Get off the ground in planes but penned in at the Kabul Airport with taliban terrorists holding the ground around it. President biden will try to say something today. What will that be . Meanwhile, Fox News spoke exclusively with an afghan journalist what it is like watching her nation crumble. I had lots of dreams and lots of hopes. I am in a bad situation and im trying to find a way. It is not looking good here. There is lots of firing. [inaudible] no one could not fight taliban. Harris wow, if the Usa Cant do it, nobody can do it. The pentagon says more than 5,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul Airport over the last day. The grand total, 12,700 people since last saturday. And weve been told by the pentagon they are working and so is the State Department to get actual numbers of how many americans are still in afghanistan outside that airport. Senator Lindsey Graham says there will be a big price to pay if the evacuations are cut short. Were duty bound to get every american citizen out. Were honor bound to get those afghans who fought along our side out. Here is what i would say. If we leave any americans behind and leave thousands of those afghans who fought along our side behind bravely, Joe Biden deserves to be impeached for a high crime and miss demeanor of Dereliction Of Duty. Harris Republican Congressman Brian Mast a veteran served in afghanistan. He is in focus this hour. I want to first go to Lucas Tomlinson who is reporting from the pentagon and you heard me refer there to the numbers of americans that we need to understand are outside that perimeter being held now by taliban thugs. There is roughly 6,000 u. S. Troops now on the ground in kabul at the airport but under strict orders not to leave to rescue any potential americans or vulnerable afghans in Downtown Cap you will. Is there a deal that restricts u. S. Forces to the airport . No. There is no deal that restricts forces to the airport. But, bret, thats where the mission is. Reports british and french forces are going downtown to rescue their paper. Austin said forces dont have the capability to rescue large numbers of people in downtown kabul. More u. S. Troops would be required as Evacuation Flights continue to ramp up nearly 6,000 people evacuated. 300 people per flight over Mass Capacity about the aircraft. The u. S. Taxpayer funding the Afghan Army to the tune of 85 Billion over the past 20 years. President biden said something about that last month. President biden provided our afghan partners with all the tools. All the tools, Training Equipment of any modern military. We provided Advance Weaponry and we will continue to provide funding and equipment. Now over 600,000 american weapons are in the hands of the taliban. Over 75,000 vehicles, mostly humvees and pickups and 200 aircraft including Helicopter Gun ships. The u. S. Government is counting on the taliban to help americans and afghans get access to the airport. Harris thank you very much. American citizens stuck in afghanistan pleading for help as chaos was taking over kabul. Lets watch together. As you can see there are a lot of people here. We need support. This is what we shouldnt deserve after serving you guys for a while. Im calling on everyone. Im pleading. Im bleeding. Harris afghan interpreter who worked for the u. S. Fearing for his life now. I am sure that if they capture me they will kill me. Like many hundreds of people. This is the wrong policy of the united states. It means that i have five children and they are not in risk of life. It means that if they see me, they will catch my children and kill them as well. They is very terrible for me. I wish i didnt work with the united states. Harris wow, i wish i didnt work with the united states. Someone who has been there on the ground in afghanistan. Brian mast is a Republican Congressman from Florida Member of the house foreign Affairs Committee and army veteran. Congressman mast, where to begin. There is so much to get our arms around here. I want to start here. Lucas tomlinson reporting from the pentagon that our Men And Women In Uniform are not allowed to go outside or try to get outside that taliban perimeter to get americans. Yet im reading reports about french troops doing just that. What do you make of that . What is your reaction to that . Its so dangerous in this respect. It is very clear the biden Administrations Objective is always optics. They were probably trying to do this because they wanted the optics of being out before 9 11. Now they are trying to keep the optics of this not a combat mission. It is the optics that will put people in even further danger. Instead of going out there and making the taliban our Hostages America is on day seven or eight of the afghanistan Hostage Crisis for us. Until we flip that scenario back to where it was prior to this, we cant safely get our people out. Let me expand on this just a little bit more. We gave up the most secure Air Base bagram, probably in the world, for a totally nonsecure Air Base. We heard President Biden say we gave them the most advanced weaponry. So every minute that goes by their understanding and capabilities further and further. What do they have to shoot down an aircraft from surface to air . What Drone Capabilities did they pick up by taking over the u. S. Military equipment they can fly into an