the war was a strategic failure. >> the admission that america lost the war in afghanistan, the head of the pentagon pointing blame at another agency. >> in a warning to the united states about the alarming number of migrants crossing through on their way to the southern border. jillian: we say good morning on "fox and friends first". >> live look at the white house president biden faces discord in his own party over appear spending bills. >> nancy pelosi says the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill will happen today. mark meredith joins us in washington is progressives promise to take the vote unless they get what they want. will they? >> good morning. you like drama today there will be plenty of on capitol hill. democrats are fighting with each other and could potentially sink the president's legislative agenda. progressive house members found to vote no on a bipartisan infrastructure deal that is unless the house also passes a much larger $3 trillion spending package. speaker pelosi told members to prepare for a vote on infrastructure today, we will see if that will hold. progressives are not happy, it is not the infrastructure bill, the bill back better package down the road, that wasn't the deal, progressives won't back down but even if the house approves the reconciliation bill, there are more obstacles in the senate. overnight we heard from democratic senator joe manchin help out a statement promising to vote no on the plan as is. he says what i made clear is spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs when we can't pay for the essential social programs like social security and medicare is the definition of fiscal insanity. for republicans they remain firmly against the spending package arguing it contains a long list of democratic priority items that reshape the role of government altogether. >> i just listed some of the plates they broke and they are about to break another huge plate with this new reconciliation bill i call the make america turn america into cuba bill. >> later on this morning the senate will meet to vote on a bill to keep the government open. washington is expected to avoid the shutdown and keep government funding through december but a fight over the debt ceiling shows no end insight with the treasury department saying the us will run out of money by october 18th to pay its bills if the debt limit is not raised, never a dull moment in this town. todd: with that backdrop some concerned how the party welfare in the midterms as president biden's spending agenda fails, dick durbin making his plea to moderate democratic colleagues who could stand in the way. >> a lot of respect to our colleagues who have a different view when it comes to reconciliation. what is it that is your final goal? we are one heartbeat from losing the majority in the united states senate. i've been in the senate long enough to see that happen. i urge you if you believe there is value and merits of the programs and reconciliation bill don't wait, do it now. >> it would be passed with wasteful spending with taxpayers. >> democrats want to put 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. what are they going to do? i think agreed to lower the amount that they will have all this stuff in this 2500 page bill so that they can and shrine these things, they don't care about the debt so people like manchin and perhaps cinema can say we lower the amount of money. i hope that doesn't happen but we will see. >> top democrats including the president himself and sister plan will cost americans $0 but many critics suggest it will cost more. quite a range from 0 to more than $3.5 trillion. >> top pentagon officials blamed the state department for the chaotic evacuation of civilians in afghanistan. todd: more from president biden's top military generals. >> reporter: general mark millie admitted america lost the war in afghanistan. take a listen. >> it is obvious wallace the war in afghanistan did not end on the terms we wanted, the taliban now in power in kabul. the war was a strategic failure. >> he was questioned with lawmakers alongside lloyd austin and general mckinsey this week, general milley serotonin was and is a terrorist group same if not cut ties with al qaeda. at the same hearing spencer terry austin was asked if civilian activation should happen sooner and eventually blamed the state department. listen to this. >> the call on how to do that and when to do it is a state department call. we certainly would've liked to see go faster or sooner but they had a number of things to think through as well. >> top pentagon officials made a stunning admission about the restaurant strike that killed 10 afghan civilians including 7 children. >> when did you know civilians were killed? >> several hours -- >> general milley -- >> after the defense department repeatedly declined to confirm civilian casualties in the days following the strike was now a top republican is revealing the suicide bomber who killed 13 us servicemembers was released from bagram air base. republican on the house appropriations subcommittee on defense told fox news sources say the prisoner was released after the taliban took control of its facility, the attack was a few days after he was apparently released from bagram and the representative said there were 7000 prisoners housed their calling them, quote, the worst of the terrorists and they believe the isis case suicide bomber was one of them. >> thank you. >> a live look as senate democrats are pushing ahead with the final confirmation vote of the biden nominee linked with ecotourism. tracy sue manning is plotting of accused of tree spiking in the 1980s, virtually no support from republicans who said she was not transparent. they are troubled with confidence she made advocating for population control. >> more migrants on the way to the already overwhelmed southern border the department of homeland security is creating review counsel for border agents that will immediately begin fitting de-escalation tactics and more with a mission to promote best practices. it comes in the immediate aftermath public outcry over false accusations that border agents were using whips but secretary mayorkas says that's not a factor and on top of that dhs once again pushing to end the remain in mexico policy. >> 8 minutes after the hour and the interview with former president barack obama abc televised comments bashing republicans over immigration reform. 