unless you are taking kabul. he said it didn t seem like a former offer so i said i just wanted the airport. so you gave away the city. so the follow up question was to paraphrase. he said we did not have enough forces to take it you got 5,000 there in a week. you were priding yourself on contingency operations. if you can get 5800, you never lost a single battle with a taliban face to face in 20 years. steve: right. brian: you think that you couldn t get another 5,000 to secure the perimeter to prevent an airport from being guarded by the taliban and the guy in charge was known as the man in charge of suicide bombers case in point, a suicide bomber blew up that gate that killed 1 americans and wound 18 more do you hear what was going on yesterday? i know you are busy and have got a job. some of the interactions were so unacceptable from our men in brass especially when you consider who is in jail right
think it s important for the american people to know that these conversations don t happen in black and white or like you re in the middle of a movie. the president made clear that the advice was split. he didn t outline what every individual conveyed to him in private advice. martha: let s bring in katy pavlich, a fox news contributor. katy, obviously cleanup to be done. we heard from all of these military leaders. their advices, they said yes, we laid it out to the president but the president chose to go his own way and that s his prerogative. right. that s not what the press secretary said. she said that his military advisers were split on this decision. the follow up question is which general or which military adviser told the president he should take out 2,500 troops and exit afghanistan in this way? she refused to give a name and gave general statements about that. the bottom line is if you look
caught. texas governor greg abbott talked to us about this today. he says he wants all those migrants who did that jailed and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. we will send it back to you. pete: bill, thanks. real quick, follow up question. how much other national media are you seeing there right now in the images are staggering. the information you are providing is phenomenal. is anyone else covering this? they are. finally. you know, a couple days ago once all of our drone imams blew up and all the coverage here started to go viral, all the other national networks did start showing up and to their credit did start reporting what was going on down here which was nice to see because as you know fox news has been down here at the border literally all year long for the better part of seven months covering what s been happening down here. so it was nice to have some company down here. pete: bill, good on you leading the way. we appreciate it joining me now dana loesch, na
don t we let people bathe the way they want to bathe? yeah. first of all, let people bathe. you have a gift with words. i think that s a fair statement. i don t know who can oppose that. let them bathe! chris, i m but, chris, i m i m going to ask you what we call the followup, you know, in journalism. because you, obviously, are around some of this. it s great when we take some inspiration from people because of their work or there are obviously they are on stage, they re on camera. and yet, then there becomes this thing of using them as a stand-in for other topics and it s like i m sure people gossiped since the dawn of time. but it s now amplified in a way where are do you feel like using public people or celebrities to then judge other people s parenting doesn t seem that fair or wise? um, i m familiar with the term. an excellent follow-up question.
in kabul who may work have worked for u.s. aggies or who work for other governments and the follow up question is, at some point without you speculating, this is a nato mission. is it possible the u.s. could work with other nato allies to evacuate other personnel? on your first question, i think i ve characterized this mission. i m going to leave it at that. this is a u.s. decision by the u.s. commander-in-chief to reduce civilian personnel and to have u.s. military personnel flow in to help with that reduction. so it s not a nato mission. that said, we fully anticipate to be in close consultation with allies and partners going forward. if we can be of assistance to them if they desire to make changes in their footprint, then the secretary fully intends to