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That stayed there for their own reasons. i heard people shocked, people wanted to stay in afghanistan? yes, there are americans with dual citizenship who have families in afghanistan and right now theyre trying to figure out, do i want to come to america without my family or do i want to stay here where i was born, stay with my family. there are a lot of complicated questions. >> the question is how many americans are still there, which is what we were trying to get at with jen, who want to leav...

Work i suspect in foreign intelligence. i believe in ready, aim, fire and not ready fire aim blame. >> people comparing it to saigon like two days after the first day of evacuations. of course, theres an example talking about how quickly things go. theres an example of a huge difference where this fell in seven days and afghan and saigon, saigon we got out in 73, fell in 75. but you talk about counter factuals. its important. for instance, the curfew, its hard to say what the counter factual wou...

Vigilantes with impunity and secondly the number of reported murders, people who work as interpreters being dragged out of their houses in kandahar and murdered in the street in front of their families, so much of that evidence has built up over the last two or three weeks that there is no way the taliban have changed and if we make the mistake of thinking they are not as bad as isis, we are in a very bad place. jillian: former british prime minister tony blair ripped into president biden over t...

Has now turned his back on every single one of them and what is officially oneal of the absolute worst foreign policy debacles sadly in u.s. history. at this hour, terrorists from the taliban, isis, al qaeda, isis k, they are now hunting anyone and everyone with ties to this country, the united states of america. but after a nice long weekend in delaware mumbling, bumbling, muttering the white house, that guy joe was completely ignoring what is happening with the reality is for each and every pe...

Citizens on them as we speak. also with the interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage. >> weve been able to identify relatively small number of americans seeking to depart from mazar-e sharif with their families. the taliban cannot deny access to anyone holding valid documents. but they have said those without documents, at this point, cant leave. >> we dont have a great deal of understanding of every individual. >> they are not clearing airplanes to depart. they sat at the airport th...

>> dana: and a hostage. >> jesse: i almost got it right. [laughter]. >> dana: were going to get back in sync. the taliban is preventing them from leaving. so you can imagine lets say things were rerefused, lets say this were under president trump very same thing happened, what do you think they would be saying today? they would say you created a hostage crisis and they would be banging the drums on that. the other thing i would say is we didnt get 120,000 americans out, we didnt get all the amer...

>> mike: on that point, texas republican congressman michael mccaul made pretty explosive comments yesterday ont "fox news sunday," lets play thehe clip. >> we have six airplanes at the airport, six airplanes, with american citizens on them as i speak. also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. this is really, chris, turning into a hostage situation where they are not going to allow american citizenss to leave untl they get full recognition from united stat...

Planes. >> six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. >> reporter: the white house says theyre not aware of any hostage situation and are working to get americans out, but a top democrat now blasting the biden administration for americans still stranded at that airport. senator richard blumenthal saying, "i have been deeply frustrated, even furious at our governments delay and inaction." but ...

Interpreters before meeting with 50 military and civilians who helped with the evacuations from kabul after the afghan government collapsed. and this morning, we have learned that the state department helped four u.s. citizens leave afghanistan via an overland route marking the first americans who have been able to leave the country by land. this is according to the sate department, but the role of the state department and the biden administration now being disputed by my next guest, who says it...

Tarmac americans are stuck on private chart erplanes. >> six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak, also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. >> reporter: the white house said theyre not aware of any hostage situations. but a top democratic blasting the biden administration saying i have been deeply frustrated and furious at our governments delay in action. then theres 25-year-old nazria, a 25-year-old from america whos pregnant and trapped i...