Rep. Waltz on 'Faulkner Focus': Looming hostage crisis could make Iran in 1979 ‘look like a sleepover’

Republicans tore into President Biden on Wednesday, claiming that the commander-in-chief’s pledge to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by August 31 could lead to a bigger hostage situation than Iran in 1979.

Waltz, the first Green Beret elected to Congress, asserted that the Taliban would likely keep U.S. citizens who missed the evacuation timeline to gain economic and political "leverage."  "They’ve got a gun to the head of American citizens because Joe Biden left them."