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Afghanistan Withdrawal NOT Orderly & Peaceful, plus Crime In America & SCOTUS On Trans Athletes · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Center. Nice to be with you. And the Biden administration
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Speaker 1: is really excited. They think they nailed it on Afghanistan.
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Speaker 1: They're very proud of what they did. They came out
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Speaker 1: with this paper that they said proves how good the
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Speaker 1: withdrawal was from Afghanistan, and that's the apparently the history books,
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Speaker 1: how it's going to be remembered. If you listen to
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Speaker 1: this administration your reaction. Look, I think it's really sad.
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Speaker 1: We've talked before in this podcast about how this White
0:27
Speaker 1: House treats national security and foreign policy as public relations.
0:33
Speaker 1: It's all a communications effort. So they put out this
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Speaker 1: this twelve page white paper that is just designed to
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Speaker 1: say everything's perfect, everything's fine, and they're hoping that the
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Speaker 1: media will will bleat like sheep and go along with that.
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Speaker 1: The disaster, the debacle of Biden's surrender to the Taliban
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Speaker 1: and withdrawal from Afghanistan will be forgotten. I think that's
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Speaker 1: disrespectful to the thirteen servicemen and women who were murdered there.
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Speaker 1: I think it's disrespectful to the Afghans we left behind
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Speaker 1: who were tortured, whose lives, who may well have been
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Speaker 1: murdered as well. I think it's disrespectful to all of
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Speaker 1: those who who shed blood, who lost limbs fighting in
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Speaker 1: Afghanistan that this administration cares so little about their sacrifice.
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Speaker 1: They're not even bothering to worry about what went wrong.
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Speaker 1: You and I talked about this on a previous podcast
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Speaker 1: not that long ago, that one of the individuals on
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Speaker 1: the ground there that was trying to save lives told
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Speaker 1: his story finally that he believed he had the suicide
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Speaker 1: bomber and his sites. Yes, there was no chain of command,
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Speaker 1: there was no orders allowed, basically for them to take
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Speaker 1: out this perspective suicide bomber and then all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden he and he's blown up and survived it. Many
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Speaker 1: others did not, that you just mentioned. But for them
2:01
Speaker 1: to come out with a white paper, and white paper
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be non political, serious documents, This was
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Speaker 1: political propaganda at its best. So let me say that
2:09
Speaker 1: the podcast we did several weeks ago, if you didn't
2:12
Speaker 1: listen to it, let me encourage you to go back
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Speaker 1: and listen to it, because it really is. It's a
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Speaker 1: powerful This young marine testified before the House of Representatives
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Speaker 1: and he told his story. He told the story that
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Speaker 1: the suicide bomber. They didn't tell about who he was,
2:30
Speaker 1: and they spotted him, and they had him in their sights,
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Speaker 1: and they could have taken him out. They could have
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Speaker 1: taken him out before he committed the suicide bombing, and
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Speaker 1: the political higher ups in the Biden administration wouldn't allow
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Speaker 1: them to do so. And the result was thirteen servicemen
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Speaker 1: and women were murdered, and this young marine was horrendously injured.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't killed, but he told his story. And I
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Speaker 1: got to say, the reason I would encourage you to
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Speaker 1: go back and listen to that podcast is because the
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Speaker 1: media won't cover it. They won't cover it at all.
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Speaker 1: Their facts that don't exist, because if you listen, in
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Speaker 1: that pod, we played almost the entirety of his congressional
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Speaker 1: testimony because it was so powerful, and it's a story that,
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Speaker 1: in any sane world, should be the lead story on
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Speaker 1: the six o'clock news. And yet when we have journalists
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Speaker 1: that refused to tell the truth, refused to cover news,
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Speaker 1: refused to cover facts, that view their job as propagandists
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Speaker 1: for the White House, it's terrible. And look here you've
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Speaker 1: got John Kirby, the the appointed spokesperson, just just standing up,
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Speaker 1: and he was offended that the media even questioned him
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Speaker 1: and this administration's response in Afghannison, he got animated, like
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Speaker 1: not animated that Americans died and that he was frustrated
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Speaker 1: about what happened with the talban animate that how dare
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Speaker 1: you think we didn't do this perfectly take a look,
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Speaker 1: and so we're all this talk of chaos. I just
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Speaker 1: didn't see it, not from my perch. At one point
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Speaker 1: during the evacuation, there was an aircraft taking off full
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Speaker 1: of people Americans in afghansa lake every forty eight minutes,
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Speaker 1: and not one single mission was missed. So I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: I just won't buy the whole argument of chaos. He's right,
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Speaker 1: they were taking off. They were taking off with Americans
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Speaker 1: and other people that were trying to clamor and some
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Speaker 1: that lost their lives hanging on trying to be stowaways
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Speaker 1: on an airplane and let's be clear, hanging onto the
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Speaker 1: wheels as the planes were taking off. He said he
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Speaker 1: didn't see it. He didn't see the chaos. Look, that's offensive.
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, if if it were my spouse,
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Speaker 1: my brother, my sister who died in that suicide bombing,
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Speaker 1: listening to that, I'm going to speak nicely that individual
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Speaker 1: saying I didn't see any chaos. Say that to the
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Speaker 1: thirteen coffins that came back with American flags on them.
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Speaker 1: He didn't see any any chaos. Say that to the
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Speaker 1: Afghan interpreters who risk their lives to help us, only
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Speaker 1: to be abandoned by these clowns, to be tortured to
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Speaker 1: death by the Taliban. He didn't see any chaos. Well,
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Speaker 1: what about abandoning the Bogram Airfield, a secure military airfield
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Speaker 1: that we spent billions building and abandoning it before the
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Speaker 1: evacuation happened. For him to say he didn't see any chaos,
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Speaker 1: I believe him, But that's because he's deliberately looking away.
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Speaker 1: They don't want They're like the monkeys, see no evil here,
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Speaker 1: no evil. Let me tell you something that's evil because
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Speaker 1: their screw up cost people lives. And if he didn't
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Speaker 1: see any chaos, it's only because he refused to look. Historically,
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Speaker 1: white papers have usually been serious documents, not propaganda like this,
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Speaker 1: And when they have tried to use these kind of
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Speaker 1: big synopsis of historic events that have gone wrong for
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Speaker 1: political reasons, usually the media will throw down on that
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Speaker 1: they're not doing it this time. Is that how far
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Speaker 1: we've lost the media? In your opinion, anyone that sees us,
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Speaker 1: and there are a few, there were a few that
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Speaker 1: did call them out on this. But by not calling
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Speaker 1: them out, aren't you basically going along with a narrative
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Speaker 1: because there's something I canna say. Okay, I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: report on it. I'll just be silent. That'll be my
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Speaker 1: way of protesting it. Look, there is a theme across
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Speaker 1: the board of this administration, in this White House. They
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Speaker 1: lie for a living, whether it's John Kirby lying about Afghanistan,
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Speaker 1: whether it is Mayorchas lying in front of the Senate
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Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee, whether it's Karen Jean Pierre standing up and
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Speaker 1: lying over and over and over again. People aren't just
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Speaker 1: walking across the border. She says, well, that's a lie.
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Speaker 1: Yes they are. They are today. The amazing thing about
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Speaker 1: that lie of hers, it is a lie every day
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Speaker 1: of the year, three hundred and sixty five days a year.
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Speaker 1: Because there has not been a day when Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: was president when there were not people walking across the border.
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Speaker 1: And the brazenness of it, he can stand up and
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Speaker 1: say I didn't see any chaos because he knows that
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Speaker 1: the number of journalists remaining in America is vanishingly small.
