>> the blatant admission that america lost the war in afghanistan before for the pentagon pointing way met another government agency. >> new warnings for the united states about the alarming number of migrants crossing on their way to the southern border. todd: you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. let's get a live look at the white house where president biden faces discord in his own party over a pair of spending bills. >> nancy pelosi says a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill will happen today. mark meredith joins us in washington, what a day we have on tap. >> it looks like a make or break day for the president's legislative agenda and this comes down to a split in the president's own party, democrats being divided on two spending packages, one tied to the bipartisan infrastructure deal, the other to expand government healthcare and social programs. overnight we heard from west virginia democratic senator joe manzo which and who issued a statement on where he stands. he says the far left's goal to spend $3 trillion could sink the economy. manzo which and rights, quote, what i have made clear is spending trillions more on new and expanding government programs when we can't even pay for essential social programs like social security and medicare is the definition of fiscal insanity. republicans remain firmly against this package which includes a laundry list of democratic priority items including beefing of enforcement of the iris and addressing climate change. it appears efforts to reform immigration will be kept out of the bill but this morning manzo which and's objections create more headaches for nancy pelosi who plan to hold a vote on infrastructure but progressive democrats are threatening to vote no on the package if the house does not first prove the lunch -- much larger spending. it is possible politically delay the if it appears the measure is not going to pass but later this morning the senate will meet to vote on a bill that will keep the government open, funding is due to expire at midnight tonight, senate and house are expected to avoid a shutdown and keep the government funded through early december but a fight over the debt ceiling shows no end insight, the us could run out of money by october 18th if no deal is reached, republicans say it is a democratic problem and they should be able to handle it on the road, democrats accusing the gop a threatening to sink the was economy. if you like drama i would imagine today's a good day to get the popcorn. >> shocking besides don't agree. >> it is not a good day to save the drama for your mama. it will be for everybody. besides that the other big questions surrounding all this, who is in charge of the democratic party? i think that is the question you're not going to get an answer to necessarily today although there are some indications today could give some indication. i'm not going to go fully if nancy pelosi does have to kill this bill because she can't get progressives on board. i can't understand why progressives think they have this mandate. this is not what america wants. a small subset of the progressive party in america wants. when you talk to the average american they are not excited that we are going to go into crippling debt for the rest of our lives in an effort for the social infrastructure agenda. this is not a progressive country, extreme views literally represent the slight of this country and they act like they have all the power and i don't understand where they get this. obviously all of the setting up to be a complete disaster for the dems come 2022 addict urban calling out why, take a listen. >> we saw a lot of respect to our colleagues who have a different take of you when it comes to reconciliation was for both senators make your mark and close the deal. what is it you want? what is your final goal? we are one heartbeat away from losing the majority in the united states senate. i've been in the senate long enough to see that happen so i urge you if you believe there is value and merit to the programs in the reconciliation bill don't wait, do it now. >> setting up a triple whammy, and already low polling biden losing his signature infrastructure package, republicans going to their constituents saying we kill the bill and democrats forced to grapple with the fact that progressives now run their party. jillian: listens what mark levin has to say. >> the democrats want in place the most massive social engineering and welfare state in world history, they want to turn your lives inside out and upside down, they want to draw all concentration of power from you, your family, your faith, your county, your town, your state and washington dc. what are they going to do? i think they will agree to lower the amount but will still have all this stuff in this 2500 page bill so they can enshrine and put in place, they don't care about the debt. people i commandchin say we lowered the amount of money. i hope that doesn't happen but we will see. >> it will be a big day and we will have it covered. >> i sat there thinking when i'm gold how will i pay for this stuff? i am -- you have to think about this, that money, the biden administration says this will cost nothing, this is going to cost something. meantime, top pentagon officials testify blaming the state but for the chaotic evacuation of civilians in afghanistan. >> more stunning admissions from president biden's top military generals. >> during the testimony generalizability admitting america lost the war in afghanistan. >> it is obvious to all of us the war in afghanistan did not end on the terms that we wanted with television now in power in kabul. the war was a strategic failure. >> he was questioned by lawmakers alongside defense secretary lloyd austen and general mckenzie this week, he said the talent and was and still remain a terrorist group saying the talent and have not