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Speaker 1: I think that the best way to explain where we

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Speaker 1: are is that this is about history. It's not about politics.

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Speaker 1: The visions of President Biden has so torn the fabric

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Speaker 1: of the world system. There will be seeing consequence of

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Speaker 1: this for ten years. It has worldwide implications, and it

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Speaker 1: makes the world, I think, unbelievably dangerous, more dangerous certainly

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Speaker 1: than any time since the Soviet Union disappeared, and may

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Speaker 1: be more dangerous than most of the Cold War. The

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Speaker 1: decision to surrender to the Taliban, and that's what they

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Speaker 1: did the decision to abandon Afghanistan and abandon the Afghans

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Speaker 1: who were helping us and who risk their lives. The

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Speaker 1: the French, and all of our allies. This runs a

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Speaker 1: risk of tearing nature to apart. It has already emboldened

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Speaker 1: our enemies, so that, for example, Iran has announced that

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Speaker 1: Now that means that the worldwide terrorist movement just got

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Speaker 1: the largest infusion of combat power in its history, all

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Speaker 1: of its courtesy of Joe Biden. All over the function

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Speaker 1: of an unbelievably reckless, childish, ill thought out set of

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Speaker 1: again and again and again. In the middle of all this,

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Speaker 1: the House Democrats have proven that nothing that happens in

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Speaker 1: the framework for a three point five trillion dollars budget

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Speaker 1: When the so called moderates collapsed under pressure from Nancy Pelosi.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to see an example of big

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Speaker 1: governments socialism, take a look at the three point five

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Speaker 1: trillion dollar budget bill. As somebody who's studied this for many,

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Speaker 1: the current situation. I believe that Taiwan is now under

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Speaker 1: much greater risk because the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing

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Speaker 1: see our enemies jubilant, and I suspect that they may

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Speaker 1: use nine to eleven as a celebration. After all, it'll

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Speaker 1: first century country taking on a seventh century tribal warrior

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Speaker 1: group and losing. And that's what happened. The United States

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Speaker 1: was defeated. President Joe Biden has surrendered. The most recent

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Speaker 1: a disaster of the first order. This is exactly the

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Speaker 1: The United States will be much weaker. Are allies will

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Speaker 1: NOOI says, what are your thoughts on Biden's over the

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Speaker 1: I think that the over the horizon approach doesn't work

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Speaker 1: And one of the great tragedies of the last few

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Speaker 1: unexplainable decision to keep the embassy and leave Bogram. Bogram

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Speaker 1: And I think using it against a vice presidential trip

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Speaker 1: that makes no sense at all. I don't understand who's

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Speaker 1: Alex says, how do we restore trust in our allies

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Speaker 1: around the world after such a blindside pulling out of Afghanistan. Well,

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Speaker 1: because I think Biden is a big government socialist who

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Speaker 1: you need to know about the values in the White House.

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Speaker 1: So Biden would have to act like a non Biden

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Speaker 1: if he wanted to do that, what he should do is,

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