forces in the south to finish in reaching their objectives so that they can in fact be reinforced. now, the ukrainians cannot allow that. they must use what we call interior lines to continue to hold the line against russian forces in the south, continue to hit hard russian forces that have temporarily been been held up around kyiv. all right. thank you so much for this analysis, dana pitard. also author as i was mentioning at the top there of hunting the caliphate, america s war on isis and the dawn of the strike cell. thank you for joining us. let s turn now to brussels and kevin liptack is there with the very latest. joe biden landing in brussels. emergency meetings. it is obviously a very, very historically sensitive time now for this western alliance as russia continues its assault on ukraine, kevin. reporter: yeah, it certainly
that led to what he said was a confirmation bias. they found a white toyota corolla, they believed it was at an isis-k safe house and they began following it for the next eight hours. because as they followed it, the activities that could have been benign and now we know, of course, were benign activities by this driver in this vehicle, at the time they used what he called a confirmation bias and they looked at the activity and said, well, those are suspicious. we ll keep following them. eight hours later they decided to take the drone strike. because of what happened here in the aftermath of this, jen saed is recommending three specific things. he said the u.s. needs to take introduce some new procedures that will help mitigate this confirmation bias from happening again. he also says there needs to be better communication. so with the strike cell in qatar and the people providing more intelligence that s feeding into the information, the strike cell is seeing, they need to communic
interviewed with leaders on the ground and members of strike cell. only the team s interpretation of how this vehicle and its ok pa occupants actions were confirmed. it s further my assessment that the strike team were convinced at the time of strike that the area was clear of civilians and they had taken prundent steps t minimize the potential for civilian casualties. our investigation now concludes that the strike was a tragic mistake. first, i would stress this was not a rushed strike. a strike cell deliberately followed and observed this vehicle and its occupants for eight hours while cross checking what they were seeing all available intelligence to develop a reasonable certainty
alicia: trey yingst reporting from kabul with the qatari air force. thank you remember, we ll bring you president biden s speech on afghanistan at 4:00 p.m. eastern today, right here on fox news. benjamin: president biden is stoat to address the nation on the latest in afghanistan after meeting with his national security team. joining us now is retired u.s. army general major patard. he is the author of hunting the caliphate, america s war on isis and the dawn of the strike cell. dana, thank you for being with us today. i know that you have said in the past the operations that we re seeing right now, the non-come non-combatant evacuation operations are some of the hardest operations the u.s. has to contend with. president biden said this is one of the most difficult air lifts in history. the contingency plans are in place for events like this so why the chaos we re seeing at the moment.
critical liberty and justice dinner here in iowa. eric? eric: matt, thank you very much. arthel? arthel: eric, thank you. isis names a new leader following the death of abu al baghdadi, during a u.s. raid in northern syria last sunday. for more on this and the terror group threat of revenge ton united states, let s bring in the author hunting the caliphate america s war on isis and the dawn of the strike cell. retired army major general david picard also the initial u.s. commander on the ground fighting isis in iraq in 2014. general, thank you for being here with us. good afternoon, arthel. arthel: absolutely. so we re just reporting here that the new leader released a 1200 world communique, threatening revenge on the u.s. how seriously do you take this threat? i think we should take that threat very seriously. now, isis has been dealt, you know, a catastrophic blow with the death of al baghdadi, but