cut ties with al qaeda and different secretary austin was asked if a civilian evacuation should happen sooner and essentially blames the state department. >> the call on how to do that and when to do it is really state department call, we certainly would have liked to see it go faster or sooner but again they had a number of things to think through as well. >> top pentagon officials made a stunning admission about the restroom strike that killed 10 afghan civilians including 7 children. >> when did you know civilians were killed in a straight? >> several hours afterward. >> this after the defense department repeatedly declined to confirm civilian casualties and days following the site. the top republican is revealing the suicide bomber who killed 13 us servicemembers was released from bagram air base. a republican on the house appropriations subcommittee on defense told fox news sources say the prisoner was released after the telegram took control of facilities, that attack was just a few days after he was apparently released from bagram and representative calvert said there were 7000 prisoners held their, calling them the worst of the terrorists and they believe the isis case suicide bomber was one of them. >> thanks. >> turning to the border crisis, panama officials warning a larger caravan of haitian migrants are heading to the us, the country is foreign minister warning as many as 60,000 migrants making their way through central america right now. >> hundreds of haitians are illegally crossing into mexico every day. >> this is called the coyote, the illegal crossing along the river separating mexico and guatemala. in the distance you can see the international bridge, that is the legal way to cross, this is the illegal way and as you look upriver you can see migrants crossing along with local guatemalans and mexicans with daytraders and others. it cost 30 pesos for one dollar and $0.50 to make this crossing, 800 haitian today are doing it. we've gone from the guatemalans side here to the mexican side in little if any immigration officials stopping us from doing it. >> with thousands more migrants on the way to the already overwhelmed southern border, the department of homeland security is not creating a review counsel for border agents. it will immediately begin fitting de-escalation tactics, training and more with a mission to promote best practices. it comes in the immediate aftermath of public outcry over false accusations that border agents were using whips, the homeland security secretary alejandra mayorkas it says this is a factor in dhs pushing to end to remain in mexico policy. >> florida governor rhonda sanders taking on the biden administration's detention release policy and calling out what he sees as a double standard. >> people from 100 nationalities making their way to mexico, making their way to the southern border, biden made it clear if you get here we will put you on a bus, put on a plane, send you all over the fruited plain, americans having a hell of a time getting out of afghanistan and if you come illegal you are on your way to communities all across the country. it is a choice they are making, this is intentional and if our lawsuit succeeds and they have to end catch and release they may be forced to do the right thing. >> desantis ordering his stay together details on the cost of illegal immigration. >> republicans top democrats in the annual congressional baseball game, 13-12 when includes at first out of the park home run for congressman greg steube. president biden made a surprise appearance during the game and was met with mixed reaction from the crowd. >> there he is, president biden making an appearance year. >> he spent an hour talking to lawmakers as he tried together support for the spending agenda. >> i did not the video carly coming into the seventh-inning like we talked about. >> or throwing out the first pitch. >> next year, next year. 11 minutes after the hour, some patriotic americans trading the new york times for this, the mayor suggested a redesign of the stars & stripes. a veteran who defended our flag, what he thinks of all this. >> congressman bob good is on the program to discuss his plan to ban crt from schools, joe on joe, lawrence jones and marion at miller meeks on thursday's "fox and friends first". an update on the story we've been following, a charter figuring 100 american citizens who escaped afghanistan on its way to chicago, that flight chartered by project dynamo stranded in the uae because they would either regulate in the us, something mike pompeo says should not be happening. >> reporter: our own government opposing private citizens, this is crazy, there is no rationale for this. the state department, parchment of homeland security, president biden should be calling them and thanking them, not telling them you can't land an aircraft. >> next hour we will talk about the group's is latest to rescue people from afghanistan. looking forward to that. >> and are likely says the us lost the war in afghanistan after the chaotic withdrawal. >> over 20 years i don't think when you get phenomena like a war that was lost and it has been in the sense of we accomplished our strategic task of protecting america against al qaeda but the end state is different than we wanted. >> former department of defense advisor under donald trump, he was congressional candidate in florida corey mills, great to see you. as a veteran what is your reaction to that admission of defeat? >> trying to act as if we achieved our strategic goal, or strategic goal was to stop afghanistan from being a safe haven of terrorism and what we achieved is to have the most well-equipped and armed terrorist group in the world. we left $83 billion in munitions, armament and in cash alone 70 million plus in cash. we've now armed and equipped isis k, the haqqani network and the talent, i don't call that as a strategic victory leaving