one i ve ever heard and see people come in with vision lost. that s still there. the guardian, daily mail, you make a great point. if the social media sites will watch certain people and not others you are on it. joe, thank you for coming in today. nice to see you. good to see you. dana: customer got way more than he paid for after getting into a fight with a waffle house employee. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff making a dire prediction how the situation will unfold in afghanistan as the taliban claims to now have control of the re country. general jack keane joins us next. we could see a resurgence of terrorism come out of that region within 12, 24, 36 months. . save thousands every year. as your business changes,
as you mentioned, labor unions are starting to push back big time. the president of the firefighters union says i am 100% opposed to the mandate. it should be a personal decision. bus drivers are also quitting over the city s mandate. 90 of them. chicago public school drivers quit just days before the start of the school year. it left hundreds of parents scafmg to try to figure out how to get their kids to school days before the start of the school year. that s an industry that is already dealing with major shortages. so these mandates making it even harder in some cases. dana: made a note to myself to tell bill about the bus driver shortage. you already did it. thank you so much, grady. appreciate you. bill: now to this american mother and three children rescued from afghanistan yesterday. state department saying it assisted in that rescue. the organizer of the mission calling those claims absolute nonsense. that s a quote. telling fox news this is an attempt to save face by the
being the most significant problem but also rising covid cases, weakening economy, stagflation in the economy, crisis at the border, rising crime. this president is now the approval rate is declining. he is beset by trouble. there are times like this, you really presidents succeed or fail on whether or not they a core set of beliefs and they can cling to that set of beliefs. actually promote that set of beliefs in order to sustain them and demonstrate to the country they have a sense of direction and purpose. i m afraid to say over joe biden s career we ve never seen evidence he has that. what he has done on issue after issue, time and time again over five decades in american public life is essentially follow whatever his party wants him to do whether it was an crime in the 1990s, foreign policy throughout his career and most recently now as president whether it s on the very
any hostage-like situation. we have to work through the different requirements and that s what we re doing. bill: tension rises in the afghan capital in kabul. hundreds took to the streets to protest against pakistani influence in afghanistan. taliban fighters fired into the air to disperse that crowd. given how things are playing out on the ground across afghanistan i asked the secretary of defense lloyd austin what leverage the united states has over the taliban to protect those americans still in the country. he looked at me on his way out and did not respond. this does come as secretary of state antony blinken addressed the four americans who made it out of afghanistan over the weekend by a land border. he did not address the reports that we are seeing today indicating the state department may not have been directly involved in those efforts. bill: on it goes. thanks. dana: let s bring in marc thiessen. dying to talk to you. your writing in some ways has never been better. he
department is impeding the process not only for afghans to leave the country but also many americans who want to get out. case in point we ve been talking about it for several days. six planes on the runway at one point over the weekend. americans on those planes according to administration officials in maz re sharif 265 miles north of kabul airport and it happened for hours. those helping to fund and organize charter flights claim americans on board and not allowed to leave. state department officials claim they don t control the airspace. secretary antony blinken this morning said if americans are not being held hostage and really it is not a point to leave afghanistan. we want to show you a picture sent to fox news of the gates outside the former u.s. embassy in kabul. the image on screen left behind the truck, the taliban flag on the right, the code of arms for