1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,599 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean, 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program, 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: if you've missed my interview with Donald Trump last night, 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: it is worth listening to, especially compared to the incoherent mumbling, bumbling, stumbling, 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: you know whatever that was pressor yesterday of Joe Biden. 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: Here is that interview in full. Well, it's so sad, 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: it's probably from the standpoint of military tactics and just embarrassment. 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: Is the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to our country. 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: We look like fools all over the world. We're weak, 10 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: we're pathetic. We're being led by people that have no 11 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: idea what they're doing. They take the military out and 12 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: then they say, now we'll bring out the people, and 13 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Taliban walks in. We had 14 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: the Taliban so under control they wouldn't have moved without 15 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: getting our approval. We had an incredible agreement. They weren't 16 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: killing our soldiers, you know that, and it was part 17 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: of it. In fact, Biden actually said today he said 18 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: they weren't killing them because of the agreement that we 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: had that we did and they hadn't killed one of 20 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: our soldiers in many, many, many months, and they weren't 21 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: going to because they were afraid too, and we had 22 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: them totally in control. All of a sudden, Biden administration 23 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: takes over and they say we're taking the military out. 24 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: They didn't say they're taking the people first. You take 25 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: the people out, and then you take the equipment out. 26 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: We left eighty billion dollars worth of equipment. And I 27 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: want to tell you, I think our soldiers forgetting about 28 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: even civilians. I think our soldiers are in tremendous danger. 29 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: I think airplanes flying in and out of the airport 30 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: are in tremendous dangers. They have the best equipment, best rockets, 31 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: the best tanks, and helicopters, Apache helicopters, a lot of 32 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: them that are immensely valuable. And by the way, Russia 33 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: wants them because they want to examine them, because we 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: have far superior technology, and China wants them. This is 35 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: the dumbest thing. I think it was the dumbest move 36 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: anybody's ever made, perhaps in the history of our country, 37 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: allowing this to happen, taking the military out, and then say, oh, 38 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,399 Speaker 1: we hope to get the people out. And then when 39 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: I hear General Mackenzie say that the Taliban is going 40 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: to protect us to talibands the enemy. I dealt with 41 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: the leader of the Taliban. This is not a very 42 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: simple man. This is not a boy scout. To put 43 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: it in another way, this is a tough, hardened person 44 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: that's been fighting us for many years, and we're using 45 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: them now to protect us. Look what happened with their protection. 46 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: One hundred people, much more they say than a hundred 47 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: people were killed, and thirteen of our incredible military were killed. 48 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: And that's just the beginning, because there are many of 49 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: our military in the hospital right now, very badly wounded 50 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: and hurt. Mister President, let me ask you and get 51 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: your reaction to President Biden's pressor today where he is 52 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: sticking to this artificial deadline and clearly accepting and acknowledging 53 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: that the idea that Americans will be left behind and 54 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: the Allies that they now have the database, they even 55 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: handed over a list of people that we wanted to 56 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: get through to the airport, that those people will be 57 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: left behind when promises were made, not necessarily we take them, 58 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: but we'd get them the hell out of there. Pretty 59 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: much a death sentence for all of them. The Taliban's 60 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: already been going door to door, we have reports of it. 61 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: But what is your reaction to sticking to this artificial 62 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: deadline and your reaction to the idea of accepting a 63 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: notion that we leave Americans behind. So they gave this 64 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: list of Americans to the Taliban, who we've been fighting 65 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: for many, many years, and they're tough fighters, they're good fighters. 66 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: But now they can be much better because they have 67 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: the best equipment in the world and so much of 68 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: it they don't know what to do. They'll be selling 69 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: it on the open market. But we gave that to 70 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: these people. And ISOSX. As you know, I knocked out 71 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the ISIS Caliphate. I knocked it 72 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: out in Syria, Iraq, we knocked it out. So I 73 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: have a new ISIS called ISOSX. Members of the Taliban 74 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: that are far more vicious because they don't like the 75 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: way the Taliban's behaving because they're not vicious enough. So 76 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: this is Taliban fighters that are much more vicious. And 77 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: we're using the Taliban and giving lists of Americans to 78 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: the Taliban. So now you just knock on the door 