakers right now both in the house and senate are home, scattered across the country on recess, but when the house reconvened in the week of august 23rd, they re going to get a classified briefing on this issue. senators for their part before they left town, they were given a briefing on this issue then. so certainly not the first that these lawmakers are hearing on it, but definitely not the last. also in that call, though, and the dust far from settled on the ground in afghanistan, but already, the blame game happening here among lawmakers and among members of each political party. for instance, kevin mccarthy on that call likened this situation to vietnam. his was a tense exchange with biden administration briefers. but also, the sentiment echoed