1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Clay Travis and 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. We are here together in Nashville and 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: you have no doubt seen the enormous and catastrophic news 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: about what's going on right now in Afghanistan. Clay and 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: I will break all of this down for you. We're 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: going to talk about the surrounding of the airport in Kabble. 8 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: We're going to discuss how we got to this point. 9 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: The Biden administration on vacation right now, Joe Biden along 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: with some of his other senior staff while people are 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: seen on video at Kabble Airport scrambling across the tarmac 12 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: trying to get aboard US Air Force jets evacuating people. 13 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: This is a disaster the Biden administration promised us would 14 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: not happen. This is the catastrophe we were told the 15 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: smartest guys and gals in the room, so to speak, 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: would avoid, and yet here we are. We will break 17 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: down every aspect of this and then later on in 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: the show, we'll be joined by our friend Sean Parnell, 19 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: former former US Army combat veterans served in Afghanistan, and 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: also our friend Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire in 21 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: the third hour talk about some foreign policy and also 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: some COVID policy here at home, plus the Obama birthday party. 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: Seems like there was some serious spreading of COVID that 24 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: went on, but it was a sophisticated spreading of COVID 25 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: at the Obama birthday party. We'll get into all of 26 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: that and more today with you, but let's just start 27 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: with this. It would be hard to think of a 28 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: bigger blunder, a bigger foreign policy mess in the first 29 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: year of a presidency than what you are seeing right 30 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: now unfold in Afghanistan. There are so many aspects of this. 31 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: What's happening right now is that the Taliban is in control. 32 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: They have photos of themselves video in the presidential palace 33 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: in Cobble, the capital city. They've seized all the major 34 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: provincial capitals. They've done it in a matter of days. 35 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: A breathtaking Taliban blitzkrieg, the likes of which nobody at 36 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: the top level of the federal government was predicting. And 37 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: yet now we're to be told that somehow this is 38 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: the Biden administration knowing what's going on. Now, it's it's 39 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: Trump's fault. They're scrambling for any defense whatsoever. Let's just remember, 40 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: let's let's take a trip down memory lane, Clay to 41 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: what in July the Bid administration was playing. I was saying, 42 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: play clip two. No, it is not because you have 43 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: the Afghan troops have three hundred thousand well equipped as 44 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: well as eclipped as any army in the world, and 45 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: an air force against something like seventy five thousand Taliman. 46 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: It is not inevitable, really well equipped army Clay that 47 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: apparently did not fight at all against the Taliban. Yeah, 48 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: and let's just go ahead and play some of these 49 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: greatest hits, which I think are going to come a 50 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: long way towards defining the Biden administration. We already thought 51 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: that it was a level of incompetence that we hadn't 52 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: seen in a long time. Friday, we talked about the 53 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: fact that basically everything Joe Biden has touched has blown 54 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: up in his face. But five and a half weeks ago, 55 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: he was asked whether there might be any parallels between 56 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: the fall of Saigon in nineteen seventy five and Afghanistan, 57 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: and he said no, we've got. I think it's fair 58 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: to say Afghanistan and Kabul is Ssigon on steroids. But 59 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: five and a half weeks ago, Joe Biden told you 60 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: that what you are seeing on your television screen and 61 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: on your telephones as you watch and follow this on 62 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: social media, that it was impossible play cut three zero. 63 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: What you had is yet entireber gage great through the 64 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: gates of our embassy. Six. If I'm not mistaken, the 65 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: Taliban is not the south of the North Vietnamese Army. 66 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: They're not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There's gonna 67 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: be no circumstances you to see people being lifted off 68 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: the roof of a embassy in the of the United 69 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comfortable. Now, 70 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: that's exactly what we saw. Yes, So isn't that a 71 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: remarkable circumstance? Prophetic in its opposite in a sense. Here 72 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: it's like Joe Biden said, this will not happen, Clay, 73 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,119 Speaker 1: and the things that he promised would not are actually 74 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: what did happen, And it happened in five and a 75 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: half weeks. Buck, I can't remember any American leader I'm 76 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: trying to think making a prediction that is this irrevocably wrong, right. 