Servicemen in women have alread left for the Pentagon Confirmin Today the u. S. After that augus no longer control the airport theyre 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 ou
Administration, in successive administrations for it i want t ask you about the political fallout for president biden. critics can say he needs to ste down or he needs to be impeached , we all know that s not going to happen. but take a look at this finding by the usa today suffix whole o his handling of afghanistan. only 26 percent of people approve, 62 percent disapprove, in his overall approval rating is really fading now. he s underwater only 41 percent approved, 49 percent disapprove. obviously the focus right now should rightly be on getting people out of afghanistan. beyond that, what do you think the lingering political blowbac on this is going to be particularly if americans are left in afghanistan? i think the democrats are scared to death right now that this is going to have a massive impact on the midterms. i think we already are expectin to have we re going to take
Many people out of afghanistan is possible in the days we have left. on that point, with less than a week till the u.s. troop the taliban poses a problem to getting more citizens and allie out of the country. how much can the extremist grou be trusted wes morgan joins us he has reported on the u.s. military in this war since 2007. morgan is also the author of th hardest place the american military, good to speak with you , wes. you wrote a very interesting piece in the washington post about lieutenant colonel who wa an interpreter turned commando who struggled to get out of candle hard to get to kabul where he took up a position trying to help people get out o the airport. you re right that his entire life had been in service to the united states. when you look at the threat tha is looming there in afghanistan and you put that together with
Against the surge in afghanista as well as iraq, he was against the bin laden nation. he said over and over again to obama, your being rolled by the military. he stopped general portray us from having poster at this. he held another 20,000 back the had to go to nato to get them. this is his policy. he s got to keep to this in the worst thing is, sandra, he doesn t seem to care. he opened up with his marks about the reconciliation packag and not heat leaves pentagon officials out there to defend the policy they don t believe i when so much is at stake, he ha a reputation in his hands he s throwing it in the ground and walking over a. before we jump, i want to keep mccarthy, he spoke on this just a moment ago, but he teed off this in the implications for joe biden goin forward. listen. we watch every crisis in thi new administration that he ran
Important point when you said perhaps they don t want the rea number out there because if tha number of americans doesn t com out before august 31st, that s going to look really bad. by the way, president biden and members of his cabinet in national security team are now talking about cybersecurity. he hasn t spoken about afghanistan at all so far today. it may be an opportunity that h will take questions at the end of his remarks here, and if he is asked about afghanistan we will bring that to you. that is happening right now. now we are moments away from th update that we are expecting from secretary of state anthony blinken. will he take questions? it s going to be his first remarks to the nation since afghanistan collapsed, even before blinken speaks, lawmaker are singing that he should get the boot. congressman mark green is all worked up about this and he wil make his case for that coming u