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blinken says that u.s. has no leverage there because all u.s. diplomats have been pulled out. the white house briefing set to begin any moment now and we expect there will be questions. fox team coverage begins now. general jack v6 is standing by. in trey, you had some breaking news for us at the top of the hour here. we ve got a lot of new information here. according to a source familiar, that flight with foreigners on board has landed in qatar. according to the sources there were actually about 113 passengers on board come out lower than the original estimat of 200 and these are foreigners from all different parts of the world. american citizens, canadians chemically ukrainians, german, and british citizens. according to the source additionally we know the passengers will be processed here in qatar, they will head from the airfield to a facility near to where we re at right now . they will take corona test and be given food in allowed some time to rest before ulti ....
it was the way the story might go. the men who risked their lives to bring her to safety say that honestly the federal government had very little to do with getting them out. you are in the faulkner focus . i m martha maccallum in for harris today. army veteran corey mills led a team into afghanistan to rescue this american mother and her three children. shortly after they escaped the country the state department released a statement claiming that it had facilitated their safe departure. any notion the federal government deserves the credit for this operation is in his opinion quote absolute nonsense. the in-country state department officials are eager to help. there is a cooperation there but this is politics being played out by the state department. they are the issue. there are major concerns whether the military can properly vet the thousands of afghan refugees coming to the united states. we ll talk a lot about this process of how they figured out who should c ....
army veteran. this team of special ops veterans saw this team through a harrowing ordeal. at one point that mom had a taliban gun, probably an american gun, held to her head. they said do not ever come back to this airport. corey mills will join us live in just a moments. first, david spunt with the back story. hi, david. hi, martha. the state department estimates there s about 100 americans left in afghanistan. some want to stay, some want to leave as soon as possible. they just want to get out and get to safety. this includes miriam and her three children. this is a heart-breaking story. they re lucky to be out with the help of corey mills that you see in the picture. those behind this private-run veteran group helped the family. they said the state department was not particularly involved. other americans spent hours on airplanes at the airport in northern afghanistan. they have yet to take off. republican congressman michael mccall said they re being held hostage. ....
new york and new jersey that federal help and tens of billions of help is on the way. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. what we re chronicaling here is a president saying that i m here and so is the federal government. he will be speaking shortly about the kind of aid he s talking about. let s get the read from alex hogan in manville, new jersey. alex? hi, neil. it s such a painful day for people in this community that are starting to pick up the pieces after losing everything that they own. as you mentioned, the president was here today in manville, new jersey. he met with state and local officials touring this area and needing many of these residents. he talked with people, stopping by to give them hugs and spoke with a woman and talked about what it was like for her when she came home. probably 2:30, 3:00, the houses on fire. thank god you didn t come back. yeah. we were not near the house. nobody was able to come back yet because the waters wer ....
they call that nonsense. john: 100 americans remained stranded. the taliban reportedly preventing at least six aircraft at an airport, mazar-e-sharif, from taking off. sandra: one week since biden most recent comments about that withdrawal. the white house as efforts to rescue americans left behind are still underway. john: former green beret michael waltz is standing by to join us. sandra: but first, peter doocy is live there in washington. sandra, good afternoon. the white house says americans want to leave afghanistan but can t because the taliban will not let them, not part of a hostage situation. no, that is not what we would characterize it as. those are comments made by a republican congressman this weekend. they are not hostages, and we know that this white house does not like to use the term stranded. we have been able to identify a relatively small number of americans seeking to depart from mazar-e-sharif. we have been assured that all americ ....