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BIDEN TEAM Claims Trump Admin Did Not Leave an Afghan Withdrawal Plan. THIS IS A LIE AND WE HAVE THE FACTS TO PROVE IT! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: It is a weird world that we live in now,
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Speaker 1: where the man who killed Osama Bin Laden has been
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Speaker 1: put on a no fly list at least from Delta Airlines,
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Speaker 1: and the Taliban is now in control of the lives
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Speaker 1: of Americans left behind in Afghanistan by our government that
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Speaker 1: we are now apparently negotiating with, begging to let Americans
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Speaker 1: off the ground and apparently giving them things in return
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Speaker 1: every time they release one of these hostages, which, of
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Speaker 1: course the White House and Anthony B. Lincoln said is
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Speaker 1: not accurate. They're not hostages. Well, if you can't leave
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Speaker 1: the country and you can't get on a plane, or
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Speaker 1: you a hostage if you're being held in a country
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Speaker 1: against your will, are you a hostage? Yes? Let me
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Speaker 1: tell you though about Delta Airlines real quick, and how
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Speaker 1: messed up the world is that we live in right now?
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Speaker 1: Up is down and down is up. Left is right
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Speaker 1: right left right? All right? So Delta has banned the
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Speaker 1: man who actually killed Osama Bin Laden, that X Navy
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Speaker 1: c after he sent out an anti mask tweet, the
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Speaker 1: X Navy seal who killed OSM. Bin Ladden, and everybody knows,
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Speaker 1: including Delta air Lines, that he's the guy they killed
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Speaker 1: Usan Bin Ladden. They know it because the reason why
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Speaker 1: they banned him is because of the picture that was
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Speaker 1: with his tweet online. So they can't say, oh it
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Speaker 1: is you know, like, hey, we didn't know it was
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Speaker 1: the guy that killed Usam bin Ladden, right. No, they
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Speaker 1: did this on purpose. They knew exactly who they were
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Speaker 1: banning from flying on Delta airlines. Moving forward, the x
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Speaker 1: Navy seal who killed us Sam bin Laden and bragged
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Speaker 1: on Twitter about not wearing a quote dumb Adols mask
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Speaker 1: on a Delta flight has been banned from the airline.
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Speaker 1: I just got banned from Delta for posting a picture. Wow,
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Speaker 1: Robert O'Neil, forty four, tweeted out. The move comes a
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Speaker 1: day after he tweeted a smiling, maskless selfie from his
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Speaker 1: seat with a caption, I'm not a blank. Many of
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Speaker 1: O'Neill's Twitter followers took the post as a direct dig
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Speaker 1: at the only other person the photo, an older man
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Speaker 1: wearing a US Marine Corps hat and ask sitting across
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Speaker 1: from him with his mask on. A former Navy Sealed
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Speaker 1: Team six member later took the photo down at the
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Speaker 1: urging of his wife, he claimed, and also insisted he
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Speaker 1: always wears a mask and that the tweet was a joke. Now,
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Speaker 1: you and I both know that when they walked by,
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Speaker 1: even if you have your mask downblow your nose, they
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Speaker 1: freak out and yell at you. Right, I've dealt with that. Right,
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Speaker 1: they'll yell at two year olds and kicked them off
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Speaker 1: the plane. I think everybody knows that this X Navy
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Speaker 1: seal was not flying without a mask the entire time.
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Speaker 1: He took a picture. And he took the picture and
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Speaker 1: you can actually see the five tenants standing directly behind him.
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Speaker 1: It's like she went past. He took the picture, and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he put his mask back on. There's no
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Speaker 1: reports he didn't have his mask on during the entire flight.
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Speaker 1: You get my point. He was sending out a tweet.
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Speaker 1: Many of his Twitter followers also attacked him right saying,
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Speaker 1: how dare you do this? You're putting his lives at risk.