79 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: and grab them and take them out. This country has 80 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: never seemed stupidity like this, and our country is really 81 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: in trouble. Our country is really in trouble, and it's 82 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: only going to get worse. What you're watching now is 83 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: only going to get worse. It can only go one way. 84 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: We had something where they didn't get near us. They 85 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: were petrified of us. I let them know that if 86 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: they do anything, we hit them right where it hurts, 87 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: which is their homes. And they know it. And they 88 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: were waiting for us. They would have been very happy 89 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: to let us go and take every American and anybody 90 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: else we want to take our equipment, and for some 91 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: reason he botched the plan and took the military at first. 92 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: Now it's a very sad day for our country and 93 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: a great embarrassment. Beyond embarrassment, it's a very dangerous day 94 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: for our country. Mister President, let me go because Joe 95 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: Biden brought it up in his exchange with our own 96 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: Peter Doocey today, and that is that he inherited your plan. 97 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: And I want to go over it because I had 98 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,679 Speaker 1: both Secretary of State Mike Pompey also former CIA director, 99 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: and I had your chief of Staff Mark Meadows on 100 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: my radio show. They both went on this television show 101 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: and they went into great detail about what your plan was. 102 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: And maybe the Biden administration Democrats love to release transcripts 103 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: of calls, I would love this one to be released 104 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: that in no uncertain terms, not once, but on numerous occasions, 105 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: but before any negotiation began, that you got on the 106 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: phone with the leader of the Taliban and you made 107 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 1: it as clear as day. You reminded him about killing 108 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: Bagdaddy and his associates, and you reminded him about killing Solomony, 109 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: and you reminded him about the caliphate that you destroyed. 110 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: You reminded him about killing the al Qaeda leader in Yemen, 111 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: and that you said that if they didn't follow these 112 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: are their words, eye, every t crossed, every eye dotted, 113 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: every comma and period, that you would obliterate them and 114 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 1: use every means available to you to do that. And 115 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: you brought this up at the beginning and numerous times 116 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: throughout the process. Also that your deal was conditions on 117 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: the ground based and it included you keeping control of 118 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 1: program Air Force base. Can you tell us first about 119 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: the call and then the deal. Well, it was a 120 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: tough call, and it started out by saying that they 121 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: will be hit harder than any country has ever been 122 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: hit in the history of the world if they do anything, 123 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 1: and in particular kill our soldiers or even try to 124 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: kill our soldiers. And even Biden admitted today that the 125 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: reason they didn't kill any soldiers and we haven't lost 126 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: soldiers in many, many months because of the agreement that 127 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: we said, because I wanted to get out. I wish 128 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: we never went in. The biggest mistake we made in 129 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: the history of our country was going into the Middle East. 130 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: I call it quicksand, and we went into the Middle 131 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: East and we shouldn't have been there. We blew it 132 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: to pieces. And now we're leaving, and because of what 133 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: they're doing, we're leaving in disgrace. We could have left 134 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: with great dignity. We could have left with safety. We 135 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: could have taken everybody with us that we wanted, all 136 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: of the great American citizens and people that helped us, 137 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: whether it's interpreters or others. But we could have taken 138 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: them out very easily, and we wouldn't have had a 139 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: rush because the Taliban was not going anywhere. We had 140 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: them totally under control. Every time we saw a movement 141 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: with hit him with an F eighteen and the movement stopped. 142 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: But we had very little of that because Abdul, who 143 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: I spoke to, who turns out to be the leader. 144 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: Abdul would not let anybody do anything. And I can 145 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: tell you what happened, in my opinion. They went to 146 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: him and the other leaders and they said the American 147 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: military is leaving. They're pulling out. And they were probably 148 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: looked at the people that said it and said, you 149 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: gotta be there's no way that's happening. There's absolutely I'm 150 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: telling you they're leaving. They couldn't believe it. And then 151 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: they send some fighters in and there was zero resistance 152 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: before they got blown away, zero resistance. And then they 153 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: sent the whole group in and you had thousands, tens 154 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: of thousands of Taliban. And then on top of it, 155 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: they went into the warehouses and they sold this equipment 156 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: and they took it. You see them marching down the 157 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: streets down with brand new, the best rifles, better than 158 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: our soldiers have. It's a disgrace, and it's about the withdrawal. 