aircraft given they will be flying thousands of americans and others out of this situation . It could rapidly deteriorate if we dont make them our hostages. Harris i want to unpack that a little bit. Some of it is really jarring. You call it the afghanistan Hostage Crisis. Im starting to hear that in different ways. Here is Senator Tom Cotton from yesterday on focus in arkansas. You are tying together something. Lets watch. A lot of people have been speaking this week about comparisons to saigon in 1975. What increasingly worries me is tehran in 1979 when 52 hostages held by the imagine if the taliban has effective Hostage Control of thousands of americans stranded in afghanistan . It would be a catastrophe. Harris so Congressman Mast, how do we keep that from happening . This goes back to we have to make the taliban our hostages as they were previous to this administration. We were drawing down. We need to go back there and take control of the places that create that situation. We had the most secure embassy in the world, most secure Air Base. Until we get out beyond this line we dont have the high ground. Harris i want to interject as we go along to cover a lot of ground here. My immediate follow up is do we have enough people there . We know there were about 6,000 troops on the ground today. They are at the airport. If youre the enemy thats handy knowledge. Why not push that perimeter out . How many people do you really need to do that . I think you unpacked that in two separate ways. We know what happened immediately after 9 11 the way that u. S. Forces were able to go and move across afghanistan with a very minimal force. But this is not the same thing. We are talking about a very dense urban area that has a Mob Mentality going on with it where they have taken over what were previously american high ground positions, very secure positions like our embassy as an example. Extremely fortified places and they are learning about their capabilities more and more. So that is not the same situation. I believe if we want to flip that script it will take significantly more forces than what we have there right now. And you look at that, any Threat Assessment that you can do on this to move people off of that airstrip would result in what you would see as a situation that nobody would want to take an aircraft off that Landing Strip. Harris wow. And you told us so much with that information, too. I know you know on the ground. Are there areas where there are american citizens that are in areas where they cant even move . Im curious to know about the landscape. We arent getting crisp numbers of how many american citizens are outside the perimeter of Kabul Airport. Dont you have to know how many people you have to go get . Thats a question that weve been asking for months. As an example just on the foreign Affairs Committee the answers were the same as what the Press Secretaries are giving us now. We dont know. Why didnt you figure that out over the last couple of months . But to your question about getting those people out of there, yeah, we have to know exactly where they were. My office is receiving messages in realtime. Im in this hotel. Im in this hotel room. They are going doortodoor here. We are looking at this out of this place. I separated from my family and moved them to this orchard. Im in this heroin field. We are going from this place. If we can get across the hindu kush. What if we cross the china border, would that be a possibility . Individuals on the ground are trying to play out every possible scenario. They are sending messages saying i got as close to 10 to 20 meters from the marines on the ground there and i was wore eefd that i was going to get captured because i saw these people pulling in. These are Realtime Messages that we are receiving from first and second hand sources that are sending them to us saying can you send this to the State Department. Can you get this to one of the marines on the perimeter there . It is literally that specific. Can you get this to the marine on the ground . Can you show them this picture of me and the commander and my State Department paperwork so theyll let me in . Harris you talk about the potential for hostage taking. Im thinking of who could be involved right now and that type of specificity means that somebody who has got Tech Capabilities like a china or russia, can they intercept our messages . I dont want to make it bigger than what it is but come on, we know our own government wants to work with Tech Companies to watch us. Whats possible . Just quickly could you factor that in . Well, we know for a fact right now messages that were receiving we arent receiving through encrypted coding. They arent secure messages. These people are trying to find any way possible. Whatsapp, facebook, email, some kind of Phone Call they can get out. Whatever way they can get out a message to somebody that maybe they served with as an Interpreter Or Somebody that they knew, a company that they worked with, anybody. And they are trying to say hey, can we get this to representative Mast Or Senator Cotton Or Somebody in the State Department. Trying to find any way possible to get the message to somebody that might be able to make a difference. Harris further risking themselves for interception of any of that from what youre saying. That was my question. Congressman Brian Mast, well have you back. Incredible information what it might be like on the ground if we cant get everybody out. Appreciate your time, sir. Thank you. Thank you, maam. Harris new questions about the lasting impact of the crisis for americas standing on the global stage. Will our allies still trust us and our enemies still fear us . Thats an open question now. Harris this as we learn new information about russias president Vladimir Putins unwavering effort to maintain his influence in Central Asia and this. The fact is, they chose to ignore the Intelligence Community and ignored his top generals. In my view a real Dereliction Of Duty by the commanderinchief. Harris Information Bursting about what President Biden knew and when he knew it. 