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Speaker 1: He actually put out a statement saying the former Navy
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Speaker 1: Sealed Team six member later took the photo down at
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Speaker 1: the urging of his wife and claimed also and insisted
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Speaker 1: he always wears a mask and the tweet tweet was
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Speaker 1: a joke. Quote. This was not a dig at the
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Speaker 1: marine behind me. I love marines, he wrote in another tweet,
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Speaker 1: linking to an article in The Post. Delta confirmed when
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Speaker 1: they were reached for comment that the man who killed
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Speaker 1: her some in line is no longer welcome aboard. Part
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Speaker 1: of every customer's commitment prior to traveling on Delta is
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Speaker 1: the requirement to acknowledge our updated travel policies, which include
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Speaker 1: wearing a mask. The airline said in a statement. Failure
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Speaker 1: to comply with their mask wearing mandate ken result in
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Speaker 1: losing the ability to fly Delta in future flights. Now
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Speaker 1: there's no indication, there's nothing that Delta said that he
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Speaker 1: took his mask off during the flight, didn't wear it,
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Speaker 1: That didn't happen. He took a damn picture. The Montana
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Speaker 1: native fired three shots into the Alcada leader's head during
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Speaker 1: the May eleventh Rade on his Pakistan hideout. Now, once
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Speaker 1: you think about Delta Airlines, Delta air Lines is an
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Speaker 1: airline that was affected by the nine to eleven attacks.
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Speaker 1: They use airplanes, right. This is the dude that killed
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Speaker 1: old Demand, that did the attack. This is the man
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Speaker 1: who risks his life to make air travel literally safer
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Speaker 1: and Delta Airline because of a picture, because of a
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Speaker 1: joke with no reports or accusation that he didn't wear
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Speaker 1: his mask on the flight, because the appearance that he
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Speaker 1: didn't wear a mask on the flight, has now been
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Speaker 1: banned from flying on Delta Airlines. So next time you
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Speaker 1: book your flight, you might want to think twice about
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Speaker 1: booking on Delta, right, you might want to push back
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Speaker 1: on that. Just think about a company that is willing
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Speaker 1: to treat the man who kills o sanbin one this
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Speaker 1: way when clearly he made a mistake, took it down
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Speaker 1: and it was a joke. No, no, no, you don't
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Speaker 1: joke about mask. We'll ban you from flying on Delta Airlines.
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Speaker 1: Even the guy that killed Osan Bin Laden, he fought
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Speaker 1: back at Delta Airlines saying, man, glad we weren't on
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Speaker 1: a Delta flight and we went to go kill Osam
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Speaker 1: Bin Laden. It's a pretty good point if you asked me,
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Speaker 1: which brings me to another point. Trapped in Afghanistan, those
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Speaker 1: left behind are grappling with the unresponsive US government and
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Speaker 1: dimming hope of escape. An Afghan interpreter who worked alongside
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Speaker 1: the US during the war said he made three trips
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Speaker 1: to the airport in Kabula during the Kadok withdrawal last month,
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Speaker 1: and failed attempts to escape the country with his wife
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Speaker 1: and not one, not two, but three different children. The
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Speaker 1: last time was when a suicide bomb attack killed more
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Speaker 1: than one hundred and seventy Afghan in thirteen US troops
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Speaker 1: at the airport gate. His family was unharmed, but they
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Speaker 1: remained trapped and fearing for their lives in the Taliban
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Speaker 1: controlled country. That is painful for me that I have
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Speaker 1: worked for four years, not one, not two. I worked
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Speaker 1: for four years. They evacuated smugglers, they evacuated terrorists, they
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Speaker 1: evacuated beggars, they evacuated street boys. But we are the
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Speaker 1: ones who should be eligible, said the interpreter, whose name
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Speaker 1: The Washington Times has agreed to conceal to protect him
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Speaker 1: from Taliban retaliation. We are the ones left behind. This
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Speaker 1: is very painful for us. By the way, you knows
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Speaker 1: who used the word they got out evacuated terrorists. More
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Speaker 1: and more people left in the ground are saying that's true.
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Speaker 1: The terrorists were able to get on the airfields early
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Speaker 1: on because the Taliban maybe let them go through the
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Speaker 1: gates on purpose, and we evacuate them the rest of
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Speaker 1: the world so they can then be terrorists. The interpreter,
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Speaker 1: by the way, was among tens of thousands of Afghan
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Speaker 1: allies and more than a hundred Americans. Now we're saying
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Speaker 1: that numbers probably closer to two hundred Americans left in
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Speaker 1: Afghanistan when the final US troops departed the war torn
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Speaker 1: country just before midnight on August thirtieth. Their day to
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Speaker 1: day existence is uncertain as President Biden in the State
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Speaker 1: Department grapple with their next move they're grappling with their
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Speaker 1: next movements. Have actually acting to get these people out?
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Speaker 1: Think about that as well, and one of the largest
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Speaker 1: evacuations in history. That's how they want you to believe
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Speaker 1: things went down. The US says, well, we got a
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Speaker 1: bunch of people out, so it should be good enough.