159 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: It's not about getting out, because getting out is something 160 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: I've wanted to do for a long time and they're 161 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,079 Speaker 1: right when they say a lot of generals didn't. By 162 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: the way, we have great generals in our military, but 163 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: not the television generals, not the guys you see on television. 164 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 1: You look at what I did with ISIS and how 165 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: we beat them. We beat them with great generals, We 166 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: had great, great leadership. We have the greatest military in 167 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: the world. But we looked like a bunch of fools. 168 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: What happened, what they've done is incredible. So they walked 169 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: in without a bullet being shot, without a bullet being fired. 170 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: They walked in, and they took over a cobble, and 171 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: they took over everything else. Then, if you look back 172 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: at a timeline, we held them totally steady. But I 173 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: wanted to get up, but we had to get out 174 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: with dignity. We had to take our eighty billion dollars 175 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: worth of equipment. We had to do all of the 176 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: things that you know we had to do, and then 177 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: I would have blown up all the air bases, but 178 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: I would have kept Bogram because Bogram's located right next 179 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: to China, right near China and Iran, and it's in Afghanistan, 180 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: so we had the whole group covered. They spent ten 181 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: billion dollars building it, and we handed out the keys. 182 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: It's the craziest thing I've ever seen, mister President. Let 183 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: me I've been playing on this program a map, and 184 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: this map it goes through We walked people through the 185 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: movement of the Taliban starting in April and May. And 186 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you have a television on in 187 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: front of you, but it shows all of a sudden May, June, July, 188 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: and you see all of this territory as the Taliban 189 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: was taking over control of pretty much the entire country. 190 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,439 Speaker 1: Our intelligence agencies knew this. I'm getting reports that they 191 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: were giving dire warnings to the White House that while 192 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: they had control of Cobble, that they could they could 193 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: have expedited the withdrawal, and they could have not only 194 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: gotten every American out while they had total control, but 195 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: every Afghan ally out and that military equipment, the eighty 196 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: three billion dollars of which you refer out. The question 197 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 1: is is, as you look at that map and you 198 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: see why I cannot get a reasonable answer to this question, 199 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: why didn't they stop them in April and May or June, 200 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: or at least expedite the withdrawal seeing that they were 201 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: squashing this great Afghan army that Joe Biden and late 202 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: July was telling us about, why didn't they do it soon? 203 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: Show you didn't have to expedite anything. We had plenty 204 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: of time. They weren't going to move they we had 205 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: them under total control. We had the airplanes, we had 206 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: the air force. They had nothing we have. It's just 207 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: incredible what's take in place. And if you look at 208 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: where it starts, starting redder and redder and redder, and 209 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the whole place is one 210 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: big red color. That all took place after January twentieth, 211 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: when they assumed there was no reason to expedite. I 212 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: could have taken two years, three years to get them out. 213 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 1: We were going to get them out fast. But there 214 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: was no reason to use the word expedite because we 215 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: were in no rush. We controlled everything and they were 216 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: afraid to move. They wouldn't have moved Sean, They wouldn't 217 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: have done a thing without my approval. Everything they did 218 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: was conditions based, conditioned base. And the biggest condition you 219 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,959 Speaker 1: can't kill Americans and they can go back to the 220 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: Civil War after we're gone. They can do whatever they 221 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: want to do. But you can't ever kill Americans, and 222 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: you can never come to our homeland. And he knew 223 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: what was going to happen if they ever did it, 224 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: and he fully understand. It was a very respectful conversation 225 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: he had with your president at the time. And it's 226 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: a horrible thing when I watch what's happening. Even the 227 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: fact that you use the word expedited. There was no 228 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: reason to expedite. We had total control, We had all 229 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 1: of the air bases. They weren't moving, shown, they weren't 230 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: doing anything. Everything that they've taken was after Biden took over. 231 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: We had everything the way it was, and I was 232 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: not a fan of that ward. I was never a 233 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: fan of when Bush went into the Middle East. It 234 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: was one of the worst days in the history of 235 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: our country in the world, frankly, but they did it. 236 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: They decided to do it, and it's been nothing but 237 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: a catastrophe ever since. But this is now the lowest point. 