1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: All right, news roundup and information overload on a Friday, 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine, four one seaun if you want 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: to be a part of the program. I am still 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: in a state of utter anger, shock, and dismay at 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 1: all of the absolute lies told by Biden at his 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: statement four or five question press conference of even want 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: to call it that this is Biden. We haven't heard 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: of anybody, you know, not being able to get to 9 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: the airport. We have secured the airport, we haven't secured 10 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 1: the perimeter, Joe. We haven't heard of any cases at 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: all of people not being able to make it to 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: the airport. Well, that's the exact opposite of what your 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: state department is sending out to people Americans in Afghanistan 14 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: about we can't help you get to the airport. Oh 15 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 1: and the airport gates may open or close without notice. 16 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: Oh and use your best judgment about going, and we 17 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: cannot ensure your safe passage. That's what they're telling him 18 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: on the other side of this. You know, we played 19 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: the questions earlier, but Biden, just and complete than we 20 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: We've not heard of any case of anybody not being 21 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: able to get to the airport. A complete and utter 22 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 1: lie with all the videotape evidence to prove it. Listen, 23 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: the military has secured the airport, as you mentioned, but 24 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: will you sign off on sending US troops into Cobble 25 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: to evacuate Americans who haven't been able to get to 26 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: the airports safely. We have no indication that they haven't 27 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: been able to get in Cobble through the airport. We've 28 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 1: made an agreement with the Taliban. Thus far they've allowed 29 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: them to go through. It's and they're interesting to go through. 30 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: So we know of no circumstance where American citizens are 31 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: carrying an American passport for trying to get through to 32 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: the airport. But we will do whatever needs to be 33 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: done to see to it they get to the the airport. 34 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: We will see whatever needs to be done. Meaning there's 35 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: no control. We have control of the airport, but we 36 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: don't have control of one road to get to the airport, 37 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: not one that is controlled by the Taliban. And they 38 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: said they're going to let americans with passports through. Any 39 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: American wants to come home, we will get you home. 40 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: I want you to hear me. Now, I can't promise 41 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: any outcome on all of this. I mean, he's contradicting 42 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: himself all over the place. We made clear to the 43 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: Taliban that if they get in the way and in 44 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: any way, there was going to be a forceful response. No, 45 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 1: there's not, Joe, because they've got fifteen thousand Americans. They'll 46 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: use his human shields and hostages. Joe, they're terrorists. No, 47 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: no indication of any people having difficulties getting to the airport. No. Well, 48 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: the Taliban secures the perimeter and there's tons of personal 49 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: stories images on the ground that contradict everything he's saying. 50 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: You know, it's unbelievable, no question. I've not heard anything 51 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: about our credibility being in any way that we've been 52 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: criticized from from anyone around the world. Nobody. They don't 53 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 1: have any partners. They've all been highly critical, and this 54 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: is the mess that they left. We bring in Jason Chaffe, 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: it's Fox News contributor now a distinguished fellow at the 56 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: Government Accountability Institute, and Peter Schweitzer, the president of the 57 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: Government Accountability Institute, host of drilldown dot com, which by 58 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: the way, is extremely successful. You know, originally we had 59 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: them booked for today to talk specifically about the twenty 60 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: year War and this crushing defeat, and you know everything 61 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: else in between, and the idea that the President of 62 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: the United States is lying about the situation on the ground. 63 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: But more importantly, Jason Chaffintz, I'll start with you. Well, 64 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: I guess I probably should start with Peter, considering as 65 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: your boss, but I'll start with you. But in all 66 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: seriousness that they've had days they saw an advancing Taliban 67 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: take over ten twenty thirty, forty fifty percent of the 68 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: country in record time. This was happening. They had all 69 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: the time to prepare for extracting every American, the sixty 70 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: to seventy five thousand estimated afghanis that if they're left 71 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: behind that will be killed. They did nothing. Now it's 72 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: completely out of our hands. The control, the fate of 73 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: our fellow Americans and our allies is in the hands 74 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: of the Taliban. With the reports they go on door 75 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: to door to identify any Afghani who supported and helped 76 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: and assisted America in any way in the last twenty years, 77 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: and then they're brutally murdering them right on the