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The decision means that any migrants who are coming across this border from mexico, which is straight ahead of us to the south there, they can now be turned back or have to be turned back according to this decision and told to wait in mexico while their Asylum Claims are processed. It is a policy that President Trump introduced and President Biden scrapped pretty much immediately. But now he is told as of today it has to be back in place. Now, with the flood of migrants continuing, harris, it is not just Border Patrol that is hard pressed here. It is also local Law Enforcement. Our cameras were out last night with members of the police department, one of the small towns on the border here. Those Police Officers are hard pressed every night doing what they can offering humanitarian relief to the migrants who are often disoriented, dehydrated and desperate. Listen to Sergeant Gaza of the la jolla, pd. It happened in march when we noticed and at the beginning we were all shocked we would find a group of 20, 30 and we were like wow. And then as the months went on, the numbers increased and right now we see 20, okay, no big deal. And now with this, let me tell you, its overwhelming. Overwhelming for everyone involved, harris. I have to point out the humanitarianism we see every day and every night being practiced by the Police Officers who are out here and most of all by Border Patrol agents, it is very much the best of america as those Law Enforcement agents from every branch of Law Enforcement try to deal with what is on this border a humanitarian as well as a national security crisis. Harris. Harris jonathan, thank you very much. Lets bring in k. T. Mcfarland now. We had a little tech difficult there. Former deputy national Security Advisor under President Trump and author of revolution, trump, washington and we the people. K. T. Thank you for being in focus. I want to start where Jonathan Hunt was just reporting. The best of america are representing us right now handling the onslaught of people coming across our southern border. Texas getting ready to accept Afghan Refugees. The judge saying return to trump policies today. Your reaction. The trump policies were working. Thank goodness a judge has the ability and Common Sense to reinstate them even if the biden administration refuses. The biden administration has obsessively taken every trump policy, even the successful ones and jetsoned them. Now you have a crisis on the u. S. Southern border and afghanistan. There are penalties to pay. We have an open border in the south. As a result our Border Patrol people are overwhelmed and now have to deal with 20, 30,000 Afghan Refugees in another part of the world. It is asking too much of our people. Harris well, and the Vetting Process has to be a little bit difficult, too. Because we know among the taliban Second In Command in afghanistan is al qaeda. I would imagine if we have an open border situation, k. T. That frustrates the whole thing by we cant calculate what our Border Patrol will have to do now. Fox news confirming a State Department memo last month warned that afghanistan could collapse after the troop withdrawal deadline. The clearest evidence yet that the White House had knowledge that a taliban attack was imminent and the afghan military would not be able to stop it. Here is former acting dna rick grenell. Today talking to multiple State Department officials, Foreign Service Officers, career officials, and the warnings were early. The troops were removed before american civilians or Foreign Service Officers and embassy personnel were removed. How do you do that . Harris the leader of national intelligence just a few months ago. This Isnt Something like they basically must have handed them a binder with this is in it and more intel on top of that. How does this play out do you think, k. T. The national Security Council Bert have some explaining to do. All that information would have come through them from the Intelligence Community, military community, diplomatic community, State Department. All those people were feeding the information into the administration and saying were worried. Were worried about the imminent collapse. The biden administration put americans back in there. We are to the point where we have 10 to 30,000 americans all across the country and their only way of getting out is to find their way to kabul and to a third World Airport with one Landing Strip and somehow get past checkpoints to get on a plane. Good luck. Harris quickly. You threw out a ballpark