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Speaker 1: That they are that they might as well have pom
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Speaker 1: poms and mini skirts and be chanting, go Biden, because
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Speaker 1: that's where they are. Look look at look at the
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Speaker 1: next thing, Kirby said. Nobody's saying that everything was perfect.
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Speaker 1: But there was a lot that went right, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of Afghans are now living better lives in this
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Speaker 1: country and other countries around the world because of the
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Speaker 1: sacrifices in the work of so many American government officials.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot to be proud of. Peter,
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Speaker 1: he's mad, how dare you questioned us? And he's proud.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot to be proud of. Really, you want
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Speaker 1: to tell those widows that how proud you are of
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Speaker 1: the incompetence of this administration. And by the way, at
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Speaker 1: the time this happened, everybody knew it was incompetent. I
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Speaker 1: remember Afghanistan. When the disaster happened, this White House was
7:57
Speaker 1: caught flat footed because up until that point the press
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Speaker 1: had just been sharing them on and it was the
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Speaker 1: first criticism they got because it was so bad people
8:06
Speaker 1: turn on the TV and saw human beings clinging to
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Speaker 1: the wheels of planes as they took off. They saw
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Speaker 1: people that nobody could defend it at the time. See
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Speaker 1: what's really shameless about this also is this is revisionist history.
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Speaker 1: This is trying to go back and say, don't believe
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Speaker 1: your lying eyes when you saw it happen. I'm telling
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Speaker 1: you what the official government story is. He's proud of
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Speaker 1: the job they did. You know what, it's shocking. Nobody
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Speaker 1: lost their job. Secretary Defense wasn't fired, The Chairman of
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Speaker 1: the Joint Chiefs wasn't fired. John Kirby wasn't fired. John
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Speaker 1: Kirby's like Baghdad. Bobby stands up there and just spends
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Speaker 1: no chaos. Everything great. You should be proud. Nobody lost
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Speaker 1: their job. The commanding officer that refused to give the
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Speaker 1: order take out the suicide bomber before he murders those
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Speaker 1: servicemen and women. As far as we know, that commanding
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Speaker 1: officer didn't lose his or her job. Zero accountability, and
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Speaker 1: the Biden White House doesn't want any accountability. This white
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Speaker 1: paper is designed to cover up and to tell on
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Speaker 1: alternate history. Everything's fine. You know, it's reminiscent of during
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Speaker 1: the Antifa in Black Lives Matter riots, fiery but mostly
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Speaker 1: peaceful protest. That's there as buildings are burning behind reporters,
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Speaker 1: mostly peaceful out here as a building's burning behind them.
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Speaker 1: That is what John Kirby is doing, and he thinks
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Speaker 1: the American people are either stupid or lazy. I want
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Speaker 1: respect the plan. Go in there, defend at all costs.
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Speaker 1: Do not accept any type of defeat on anything. Here's
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Speaker 1: another example, the arrogance. Once you turn it over, it's
11:02
Speaker 1: just like what we're doing in Ukraine. We give Ukrane
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Speaker 1: partillery ammunition, Stinger anti air missiles, Javelin anti It's their
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Speaker 1: stuff at that point, not the Americans. It's their stuff.
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Speaker 1: That stuff belonged to the Afghans. And so this idea
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Speaker 1: of this argument is just ludicrous that we left millions
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Speaker 1: of dollars of stuff in Afghanistan. We didn't. We turned
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Speaker 1: it over as the previous administration would have done too,
11:27
Speaker 1: because part of their thinking was they were gonna have
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Speaker 1: to turn this material over. It was turned over appropriately
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Speaker 1: and carefully and deliberately with the Afghan National Security Defense Forces.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't done carefully. I think we can agree on
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Speaker 1: that it wasn't done appropriately in an orderly fashion the
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Speaker 1: way that he described it, and it wasn't turned over
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Speaker 1: to the Afghan forces the way he implied, because we
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Speaker 1: saw this stuff pop into the hands of actual terrorists
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Speaker 1: instantly on social media. Yeah, so he left out kind
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Speaker 1: of the most important context. It's true that we gave
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Speaker 1: the Afghan meloy weapons to kill the Taliban. What the
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Speaker 1: Biden administration screwed up and did is they let all
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Speaker 1: those weapons fall in the hands of the Taliban. So
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Speaker 1: literally we gave them these weapons to shoot the terrorists.
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Speaker 1: Now the terrorists have the weapons that were given to
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Speaker 1: shoot the terrorists. And by the way, among other things,
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Speaker 1: what all has been lost? So the Taliban are believed
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Speaker 1: to control more than two thousand armored vehicles, including US humbs,
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Speaker 1: up to forty aircrafts potentially including Blackhawks and Scout attack
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Speaker 1: helicopters and Scan Eagle military drones. Between two thousand and
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Speaker 1: two and twenty seventeen, the United States gave the Afghan
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Speaker 1: military an estimated twenty eight billion dollars in weapons, including guns, rockets,
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Speaker 1: night vision goggles, and small drones for intelligence gathering. Between
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Speaker 1: two thousand and three and twenty sixteen, the United States
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Speaker 1: provided a forces with two hundred and eight aircraft, and
13:04
Speaker 1: since two thousand and three, the United States has provided
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Speaker 1: Afghan forces with at least six hundred thousand infantry weapons,
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Speaker 1: including M sixteens, including one hundred and sixty two thousand
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Speaker 1: pieces of communication equipment, and including over sixteen thousand night
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Speaker 1: vision goggles and the night vision goggles. When you talk
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Speaker 1: to Special Forces troops that have been deployed there, the
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Speaker 1: night vision goggles actually concerned them, maybe more than anything else,
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Speaker 1: because one of the great advantages our military had in
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Speaker 1: dealing with the terrorists is that we had the ability
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Speaker 1: to see at night and to wage warfare at night,
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Speaker 1: and the terrorists couldn't see us. Now, thanks to these
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Speaker 1: guys in competence, the terrorists are equipped like a US
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Speaker 1: military battalion. And for him to claim, well, gosh it was,
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Speaker 1: there's no the weapons were given to kill them. These
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Speaker 1: are Taliban terrorists. And the sad thing is, we know
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Speaker 1: Americans are going to lose their lives with those M
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Speaker 1: sixteens with those weapons, with those night vision goggles. We
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Speaker 1: know that Americans will die, and this administration will wipe
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Speaker 1: their hands and say there was no chaos. It was
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Speaker 1: their equipment, and they're proud of handing billions of dollars
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Speaker 1: of military weapons over to the Taliban. Does Kirby remember
14:38
Speaker 1: September eleventh? Does he remember the planes flying into the
14:41
Speaker 1: World Trade Center? As he remember the plane flying into
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Speaker 1: the Pentagon. These are the same bastards that now have
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Speaker 1: billions of dollars of US military equipment. Those guys killed
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Speaker 1: over three thousand lives with a couple of box cutters.
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Speaker 1: Now they've got armored vehicles and M sixteens and black helicopters.
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Speaker 1: To say this is a catastrophic screw up is an understatement. Oh,
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Speaker 1: he says it was organized. Though I agree it was
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Speaker 1: an organized screw up. It could not have been screwed
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Speaker 1: up more if they tried and look part of the
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Speaker 1: reason I mentioned before Bagram Airfield. Listen, at some point
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Speaker 1: we were going to pull out of Afghanistan. I think
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Speaker 1: it made sense. I'm not a believer in forever wars.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a believer in staying there forever but when
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Speaker 1: you are doing a draw down, it makes sense to
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Speaker 1: have a serious, competent plan for drawing down. Number one,
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Speaker 1: to get all the Americans out. Number two, to get
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Speaker 1: your allies, the Afghans who risked their lives out. Number three,
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Speaker 1: to vet the Afghans who are coming, to make sure
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Speaker 1: you're not bringing terrorists. What was amazing about what Biden
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Speaker 1: did is it was utter chaos on a couple of fronts.
