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SHOCK AND HORROR! BIDEN CLAIMS "There Is Nothing Special About Being an American" · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Did you know Joe Biden actually believes that there's really
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  Speaker 1: nothing special about being an American. Harvard University Insident Politics
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  Speaker 1: had Joe Biden speak back in two thousand and fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: and he said this, which may explain exactly why he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to give a crap about Americans being trapped
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  Speaker 1: behind enemy lines in Afghanistan with the Taliban in charge
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  Speaker 1: of their futures. And so you figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: live together like we do, you will never never, never
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  Speaker 1: make it. America's strength ultimately lies in its people. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing special about being American. None of you can define
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  Speaker 1: for me what an American is. Nothing special about being
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  Speaker 1: an American. There's nothing special about being American. None of
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  Speaker 1: you can define for me what an American is. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: should there is nothing special about being an American. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that may explain exactly why our foreign policy is. If
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  Speaker 1: Americans are dying around the world, so be it. We
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  Speaker 1: also learned something else today. Did you know that there
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  Speaker 1: was a hit out by the Taliban back in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eight, seven, six, twenty nine, ten, actually on
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Well, Osama bin Laden may have been smarter
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  Speaker 1: than we realized. Osama bin Laden evil dude, not stupid, though,
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  Speaker 1: banned al Qaeda from trying to assassinate Joe Biden because quote,
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  Speaker 1: he believed he would be an incompetent president and lead
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  Speaker 1: the US into a crisis that we could exploit. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: Osama bin Laden banned al Qaida from assassinating Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: because the Democrat would become an incompetent president and lead
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  Speaker 1: the US into a crisis if Jihadis were successful in
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  Speaker 1: killing Barack Obama. Ben Lawden made those remarks in a
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and ten letter that was found in a
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  Speaker 1: trope of documents of the Pakistan compound where he was
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  Speaker 1: killed by US special forces in two thousand and eleven.
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  Speaker 1: The document was then made public, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people weren't paying attention to it. In twenty and twelve,
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  Speaker 1: it was brought back to light this week given the
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  Speaker 1: significance amid the chaos with a US fordrawal from Afghanistan
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  Speaker 1: that is gifted the country back into the hands of
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  Speaker 1: al Qaeda. Ben Lawden, then leader of al Qaida and
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  Speaker 1: the man that America went to Afghanistan to kill, panned
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  Speaker 1: a forty eight page mission statement. I guess and made
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten to an aid identified as Brother Muhammad real
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  Speaker 1: name Al Raman. In it, ben Laden discussed the needed
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  Speaker 1: direct resources away from ter attacks in other Muslim countries
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  Speaker 1: instead focus on direct attacks in the US. On page
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  Speaker 1: thirty six of that letter that we got in that rate,
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  Speaker 1: he outlined his desire to form two hit squads, one
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  Speaker 1: in Pakistan and another in Afghanistan, whose job it will
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  Speaker 1: be to plot attacks against then US President Barack Obama
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  Speaker 1: and XCIA director David Petraeus should they visit either country.
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  Speaker 1: Giving his reasoning for attacking Obama, Osama bin Laden said quote,
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  Speaker 1: Obama is the head of the Infidel and killing him
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  Speaker 1: automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the
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  Speaker 1: remainder of the term as is normal over there. Biden
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  Speaker 1: is totally This is Osama bin Laden's words. Biden is
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  Speaker 1: totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US
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  Speaker 1: into chaos. Osam bin Laden also adds as for General Petraeus,
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  Speaker 1: he is the man of the hour in this last
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  Speaker 1: year of the war and killing him would alter the
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  Speaker 1: war's path. Now. US intelligence analysts, who first revealed the
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  Speaker 1: existence of the document to The Washington Post back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve, said neither the pots against Obama or portrayus
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  Speaker 1: were realistic or amounted to anything. By the way, that's
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  Speaker 1: the same exact thing the US Intelligence Agency said about
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  Speaker 1: the attacks on nine eleven. But ben Laden's attack on
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  Speaker 1: Biden's abilities and his forewarning of an American crisis rings
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  Speaker 1: truer now than it ever did before. Biden facing mounting
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  Speaker 1: fury across the world for abandoning Afghans in their fate,
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  Speaker 1: and yesterday it emerged that his administration was warned multiple
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  Speaker 1: times last month that the Afghan capital would quickly follow
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  Speaker 1: the Taliban after an American withdrawal, and certainly by August
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  Speaker 1: the thirty first. More than a dozen diplomats have now
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  Speaker 1: sent a confidential memo out to the media in a
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  Speaker 1: descent channel to Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln on July thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: saying that the Taliban was rapidly gaining ground and that
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  Speaker 1: the city was vulnerable to collapse, The Walls Journal has confirmed.