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>> if you could add a beard somehow that would have been tremendous but that is not possible. the senator's right to call out this hypocrisy. aoc is media royalty and she won't be called out on her photo op from years past in any serious way. the congresswoman is the same person who compared border facilities under trump to concentration camps but certainly can't seem to find a seat on a flight to south texas now that a democrat is in power. this is an unserious person with no inclination to solve real problems and the fact that she has yet to pass any meaningful legislation since being elected proves that fact. todd: a broader picture of what is going on on negotiations in washington. why has the democrat party given these progressives, squad members such cloud in their party, this is not what the majority of the american people want. >> this is why twitter is not the real world and social media is not the real world but because aoc has 13 million twitter followers that makes her powerful because she consents something and get 25,000 likes that gives moderates in the party pause, this is a real movement we are seeing here. passion is on the side of progressives in the party and they get a lot of airtime because they say provocative things that make good soundbites that they are not living in the real world, spend $5.5 trillion and it costs $0, whether a progressive is a matter president biden saying that how can anybody take this seriously. we are governed by unserious people, children who think they can sell that as a line, $0 equals $5.5 trillion and that messaging has been horrible to this point. todd: i want to highlight something even though our producers stated it was going to be a full screen and not a play of soundbites, without conferring with each other both thought it was a soundbites. i think you would agree you were worried that she shares a mind with me. >> let's explain to people who don't know the terminology it means we put up a picture of what someone said and not what they are talking about. "fox and friends" producing. it is all about education. todd: thanks. jillian: i'm scared for myself. todd: it is 17 after the hour, with fears of incoming border search there could be fewer border agents on-the-job next month if they aren't vaccinated. todd: our next guest is the wife of one of those agents at risk of losing their job and the family needs that income next. ms remove the 30% of makeup ordinary cleansers can leave behind. your skin will thank you. neutrogena®. for people with skin. todd: pentagon officials warn a caravan of patient migrants headed to the us, the foreign minister warning as many as 60,000 migrants are making their way through central america now. jillian: griff jenkins joins us where hundreds of patients are crossing into mexico every day. >> this is the illegal crossing along the river separating mexico and guatemala. in the distance you see the international bridge, this is the illegal way and you can see migrants crossing local guatemalans and mexicans with daytraders and others. it cost 30 pesos, they are doing it. gone from the guatemalan side. little if any immigration officials are stopping us. todd: unvaccinated border patrol agents threatened with losing their jobs if they don't get every shot. they close the border and stop targeting the people, the only ones who are actually securing the border. >> the administration, waking up every day to keep the community borders and they are putting the burden on them rather than on policies to disincentive i've thousands of migrants many of which have covid. >> how insane is it, protecting all of us, doesn't have a shot at illegal migrants, they face no consequences whatsoever. >> ever since the mandrake -- mandate was talked about i felt the same way, how to allow these people to come in testing positive and no one thinks twice about it but husbands and wives, putting lives on the line, they are getting punished and border patrol is already, where it is in dover you know, a lot of men and women - they are deciding they are not going to stay. todd: can you figure out why the biden white house would do this to you and your family? >> it is apparent he doesn't put the american citizens first, has a bigger agenda, as long as that is. >> what are you going to do? >> small kids at home, four small children and he takes his role as a father and husband very serious, we are praying for miracle and hope he doesn't pray his job. >> why does he leave his wife and kids in middle of the night, face significant danger every single day. why does he do it? >> he initially took the job to make a difference to have meaning behind it. that is true for a lot of the agents here. they dedicated years of their lives, there's a lot of sacrifice about agents that they leave behind and we know that is a factor that they make. it is sad for mandate -- will: drawdown for a second. what does it mean for the country's future, the american future and a brave individual like your husband and so many like him could be fired from a job protecting us for exercising his basic freedoms, 30 seconds to you. >> people don't realize it is wide open border, the only things keeping a safe at night, these men and women who are training and they are keeping us so we can sleep at night and it will be scary. >> no way to replace the paycheck, it is not enough. trying to support us. we wish you the best of luck. carley: a live look at chattanooga, tennessee. will: we see a lot of these taverns. national, chattanooga, tennessee. we have a lot of things going on. todd: something began. jillian: it might be friday. >> janice: current temperatures feels much cooler over the northwest and the northeast, the central us a cold front will move through and that will stall out bringing potential for heavy rainfall in the next couple days. you see the last 24 hours some showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast toward the plane states. you can see all this moisture focused on the plane states. and mississippi river valley. and the flash flooding threat over texas on the plane states. the forecast today, watch the front that moves across the central us and stalls, and the northwest dealing with showers and thunderstorms