the ground is over. the. made clear his intention to do that. the withdrawal is done as well as the military part. military element of evacuating americans and special immigrant visa holders. that said, the u.s. government is still very much going to stay involved in trying to help people leave who want to leave and who qualifieds to leave. as you heard general mckenzie say, we re going to stay focused on the terrorist threat that could emanate from afghanistan. i would like to ask you a few details about the august agreement announced yesterday on the military side. the australian defense minister spoke about basing. does it mean the u.s. wants to deploy u.s. troops open
0 ahead of that messaging before the science had before that regulators were on the same page with them. john: , and on the immigration front, the mayor of del rio, texas, is on the extraordinary pictures. they declared a state of emergency in his town. thanks for being with us on this friday martha: thanks, john and jacqui. a lot of breaking news. i m martha maccallum in new york. any moment now, there you can see the podium is set up at the pentagon. a huge development breaking right now as we are told that officials are about to announce that no isis-k fighters were killed in the august 29th u.s. drone strike in kabul that killed ten civilians in fact. there s no disciplinary action we re told expected as a result of that obvious misstep, mistake, whatever you want to call it. a lot of questions moments away about what happened with what was said to be a great example of our over-the-horizon ability to take out targets in afghanistan despite the fact that we pulled out. so there
allowing this to happen, taking the military out and then say oh, we hope to get the people out, and then when i hear general mckenzie say that the taliban is going to protect us, the taliban is the enemy. i dealt with the leader of the taliban. this is not a very simple man, this is not a boy scout. to put it another way. this is a tough, hardened person that has been fighting us for many years, and we are using them now to protect us? look what happened with their protection, 100 people, much more, they say, than 100 people were killed, and 13 of our incredible military were killed, and that is just the beginning, because there are many of our military in the hospital right now, very badly wounded and hurt. sean: mr. president, let me ask you and get your reaction to president biden s presser today, where he is sticking to this artificial deadline, and clearly accepting and acknowledging that
unfortunately after fighting so many years, the afghan army did when their government ran away from them. clarisa, we heard the u.s. military commander general mckenzie say earlier that they did certain things to the aircraft to make sure they will never fly again but still, there is no doubt these taliban troops did capture a lot of very important u.s. military equipment left behind. no, absolutely, wolf. first of all, take for a moment the symbolism of it, walking in as you saw l.a. times reporter navi walking into that hanger seeing those, i believe icopterg back and forth em bybassy officials. we saw on the grunt ound before