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Speaker 1: Number One, the White House set an arbitrary political debt line.
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Speaker 1: They said, okay, troops must be drawn down to twenty
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Speaker 1: five hundred fewer. And their goal was they wanted to
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Speaker 1: be out on the anniversary of September eleven. There was
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Speaker 1: a political deadline. It was set by the White House.
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Speaker 1: We want to trumpet this political objective. Look, we got
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Speaker 1: out of this war, so we're sitting the date nine
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Speaker 1: to eleven so we can have a big victory. You know,
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Speaker 1: mission accomplished. This is George W. Bush landing on the
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Speaker 1: aircraft carrier. This is Joe Biden saying mission accomplished. And listen,
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Speaker 1: the military told told the White House we can't secure
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Speaker 1: Bogram air Field and also the embassy and the airport
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Speaker 1: in cobble, and the White House essentially said, we don't care.
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Speaker 1: We've set a goal. It's a political goal, never mind
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Speaker 1: the military problems. And so they forced the military to
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Speaker 1: abandon Bogram air Field. Now, the problem is, if you're
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Speaker 1: going to do a withdrawal, you want to do it
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Speaker 1: from a secure airfield where people can't come in with
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Speaker 1: suicide bombers and kill people. When they abandoned Bogram and
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Speaker 1: handed it to the Taliban, they were forced to do
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Speaker 1: their withdrawal from a crowded commercial airport in the middle
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Speaker 1: of a dense urban environment that didn't have a secure perimeter.
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Speaker 1: They had a secure airport, they gave it away. And
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Speaker 1: their withdrawal Afghans was both over inclusive and under inclusive.
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Speaker 1: It was under inclusive and that they left a great
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Speaker 1: many people behind who had risked their lives to help
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Speaker 1: the American military, and it is grotesquely immoral that we
17:38
Speaker 1: know that at least some of those have been tortured
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Speaker 1: and perhaps even murdered by the Taliban as a result
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Speaker 1: of their helping America. But it was also over inclusive,
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Speaker 1: and that at the end it seemed like they were
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Speaker 1: just grabbing up anyone who showed up, and so we
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Speaker 1: don't know how many terrorists the Biden administration flew to America.
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Speaker 1: What we do know is that included among those that
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Speaker 1: they evacuated were adult men with child brides. Because look,
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Speaker 1: you'd have a family that was desperate to get their
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Speaker 1: little girl out of Afghanistan, and so they'd take a
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Speaker 1: little girl, a young ten eleven, twelve year old girl,
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Speaker 1: and hand that child over to a grown ass man
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Speaker 1: and say, have raised your wife? And you as com
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Speaker 1: thinking about this, Yes, I want to play this because
18:31
Speaker 1: this is that moment where again, this administration doesn't want
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Speaker 1: to admit this happened. Across the entire government, everyone involved
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Speaker 1: in the evacuation effort, whether it's at a transit point
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Speaker 1: in one of the countries that we negotiated with, whether
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Speaker 1: it's here in the United States at Dulles or Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: or the military bases, we have all of our officers
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Speaker 1: at extreme vigilance to look for and to deal with
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Speaker 1: any cases or concerns that he's the urgent guidance and
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Speaker 1: how many child hides have you seen? I don't know
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Speaker 1: the specific guidance are referring to. I'm happy to look
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Speaker 1: to look at it. So is there not urgency to discover?
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Speaker 1: It was absolute. We could detect and deal with have
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Speaker 1: any cases, And there've been, to my knowledge, a limited
19:21
Speaker 1: number of cases where we have separated people because we
19:24
Speaker 1: were concerned that they were how they are the cases
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Speaker 1: I'm aware of a handful. So look you see the
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Speaker 1: Secretary of State blithely unconcerned a handful. The guidance I
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Speaker 1: was describing was guidance the Biden administration put out to
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Speaker 1: personnel on the ground because they were getting planes landing
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Speaker 1: from Afghanistan with adult men and little girls. The little girls,
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Speaker 1: they were saying, where their wives and these little girls
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Speaker 1: were being sexually assaulted and raped by grown men, and
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Speaker 1: the Biden administration was facilitating child sexual salt and child brides.
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Speaker 1: This guidance was within the Biden administration. Say wait a second,
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Speaker 1: we got a problem. We're putting people on planes and
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Speaker 1: not moms of daughters, dudes with little girls. Yes, that
20:13
Speaker 1: should be read flag number one. Yes. So at the
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Speaker 1: hearing he hadn't read the guidance. I had the guidance
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Speaker 1: in front of me, I'd read it. But beyond that,
20:21
Speaker 1: I even asked him, how many how many of you
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Speaker 1: found listen if you're secretary of state and you just
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Speaker 1: finish human trafficking little girls into the country that are
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Speaker 1: being sexually assaulted by grown men, and you're responsible, you
20:33
Speaker 1: know what a competence competent secretary of state would say.
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Speaker 1: Here's exactly how many we found. Here's what's happened to them.
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Speaker 1: They're going to jail. Here are the safeguards we're putting
20:44
Speaker 1: in place to protect against it. But all of this
20:47
Speaker 1: is intertwined. Look, people ask me, what does Why is
20:52
Speaker 1: the Biden administration so bad at this stuff? Why are
20:55
Speaker 1: they so incompetent. Part of the reason they're so bad,
20:59
Speaker 1: Part of the reason Afghanistan was such a mess is
21:04
Speaker 1: because they live in an environment where they don't expect
21:07
Speaker 1: the press to ever ask a hard question. So Tony
21:10
Speaker 1: Blankett doesn't think anyone's going to ask him about the
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Speaker 1: child brides that he's responsible for trafficking into him and
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Speaker 1: he had to worry about a sixteen minutes piece on
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Speaker 1: it and the disaster of what has happened. They know
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Speaker 1: they've got him in their back pocket it and it
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Speaker 1: produces incredibly poor execution. By the way, these are the
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Speaker 1: same people who you know, were incredibly condescending and arrogant
21:34
Speaker 1: during the Trump administration, and then when they came in,
21:37
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21:40
Speaker 1: in charge. Well, these adults don't know what the hell
21:43
Speaker 1: they're doing. And as much as John Kirby tells you
21:46
Speaker 1: there is no chaos, he's proud of what happened. Anyone
21:49
Speaker 1: who was awake during the disaster of the surrender to
21:54
Speaker 1: the Taliban and the withdrawing Afghanistan knows what an utter
21:58
Speaker 1: catastrophe it is. And I gotta say, it's not just
22:00
Speaker 1: you and me. We've been unloading on the press. But
22:03
Speaker 1: but but here's a little bit of a man bites dog.
22:06
Speaker 1: Sometimes even the press can't stand it. Watch this CBS
22:10
Speaker 1: News calling out John Kirby's garbage. But this is they
22:15
Speaker 1: called the International Security Advice that takes Sullivan said they
22:17
Speaker 1: were going to do a hot wash, which is a
22:19
Speaker 1: fancy bureaucratic turn for a deep dive into what went wrong.
