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Speaker 1: nothing special about being American. None of you can define

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Speaker 1: that may explain exactly why our foreign policy is. If

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Speaker 1: Corresponded Ian Panel with US live on the ground in Kabble,

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Speaker 1: to totally just put into perspective the insanity of this

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Speaker 1: press conference today, Joe Biden actually forgot the first question

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Speaker 1: from the first reporter after he called on the reporter

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Speaker 1: today at the White House. The first part of your

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Speaker 1: question was, I can't remember now that's your president. The

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Speaker 1: first part of your question, I can't remember now. Really,

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Speaker 1: that's what you've got. That's what you've got. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham has said he believes that the Taliban he

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Speaker 1: figures has given us an ultimatum, an ultimatum that they

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Speaker 1: are going to start attacking us. They've already started it,

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Speaker 1: hitting and beating Americans. What happens when they start killing Americans?

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Speaker 1: So that seems like the perfect jumping off point to

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Speaker 1: bring in Senator Lindsay Graham, who has been to Afghanistan

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Speaker 1: many times as a former member of the Armed Services Committee,

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Speaker 1: and he served in Afghanistan as an Air Force reserve colonel.

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Speaker 1: Senator Graham, good to have you with us today. I

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Speaker 1: thought that was an astonishing comment in many ways, just

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Speaker 1: in terms of the reality of the situation, and I

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Speaker 1: want to hear your reaction to that first, and then

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Speaker 1: some other points that he made. Well. Number One, President

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Speaker 1: Boten is clearly disconnected from the reality on the ground

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. The UN issued a report just a month

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Speaker 1: or two ago saying that al kay was in fifteen

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Speaker 1: provinces of Afghanistan. After this debacle, they're going to be everywhere.

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Speaker 1: He also said he I'm gonna hold him to his

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Speaker 1: word that we're going to get all the Americans out

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Speaker 1: and all the Afghan's out. He said that, but look

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Speaker 1: what's going on on the ground. The State Department has

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Speaker 1: issued a statement today, you travel at your own peril.

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Speaker 1: We can't guarantee your safety, and the gates at the

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Speaker 1: Kabbol Airport may close at any minute. So the State

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Speaker 1: Department is telling people on the ground your own your

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Speaker 1: own and the President of United States is promising to

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Speaker 1: get you out. There is no plan. President Biden is

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Speaker 1: clearly overwhelmed by the situation, and I think he's in

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Speaker 1: denial about what's going on. But because al Qaeda is

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Speaker 1: there and there's clearly no plan. If there were a plan,

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Speaker 1: but by the way, this idea that he's in denial,

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Speaker 1: I got to disagree with. I don't think he cares.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he cares because if he acts cared, right,

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Speaker 1: if he cared, then he beginning these American troops to

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Speaker 1: go out into the city and get the Americans that

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Speaker 1: are being held back by the Taliban right now. And

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Speaker 1: do you think a mother would be handing their baby

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Speaker 1: over the wall to a marine. No, because they know

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Speaker 1: the reality and they understand that the Taliban has not

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Speaker 1: changed his stripes, and that they may part of this,

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Speaker 1: maybe by the way, part of this, maybe that he'd

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Speaker 1: just gotten so and just old, like, hey, I got

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Speaker 1: the Holy Grail, or excuse me, I became the president

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Speaker 1: United's America. I don't care if these americansistants die. I'm

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Speaker 1: too old now to even care, Like I've just become

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Speaker 1: forty plus years. You're just numb, I'm right at this point,

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Speaker 1: you're numb, Like you've gone through Vietnam. Remember he was

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Speaker 1: a senator when Vietnam happened, and the Debacle of Vietnam happened,

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Speaker 1: and the pullout of Vietnam happened, and Saigan happened. He

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Speaker 1: was there when Iran hostage crisis was happening as a senator.

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Speaker 1: At this point, like, does he even give a crap anymore?

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Speaker 1: I would say probably not. Doubt they might even be

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Speaker 1: cooperative in some ways in terms of letting people leave,

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Speaker 1: although we've seen them also very violent at times when

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Speaker 1: when they see fit. You know, I want to just

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Speaker 1: talk about the Afghani people and the commitment that you

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Speaker 1: talked about that the President made there right because he

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Speaker 1: said we will, we will get you home. That was

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Speaker 1: a clear message to Americans. But when he when he

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Speaker 1: was pressed a little bit on the Afghans who helped us,

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Speaker 1: he sort of left, I think some doors open to

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Speaker 1: maybe not help out of those people. Right. So he

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Speaker 1: was asked, we just stay past the August thirty first

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Speaker 1: deadline because we all know that, you know, to get

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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of people out in the next ten

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Speaker 1: days is going to be tricky. He said, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think we can get the Afghans out in time. And

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Speaker 1: then he said, but you know, but we'll see about

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Speaker 1: the deadline. We'll see then just one more and I

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Speaker 1: want to put out there on the table for you.

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Speaker 1: Let me let me just say this then, last thing.

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Speaker 1: I think he is so hell bent on having that

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Speaker 1: date of well, at least we're out. People may have died,

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Speaker 1: but at least we're out by September eleventh, on the

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Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary, that he doesn't care what happens to anyone

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Speaker 1: right now is long as we're out, just get out.

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Speaker 1: I really think that's all he cares about. Like that's it,

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Speaker 1: which is honestly the scariest part of all of this. Stubborn, old, senile,

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Speaker 1: and angry. Those are the words that I can use

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Speaker 1: to describe Joe Biden in his ABC News exclusive one

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Speaker 1: on one interview that he did with George Stepanopolis, a

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Speaker 1: democratic operative that was going easy on the president, and

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Speaker 1: even with George Stepanopolis going easy on him, Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: fell apart in this interview. As the Afghanistan crisis has worked,

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Speaker 1: person how bad is it? Mothers and fathers are now

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Speaker 1: handing their children over bobware fences at the airport, trying

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Speaker 1: to at least give their kids a chance at life

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Speaker 1: because they know that they are more than likely going

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Speaker 1: to die. And if you want to know what's happening

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan right now, it's a money grab. The Taliban

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Speaker 1: are now in control of one trillion dollars worth of

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Speaker 1: minerals that the world desperately wants and needs insert China

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Speaker 1: and Russia. This swift fall of Afghanistan, we're now being told,

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Speaker 1: was undermined by China possibly and Russia, which has triggered

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Speaker 1: this humanitarian crisis. Those two countries already working deals to

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Speaker 1: get into Afghanistan's vastly untapped mineral wealth. They say it

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Speaker 1: could transform the economic prospects of the Taliban to be

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Speaker 1: able to not only just have money, but money that

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Speaker 1: they've never even imagined to then use towards terrorism. Afghanistan,

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Speaker 1: as you know, is one of the poorest nations in

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Speaker 1: the world, but in twenty ten, US military and geologists

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Speaker 1: revealed that the country, which lies at the crossroads of

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Speaker 1: Central and South Asia, was sending out a mineral deposits

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Speaker 1: worth nearly a trillion dollars. What minerals are they and

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Speaker 1: why are they so important to Russia and China? And

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Speaker 1: that's why their embassies are wide open and they're working

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Speaker 1: these deals. Supplies of minerals such as iron, copper, and

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Speaker 1: gold are scattered across provinces. They are also rare earth minerals,

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Speaker 1: and perhaps most importantly, that could be one of the

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Speaker 1: world's biggest deposits of lithium. That's why China is sitting

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Speaker 1: there begging to do a deal. Lithium is an essential

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Speaker 1: but scarce component in rechargeable batteries that China desperately needs,

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Speaker 1: as well as other technologies vital to tackling what some

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Speaker 1: refer to as the climate crisis. Afghanistan is certainly one

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Speaker 1: of the richest regions in traditional precious metals, but also

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Speaker 1: the medals needed for the emerging economy of the twenty

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Speaker 1: first century, and that's why China is stepping in as

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Speaker 1: America leaves. Security challenges may not be an issue if

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Speaker 1: all the money is going to the Taliban, something we

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Speaker 1: were not going to guarantee, which is part of the

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Speaker 1: reason why these minerals went untapped over the last twenty years.

