1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Joe Biden lied, and we now have confirmation that Joe 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Biden lied to the American people in that George Stepanopolis 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: interview about the exit strategy and the plan for Afghanistan. 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: General Mark Millie has also come out and said that 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: our credibility is being intensely quote unquote reviewed by our 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: allies around the world. Now, this is all coming out 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: of these conversations on Capitol Hill, the first time we've 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: been able to question General Millie. And what is even 9 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: more disgusting is the fact we found out that their testimony, 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: what they were going to say, was not even given 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: to Congress until like ten thirty at night before the 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: hearing started. All right, now, before I get into more 13 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: of this, I do need to ask you guys to 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: do be a favorite right now if you're listening. 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Now, 23 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: let's go back to the reasoning behind why they waited 24 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: till ten thirty at night, the night before their testimony 25 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: to give their official testimony to Congress, right so you 26 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: can look over it to ask more questions about what 27 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: they're going to tell you. Apparently, the reason why they 28 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: did this is because the White House wanted to vet 29 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: their testimony first before they even send them over to 30 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill. The reason why they're now claiming is because 31 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: the White House wanted to vet their testimony because they 32 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: knew that there was a very good chance apparently that 33 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: General million others were not going to lie on behalf 34 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: of the President United It's America when it came to 35 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: our exit strategy. Now, there is a lot to break 36 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: out here. Diez marked that three two one. There is 37 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: a lot to break down here. I want to start 38 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: with something else that is totally insane and shocking, and 39 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 1: US Center Marsha Blackburn is going to join us in 40 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: a moment to talk about this. We now know that 41 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: General Millie, instead of actually trying to get Americans out 42 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: of Afghanistan, having a strategy to get us out of Afghanistan, 43 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: making sure that we had adequate protection on the ground 44 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. He was spending time undermining and dogging President 45 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: and then former President Donald Trump. Apparently anyone who was 46 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: writing an anti Trump book had unfeathered access to the 47 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: Joint Chief Chairman who would give them information to make 48 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: Donald Trump look bad? How bad was it? I want 49 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: you to hear these questions to General Millie confessing under oath, Yes, 50 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: that he leaked all the time to book authors about 51 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. General Milly, Yes or no to this. Did 52 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: you talk to Bob Woodard or Robert Costa for their 53 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: book Peril Woodward, you ask cost or no? Did you 54 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: talk to Carol Leonick and Philip Rucker for their book 55 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: Alone Can I Fix It? Yes? Did you talk to 56 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: Michael Bender for his book Book is Frankly we did 57 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: win this election? The inside story of how Trump lost? Yes? Yes? 58 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: And were you accurately represented in these books? I haven't 59 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: read any of the books, so I don't know. I've 60 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: seen press reporting of it, I haven't read the work. 61 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: Let's have you read the books and then let us 62 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: know if you are accurately appreciated and portrayed. Happy that 63 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: this is just totally mind blowing. You have General Milly 64 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: literally confessing, yes, I leaked to book authors about Donald Trump. 65 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: In other words, anybody that hated Donald Trump, call me. 66 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: I'll tell you everything you want to know about this guy. 67 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: This is the man who's supposed to be serving under 68 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: the President of the United States of America. Now, instead 69 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: of actually getting game plans together to get Americans out 70 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: of Afghanistan, this is the crap that he was pulling, 71 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: doing interviews after interview background and leaking to different members 72 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: of the media who were writing books. Now, that's not 73 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: the only shocking part here that people need to understand. 74 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: If he was doing this to people writing long form books, 75 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: how much information was he leaking to just everyday reporters 76 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: writing articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, 77 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: the Washington Post. The list could go on and on 78 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: and on and on and on. I'm genuinely curious. And 79 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: he's not the only one that was under questioning. Secretary 80 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: Austin quote, we didn't fully comprehend the depths of corruption 81 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: and poor leadership in Afghanistan. This is the reason why 82 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: he's now claiming things went badly in Afghanistan. Let's just 83 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: deal with that for two seconds, you're dealing with the Taliban, folks, 84 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: a terrorist organization that's worked with the worst people in 85 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: the world. Isis, al Qaida, isis K, the list goes 86 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: on and on. They'll work with the Iranians, They'll work 87 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: with anybody that would help them blow up Americans. They deceive, 88 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: they lie, they steal, they blow people up, they dismember people, 89 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: they'd behead people. This is what they do for a living. 