typical of the republican attacks on the poor and the vulnerable because if you have the ways and the means, you ll still be able to get an abortion and already several states including new mexico are bracing for an increase in women from texas seeking the treatment. but if you don t, then you won t. the same republicans in states like texas and florida and other republican led states such as south dakota who are making other decisions to control your health for both men and women like outlawing local mask mandates in schools. essentially taking covid side against the battle in the pandemic and considering the latest surge in daily new cases, deaths and hospitalizations, it appears they might be succeeding. the same republicans who wage a battle against your voting rights and who continue to wage an attack on the truth. the reason for the campaign against voting rights is, of course, the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. what you are seeing now from republicans are f
the clock is ticking down. of course it is ticking down to something that. the button himself part. for the rest of that world. for the biden before his self-imposed deadline to pull remaining troops from afghanistan. today the taliban for a second time said they are not okay. the white house is the feeling the pressure, no doubt. press secretary jen psaki insisted no americans will be left behind. does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not leaving afghanistan, it is the way he has ordered it to happen, by pulling troops before getting these americans who are now stranded. i think it is responsible to the state americans are stranded. reporter: there are no americans stranded in afghanistan? i m just calling you out professing we are when i have been very clear that we are not leaving americans who want to return home. we are going to bring them home. and i think that is important for the american people to understand. harris: oh, did you ca
you re watching fox & friends first on this friday morning. i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. todd an jillian are off this morning. now to the border crisis, homeland security secretary new mayorkas announcing border crossings hit a 21 year high. carley: griff jenkins is live with brand-new audio recordings that are telling. reporter: we haven t seen these kind of numbers since the spring of the year 2000, never during a raging pandemic. secretary mayorkas announcing this number here, more than 212,000 encounters in july, a five-fold increase over last july. the situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. it is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. reporter: but behind closed doors, in this leaked audio, talking to border patrol agents, mayorkas admits the situation is much more dire. these numbers cannot continue. we cannot get to the point we were a couple weeks ago and we re go
deputy law enforcement officers deputize house democrats. governor greg abbott says time for them to get to the capitol and do the job they were elected to do. anderson hit right. back at the wall the white sox win it. [cheers and applause] climbing the mountain just to prove i can if i was the man they wanted me to be. en. brian: white sox dramatic victory after the yankees came all the way back to tie it and it was the walk-off homer that s why they are in first. the bigger story where they were played and the setting it took place. ainsley: look at that what s he saying? brian: i guess it s over. 8,000 there pretty exciting. steve: it was so much fun if you were watching the field of dreams game last night on fox. the coverage started at 6:30 or 6:00. we were watching everything. and, as darkness falls it looks like a regular stadium until you zoom in and there is the corn. but the way it started in the beginning just like the movie where kevin costner comes out
britney spears and joey jones on the dramatic developments happening by the minute in afghanistan. sandra: that s where we begin this hour on america reports. the dire situation in afghanistan out of control as new reporting from our pentagon team suggests the country s capitol kabul could next to fall. the biden administration is sending thousands of troops back in just a couple of weeks before the president s deadline for our troops to be gone. i am sandra smith on a busy friday afternoon. this is america reports. welcome trace. i am trace gallagher in for john roberts. first of 3 infantry battalions is en route to kabul. a u.s. defense official told fox news kabul could fall as soon as tomorrow. the pentagon works to evacuate embassy staff. they are asking the taliban not to attack the embassy. sandra: they captured afghanistan s second and third largest cities. it is estimated that the taliban controls two-thirds of that country as president biden planned a depa