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Speaker 1: A lack of infrastructure not a problem. China says, they'll

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Speaker 1: build it. Severe drought's not a problem. China says they'll

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Speaker 1: do whatever it takes, and they will do the deal

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Speaker 1: with the Taliban, not with the Afghanistan government which has

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Speaker 1: now fallen. This will all change sooner than later, we're

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Speaker 1: being told under Taliban control because they realize how much

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Speaker 1: money they can get their hands on. That is exactly

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Speaker 1: why they've been meeting apparently around the clock with China

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Speaker 1: as well. Was even Pakistan and India, which may engage

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Speaker 1: despite the chaos because the money is just so big.

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Speaker 1: So now you understand the politics of what is happening

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Speaker 1: on the ground there. Now, Joe Biden has been busted Lyne,

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone cares, at least in the media,

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Speaker 1: because Biden boldfaced lied to George Stepanopolis in this interview

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Speaker 1: saying that quote, military advisors did not warn him against withdrawing,

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Speaker 1: and he said, no, no, not one. No one said

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Speaker 1: to me that I can quote recall that we shouldn't

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Speaker 1: withdraw this way. When he was asked about the people

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Speaker 1: falling from the planes, he said that was four or

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Speaker 1: five days ago, acting like, what difference does it make

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Speaker 1: to quote Hillary Clinton? Who cares? That's old news? That

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Speaker 1: was days ago, days ago. It was actually two days ago.

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Speaker 1: When he was asked the question, but who's counting, right?

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Speaker 1: And for all the woke feminists that voted for Joe Biden,

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Speaker 1: right because he was gonna stand up for women's rights

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Speaker 1: and equal pay and and LGBTQ and all that, well,

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Speaker 1: he was asked about the women who are now going

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Speaker 1: to be executed, who are going to be put into

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Speaker 1: sex slavery, who are gonna not be allowed to walk

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Speaker 1: around the streets who are going to be not allowed

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Speaker 1: to go to school. He was asked about that and

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Speaker 1: what happened Afghanistan. Here's his response to ABC News Americans,

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Speaker 1: what do we owe the Afghans who are left behind,

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Speaker 1: particularly Afghan women who are facing the prospect of subjugation. Again,

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Speaker 1: as many as we can get out, we should. For example,

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Speaker 1: I had a meeting today for a couple hours in

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Speaker 1: the situation room just below here. There are Afghan women

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Speaker 1: outside the gate. I told them, get them on the planes,

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Speaker 1: get them out, get them out, get their families out

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Speaker 1: if you can. But here's the deal with George. The

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Speaker 1: idea that we're able to deal with the rights of

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Speaker 1: women around the world by military force is not rational.

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Speaker 1: Not rational. Look what's happened to the Wagers and Western China.

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Speaker 1: Look what's happened in other parts of the world. Look

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Speaker 1: what's happened in the Congo. I mean, there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of places where women are being subjugated. The way

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Speaker 1: to deal with that is not with the military invasion.

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Speaker 1: The way to deal with that is putting economic, diplomatic

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Speaker 1: and international pressure on them to change the behavior. Translation,

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Speaker 1: America now doesn't care. America's weak let them on the planes.

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Speaker 1: The problem is they're not letting them through the gates.

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Speaker 1: The problem is that Taliban is beating people going the airport.

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Speaker 1: The problem is people are being kidnapped going to the airport. Hell,

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Speaker 1: even CNN's own reporters are being attacked by the ends

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Speaker 1: of ak forty seven gun butts as they're walking down

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Speaker 1: the street. People are begging to get out of the country.

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Speaker 1: Taliban are killing women for not wearing burker's on the

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Speaker 1: same day they vowed to honor women's rights. Go look

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Speaker 1: at the New York Post today. They put the picture

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Speaker 1: up the Taliban has killed a woman for not wearing

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Speaker 1: a burker on the same day they vowed women's rights.

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Speaker 1: And this present says, well, we're just going to punt

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Speaker 1: to the international community and we'll figure it out that way.

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Speaker 1: They shot and killed a woman for not wearing a

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Speaker 1: burker in Afghanistan. The same day they pledged that we

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Speaker 1: are a new inclusive air of the Taliban and we

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Speaker 1: honor the women's rights. This photo emerge of the woman

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Speaker 1: in Takhar Province lying in a pool of blood, loved

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Speaker 1: ones crouched around her after she was killed by insurgents

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Speaker 1: for being in public without a head scarf. This is

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Speaker 1: the Taliban. We're also being told there's not enough headscarves

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Speaker 1: for women. And if you look at the satellite pictures

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Speaker 1: that are coming out and the pictures that are coming

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Speaker 1: out of Afghanistan and Kandahar right now, you can't find

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Speaker 1: women on the street anywhere. They're all now stuck in

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Speaker 1: their homes. Many of them, by the way, are widowed

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Speaker 1: because their husbands died fighting in Afghanistan. So how do

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Speaker 1: they get to the store, Because you're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: walked around by a family member, and if you don't,

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Speaker 1: they'll beat the hell out of you or kill your

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Speaker 1: shoot you in the face. But don't worry. Joe Biden's

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Speaker 1: liding telling you military advisors warned him against withdrawing, saying no, no,

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Speaker 1: no one said that to me. They're all saying that's

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Speaker 1: a lie. They're all saying that is a lie. I mean,

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Speaker 1: even George Stepanopolis wasn't believing what Joe Biden was selling

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Speaker 1: him in this interview. He pressed him on whether the

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Speaker 1: US exit from Afghanistan could have been handled better, and

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden got irritated, and what he described is basically,

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Speaker 1: there was no way for this not to be total chaos.

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Speaker 1: There was no way to plan for people to get

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Speaker 1: out of Afghanistan. There was no way for us to

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Speaker 1: do a better job, which the entire world knows is

648
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Speaker 1: total insanity. Yet he said it with a straight angry face.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen, look at what's happened over the last week.

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Speaker 1: Was it a failure of intelligence, planning, execution or judgment. Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it was a fan Look it was

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Speaker 1: a simple choice, George, when the Taliban let me back.

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Speaker 1: Put in another way, when you had the government of Afghanistan,

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Speaker 1: the leader of that government, getting into plane and taking

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Speaker 1: off and going another country. When you saw the significant

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Speaker 1: collapse of the of the Afghan troops, we had trained,

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Speaker 1: up to three hundred thousand of them, just leaving their

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Speaker 1: equipment and taking off, that was you know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: this is that. That's what happened. That's simply what happened.

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Speaker 1: But we've all seen the pictures. We've seen those hundreds

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Speaker 1: of people packed into a C seventeen. We've seen Afghans

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Speaker 1: falls four days ago, five days ago. What did you

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Speaker 1: think when you first saw those pictures? What I thought

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Speaker 1: was we have to gain control of this. We have

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Speaker 1: to move this more quickly. We have to move in

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Speaker 1: a way in which we can take control of that airport,

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Speaker 1: and we did so. You don't think this could have

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Speaker 1: been handled this six It could have been handled better

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Speaker 1: in any way, no mistakes. No, I don't think it

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Speaker 1: could have been handled in a way that we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go back in hindsight and look. But the idea that

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Speaker 1: somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that happens. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: that happened. So for you, that was always priced into

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Speaker 1: the decision. Yes, he's not just defiant, he's angry in

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Speaker 1: his defiance, which is delusional to say that we couldn't

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Speaker 1: have done any better than we could have done when

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Speaker 1: everybody was telling him to do it differently, when everybody

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Speaker 1: in the military is saying we could do a better job.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Pentagon right now is saying, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: we're working to fill every seat on each plane. No,

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Speaker 1: you're not. If you were, you'll be telling the how Ben,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna blow you up if you don't give our

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Speaker 1: people a safe passage to the airport, which is not

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Speaker 1: what you're saying and are doing right now. You know,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden even said it's quote not true that my

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Speaker 1: military advisors warned me against withdrawing. Even ABC News Good

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Speaker 1: Morning America, George Sepanopolis couldn't spend this for this deranged

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Speaker 1: president the United States America that clearly cannot handle his

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Speaker 1: job and his duties right now. Even when they introduced

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Speaker 1: the segment, they basically knew that he had cooked his

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Speaker 1: own goose, that it was too far gone almost to

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Speaker 1: try to even explain his decisions away because it was

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Speaker 1: so out of touch with reality. The US troop withdrawal

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Speaker 1: from Afghanistan, and George, we know you pressed the president

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Speaker 1: on the aftermath of that withdrawal, those frantic scenes at

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Speaker 1: the Kabbel Airport, thousands of Americans and Afghans desperate to

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Speaker 1: escape as the Taliban tightens its great that's right, Amy,

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Speaker 1: and the President promised for the first time that the

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Speaker 1: US mility would stay as long as it takes to

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Speaker 1: get all Americans out. He was also defiant, insisting we

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Speaker 1: had to get out now, admitting no mistakes. Back in July,

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Speaker 1: you said a Taliban takeover was highly unlikely. Was the

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Speaker 1: intelligence wrong or did you downplay it. There was no consensus.