90 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: They don't exist without this type of behavior, make no 91 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: mistake about it. Okay, they don't. I mean, they literally 92 00:05:53,560 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: do not exist, okay without this being their identity. We 93 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: blow buildings up, we blow Americans up. We're killing us 94 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: some people. We behead people, we cut people's arms off, 95 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: we kill Christians, we enslave women. This is what we do. 96 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: And now we have Secretary Austin Lloyd, Austin Defense Secretary 97 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: on the record now saying well, I mean, one of 98 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: the reasons why things when bad in Afghanistan is because 99 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: we didn't fully comprehend the depths of corruption. I could 100 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: have told you the depths of corruption. Hell, General Millie, 101 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: some of the people you were leaking to in these 102 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: books about Donald Trump have written books about the corruption 103 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: Afghanistan and the Middle East and afg and Taliban and 104 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: ISIS and isis K and the list goes on and on. 105 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: If this is like new news to you, that you 106 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: that there's corruption in Afghanistan, even with the leaders and 107 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: the military and the leaders in the government and the Taliban, 108 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: I don't care what side you're on, You're not paying attention. 109 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: We knew there was corruption. Everybody knows there is massive 110 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: corrupt in the government. The government by the way that 111 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: we supported and propped up. We knew there was corruption 112 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: because well, those guys want to live by the way, 113 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: they had to deal with the Taliban, right, they were 114 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: playing both sides. They were playing America's side as long 115 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: as we protected them more than the Taliban protected them. 116 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: And then as soon as America cut and run and 117 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: they knew that America was leaving, they made their new 118 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: best friends, which used to be their enemy, the Taliban 119 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: their best friends. We knew it. This is how it 120 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: works in the Middle East. This is not confusing, because 121 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: this is how it's always worked in the Middle East. 122 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: So for the Secretary of Defense to come out and 123 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: act like, you know, breaking news, I'm shocked we had 124 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: no idea how corrupt and how poor the leadership in 125 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: Afghanistan actually was. So therefore, it's really not our fault 126 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: that we left Americans behind. It's not our fault that 127 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: we trusted the Taliban, a terrorist organization, to quote give 128 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: Americans safe past the airport, which they didn't do. It's 129 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: not our fault that we decided to give up Kabul 130 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: when we could have trolled the entire area. It's not 131 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: our fault that we gave up Bob Gram Air Base 132 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: when we shouldn't have done that until we got every 133 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: American out to give overwatch and give air support in 134 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: case the Taliban decided to screw with us. It's not 135 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: our fault. We just didn't see it coming. We didn't 136 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: fully comprehend the depths of corruption and poor leadership in Afghanstan. 137 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, how stupid are you? Qually is due 138 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: in large portion, in large part to our planning and 139 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: prepositioning of forces. As for the mission's end, my judgment 140 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: remains that extending beyond the end of August would have 141 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: greatly imperiled our people. In our mission, the Taliban made 142 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 1: clear that their cooperation would end on the first of September, 143 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: and as you know, we faced grave and growing threats 144 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: from I's k so staying longer than we did would 145 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: have made it even more dangerous for our people and 146 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: would not have significantly changed a number of evacuees we 147 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,839 Speaker 1: could get out. So as we consider these tactical issues today, 148 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: we must also ask ourselves some fully tough questions about 149 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: the wider war itself and pause to think about the 150 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: lessons that we've learned over the past twenty years. Did 151 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: we have the right strategy? Did we have too many strategies? 152 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: Did we put too much faith in our ability to 153 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: build effective Afghan institutions, an army and air force, a 154 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: police force, and government ministries. We helped build a state, 155 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: but we could not forge a nation. The fact that 156 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: the Afghan army that we and our partners trained simply 157 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: melted away, in many cases without firing a shot took 158 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: us all by surprise, and it would be dishonest to 159 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: claim otherwise. We need to consider some uncomfortable truth that 160 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and 161 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: poor leadership in their senior ranks, That we did not 162 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: grasp the damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by 163 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: President Ghani of his commanders that we did not anticipate 164 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: the snowball effect caused by the the deals that the 165 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: Taliban commanders struck with local leaders in the wake of 166 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: the Doha Agreement, that the Doha Agreement itself had a 167 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: demoralizing effect on Afghan soldiers, and that we failed to 168 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: fully grasp that there was only so much for which 169 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: and for whom many of the Afghan forces would fight. 