Sealing off the Kabul Airport to most afghans who are trying to evacuate. The massive airlift winds down ahead of the August 31st Withdrawal Deadline just three days from now, those troops are already starting to pull back from the airport. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby earlier today admitted the danger is far from over. It is a serious threat. Im not sure what, how any potential Terrorist Threat could be anything other than serious. Serious. Eric we have Fox News Team coverage on this developing and unfolding story. David spunt if is at the White House where with President Biden has been meeting with the national security advisers. This is a meeting in the situation room. Lucas tomlinson is at the pentagon with more on the u. S. Drone strike that took out at least two of of the isisk operatives. But first, lets go to Trey Yingst in doha, qatar, where many of those evacuees have been heading. Hi, trey. Reporter eric, good afternoon. In the past 24 hours, there were 66 flights out
Terrorism has spread around the world and the need for us to focus on other parts of the world that could create an even greater danger of an operation like Al Qaeda beginning cant be ignored. We are a number of places where were doing that without permanent basing of American Forces there. So i think when this is over the american people have a clear understanding of what i did, why we did it, but look. That is the job. My job is to make judgments. My job is to make judgments No One else can or will make. I made them. Im convinced i am absolutely correct and not deciding to send more young women and men to war for a war that in fact is no longer warranted. Still, the situation potentially complicating what could be among the most consequential weeks of the biden presidency as Nancy Pelosi and the House Return Tomorrow to begin work on the trillion dollars infrastructure package, the 3. 5 trillion Reconciliation Package, and a Voting Rights bill. The big question facing the Administrat
Next. Pain and regret. Hospitals are running out of beds. Plus new era. New york will welcome its first female governor after Andrew Cuomo resigns in disgrace. No one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment. What is her plan to clean up New York politics . New Yorks Lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul joins me ahead. Hello. Im Jack Tapper in washington with the state of our union watching a tragic foreign Policy Disaster unfold before our eyes. Weeks before the anniversary of 9 11 and the deadline of President Bidens complete withdrawal of u. S. Troops in afghanistan, the taliban having seized much of that country theyre now At The Gates of the Capital City of kabul. Their representatives are meeting with leadership inside the afghan president ial palace. The rapid crumbling of the country has caught the biden White House flat footed. On saturday after pulling out almost all of the 2500 Service Members there when he took office, President Biden said he would deplo
Last stronghold of the afghan government. Afghan president ghani has now fled the country. Taliban fighters have entered the Capital City of kabul where the American Flag has been taken down from the u. S. Embassy as the u. S. Undertakes an urgent evacuation of American Personnel. The rapid crumbling of the country shocked the u. S. And u. S. Allies and caught the biden White House flatfooted on saturday. After pulling out almost all of the 2,500 troops when he took office, hes deploying troops back to get americans safely out of kabul, warning of a swift u. S. Response if the Taliban Inte interfered. Sources tell cnn the majority of the u. S. Embassy staff are now out of the embassy compound. Thats a Sharp Tsharound when President Biden called it highly unlikely the Taliban Would overrun the country, at the time striking many experts in his own administration as unrealistic and prompting questions as to whether biden was cherrypicking intelligence or indifferent to it. As american dip
Hoping to get through some big pieces of business before leading tower for the July 4th holiday, including a vote on a select committee to investigate the January 6th riot at the capitol. And Jen Psaki saying the president will do all he can to make sure the bipartisan Infrastructure Deal reached last week reaches his desk. The president looks forward to and expects to sign each piece of legislation into law. Hes going to work his heart out getting both of them across the finish line. We also continue to follow the developmentes from florida where the Death Toll if last weeks partial collapse of a Beach Side Condo complex near miami has unfortunately risen to ten as rescuers continue their painstaking efforts to find 151 people still unaccounted for. And the u. S. Supreme court giving a much needed win to the transgender community. What it rejected a appeal by a Virginia School board to reinstate the transgender bathroom ban. Well have more on that later this hour. We begin with what i