0 california adventure with you but this just laura: this just broke. andrew cuomo just commuted the sentence of chess abu dean s father who was in prison for murder, sorry, just robbery of an armored truck. we will be in la tomorrow. to protect our troops. tuesday august 2, 04, we start with a fox news alert, president biden turning his back and avoiding questions on the crisis in afghanistan as the taliban is a clear threat to washington, the president is under intense pressure to decide whether or not to extend his august 30 first deadline to keep us troops in kabul is a countless number of americans remain stranded behind enemy lines. you are watching fox and friends first . we go straight to jeff griff jenkins as we expect a decision on that deadline today. reporter: there is enormous pressure on the president to decide whether to extend past the august 30 first deadline which the taliban calls are redlined. the chairman of the house intelligence committee is expressing
phone, text, email via anyway we can possibly reach americans to get them home if they want to return home. there are no americans stranded is the white house s official position on what s happening in afghanistan right now. i m just calling you out for saying that we are stranding americans in afghanistan. jesse: really? maybe she should tell this to unidentified american who sure sounds like she is stranded in kabul. jesse: so who are we to believe the spin artist worried about covering her boss butt or the terrified woman worried for her life? joining me now pete hegseth afghanistan war vet and fox & friends weekend co-host and sean collins former navy jag adviser who has negotiated with the taliban and survived two assassination attempts. all right, pete. jen needs her head checked. she sound like baghdad bob up
in the 20 years that we ve been on the ground there. neil: general, if you heard peter doocy talking to jen psaki on the mixed signals coming out of the oval office, this is earlier today. take a listen. have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving afghanistan. it s the way that he has ordered it to happen. by pulling the troops before getting these americans who are now stranded. does he have a sense of that? first of all, it s irresponsible to say they re stranded. they re not. we re committed to bringing them home. we re in touch via phone, text, e-mail, anyway that i can can reach americans to get them home if they want to return home. there s no americans stranded is the while house s official position of what is happening in afghanistan? i m calling you out for saying we re stranding americans in afghanistan. she did say no americans are
americans being, quote, stranded in afghanistan. take a listen to her response. i think it s irresponsible to say americans are stranded. they are not. we are committed to bringing americans who want to come home, home. we are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach americans to get them home if they want to return home. i m just calling you out for saying that we are stranding americans in afghanistan when we have been very clear that we are not leaving americans who want to return home. we are going to bring them home. to be clear, the white house, the national security council, the state department, the pentagon, all the troops over there, they are working day and night to get americans out. and we shouldn t pretend that they aren t. but that said, there are also no doubt americans in afghanistan, i know for a fact, who feel as though they have been stranded, at least as of right now. so, i don t understand the point she s making
but that is a surprising bit of news during all of this. oren, i want you to take a listen to something that white house press secretary jen psaki just said a few minutes ago about americans still in afghanistan. i think it s irresponsible to say americans are stranded. they are not. we are committed to bringing americans who want to come home, home. we are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach americans to get them home if they want to return home. i m just calling you out for saying that we are stranding americans in afghanistan when we have been very clear that we are not leaving americans who want to return home. we are going to bring them home. look, i understand that people are working long hours in the white house, the national security council, state department, pentagon and over in kabul to get americans out of that country. and i understand the white house wanting to reassure the nation that all americans will ultimate