170 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: We provided at the Afghan military with equipment and aircraft 171 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: and the skills to use them, and over the years 172 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 1: they often fought bravely. In tens of thousands of Afghan 173 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: soldiers and police officers died, but in the end we 174 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: couldn't provide them with the will to win, at least 175 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: not all of them. And as a veteran of that war, 176 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: I am personally reckoning with all of that. There. It 177 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: is so hey, you know what, Sorry, we thought we 178 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: did everything we could. Apparently, you know, we just didn't 179 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: see it all coming really. General Millie, by the way, 180 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: also admitting Biden's Afghan evacuation was a quote strategic failure, failure. 181 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: His words, strategic failure. If these are the guys that 182 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: we're supposed to be trusting to deal with the Chinese, 183 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: the Russians, and every other around the world. We are screwed. 184 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: The President called this entire retrograde operation an extraordinary success. 185 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: General Miller, in his testimony disagreed with that assertion. General Millie, 186 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: was this Afghanistan retrograde operation and extraordinary success. There's there's 187 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: two operations, Senator, just yes or no. I have a 188 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: lot of questions. Was this an extraordinary success? Senator? With 189 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: all due respect, there's two operations. There's the retrograde, which 190 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: Miller was in charge of, and there's the neo, which 191 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: Sentcom was in charge of. The retrograde was executed and 192 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: ended by mid July with a residual force to defend 193 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: the embassy the neo. You and I've discussed this. Do 194 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: you would you use the term extraordinary success for what 195 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: took place in August in Afghanistan? That's the non combatant evacuation. 196 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: And I think one of the other senators said it 197 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: very well. It was a logistical success, but a strategic 198 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: A logistical success for this strategic failure. How dumb do 199 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: they think we are joining me now to talk about 200 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: this is the US Center. Marsha Blackburn, Senor. I appreciate 201 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: you coming on. I have never seen somebody just so 202 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: willfully admit yeah, I leaked stuff all the time. I 203 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: was leaking stuff on Trump to anybody that called me, 204 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: anybody writing a book to take down Donald Trump or 205 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: attack Donald Trump, and he was talking to all of them. 206 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: Were you as shocked as I was when I heard 207 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: all these authors? I mean, it's everybody in town, you know. Ben. 208 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: We got into this because we knew he had talked 209 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: to Robert cost and Bob Woodward, so that Woodward had said, yeah, 210 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,839 Speaker 1: he talked to us. But then we found out there 211 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: are these other two books that are also coming along, 212 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: that Millie had talked to those authors or their attributions 213 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: that were made. So I said, look on this Afghanistan hearing. 214 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: Let's use this as an opportunity to nail him down, 215 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: to see what he really did or did not do, 216 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: because he should not be talking about his commander in chief, 217 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: and Trump was the commander in chief when he gave 218 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: these interviews. So I have asked for transcripts and readouts. 219 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: I want to know if he made these interviews in 220 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: the presence of Pentacon staff, if he used federal resources 221 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: when he gave these interviews or with any information that 222 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: he distributed to these reporters. Now bear in mind, this 223 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: is a general Joint Chief of Staff chairman who sits 224 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: in front of us and says repeatedly, yesterday, oh, I 225 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: cannot give you a readout of my conversation or the 226 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: exact advice I gave the president, even though they say, yes, 227 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: we told him he needed to keep twenty five hundred troops. 228 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 1: But then he turns it round and he willfully talks 229 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: to reporters about President Donald Trump, who was at that 230 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: point in time his commander in chief. The guy cannot 231 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: do this, he cannot say, on the one hand, but 232 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: on the other hand, he cannot provide information about the 233 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: nation's security to somebody that is outside of his chain 234 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: of command. Let's talk about just the chain of command here. 235 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: It's obvious I think from these interviews with all of 236 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: these authors that he had apparently unlimited amount of time 237 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: to spend with them dogging the president knits it's America 238 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, right, because these books are about Trump, They're 239 00:14:55,160 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: about attacking Trump. He clearly can't stand President at Trump 240 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: and was undermining him especially after he lost the election. 