1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Welcome at his verdict was Senator Ted Cruz ben Ferguson 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: with you as well, and Senator you and I have 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: been preparing for this show today. It is, in my opinion, 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: maybe one of the most important podcasts that we've done together. 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,959 Speaker 1: And it is under the premise of a headline that 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: the military could have stopped Afghanistan bomber who killed thirteen 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: American service members, but they, the military men on the ground, 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: the women on the ground, could not get authorization to 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: take out this bomber because the Biden administration basically turned 10 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: this into a massive quagmire. That is some shocking testimony 11 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: that came out from a man that is lucky to 12 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 1: still be alive who told his story to Congress this week. Well, 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: that's right. Sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews testified on Wednesday this 14 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: week before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and I got 15 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: to say his testimony was incredibly power It is moving, 16 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,639 Speaker 1: it is personal. This man as an American hero, and 17 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: what he testified about that the failure of the chain 18 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: of command above him, that these thirteen servicemen and women 19 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: who were murdered could have been saved, is enormously consequential, 20 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you right now then, I am 21 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: pissed off that after this testimony, there's been virtually zero 22 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: coverage of this in the corporate media. They've just completely 23 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: ignored it. What you're going to hear right now, you 24 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: haven't heard on the six o'clock news, you haven't heard 25 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: on cable news. And this testimony is important. 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There were many 60 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: times in his testimony that he was crying. If you 61 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: hear those long pauses, I just wanted you to know 62 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: in context what was going on, and I want you 63 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: to hear him tell his story about what it was 64 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: like to be at that airport. As they were trying 65 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: to find Americans and American allies who had helped us 66 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: in that war against terrorists, tens of thousands of people 67 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: to send it upon Abbygate. We were looking for anyone 68 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: with a blue passport first and foremost people were suffering 69 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: from extreme malnutrition, dehydration, heat, casualties and infants were dying. 70 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: Afghans were brutalized and tortured by the Taliban, flocked to 71 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: us pleading for help. Some Afghans turned away from h 72 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: KaiA tried to kill themselves on the razor wire in 73 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 1: front of us that we used as a deterrent. They 74 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: thought this was merciful compared to the Taliban torture that 75 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: they faced with only shipping. They thought. Countless Afghans were 76 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: murdered by the Taliban one hundred and fifty five yards 77 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: in front of our position day and night, with only 78 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: shipping containers between us. The Taliban would routinely murder people 79 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: on our observation at their checkpoint. We communicated the atrocities 80 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: to our chain of command and intel assets, but nothing 81 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: came of it. The troops on the ground had to 82 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: tirelessly work to control the crowds day and night. Department 83 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: of State staff and each Kai would completely shut down 84 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: processing Afghans every evening and into the morning, leaving ground 85 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: forces with a nightmare. They did not work in reasonable 86 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: rotations and very much presented an unwillingness to work in 87 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: other situations as well. No matter our health or condition, 88 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: the marine stood watch and engaged in disorderly, endangerous crowds. 89 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: State was not prepared to be in h KaiA. In fact, 90 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: State would not want to deal with the Afghans unable 91 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: to be processed, weakening the security of the perimeter. State 92 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: would take us away from our mission to walk Afghans 93 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: out to meet the fate of the Taliban, condemning them 94 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: to death. The Taliban grew in numbers and strengthen their 95 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,239 Speaker 1: position around ash Kai with gun trucks, while having occasional 96 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 1: visits by Taliban leadership. On August twenty second, an improvised 97 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: explosive device IED probe took place down in the canal 98 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: running along the perimeter of ah KaiA. This was ISIS 99 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: or the Taliban performing an id test run. We reported 100 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: this to our chain of command. Days later, we received 101 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: word to be on the lookout for two vehicle born 102 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: IDs described as a gold or white Corolla and a 103 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: green Mazda convertible. Around two am in August twenty sixth, 104 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: Intel guys confirmed the suicide bomber in the vicinity of 105 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: and nearing Abbey Gate, described as clean shaven, brown dressed, 106 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: black vest and