the ground in kabul at a hamed karzai airport that resulted in the death of 13 sailors and marines and more than 100 civilians on august 26. also with a substantial body of intelligence indicating the immense of another attack, in the 48 hours prior to the strike, sensitive intelligence indicated that the compound at point number 1 on the map let s bring the map up, please. we re going to bring this up. hopefully you have an opportunity to see it. john, can you see the map there? john, can you hear me now? the press has hard copies.
did that include the fact gather something. no. fox news. did you have sources on the ground that helped you conduct this strike? no, we did not. as you know, no time were our forces really away from hamed karzai air field. there was nobody there on the ground to have to play that role. you can see from the graphic that the position of the strike was three to four kilometers to the west of hkia. that include special operations forces? explicitly. can you talk about the challenges of the drone strikes without troops on the ground? we conducted a successful strike in nangarhar province. we got the target. that had a significant on
backck and unpack a few things that general mckenzie said there. number 1, the military mission on the ground was put in an impossible situation. they were given two conflicting missions. one, a full withdrawal in the face of enemy contact and obviously isis threat. on the other hand, they had to stay in a posture to still receive people and keep gates open and have our american citizens and others flow through. those are conflicting. and they were put in that position by the white house. the other piece is it ignores the fact that kabul international was indefensible. it s like being in the middle of mogadishu. it s in the middle of a four million person city. i still want to get to the bottom of did the pentagon brief the white house on taking bagram back as a course of action and what that rejected or was it
0 ahead of that messaging before the science had before that regulators were on the same page with them. john: , and on the immigration front, the mayor of del rio, texas, is on the extraordinary pictures. they declared a state of emergency in his town. thanks for being with us on this friday martha: thanks, john and jacqui. a lot of breaking news. i m martha maccallum in new york. any moment now, there you can see the podium is set up at the pentagon. a huge development breaking right now as we are told that officials are about to announce that no isis-k fighters were killed in the august 29th u.s. drone strike in kabul that killed ten civilians in fact. there s no disciplinary action we re told expected as a result of that obvious misstep, mistake, whatever you want to call it. a lot of questions moments away about what happened with what was said to be a great example of our over-the-horizon ability to take out targets in afghanistan despite the fact that we pulled out. so there
flights to leave. the flights need to deport. we ll work every day to make sure that they are able to do that. we will continue to press the taliban to allow the charters to leave and critically to open hkia, the hamed karzai airport to allow people to leave safely from afghanistan. our efforts to help people that want to leave afghanistan will continue. the problem is those that they must negotiate with include a new cabinet filled with some of the world s most wanted terrorists. the new interim prime minister is facing u.n. sanctions with mullah omar. the new prime minister served in the last government. the new defense minister is the