Clear message to President Biden. Fox friends first starts right now. Youre watching Fox Friends first on this friday morning. Im ashley strohmier. Im carley shimkus. Were going to get straight to a Fox News you alert as President Biden leaves for vacation in telling wear, the u. S. Sends 3,000 troops back to afghanistan. Theyre going to help evacuate the u. S. Embassy as the taliban takes over of three more afghan cities. Jackie ibanez joins us with the latest. Reporter the taliban captured two major afghan cities, the second and third largest after kabul. The Provincial Capital is reportrd to have fallen. This comes as part of a weeklong blitz. The Talibans Growth shown on the map, you can see it in the red. Theyve captured 13 of afghanistans 34 Provincial Capitals. While Kabul Isnt directly under threat yet, the military is not wasting time sending 3,000 troops into kabul to help Embassy Personnel and other americans evacuate the country and an additional 3500 troops out of Fort Bra
Youre watching Fox Friends first on this friday morning. Im carley shimkus. Ashley im ashley strohmier. Todd an jillian are off this morning. Now to the border crisis, Homeland Security Secretary new mayorkas announcing Border Crossings hit a 21 year high. Carley Griff Jenkins is live with brandnew Audio Recordings that are telling. Reporter we havent seen these kind of numbers since the spring of the year 2000, never during a raging pandemic. Secretary mayorkas announcing this number here, more than 212,000 encounters in july, a fivefold increase over last july. The situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. It is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. Reporter but behind closed doors, in this leaked audio, talking to Border Patrol agents, mayorkas admits the situation is much more dire. These numbers cannot continue. We cannot get to the point we were a couple weeks ago and were going to make sure that doesnt happ