traveling with an older companion. I asked 107 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: Intel guys why he wasn't apprehended sooner, since we had 108 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: a full description. I was told the asset could not 109 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: be compromised throughout the entirety of the day. On August twenty, 110 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, we disseminated the suicide bomber information to 111 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: ground Forces Abbeygate. He was spotted somewhere from noon to 112 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: one pm by myself, then Sergeant Charles Schilling, and another 113 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 1: the anomaly in the crowd, who was clean shaven and 114 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: fit the description exactly, traveling with an older gentleman. The 115 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: individuals consistently and nervously looking up at our position through 116 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: the crowd. The older of the two wore a black, 117 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: silky hit job that was covering his face most of 118 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 1: the time. They both had obvious mannerisms that go along 119 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: with who we believed him to be. They handed out 120 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: small cards to the crowd periodically, and the older man 121 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: sat calmly and seemingly coached the bomber. Over the communication network. 122 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: We passed that there was a potential threat and an 123 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: idea attack imminent. This was as serious as it could get. 124 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: I requested engagement authority. While my team leader was ready 125 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: on the M one ten semi automatic sniper system. The 126 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: response leadership did not have the engage him an authority 127 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 1: for us do not engage. I requested for the battalion commander, 128 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Brad Wided to come to the tower to 129 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: see what we did. While we waited for him, psychological 130 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: operations individuals came to our tower immediately and confirmed the 131 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: suspect met the suicide bomber description. He eventually arrived and 132 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: we showed him our evidence, the photos we had of 133 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: the two men. We reassured him of the ease of 134 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: fire on the suicide bomber. Pointedly, we asked him for 135 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: engagement authority and permission. We asked him if we could 136 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:29,119 Speaker 1: shoot our battalion commander said, and I quote, I don't 137 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: know end quote. Myself and my team later asked, very harshly, 138 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: well who does, because this is your responsibility, sir. He 139 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: again replied he did not know, but would find out. 140 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: We received no update and never got our answer. Eventually, 141 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: the individual disappeared. To this day, we believe he was 142 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: a suicide bomber. We made everyone on the ground of 143 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: where operations had briefly halted but then started again. Plain 144 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: and simple, we were ignored. Plain and simple, we were ignored. Senator, 145 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: you're an initial reaction to what you just heard. There 146 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:06,239 Speaker 1: are so much about that that is infuriating. Let's start 147 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: with the fact that every bit of that was unnecessary. 148 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: One of the very first things the Biden administration did 149 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: that was utterly incompetent is they abandoned Bagram Airfield. Bagram 150 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: Airfield was a secure military base with two world class 151 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: runways that had a secure perimeter that was safe that 152 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: you could fly people out, that you could do the 153 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: vetting with. They abandoned it. They just handed it over 154 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: to the Taliban, and so instead they performed the evacuation 155 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: through h Kaya. Now, what is h Kai h kayas 156 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: is the Hamid Karzai International Airport. It's a commercial airport. 157 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: It's it's an ordinary airport right in the middle of Kabul, 158 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: right in the middle of a big populated city, surrounded, 159 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: not secure, not a military base. The decision to conduct 160 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: the evacuation from an unsecure commercial airport rather than a 161 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: secure military base was colossally incompetent. It was unjustifiable. The 162 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: reason that happened is because the Biden White House put 163 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: politics above everyone else and everything else, and so they 164 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: ordered the troop draw down before the evacuation was complete. 165 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: And so the military told the White House, well, at 166 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: the level of troop draw down, you're ordering us to 167 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: hit we can't keep Bogram airfield. And the White House 168 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: essentially said, we don't care. We picked a number out 169 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: of our rear end and we're sticking to that number. 