1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Did you know Joe Biden actually believes that there's really 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: nothing special about being an American. Harvard University Insident Politics 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: had Joe Biden speak back in two thousand and fourteen, 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: and he said this, which may explain exactly why he 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to give a crap about Americans being trapped 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: behind enemy lines in Afghanistan with the Taliban in charge 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: of their futures. And so you figure out how to 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: live together like we do, you will never never, never 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: make it. America's strength ultimately lies in its people. There's 10 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: nothing special about being American. None of you can define 11 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: for me what an American is. Nothing special about being 12 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: an American. There's nothing special about being American. None of 13 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: you can define for me what an American is. Nothing 14 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: should there is nothing special about being an American. Well, 15 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: that may explain exactly why our foreign policy is. If 16 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: Americans are dying around the world, so be it. We 17 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: also learned something else today. Did you know that there 18 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: was a hit out by the Taliban back in two 19 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: thousand and eight, seven, six, twenty nine, ten, actually on 20 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Well, Osama bin Laden may have been smarter 21 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: than we realized. Osama bin Laden evil dude, not stupid, though, 22 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: banned al Qaeda from trying to assassinate Joe Biden because quote, 23 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: he believed he would be an incompetent president and lead 24 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: the US into a crisis that we could exploit. That's right, 25 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: Osama bin Laden banned al Qaida from assassinating Joe Biden 26 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: because the Democrat would become an incompetent president and lead 27 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: the US into a crisis if Jihadis were successful in 28 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: killing Barack Obama. Ben Lawden made those remarks in a 29 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: two thousand and ten letter that was found in a 30 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: trope of documents of the Pakistan compound where he was 31 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: killed by US special forces in two thousand and eleven. 32 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: The document was then made public, but a lot of 33 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: people weren't paying attention to it. In twenty and twelve, 34 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: it was brought back to light this week given the 35 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: significance amid the chaos with a US fordrawal from Afghanistan 36 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: that is gifted the country back into the hands of 37 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 1: al Qaeda. Ben Lawden, then leader of al Qaida and 38 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: the man that America went to Afghanistan to kill, panned 39 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: a forty eight page mission statement. I guess and made 40 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: twenty ten to an aid identified as Brother Muhammad real 41 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: name Al Raman. In it, ben Laden discussed the needed 42 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: direct resources away from ter attacks in other Muslim countries 43 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: instead focus on direct attacks in the US. On page 44 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: thirty six of that letter that we got in that rate, 45 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: he outlined his desire to form two hit squads, one 46 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: in Pakistan and another in Afghanistan, whose job it will 47 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: be to plot attacks against then US President Barack Obama 48 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: and XCIA director David Petraeus should they visit either country. 49 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: Giving his reasoning for attacking Obama, Osama bin Laden said quote, 50 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: Obama is the head of the Infidel and killing him 51 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the 52 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: remainder of the term as is normal over there. Biden 53 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: is totally This is Osama bin Laden's words. Biden is 54 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US 55 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: into chaos. Osam bin Laden also adds as for General Petraeus, 56 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: he is the man of the hour in this last 57 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: year of the war and killing him would alter the 58 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: war's path. Now. US intelligence analysts, who first revealed the 59 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: existence of the document to The Washington Post back in 60 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, said neither the pots against Obama or portrayus 61 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: were realistic or amounted to anything. By the way, that's 62 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: the same exact thing the US Intelligence Agency said about 63 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: the attacks on nine eleven. But ben Laden's attack on 64 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: Biden's abilities and his forewarning of an American crisis rings 65 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: truer now than it ever did before. Biden facing mounting 66 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: fury across the world for abandoning Afghans in their fate, 67 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: and yesterday it emerged that his administration was warned multiple 68 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: times last month that the Afghan capital would quickly follow 69 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: the Taliban after an American withdrawal, and certainly by August 70 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: the thirty first. More than a dozen diplomats have now 71 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: sent a confidential memo out to the media in a 72 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: descent channel to Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln on July thirteenth, 73 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: saying that the Taliban was rapidly gaining ground and that 74 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: the city was vulnerable to collapse, The Walls Journal has confirmed. 