241 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: Aren't there rules about that, like, if you can't serve 242 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: the president, don't feel comfortable serving the president, isn't it 243 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: your duty to resign at that point, Yes, it is 244 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: your duty to resign. And we had a couple of 245 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: the members ask about the resignation because through this entire debacle, 246 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: yesterday was the first time that we have heard from 247 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: General McKenzie, the head of Sentcom, Secretary Austin, the Secretary 248 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: of Defense, and General Millie, the Chairman of the Joint 249 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: Chiefs of the Staff. And we have tried to get 250 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: with them because we've had two thousand cases that we're 251 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: trying to work on getting people out of Afghanistan and 252 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: they have been unavailable. They've been unavailable until yesterday to 253 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: come to us at send it Armed Services. And then 254 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: then they submitted their testimony at ten thirty at night 255 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: on Monday night, limiting the amount of time we had 256 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: to prepare. They said the testimony was late because get this, 257 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: the White House had to review the testimony. Well, the 258 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: White House needs to remember and these generals need to remember, 259 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: we do not have the military controlling the people in 260 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: the government in this country. It is the people that 261 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: are in charge the civilian sector that is in charge 262 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: of not only the government, but of the US military. 263 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: You know, you look at the questioning and I have 264 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: about four different aspects of this that I want to cover. 265 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: So I want to go back to just the credibility 266 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: issue right now. Yesterday one of your colleagues from Mississippi 267 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: was asking this exact question, Roger Wicker, saying, Hey, like, 268 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: how that is our credibility now with our allies? And 269 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: General Milly did say, he said, well, we're in a 270 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: kind of a time of like they're they're looking at 271 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: what happens next. But he did say he did agree 272 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: with the assessment that there has been damage done to 273 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: our credibility. It's more than just damage. I mean, we've 274 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: got the UK saying we won't count on America with 275 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: military exercises and doing things together right now, at least 276 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: not under the Biden administration because we just can't trust them. 277 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: This is more than damage. We have people now saying 278 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: we can't rely on America as an ally. Well, that 279 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: is very true. And think about our friends in Hong 280 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: Kong and in Taiwan, because China is all in the 281 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: middle of this, and you have a US military that 282 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: it has promised to be there to help you, and 283 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: you can't depend on them. Think about Cutter and the 284 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: Qataris who have really stepped up and have said, hey, Usa, 285 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: you're dropping the ball on this. We've got one of 286 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: your biggest bases here at Doha, and we're going to 287 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 1: step up and help you. But you got to get 288 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: your act together on this. How about Jordan, another of 289 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: our allies. How about Israel, My goodness, look at what 290 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:27,360 Speaker 1: they're facing now, because you have the Chinese who are 291 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 1: backing the Taliban and had already signaled to us they 292 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 1: were going to be backing the Taliban. They never give 293 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: direct military support, they do political and economic support, and 294 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 1: they're backing the Taliban because they knew they were going 295 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: to end up being in charge of Afghanistan. And the 296 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party wants a direct land route from Beijing 297 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: to Tehran. They want to manufacture affordable air quotes around 298 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: affordable military equipment and Iran. Tehran wants to supply that 299 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: to their terrorist proxy organizations like Hespilla and Hamas and 300 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: ISIS and Altada and the Taliban. And now you have 301 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: a safe haven for terrorists they're in Afghanistan so they 302 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: can go cook up their plots so they can attack us. 303 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: Because if Joe Biden, the world is a much less 304 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 1: safe place and his conduct has been disgusting. Well, let's 305 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: talk about the Americans that are left behind. There was 306 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: a very interesting back and forth at this committee hearing 307 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: yesterday on that exact question, and it was talking about 308 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: how many Americans have been left behind. You say you 309 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: know that you aren't going to leave people behind, but 310 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 1: even sender Tim Cotton made it clear you guys did 311 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: leave Americans behind. Act like you didn't. You did. In fact, 312 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,719 Speaker 1: we're trying to get them out. I know you're involved 313 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: in that. How do we know even how many Americans 314 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: have been left behind? Right now? I'm talking about American citizens, 315 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: not counting any of the people that we promised we'd 316 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: get them out, the translators and others that helped us 317 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: and worked in our embassy and worked with their troops, 318 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 1: just American citizens. And that was the point Center Countenance 319 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 1: and you and others are making is you guys have 320 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: left people. Don't act like you didn't leave people behind. 