after the disaster that unfolded on their watch. don t buy it. what they have been selling us for 20 years didn t work. steve: you know, because the images are so bad, pete, you know, the white house and the state department is in damage control mode. the secretary of state blinken yesterday got on the phone and called united kingdom, china, india, pakistan, russia, turkey just. why? steve: had to explain, hey, listen, you know, apparently this is why we did it because he didn t have a good answer. pete: here is another lie of the afghan war. that we were part of a coalition. i had a patch on my shoulder called 9 isap. we called it i saw americans fighting. there were 50 flags at the embassy. 50 flags at the airport of countries that were supposed to be art pa of this coalition. do you know how many of them fought? one. the united states of america. sure the brits had some good troops. brian: australia. pete: i worked with good australian troops.
out in addition to what you have in kabul. so it is really demoralizing to see. but, what s more demoralizing is the utter failure of our defense department and intelligence agency to understand the nature of the enemy and that we created an afghan army from a country that didn t exist. there is no afghanistan. the it pashtuns don t relate to etch auto other. tribalism to its core. you can t create a central government and military that stands up for that it s a fool s errand unfortunately. steve: we heard have clearly from the commander-in-chief yesterday the buck stops here but don t blame me. we didn t know exactly where kamala harris was request with w. this adventure and she tweeted this out for two decade our courageous service members put their lives on the line in afghanistan. we will always be grateful and proud ending u.s. military involvement in afghanistan is the right decision, she said. and joe biden yesterday said, you know, i am bound by donald
ainsley: look at the stunning picture showing hundreds of people packed on a u.s. cargo ship desperate to escape. the president thought everything would be fine and that was not the case. deeply saddened by the fact we now face but i do not regret my decision. august 2021 will be looked upon a tipping point for the islamist american weakness and islamist fred makes landfall. it declaring a state of emergency as streets mexico beach become submerged. it advising most americans to get a booster shot. at this point i don t see a good argument for it natural immunity that many people have provides the same level of protection. gavin newsom has a new campaign out. what s at stake in the september 14th recall is a matter of life and death. shows that gavin newsom truly is terrified. don t let the fear tactics fool you. steve: fox news alert. 7:00 in new york city.
tune in tomorrow night at 9:00 pm eastern. donald trump will join us to talk about the situation in afghanistan and how allowing conditions on the ground in the intel community and military commanders given the advice and listen. don t forget to set your dvr and don t let your heart be troubled. you have secretary of state mike pompeo. laura: we do. i m curious what he has to say about what the state department said, conditions for recognizing the new afghan government. the taliban fears pompeo, they feared it trump, they believe both of them. that s not the case anymore. laura: great show tonight.
most of them, probably republican amendments with an open process and they basically shut their own amendments down. and i have to give a shout out to senator schumer because we have voted on more amendments in this senate, this new democratic senate to date, in a half a year, than mitch mcconnell allowed to be voted on in two years. and so they decided, for whatever reason, to shut themselves down, and so now we re trying to work with them to say, all right, let s come up with an agreement so we re not just running the time on the clock, that we can vote on amendments or we can move forward on process, we know what the final outcome is going to be, i believe. the votes are there for this. and certainly the american people have waited long enough for infrastructure week. so at this point i don t see what the republicans that are objecting gain, other than if