large swaths of afghanistan. chris: given that they are now in charge of afghanistan, should we try to find some way to work with the taliban? can we find some way to work with the taliban? well, i think in many respects, because this administration ignored the warnings of the intelligence community assessments, overrode the top generals, we find ourself in this very precarious dangerous situation where the taliban is dictating terms to us, where they are deck tating the terms of our exit dictating the terms of our exit strategy, dictating whether the americans can leave or not or the interpreters, and mr. putin himself stared down our president at the summit and said you can t build isr intelligence capabilities in the region. the problem is, chris, we ve gone dark. when bagram went down, when we turned it over to the afghan partners in taliban hands, with
the taliban will not let them leave the airports. joining me to discuss all the latest medal of honor recipient, fox news contributor dakota meyer, dakota, welcome. thank you, mike. mike: what is your reaction to what congressman mccaul said there about the taliban holding americans and afghan partners against their will? i mean, this is what we all knew was going to happen. we were saying this a week ago watching this exit strategy of leaving all of the american citizens over there. we knew that if we didn t stay and get all the american citizens out, the way that we should have, and lead with that, then we knew we would have a hostage crisis on our hands the day that we pulled out and this is exactly what we have and this is only going to continue to get worse, what you will see the biden administration continually kick the can down the road and hopefully it goes away. you heard the narrative, biden
chris: given that they are now in charge of afghanistan, should we try to find some way to work with the taliban? can we find some way to work with the taliban? well, i think in many respects, because this administration ignored the warnings of the intelligence community assessments, overrode the top generals, we find ourself in this very precarious dangerous situation where the taliban is dictating terms to us, where they are deck tating the terms of our exit dictating the terms of our exit strategy, dictating whether the americans can leave or not or the interpreters, and mr. putin himself stared down our president at the summit and said you can t build isr intelligence capabilities in the region. the problem is, chris, we ve gone dark. when bagram went down, when we turned it over to the afghan partners in taliban hands, with all the cash and weaponry, when
road, raising questions about the unsolved more of his wife and son who were gunned down nearly three months ago. and the death toll rising as states comb through the catastrophic damage from hurricane ida. officials say it could be weeks before power s back in some parts of louisiana. griff: we begin with afghanistan. republicans putting pressure on the biden administration as the white house defends its exit strategy. we should have never let the military leave, we should have maintained control of multiple air bases so we would have operational control of afghanistan until everyone was out, at least citizens were and noncombatants. but now we have diplomatic relations going through doha, qatar, and we can t even get directly there. so this is a position of weakness that the biden administration has chosen. griff: we have fox team coverage. trey yingst in qatar on the situation with afghan scrapping wees, but first to evacuees, but first to david spunt in where president biden is
their for years? it s an absolute failure in leadership, it s in measurable. you can t quantify it. it been tough. it s so ridiculous you can t make it up. it was so botched at the highest level that you ve got to think these people are either completely inept or they shouldn t be in leadership position where there s an ulterior motive. both of those scenarios, it s impossible to have a positive emotion about this. a corporal in a marine corps coming up with a better plan than these knuckleheads it did on the exit strategy. everything about it was so