75 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: On July eighth, President Biden said it was quotely highly 76 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: highly unlikely the Taliban would take control of Afghanistan and 77 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: denied there would be chaos in Kabbel. Well, now we 78 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: know that he's either just a total idiot or he 79 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: refuses to listen to anyone around him. He went on 80 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: vacation for five days as Afghanistan was falling, which goes 81 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: back to the competency issue that was raised by Osama 82 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: bin Laden, who said, don't kill Joe Biden. We want 83 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: this guy to be president. He'll take over if we 84 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: can get rid of Obama. These are the words of 85 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: the Rists that planned nine to eleven. This is Osama 86 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: bin Laden saying, whatever you do, don't harm Joe Biden, 87 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: because Joe Biden will give us what we want Afghan 88 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: security forces we knew were collapsing over a month ago. 89 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: The memo also warned Obama or excuse me, Biden, that 90 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: there are many ways to mitigate the advancing insurgents. None 91 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: of that was listened to by the President. The State 92 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: Department not wanting blood on their hands, and their memo, 93 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: according to report, also called for the government to use 94 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: tougher language, referring to the US government using tougher language 95 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: mean the president US tougher language on the violence in 96 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: the past and the Taliban, and urged them to start 97 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: collecting information for Afghan allies who qualified for special immigration 98 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: visas after working with US forces. All of this was 99 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: warned weeks ago, almost a month ago before all this happened. 100 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: The Journal even report that twenty three embassy staffers signed 101 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: the cable and rushed to deliver it considering the deteriorating 102 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: situation in Kabble. This is back in July. We're now 103 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: told the Secretary of State Anthony Lincoln reviewed the cable. 104 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: State Department spokesman Ed Price told the Journal quote, he 105 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: made clear that he welcomes and encourages the use of 106 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: the descent channel, is committed to its revitalization. We value 107 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:27,559 Speaker 1: constructive internal descent. The memo using the descent channel urged 108 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: the administration to start flights evacuating people out of the 109 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: country no later than August the first, and sooner if 110 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: they could. A former CIA counter Terrorism chiefs chief also 111 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: advised the President's campaign the cobble would crumble within days 112 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: with a depleted American presence, so don't do that. But 113 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: an interview release on Thursday morning, President Biden claimed George 114 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: Stepanopolis that he was never told that such a rapid 115 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: collapse was even possible. In fact, a day earlier, General 116 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: Mark Millie, you know the chairman of the Joint Chiefs 117 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: of Staff that's been focusing more on wokeness and making 118 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,679 Speaker 1: sure soldiers can get sex change operations and boob jobs. 119 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: Said he never saw any intelligence warning that the African 120 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: government could fall so quickly. We now know he lied 121 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: to us as well. Quote, there's nothing that I or 122 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army 123 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: and the government in eleven days. We know now that's 124 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: a lie. Their claims have been disputed in a detailed 125 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: account describing the state of understanding at the CIA written 126 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: by Douglas London, the agency's former counter terrorism chief for 127 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: South and Southwest Asia, which offered a very different assessment. 128 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: He said the rapid collapse was one of a number 129 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 1: of possible scenarios, saying, quote, ultimately it was assessed African 130 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: forces might capitulate under the circumstances we witness and projections 131 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: highlighted the Trump officials and future Biden officials alike. He said, 132 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: we have a real problem and everyone knows it. London, 133 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,719 Speaker 1: by the way, who served as a volunteer advisor to 134 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: the Biden campaign after leaving the CIA in two nineteen 135 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: scoffed at the president's claim that the events Afghanistan unfolded 136 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: more rapidly than expected, saying quote, that's misleading. It best now, 137 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: this is his advisor on his campaign saying, quote, the 138 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: CIA anticipated it was a very real scenario. ABC News 139 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: even scorching Biden for claiming Americans, how her, are having 140 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: no trouble getting to the airport. You know, Joe Biden 141 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: wants you to actually believe maybe one of the biggest 142 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 1: lives we've been told so far, that Americans are having 143 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: no issues getting the Kabbel airport. Even ABC News isn't 144 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: buying it. Not only did ABC News not buy it, 145 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: they're actually scorching him because they have members in their 146 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: media apparatus that can't get to the airport. We've all 147 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: seen the videos of the babies being thrown over the 148 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: barbed wire. Some of them got caught in the bob wire. 149 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: We know that people are passing their children over the fence, 150 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 1: the soldiers begging for them to give their kids a 151 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: chance at life. Joe Biden actually said today in his 152 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: own words, that there are zero issues. I don't know 153 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: if any there's no indication every road is controlled by 154 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: the Taliban, every road coming to the airport has road blocks. 