Critical days of this operation that the commander-in-chief hasn t wanted to talk about it as the world watches. i have made this a priority for my administration from the outset. he was talking about cybersecurity. no talk about afghanistan policy. aside from this punch line. mr. president, if americans are still. thank you, thank you, thank you. deadline. come, thank you. you will be the first person i will call. [laughter] pete: so what s so funny? of course it s a very important question. these are incredibly serious issues. and discussions happening internally. as a clock ticks towards a final flight out of kabul domestic issues including the build back better agenda last night is worrying some critics. he was wasting precious time this week burning the phones up pressuring democrats to vote for a $5 trillion spending bill and tax bill. that s what he was wasting time on. every minute of his day should be getting all americans out. the top democrat in congr
America won t be able to keep its promise to those who helped the u.s. military for the past 20 years. bret? bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thanks. let s bring in michigan republican representative peter meijer who serves on the house foreign affairs committee. congressman meyer is also an iraq war veteran and just returned from afghanistan. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. i want to talk about how this trip came to be. you traveled there with congressman seth moulton from massachusetts. how did it come to pass? thank you, bret. both seth and myself have been actively engaged on what s called the special immigrant visa issue. those were visas in a program for individuals who had loyally served the united states in places like iraq and afghanistan. there have been tremendous backlog of these cases and in april, when president biden announced that he was continuing the initial plan for withdrawal, that started under president trump. we urged the
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Migrants in the vehicle with him. and, bret, you can take a live look at fox drone in la joya right now where you can see migrants. size being groups crossing the border. a bus just took one group away. when it comes to the reimplementation of the remain in mexico policy. texas governor greg abbott praised the supreme court s decision today writing in part, quote: this is a major victory for our state, for our neighbors and for our safety and security of our communities. president biden s partisan reversal of this policy has helped fuel the record surge in illegal migrants and contributed to an environment on the border that is neither safe, orderly, nor humane. we will send it back to you. bret: bill melugin along the border in la joya, thanks. up next the latest on afghanistan, the evacuation, what s next with the administration. we ll bring in the panel. first, beyond our borders tonight. vice president kamala harris in hanoi urging vietnam to join the u.s. in challenging china s
Out the president has said and administration officials have said any measure who wants to leave afghanistan, we are going to get them out. that s kind of the bottom line. now, over time if afghanistan returns to being a safe haven for terrorists and there is a terrorist attack launched on u.s. interest from afghanistan, that, i think, will be the absolute worst case scenario for joe biden. in the short-term, he has to get every single american out with no american casualties. bret: byron, this congressional trip, two congressman on their own, decide to go. a democrat and a republican to get a firsthand look at the airport. it really threw people for a loop at the pentagon and the leadership in both parties. well, i have to say personally i m glad a couple of members of congress went over and looked at it with their own eyes. and the way we have seen nancy pelosi, we have seen the white house. we have seen the pentagon just smack down congressman moulton