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Part one of the new season, "lara logan has no agenda," 21st century terrorism revealed. timing could not be anymore appropriate. the sunday night, 10:00 p.m., on the fox news channel, dont miss it. when we come back, the intel community continues to turn on biden, as does the pentagon, as does the state department. youve got the white house, the state department, defense department, intel all giving us different stories. and amid fears, of course, that afghanistan will become a pre9/11 terror h...

Confused, that even then, yeah, our old friends in the deep state, yeah, his allies there are now being forced to face the truth and reality. listen to james clapper himself, part of the russian hoax, earlier today. take a look. speak with the intelligence community for years, led by ciae viability of the afghan government and the competence and willingness to fight of the afghan military, and certainly, this goes back to the obama administration, when president biden was aware of this, hes well...

Problematic nature of a government and the military in afghanistan. >> so youre saying the intelligence agencies have been warning, in effect, this president and previous presidents for years about the fragility of the afghan government. do you then hold president biden responsible for in effect ignoring those warnings? >> well, i dont know that he ignored it. i think he is well aware of this background. i know for a fact that he was aware of it, was briefed on it consistently when he was vice p...

Is afghanistan likely in your view to become a terror haven once again as it was before 9/11? we know that al qaeda militants were fighting alongside the taliban in some of these battles around the country. is the taliban going to give al qaeda free reign to plots and plan attacks on the u.s. from inside? >> defense secretary austin fielded this question a couple days ago. he referred to an estimate which is true. the intelligence community projected upon the withdrawal of the united states mili...

Have demanded those types of hearings already. hopefully on the armed services we can do the same thing. i think its clear we lad a plan to withdraw. but we have to ask, where were the other plans? where was the economic plan, the military plan, the humanitarian plan, the evacuation plan. a lot of questions need to be asked. i cant stress enough that the priority right now is getting people off the ground. >> ten years ago, as you know, the u.s. pulled out of iraq, had to go back in. isis rose a...

Q qatar, many hundreds of miles away, also from kuwait. and its not just the migs that will be based outside the country now, no longer inside the country. its also surveillance, right? dro drones have to fly farther. i was speaking with a member of congress who has been briefed on the intelligence there. that means less time over target. you have to fly over here, spend less time on target, to go back, to keep track of the bad guys, in effect. who is fighting alongside the taliban in recent wee...

Could be a haven for terror groups. >> the suts going to maintain its over the horizon terrorist cape bits. this president has said he will not allow them to gain harbor in afghanistan or in any nation in this worked. the united states always maintains its prerogative to neutralize terrorists wherever they may be. >> i actually talked to james clapper about that. if afghanistan becomes a terror haven, how will the u.s. have the intelligence capabilities to know that and know what they are planni...

Seen the united states, they would never, quote, go back to their huts in africa. >> dan is close to where president trump is spending christmas and the new year there in florida. what else are we hearing about the white house about these comments? >> the white house is forcefully denying these comments that were reportedly made in a june meeting. according to "the new york times," president trump said afghanistan was a terror haven, that immigrants from nigeria wouldnt go back home after they -...

Its not worth the human costs or the financial costs but others think winning is preventing and its more of a terror haven. for now the president has been convinced he may not be able to have a victory to proclaim, that afghanistan may always be messy, but at least he can be seen as the president who didnt lose the country. well have to see what happens. >> bob costa, always good to see you, robert. thank you so much. >> thank you. up next, remains are recovered after the "uss john mccain" col...