Photos show nuclear sites, they are falling apart. Its a National Security nightmare. How did the u. S. Government happen . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Donald trump is trying to bolster his image as the potential commander in krechief promising to beef up his military might. Theres growing pressure to release his tax returns as his running mate prepares to go public with his i. R. S. Forms. Trump has said for months he cant release the Tax Information because hes under audit. Now trump is suggesting that he would share his tax returns if Hillary Clinton agreed to an unlikely deal and released thousands of her controversial emails. Another story were following. New photos reveal extensive damage at Americas Nuclear sites. A National Security risk that the next president will face. The Images Released by Congress Shows some decades over facilities. They are leaking and they have rotted. Ill talk a
happened again, and you mentioned some of the threats we have coming across our southern border, the recruitment issues we have, are we ready, do we have what it takes right now to respond properly and effectively and lethally to dangers like that? september 10th, 2001, had you asked that question to whoever was sitting in this seat i think they would have had all of these reservations, this anxiety, concern, maybe apprehensions about being able to answer it. now, knowing hindsight is perfectly clear of what happened on september 11th and what the world looked like on september 112th, do you september 12th, do you remember what that world looked like, flags on every doorstep, the queen playing our star spangled banner in front of her pal a has for the first time palace for the first time in history, that happened tomorrow as they re burying her right now. that was unity. we talk about solidarity. let s talk about america on
they could have never, never acquired themselves, could only have dreamed of. and now we see al-qaeda s back in the mix as well. yeah, absolutely. so the irony in all this is we went into afghanistan to drive out the taliban, prevent it from supporting groups like al-qaeda. afghanistan is in a far worse state than it is today than it was on september 10th, 2001. the taliban is in full control of afghanistan, it has that significant weaponry. these numbers don t include all the munitions that are used to supply these weapons. again, the bases, the fuel that we left behind, a whole bunch of equipment that the taliban is taking advantage of. and this is a significant threat to the region and in the long term to the united states as well. pete: yeah. we left it worse hand we found it, which is not better off for us, certainly. bill, thank you so much for all your coverage and your insight on this. appreciate it. thank you very much. pete: you re right, that $7
to the top member of the haqqani network, a terrorist network affiliated with al qaeda and part of the taliban government. some terrorist experts were saying yesterday in some ways it feels like we ve returned to september 10th, 2001, where once again, the taliban is in control of afghanistan and al qaeda has a friendly patron there. peter baker, great seeing you. i thank you for your time. up next, we ll go live to kentucky where rescuers are still searching for hundreds of people missing in deadly flooding. there s a new challenge for them today. we ll tell you about that next. you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. watching diaz-balart reports. for too long, big pharma has been squeezing americans for every penny, and inflation has only added to the pain. but congress has a historic opportunity to deliver relief, by passing a bill to let medicare negotiate lower drug prices and put money back in the pockets of seniors. 87% of americans support the plan,
thank you for taking the time this morning. jim, good to be with you. year aware of your criticism of the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan and also your demands for blinken to resign as a result. he s testifying today. i wonder, what do you want to hear from him today and would it be beneficial to hear an acknowledgment of the failures here? well it certainly would be. because in my view this is the most humiliating disaster of my lifetime and i think this country is less safe today than we were on september 10th, 2001. it is telling that my 10-year-old daughter is last week and this week learning the history of 9/11. not having been alive when that happened and yet it seems that our own president hasn t learned the lesson of 9/11. so we ve got a lot of questions and the american people deserve answers to those questions. one of those questions to this president and to the secretary