streets 78 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: for the world to see. So it's not exactly as 79 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: Joe portrayed. Today. We have no leverage at all because 80 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: he gave that up. He did. We have the biggest, 81 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: baddest military on the face of the planet. We have 82 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 1: an intelligence community that has satellite imagery and technology that 83 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: nobody else has. But Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made 84 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: a conscious decision months ago to do it this way. 85 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: And remember they're on tape, they're on audio. Thing. Yeah, 86 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: we have planned for every contingency. This chaos was built 87 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: into the plan that we had put forward. But somehow 88 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: the brilliant mind that is Joe Biden com Lars decided 89 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: that they were going to close the Bagram Air Force Space, 90 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: where we did have total control of the airspace and 91 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: the ability to move airplanes in and out. They gave 92 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: that up to protect the without extracting the Americans, the diplomats, 93 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: the foreign service operators, the contractors, Americans with passports. We 94 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: gave all that up to go do something else, and 95 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: now we've got to rely on the Taliban. I have 96 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: been to that Cobbal Airport. I have flown in and 97 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: out of it. It took a convoy, a literally of 98 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: army in an m wraps to get me in and 99 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: out of it. It is exceptionally dangerous and there is 100 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: no way that Donald Trump would have allowed this to happen. 101 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 1: There is no way that that would be done under 102 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: a different administration except they made a conscious decision sean 103 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: to allow the Taliban to be in control the fate 104 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 1: of Americans who are doing America's been in the Afghana staff. 105 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: It was a conditions based on the ground agreement, but 106 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: it was started with a phone call with the leader 107 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: of the Taliban and President Trump himself as part of 108 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: the deal that he had that Biden never followed up on. 109 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: And by the way, to get out before the quote 110 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: war seasons, as war historically is more likely this time 111 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: a year, which is why Trump had a much earlier 112 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: date for a drawdown withdrawal, but again based on conditions 113 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: on the ground, but also backed by this threat. And 114 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: I've talked to now numerous sources that were on the 115 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: call that hurt it and that before we discuss anything, 116 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: President Trump said, you saw what I did to the 117 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: Caliphate in Syria, did you not? Yes? Okay, that will 118 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: be nothing, if nothing, compared to if you do not 119 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: abide by every comma and period in any agreement we 120 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: might make that I will blow you into an entirely 121 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: new century. Do you understand me? Apparently those words were 122 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: spoken by Donald Trump got back in affirmative. We didn't 123 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: lose an American in the Afghanistan for almost eighteen months, 124 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 1: the last eighteen months of Trump's presidency, they weren't on 125 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: the march or on the move because they feared and 126 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: believed Donald Trump would do everything that he said. That 127 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: fear no longer exists. Clearly, well, this is this is 128 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: the piece through strength. The example to me is Ronald Reagan. 129 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: Some of the most peaceful times we have with Ronald 130 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: Reagan because he knew he had the biggest batist military 131 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: wasn't afraid of firing on it. And Donald Trump took 132 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: exactly the same philosophy. Is there any doubt in anybody's 133 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: mind that if somebody did something to even one American, 134 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump wouldn't send every single asset in there 135 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: to go take him out. Compare that too, Joe Biden 136 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris, and you got to include Barack Obama 137 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: who had some of these people in GMO and let 138 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: him get back out on the battlefield when Big Godsy 139 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: was happy, no assets were sent in. And does anybody 140 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: believe that Joe Biden would actually pull the trigger. He 141 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: didn't even want to go after Osama bin Laden for 142 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: goodness sake. Peter Schweitzer, your reaction, Yeah, I mean, I 143 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: agree exactly with what Jason said. But you know, Sean, 144 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: if you look over the span of American history, I mean, 145 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: we've had situations before where we've had American presidents, let's say, 146 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: who were detached, who are not completely there. You think 147 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: of Woodrow Wilson, you think of LBJ. But at least 148 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: in those circumstances, we had people around the president who 149 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: had the capacity, the knowledge, and the will to do 150 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: the right thing, to to sort of carry out and 151 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: protect American interests. What's troubling right now is you have 152 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: Joe Biden who is detached, either because of age and 153 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: because of a health condition that he has, or he's 154 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: simply lying to the American people. But there's no question 155 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: he's detached from sort of the reality on the ground. 