Intelligence community. Cia, dia, nsaitibir and over 1,000 other affiliated Government Agencies with even more obscure acronyms. By the time your Intelligence Bureau get big enough to be a, quote, community, you may have a problem. Insofar as most of us ever think about intelligence agents we think of 007, ie, its supposed to be a very low number, which suggests that this is an elite activity for a small number of persons. When you have, as america does, some 5 Million people with a security clearance, thats equivalent to the entire population of immediately to all running around thinking they are james bond. You have a dark, bloated bureaucracy with massive powers to violate the privacy of anyone they want to. They should be using this against foreigners, the massive expansion of 24 7 Surveillance State since 9 11 has done nothing for Americas Position in the world. We know so little about afghan adversaries that we have taken 20 years to lose the goat heads with fertilizing. China kn
President biden rejected the premise that a Taliban Takeover Of Afghanistan is inevitable as a thai group makes rapid advances amid the u. S. And now also british withdrawal. I will not send another generation of americans to War In Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. The u. S. Mission in afghanistan will end august 31st, 12 days sooner than the 20th anniversary of 9 11. President bidens first deadline. Biden says he trusts the Afghan Military can defend itself from the threat of a taliban takeover and at this stage its the responsibility of the afghan people, not the u. S. , to nationbuild. They have the capacity. They have the forces. They have the equipment. The question is will they do it . The president highlighted the strengths of 300,000 afghan troops versus some 75,000 taliban. But brittled at this question. You trust the taliban, sir . Is that a serious question . Followed by a fuller answer. Do i trust the taliban . No. But i trust the
alleges she was harassed at the texas base. parent company of phil silicon valley bank is filing for chapter 11. [bell rings] meanwhile, the stock market took another beating tonight. selling their banking y st. patrick s day. millions celebrated with parades, beers, and decade-long presidential tradition. i a t you ve never know mike ever met who has never had a drink. norah: march madness continues, and the women s tournament tips off. gets the dump off. norah: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. tonight, the fbi and justice department are investigating tiktok s chinese parent company for potentially spying on american citizens. plus, it s friday, so we go on the road with an artist whose talent has given him a new lease on life. but first, the extraordinary announcement today about russia s leader, vladimir putin. the international criminal court at the hague issued an arrest warrant for the russian president for war crime
I thought maybe i was going to have to stand somewhere with a cup. and beg for nickels and dimes. reporter: but then richard thought of something he hadn t before. may be there was a way for him to make a living. using his life s work. reporter: wow. hundreds and hundreds of watercolors. i could take my artwork and still make it in this world. reporter: and that he did. i just dreamed a lot. reporter: it s been four years since we first told the story, and thanks to his artwork sales, richard now has a new hearts house, new car, and for the first time in his life, a d. it s not done yet. i am still involved in social reform. i am still involved in criminal injustice. i am still involved with the innocence network. so, i am just trying to stay active. reporter: stay active, and finally enjoy what was denied him all those 46 years. the american dream. if you own one of these, you
shannon: all right panel thank you so much. thanks for watching special report. i m shannon bream. join me fox news at night. we have report on hunter biden s artwork sales and questions about that. but fox news primetime hosted by mark steyn, the one and only and he starts right now. hey, mark. mark: hey, thank you, shannon. great show. they all stretch those headlines but i like mollie s for its shear viciousness. i give her the fully loaded tesla for tonight s round. manufacturing license plates. we will have some avenatti a bit later. shannon, good evening. welcome. i m mark steyn this is fox news primetime and it s all identity politics now. america has an hispanic community, a gay community and an intelligence community. and if you think the lgbtq plus community is getting way too many initials, try swimming through the alphabet soup of the