155 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 1: Americans were beat last night in the streets in Afghanistan. 156 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: You know the State Department thinks about that. I'll play 157 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: that for you in a second. But before we get 158 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: to that, here is Biden lying to you. But remember 159 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: this is the same guy that said there's nothing special 160 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: about being an American. It makes sense, right, If Joe 161 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: Biden truly believes that there is nothing special about being 162 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: an American, then it's not a big deal for Americans 163 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: beaten by the Taliban or murdered or hung or beheaded, 164 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 1: nothing special about being American. None of you can define 165 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: for me what an American is. That's twenty fourteen at 166 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: the Harvard University Institute of Politics. So if there's nothing 167 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: special about Americans, and why do I care about them? 168 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: We have no indication that they haven't been able to 169 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: get in Couble through the airport. We've made an agreement 170 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: with the Taliban. Thus far, they've allowed them to go through. 171 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: It's and they're interested them to go through. So we 172 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: know of no circumstance where American citizens are carrying an 173 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: American passport or trying to get through to the airport. 174 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: But we will do whatever it needs to be done 175 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: to see to what they get to the airport. Really 176 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: because your state department, so they couldn't guarantee the safety 177 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: of Americans, and the DoD said that you guys couldn't 178 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: guarantee the safety of Americans going to airport. So which 179 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: one is it? State Department spokesman Ned Price actually dismissed 180 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: the reports of the Taliban being Americans, maybe because he believes, 181 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden that in their world words not mine, 182 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: there's nothing special about being American. None of you can 183 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: define from me what an American is. So let me 184 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: let you listen to the State Department spokesman Ned Price 185 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: dismissing reports of Americans being beaten last night. First time 186 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: ever this has happened since all this point down Americans 187 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: being attacked. The Defense Secretary told congressional leaders that Americans 188 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: were beating there, so can you confirm that for us 189 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: off And this is a first indication of what yet 190 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: to come by the Taliban. Again, every single report, whether 191 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: it is an American citizen, and we take we're in 192 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 1: direct contact with American citizens, we take those extraordinarily seriously. 193 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: Or the reports we're seeing about at risk Akians who 194 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: may be impeded. We take those extraordinarily seriously. It's difficult 195 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: for us to speak to reports that are anecdotal that 196 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: may be on social media. Reports we can speak to 197 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: are those. I mean, these journalists, by the way, are 198 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: pretty angry right this. This, This reporter is confronting the 199 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: State Department spokesman over their ambiguous updates and not telling 200 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: the truth about what's having to American citizens. And she's going, 201 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: we have these reports going to Congress. Why are you 202 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: not admitting this? The reports we can speak to are 203 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: those reports that we have heard firsthand, because we are 204 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 1: in regular constant communication with American citizens on the ground, 205 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: providing them guidance, providing them instructions. So oftentimes we do 206 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 1: know the most about what American citizens are faring. But 207 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 1: I'm just not in a position to confirm specific reports. 208 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: So let's be clear about this. The State Department spokesman 209 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: Ned Price just miss his reports of the Taliban beating 210 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: Americans as anecdotal. That's how little they think of you. 211 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,199 Speaker 1: Even ABC News Tonight not putting up with that crap. 212 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: Correspondent Ian Panel with us live on the ground in Kabble, 213 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: where he has been for many days now, and Ian, 214 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: I want to get right to something. The President was 215 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 1: pressed on there from our own Stephanie Ramos, who was 216 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: there at the White House. She asked about Americans and 217 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 1: Afghans who are in Kabbal and beyond, who are trying 218 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: to get to that airport. But as you have reported 219 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: for many nights on World News tonight, the Taliban controls 220 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: the checkpoint, the Taliban and convoys around that country. How 221 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: do you get those families to the airport? The President 222 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: said he has no intelligence that Americans have been unable 223 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: to get there. The question obviously, does that square with 224 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: reporting on the ground, I mean, just totally not. I 225 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: mean the reaction was pretty much one of I mean, 226 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: it was breasttaking no indication Americans can get to the airports. 