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Fell, they were going to be american citizens in kabul they needed to be evacuated. they were going to be third country nationals who were going to have to be evacuated. they were going to be afghans still in the fight who have supported the u.s. war effort over the last 20 years who are going to have to be evacuated, so this operation in a dangerous situation was going to have to happen at some point, and when you run an operation like that, when you are trying to position assets to go in and secure in airfield in a city that has been taken by opposing forces with the government that has collapsed, your contingency plan is going to hit head-on with reality, and they re going to be complexities and challenges and difficulties, and you work through them. you make adjustments and ultimately get an operation going that is moving out thousands, if not tens of thousands of people daily. that is what we have accomplished. ....
Terrified. think about this, c-17 military clean, you have small children who didn t really know what was happening. they just knew that their parents were frantic to get them out of afghanistan, get them out of kabul. so it was a unique opportunity but a very sad day for many afghans. john: at least they had seats, trey. we saw this picture pictures of people sitting on the floor, getting out of dodge anyway they could be a great reporting period sandra. sandra: thanks, john cared for our veterans, the botched afghanistan withdrawal is not political. it is personal. the people they liberated now going back under the taliban s reign of terror. next up, a former blackhawk pilot with a message for president biden. john: cleaning up after tropical storm henry, laying into parts of new england. what is left of the storm is still making a wet mess. we are live in the thick of it, ....
Afghans who work for u.s. forces in the u.s. government, they are not going to be able to get out. for those watching, what do you say to them? should they try to get to the third country on their own? should they wait for some diplomatic solution? jake: first, we are in touch with the afghans at risk eligible for special immigrant visas and other categories of support from the u.s. government. we are trying to get as many of them to the airport as quickly as possible to get them on flights home, and as i said yesterday, we will continue to get afghans at risk out of the country, even after u.s. military forces have left. the president has criticized his predecessor, the afghan government for all of their failures. one group that he has not seem to criticizes the taliban. why is that? why does the president continued ....
Changed into a stage where the taliban will allow al qaeda homestead on their territory as they have the past couple of decades, and isis will find ungoverned states. that is what our people right now are faced with. that is the short term challenge we face, but longer term, we might think that the war is over, but the taliban and isis and al qaeda have the united states and our allies in their crosshairs. very modest commitment of troops along with nato partners as well. john: we are going to jump out real quickly. let s listen. they have now facilitated the evacuation of more than 30,000 people out of the country since august 14th. american citizens, third country nationals, and afghans at risk. in the last 24 hours alone, 28 ....
Desperate, fleeing afghans. john: this is all happening as u.s. officials in kabul told americans to stay where they are. morning on saturday that it is too dangerous to try to go to the airport after a threat from islamic state terrace. as for al qaeda terrorist, officials in president biden zone administration are contradicting the president s claim that the terror group is gone from afghanistan. fox news also warning that the taliban are stepping up attacks on afghans who have gathered outside the airport. sandra: mike rogers will be our guest. he will join us in moments, but we have fox team coverage that begins now. peter doocy standing by at the white house. john: but first to jennifer griffin. hi. just learned from sources on the ground at kabul airport that there are some chartered flights that are leaving kabul airport empty because the state department is requiring so much paperwork, so much in terms of the manifest that they are ....