170 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if that's sufficient manpower to do the 171 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: job or not. We got a political endeavor. So you've 172 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: got a bunch of incompetent political operatives in the w 173 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: White House setting arbitrary political tasks. The result. Look at 174 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: the beginning of his testimony, he talks about how as 175 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: they were turning away Afghans, and many of these Afghans 176 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: may have been interpreters, they may have been people who 177 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: gave assistance to our soldiers. And he was talking about 178 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: that the Afghans would throw themselves on the razor wire 179 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 1: and try to kill themselves on the razor wire rather 180 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: than face torture and murder from the Taliban. That's the 181 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: consequence of the utter incomplete incompetence. But then you go forward. Look, 182 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: they had the intel that a suicide bomber was coming in. 183 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: They had the intel about what the suicide bomber looked like, 184 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: They had the intel about what he was wearing, They 185 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: had the intel about what his companion was, and they 186 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 1: spotted him. They said, there he is. He's right there. 187 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: It exactly fit the intel. And this testimony says that 188 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: the Marines said, we can take him out right now. 189 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: This is a sniper who is sitting there saying we 190 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: can take him out. We know that a suicide bomber 191 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: is coming, we know what he looks like. He is 192 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: behaving exactly like a suicide bomber. And the utter incompetence 193 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: of the Biden administration is that as as you just heard, 194 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 1: we were ignored. They didn't do anything, and and it's 195 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: difficult to overstate how much that makes my blood boil. 196 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 1: One of the things that he said was he said 197 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: it was the ease of fire. Yes, this was not 198 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: a hard shot. They were saying, this is easy. It 199 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: is as safe as it can get. It's as clear 200 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: of a shot as we can get. If you talk 201 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: to people in the military. We're describing it that way. 202 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: They were saying, this was a no brainer scenario, and 203 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: they just couldn't get somebody to tell them to go 204 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: ahead and shoot based on the intel agents, not based 205 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: on a hunt hunch this individual. And that I got 206 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: to ask you sooner. Going back in his testimony to 207 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: another point he made, he said that the Taliban had 208 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: done a dry runner. Ices had done a dry run, right. 209 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: He also mentioned that they were killing people and they 210 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: were doing it almost like they for sport, seeing if 211 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: the Americans would respond in or right right in front 212 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: of them, right in front of him, and they knew 213 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: I think clearly they were trying to figure out how 214 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: weak America was at that moment, and they're like, all right, well, 215 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: if we kill this guy right here in front of him, 216 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: they don't do anything. We really are in control of 217 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: this airfield. We really are in control of this other 218 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: roadways to this airfield because the Americans are not given 219 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:50,439 Speaker 1: the power to engage. That's exactly right. And look, I 220 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: want to convey a story to illustrate because there is 221 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: a reason why this happened. And early on in the 222 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: Trump administration, I bumped into General Mark Milly. General Milly 223 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: now the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I've 224 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: known General Milly since he was a three star general 225 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 1: when he was the commanding general general at Fort Hood 226 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 1: in Texas. And I was talking with General Milly, and 227 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: it was the very beginning of the Trump administration, and 228 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: he told me, he said, I was asking about the 229 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: Islamic State, and the Islamic State, you recall, had seized 230 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: land their self declared caliphate, about the size of the 231 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: state of Indiana that they had control over. And you'll 232 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: recall under Obama we'd been fighting there for a long 233 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: time and fighting there and making very little progress, and 234 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: fighting there and making little, very little progress. And I 235 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: asked General Milly at the beginning of the Trump administration 236 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: how things looked, what his assessment was of our prospects 237 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: for success for taking out the Islamic State, and his 238 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: answer shocked me. He said, we will retake every square inch, 239 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: or virtually every square inch of the Islamic State caliphate 240 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: in just a few months. And I asked him, I said, 241 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: what why? What changed? And he said one thing, And 242 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: I wondered. He said one thing. He said, they've delegated 243 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: decisions down to the battlefield of when and how to engage. 244 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: During the Obama administration, the White House made tactical battlefield decisions. 