156 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: But the people around him, the Vice President, she is 157 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: not involved in any way. And you look at the 158 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: Secretary of State, the Secretary Defense, the National Security Advisor, 159 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 1: you get the same kind of detachment. So this is 160 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: this is a very troubling situation that I would say 161 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: is somewhat unique in American history because nobody seems to 162 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: be wanting to step up and actually fix the problem 163 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: in the situation that we're in. And as Jason said, 164 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, Sean, look, the world watches these events. 165 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 1: You know, it is a global society in the sense 166 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: that if something happens in Afghanistan, people in Beijing, China 167 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: are aware of what's going on. And weakness breeds aggression. 168 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: And we have seen nothing from Joe Biden on the 169 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: international stage except for weakness since he became president. Well, 170 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: I mean the fact that we saw them on the march, Peter, 171 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: we watched them, We witnessed this, We've seen this coming 172 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: for weeks. You know, at what point didn't anybody in 173 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: our national security apparatus, intelligence apparatus, those around the president 174 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 1: warned him. Now we're discovering that apparently the Pentagon did 175 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: warn him, that intelligence agencies did warn him, the State 176 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: Department did warn him. And now the question is why 177 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: didn't he take their advice and the admonition. Seriously, do 178 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: you have any answer to that, because I can't figure 179 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: it out. No, it's hard to figure out. You know, 180 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: what I like to Sean is imagine if you have 181 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: a natural disaster like an earthquake, an earthquake happens, suddenly 182 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: nobody's prepared. You're kind of in reaction mode. This was 183 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: the equivalence of in twenty eighteen, we signed the peace 184 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 1: agreement with the Taliban. This is basically saying, three years 185 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 1: from now, on this date, there may be an earthquake, 186 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden extended actually the withdrawal that Donald Trump 187 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: had scheduled for the spring. So the point is there's 188 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: basically been three years of preparation, meaning that you're preses, 189 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: but you have a new administration that comes in. They've 190 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: got eight months. They've got eight months to prepare for 191 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: an earthquake that the state departments, in some of the cables, 192 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: we now know the Defense Intelligence Agency in twenty twenty 193 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 1: was warning about this. We know that the CIA was 194 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: concerned about it. They were all warning about this earthquake 195 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: that was going to engulf the withdrawal American force of Afghanistan, 196 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: and nobody prepared for it, nobody secured anything. And it 197 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: is precisely the sort of terrible response from leadership, and 198 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: that is very very hard to recover from because remember Sean, 199 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden said two things to the world. He said, 200 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: first of all, well, you know, Donald Trump is unpredictable. 201 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to be the adult in the room. I'm 202 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 1: the guy that knows what he's doing. The second thing 203 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: that he said was I'm going to be the one 204 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: that has better relations with our allies than Donald Trump, 205 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: that they're going to respect me more. Both of those 206 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: things were never true. They are now both definitely not 207 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: true because it's been demonstrated that the Emperor has no clothes, 208 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden does not have a competency to run 209 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: the free world, and he has lost the respective allies 210 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: that really had been built up in the Trump administration 211 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: and has now basically completely gone. From The Wall Street Journal, 212 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: Jason Chaffitz about two dozen State Department officials serving at 213 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: the embassy in Cobbles sent an internal memo to Secretary 214 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: of State Blincoln Anthony and Anthony Blincoln and another and 215 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: other top State Department officials last month warning of the 216 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: potential collapse of Cobble. Now, this was sent on July thirteenth, 217 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: that is five weeks ago that the Taliban was rapidly 218 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: gaining round and the city was vulnerable to collapse. They 219 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: didn't listen, they didn't prepare, they didn't act, and this 220 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: is now the result. Basically, Americans held hostage, their lives 221 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: hanging in the balance on the whim of the feelings 222 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: of a terrorist organization. Yet the warnings couldn't be any 223 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 1: more clear, damning evidence the Biden administration was warned by 224 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 1: its own officials of this disaster coming. I think we're 225 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: going to continue to see more of that. I think 226 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: you're going to see State Department cables. I think you're 227 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: going to see intelligence reports that continue to stream out 228 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: to show that the Taliban was gaining strength, there was movement, 229 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 1: and just the very basics of what a leader should 230 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: have been doing in securing the Americans that had passports 231 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: and getting them out. I just I'm absolutely stunned that 232 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: we would close our Air Force staate there at Bagram. 