At this funeral reporting live in Chicago reporting, live in Chicago im, Johnniy the dangers women may now the dangers women may now face under Taliban rule Steve one afghan woman who run as nongovernment organization there telling Fox news. We are seeing everything we have built so hard piece by piece being lost in Afghanistan. Our twenty years have of gains and hard work vanished overnight, Afghans, especially women, will face a very new world, a world of fear, destruction, misery and endless pain. Ainsley. Our next guest broke barriers for women in the global war on terror, Senator Joni Ernst, first female combat vet elected to the Senate, and she joins us now

good morning, Senator yeah good morning Ainsley. Thank you, Ainsley, thank you for being here and for your service. The Wall Street Journal profiled some afghan women, and these are some of the comments the women made today. I am afraid to show my photos im hiding myself. I had my liberty and freedom. We went to the gym restaurants everythings that changed in a week. Another female student says a week ago. We were planning on how to study and work, but now everyone is scared to death. Our dreams are gone. Their dreams were shattered overnight. Whats your reaction. Well, I feel the same way. The gains that were made by women in Afghanistan were significant and they were able to go to school, to obtain leadership positions in their communities, and all of that is being stripped away and even worse than losing opportunity for education and for leadership is that now they will be forced back into their homes forced under Taliban rule. They will be at the mercy of these brutal, brutal people that

have taken over the country of Afghanistan, Steve Sure, Brian Senator after watching General Austin, General Milley and the President yesterday. What is your take away, because I think all three of them should be ashamed of themselves and their explanation or lack thereof. Well, I am so disappointed in President Joe Biden and one thing that has been lacking amidst so many other things is the fact that he has yet to fully fully thank the men and women that have served in the global war on terrorism is in that you have done that quite well in thanking the men and women that have protected our homeland for twenty years and Joe Biden is a disgrace not to thank these men and women that have protected us. What we see going on in Afghanistan, it was preventible. This has been a hasty and haphazard withdrawal Brian. He says it wasnt

preventable and people falling out of planes. That was so four days ago. You know what Brian you see it. I see it. The nation sees it. This was preventable. We dont understand why we allowed Bagram airfield to go why we didnt remove our civilians, those afghan interpreters before we withdrew our military forces. All of this was preventable. Whether Joe Biden wants to acknowledge that or not I see it, you see it. The nation sees it Steve. The nation is looking at these graphic images. Senator you know there is so much frustration because over the last twenty years, our investment there, we never thought we were going to lose now here we are, and we pulled out and its just descending into complete chaos. As we look at more of these images, you know one of the biggest problems is, and the president last night on ABC said that they have got something like sixty five thousand

people who are in Afghanistan of a gappies who helped U Dot S government during the last twenty years, they are having a mad scram to be try to get out of the country im sure. As a member of Congress, your phone in your office is ringing off the hook. People here in the United States have somebody over there that needs to get out. How are members of Congress trying to help them get out because right now, its almost impossible for somebody without a? U dot S passport, to get past the Taliban to get to the airport stove? This is Steve. This is failure by the leadership here in this nation to provide for safe passage for american citizens going into Kabul. As well as those that have assisted our United States military, my phone is blowing up not only my office phone, but my personal phone with other members of the military that are reaching out trying to find some level of passage for the men that assisted them in Afghanistan,

one that I was visiting with yesterday. His interpreter is on the perimeter of the airport, but cannot get through the Taliban. He has tried multiple times and has been turned away, so we know that there are people eligible for Sivs that are not abeing allowed by the Taliban exit from the country. So, yes, I know other members, whether its Senator Tom Cotton, whether it is congressman, Jason, Crow or MIKE Waltz, all of receiving same messages, Ainsley even Democrats, Jimmy Panetta of California, a Democrat saying this is not as running as smoothly as he would like. I understand the lawmakers yall only got one email and one phone number. Every single lawmaker is supposed to call that one number to help get your constituents that are trapped over there. Their family members out and thats uncalled for people are saying Brian Mast said: thats a death sentence absolutely and we are were directing all of that to the state Department

and again, this is something we have worked on for months. I was at the White House April may time frame asking them to start processing these sivs. We were trying to work with the national security advisers for the President, all to no avail. Brian senator, as you know, and we have got to go to break, always told dont leave a man or woman behind even if they lost their lives, risk their lives to get back their bodies. We are leaving fifteen thousand Americans Ainsley, if not more Brian. In a war zone, the general Secretary of Defense says cant, do anything about it.