22:23
Speaker 1: This twelve phaves document is a whitewash. There is. It
22:27
Speaker 1: is narrative, it is light on specifics, it's devoid of citations,
22:32
Speaker 1: and it is in essence their version of events. I
22:36
Speaker 1: gotta say it's almost like he knows so much about
22:39
Speaker 1: what really happened. And I've that he's insulted personally, like,
22:43
Speaker 1: how dare you expect me to walk out here and
22:45
Speaker 1: carry this pail of garbage with me to the American people.
22:49
Speaker 1: I deserve more respect than that. And I'm glad to
22:52
Speaker 1: see some journalists actually coming around to this. Look good
22:56
Speaker 1: for him for being angry, because that was genuine. Yeah,
23:00
Speaker 1: he was pissed at having read a document that was
23:03
Speaker 1: utterly divorced from reality, that that was crafted not by
23:09
Speaker 1: national security experts trying to examine how did we screw
23:14
Speaker 1: this up? What did we do wrong? Who's at fault?
23:17
Speaker 1: Why didn't we give the order to take out the
23:19
Speaker 1: suicide bomber before he murdered thirteen servicemen and women? It's
23:23
Speaker 1: none of that fat white paper is a pr document.
23:27
Speaker 1: It is a political spin document. It is talking points
23:33
Speaker 1: for the obedient mandarins in the press to echo. We
23:38
Speaker 1: should be proud of the job Joe Biden did in Afghanistan.
23:42
Speaker 1: It was there was no chaos at all. It was
23:44
Speaker 1: it was perfect. Yeah, and at least on CBS News.
23:49
Speaker 1: And I'll say that the anchor who's there when he
23:51
Speaker 1: says it was a whitewash. She laughs out loud. Yeah
23:56
Speaker 1: good on CBS News For a moment, journalism erupted. I
24:01
Speaker 1: hope it's contagious that we actually have others willing to
24:04
Speaker 1: do their job. I want to get to another issue,
24:07
Speaker 1: and that's crime in America. There was a very famous
24:09
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24:13
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Speaker 1: off center. Talking about crime in America, it's very interesting.
25:15
Speaker 1: Lawrie Lightfoot, for example, lost in Chicago. A lot of
25:18
Speaker 1: people thought that was kind of the end of the
25:19
Speaker 1: road for the insanity of not prosecuting criminals, being weak
25:25
Speaker 1: on crimes, giving this, you know, bail reform and everything
25:28
Speaker 1: else that's happened. We're seeing some pushback in place like
25:30
Speaker 1: New York and Baltimore. Then all of a sudden they
25:33
Speaker 1: elect an actual communist in Chicago, head scratcher there. You'll
25:40
Speaker 1: look at San Francisco. They've got major problems with crime,
25:43
Speaker 1: and now you see this brutal stabbing that's so bad
25:48
Speaker 1: that we can't even show you the video that's come
25:50
Speaker 1: out here. I just don't think it's appropriate of a
25:53
Speaker 1: man who has said some things about San Francisco. He
25:56
Speaker 1: doesn't feel safe there. He'd actually moved, he came back
25:59
Speaker 1: for a meating. He's in the street, gets gets stabbed
26:02
Speaker 1: there to death in San Francisco, and yet Democrats are
26:08
Speaker 1: still standing by these these these initiatives of bail reform,
26:12
Speaker 1: prison reform and not and not actually getting tough on crime.
26:15
Speaker 1: More than five hundred police officers are missing in San
26:18
Speaker 1: Francisco right now, and people there are leaving in droves
26:21
Speaker 1: and they're sick and tired of living in this insanity. Yeah,
26:24
Speaker 1: look what happened here. Bob Lee, who was a was
26:29
Speaker 1: the founder of cash app. He was a tech gazillionaire,
26:33
Speaker 1: very wealthy man, very successful man. He had left San Francisco.
26:38
Speaker 1: He had left San Francisco because of the out of
26:41
Speaker 1: control crime and he was back in San Francisco for
26:44
Speaker 1: a work meeting and on the street he was stabbed.
26:48
Speaker 1: He was stabbed multiple times in the chest on the street.
26:54
Speaker 1: In he was in San Francisco's Rincon Hill neighborhood, which
26:58
Speaker 1: is where Nancy Pelosi lives. He was not in the hood, yeah,
27:02
Speaker 1: he was not. This is where rich people gather and
27:07
Speaker 1: he stabbed multiple times. They're security security video of it,
27:11
Speaker 1: and yeah, you and I debated before the show do
27:15
Speaker 1: we air the security video. We both watched it. We
27:19
Speaker 1: decided not to air it. Because it's really troubling. It
27:23
Speaker 1: is footage of this man losing his life. It is
27:27
Speaker 1: footage of him staggering after he's been stabbed. The footage
27:33
Speaker 1: shows him trying to flag down passing cars, and passing
27:39
Speaker 1: cars ignore him, and probably because they're thinking about safe
27:42
Speaker 1: their own Yeah, yeah, they may be afraid for their
27:44
Speaker 1: own lives. They see someone staggering towards them. Crime is
27:47
Speaker 1: so bad, they may they may not want to be
27:48
Speaker 1: injured themselves, but they drive off. And he staggers to
27:53
Speaker 1: the window at the front of a building and he collapses,
27:57
Speaker 1: and he had called nine one one, and the officers arrived,
27:59
Speaker 1: but by the time they got there, it wasn't in
28:02
Speaker 1: time to save him. And a kitchen knife with a
28:06
Speaker 1: four inch blade was found in the parking lot across
28:10
Speaker 1: the street. But they haven't caught anyone. There haven't been
28:12
Speaker 1: any arrest so far this year, and we're not very
28:15
Speaker 1: far into this year. We're in April. They've already been
28:19
Speaker 1: thirty nine murders in the city. Thirty nine murders already,
28:23
Speaker 1: and the San Francisco Police Department right now has a
28:26
Speaker 1: shortage of five hundred and forty one officers totally insane
28:32
Speaker 1: number when you think about the population, the size of
28:34
Speaker 1: San Francisco, your five hundred plus officers. Down Look, it
28:38
Speaker 1: is the policies of the left, attacking and demonizing police officers,
28:44
Speaker 1: trying to defund police officers, trying to abolish the police,
28:48
Speaker 1: combined with putting into place George Soros, DA's like Alvin
28:53
Speaker 1: Bragg in New York, who release violent criminals onto the street,
28:58
Speaker 1: who don't prosecut cute criminals on the front end, and
29:01
Speaker 1: when they do get in they let him go. That's
29:04
Speaker 1: what produces this chaos. You know, I've got a friend
29:07
Speaker 1: of mine who used to live in Northern California, lived
29:10
Speaker 1: in Palo Alto. He's been very successful. He's in the
29:12
Speaker 1: tech business. And he moved from Palo Alto down to Miami.
29:19
Speaker 1: And he and I had breakfast a while back, and
29:22
Speaker 1: he was telling me that he said friends of his
29:25
Speaker 1: from Palo Alto come down to Miami to visit him,
29:28
Speaker 1: and he'll take him out to dinner. And you know,
29:31
Speaker 1: he drives a very nice, very fancy sports car. You'd
29:34
Speaker 1: like his car, and he'll drive out to dinner and
29:38
Speaker 1: park it on the street. And he said his friends
29:41
Speaker 1: from Northern California freak out. They're like, what are you doing? Yeah,
29:44
Speaker 1: And what he said was in northern California, if you
29:50
Speaker 1: park a car on the street, even in a nice,
29:52
Speaker 1: nice neighborhood, that car is gonna get broken into, it's
29:56
Speaker 1: gonna get keyed, it's gonna get stolen, it's gonna get vandalized.
30:00
Speaker 1: And what an amazing statement that just being able to
30:02
Speaker 1: park your car. He is considered a flex Like his
30:06
Speaker 1: friends would freak out, how could you park your car?