233 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: I've flown in and out of Bagram. I've flown in 234 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: and out of the cobble at Carsey Airport. I have 235 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: been to all of those places, and I'm going to 236 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: tell you one was secure, at least the secure as 237 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: you could get it. The other one not so much, 238 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: and they saw this march happening. But this is exactly 239 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: the time, if you match it up, that Joe Biden 240 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 1: was going out answering questions saying, oh the likelihood, oh 241 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: near zero, this isn't going to happen. We planned for 242 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:18,719 Speaker 1: every contingency. They have this huge, massive security force in Afghanistan. 243 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: Anybody who's been to Afghanistan knows that, with all due respect, 244 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: most of those people were illiterate. And yet somehow we 245 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: left tens of billions of dollars of American at that 246 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: military equipment all back in the hands of terrorists. Were 247 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: worse off now than we were before we went in 248 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: to take out the terrorist threat. And if you look 249 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: at the way Joe get if we get them out, 250 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: and I'm just short on time, but if we do 251 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: get them Mount Jason, it's not going to be because 252 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: anything that Joe Biden and his administration did. It'll be 253 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: in spite of it, but it will be basically the 254 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: terms will be dictated completely by the Taliban. And to 255 00:14:54,520 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: put Americans in that that situation is just unforgivable, a 256 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: dereliction of duty that at a level I can't even 257 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: imagine that we're even talking about Thank you both, Peter Schweitzer, 258 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: Jason Chaffetz eight hundred nine four one, Shawn has our number. 259 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: One of a lot more on all of this tonight 260 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: on Hannity. When we come back, we'll get right to 261 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: your calls straight ahead, and that's coming up. Eight hundred 262 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: nine four one Shawn our number. Hey, you're listening to 263 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: the best of the Sean Hannity Show. We'll have more 264 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: of your favorite guest topics and memorable moments. That's all 265 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: coming up all right, twenty five to the top of 266 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: the hour, eight hundred nine four one, Sean our number. 267 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: One of the things we have highlighted is life in 268 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: the previous regime of the Taliban twenty years ago for women, 269 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: it was despicable, and women now are being taken as 270 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: sex slaves, even young girls taken as sex slaves for 271 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: Taliban fighters. Women are not allowed to leave their house. 272 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: They must dress a certain way or they will be beaten. 273 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: Many have been beaten. Some have been beaten because they 274 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: didn't like some Taliban fighters, didn't like the way they cooked, 275 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: or they wouldn't cook for them anyway. Once one female 276 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: Afghan journalist her life is on the line, she is 277 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: chronicled her many moves to avoid the Taliban they are 278 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: after her. After we play this well, you hear an 279 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: incredible story about rescue effort of female judges from Afghanistan 280 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: who will be murdered if they are caught by the Taliban. 281 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what will happen to me, because if 282 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: you find me, they will kill They are checking for 283 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: the people who always talked against them. Every day, I'm 284 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: changing my address to be sure that they can't truck me. 285 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: The Taliban to truck me down. They can't search for me. 286 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: They can't find me, so I'm changing my adress. My 287 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: friends are afraid because they think that they might be 288 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: targeted because of me. I can't trust my friends. How 289 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: sad is that Alison Renault is here to talk about 290 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: her effort to save two hundred female judges from Afghanistan 291 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: who prosecuted the Taliban. And Oklahoma mother of eleven, flew 292 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: to the Mideast early this month to help rescue ten 293 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: members of the country's all girls robotics team. Is now 294 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: hoping to save more as a Taliban has taken over 295 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:14,360 Speaker 1: Cobble Anyway. Sixty year old Harvard grad master's degree in 296 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: international relations and US space policy. Took it upon herself 297 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: to save members of the Afghan Girls Robotic team. She 298 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: flew into Cutter on August and ninth. They have to 299 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: make it a hail, Mary called to a former roommate 300 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: at the US embassy there to help the girls from 301 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 1: the advancing Taliban, known for their oppressive treatment of women. Alison, 302 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. What a courageous story, 303 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: and from what I can tell, you've been able to 304 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: save lives of innocent people. It's a pleasure to be 305 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: with you. Sean, thank you so much for having me 306 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: on the show. I was on a one way ticket 307 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: to cut her and when I encountered my