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Years of investment by the united states, the international committee, hundreds of billions of equipment as an institution, it collapsed in 11 days. >> mr. secretary, we went into afghanistan in the first place because the taliban had harbored al-quaida, correct? they attacked us on september 11th. now 20 years later, we have the taliban back in charge there. they have billions and billions of dollars of our equipment and our weaponry. once again, theyre a haven for terrorists. how is this not a...

And who goes in an administration. if the president has confidence in tony blinken as secretary of state, then i think he should stay. but thats a decision frankly between the president and the secretary of state. >> neil: finally when you mention the pay of pigs thing referring to the incident with a young u.s. president, a young j.f.k. a few months into office leading this debacle that failed, it did trigger a number of tests and challenges to the new president around the world. some say the b...

Afghanistan, be beheaded in front of their families? you know, our ability to conduct the best intelligence around the world has been impacted. this is the ripple effect this will have everywhere. and it is something that i again, never expected to see, and god help us, we never will see again, i dont -- we live in the greatest country with greatest people. there are people outside this country and inside trying to destroy it. but well get past it. we have to survive next 3 years with a presiden...

Coming up, attorney general paxton will be right here on the future of those lawsuits and the vaccine mandates by the biden administration. todd, jillian, i know you will ask him about it. jillian: thank you. todd: to the fox news alert, secretary of state antony blinken will face tough questioning today on the botched withdrawal from afghanistan. jillian: this comes as the wall street journal slams the administration for leaving americans and allies behind, writing the biden administration want...

They know and theyre intentionally lying to the american people or they dont know because we dont have people on the ground anymore and hes negotiating with terrorists to get the american citizens out. jillian: do you think we get those answers from blinken? >> no, i think were going to get more lies. what im curious to see today is are democrats who served in iraq or afghanistan, who served in the war on terror, going to be willing to stand up against their own party for the american people tod...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. were working on that every day. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classifi...

0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. weve been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. ...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us, but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support. and that includes, it starts with freedom of travel. so we have been intensely engaged with turkey in qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week. and with regard to sharif, youre correct. there are f...

Going to have to be nice to them until you get it back. it could be that one of the reasons they have to use words like businesslike is because they want to make sure that they can get the americans or green card holders or people who helped us in the war out which is probably obviously not happening. youve seen some of the pictures today and you know what the taliban is doing. im in touch as i know a lot of you are with some of these groups, private groups, former veterans and others who are tr...

In my opinion, the other way. every day, i miss my dad. whether its 9/11, whether its january 13th, whether its july the 7th. i miss my dad and that will never change. and so to 2021, and the most powerful country in the world seems to be suffering a crisis of confidence. in the manner of its departure from afghanistan, the kabul debacle, a crisis of competence. just off the tip of manhattan, lady liberty symbolises america opening its arms to the world. but 20 years on, the us feels much more i...