rescue americans stranded in kabul. her family is stranded in afghanistan. the white house said they will get every american out. you could quibble over the word stranded. that woman feels stranded. bill: with us now for reaction senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. thank you for your time and good morning to you. what has the administration told you? well, first let me say this is one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in american history. i think it s important to remember where we were a few months ago before the president s reckless decision to leave. we only had 2500 troops there. we hadn t lost a single american person, military personnel in a year. the taliban, barbarians were not in charge of the country. we were keeping the lid on. al qaeda was not there. so the decision to pull out was a huge mistake in my opinion. having made that decision, you
fox news confirmed cia director william burns met with the leader of the taliban meeting privately in kabul at an undisclosed location. highest level face-to-face meeting between the taliban and americans since the group took control of afghanistan. he was arrested 11 years ago in a joint c.i.a. operation with the pakistanis and eight years. this meeting comes a week away from the deadline to withdraw american troops from afghanistan. u.s. allies say it won t give them enough time to evacuate all the vulnerable afghan civilians from the country. more than 21,000 people were evacuated in the past 24 hours as flights from the country continue to ramp up. half of all evacuations from kabul since the taliban took over happened in the past two days alone. flight radars show more charters and one civilian plane landing at the airport.
knows who their loved ones are and that he is spending every day to get them out. he has been spending the last two days on the telephone threatening democrats to vote for tax increases. why isn t he working the phones to get americans out of afghanistan. it is a national and international disgrace. we re working hard to find out that answer. congressman waltz has legislation to get an accounting of all americans left behind. bill: these guys are hot on the hill. down the road we go to the pentagon now where the major headline from the taliban is that they re saying no extension of the deadline a week from today. let s drop in and get reaction there live at the pentagon. the count of 21,600 individuals leaving afghanistan in just 24 hours. to date 63,900 american citizens, nato and other
jen psaki after she said it is irresponsible to describe americans in afghanistan as stranded. here is the exchange with our own peter doocy. 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 via any way that can possibly reach americans to get them home if they want to return home. there are no american stranded is the white house s official position on what is happening in afghanistan? i m just calling you out for saying that we are stranding americans in afghanistan. shannon: i want to play some audio from an unidentified american women in kabul. this comes to us from a republican congress woman. does not sound like this woman is free to get herself to the airport which is what you have to do to get the safety. even
to say americans are stranded. they are not. we re committed to bringing americans home. no american stranded is the white house official position in afghanistan. i m calling you out for saying we re 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. ahead of that g7 meeting the president is meeting with his full national security advisors team. there were concerns raised about the u.s. continuing on the path toward the august 31st withdrawal and heard similar concerns from the british prime minister, boris johnson. awaiting news coming out of that meeting later on this morning. dana: busy day at the white house. bill: now we re trying to track down the cia director s secret meeting with the taliban leader in kabul. we go to doha, qatar.