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Speaker 1: And hey, you know what, we had this deadline of
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Speaker 1: August thirty first, and you know, we're only America. It's
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Speaker 1: not like we could move the deadline, change the deadline,
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Speaker 1: or start blowing up Taliban people or are Al Qaeda
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Speaker 1: people right in the country to prove to them that hey,
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Speaker 1: we're still in charge and back off. We're gonna get
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Speaker 1: all our damn people out of you're probably gonna die.
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Speaker 1: The Pentagon. By the way, estimates only seven thousand of
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Speaker 1: the six thousand Afghans evacuate evacuated had actually applied under
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Speaker 1: the State Department Special Immigrant Visa program designed for interpreters
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Speaker 1: and others who helped the US or effort escape retribution
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Speaker 1: for the Taliban. So we were evacuating the wrong people.
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Speaker 1: No big deal, right, just evacuating the wrong people. The
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Speaker 1: interpreter who spoke with the Time said he complied and
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Speaker 1: compiled the required paperwork for his SIV application just months
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Speaker 1: before the withdrawal. His application was in the beginning stages
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Speaker 1: of processing at the US as a US announced Operation
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Speaker 1: Allies Refuge. His paywork remained, of course, stuck in the
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Speaker 1: bureaucracy and the State Department backlog. When the Taliban sees
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Speaker 1: control weeks before the US withdrew it classed between Afghan
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Speaker 1: security forces and the Taliban, fighters destroyed the interprets home
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Speaker 1: in a rural province. The interprot fletic Bull with his
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Speaker 1: family and took refuge to the shelter for internally displaced people.
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Speaker 1: They fled the shelter after it became too dangerous to stay.
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Speaker 1: Staffs of the Taliban were overrunning the city. With a
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Speaker 1: few options, the interpreter decided to brave the Taliban checkpoints
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Speaker 1: and reached the airport. Thousands of desperate Afghans inundated the
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Speaker 1: streets outside the gate, he said, and US troops were
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Speaker 1: unable to parse the crowd for those eligible to resettle
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Speaker 1: in the US under the SIV program. But we were
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Speaker 1: getting terrorists out despite the risk he had take him
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Speaker 1: by working alongside the US. He was just another face
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Speaker 1: of the crowd and chaos at the airport. It was
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Speaker 1: an emergency situation. They couldn't compare which one is eligible
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Speaker 1: with which one is naughty, said, so we just decided
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Speaker 1: if you got through the gates, and maybe al Qaide
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Speaker 1: and the Taliban were letting certain terrorists to the gates
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Speaker 1: on purpose, which is what he's claiming now. We just
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Speaker 1: got him out of the country because it was an
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Speaker 1: emergency situation, which brings us to another point. Lieutenant Colonel
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Speaker 1: Oliver North is now demanding answers, and why don't we
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Speaker 1: give away the Bogram air base. This wasn't the Trump
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Speaker 1: administration that came with this idea. This was the Biden administration.
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Speaker 1: Colonel North is a guy that understands military operations. Look
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Speaker 1: at his history. He's a guy that understands covert operations.
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Speaker 1: He's a retired US Marine colonel. And he is now
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Speaker 1: pressing the Biden administration for accountability for all of the
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Speaker 1: gold Star families that he's talked to have lost their
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Speaker 1: thirteen service members during the US withdrawal in Afghanistan, and
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Speaker 1: also all the Americans left behind. Now he's looking at
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Speaker 1: this from a clearly military standpoint. Why would you give
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Speaker 1: up Bogram air Base ever? For that matter, why would
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Speaker 1: you give up that base before you had every American out?
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Speaker 1: In fact, he's arguing forget the Kabul airport, right, which
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Speaker 1: was not an airport that was really secure. I think
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Speaker 1: we've clearly seen that the Bogram Airbase should have never
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Speaker 1: been given up until you had every American out, And
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Speaker 1: we should have had military personnel there, including airplanes, right, bombers,
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Speaker 1: fighter jets, helicopters, the whole thing that if the Taliban
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Speaker 1: did do something stupid, we could blow the hell out
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Speaker 1: of them immediately from Bagram air Base. It was a
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Speaker 1: it was basically a safety precaution. We should have controlled
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Speaker 1: it till the very end. Now you're gonna hear Anthony Blincoln.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let that play because I think it's important
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Speaker 1: for you to hear what Anthony Blincoln has state Secretary
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Speaker 1: of State. And then you're gonna hear Oliver North having
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Speaker 1: a conversation with Maria Bartoma overt Fox Business, and I
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Speaker 1: want you to hear what he had to say about
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Speaker 1: the idea that we actually purposely gave away Bagram Air
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Speaker 1: Base when we desperately needed Bogram Air Base for overwatch
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Speaker 1: for air superiority for security for Americans. With regard to
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Speaker 1: the composition of this government or orange from government, I
11:00
Speaker 1: noted the fact that it certainly does not meet the
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Speaker 1: test of inclusivity, and it includes people who have very
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Speaker 1: challenging track records. Now, I love how he says that.