thousands of americans behind. i don't see how they can make mention of such a thing. we conducted the first and only successful overland rescue of mother and 3 children so i can tell you right now the idea that we call this a failure, of strategic value or strategic value it is a failure across the board, nationbuilding and other things to help promote the military industrial complexes like all the others where mark million boyd austin making millions of dollars over the border. >> what questions do you still have? >> first thing is why allow strategic victories, why did they allow bagram airbase to go way, why didn't we have more runways to house 40,000 people and would have prevented the iv gate exclusion and wouldn't have stopped international flights, many of the americans i talked to at international flights booked and would have been willing to get out but international flight ceased 20 days prior to the actual drawdown on august 30th. why allow china by the way sees bagram is a major major asset, why did we allow that to be the first thing we let go circling ourselves into a tiny bubble letting them surround us in every way, they extort americans and threaten others coming in. >> listen to one republican congressman with very harsh words for our president. >> the president repeatedly assured the american people the television takeover was not inevitable, that we had plenty of time to safely evacuate americans. the president has misled us more than once. i fear the president is delusional. >> how is president biden so consistently ron foreign-policy? >> let's go back to secretary gates who said president biden is the only individual in the world who is 100% wrong on foreign-policy every time. president biden lied to us how many americans will find the president biden continued to live out the explosion where he said 160 and scans were killed and 13 us servicemembers, 2-year-old child, asking for american citizens after that explosion we haven't heard from persons and they lost dozens of americans, the same thing they said, the afghan government is steady and has tens of thousands of truth fighters against a handful of television fighters, this is complete failure of military leaders, i was to going to congress i would demand people like general million boyd austin would resign, even secretary blinkin who have failed to provide safe passage for american citizens. >> listen to more of what generally had to say defending his calls to china. >> with respect to the chinese calls i routinely communicated with my counterpart with the knowledge and coordination for civilian oversight. specifically directed to communicate with the chinese by department of defense guidance, these military to military communications are critical to the security of the united states. >> does that make us more secure? >> not at all especially when the biden administration doesn't see china for what it is which is the greatest threat to the world, this is one of those things you don't show your hand and tell people before we strike i will let you know, you're in a strategic effort militarily that you build a military strike that needs to be coordinated why would you alert your adversary so this is general milley going forward to power ties, gathering us together and uniting us. >> the new york times released a redesign of the american flag. i thought the stars & stripes was in but they do not, let's look at the redesign. doesn't look very american to me. we will pop up another one. on this topic as someone who put his life on the line for the stars & stripes how infuriating is this? >> infuriating and i fought for the stars & stripes, looked just fine, you talk something where the red stood for power and whites to for. the blue for justice and equality, the representation of the 50 states and the 13 colonies, this is the woke military, cancel culture, we want to erase the american identity, the nuclear family, i think the stars & stripes look just fine. >> thank you for your service. have a good day. it is 23 after the hour, united airlines certify hundreds of employees for refusing to get the covid vaccine, pushing 2 grievances next. >> a major turning point for britney spears. ♪♪ ♪♪ you want a piece of me ♪♪ todd: the cdc's an alert for expectant mothers to get the covid vaccine of a new report only a third of pregnant women have gotten the covid shot, women currently pregnant advised to get the vaccine to prevent serious illness. the agency recommending the vaccine for women trying to get pregnant and resting moms. republican lawmakers introducing legislation that would block agencies from requiring proof of covid vaccination. the bill by florida senator rick scott while dan crenshaw will introduce a companion bill in the house. the bill aims to protect americans having to provide medical records to catch a flight or do business across state lines. >> no jab no job, nearly 600 united airlines employees are facing termination after failing to comply with the carrier's covid 19 vaccine policy, 2000 other employees hanging in the balance as they challenge the airline after reportedly failed to approve their accommodation request was one of those employees, united airlines pilot laura cough joins me. it is my understanding that you have been moved from all flight you file the medical exemption from the vaccine. can you tell me a little more about your situation and what the response was from your company. >> at this time i have not been terminated. i was granted medical examination in the vaccine but the company insists that the always safe thing for me to do is go on unpaid leave until the pandemic is over which is effectively being terminated. >> how do you feel about that? how difficult will it be? how does that change your life? >> it is going to be very difficult. i'm nearing the end of my career where i had hoped to finish paying off a few things before