1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: We are now being told about stories of women being 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: pulled from their homes, people that stood with American troops 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: being pulled from their homes and killed. One soldier tweeted 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: out a picture of himself in a group of one, two, three, four, 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: five different Afghan military soldiers, a picture that was taken 6 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: in February. He said, the Afghans we were within February 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: were all executed outside their homes in Kandahar. This is 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: what is happening in the country right now. You wanna 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: who's going to lead the Taliban. Taliban leader who was 10 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: freed from Guantanamo Bay in a prison swat for the 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: deserter burg Doll back in twenty fourteen by Barack Obama 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: is now the guy who is in charge of the Taliban. 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: We have just learned this is one of the worst 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: dudes in the world. And now this guy who we 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: freed in this prisoner exchange of five to one exchange 16 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: for a deserter bou Burg Doll, is now in charge. 17 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: A guy that no other country, by the way, wanted back, 18 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: wanted him out. He is now in charge of the Taliban. 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: Nothing to see here, right, nothing to see here? Welcome 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: to what is happening as the President of the United 21 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: States America is on vacation yet again. Now the Taliban 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: were also been told has total control over the airport, 23 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: compound around the airport. They have completely surrounded the airport. 24 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: It is theirs. The White House has said, or not 25 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: even the White House, the Pentagon has said, well, if 26 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: they attack us, we will defend ourselves. Well, that's Captain 27 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: obvious information. General Petrayus called the Afghan debacle quote our 28 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: dun Kirk moment, something that was in fact avoidable. Take 29 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: a listen to what he had to say on Fox. 30 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: So that victory for the Taliban House King concerns the 31 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: country could once again become a breeding ground for terrorism, 32 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: and that is something the world will be watching here 33 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: to talk about it. Retired General former CIA Director David Petraea, Sir, 34 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: thank you for coming back in good morning to you. 35 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: I want to read a quote to you from the 36 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: President from yesterday. This is what he said. He said, 37 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: the choice I had to make as your president was 38 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: either to follow through on that agreement cut by the 39 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 1: Trump team or go back to fighting the Taliban. Sir, 40 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: was this one decision or the other? Well, first of all, 41 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: I think that the Trump agreement was disastrous. It was very, 42 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: very flawed. It resulted in the release of some five 43 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: thousand detainees of the Taliban that were being held by 44 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: the Afghan government, which was not allowed to participate in 45 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: the negotiations. But that said, this administration has overturned innumerable 46 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: policy decisions by the previous administration to withdrawal from the WHO, 47 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: from the Urn Nuclear Court, you can name anymore. And 48 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: I don't know why it fell that it was in 49 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: a straight jacket in this particular case. The fact is, 50 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: I think that there were alternatives as we look at 51 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: what is clearly a heartbreaking tragic I don't know how 52 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: you can describe it as anything other than disastrous outcome 53 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: in this case, And certainly there's a lot of blame 54 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: to go around. I thought it was a bit uncharitable 55 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 1: to cast quite as much, particularly on Afghan soldiers, who 56 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: until now certainly a mixed bag, especially with the police. 57 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: But the Afghan soldiers and especially the Special Operations Forces 58 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: and their air force fought very, very hard over the years. 59 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: Our concerns over those years and oftentimes were that they 60 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: were taking such high casualties that they could not sustain 61 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: that and maintain their industry. And let's keep in mind 62 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: that we have not lost a single soldier in battle 63 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: since February twenty twenty. So was there a sustainable measured 64 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: in the expenditure of our blood and treasure, sustained commit 65 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: that might have been made maintained. I think that that 66 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: was an alternative. Did we apparently underestimate what a number 67 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: of US actually pointed out, and that is that there's 68 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: going to be an enormous psychological blow, first with the 69 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: announcement to withdraw, then with the actual withdrawal, because I 70 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: think there are many in Afghanistan, probably in the United 71 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: States who thought would look into the ABYSS and then 72 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: draw back at the last moment, as we did before, 73 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: including with the Trump administration. And then, of course, something 74 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: that's somewhat overlooked was the