30:09
Speaker 1: And he's like, look, I live in America, like normal
30:11
Speaker 1: people can park their car and not have to worry.
30:16
Speaker 1: It is tragic what is happening. And I think a
30:20
Speaker 1: lot of the residents in these cities believe it can't
30:23
Speaker 1: get any better. In New York, a lot of the
30:27
Speaker 1: residents there just just few. That's part of life. Look
30:31
Speaker 1: in DC that this man Bobbly was stabbed to death,
30:35
Speaker 1: by the way, at least one of the stories, I
30:37
Speaker 1: think it was the AP story said tech entrepreneur died
30:41
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Died, not murdered, not stabbed to death,
30:45
Speaker 1: died because the press is not actually reporting the facts
30:50
Speaker 1: because the facts would not be convenient for their political narrative.
30:53
Speaker 1: Look last week in DC, a staffer for Rand Paul
31:00
Speaker 1: was stabbed on the street multiple times. It's like five
31:04
Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon, in a busy DC street. He
31:07
Speaker 1: gets stabbed. When you have these left wing mayors, district attorneys,
31:13
Speaker 1: police chiefs, when they undermine the cops and they let
31:17
Speaker 1: violent criminals go, the results are horrific. And I'll tell
31:21
Speaker 1: you this is occurring at the same time. So the
31:23
Speaker 1: US Sentencing Commission has just proposed to allow district judges
31:30
Speaker 1: broad discretion to grant what's called compassionate release for prisoners
31:36
Speaker 1: who haven't served their full sentences. Under federal law, when
31:40
Speaker 1: you're convicted of a federal crime, you get a sentence,
31:44
Speaker 1: a sentence under what's called the sentencing guidelines that were
31:47
Speaker 1: passed Congress passed him into law to provide uniformity and
31:51
Speaker 1: predictability so that people who committed the same crimes would
31:54
Speaker 1: serve similar sentences. That there wasn't there had been mass
32:00
Speaker 1: of disparities. If you got lucky and got a soft
32:03
Speaker 1: on crime judge, they'd let you go. If you got
32:06
Speaker 1: a really tough on crime judge, they'd lock you up.
32:08
Speaker 1: So the sentencing Guidelines were passed to give some consistency, uniformity, predictability. Well,
32:15
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has managed to appoint new people to the
32:18
Speaker 1: Sentencing Commission, and they just proposed taking the compassionate release provision,
32:24
Speaker 1: which was designed to be really narrow. Someone has say,
32:27
Speaker 1: give an example of where that would have been used.
32:29
Speaker 1: Compassionate release. Someone has cancer and they're about to die
32:31
Speaker 1: and say, okay, all right, we'll let you go for
32:34
Speaker 1: the last couple of months of your live life so
32:36
Speaker 1: you can be outside of prison with your family, with
32:39
Speaker 1: your family. You know, circumstances that are narrow and exigent.
32:44
Speaker 1: But under these revisions, it's opening the door. Look, Joe
32:49
Speaker 1: Biden has been filling the courts with soft on crime,
32:54
Speaker 1: left wing activists, with criminal defense attorneys, with people who
32:58
Speaker 1: worked as George Soros district attorneys, with people who have
33:04
Speaker 1: been advocates of abolishing the police. They're becoming federal judges.
33:09
Speaker 1: And with this change in the Sentencing Commission, you're going
33:13
Speaker 1: to see these Biden radicals teaming up with the Obama
33:16
Speaker 1: radicals that are already on the court releasing more and
33:20
Speaker 1: more violent criminals. And I gotta say, Ben, look, in
33:23
Speaker 1: the normal world of political back and forth. There are
33:27
Speaker 1: things conservatives and liberals can disagree on, all right, high taxes,
33:32
Speaker 1: low taxes. You and I both like low taxes. I
33:34
Speaker 1: understand people that like higher taxes, like reasonable people can
33:37
Speaker 1: disagree on that. You know, question like abortion. Abortion is
33:41
Speaker 1: a difficult issue. I'm pro life, your pro life, but
33:44
Speaker 1: but there are many people who are genuinely and passionately
33:49
Speaker 1: pro choice, and reasonable people can can wrestle with that issue.
33:54
Speaker 1: I genuinely don't understand these leftists that see a murderer
34:00
Speaker 1: and think the answer here has let the murderer go.
34:04
Speaker 1: I don't get the reasoning. I don't know how to
34:07
Speaker 1: articulate the argument how society is better, how anyone is
34:11
Speaker 1: better off letting violent criminals go out on the streets.
34:15
Speaker 1: And yet that's what these radicals are doing, and it's
34:19
Speaker 1: what the Biden administration keeps leaning in further and further
34:22
Speaker 1: on last question on this, and I think that the
34:25
Speaker 1: shock for me seems to be how many cities are
34:28
Speaker 1: dealing with violent, high crime numbers, and yet when their
34:31
Speaker 1: elections come up and they have a chance to change course,
34:34
Speaker 1: they don't do it. I mentioned Chicago earlier. My hometown
34:38
Speaker 1: of Memphis Tennessee out of control violent crime right now,
34:42
Speaker 1: carjackings through the roof, rape through the roof, forty five
34:47
Speaker 1: cars are still in every twenty four hours right now
34:49
Speaker 1: in my home town. And this has become an actress
34:51
Speaker 1: DA that came in YEP and has said we're gonna
34:54
Speaker 1: let them all go all the time. They have prison reform,
34:57
Speaker 1: bail reform. They had a guy that was accused murder
35:00
Speaker 1: the other day that got out on no bail because
35:01
Speaker 1: they was poor. Yeah, and you see this and you think,
35:04
Speaker 1: all right, well, surely that at some point they're gonna
35:07
Speaker 1: be voted out. And then you see Chicago, they get
35:09
Speaker 1: rid of Lightfoot, they put in someone that is even
35:11
Speaker 1: more radical. Why is that happening? And are we gonna
35:14
Speaker 1: just lose these cities forever? Because people that have the
35:17
Speaker 1: means to get out, this is my theory, are getting
35:20
Speaker 1: out as fast as they can, regardless of the Republican
35:22
Speaker 1: or Democrat. If you're saying and you have the means,
35:25
Speaker 1: you run as fast as you can for safety for you,
35:28
Speaker 1: your kids, your grandkids, and then they are just activists
35:32
Speaker 1: left they get decide how this is going to go
35:34
Speaker 1: for the rest of their lives with all this chaos. Look,
35:37
Speaker 1: if you want to understand the pattern of the lawless left,
35:41
Speaker 1: if you want to understand the George Soros prosecutors. And
35:44
Speaker 1: by the way, let me say something Folks online say
35:47
Speaker 1: when you refer to a George Soros prosecutor that you're
35:49
Speaker 1: an anti Semitic because George Soros is Jewish? How dare
35:53
Speaker 1: you blame him? Look, there's nothing to do with the
35:57
Speaker 1: fact that he's Jewish. What it has to do with
35:58
Speaker 1: is he spends hens of millions of dollars electing district
36:04
Speaker 1: attorneys who come into office promising to let violent criminals go.
36:08
Speaker 1: And part of the way the Marxists operate is when
36:12
Speaker 1: you point out what they're doing, they scream racist at
36:16
Speaker 1: you for daring to point out what he's doing. I
36:19
Speaker 1: don't know if we had George Soros as a guest
36:21
Speaker 1: on this show, I don't know how he would defend that.
36:23
Speaker 1: I legitimately do not understand what his reasoning is. That
36:29
Speaker 1: he thinks the world would be better if we let
36:34
Speaker 1: murderers and rapists go to commit more murders and more rapes.