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Speaker 1: You go back and look at the intelligence reports, they

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Speaker 1: said that it was more likely to be sometime by

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Speaker 1: the end of the year. You didn't put a timeline

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Speaker 1: out when you said it was highly unlike you just

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Speaker 1: said flat out as highly unlikely the Taliban would take over. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: the question was whether or not. The idea that the

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Speaker 1: Taliban would take over was premised on the notion that

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Speaker 1: somehow the three hundred thousand troops we had trained and

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Speaker 1: equipped was going to just collapse. They We're going to

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Speaker 1: give up. I don't think anybody anticipated that. Senator mcconagall

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Speaker 1: said it was predictable the Taliban was going to take over.

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Speaker 1: Well by the end of the year. It said that

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Speaker 1: that was the real possibility, But no one said it

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Speaker 1: was going to take over then when it was being asked,

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Speaker 1: when you look at what's happened over the last week,

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Speaker 1: was it a failure of intelligence, planning, execution or judgment. Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it was a fan Look it was

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Speaker 1: a simple choice, George, when the Taliban let me back.

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Speaker 1: And put it another way, when you had the government

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Speaker 1: of Afghanistan, the leader of that government get into plane

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Speaker 1: and taking off and going another country. When you saw

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Speaker 1: the significant collapse of the Afghan troops. We had trained

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Speaker 1: up to three hundred thousand of them just leaving their

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Speaker 1: equipment and taking off, that was you know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: that's what happened. That's simply what happened. So the question

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Speaker 1: was in the beginning, the threshold question was do we

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Speaker 1: commit to leave within the time frame was set. We

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Speaker 1: extended it to September first, or do we put significantly

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Speaker 1: more troops in I hear people say, well, you had

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Speaker 1: twenty five hundred folks in there and nothing was happening.

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Speaker 1: You know, there wasn't any war. But guess what the

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Speaker 1: fact was that the reason wasn't happening. It is the

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Speaker 1: last president negotiated a year earlier. By the way, I

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Speaker 1: love it. There there we go blame Trump and this

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Speaker 1: idea that he's trying to get a bail out here

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Speaker 1: saying why I inherited this mess? Right, I inherited this policy.

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Speaker 1: If that's true, then explain why you got rid of

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Speaker 1: the Keystone pipeline. Which pipeline which is a policy that

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Speaker 1: you inherited. You inherited a secure border and you did

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Speaker 1: the opposite of that policy. So explain that logic away.

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Speaker 1: You inherited a president that actually gave a crap about

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Speaker 1: American citizens and made sure they weren't harmed by the Taliban.

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Speaker 1: You change that policy. You inherited a policy of a

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Speaker 1: present that was tough on China. You got rid of

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Speaker 1: that one. You inherited energy independence, you got rid of

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Speaker 1: that one. So this idea that you were somehow stuck

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Speaker 1: to a policy of the other guys. So therefore it's

752
00:44:55,320 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: really somehow jedi mind trick. His fault is insanity. It

753
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: is total insanity. Now this present, by the way, new

754
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 1: reports revealed the victim who clung to the US evac

755
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Speaker 1: plane and fell from the sky was actually a child,

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Speaker 1: and the response from this president should shake every single

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Speaker 1: one of you to its core. His response was that

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00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: was four or five days ago. In other words, move on,

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00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 1: get over it, get over it. You know. He also

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Speaker 1: tried to Jedi mind triggers on something else, saying, well,

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Speaker 1: the Taliban is facing an existential threat. They aren't. They're

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Speaker 1: not acting like it. Bro, They are certainly not acting

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Speaker 1: like it. But Joe Biden sitting there trying to convince

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Speaker 1: you that this is somehow Donald Trump's fault because you

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Speaker 1: inherited a policy, but every other policy of Trump's that

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Speaker 1: you inherited, you undid that he'd be out by May first,

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Speaker 1: and that the return there'd be no attack on American forces.

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Speaker 1: That's what was done. That's why it was happening. But

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Speaker 1: the idea if I had said I had a simple choice,

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Speaker 1: if I had said we're going to stay, then we

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Speaker 1: better be prepare to put a whole hell of a

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Speaker 1: lot more truth. Your top military advisers warned against was

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Speaker 1: joining in this timeline. They wanted you to keep about

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00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,959
Speaker 1: it was split. That wasn't true. Again, he just lied

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Speaker 1: to you. He just lied to you. What you're hearing

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Speaker 1: right now is a lie. This is one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest lies he told this interview. And if George Stepanopolis,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, had any any integrity as a journalist,

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Speaker 1: he would say exactly that, he would say, this is

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Speaker 1: a lie. Let's let's really think about where we are.

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Speaker 1: You have a Taliban flag flying over the US embassy.

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Speaker 1: You have fifteen thousand American prisoners in a terrorist state.

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Speaker 1: You have civilians flying off American plains to their death.

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Speaker 1: Now we note they also include children. The terrorist regime

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Speaker 1: is armed with billions of dollars in US weapons. You're

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Speaker 1: now seeing mass murder in these streets. Al Qaeda anaisis

787
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: now embolden and have a country and a trillion dollars

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Speaker 1: worth of assets to fund themselves with making deals with

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Speaker 1: Russians and Chinese. And Biden says this was his plan

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Speaker 1: and his response the people funding the plan that was

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Speaker 1: like four or five days ago. I mean, you think

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Speaker 1: about how messed up the Democrats are right now. We've

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Speaker 1: actually gone from defunding the police to arming terrorists, defunding

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Speaker 1: the police to arming terrorists. Think about that. You look

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Speaker 1: at these highlights from Biden's interview quote, did not recall

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Speaker 1: being warned by US military to not push ahead with

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Speaker 1: his plan, did not know US had troops in Syria

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Speaker 1: that was in the interview, did not know certain events

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Speaker 1: and kabble happened this week because he was on vacation

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Speaker 1: and did not know people were getting killed. You're seeing

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00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: a pattern here. This guy clearly cannot handle what is happening.

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Speaker 1: And Biden flatly denied reporting that he was advised to

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Speaker 1: keep two thousand, five hundred troops Afghanistan, and his own

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Speaker 1: intelligence community is now throwing him under the bus for

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Speaker 1: that lie in this interview. The Pentagon right now has

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Speaker 1: just come out just showing how stupid this decision was

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Speaker 1: to pull out of Afghanistan the way that we did.

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Speaker 1: And they have now said, after being browbeat by reporters

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Speaker 1: that yes, we can confirm that we do not know

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Speaker 1: how many Americans are left in Afghanistan. We don't know.

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Speaker 1: So the President nine States America said he did it perfect,

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Speaker 1: did it right? Do it again? Refuse us to back

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Speaker 1: down and say he screwed up or made a mistake.

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Speaker 1: And you have a Pentagon now admitting we have no

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Speaker 1: idea how many Americans are there. We have no idea

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Speaker 1: how many Americans could be held hostage. We have no

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Speaker 1: idea how many of them could become propaganda for the Taliban.

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Speaker 1: What we do know is the Taliban is intensifying their

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Speaker 1: hunt for Afghans who worked for the US and uk IS.

