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This is a fiasco and a humiliating failure. >> reporter: a large bipartisan group of lawmakers is attempting to award the congressional gold medal to those 13 us service members were killed and that terror attack. last week. jillian: thank you. todd: as washington wakes up a dark cloud figuratively and literally hangs over the white house after the president double down that no one could have known the afghan army would collapse. jillian: the administration attempts damage control. >> reporter: president biden defendant how the evacuations were handled despite hundreds of americans and thousan...

Pledge and i think there are statements and beliefs outlined clearly and giving people an opportunity to speak up and pledge they will keep it from taking place in classrooms. >> i hope this is in the end of the line in teaching the with the good news in connecticut we have a few catholic also hopefully you get a job at one of them and continue your passion. >> the white house insists no americans were stranded in afghanistan but his what the pentagon says about the hundreds left behind. >> americans get stranded in countries all the time. >> mixed messages from the administration was a group ...

Would have relied on the afghanistan nds, their intelligence service to tell us whether there's derogatory information on afghan citizens seeking asylum. we don't have that capability anymore. it was extraordinarily rushed. the evacuation was chaotic and haphazard. this could be a casualty of that. >> neil: chris, this comes the same day as we learned from "the washington post" that the president had expressed concern about how the government looked fighting the taliban not well and seemed to telegraph the problems that were to come so now you begin to wonder about how the taliban-led governme...

Here is what i know. i have been talking to vets all over the place who have been involved in trying to get afghan special operators out of afghanistan who fought valiantly to the very, very end. all the way to the kabul airport. there were hundreds and thousands of them consolidate the afghan special forces into the capitalment allow them to control the streets. keep the taliban out. and while they are controlling the streets or at least a far wider perimeter than 10 feet, you are allowed to evacuate americans because the writing is on the wall of what's happening. the amount of bad decisions...

People, if not more than that what are your sources telling you? >> we just heard from secretary blinken last night explaining who some of these people are. this is not joe smith in war dock selling soap, ainsley. many of that's afghans are dual of a afghanistans. even though they have blue passports some of them torn. not clear all of them want to leave. while americans are left behind not clear exactly who are these people are. ainsley: students from american university they want to be out. they were interviewed by "fox & friends first." we will display play that soundbite in just a moment. ...