big figure. The ballparking being done by the people who should absolutely know today is critical according to Congressman Mast who says as military how can they even prepare to widen out the perimeter and go get people if they dont know how many people theyre looking for . To me a really scary statement happened yesterday when the Defense Department Spokesman Admiral Kirby was asked how many americans are in afghanistan and he sort of had this deer frozen in the Headlight Look and he said we dont know. Thats a pretty staggering statement. Go ask the State Department. Maybe that i know. Their answer was anyone who wants to get out can get out. Im worried about the people who cant get to kabul. We gave up the most important Military Bases we had there. The one way we could have gotten people in and out was bag gram. Now were stuck with a third World Airport with a couple of stone buildings and taliban surrounding the perimeter of it and saying to americans make your way there. What if you cant make your way there . Harris one of the reasons why i call them the stone age enemy. Infrastructure is better than weve been there for 20 years an it every was. More foreign aware issues for President Biden. Russian president Vladimir Putin told biden at their June Summit that he objected to any role for American Forces in Central Asian countries. That of course would undercut Military Efforts to stop terrorism. All of this causing one prominent u. K. Leader to question the united States Role on a global stage. Lets watch. Were asking the question over here is it The End Of America as the global Super Power . This is a disaster. It is a watershed moment. Im not sure anybody has quite yet realized the damage Joe Biden has done to america and to the free world. Harris is that a fair question . Yeah, i think it only gets worse. Vladimir putin said that to biden. At that same moment he was meeting with President Biden, his hackers were hacking into u. S. Companies and corporations and u. S. Government. If he was also saying to Joe Biden you keep your nose out of central america, those belong to us, these are free nations. Harris Central Asia. If you say to Central Asia you have to get your nose out of there. You wont be able to have any presence there at all. No intelligence presses or any military presence there thats a big pushback. At the same time the chinese are saying the same thing because they are planning to use those Central Asian resource rich countries as an essential part of their silk road, Belt Road strategy. Harris when you hear Nigel Farage say were in jeopardy of losing our standing of a Super Power. To our enemies fear us and our allies still want to be with us . Two things that he said. One, by the way, when Joe Biden did not pick up the phone and call the british Prime Minister and say we were withdrawing. It took him two days to make that Phone Call. Thats a message to our allies we dont care about you and well do our own thing. Second is countries around the world that are adversaries will take advantage of this moment not today but maybe in month, two, three months. Taiwan, south china sea, ukraine. It is a watershed moment and i sure hope we can push it around in a different direction. Otherwise maybe it is americas decline until there is a new president. Harris k. T. Mcfarland in focus today. Good to see you. Thanks. Harris some of those Runaway Texas Democrats are back in the lone Star State after dramatically fleeing last month to protest the Gop Voting Reform bill. That bill may pass after all and pretty quickly. Details on that. There they are maskless on a plane. Something no one else in america can do. The nation stands divided over masks in schools and misleading messages from the White House claiming State Governments are trying to ban masks in schools entirely. 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As the debate divides parents nationwide critics are pointing to misleading Talking Points from the White House. Media outlets have often reported that President Biden is discouraging republican governors from outright banning masks in schools when republican governors have only banned Mask Mandates. Thats interesting. Biden appeared to blur the lines on this again two days ago. President biden some politicians are trying to turn public safety measures, children wearing masks in schools into political disputes for their own political gain. Some are trying to take power away from local educators by banning masks in schools. Harris i want to bring in washington times Opinion Editor and Fox News Contributor Charlie Hurt and Ceo And Founder of revel Communications Laura Fink and a democratic campaign consultant. Great to see you both. Charlie, i want to start with you. How important is it to actually know what governors, republican governors are doing . How important is it to know the difference between what biden is saying and what might actually be happening . You mean to be actually factual in discussing the remedies for dealing with the pandemic . I would say it is highly, highly, highly important. I Cant Think of anything more important than that. Especially at a time like this where people are trying to make sense of a very difficult and confusing situation. And it is very hard to know what to believe. Obviously politicians have sought to politicize