when he told this moving story about his stepfather who survived the holocaust and was on a nazi death march through germany and escaped into the forest and found an american tank. tony blinken said he fell on his knees and the only words he knew in english were god bless america and the soldiers saved his life. today what s happening is under the biden administration, americans are afghans were falling to their knees watching the last american plane leave the country. afghan allies who had risked their lives for us. that s who america is under the biden administration. and it s absolutely shameful, a dereliction of duty, the worst thing i ve ever seen an american president do in my life. bill: this saturday is the 20-year anniversary. when you couple the two together it s why again it is so front of mind. dana: one of the things that you have said you say that you say it was sadness that you
induced by air power alone. that we may have to put in a combination of ground and air, which we have done throughout our 20-year experience there. and then finally, i think what the senator is talking about at some future point there may be an occupation again, at least of certain parts of afghanistan, by our forces to be able to defeat a terrorist organization which is threatening the united states. that is all in the future with some degree of certainty if afghanistan becomes what we believe it will be, and that is a growing epicenter for international terrorism. dana: take a listen to what jennifer griffin our reporter asked general mark milley. what does it mean for us at home and are we safe? is the u.s. safer today since the u.s. has withdrawn from afghanistan? my military estimate is the conditions are likely to develop of a civil war and that
secretary blinken and deputy secretary of state wendy sherman sat silent as the decision was made by the cabinet to remove 2500 u.s. troops, all of the remaining troops, 5,000 nato troops before you evacuated the embassy. you left foreign service officers there when the u.s. troops left. now, that s no way to treat employees. i was glad to see congressman greg meeks, new york congressman, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, call for a hearing next week. antony blinken, the secretary of state will appear before the house committee to answer some of these questions and i hope the full committee is very tough on why were you so silent, mr. secretary of state when your people were abandoned inside afghanistan? you sat there while the
gain-of-function research at the covid wuhan lab is the two things clicking the most right now on outkick. bill: i am pleased to hear when you were visiting the college campuses they were recognizing the service members. thank you for sharing that with us. i told dana it was hard to go anywhere this weekend and not hear about the after effects of afghanistan and what to expect. thank you, clay. talk to you later in the week. clay travis with us there. all right. new hour begins now. dana: president biden remains silent on americans and afghan allies still stranded in afghanistan. right now hundreds of them stuck at an airport in northern afghanistan where planes meant to fly them to safety are stuck on the ground. they are waiting for clearance to take off. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. today marks one full week since the president made public
unveil a new government, senator lindsey graham predicting the u.s. will have to go back into afghanistan at some point. i believe it s biden s fault. here is where we re at in the world. the taliban are not reformed or new. they will impose a lifestyle on the afghan people that i think is going to make us all sick to our stomach. they ll give safe haven to al qaeda ambitions to drive us out of the mideast at large and attack us because of our way of life. we ll be going back into afghanistan as we went back into iraq and syria. bill: general jack keane on tuesday morning. nice to have you today to answer that question there that we are going back into afghanistan just like iraq and syria. what do you think of that viewpoint? well, we know it is a fact. the administration has said as much. we ll manage the problem in afghanistan from over the horizon. that will be the initial