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Speaker 1: They are now going door to door threatening relatives. United

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Speaker 1: Nations is reporting this now, and they're like, not conservative folks.

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Speaker 1: They are now reporting and warning despite the terror groups

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Speaker 1: claims of amnesty for these people, the Jehattas are going

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Speaker 1: door to door threatening families of those who have gone

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Speaker 1: into hiding. The UN papers now warned the militants are

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Speaker 1: wresting and killing relatives. They are also stopping others trying

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Speaker 1: to leave from the area around the Couple airport. Are

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Speaker 1: going to the airport their reports of officials who have

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Speaker 1: been shot dead after surrendering to the Taliban. They are

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Speaker 1: intensifying their hunt for people who worked with the UK,

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Speaker 1: US and NATO forces in Afghansian. This is coming from

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Speaker 1: the UN, of course, It's supposed to be a confidential

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Speaker 1: report internally within the UN. It's been leaked, thank goodness.

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Speaker 1: Je Hottas are going door to door killing relatives of

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Speaker 1: civil servants, interpreters and other counselors staff, while other militants

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Speaker 1: are even stopping people outside the Kabul airport. Despite the

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Speaker 1: Taliban's claim of amnesty, the UN says new video today

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Speaker 1: shows fighters sprang Sprang assault rifle bullets just yards away

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Speaker 1: from women and children gathered at the airport's perimeter. The

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Speaker 1: UN dossier leak to The New York Times says the

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Speaker 1: Taliban arresting and or killing or arresting family members of

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Speaker 1: targeted individuals unless they surrender themselves the Taliban, and then

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Speaker 1: when they surrender, they're being killed. Yeah, that's a letter

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Speaker 1: dated three days ago. Just so you know this letter.

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Speaker 1: It contained a letter dated August the sixteenth from the

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Speaker 1: Taliban to a senior counter terrorism official in Afghanistan who

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Speaker 1: had worked alongside the US and British officials. The letter

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Speaker 1: ordered the man to report to the Military Intelligence Commission

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Speaker 1: of the Islamic State of Afghanistan and Kabul. If he

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Speaker 1: failed to do so, it warned that his family will

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Speaker 1: be treated based on Sharia law, meaning they'll all be murdered.

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Speaker 1: The senior Afghan official told The Telegraph been forcing a

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Speaker 1: deep hiding to avoid the martyring fighters who they suspect

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Speaker 1: of gain access to government employee databases. Earlier this week,

855
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 1: former British army officials told the same paper that hundreds

856
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: of elite Afghan soldiers had gone into hiding and we're

857
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: trying to flee the country because they're now on the

858
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: kill list. And when they find them, they behead them

859
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: and cut their arms off in torture them in the streets.

860
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: Let's go back to Joe Biden real quick. Joe Biden says,

861
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: I did this perfectly. There's nothing that could have gone wrong.

862
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: Differently here. This was going to happen anyway, and I

863
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: did it right now. He's also been caught in a

864
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: major line. George Stepanopolis asked him a question. I'm going

865
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: to play this audio for you, but I want to

866
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: read you the transcript first so you know exactly what

867
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: to listen for. Here, Biden flatly denies reporting that he

868
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: was advised to keep two thousand, five hundred troops in Afghanistan.

869
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read you George Stepanopolis's words so you understand

870
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: what he said. He said, but your top military advisors

871
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: had warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you

872
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: to keep about two thousand and five hundred troops. Biden interrupts, No,

873
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: they didn't. It was split that that wasn't true. That

874
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 1: wasn't true. Biden's stumbles. Stephanopolis, they didn't tell you that

875
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,720
Speaker 1: you wanted troops, that they wanted troops to stay, question

876
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: Mark Biden. No, no, no, not not in terms of

877
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: whether we were going to get out in a time

878
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: frame all troops. They didn't argue against that, Stephanopolis. He

879
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: knows he's right. By the way, Stephnnopolis knows everybody in

880
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 1: the intelligence community was leaking and telling them. We told

881
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: Biden not to do this, We told him to leave troops.

882
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 1: So no one told you by Stevenopolis says, your military

883
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: advisors did not tell you. No, we should just keep

884
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,240
Speaker 1: two thousand and five hundred troops. It's been a stable

885
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: situation for last several years. We can do that, We

886
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: can continue to do that. Question Mark Biden even more angry. No,

887
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: no one said that to me that I can recall.

888
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: He knows he's busted. Look, George, the reason why it's

889
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: been stable for a year is that because the last

890
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: present said we're leaving. And here's the deal I want

891
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: to make with you, Taliban. We're agreeing to leave if

892
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: you agree not to attack us between now and the

893
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: time we leave on May the first. So now it's

894
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: Trump's vault again. He's pandering back to that Stepanopholis interjects,

895
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: but your top military advisors warned against withdrawing on the timeline.

896
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: They wanted you to keep two thousand, five hundred troops.

897
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: Biden angry. No, they didn't. I'm going to play that

898
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: audio for you so you can hear it now, and

899
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:43,280
Speaker 1: you know what the lies are. Military advisors warned against

900
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: was drawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep

901
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: about twenty They didn't. It was split. That wasn't true.

902
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: That wasn't true. They didn't tell you that they wanted

903
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: troops to stay. No, not in terms of whether we

904
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 1: were going to get out in a time frame all troops.

905
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: They didn't argue against that. So no one, no one

906
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: told your military and not tell you, no, we should

907
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: just keep twenty five hundred troops. It's been a stable

908
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: situation for the less several years. We can do that,

909
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,439
Speaker 1: we can continue to do that. No no one said

910
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: that to me that our can room call. Look, George,

911
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,439
Speaker 1: the reason why it has been stable for a year

912
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: is because the last president said, we're leaving. And here's

913
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: the deal I want to make with you, Taliban. We're

914
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: agreeing to leave if you agreeing not to attack us

915
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: between now and the time we leave on May the first.

916
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: But in two months after I elected to office, hous

917
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 1: sworn in all of a sudden, I have a May

918
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: one deadline. I have a made one deadline. I want

919
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: or two choices. Do I say we're staying and do

920
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: you think we would not have to put a hell

921
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: of a lot more troops we had, we had one hundreds,

922
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: We had tens of thousands of troops there before, tens

923
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: of thousands. Do you think we would would have just said,

924
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: no problem, don't worry about it. We're not going to

925
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: attack anybody. We're okay. In meantime, the Taliban was taken

926
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: territory all throughout the country, in the north and down

927
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: in the south and the Pashtun. So would you have

928
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: withdrawn troops like this even if President Trump had not

929
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: made that deal with the Taliban, I would have tried

930
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 1: to figure out how to withdraw those troops. Yes, because look, George,

931
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: there is no good time to leave Afghanistan. Fifteen years

932
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: ago would have been a problem fifteen years from now.

933
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: The basic choice is am I going to send your

934
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: sons and your daughters to war in Afghanistan? In Afghanistan

935
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: in perpetuity. No one can name for me a time

936
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 1: when this would end. And again, this is the delusional

937
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: high ground that Biden is going with right here, right Well,

938
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 1: I'm not going to keep sending your children to war.

939
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: So if you're caught behind enemy lines and you're the

940
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: ten thousand are going to be murdered and massacred by

941
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,720
Speaker 1: the Taliban. Hey, at least there's an end in sight.

942
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: We also just got an official. Remember the guy that

943
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 1: we had in Getmo, the guy that we traded for

944
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: the deserter beau burg Doll in that prisoner swap when

945
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: we negotiated with terrorists done under Biden and Obama administration.

946
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: The new leader of the Taliban we had in Getmo.

947
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: He's now in charge of the Taliban. Taliban officials have

948
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: just announced the Taliban group will rule Afghanistan with Sharia law,

949
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: putting women back in the stone ages, and no democratic system.

