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Planes in kabul and out of the country. the state department has maintained that any military force that takes over the country will not have legitimacy. yet china s government says it helps that taliban can now help build a inclusive political situation. russia s u.s. ambassador, and according to the state department, he has spoken to the top diplomats just a couple of hours ago from russia and china. back to you. sandra: live at the state department for us. trace: let s bring in thomas joscelyn, senior editor of long war journal. you say, thank you for joining us, that we thought there was no military solution in afghanistan, yet that taliban was fighting to win. can you expand on that force? yeah, it is the absurdity of this war, that we have operated under the assumption that kabul was going to reach a political ....
President has ordered. we have got people who have worked with us to the united states in the last week or so. sandra: we have been talking big picture about what the consequences of this move is, but the task at hand, about more troops being sent into safeguard that airport, get people out. jennifer griffin s, only a few hundred people have been evacuated from kabul. 20,000 could be fun to base is here in the u.s. so now the question is what do you do about this, and how do we keep these people safe? well, i don t know the logistics, but we owe it to these people to try to get them out. they have had our back over the last 20 years. we owe it to them not to return the favor, to live up to our word. but at the same time, we owe it to ourselves to ensure that every single one of those people are vetted, that they are safe ....
Appeared al qaeda is all throughout the country. we have plenty of evidence to show that. they are in kabul right now. the idea that al qaeda has to make a comeback is just phony. the whole point is that the u.s. most of this. they did not understand who they were fighting for this whole time. trace: you know what i found interesting? in the beginning hours, they were saying we want this to be as peaceful as possible, and we learn from jennifer griffin they are going door to door, looking for people who worked with americans, and now in some parts of the country, we are told they are burning down schools. it looks like they will taliban. it looks like we could get the old al qaeda right back in place. yeah, again, they are right alongside them, and they have been the whole time. they have been fighting to achieve their religious schools. this is something they take very, very seriously, and the whole strategy for several years now has been to reach a settlement with terrorists, wit ....
Chairman of the joint chief of staff, talking now about the increasing terror threat in the wake of the afghanistan collapse to the taliban. he told senators on our briefing call yesterday that u.s. officials were expected to alter their earlier assessments about the terrorist groups reconstituting in afghanistan. in june, they said an extremist group like al qaeda might be able to regenerate in afghanistan and pose a threat to the u.s. homeland. i think it is fair to say you heard that dire warnings coming from senator lindsey graham at the top of the hour. it comes as a president biden meanwhile is finally ready to break his silence and address the nation. that is expected that 3:45 p.m. eastern. less than two hours from now concerning the troubling cans that we have been seeing out of the tallow band from the taliban in the airport they are in kabul. benjamin hall has an update for ....
Military sources say they do not expect to remain on the ground for more than three days. not enough time to evacuate the 30,000 afghans they plan to help your fox news exclusively obtain this photo of the u.s. embassy that was being carried out of kabul on an evacuation flight. videos show afghans warming usc 17 transport planes this morning. with at least a few afghans clinging to the wheels. at least one of those afghans fell to his death. again, humanitarian disaster at the airport. the u.s. military, the marines, and the 82nd airborne trying to regain some control and to push the thousands of afghans. sandra: we will check back in with you shortly. stay on the pictures are astounding. meantime, president biden set to ....