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Airport. six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak. also with the interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. the state has cleared the flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. the answer to your question is zero. thats my concern is they will demand more and more whether its cash or legitimacy as the government of afghanistan. >> okay. i want to make clear that nbc news has not confirmed these allegations but youre on the arm ser...

This is really, chris, turning into a hostage situation, where they are not going to allow american citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the united states of america. my concern is that the special envoy who has met with the taliban, they are in talks right now, and i worry his recommendation to the administration will be to recognize the taliban as the official government of the united states, a taliban organization that is a terrorist organization. >> chris: there are also re...

Griff: more on the situation in afghanistan with republican congressman ted budd of north carolina. thank you for taking time on this labor day sunday. lets go quickly to these comments from your colleague, congressman mccall, alleging and fox has not independently confirmed this yet but alleging up in the north at the airport that six planes, as many as six planes with americans and afghan interpreters were being held essentially hostage by the taliban. your reaction. >> this just highlights th...

>> 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...

Around the airport itself. the interpreters couldnt get through that perimeter. most americans did. some got blocked by our own u.s. government at the airport. the state department wholly failed in this evacuation, and we had to rely on groups like operation task forces like pineapple and dunkirk who i implore the state department to work with to help get these americans and interpreters left behind out. but the retaliation has been severe, chris. stories of interpreters being taken home to thei...

Their will. this is what he said just a few hours ago on fox news sunday. listen. >> we have six airplanes at sharif airport, 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. the state has cleared these flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> reporter: again, this is several hours north of kabul on the border, the northern border of the country. meanwhile, fox news national...

From classified briefings that he was getting and he described it as almost a realtime hostage-type situation. take a listen. >> 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 right now. the state has cleared these flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> reporter: it is because of the specific language here, the nature of this language and the pi...

Mccaul. congressman, welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> thanks for having me, chris. >> chris: on friday secretary of state blinken under questioning from reporters refused to say how many americans, how many afghan allies have gotten out of that country since the u.s. pulled all our forces out on monday. as the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee, do you know the answer to that? >> ive been given the answer in the classified space, but it is in the hundreds. we have hundred...

American citizens on them, as i speak, also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. the state has cleared the flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> let me pick up on this because i didnt know this. youre saying there are americans on airplanes ready the fly out of afghanistan right now and theyre not being allowed out because taliban is making demands? what demands are the taliban making? >> well, they are not clearing the ...

Theres not americans that want to leave, its because they dont want to leave their family because the administrations refusing to bring their husband, spouse, wife or children along with them, and that is a travesty of human rights and a disgrace to the american people. alicia: and every day we hear more horrific stories about these sivs, you know, these interpreters that are possibly being taken back to their homes, theyre seeing their family completely, all of them, decimated right in front of...