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Speaker 1: There's no way you can spin out of the fact

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Speaker 1: as Joe Biden was saying, that we had factored in

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Speaker 1: it was part of the withdrawal plan, the chaos, when

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Speaker 1: in fact, the Taliban had not killed an American for

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Speaker 1: almost a year and a half, the last year and

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Speaker 1: a half Donald Trump was in office. And then go

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Speaker 1: back to the point of blaming Donald Trump, You're forgetting

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Speaker 1: the most important part, and that was the President confirming

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Speaker 1: that was clear and unambiguous. Before we start. This is

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Speaker 1: to release Donald Trump transcripts with foreign leaders. They leak

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Speaker 1: that's nothing compared to what I have prepared for you.

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Speaker 1: part of which, of course, would be that you don't

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Speaker 1: Now they have billions of dollars. I think the Taliban

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Speaker 1: Taliban death squads are now going door to door in

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Speaker 1: search of women's rights advocates. Where are the women's rights

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Speaker 1: advocates in America? Today? The report from the Sun. Taliban

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Speaker 1: death squads have been marking the doors of prominent Afghan

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Speaker 1: women with a paint as several female anchors are acted

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Speaker 1: from television and a chilling crackdown going door to door

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Speaker 1: targeting those women, marking the doors with bright pink, bright

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Speaker 1: colored paint to ensure this is the house we need

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Speaker 1: to come back to and do something about them. We're

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Speaker 1: not in control. Maybe it works out great, but we

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Speaker 1: don't have any We're not going to be the masters

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Speaker 1: of Americans destiny here when we could have been. This

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Speaker 1: is the biggest colossal military failure in our lifetime and

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Speaker 1: it was all preventable. But Joe's going on vacation again.

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Speaker 1: We'll continue