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Speaker 1: Right Lincoln, They're saying, wow, okay, we don't approve of
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Speaker 1: the new Taliban government, and we you know, they have
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Speaker 1: a track record of killing a bunch of people and
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Speaker 1: be heading people and pulling out fingernails and hanging them
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Speaker 1: from trees and from cranes and all of these types
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Speaker 1: of things. And we know they kill innocent women, and
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Speaker 1: they beat women, and they kill babies, and they force
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Speaker 1: people into sex slavery and tie people up, and you know,
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Speaker 1: the list goes on on. So we're not surprised that
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Speaker 1: they're not having women in their government, you know, and
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Speaker 1: they have a shady record. Well, if you knew all this,
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Speaker 1: why the hell did you give up Bagram air Base?
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Speaker 1: If you knew the Taliban was like this, which is
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Speaker 1: what you just admitted, why did you trust them to
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Speaker 1: protect Americans and security the airport? Because the Biden administration,
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Speaker 1: and this is not up for debate, is a fact,
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Speaker 1: they had the opportunity to keep all of Kabol and
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Speaker 1: we said, or excuse me, the Biden administration said, State
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Speaker 1: Department said, Anthony Blinken said, no, no, we don't. We
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Speaker 1: don't want to be in charge of Kabul. And at
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Speaker 1: the end, no, you guys, the Taliban can be in charge.
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Speaker 1: We just want to control the airport. That's it. Did
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Speaker 1: not a single damn person think We'll hold on a second.
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Speaker 1: What if the Taliban like puts up checkpoints like they've
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Speaker 1: had a history of doing throughout I mean, anyone knows
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Speaker 1: the Taliban knows how to shut down roadways and access
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Speaker 1: ways like that's one of their things they do, right
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Speaker 1: when they shut off supplies to cities when they want
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Speaker 1: to shut down a city, that's the first thing they do.
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Speaker 1: Did not a single person go hold on a second, guys,
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Speaker 1: do you really want to trust the Taliban and terrorist
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Speaker 1: organizations has been killing Americans for the last twenty years
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Speaker 1: to protect Americans in a quick flip reversal of roles
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Speaker 1: and allow Americans just freely walk down the street to
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Speaker 1: the airport and Afghans that helped us walk down the road,
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Speaker 1: and they're not going to mess with him. They're going
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Speaker 1: to screw with them, not going to kill them, They're
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Speaker 1: not going to torture them, they're not going to try
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Speaker 1: to grab them. Well, of course people said this doesn't matter, right, No,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. But we know, and we have now
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Speaker 1: Blincoln on records saying we knew these are bad guys,
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Speaker 1: and we did it anyway. We gave up Bogram Airbase anyway,
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Speaker 1: challenging track records inclusivity. That was US Secretary of State
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Speaker 1: Anthony Blinken admitting that the new Taliman government, which the
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Speaker 1: Biden administration relied on to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan after
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Speaker 1: Cobble's fall, may not be trustworthy after all. My next
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Speaker 1: guest as the White House knew this all along and
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Speaker 1: has been lying to the American people. Joining me right
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Speaker 1: now is Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. He is a decorated
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Speaker 1: military veteran who was embedded with sixty six different units
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Speaker 1: over seventeen years. It is an honor to have you
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Speaker 1: here this morning, sir, Thanks very much shripping here, Colonel North, Maria,
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Speaker 1: good to be with you. Wonderful interviews you suggested with
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Speaker 1: two very important people. Thank you, sir, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: You are in touch with the national resistance fronts in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you your thoughts on what's going
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Speaker 1: on now. What can you tell us in terms of
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Speaker 1: new information US citizens allies are they being held hostage?