and mountain snow, here in new york, hello. it is a beautiful day. it is a taste of what is to come. todd: facebook heading back to capitol hill to testify on reports to bury proof that instagram is toxic for your kids. the company is accused of trying to recruit young users. jillian: a new report and preview of the big hearing. jillian: private groups working tirelessly to bring home american stranded in afghanistan was our next guest helped set a charter flight carrying 100 us citizens back to the united states. a combat veteran and former defense intelligence officer served in afghanistan joins me live. thank you for being here. it has been difficult to get people on the planes and get them to land in the united states. tell me what you have been dealing with. >> it has been hectic, we had some extensive infrastructure billing to take care of focusing country which is difficult given the lack of government presence but we managed to do so and working with a couple groups is a large herculean effort and i can't begin to tell you how much we appreciate the start of the state department and homeland security as well as the government of the united states and the united arab emirates and congressman fortenberry and his staff of been phenomenal. takeoff and landing, to get the charter flight in there and get everybody together and get them to the airport. given permission to take off. currently in abu dhabi en route to the us, that too. jillian: the plane wasn't able to land in the us and should be landing on its way. >> it was meant to stop in abu dhabi, homeland security and inbound charter flights can be processed. trying to figure that out on the fly, state department is phenomenal. will: how many are still there so i many of our allies? >> they are larger than that. they took 120,000 people through evacuation, us civilians, special applicants for interpreters who work for us and family members. 124,000 was just describing most of the people who were lucky, before the gates were closed. the vast majority of people we were supposed to evacuate were in afghanistan. >> your knowledge-based on the information you had 50 to 60,000 people whether it be americans or allies, that is an unbelievable number consider we've heard numbers like that from the administration. the numbers are in the low hundreds and you are seeing a different situation. >> they were going to go off the screen. and hundreds as well. that is what i have seen. >> thanks for joining us. appreciate it. keep us updated. todd: fascinating perspective. holding big tech accountable senator josh how he will introduce legislation to make social media companies liable for damages. >> foxbusiness joins us live with the details. >> missouri senator legislation holding social media companies accountable in the wake of a series of scathing reports from the wall street journal. like big tobacco, big tech pushes products it knows are harmful, social media companies should not be allowed to continue profiting from exploiting children. new documents reveal facebook wanted to target, one email with the ubiquity of tablets and phones kids are getting on the internet as young as 6 years old we can't ignore this and responsibly is to figure it out. imagine if it is designed for youth. another email says why do we care about tweens? they are valuable but untapped audience, parents are outraged. >> it is terrible, kids been homeschooled for a year and a half, to not be kids. >> social media is a top list. to make an extra buck for our children, it is scary. >> s senate hearing to all of this. >> is sickening. >> msnbc anchor chris hayes having a meltdown over the breakdown of talks on the spending package. after senator joe manchen announced he would not spend trillions more hayes took to twitter writing there's no brutal state fiscal reality the nation faces, in the it is entirely made up. on the other hand the earth is going to warm past a threshold it has ever reached for supporting human life, that is a brutal reality we face. they want to pass a highway bill and call it a day. neither will be on the hook personally or politically for what that means. joy read went after manchen on tuesday. if they don't like - todd: it should be a glorified highway bill because it is infrastructure. jillian: if you don't think the border crisis impacts neighborhoods think again. cartels flooding into states 2000 miles away. lawrence jones was in idaho talking to law enforcement about that and is here live to tell us what he saw. heather: more bad news for president biden on the midterms. liberal rating taking a critical state of texas. details coming up. got a couple of bogeys on your six, limu. they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual so they only pay for what they need. what do you say we see what this bird can do? 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>> going to everyone - >> everything coming across it. >> that sentinel coming into idaho. >> it is getting worse because it is getting to be more abundant and cheaper. >> 90,000 americans died of drug overdoses. those drugs come from one place south of the border. >> reporter: several overdose deaths and homicide. it was a fentanyl drug deal happening hundred yards from the front, having conversations with family members who lost children, lost fathers, lost mothers. people manufacturing this fentanyl that are selling it absolutely know that it kills people. >> 40% of every pill is a lethal dose. >> it is enough to kill you. two officers who find this into jail working on the guy's wallet and both men went to the ground. those are airborne particles. every day. >> this is where your operations happen. talk about how risky it is. >> every minute of every day. >> reporter: designated wall, to defend the country, no question about it. saying this is a crisis and we have to address this. >> the letter went out last week. >> i met mister trump twice, meeting with him on these issues. this administration, we have none of that. there is no table and no problem. >> it is reactionary. >> let's put a band-aid here. >> not something we can arrest. to deal with the supply side. >> are we losing the war right now. >> law enforcement is in the battle to the end but america is losing the battle. we are losing this war at the border. we are losing this war in our neighborhood. >> the impactful