Griff: congressman, our viewers may not know or remember, you are a special operations flight sergeant with the night stalkers in afghanistan. thank you for your tour. in just ten seconds we have left, are you taking it hard? i know a lot of veterans are. of course. i lost some very close friends there in afghanistan. and so, obviously, this is to think that we re now going to have i mean, the instability that will be created when the taliban takes over that country, this will play all over again just like when biden and obama pulled us out of iraq in 2011, resulted in isis. this is a record that s playing over again, same leadership, same failure. griff: congressman mark green, thank you for taking time. thank you for your service, sir. thank you. 23wreu6 give and america speaks out in a brand new fox news poll including what you think about mask mandates, next.
Learning having such a negative impact on children, so does mask wearing. for some children it obviously inning hints breathing. if you re forcing them to wear the mask over the long term, it can have developmental issues. not just physical, psychological as well in terms of young kids. we re social creatures, and they don t thrive when they re not able to see faces and smiles and expressions. i didn t have i didn t have kristin, quickly, your thoughts on that one. yeah, you know, i would agree with some of that. the children, you know, i would just reiterate, you know, the important thing is the adults getting vaccinated and that we educate, that we go to, you know, business leaders and pastors and we re going across this country and connecting and educating people to get vaccinated because until then we won t have herd immunity, but i do agree kids need to be back in school. griff: guys, let me show you the one that surprised me, and
Not be enough either. reporter: i ve received numerous messages from anxious afghans desperate to be evacuated as their country gets closer and closer to falling to the taliban as the taliban move on kabul. jacqui: lucas tomlinson, thank you for that. so we ve got more on the situation in afghanistan coming up shortly. we re going to be speaking with retired u.s. army major and afghanistan veteran congressman from tennessee mark green. that is coming up. griff: floridians are keeping an eye on tropical storm fred and bracing for rain, this comes as the state also grappling with rising covid cases and a debate over some pandemic protocols. joining me now to discuss it, francis suarez, mayor of miami. mr. mayor, thank you for taking time. i want to get to the tropical depression fred, but first let s talk about the situation with covid cases.
Samaritan spurse.org, glad to know that some are okay, but we expect many casualties. reverend franklin graham, thank you for your time. thank you, griff. griff: jackie? jacqui: meteorologist adam klotz has more on the potential impact of tropical storm fred. adam: right now that area or sitting right in between a couple of tropical storms. so far as far as the earthquake goes, this graphic would show any aftershocks that happen ever wards, no aftershocks as of right now, but those could happen after a major earthquake. the other concern at least briefly was a tsunami. there was an advisory, but that has now been dropped, so no concern there for right now also, but those tropical storms continue to spin, and that s something we have to pay attention to. fred went over the island a couple of days ago.
Mandates possibly coming back, are you seeing that really affect your ability as a local leader to try and get things under control? well, what we ve done in the city is for our employees is you have to wear a mask unless you re with vaccinated. obviously, the preference would be for people to be vaccinated because we re seeing the statistics that show overwhelmingly that if you re vaccinated, you don t suffer serious complications, and most of the people that are hospitalized are not vaccinated. i think we re starting to see a pend lumbar spring where pendulum swing where people are seeing children and people my age being hospitalized, and i think that s changing their minds, and i m glad it is. griff: do you believe that really this latest sort of rise in cases may convince those that perhaps have been reticent to embrace the protocols to maybe change their minuted? absolutely. like i said their mind? absolutely. i m visiting a friend of mine
It took the rights away from the chicago police department to work with the federal government on behalf of the illegals that were here that had warrants and that were gang members. just because we split against that, she called us racist. i m first generation son of an immigrant myself, and so is my colleague, maria lopez. so it s tell everybody what they want to hear and then hope it does well for you, and then when you go in front of another crowd, you change your stance. it s ridiculous. jacqui: we have to leave it there. a anthony napolitano, thanks so much for joinings us. thank you for having me. griff: haitian-americans are shocked and concerned after a devastating earthquake. we ll go live to a haitian community in new york next. for mac. who can come to a stop with barely a bobble. lucia. who announces her intentions even if no one s there. and sgt moore.
That s this. it shows the president s job performance on coronavirus. you can see there 54% approve, but if you look back to june, 64. james, why d he slip ten points? well, obviously, the cases have gone up, hospitalizations are up, deaths up lately. but still those deaths far below, fortunately, the peak we saw in early january. i think the problem there, this has been a strength for mr. biden in his polling, but if you go back to his remarks of early this year, i think a normal voter would assume he was saying the problem would be resolved, be back to living our normal lives, and i think that s the frustration here. and i think he and folks have to realize this is one risk in life. we manage it as best we can, but we can t stay in a permanent emergency. griff: james, we ve got to leave it there. kristin, ten seconds as we go
The season is welch come news, that we re not going to welcome storm that we re not going to great get the brunt, and we re going prepared for it. griff: our thoughts and prayers for your friend and all of those in that hospital. thank you, mr. mayor. thank you. griff: all right. and new video from haiti coming up next. knows everyone s unique. that s why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh, yeah. that s the spot. only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty there s no other snack like a planters cashew. what else can go from your car s cup holder to a crystal bowl and seem equally at home? i guess the most well-rounded snack isn t round at all. it s more cashew-shaped. planters. a nut above. when subway® opened they changed the fast food game. but sometimes you gotta refresh .to be fresh.
Griff: welcome back. as some states tighten vaccination rules, new fox polls show that americans are divide on whether personal if freedom or public safety is more important. this is just one of our recently released polls, and we ve got our panel to break it down, wall street journal editorial assistant page editor james freeman and chief political adviser kristin han. thanks for taking time. let s start with the first one, the country really pretty split when it comes to protecting the safety of americans versus freedom. what are your thoughts, james? well, i think a lot of people remember the two weeks to stop the spread is now a year and a half plus and counting. i think a lot of people are hoping for a balance here. we went through enormous challenges and costs of the lockdowns, didn t seem to make
President choose to ignore what they were saying. griff: and now we have marines on the ground. we have 3,000 back. we had 2,50 in iraq 2,500 in iraq. could this have been handled, perhaps, more appropriately? yeah, absolutely. i think a conditions-based withdrawal. when you are this is probably the hard thing to do in military parlance, is a relief in place. when one set of military guys turn over control to other military guys. now some of this has been progressing for years as you quoted from pompeo earlier. but you base all of the stages of that a withdrawal on the conditions on the ground, not based on the calendar or the clock in this case. and that s the way biden has done it. and that time-based versus conditions-based withdrawal is what s resulted in the afghans feeling abandoned and losing the will to fight.