it s 1:00 out in pacific time. [laughter] i m eric shawn, fox news live. arthel: hello, everyone, i m arthel neville. the numbers are stunning. this week alone deputies rescued nearly 80 migrants from a tractor tractor-trailer in texas. the texas department of public safety says it seized more than 300 million lethal doses of fentanyl. texas governor greg abbott says his operation lone star has caught more than 300,000 illegal immigrants, and those are just snapshots of a much bigger picture. griff jenkins is life at the border live at the border in eagle pass with the latest on this. griff? reporter: hey, arthel,ed good afternoon. and you put it correctly, it is stunning numbers just a week boo this first fig call year of 202. there s no signs of it slowing down, and make no mistake, this is a humanitarian crisis. take a look at the video we re going to show you now. just a couple of hours ago when i was talking with you and eric, it is three migrants from nicaragua cr
time ago. and i think that when we do have the benefit of history, we are going to realize that this was the right thing to do. it s too late. the right time to leave afghanistan was a dozen years ago. it may have been 15 years ago. it could have been ten years ago, or eight years ago. we shouldn t be leaving now. but it s a good thing that we are. and it s a good thing that this president has had the courage to take this on. because i know that he knew that it was going to be a traumatic experience for all involved. a lot of the criticisms against the president has been, what s happening in kabul right now is only going to make america weaker. you have an incredible paragraph in that daily beast column that i want to read for everyone. you re right, the biden team view is based on the idea that becoming bogged down in a 20-year war without unclear mission that drained our resources and reduce destructed as from our priorities, made us weaker.
and i want to put up something, a quote from your piece when you say, we are likely to come to see the events of the past week not only very differently, but in the opposite light of that depicted by many commentators. talk that through? i think a lot of commentators have focused naturally on the images. they ve been harrowing images. heartbreaking images. and we ve gotten caught up in the moment. but i think we have a few months or a few years on this. we re going to recognize that something else has happened here. the president has decided to end the post 9/11 era. the president has decided to shift our priorities finally, towards the priorities of the century ahead. towards competitiveness. towards investing in our self instead of investing in war. towards achieving goals that benefit all americans, as opposed to having an achievable goals like the goals that were set for this war alone, long
of panicked people, acting out of sheer desperation. i don t think anyone of us can see these pictures and not feel that pain on a human level. joining us now is david rothkopf, a foreign affairs analyst and columnist for the daily peace and usa today. he is the host of the deep state radio podcast. david, thank you very much for coming to the last word. i want to put up this picture that the u.s. marine corps released, showing a marine today, holding an infant during an evacuation at the kabul airport. i m just wondering, what do you think of how president biden is contextualizing these harrowing images with the challenging process of leaving an unwinnable war? i think he s doing the best he can. the best week to contextualize is to send in the troops to get people out. to work with our allies to do that. you just posted the numbers. it s really a remarkable
achievement. especially what s happened in the coast course of the past week. i think 13,000 people out in the past week. the president is naturally a compassionate leader that has always been his parent. he has his car on his sleeve. and i think he s tormented by this. but i also think he has made a very clear case that staying in afghanistan would have worst consequences that leaving afghanistan. whether it be continue to conflict. whether it be destruction of our own resources and inability to deal with other threats and priorities around the world. it s very tough to tell the american people that 20 years of war have not turned out swell for us. that we did not win that war. david, you are a fabulous column in the daily beast where you are wiping your finger at columnists and commentators.