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And they undertook those dangerous actions anyways. that is who they were. but, in doing that, they expected competent, thoughtful, american driven leadership that believed in life the same way that they did. that you fight for freedom with everything that you have or you don't fight for at all. that's where that difference lies. we have a president that went to the ends of the earth to quit, to give up, to back down, to not hold the line. steve: he lied to all of us he said we will not leave afghanistan until every american is out. and we left 24 hours early there are still hundreds of americ...

Why would this happen? what do you tell yourself as you try to work through this? >> do you know what the scariest is? there is really not that many options. a matter of either the highest levels of government are infected with raw stupidity or a lot of this was intentional. in many of these cases we have these brave, brave troops. one of the guys i worked with that handled these kids, we were in contact with people at the highest levels and were told one thing and then the gates were shut and americans were locked out. it says something about this government and their incompetence that people...

On the schedule in january because it seems like no matter what the realities were on the ground, the president's order was going to hold everybody out by yesterday. back to you. steve: and they're. so, peter, last week, the white house pushed back. when you asked about the americans who were stranded, now they say there are 100 or 200 americans, are they using the word stranded or is it like, you know, they are just inconveniently detained? >> we have not heard them use the word stranded. they don't like the word stranded. so you can use your own adjective for whatever it is when somebody is ...

With the taliban. we were left with a simple decision: either follow through on the commitment made by the last administration and leave afghanistan or say we weren't leaving and commit another tens of thousands more troops. >> tammy: boy, none of that is true. and now they are. [broken audio] to give them credit for their efforts. take a look that the bizarre tweet from state department spokesman ned price linking to a "the washington post" piece titled the state department deserved more credit for its effort to evacuate americans from afghanistan. really? on the same day the biden administra...

Pro village capitals. we gave up all that 20 years ago we defeated the taliban. this time they ran us out. they got a victory. they got our weapons and they have hostages and we have a broken promise by a president in one of the worst blunders in american foreign policy history. >> bret: some, like bill, are calling them hostages. mara, we don't know the administration says they are working with the taliban to get them out each one of them there has been back and forth about calling them stranded americans. take a listen. >> first of all, i think it's irresponsible to say americans are strande...