Cuomo neither of success governor, but I still have my Emmy President Biden, sticking to the August 31st deadline to get troops out of Afghanistan, Steve the President says, although its all contingent on the Taliban and their cooperation, the group has actually blocked access to the Kabul Airport, and that is a big problem. Brian yeah, its getting worse imagine even outside Kabul, Jackie Henrik, joins us live as two members are criticized for taking a secret trip to ago Jackie Drantd Republican. Both vets no kidding they want to take a rook at for themselves. The president appears to be keeping the door ever so slightly open to extending that August. 31St deadline saying that the completion of our mission will end based on the achievement of our objectives. What those objectives are, whether its getting all the Americans home getting the majority of Afghans, we will see how long that sticks, but completing by the 31st

they said is contingent upon cooperation with Taliban. Listen. We are currently on a pace to finish by August. The first, the sooner we can finish the better each day of operations brings added risk to our troops. I have asked the Pentagon and the State Department for contingency plans to adjust the timetable should that become necessary. Now what those contingency plans look like is a big question Mark Jen Psaki, confirmed yesterday to adhere to withdrawal date. The military would need to start pulling out before the three ST meantime unclear how many Americans are left in the country. The Pentagon confirms approximately four thousand american passport holders and their families evacuated. As of August 24th thats, not even half of the eleven thousand the White House estimated roughly to be in the country. As of last week, it yesterdays announcement came after the Taliban warned they would not allow any extensions past the deadline, saying the? U dot. S should not encourage afghan elites to leave

the country. People like doctors and engineers and educated, told to return to their home unclear how much access the Taliban is going to allow at the gates. Two members of Congress want to see for themselves Congressman Peter Meijer and Seth Moulton, a Republican and Democrat of Michigan and Massachusetts respectively. They are both veterans, they tweeted. They were going to conduct oversight on the evacuation efforts. Speaker Pelosi, predictably, was not happy and warned members of Congress not to take trips like this and potentially divert resources away from the evacuation efforts, Steve Ainsley and Brian Steve all right, Jackie. Thank you very much. Two members of Congress are warning. What we have seen means we are pretty sure everybody is not going to get out by the end of the deadline, Brian by the way, very courageous things for them to do and their plane was empty. There were a lot of empty seats. Congressman said officials who briefed lawmakers yesterday, including Austin, Millie and

Blinken, indicated the August. 31St deadline was unrealistic. He said Millie are being very candid. The practical problem is, they are not disputing any of this. They cannot be done by August 31st. These are the guys intezzed to get us out by August 31st. They are telling members of Congress. We know this is impossible. Ainsley. We have had PETE Hegseth on the couch talking about interpreter and brother out of Afghanistan, PETE served in Afghanistan and used interpreter in twenty eleven and twelve. His name is a bore. He is here in America he is safe. His brother just got out of Afghanistan. They join us now good morning to both of you PETE Good Morning, Sabor, congratulations, we are glad your brother is out safely tell us about his journey. What he went through thanks for having me on the show and good morning to all of you Steve Good Morning, Steve Good morning. This was having eyes on Afghanistan trying to save loved ones.

This was certainly not possible without a core team of dedicated. Without a core team of dedicated people who wanted to save lives, we didnt do government organization. We had to go around every process. There was for those listening and have loved ones. Stuck in Afghanistan know exactly what this bureaucracy does you get phone calls from state department? You get phone calls from the embassy all they say. We want to cop firm where you are and nothing else, this sort of phone call hopeless phone calls that you get buff the team with the core team I reached out through the people, my network folks, like PETE, Hegseth and Congressman Waltz and other names that will have to stay anonymous right now. These nominee opened their doos, who weapon of mass destruction who weapon of mass destruction,

Saboor and his family, and im grateful for that Steve. We are grateful for your service. You worked from two thousand and seven to two thousand twelve. It was two thousand and twelve. When you met PETE Pete worked for years to get you out, you got out in twenty fourteen. What I find amazing is all these Afghans who are aligned with the United States. They have been waiting for these Sivs, the special immigrant visas. You got yours and were able to get out your brother applied for a siv, a special immigrant visa in two thousand and twelve, and he didnt get out until just now whats the matter with the state department that they cannot get a Siv written for people who obviously qualify within nine years. That tells you how the system has been PETE, and I have been out on the frontline telling everyone. This

is not working, keep one thing in mind because my brother got out not because the system worked, but because we have to go around the system around to get it done. Had it been because of the process that was established and the process that was set up to get these folks out, he would have been still in Afghanistan. It was. It is still impossible to get folks out of there thats just how dysfunctional this is by the way this process was set up to get folks out of harms way and within nine to twelve months. Brian Saboor. Did you think this was going to end this way? No, not a cell, not a blood in my body ever thought. This would end end like this Brian. What do you think about it? My family is filled with joy and happiness right now, because we know we saved ha bib and his family, but we also know there

are hundreds of habibs out there right now behind the gate and theyre praying praying to get out, and there are efforts that are being taken by me and other core team to see if we can save other members other allies of U Dot S forces right now, but just know that it is. You know, especially with the news of what is happening right now. The Taliban taking control and pushing people using tear gas beating people taking their documents away from them. This is just escalating so fast that I dont think the government can keep up so its very hard very hard to be out there in CAN Kabu with bullets being shoot everywhere, and babies crying women are getting stepped on. They are under ground. It is just an utter chaos. I dont think I could put it into words, and there is no word right now.

