way to give families of service members injured or killed. you seem to have a different number. where is that coming from and what does that entail? the number that i ve heard was 13 not 13 americans, to be clear. but what we heard is at least 13 afghans. that was being confirmed by some taliban sources. take it for what it s worth. the taliban are obviously a brutal group and shouldn t take what they are saying. they are saying 13. bodies are being taken away from the scene. to be clear not americans but total at this time. maybe that number will grow if there were two attacks. as you know, the fog of war as these things take place in complex situations the numbers may change and numbers of attacks may change in realtime. harris: we learn more about
i don t know what exactly i think some of the americans got hurt, too. and so people are running around. right now i have some casualties with me in my vehicle and i m taking them to the hospital. harris: thank god for him. fox team coverage now on this breaking news. in a moment i ll get reaction from jim banks, republican congressman from indiana. griff jenkins at the state department and first trey yingst. you are aware they have been taking americans and taking some of the afghans who helped us in the war get off the ground. what can you tell us? good morning. we re following this breaking news out of kabul, afghanistan. two explosions reported just outside the airport. we were at this airport sunday morning as qatar helped to take afghan evacuees to doha. what we are learning about the
this point. we re waiting for more guidance from the state department on what they may be telling americans who are stranded right now how they may look to take their next steps. it is clear it will not be coming to that airport and the state department also not telling us what the status of evacuation flights are at this moment. we ve been monitoring the live picture and seen some flights lifting off. we don t know what they are or who is on them. we hope to get a briefing at some point here from the state department later today. harris. harris: real quickly before i know i have to let you go, griff, you want to be in place for whatever pops up at the state department. i m curious how safe are these channels that they are communicating with americans on? i ve had military analysts and lawmakers tell me we don t have an encrypted zone to talk to people. there are a lot of assets on the ground and china has potentially poured something
for you, harris. yesterday i have been tracking in realtime an afghan ally who is trying to get his wife and five children out. he is an siv applicant, approved and he was trying to make his way from that barron hotel trey was talking about 200 yards into the abbey gate. he did not make it. he tried to get as far as he could. he could not. he claims the taliban beat his wife. he was not able to access it. now with these two attacks and this situation clearly there is a message being sent to those americans and afghan allies to not even try to make it out at this point. now that s important, harris, because we learned from secretary blinken yesterday that any contingency plan to get americans out beyond the august 31st deadline was dependent upon public commitments from the taliban now in control of kabul to insure their safe passage. that clearly is not capable at
be going to kabul airport right now. retake bagram and other airports as well. it will take troops on the ground and a complete reassessment of our strategy. the military can do it. we need the will politically to do it. harris: see, now that s those are the words, right? the military can do this. it sounds huge with blood thirsty terrorists from different groups massing now, with the taliban who says it is in control of most of the country. i don t know if other terrorists are going to try to challenge that. we ve learned this hour from our reporters thieves are not necessarily groups that want the same thing other than to kill us. they might want to rule something. we don t know what it looks like among these groups. what we do know is the enemy and the enemy is your friend when you are trying to kill americans and those who helped them. when you talk about retaking things, what does that look like militarily?