77 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's different to have an opinion, and we 78 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: can argue about what the significance of it was and 79 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: all of those different impacts. But within five and a 80 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: half weeks for a foreign policy explosion like list listen 81 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: to cut four five and a half weeks ago. This 82 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: was last month. In July, Joe Biden said, it's highly 83 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: unlikely Afghanistan will fall to the Taliban. It happens before 84 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: we can even leave the country. So the question now 85 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 1: is where did they go from here that the jury 86 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: is still allow. The likelihood there's going to be the 87 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. 88 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened. It happened at lightning speed Clay. 89 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: This is the biggest policy, intelligence and honestly military industrial 90 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: complex failure in certainly decades, maybe in living memory, or 91 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: maybe it if they go back to Vietnam. You and 92 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: I were arguably I said, two generations, you and I. 93 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: I'm forty two, you're thirty nine. There, I believe is 94 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: a strong argument that there has been no an American 95 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: foreign policy failure the likes of this that's occurred in 96 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: our lifetimes and in the lifetimes of a lot of 97 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 1: our listeners, and for those of you who are able 98 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: to remember Saigon in nineteen seventy five to signify the 99 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: end of the Vietnam War. This is a monumental, categorical 100 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: failure for the Joe Biden administration. And we still don't know, Buck, 101 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 1: how it's going to end. Because there's mass chaos all 102 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: over Afghanistan right now. You've got American military planes that 103 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: can't take off because civilians who are trying to flee 104 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: the Taliban have taken over the airport there at Kabul. 105 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: We've got all sorts of American citizens who may or 106 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: may not be able to get out safely. We're now 107 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: relying on the Taliban to not exert any form of 108 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: violence on the remaining Americans there. We've had to bring 109 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: in over six thousand troops. I think at this point, Buck, 110 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: this is what's so wild about this two Buck Friday. 111 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: As our teas said, Hey, we're gonna come in on Monday, 112 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: and based on all the data and all the evidence, 113 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: Kabble is going to have fall into the Taliban. How 114 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: in the world is Joe Biden still on vacation. How 115 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: did Jensaki, the spokesperson leave. I mean, if you and 116 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: I on Friday Buck could say, hey, this is going 117 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: to be a disaster. We'll be talking about it on Monday, 118 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: like you and I wouldn't miss this radio show. And 119 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: the President of the United States still hasn't talked the 120 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: head spokesperson. I mean, this is an unbelievable dereliction of 121 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: duty that I think every American, regardless of political party, 122 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: should be disgusted by. It turns out that electing a 123 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: visibly declining sub mediocrity as president and surrounding him with 124 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: pronoun in their bio advisors making momentous decisions about US 125 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: national security is a really bad idea, no matter what 126 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,119 Speaker 1: you think of Trump. And we're gonna see them try. 127 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: They've already done this a little bit. Oh Trump set 128 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: the timeline. Oh Trump is the one that put this 129 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: the Biden White House the hands were tied. It's pathetic. 130 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: But what else are they going to say? We're a 131 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: bunch of we're a bunch of idiots, we have no 132 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: idea what we're doing. I mean, Clay, it defies belief 133 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: how much this White House has messed this up. Its 134 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: belief that they couldn't have seen this coming at all. 135 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: Here's what was sawming well a few days ago, but 136 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: a month ago, a month you said this on this show. 137 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: You said, I mean, if we went back to archives, 138 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: you said, the people you're talking to are saying, I, 139 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: well remember it. I know a lot of our listeners 140 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: do that you based on the people you were talking to, 141 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 1: that it was going to happen even faster the most right. 142 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: Oh sorry, yes, I knew the televand would run the 143 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: country and it would happen faster than Biden. I didn't 144 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,559 Speaker 1: know it was gonna happen in five weeks though. That's 145 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: the part of this that's yeah, that's still wild. But 146 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: if we are able to foresee that and discuss it 147 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: on this radio program with nowhere near the ability that 148 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: the White House does to get all the data, to 149 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: have all the information, this is a unmitigated disaster the 150 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: likes of which many of our listeners have never seen. 151 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: So what was what was believed? What happened here? Just 152 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: whoever knows? Because we got to remember that they're lying 153 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: to you right now. I mean, the Biden White House 154 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: is lying when they say this is in any way 155 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: what they thought was going to happen, that they prepared for. 156 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: That's why they're sending now what six thousand back in 157 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: to try to make sure because because if they were able, 158 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: if the Taliban surrounds as they already have and then 159 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: decides to open fire on the airport to start bringing 160 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: down planes, we're going to have a disaster that goes 161 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: even beyond anything we've seen you that's deep into the 162 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: Vietnam War for something like that. So we have a 163 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: circumstance here where the Biden White House has no narrative 164 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 1: that is credible, that does not make them look like 165 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: abject fools. They at least thought the consensus, Clay was 166 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: we've spent all this time, because Biden even mentioned the 167 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand troops, we spend all this time training 168 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: and all these different contractors who were out there working 169 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: with the police in the military. I remember, I remember 170 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: being out there watching these guys getting training when I 171 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: was with the agency years ago, and the belief was 172 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: that at least there would be a stalemate for a while, 173 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: right right to allow a retreat with honors. And this 174 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: was you gotta see, this was the Taliban getting waved 175 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: into into city centers in town square with almost no 176 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: resistance and almost no casualties by the people that we 177 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: trained worked wins of billions of dollars a trillion dollars total. 178 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: That's how we allowed this to happen. How could we 179 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: not have known? And when you say, oh, well, look, yeah, 180 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: I knew the talent. Everyone in knew. Afghanistan knew the 181 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: Taliban was Eventually, the Biden said a month ago, it's 182 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: not inevitable. It absolutely was inevitable to Taliban was going 183 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: to take back most, if not all, of the country. 184 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: The question was the speed. But I don't I don't 185 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: have access anymore to the PDB. I don't have hundreds 186 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: of billions of dollars of military and intelligence apparatus at 187 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: my disc we were better in analyzing this to the 188 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: entire Biden White House. Two dude sitting here, you know, 189 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: one with a mountain dew and one with the diet 190 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: creamsicle Shasta or whatever here in T shirts. We're sitting 191 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: here better at analyzing the fall of Cobble than the 192 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: Biden administration. And I think this is where you're you're 193 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: starting to see there's panic in this White house. Clay 194 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: not so much just because of what's going on in Cobble, 195 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: but because this goes to a broader narrative of this 196 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: is worse than Jimmy Carter. In fact, Biden is starting 197 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:29,839 Speaker 1: to make Jimmy Carter look like some kind of a 198 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: strategic genius by comparison. And that's something that really terrifies 199 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: the left because they want power here. That's what matters 200 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: first and form. And is it wild that as Biden 201 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 1: has stayed completely silent in terms of speaking in front 202 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: of the public, and he is reportedly going to fly 203 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: from Camp David to the White House to speak at 204 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: three forty five Eastern, will certainly be talking about what 205 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 1: he says tomorrow. That'll happen after today's show. How is 206 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: it possible that he's remained silent for this long? Is 207 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: it crazy, Buck that I was thinking, is is he okay? 208 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: Like that was one of my first times think he's 209 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: not in front of a camera. He's shocked. I think 210 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: I think there's a shock right now that's going all 211 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: the way up. I mean, if you saw and we'll 212 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: play more of this for you if you hear what 213 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, responded to a question 214 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: about the airlifting off the I mean they don't even 215 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: have good BS talking points to deploy right now. They're 216 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: completely just I mean shell shocked in a sense, although 217 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: they're actually not the ones out there on the front lines. 218 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: So why why don't we come back into that what 219 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: the narratives are, and then we'll also update you in 220 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: real time because this is happening in real time. And 221 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: remember this is now a period where video and footage 222 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: and everything is making its way out of Afghanistan uh 223 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: in real time as we can see exactly what's happening here. 224 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: So we'll come back with this crisis in Afghanistan and 225 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: just remember this, folks, it did not have to be 226 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: this way. The withdrawal, whether you think we should have 227 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: pulled troops out or not, this Biden White House is 228 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: inept the words an absolute catastrophe. We'll come back into 229 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: this in a second. 