In my mind, will do justice to whats happening Ainsley Saboor. Thankfully you knew PETE. You knew congressman Waltz like you said. There are many on the ground that dont have those connections and they are going to be left behind and thats our fear PETE. How important is it saboor? We are listening to his story. He put himself at risk his family at risk, not knowing this was going to happen to help make Americans and Afghanistan a safer place. Talk about what heroes these individuals are and how we cant leave them behind either PETE thats, so right, Ainsley, im in awe of Saboor im in awe of what he did when I was there. He was an interpreter. He was far more than that. He was or adviser, not just for me, but for hundreds and hundreds of U Dot S and NATO troops who came through where he worked. He poured himself. He was indispensable. Nothing happened without this man on the screen, men and our mission in Afganistan now to see what he is doing. I have had a chance to be witness to this

the risk he has taken of his own life, the investment he has poured into not just his family and young kids getting them across. But now other Afghans and this story will be told it has nothing do with the Biden administration. It has nothing to do with the State Department and the bureaucracy. As he said, it has to do with courageous veterans, members of Congress who wouldnt quit Steve right people on the ground they cant be named because there are operations going on right now. Using tactics and approaches that we cant talk about outside those Gace gates that Saboor is still involved in with people still on the ground. This is happening as we speak and he has refused to give up his mission. Commitment to Americans, american citizens and Siv holders who stood soldier to soldier with us weigh could not have accomplished what we did without Saboor and Habib and other men and women like that. What we are doing, as we close those gates, we are closing the door on their hopes and dreams and on the belief that America would be there for them when they needed us. The most

and those doors are closing and if you dont know a Saboor or Michael Waltz. If you dont know a PETE Hegseth, you are not getting in those gates, the Taliban knows it. Their fates are sealed because you are of our unwillingness to follow through on a promise, Steve Saboor. When you signed up to work with the Americans there you are Bausch and raised in Afghanistan. The Americans be are come in. Why did you decide to do that? Because there were a lot of influences in your country that said, oh dont help them, but you decided to help them yeah. I think you are right. One of the forces that led me to joining the coalition forces and United States in particular, was because of my older brothers, my oldest brother, old Epps of all brothers, all four brothers. He started working with the special forces when they first landed in Afghanistan in two thousand and one, and then from that point on, when the brothers, the oldest brother, began working second oldest began,

he started his work right after high school. When he graduated from high school. There was a choice to identify, make and to meet the financial difficulties of the family, to start bringing bread to home and make sure that everyone is safe and secure. As a young man, I just finished high school. There is sense of patriotism and sense of serving the nation in whatever capacity you could. So we wanted to build because, right in front of my eyes, I saw my sisters not being able to go to school. They werent able to leave home and they werent able to get educated. So this was my way of fighting back. This was our our way of fighting against a system that we know and lived that wassen just to portions of society and even ourselves we had to risk our lives to do this. Yes, we did not put the uniform on, but this was the easiest way for us to put that uniform on. I think the United States made

that possible for us and im greatful for whatever redid. It is a shame. It is a sad story, another chapter of sad story in Afghanistan, but I can tell you that this core team, that PETE was referring to that. I am fortunate enough- and I am sort of honored to be part of to do this. When we pulled ha Habib, we knew this wasnt the end of the story. For us. We knew this wasnt going to be just Habib have to save other habibs out there. We are doing that. We are doing that. We have people from EAST Coast to West Coast from the north to the south of this nation that are praying for us and we need every single prayer we can get because we are trying to save as many people as we can. You are right. We are not going to get everybody out, but we are trying to get as many people as we can, because we know how important this is: Brian PETE, its pretty amazing.