238 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: No reason to run. There was no reason to run, 239 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 1: and there was no reason to expedite because if Joe 240 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: Biden had stuck with the Trump plan, the first movement 241 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: of the Taliban to any other province outside of that 242 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: which was agreed to, they would have been met with 243 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 1: fierce military force to push them back immediately. Correct, Is 244 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: that what you're saying. That's the difference because that didn't 245 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: happen after January twentieth. They knew that was going to 246 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: happen with me. I mean, you ran through it. I 247 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: don't have to. If you look at al Beg Daddy, 248 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: he was the founder of ISIS. We took him out. 249 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: Nobody could find him for fifteen years, far bigger than 250 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: Osama been Laden, far bigger Osama bin Laden bad and 251 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: he hit the World Trade Center and it was a 252 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: horrible thing. But Al Beg Daddy was the founder of ISIS. 253 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: And you look at Salomany. He blew up everybody the 254 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: roadside bombs and he was looking to do tremendous damage. 255 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: He was going to knock out five of our sites 256 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: and thousands of our soldiers in the Middle East were 257 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: going to be killed. We took him out. Nobody believed 258 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: it at the time. The head of Pakistan said it 259 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: was the single biggest event that he's ever seen take 260 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: place in the Middle East. He said fifty years and 261 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: maybe even a hundred years took him out. We had 262 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: everything under perfect control and then Biden came in and 263 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: they saw a weakness that he didn't do anything. He 264 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: didn't do anything, and they took over. And then we 265 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: ran out, and we've just destroyed the image of America, 266 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: of our great country, of our incredible warriors. And they 267 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: are incredible warriors, but they still need leadership at the top, 268 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: and they don't have it. At twenty five to the 269 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: top of the hour, before we get back to our 270 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: interview with President Trump, a reminder, the vice president of Afghanistan, 271 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: who stayed and didn't flee, now views himself as the 272 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: president of Afghanistan committed to defeating the Taliban, will join 273 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: us on Hannity for an exclusive interview. As now a 274 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: rebellion is building in the north of that country. Do 275 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: they have a shot against the Taliban? We'll find out tonight. 276 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: Herschel Walker by the way, announcing he's running for Senate. 277 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: He'll join us. That's coming up at the top of 278 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: the next hour of a first more of my interview 279 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: with President Trump. I had it set up so perfectly, 280 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: it was done so well. We were all ready. Everything 281 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: was good. We had the Taliban totally frozen in place. 282 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: They weren't going to move and that's what I made 283 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: my move. But you know, we rely on stupid people 284 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: like hr McMaster John Bolton. Some of these people were 285 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: really stupid people. I mean, Bolton was involved in getting 286 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: us in with bush It to the Middle East. But 287 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: you rely on people, fortunately, whether it's Fouci or them. 288 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: I don't listen to a lot of people if I 289 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: think they're bad ideas. But we have a lot of 290 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: very bad and the only thing I can think not 291 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: very smart people giving advice. But we were set up 292 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: and it didn't have to be hasty that what I 293 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: said is exactly right because we didn't have to go 294 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: quickly because we had them frozen in place. They weren't 295 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: going to move. And Abdul, as I like to call him, Abdul, 296 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: was just going to wait us and he was going 297 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: to go in and he was going to be fighting. Now. 298 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: I've told you numerous times the Afghan military was paid 299 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: a lot of money by the United States. Those soldiers 300 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: were among the highest paid soldiers. They weren't fighting for 301 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: their country. I remember when Madis was saying, Stur, they're 302 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: fighting for their country. They were fighting because they got 303 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: paid a lot of money. And as soon as that money. 