321 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: You left Americans behind, Yes, and they did, and they 322 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: could not give us an answer. Senator Cotton asked, Senator 323 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: Sullivan asked. Senator Kane asked, so there was a bipartisan 324 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: frustration about not getting a number. Senator Kane, who's out 325 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: of Virginia, even told him he's during our first round 326 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: of questioning, he said, Okay, I'm going to ask you 327 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: this question again when we do the second round of questioning, 328 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: and you've got all of this support staff sitting back there, 329 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: give me a number. How many Americans are left, how 330 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 1: many of our allies are left, how many of our 331 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: Afghan partners are left, how many family members are left. 332 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: They don't know, State doesn't know, DoD doesn't know. And 333 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: we left that hearing yesterday still without a number of 334 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: American citizens that are in harm's way and are behind 335 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: enemy lines. And they even this far, forty five days 336 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 1: after it been they have not developed a list. So 337 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: you look at this debacle and you have to say 338 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: they intended it to be this way, and they don't 339 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:04,640 Speaker 1: give a ripping flip about who is left in Afghanistan. 340 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: Joe Biden wanted to be out by September eleventh. He 341 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: wanted to say, hey, look at me, I'm the guy 342 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: I did this. I ended the war, but he missed 343 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: the whole point. It's not the war with Afghanistan, it 344 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: is the war on terror. And what he has done 345 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: is to embolden the terrorist because it's a group of 346 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: people that have been loyal to an ideology and now 347 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: and they've always rallied around the ideology the let's have 348 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 1: a global jihad. Now he has turned to a country 349 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: over to them, so they have a safe haven to 350 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: go in and plan. They're dirty Deans. Senator, I want 351 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 1: to get into another major point that came out when 352 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: you guys were questioning our military leaders. One of those 353 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: is is they seem to be honest about the fact 354 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: that they did, in fact advise Joe Biden to not 355 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: pull all troops out. They both claim basically when they 356 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: were testifying before you, that they wanted to leave a 357 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 1: force probably about twenty five hundred to maybe thirty five 358 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: hundred troops in Afghanistan. That's actually the Trump plan, the 359 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: Trump Doctor, And if you want to be honest about it, 360 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: So Joe Biden lied to George Stepanopolis, he lied to 361 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 1: the American people when he said no one told him 362 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: that we should leave troops there. Otherwise the whole country 363 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: would fall quickly. Were you shocked by the candor and 364 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: really in many ways telling the truth through the president 365 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: completely under the bus here that he lied to the 366 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: American people. Yeah, you know, I think what they did 367 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: do is throw the president under the bus. And I 368 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: thought that's kind of the hills that say all chose 369 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: to I guess die on if you will, because I 370 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: doubt they're going to be in their positions for very 371 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: much longer because they each set and you know what, 372 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: then this confirms what General Scottie Miller told us in 373 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: a classified setting that there had been the recommendation that 374 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: there'd be a minimum of twenty five hundred troops so 375 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: that they could hold the Bogram Airfield and the prison 376 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: that was there, they could hold the embassy and provide 377 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: support at h Kaya Airport. So twenty five hundred was 378 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 1: the minimum. As General McKenzie said yesterday, and he's the 379 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: commander of SITCOM, that they had recommended that they plus 380 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: up to four thousand so that they could appropriately conduct 381 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:52,479 Speaker 1: an investigation. But of course what they said was General Miller. 382 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: General McKenzie's advice was communicated to the president. He re 383 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: seved that advice, but he decided to do something differently. Now, 384 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: what they've kind of nuanced and beat around the bush 385 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: about was whether or not they, as the Chairman of 386 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: the Joint Chiefs serves as the president's primary military advisor. 