36:38
Speaker 1: I don't My mind doesn't comprehend that logic. If you
36:42
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36:44
Speaker 1: latest book, Justice Corrupted. Justice Corrupted explains in length. There's
36:49
Speaker 1: an entire chapter on the George Soros DA's there's an
36:52
Speaker 1: entire chapter on the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots
36:55
Speaker 1: and how this is deliberate, how it's systematic, and it
36:59
Speaker 1: lays out the fact it's it's not hyperbole, it's not rhetoric,
37:03
Speaker 1: it's not invective. Justice Corrupted lays out the facts. Alvin Bragg,
37:07
Speaker 1: before Alvin Bragg was a household name, he was in
37:10
Speaker 1: your book. He is in the book Justice Corrupted, because
37:14
Speaker 1: that's who he is. It's what he promised to do
37:17
Speaker 1: to weaponize the legal system. Going after Donald Trump is
37:21
Speaker 1: entirely consistent. There's an entire chapter in Justice Corrupted about
37:25
Speaker 1: the deep state being weaponized to go after Donald Trump.
37:29
Speaker 1: And so this is a consistent pattern. And I got
37:33
Speaker 1: to say, in Chicago, you're right, Lorie Lightfoot number one
37:36
Speaker 1: presided over out of control crime and shootings and horrific misery.
37:44
Speaker 1: She was also I think, incompetent at it, and so
37:47
Speaker 1: the voters voted her out, and for a moment you thought, wow,
37:50
Speaker 1: maybe there'll be a moment of Chicago a people saying, gosh,
37:53
Speaker 1: I'd like to live in a safer city. And then
37:55
Speaker 1: they elected someone who's a left wing radical who has
38:00
Speaker 1: spent years advocating for defunding and abolishing the police. And
38:05
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's more competent or not than
38:08
Speaker 1: Lorie Lightfoot, but everything he said up to this point
38:14
Speaker 1: is that he is going to hurt the police more,
38:18
Speaker 1: weaken the police more, and empower the criminals more. And
38:24
Speaker 1: when you elect radical democrats like this, people die, you know,
38:29
Speaker 1: the left, people flee the city, and then there's even
38:34
Speaker 1: more carnage. That the left is fond of the slogan
38:36
Speaker 1: black lives matter, they don't actually believe it, because the
38:41
Speaker 1: consequence of electing left wing radicals who undermine law enforcement
38:47
Speaker 1: is that more black lives are lost. There will be
38:50
Speaker 1: African American children, there will be women, there will be
38:53
Speaker 1: men murdered in Chicago because of the consistent assault of
38:59
Speaker 1: left wing down Democrats on police officers. And I gotta
39:02
Speaker 1: tell you, as I travel around, You've flown around the
39:04
Speaker 1: country with me quite a bit. Yeah, Inevitably, when I
39:07
Speaker 1: see police officers, I make a point of stopping, of
39:10
Speaker 1: shaking their hands, of saying thank you, thank you for
39:13
Speaker 1: what you're doing. And I tell them, I say, look,
39:15
Speaker 1: a big part of my job is to have your back.
39:18
Speaker 1: And I talked to cops all over the country. I
39:21
Speaker 1: gotta tell you. The most striking place to fly into
39:23
Speaker 1: a Chicago. I land at Chicago O'Hare Airport. I am
39:28
Speaker 1: with some regularity met by ten, twelve, fifteen uniformed police
39:34
Speaker 1: officers who come, They shake my hand, they give me patches.
39:39
Speaker 1: I've gotten my office patches of the Chicago PD that
39:44
Speaker 1: are displayed in my office because those cops are so
39:47
Speaker 1: under assault. Joe Biden dirt with the COVID vaccine mandates,
39:52
Speaker 1: was saying, fire half the police in Chicago if they
39:56
Speaker 1: won't get COVID vaccines. The left assault on cops and
40:01
Speaker 1: law enforcement is dangerous. And you want to know why
40:05
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40:10
Speaker 1: It is because of these policies. They have a very
40:13
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40:15
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40:18
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Speaker 1: and that says that biological males, people who were born male,
42:37
Speaker 1: can't compete in girls sports. That's a law. It's a
42:40
Speaker 1: similar law that's been passed in many states across the
42:43
Speaker 1: country to protect girls athletics. In this instance, uh there
42:48
Speaker 1: was the family of a twelve year old child who
42:52
Speaker 1: was born biologically male, but who now identifies as a
42:55
Speaker 1: girl and wants to compete in girls sports. That that
42:58
Speaker 1: family filed a lawsuit arguing that the law West Virginia
43:03
Speaker 1: passed conflicts with either Title nine of federal law, which
43:09
Speaker 1: establishes and protects girls sports, or conflicts with the Equal
43:14
Speaker 1: Protection Clause of the US Constitution. Now the cases in
43:19
Speaker 1: the fairly early stages. The district court, a federal district court,
43:24
Speaker 1: initially enjoined the laws enforcement, and did so in July
43:27
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one. So to enjoy the laws enforcement
43:31
Speaker 1: means the district court issued in order this West Virginia
43:34
Speaker 1: law has no force. In effect, that injunction was in
43:38
Speaker 1: effect for almost eighteen months, almost a year and a half.
43:42
Speaker 1: The state didn't fight the injunction, so they let the
43:46
Speaker 1: law be enjoyed. They didn't fight it any further. While
43:50
Speaker 1: the injunction was in effect, they were in the district
43:53
Speaker 1: court they were battling over the lawsuit. The district court
43:57
Speaker 1: ultimately ruled for the state of West Virginia. So eject
44:00
Speaker 1: did the plaintiff's claim that the West Virginia law was
44:04
Speaker 1: unconstitutional or contrary to federal law. And it's interesting the
44:07
Speaker 1: judge clearly didn't like ruling that way. The judge wrote that,
44:11
Speaker 1: you know, even if you don't like this law, it's
44:14
Speaker 1: clear under federal law and the Constitution that you can
44:17
Speaker 1: separate boys sports from girls sports and there's not a
44:20
Speaker 1: legal impediment of doing so. So the District Court rules
44:24
Speaker 1: for the State of West Virginia, the plaintiff appeals, and
44:28
Speaker 1: the Fourth Circuit, the Court of Appeals entered a new
44:31
Speaker 1: injunction in joining the law while the appeal was pending.
44:37
Speaker 1: Court of Appeals didn't issue an opinion, just entered an
44:40
Speaker 1: injunction while the appeal was pending. This is the appeal
44:43
Speaker 1: of that emergency injunction. So what happened is the State
44:47
Speaker 1: of West Virginia went up to the Supreme Court and said,
44:50
Speaker 1: will you reverse the injunction that the Court of Appeals
44:55
Speaker 1: put in place. The Supreme Court said no. The full
45:00
Speaker 1: Supreme Court didn't issue an opinions. There's no opinion at all.
45:02
Speaker 1: They just denied the application. Two justices Justice Alido joined
45:09
Speaker 1: by Justice Thomas dissent it now. Justice Alido's descent is
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Speaker 1: very short. It's two pages long. I have it right here.
45:17
Speaker 1: Justice Alido walks through the facts of what I just described,
45:22
Speaker 1: the procedural history of the case. Justice Alido and Justice
45:25
Speaker 1: Thomas say I would grant the state's application, but even
45:32
Speaker 1: Justice Alito and Justice Thomas acknowledge. And I'll read from
45:35
Speaker 1: this dissent quote. It is true that West Virginia allowed
45:38
Speaker 1: the District Court's injunction to go unchallenged for nearly eighteen
45:43
Speaker 1: months before seeking emergency relief from a second identical injunction.
