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Republican conference. he said im left with grave questions in my mind about his ability to lead our nation as commander-in-chief. your thoughts on that. >> dana, as you know this ambassador served in high-profile roles under democrat administrations. thats a powerful statement for an ambassador who knows firsthand this region very well. so it is a striking comment. it strikes right to the heart of what im saying. if president biden doesnt address the american people today, we all have to wonder...

Thank you. joining as former secretary of state mike pompeo. welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> thank you for having me on this morning. chris: how dire is the situation in afghanistan as we talk today is a full, band takeover of the country now inevitable. >> it certainly looks like it looks like the biden administration has failed in its execution of its own plan and looks like theyre trying to get folks out and this reminds me of previous administrations to allow embassies to be overrun an...

Winning a war, bringing piece, but avoiding what were seeing on our screens. why was that considered untenable? i think down the road, mika, its useful to have a bigger conversation about the last 20 years, what did the united states try to accomplish in afghanistan, did we overreach, go about it the wrong way, perhaps we underreached at times. but the question is why two administrations in a row felt compelled to leave. its enough to make you question the value of bipartisanship. i would think ...

Theyll be able to get people out. they need to hurry. the scenes are deteriorating by the hour there. >> david ignatius to johns point. u.s. intelligence if officials are pushing back on the claim there was a failure on the intelligence part. two sources tell nbc news, the worse case scenario prediction was that the taliban would be in control of the country by september 11th. but no written assessment said their forces would move this fast. responding to the accusation, former acting cia direct...

Signed an agreement saying u.s. forces would leave by may 1st. but the fact is commanders in chief cannot pass the buck because biden is the commander in chief today, and he could reverse that decision, frankly. and by the way, as we supported, he overruled his own senior military advisers who recommended keeping a force in afghanistan, not just to back up afghan forces but to maintain an intelligence gathering and also a counter terror presence on the ground in afghanistan, which u.s. officials...

>> will: whoops? joe biden spent most of his speech defending the decision to leave afghanistan. the vast majority american people want to leave afghanistan. more than 70% according to most polls. three presidential administrations have tried to leave afghanistan. now, there is a worthy debate to be had as to whether we should have left a residual force as a base to fight terrorism. but virtually no one wants to try to turn that collection of tribe into a jeffersonian democracy. but, whether to ...

Recent days of the helicopters helping to evacuate americans. do you expect the president to accept responsibility that his earlier assessment, what he told the american people previously, was wrong? >> i do not expect him to say his overall decision was wrong. we know he believes this in his core that he believes americas longest war should come to an end. but how and when it came to an end, that is the central question here. well see if he acknowledges being wrong about this. but if he doesnt,...

Fall. then they talked about 90 days out. and the assessment again was very grim and the afghan sources without air support with residual force are a light footprint. i just think it is so sad your piece on women and the veterans and what this means to them. it is just a nightmare unfolding. >> the president certainly bears responsibility as the commander in chief. but it was the trump administration, remember, that made that initial so-called peace deal with the taliban, the former secretary of...

About foreign policy. the war might have been a different thing. but typically we dont have campaigns that are spending money talking about foreign policy. if youve got a congressional candidate spending their time and resources talking about foreign policy as opposed to talking about the anxiousness that moms are having right now with their kids going back to school and the uncertainty of the economy, youre talking -- probably looking at a congressional candidate who is going to lose. >> kriste...

Talking to us just a little earlier this afternoon, former secretary general of nato. lets discuss what might happen next, and in particular the us involvement in all of this. lets get more on this and speak to dr leslie vinjamuri, director of the us programme at chatham house. hello, good evening. hello, thank ou for hello, good evening. hello, thank you for having _ hello, good evening. hello, thank you for having me _ hello, good evening. hello, thank you for having me on _ hello, good evenin...