coming days but will need help from the qatarys to do so. in afghanistan today, coffins draped with american and nato flags were marched through the streets. a grim symbol of a new chapter of afghan history. regarding to the departure of the americans, i must say that we do not want a foreign country to being our homeland. we are happy that security is provided but we need bread and water. now begins a delicate diplomatic balancing act as the biden administration looks to bring home more than 100 americans still stuck in a country that, in part, is happy foreign troops are gone. despite the challenges, the department of defense is confident that diplomacy will prevail to help save those americans who are strapped. we are no longer on the ground in afghanistan to facilitate that kind of safe passage but that doesn t mean the administration or the government is going to turn a blind eye to trying to help them get home. the taliban now faces the challenges of governing an entire c
him about how i felt and it didn t go well. bret: on this with the panel. it s been a little more than 24 hours since the final u.s. troops left afghanistan, but that s not the end of the story, obviously. and this is not the end of the war on terrorism. national security correspondent jennifer griffin was at the pentagon tonight with that. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. 20 years ago the u.s. military defeated the taliban. today the taliban rule afghanistan once again and the u.s. is dependent on their goodwill to help rescue americans and american allies who remain stranded tonight. moments after the last u.s. military plane took off from kabul, the taliban took possession of the airport, taking photographs in american military aircraft which had been disabled, carrying the weapons that the u.s. government bought for the afghan army. we re now closing a chapter in our nation s history. last soldier to leave marking the end of america s 20-year war
ground, the white house was not able to say whether anyone else made it out. i made a commitment to the american people that i would end this war. today i have honored that commitment. the extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely, and selfless courage of the united states military and our democrats and intelligence professionals. the president defiant, even after breaking this promise made less than two weeks ago that troops would say until all americans were out. now 100 to 200 americans and countless afghan refugees are left behind amid a state department warning to keep a low profile and top military brass acknowledging hostage concerns with possible with at least 2,000, quote, hard core isis fighters in afghanistan. if there is american citizens left, we re going to stay until we get them all out. the bottom line, 90% of americans in afghanistan who
reaching out to them in march doesn t really matter. if they want to leave now, it seems to me that the administration has made a commitment to get them out and even if they haven t, this is a big point of vulnerability for the biden administration if they can t get them out. bret: not talked about a lot, guy, are the afghan allies who are at big risk on the ground in addition to the risk facing the americans. one of them actually saved senator biden in 2008 when his black hawk helicopter went down in the mountains with senator chuck hagel, senator john kerry and an interpreter 13 years interpreter mohammed from the wall street journal helped rescue senator joe biden and two other senators stranded in a remote afghanistan valley after their helicopter was forced to land in a snow storm. now mohammed is asking president biden to save him, quote: hello, mr. president, save me and my family. mohammed, who asked not to use his full name while in hiding, told the wall street journal a
pro village capitals. we gave up all that 20 years ago we defeated the taliban. this time they ran us out. they got a victory. they got our weapons and they have hostages and we have a broken promise by a president in one of the worst blunders in american foreign policy history. bret: some, like bill, are calling them hostages. mara, we don t know the administration says they are working with the taliban to get them out each one of them there has been back and forth about calling them stranded americans. take a listen. first of all, i think it s irresponsible to say americans are stranded. they are not. how does diplomacy get those people out of the taliban controlled afghanistan? it s not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world. i mean, we have americans that get stranded in countries all the time. and we do everything we can to try to facilitate safe passage. bret: mara? yeah, i think this is one of