Wanting a place to hide this weary soul. Yeah. I tried with all my might, i just can t win the fight. I m slowly drifting over vagabond. I never met, he told me that i was not alone. He picked me up, turned me around, plant my feet on solid ground. He hears my heart, he saved my name, forever free. I thank god. Yeah. Got no choice but to believe. Brian: you are looking at maverick city music performing. They were just on the couch and just singing. I thank god, it is a popular christian song, how cool to hear in person. Steve: kayleigh, great to have you, ainsley is on assignment. I thank god to lead into this. Kaitlan kayleigh: well said. Evan gershkovich and former marine paul whelan and jou journalist alsu kurmasheva are back on american soil. Here is evan, a touching image, hugging his mother for the first time after spend ing 500 days i a prison cell in russia. [cheering] [applause] steve: that last guy, paul whelan. After landing in maryland, they took another flight overnight to
But i think right now the real issue for me, martha, is that he and kamala harris for will nw be copresidents really over the next six month s. Okay, panel, thank you very much. A historic night. Meantime, we want to mention fox news is inviting former president trump and vice a president harris to participate in a debate. Seat event would take place september 17th in pennsylvania. We have offered to discuss specifics with the two campaigns. We re open to negotiatioo discnr an exact date, format, location, as well as whethere an there would be an audience or not. All of those things are still to be figured out. We have a long way ahead to november and we ll coverl th you all the way. Next stop is the democratic convention in chicagoto in a few weeks. Sto but history in the making tonight. Thanks for watching. Our speciain l of presidentess to biden s address to the nation. Jesse walter s primetimee white is next. Good night frome. The white house. Joe biden speaking to thes american pe
Joe biden, your president, he just left our fellow americans behind enemy lines, as hostages to the whims of terrorists. My sources are telling me the mister ministration testament o 250300 americans left behind i extremely low in the more likel number of americans left behind is closer to 1,000, may be more. The saddest part of all is our government doesn t know in they don t have a clue. Coming up we will join by two goldstar fathers, their sons, marine corporal lance jerrod schmitz, and staff sergeant taylor hoover, they were both killed during last week s attac at the airport in kabul. Its because of euros like this and thousands of americans and our allies, they were able to escape the country bright tonight, countless americans, they have now been completely abandoned in left behind enemy lines, abandoned not by our brave soldiers, but by their commanderinchief who made the political decision to leave by august 31st, the taliban deadline no matter what. It is day 16, americans he
Servicemen in women have alread left for the pentagon confirmin today the u. S. After that augus no longer control the airport they re pretty cute the president says all americans an afghan allies will be evacuated if they want to leave. But the taliban is blocking man afghans and likely americans from reaching the airport. In just moments we will hear from on the and standing by to join us in moments for it. We look forward to all of that and kick off fox team coverage for you at this hour. Retired fourstar general jack keane is standing by, but first to jennifer griffin who is life at the pentagon for as. We have learned during the pentagon reaping last night the u. S. Military launched another helicopter rescue mission in kabul to get roughly 1020 americans to the airport is the third time this type of rescue mission has been launched despite the pentagon insisting the taliban are granting safe passage to american spirit. Last night during the darkness, there was an operatio to go o
Because of the drawdown, in order to draw down by the end o august in we were nothing, but honest about the speed with which we had to do that because speed is safety. We wanted to make sure we did this quickly ended drawdown means a drawdown it s not just about boots on the ground it s about capabilities in resources in the region as we wrapped up our combat missions in afghanistan which meant we had fewer airplanes, fewer strike capabilities in the region as w continue to draw down. Again, we were transparent abou the fact that we would conduct air strikes in support of the afghans where in when feasible cognizant of the fact that it wouldn t be feasible on every day in in every place. But, the afghan air force is indigenous in they are in a country. And they did maintain their presence. There were days where they flew easily twice as many strikes as we did they were able to often get on scene quicker because they were already there and because they had connections to their people in