WEBVTT - Gingrich: Biden's Blunders 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.880 All right, our two Sean Hannity Show eight hundred and 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:04.560 nine four one Sean, you want to be a part 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:09.000 of the program. There are estimates anywhere between ten and 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:15.080 eighty plus thousand Americans, and I mean yeah, in the interpreters, 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:19.040 those that America had promised that if they assist us 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.120 on the ground, that if God forbid, anything ever went 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.239 south or we were to leave and their lives were 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.319 in jeopardy, that they would be helped out. That's a 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.800 promise that was made by America to the individuals that 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:36.640 were supposedly helping us to fight and win a war. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.440 You know why we're fighting wars that we don't win. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.960 I will never understand how Isis was allowed to build 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:49.480 out the way they were. I will never understand how 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:55.760 Donald Trump systematically drove the Caliphate into the ground. Is 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.280 just a case in point. With modern military technology, the 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.240 capability we now have we've never had before obviously could 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.319 have been employed here had anyone had the will to 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.959 do it. But they decided not to. There was a moment, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.920 actually a guy by the name of Matt Zeller is 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:20.520 his name, passionately just just pounding Brian Williams, and I 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.360 guess former CIA director Brennan was on there as well, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.720 but I didn't hear a peep out of him in 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.520 the clip that I saw about all of the Americans 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.760 and then those that were our closest allies in this 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.560 whole conflict over twenty years that are being left behind. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.240 Listen to what he says, Oh, I'm curious to hear 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.960 your reaction of this consequential speech by the American President. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.520 Didn't run from it. He owned it. He owned his decision, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.680 He owned the fact that, as he put it, the 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.200 buck stops with him. I hope he gets to hone 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.400 their deaths too, don't. I feel like I watched a 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.440 different speech than the rest of you guys. I was 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.559 a Paul. There is such a profound, bold faith lie 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.440 in that speech, the idea that we plan for every contingency. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.520 I have been personally trying to tell this administration since 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.200 it took office. I've been trying to tell our government 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.520 for years that this was coming. We sent them plan 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.680 after plan on how to evacuate these people. Nobody listened 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.000 to us. They didn't plan for the evacuation of our 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.080 Afghan wartime allies. They're trying to conduct it now at 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.440 the eleventh hour. The thing that they were most concerned 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.520 about was with the optics of a chaotic evacuation. Well, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.880 they got exactly that they were most concerned of by 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.840 failing to do what was right when we could have 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.640 done it. We had all the people in equipment in 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.040 place to be able to save these people months ago, 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.320 and we did nothing. I'm appalled that he thinks that 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.079 we only need to take two thousand people. There's eighty 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.520 six thousand people who are currently left behind in Afghanistan alone. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.440 We've identified all of them for the government. I have 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.239 no idea why he claims that people don't want to 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.400 leave Afghanistan. I have a list of fourteen thousand names 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.079 right now, but people who want to get out of Afghanistan, 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.959 and the idea that the Afghan military should be blamed 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.400 for this. Do you know how many casualties the Afghan 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.120 military took in an average year, more than the United 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.880 States did in twenty When you're not getting paid on 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.240 a regular basis, when you're not getting fuel, when no 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.880 one is supplying you with ammunition, and yet you're still 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.760 showing up to the fight, How dare us for having 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.000 to blame these people for not having the audacity to 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.200 be able to survive a Taliban onslot. No, no no, no. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.200 What we need to be doing right now? And what 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.920 I am appalled that the President didn't say was we 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.639 need to be talking about how we're going to get 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.080 every single one of these people out, because let's be 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.880 abundantly clear, people like me look at these people in 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.640 the eye and made them a promise. We promised them 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.480 in their time of need, we would take care of them. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.480 How do you ever expect anyone to ever trust us 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.920 again if we don't do that now while we can. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.560 And I'm stick and tired of trying to defer the 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.280 Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on what we're going to do. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.240 Were the United States of America, they're terrified of us. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.000 I have Afghans on the ground right now who are 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.840 telling me they're going door to door and cobble and 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.280 making lists for people who used to work with us. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.640 They're telling them with smiles on their face, evil smiles, 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.880 that they're going to be back from them once we leave. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.080 So we either take them now or these people are 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.360 going to die. I've been trying to tell anyone who 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.560 will listen, this is a never again moment in the making. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.880 I mean, it's a stunning rebuke of this idiocy of 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.919 the likes of Brian Williams. Um Well, he owned it. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:30.520 You know, this was a consequent, consequent, consequential speech, and 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.880 he owned it. He didn't own it. He blamed Trump. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.600 He didn't own it. He blame the Afghan president that fled. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.320 He didn't own it. He blamed the Afghan military that 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.800 he was praising two weeks ago as one of the 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.960 best militaries in the world. And they're we're prepared for 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.840 anything that the Taliman throws at them because they've got 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.359 three hundred thousand trained people in an air force and 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.440 the Taliman only has seventy five thousand. How could you 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:59.680 be so spectacularly wrong? And now where what we're watching 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.359 and learning is at the Pentagon. They warned Biden for 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:08.440 months and months about this debacco potential. The Taliban now 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.000 beating people who try to reach the airport. They've now 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.760 surrounded the perimeters so nobody else can get out. And 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.120 the hope is that you can get the people at 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.160 the airport out in the tens of thousands. And the 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:26.359 Taliban is now consolidating their control in Afghanistan's capital. And 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.040 on top of everything, when I mentioned earlier, is the 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.520 top Taliban terrorist. Yeah, Obama and Joe let him go 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.960 from Gitmo. We had him in our we had him 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.599 captured already. Great job, Joe, former Speaker of the House, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.680 new Ingrich is with us to react to all of 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:50.960 this and how maybe possibly we can save these American 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.640 lives and the lives of our those that risked everything 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.320 there that we had promised to help. Oh, look, God, 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.240 I think we can save a lot of lives if 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:07.200 we're prepared to bring massive air power into the region. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.120 I think the minute you had six or eight or 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:17.440 ten B fifty two's flying over various Taliban headquarters, you 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.000 would have sent the signal that they need to stand 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.080 down until we get done leading. And if they're not 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:25.640 going to stand down, I mean, they're not in a a 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.919 position to tell us we have two weeks. We're in 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.080 a position to tell them that we're gonna you know, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.839 they would like to be in the seventh century. We 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.240 can help bomb them into it if they're really serious. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:42.080 We know that very very few Americans combined with air power, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:48.000 collaborating with a lot of very gutsy Afghans had fought 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.400 the Taliban basically to a defeat where they were able 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.159 to operate in the rural areas, but they couldn't capture 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.520 and keep any of the provincial towns. This is entirely 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:05.640 a function of the Biden left wing. You know, have 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.800 a week, America. Be nice to your enemies, be bad 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.600 to your your your allies. And frankly, one of the 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.240 most despicable things any president has said in my lifetime 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.800 was Biden attacking the Afghans for not being willing to fight. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.920 As your last guest said, or the tape you played, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.560 we lost sixty sixty thousand troops in a situation where 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.960 they weren't always That's not what Biden, sir. I don't 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.920 mean to interrupt, I apologize it, but but Biden said 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.440 that this is one of the most capable armies ever 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.520 on the face of the earth, and that they destroy 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:46.480 the Taliban. How do you make such a dramatic miscalculation? Well, 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:47.960 I mean, one of the things Congress ought to do 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.920 is dig into what was the real advice. I mean, 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.960 was the advice that Biden got three or four or 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.480 five weeks ago from the Pentagon, from the intelligence community, 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.760 from the State Department. Was it accurate enough? I mean, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.800 how does he go from uh, we're clearly going to win. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.080 You remember the promise. I think this would be, by 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.200 the way, a devastating commercial where he says, you're never 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.720 going to see helicopters leave the American embassy like happened 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.360 in Saigon. Of course he was a senator when they 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.240 left the embassy in pigon Um. You know, of course 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.400 you could play Biden saying that, and you could put 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.160 next to it at the footage of the American helicopters 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.840 leaving the embassy in Cobble and it just it just 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:36.200 proves this isn't this administration. They can't control the border, 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.840 they can't control spending, they can't control crime, and they 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.800 can't defeat our enemies over can I beg to differ? 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:48.520 It's not that they can't, they don't want to. Well, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.560 why wouldn't I accept that? I think I think in 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.439 fact they are they have a commitment to a weaker America. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.200 I think these are mostly you know, Biden is surrounded 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.920 by anti American left wingers who don't want America to 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.960 be strong. That's why they kill the pipeline in the 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.520 US and then go and beg Opec to Pallemor oil 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.240 and gas while giving the Russians permission to build a 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.920 pipeline to Western Europe. I mean, you can't explain this 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:23.560 administration except as a deep commitment to winketing and underlying America. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.199 Quick break more with former Speaker of the House New 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.840 King Rich. By the way, does anyone stopped to think 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:33.000 at all about how gold Star families are feeling today, 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.480 those that lost loved ones. Anyway, we'll get to that. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.400 We'll get to your calls as well. Eight hundred nine 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.400 four one, Shawn is our number. All right, we continue. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.400 Former Speaker of the House, New King Rich is with 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.560 us analyzing this a mitigated disaster in Afghanistan. So now 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.840 my next question is very simple, because we're now being 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.160 told by our State Department, Mister Speaker, that Americans that 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.600 are there need to shelter in place. Then we're told 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.400 Defense officials they're saying they to be able to extract 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.760 about five thousand Americans a day from Cobbo, when we've 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.800 got up to forty thousand plus stranded in Cobbol right now, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.920 many of them at the airport and many that can't 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:18.600 get to the airport, and Taliban fighters now have closed 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.800 in on the airport and have created a perimeter preventing 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.600 anybody from getting anywhere near it if they wanted to. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.600 What are we supposed to do about that? Well, remember 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.520 Cobbo's only one city. I mean, how many Americans were 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.320 scattered across the countryside, how many o them are in 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.480 provincial capitals, and how many of our allies. I mean, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.080 I don't think we should focus only on the Americans. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.840 How many interpreters who are marked for death and their 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.000 families are marked for death. How many Acan pilots whose 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.960 entire family is marked for death. I mean, there are 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.640 a lot of folks out there at risk because of 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:01.839 Biden's cowardly withdrawal, and I think it's clear that they 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.400 didn't do any kind of serious planning. I think you 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.640 need to explain to people because they probably likely don't 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.400 know and they're thinking, oh, here we go, We're going 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.920 to be the world's welcome center for refugees around the world. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.679 It's to me it almost takes on as the gravity 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:24.120 and significance of for example, those people refugees from Cuba, 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.040 that they know that they will be killed if they 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.839 went back to Cuba at the time, and I'm talking 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.319 about early in the Castro regime. And okay, the significance 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.040 of these interpreters. The Taliban knows who they are. They 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.880 will die because they were actively assisting us in our 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.280 military efforts. Their families will die as well. They're dead, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.959 they're marked for dead, right And I think the two 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.840 parts of it. One is just honor, so we have 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.000 a moral obligation to people who risk their lives to 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.880 help us. The other is practical. We want to send 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:02.000 it singing around the world that if you've got the 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.560 guts to stand with the US, the US is going 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.240 to stand with you. I mean, we aren't sit anyway 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.240 now a terrible signal of weakness. If you were in 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:14.080 Taiwan or South Korea, or if you're in Western Europe, 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.040 are you going to trust the United States? Are you 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.760 going to think, oh, yeah, this administration's got real guts 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.720 and they're going to stand firmly with me. Are you 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.640 going to say, boy, I sure hope nothing happens, because 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.280 I don't think I could count on Joe Biden for anything. Well, 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.080 it's it's it's a beyond a little bit scary here. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.200 But the Taliban now this was in the UK mirrors 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.440 now drawing up killless for the afghanis that helped the US. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.040 It shows the level of dangerous incompetence here the fact 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.079 that I don't know if it's an intelligence failure or 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.079 you know, or if Joe just didn't listen to the military. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.280 I mean, that's yet to be determined. The Pentagon is 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.160 claiming very loudly that they warned Biden for months and 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.040 months about this debacle and what would happen if it 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.839 was handled this way and on the other end of it. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.719 And I'll know more because I'm interviewing President Trump on 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.640 Hannity tonight. I'll know more later tonight. I am told 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:13.040 that the big distinction in the President's withdrawal planned withdrawal 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:18.160 from Afghanistan was that the Taliban and the President spoke directly, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.960 and the President said, did you see what I did 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:25.439 in Syria and how I destroyed the Caliphate? And apparently 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.720 about the sternest warning you could ever give any group 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.959 of people was sent out loud and clear that they 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.160 will be blown into oblivion if they dare get in 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.600 the way of any city. Never mind the fact that 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.640 as of late last week they had sixty percent of Afghanistan, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.680 or I guess we should say Islamic emirates of Afghanistan 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.880 under now Taliban control, and nobody seems to have the 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:56.280 same fear of Joe Biden. They seem to walk with impunity. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:00.480 I think they're as shocked as everyone. One of the 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.600 early steps of the Trump administration was to drop the 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.880 largest bomb we've ever used, that the largest non nuclear 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:14.840 bomb we are used on a site to send a 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:19.240 signal that there's no place you can hide, there's no you. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.480 If we come after you, we're going to get you. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.640 And I do believe in I've had a similar conversations 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.360 you have with the President Trump. I do believe that 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.360 he communicated the great force that if they if the 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.600 Taliban broke their word. Remember he had a very principled 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.880 set of negotiating steps, and if the Taliban broke any 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.840 of the steps, then he reserved the right to use 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.040 massive air power to punish them until they got back 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.880 in line. And so this this wasn't a one time 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:53.600 simple conversation. This was a here is a roadmap by 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.120 which we can end the fighting, save a lot of lives. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.840 But you guys aren't going to get to occupy all 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.200 of Afghanistan, and there was no break in the Afghan 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.000 army during the period that Trump was doing this, even 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.720 though people knew he was doing it, but they trusted him. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.240 They believed that he would They trusted him. But also 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.360 the Taliban feared him right well, the Afghan the Afghans 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.800 on our side trusted him, and the Afghans and the 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.600 Taliban side appeared him. All right, mister speaker, we always 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.000 appreciate having you. Eight hundred nineful one sean is our 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:25.240 number if you want to be a part of the 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.080 program or full coverage of this with President Trump tonight. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.280 What is different? What was different in his planning? What 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.640 was different in his planning at the border? What is 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.400 different in his planning with energy and with COVID and 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.720 inflation and everything else they were experiencing. Makes you kind 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.240 of miss those mean tweets, doesn't it? All? Right? Twenty 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:46.880 five to the top of the hour, eight hundred and 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.200 nine four one sean, if you want to be a 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.880 part of the program, I know so many of you 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.600 been wanting to get in here, and we got a 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.440 lot of ground left to cover, including Yeah, how do 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.680 gold Star families field today? How does. Our friend Billy Vaughan, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.000 he lost his gold his Navy Seals son Aaron, and 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:08.000 our friend Israel del Toro. Eighty percent of his body 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:13.160 burned and it's very severe burns that he suffered when 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.680 his m V rolled over and improment the nied. Anythink 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.360 everyone's feeling today? What are we gonna do to extract 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.760 these Americans? Let's say hi to Eric and Alabama. Eric, Hi, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.200 how are you glad you called? I am doing great, sir, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.880 how are you? I'm good? What's going on? Well? First off, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.760 I've been following you since about nineteen ninety six on 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.080 Fox News, so I'm forty four years old. I'd like 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.720 to say thank you for being such a meaningful and 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:45.400 instrumental part of my life. Thank you. I really appreciate it. 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.080 Thank you very much. It means a lot to me. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.040 It really goes you know. I was. I spent years 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.320 in Alabama, had a great time. So oh, I'm down 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.400 in the Gulf Coast. It's have you never been down here? 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.600 It's a little bit better. But um to my question, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.040 I would never ask anyone to speak for the late 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.600 great Rush Limbaugh, but I had been listening to him 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.760 slightly longer than I was following you, and he always 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.600 said that don't panic. I will tell you when it's 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:15.199 time to panic. And again we don't have him to 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:19.359 answer that question. So I know that you were a true, 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.879 true friend through James Golden his comments on your show. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.920 You weren't just a colleague, You weren't just similar career 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.120 as you were a true dear friend. So you're prob. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.240 I'm friends with the entire family. His brother's been my 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:38.600 attorney for over thirty years. Nobody could ever replace this man. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:44.240 He was a patriot beyond words. And we learned a 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.320 lot about Rush in the last year of his life, 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.520 not that I really didn't know it already. We know 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.000 what his bucket list was not. His bucket list was 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.600 eric to be on the air, get well enough what 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.679 he was doing every day. His bucket list was to 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.280 get what you know, both through the hell of chemo 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:07.240 and cancer treatment, to get just well enough, barely most days, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.159 not really there. But he did it anyway, to be 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.400 on the air with the people, and that he loved 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:17.880 most his audience and his family. You wore his family. Amen. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.240 So you want are you asking me? Is have we 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.679 hit that inflection point? Where Um, I'll let you know 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.520 when it's time to be there. Um it's I guess 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.720 kind of like what how how would you think Rush 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.200 would be feeling with Rushi be telling it's time to panic. 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.120 And I don't mean in the literal pull your hair out, 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.840 go crazy sense, of course. I mean the delta variant, 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.399 the lambda lambda lambda variant, you know, the revenge of 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:49.360 the nerds, what's going on in Afghanistan, the border, the inflation, 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.520 just everything that's going on. I personally don't think twenty 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.760 twenty two is gonna matter because I think uh Biden, 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.880 I mean, he's a stroke of a pen away from 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.080 doing something to take that away from us too. So 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.320 I'm not sure if twenty twenty two truly I'm trying 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.080 to hold on to hope. I'm praying every night, but 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.680 I don't know if twenty twenty two is truly going 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.960 to be the turning point, because we're not far away 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:16.160 from one poor decision or one backhanded deal and we're done. 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.960 One of the things I loved about Rush and don't 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.000 I wouldn't even begin to think that I could speak 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:27.000 for him or in a way that he would articulated 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:32.000 himself and nobody could match it. Yeah, but but I 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.359 would say this, am I at the point that I 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.320 think it's over. No, I'm not am I at the 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.199 point that I'm as worried as I've ever been. I 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.800 am am I at the point, you know when when 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:53.960 I very specifically repeat um by design the things that 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.919 need to happen now, so that we can have elections 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.760 with integrity, that we'll all have confidence and the results 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:09.200 in that being point number one. Anytime leftism, authoritarianism, socialism, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:14.160 or Levin calls it American Marxism or a postconstitutional America. 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.800 Anytime we hit these moments, it's amazing America snaps back 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.560 because we see the failure unfolding on every level. I 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.879 said it in my opening monologue. Guests today, can you 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.080 name one thing that Joe Biden has done that is successful? 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.359 And I can't. I don't care. If it's the border, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.840 I don't care. If it's COVID, I don't care. If 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.639 it's energy, I don't care. If it's the economy, I 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:44.120 don't care. If it's inflation. I don't care if it's China, Russia, Afghanistan, 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:50.080 or Ran. I can't cite a single thing where it's 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:56.080 working now. The hope I have is that states have 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:00.359 come to the conclusion that as a result of the pandemic, 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:04.520 laws were ignored in the twenty twenty election. We know 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.119 that for a fact. It's indisputable. When you have laws 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.720 that say partisan observers can observe the vote count and 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.520 you don't abide by them, that's not abiding by the law. 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:17.760 And we know these the flurry of last minute editions 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.399 that would even in the case of Pennsylvania, circumvent their 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.200 own state constitution. We know that happened too. We read 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:28.439 the Supreme Court, you know, three or four decision, the descent, 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.600 a stinging descent by the Chief Justice and the Supreme 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.960 Court of Wisconsin. But the good news is is people 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.720 are making those changes. That's step one. What Biden is 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:43.760 doing is it's like you just watch it unfold and fail. 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:48.520 I think we're talking about it because it's so important. 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:50.840 We've got Americans now that have no idea if they're 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.520 ever going to make it home, that are left in Afghanistan. 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.239 And I don't say that lightly. They don't know if 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:04.440 they're coming home. And yes, we see China now threatening 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.800 the US regularly when they're not lecturing US on human rights. 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:14.639 And you know, I think the Chinese communist newspapers admonition 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.960 that you know, they're saying that the US will abandon 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:23.040 Taiwan just like they did Afghanistan. I think that probably 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:27.280 is an accurate assertion that that is what they see. 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.960 Then that they don't they don't see Biden through the 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:37.560 rose colored filtered glasses of the medium mob protection program. 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:42.280 But I do have hope how to see things. Yeah, exactly. 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:44.760 I mean, you know, they see Biden for who he is, 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.760 and their description matches yours of mine. That he's weak, 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:51.320 frel he's a cognitive mess and not in charge. That's 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:55.680 what they say that allowed on the radio, sir. Neither 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:57.720 is mine. You know, I could write a great book 0:22:57.800 --> 0:22:59.760 everything I would say and the way I would say it, 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.040 but can't say it because it would get me fired. Okay, 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:04.639 I can write that book, Sign me up. I'll be 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.960 first in line to buy that one. So but the 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:10.439 answer is, I'm not at the inflection point. And I'm 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.240 gonna tell you why, because I know that the heart 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:18.800 and soul of this country is full of good people. America, 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:23.200 as flawed as it is, always strives and has made 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:26.919 incredible strides towards the more perfect union, and that was 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:30.400