cleared. now it turns out it was asked of the state department a couple of days ago, hey, all those americans on those six flights, did they ever leave? and the answer was, essentially, no. there were two qatar flights last week where i think 10 or 15 americans were able to get out. but the rest of those people are still in presumably masri shareef. here s the thing. the administration says, you know what? we pulled every lever but the taliban will not cooperate clean-up is what happens when you give away all of your leverage and then amp you give away the store then you say hey, by the way, can those people leave and the taliban is saying no. pete: because the taliban has every incentive and reason to identify just one name. all you need to say one name on the manifest or one person who should or should not be here we need more time to determine who they are, where their family members. i mean, it s all an intelligence
i think, in particular, of women judges who are now in hiding from the men they jailed. they have been put at risk for their contribution to justice and the rule of law. tonight evacuation flights from the afghan city of masri shareef are still grounded by the taliban. this as the u.s. state department is telling visa applicants they have to either apply in a neighboring country or online. neither positive news for those looking to leave afghanistan. bret? bret: i would say. trey yingst, live na in kabul early thursday morning. trey, thank you. back here at home, criticism continues tonight of how president biden conducted the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan, specifically allegations he ignored his military advisers. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has details. leaked from a classified hearing on the hill tuesday, further make the case president biden rebuffed his commanders and pressed on with a full
troops on the ground not to withdrawal. it wasn t millie who got us out of afghanistan it was joe biden. joe biden is the one that pushed us out of iraq. he has been wrong about everything. so i m tired of blaming trump. when trump left, bagram was in our hands as americans and we had 2500 troops on the ground. the reason the taliban are in charge today is because of joe biden not donald trump, not the generals. lawrence: congressman, the american people have a simple request. when are we going to get our people back? is it going to happen? are we going to have body bags of americans coming back to this country? well, let s call the situation what it is. it s the largest hostage crisis since 1979. in tehran. and now you are seeing the administration pushing humanitarian aid, which the taliban are going to control and distribute. let s call that what it is which is ransom. those 8 planes full of americans and full of our afghan allies are still to this day stuck up in an airport in
cabinet. taliban hadn t been letting americans get to the airport in kabul or leave the airport in masri shareef but now with one flight in the air the white house has praise for the taliban quote they have shown flexibility and they have within business-like and professional in our dealings with them in this effort. this is a positive first step. they you are saying taliban business like and professional the interior minister has a 10-million-dollar pointy on his head. we are here to celebrate the return of american citizens to wanted to leave afghanistan of legal permanent residents of afghan to why our side to qatar successful airlines flight. with that a tip of the cap to the taliban unlike the very harsh rhetoric used by the president this evening to describe americans who have not been vaccinated. he spoke more than 20 minutes, did not take any questions, did not mention afghanistan. bret?
real quick question. i don t know the answer to this or if you do. we note masri shareef planes are still ground and we know that americans are on board but the state department doesn t feel safe with a plane that they haven t walked through unlike the karzai airport evacuation where we saw hundreds of people sitting on a cargo jet, i m sure, haven t even been patted down. having said that are any people who were supposed to be in the masri shareef private planes going to be on these flights to qatar? they say there is 200 there and everyone will have passports and have tickets to their destination and visas. do we know if any of these have been mixed in that? ainsley: i heard them say it s unclear. griff: it is unclear. the u.s. officials speakerring on the commission of anonymity to rioters recent sure about that. it really underscores the significant questions we have because we don t have a single