withdrawal of some eighteen thousand 75 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: contractors who maintained the US provided helicopter and planes that 76 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: were the key to getting those great Afghan special operators 77 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: and close air support two Afghan forces that were fighting 78 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: at that point all around the country. Simultaneous attacks by 79 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: the Taliban in a whole host of different locations in 80 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: a very very vast mountainous country with limited road infrastructure, 81 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: and frankly, once Afghan soldiers or any soldiers fight for 82 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: a couple of days as they did at the outset, 83 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: and then realize that nobody has their back, there's nobody 84 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: coming to the rescue, they are going to figure out 85 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,919 Speaker 1: that they either have to flee or they have to 86 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: cut a deal and surrender. And that is exactly what 87 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: many of the Afghan forces and local leaders did when 88 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: they realized that there was no one coming to the rescue, 89 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: because the Afghan air force readiness had eroded so substantially. 90 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: So that's I think the perspective. But let's get let 91 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: me just go back to what Jenner Portray said. You 92 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: notice there he stopped himself and said, look, we all 93 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: have been saying, don't do it this way. We all 94 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: have been telling you don't do it this way. Now 95 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: the White House and the Pentagon trying to rewrite history 96 00:05:54,600 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: as we speak. They're trying to say there's no problem 97 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: on the ground. In fact, they actually said, quote, there's 98 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: been no hostile interactions from the Taliban with our operations. 99 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 1: So then they're asked a basic question from CNN because 100 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: they won't go on any other news channel saying, hey, 101 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: how are you going to get all the Americans out 102 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: of Afghanistan who are stuck there behind enemy lines? Now, 103 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: I want you to listen to the Pentagon's response. So 104 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: the reason I'm would ask you about those numbers is 105 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: just because of that. I want to understand how you're 106 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: going to do that, because there are only so many 107 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: people at the airport right now. There aren't twenty thousand 108 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: people at the airport right now. There aren't five to 109 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: ten thousand Americans at the airport right now. They're at 110 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 1: their homes either in Cobble or the area. What is 111 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: the plan to get these people to the airport? There's, 112 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: first of all, from a military perspective, John, our focus 113 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: is at the airport right security and stability at the 114 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: airport so we can keep operations going. We're working hand 115 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: in glove with the State Department in terms of supporting 116 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: their plans at processing these individuals. But again that's something 117 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: that we're going to be doing on a case by case, 118 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: day by day basis right now, though, I don't want 119 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: to set the expectation that we are equipped and able 120 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: to go out into the countryside and physically move people 121 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: into Kabble. Our focus right now. The troops that we 122 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: have there are at the airport. The idea is to 123 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: make sure we can get that the air operations not 124 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: only have they resumed, but to keep them in place 125 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: for as long as possible. If they can't get to 126 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: the airport, what does it matter if you have the 127 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: capabilities to get them out from the airport. And John, 128 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: I understand that, and we all understand that the security 129 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: situation in Kabble is not ideal. Right now, the airport 130 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: is open and people are by the way. It's not open. 131 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: That's a lie. The airport's not open. There's no safe 132 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: passage to the airport. The Taliban has surrounded the airport. Yes, 133 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: Americans are protecting the airport, but there's no way to 134 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: get to the airport, which is exactly what American citizens 135 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: are begging that we need you to come get us. 136 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: And this guy just said, there's no plan to get 137 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: Americans the airport. So, Okay, the airport's open, how do 138 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: I get there without being beheaded by the Taliban? Able 139 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: to get through the gates. There's a there's a processing 140 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: process that actually has to occur. But right now things 141 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: are moving out of the airport, and again our focuses 142 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: on making sure that continues. So, in other words, we 143 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: have an airport that is open, but we have no 144 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: plan on how to get Americans his words, not mine, 145 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: to the airport to get on the planes. This is 146 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: the Biden administration and he's saying this. Wow, Joe Biden 147 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: is actually on vacation. Even MSNBC is having on Democrats 148 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: who are saying this is all Joe Biden's fault. Now, 149 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: the Pentagon has put out a number saying that they 150 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: can't evacuate five thousand and nine thousand people per day, 151 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: but we have no way to give them the airports. 