'The Five': Hapless Blinken couldn't answer hard questions and 'defended the indefensible'

"The Five" reacted Monday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken's failure to take responsibility for any aspect of the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan.

"There's no way to defend what he said, what the administration said they would do, and square it with the actions that occurred in Kabul, from what he can oversee [like] abandoning the embassy, which he said he would never ever do. To claiming … that they were not blocking Americans from leaving in Afghanistan which those of us who were involved in that effort [know] was categorically false." Just before "The Five" came on air, Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry had engaged Blinken in a testy exchange regarding the status of hundreds of Americans stranded in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The panel noted Perry was able to confirm from Blinken that there are additionally "thousands" of American Green Card holders stuck in the militant-controlled country, and unconfirmable numbers of SIV's – special immigrant visa holders.