former roommate 308 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: in the embassy in Cutter, she said, no need to travel, 309 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: I've got this. You need to stay on the ground 310 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: and help these these ladies to freedom. So it was 311 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: falsely reported, and I just want to make sure that's 312 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: clear doesn't take away from the story and the miracle 313 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: of getting ten girls out of a city of eight 314 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: million people in chaos. So just that media coverage alone 315 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: got into the heart of Afghanistan with ask in women, 316 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 1: and I began to receive christ for help night and day. 317 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: In particular, women ask in judges. They have been fired, 318 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: they are in hiding, they're being hunted, as you said, 319 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: reports that two of them have been assassinated, one almost 320 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: beat to death, and a video I received a couple 321 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: of mornings ago of one of their colleagues being blinded. 322 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: So these ladies are desperate. And you know, when I 323 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: heard they first reached out to me just about the situation, 324 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 1: I said, please send me a list of names and 325 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 1: their emails, and I thought I would receive twenty twenty 326 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: in women judges, and it ended up being two hundred 327 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: and twelves that are in hiding, and it's quickly become 328 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: Chimler's list. They have children, they have spouses, and honestly, Sean, 329 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: what worked for the robotic team, the cutter of government 330 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: really stepped up, along with our officials on the ground 331 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: in Cabul, It's not going to work for this group. 332 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: So I was back at scratch again, saying, you know, 333 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: calling out to God really for let's start a new team. 334 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: I need some help, and didn't put that really out 335 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 1: on social media anything. And suddenly I began to get 336 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 1: to text messages, one from former NASSA general counsel, good 337 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: friend and mine of female which then she tapped into 338 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: her illegal network. Yale Law School got on board. It's 339 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: helped us compress the data quickly. Ambassadors to the EU, 340 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: extraction teams on the ground, planes offered and you know, 341 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 1: suddenly the hand of Providence has given us a dream team. 342 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: So that's kind of the story of you know what's 343 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: what's going on, but have more to share if you'd 344 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 1: like to ask, Well, it sounds like your efforts have 345 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: paid dividends, and there are other people, but I think 346 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: now the situation has become quite untenable. Do you have 347 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: any people actively that you working to get out now? 348 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: To have people you're in contact with at Karzai International Airport, 349 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: people that have been there for the terror attach Well, 350 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,880 Speaker 1: we were warned through intel on the ground in Kabul 351 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: that the how came you have better intel, it seems 352 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: than Joe Biden because I seemingly have better intel as well, 353 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,159 Speaker 1: because the CIA, the do D and everybody else in 354 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: the world was trying to warn him to get out 355 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 1: in April of May and nobody was paying attention apparently. 356 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: But anyway, the gross that's okay. We were warned that 357 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: the situation that the airport had been breached by ices 358 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, Caliban had taken that missus 359 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: I heard. I'm just telling you what I heard, that 360 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: Taliban had taken control of air traffic control tower on 361 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: the civilian side, and so we knew probably that our 362 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: plan A to get them out on airplanes was not 363 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 1: going to work. But we've been encouraging these ladies every day. 364 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: Tell him to stay strong. If Plan A doesn't work, 365 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: we're going to Plan B. Plan B doesn't work, we're 366 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 1: going to We're going to D. And when the Americans evacuate, 367 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: we're not leaving these ladies alone, and we're going to 368 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: go after every single one of them. We're not going 369 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,479 Speaker 1: to leave one of them behind. And by God's mercy, 370 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 1: he's going to help us. And Allison, how could you 371 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: possibly if they're caught behind enemy lines of a terrorist 372 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 1: organization and control of the country. What is Plan D? 373 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: There is no Plan D. There always is a plan 374 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: I worked. I was up at Nancy headquarters in Washington, DC, 375 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,439 Speaker 1: and one thing I learned was the mantra of failure 376 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: is not an option. So we're not going to quit. 377 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how it's going to work, Sean, but 378 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: we have other options. Besides I admire you. I'm grateful 379 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: for your courage. You know, we had we had special 380 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 1: ops forces on the ground for a week that wanted 381 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: to go into Cobble and rescue Americans and they were 382 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: told to stand down, just like Benghazi, again and again 383 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 1: and again. And I've confirmed that from five separate sources 384 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: that were briefed on the situation. I admire you, Allison. 