227 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: I mean, last nights on World News, we had American 228 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: citizens who had exactly that experience. They tried to get 229 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: to the airport. They had weighed their American passports. The 230 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: President talks about all they had to do was present 231 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: their passports and they'd be allowed through. They were beaten 232 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: by the Taliban with the rubber fan belt from a vehicle. 233 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: Multiple examples of Americans and Afghans SIV applicants who have 234 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: now tried repeatedly. This one woman we're tracking. She's back 235 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: at the airport tonight. This is a third night in 236 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: the row. The gates haven't opened, the Taliban haven't let 237 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: her through. It just seems the reality and the rhetoric 238 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: are miles apart. I'm not quite sure what advice the 239 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: presidents receiving, but the truth on the ground is that 240 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: these people who are in fear of their lives can't 241 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: get through. These people infear their lives can't get through. 242 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: That's ABC News saying it. Let me let you hear 243 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: from another media organization who is also saying that Joe 244 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: Biden's last his ever loving mind and he's just flat 245 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: out lying to the American people about him. Ericans getting 246 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: safe passage to the airport MSNBC, and the only reason 247 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: why they're angry. You have to understand this is because 248 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: there's journalists who are caught behind enemy lines right now, 249 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: so it's in their best interest to tell you the 250 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: truth only for that reason. I want this to be clear. 251 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: This is not about Americans and is about journalists who 252 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: think they're more important than you are. It just happens 253 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: to be that we're aligned on this one now, so 254 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: they will tell you the real truth of what's happening 255 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: on the ground. Because Americans who also happen to be 256 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: journalists are trapped behind enemy lines. That's why they're really angry. 257 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: If all the journalists were safe, then they would have 258 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: no problem probably telling you a different story. You're looking 259 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: the other way while Biden's lying to you. But right 260 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: now they want their journalist friends, which lives are more 261 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: valuable than anyone else's, to get out. Here is what 262 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: MSNBC said about Joe Biden telling the world, Oh Americans, 263 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: where are past? We're just showing to the talbot. I'll 264 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: let you straight through. Those of people surrounded the airport, 265 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: the Camp Salivant camp there on the military entrance, all 266 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: of them have been closed. So you're beating the people, 267 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 1: smoking fire gas at them. There's no way that people 268 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: get in. So this is a complete failure. What the 269 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 1: prisoner has been saying, it contradicts the situation. My journalist 270 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: is telling me from the airport. One of my journalists 271 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 1: mid inside the airport and the other one has been 272 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: beaten and still outside. So the reality, by the way, 273 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: you know, one of my journalists see, that's the only 274 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: reason why they're telling you the truth right now is 275 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: because it's their journalists who usually have a different level 276 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: of protection. Right, that's all broken down. Journalists. You gotta understand, 277 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm I'm in the I don't like saying I'm in 278 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,239 Speaker 1: the journalist field. That's not I don't want to be 279 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: accused of being a journalist, right, I'm not a journalist. 280 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: I'm a commentator. But you gotta understand. Most journalists are 281 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: extremely narcissistic. They believe they're special. They believe that they 282 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: are above reproach. They believe that they're like like God 283 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: has their hand on them, that they're somehow different than 284 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: a normal human being. Journalists believe that they are They're 285 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: very narcissistic. Just so you understand, and even there you 286 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: can hear it, right. I don't even think the guy 287 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: realized what he's saying here, but he's basically saying, I'm 288 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: angry and I'm telling you that Joe Biden's lying and 289 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: what's happening on the ground is not what he's claiming. 