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Again, cell phone in your hand, dial 256 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: pound two five zero, say pure talk and you'll have 257 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: the option to receive a one time auto dialed text 258 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: message from pure Talk. Do it today. We'll welcome back 259 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: in Clay, Travis Buck Sex that I hope all of 260 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: you are having a fantastic Monday. We have got loaded 261 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: lines and it is absolute madness as we speak. The 262 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: Taliban taken back over all of Afghanistan, and Buck, we 263 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: played Joe Biden and showed how totally out of it 264 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was. But it's worth mentioning the Secretary of 265 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: State Tony Blincoln. Remember, these were supposed to be the 266 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: adults that we're going to bring back normalcy, bring back 267 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: to diplomacy, bring back a semblance of American exceptionalism. That's 268 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: the argument they made. Experts who are who are gone 269 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: right now? Clay, where are these experts all of a sudden, 270 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: they're all faded. But let's listen. We played Biden in July. 271 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: Let's listen to Tony b. Lincoln, expert Secretary of State. 272 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: Back in June, he said, no way, the Taliban is 273 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: going to go from a Friday to a Monday taking 274 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: over the country. Oh, by the way, it took a 275 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: little bit less than that I don't think it's going 276 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday. 277 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: So I wouldn't necessarily equate the departure of our forces 278 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: in July, August or by early September with some kind 279 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: of immediate deterioration in the situation. We didn't even get 280 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: him out of the country before things deteriorated, Buck, I mean, 281 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: we're not even out. We weren't even leaving till the 282 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: end of August. Clay, It's almost like you could have 283 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: set the actual Taliban and battle plan by whatever the 284 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: Biden administration and top officials said would not happen. The 285 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: Taliban was like that sounds like a good idea. Let's 286 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: give that a shot. I mean, this is an outrageous 287 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: failure from the top down, and it's just a reminder 288 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: as well. And I think this is a place where 289 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna have to have a lot more introspection and conversation. Clearly, 290 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: the US government view of what was going on Afghanistan, again, 291 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: going back to a decade ago and I'm in country 292 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: reading all the assessments, Clay, there was all this talk 293 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: of shadow governance, of the Taliban actually providing services for 294 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: people in areas, of providing Sharia courts, of paying off 295 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: having the police on the payroll, all of that, and 296 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: that was a decade ago. They basically were already in 297 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: position to run and overrun the whole country. And it's 298 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, are elected officials had no idea, 299 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: or at least the Biden White House had no idea. 300 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: How is that even possible? And how about the disrespect. 301 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: They weren't even willing to wait till the end of 302 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: August when we were leaving to take over the country. 303 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: They were like, screw it, We'll go ahead and do 304 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: it to embarrass the Americans while they're still here. By 305 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: the way, Tony blinkin also he said, hey, guys, no 306 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: matter what your eyes are telling you, this is not Sigon. 307 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: He said, we succeeded in the Afghanistan men. Mission. I mean, 308 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: listen to this. This is what we're just said. Remember, 309 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: this is not Saigon. We went to Afghanistan twenty years 310 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: ago with one mission, and that mission was to deal 311 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: with the Polks who attacked us on nine to eleven. 312 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: And we have succeeded in that mission. The objective that 313 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: we said, bringing those who attacked us to justice making 314 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 1: sure that they couldn't attack us again from Afghanistan. We've 315 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: succeeded in that mission, and in fact we succeeded a 316 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: while ago. And at the same time, remaining in Afghanistan 317 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: for another one five ten years is not in the 318 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 1: national interest. So why do we stay there for the 319 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: last ten years, mister Blinkin. We'll answer these questions and 320 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: when we come back and give you real time updates 321 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: about the catastrophe in Cobble and around the country in Afghanistan, 322 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: it's on the bide administration. Don't let them invade accountability. 323 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: If we've learned anything folks since twenty twenty, it's how 324 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: important powerful immune system is. 