does that square with reporting on the ground? i mean, just totally not. howie: joining us now from washington, jacqui heinrich who covers the white house for fox news. are reporters turning much more aggressive because the administration s spin and lack of answers is out of sync with what military people call facts on the ground? i think this has just been shown time over time over the course of this week that what the president is saying is just so far from the reality of what s happening on the ground in afghanistan, the rhetoric does not match the reporting that we re getting from people who are witnessing it firsthand. there s been so many examples where it was you couldn t fact check quickly enough. the president said none of the military advisors told him to keep 2500 troops. she confirmed back in march that the general general mark mille, chairman of the joint chief, advised to keep troops, he said al-qaida s gone from
afghanistan beyond just denying al-qaida safe haven was foolhardy. this is going to be chewed over by historian and an lifts for years and analysts for years and hopefully they ll come up with lessons that can be applied so this kind of things doesn t happen again. howie: guy benson, mara liasson, thank you very much. up next, reporters aggressively challenging the spin by administration officials, that s next. okay, we re not gonna ask for discounts on floor models, demos or displays. shopping malls can be a big trigger for young homeowners turning into their parents. you ever think about the storage operation a place like this must rely on? -no. they just sell candles, and they re making overhead? you know what kind of fish those are? -no. -eh, don t be coy. [ laughs ] [ sniffs, clears throat ] koi fish. it can be overwhelming. think a second. have we seen this shirt before? progressive can t save you from becoming your parents. but we can save you money when you bundle home and au
here is something that encourages me. the taliban has taken over afghanistan. they don t have a pot to take a leak in. they don t have any money. the banks are empty. all the financial credit of afghanistan has been seized by the united states and other international regulators. they have no one picking up the trash, no one making the water run, no one making the lights go on. very shortly all of those necessary utilities will go by the wayside. the cell phones they treasure will soon not be working because there s no one maintaining the system. i would say now is a rare chance to get the taliban to comply, certainly to get the evacuations completed. i think that is very necessary. in terms of the military weak howie: my own take is that we may be looking at a kinder, gentler brutality on the part of the regime. it needs financial aid from the world and maybe that moderates
howie: with the undeniable chaos that has engulfed afghanistan, president biden continues to tell the public he made the right decision. sounds like you think we should have gotten out a long time ago. we should have. and accept the idea it would be messy no matter what. what would be messy? getting out would be messy no matter when it court. howie: we re back with geraldo rivera. we had hoped to speak to glenn greenwald but we ve had difficulties so that means more air time for you, geraldo. you actually favored pulling out of afghanistan years ago. here s joe biden saying no matter when we pulled out there would have been problems. everybody agrees, except those on tad medicine strayings payroll, the administration payroll, that the execution was horribly flawed with tragic consequences. do you think a lot of pundits and the foreign policy media
of allies are stuck in afghanistan, the administration doesn t know how many there are, i saw earlier on tv the national security advisor came out and said we will have a plan, the secretary of state, we will have a plan to get those people to the airport which means they re still trying to formulate a plan. how deep into this are we? and we re months into the administration. howie: it s heart-breaking. so we ve all agreed that biden is the commander in chief, this happened on his watch, it s on him right now. but some of the people from the trump administration are doing distancing, former national security advisor hr mcmaster says that his administration trump s administration negligence other yatesed a vein negotiated a surrender agreement,. a victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. this was a long process of missing opportunities at every step, maybe the original conception of doing anything in