hostages on the wrong side of the border. on a desolate road outside of matamoras, mexico a convoy of vehicles carries victim s friday s attack. police found the two alive in a small house, their friends brown and woodward dead in a field nearby. [siren] at the border an ambulance took the two survivors to a brownsville, texas hospital. the deceased for now remain in mexico. attacks on u.s. citizens are unacceptable, no matter where or under what circumstances they happen. some on capitol hill want the u.s. military to go after the cartels with or without mexico s permission. i recommend we take the fight to the cartel and use extreme prejudice, extreme prejudice because they are killing americans. attorney general merrick garland spoke today without addressing that issue. the cartels are responsible for the deaths of americans and we are fighting as hard as possible. mexican president lopez observe door says one man is in custody while they look for others. mex
former cdc director dr. robert redfield tomorrow. bret? bret: we will be following. thanks. thank you. bret: up next we talk with the top members of the senate intention community first up chairman mark warner and first beyond our borders tonight before that tens of thousands join a mass rally in paris against a french government s plan to raise the retirement plan to age 64. some scuffles sporadically broke out sidelines people in paris throwing projectiles at police who responded with tear gas. the reform would require 43 years of work to earn a full pension. georgian authorities use tear gas and water canon outside water canons against protesters who oppose a proposed law. some see a stifling freedom of the press it. would require media outlets and nongovernmental organizations that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign sources to register as agents of foreign influence. defense secretary lloyd austin makes unannounced visit to
about 20,000 people remain at the chaotic kabul airport. more people keep coming. the evacuations of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began. there s no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss and heartbreaking images you see on television. it s just a fact. u.s. defense officials tell cnn the military is establishing alternative groups to kabul because of the threat posed by a self-proclaimed isis affiliate called isis-k. the threat is real. it s acute. it s persistence. it s something that we are focussed on with every tool in our arsenal. we re working hard with our intention community to try to isolate and determine where an attack might come from. we re placing pair month priority on stopping or disrupting and we ll do everything we can for as long as
remember, the president told abc news, quote, the intention community did not say back in june or july that, in fact, this was going to collapse like it did. that from the president the other day. today proof that american diplomats in afghanistan, meaning americans closest to the crisis point warned of collapse. t the wall street journal breaking news of a cable dated july 13th warning of the taliban s rapid advance and afghan forces folding as the american forces withdrew. with us, vivian, the reporter who broke the news. again, this puts the president s credibility in question, and more importantly, it tells us those cloeest to the crisis saw this coming and warned the secretary of state? john, this is something that we ve been asking now for a couple weeks is who knew what and when tdid they know it? obviously the administration sort of parsing words and saying this cable said that probably kabul could collapse shortly
some time. why ha there been a shift in focus and interest toward finding the origin of the coronavirus? it s really unfortunate they took the position early on that there was nothing to see here. i m glad now that they re looking at this. i hope it s a serious investigation when they say they are giving 90 days for the intelligence community to look at this. the intention community has been looking at this for an awfully long time. i have known since spring of last year 2020 when i first spoke about this that there is enormous evidence that this he is disappeared that laboratory in wuhan. we know there were people who got sick there scientists who got sick there we know they were doing this gain of function research essentially taking viruses and making them more contagious, potentially more lethal. we know those things to be true. this administration has to get after this. i hope they will continue the work that we were engaged in. you have seen some of the folks who were working f