304 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: As soon as that Spiggott was turned off, they turned 305 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: and that was the end of that. Now, this was 306 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: a horrible thing. We had that so beautifully placed. If 307 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: we would be there now, we would be if we 308 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: would be in as president and with the administration, you 309 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: would have seen something very nice. Nobody would have even 310 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: realized we had gone. Everybody would have been out, the 311 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: equipment would have been taken out. I would have blown 312 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: up all of the bases. We would have kept Bogrum, 313 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: and we would have had some pretty talented people there, 314 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: but we would have kept it because of China and 315 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: Iran and Afghanistan to a much lesser extent, and literally 316 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: nobody would have even known. They'd go back to there 317 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: whatever they do and let them fight each other. We 318 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: should have never been there and never been in the 319 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: Middle East in the first And now that you've made 320 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: clear what your plan was, Joe Biden clearly didn't stick 321 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: to that plan. This is where we are at the 322 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: President's press conference today. Joe Biden sticking to this artificial deadline, 323 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: accepting of the fact that Americans will be left behind 324 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: and the allies we already know the Talibans going door 325 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: to door identifying. Now they have the data to identify 326 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,239 Speaker 1: and the biometrics to identify any Afghan that helped us 327 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: in the last twenty years. I've been talking every night 328 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,919 Speaker 1: this week to Colonel Oliver North. With each passing day 329 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: in the deadline of Tuesday approaching, our options become limited. 330 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: Is this a situation where we potentially could leave hundreds 331 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: or thousands of Americans behind enemy lines and allies that 332 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: we had made a promise to extract if this day 333 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: ever came behind to be murdered. And there is going 334 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: to be mass executions because Joe Biden's adhering to the 335 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 1: talibands given date of August at thirty first. Well, Biden, generals, 336 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: they're just woke. I mean you look at what they're 337 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: talking about. I was seeing even at the end of 338 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: my time, I was seeing letters being sent out about 339 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: equality and all of these different things. The soldiers they 340 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: want to fight, they want to be prepared to fight, 341 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: they want to be soldiers. But the woke generals, and 342 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: it's gotten to a level where that nobody can even believe. 343 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: They were looking to get out, but they forgot one thing. 344 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: They forgot to take the people with them, and the 345 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: merchandise were the meeting. They forgot to take the greatest 346 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 1: military equipment anywhere in the world with them. And it's 347 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: hard to believe, actually, because a child would have understood, 348 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: you get the military outlast. A child would have understood that, 349 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: how could they have done this to our country. Well, 350 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: I've been trying to rack my brain, and you had 351 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: access to some of the brightest military minds in the world. 352 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: I've been told this is not, mister President, this was 353 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,479 Speaker 1: not an intelligence failure, that the warnings were dire and 354 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: were repeated, and that the intelligence community pulled their own 355 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: people out many weeks ago seeing what was on the horizon, 356 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 1: but they didn't keep it to themselves. They rightly, we 357 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: have the best intelligence gathering services in the entire world. 358 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: They shared their information with the White House with a 359 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: strong admonition and a strong warning, and there's and nobody acted. 360 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: If you're thrown into a situation like this, looking at 361 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: it just where we are right now, putting aside your 362 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: plan that they didn't follow, is there any option that 363 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 1: you see available to help save every American? Is there 364 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: any option you would employ at this late hour to 365 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 1: help to protect Americans and not leave them behind. We 366 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: have been put in the worst position we could possibly be, 367 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: put in a position that nobody would have even thought 368 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: possible even two weeks ago. Nobody would have thought this 369 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: would be possible, that we could be in a position 370 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: like this where the Taliban and others are dictating and 371 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: they're the one saying get out on the thirty first. 372 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: I think Biden wanted to say, but they said, we 373 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: will not have you get out. There will be consequences. 374 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: You heard that. That was said by the leader of 375 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: the Taliban. We want you out by the thirty first. 376 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: There will be consequences. What kind of stuff is this? 377 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: These are the people that we had at Bay to 378 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: a level that you wouldn't believe. There was no way 379 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: that they never even fired on our troops. They didn't. Again, 380 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: we didn't lose any troops for just like long extended 381 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: period of time, nobody was even fired. Frankly until today 382 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: where we had a tragedy take place. And that's because 383 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 1: of this agreement. And unfortunately Biden didn't follow it because 384 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: he took the military out first, and he left everybody open. 385 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: And I feel very very badly for the people. I 386 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: think they're in great danger. For the Americans, and I 387 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: feel very badly for a lot of people that were 388 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: very loyal to our country, whether it's interpreters or others, 389 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: they were very loyal to our country. But we certainly 390 