thought we did or the taliban is not controlling? we re supposed to be talking with them, according to president biden. have they lost control of their country? as you already said i served in afghanistan 2014 and 2015. i went back as a member of congress in late 2018. and general scotty miller, who was the most recent general on the ground, was there at that time as well and briefed us on the threat of isis k because harris, as president trump defeated the isis caliphate in syria and iraq, isis k started to drift toward kabul. i believe that they were just waiting for a moment. waiting us out and waiting for a moment like this where they could strike and that s exactly what you are seeing. but what is important to always remember in this situation and why i m so critical of this commander-in-chief is because why it was so avoidable. if we would have kept a small
into afghanistan and we don t know if it s cash or equipment. we don t know what that would be. what we know their internet is up and running in taliban country. and so all of that is on servers that we don t control. i couldn t speak to the security of the encryption and the state department has not said anything to that event. something that is important having spent some time in war zones such as this is we don t have the human intelligence outside of that airport to go and get americans nor to give us the intelligence in realtime. we re in a fluid inflection point right now with the president committed to that withdrawal and clearly dependent upon a taliban government entirely in control of kabul. they re holding all the cards. at this point we ve received no information that the taliban is either acknowledging nor doing anything to help us in this situation, which has left
evacuation and it really sets a big question right now what does the biden administration do with the thousands of u.s. troops still there? and what do they do with the more than 1,000 americans who are on the ground not only stranded in kabul, but across the rest of the country? the second explosion location at the barron hotel was where many foreigners were staying, including americans. you might remember last friday when that first public operation was conducted by american forces, 169 people rescued from the barron hotel. reports indicate that s the site of one of these explosions. there are likely foreigners involved in the injuries from these attacks and certainly concern to the u.s. troops who are stuck right now not only in taliban territory but now at the scene of two major blasts. harris: a lot of information there and so much more coming in. trey yingst. we ll check back with you as the news warrants.
you say the military can do it. we just drop what kind of numbers in there. it would look like we did in kabul. we lost it completely and retook it. not any different what we ve been doing for decades and what we train for. from a tactical perspective i like to feel the enemy is massing and finally out in the open an not hiding in the population which is what made these wars so difficult over time. i encourage american people to accept the reality of the situation. we ve been wishing for a different situation, wishing for a different reality for a long time. that got us into this mess. we have to acknowledge that there are people out there that want to kill us. that wake up every day and if they have any space whatsoever and any room or time whatsoever they are planning an attack on the homeland. that s the way it is. i wish it were different. it isn t.
house insisted they don t want to use the word stranded for the 1500 or so now americans that we know have been told not to try to go to the airport. they say they don t negotiate with terrorists. they instead say they have active discussions with the taliban. as jennifer griffin was explaining earlier the taliban controls kabul right now. they are allied with the haqqani network, a state department designated terror group and it is a very confusing time right now in afghanistan as the u.s. leaves and all these other groups rush in. but the u.s. officials are basically saying they had no choice but to talk to the taliban. after 20 years president biden said in his remarks where he did not take any questions. the last time he talked about afghanistan was two days ago and he said basically the u.s. effort relies on continued