245 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: Susan Rice, who was the National Security Advisor. Soldiers in 246 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: the field would joke and they'd call her General Rice 247 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: because they were literally determining, you can engage here, you 248 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: can engage here, you can engage in this instance, you 249 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: can engage in that instance. And it was run out 250 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: of the White House by the political operatives in the 251 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: White House. What Trump did at the outset as he said, 252 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: what does it take to defeat these guys? All right, 253 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: you have the authority on the battlefield to engage and 254 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: take out the enemy. And simply giving that operational control 255 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: down to the battlefield transformed the battlefield. And it turned 256 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: out what General Militoby was right that within just a 257 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: couple of months from then, every single square inch or 258 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: virtually every square inch that the Islamic State had taken 259 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: had fallen and they were utterly defeated. And this testimony 260 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: shows the consequences. What does it tell us. It tells 261 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: us that Biden came in with these same knitwits who 262 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: were running the Obama disastrous National Security Council and they 263 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: did the same thing. So in this instance, the sergeant testifies, 264 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: they say, we've got the suicide bomber. He's in front 265 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: of us, he's in our rifle sights. We can take 266 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: him out. And his commander says, I don't even know 267 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: who'd ask. It's got to be up in the chain. 268 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if that had to go all the 269 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: way to the National Security Council or not. What I 270 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: do know is the result was it had gone back 271 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: to the same utterly ineffective ability for the war fighters 272 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: to engage with the enemy. And in this instance the 273 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: consequences were devastating. Not only were they devastating, but you 274 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: also mentioned it earlier. This was all decisions made on politics, 275 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: and I want to remind people this was about having 276 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: a victory lap for the Biden administration. They wanted to 277 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: say we got out of nine to eleven, a war 278 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: that started because of nine to eleven before the date, 279 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: on the anniversary of nine to eleven, that was why 280 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: they rushed everybody out of Afghanistan as they wanted a 281 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: victory Lapp saying on this anniversary nine eleven, we are 282 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: out of America as long as war. And that was 283 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: the obsession with that date and not caring about American 284 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: carnage or anybody else that helped Americans or innocent and 285 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: people in Afghanistan, because that was ultimately the goal they 286 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 1: wanted that press conference. Look, that's exactly right. And and 287 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: we've seen if you go back to the Vietnam War, 288 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: when when you have war fighting dictated by political operatives 289 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: and politicians in Washington, when their mate, when they're micro 290 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: managing the engagement with the enemy, the result is that 291 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: that servicemen and women die, young men and young women, 292 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: young Americans die, And on that tragic day that that 293 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: that that's exactly what happened. It's truly sad. I want 294 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: to play this second part. It's very emotional and I'll 295 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: say it again everybody, this should have been covered by 296 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: the media. It is not. Make sure you share this 297 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: with everybody you know. Share the podcast on your social media, 298 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: whether whether you're on Facebook or Instagram. Share it so 299 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: other people hear this. Because this testimony deserves to be heard. 300 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: I would argue by all Americans. Before I play the 301 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: second part, I do need to tell you a better 302 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: friends at Patriot Mobile. 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Our expertise was disregarded. 331 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: No one was held to count for our safety. About 332 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: seventeen thirty, staff Sergeant Darren Hoover, friend and mentor, came 333 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: to get me from the tower to go help find 334 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: an Afghan interpreter. In the crowd y. We found the 335 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: interpreter and his brother born with American passports. They told 336 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: us five told us of five family members still in 337 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 1: the canal. I stayed there waiting for the family members, 338 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: standing against a two foot canal wall. Ten minutes passed, 339 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: then a flash in a massive wave of pressure, I'm 340 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: throwing twelve feet onto the ground, but instantly knew what 341 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: had happened. I opened my eyes to marines dead or 342 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: unconscious lying around me. A crowd of hundreds immediately vanished 343 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: in front of me, and my body was catastrophically wounded, 344 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: with a one hundred, two hundred and fifty ball bearings 345 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 1: now in it. Almost immediately we started taking fire from 346 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: the neighborhood, and I saw how injured I was, with 347 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: my right arm completely shredded and unusable. I saw my 348 00:21:51,840 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: lower abdomen soaked in blood. I crawled backwards roughly seven 349 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: feet because I thought I was still in harm's away. 350 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: My body was overwhelmed from the trauma of the blast. 351 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: My abdomen had been ripped open. Every inch of my 352 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: exposed body except from my face to ball banks and strapnel. 