290 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 1: It is because I have journalists that are trapped. It's 291 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: exactly what I said they were gonna do now, So 292 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: as they get their journalists out, they'll shut up. They'll 293 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: shut up for the same reason that Joe Biden is 294 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: acting this way, because they don't really think there's anything 295 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: special about being an American. Sistant either, there's nothing special 296 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: about being American. None of you can define for me 297 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: what an American is. That explains Joe Biden's lack of 298 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: I don't give a blank about these people. That explains 299 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 1: why they can he can look you in the face 300 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: and lie to you. But ABC News scorching Biden for 301 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: claiming Americans have no trouble getting the couple airport, and 302 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: MSNBC doing the exact same thing. It's only because they're 303 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 1: journalists that are trapped on the ground. Is that the 304 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: administration had literally feeled this footage b uc it's from 305 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: my journalis wanted to make his way out. The US 306 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,439 Speaker 1: Embassy has issued them these passes or they call up 307 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: visa passes. The problem is not the Tolebon. The problem 308 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: is our capabilities US forces and the and the a 309 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: consecurity forces. They cannot control the crowd. We're talking about 310 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: thousands of people. Eighteen thousand left, six thousand screen last night. 311 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,719 Speaker 1: Right now, everything is closed, So what we see all 312 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: these footages you're been beating. And there's another thing. Over 313 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: ninety percent of these people have never worked for the 314 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: US government. Their families are not in the US. So 315 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: it has been a mismanagement of this program. You know, 316 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 1: this kind have been done long time ago. We literally failed. 317 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: It has been a terrible leadership. And I think it's 318 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: still the president. He admitted his failure, and he's still 319 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: not regretting what has happening on the ground. You know, yes, 320 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: there are a lot of brave American souls on the ground, 321 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: but if the leadership is not working, if the strategy 322 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: is not working, how are you going to sit safely 323 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 1: bring these people home? You know? On the crowd, my 324 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: journalist told me there are a lot of American citizens 325 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: with green cards even with a US citizenship passport and 326 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: the ENGINEUS that is the issue. So the crowd, there's 327 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: there's really really, really hard for people to go and 328 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: it says, oh, you're an American, let's go on a plane. 329 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: So this situation, it's a chaos, it's a disaster. I 330 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: got a massage from the journal is that she made 331 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: at the airport. She was crying and she was telling 332 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: me Ahamed I don't know what to tell you. People 333 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: are killing each other over a bottle of water. It's 334 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,719 Speaker 1: such a such a disaster at chaos and she hung up. 335 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: One man. Notice it's all about the journalist here, right, 336 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: It's not really the Americans. Yeah, not really the Americans. 337 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: It's journalists. We just happen to be aligned for once 338 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: because we're angry. We can't get out Stay Department spokes 339 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: from Price just missus reports of beating Americans. Member, it's 340 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: just anecdotal. It's not a big deal. Senator Lindsey Graham 341 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: even said today, I fear that the Taliban has given 342 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: us an ultimatum. They're now attacking Americans. Even CNN now again, 343 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: the only reason why they're doing what I'm about to 344 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: play for you is because they have journalists. Is fact 345 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: checking now. For the first time ever, Joe Biden's claimed 346 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: today the President has said American passport holders who are 347 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: not having any trouble getting past the Taliban checkpoints, that 348 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 1: may be problematic. An awful lot of reports that that 349 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: is still very much a problem. Now they won't say 350 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 1: just lied to you right there. It's you know, they 351 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: got they got to make sure they keep their access 352 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: to the White House. Right, you want to know something 353 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 1: else that's crazy. This administration was asked about what's going 354 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: on when it comes to another issue they've they've asked 355 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: them about the Taliban. Hey, what's what? What are we? 356 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: What's the Taliban looking right right now? What's their presence 357 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan? The Pentagon spokesman actually contradicts Biden because Biden 358 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: made up another lie in his press conference today. I mean, 359 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: they can't even keep their their lies straight at this point. 