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So it's just a plain old fact that 343 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: this is happening under the Biden administration's leadership, now almost 344 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: a quarter of our way into his first term. This 345 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: is not the way leaders lead by pointing backwards. We 346 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: had a bad deal, we inherited the JCPOA, we got 347 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: out of it. We secured America from the risk from Iran. 348 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: We inherited a horrible deal in Syria where Isis controlled 349 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: real estate the size of Great Britain. We crushed them. 350 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 1: Every president confronts challenges this President confronted a challenge in Afghanistan. 351 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: He has utterly failed to protect the American people from 352 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: this challenge. Welcome back to the Clay Travison, Buck Sexton 353 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: Show Clini together here in Nashville, Tennessee, as Afghanistan collapses, 354 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: cobble in the hands of the Taliban, and the airport 355 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: the last territory in the hands of US forces and 356 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: contro role. Right now, the Kabbal Airport surrounded by Taliban forces. 357 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: Evacuation flights going on as I speak to you now, 358 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: the tarmacs swarmed with desperate Afghans trying to grab onto 359 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: the landing gears, trying to just do anything to get 360 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: out of the country. Already reports of reprisal killings. There 361 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 1: will be large scale executions of anybody left behind who 362 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: worked with the US. We know this. It's terrible. How 363 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: could the bind administration have been so inept and unprepared 364 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: in all of this? And we want to hear Clinton. 365 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: I want to hear from veterans because we know we 366 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: have a huge veteran audience that listens to this show, 367 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 1: and we thank you, first of all for your service. 368 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: And we also want to remind everybody that there's a 369 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: reason why when our soldiers were in that country, the 370 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: Taliban were hiding, usually in Pakistan, going across the border, 371 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: laying low, you know, they were hiding. And the moment 372 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: that we decided we're going to hand the fight over 373 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 1: to the Afghan National Army, that's when the Taliban knew 374 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 1: it was time to go eight hundred two two to 375 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: eight a two on the lines. We'd love to get 376 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: some veterans in McClay. There's so many facets of this. 377 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: You're gonna have a lot of speculation in the days 378 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: at about the relationship that the new Taliban government, which 379 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: I think we all know is absolutely inevitable right now, 380 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: we'll have with China and Russia and Pakistan and Iran. 381 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: We're also going to be talking about the possibility of 382 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 1: Afghanistan as a platform for a global jihatat terror attacks 383 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: once again. But in the meantime, Biden on vacation, do 384 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: you see that photo, which, by the way, that that's 385 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: not the kind of photo that they should be sharing 386 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: out in a moment like that, And there was also 387 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff on the screen that I was 388 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: very surprised that they were actually sharing what they did, 389 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: I can tell you that much. It really was an 390 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: iconic moment of a president who looks bewildered and alone 391 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: at a moment when we're supposed to have leadership that 392 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: we can count on, also afraid to say anything for feet. 393 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: I believe that he will immediately be wrong, And I 394 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: imagine what they were trying to do was avoid having 395 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: him talk until they had gotten all American citizens out. 396 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: But I think you talked about the big question in 397 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: Afghanistan going forward is going to be will Afghanistan under 398 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: the Taliban again become a fertile ground for the planning 399 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: of another nine to eleven esque attack? But I think 400 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: we can just think about this domestically, Buck, What does 401 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: this do to Joe Biden? Domestically? What does it do 402 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: with the failure of all of his administration to handle 403 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: this retreat out of Afghanistan with any semblance of competency. 404 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 1: What does it do for the COVID experts out there? 405 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 1: What does it do for trust trust in this administration 406 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: in general? What does it do for his larger budget plan. 407 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: He's trying to get this three point five trillion dollar 408 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: budget plan ram through and there are all sorts of 409 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: controversies emerging inside of the Democratic Caucus, where you've got 410 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: congressmen who are moderates that are saying, hey, we're not 411 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: going to vote for this three and a half trillion 412 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: until we have the infrastructure bill come through to me. Buck, 413 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: This is devastating to any sort of argument that Joe 414 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: Biden is competent on any level. And I think it 415 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: infects so many different aspects of his administration going forward. 416 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: Because the American people watching this, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, most 417 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: of us in living memory, Buck, the majority of Americans 418 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: have never seen something this incompetent occur on a foreign 419 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 1: soil with American military. Well, there's a difference between experts 420 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: and opportunists, and you're seeing that Joe Biden is an opportunist. 