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Speaker 1: Because I know, sir, we didn't just leave Americans on
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Speaker 1: the ground in Afghanistan. We left Brits, Canadians, Ukrainians, Europeans
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Speaker 1: and other allies that have helped us along the way
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Speaker 1: for twenty years. I spent yesterday, marias we you and
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Speaker 1: I talked with the veterans of this war, gold star families,
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Speaker 1: those who had been there when this whole incredibly aborted
14:48
Speaker 1: operation took place. And everybody wants one thing, and that's accountability.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully there's going to be accountability as to why they
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Speaker 1: gave away bag one of the best military bases in world.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I know the engineer who built it. The
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Speaker 1: Russians started it, we finished it. It was one of
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Speaker 1: the finest military operations installations in the world. There was
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Speaker 1: intelligence collection, there was a main base, easily defended, all
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Speaker 1: the kinds of surveillance you would need to protect it
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Speaker 1: with a relatively modest number of troops. Why did they
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Speaker 1: give it away? It wasn't taken by the Taliban. It
15:25
Speaker 1: was given to the Taliban. And you showed some of
15:27
Speaker 1: the footage of the cash that was left there, the
15:29
Speaker 1: eighty four billion dollars worth of weapons, most of which
15:33
Speaker 1: were stored at Bagum, all of that left behind, none
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Speaker 1: of it destroyed. When you look at that cache that
15:39
Speaker 1: we gave to the Taliban, and it's not just the Taliban,
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Speaker 1: it's Isis, it's al Qaeda, it's the Hakani organization. They
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Speaker 1: are all one and right at this very minute, Maria,
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Speaker 1: they are sitting in the Presidential Palace in downtown Cobble
15:54
Speaker 1: going through information that the gru from Russia and the
15:58
Speaker 1: Communist Chinese Intelligence Service is helping to collect on targeting
16:02
Speaker 1: those who are our allies. And as you pointed out,
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Speaker 1: we still have NATO allies with people left behind. The
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Speaker 1: promise was at the very beginning of this no Americans
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Speaker 1: left behind. It was a blatant lie. And there's so
16:17
Speaker 1: much anger out there. You know, Today's Sunday, in the
16:19
Speaker 1: Lord's Prayer, it says, forgive us our trespasses, as we
16:23
Speaker 1: forgive those who trespass against us. Well, I'm not there yet,
16:28
Speaker 1: and neither are they. And they want accountability. And when
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Speaker 1: Blincoln goes up to the Capitol tomorrow, the building right
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Speaker 1: behind me, when he comes up to the Capitol tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: I hope the Congressman McCall and people like Mike Waltz.
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Speaker 1: Let me just very quickly describe. I'm on the phone
16:44
Speaker 1: with Mike Walts. I'm on the other phone with the
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Speaker 1: US Army lieutenant colonel inside the wall at Hamad Karzai
16:51
Speaker 1: International Airport, and we're trying to get a group of
16:55
Speaker 1: about one hundred and sixty American citizens, Green card holders
17:00
Speaker 1: and SIVs people hold a special immigrant visa. They've worked
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Speaker 1: with us over the twenty years, and it's right outside
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Speaker 1: the Lieutenant Colonel says, if I could reach through this gate,
17:10
Speaker 1: I could touch the bust that they're on. And Mike
17:13
Speaker 1: and I were on the phone, and he called the
17:15
Speaker 1: White House and Mike got the White House General Counsel
17:18
Speaker 1: who said, I've talked to the President. It's going to
17:21
Speaker 1: be open. And five minutes later there's one of these
17:24
Speaker 1: phony calls that there's going to be an imminent attack.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's spread out, get away from the gates. That kind
17:30
Speaker 1: of thing happened dozens of time, and it wasn't a
17:33
Speaker 1: real attack. In fact, the real attack that killed the
17:36
Speaker 1: last thirteen Americans killed in this long war, they had
17:40
Speaker 1: no warning coming for me. You know, you hear what
17:43
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Alvernor staying there. These guys just didn't want
17:48
Speaker 1: to open the gate because the TWI band said, we
17:53
Speaker 1: control the area, you guys can open the gate. We
17:56
Speaker 1: gave that up. We gave up bagern, we gave up
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Speaker 1: air superiority, we gave up what we needed to do
18:03
Speaker 1: to protect an defend Americans. Remember, the Trump plan was
18:06
Speaker 1: very clear. The Trump plan was, if you screw with
18:10
Speaker 1: America or assets, we will blow you to hell. It
18:15
Speaker 1: was actually that simple. We know that was the plan.
