are furious about. the big criticism i have, we should have gotten the civilians out sooner. it s a disaster for american credibility. and it s a disaster for counter-terrorism as we head into the 20th anniversary of 9/11. we re far less safe. celebratory shots rang out in the dark of night near the harmid karzai international airport they claim with americans gone they have gained full independence of afghanistan. and even though there have been report of taliban led violence and human rights abuses just in the last two weeks, the secretary of state sounds open to eventually giving them a seat at the table. the taliban seeks international legitimacy and support. our message is any legitimacy and any support will have to be earned. president biden is going to speak later on today. the white house advised these remarks last night but really they probably could have put it
Nikki Haley, who called for President Biden's resignation last week after the deadly attacks near Harmid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan, doubled down on her earlier comments in an appearance on “Sunday Night in America" over the weekend.
intel officers. guiding people through taliban checkpoints. american citizens. not just talking about siv holders american citizens that s what brett is working on here. i know they are packing up. i know they are heading out. do you know what was sitting outside those gates i feel like you would try find a way. brett and his crew are trying. steve: absolutely. we did reach out to the state department. they referred to us twitter statement u.s. ambassador ross wilson which said, quote: this is a high risk operation. claims that american citizens have been turned away or are denied access to harmid karzai international airport by embassy staff or u.s. forces are false. brett, is that true or false? well, as of about 3:00 eastern time this morning it was definitely false. i have family of four that were outside the gate. we were networking furiously. every channel that we knew, some
americans. i m getting to that. bret: okay. but said. bret: i gotcha? and that attitude gets us in a whole heck of a lot of trouble. so i want to make sure that we understand that second, as far as the mission on the ground, i have spoken with general mckenzie, he does not agree with your assessment of our ability to secure that area in that environment between isis and a possibly hostile taliban. they tried after they secured the airport which wasn t easy at first step. they then went outside of the airport to bring people in to help them out. but the ability militarily is explain to me to secure afghanistan, you saw the vulnerability that we had when the suicide bombers showed up so i think we would have been placing a great deal of lives at risk if we had tried stay longer and do that extraordinary difficult call but i think the risks were higher than most people realize. steve.
another relationship of sorts. but we also expect the secretary to say that the top priority right now is the evacuation of the what they call less than 250 american citizens to get out safely who may still want to get out. no question we left some behind. along with the thousands of afghan allies and that task has been made much more difficult now that the taliban are in control of the airport, there is no international agreement on who will operate it. and that means that over land routes are going to be the method to get them out and that is no easy task because it is a tough neighborhood considering iran is to the west. pakistan is to the east. and traveling through the interior of afghanistan you are going through a taliban controlled isis-k infested territory now. that s not easy to get through some of the countries; so that will be something we will hear about along with, i suspect,