950
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:30,800
Speaker 1: Four days ago they told us women we're going to

951
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: be in the government. Yeah, they lied. That's who we're

952
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: trusting for our people's safety. Right now, Taliban officials announced

953
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: the group will rule Afghanistan with Sharia law and no

954
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,360
Speaker 1: democratic system. And the man who announces the same man

955
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: that we had in Ghetmo that we let out and

956
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: traded for the deserter bo Bergdall. I'll say it again,

957
00:56:55,880 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: all of this was avoidable. Every bit of it was avoidable,

958
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: all of it. And this president is sitting there basically saying,

959
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: I don't care what you say to me. I was right.

960
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: Afghan women are throwing their babies over barb wire to

961
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: save them. We have video now. Video is showing babies

962
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: being passed to strangers and crowds to get them evacuated.

963
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: People passing their infant children to others in the crowd

964
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: ahead of them at the Kabul airport, hoping that the

965
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: babies and toddlers will be evacuated and have a better

966
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: life because they know they're going to be killed. Other

967
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: reports indicated women were actually throwing their babies over the

968
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: bob wire in a desperate attempt to save them because

969
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: some of the soldiers wouldn't take them, and they basically said,

970
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: well if I throw them, you're gonna have to. Senior

971
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: official said to Sky News they have no choice because

972
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: the situation's out of control. They said, the blackbe will

973
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: live with some of these soldiers their lives. It's terrible.

974
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: Women were throwing their babies over the razor wire asking

975
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: the soldiers to please take them. Some of them got

976
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: caught in the bob troops, reported. Another said our men

977
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: are going to have to have counseling, saying every soldier

978
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: cried last night. The report from Kibol by war correspondent

979
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: of I Knews, so it's one of the most upsetting

980
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: stories they've ever published and the Kabol Airport. A parachute

981
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: regiment officer told Kim that Afghan mothers have been trying

982
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: to throw their babies over the bob wire to British

983
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: servicemen as well, in the hopes that their children can

984
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: be saved from life under the Taliban. Some of the

985
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: babies did not reach the troops. The Washington Post this

986
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: morning printing an article describing what life was like for

987
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: some children the last time the Taliban rolled in Afghanistan

988
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: from ninety six to one quote, the outside world got

989
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: periodic glimpses into the country even though taking photos was forbidden.

990
00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: There was video of an Afghan mother forced to kneel

991
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: in the stadium shot dead between the goal posts. There

992
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: were photos of children dying of preventable illnesses in a

993
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: dilapidated pediatric hospital the US State Department in November one,

994
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: just after the United States had out of the Taliban

995
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: from power quote. Under Taliban rule, women were given only

996
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: the most rudimentary access to healthcare and medical care, thereby

997
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 1: endangering the health of women and in turn their families.

998
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: In most hospitals, male physicians could only examine a female

999
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 1: patient if she was fully clothed, ruling out the possibility

1000
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: of meaningful diagnosis and treatment. Sharia laws coming back. According

1001
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: to the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund Unit South,

1002
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty five of every thousand babies died

1003
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: before their first birthday in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. And

1004
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: they just said they're bringing back the same laws that

1005
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: allowed this to happen. And Joe Biden says, couldn't have

1006
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: done a better job than I did trying to get

1007
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: people out. We did it perfect, he said today in

1008
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: this interview. Wouldn't change a thing, wouldn't do anything different.

1009
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: I want you to being a United States citizen, this

1010
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: is real life. This is not hypothetical. And I want

1011
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:10,439
Speaker 1: you to imagine assuming thinking that you are a part

1012
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: of the greatest country in the world, that your country

1013
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: will protect you at all costs, that your life is

1014
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: valued by the United States government. There is almost a

1015
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: protective dome around you. Virtually everywhere in the world, every

1016
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: human smuggler, every sex trafficker, leader of any terrorist group

1017
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 1: cartel in the world knows there will be a heavy

1018
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: price to pay if you abduct or kill an American citizen.

1019
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: That has been universal for my entire lifetime. That's been

1020
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: universal since World War One. For many people that are listening.

1021
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: War two, there was a very clear message in the

1022
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: United States government to anyone in Canada, anyone in Mexico,

1023
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: anyone in Afghanistan, that if you screw with an American citizen,

1024
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 1: there will be hell to pay. You also knew that

1025
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: if you know what hit the fan, that America was

1026
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: going to have your back because you're an American citizen,

1027
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: because your life is valuable, your life is important. We'll imagine,

1028
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: because this is real life now being an Afghanistan. Imagine

1029
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: being one of the ten to twenty thousand Americans who

1030
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: are caught behind Taliban checkpoints, behind enemy lines literally and

1031
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: waiting for the United States government to come get you,

1032
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: or at least give you safe passage to them, or

1033
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: escorting you in a country that we have controlled for

1034
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: twenty years, that we abandon because of a president who

1035
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: is still on vacation as we speak. This is the

1036
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: note that Americans received from the State Department. Dear citizens,

1037
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: thank you for registering your request to evacuate Afghanistan. This

1038
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: is the email you get as an American citizen. The

1039
01:01:54,640 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: US Embassy in Afghanistan has confirmed that an undefined number

1040
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: of US government provided flights will soon begin. Then, an

1041
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: italic bold it says, quote, please make your way to

1042
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: the international airport at this time, an international airport that

1043
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: you can't get to because the Taliban has totally surrounded

1044
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: that airport, even though the American soldiers are on the

1045
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: ground within the perimeter of the airport. Please be advised

1046
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: that then says in all capital letters and in bold,

1047
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 1: please be advised that the United States government cannot guarantee

1048
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:38,440
Speaker 1: your security as you make this trip. There is no

1049
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: help for you. There is no American help on the way. Now,

1050
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: the media has been trying to figure out a way

1051
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 1: to blame Donald Trump for all of this. Trump sat

1052
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: down with Sean Handy on Fox News and explain the

1053
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: difference between his policy and Biden's and why no Americans

1054
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 1: were screwed with when he was present Afghanistan. Take a listen.

1055
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 1: I've had a number of people tell me that there

1056
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: were very specific conditions and the very specific warnings that

1057
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 1: you gave personally to the talibad Joe Biden is trying

1058
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: to blame you. I want first to give you an

1059
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 1: opportunity to respond to that, your assessment of what's going

1060
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 1: on and what was that conversation to the extent you

1061
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:26,880
Speaker 1: feel you're able to share it with us, Well, it's

1062
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: good to be with you, Jean. But it's a terrible

1063
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 1: time for our country. I don't think in all of

1064
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: the years our country has ever been so humiliated. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, would you go to military defeat or a

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Speaker 1: psychological defeat. There's never been anything like what's happened here.

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Speaker 1: You can go back to Jimmy Carter with the hostages.

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Speaker 1: We all thought that was a great embarrassment, and we

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Speaker 1: were pulled out of that by Ronald Reagan. This is many,

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Speaker 1: many times worse, and you're dealing with thousands and thousands

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Speaker 1: of Americans and others that are stranded and very dangerously

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Speaker 1: really stranded in Afghanistan. So it's something that you can't

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Speaker 1: even believe that a thing like this, kid. I looked

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Speaker 1: at that big monster cargo plane yesterday with people grabbing

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Speaker 1: the side and trying to get flown out of Afghanistan

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Speaker 1: because of their fear, their incredible fear, and they're blowing

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Speaker 1: off the plane from two thousand feet up in the air.

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Speaker 1: It's nobody's ever seen anything like that. That blows the

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Speaker 1: helicopters in Vietnam away. That's not even a contest. This

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Speaker 1: has been the most humiliating period of time I've ever seen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had a great deal. We worked on it very hard.

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Speaker 1: Mike Pompeo, a brilliant guy, and many others worked on

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Speaker 1: it endlessly. Meetings with the Taliban, of course, you have

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Speaker 1: to meet with the Taliban. They're the ones that you're

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Speaker 1: negotiating with. I spoke on numerous occasions to the head

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Speaker 1: of the Taliban, and we had a very strong conversation.

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Speaker 1: I told them up front, I said, look, before we start,

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Speaker 1: let me just tell you right now that if anything

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Speaker 1: bad happens to Americans or anybody else, or have you

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01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: ever come over to our land, we will hit you

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Speaker 1: with a force that no country has ever been hit

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Speaker 1: with before, a force so great that you won't even

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Speaker 1: believe it. And you a village, and we know where

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Speaker 1: it is, and I named it will be the first one.