retirement. i have four years left and have a son in college in the last two years of college. it will be difficult to pay for his college, we have to make some adjustments, probably sell a few things, maybe even sell our house that i worked very hard for the last 32 years with united airlines. >> here are some of the numbers, 67,000 total employees for united airlines, 593 are unvaccinated, 2000 request exemptions and united says, quote, we will continue to vigorously defend our policy, vaccine requirements have been around for decades and serve to keep airline employees and customers safe. are vaccine policy saves lives. you are not anti-vaccine, it is just from my understanding you don't believe your company should be telling you what to do with your body. is that right? >> i believe my company has the right to make certain rules that we have civil rights laws that the company must follow as well and one of those laws grants under title vii and a the a grants exemptions to be requested for certain religious or medical issues and the company needs to engage with the employees for reasonable accommodation. i don't feel being effectively terminated is reasonable. >> thank you for joining us, keep us updated on your situation and we wish you the best. >> thank you very much. todd: a new push on the federal level to remove critical race theory from curriculum. congressman bob good and behind the push and he joined us next and did you see this? 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>> it certainly needs to be. it is dangerous, dishonest, a device to teach children they are defined by race and race determined their future and look at everything through a racist lens. what this is doing is clarifying the to teach critical race theory by whatever name it is taught under is a violation of civil rights, identify them, disseminate based on race. >> have we reached a point a bill like this is necessary? >> it is sad. this critical race theory and this ideology is infiltrating all levels of our society whether it is the corporate world, the military, leaders leading the military now who want to understand what white rage is and infiltrating every level of our school system, you've got 5000 teachers who have signed a pledge to teach crt regardless if it is outlined in the largest teachers union pledging legal support for teachers who teach critical race theory and it is infiltrating all levels of our society and trying to divide a space on race and doesn't recognize the progress we've made as a nation. >> reporter: critics say that is not what the civil rights laws were designed to do. this isn't their intended purpose. why are you confident the law is ultimately on your side here? >> it is the opposite of that. we had a large part, realized the dreams of martin luther king that people are judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin but the left controls all levers of power, they seek to divide us to continue to keep the nation divided and see each other in a racist ideology, does not recognize the united states of america is the most welcoming nation in history of the world in terms of providing opportunity for people of all races, all ethnicities, all nationalities. jillian: have you heard much response to what you're trying to do? >> yesterday's press conference the left tries to shout us down, they are afraid of truth and don't want the truth to get out. we have parents who reach out across the district concerned about what is being taught in schools, often under a different name than crt, they use another name to teach a dishonest history of america, how we were founded, why the revolutionists -- the revolution was fought, the 1619 project, parents are very concerned, the silver lining that happened in the last year and a half is parents of learned much more what is being taught in the classroom and are more engaged as they should be and we want to support them by this legislation. >> you mention your district, let's look at your state, why is virginia ground 0 in the crt fight? >> what it does indicate his parents even in suburban blue areas of virginia and across the country are increasingly engaged, increasingly concerned, they don't want their kids defined by race are divided based on race or race to determine what their future is and they want a better life for their kids and what we had growing up years ago. thankfully america has made great progress, children look at each other based on their values, on their character, on their actions and we want to support that parents want that, they don't want the left to try to change that and divided children and divide us as a nation. >> thank you for joining us, appreciate your time. jillian: the race to leave the state of virginia don't know why but backlash growing against the democratic hopeful after he made these remarks during the debate this week. >> i'm not going to let parents come into schools and i don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach. >> that is an eye-opener. the court we got, republican challenger slams his opponent. good to see you. >> glad you aren't planning me. let's get to that story, the margin that separates terry mcauliffe and republican glenn youngken and the gop candidate is hoping his opponent's remarks will strike accord with parents, to be shut out of their kids education. >> what we saw last night on full display was flashing red lights, terry mcauliffe's hard, that he believes the government and politicians know better for our children than parents, he wants to exclude parents from being involved in educating our children. >> parents across virginia have been fighting back for the last 20 months against overreaching covid mandates and progressive policies inside of schools. mcauliffe also drawing criticism after getting caught maskless on an amtrak train leaving new york's pen station in july. rules for thehe and not