one of them saying this is zero place to be negotiating with american lives. those are people standing on the tarmac and all it takes is a phone call. if one life is lost as a result of this, the blood is on the white house s hands. it s not known how many americans or how many they are are on board these planes but, again, it begs the question how could president biden have allowed the taliban to oversee the safe passage of americans out of afghanistan. lawrence: very clear the taliban is running the show right now. i had a navy seal on fox & friends yesterday. they are overseeing the private sector response to that they say that the state department and the state department are saying they need a plan before they can actually let them have these commercial flights leave. what are you hearing from the state department? because they are denying it right now. they are saying they don t have plane manifest. that s the issue. until they know who is on board
through american strength or their lack of projecting it when we had people on the ground. they are not going to be able to get people out when there are no americans there. the taliban rolled through afghanistan without having access to any of those dollars that they are saying are this, quote: leverage that they have on them. they are not extremely worried about that. now what do they have? they have the, quote, most advanced weaponry to go out there and do whatever it is they want to do in afghanistan or across other areas of the region. they have the leverage. lawrence: they re selling the equipment, too. people are under the impression. rachel: to iran. this is very serious situation. they have the frozen assets. this is the only leverage we have left. but, again, back to the point about why is the state department not helping in these efforts? it could be incompetence. some people have suggested that maybe there is a secret deal with the taliban that they have we don t know abo
legitimacy as the government of afghanistan. meanwhile there are reports of taliban brutality continue to grow including even the murder of a pregnant police woman in front of her own family. on thursday, both the white house and state department denied that the biden administration was preventing any planes from leaving. but as commercial planes start landing again in kabul, americans engaged in the rescue efforts claim the state department is thought only thing preventing those flights from leaving afghanistan. one of them saying this is zero place to be negotiating with american lives. those are people standing on the tarmac and all it takes is a phone call if one life is lost as a result of this the blood is on the white house s hands. now the white house saying it doesn t know how many americans are on board those planes or who they are exactly there are 1,000 american afghan allies left in the country. dozens of americans as well trying to flee. their safety is now dependent on
have not lived up to that promise. todd: to add insult to injury, president biden is on vacation this weekend during all of this, during this latest development. what does it say about a person whether they go on vacation instead of solve ago problem that they ultimately caused? right. well, remember, he was on vacation when all this started. his entire administration was on vacation. i m not sure they ever came off vacation the way this thing was handled. it was just, you know, the keystone cops from the very beginning. and it hasn t gotten any better. we have utterly abandoned this country. we have abandoned americans within this country. the mainstream media right now though is trying to make it go away so that they can change the topic with americans stranded with. iv applicants stranded with panjshir valley under heavy assault. the word i have is that it s not over there yet. but with all of this happening, you have got everybody checked out or the media is trying to change th
rachel: england. lawrence: military brat. rachel: that would be find kind of fun. lawrence: rachel is doing double time this morning. rachel: teaser getting into the news cycle. lawrence: start with a fox news alert. the taliban claiming victory over afghan resistance fighters in panjshir province. rachel: if true it marks the fall of the final holdout of the anti-taliban forces in the country. todd: benjamin hall has more on breaking news as top republican says the terror group is appreciating planes carrying americans and allies from leaving afghanistan. benjamin, good morning. are todd, rachel, lawrence, good morning. there is still conflicting reports coming out of the panjshir valley. the taliban claim they have taken over all of it. the key reis i tans say they hold the key resistance points. remain to be seen if they are defeated. six planes unable to escape