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Speaker 1: This first dropped right there. You said this to who? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who did you said to who? To Mullah Baradar, who

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Speaker 1: is probably the top person. Now, nobody really knows who

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Speaker 1: the top person is, but I would say that's probably

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Speaker 1: the top person, and it seems to be that's the

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Speaker 1: way it's rolling right now. But I had a very

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Speaker 1: strong conversation. I also had a good conversation with him.

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Speaker 1: We talked for a while after that. I was the

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Speaker 1: primary point I was making and he understood it. And

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Speaker 1: I asked him, do you understand? He said, yes, I

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Speaker 1: do understand. And I wanted them to get a deal

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Speaker 1: done with the Afghan government. Now. I never had a

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Speaker 1: lot of confidence, frankly in Ghani. I said that openly

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01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: and plainly. I thought he was a total crook. I

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01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: thought he got away with murder. He spent all his

1110
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 1: time whining and dining our senators, and the senators were

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01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 1: in his pocket. That was one of the problems that

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Speaker 1: we had. But I never liked him. And I guess

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Speaker 1: based on his escape with cash, I don't know, maybe

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01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: that's a true story. I would suspect it is. Well,

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Speaker 1: you have to do is look at his lifestyle, study

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Speaker 1: his houses where he lives. He got away with murder

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Speaker 1: and many different ways. But I had a very very

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Speaker 1: strong talk with the Taliban, which I considered to be

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Speaker 1: much more important in the sense because they were the problem,

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Speaker 1: and they'd been there for a long time, and they're

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Speaker 1: good fighters and they fight hard. And after I said that,

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Speaker 1: we had a pretty good conversation. Now I have to

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Speaker 1: tell you that if you remember, when they were coming

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Speaker 1: to Washington to meet with me, they decided to kill

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Speaker 1: an American soldier because they thought that was a good

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Speaker 1: way to negotiate. And I canceled the trip and we

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Speaker 1: had a conditions based agreement, and if you remember, it said,

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Speaker 1: May first, we want to get out because we have

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Speaker 1: to get out. I've listened to people on your show

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01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: and other shows say we should stay. They don't know.

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Speaker 1: We were spending forty two billion dollars a year. Forty

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Speaker 1: two billion. Think of it, forty two billion. I understand

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01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 1: Russia spends fifty billion a year for their entire military.

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Speaker 1: We were spending forty two billion, not one percent. They

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01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: were saying one percent. That's a lot of nonsense. We're

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Speaker 1: spending forty two billion dollars a year on defending this

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Speaker 1: for years and years. We've been there really now, not

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01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 1: twenty years, but twenty one and a half years, and

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01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 1: we get nothing out of any of these things that

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01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:45,920
Speaker 1: we do, whether it's them or many other countries I

1141
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: could tell you about. I'm not going to insult anybody

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01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: right now, but to spend that kind of money and

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01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: then to have people get on shows and say how

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01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:56,440
Speaker 1: inexpensive it was. And I have to tell you also

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01:07:56,760 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: that we lost no soldiers in the last year and

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01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 1: a half because of me and because of the understanding

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01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 1: that we had. We lost not to think of that

1148
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 1: in Chicago and in New York and in other cities

1149
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: in the United States, many people die every weekend. We

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01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:18,880
Speaker 1: lost no soldiers in Afghanistan because they knew I wasn't

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01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,400
Speaker 1: going to put up with it. Now, the world knew

1152
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 1: don't screw with the United States of America. They knew

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01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: not to screw with them because Donald Trump didn't screw around.

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01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:32,679
Speaker 1: Donald Trump made sure that Americans were always safe. Donald

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01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: Trump made sure that your life had a protective dome

1156
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:38,759
Speaker 1: over it anywhere in the world, and if you screwed

1157
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: with us, there would be hell to pay. The dome

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01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:46,719
Speaker 1: that was around Americans of protection anywhere in the world

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01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 1: was a precedent that every president until Joe Biden has followed.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you an example of how much an American

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01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 1: life was not to be screwed with. When Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: was the president, he tweeted this out July twenty second,

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01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen to the Iranian president Irwani, never ever threatened

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01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:14,800
Speaker 1: the United States again, or you will suffer consequences the

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01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 1: likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.

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01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,760
Speaker 1: We are no longer a country that will stand for

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01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: your for your demented words, we are no longer a country.

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Speaker 1: Trump then said that will stand for your demented words

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01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:37,719
Speaker 1: of violence and death. Be cautious. Now Donald Trump can't

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Speaker 1: tweet anything like that anymore. But the Taliban has Twitter

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Speaker 1: accounts that they're using to orchestrate their attacks and killing

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Speaker 1: us at people. Think about that for a moment with

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01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 1: big tech, and you want to know how little this

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01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: administration values the American lives. The ten to twenty thousand

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Speaker 1: that are now in Afghanistan, and we are now seeing

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Speaker 1: pictures of people being beheaded. We are now seeing pictures

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Speaker 1: of people that are murdered in the streets. We now

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01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: know that people are being dismembered in the streets, all

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01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: caught on video. For example, in Jalalabad, they caught an

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Speaker 1: interpreter that helped American troops. They took him out into

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Speaker 1: the streets, they cut his arms off, and then they

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01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 1: beheaded him. They also killed his family. They only spared

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Speaker 1: the ten year old daughter of that interpreter, who they

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01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 1: then gave to the commander of the Taliban for a

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01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: sex slave. Of course, they call it a wife, So

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01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: it's okay. But if you want to know how little

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01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:36,000
Speaker 1: your life now matters, and how little backing you have

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01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 1: from the President of the United States America when it

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01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: comes to your life, Biden's advisor and remember, this president

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Speaker 1: has not talked to any world leader. This president has

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01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 1: not spoken with anybody while this is going on to

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Speaker 1: try to stop it. He's been on vacation m I

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Speaker 1: A for the last five days. Intelligence we now know,

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01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 1: and even the New York Times is reporting this as

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Speaker 1: we speak. Their headline. Intelligence warned multiple times of Afghan

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Speaker 1: military collapse despite Biden's assurances. This is the New York

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01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 1: Times reporting this now, and Biden's advisors has a message

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Speaker 1: for all Americans who are stranded. Quote, you should trust

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Speaker 1: the Taliban for safe passage to the airport. Just when

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01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,760
Speaker 1: you thought the Biden administration couldn't mess this up, anymore.

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01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 1: The administration came out on TV and laid out one

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Speaker 1: of the most insane plans that has ever happened in

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Speaker 1: the history of America evacuations, their plan to evacuate twenty

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01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:45,080
Speaker 1: thousand or ten thousand, or fifteen thousand American citizens currently

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Speaker 1: stranded in Afghanistan. The National Security Advisor Jake Silvan held

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Speaker 1: a press conference yesterday and said the Taliban quote has

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Speaker 1: informed them that they'll provide quote safe passage for Americans

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Speaker 1: to the Kable airport. So now he expects stranded Americans

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01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: to just trust the Taliban who are beheading people and

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01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: killing people in the streets right now. The same regime

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Speaker 1: that helped plan the nine to eleven attacks and fund

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Speaker 1: the nine to eleven attacks is who the Americans citizens

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Speaker 1: are supposed to trust to allow them to go to

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Speaker 1: the airport while they're behetting people in the streets. You

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01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 1: cannot make this up. Now, the media, they are trying

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01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:30,560
Speaker 1: to give some cover to Joe Biden and this total fiasco,

1217
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 1: and how they're doing it now is by saying, well,

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Speaker 1: Trump is the one that put this ball into motion.

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01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 1: Trump is the one that set the president to get

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Speaker 1: out of Afghanistan. That is a lie to get out

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Speaker 1: this way. Donald Trump would have never left Americans behind

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Speaker 1: and would have never In fact, there was a date

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Speaker 1: to get out, and they extended the date because the

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01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 1: Taliban didn't keep up their end of the agreement, and

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was asked about that by Sean Hannity listened

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Speaker 1: to how all of this unfolded when he was the president.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting to listen Joe Biden blame you.

