your strategic advantage. martha: reports of taliban fighters beating up an afghan tv crew. it s not a good sign of the media and the free press under the leadership of these militants. i ll speak with a former producer and host for the same network that escaped after getting death threats and trying to get her mother and sister and family out of afghanistan right now. first greg palkot reporting live from clan london. martha, fox news has learned that more journalists have been attacked in kabul today. a reporter for total news, the
biggest in afghanistan, was beaten up, fighters and cameras confiscated even show they showed press i.d. this is not the first. take a listen to the chief of the media group. this is very concerning for us. if people are not safe venturing out and talking to people, literally one kilometer from the office, this is not like in the middle of nowhere, what is the future of a free media? the anchor for the same network interviewed a taliban official live in the studio talking about the harsh tone of the taliban. we have learned this week she s left the country along as others that were given the chance to evacuate. as the taliban challenged desperate people trying to flee the country at kabul s airport, they re challenging a free press that we watched grow for 20 years. the taliban has said that the
number 1, it is that the taliban, the contingency of the taliban honoring their compliments publicly and privately to ensure safe passage of americans that want to get out can get out beyond next tuesday. that is what we re hinging all of this on. a very interesting development because if you are not able to get into that airport and you re an american, that clock that was ticking just got a little louder and faster knowing that you re fully dependent now on the taliban honoring their word. the secretary also said that if indeed the taliban does not honor their commitment, then he will use every diplomatic, economic tool that he had as hits disposal to isolate that government and it will be one that they cannot work with. a very interesting press conference there indeed. the first press conference the secretary state since the fall of kabul.
contingency plans and received a briefing this morning. these are serious issues and discussions happening internally. i notice in addition to the contingency plans that he requested, he also i will reiterate as we stated yesterday that this is all contingent on us achieving our objectives and the continued coordination with the taliban. the president has spoken, i would say to this issue, peter, as you know, you ve attended a number of these and he also highlighted the fact that we re closely watching, closely following the threats from isis k which he also received a briefing on. his remarks last night, does he think the build back better plan is as sensitive as the evacuation of americans and afghan friendlies from kabul? first of all, it s important to the american people that care deeply about whether they will have jobs, whether they re going
with. if it doesn t, we will make sure that we use every appropriate tool at our disposal to isolate that government and, as i said before, afghanistan will be a pariah. what will happen on september 1? will the u.s. keep any diplomatic and/or any other kind of presence in kabul at all and who will run the airport? is there any discussions with the turks with the military withdrawal? thanks. there are very active efforts underway on the part of regional countries to see whether they can play a role in keeping the airport open once our military