peace but looking all the cars coming attacks coming. they have bad stuff and that is shocking to me. >> 40% of drugs they are taking are known to have fentanyl in it. these are kids trying to go to parties and might want to experiment but that experiment could kill them and they don't know what they are taking. the most telling part of this piece saying we cannot police are way out of it. until they stop the pipeline which is the border there is not going to be any type of compromise on this issue. >> the we are not invited to the table, there is no table. >> they say this is about illegal migrants, it is drugs, trafficking, and entire, enterprise. todd: the president on the border crisis. todd: new numbers are setting off alarms inside the white house. >> reporter: a lot of alarms are being set off in the white house as in because of president biden s inability to gain control the worsening crisis on the southern border and that is upsetting to the people of texas so much so that according to new polling from quinnipiac university registered voters are only giving him a 32% job approval rating overall and a 20% approval rating for handling of the border. texas lieutenant governor dan patrick speaking out on the ingraham angle. >> one of the things that will crush the democrats in texas and elsewhere is an open border policy. we are doing everything we can as a state, spending $3 billion of our own taxpayer money with national guard, but our troopers on the lawn. carley: this and reports that a large migrant caravan is traveling from mexico in hopes of reaching the united states in addition to the stunning admission from the biden administration that as many as 12,000 haitians have been freed in recent days. todd: don't mess with old glory. >> some of those migrants might be looking at a different american flag because the new york times is facing a firestorm of criticism after publishing a local markup of an american flag. take a look. this is what artists came up with after being challenged by the liberal leaning paper to reimagine the stars and stripes. corey mills who served our country and is now running to serve the people of florida joined us last hour to react. >> this is the woke military cancel culture we want to erase the american identity nuclear family, the stars & stripes work just fine. >> they look fine on their own. during the olympics, we see it hanging outside this building. todd: looks great to see you as always. still had president biden - jillian: congresswoman marion it miller meeks reacting to that next. helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. never settle for 25%. always go for 100. bring out the bold™ . ♪ >> the call on how to too that and when to do it is really a state department call. and we certainly would have liked to have seen it go faster or sooner but, again, they had a number of things to think through as well.ed to defense sabathia austin blaming the state department for the evacuation. jillian: miller meeks, thank you for being here. we appreciate your time. can you tell me what stood out to you of the last two days? >> well, i think what really stood out is what was apparent to us throughout this process in afghanistan and i'm a 24-year military veteran, served in the army. was that we know that this evacuation was conducted by the state department, the secretary of state and, yet, we didn't have the military experience gave advice but didn't stand their ground. so the entire withdrawal was a disaster. it was a debacle. there are americans left behind. there are afghanistan interpreters left behind. and, unfortunately, 13 u.s. service members gave their lives because they conducted an incompetent, inept operation of withdrawal. todd: does anyone come out looking good in this blame game. >> no one comes out looking good. our generals don't come out looking good because they should have pushed back against the state department and presidency. so they don't come out looking good. we lost bagram air base which we need in order to have counter-terrorism in that region. and now we don't have eyes on iran or china or russia. americans lost their lives. americans are still over there. so, on every level on humanitarian level on a military level, on a counter-terrorism level there was a tremendous failure. jillian: let's talk about this for a second dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas didn't expect a delta surge at the bhrd obviously talking about coronavirus. take a listen and we will get your reaction on the last end. >> what i didn't expect is the, um, tragic rise of the delta variant and the set back in the pandemic. we are confronted with a population of people that, um, as a general matter, um, have a rate of illness of approximately 20%. jillian: so i guess i just wonder if they had expected this surge in delta variant, would they have done anything differently? do you think so? >> well, let me just say i twice visited the border. the first visit we made very early this year with minority leader mccarthy specifically asked about testing for covid-19 at the border. and i put forward a bill called a react act so that every migrant would be tested covid-19 at the border. so to say they couldn't expect the delta variant i'm a former state director of the department of public health, i specifically mentioned that they would bring infectious diseases. i hear that there is an outbreak of measles at fort bliss and the of a began refuse agrees that they are bringing over are not only tested for covid-19, they are vaccinated for covid-19 and all childhood immunizations given to them. it is be a stowrd say you wouldn't have expected a delta variant. in south america the haitians coming from south america may care the variant with him surging in the south america right now. we can expect another variant to come in this country. todd: unbelievable. jillian: congresswoman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. jillian: "fox & friends" starts right now. bye-bye. >> pivoted by legislative agenda in serious jeopardy. >> senator manchin calling the trillions in spending fiscal insanity. >> democrats want to draw all concentration of power from you into washington. >> another that day of damning testimony from our nation's top generals. >> the war is a strategic failure? 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