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  Speaker 1: On July eighth, President Biden said it was quotely highly
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  Speaker 1: highly unlikely the Taliban would take control of Afghanistan and
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  Speaker 1: denied there would be chaos in Kabbel. Well, now we
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  Speaker 1: know that he's either just a total idiot or he
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  Speaker 1: refuses to listen to anyone around him. He went on
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  Speaker 1: vacation for five days as Afghanistan was falling, which goes
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  Speaker 1: back to the competency issue that was raised by Osama
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  Speaker 1: bin Laden, who said, don't kill Joe Biden. We want
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  Speaker 1: this guy to be president. He'll take over if we
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  Speaker 1: can get rid of Obama. These are the words of
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  Speaker 1: the Rists that planned nine to eleven. This is Osama
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  Speaker 1: bin Laden saying, whatever you do, don't harm Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 1: because Joe Biden will give us what we want Afghan
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  Speaker 1: security forces we knew were collapsing over a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: The memo also warned Obama or excuse me, Biden, that
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  Speaker 1: there are many ways to mitigate the advancing insurgents. None
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  Speaker 1: of that was listened to by the President. The State
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  Speaker 1: Department not wanting blood on their hands, and their memo,
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  Speaker 1: according to report, also called for the government to use
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  Speaker 1: tougher language, referring to the US government using tougher language
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  Speaker 1: mean the president US tougher language on the violence in
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  Speaker 1: the past and the Taliban, and urged them to start
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  Speaker 1: collecting information for Afghan allies who qualified for special immigration
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  Speaker 1: visas after working with US forces. All of this was
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  Speaker 1: warned weeks ago, almost a month ago before all this happened.
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  Speaker 1: The Journal even report that twenty three embassy staffers signed
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  Speaker 1: the cable and rushed to deliver it considering the deteriorating
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  Speaker 1: situation in Kabble. This is back in July. We're now
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  Speaker 1: told the Secretary of State Anthony Lincoln reviewed the cable.
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  Speaker 1: State Department spokesman Ed Price told the Journal quote, he
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  Speaker 1: made clear that he welcomes and encourages the use of
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  Speaker 1: the descent channel, is committed to its revitalization. We value
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  Speaker 1: constructive internal descent. The memo using the descent channel urged
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  Speaker 1: the administration to start flights evacuating people out of the
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  Speaker 1: country no later than August the first, and sooner if
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  Speaker 1: they could. A former CIA counter Terrorism chiefs chief also
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  Speaker 1: advised the President's campaign the cobble would crumble within days
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  Speaker 1: with a depleted American presence, so don't do that. But
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  Speaker 1: an interview release on Thursday morning, President Biden claimed George
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  Speaker 1: Stepanopolis that he was never told that such a rapid
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  Speaker 1: collapse was even possible. In fact, a day earlier, General
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  Speaker 1: Mark Millie, you know the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: of Staff that's been focusing more on wokeness and making
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  Speaker 1: sure soldiers can get sex change operations and boob jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Said he never saw any intelligence warning that the African
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  Speaker 1: government could fall so quickly. We now know he lied
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  Speaker 1: to us as well. Quote, there's nothing that I or
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  Speaker 1: anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army
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  Speaker 1: and the government in eleven days. We know now that's
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  Speaker 1: a lie. Their claims have been disputed in a detailed
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  Speaker 1: account describing the state of understanding at the CIA written
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  Speaker 1: by Douglas London, the agency's former counter terrorism chief for
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  Speaker 1: South and Southwest Asia, which offered a very different assessment.