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: heard a bad position. There are always alternatives. You can 391 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: do things, There are things to do. But I don't 392 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: want to talk about it because if I ever did 393 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: give the idea, I don't want to give it to 394 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: the enemy. You know, it's not like O G. I'm 395 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: on Sean's very highly rated show and let me give 396 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 1: you some nice ideas and then they prepare for them. 397 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: That's the problem. Everything we do is on television. You 398 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 1: see it on television? What are we gonna do? And 399 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: you have five people talking, including generals talking, and now 400 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: they're really hitting the Biden very hard because I see 401 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 1: that the generals are talking to the press. Can you 402 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: believe it? Do you think that Patton and the Great 403 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: Douglas mcgarth of General Douglas mcgarth, do you think they 404 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: would do the kind of things that you're saying. They're 405 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: saying terrible things about Biden. They're hitting them hard, and 406 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: it's all coming from a certain group of television generals. 407 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: But we have great generals. Look at what I did 408 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: with isis. I mean, those are generals that were phenomenal. 409 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: I'll give you their names if you'd like them at 410 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: the right time. But we have some great generals and 411 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: they don't play games. Let me ask you this, mister President. 412 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: Jack Keane, General Jack Keane on Fox A senior strategic 413 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: analysts talked about what will now be the reality. Joe 414 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: Biden confirmed today that our military will be gone no 415 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: later the next Tuesday. It's Thursday night, that's not long away, 416 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: and that there will be possibly hundreds, if not thousands, 417 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 1: of American hostages caught behind American lines. I never thought 418 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: of my lifetime i'd ever report that, sir Well. First 419 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: of all, Jack is great. I gave him the Presidential 420 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 1: Medal of Freedom at the White House. He's a fantastic man. 421 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: Was stronger on staying there than a lot of other 422 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: people were, to be honest with you, but he is 423 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 1: a fantastic guy and a great patriot. He loves our country. 424 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: He cannot believe what's happening. Nobody can believe what's happening. 425 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: And you know who, he looks so bad in front 426 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: of his Russia and China and Kim Jong un, North 427 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: Korea and the European Union. They're laughing at USA at 428 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: a horrible meeting with the G seven. The other day, 429 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: they went out and they were going wild. You saw 430 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: what happened in parliament, British Parliament, where the statements were 431 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: made about our country and about our president. Nobody has 432 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: ever spoken about our country or our president the way 433 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: they did in parliament. It is so embarrassing. But the 434 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: embarrassments the least of it. There's great danger right now. 435 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: They have unbelievable weapons, they have people, as I said, 436 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: that broke away because they weren't because the Taliban wasn't 437 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: mean enough and vicious enough. And that's the new isis k. 438 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: It's a very sad day for our country. And there 439 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: are things we can do, but just not things that 440 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: we want to talk about right now. You know when 441 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: Biden got up and he talked about we're leaving. We're 442 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: leaving so fast, we're leaving right away. We have no choice. 443 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: But we'll come back and we'll get him. We're not 444 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: going to get anybody. Once you leave, you leave, we're 445 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: not going to get anybody. He talks like a tough guy, 446 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: and he's not a tough guy. He's just the opposite, 447 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: and the world knows it well. The Secretary of State 448 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: said they would then if they all our troops will 449 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 1: be out there sticking by the deadline. Joe Biden confirmed 450 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: that today, and then they said that they'll be diplomatic 451 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: or other economic strategies they might use. When I heard 452 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: the word economic, I started thinking Americans behind enemy lines, 453 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: held hostage at the wind of a terrorist group. That 454 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: sounds a little bit like ransom to me, mister President. No, 455 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: they have the cards with this group, and there are 456 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: things you can do to counter it, and things you 457 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: can do to counter it very strongly. But they have 458 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 1: the cards. But when you say, Secretary of State, when 459 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: you watch the decisions that are going to be made 460 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: and being made, and you know what's going to be 461 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: made because they played all their cards. And look at 462 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: the great job that Mike Pompeo did, because he's tough 463 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: and he's smart, number one of this last at West 464 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: Point and a great student at the Harvard Law School 465 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: he was. He did a great job, as Secretary say it, 466 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: but he was tough, and he knew what was happening 467 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: with this, and he knew what was happening with Giant 468 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: and Russia, and we would talk often. We had it 469 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: all planned out, and then they decided to move the 470 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 1: military out, and let's not follow the plan. It's like 471 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: the only thing is it's like the water wall, and 472 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: nobody could handle it worse. We had the greatest, we 473 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: had the greatest protection that we've ever had on our 474 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: southern border, and now we have the worst and it 475 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: was the worst nightmare to watch it. That looks good 476 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: by comparison to what's happening in Afghanistan. You mentioned these 477 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: hostile regimes. You mentioned China, we can talk about You 478 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: mentioned Kim jongga, and you mentioned North Korea, the Iranian Mullahs. 