complicated. what sam was saying, i understand from a source familiar with the situation, those on the airport consider themselves to be at pretty high risk, if they stay after august the 31st. that is essentially because taliban leadership have made it very clear directly to a senior u.s. military official that the 31st of august is nonnegotiable for all uniformed personnel. now, there may be some diplomatic presence that endures in kabul, but the military have to be off in the mind of taliban by the 31st of august, unless of course president joe biden makes a decision to change that timetable, which i have to say it sounds like the advice he s getting from the ground will make that a very tough call indeed. if that timetable is stuck to, i understand from the source that the military will begin what they call their retrograde, their packing up, their withdrawal into themselves tomorrow. that could of course change but that is what they will probably have to start doing if, indeed, th
or are they are they in the custody of of another group, another entity, kurds? where are the children that have been extracted? are they still in our custody? no. so according to a senior u.s. military official, they were turned over right away to some capable party is all we ve been told. the way that i kind of took the way the explanation we got about it was that they turned them over to someone who was nearby. and that was it. they never took the children into any kind of custody. what does that mean? nearby? we we don t really know. i mean, it s you look at the photos of that compound, it doesn t look like there are any neighbors nearby. and, in fact, general mckenzie just now specifically said that that they don t believe remember, this is not an isis area where he was found in this part of the province. in fact, there s some competing groups. al qaeda, right?
go live somebody somewhere else so that the u.s. so that you can be a guard force for some oil facilities. by the way, syria s not a big oil country. this is not saudi arabia. this is not bahrain. this is a country that has some oil, sure. but it s not a massive oil producing country in the gulf. i don t know how this fixation got into president trump s head. and and the kurdish people here are looking at this and and saying is the president trying to ethnically cleanse us? is he working with the people who are trying to push us out of our land? for what purpose? so that we can go and guard some relatively minor oil rigs? yeah. richard engel for us in syria. thank you for your continued excellent reporting from there for us. it is important that the world understands what s really going on. i want to bring in major general robert scales who served in the united states army for 30 years. he is a former commandant of the u.s. army war college. a u.s. military official told
right after a call with president erdogan, he had made no attempt tucker: they made this point for three years! made no attempt to make the point that he was directly influenced by erdogan against the advice of every single senior u.s. military official. tucker: the ones who kept us there fox news has kept reported that who do you trust, erdogan tucker: i tell you who i don t trust, the people who kept us in afghanistan for 18 years. they should be ashamed, some should be in jail. david, thanks. the second anonymous whistle-blower making allegations about the president s phone call with ukraine, to sort out what this is, fox s chief correspondent catherine herridge joins us. fox news and confirm that one day after the president s phone call with the ukrainian leader, the first whistle-blower wrote a
yesterday after a call with president air to one. tucker: has been talked about this for three years and the neocon wackos like you have successfully let me finish. he made no attempt to hide the fact that he was directly influenced by him. he made this decision against the advice of every single senior u.s. military official. tucker: the one who have kept us fox news have been reporting how shocked are dod officials. who do you trust? tucker: i will tell you i don t trust, the people who have kept us in afghanistan for 18 years. they should be ashamed, some should be in jail, i mean that. good to see you. thank you. tucker: just before the weekend began news emerged of a second anonymous whistle-blower making allegations about the president s phone call with ukraine. to sort out exactly what this is, catherine herridge joins us now. thank you. tonight fox news can confirm that on july 26, 1 after the president s phone call with ukraine leader, the first whistle-blo