- Welcome to "The 700 Club."

Regrettably, the Presidentof the United States does not

tell the truth to American people.

Let's start with this one,

"We're going to stay untilwe get them all out."

That was the President'spromise to American citizens

in Afghanistan just two weeks ago.

Did he keep that promise?

The Pentagon says no,and we'll all say no,

and the American peoplerealize whenever he speaks,

he's lying.

Although the U S militarymet his evacuation deadline

yesterday, reports saidat least 250, and maybe,

maybe hundreds more Americansare going to be left behind

and the Taliban is in control.

They will be hostages.

CBS George Thomas hasthe story on the pullout

and what lies ahead in Afghanistan.

- [George] Nineteen years,10 months and 23 days

after the US mission in Afghanistan began,

Major General Chris Donahue,Commander of the 82nd Airborne

Division was the last Americansoldier to leave Afghan soil

shortly before midnightin Kabul on Monday.

- Tonight's withdrawalsignifies both the end

of the military componentof the evacuation,

but also the end of the nearly20 year mission that began

in Afghanistan shortlyafter September 11th, 2001.

(helicopter blades moving)

- [George] A mission that was not cheap.

- The cost was 2,461, US service members

and civilians killed

and more than 20,000 who were injured.

- [George] By early Tuesday morning,

the Taliban's Islamic fightersalong with their top leaders

were strolling the tarmac ofKabuls airport in full control

and declaring that the mythof American invincibility

had been busted in Afghanistan.

- [Zabihullah] We haveachieved our independence

and we were able to forcethe Americans to leave

after 20 years of jihad and sacrifice.

- [George] Over 18 days,the US military airlifted

about 123,000 civilians from the airport,

including 6,000 Americansin the largest non-combatant

evacuation in US Army history.

Still US citizens who wantedto get out are still trapped

inside, along with thousandsof Afghan partners.

- There are still a smallnumber of Americans,

under 200 and likelycloser to 100 who remain

in Afghanistan and want to leave.

- [George] But just twoweeks ago in an interview

with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos,

the President promised tostay until every American,

including Afghan allies andtheir families were out.

- If there's American citizens left,

we're going to stay thereand get them all out.

- [George] Now with USforces out, the question is,

will Afghanistan become aterrorist safe haven again?

The Taliban says it willnot allow the country

to be a launching pad forterror attacks, but many experts

believe their takeover isa boost for terror groups

like Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

- And unfortunately, going tosee a massive boost in terror

recruitment and radicalizationbased on the belief

that jihadist andAfghanistan first defeated

the Soviet Union and now theydefeated the United States.

- [George] And the ramificationsare already reverberating,

especially for Afghanistan'sreligious minority groups.

At a safe house in Kabul,Jaiudden, not his real name,

has been in hiding alongwith 12 other Afghans,

since the Taliban seizecontrol of the city,

nearly three weeks ago.

- [Jaiuddin] One of us isalways awake during the night,

always walking around and praying.

So if the Taliban shouldcome and knock on our door,

we should alert everyone.

- In an exclusive interview with CBN News,

Jaiuddin and the others whoare part of Afghanistan's

very small Christian community told us

they have no passports,

no US government issued exit papers,

and right now see theirhopes of escape diminish.

- [Sarah] We had many plansfor preaching the gospel

with other brothers and sisters,but then the Taliban took

control so quickly.

It happened so fast.

- [George] And now they'dbe marked by the Taliban.

- {Jaiuddin] Every dayI receive a phone call

from a private numberand the person warns me

that if he sees meagain, he will behead me.

- [George] While Jaiuddinsays he's not afraid of dying,

he's asking the worldto pray for his country.

- [Jaiuddin] We arepraying for each other,

that the Lord would puthis angels around our house

for our protection and safety.

- (inaudible)

The nation this afternoon onthe pullout from Afghanistan.

Pat.

- George, the greatest concern we have now

is Afghanistan becoming a terror base.

Tell us about these otherIslamic groups in the country

and their relationship with the Taliban.

- Pat, there are several terroristgroups that are operating

right now as we speak in Afghanistan.

But the intelligence communityis concerned, very concerned

with three, number one, Al-Qaida,

number two, a group knownas ISKP, it stands for

Islamic State of the Khorasan Province,

and number three, the Haqqani Network.

Let me begin with Al-Qaeda and you know,

when you hear in the newsand you hear the pundits

on television, and in fact,

our administration say thatyou're going to see an Al-Qaeda

resurgence, the reality,Pat, is that Al Qaeda

has always been on the ground.

Sure that we havediminish their activities

in the last 20 years, but they are there.

In fact, just hours before theUS pulled out of Afghanistan

or Osama bin Laden's chief arms supplier

and his head of security madehis trip to his home base

in Khandahar, after 20 years,

landed to a hero's welcome in Afghanistan.

