WEBVTT - Biden's Bunker 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.720 All right, our two Sean Hannity Show, thanks for being 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:04.760 with us. Toll free. A number is eight hundred and 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.440 nine for one seawn if you want to be part 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:12.160 of the program. When I hear this that the ongoing 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:17.160 chaos has praced into the withdrawal, that's what Biden said 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:24.360 to Democratic hacks Stephanopolis. Biden's digging in. No one's being 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:29.720 killed right now. We have at least fifteen thousand, according 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.480 to him, Americans. We don't even know the exact number, 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:37.320 which infuriates me. Also trapped behind enemy lines of a 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.640 terror organization, and we're reporting acts of terror. I just 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:46.760 chronicled in the last hour, serious acts of terror. And 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:52.559 now we have no control whatsoever of the destiny of 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.840 those Americans, except that we're now being told that the Taliban, 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.960 the terrorist group, has promised pay a safe passage to 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:07.080 the airport. And people are getting memos, you know, echoing 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.840 yesterday's Yeah, and now it's probably a good time to 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.760 head to the airport. But please note we cannot ensure 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.400 your safety as you try to get to the airport, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.960 nor they guaranteed get that all out of the airport. Wow, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.320 you know, did the military warnut none that I can recall, 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.400 but now we know that there was a plan completely 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.040 in place that they dismantled. It was called the Contingency 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.959 and Crisis Response Bureau, and that was formed under Secretary 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:45.760 of State Bank Pompeo, tasked with providing aviation, logistics, medical 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:51.760 support capabilities for the departments operational bureaus, thereby enhancing the 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:56.440 Secretary in America's ability to protect American citizens overseas in 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:01.360 connection with overseas evacuations in the aftermath of a natural 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:06.040 or man made disaster. Nobody I never saw this coming, 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:12.160 General Millie saying competence, I mean it is. It is 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:19.000 beyond any comprehension I have, except that you know our 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.520 military leaders, General Milliers, nothan I saw or anyone else saw. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.600 All you needed to do, General was read a newspaper 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.040 because the newspaper said the Taliban was on the march 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.960 and they've got well last week they were telling you 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.200 they had thirty forty, fifty sixty percent of the country. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.519 Joe Biden, I know, we didn't respond for days. He 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.960 was on vacation. He's going back on vacation. I just 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:48.440 we just it was just reported. Great. What about the 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.040 Americans that now their fate, their future lies in the 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:57.239 hands of the Taliban. You can't screw something up this 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.679 bad and spin out of it that we didn't see 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.200 this coming, nothing, no warning that I saw. Then the 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:10.160 intel community's blaming Joe Biden, and they're blaming the Defense Department. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:14.160 The Defense Department blaming the intel community, and everybody's pointing 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:19.560 fingers at each other. And Biden administration literally went out 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.200 of their way to dismantle the protections that have been 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.520 put in place for a scenario and situation just like this. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.440 I mean, it's unbelievable. Eight hundred and nine for one, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.040 Shaun is a number. Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina, good 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.800 friend of the program, joins us today. Senator, lets get 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.440 your overall take on the situation. I look at this 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.440 from every angle imaginable, and you know, short of a 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.800 massive military presence, I don't see a lot of military 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.520 options available. Although there are British paratroopers that's been reported 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.920 that have that have gone into Cobble and surrounding area 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.120 is to protect British citizens and escort them personally to 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:08.320 the airport. But even under those circumstances, they're outmanned and 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.760 outgunned and outnumbered. Now the billions of dollars of American 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.760 weaponry is in the hands of the Taliban. Also, Sir, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.599 yes well, Sean, thank you for covering this issue so comprehensively. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.040 As usual, you are spot on and ahead of the curve. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.400 When you look at President Biden's performance, the few words 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:31.040 that come to mind unmitigated disaster, their reliction of duties 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:35.200 as commander in chief, talking about cutting and running during 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.280 the fighting season, he ignored good intelligence, and frankly, the 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.200 messages sends to our allies could not be more crippling. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.960 While he is safely tucked away at Camp David, I 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:51.120 can't think of a more bizarre and alarming picture that 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.200 the President of the United States comes out of hiding. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.000 It seems like for a press conference, won't take questions, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.919 and then ducks and runs again and always talks to 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:07.760 George Stepanopolis is the greatest bizarre occurrence I've seen in 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:12.320 the foreign policy disaster happening in real time with thousands 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.960 of Americans trapped in a country without the greatest fighting 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.599 force ever crafted in the history of the world at 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.839 their disposal. I don't understand how in the world he 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.599 allows us to be where we are, but there we 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.479 find ourselves with a lack of leadership from the White House. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:34.239 When they say they didn't see it coming, you watched news. 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.760 You followed news as closely as ever as anyone in 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.400 your business has to. And you saw that the toler 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.159 band was on the march. You saw that they were 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.839 very quickly taking over significant portions of the country. We 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.240 all saw it coming, we all And yet you know, 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.919 we watched go back to last weekend, and even with 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.400 this unfolding, you know, Joe stays on vacation, flies back in, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 you know, to Washington, does a ten minute speecher, is 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.679 choppered in and then and goes right back home. And 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.400 now he's going now apparently he's taken another long weekend 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.279 in Delaware, and when he's asked questions yesterday, doesn't answer 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.040 one of them, and he talks about COVID, not Afghanistan. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:20.960 I really have a problem with this, because you have 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.840 common sense, as Sean, you should have a problem with it. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:29.280 Every American in this country, and frankly, every American abroad 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.520 should be shaking in our boots watching not in the 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.920 President of the United States, but he's also the commander 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.360 in chief of our military. He is this dereliction of 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.000 duties cannot be seen best as the potents. We have 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.159 to see it best as commander in chief. And what 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:50.320 we're watching here is an absolute, utter disaster, one that 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:57.520 is preventable, completely preventable. You never leave anyone behind, certainly 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:02.320 not fifteen vowels and living, even Americans. I hear around 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.680 fifteen thousand, but thousands of Americans left behind in a 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:14.040 very uncertain environment with terrorists coming for every corner of 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:18.720 the country. I don't understand what he doesn't understand and 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:24.320 how you go? And they're they're telling Americans, and I 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.040 know from your fellow senator to Lindsey Graham, apparently both 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:33.480 of your offices are being inundated with calls, desperate calls 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.720 from families and people in Afghanistan. Even you know, how 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.560 do we get out? Now? The State Department is telling people, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.080 you might want to start making your way to the airport, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.800 but we can't guarantee your safe passage to the airport. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.640 We know the perimeter around Ahmad Karzaide International Airport is 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.840 now in total control of the Taliban, numerous checkpoints. Just 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.680 even getting into the airport, then we got reports of 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.320 all the violence, which I chronicled them. The last stour 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.280 I won't repeat here. The Wall Street Journal editorial board 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.280 actually says the US is now hostage to the Taliban. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.640 Walter Russell mead at the Journal the return of America 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.400 held hostage. I don't I really see that every one 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.600 of these American lives, Senator, that their destiny is out 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.680 of our hands and in the hands of a terrorist organization. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.520 Am I wrong? You are unfortunately right. I saw the 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:31.720 same Wall Street Journal op ed editorial and it sits 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:36.359 it so clearly that we are literally watching the President 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:42.080 and his efforts leave too many Americans at the mercy 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:48.319 of terrorists, and literally people would being beaten as they 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.360 get out of their cars Afghans, and we are hoping 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:58.360 and pleading with the terrorists literally to let our people 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:03.040 come to the airport. That is a weak picture. It's 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:08.480 a weak scene to be digested by Americans and our adversaries. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.679 Bad enough for our allies to watch this, but our 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:16.360 adversaries are being emboldened by the inaction of this president, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.960 suggesting that we don't know if we can keep Americans safe. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.520 And I honestly thought it was bad enough. You know, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.040 it's interesting to watch Biden say that he inherited this 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.400 from Trump, but then he abandoned the plan of the 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.839 evacuation plans and contingencies that had been put in place 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:39.200 by Mike Pompeo and President Trump and with President Trump, 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.360 Steele came based on conditions on the ground that was 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.760 very very specific before the fighting season. That was specific, 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.440 and also the dire threat that I would they would 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.680 be blown into another century if they dared not abide 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.240 by every comma and every period in any agreement. And 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.880 that was set up front and first, and I'm told 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.840 why many people that were on the call. It was 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:07.080 a brutal, straightforward, no nonsense threat, we will destroy you 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.600 if harm comes to a single American. I don't see 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.040 that fear existing and this plan of Biden not at all. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:15.640 As a matter of fact, Sean, the two things that 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.040 we can contrast as one is strong leadership and the 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.760 other one is weak leadership under President Trump. But we 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.920 saw very clearly was a deadline based on condition. Therefore, 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.360 the deadline is not a deadline if the conditions changed. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.440 Obviously they have changed. So watching national media try to 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:37.160 conflate this into a Trump Biden issue is just terrible 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.480 because it's inconsistent with reality. What we know, however, is 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.400 that the Biden administration had a chance to do it differently. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.560 They had a chance to make sure that the current 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.400 catastrophe did not happen. They decided to go with arbitrary 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:56.119 deadlines set by themselves. They have done this to themselves, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.360 to the American people, to our allies, and frankly to 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:05.480 the interpreters and the Americans and Afghanistan. We know exactly 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.400 where the blame of this issue. It is at the 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.840 feet of President by them by himself, no other administration, 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.720 just this one. Do you have any options, because I'm 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.360 I don't see any good ones. To be very blunt, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.000 because we both know what the Taliban is capable of 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.640 so militarily, you know, we could, we could show all 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.120 the all the might of the United States now, but 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:38.640 it's too late because they have control of of where 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.440 the Americans are, which is behind enemy lines. Do you 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:46.079 see any option other than counting on the goodwill of 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.920 the Taliban? And I can't believe quote those words are 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.600 even flying out of my mouth. Yeah, I will say 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:57.400 as as the answer is short and simple, No, there 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.520 are no good options left on the table. The only 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.680 options that we see that fall into the category of 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.120 too little, if too few people on the ground to 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.720 be able to hold anything other than the airport. According 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.640 to those, Secretary Austin and General Miley, they both were 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.800 in concerts saying this is basically out of their hands. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.680 They simply don't have the troops. They don't have the 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.240 authority to even increase the presence, and frankly, bringing the 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.040 troops back into harm's way is also a complicated decision 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.760 that could have all been eliminated, and we just not 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.360 cut and run. That is something that should never be 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.480 phnonymous with who we are as a nation. If, frankly 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.560 it is not, it is, however, consistent with this administration. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.440 It is not consistent with the American people. It's not 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.400 consistent with every single member of our armed forces who 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.040 fought to keep that country stable for twenty years and 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.839 less than ninety days we saw the efforts of thousands 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.360 upon thousands of troops go down the drain because of 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.640 the dereliction of duty of this administration. There are no 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.640 good options on the table that we can put there 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.600 without putting in jeopardy more American lives. It's the worst 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.880 case scenario and the one that I just don't understand 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.520 how in the world President Biden allowed us to get 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:23.559 into this situation. Senator, our prayers are with everybody over there. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.360 I want every American and frankly all the people that 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.959 we've made a promise too that if this day ever came, 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.120 those that assisted us in our military effort over the 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.000 twenty years, they deserve safe passage out of there as well. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:40.319 Because their destiny is now sealed, their fate is sealed. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.840 They will be killed, either they leave or they die. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.800 Our prayers are with all of them. Thank you, senator, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.400 appreciate it. The update eight hundred nine four one sewn 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:51.959 our number. We'll get to a lot of your calls 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.000 coming up. We'll also talk to Brigadier General Don Bullduck 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.760 and well a full coverage on Hannity tonight at nine 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.960 on Fox All right, twenty five till the top of 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.200 the hour. Told for your numbers, eight hundred and ninety 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.000 four one, Sean, you want to be a part of 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.079 the program. The interview with Stephanopolis, which was just a 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:15.280 disaster everything, Biden exclaiming we anticipated this, we factored this 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.880 chaos in and we all knew that there was going 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.600 to be chaos. And well, that's the opposite, first of all, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.480 of what he said in July. When three hundred thousand 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.200 army strong, one of the best trained in the entire world, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.160 and they've got an air force and they're up against 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.760 seventy five thousand Taliban, forget it, they're going to crush them. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:38.920 So everything nothing explains why they didn't have a contingency 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.840 at General General Milly, Well, you know, nobody saw this 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.120 coming for eleven days. How could you not see it 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.320 coming because you must be blind. All you needed to 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.600 do was have a little satellite photo imaging that would 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.880 show the Taliban conquering ten percent, fifteen percent, twenty percent, 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.320 twenty five percent, thirty percent of the country and on, 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:05.800 and realize that this Afghan US trained army, one of 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.280 the best trained in the world, wasn't living up to 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.640 what they claimed. The fact that we don't know how 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.320 many Americans are there, the fact that we don't know 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.360 where they are, the fact that we can't get them 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.720 safely to the airport, but we're telling them to go. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.800 You know, nothing is Joe's fault. You know, nothing we 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.760 could have done actually is everything that could have been done. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:31.120 You could have executed with pinpoint precision, the mobilization and 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:37.240 extraction of every American in Afghanistan. And on top of that, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.640 and Joe says, is about fifteen thousand of them. We 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.560 don't have a complete number. We haven't accounted for everybody, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.600 and those that we know will be killed if we 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.680 don't get them out of there. We'll deal with where 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.720 they're going eventually down the line doesn't have to necessarily 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.960 be here. I know some people saying that shouldn't guarantee citizenship, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.600 but we promised people that assisted us in this conflict 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.400 in twenty years we would not abandon them should things 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.600 come to this. And at the end of the day, 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.160 there's no spinning around the days of vacation, There's no 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:18.359 spinning around the lack of action. How you didn't anticipate 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.240 the lack of planning. There's no spinning around we had 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:27.440 no idea it's happening, none whatsoever. It's all a big 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:32.920 smokescreen lie. It's a big lie, you know Biden claiming 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:37.200 the withdrawal wasn't a failure. Well, if now the fate 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.160 of every American, every interpreter, everybody that helped us, that 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.440 will die if we when we leave eventually, the fact 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.480 that every American life and the idea that they're going 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:53.360 to get home is completely contingent on the Taliban keeping 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.480 a promise of safe passage to the airport when we 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.240 know that's not happening. Listen to Joe, when you get 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.800 what's happened over the last week. Was it a failure 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:08.480 of intelligence, planning, execution or judgment? Look, I don't think 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.480 it was a Look, it was a simple choice charge. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.000 We've all seen the pictures. We've seen those hundreds of 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:17.480 people packed into a C seventeen. We've seen Afghan's fallings 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.200 four days ago, five days ago. Who did you think 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.520 when you first some days pictures? What I thought was, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.280 we have to gain control of this. We have to 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.320 move this more quickly. We have to move in a 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.600 way in which we can take control of that airport, 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.520 and we did so. You don't think this could have 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.280 been handled this act? It could have been handled better 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.119 in any way, no mistakes. No, I don't think it 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.560 could have been handled in a way that we're going 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.200 to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.320 that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.440 chaos ensuing. I don't know how that happens. I don't 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.719 know how that happened. So for you, that was always 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:00.480 priced into the decision. Yes, chaos was always just into 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.479 the decision. George, Why didn't you bomb them when they 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.239 took over fifteen percent of the country. Why didn't you 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.280 push them back? Why didn't you say this is not 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.560 going to be this is not going to end well 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.280 for you because those options we saw it successfully used 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:20.399 in Syria the defeat of the Caliphate, which Joe couldn't 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.880 figure out. Then you know, no mistakes at all. There 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.560 hasn't been a single thing they've done right here. You 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.600 can't screw it up any more than this. Let's say 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.280 hi to our friend Tammy and Louisiana. Hey, Tammy, how 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.760 are you glad you called? I'm fine? How are you? 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.640 I'm good? What's going on? Hey? Son? I just want 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.280 to first off, thank you for always staying true to 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:42.880 who you are, and thank you for being the voice 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.760 for so many Americans like myself. Thank you you give 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.920 me this voice. Thank you. What's I just want to say, 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:52.879 the sky's a limit for the amount of corruption in 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.320 our government. I mean, I feel so betrayed by this administration. 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.840 It's I feel like we've been bought by China. Rush. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.560 I'm beginning to think by the Taliban, what happened to 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.720 like leave no man behind? I mean, we left some 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.639 of our own citizens. They knew exactly what was going 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.320 to happen if we pulled out the way we did. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.679 Not only did they leave Americans, they left behind billions 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.879 of dollars worth of high tech military equipment that we, 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.840 the American people, paid for. Now, when we go to 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.080 try to extract our people from there, we're gonna have 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.720 to fight against our own guns thanks helicopters. I mean, 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.600 you can't make this stuff up. You can't botch it 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.879 any worse. I mean, this is the thing I'm listen. 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.400 I believe in the power of prayer. I believe in miracles. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:42.359 We've but to put ourselves to make ourselves so vulnerable 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.480 that the fate of every American there, and the fate 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.359 of every American supporter there, and these families that are there, 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.280 is not in our control any longer. The Taliban will 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.520 control if they get to the airport. What's your plan, Joe, 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.760 What are you going to do? Are you going to 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:03.040 strike them militarily, because I have a pretty sneaky suspicion 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.840 that the way they will respond will be will shock 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.080 the conscience and soul of the world in terms of 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:18.040 the utter brutality of one precious American life. So we're now, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:22.720 we're there. We have no control of the situation. He's 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:27.000 given up all total command and control to terrorists. That's 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.960 where we now are, and any other spin doesn't work. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.159 My heart goes out to all the people that have 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:33.919 been left behind and asking a sin. I mean, this 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.959 is something that should have never happened. This administration has 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.600 been an embarrassment to our country. President Trump always put 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.040 the American people first. I at least feel safe when 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.199 he was in office. I mean, other countries know that 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:48.040 if Trump said he was going to do something, he 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.800 did it. They didn't mess with us. Hell, our allies 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.160 probably don't even trust us. Now I don't even trust us. 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:58.879 I mean, this is ridiculous. Why should you? What has 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.000 he done to instill any confidence in anybody? You know 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:07.280 the fact that the only option is prayer. I believe 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.800 in prayer. I believe in God. I believe in it deeply. 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.640 I believe in it. Profoundly. But this didn't We could 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:16.560 have controlled, We could have been the masters of our 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.720 destiny here. We should have been. It's a failure. It's 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:26.000 it's an incalculable proportions on every level, incompetence at every level. 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.560 Why did you stay on vacation, Joe? How did you 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.760 get it this wrong? Anyway? Good call, Tammy. Ron is 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.040 in Florida. Ron, thank you for calling, Thank you for 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.320 having me on there. Sean, I've got a good friend 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.159 of mine who is over he's a contract worker in 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.720 Afghanistan right now, and normally talked to him a couple 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.199 of times weeks and him attacks after everything was going on, 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.040 after I said, have you made it out? Okay, no reply, 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.480 and then his wife calls me up and told me 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.280 that he's a hiding and that he don't know. And 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.480 that's a hard time, choking up a little bit because 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.800 that's a hard conversation have with your wife not knowing 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.359 if you're gonna make it back and he's in hiding. 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:07.640 He said, they're systematically going door to door looking for 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.840 anybody who supported the United States and taking him out. 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:13.560 And he don't know what, he said, I don't know 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.320 how I'm getting home. I don't know they have. He's alone, 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.080 and this is just horrifying that this has taken place 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:23.399 and this president doing what he did. How dare you 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.000 take the military out before you take all these American 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.880 civilians out. I'm just I'm just infuriated. You have every 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:32.439 right to be. Now take your situation. And by the way, 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:37.520 I'm very sorry. Um, it's scary. Do I think this 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:43.639 person's life, a friend's life, this husband's life, father's life 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:47.320 is in jeopardy. I absolutely do. Everybody's life is in 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.680 complete jeopardy. And we got the gang that can't shoot 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.119 straight in charge, and I you know, I don't. I 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:58.400 don't really have words to say. I mean, if if 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.439 everybody gets home safe, it won't be because of Joe Biden. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.639 It won't be. It will be because, for whatever reason, 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.320 the stars aligned in the right way at the right time. 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:13.080 But I will tell you I'm not counting on that outcome, 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:17.240 and I'm not counting on it expeditiously either, And I 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.159 you know, we better be ready to buckle up. This 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:22.879 could be, this could go on for a while. I 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:27.080 hope I'm wrong. Does anybody actually think that this is 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:30.600 going to end peacefully? With the evacuation. No, you know, 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:33.080 we just armed him to the teeth. We've got what 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:36.560 six thousand I think the eighty second Airborne deployed six 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:40.040 thousand troops to help with this. There is no way 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.600 that this is going to end peacefully. And I'm just like, 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:45.800 how do you how do you mess this up that bad? 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.359 I just did he not listen to his military advisors? 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.119 I don't know, Well, we went through this earlier, and 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.520 now you're right the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin insisting there's 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.960 no way he can save these Americans that have been 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.879 deserted in a band. Didn't the Biden White House We 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.800 now know. I'm just giving you information ignored a June 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:10.480 recommendation from the Pentagon to evacuate Afghanistan. They have the 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:13.920 Pentagon pointing to the Intel community, the Intel community pointing 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:16.639 at the Pentagon, everybody pointing at Joe Biden. You have 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.880 Taliband soldiers. They're out there, many of them chanting death 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:23.800 to America right now, and that's on tape. I've given 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:27.880 you the list of you know, brutality and human suffering 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.040 and death that's already taken place and taking place there now. 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:36.240 They dismantled Project protections for all the Americans that are 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:39.320 trapped abroad that had been put in place by Mike 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:42.720 Pompeo and Donald Trump. This had all been in place, 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.159 just like the border was secure, and just like we 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:47.480 were energy independent. I feel that we're going to start 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:49.639