421 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: He's a guy who did whatever he had to do 422 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: for forty years in Democrat politics to get reelected as 423 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: the senator from Delaware. No offense of Delaware Great Beach 424 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: is nice state, but not exactly a play that's at 425 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: the center of the political storm on a regular basis. 426 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,880 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's a machine politician on foreign policy, specifically, which 427 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: was you remember his calling card for vice president under 428 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,640 Speaker 1: the Obama administration was, Oh, Joe Biden is a great 429 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: foreign policy a steady hand, a foreign policy mind. And 430 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,719 Speaker 1: if you actually listen to anybody who had worked in 431 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: those circles, because there is a foreign policy apparatus. I mean, 432 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: I've worked at some of the think tanks and obviously 433 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: spend time at the CIA, and know some of these 434 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 1: characters who have been at the top of the decision 435 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: making process. They would all tell you Joe Biden was 436 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: The famous line was from Bob Gates, who was Secretary 437 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: Defense and CI director, reliably wrong on every major foreign 438 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: policy decision for forty years. Yes, so how could anybody 439 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: view what's going on right now as in any way 440 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: a surprise in that framework. And I would also say 441 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: that if you're talking about real experts, claim just because 442 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: somebody is the National Security Advisor or the Secretary of State, 443 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,679 Speaker 1: as we all know, doesn't mean those are hard jobs 444 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 1: to get, but it doesn't mean that you're the best 445 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: at the job. True Afghanistan experts for the last twenty 446 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: years have been saying they call it the graveyard of 447 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: Empires for a reason. The Taliban's not going anywhere with 448 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: the Pakistani sanctuary they've been beating the same drum, and 449 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,719 Speaker 1: now they're all looking at us saying, we told you so. 450 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: How about Joe Biden has been wrong on virtually every 451 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 1: major American foreign policy decision of the past forty years, 452 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: and now his mental faculties are declined from the forty 453 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 1: years of failure. Because I genuinely want to know how 454 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: he's going to be capable at three forty five Eastern 455 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: of sitting in front of the American people or standing 456 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: however he's going to give this address and doing anything 457 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: other than reading directly off the teleprompter, or to make 458 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: a prediction. I know you're like predictions. I'll make a 459 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 1: prediction for what Biden's gonna say, and we'll come back 460 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: to this tomorrow. He's going to say that this was 461 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 1: a tough call, but the right call for the American people. 462 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: That moved a little faster than they thought, but they 463 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: basically were prepared, they had contingency in place. And oh, 464 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: by the way, this is Trump's timeline for withdrawal. They 465 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 1: actually extended it, so they should get credit for not 466 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: going too fast on it. Orange Man bad Blame Trump, 467 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 1: and then he's gonna walk out. That's that was the 468 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: only I think that's the only movie he's got. At 469 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: this point, there's no doubt he's gonna blame Trump. The 470 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: counter to that is, I even wonder whether the general 471 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: media is going to accept that because he spent seven 472 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: months changing every decision that Donald Trump made. Oh and 473 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: he took credit, by the way for the changes in 474 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: the timeline. And Kamala, who he should have made the 475 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: Afghanistan are stay, you know, throw her to the bus 476 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 1: once again, so to speak. Kamala was taking because she 477 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: was leaking that she was also involved in this process. 478 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: A few months ago it seemed like she, you know, 479 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 1: stands astride the foreign policy stage. I don't think she's 480 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 1: leaking anymore about that right now? Where is she? I mean, 481 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: the whole administration. We need to talk more about this, 482 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: and we want to take your calls, by the way, 483 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: for everybody who served in Afghanistan. But where is she? 484 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: Phone number by the way, eight hundred two eight two 485 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: eight eight two. As you hear other people dropping off, 486 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: I want to tell you blocking everybody out there knows 487 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: Mike Glendell does an incredible job. We have got their 488 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: products all over my house, all over your six hundred 489 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: square foot apartment. 