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  Speaker 1: He said the rapid collapse was one of a number
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  Speaker 1: of possible scenarios, saying, quote, ultimately it was assessed African
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  Speaker 1: forces might capitulate under the circumstances we witness and projections
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  Speaker 1: highlighted the Trump officials and future Biden officials alike. He said,
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  Speaker 1: we have a real problem and everyone knows it. London,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, who served as a volunteer advisor to
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  Speaker 1: the Biden campaign after leaving the CIA in two nineteen
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  Speaker 1: scoffed at the president's claim that the events Afghanistan unfolded
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  Speaker 1: more rapidly than expected, saying quote, that's misleading. It best now,
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  Speaker 1: this is his advisor on his campaign saying, quote, the
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  Speaker 1: CIA anticipated it was a very real scenario. ABC News
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  Speaker 1: even scorching Biden for claiming Americans, how her, are having
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  Speaker 1: no trouble getting to the airport. You know, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: wants you to actually believe maybe one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: lives we've been told so far, that Americans are having
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  Speaker 1: no issues getting the Kabbel airport. Even ABC News isn't
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  Speaker 1: buying it. Not only did ABC News not buy it,
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  Speaker 1: they're actually scorching him because they have members in their
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  Speaker 1: media apparatus that can't get to the airport. We've all
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  Speaker 1: seen the videos of the babies being thrown over the
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  Speaker 1: barbed wire. Some of them got caught in the bob wire.
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  Speaker 1: We know that people are passing their children over the fence,
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers begging for them to give their kids a
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  Speaker 1: chance at life. Joe Biden actually said today in his
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  Speaker 1: own words, that there are zero issues. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if any there's no indication every road is controlled by
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  Speaker 1: the Taliban, every road coming to the airport has road blocks.
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  Speaker 1: Americans were beat last night in the streets in Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 1: You know the State Department thinks about that. I'll play
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  Speaker 1: that for you in a second. But before we get
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  Speaker 1: to that, here is Biden lying to you. But remember
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  Speaker 1: this is the same guy that said there's nothing special
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  Speaker 1: about being an American. It makes sense, right, If Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden truly believes that there is nothing special about being
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  Speaker 1: an American, then it's not a big deal for Americans
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  Speaker 1: beaten by the Taliban or murdered or hung or beheaded,
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  Speaker 1: nothing special about being American. None of you can define
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  Speaker 1: for me what an American is. That's twenty fourteen at
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  Speaker 1: the Harvard University Institute of Politics. So if there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: special about Americans, and why do I care about them?
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  Speaker 1: We have no indication that they haven't been able to
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  Speaker 1: get in Couble through the airport. We've made an agreement
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  Speaker 1: with the Taliban. Thus far, they've allowed them to go through.
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  Speaker 1: It's and they're interested them to go through. So we
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  Speaker 1: know of no circumstance where American citizens are carrying an
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  Speaker 1: American passport or trying to get through to the airport.
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  Speaker 1: But we will do whatever it needs to be done
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  Speaker 1: to see to what they get to the airport. Really
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  Speaker 1: because your state department, so they couldn't guarantee the safety
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  Speaker 1: of Americans, and the DoD said that you guys couldn't
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  Speaker 1: guarantee the safety of Americans going to airport. So which
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  Speaker 1: one is it? State Department spokesman Ned Price actually dismissed
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  Speaker 1: the reports of the Taliban being Americans, maybe because he believes,
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  Speaker 1: like Joe Biden that in their world words not mine,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing special about being American. None of you can
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  Speaker 1: define from me what an American is. So let me
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  Speaker 1: let you listen to the State Department spokesman Ned Price
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  Speaker 1: dismissing reports of Americans being beaten last night. First time
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  Speaker 1: ever this has happened since all this point down Americans
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  Speaker 1: being attacked. The Defense Secretary told congressional leaders that Americans
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  Speaker 1: were beating there, so can you confirm that for us
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  Speaker 1: off And this is a first indication of what yet
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  Speaker 1: to come by the Taliban. Again, every single report, whether
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  Speaker 1: it is an American citizen, and we take we're in
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  Speaker 1: direct contact with American citizens, we take those extraordinarily seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Or the reports we're seeing about at risk Akians who
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  Speaker 1: may be impeded. We take those extraordinarily seriously. It's difficult
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  Speaker 1: for us to speak to reports that are anecdotal that
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  Speaker 1: may be on social media. Reports we can speak to
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  Speaker 1: are those. I mean, these journalists, by the way, are
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  Speaker 1: pretty angry right this. This, This reporter is confronting the
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  Speaker 1: State Department spokesman over their ambiguous updates and not telling
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  Speaker 1: the truth about what's having to American citizens. And she's going,
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  Speaker 1: we have these reports going to Congress. Why are you
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  Speaker 1: not admitting this? The reports we can speak to are
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  Speaker 1: those reports that we have heard firsthand, because we are
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  Speaker 1: in regular constant communication with American citizens on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: providing them guidance, providing them instructions. So oftentimes we do
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  Speaker 1: know the most about what American citizens are faring. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not in a position to confirm specific reports.