385 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: Anything that we can do or any information we can 386 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: we can you know, pass on to you, pass on 387 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: us will gladly share it with this audience. Thank you 388 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: for all your efforts. Thank you, Sarah. Just a prayer, 389 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,719 Speaker 1: and just I just want to say a mister President, 390 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: if you can hear me, we just need more time. 391 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: We need more time. Eight hundred and nine for one, 392 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: Shaan is our number. Nathan North Carolina, You're on the 393 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show. Yeah, hi, Sean, thanks for taking my call. 394 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 1: So my biggest thing that I don't understand is I 395 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 1: spent over thirty months in Afghanistan and over twenty of 396 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: that was spent in Bogram Airfield, and I feel like 397 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: that's kind of bearing the lead because people aren't really 398 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: talking about this part of the story. We're trying to 399 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: get all these people out through Cobble and that's just 400 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: an airfield inside of a city. But what people aren't 401 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: it's getting lost in translation, is the size of Bogram Airfield. 402 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: This place is almost thirty square miles large, it has infrastructure. 403 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: We've built this place up. It's almost a city at 404 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: this point, and we could have easily housed all the 405 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 1: people that we needed to get out of there, civilians, 406 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: military personnel. We could have gotten our equipment out that way, 407 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: and we just abandoned that before we even did the 408 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: due diligence to get all of the other stuff that 409 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: we needed now there. You know, obviously the human lives 410 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: aspect is the most important part of this, and even 411 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: like the hundred thousand people that we've gotten out in 412 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: the last week or two, that easily could have been 413 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: processed in that one airfield. It was our largest base 414 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: in the entire theater. It was also an area where 415 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: we could protect the perimeter the Trump Plan. It's fascinating 416 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: and bringing this up because I've had this discussion with 417 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 1: numerous senators and congressmen and former Trump officials at the 418 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 1: highest level. That was part of the Trump plan, not 419 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: just to never. We were never giving that air field back. 420 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: We built it, we own it, and we were going 421 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: to stay there for geopolitical purposes in case things got 422 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 1: out of control. And remember the number one threat of 423 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: president so the Taliban was if you move out of 424 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: your area, we will obliterate you. And that was said 425 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: before any other discussion went forward, and it was said 426 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: numerous times throughout any discussions. And for the last eighteen 427 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: months Donald Trump was president, not a single American died 428 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. I think that speaks volumes about how they 429 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: believed him. And like like you were saying, like we 430 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: had the perimeter established. This wasn't just a chain link fence. 431 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: We had concrete barriers around the place. We had guard 432 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: powers every so often, multiple entry control points. We had 433 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: the sea rams in place to protect from incoming enemy 434 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: mortar and rocket fire. Like you know, we may have 435 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: had to surge a little bit more troops back to 436 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: that area, but it was a hardened location. It would 437 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: have been easily defensible, a lot more so than just 438 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: some random airport inside of a city that's already in 439 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: a foreign hostile country, you know what I'm saying. Well, 440 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: and all of it, as you know, was preventable. All 441 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: of it was preventable. And you know, it's just to me, 442 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: I'm kind of blown away that we've allowed America to 443 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: disintegrate after twenty long years into this when the options 444 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: were phenomenal for us in March, April, May, June, even 445 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: even late even into July, right and with something like this, 446 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: we definitely would have had you know, there should have 447 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 1: been more of a plan. We could have been doing 448 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: this for months. We didn't have to leave two hundred aircraft, 449 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: seventy five thousand vehicles, over six hundred thousand weapons. But 450 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: you know, we could have convoyed C five galaxies into 451 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: that place. And if you've ever seen those things people 452 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: be talking about the C sevent teams that were loading 453 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 1: up with people. A C five galaxy, you can sit 454 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: six buses inside of that thing. You know, we don't 455 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,360 Speaker 1: have to cram eight hundred people on top of each other. 456 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: In C seventeens. We could do that as well. We 457 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: have a very large fleet of those. But our capabilities 458 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: when the military actually starts putting that rubber to the road, 459 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: we can accomplish things that no one else on this 460 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: planet can't. We could have been doing this for months. 