not be the same as it was. my brother, my family, [inaudible] stay over there, everybody their life is in danger. they are still trapped, still stranded they are stranded, sir. the taliban didn t allow us to go to school or university. taliban would not be good for the future of women in afghanistan? no. that was a no from that young woman to the future with the taliban. that is why she was here. we heard more from those folks. we also heard more from the general, jon, he said being a father made this humanitarian mission all that much more meaningful, but again, we re looking at the final stages. we re seeing less flights come in, less flights go out. we are seeing a terror threat looming still in afghanistan, and yes, we re seeing the august 31st tuesday deadline for the final withdrawal of all u.s.
jon: sirhan sirhan the man who assassinated robert f. kennedy in 1968 might soon go free. he was recommended for parole yesterday in california. the final decision will come from the governor. christina coleman spoke with one of rfk s sons. fox news correspondent douglas kennedy. she is joining us with that story. douglas kennedy is one of two of robert f. kennedy s surviving sons who supports the release of their father s killer sirhan sirhan. i believe that all prisoners who are no longer a threat to themselves or others should be released from prison. i do not believe prison should be used as a punishment, so i would hope that the governor would take into account whether
i don t think any service anywhere in the world, whatever you do, is in vain. jon: there s been the suggestion that the united states has lost the trust of maybe some of its allies around the world in the hasty way this evacuation was conducted. you say there was another point, loss of trust in the u.s. government and military leadership by our armed forces personnel. i think there absolutely is. i mean, look at the efforts that are going on by former special operations personnel. they re organizing over the phone, in person, different chains to get people out. our government has the capability to do that. i know the troops that have this capability and are chomping at the bit to do that, but the government is not allowing them to. they haven t made the mission to go rescue everybody, get everybody out. i think there s a huge loss of trust in the government, by veterans, at the troop level, that s amazing. it is going to hurt us for years. jon: wait a minute. you say the governme
focused on kabul right now, on talking about drones with great cameras, spy satellites and signal intelligence. all those assets are screaming big threat warnings. that s why the president has had to come out and say there could be an imminent attack. the problem is, the kabul airport remains a soft target. it is vulnerable. and it s a real real concern. so they are hearing immense chatter in the signals and other intelligence indicating that isis-k may be planning another attack. jon: but that drone strike that supposedly took out a couple of isis-k members and facilitators in the words of john kirby, the admiral who is the pentagon spokesman, you don t think that will make isis-k kind of pause and say wait a minute, they have got our number. we ve got to back off here. i m glad they did the strike. i mean, it hard makes up for the loss of the 13 lives and all the
the president apparently has some line of communication open to the taliban. why not just lay down a marker and say hey, we need another couple of weeks to get our people out? because sadly that was not the agreement that was struck between the biden administration and the taliban. there was originally the september 11th deadline. the taliban were okay with it. then president biden didn t like the optics. he moved it forward to august 31st, and the taliban said okay that s the new deadline. if we try to go back and renegotiate that, we don t have leverage. we don t have a position of strength. we are in a very vulnerable position at the airport. i went to afghanistan thinking that we were trying to push that deadline forward. what i saw on the ground, my conversations with commanders there, strongly suggested that that would be a mistake, that if we broke down that agreement with the taliban, we would be putting more american lives at risk. we would be preventing any additional folks