152 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: At some point, what are we going to do? Right? 153 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: The Pentagon also saying that it will take weeks. So 154 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: I want you to imagine knowing that the United States government, 155 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: and you're an American says, and your family's there, you've 156 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 1: been helping there in Afghanistan, you've been working in Afghanistan, 157 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: and you're an actual American system with a US passport, 158 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: and your country has just told you, while the president 159 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: is on vacation, that you're going to have to play 160 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: a game of hide and go seek, and if you lose, 161 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: you will be murdered. You will be beheaded, Your children 162 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: will be brutally murdered in the streets. You may be 163 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: hung from a crane if you lose the game of 164 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: hide and go seek for the next two weeks. And 165 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: the Pentagon just said week and again I'm quoting them. 166 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: We have no plans on how to get Americans the airport. 167 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,239 Speaker 1: They have no plan how to do that. Even Democratic 168 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: Representative Molton on MSNBC said this behind the next few 169 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: days are critical and the last few days seem to 170 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: have been avoidable. Given all that you've just said, who 171 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,839 Speaker 1: do you think President Biden is listening to Well, he's 172 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: not listening to me, because for the last few months 173 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: I have been telling the administration that they need to 174 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: start the evacuation immediately. That if you simply did the 175 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: math with the number of people we need to get 176 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: out and the number of days that we had before 177 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: US troop withdrawal is complete, they should have been conducting 178 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: this evacuation for months. This is the first question I 179 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: asked Secretary of Austin when he came before the House 180 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,359 Speaker 1: Arm Services Committee just two months ago. I said, mister Secretary, 181 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: why have you not already begun this evacuation. All the 182 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: scenes of total chaos that we saw a play out 183 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: on the TV yesterday could have been avoided if the 184 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: administration had planned for this in advance. I mean, I 185 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,959 Speaker 1: am shocked that they are talking today about finding US 186 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 1: bases here in America to house these avcans. We've known 187 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: for months. In fact, we've known for years that we 188 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: need places to put these folks when they immigrate to 189 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: the United States. There's been an SIV, a Special Immigrant 190 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: Visa backlog since long before I came to Congress. So 191 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: there's really no excuse for not doing this, for this 192 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: evacuation and starting it sooner. This is a Democratic congressman 193 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: saying this. They all know it has been a screw up. Now, 194 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: the White House and the Pentagon is trying to act 195 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: like somehow the Taliban is a good group of guys, 196 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: a bunch of normal people, right They just had this 197 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: Pentagon briefing where the Pentagon spokesman who just said we 198 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: have no plans on how to get Americans out of 199 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: Afghanistan outside of the airport area, want you to know though, 200 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: that hey, the Taliban's actually they're being really good people 201 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: right now. They're dragging people from their homes. They're murdering people. 202 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: They pulled a mother of four out of her house 203 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: for not cooking for them because she said, I have 204 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: no food, no money for food, and they drug her 205 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 1: out in the street or excuse me though, they drugger 206 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: in the bedroom, beat her with the butt of AK 207 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: forty sevens to death, then threw a grenade in the 208 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: house and blew up other family members. And the Pentagon 209 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: spokesman said, quote, there's been no hostile interaction from the 210 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: Taliban to our operations, well at least at the airport. Yeah, 211 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: could you just gave him the whole damn country. Still 212 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 1: threats from the Taliban at the airport, I'm warning. Does 213 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: the US have an arrangement with the Taliban to allow 214 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: the evacuation airlist to proceed until August thirty first? And 215 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: the second question is under what circumstance would the US 216 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: troops leave before August thirty first. So on your first question, 217 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: what I would say is coming out of General Mackenzie's 218 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: discussions with senior Taliban leaders in Doha, our commanders at 219 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: the airport are in communication with Taliban commanders on the 220 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: ground outside the airport. There have been discussions. There is 221 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: communication between them and us, and