387 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: So what we don't know is if General Millie took 388 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: the time to say, mister President, we're going to lose 389 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: troops and we're going to lose people we cannot facilitate 390 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: at that tempo. We don't know if he challenged the 391 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: President in any way, shape or form. Now, the other 392 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: little tidbit on this is that yesterday in Jim Saki's briefing, 393 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: she kind of raised the curtain a little bit when 394 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: she said, well, in addition to the general's, we got 395 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: other advice. So we know that Susan Rice, Ron Klaine, 396 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: Jake Sullivan, Anthony Blincoln that they all had been advised 397 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 1: by the generals also on what should be the withdrawal 398 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 1: strategy and an Afghanistan strategy. And we are now left 399 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 1: to ask the question, well, did they advice the president 400 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: just to move forward and do what he wanted to 401 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: do and say, to hell with the advice of the 402 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: commanders on the ground, We're going to take that victory 403 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 1: Dance on September eleventh, come hell or high water, so 404 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: roll the dice. It's going to be messy regardless. Roll 405 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: the dice. Let's get out of there. So that creates 406 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: another set of questions, and I am sure that our 407 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: colleagues in the House are going to pick up on 408 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: some of these things as they have General Millie, Austin 409 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: and McKenzie in front of them today. Let's talk quickly 410 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: about your tweet you you have said, and there's been 411 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: so many I think it's actually sad what we have 412 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: seen now happen. And I'm talking about the politics of 413 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: every time someone doesn't like somebody, it's, you know what, 414 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: we got to impeach him, or they must resign or etc. 415 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: You're not one of those that's done that. You did 416 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: tweet out, and I want people to understand why you're 417 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: saying this. You believe that the President Joe Biden should 418 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: resign over the Afghan tobaccle. Give people the reason behind it, 419 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,959 Speaker 1: because there's so many people now unfortunately you're like, oh, 420 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: I don't like him, resign, Oh we should impeach him, Impiezza, 421 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: that person, peach this person, peach Trump again. Let's impeach 422 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: this person. That's not what you're saying here. It's not 423 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: because you don't like Joe Biden. That's not why you're 424 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: saying you should resign. It's because of his actual handling 425 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: as the commander in chief over Afghanistan. All that is 426 00:27:55,119 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 1: correct when and as I said in my second round 427 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 1: of questioning to General Milly, his job is to make 428 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: certain that all of the commanders, all of our combatant 429 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: command like Sitcom Southcom, that they all understand what their 430 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 1: mission is, that everybody is ready to move forward to 431 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 1: fulfill their mission. And General Milly did not fulfill that obligation. 432 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: He is also there to advise the President of the 433 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: United States now President Biden, with how he made his 434 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: decision of coming out on a date certain and breaking 435 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: the agreement with our allies, with our NATO partners, with 436 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: the Afghan government, by putting our troops in peril, putting 437 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: them in an impossible situation, causing confusion with our ally. 438 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: They're not knowing if they can trust us. Indeed, General 439 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: Milly yesterday admitted that our credibility is damaged because of 440 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: that and his role as commander in chief. Joe Biden 441 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: should resign Kamala Harris, who says she was the last 442 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: person in the room and that she fully supported this decision. 443 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: She should resign General Milly, Secretary Austin, They should resign 444 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: Anthony B. Lincoln, Jake Sullivan, who's the head of National Security. 445 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: These are all people who should resign will cause of 446 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: the damage they have done to our men and women 447 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: in uniform to our commitment with our allies. This is 448 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: something that we're going to suffer the consequences of these 449 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: decisions for decades to come. Last question for you, sender, 450 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: and this is going to be a quick pivot, but 451 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 1: it's an important issue. We're hearing about a possible government 452 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: shut down. We've also been told that even Bernie Sanders 453 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: is now threatening to blow up the Biden spinning splurgs 454 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: if his certain conditions aren't met. We've been told that 455 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: the President's been whining and dining certain Democrats in the Senate, 456 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: your colleagues, begging them to get on board with the 457 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: biggest increase in spending in our like my lifetime. Certainly 458 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: where are we lifetime? This is bigger than what Roosevelt 459 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: and Lyndon Johnson did together. So the new deal in 460 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 1: the great society. This is more spending than those two combine. 461 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: But we are hearing that Pelosi and Shumer are going 462 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: to do a cr that will go through December third. 463 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: They're not going to get my vote for it, but 464 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: what they do not want is to have the government 465 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: shutdown on their watch. And then Biden is going to 466 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: continue to push to finish this reconciliation bill. But the 467 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: more he talks about it, the more people come out 468 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: and say, I'm not voting for that. So let him 469 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: keep talking. Senator. I really appreciate your time. Obviously, we're 470 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: going to have you back on very soon. Quickly reminded 471 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: for you guys, make sure you hit the share button 472 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: and share this podcast with your family and friends. 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