every aspect of this pandemic from the very beginning. So i would argue it is very, very important for politicians to be very precise in the way they talk about these things and vitally important that the press be very specific in the way they talk about this. And when you have The New York Times and Usa Today repeating this phrase about how Governor Abbott and others are trying to ban masks. Thats not what they are trying to do and The New York Times c ekted one headline he is not trying to ban masks, he is banning universal masking. He is not banning that. He may very well be delighted if everybody chose to wear a mask. There by reaching universal masking. The question is whether the government should come in and force children to Wear Masks. Thats the question. Harris laura . Thats the question that i pose to you now. And what do you say in reaction . I say gorman, bloomberg, all School Districts that are closed right now in the state of texas. Governor abbott and others that are banning Mask Mandates have anything to say about it. If they really believe in wanting to keep schools open they are going to want to have masks allowed and Mask Mandates allowed in schools. Thats the issue. With hospitalizations up in texas, children in danger and schools reopening we really have to talk about the science behind this and the facts that Governor Abbott and other republican governors are doing it for naked partisan advantage. Vast majorities of democrats and independents i might add to like to see Mask Mandates in schools. It is only republicans that are the holdout. By catering to this narrow minority of voters Governor Abbott is endangering children and causing School Districts to close down. Harris quickly, charlie, rebuttal and ill move on. Its absurd. We are not talking about endangering children. Were talking about protecting parents rights. Children arent in danger from the spread of covid when peers dont Wear Masks believe it or not. You probably think that the government bureaucrats care the most about these children. Actually they are thep are get decided. If you like the idea of having masks forced on children by the government you should move to afghanistan and live with the taliban and see how you like that. Wow. Harris all right. Lets move on to this. Was It Worth the trip . At least three texas democrats returned home this weekending a 38day Effort to block republican legislation on Voting Restrictions. A contingent of more than 50 house democrats fled the state. We watched them. Some left on private planes enjoying hundreds of dollars in per diem per day and stayed in hotels for weeks. Some remain in d. C. Enough have returned to resume the session now in their Home State of texas and that opens the door for passage of the Gop Election Bill they were trying to block. What did they accomplish outside of Making Headlines for all the wrong reasons, their mask wearing or lack there of was questioned. Their Covid Positive Testing was highlighted and so on and so forth. What about the voting Rights Bill . Dont they have the gumption to come back and debate . I dont think its about gumption but strategy. Unfortunate that a handful of democrats chose to come back because whats on the line here are Voting Restrictions that where there is no voting fraud. 58 lawsuits brought by the Trump Administration and some folks in texas all many went in front of trump judges and they failed to find fraud. Restrictions targeting laws in harris county, a democratic county. A political strategy to restrict the vote. Stop people from voting. The republicans are looking to do that. Harris i only say that because quick from you, too, charlie. Asking people to show i. D. To cast a ballot is not stopping people from voting. What we see is an admission by democrats it was a terrible strategy. All right. Because he went so short even with your interruptions we have a couple more seconds here. Charlie, i will double up with this. What did they accomplish . It was a Side Show while they were gone in terms of the headlines that came out. Where would you put it and laura have the last word. Absolutely. I think this is an admission by democrats in texas their strategy of having this Temper Tantrum of flying out of the state to avoid dealing with legislation back home, this is an admission now that it failed because now enough democrats have gathered in order to carry forward with this Legislation And Debate it and if there are problems with it fix it or vote it down or do whatever or as were likely to see pass all of this. Harris they didnt stop this, laura. Its an unfortunate loss and think about the single Mom Driving in texas picking up kids working two shifts and now doesnt have drive through voting or an application to apply for Mailin Voting and harder for working people in texas to access the ballot done for political reasons by the governor. Harris i get the feeling the two of you could debate all day. Texas i think about the people being exposed to covid coming across our border now and the Judge Today has said bring the trump policies back with waiting in mexico until we can figure out who gets asylum and who comes in and all of that. A lot going on. Good thing the democrats are going back to do their jobs at the State House in texas. Good to see you both. Thank you. As we await President Bidens remarks on afghanistan, critics are asking where is the Vice President Kamala Harris . Why isnt the Vice President more visible amid this particular crisis since she said she was the last person in the room to favor it. Thats what she told cnns dana bash. Is the White House avoiding the press . Is she . Marc thiessen is focus next. Two and a quarter percent. Just 2. 