461 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,719 Speaker 1: The intel seems like it has been there. Uh. You know, 462 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: this may not necessarily be one hundred percent on Biden, 463 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: but he is the decision maker in the end. But 464 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 1: in the end, somebody's going to have to answer that 465 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: for this just complete lack of planning, because there was 466 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: you seem to you know, do you see more capable 467 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: of being the commander in chief than our current commander 468 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: in chief? Anyway, I appreciate your call. I wish I 469 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: had more time for you. Thank you for your service. 470 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: Sir Bernadette is in Long Island, New York. Bernadette, glad 471 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: you called. I just wanted to say I have four boys. 472 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: All four are currently serving. I have two special Forces. 473 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: I know where three and my boys are. One I 474 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: am is somewhere where I you know, am not. He 475 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: was deployed and he is not allowed to tell me 476 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: where he is. Obviously, I'm sure in the midst of 477 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: all this, um, I just want to say that we 478 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: leave no one behind. Mind is very serious for these 479 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: men and women in our military. This is serious. These 480 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: are their brothers and their sisters. And when we have 481 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: a commander in chief as we have now, it totally 482 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: freaked me out. I am telling you, I need the 483 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,439 Speaker 1: biggest bully in that White House. I am begging for 484 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 1: President Trump to get back because I did not worry 485 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 1: when he was our commander in chief as soon as 486 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: Biden got in, however he got in, I am telling 487 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: you I've been worried about something like this. He Joe 488 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: Biden is in charge of this. He isn't currently the 489 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 1: commander in chief of the United States. Elections have consequences, Yes, 490 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: so I believe that laws were not followed, like partisan 491 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: observers didn't observe. Yeah, that's why I've been pushing for 492 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: election reform so hard and saying it's so important. But 493 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: right now this is Joe Biden's disaster. He caused it. Now, 494 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what ideas President Trump or anybody else 495 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: for that matter, might have considering how dire a situation 496 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: they have now put us in. It's humiliated, it's disheartening, 497 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: it's tragic, it's and it's tragic on a whole other 498 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,239 Speaker 1: level because we watched the march of the Taliban, and 499 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 1: we could have stopped them cold. We did not, and 500 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: there's no good reason why. There's never they've they've ever 501 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: asked that important question. There's a few important questions. Why 502 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: do you trust the Taliban? Why didn't you as the 503 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: Taliban was on the march in April, in May and 504 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: June and July. Why didn't you see this coming? And 505 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: while you had control, why didn't you immediately step up 506 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: evacuation plans? Why did you leave our military equipment behind 507 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: eighty three billion dollars worth? You know, why did you 508 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: you're bragging about having total control of the airport, Well, 509 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: apparently not, and we know the Taliban had controlled the 510 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: perimeter of the airport and the rest of Cobble that 511 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: they had to admit. Why did you let that happen? 512 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, And now the question is, and 513 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: I don't I don't have the hand. Yeah, you're right, 514 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: And what do we do now? There's a big question 515 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: of the day. If anyone has that answer, I'm all 516 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: ears because I really really don't have the perfect answer. 517 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: Because it's not a perfect answer. Every option is extraordinarily dangerous, difficult, challenging, 518 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: and will likely result in American deaths. But then, what's 519 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: what's planed? B just leave them behind defend for themselves, 520 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: and then we'll work on what diplomatic and economic options 521 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: on the table. What we're going to start paying ransom 522 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: for the Americans they left behind that we've got to 523 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: make them pay back for all the money and all 524 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: the equipment we gave them left for them. There were 525 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: no provisions made for that. We didn't extract Blackhawk helicopters. 526 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: Now we've got. Now we've got Taliban fighters flying Blackhawk helicopters. 527 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: God help us quick break right back. 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But 537 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: the vice president of Afghanistan, who didn't flee the country 538 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: like the president, will join us exclusively for his first interview. 539 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 1: As they build the resistance in northern Afghanistan to take 540 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: on the Taliban, can they defeat them? And what can 541 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: the US do. We'll get to that and much more 542 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: news you won't get from the media. Mob say a 543 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: DVR Hannity tonight, Fox News. We'll see you then, Thanks 544 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: for being with us, have a great weekend. God, pray 545 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: for our fellow Americans in Afghanistan and others, and we'll 546 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: see you back here on Monday. We'll see it tonight 547 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: at nine