The United Nations reports that in June,

between 5,000 to 8,000 Al-Qaeda fighters,

primarily from theUzbekistan, from Chechnya,

from Pakistan, poured into the region.

It's a very, very big concern.

Then obviously we have the ISKP.

They're the ones who launched,

reportedly launched theattack last week against our

US forces at the Kabul airport.

So these are growing threats.

It's a reality.

Anybody says that Afghanistanis not gonna become a

hotbed for these jihadists,doesn't know what's going on.

- George, The President says, "No worry.

"We've done over the horizoncapability to hit terrorists."

Is that gonna be enough?

- It's going to be really hard, Pat,

because you know, the wholecountry is surrounded.

It's a landlocked country,all six countries.

We have no presence.

The closest we are is in Qatar,

and it takes approximatelyeight to nine hours to fly

a drone there as a former CIA operative,

who worked in Afghanistanon several missions,

told me recently, he said,

"There is no substitutefor human intelligence

"and boots on the ground."

Pat.

- Thank you very much.

Let's go to Chief Internationalcorrespondent, Gary Lane

to talk about the global impactof this disastrous pull-out.

Gary, what does the signalsend to the rest of the world?

- Well, Pat, former USambassador to Afghanistan under

President Obama, Ryan Crocker,calls President Biden's

impatience, "a disaster for the world."

He says the hasty withdrawalfrom Afghanistan has created

a global crisis.

- Embolden, violent Islamic radicals.

The Taliban victory, thenarrative of defeating

the great infidel empowersradicals in Pakistan.

What is happening in Afghanistan

isn't going to stay in Afghanistan.

This will be felt around the world.

- Pat, there are a number of hotspots

that we should be looking at.

And as Ryan Crocker said, Pakistan,

that's one that we should lookat because just one week ago,

the Pakistanis successfullytested the Fatah-1,

multi-system rocket.

And that has a range about 80to 90 miles that could easily

reach into India, their arch enemy,

but in addition to that in Pakistan,

the Haqqani Network thatGeorge had mentioned,

they're operating in Pakistan,they're from Pakistan.

And of course, as George mentioned,

they are closely aligned with ISIS-K.

A matter of fact, the leader of ISIS-K,

is a former commanderof the Haqqani network

and in addition to that,

there's a relationshipthere with a Taliban

also with Pakistani intelligence.

So we need to keep an eye on Pakistan.

In addition to Pakistan, how about China?

China's embolden by thisa US Afghanistan debacle,

this withdrawal debacleand China is saying to the

United States and toothers, warning us, saying,

"Look, if you take a moveon Taiwan to defend Taiwan,

"that's a red line that you're crossing

"because we believe in a one China policy.

"Taiwan belongs to China, mainland China.

"And if we move to retakeTaiwan, you guys stay away."

But of course the United States will not.

We have already moved warshipsinto the Taiwan Strait

because they're emboldenedby what has happened

in Afghanistan.

And the British have movedtwo warships into Japan

and those war ships have theF-35 fighter jets on them.

So we'll have to keep an eyealso on Taiwan and China.

- A couple of bad onesare Iran and North Korea.

What do you think they're going to do?

- Pat, you know the middle east very well.

You've traveled therea lot over the years.

So have I, I've been reportingabout it for more than

40 years and Iran, theyhave a relationship now

with the Taliban.

They're sending them $5million per day in oil.

And you may say, well, that isn't much,

but it's likely to grow as theirtrade relationship expands.

What are they going to do with that money?

They'll send it to Hezbollah in Lebanon,

also to the terroristgroup, the Houthis in Yemen,

but the bigger concern ofcourse is their development

of nuclear weapons and President Biden,

when he recently met with Naftali Bennett,

the prime minister of Israel said,

"You know, Iran will notpossess a nuclear weapon

on my watch,"

but Bennett's got a wonder,

well you abandon yourallies in Afghanistan,

can I really depend on you tohelp Israel and have Israel's

back in the event thatIsrael has to attack Iran?

Many military expertssay they don't believe

that Biden would do so.

So it'd be left up to Israel.

Can they rely on theUS to have their back?

But also North Korea, Pat,North Korea, Kim Jong-un

has resumed developmentand work of the young bond

nuclear reactor and that is adeveloping further development

of nuclear weapons there.

And China will definitely relyon Kim Jong-un in the event

of war in Taiwan, withthose, would a nuclear,

a Korean peninsula be usedagainst any allied invasion

of Taiwan?

So we'll have to keep aneye on North Korea, China,

Pakistan, and Iran.

- Thanks Gary.

Ladies and gentleman, doyou realize what this crowd

has done to our reputation as a nation?

They are a bunch ofincompetents, starting from the

Secretary of the Treasury,talking about General Milley,

he doesn't know what he's doing.

They give up this Bagram Air Force Base,

they turn tail and run.

They let a group of

seventh century fighterstake over the greatest nation

on earth.

There's apparently no retaliation.