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For the last seven months, I've 516 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: watched generals, i mean engage in Twitter fights with people 517 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: debate the merits of critical race theory on Capitol Hill. 518 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: It seemed like our generals were more concerned with fighting 519 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson than they were the Taliban. And we are 520 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: seeing the tragic and disastrous consequences of that play on 521 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: the battlefield right now. Do our soldiers you did your job. 522 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: You sack or fist, you fought, You gave the people 523 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: of Afghanistan a shot for freedom. And it's important for 524 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: the American people to hear this. We need to blame 525 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: the suits for this tragic failure and not the boots. 526 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 1: We are going to be hearing from Sean in the 527 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: next hour on this program. I am Clay Travis, he 528 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: is Buck Sexton. That was Sean Parnell and Buck, we've 529 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: got loaded lines. I think it probably makes some sense 530 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,719 Speaker 1: to start hearing from a lot of the people who 531 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: served overseason. Let's bring in the war they believe, let's 532 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: bring in the warfighters. And so let's start with David 533 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: in Superior, Wisconsin. David, what is your reaction watching all 534 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: of this on spool in front of us? What a 535 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: slap in the face to every gold Star family that 536 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: lost loved going over there. Guys, you asked earlier, how 537 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: is it that they didn't know? The answer is they did. 538 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: They knew exactly what would happen and how long it 539 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: would take. So you, guys, why why the chaos? Wh 540 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: all this? Let's not make any mistake going forward for 541 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: all these Marxist in government and this government here, China 542 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: is the model. So that's all you have to There's 543 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: been news blurb after news blur, but for the past 544 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: three or four weeks about China's designs on Afghanistan. You 545 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: combine that with the fact, how I think you lost. 546 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: Let's get Mike and Georgia. Mike also served in Afghanistan. Mike, Uh, 547 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: what Branchy? Hey, guys, how are you doing? So? I 548 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: just actually retired last month from the Army. I spent 549 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: twenty two years as an infantryman, a lot of my 550 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: adult life in Afghanistan. Well, God bless you. Thank you 551 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: for your service, Mike, and looking I apprecate guy, and 552 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: looking at I think you guys have nailed nailed on 553 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: the head and what everything is you've been saying. And 554 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: if the administration and all their top advisors and insert 555 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: really cool good description here and there, if they didn't 556 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: see it coming, they're either ignorant or they're lying to 557 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: the American faces. And I say that because if you 558 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: took any random private infantry man you know, whoever from 559 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: eighty second first a certain major division here, who's been 560 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: on the ground in Afghanistan, and ask them could the 561 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: Taliban take the country in a weekend if we threw 562 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: our hands up and said we're done, everyone would say absolutely, 563 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: as soon as we're done fighting. The guys who have 564 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: seen it know how fast the Taliban masses powers, how 565 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: quickly they moved, and how effective they can be. So 566 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: if a an eighteen year old private they call it 567 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,719 Speaker 1: in saga, I think we lost him a little bit too. 568 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: Thanks for the service, Mike in Georgia, again, we are 569 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: taking calls. Primarily we'd like to hear from people who 570 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: actually served in Afghanistan. Buff, we were talking with you, 571 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you were over in Afghanistan, uniquely for a 572 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: lot of people who sit around and talk about Afghanistan today. 573 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: As the weekend took place, for you, what was your 574 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: primary emotion? The biggest thing for me was that having 575 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,719 Speaker 1: seen it at the thirty thousand foot policy level as 576 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: a CIA guy who was interacting a lot with the 577 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: top people in country, you know, the top military command staff. 578 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 1: I just think of all the times that I saw 579 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: people saying the same thing keeps happening here. The new 580 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: leadership comes in and says, we figured it out, Clay, 581 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: Now we know we've got the recipe for success, a 582 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: sustainable and defensable Afghanistan with liberal democracy. As in our sights, 583 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: we're getting there. We're getting there. We figured it out, 584 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: and then there'd be deterioration the moment somebody would actually 585 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: look under the rock, so to speak, they'd see problems. 586 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: That cycle played out every year for a decade. That's 587 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: what I was thinking over the weekend, that the brass, 588 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: the top military command folks, top intel folks, Oh yeah, 589 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: lots of that too. They said what the people in 590 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: DC wanted to hear and what the defense contractors wanted 591 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: to hear. And they didn't tell people this is not 592 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: sustainable unless we stay forever. They kept because remember they 593 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: kept saying six more months, six more months. It wasn't 594 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: sixty more years. In an essence, some of the people 595 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: that were saying that, at least they were being honest, right, right, 596 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: stay forever, Stay forever was an option, but the American 597 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: people didn't want that option. That's what ended up happening. 