for me. >> the congressional baseball game was less than, republicans won. what is with craig steube, the president showed up and got mixed reaction. >> he was greeted by blues at the congressional baseball game you're referring to as his domestic agenda hangs in the balance. staying in the realm of politics, with the key pillar of his presidency on the brink of collapsing president biden may a surprise appearance during last night's congressional baseball game but it did not go as planned. >> there he is. president biden making an appearance here. >> the crowd. ing biden after emerging on the diamond after a day of trying to convince members of his own party to support a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. the annual game aims to raise more than $1 million for dc charities but despite cheers for the left from speaker nancy pelosi the dems fell to the gop 13 to 12 but it was all good fun. it's been a while since the gop had one. >> what was that? what was pelosi doing? what was the second slide? if i'm president biden i stay away from sports because the college football, there was an f bomb dropped in a number of stadiums across the country, stay away from the sport. speaking of sports controversial move by a legion a little bit about. >> if we want to go from the diamond to the hardwood i'm happy to take you guys there. and ba says players who are not vaccinated will not be paid. the nba announcing it will withhold pay from vaccinated players who miss games this season but stopped short of enforcing a league wide vaccine mandate, this will impact players who have vaccine mandates like new york city with a lot of attention turning to brooklyn metz gardner tyree of the who publicly resisted vaccination. however arguably the league's biggest star, lebron james revealing he is indeed vaccinated, the nba, 90% of players have received the shot. players who had not yet received the vaccine will not be allowed to eat among inoculated teammates, their lockers will be located far away from others and on top of that they will be required to wear a mask and abide by social distancing guidelines during team meetings. i think what we gather from all this is that a usc tournament sitting next to uco brewing with switzerland over here. i can't talk about that. >> those guidelines, your dad is a coach and had to deal with all that. >> i haven't talked to him about it but his job is separate from mine and we will see how it goes. >> while to see the father of all this and everybody making the vaccination status go public. a wild ride. >> you are expected to make it public as we saw the bron james do. it is fine. you do it better than we do so not much trash talk. todd: coming up facebook execs in a heartbeat over reports they -- instagram is toxic for kids and actively trying to recruit young users anyway. jillian: talking to parents and young daughters next. ♪♪ baaam. internet that doesn't miss a beat. that's cute, but my internet streams to my ride. adorable, but does yours block malware? 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>> pretty hard because i don't usually go on social media but my friends do because they like to hang out but really bad and it is like you traumatize. >> the latest evidence how dangerous social media is for our kids. >> thanks for having britney and i. as a parent it is so many things to worry about, social media is top of the list because there are so many unknowns, even for me as an adult, our children, the fact that we have these big huge companies dedicating the resources to make an extra but is - i am happy someone in congress is taking a strong look at this and hopefully do something about it. >> talk to me about the pressures of being a preteen young lady in social media. >> it is pressure because knowing about social media, hanging out on social media all the time it is kind of hard to not have the social media and social media. >> is the response from facebook which ultimately owns instagram, quote, it is not accurate this research demonstrates instagram is toxic for teen girls. it helps them when they are struggling with the kind of hard moments of issues teenagers have always faced. are you buying that rationalization is a mom and a psychotherapist? >> absolutely not. not one picture and instagram that is not filtered and showing the façade of perfect moments which we further makes children and adults feel worse about their lives and circumstances and especially it is so easy to get the platform over the wrong thing. >> gary times which i want to get to our second topic, full fighting parents of kids age 5 to 11, you're in the second part of that category, split 50-50 whether or not they are going to vaccinate their kids. are you vaccinating britney? >> know we won't. my wife and i have made the decision that we won't vaccinate britney, britney plays soccer and in chicago we have to do weekly testing. she's given weekly covid test because she's participating in extracurricular activities and i think that is too cumbersome but we will opt to do that because we don't know enough yet about the vaccine. >> quick answer to you. if you vaccinating ruby? >> absolutely not. they are not hybrids, they have a strong immune system and i'm more concerned about vaccine injuries than covid itself. >> what is the time to be a parent and tougher time to be a young lady. you two ladies seem to be doing really well. thanks so much. >> still had on "fox and friends first" ted cruz doubling down on his challenge to aoc and extending an invitation for her to come to see the border firsthand. >> talking about that with joe concha and don't forget about lawrence jones and congresswoman jillian: miller meeks, them and more when "fox and friends first" on thursday morning rolls along. will why do nearly one million businesses choose stamps.com to mail and ship? 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