BUCK: Just breaking now courtesy of Lucas Tomlinson over at Fox News. “General McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, to announce no ISISK fighters killed in U.S. drone strike in Kabul on August 29th. Ten civilians were killed, including seven children in the Toyota. No disciplinary action expected, U.S. officials say, and they are standing by the intel leading to the strike.”

Clay, as soon as we got hit when we lost our 13 corpsmen and Marines in Afghanistan and they said, “Oh, we’re gonna strike back at them,” I thought — I said this on Fox; I said it on TV — there’s no way we have the intel network to be able to find exactly who was behind this nor to be able to stop the next one.

We’re gonna be relying on Taliban checkpoints. That’s reality. They got too hasty. Ten people dead, seven of them children. I hate to always have to do this. If this were the Trump administration people, they would be saying he should be handcuffed and taken to The Hague immediately.

CLAY: Instead, it’s gonna break on Friday afternoon, headed into a busy weekend for a lot of people out there, and by Monday, nobody will be covering this story. Now, we’ll mention it again on Monday. And we were one of the few that mentioned it earlier this week, right? ‘Cause the previous story, the New York Times had broken it, to their credit, on a Friday afternoon/evening after we went off the air.

And for most people, it was swept under the rug. Saturday, Sunday, by Monday it’s gone. That’s the reason it’s coming out right now, Buck. It is a further failure, emblematic of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan of Joe Biden trying to — in some form or fashion — prove that he was tough.

BUCK: That’s right.

CLAY: And this is why this ended up happening.

BUCK: This is top-down pressure. I can’t even look at this other than this is from the White House, maybe even from Biden himself, the situation room, giving a direct order. Okay. They said they had this call under surveillance —

CLAY: We have to back. We gotta let ’em have it.

BUCK: (sigh) You know, this was politics. And now you got 10 dead bodies, seven of them children, Afghans.

CLAY: Guy who desperately dreamed of coming to the United States.

BUCK: Yes.

CLAY: I mean, really, a United States ally.

BUCK: Honestly. It’s just another horrific instance here of what a catastrophe the withdrawal was on the Biden administration.