know exactly how many. joe is estimating about 15,000. they don t know where they are located. they can t even tell us exactly how many have been evacuated, and worst of all, they have zero plan to rescue any americans, and according to the wall street journal, this is the return of america held hostage. some 15,000 u.s. citizens and residents are behind taliban lines, and there is no easy way to get them out. that is just a fact. c they have allowed it to get that bad. and as we speak, there are other countries at least trying, and they are extracting their citizens with their special forces. for example, the british are calling it operation pity. but the united states, as of now, has no such program. and a press conference, the department of defense told us that the u.s. military is under orders to protect the karzai international airport. that is it.
anywhere else, i ve got his number. number six, the communist chinese are apparently on scene working with taliban and ways to further disgraced the usa. here is bottom line. no one seems to remember the lessons learned from the capture of our embassy in saigon in 1975, or tehran in 79. if biden can t figure out how to deal with these problems, he ought to step down. the scary part of that, sean, in any case, the president not finishing his term, you know whp becomes the president. that is a scary prospect, too. sean: colonel, we now know from the state department memo, we now know u.s. diplomats, the new york post reported in kabul wrote a memo last month warning, warning blinken of the rapid advancement of the taliban.n. joe biden says, oh, chaos was factored in from the beginning, it was priced into the cost of withdrawal, his statement, even
wouldn t they do it in winter? to criticize the afghan militara that has been losing thousands of lives every month? we had stabilized this nation, without a casualty in the last 18 months, 25 of our very best, and now we had to put 7,000 back in.ho this is one of the greatest disasters in the history of this nation. e and it is going to do damage to us for decades to come. sean: and donald trump was very clear, if one american is harmed, they will be hell and fury to pay. and they believed him. and there wasn t a single american killed and almost, what, 18 months. p leader mccarthy, thank you. you know why, because sean: they did believe him, you are right. also tonight, the brave men and women in uniform who served in afghanistan, they are speaking out and they are slamming joe biden for his lack of urgency, lack of transparency, lack of action amid what is now a full-blown taliban take over all across afghanistan. many gold star, many families of