I would just let 222 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 1: the results speak for themselves. I'm not going to get 223 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: into the details of how those discussions are progressing, because 224 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: there are interactions multiple times a day. In as I 225 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,079 Speaker 1: the General said, I think very well, there's been no 226 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: hostile in our actions from the Taliban to our operations 227 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: at the airport, So the point of that would be 228 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: too allowed that the Taliban is willing to allow it proceed, 229 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: and they're they're cooperating in that regard. I would just 230 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: let the results speak for themselves so far, and we're 231 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: not taking anything for granted. And the prior to August 232 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 1: thirty first part of our oh I'm sorry, yeah, right now, 233 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: As the General made clear, the mission runs through August 234 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: thirty first. The Commander in Chief made it very clear 235 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: that we were going to complete this draw down by 236 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: August thirty first, which now includes the draw down of 237 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: American citizens, you know, the pulling out of American citizens 238 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: and draw down of our embassy personnel. So that's what 239 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: we're focused on. That's the timeline we're on. And as 240 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: the Secretary made clear to leaders even as recently as 241 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: this morning time, is of the essence and we all 242 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: we all share a sense of urgency here. But right now, 243 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: the mission runs to thirty first of August, and I 244 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: won't begin to speculate what happens after that. All right, 245 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: So there you go. So the thirty first, Taliban, Hey, 246 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: I just hold on, don't do anything stupid till the 247 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: thirty first. After that, you can go kill everybody you 248 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: want to. I mean, Taliban spokesman just congratulated the nation 249 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: for this victory. Congratulated the nations. Hey, like, congratulations, we won, 250 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: we beat Remember, Taliban plays the long game. That's what 251 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: happens here. Taliban plays the long game. Afghan's first female 252 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: mayor gave a plea for her country moments ago. The 253 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: first female mayor ever says she's now waiting for the 254 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: Taliban to come and kill her after the terror group 255 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: outed the government effectually see power of the country. Zarifa 256 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: twenty seven, became the youngest and first female mayor in 257 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: Afghan in twenty eighteen. She has received numerous threats from 258 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: the Taliban and faced multiple attemptive assassinations. Her father was 259 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: killed last year. He held a defense mystery position in Kabul, 260 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: moved there over fear for her safety until the Taliban 261 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: ever ran the city over the weekend. According to I News, 262 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: her plea quote, I'm sitting here waiting for them to come. 263 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: There is no one to help me or my family. 264 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm just sitting with them and my husband, and they 265 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: will come for people like me and they will kill me. 266 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: I can't leave my family in any way. There would 267 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: be where would I go. America has abandoned us. There 268 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: is nowhere for us to go. You want to know 269 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: somebody that I'm in favor of giving asylum to this woman. 270 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: This is an individual that I would absolutely say yes to. 271 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: And you have this race to evacuate Americans and Afghans 272 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: from Kabul, and the Taliban knows they own it right now. 273 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: Less than a month ago, this woman had seemed optimistic 274 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: about our country's future, telling i Knews the time quote, 275 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: Younger people are aware of what's happening. They have social media, 276 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: they communicate. I think they will continue fighting for progress 277 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: and our rights. I think the future for our country 278 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: we might still have a chance. Many of Afghan's top 279 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: government officials have already fled the country. The president fled 280 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: the country on Sunday as the Taliban militants entered Kabul. 281 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: Refugees who fled to Kabul before its falls said the 282 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: Taliban militants had already begun cracking down on Afghans in 283 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: outlying cities and towns, forcing unmarried women to become sex 284 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: slaves wed to Taliban fighters executing every Afghan soldier they 285 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: can get their hands on. Members of Taliban have already 286 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: reported started knocking door to door searching in Kabol, looking 287 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: for any former officials of the Afghan government, any former soldiers, 288 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: any journalists and others, and then killing them. Taliban militants 289 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: are reportedly conducting these door to door searches looking for 290 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: all of the people who worked to the United States, 291 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: dragging them the streets, throwing grenades in their homes, and 292 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 1: blowing them up. Taliban militants are also seeking out journalists 293 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: who were not friendly to the Taliban. In