45:49
Speaker 1: And it is a wise rule in general that a
45:53
Speaker 1: litigant whose claim of urgency is belied by his own
45:58
Speaker 1: conduct should not expect discretionary emergency relief from a court.
46:04
Speaker 1: In other words, a big part of the reason that
46:08
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court did not vacate this injunction is because
46:12
Speaker 1: West Virginia essentially acquiesced to it for a year and
46:15
Speaker 1: a half did nothing for eighteen months. And emergency relief,
46:21
Speaker 1: either granting an injunction or vacating an injunction, is exceptional relief.
46:26
Speaker 1: It's provided because it's an emergency, and eighteen months later
46:29
Speaker 1: is not an emergency anymore. It is very hard to
46:31
Speaker 1: say it's an emergency when you didn't do anything for
46:33
Speaker 1: eighteen months. And so there's been lots of headlines saying, oh,
46:38
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court said that biological males can compete in
46:42
Speaker 1: girls sports, and they didn't say they didn't address the merits.
46:47
Speaker 1: They might at some point, and I hope that they
46:50
Speaker 1: I hope that they rule in a way that protects
46:53
Speaker 1: girls sports and follows the law. But in this instance,
46:57
Speaker 1: I think this was a procedural ruling. I wish they'd
47:01
Speaker 1: vacated the injunction and what reverencing. It's just two pages
47:04
Speaker 1: long that the opinion there tells you it is more
47:07
Speaker 1: of a procedural thing, not a policy. And even Justice
47:10
Speaker 1: Alito and Justice Thomas are acknowledging, hey, wait, there's a
47:14
Speaker 1: real problem here, because they sat and neck we asked,
47:18
Speaker 1: but they went on and said, well, even so, it's
47:20
Speaker 1: a state law and the Court of Appeals didn't write
47:23
Speaker 1: an opinion and we shouldn't enjoin it with no explanation whatsoever.
47:27
Speaker 1: So look, that has some force. But I wouldn't read
47:32
Speaker 1: this Supreme Court decision as foreshadowing that the Supreme Court
47:36
Speaker 1: seven two is going to rule that that biological males
47:40
Speaker 1: have a right to compete in girls' sports. I don't
47:43
Speaker 1: think they're going to and I don't think that's what
47:46
Speaker 1: this case means. One other thing that happened this week
47:49
Speaker 1: is there's a swimmer, Riley Gaines, who's become very famous
47:53
Speaker 1: and a lot of support from Conservatives and Christians because
47:56
Speaker 1: she came out. Was one of the very first and
47:58
Speaker 1: women swimming to come out and say it is unfair
48:01
Speaker 1: you're asking me who I'm one of the best swimmers
48:04
Speaker 1: in women's sports, if not the best in certain aspects
48:08
Speaker 1: of women swimming to compete with biological men. When she
48:14
Speaker 1: did this, the world, of course erupted. The Left went
48:17
Speaker 1: after to attack her. She's now doing events at campuses.
48:21
Speaker 1: You and I talked about this before the show. She
48:24
Speaker 1: was going to be doing an event at Sancis in
48:26
Speaker 1: San Francisco to university there. That event didn't get to
48:29
Speaker 1: happen because the Left started to attack her physically. A
48:34
Speaker 1: man hit her apparently twice. Police had to barricade her
48:39
Speaker 1: in a room as they basically rushed her from the stage.
48:43
Speaker 1: She was held in that room, barricaded with the cops
48:45
Speaker 1: for about an hour, and the student body that was
48:49
Speaker 1: coming after her said some of the most horrific things
48:53
Speaker 1: to her as a woman. And if we wanted to
48:55
Speaker 1: bleep it all out, you wouldn't hear anything but a big,
48:58
Speaker 1: long bleep. We decided we're gonna let you see this.
49:02
Speaker 1: I wanted to warn and you wanted to as well.
49:03
Speaker 1: If you have kids listening, kids watching, they don't need
49:06
Speaker 1: to see this. But I do think that parents and
49:10
Speaker 1: grandparents you'd understand. This has become what's normal on college
49:14
Speaker 1: campuses if you are a conservative speaker or even a
49:18
Speaker 1: conservative student, or someone standing up for yourselves as an
49:22
Speaker 1: athlete saying I shouldn't have to compete with men when
49:24
Speaker 1: I'm a woman. So look, that's exactly right. And I'll
49:27
Speaker 1: say a couple of things. Number one, Riley Gaines was
49:30
Speaker 1: a very successful female swimmer competing competing against, among others,
49:35
Speaker 1: Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas born a biological male, Leah Thomas
49:41
Speaker 1: decided that he was a she, that that that he
49:46
Speaker 1: was a woman, more than halfway through college competing as
49:48
Speaker 1: a man as a male swimmer, and as a male
49:50
Speaker 1: swimmer was thoroughly mediocre, was not winning winning meets regularly,
49:55
Speaker 1: and once Leah became Leah the Woman, Leah Thomas won
50:01
Speaker 1: the NCUBLE A National championship in swimming. Now, there are
50:07
Speaker 1: biological differences between men and women, their biological differences and
50:11
Speaker 1: strength in body mass. Um, there's a reason why this
50:15
Speaker 1: c These controversies only emerge one way. Um. You know
50:21
Speaker 1: what if if a biological woman wants to compete against men,
50:26
Speaker 1: nobody would care. If someone from the w NBA wants
50:29
Speaker 1: to compete in the NBA, great, that'd be amazing to watch.
50:32
Speaker 1: There's a reason we have a w NBA because there
50:36
Speaker 1: is no woman on the face of the planet who
50:38
Speaker 1: can stop Lebron James there on the planet. But there
50:42
Speaker 1: is a reason there are real and material differences between
50:46
Speaker 1: the genders. And so Riley Gaines was on campus and
50:50
Speaker 1: and and she's at at San Francisco State University, and
50:55
Speaker 1: she's there to speak and and and there's a violent protest,
50:58
Speaker 1: and she says that she was physically hit twice by
51:04
Speaker 1: a biological man who now claims he's a woman. So
51:07
Speaker 1: you have a man physically assaulting, beating a woman because
51:12
Speaker 1: she dares to say, it's unfair to girls. It's unfair
51:16
Speaker 1: to women to force them to compete against people who
51:20
Speaker 1: are biological males. And this video is right after she
51:22
Speaker 1: was assaulted. This video is her being pulled out of
51:27
Speaker 1: the room by the police officers. This video is heard
51:29
Speaker 1: being chased by the activists. And I want to underscore
51:32
Speaker 1: for our listeners. You know, Ben and I we actually
51:34
Speaker 1: debated whether or not to air this. The profanity and
51:38
Speaker 1: this is bad. Every other word is an expletive. And look,
51:43
Speaker 1: we try to make this podcast a family podcast that
51:46
Speaker 1: is suitable for listeners of all ages. If we tried
51:50
Speaker 1: to bleep out the profanities, it would be you couldn't
51:54
Speaker 1: hear anything that would be saying. But I actually think
51:57
Speaker 1: it's important. Look, if you have kids, and it's not
51:59
Speaker 1: approp for the kids to hear, shut off the broadcast
52:03
Speaker 1: at this point. But I think it's important for people
52:07
Speaker 1: to hear this one. And actually for this episode, if
52:10
Speaker 1: you're listening, this is a particularly good episode to go
52:14
Speaker 1: on YouTube. This is one of the three we do
52:16
Speaker 1: each week that's on video. You're going to hear it.