479 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: We see the geographical, geopolitical maneuverings of China. They want 480 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: quote reunification, basically the takeover of Taiwan. They're lecturing Americans 481 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: on human rights in front of Tony B. Lincoln and 482 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,239 Speaker 1: he sat there and took it the telling Americans that 483 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: we need to get their permission to land in Taiwan. 484 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: They're also saber rattle all throughout the China Sea and 485 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: threatening our military bases, and now there are reports that 486 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: they have worked their way into Afghanistan. As now a 487 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: strategic partner and they're trying to strategically align with the Taliban. 488 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: Then you got Russia, China, and Iran now doing war 489 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: games together. So what is your interpretation of how these 490 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: hostile regimes are viewing America at this moment a time 491 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: with Joe Biden, what eight months in office? Well, President 492 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: Obama and Vice President Biden drove Russia and China together, 493 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: the all time curse. That's the one thing you didn't 494 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: want to do. And because of energy and they're stupid 495 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: policies on energy. It drove China and Russia together. Congratulations, 496 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: that's what they've done, and that was bad. As far 497 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: as Taiwan is concerned. You never saw bombers flying over Taiwan. 498 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 1: You never saw any threat. They didn't even mention Taiwan 499 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: while I was president because President she knew you can't 500 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,479 Speaker 1: do that. That was something you can too. I had 501 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: a very good relationship with him until the China virus 502 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 1: came in. Then I changed my mind on a lot 503 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: of things. We made a great trade deal with China. 504 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: I don't even talk about the farmers are the biggest 505 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: beneficiary and the manufacturers. They've benefited greatly. And they're doing 506 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: great because of that trade deal. I don't even talk 507 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: about it because once the China virus came in, it 508 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: was a whole different ball game. But I had a 509 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 1: great relationship with him, and then that relationships it was 510 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: too big. The COVID nineteen was just too much to 511 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: have that relationship. Probably caused by incompetence, but who knows, 512 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: a terrible, terrible thing. But you look at what's going 513 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: on with Taiwan. Now they're flying bombers over Taiwan. They're 514 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: very threatening because they see what's happening in Afghanistan and 515 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: other places. They see what's happening on our southern border 516 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: where Midians millions of people are pouring through our southern border. 517 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: They twenty one percent have COVID twenty one. They're infecting 518 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: our country all over and nothing's done about it. It's 519 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: a very very bad time for this country. Where do 520 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: you see this going economically for the American people? And 521 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: we got about a minute, sir, Well, you're gonna have 522 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: massive inflation. You look at gasoline was one dollar and 523 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: eighty seven cents a gallon, and now it's going to 524 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: be well over five dollars a gallon. Very shortly. That's 525 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 1: going to drive it itself inflation, but food prices are 526 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: driving it to Food prices are doubling and they're going 527 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: to be tripling. We have a very very tough period 528 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: of time to come, and they weaponize the Justice Department, 529 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: they've weaponized the IRST, they go after Republicans. We have 530 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: a very very rough road. But I believe our country 531 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: something good is going to happen. I'm a big believer, 532 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: and something good is going to happen, and we're going 533 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: to figure it out, and hopefully the people of our 534 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: country are going to figure it out and fast. And 535 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: the whole pack that you have now is save America 536 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: and make America great again. And because of legal reasons, 537 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: you told me last week you can't answer the question 538 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: if you're going to run, so I won't waste your 539 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: time on it. Is that fair? I just think people 540 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: are going to be very happy. But that's right. Because 541 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: of campaign financial reasons, you can't talk about it. If 542 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: you could, I would be talking right now. But people 543 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: are going to be very happy.