other words, 294 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: if you were reporting the truth. While the terrorist group 295 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: has promised safety and publicly called for a peaceful transfer power, 296 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: refugees who Flacticable prior to its fall said that the 297 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: Taliban had already begun forced marriages and executions. Taliban started 298 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: the door to our search looking for government officials, former 299 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: police and security force members and those who worked for 300 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: foreign country in geo's or infrastructures in Afghanistan. Three journalists 301 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: houses were searched in the last hour. News media outlets 302 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: are reporting couple has now become deadly. One Cobble based 303 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: journalist tweeted out this morning, this is a game changer 304 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 1: for all of us. Many have started counting their final 305 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: hours of life. Nobody knows what happens next. Please pray 306 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: for us because no one's coming to get us. Taliban 307 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: fighters are going door to door looking for also the 308 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: government employees, and when they find them, they take them 309 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: the street. Announced to the community, this will happen if 310 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: you help the Americans and then executing them. Another journalists 311 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: tweeted out, some have been taken away. Family members say 312 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: another case, how has it been searching documents, weapons confiscated? 313 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: Taliban also recording names and addresses for kill this what 314 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: is the US government doing? Our president is on vacation 315 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: right now. He addressed the nation, checked that box and 316 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: now he has decided to go on vacation. Even last night, 317 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: Brian Williams praised Joe Biden's speech on MSNBC and an 318 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: army veteran embarrassed him on live TV. Take a listen 319 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: to this for just to hear your reaction of this 320 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: consequential speech by the American president. Didn't run from it. 321 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: He owned it. He owned his decision. He owned the 322 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: fact that, as he put it, the buck stops with him. 323 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: By the way he did run. He literally answered no 324 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: questions from the US media after he got finished talking, 325 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 1: not even one question, and then went back on vacation 326 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: while Americans are trapped in Afghanistan being hunted down by 327 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: the Taliban, actual American citizens. But yet MSNBC and Brian 328 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: Williams like well, he owned it. He did a job, 329 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: He did an amazing job. Listen to US Army veteran 330 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: Matt Zeller's response. I hope he gets a home their 331 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: deaths too, don't. I feel like I watched a different 332 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: speech than the rest of you guys. I was appalled. 333 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,439 Speaker 1: There is such a profound, bold faith lie in that speech, 334 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: the idea that we planned for every contingency. I have 335 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: been personally trying to tell this administration since it took office. 336 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: I've been trying to tell our government for years that 337 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: this was coming. We sent them plan after plan on 338 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: how to evacuate these people. Nobody listened to us. They 339 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: didn't plan for the evacuation of our Afghan wartime allies. 340 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 1: They're trying to conduct it now at the eleventh hour. 341 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: The thing that they were most concerned about was the 342 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: optics of a chaotic evacuation. Well they got exactly that 343 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: they were most concerned of by failing to do what 344 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: was right when we could have done it. We had 345 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: all the people in equipment in place to be able 346 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: to save these people months ago, and we did nothing. 347 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm appalled that he thinks, so we only need to 348 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: take two thousand people. There's eighty six thousand people who 349 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: are currently left behind in Afghanistan alone. We've identified all 350 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 1: of them for the government. I have no idea why 351 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: he claims that people don't want to leave Afghanistan. I 352 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: have a list of fourteen thousand names right now, but 353 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: people who want to get out of Afghanistan, and the 354 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: idea that the Afghan military should be blamed for this. 355 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: Do you know how many casualties the Afghan military took 356 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: in an average year, more than the United States did 357 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: in twenty Did you hear that stat By the way, 358 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: Matt Zellar just said, if you think the Afghan military 359 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: is a bunch of cowards, they took more casualties in 360 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: a year in the Afkhan military being attacked by the 361 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: Taliban that the US military did in the last twenty 362 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: years combined in Afghanistan. That's why I said, I feel 363 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: like I watched a different speech than the rest of 364 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: you guys. I was appalled. Listen to that fact again. 