Isisk threat in afghanistan as u. S. Lawmakers raise questions about the vetting of afghan evacuees. Former national Security Adviser Robert obrien will be here live with his take on all that. And another heartbreaking moment on the southern border as a Little Migrant Girl carrying her Toddler Brother on her back dies alongside her mother on their dangerous trek to the united states. Former Dhs Secretary Chad wolf is live with reaction to that and theth massive spike of drugs coming into the country. Plus, the fight over masking in schools and who should be making the call, parents or the government. Dr. Nicole saphier live on the medical view. All that and more as we look ahead on Sunday Morning futures. Jason President Biden facing widespreaden criticism over americas botched exit from afghanistan, some even accusing the commander in chief of lying. Its hurting his Approval Rating which has dropped to 43 in an npr poll. The fierce blowback against the president coming after he failed
Success. they are trying to put a spin on it as best they can but part of what they are claiming is that the trump administration of which you were the national security adviser, you had ill-prepared this, that you had put things into motion that caused this chaos and that it was really trump s fault for how chaotic it is today. well, this debacle of the biden-harris evacuation or attempted evacuation and remember we left a lot of americans behind and i ve been careful not the criticize the administration while we try to get americans and afghan friends home and will travel with us for many years ahead. we need to figure out how to restore american leadership. i think there s one thing that everyone knows around the world, our friends, our foes and folks on the other side of the aisle. this would never happen through president trump. he believes through peace through strength and importantly
That they, this was they were not going to collapse, the afghan forces. they were not going to leave. the idea that the taliban would take over was premised on the notion that the, that somehow the 300,000 troops we had trained and equipped was going to just collapse, they were going to give up. i don t think anybody anticipated that. jason: but that may not be the case. a transcript of a july 23rd phone call reported last week shows president biden appearing to pressure his afghan counterpart to create a perception the taliban wasn t winning. biden telling ashraf ghaani, quote: i need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of afghanistan, i believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban x there is a need whether it s true or not there is a need to project a different picture. that a call came weeks before taliban took control of kabul ultimately led to the
And individual freedom that they ll be denied in afghanistan. so that s the best of america but at the same time we need to make very certain that the folks who come over here are the people they claim to be, that they were the ones that helped us and they are not radicals or not subject to radicalization and not going to do harm to america and the vetting process is important and we need to get it right. i commend governor cox and others who want to bring the afghans who are seeking freedom and want american way of life, bringing them over here. it s a balancing act. we need to protect our friends but we need to protect the american people from the wrong afghans and potential terrorists coming to our land. the latest numbers i ve seen 20,000 are already in the united states, about 40,000 are still overseas as they go through the processing. but let me switch gears a little bit with you, ambassador, because the biden-harris administration calls it a total
Jason: that was white house press secretary jen psaki on thursday warning about the terror threat from isis k in afghanistan. in the meantime lawmakers here at home are worried about the possible national security threat just days before we mark 20 years since 9/11. 26 republican senators asking the biden administration for information on the vetting process for afghan evacuees. many of whom may end up in the united states. here is what the chairman of the joint chiefs mark milley told our jennifer griffin yesterday in an exclusive interview. they are getting the names registered, biometrics, they are doing irisis and finger photo and they run against that at 20 years of databases that we have in interagency, they run it against the nctc checks and the fbi checks. if the individual, if evacuee has some sort of derogatory