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01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: I inherited this deal, he kept saying. But he also

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01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: inherited secure borders, and he also inherited energy independence, and

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01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 1: he also inherited three vaccines and therapeutics like Regeneron, and

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01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:18,160
Speaker 1: we now see what's been unfolding, and he didn't have

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Speaker 1: inflation at the time. I want to go back. This

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Speaker 1: is I want to be very clear here because because

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State Pompeo on this program said exactly what

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Speaker 1: you did, that there wouldn't be an exit strategy that

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Speaker 1: didn't include the current conditions on the ground. And I

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Speaker 1: have multiple sources and you're confirming tonight that it sounds

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Speaker 1: to me like you told the Taliban that if they

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Speaker 1: violated any aspect of this agreement with territorial ambitions. We

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01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,600
Speaker 1: learned last week that sixty percent of the country was

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01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:53,719
Speaker 1: in their control, and you told them in no uncertain terms.

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Speaker 1: Sounds to me like you would basically treat them like

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01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 1: you took care of the caliphate in Syria. Isis well?

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01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: We did. We get rid of the caliphate. Everyone said

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01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 1: it was impossible, and I did it very quickly, and

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01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,200
Speaker 1: I let the generals make the decisions. The generals are

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01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 1: real generals, the ones that were over there doing the fighting,

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01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 1: the ones that knew how to do it. Because we

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01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:16,679
Speaker 1: have a lot of generals that shouldn't be generals right now, frankly,

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01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 1: and I'm watching them all the time. But we have

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01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: some great ones. We have great leaders in our military.

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01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 1: We have the greatest military in the world, and we're

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01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 1: giving it a very bad reputation. What's happening? Think of it.

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Speaker 1: We took this horrible place, I mean, a place that

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01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:35,959
Speaker 1: just we shouldn't have been involved. It was a horrible

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01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: decision going into the Middle East. And I know the

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01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 1: Bush family will not be happy, but I believe it

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01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 1: was the worst decision in the history of our country

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Speaker 1: when we decided to go into the Middle East. It's

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01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 1: turned out to be quicksand we've destroyed the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: And do you think it's better now than it was

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one years ago? It's much worse. It was

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01:14:56,560 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: a horrible decision costs US trillions of dollars and and

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01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:02,559
Speaker 1: if you look at both sides, because I like to

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01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: look at both sides, millions and millions of lives, and

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01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:09,080
Speaker 1: it's no different than it was. It's much worse because

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01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:11,439
Speaker 1: you have to rebuild. It has been blown to pieces.

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01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 1: The worst decision ever made was going you can do

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Speaker 1: a strike as retribution, and it could be a big

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01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: strike as retribution for the World Trade Center, etc. But

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01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: to get stuck in there was like quicksand. So we

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01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:27,599
Speaker 1: did a terrible thing. But think of what's happening now.

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Speaker 1: I've heard as many as forty thousand Americans and the

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Speaker 1: Taliban good fighters. I will tell you they're good fighters.

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Speaker 1: We have to give them credit for that. They've been

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Speaker 1: fighting for a thousand years. That's what they do, is

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Speaker 1: they fight. The Taliban has circled the airport, and who

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Speaker 1: knows if they're going to treat us right. You know,

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01:15:45,280 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they'll say, well, frankly, if they

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Speaker 1: were smart, they really and they are smart, and they

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Speaker 1: are smart, they should let the Americans out. But we've

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Speaker 1: had situations where you have two or three or four hostages.

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Speaker 1: We could have forty Americans, not to mention others like

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Speaker 1: people that helped us in Afghanistan. So we've never had

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Speaker 1: a situation like this. We have forty thousand potential hostages,

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Speaker 1: a minimum on eleven thousand, but it could be as

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Speaker 1: many as forty. We have no idea how many. Nobody

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Speaker 1: knows how many. Now for those Americans trapped, we are

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Speaker 1: now seeing violence erupting exactly what you would expect from

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Speaker 1: the Taliban. Jolaabad Taliban is open fire on protesters for

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Speaker 1: replacing the group's flag. Hundreds of civilians and Jalabad have

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Speaker 1: been maskered now to protest replacement of the national flag,

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Speaker 1: the Afghan flag in public spaces with the Taliban flag.

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Speaker 1: The Taliban then decided, all right, watch this, and they

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Speaker 1: opened fire into the crowd. Now, these are the same

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Speaker 1: people they're supposed to be protecting American citizens while they're

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Speaker 1: on their way to the airport. An Afghan woman has

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Speaker 1: also been killed for not wearing a burka, shot in

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Speaker 1: the face after being drug into the street to make

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Speaker 1: an example of her. This after the Taliban spokesman went

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, the same place that Donald Trump can't tweet from,

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01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:07,719
Speaker 1: to make new claims that they are going to quote

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01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 1: protect women's rights again. American lives are basically worth nothing

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Speaker 1: to this president in this White House, and they apparently

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01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 1: are totally okay with this happening right now. It is

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01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 1: a disaster at the White House, and Jensaki did exactly

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Speaker 1: what you would not want a press secretary to do.

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Speaker 1: I want to also make something very clear, I am

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Speaker 1: not rooting against Joe Biden right now. I want America

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Speaker 1: and American citizens to be safely removed from Afghanistan. I

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Speaker 1: don't want them to fail. I want them to succeed.

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Speaker 1: I've said this for years, even Whenough Obama was president.

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Speaker 1: I want their foreign policy to protect Americans, defend Americans,

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Speaker 1: and I want us to succeed. I don't want Americans

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01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 1: to be left behind. So I can say, aha, see,

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Speaker 1: I told you Joe Biden sucked. We already know how

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Speaker 1: bad of a president is. He's a guy that's just disappeared.

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Speaker 1: He clearly can't handle the capacity of what it takes

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Speaker 1: to be the president of United States of America. The

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Speaker 1: proof of his last five days. He's just abandoned his people.

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Speaker 1: He's abandoned the country. I remember the debate we had

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Speaker 1: about who's gonna take the phone call at three am

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Speaker 1: with Hillary Clinton? Hell, who's taking the phone call at

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Speaker 1: three pm? The White House is confirmed he's talked to

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Speaker 1: no foreign leaders. The White House is confirmed, he's been

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Speaker 1: on vacation. The White House confirmed he has not talked

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Speaker 1: to virtually Anybody's basically said, I don't know what to

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01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:33,920
Speaker 1: do with this. I'm right, but you guys figured out.

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Speaker 1: And the White House Press secretary was asked by a reporter, Hey,

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Speaker 1: are Americans even gonna make it out of Afghanistan? Because

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Speaker 1: you guys are acting like their lives don't matter. Take

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Speaker 1: a listen to her response. You mentioned at the top

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Speaker 1: that about seven hundred people are being evacuated the past

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Technicon officials, including US everybody John Kirby

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Speaker 1: expect that number to increase ye five to nine thousand

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Speaker 1: a day. Can you talk about what needs to happen

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01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: between now and then to ramp the number up? And

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Speaker 1: when you expected to hear? Sure, we shod It's a

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01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 1: good question. I think what I had been referring to

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Speaker 1: just a few minutes ago. Was the fact that our

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Speaker 1: focus has been on securing not just the perimeter of

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Speaker 1: the airport, but also operational capacity at the airport, which

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01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: of course is a Department of Defense operation they're overseeing

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Speaker 1: in coordination with the State Department. And so because we've

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Speaker 1: had success in that regard, we are hopeful and expect

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Speaker 1: to expedite additional flights out. So that was not the

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Speaker 1: place where we were at this time yesterday, and given

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Speaker 1: we've made progress in their regard, we are hopeful to

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Speaker 1: increase the number of people American citizens, SIV applicants and

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Speaker 1: others that we can get out of country. Are understanding

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01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:51,240
Speaker 1: that Americans have been called or but it's up to

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01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: that to travel there at their own risk, their own risk.

