WEBVTT - Gen Don Bolduc 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:03.040 All right, News round Up, Information Overload hour Sean Hannity Show, 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.360 eight hundred and nine for one, Shawn, if you want 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.080 to be a part of the program. I'm tired of 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.120 the lie I inherited this plan. This is it wasn't 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.680 my plan. I inherited this plan. I decided to withdraw 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.639 because I was abiding by the Trump piece deal with 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:22.279 the Taliban. Now we've interviewed Donald Trump, We've interviewed Mark Meadows, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.360 We've interviewed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Former Vice 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.120 President Mike Pence is on record as saying this is 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.480 not the Trump plan. It never was the Trump plan. 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.120 The Trump Plan was predicated one on the understanding, first 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.200 and foremost that if you do not abide by the agreement, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.640 every comma, every I, every T, every I dotted, every 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.760 T crossed, every period, that you will be blown into 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.239 another century. That was point one. In other words, when 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.000 they got to two percent of the country, there would 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.800 have been a massive military response like Donald Trump did 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.440 with Caliphate in Syria. As he defeated them, he made 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.360 sure before any further discussions continued, he said it to 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.759 the leader of the Taliban. Now Joe can release that transcript. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.480 They love to release Donald Trump transcripts with bar and leaders. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.959 Release that one. I'd love for the world to see 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.880 it and read it and understand it and know that 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:23.320 Joe is lying. You'd never implemented the Trump plan, So 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.959 stop saying like what you said here to ABC News 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:32.200 and stop lying about it. Look, George, the reason why 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.000 it has been stable for a year is because the 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.840 last pressure said, we're leaving. And here's the deal I 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.039 want to make with you, Taliban. We're agreeing to leave 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.000 if you agree not to attack us between now and 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.360 the time we leave on May the first. Thus, in 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.480 two months after I am elected to office, I has 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.080 sworn in all of a sudden, I am a May 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.120 one deadline. I'm a May one deadline. I wanted two choices. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.640 Do I say we're staying and do you think we 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.320 would have to put a hell of a lot more 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.360 troops we had we had one hundreds, We had tens 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.200 of thousands of troops there before tens of thousands. Do 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.920 you think we would would have just said, no problem, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.160 don't worry about it. We're not going to tack anybody. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.120 We're okay in the meantime. But Taliban was taken territory 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.720 all throughout the country, in the north and down in 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.600 the south and the Pashtu. Would you have withdrawn troops 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.680 like this even if President Trump had not made that 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.320 deal with the Taliban, I would have tried to figure 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.720 out how to withdraw those troops. Yes, because look, George, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:39.480 there's no good time to leave Afghanistan. Fifteen years ago 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.280 would have been a problem. Fifteen years from now. You 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:48.560 could have planned for an orderly removal of Americans. First, Joe, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.919 you could have followed the Trump threat up because they 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.560 didn't start advancing until you became president. Hadn't been an 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.919 American killed in Afghanistan in a year and a half 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.119 before you came into office. And and no good time, well, 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.440 there's always a good time to have an orderly draw 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.840 down and even withdrawal with conditions based on the ground, 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.160 as President Trump told me this week, Mike Pompeo has 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.520 told us, Mike Pence has said, and Mark Meadows has confirmed. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.160 So I believe that the worst part is the Pentagon 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.280 spokesperson John Kirby. I don't know how many have no 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.079 idea how many Americans are trapped in Afghanistan. Why not 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.400 how many Americans, American citizens remain in and of course 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.280 I don't know the State Department would be a better 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.400 place to go for an estimate of how many Americans 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.800 are Afghanistan or in and around Cobble. That is not 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.520 a figure that the United States military would would know. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.920 And I think, as you also know, not every American 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:49.320 citizen in another country. There's no obligation that they register 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.080 their presence and that we and that you can have 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.480 a perfect accurate account. The same people that want to 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.560 cite Farah laws and the Logan Act. Okay, anyway, joining 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.040 US now, former Brigadier General Don Bullduck is with US 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.440 Tory Richard's over at Washington Examiner had a great interview 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.120 with the brigadier general. Sir, welcome to the program. Thank 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.800 you for being with us. You did ten tours of 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.200 duty in Afghanistan after nine to eleven, Sir, I did 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.240 from two thousand and one twenty thirteen, ten tours, and 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.640 I lost seventy two service members I did not bring home. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.960 So I have an idea what sacrifice was, and you 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.800 know the successes, and I'm sad to see what we've 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.440 done there, and I characterize it like you, sir, as 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:41.520 an unmitigated disaster unparalleled political and military history. See five 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.440 bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts. Before retiring in twenty seventeen, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.640 you're running for the Senate in New Hampshire. It's an 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.520 honor to meet your general. I read your comments. I'll 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.800 let you in your own words. You've described it similarly 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.480 as I have as an Adam shift show, and that 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.919 the and you know, tell me if I'm wrong in 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.880 my assessment that right now where we are today, I 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.760 don't see any military option because we know what the 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:13.159 Taliban will do with fifteen thousand. According to Joe Americans 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:18.240 behind enemy lines or around fifteen thousand. Well, yes, there's 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.160 only one thing to do, and unfortunately it's a U turn. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.520 I agree with your assessment on President Trump's plan. I 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.440 also know that seven years ago, the Obama administration, and 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.320 if I'm correct, the Vice President was part of that, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.160 made a terrible decision to change our strategy from a 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.200 counterinsurgency strategy bottom up that was being very successful. And 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.520 we did have a mark on the wall of twenty 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.640 sixteen where we would be completely done with the transition 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.039 of that program and the Taliban and al Qaeda. We 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.200 believe would have been successfully defeated. So when he says 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.279 that he never heard of a plan or sorrow plant, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:01.160 he's absolutely wrong because as Vice President lasts Administration, Susan Rice, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.880 the President, the National Security Council, the Chairman of the 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.000 Joint Chiefs Staff, the Secretary of Defense, and all the 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.520 leadership in Afghanistan knew this to be true. And when 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.799 we told him it was a bad idea to change strategy, 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.360 they didn't listen. They went to non combat operations and 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:22.000 that set in the Taliban taking over the rural areas, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.839 a reversal in the security situation which has led to 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.279 this unmitigated disaster. And they used the two eleven Iraq 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:35.920 Plan basically as the plan for for Afghanistan. They knew better. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.120 General Millie knew better, General Aston knew better, or Secretary Austin, 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.960 they all knew better. I was a subordinate commander for 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.200 them in twenty twelve and thirteen. They knew the deal, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.680 and they also knew that the assessment of the Afghan 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.279 national security forces since two thousand and five has been 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.880 that they cannot defeat the Taliban on their own. So 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.200 given all the equipment they have and all the training 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.880 they have and so on. So that's great, but they 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.799 still in twenty twenty one could not defeat the Taliban. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.240 They own the rural areas, so it was just a hop, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.880 skip and a jump. So they know they're dealing with 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.680 a weak administration. They know they're dealing with a with 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.000 a pentagon that's in disarray, that's focusing more on teaching 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.840 CRT and social emotional learning than they are on employing 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.160 the men and the great men and women in our 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.720 military to defeat our enemies. So, hey, what we need 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.160 to do. We need to take back all our air fields. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.280 And that's all the air fields and I'll name them 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.360 for you, the ones in Harah, in Marjar Sharif, the 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.640 one in Kandus, the one in Kabul, the one in Kandahar. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.800 And we need to take all those back, set up 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.440 a set up a breakout and break out and take 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.920 the presidential or excuse me, the provincial capitals back. And 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.080 then we need to put our special ops guys on 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:55.320 the ground and re establish the village stability Afghan local 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.560 police and then push them out of the rural areas. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.840 Think short of a full engagement just keeps us in 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.640 the in the current holding pattern, which is the Taliban 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.400 controls the fate of fifteen thousand plus Americans. Never mind 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:14.600 the afghanis exactly that we're interpreters and assisted us that 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.440 we're promised safe haven if this day ever came exactly exactly, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.360 and we have people that are retired and we have 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.520 people in him there that know how to do this. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.600 We need to put them in charge and leave them alone. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.600 Let him get this thing done. We beat him before 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.920 in you know, two thousand and one, two thousand and two, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.880 we beat him again between twenty ten and twenty thirteen, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.720 before he changed, before Obama changed strategy. We did it before. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.480 We can do it again. We know how to do it, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.400 and we just got to show them strength because right 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.760 now they see weakness and they're not going to listen 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.320 to us. It's and it's going to imperil American. You know, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.520 like so many Americans, I think these endless wars have 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.240 to We can't do what we've been doing. Have kids 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.120 go door to door in Baghdad. I think there's a 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.480 lesson to be learned from the way that Donald Trump 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:08.120 defeated the Caliphate which grew under Biden and Obama, and 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:13.520 that is he systematically as they took over, for example, Syria, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.720 racket Syria, he just bombed them back backwards and he 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.880 took over each piece of territory. The problem we now 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.960 find ourselves immersed in is quite challenging, and that is 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.240 we've got fifteen thousand or so American lives on the 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.760 line and the risk that they will be used as 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.160 human shields and b that they will you know, we 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.320 know what they're capable of and what they would do 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:43.520 and probably put that video out to the entire world 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:48.079 without getting too graphic. General M. Yeah, well, you're absolutely right, Sean, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.760 and that's why Afghanistan, if we're going to do this 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:56.680 right and it won't take forever again. But unfortunately we've 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.560 done it wrong for so long, and we've done this 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.320 wrong that we just can't go in and do the 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.120 same kind of bombing that we did in Syria because 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.559 of the collateral damage that you just talk to. You 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:12.800 you're saying, short of this massive military presence and operation, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:17.080 you don't see any other way to successfully control the 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.959 destiny of American citizens now that are ostensibly trapped or 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.600 pretty much a hostage to the Taliban and the perimeter 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:29.360 they created around Karzai International Airport unless the Taliban decide 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:36.559 to completely allow them and support transportation of American citizens 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.320 to Kabul to get them out. Absolutely not. And don't 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.520 there any possibility that this promise that they're making America 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.240 or that General Millie is repeating and our Defense Secretary 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.960 and National Security advisers saying they have promised safe passage 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:56.400 to Karzai International Airport. Is there any any any possibility 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.320 you believe that to be true in any way, or 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.320 you do not believe that's possible. I don't believe that's possible, sir. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.120 I you know my experience there, what I understand about it, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.360 How I have fought there, How I have employed other 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.200 American service members to fight there, sitting across the table 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.800 from the Taliban and negotiating deals with them in rural areas. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.120 Uh No, I don't believe that that can happen. I 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.360 think it's irresponsible for any of them to tell the 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:28.000 American people that that can happen, because if we're going 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.040 to do a full withdrawal, there was a way to 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:36.079 do it and identify where every American was, and before 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.440 the Taliban advanced this far, we could have very safely, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:47.200 very securely extracted everybody, every American and everybody that we 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.480 had promised safe haven too. Yes, President Trump had the plan, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.520 but instead of holding the airfields we had all over 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.880 the country and bringing in the appropriate aircraft and the 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:05.960 appropriate support, and then holding the Taliban off and bringing 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.559 Americans and bringing our interpreters and other workers that we 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.679 were going to get out of Afghanistan and then safely 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:18.439 doing that and then saying, Okay, Afghanistan government, figure out 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.600 what kind of government you want here, and then we 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.880 wouldn't have this mess. But we didn't do that, sir, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.920 And you know, I mean, I'm speaking to the choir here. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.079 We can see we didn't do that. There was a 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:29.480 right way to do it. We didn't do it the 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.280 right way. So now we're stuck with the harder way. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.960 And this isn't Iraq, this isn't Syria. It's much different. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.800 And I wouldn't trust the Taliban as far as I 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.360 could throw one of those guys. I mean, that is 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.880 the great danger. I know that the Department of Defense 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.280 generals knew in two thousand and five there was a 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.360 problem with the military. You created a program that involved 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.400 local police in the villages and that they were trained 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.600 to combat the Taliban specifically now by the way, now 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.520 the Taliban has equipped with billions of dollars of American 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:07.000 technology and weaponry general. That scares me too. Yeah, it 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.600 scares me too. When I when I saw the mpors 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.680 on the shelves and I saw all that equipment there, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.319 you know, I mean, I just uh, you know, I 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.920 obviously had to shake my head, uh and go wow, um, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.360 this is but it's not unexpected. And to stand there 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.599 and say that they were that they had the capability 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.600 to beat the Taliban, they didn't. The Afghan local police 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:32.120 routinely beat the Taliban in the village areas. Why because 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.240 that's where they worked, that's where they lived, that's where 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.360 their family was, and they didn't want the Taliban and 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.199 Alocada to hurt their family. Different investment in mindset, in 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.439 will right, the Afghan National Police, in the Afghan National Military, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.559 I mean, it was a national organization that completely excluded 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.800 the idea of regionalism. So they had they had uh 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.160 you know Afghans in the north who are Uzbek and 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.679 Taji descent down in the southern portion, which were postures 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.840 they didn't even speak the language, do anything. They weren't 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.360 best to stay there. That's why a wall rates were 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.839 so high. Leadership, you know, I mean they they would 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.959 stop fighting, right, They would literally stop fighting because they 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.120 didn't want to shoot other Muslims. Another thing the leadership 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.960 knew about that. You know a lot of Americans don't. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.560 They would stop shooting, and our guys would come out 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.440 of their cover and concealed positions and go grab them 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.480 and say, oh, hey, get up, come on, come on fight, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.680 and then our guys would get hit. Um. And so 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.000 it's it's not it shouldn't be a surprise that any 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.920 of this happened based off of the way they did it. Sure, 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.720 I can't thank you enough. I mean, you're you know, 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.360 five Bronze stars speak for themselves. Your two Purple Heart 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.280 speak for themselves. Your ten towards of duty in Afghanistan 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:51.520 speaks for itself, sir. And it's a chilling, chilling scenario 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.400 you're describing. Thank you for your service, thank you for 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.200 your time, thank you for being with us. Good luck 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.000 in your race. We're going to follow it closely in 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.400 New Hampshire. We really appreciate you being on the program today, sir. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.240 Thank you for having me on the program. God bless you. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:05.920 Thank you for what you do to bring the truth 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:11.240 to the American people, and God bless our fellow citizens. Yeah, 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.960 thank you, sir. We'll continue when we come back straight 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.320 to the phones eight hundred and nine four one sean, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:22.120 as we continue our coverage of this unmitigated disaster of 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.000 Joe Biden's making in Afghanistan, straight Ahood twenty five until 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:27.960 the top of the hour. Eight hundred and nine four 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.600 one sean is our number. You want to be a 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.760 part of the program, you know, I know that in 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.960 certain there's things in life. You know, Linda, you can 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:37.560 relate to this as a parent. You got a six 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:42.200 year old, right that are out of your control. You know. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.520 I kid around with my daughter and I said, you know, 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.960 I liked it so much better when I had complete 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.600 and total control of everything. I say that to both 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.280 my kids. I mean, it may sound a little mean, 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.320 but I like the feeling of being in control of things. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.040 When you have a six year old, you were in control, 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.680 but you're not totally control, right, Okay. Now that's gonna 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.200 be these intervening years and you're gonna realize you control 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.960 pretty much everything. All you gotta do is say okay, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.240 I'm taking your iPhone, I'm taking your iPad, I'm taking 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.520 your computer, and you're gonna have to stay in your 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.480 room and guess what you'll get full compliance. Those are 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.360 the good years and they begin to drift off into 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.160 their own independence in life. And it gets a little 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:28.840 more difficult in the world in which there is horrific evil, 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.680 where there are people that are fanatics, we call them 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.800 Islamic fundamentalists. Now we're looking at the Islamic Emirate of 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:47.800 Afghanistan and to not completely prepare for logistically the extraction 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.760 of our fellow Americans and then get to the point 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.520 where all of it is now out of our control. Well, Hannity, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.040 you just had on General bull Duck, a brigadier general, 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:07.200 and he just said he's saying that either the Taliban cooperates, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.320 which is always a possibility, won't be because of anything 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:16.240 Joe Biden does or did, or even threatens. If they 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:20.320 decide to let the Americans makes a safe passage to 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:27.280 the Ahmed Karazani International Airport, then okay, this issue will 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:33.240 be resolved, but it's not in our control anymore. Joe 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:38.960 Biden gave up all leverage, all power, that he inherited 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.439 every bit of it, and that is the tragedy, that 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:48.320 is this and takes no responsibility, claims it was inevitable, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.760 and claims it was factored in. That is all a lie. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:59.240 We had full, complete, total command and control over this situation, 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:05.280 but he gave it away. And then they're like surprised. Well, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:10.520 you know, you got to see what was happening. It 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.679 wasn't hard to see. And that is that, you know, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.760 Joe is telling us, you know, just a couple of 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.400 weeks ago. No, No No, this is one of the best 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.840 trade and militaries in the face of the planet, three 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.520 hundred thousand strong, and they even have an air force 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.320 and the Taliban only has seventy five thousand fighters. That's it, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.960 is it? No, under no circumstances. Well, we see helicopters 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.840 on top of embassies rescuing people. You know, it's how 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.040 do you not see it? How do you not understand it? 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.400 You know, we know about the Taliban, We've known all 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.600 about them. It's madness, all out of our control at 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.720 this point. The situation then now, is therefore dire the 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:58.320 Taliban or brutal, evil terrorists. We've been showing you the pictures. 