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  Speaker 1: So let's be clear about this. The State Department spokesman
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  Speaker 1: Ned Price just miss his reports of the Taliban beating
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  Speaker 1: Americans as anecdotal. That's how little they think of you.
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  Speaker 1: Even ABC News Tonight not putting up with that crap.
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  Speaker 1: Correspondent Ian Panel with us live on the ground in Kabble,
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  Speaker 1: where he has been for many days now, and Ian,
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  Speaker 1: I want to get right to something. The President was
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  Speaker 1: pressed on there from our own Stephanie Ramos, who was
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  Speaker 1: there at the White House. She asked about Americans and
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  Speaker 1: Afghans who are in Kabbal and beyond, who are trying
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  Speaker 1: to get to that airport. But as you have reported
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  Speaker 1: for many nights on World News tonight, the Taliban controls
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  Speaker 1: the checkpoint, the Taliban and convoys around that country. How
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  Speaker 1: do you get those families to the airport? The President
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  Speaker 1: said he has no intelligence that Americans have been unable
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  Speaker 1: to get there. The question obviously, does that square with
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  Speaker 1: reporting on the ground, I mean, just totally not. I
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  Speaker 1: mean the reaction was pretty much one of I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was breasttaking no indication Americans can get to the airports.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, last nights on World News, we had American
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  Speaker 1: citizens who had exactly that experience. They tried to get
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  Speaker 1: to the airport. They had weighed their American passports. The
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  Speaker 1: President talks about all they had to do was present
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  Speaker 1: their passports and they'd be allowed through. They were beaten
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  Speaker 1: by the Taliban with the rubber fan belt from a vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple examples of Americans and Afghans SIV applicants who have
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  Speaker 1: now tried repeatedly. This one woman we're tracking. She's back
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  Speaker 1: at the airport tonight. This is a third night in
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  Speaker 1: the row. The gates haven't opened, the Taliban haven't let
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  Speaker 1: her through. It just seems the reality and the rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: are miles apart. I'm not quite sure what advice the
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  Speaker 1: presidents receiving, but the truth on the ground is that
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  Speaker 1: these people who are in fear of their lives can't
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  Speaker 1: get through. These people infear their lives can't get through.
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  Speaker 1: That's ABC News saying it. Let me let you hear
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  Speaker 1: from another media organization who is also saying that Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden's last his ever loving mind and he's just flat
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  Speaker 1: out lying to the American people about him. Ericans getting
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  Speaker 1: safe passage to the airport MSNBC, and the only reason
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  Speaker 1: why they're angry. You have to understand this is because
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  Speaker 1: there's journalists who are caught behind enemy lines right now,
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  Speaker 1: so it's in their best interest to tell you the
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  Speaker 1: truth only for that reason. I want this to be clear.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about Americans and is about journalists who
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  Speaker 1: think they're more important than you are. It just happens
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  Speaker 1: to be that we're aligned on this one now, so
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  Speaker 1: they will tell you the real truth of what's happening
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. Because Americans who also happen to be
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  Speaker 1: journalists are trapped behind enemy lines. That's why they're really angry.