365 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 1: He says, I've got a list. And this is a 366 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: guy that served, This is a guy that's angry. This 367 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 1: is a guy that looked people in the eye and said, 368 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: I am here to help. I'm from America. You help me. 369 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: I'll get you out of this country if you ever 370 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: need to. And those people are begging him to be extracted, 371 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: and we're saying, sorry, you're gonna be beheaded. It should 372 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: be blamed for this. Do you know how many casualties 373 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: the Afghan military took in an average year, more than 374 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: the United States did in twenty When you're not getting 375 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: paid on a regular basis, when you're not getting fuel, 376 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 1: when no one is supplying you with ammunition, and yet 377 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: you're still showing up to the fight, how dare us 378 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: for having to blame these people for not having the 379 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: audacity to be able to survive. A Taliban onslot, no, no, no, 380 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: what we need to be doing right now, And what 381 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 1: I am appalled that the President didn't say was we 382 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: need to be talking about how we're going to get 383 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: every single one of these people out, so every single 384 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: one of these people out. This man's angry. That's of 385 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: course not what MSNBC thought he was going to say. 386 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: And I'm sure they'll never have him back. Don't worry. 387 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: You know, there's bizarre pictures of celebrations coming out right now. 388 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: The Sun just put up pictures of what they're referring 389 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: to now is Jihadi Park. The Taliban was riding in 390 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: bumper cars after seizing a theme park his others hunt 391 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 1: victim on a kill list. This bizarre video put out 392 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: of the Taliban shows fanatics who carry out brutal executions, 393 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: stonings and amputations riding on a merrygo round and also 394 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: in bumper cars. Footage shows them driving these bumper cars 395 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: around enjoying themselves, many of them laughing and smiling as 396 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: they drive around into each other's cars, where their guns 397 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 1: propped up in the passenger seat. Another video Taliban fighters 398 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: are also seen riding ponies on the Merrygo Round at 399 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: the theme park that they seized. This comes as the 400 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: serving reports have been confirmed from Afghanistan Taliban fighters going 401 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: door to door would kill lists, with women facing torture 402 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 1: and execution and rape all under the brutal new rules. 403 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: The Taliban's out in complete control of the country, and 404 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: government troops have been seen surrendering to them and then 405 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: being executed. Taliban forces have already pledged to reintroduce Your 406 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 1: Real Law, which brutalized women in gay people through them 407 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: from the rooftops when they rule the Afghanistan country in 408 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: the nineties. They've already been reports throughout their advance of 409 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: women being shot dead, in girls ns twelve being dragged 410 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 1: from their homes to be raped and quote married to 411 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: the fighters. Pick your hottest twelve year old you can find. 412 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 1: That's literally what the Taliban is doing right now, and 413 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: what is this present doing. He's on a dam vacation, 414 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: it appears. However, their first mission is a tick off 415 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: the victims who have made their way into their kill lists, 416 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: as they hunt down anyone who may have helped forces 417 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: of the US, UK and other nations during the occupation. 418 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: Not only are they calling them in the middle of 419 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 1: the night, in the daytime, they're just screwing with them 420 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: like they're a trapped animal in a cage before they 421 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 1: finally going to kill them. Brutality is setting in and 422 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 1: the rain of the Taliban is in full force in Afan, 423 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: Afghanistan and in Kabul. Taliban spokesman just changed his tune. 424 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: After saying we're not going to kill a bunch of 425 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: people yesterday, he now said the punishments and executions are 426 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: up to the quote religious followers and the courts. Asked 427 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 1: specifically about the horrific violence that they dealt out in 428 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties, such as chopped off hands and feet 429 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: and stonings of women, he said, I can't say right now. 430 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,439 Speaker 1: It is up to the court and the judges and 431 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: the laws. One Afghan government showed a soldier surrendered to 432 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: the Taliban. What did they do to him? They walked 433 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,160 Speaker 1: him the streets and then they blew his head off. 434 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,239 Speaker 1: They put it on the internet. They're proud of it. 435 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,239 Speaker 1: They're not trying to hide it, folks. They're proud of it. 436 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: And not one time in the present speech that he 437 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: warned the Taliban don't screw with us. You want to 438 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: know what's happening to those that are actually stood with us. 439 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: One man who served in our military who is now 440 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: a representative, Mike Waltz, who ran for Congress after serving 441 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 1: his kind Tree, told this story to sixty Minutes last night. 