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:03.080 Last night. A woman murdered by the Taliban, but the 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.240 crime of not wearing a head covering. Another woman had 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.000 a guy eyes gouged out. We know all about the Taliban. Yeah, 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.920 she had a job as a police officer. Taliban fighters 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.840 caught off one woman's ears and nose after she attempted 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.720 to flee from her husband, who she was forced to 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:26.960 marry when she was only a child. Taliban just today 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:32.680 and yesterday fighters going door to door. They now enslaving 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:38.000 young women and forcing them and little girls to be 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:43.200 their sex slaves. And the interpreters former Afghani military personnel. 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.919 Other families now being executed, some hung, some dismembered, some shots, 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:52.000 some beheaded, even opened fire. And a group of protesters 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:56.360 that flew the Afghan flank. You see that they've They're 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:01.640 not stupid, you know. Militarily you know they did they 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.800 did something. You know, if you want control and you 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:10.800 want power. They surrounded the perimeter Ofhammed Karzai International Airport, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.320 and our own State department is saying, we advise you 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.920 now to begin to make your way to the airport, 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:21.760 but we cannot ensure your safety. How comforting. One Taliban 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.440 fighter pictured whipping people trying to get to the airport. 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:29.160 Man was kicked in the face, abducted on the back 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:33.840 of his pickup truck. It's happening to media people as well, 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.159 and not agree with their coverage, but they're Americans, and 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.440 I want them home safely so they can write how 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.080 horrible I am. I want our fellow Americans home. We 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.760 lost contact with people that we've been in touch with. Linda, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.320 you saw Sarah Cardil last night breaking down on TV. 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.200 You know how often she was there. You were part 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.600 of all of this. Yeah, it's I mean, I think 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:57.600 the hardest part for all of us right now is just, 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.600 you know, no control, control, and also just the fact 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.560 that there's just it. It's this group of people who 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.159 are so concerned with the way things look as opposed 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.919 to the way things are, and that doesn't help anybody 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.760 who's trying to save themselves from what is actually happening 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.480 on the ground. I mean, we've got little kids and women, 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:18.480 and if you look at the people that are being evacuated, 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:20.399 it's not the little kids and women. It's not the 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.439 American citizens. It's not the civilians. I don't know what 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:28.040 they're doing. They don't know what they're doing. But you know, 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.080 we'll get to the point. I know people have wanted 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:31.760 me to say that they all have to go, they 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.879 all have to be fired. They do Joe Biden is 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.840 not capable of being president. I actually thought watching the 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.440 Stephanopolo's interview, and I do agree. I want to see 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:47.439 the unedited version. They need to release the entire video online. 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.320 I want to see the whole thing. There has been 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:54.920 calls for that because I suspect that's the best they 0:21:54.960 --> 0:22:00.640 got from Biden in terms of supporting him politically. Let's 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.640 get to our busy telephones here. Uh, let's say hi 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.480 to Lee Is in Florida. Lee, glad you called, sir. 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.840 Thanks for being with us. Hey, thanks Sean, Thanks for 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.640 taking my call. Thanks for everything you do. There's only 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:16.760 a few of you out there that we hear from you, 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:22.000 Laura Ingram and Chuck cars Carlson. I'd like to know 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:26.359 where everybody else is on this. You're not hearing anything 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:33.479 from anybody everything I wanted to say. You need to 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:37.400 keep playing the track back from last night that Mark 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:41.880 Levine said he couldn't say it any better than anybody else. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.399 I watched your show last night. He was dead on 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.320 and you need to keep playing that track over and 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.480 over and over. There is a reason I've nicknamed him 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.680 the great One. There's not a It's not by accident, 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.000 trust me. I thought it was great last night too. 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:01.120 Lara Logan has been great, Laura Trump. When we did 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.959 a segment on what can Women Now Expect? Did you 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:10.520 see Lee the story? Did you see the video of 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:16.439 women taking their children, their young babies, and and trying 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:20.000 to throw them over a barbed wired wall and fence 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:24.480 to British soldiers because that's the only hope for their 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:27.520 children they feel they have. Do you know what it 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.040 must take for a loving mother to do that? I 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:35.040 don't know. I don't, I don't know. It's insane. And 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:38.000 one other thing I want to get to before before 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:41.040 I know you're very busy, but let me say this, 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:45.399 and then one other thing. I'd like to see Pelosi 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:50.120 and all the women AOC and her squid squad get 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:53.840 on a plane, go over there, sit on with a 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:57.520 taliban and talk to them about women's rights. I want 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:00.760 to well, I think the silence and I appreciate the call. 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:04.960 Thank you the silence. You know, women's rights groups, where's 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:09.240 the me too movement. You know, where's there are they 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:15.000