your strategic advantage. martha: reports of taliban fighters beating up an afghan tv crew. it s not a good sign of the media and the free press under the leadership of these militants. i ll speak with a former producer and host for the same network that escaped after getting death threats and trying to get her mother and sister and family out of afghanistan right now. first greg palkot reporting live from clan london. martha, fox news has learned that more journalists have been attacked in kabul today. a reporter for total news, the
media can do what they want as long as it s in the national interests and supplies with sharia law. nobody know what s that means. the media chief had one more comment that he believes that president biden hasn t shown too much backbone in dealing with the taliban with a lot of aspects of the withdrawal of a free press might also be a victim. martha: thanks, greg. my next guest is a former tv producer and host. she escaped afghanistan after she got death threats. she s losing hope about getting her family out. she joins me now. thank you for being with us today. as you listen to the news conferences from the white house and you hear that the united states military will be gone by august 31 and that they will still continue to make efforts to help people get out after that, what goes through your mind? remember, i m thinking first of all, thanks for having
good to have you with us today, good morning, martha. martha: morning bill, morning, everybody, great to have you with us today, i m martha maccallum. wickileaks founder julian assange is now in custody, he surrendered to police last night, facing serious sex crime allegations in sweden. bill: despite the arrest wickileaks threatening to spill even more secrets online. when will that happen? when could that happen? first greg palkot in london. what are we hearing from court at this hour greg? reporter: bill, martha, if all goes as scheduled, assange should be appearing before the judges in the westminster magistrate court just about now. remember he s not been hauled because of releasing classified documents, he s been hauled in, it s an extradition hearing, because of sex charges placed against him from some incidents dating back to august. now, he has denied these charges, he calls them thumped up, political, we