48 apr. One call can save you thousands every year. And its easy. Theres no money out of pocket and no upfront fees. And while some banks are raising their rates, newday is holding the line for veterans. Lock in your rate. 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So will President Biden answer for any of that today . He is set to speak in an hour from now. It will be the second time he has held a News Conference on the crisis. What we dont know is will he take questions . Vice president Kamala Harris has also been absent on the issue tweeting just a few times since the taliban seized power. Brian kilmeade called out the v. P. She has been terrible. Whats worse is when people give you a job, good or bad, do the job. Dont not show up. Were saddled with this leadership, sadly, for almost three full years plus. Can anyone competent report to Pennsylvania Avenue . They should be hiring. Harris weve had a lot of fire on the Faulkner Focus this week. Now lets get into it with Marc Thiessen former white House Speech Writer and now washington Post Columnist and Fox News contributor. Great to have you on the program. First of all, when we heard Congressman Mast say those words there was a gasp in the control room. We all just went the afghanistan Hostage Crisis. Youve worked with President S and written messaging. Talk to me about where you see we are and what the messaging should be out of the White House today. Well, the messaging doesnt matter. The reality on the ground matters. Until you change the reality on the ground it doesnt matter. What can you say to explain away or justify this . Reality is weve barely heard from the President Of The United States. Hiding in camp david, we had a brief Press Conference from the secretary of Defense And Chairman of the joint chiefs. Secretary of state supposed to they think it is a bad wave of news that will end until the evacuation is over. They are counting on one, our short Attention Span, and two, they are counting on the fact once the americans have been evacuated assuming that succeeds that we wont care about the afghans who fought for and who risked their lives to help u. S. Forces being slaughtered by the taliban. They think america is a systemically racist country and that the american people wont care about a bunch of brownskinned people in a distant land getting slaughtered because it doesnt affect us. Theyre counting on racism and short Attention Span and we have to show them that both of thoefs are wrong. Harris i know that you have often said that when President S do Something And Kind of skirt an issue, as you say, they are waiting for the wave to blow by but also changing the subject. And is that what we saw this week . Because biden didnt take one question when he talked about the vaccines, people were shouting questions about afghanistan, he flipped on his heels and left. Yeah. You know that your afghan policy is really bad when you try to change the subject to the pandemic. Thats a better topic for you than the debacle in afghanistan. The idea that i dont know he doesnt have good answers for any of these questions. Just look at how he sat down with George Stephanopolous and that interview was a train wreck. He said that no one pushed back on this policy. No one suggested that he keep a residual force of 2500 people. As far as i can recall. As far as he can recall . Is he kidding me . First of all if its true nobody pushed back on that policy thats a dereliction of Duty And Indictment of the national security team. If someone suggested to him to keep forces in and he doesnt remember. We have a 25th Amendment Issue going on here. The President Of The United States doesnt remember his military commanders and all the reporting in april they recommend he keep Forces Ton Ground and not push down to zero. He doesnt remember that. Thats a big problem with a Commanderinchief Cant get through an interview with George Stephanopolous and answer those questions. Harris well, and he was pressed at one point on people dying as they were falling from planes trying to get out of afghanistan by hiding in the wheel hole. The President Said that was four or five days ago. Well actually it had only been a day and a half. We cant see the psychological thing going on. We arent doctors. I dont want to go down a road we cant solve but it talks to the issue of being present. I think thats fair to talk about. Quickly Kamala Harris not in the picture. How much of a difference would it make if she were . I dont have much time. She is too busy to focus on afghanistan because she is solving the other crisis that the biden administration unleashed on the southern board. She is such a disaster. She doesnt have any operational control. We need to hear from the generals and secretary of Defense And Commanderinchief not harris we have to cut it short. A lot going on this hour. Thank you for ending this week on the Faulkner Focus. Appreciate it. 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