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Speaker 1: You hear this right, Think about what this reporter just said. Hey,

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01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 1: you're you're telling Americans to go to the airport. You've

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01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 1: called them the airport, but you're telling them to go

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01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:09,800
Speaker 1: basically have to fight their way through the Taliban who

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01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:14,200
Speaker 1: is beheading people at their own risk. Why isn't the

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Speaker 1: US providing any support, any transportation for them to get

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Speaker 1: to Cockle Well, I would just go back to what

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Speaker 1: our National Security advisor discussed as it relates to the

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Speaker 1: Taliban and discussions with them about safe passage for people

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Speaker 1: who are coming to the airport. We've also seen I

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Speaker 1: don't have an exact number for you. I'm sure the

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Speaker 1: Department of Defense and State Department can provide that, but

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01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:38,800
Speaker 1: a large number of American citizens and others making their

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Speaker 1: way successfully to the airport over the course of the

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Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. By the way, I love this

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Speaker 1: so like, well, we had a couple people that made it, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, a couple hundred. Really, that's so the other

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty thousand, what about them? In the last twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. We also know that the Taliban has been

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Speaker 1: shooting people around the airport while America is basically held

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Speaker 1: hostage with inside of it. Our troops are only correcting

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01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,519
Speaker 1: the interior. They are not the exterior, and we have

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Speaker 1: no roads under our control. All the roads leading to

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Speaker 1: the airport from the entire country, which is the size

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Speaker 1: of what Texas. The entire country, every road that leads

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Speaker 1: to the one airport in that country, we're saying go

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Speaker 1: to if you're an American citizen is locked down by

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Speaker 1: the Taliban. Now, let me go back to Trump for

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Speaker 1: just a second, because we've just got new reports coming

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01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:36,520
Speaker 1: out of Cobble now that the Taliban is searching people's

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01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:40,719
Speaker 1: cell phones and they're killing you if on your cell

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Speaker 1: phone they find the Bible. Many people in Afghanistan downloaded

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Speaker 1: on their phones the Bible app or Bible apps, and

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01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 1: they're grabbing those phones. And if they find the Bible

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01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,599
Speaker 1: app on your phone, the Taliban is killing those people,

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01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:02,760
Speaker 1: is what we were being told right now. Now that

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Speaker 1: could be an American citizen too. What would Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: have done differently if the Taliban started doing this when

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Speaker 1: he was president. He was asked that by Sean Hannity

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Speaker 1: and listened to his response. Let me go back to

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Speaker 1: the words you used to the Taliban leader, because we

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Speaker 1: knew last week that sixty percent of the country had

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Speaker 1: already been taken over by the Taliban, and there was

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01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:29,719
Speaker 1: no sense of urgency to me under your plan. If

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Speaker 1: they had taken over five percent, not sixty like they

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Speaker 1: had last five percent, that was not in your agreement.

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Speaker 1: What would have happened to them? We would have hit

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Speaker 1: them very hard. Again, The words are conditions, plural conditions based.

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01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 1: It was an agreement where actually we wanted to get

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01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:54,439
Speaker 1: out by May first, and they violated the agreement. So

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01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:57,600
Speaker 1: it's a great agreement from a lot of different standpoints.

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01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: And frankly, Biden didn't have to even go by that agreement.

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01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 1: He could have done. Look what he's done to the border.

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01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:05,840
Speaker 1: We had the greatest border, southern border, in the history

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01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: of our country. We stopped drugs, we stopped human trafficking,

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01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: we stopped people from coming in, prisoners from coming in.

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01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: Now you'll have I mean, you have the worst people

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01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: in the world. They're emptying their jails into our country.

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01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 1: This is like the southern border, but it's handled even worse.

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01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: Nobody handled the Southern border worse than him. We had

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01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: the most secure border we've ever had. Now we have

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01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 1: by far the worst border we've ever had. Well, Afghanistan

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01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:34,960
Speaker 1: is the exact same thing. To think of this. We

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Speaker 1: have a military. It's holding it. You know. I got

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Speaker 1: to reduce down to two thousand and five hundred soldiers

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01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:42,759
Speaker 1: and they were doing a good job. It was fine.

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01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 1: It was a smaller force. I took it down from

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Speaker 1: close to twenty to two thousand and five hundred and

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01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:51,840
Speaker 1: we were fine. But we have the military there, and

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Speaker 1: we take the military out before we took our civilians out,

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01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,439
Speaker 1: and before we took the interpreters and other We want

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Speaker 1: to try and help. But by the way, I'm America first. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the Americans come out first, but we're also going to

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Speaker 1: help people that helped us. And we have to be

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Speaker 1: very careful with the vetting because you have some rough

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Speaker 1: people in there. But we're going to help those people.

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Speaker 1: But can you imagine now what we were going to do,

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01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: just very quickly, is we were going to take the

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Speaker 1: military out last. Okay last, the people were coming out.

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Speaker 1: They were going to come out, but the agreement was violated,

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Speaker 1: so I held things back because we weren't going to

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Speaker 1: do anything conditions based, so they weren't fulfill their obligations

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01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: and condition But here's just a finish. The people come

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Speaker 1: out first. Then I was going to take all of

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01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: the military equipment. We have billions and billions of dollars

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01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:46,559
Speaker 1: worth of new Blackhawk helicopters, brand new that Russia now

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01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:49,599
Speaker 1: will be examining, and so will China and so will

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Speaker 1: everybody else to figure because it's the greatest in the world.

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01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:56,920
Speaker 1: We have brand new army tanks and all sorts of equipment, missiles,

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Speaker 1: we have everything. I was going to take it out

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01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 1: because I knew they weren't going to fight. Just one thing.

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Speaker 1: And I have to say, and this is different from

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Speaker 1: everyone else. I said, why are they fighting? Why are

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Speaker 1: these Afghan soldiers fighting against the Taliban? And I was

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01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:16,000
Speaker 1: told some very bad information by a lot of different people.

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Speaker 1: The fact is they're among the highest paid soldiers in

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01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:23,559
Speaker 1: the world. They were doing it for paycheck because once

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01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 1: we stopped, once we left, they stopped fighting. So all

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01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 1: of the people to talk about the bravery and everything,

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01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 1: I say, everybody's brave, But the fact is our country

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01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:37,080
Speaker 1: was paying the Afghan soldiers a fortune, so we were

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01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 1: sort of bribing them to fight. And that's not what

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Speaker 1: it's all about. It's a great thing that we're getting out.

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01:25:43,439 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: But nobody has ever handled a withdrawal worse than Joe Biden.

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01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:51,839
Speaker 1: This is the greatest embarrassment, I believe, in the history

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01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: of our country. So when you hear the media say, oh, well, really,

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01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: this is Trump's fault, Donald Trump's policy was completely different

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Speaker 1: than Joe Biden's. Donald Trump would have never allowed this

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Speaker 1: to happen. And Donald Trump would have made sure that

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Speaker 1: Americans were not left behind. Donald Trump would have made

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Speaker 1: sure that if the Taliban screwed would just one American,

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01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:21,200
Speaker 1: it would have been game over. Donald Trump would have

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Speaker 1: made sure that Americans were not harmed the way that

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Speaker 1: they were not screwed with when he was the President

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Speaker 1: of the United States of America. That is a fact.

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Speaker 1: His policy was not get out by an arbitrary date either.

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Speaker 1: He moved that date. When things change, you change, you adapt.

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Speaker 1: But now the Taliban controls the whole country, and ten

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Speaker 1: to twenty thousand, maybe even more, Americans lives are at risk.

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Speaker 1: They're on kill lists, and people were being drugged from

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Speaker 1: their homes, beheaded and murdered, and people who have the

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01:26:52,200 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 1: Bible app on their phone are being drug out into

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Speaker 1: the streets and killed. And there is in a single

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01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:03,000
Speaker 1: road you can get to the airport that isn't controlled

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Speaker 1: by the Taliban with checkpoints to kill you. And the

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Speaker 1: US government of Joe Biden is doing not a damned

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01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:13,880
Speaker 1: thing to save these American lives. He is unfit to

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Speaker 1: be commander in chief. Make sure, as I've said before,

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Speaker 1: here tomorrow, and pray for the Americans that are stuck

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Speaker 1: behind enemy lines right now in Afghanistan.