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So now the united states is trying to find some other country, who knows maybe it will be the united states, who will take the guys who flew our equipment out of the country. ainsley: so botched. antony blinken still said 300 americans still need to be rescued. some think its more. 80% of americans think troops should have stayed until troops were walked and 17% say troops should stay until our afghan allies are removed. congressman michael waltz was slamming the biden administration said we sho...

Airport in the last hour. but i understand there were no casualties, and the v ram system that stands for counter rocket and mortar system was deployed. thats the defensive system the u.s. has at bases that can detect incoming artillery or mortars. that was used effectively, im told and the threat was mitigated. but all of this shows how dangerous the next coming days will be as the military completes its withdrawal from afghanistan. it began its retrograde earlier today. we reported on a u.s. d...

48 hours. we gave away all of our bases, our allies are being hunted down and now we have a terrorist army to the teeth with american -- armed to the teeth with american equipment. i watched our coverage yesterday. it was so sad when you saw receipt mains of the 13 service members who are arriving back on u.s. soil. their coffins were brought out in front of the the president and in front of the first lady and family members. they were draped in american flags. and congressman brian mast. he has...

Heroic military is doing the best they can with a horrible policy decision. this is one of the worst foreign policy decisions in american history. much worse than saigon. after we left saigon, there werent vietnamese terrorists planning to attack us here at home. >> bill: thats one point from 1975. he is right about that. the other thing he said was they are excited and emboldened. come wednesday the first of september, how often do you think there will be a strike on behalf of the u.s. instied ...

>> joebld biden put our forces risk by having no plan to evacuate. we are at risk because the president has been so unbelievably weak. abandoning bagram base will be read in military books for decades as one of the stupidest mistakes ever. >> a retired colonel and former aid to general david petraeus joins me now from columbus, ohio. we saw another counterterrorist strike on sunday. but how much more difficult will that sort of counterterror operation be with no boots on the ground after this co...

And clearly al qaeda has aspirations to attack america, always has. isis-k obviously has aspirations greater than afghanistan. thats why they have fundamental disagreements with the afghan taliban. i dont think they have the wherewithal yet to conduct an attack against america. why would we permit them to acquire it and why we wanted to keep the modest force there. remember, c.i.a. bases were focused on these organizations. al qaeda and isis. that was their primary focus and the intelligence cap...

But you have to worry for them. a number of them will not be treated well. i think it is inevitable some of them will be killed for their role in the war. >> we are leaving those people behind going back to intel capabilities, will it impact the u.s. ability to recruit human intelligence sources on the ground who are so vital? will there be a trust deficit going forward? >> a trust deficit for sure as there was after vietnam. in the long run the united states will recover but central asia will b...

Mind at fort bliss and how will the process go? the continued weeding out of potential problems? generally hope by the time they arrive, all of that has been screened. maybe you can explain what were in for. >> the afghan refugees will be taken to several bases. texas, virginia, wisconsin, even new jersey. for fort bliss, its the largest post by area in the united states army. between fort bliss and the adjoining base, wide sands missile rage, 25% of the u.s. armys total land. so there are place...

Undertaking. one of the most difficult in the nations history and feat of logistics and coordination under some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable. many, many people made this possible. i want to command our outstanding diplomats who worked around the clock and around the world to coordinate the operation. they volunteered for duty at the kabul airport. they flew to transit countries to help process thousands of afghans bound for the united states. they deployed to ports of entry a...

Will impact our power but our storm water systems and our waste water systems and drinking distribution systems. all of those things are areas of concern. were trying to communicate early and often with our residents making certain that they dont go in low-lying areas. if they see standing water, dont walk, swim or ride in it. these are the type of -- this is the type of advice that we are issuing to them on a consistent bases. >> mayor, did you get the sense people were listening to the advice ...