i know our secretary of state spoke to this a few minutes ago. what i can add to it, we re going to continue to work with the united nations and allies and partners to provide assistance to those even without a presence on the ground. there s messages that we made clear to the taliban and i think secretary blinken reiterated this about what our the global community expects once we depart afghanistan. i ll tell you our commitment to the incredibly brave women and leaders and those in afghanistan that have fought alongside us, that have briefly stood not change our diminish even am
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
he noted also that of the 82,000 people that have been evacuated in all of this, about 45% women and children so far. but for those afghan allies that are clearly going to be abandoned, thousands perhaps if not tens of thousands are facing a very difficult new reality under taliban rule. martha? indeed. griff jenkins, thanks very much. we re waiting for jen psaki to come out. we expect more question and answer there. i want to bring you k.t. mcfarland from the trump administration and marc thiessen, american enterprise institute scholar and speechwriter for george w. bush. a couple quick questions here. 4,500 americans have been evacuated according to the secretary of state. he thinks the number is somewhere between 500 and 1,000 of those that are still remaining that want to get out. do those numbers sound correct to you? do you have any idea if they
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.