We are willing to leave and leave Americans there supposed to register with us when they didnt its their right. We dont know where theyre, so you have Democrats and Republicans Senator Jean Shaheen just came out and said. We need to extend this deadline congressman Chris Smith, a Republican says we need to extend it. Elise, Slotkin. We need Toto, extend this deadline- Adam Schiff, its not possible to get people out general, Milley and Austin. Yesterday we are not going to be able to get people out on this deadline. Is Joe Biden doing this on his own and is he taking the reputation of the american military with him? Pete? Yes, I mean the Taliban timeline isnt going to work and be advantageous for us. I dont understand Joe Bidens insistence on committing to a deadline that everyone knows is false and fake and worse undermines the relationship and the trust that we have tried to build for twenty years, regardless of whether you think the mission

was a success or not, regardless of whether you think we should leave or not how you finish truly, truly matters. Do you know how we shouldnt finish? We shouldnt finish through what I watched. If you understood the level of commitment and sophistication communications of cracking crackpot plans to try this and to try that it took six attempts or more, you dont have to tell me Saboor to get Habib through that check point. He was beaten. His family was beaten, Brian, its going to get harder, PETE thats my point, its only going to get harder for the people that are still there. That is a turning of the back of the, and so, if you want to support us in the future, why would you and if you are an enemy you are going to read? This is going to be a textbook for how to run the Americans out of your country. They saw Joe Biden as the type of leader who was vulnerable to that type of Taliban bullying and thats precisely whats unfolding right now. Taliban checkpoints control the airport, they control every single piece of movement.

If one rocket is fired on Kabul, we are not moving at all. They control everything. Everyone in America right now in that country is a hostage to the Taliban to include our troops, our citizens and people like Habib and Saboor who served our country and we made a promise to them and we are forsaking it Ainsley Saboor. You trusted America, you made a decision. You risked your life. Your brothers did too to help Americans out thinking that the Taliban wouldnt come back. America would fight them off and you would be free. You got a taste of freedom and I assume your sister was got to go to school. Was it word it now that you are looking at the Taliban taking over Afghanistan? Again, you know it. Is it breaks my heart. You know all of the work we did with me, the seven years in Afghanistan, especially being on the ground, doing things with the soldiers and trying to get things done. You know it breaks my heart to

see all of that work, and I know there are veterans right now watching us. You know they are probably weeping and crying. I can relate to all of them because we had. We did that. We have not had sleep in the family last night. I only slept for an hour because it is mentally and emotional live so hard to process whats happening. I wanted to see it as a huge loss of opportunity. Pete mentioned this a little while ago about how this time frame is not to our advantage at all right now, people used to be able to get through that crowd of gate right now they have to go through two Taliban gate. Brian, they dont want any more Afghans leaving they are done with the brain drain yeah, but theyre also, on the same token, theyre also the one hunting these guys.

They are talking about dont leave because we know you are the engineers and best and brightest in the country, guess what they are going around and killing all these best and brightest. What is the choice you would make? If you were in that country? Saying look. You know, I know firsthand how my sisters were not allowed to go to school, so I dont get it. I just counter productive system Taliban as an of a Dan right now. As someone who is born and lived Taliban regime, there is absolutely zero zero trust on the Taliban, anything they say. I do not believe Brian. Of course no. Nor should the? U dot, s believe listen. I was on the call with Habib in Qatar and do ha a few hours ago, because I wanted to check women h again. The credit goes back to this incredible team. That was together that I was able to connect back with my brothers. I know there are looed ones out there trying to connect with

their loved ones, because the moment the plane takes off from Kabul, no one knows where they are going. No one knows whats happening. I spoke with ha bib and I said whats going on whats happening there. No one was prepared for this type of evacuation. Brian, I heard its hell. Doha, they say is a mess Habib connected with a lieutenant, colonel or major that he told me and he said, listen. I can speak their language. There are other Afghans who do not speak English im here to help you get service to them, because we need a to serve a lot of those Afghans living in the tents. Ha lean is running around the clock, helping soldiers trying to serve other Afghans who are there. This country is going to end up with a beautiful family, beautiful family that was willing to serve Afghanistan the same way, but they were force was that didnt allow that family to do so Steve, so your brother effectively is being a

translator, just as you were for PETE and others, countless Americans, real, quick. The question about your family remaining in Afghanistan: do they feel like they will be safe? No, no! You know I have been on the phone. You know with this mission with us continuing to save other habibs. I have gotten phone calls from folks. Listen save my interpreter! Save this guy. We have been in contact with hundreds of interpreters since we have gotten the we know its possible. We know we can do something to help questions where some of theory interpreters are. They are not in Kabul, they are running all over the country to hide. They are saying. Please save me. We cant get people through the get that Kabul forget about the rest of the country. Look im struggling trying to get folks at the front door

trying to get through, let alone folks from Kandahar to come to Kabul and getting through the gate. This is how terrible this entire process is. Brian PETE, I guess we have to go to see the president cold heartedly say its over done in a week got to run Ainsley twenty years of Petes Service and Saboors service, and one week the Taliban is back. I dont know how he didnt anticipate this PETE betrayal thats. What it is! Thank you Steve, yeah Saboor. Thank you guys, Steve good luck to you and your family good job, getting him out. Listen. I want to express my gratitude to the team to the Americans to the veterans, who did so much in keeping my family anywhere prayers PETE, so many peoples names who we cant say right now, who did so much more? Who didnt sleep who broke protocol? Who made connections figured out how to get it done.