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  Speaker 1: If all the journalists were safe, then they would have
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  Speaker 1: no problem probably telling you a different story. You're looking
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  Speaker 1: the other way while Biden's lying to you. But right
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  Speaker 1: now they want their journalist friends, which lives are more
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  Speaker 1: valuable than anyone else's, to get out. Here is what
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  Speaker 1: MSNBC said about Joe Biden telling the world, Oh Americans,
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  Speaker 1: where are past? We're just showing to the talbot. I'll
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  Speaker 1: let you straight through. Those of people surrounded the airport,
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  Speaker 1: the Camp Salivant camp there on the military entrance, all
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  Speaker 1: of them have been closed. So you're beating the people,
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  Speaker 1: smoking fire gas at them. There's no way that people
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  Speaker 1: get in. So this is a complete failure. What the
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  Speaker 1: prisoner has been saying, it contradicts the situation. My journalist
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  Speaker 1: is telling me from the airport. One of my journalists
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  Speaker 1: mid inside the airport and the other one has been
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  Speaker 1: beaten and still outside. So the reality, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of my journalists see, that's the only
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  Speaker 1: reason why they're telling you the truth right now is
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  Speaker 1: because it's their journalists who usually have a different level
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  Speaker 1: of protection. Right, that's all broken down. Journalists. You gotta understand,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm in the I don't like saying I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the journalist field. That's not I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: accused of being a journalist, right, I'm not a journalist.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a commentator. But you gotta understand. Most journalists are
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  Speaker 1: extremely narcissistic. They believe they're special. They believe that they
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  Speaker 1: are above reproach. They believe that they're like like God
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  Speaker 1: has their hand on them, that they're somehow different than
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  Speaker 1: a normal human being. Journalists believe that they are They're
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  Speaker 1: very narcissistic. Just so you understand, and even there you
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  Speaker 1: can hear it, right. I don't even think the guy
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  Speaker 1: realized what he's saying here, but he's basically saying, I'm
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  Speaker 1: angry and I'm telling you that Joe Biden's lying and
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  Speaker 1: what's happening on the ground is not what he's claiming.
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  Speaker 1: It is because I have journalists that are trapped. It's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I said they were gonna do now, So
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  Speaker 1: as they get their journalists out, they'll shut up. They'll
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  Speaker 1: shut up for the same reason that Joe Biden is
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  Speaker 1: acting this way, because they don't really think there's anything
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  Speaker 1: special about being an American. Sistant either, there's nothing special
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  Speaker 1: about being American. None of you can define for me
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  Speaker 1: what an American is. That explains Joe Biden's lack of
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a blank about these people. That explains
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  Speaker 1: why they can he can look you in the face
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  Speaker 1: and lie to you. But ABC News scorching Biden for
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  Speaker 1: claiming Americans have no trouble getting the couple airport, and
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  Speaker 1: MSNBC doing the exact same thing. It's only because they're
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  Speaker 1: journalists that are trapped on the ground. Is that the
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  Speaker 1: administration had literally feeled this footage b uc it's from
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  Speaker 1: my journalis wanted to make his way out. The US
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  Speaker 1: Embassy has issued them these passes or they call up
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  Speaker 1: visa passes. The problem is not the Tolebon. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is our capabilities US forces and the and the a
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  Speaker 1: consecurity forces. They cannot control the crowd. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: thousands of people. Eighteen thousand left, six thousand screen last night.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, everything is closed, So what we see all
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  Speaker 1: these footages you're been beating. And there's another thing. Over
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  Speaker 1: ninety percent of these people have never worked for the
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  Speaker 1: US government. Their families are not in the US. So
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  Speaker 1: it has been a mismanagement of this program. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this kind have been done long time ago. We literally failed.