52:20
Speaker 1: But I need to see the anger in the faces
52:23
Speaker 1: of the intolerant left, and this is now normal on
52:26
Speaker 1: college campus. It is. It is so much worse and
52:29
Speaker 1: so much more powerful to see it. So I'd encourage
52:32
Speaker 1: you for this one. Go on to YouTube. While you're there,
52:34
Speaker 1: subscribe on YouTube, but play this portion in particular, because
52:39
Speaker 1: if you see it, this is where your kids are
52:42
Speaker 1: going to go to school or are going to school.
52:44
Speaker 1: This is where your grandkids are going to go to
52:46
Speaker 1: school or are going to school. And you want to
52:49
Speaker 1: understand the radical, angry, violent left. What happened to Riley
52:56
Speaker 1: Gaines illustrates it perfectly. Let's let's play it right. Yeah,
53:09
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm I'm gonna, I'm coming. I'm good and good, trusting,
53:22
Speaker 1: I'm good. Ahead of right, drive right right, you'll try it.
53:36
Speaker 1: You're fucking right, bitch, fucking that you drap right eye
53:45
Speaker 1: of the rights right through. Fie bit fie bits, you're
53:56
Speaker 1: dressing the car in a circle. You're gonna, God help us.
54:27
Speaker 1: I don't know how the university can watch that and
54:29
Speaker 1: not hold some of those students accountable, and I doubt
54:31
Speaker 1: they will look for all we know, there were administrators there.
54:36
Speaker 1: I mean, this podcast talked about Stanford Law School and
54:40
Speaker 1: how you had an administrator siding with the mobs screaming
54:43
Speaker 1: expletives at a sitting Federal Court of Appeals judge. And
54:47
Speaker 1: mind you, these are students studying to be lawyers who
54:50
Speaker 1: don't know actually how to deal with a judge without
54:52
Speaker 1: screaming and cursing at them. Look, those students, presumably either
54:59
Speaker 1: they or the her parents are paying the university to
55:04
Speaker 1: teach their kids to get an education. This is what
55:07
Speaker 1: they're being taught. You know, when I watch that video,
55:10
Speaker 1: it's why I encourage people to watch the YouTube of this.
55:14
Speaker 1: When I watch the video, the hate in the eyes
55:19
Speaker 1: of those children, it's hate. Yeah, it's indoctrinated. It is rage.
55:25
Speaker 1: One of the most disturbing moments is a young woman
55:29
Speaker 1: who screams at Riley Gaines. You crying. So she's just
55:35
Speaker 1: been physically assaulted. I don't know if she was injured.
55:37
Speaker 1: I hope she was not. But the mob, the bloodlust. Look,
55:43
Speaker 1: there's a reason in San Francisco the police officers take
55:46
Speaker 1: her out. Those officers are moving with dispatch because they're
55:51
Speaker 1: concerned for her safety. They're concerned that that mob. If
55:55
Speaker 1: they don't get her out, she didn't have a chance
55:57
Speaker 1: to speak. But if they don't get her out, they're concerned.
56:00
Speaker 1: Learned that that mob will continue to physically assault her
56:03
Speaker 1: and seriously injure her. Now, it says something about the
56:06
Speaker 1: university that they don't protect the safety of a speaker,
56:11
Speaker 1: that they don't stop the violent mob, that they don't
56:15
Speaker 1: discipline the students, that they don't arrest people engage in violence.
56:22
Speaker 1: The university in all likelihood condones this activity. You know.
56:27
Speaker 1: A week ago, Tucker Carlson had a monologue where he
56:32
Speaker 1: talked about in the wake of the horrific shooting in Nashville.
56:37
Speaker 1: He talked about the rage of many of the radical
56:41
Speaker 1: activists in the transgender community, the rage that they have
56:47
Speaker 1: to Christians and people of faith, and that part of
56:53
Speaker 1: the essence of faith and Christianity in particular is recognizing
56:59
Speaker 1: that that man is a fallen creature and that we
57:04
Speaker 1: need God's grace, and that God is sovereign, not us.
57:08
Speaker 1: It's not my will, but it's a higher will. And
57:12
Speaker 1: one of the points Tucker made is the essence of
57:20
Speaker 1: the radical activists proposition is whatever I believe is the
57:26
Speaker 1: truth that that I am God, I can decide, and
57:33
Speaker 1: and it is you know, I just saw this week
57:38
Speaker 1: a movie premiere for the movie Nefarius. Now Nefarius is
57:43
Speaker 1: coming out coming out next week. Um Nefarius was written
57:47
Speaker 1: by my good friend Steve Days, and it's a terrific movie.
57:51
Speaker 1: And the premiere was in Dallas, um And and it's
57:55
Speaker 1: about a murderer on death row who's getting ready to
57:59
Speaker 1: be excuted and a psychiatrist comes in to interview the
58:05
Speaker 1: murderer to determine whether the murderer is sane, whether he
58:09
Speaker 1: is competent to be executed, and the murderer believes that
58:13
Speaker 1: he is possessed by a demon. And so the entire
58:17
Speaker 1: movie is back and forth between the psychiatrist and the
58:21
Speaker 1: murderer and the demon. And it's it is a Christian movie,
58:27
Speaker 1: but it's not a Christian movie in the sense that
58:30
Speaker 1: it beats you over the head with a sermon. It's
58:32
Speaker 1: actually it's a it's a thriller. It's it's a horror
58:34
Speaker 1: film and it's powerful. It's very well done. Unfortunately, some
58:41
Speaker 1: Christian movies are not very good. Yeah, this is a
58:44
Speaker 1: good movie and with an amazing performance. Actually, both of
58:48
Speaker 1: the two lead actors are really really good. But one
58:52
Speaker 1: of the exchanges of the demon where he says, look,
58:57
Speaker 1: what did Lucifer say? Lucifer said, I am God, do
59:02
Speaker 1: what thou wilt. That that's the essence of rebellion to
59:07
Speaker 1: God is do what thou wilt. I thought Tucker's monologue.
59:14
Speaker 1: I actually texted him that night and I said, listen,
59:17
Speaker 1: what you said tonight was really powerful and in today's
59:22
Speaker 1: environment was courageous because that kind of angry mob is
59:27
Speaker 1: becoming the norm. Look, I'm an optimist. I believe in
59:32
Speaker 1: our country, but when I see things like that, I
59:35
Speaker 1: fear for a country. We've got to rediscover sanity and
59:42
Speaker 1: we've got to learn to talk to each other. We've
59:44
Speaker 1: got to do something about this rage, this rage and
59:50
Speaker 1: hatred that divides this country apart. This is what our
59:54
Speaker 1: kids are being taught on campuses. This is what the
59:57
Speaker 1: Marxist who our professors, the Marxist who are administrate, are
1:00:00
Speaker 1: teaching our children. And if we don't teach them a
1:00:05
Speaker 1: better path, we're in serious trouble. Yeah, Center, always a
1:00:09
Speaker 1: pleasure to chat with you, my friend. Don't forget. If
1:00:12
Speaker 1: you're getting to watch this on Facebook or on YouTube,
1:00:16
Speaker 1: make sure you download our audio version. We do this
1:00:18
Speaker 1: show three days a week. There are two others that
1:00:21
Speaker 1: are just audio only. If you're just listening today, Go
1:00:24
Speaker 1: back and watch that last segment on YouTube or on Facebook.
1:00:27
Speaker 1: It'll be there. You can see this interaction with Riley Gaines,
1:00:30
Speaker 1: and we will see you guys back here in a
1:00:32
Speaker 1: couple of days