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Speaker 1: The plan was laid out that Anthony Blincoln now is
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Speaker 1: trying to claim that the Trump administration did not leave
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Speaker 1: an Afghanistan withdrawal plan. We also now know that is
18:32
Speaker 1: a lie, and we have the proof that it is
18:36
Speaker 1: a lie. I want to play for you the Secretary
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Speaker 1: of State Anthony Blincoln claiming that the Trump administration didn't
18:44
Speaker 1: leave any plan for Afghanistan. Now, I'm going to prove
18:46
Speaker 1: for you that this a lie, and I hope that
18:48
Speaker 1: every one of you that's hearing this will make sure
18:50
Speaker 1: you grab our podcasts and share this information because a
18:55
Speaker 1: lot of people need to hear the fact check of
18:58
Speaker 1: this administration deliberately, purposely lying, implying that the plan that
19:02
Speaker 1: they inherited they had no ability to change, altered or
19:05
Speaker 1: do it differently, because in fact, they did change and
19:08
Speaker 1: alter the plan drastically, which costs Americans their lives, which
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Speaker 1: left ten percent of Americans behind their words, not mine,
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Speaker 1: and this idea that the Trump administration did not leave
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Speaker 1: a plan is an absolute and utter lie. Now, in
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Speaker 1: front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Democrat asked
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Speaker 1: the question of Anthony Blincoln. Clearly they set this up
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Speaker 1: in advance. Clearly they knew the narrative they were going
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Speaker 1: to try to push, which is this all Trump's fault,
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Speaker 1: not our fault? To get out of it. Take a listen,
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Speaker 1: Secretary B. Lincoln, when you came into office on January twentieth,
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Speaker 1: we were committed to pulling everyone out of Afghanistan within
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Speaker 1: three months by May first. Did the Trump administration leave
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Speaker 1: on your desk a pile of notebooks as to exactly
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Speaker 1: how to carry out that plan? Did we have a
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Speaker 1: list of which Afghans we were going to evacuate? Did
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Speaker 1: we have a plan to get Americans from all over
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Speaker 1: Afghanistan to couple and out in an orderly way? How
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Speaker 1: meticulous was the planning for the Trump administration declared May
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Speaker 1: first withdraw? Oh thank you, Congressman. We inherited a deadline.
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Speaker 1: We did not inherit a plan. So nope. I love
20:27
Speaker 1: how they're laughing at Well. This is interesting, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: I'm a congressman, ha ha. I mean, I know some
20:34
Speaker 1: Americans died, but let's chuckle about this for a little bit.
20:37
Speaker 1: I know there's Americans left behind that are going to
20:39
Speaker 1: probably die, but let's just chuckle. Oh, so you're telling me.
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Speaker 1: This is the Trump administration's fault. Yeah. This is funny,
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Speaker 1: isn't it. People being dragged from their houses, shot in
20:53
Speaker 1: the head, beaten, dismembered, fingernails pulled off, drills being used
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Speaker 1: on their arms, legs, and hands. Yeah, funny stuff. No
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Speaker 1: plan at all. It's amazing that it wasn't much much worse.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing that it wasn't much much worse. There's the narrative, folks.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go out and say we did an
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Speaker 1: amazing job. Let's go out and claim during this House
21:23
Speaker 1: Committee hearing that the Trump administration did not leave a
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Speaker 1: plan for a drawal from Afghanistan. We inherited deadline, We
21:30
Speaker 1: did not inherit a plan, he said during this Foreign
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Speaker 1: Affairs Committee hearing. Oh, let's laugh about it. Man, Man,
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Speaker 1: it's just this bobsch alf can withdraw I had nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with Joe Biden, had nothing to do with you, guys.
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Speaker 1: This is all Trump's fault. Okay, let's fact check it.