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  Speaker 1: It has been a terrible leadership. And I think it's
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  Speaker 1: still the president. He admitted his failure, and he's still
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  Speaker 1: not regretting what has happening on the ground. You know, yes,
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of brave American souls on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: but if the leadership is not working, if the strategy
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  Speaker 1: is not working, how are you going to sit safely
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  Speaker 1: bring these people home? You know? On the crowd, my
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  Speaker 1: journalist told me there are a lot of American citizens
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  Speaker 1: with green cards even with a US citizenship passport and
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  Speaker 1: the ENGINEUS that is the issue. So the crowd, there's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: there's really really, really hard for people to go and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it says, oh, you're an American, let's go on a plane.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: So this situation, it's a chaos, it's a disaster. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: got a massage from the journal is that she made
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: at the airport. She was crying and she was telling
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: me Ahamed I don't know what to tell you. People
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: are killing each other over a bottle of water. It's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: such a such a disaster at chaos and she hung up.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: One man. Notice it's all about the journalist here, right,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: It's not really the Americans. Yeah, not really the Americans.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: It's journalists. We just happen to be aligned for once
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: because we're angry. We can't get out Stay Department spokes
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: from Price just missus reports of beating Americans. Member, it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: just anecdotal. It's not a big deal. Senator Lindsey Graham
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: even said today, I fear that the Taliban has given
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: us an ultimatum. They're now attacking Americans. Even CNN now again,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the only reason why they're doing what I'm about to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: play for you is because they have journalists. Is fact
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: checking now. For the first time ever, Joe Biden's claimed
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: today the President has said American passport holders who are
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: not having any trouble getting past the Taliban checkpoints, that
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: may be problematic. An awful lot of reports that that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: is still very much a problem. Now they won't say
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: just lied to you right there. It's you know, they
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: got they got to make sure they keep their access
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to the White House. Right, you want to know something
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: else that's crazy. This administration was asked about what's going
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: on when it comes to another issue they've they've asked
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: them about the Taliban. Hey, what's what? What are we?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: What's the Taliban looking right right now? What's their presence
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in Afghanistan? The Pentagon spokesman actually contradicts Biden because Biden
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: made up another lie in his press conference today. I mean,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: they can't even keep their their lies straight at this point.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: There's too many of them. Listen to the Pentagon spokesman
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: contradicting Biden, Biden said, no, we don't. We're's so isis
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in al Kada president in Afghanistan. Ah, No, no that's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: not true. Less than an hour later, the Pentagon says
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: this when they're asked the same question, exact intelligence estimates
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: about how many Al Qaida remain in Afghanist. We know
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that al Qaida is a presence as well as ISIS
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, and we've talked about that for quite some time.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: We do not believe it is exorbitantly high, but we
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: don't have an exact figure for you. As I think
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you might understand, Jen, it's not like they they carry
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: identification cards in register somewhere. We don't have a perfect picture,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and our ability, our intelligence gathering ability in Afghanistan isn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: what it used to be because we aren't there in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the same with the same numbers that we used to be.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: But the President just said that there is no Al
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Qaeda presence in Afghanistan. That does not seem to be correct.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: What we don't think is that, what we believe is
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that there isn't a presence that is significant enough to
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: merit a threat to our homeland as there was back
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: on nine to eleven, twenty years ago. The President also
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: said there is no national security interests, no national interests
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. I'm a little confused by that. Can you
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: explain why there's no national interests in Aghanistan? Why did
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: we have troops there for twenty years? If there's no
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: national interests in Afghanistan? We had we had a significant
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: interest in being in Afghanistan to our national security. Twenty
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: years ago. You've heard the President talk about this, the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: goal to defeat and decimate al Kada, also to prevent
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: al Qaeda from launching attacks on the homeland from Afghanistan,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and we did that we did that and a whole
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: heck of a lot more over the course of twenty years,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and to include helping with social, political, economic, just progress
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. The President decided that it was time to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: end this conflict. That there was really only two choices
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: because of the May one deadline. Either plus up because
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: after May first we would come under attack by the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Taliban and we hadn't since the Doha agreement had been signed.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Or or go ahead and complete the drawdown. And the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: decision was made to complete the draw down. Now I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: love this, by the way, this guy literally is stuttering
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: after the reporter says, but the President just said there
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: is no al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan. That does not
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: seem to be correct, Pentagon spokesman. What we don't think
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: is what we believe is that there isn't a presence
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that is significant enough to merit a threat to our
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: homeland as there was back on nine eleven, twenty years ago.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: They're not even on the same page about al Qaida. Folks.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe Osama bin Laden was really smart because Osama bin
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Laden said to al Qaeda, whatever you do, don't assassinate
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, because he believed he would be an incompetent
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: president and lead the US into crisis. That was in
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: his own words and his own writings that we seize
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: from his compound back in two eleven after we killed him.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden also said he has no indication that there
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: are any issues for Americans getting to the Kabbel airport.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: We now know that is a lie. We have no
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: indication that they haven't been able to get incomble through
