the decision was executed. whatever you think of the first decision, the execution of joe biden has been recklessly negligent. just yesterday i heard from are a can san stuck behind taliban checkpoints in kabul. the best advice he was getting was to shelter in place and try to go fill out electronic form on the state department website. we opened up our phone lines and emails to any americans stuck behind taliban lines and the last 12 to 18 hours we have had 400 to 500 people contacting us pleading for assistance for how to get to the airport and get out of the get out of afghanistan. remember, these are not just afghan civilians who helped us. these are american citizens holding american passports who for four month did not receive guidance about what to do and now the country is overtaken by outlaw criminal gang like the taliban threatening the least of hundreds, if not thousands of americans to say nothing of the strategic consequences of this debacle for the years to come
seen so much. ainsley: jack, we don t have good connection with you. we are only hearing about every other word. i know you have such a heart for the haitians and have you helped with the or fans there and you always go down there any time there is a natural disaster. if you want to donate they need so many supplies. jack was telling us earlier they need sanitation products. they need anything, water filtration systems. if you have any connections to that it s jack brewer foundation.org. jack, i m so sorry to say goodbye but we just have a bad connection. god bless you and thanks for everything you do down there for those folks. back now to top story. the taliban taking over afghanistan. we talk next to a panel of veterans who served in the country and afghan translator who worked with our very own pete hegseth. stick around.
capability. there is going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states from afghanistan. the likelihood there is going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. steve: well, he was wrong about all that stuff. brian: not even close to right. steve: apparently the washington post did a story this morning at 3:00 in the morning. and it tells the story behind the scenes in the situation room last week when things started going south. and it talks about how joe biden s decision was guided by his conviction going back more than a decade. the mission in afghanistan had little chance of success. joe biden thought 10 years ago. keep in mind he supported it when he voted for the war in afghanistan and iraq. but when he was vice president he saw afghanistan as futile. and then months before joe biden announced the withdrawal,
terminal a and reporting five people have died. brian: going to get worse. please don t tell me anyone planned for this. thought eeventuality. talking about dealing with the taliban government. really you? watched them go through the afghan forces like paper mache. you scramble in 5,000 military person know secure a border. then you have to grind up all our intelligence apparatus and intelligence and hard drives rapidly. you take down our flag, get rid of everything american in a matter of hours because you cannot believe how every major city has fallen. this is the worst planned exit in the history of our country. i hope he doesn t have his hands on any other military involvement. but, think about the people what america represents hope and freedom. and these people in afghanistan say, wait a second. you could stop them from entering kabul. you could have stopped them from entering shareef. with the people we have there with the 8,000 there we could have stopped and prevented them fro
walking in a ghost town because, you know, everybody is just walking around with guns, basically every day. every day. gunshots. somebody just got killed. and apparently about 15 minutes from here, on bainbridge avenue after my son was shot. another man was shot dead, too. steve: it s a terrible situation. marisol, our heart breaks for you and your family. thank you for joining us to tell us about your so o. son j.j. you are in front of a photo tribute wall to him in front of your building. thank you for joining us and telling us his story. thank you, ma am. all right. terrible. all right. it s 7:30 here in new york city. back to our top news story, afghans rushing to try to get out of the country as the taliban takes over. senator tom cotton enlisted in the army after 9/11, served in afghanistan. his reaction coming up next.