360 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: There's too many of them. Listen to the Pentagon spokesman 361 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: contradicting Biden, Biden said, no, we don't. We're's so isis 362 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: in al Kada president in Afghanistan. Ah, No, no that's 363 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: not true. Less than an hour later, the Pentagon says 364 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:43,360 Speaker 1: this when they're asked the same question, exact intelligence estimates 365 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: about how many Al Qaida remain in Afghanist. We know 366 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: that al Qaida is a presence as well as ISIS 367 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, and we've talked about that for quite some time. 368 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: We do not believe it is exorbitantly high, but we 369 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: don't have an exact figure for you. As I think 370 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: you might understand, Jen, it's not like they they carry 371 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: identification cards in register somewhere. We don't have a perfect picture, 372 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: and our ability, our intelligence gathering ability in Afghanistan isn't 373 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: what it used to be because we aren't there in 374 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: the same with the same numbers that we used to be. 375 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: But the President just said that there is no Al 376 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: Qaeda presence in Afghanistan. That does not seem to be correct. 377 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: What we don't think is that, what we believe is 378 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: that there isn't a presence that is significant enough to 379 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: merit a threat to our homeland as there was back 380 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: on nine to eleven, twenty years ago. The President also 381 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 1: said there is no national security interests, no national interests 382 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. I'm a little confused by that. Can you 383 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: explain why there's no national interests in Aghanistan? Why did 384 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: we have troops there for twenty years? If there's no 385 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: national interests in Afghanistan? We had we had a significant 386 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: interest in being in Afghanistan to our national security. Twenty 387 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: years ago. You've heard the President talk about this, the 388 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: goal to defeat and decimate al Kada, also to prevent 389 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: al Qaeda from launching attacks on the homeland from Afghanistan, 390 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: and we did that we did that and a whole 391 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: heck of a lot more over the course of twenty years, 392 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: and to include helping with social, political, economic, just progress 393 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. The President decided that it was time to 394 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: end this conflict. That there was really only two choices 395 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 1: because of the May one deadline. Either plus up because 396 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: after May first we would come under attack by the 397 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: Taliban and we hadn't since the Doha agreement had been signed. 398 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: Or or go ahead and complete the drawdown. And the 399 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: decision was made to complete the draw down. Now I 400 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: love this, by the way, this guy literally is stuttering 401 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: after the reporter says, but the President just said there 402 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: is no al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan. That does not 403 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: seem to be correct, Pentagon spokesman. What we don't think 404 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: is what we believe is that there isn't a presence 405 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: that is significant enough to merit a threat to our 406 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: homeland as there was back on nine eleven, twenty years ago. 407 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 1: They're not even on the same page about al Qaida. Folks. 408 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: Maybe Osama bin Laden was really smart because Osama bin 409 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: Laden said to al Qaeda, whatever you do, don't assassinate 410 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, because he believed he would be an incompetent 411 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: president and lead the US into crisis. That was in 412 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: his own words and his own writings that we seize 413 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: from his compound back in two eleven after we killed him. 414 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: Joe Biden also said he has no indication that there 415 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: are any issues for Americans getting to the Kabbel airport. 416 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: We now know that is a lie. We have no 417 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,239 Speaker 1: indication that they haven't been able to get incomble through 418 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: the airport. We've made an agreement with the with the Taliban. 419 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 1: Thus far they've allowed them to go through. It's and 420 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: they're interesting to go through. So we know of no 421 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: circumstance where American citizens are carrying an American passport are 422 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: trying to get through to the airport. But we will 423 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 1: do whatever it needs to be done to see to 424 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: what they get to the airport. Again, he knew that 425 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: was a lie when he said it. He also knew 426 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: it was a lie when he said that Alkaia is 427 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 1: not in the country. Okada is in the country, Olkaida 428 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: is in the country. He said that Alkaida is not 429 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: in the country. Yes, it is now to totally just 430 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: put into perspective the insanity of this press conference today. 431 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: Joe Biden actually forgot the first question from the first 432 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: reporter after he called on the reporter today at the 433 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 1: White House. The first part of your question was, I 434 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 1: can't remember now that's your president. The first part of 435 00:26:55,160 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: your question, I can't remember now. Really, that's what you've got. 436 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: That's what you've got. That's it. Lindsey Graham has said 437 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: he believes that the Taliban he figures has given us 438 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: an ultimatum, an ultimatum that they are going to start 439 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: attacking us. They've already started it, hitting and beating Americans. 