Prepared for those attacks. that includes reaching out to the taliban, who are actually providing the outer security court around the airfield to make sure they know what we expect them to do to protect us. laura: is he even listening to how insane he sounds? he is the head of centcom. we are relying on the people who we have been at war with for the last 20 years for protection and safe passage? now we are letting them play tsa for us in kabul? of course, that s not even the worst part. it turns out that the biden administration actually gave their taliban counterparts a list of americans in country and a list of afghans okayed for evacuation. there have been occasions when our military has contacted their military counterparts in the taliban and said we want you to let that bus or that group through. i can t tell you with any certitude that there s actually been a list of names may have been, but i know of no
Evacuate, a move that a defense official said effectively created a kill list. when asked about the existence of such a list, here s what president biden had to say. and there have been occasions when our military has contacted their military counter parts in the taliban and said, this for example, this bus is coming through with x number of people on it made up of the following group of people. we want you to let that bus or that group through. so, yes, there have been occasions like that. to the best of my knowledge, in those cases, the bulk of that has occurred as a let through. i can tell you with any certitude that there s been a list of names. i know of no circumstances. morgan, there seems to be a fine line, however, between publishing those names, as the president just outlined, and for example, admiral kirby in the
To get to the bottom of that in there needs to be accountability. we need the answers. right now the most important think we get every single american out safely and that we do that without arbitrary day of august 31st, bipartisan outcry to make sure that we complete that mission. and president biden right now to make a decision to reverse course to complete the mission. but just to think that we are going to give our security needs to the taliban is just unbelievable. trace: you mentioned president biden and i want to play sound from thursday s news conference where he talked about this list, watch. i can t tell you with any certitude that there has actually been a list of names. there may have been, but i know of no circumstances. and it may not exist, 12 people coming through and let them through. that could have a very well happen to. trace: it is amazing to me,
Certain circumstances where we have gotten information and quite frankly sometimes from some of you saying you know of such and such, a group of people trying to get out. they re on a bus and moving from other people. this is the location. there have been occasions when our military has contacted their military counterparts in the taliban and said this, for example this bus is coming through with x number of people on it. made up of the following group of people. we want you to let that bus or that group through. so, yes there have been occasions like that. to the best of my knowledge, in those cases, the bulk of that has occured and they have been let through. i can t tell you with any certitude there is a list of
Relationship with the taliban to secure the perimeter of the air force following the blast and it s unclear how the biden administration will manage this. bret: trey yingst, thank you. let s go to white house course bonded peter doocy. the white house briefing room, good evening. just in there, we got to see your question two president biden, your thought on the news headlines out of that and what you took from your exchange? the president said that it s possible but he can say with any sense of certitude that american forces in afghanistan right now trying to evacuate people did share names or information about u.s. citizens and afghans try to get out with the taliban. add something that could have happened and he was asked if he personally regretted closing down the airbase. we heard from reporting that there s a lot of military pendants who should be given a backup, he says the military advisors concluded that it