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Speaker 1: Is it true or false that the Trump administration didn't
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Speaker 1: leave a plan? Verdict false? Former Trump pentagon Chieva's staff
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Speaker 1: Patel has said on the record. In fact, even wrote
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Speaker 1: an op ed that he handed out over the Biden
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Speaker 1: administration withdrawal plan. Handed over the Trump administration's withdrawal plan
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Speaker 1: to the Biden a transition team, in fact, before he
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Speaker 1: was even the president. Quote, we handed our entire plan
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Speaker 1: to the incoming Biden administration during the lengthy transition. The
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Speaker 1: new team simply wasn't interested. That's what Patel wrote in
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Speaker 1: the New York Post column. He also said, I'm intimately
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Speaker 1: familiar with former Presidentald Trump's Afghan strategy. In November twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: I was named to the staff at the Pentagon, where
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Speaker 1: one of my primary responsibilities was to wind down the
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Speaker 1: forever war in Afghanistan. Trump instructed me to arrange a
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Speaker 1: conditions based Remember those words, write it down, tell your
22:46
Speaker 1: friends about it. The Trump Plan was a conditions based,
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Speaker 1: methodical exit plan that would preserve the national interest. The
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Speaker 1: plan ended up being fairly simple. Poll here is the plan,
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Speaker 1: the plan that they gave to the Biden administration. The
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Speaker 1: Biden administration said, we don't want to hear anything about it.
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Speaker 1: Leave us alone. Ready for this. The Afghan government and
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Speaker 1: the Taliban were both told they would face the full
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Speaker 1: force of the US military if they caused any harm
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Speaker 1: to Americans or American interests in Afghanistan. That was first
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Speaker 1: and foremost part of the conditions based plan to withdrawal.
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Speaker 1: You want us out of here, then while we're getting
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Speaker 1: out of here, you the Afghan government and you the Taliban,
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Speaker 1: are both on notice. You will face the full force
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Speaker 1: the US military if you cause any harm to a
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Speaker 1: single American or American interest meaning the translators has helped
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Speaker 1: us anybody else in Afghanistan. Okay, that was number one
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Speaker 1: of the Trump administration, and they took it seriously. And
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Speaker 1: the proof it is, for eighteen months we'd have a
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Speaker 1: single American killed in Afghanistan under their leadership. So they
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Speaker 1: understood strength, they understood power, they understood the threat. They
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Speaker 1: unders say that Donald Trump wasn't joking. They understood that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump would blow the hell out of all of
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Speaker 1: them if they screwed with any of us. While we
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Speaker 1: were exiting. Condition number two, both parties, the Taliban and
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Speaker 1: the Afghan government would negotiate to create an interim joint government,
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Speaker 1: and both sides had to repudiate out kinde of the
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Speaker 1: entire time. Third condition of this condition based plan, that
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration was in the process of doing this
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Speaker 1: was already happening when Joe Biden became president. It was this,
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Speaker 1: and tell everybody about this, A small special operation force
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Speaker 1: would be stationed in the country to take direct action
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Speaker 1: against any terrorist threats that arose. So the idea that
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Speaker 1: we were going to get every American out and then
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Speaker 1: we weren't going to have any presidence in Afghanistan is
24:55
Speaker 1: also a lie of this administration. The Trump plan was
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Speaker 1: to always keep a special Operations forced quote small to
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Speaker 1: be stationed in the country to take direct action against
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Speaker 1: any terrorist threat that arose. Only when all those and
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Speaker 1: I'll say it again, only when all those conditions were met,
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Speaker 1: along with other cascading conditions, then a withdrawal could and
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Speaker 1: did begin. We successfully executed that plan, the Trump team said,
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Speaker 1: until January the twentieth, when Joe Biden became president. During
25:35
Speaker 1: that time, there were no US casualties in Afghanistan. While
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Speaker 1: we were rolling the plan out. The president of the
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Speaker 1: country and the Taliban understood that Donald Trump would blow
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Speaker 1: them to hell if they screwed with any Americans or
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Speaker 1: are assets. The president of the Taliban also conducted multiple
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Speaker 1: rounds of negotiations which exactly what the conditions based plan
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Speaker 1: called for, and al Qaeda was one hundred percent sideline
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Speaker 1: in the country because the Taliban it was in their
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Speaker 1: interest to keep al kat at bay and it was
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Speaker 1: the interest of the government in Afghanistan to keep the
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Speaker 1: Taliban sideline. The outcome, the result under the Trump Plan
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Speaker 1: was a successful draw down of US forces in Afghanistan
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Speaker 1: all the way down to two thousand, five hundred. That
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Speaker 1: is the lowest count since the dawn of the War
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Speaker 1: on Terror. Back to the line, Patel wrote that everything
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Speaker 1: changed when Donald Trump declared forces would leave by September
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Speaker 1: the eleventh, twenty twenty one, an arbitrary date that he
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Speaker 1: chose because he won a grandstand on the twentieth anniversary
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Speaker 1: of nine to eleven and say I'm the one that
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Speaker 1: got us out. They abandoned us having these small special
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Speaker 1: operations forced that would be stationed the country to take
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Speaker 1: direct action against any terrorist threat that arose. They abandoned that.