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the airport. We've made an agreement with the with the Taliban.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Thus far they've allowed them to go through. It's and
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: they're interesting to go through. So we know of no
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: circumstance where American citizens are carrying an American passport are
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: trying to get through to the airport. But we will
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: do whatever it needs to be done to see to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: what they get to the airport. Again, he knew that
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: was a lie when he said it. He also knew
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: it was a lie when he said that Alkaia is
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: not in the country. Okada is in the country, Olkaida
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: is in the country. He said that Alkaida is not
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: in the country. Yes, it is now to totally just
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: put into perspective the insanity of this press conference today.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden actually forgot the first question from the first
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: reporter after he called on the reporter today at the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: White House. The first part of your question was, I
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: can't remember now that's your president. The first part of
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: your question, I can't remember now. Really, that's what you've got.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: That's what you've got. That's it. Lindsey Graham has said
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: he believes that the Taliban he figures has given us
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: an ultimatum, an ultimatum that they are going to start
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: attacking us. They've already started it, hitting and beating Americans.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: What happens when they start killing Americans? So that seems
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: like the perfect jumping off point to bring in Senator
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, who has been to Afghanistan many times as
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a former member of the Armed Services Committee, and he
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: served in Afghanistan as an Air Force Reserve colonel. Senator Graham,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: good to have you with us today. I thought that
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: was an astonishing comment in many ways, just in terms
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of the reality of the situation, and I want to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: hear your reaction to that first, and then some other
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: points that he made. Well. Number One, President Boden is
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: clearly disconnected from the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: The UN issued a report just a month or two
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: ago saying that al kay was in fifteen provinces of Afghanistan.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: After this debacle, they're going to be everywhere. He also
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: said he I'm gonna hold him to his word that
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: we're going to get all the Americans out and all
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the Afghan's out. He said that, but look what's going
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: on on the ground. The State Department has issued a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: statement today, you travel at your own peril. We can't
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: guarantee your safety, and the gates at the Kabbol Airport
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: may close at any minute. So the State Department is
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: telling people on the ground your own your own and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the President of United States is promising to get you out.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: There is no plan. President Biden is clearly overwhelmed by
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the situation, and I think he's in denial about what's
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: going on. But because al Qaeda is there and there's
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: clearly no plan. If there were a plan, but by
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the way, this idea that he's in denial, I got
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: to disagree with. I don't think he cares. I don't
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: think he cares because if he acts, cared, right, if
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: he cared, then he beginning these American troops to go
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: out into the city and get the Americans that are
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: being held back by the Taliban right now. And do
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you think a mother would be handing their baby over
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the wall to a marine. No, because they know the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: reality and they understand that the Taliban has not changed
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: his stripes and that they may And maybe, by the way,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: part of this, maybe that he'd just gotten so and
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: just old, like, hey, I got the Holy Grail or
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: excuse me, I became the president United's America. I don't
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: care if these americansistants die. I'm too old now to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: even care, Like I've just become forty plus years. You're
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: just numb, I'm right at this point, you're numb, like
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: you've gone through Vietnam. Remember he was a senator when
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Vietnam happened and the Debacle of Vietnam happened, and the
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: pullout of Vietnam happened, and Saigan happened. He was there
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: when Iran hostage crisis was happening as a senator. At
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: this point, like, does he even give a crap anymore?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I would say probably not. So out they might even
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: be cooperative in some ways in terms of letting people leave,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: although we've seen them also very violent at times when
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: when they see fit. You know, I want to just
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: talk about the Afghani people and the commitment that you
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: talked about that the President made there right because he
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: said we will we will get you home. That was
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a clear message to Americans. But when he when he
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: was pressed a little bit on the Afghans who helped us,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: he sort of left, I think some doors open to
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: maybe not help all of those people. Right. So he
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: was asked, we just stay past the August thirty first
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: deadline because we all know that, you know, to get
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of people out in the next ten
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: days is going to be tricky. He said, yeah, I
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: think we can get the Afghans out in time. And
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: then he said, but you know, but we'll see about
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the deadline. We'll see then just one more and I
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: want to put out there on the table for you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Let me just say this, then, last thing. I think
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: he is so hell bent on having that date of well,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: at least we're out. People may have died, but at
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: least we're out by September eleventh, on the twentieth anniversary,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that he doesn't care what happens to anyone right now.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: As long as we're out, just get out. I really
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: think that's all he cares about. Like that's it, which
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: is honestly the scariest part of all of this. All right,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: make sure you share this podcast with your family and friends.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Say a prayer for the men and women in uniform
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and Afghanistan, and say a prayer for our President Joe
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Biden that he will stop doing this and realize that
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: he needs to change course and get our men and
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: women out of Afghanistan. Pray for the people being beaten
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and killed and murdered and raped and beheaded by the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Taliban as well. I'll see you back here. Please share
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• 32:08
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