they will kill them and kill their families. that s what they ve already done. this is a very frustrating and sad situation to see. martha: we heard the president say we think we can get the afghans out in time by august 31. then he said we ll see. that backs up exactly what you re saying there, general. he also said there s a lot of afghani, that would like to come to america, so they have to figure out who sort of has earned the right to come. that from the president. general jack keane, thank you, very much. we ll hear from you later. want to bring in michael waltz joining me. served multiple combat tours in afghanistan and the first green beret to serve in congress. you were just on a conference call with defense secretary austin and the chair of the joint chiefs, general milley. what was said there that fill in some pieces here? what is so interesting is we had and sad, frankly, the
0 . the pullout has been a whole different story. a special thank you to all o our guests that have joined us in our amazing reporters with their first-hand stories covering afghanistan over that decades. the best in the business. continuing coverage on the fox news channel. the story with martha mac callum start right now. what annout standing middle east team we have and the coverage over the years brings something to this story that i don t think you ll find anywhere else. good afternoon, everybody. i m martha maccallum in new york. we continue our coverage right now on the story. we re about to get another update here. we re going to go to the pentagon and the state department. a lot of questions left unanswered and according to some of our reporting were answered incorrectly, not based in fact. so we hope there s another go-round here in just a moment and we ll get some answers from the administration. we have 17 minutes of q&a with president biden. so that will be exten
combat tours in afghanistan as an army ranger. they re obviously an extremely brutal and immoral group of folks. that s why we have to do what s necessary and take total control of that airport, extend the security perimeter beyond the airport, establish some corridors to allow safe passage and make sure we re transporting american citizens first and foremost but also our afghan partners and allies and get them out. we have tens of thousands of folks we need to get out. that s not going to happen overnight but we need to make the commitment to do that. i don t we set a calender deadline. i think we do it until we get it done. unless you re in control of the city itself, doesn t the taliban control who gets access to those corridor s? well, you have to establish lines of communication and open up some roads. to the extent we expand those out to the city, how far we
how i mean, to see these images, it gives you a sense of the you know, the freedom the taliban certainly feels to do whatever they want to people, to beat people, to i don t flow if this lady was shot. i relieve the photographer said she was shot. she survived as far as he knew. a child was hit as well. i mean, if this is what they re doing now as they re trying to establish control, there s no telling what they will do, and it s pretty clear what we know from the past, what they ll do when they do establish control. yeah, that s right. i know the taliban well. i fought them during both my combat tours in afghanistan as an army ranger. they re obviously an extremely brutal and immoral group of folks. that s why we have to make sure we re doing what s necessary to flow the troops and combat resources in, take total control of that airport, extend the
need our help right now? well, i am worried, ayman, we re behind the power curve on this. there s no doubt about this. this evacuation should have started months ago in my view. it s happening now. which is good news in the administration aggressively pursuing it with an all of government approach which is what exactly needs to happen but this is very personal for me. i did two combat tours to afghanistan as an army ranger. i may not be here sitting under this dome talking to you today if it had not been for the service and the sacrifice of the afghans that served shoulder to shoulder with me. i have a personal obligation but as a member of the armed services committee and as a member of the house intelligence committee i also have an obligation to the national security of the united states of america. and this is a very clear national security issue. we are going to have threats, we re going to have conflicts in the future and we re going to need friends to help us meet those threat