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Speaker 1: In fact, Patel wrote, we handed our entire plan to
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Speaker 1: the incoming Biden administration during the lengthy transition the new team.
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Speaker 1: The Biden team simply wasn't interested. Joe Biden changed everything.
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Speaker 1: They didn't follow the plan of the Trump Plan, they
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Speaker 1: made their own and their new plan did not have
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Speaker 1: a condition, did not have conditions for the withdrawal or
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Speaker 1: continued adherence to the agreed upon stipulation that no American
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Speaker 1: would be harmed. It would be an unconditional pullout, meaning,
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Speaker 1: no matter what happens on the ground, we're gonna pull out,
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Speaker 1: no matter how many Americans are left behind, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: pull out, no matter how many Americans are trapped or
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Speaker 1: held hostage, which is exactly what they are now, They're
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Speaker 1: being held hostage. Would stop the pullout dat or change
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Speaker 1: the pullout date because it was an arbitrary date based
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Speaker 1: on pure symbolism. I'm the one that got us out
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Speaker 1: by the twentieth anniversary. Pat me on the back. That's
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Speaker 1: my legacy. I'm Joe Biden. I'm brilliant. Now, let's also
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Speaker 1: remind you that Patel served as deput assistant to the
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Speaker 1: President for counter terrorism. This guy knows his stuff. This
28:03
Speaker 1: goes hand in hand with what you just heard a
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Speaker 1: moment ago from Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North quote. It would
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Speaker 1: be it would be an unconditional pullout with an arbitrary
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Speaker 1: date based purely on symbolism and set in stone Patel added,
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Speaker 1: who also served in the counter terrorism world for decades,
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Speaker 1: no one should have been the slightest bit surprised that
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Speaker 1: when relieved, meaning the Taliban relieved and the Afghan government
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Speaker 1: relieved of any conditions or obligations, that the Taliban could
28:38
Speaker 1: and immediately would overrun the entire country in the absence
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Speaker 1: of US military power, especially after we gave up Bagram Airbase.
28:46
Speaker 1: Ptel also said that the plans for removing Americans, as
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Speaker 1: well as equipment and machinery as well as other contingencies
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Speaker 1: to getting for getting Americans out, was also handed the
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Speaker 1: Biden administration, but they basically threw it out the window
29:03
Speaker 1: and fast forwarded six seven, eight months because they were
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Speaker 1: obsessed with the date of September eleventh, saying we were out.
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Speaker 1: In addition to that, a former senior Defense official said
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Speaker 1: that then Defense Secretary not Manee Lloyd Austin even rejected
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Speaker 1: meeting with the Trump's outgoing acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller,
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Speaker 1: former Green Bray and counter terrorism official, who had at
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Speaker 1: the time just returned from Afghanistan in December to see
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Speaker 1: everything on the ground. US Secretary Defense Lloyd Austin said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I ain't meeting Austin quote. Refused to meet with Miller
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Speaker 1: or even have a discussion with him regarding the transition
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Speaker 1: or anything else. Pure arrogance, Pure arrogance of the Biden administration,
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Speaker 1: who they chose to run our military. Quote. It's impossible
29:51
Speaker 1: to say, hard to say that we didn't even leave
29:53
Speaker 1: them a plan when they refused to even meet or
29:55
Speaker 1: discuss the plan, a plan that was successful, and a
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Speaker 1: plan that allowed for no Americans be killed for eighteen months.
30:03
Speaker 1: So I'll say it again. When Anthony Blincoln sits there
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Speaker 1: in front of the Senate and the House and says
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Speaker 1: we had no plan, he is an absolute liar when
30:11
Speaker 1: he says they weren't given a plan. He's a liar.
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Speaker 1: When he says that we didn't have plans to get
30:16
Speaker 1: the equipment out, He's a liar. When he says we
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Speaker 1: didn't have plans to get the people out. He's a liar.
30:20
Speaker 1: When he says we didn't have plans to keep Bagram Airbase.
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Speaker 1: He's a liar when he says we didn't have plans
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Speaker 1: to keep Americans behind to protect against terris, He's a liar.
30:31
Speaker 1: Don't buy any of the crap they're selling you it's
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Speaker 1: all a lie, and we have the proof to back
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