that's why former prime minister tony blair said this week the decision is imbassilic. brian: it's a joke. now we're asking for nato to help us with china while when taiwan gets invaded we'll need the world united behind us? forget it. douglas it's impossible to quantify the amount of damage done to our allies let alone how our enemies are hardened. you are on tucker carlson today in an extended interview. he doesn't roll commercials so we'll get to hear you speak in great detail about this afghanistan disaster. it's available beginning today at 4:00. steve: that's when you can see eric prince of black water. thank you very much, douglas. >> thank you. brian: meanwhile let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. she's outside. >> the sun is coming out. it's wonderful let's take a look at the maps you know it's going to feel like summertime and we've got the humidity so it's going to be even warmer than 75 here in new york. we're going to get into the 90s feel like 100 degrees in a lot of these areas showers thunderstorms some of them turning severe across the

maybe that's why tony blair called the whole thing imbecileic. get your people out. people you made promises to you get them out. you get your assets out. the last thing you do is get your troops out. i want to know who made decisions like let's goes bagram? where was the conversation on that? was there something in the intelligence community that said that was a good idea? did that come from our military leadership or was that a lone decision by the president of the united states? does the president of the united states really believe that al-qaeda and isis are not present in afghanistan? we really would like to know. is that the information is he getting? because we hear to the contrary or is that just something that he decided was -- and, also, i want to know right now, does this administration recognize the taliban as a legitimate government? and now we have -- we have the head of the cia over there, and i read about that this morning. ainsley: would he be able to change their mind taliban warned us if we extend the deadline they said it will provoke a reaction.

bret: former british prime minister tony blair talking about the situation currently in afghanistan. over the weekend you may have seen on "fox news sunday" current secretary of state tony blinken talking to chris wallace, asked about the contradictory statements of president biden, and his various press conferences. >> does the president not know what's going on? >> this is an incredibly emotional time for many of us. >> the president said al-qaeda is gone. it's not gone. the president said he has not heard any criticism from the allies. there has been a lot of criticism from the allies. words matter. and the words of the president matter most. >> chris, all i can tell you is what i have heard and, again, this is a powerfully emotional time for allies and partners as it is for me, as it is for us. bret: let's bring in our panel guy benson host of the guy benson show on fox news radio. harold ford jr. former tennessee congressman and trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina. trey, i was struck by that answer by the secretary of state that it was an emotional time for all of

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it is tony blair in london, marc. >> wow. labor prime minister who supported joe biden's candidacy saying twaes right man for the right moment. joe biden says he hasn't heard anything from our allies about loss of credibility. when is the last time you heard a foreign leader call america's policy like an imbecile. he is right except the biden administration is even getting the politics wrong. the reality is if you asked a man on the street should we get out of afghanistan after 20 years most people would be yes. but no marches on washington or backlash for keeping our troops there. i'll tell you what, if al qaeda reconstitutes itself in afghanistan and carries out attacks on the west, there will be a backlash, all right. the politics will be very bad for joe biden. >> dana: thinking about this being an ideological struggle. war for a generation, right, when we were attacked on 9/11 it brought it home. america goes on offense. we won't sit back and wait to be hit again. that's happened. a lot of progress has been made certainl

over the weekend prime minister tony blair said the u.s. never should've withdrawn calling the decision imbecilic and for the taliban that cannot come soon enough. >> if the extended that means there extending occupation, there is no need for that. it will create mistrust between us, and will provoke a reaction. >> the president has warned that airport itself could become the target of a terrorist attack and i think the gun battle that we saw over the last 24 hours indicates how perilous and precarious the situation remains. ainsley: thank you very much for the live report in europe. to see the younger the gun battle, it is such people trying to desperately to get to the airport, seven people crushed including the toddler that lost their lives, i could not savor the mother said, the mother said i am done i tried to go and it did not work out i'm going to die here. >> she said made 2-year-old was a trooper and anytime they would hear gunshots outside the mother would say those are firecrackers every time they would go off a child under child

tony blair said as much, you hear other leaders, china knows he is weak. look at how they have talked to our representatives and how they have acted, how they are supporting the taliban. you know that russia thinks he is weak, they can't believe he approved the nord stream 2 but he shut down the keystone pipeline at the same time, he had no plan, he tossed away the plan that president trump and secretary pompeo and our allies and partners put together. it didn't have to be this way, but when you have a weak leader who is not taking ownership and not give the guarantee he will get everyone out, and he wants to date certain on the calendar. the general said this is probably 6,000 additional troops. and probably several more months, we have to make certain every american, every ally, every afghan partner. the vulnerable women who will be killed. if they say we have to get them out. steve: quickly, what about the political accountability. >> well, with the political accountability. we have to look near-term and long-term ramifications of this, near-term is the

maria: well, on the tony blair comment, i was reading the story tony blair calls this an imbecile move. that was reported earlier. you mentioned the hr1 voting bill and i want to get back to that because i've got to tell you, there are viewers of this program who have lost faith in the republican leadership, lost faith in mitch mcconnell and in you because we do not know if you have your arms around free and fair elections. how come there's no discussion about all of the states that are changing their voting laws right now, how come there's no discussion about the audit going on in arizona right now? what are you going to do? can you prove to the american people that you are in control here and able to ensure that we will have free and fair elections in 2022 and 2024? >> well, first and foremost, maria, you can see it's not in law. the answer is, yes, we can. secondly, if we watch the states, georgia passed an election law that more people are registered to vote than any time before and difficult to ever cheat again. state after state where dem kravitz have left the state. that's where

the clintons, tony blair, george bush, all of them have become extremely wealthy once they leave power, which i think is a big problem in a democracy, but leaving that to the side, the idea of presidential libraries, originally that didn't exist for like 150 years because the idea was just a private citizen, you go serve in public office and then you go back to private life. you don't need like a shrine to your existence. when what happened was it was born of good motives. frank and pe roosevelt knew he had gone through all of these historically momentous events, like the great depression and world war ii and he said you know, these papers of mine don't belong to me, they belong to the public and historians, let's just kind of create a library where historians can go study for it and over the years it became bigger and bigger and bigger and what obama is doing is unprecedented, not only is it so grandiose in size, so much bigger thanerer anyone else's, t has four different buildings and 235-foot museum tower in his honor. it's like not even a roman emperor would do that, but he has als

the clintons, tony blair, george bush, all of them have become extremely wealthy once they leave power, which i think is a big problem in a democracy, but leaving that to the side, the idea of presidential libraries, originally that didn't exist for like 150 years because the idea was just a private citizen, you go serve in public office and then you go back to private life. you don't need like a shrine to your existence. when what happened was it was born of good motives. frank and roosevelt knew he had gone through all of these historically momentous events, like the great depression and world war ii and he said you know, these papers of mine don't belong to me, they belong to the public and historians, let's just kind of create a library where historians can go study for it and over the years it became bigger and bigger and bigger and what obama is doing is unprecedented, not only is it so grandiose in size, so much bigger than anyone else's, it has four different buildings and 235-foot museum tower in his honor. it's like not even a roman emperor would do that, but he has also remo