442 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,439 Speaker 1: My interpreter was often more important to me than a 443 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: heavy machine gun or a radio to be able to 444 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: talk to the Air Force, because without that asset, I was, 445 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 1: you know, I was basically deaf and in many ways 446 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: culturally blind. That's how important they were. Mike Waltz, he said, 447 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: Republican representative from Florida and the first Army Green Beret 448 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: elected to Congress. He shared this photo of his translator, 449 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: known as Spartacus, who was waiting on SIV approval when 450 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: he was stopped at a Taliban checkpoint. When the Taliban 451 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: found him with that paperwork, they forced him to go home. 452 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: They followed him home. Not only did they behead him, 453 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: but they dragged several of his brothers and his cousins 454 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 1: out and killed them as well. To send that kind 455 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: of a message, Why would someone risk everything to help 456 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: you as forces? Yeah, you know, these people had lived 457 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: true brutality. Right. They saw a very clear path of 458 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: standing with the United States to reject the Taliban and 459 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: al Qaeda, and that just real bastardization of a beautiful 460 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: religion in Islam or to capitulate and you know, live 461 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: under their rule. And so for them that was worth 462 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: dying for. The House will be in water. Last month, 463 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: the House pass legislation that would delay the required medical 464 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: exam until the applicant reaches the US, streamlining an approval 465 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: process that currently takes the State Department nearly three years. 466 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: Far too long, says Congressman Wolves. You have already eighteen 467 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: thousand people in line. Are you concerned that number can grow? 468 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: I'm incredibly afraid for them. When that last American soldier 469 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: goes wheels up out of Afghanistan, we will have handed 470 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: these people at death senates. To those that we haven't 471 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 1: gotten out, we need to get them out. We need 472 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 1: to get them out. I'll say the last thing this 473 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: today to put this in perspective. Remember that guy by 474 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: the name of bou Bergdahl. Remember when we traded terrorists 475 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: from Guantanamo Bay to get him back, and he was 476 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: a deserter who left the base and we risked people's 477 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: lives to go find him, and people died trying to 478 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: find him. And then we traded top Taliban individuals from 479 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay. You remember that, Well, guess what one of 480 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 1: the people we traded in that group of five. We 481 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: now have been told that that Taliban leader who was 482 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: freegling on Ontanamoban twenty fourteen, swapped by the Obama administration, 483 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: is now a Taliban leader. President Barack Obama released five 484 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: Taliban commanders from Gheitmo in exchange for an American deserter 485 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. He assured a weary public that the 486 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: dangerous enemy combatants would be transferred to Qatar and kept 487 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: from causing trouble in Afghanistan. In fact, they were let 488 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: free to engineer Sunday's attack on Kabul. Soon after gaining 489 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: their freedom, some of the notorious Taliban five pledge to 490 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: return to fight Americans in Afghanistan to make contacts with 491 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: active military Taliban leaders there, but the Obama Bide administration 492 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: turned a blind eye to the disturbing intelligence report, even 493 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: though they could have hunted them down and killed them. 494 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: It wasn't long before the free detainees used Qatar as 495 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 1: a base to form a regime in exile. Eventually, they 496 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: were even recognized by Western diplomats as official representatives of 497 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: the Taliban during recent peace talks earlier this year. One 498 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: of those five actually set across the table from President 499 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: Biden's envoy to Afghanistan in Moscow, where they were part 500 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: of the official Taliban delegation that negotiated the final terms 501 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: of our ridral. The retreat cleared a path for the 502 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: Taliban to retake power after twenty years. I started Jihab 503 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: to remove foreign forces from my country, he said, and 504 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: established Islamic government, and jihad will continue until we reached 505 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: that goal through a political agreement, he said at the stomach. 506 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: Congratulations to Barack Obama and Joe Biden for letting this 507 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: guy out. And now he's the one that's going to 508 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: kill Americans again. All right, As I said before, and 509 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: I'll say it again, Please make sure that you share 510 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: this podcast with your family and friends. Hit that share 511 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: button right now, that little arrow. 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