598 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: And I don't think that the decision about whether or 599 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: not to leave Afghanistan is secondary to me to finding 600 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: a way to leave without destroying America's at least idea 601 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: of competence around the world. Right, there were ways that 602 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: a well managed departure from Afghanistan could have occurred. This 603 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: is a black eye for I mean, think about it. 604 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: Can I just you're just gonna say, if what you're 605 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: saying was not true, right, if there wasn't a way 606 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: for this to be done better, how could the Biden 607 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: administration a month ago have told us that this is 608 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: all it's gonna be. Okay, We've got it covered. We 609 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 1: know we're doing here, right They Joe Biden could have 610 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: looked at us all and said, you know what, guys, 611 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: this is going to be ugly. There's no way going 612 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: to be this. He could have said, this is like 613 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: we're pulling the knife out of the wound and there's 614 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 1: gonna be blood. But that's what has to happen here, 615 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,799 Speaker 1: right Instead, they said, no, no, we've got this. The 616 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: Afghan Army's got it. We're gonna be fine. They have 617 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: to be held to account for that decision because, by 618 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: the way, if the American people had known that the 619 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: entire Afghan army would effectively dissolve and in some cases 620 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 1: welcome in whether they're threatened or bribed, welcome in people 621 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,799 Speaker 1: from the Taliban into all the maybe we would have 622 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 1: felt a little I mean I should have certainly, I think, 623 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: certainly the right aspect of we're going to give the 624 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 1: Taliban complete control of this country all over again and 625 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,760 Speaker 1: potentially create another fertile breeding ground for another nine to eleven, 626 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: and also buck send the message. Think about how China's 627 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 1: looking right now. We can't even pull out of Afghanistan safely. 628 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,319 Speaker 1: Think about what they're contemplating. They already blew it with 629 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: Hong Kong. Yeah, they've got their Belt and Road initiative, 630 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 1: They're gonna get minerals and resources. It's high wa on. 631 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: Think about what if they are deciding whether or not 632 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: to invade based on how incompetent the United States military 633 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: looks leaving Afghanistan. Would you feel as if there's any 634 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: way that we could do anything tangible in any kind 635 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,360 Speaker 1: of legitimate way if suddenly they just decided to invade. 636 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: They took Hong Kong. They do that happen, and so 637 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,840 Speaker 1: we we sit around and pretend like we're gonna have 638 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: a diplomatic de mars and we're gonna send some mistakes. 639 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: Took Hong Kong. Hong Kong is now is now the 640 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: Special Agreement. It was always going to be sort of 641 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: in Chinese hands, but the Special Agreement Chinese Communist Party 642 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: hands has been abrogated. Effectively. Look, we got so many 643 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: veterans that we've got to get to here because I 644 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,839 Speaker 1: want to hear the thoughts of all them, and then 645 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 1: we're going to really drill down into the politics of this. 646 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,440 Speaker 1: Because I'm with Clay. I mean the same way that 647 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,320 Speaker 1: there's this appeal to experts all the time about COVID, 648 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: even though they're wrong over and over again. This feels 649 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: like a bunch of eighth graders sitting around and reading 650 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: about Afghanistan and having access to Google Maps could have 651 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: come up with a better withdrawal plan. Clay, so what 652 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,880 Speaker 1: does that mean for listen to the experts in this 653 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: White House across the board. I think that's something we 654 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,399 Speaker 1: need to address. And we also got Sean Parnell coming 655 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:13,919 Speaker 1: here in a few minutes. I think that's a great 656 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 1: point because I think this goes to the very essence 657 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: of Biden's legitimacy across all landscapes, whether it's domestic, whether 658 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 1: it's foreign, whether it's getting any of his budget directives 659 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: able to be through this Congress. This is an epic 660 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,960 Speaker 1: disaster for Joe Biden, the likes of which we haven't 661 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 1: really seen in a couple of generations. But Buck, at 662 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,520 Speaker 1: least he isn't sending mean tweets. We'll talk with Sean 663 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:45,399 Speaker 1: Parnell next. Thanks you're listening to, Clay, Travis, said Buck. 664 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: Sexton fund the EIB Network