They accepted the Taliban'sdeadline of when they get out.

I mean, it's been a disaster

and who's being called into account?

Are there any firings?

They should fire the Secretary of Defense.

They should fire Milley.

They ought to fire some ofthese lower level generals

and admirals and they certainlyought to get rid of Blinken,

but none of them are facingany kind of a problem.

And in terms of impeachment,

it's impossible to impeach the president.

It will not happen, so what do we do?

Well, we're stuck with them somehow.

Somehow there was an electionand elections have enormous

consequences.

We've got to wait to themidterms and that's a long time

with this stuff happeningaround the world.

But our nation has beenturned into the laughing stock

of the world because they all know,

the North Koreans know, theRussians know, the Chinese know,

that America is beingled by a senile old man

and a group of incompetentsand it's just terrible,

but we elected him.

I didn't but somebody did,

at least in the electoral college, he won.

Well, turning now to thedevastation from Hurricane Ida

Coast Guard first respondersand volunteers are racing

to pluck people from their flooded homes.

So far a rescue of more than800 people in one Louisiana

parish alone.

Meanwhile, the governor saysit will take weeks to repair

New Orleans now sputtered power grid

and some are thinking itmay take a million people

without power in the summer heat.

Well, I've heard estimatesas high as 2 million.

CBNs Jenna Browder brings usthe images of the devastation

and the heroic rescue area efforts.

- [Jenna] An urgentsearch and rescue mission,

after Hurricane Ida wreakedhavoc on Louisiana's Gulf coast.

Entire communities under wateras boats and helicopters go

from home to home to deliver the stranded.

- This is one of the worstnatural disasters I've ever seen

in St. John.

- [Jenna] In one parishoutside New Orleans,

nearly 800 people havebeen rescued so far.

- We've been in ourEmergency Operation Center.

I slept here.

I will continue to sleephere and my home's flooded

and I lost my car.

So but, we're here todo the people's work.

- [Jenna] This video from above Grand Isle

showing devastated homes.

Over the hard-hit town of LaPlace,

homes surrounded by water.

On the ground, semi-truckstoppled and cars submerged.

- The rain just kept coming.

It wouldn't stop coming.

At least three people died.

That number expected to climb.

More than a million people without power.

The devastated electric gridcould take weeks to repair.

Water and sewage is another major concern,

18 water system serving255,000 people are out.

Add to that COVID-19 and2000 people in shelters,

in areas with high infection rates,

one official calling it a COVID nightmare.

Meanwhile, CBN's OperationBlessing is preparing to move in

with relief supplies andto help with cleanup.

- It's been a full assessmentthat included discussions

with local pastors aboutpotential supply drops.

Church of the King will receive supplies

from Operation Blessing.

We're able to get into theseareas that have been impacted

by Hurricane Ida.

- And Pat, the storm continuesto move north dropping rain

in places like CentralTennessee, where as you know,

they're still recoveringfrom flooding from last week.

Pat.

- Jenna, how has a poweroutage affecting the hospitals

in New Orleans?

- Well, you know, someof the larger hospitals

have done pretty well.

It's some of the smaller hospitals, Pat,

that haven't done quiteso well in the storm.

Ochsner's Health is Louisiana'slargest hospital system.

And they're reporting that so far,

they've had to evacuate65 patients from two

of their area hospitals toother health care facilities.

And there could be more today.

The good news Pat, isall of these hospitals

are operating on generatorsand going into the storm,

they were very prepared.

They had fuels for up to 10days heading into the storm

and more fuel trucks wereexpected to arrive today.

Pat, they're sayingreally the biggest problem

is actually with thesehealthcare hospital employees,

because many of them,

you know, when they gohome, if they can go home,

they don't have electricity

and so it's putting a realstrain on these employees

and healthcare workers andOschner would typically put them

up in hotels, but the areais without electricity

so right now that's justreally not a possibility.

- Thanks Jenna.

You know, ladies andgentlemen, a few years ago,

we learned that the pipestaking the wastewater out

of New Orleans werecompromised and leaking

and they were affectingthe water supply and all

under the pipes under thecity were old and decaying.

And in those days therewas a real serious thought

that instead of spendingbillions and billions of dollars

to rebuild New Orleans,

the smartest thing would beto locate that great city

and move it to somewhatnorth, that would be

out of the flood zone and outof the tremendous problems

that we had during Katrinaand I've had during

this hurricane.

Nothing much has been done about it,

but nevertheless, itshould be on the table.

The nice thing about thisparticular hurricane,

if you can use that, is thatthe local city of New Orleans,

the state of Louisiana and thefederal government had been

working together, hand in hand.

That was not true in Katrina.

They were fighting eachother and the devastation

and the suffering wasbeyond comprehension.

This one is much better,

but that doesn't still relievethe fact that 1 million

and possibly as many as 2 million people

in the state of Louisianawithout electric power

and will be that way for some time

in the midst of this heat.