minutes ago making news acknowledging for the first time the stranded planes full of americans and afghan allies are in shareef after congressman michael mccaul sounded the alarm on sunday. in those comments blinken isn t calling it a hostage situation. listen. we have been able to identify a relatively small number of americans who we believe are seeking to depart with their families. we have been assured, again that all-american and afghan citizens with valid travel documents will be allowed to leave. griff: this after the state department over the weekend claimed credit for facilitating the rescue of four americans. a mother named meriam and her three kids saved by a private team who got them, drove them other land to the border and got them into another country. congressman markwayne mullin calling blinken s team out tweeting this is a flat out lie. the biden administration abandoned them. let s be clear. it was our team of patriots who worked around the clock for two weeks to ge
well as congressman markwayne mullin he is heavily involved in this as well. we had an actual ability with all of our special operations background to go in, identify, look at the various strategic planning and then try to plan evacs. originally it was air evac. that was absolutely thwarted by the centcom command and the state department when we tried to land our plane. we had approved ppr. we had a crew fly over approval faa. our plane had been designated as emergency humanitarian aircraft didn t have to meet just the seat standards but actually do weight and balance standard. which meant i could have up to 25 americans, brian on to that plane. and like 9,000 feet in dissent landing gear down with approved landing they waived us off. brian: unbelievable. did they give you an explanation why? they gave no explanation.
the administration. yeah. steve. first off let me commend cory mills and so many other veterans over the last three weeks sacrificed time and money in many cases to help fellow americans get out of afghanistan or in some cases the afghan interpreters who served locally beside them. there are real heroes of this tragedy: not surprising that the state department higher ups come rushing in any time they see a good news story and try to take credit of it really nothing but bad news about joe biden and tony blinken state department it continues to be the case that we have, perhaps, hundreds of americans effectively held hostage by the taliban inside of afghanistan. who are probably trying to he is distract who knows what kind of confessions from the biden administration. i will worry they will grant those concessions because they want afghanistan off the front pages and out of the mind of the american people. as long as our fellow americans
are stranded there we are not going to forget this catastrophe. brian: working with the foundation helping support them financially to do this. you know, i saw ron klain over the weekend. he is the chief of staff for president biden says there is about 100 left. we have been in touch with all of them. there is no way that s true and according to cory mills there is many more than 100 left. outside kabul, no one has gotten out. senator, we sit there. you are working the phone. senator blumenthal left wing senate democrat, is he outraged, too. are we just going to sit there and take it and allow them to play politics with people s lives and embarrass us internationally? is there anything we can do? no, brian. you are right. we are not. you are right that senator blumenthal and his team has been working on this issue very hard. we worked with them as well. trying to get these americans out of afghanistan. i understand the administration wants to turn the page. they want this out of th
fighters. ainsley: you have a democrat, senator richard blumenthal who is furious because he says we re not trying hard enough to get these americans out of afghanistan. you heard griff talk about this lady meriam and her three kids ages 2 to 15. they are american citizens. she went over there to visit her family, her parents. and congressman ronny jackson was saying after two weeks and multiple life threatening attempts we finally are getting her home, thanks to corey mills. corey mills, is a former dod official and combat veteran. and congressman mullin who is a republican out of oklahoma, he got an email from one of his friends who said will you please go save meriam and her kids. he contacted corey mills. and corey mills and veterans got her out. is he going to be on our show talking to brian at 6:30 this morning. steve: she tried two weeks. apparently the congressman s office tried to get her on those flights out of harmid car xie international airports when they were still flying