353 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: I tried to get up but could not. Laying there 354 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: for a few minutes, I started to lose consciousness when 355 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,239 Speaker 1: I heard Chaz, my team leader, screaming my name. As 356 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: he ran to me. His voice, his voice calling to 357 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: me kept me awake. Thank you. When he got to me, 358 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: he dragged me to safety and immediately started triaging me, 359 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 1: tying turnikis on my limbs and doing anything he couldn't 360 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: stop the bleeding and start plucking wounds with the help 361 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 1: of the other Marines. I was awake through most of it, screaming, 362 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: moaning and cursing. Please ask I ask you to please 363 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 1: ask me about getting shot at the tower and Abby Gate, 364 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: and how no one wanted my report post blast, even 365 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: NCIS and the FBI failed to interview me. Asked me 366 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: to elaborate on my ordeal post blast, and asked me 367 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: about the one little girl and her family that I reunited. 368 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: Our military members and veterans deserve our best because that 369 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: is what we give to America. The withdrawal. The withdrawal 370 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: was a catastrophe in my opinion, and there was an 371 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: inexcusable lack of accountability and negligence. The eleven Marines, one 372 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: sailor and one soldier that were murdered that day have 373 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: not been answered for. Thank you for giving me this 374 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 1: opportunity to speak. Sinner. My heart goes out to him 375 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,199 Speaker 1: because you can hear the pain, the suffering in the 376 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: fact that he says no one wanted to hear my story. 377 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: Let me say this, thank you to Sergeant Vargas Andrews. Tyler. 378 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: Vargus Andrews is an American hero, and he is a 379 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: marine who was horribly failed by his commander in chief. 380 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 1: He's a marine who was horribly failed by the command 381 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: shain above him that was ordered to follow political dictates 382 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: and to elevate political priorities above protecting the Marines and 383 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: the soldiers and sailors and airmen who were there on 384 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 1: the ground risking their I listened to that testimony, you know, 385 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,479 Speaker 1: and I got to ask, if you're a producer at 386 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: ABC News or NBC News or CBS or CNN or MSNBC, 387 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: why didn't you air that testimony? What possibly was happening 388 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: on Wednesday that was more important than what Sergeant Vargus 389 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: Andrews had to say, What was more important than his 390 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: testimony That they knew about the suicide bomber, that they 391 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: had him in his sight, that they could have taken 392 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,719 Speaker 1: him out, that they could have saved the lives of 393 00:25:53,760 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: those thirteen servicemen and women, and their commanding officers wouldn't 394 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: let him do it. I can't imagine a news story 395 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: more important than that. And this young man, this American hero, 396 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: a hundred to one hundred and fifty ball bearings in 397 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: his body, and it all could have been prevented. Number one, 398 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 1: if they'd stayed in Bogram Airfield and dune the evacuation 399 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: from a secure military base, it could have been prevented there. 400 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: Or number two if they simply allowed warfighters to defend 401 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,679 Speaker 1: themselves and to take out the enemy when they're engaging 402 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: with him, if they didn't play like they're engaging in 403 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: a game of risk, a board game by a bunch 404 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: of political neo fights who never put on a uniform 405 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: in their lives, but are more than happy to say, well, look, 406 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: the headline is what we care about, not how do 407 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: you prevent these young men and young women from being 408 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: murdered by the terrorists to whom they were in the 409 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: process of surrendering too. There's also another question, I say another, 410 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 1: there's quite a few, but the fact that he wasn't 411 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: interviewed Senator Yep. The only reason why I can get 412 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: get to a process of saying why wouldn't you interview 413 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: him because you knew what he was gonna say, and 414 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: you didn't want to hear it because you knew how 415 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: damning it was. And so therefore he said, no one 416 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: interviewed him from the FBI. CI asked, no, No, nobody 417 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: interviewed him at all. He was there, he knew who 418 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: he knew, He knew who the bomber was. He was 419 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: there for the dr run. All of this happens, no 420 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: one interviews him. That to me screams cover up. The 421 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: administration knew this was a problem, that the Pentagon, the 422 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: OJ knew this was a problem, and they said, we 423 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: don't want to hear from the people that were there 424 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 1: because we're too afraid of what they're gonna say. Look, 425 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: he says, when he asked his superior officer, where do 426 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 1: you get authorization? The answer was, I don't know. What 427 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: in the hell are these people doing. If we are 428 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: sending marines into combat where they don't even know where 429 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: they get authorization to take out a suicide bomber before 430 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: that suicide bomber murders them, that's incompetent. But it is 431 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: also it's not just that they're bad at it. It's 432 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: ideology that is causing that incompetence. You're right, they wanted 433 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: to hit the nine to eleven anniversary because you know what, 434 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: they're friends in the media. I would say, isn't that great? Look, 435 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: Joe Biden had a great political victory, and you know, 436 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: from their end, doing it so that people didn't die, 437 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: doing it, so that our servicemen and women were protected, 438 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: doing it so you didn't have Afghans killing themselves by 439 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: throwing themselves on razor wire. None of that rose even 440 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: remotely to the level of their political objective of getting 441 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: a partisan win. And you know what's also infuriating Ben. 442 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: To the best of my knowledge, nobody was fired. There 443 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: was no accountability. All of the top brass are still there. 444 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: The Secretary of Defense is still there. No one lost 445 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: their job. You know. One of the things that that 446 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: that that that sergeant, the sergeant testifies too, is that 447 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: the State Department wasn't prepared at all handle things at 448 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: h Kaya. You know what, the Secretary of State, he 449 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: didn't lose his job. Nobody up and down the chain 450 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: of command. The only people who paid a price were 451 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: the people who were murdered, the people who were horribly injured, 452 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: the people who were tortured by the Taliban, They're the 453 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: ones that paid the price. But the political operatives all 454 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: up and down are still just doing fine and facing 455 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: zero accountability. And they know that the corporate media has 456 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: no interest in accountability. They have no interest in what 457 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: happened that took the lives of those heroic Americans. Final 458 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: question for you, Senator, knowing that the Taliban was testing 459 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: us in that moment, seeing what they could get away with, 460 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: seeing how weak America's foreign policy in real time was becoming, 461 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: when they were killing people in essence for sport, just 462 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: to basically torture the American soldiers because they realized, wow, 463 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: they're really not going to engage age. It wasn't just 464 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: a catastrophe that came out of this in Afghanistan. Many 465 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: of the world conflicts and problems we're having right now, 466 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: I think came out of this man's story because the 467 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: rest of the world realized in that moment they can 468 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: do whatever the hell they want to do in America 469 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: will not stop them. And now that we have this 470 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: ball rolling down the hill of a weak America and 471 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: others can do what they want, how concerned are you 472 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: from a national security standpoint? Enormously concerned. Every enemy of 473 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: America saw that disaster. Putin saw it. She saw it, 474 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: Iran saw it. North Korea saw it. Venezuela saw it. 475 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: Every terrorist cell across the globe, they all saw it, 476 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: and all of them came to the same conclusion, which is, 477 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: this is a commander in chief, chief who is weak 478 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: and incompetent. This is a commander in chief who is 479 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: a friend to fight. This is a commander in chief 480 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: unwilling to do what it takes even to defend his 481 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: own servicemen and women, never mind anyone else. And we're 482 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 1: seeing the consequences of it right now with the war 483 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: in Ukraine, the first major land war in Europe since 484 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: World War Two. And we're seeing the consequences of it 485 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: in the Pacific, with China more and more aggressive and 486 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: Taiwan in greater and greater peril. And I'll tell you 487 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: I met today with Taiwan's ambassador and I told the ambassador, 488 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: I said, look, I think the danger that Taiwan is 489 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: in for the next two years of the Biden presidency 490 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: is enormous. Because she looked at what happened here and 491 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: concluded this president is not strong enough to deter us 492 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: from doing anything. Yeah, it is amazing how something like 493 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: this can turn into such a big your conflict around 494 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: the world. And this is again one of those moments. 495 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: I'll say it. I'll ask you make sure people hear 496 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: this man's story. He's a hero, and make sure you 497 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: share this podcast with your family and friends. 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