440 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: What happens when they start killing Americans? So that seems 441 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 1: like the perfect jumping off point to bring in Senator 442 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, who has been to Afghanistan many times as 443 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: a former member of the Armed Services Committee, and he 444 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: served in Afghanistan as an Air Force Reserve colonel. Senator Graham, 445 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 1: good to have you with us today. I thought that 446 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: was an astonishing comment in many ways, just in terms 447 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,199 Speaker 1: of the reality of the situation, and I want to 448 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,120 Speaker 1: hear your reaction to that first, and then some other 449 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: points that he made. Well. Number One, President Boden is 450 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: clearly disconnected from the reality on the ground in Afghanistan. 451 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 1: The UN issued a report just a month or two 452 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: ago saying that al kay was in fifteen provinces of Afghanistan. 453 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: After this debacle, they're going to be everywhere. He also 454 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: said he I'm gonna hold him to his word that 455 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: we're going to get all the Americans out and all 456 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,360 Speaker 1: the Afghan's out. He said that, but look what's going 457 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: on on the ground. The State Department has issued a 458 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: statement today, you travel at your own peril. We can't 459 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 1: guarantee your safety, and the gates at the Kabbol Airport 460 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: may close at any minute. So the State Department is 461 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: telling people on the ground your own your own and 462 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: the President of United States is promising to get you out. 463 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: There is no plan. President Biden is clearly overwhelmed by 464 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: the situation, and I think he's in denial about what's 465 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: going on. But because al Qaeda is there and there's 466 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: clearly no plan. If there were a plan, but by 467 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: the way, this idea that he's in denial, I got 468 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: to disagree with. I don't think he cares. I don't 469 00:28:55,240 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: think he cares because if he acts, cared, right, if 470 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: he cared, then he beginning these American troops to go 471 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: out into the city and get the Americans that are 472 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: being held back by the Taliban right now. And do 473 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: you think a mother would be handing their baby over 474 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: the wall to a marine. No, because they know the 475 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: reality and they understand that the Taliban has not changed 476 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: his stripes and that they may And maybe, by the way, 477 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: part of this, maybe that he'd just gotten so and 478 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: just old, like, hey, I got the Holy Grail or 479 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: excuse me, I became the president United's America. I don't 480 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: care if these americansistants die. I'm too old now to 481 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: even care, Like I've just become forty plus years. You're 482 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: just numb, I'm right at this point, you're numb, like 483 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: you've gone through Vietnam. Remember he was a senator when 484 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: Vietnam happened and the Debacle of Vietnam happened, and the 485 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: pullout of Vietnam happened, and Saigan happened. He was there 486 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: when Iran hostage crisis was happening as a senator. At 487 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: this point, like, does he even give a crap anymore? 488 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: I would say probably not. So out they might even 489 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: be cooperative in some ways in terms of letting people leave, 490 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: although we've seen them also very violent at times when 491 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: when they see fit. You know, I want to just 492 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: talk about the Afghani people and the commitment that you 493 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: talked about that the President made there right because he 494 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: said we will we will get you home. That was 495 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: a clear message to Americans. But when he when he 496 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: was pressed a little bit on the Afghans who helped us, 497 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: he sort of left, I think some doors open to 498 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: maybe not help all of those people. Right. So he 499 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: was asked, we just stay past the August thirty first 500 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: deadline because we all know that, you know, to get 501 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of people out in the next ten 502 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: days is going to be tricky. He said, yeah, I 503 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: think we can get the Afghans out in time. And 504 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: then he said, but you know, but we'll see about 505 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: the deadline. We'll see then just one more and I 506 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: want to put out there on the table for you. 507 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: Let me just say this, then, last thing. I think 508 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: he is so hell bent on having that date of well, 509 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: at least we're out. People may have died, but at 510 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: least we're out by September eleventh, on the twentieth anniversary, 511 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: that he doesn't care what happens to anyone right now. 512 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 1: As long as we're out, just get out. I really 513 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: think that's all he cares about. Like that's it, which 514 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: is honestly the scariest part of all of this. 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