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‘I Hope You Burn in Hell!’ Families of Slain Service members Recall Raw Response to Joe Biden at Dover Ceremony! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Americans left behind. That is exactly what the president of
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  Speaker 1: the United States America has done after promising that he
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  Speaker 1: would not leave Americans behind. One family have a marine
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  Speaker 1: killed in coubole is so angry at Biden that they
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  Speaker 1: had to walk out of the room. The family member
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  Speaker 1: who stayed dropped a shocking revelation about the meeting, saying
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden was basically obsessed with talking about his own
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  Speaker 1: son who did not die in the line of duty
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  Speaker 1: but died of cancer. And other gold Star families, now
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  Speaker 1: furious with the President nited States America because they felt
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  Speaker 1: like this was one hundred percent his fault. The President
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  Speaker 1: also lied to every man and woman in uniform, every
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  Speaker 1: family member that has a man or woman in uniform,
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  Speaker 1: and every American. Let me remind you of tough Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: Back in two nineteen November the twenty fourth, twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden tweeted this out when he was wanting to
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  Speaker 1: be your president. Quote, It's time we remember who we
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  Speaker 1: are as Americans. We treat each other with dignity, we
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  Speaker 1: leave no one behind, and we give hate no safe harbor. Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's not exactly what is going to happen with an
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  Speaker 1: actual Joe Biden presidency. Senator Kennedy reacting to the Afghanistan withdrawal,
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  Speaker 1: which is now official, and you're supposed to celebrate our retreat,
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  Speaker 1: our retreat from the Taliban, our defeat from the Taliban.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me make that clear, not our defeat,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden's defeat, Joe Biden's retreat. No one wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do this, but Joe Biden was obsessed with it. One
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  Speaker 1: family member saying to Joe Biden, quote, I hope you
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  Speaker 1: burn in hell. Families of the slain service members recall
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  Speaker 1: raw response to Joe Biden at the Dover ceremony where
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  Speaker 1: he's been busted on camera, actually checking his watch to
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  Speaker 1: see what time it is, because apparently he was annoyed
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  Speaker 1: by having to be there. President Joe Biden's appearance at
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  Speaker 1: that dignified transfer the remains of the thirteen soldiers killed
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  Speaker 1: in Afghanistan on Sunday was sharply criticized, according to accounts
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  Speaker 1: of the ceremony by family members. One woman screamed as
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  Speaker 1: Biden at Biden across the tarmac, saying, I hope you
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  Speaker 1: burn in hell. That was my brother. That according to
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Schmidt's, the father of the twenty year old Lance
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  Speaker 1: Corporal Jared Smith's who was killed in the suicide bombing
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  Speaker 1: attack outside the Kabbal Airport. Speaking to The Washington Post,
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  Speaker 1: Smith said he attended the ceremony with his ex wife,
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  Speaker 1: and he glared as he said the present spent more
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  Speaker 1: time looking at his ex wife while he spoke about
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  Speaker 1: his son bo Biden, who died from cancer after leaving
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  Speaker 1: the military. I said, don't you ever forget that name,
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  Speaker 1: Don't you ever forget that face. Don't you ever forget
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  Speaker 1: the names of the other twelve and take some time
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  Speaker 1: to learn their stories. Biden, of course, never being wrong, right,
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  Speaker 1: bristoled at the comment from the man, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I do know there's stories. Smiths is one of the
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  Speaker 1: family members, one of the many family members who spoke
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  Speaker 1: out about their visit with Biden at the Dover Air
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  Speaker 1: Force Base. It's got to be difficult. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: it was easy at all, but you can't run up
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  Speaker 1: and hug somebody as if you had nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with it. Another family member said, it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: work that way when you're commander in chief. Many indicate
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  Speaker 1: they grew weary of Biden talking about their son bo
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  Speaker 1: Biden's death an attempt to sympathize the family or families
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  Speaker 1: of those who had gathered. When he just kept talking
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  Speaker 1: about his son so much, it was just my interest
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  Speaker 1: was lost in that. I was more focused on my
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  Speaker 1: own son than what happened with him and his son.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to insult the president, but it just
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem that appropriate to spend that much time on
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  Speaker 1: his own son, Slaine. Marine Corporal Lance Riley McCollum's sister Royce,
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  Speaker 1: noted that Biden's words did not comfort the family, especially
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  Speaker 1: her brother's wife, who is pregnant with their child. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: my dad and I did not want to speak to him.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot kneel on our flag and pretend you care
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  Speaker 1: about our troops. You can't blank up as bad as
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  Speaker 1: he did and say you're soaring. This did not need
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  Speaker 1: to happen, and every life is on his hands. Race
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  Speaker 1: and her sister in law was also frustrated by the
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  Speaker 1: President checking his watch and speaking about his own son.
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  Speaker 1: Smith also said he was agitated by the President checking
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  Speaker 1: his watch as well. Couldn't believe that it looked like
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  Speaker 1: he had somewhere else he needed to be. We do
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  Speaker 1: have that video and that photo of Joe Biden checking
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  Speaker 1: his watch. What president of the United States of America
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  Speaker 1: checks their watch while service member are sitting there, their bodies,
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  Speaker 1: their families watching, and you're accepting the bodies because of
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  Speaker 1: a decision that you made and you check your watch.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, remember this was all for the cameras, folks,
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  Speaker 1: because Joe Biden will get to save for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of his life. I'm the one that got us out
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  Speaker 1: of Afghanistan, because that's what this is really about, that
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  Speaker 1: type of narcissism. I'm the one. Yeah. The news the
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  Speaker 1: White House wanted you to be excited about is this
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  Speaker 1: news that the last US plane to part of the
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  Speaker 1: Couple airport, leading behind hundreds of Americans. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to think about that. The White House confirming quote,
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  Speaker 1: we did not get everybody out that we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get out after two decades ago. Joe Biden said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: mission accomplished, right, So what if some Americans are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be left behind a die and be tortured, beheaded, hung
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  Speaker 1: from helicopters. That also is now happening. Took the Taliban
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  Speaker 1: four days to figure out how to fly our our
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  Speaker 1: helicopters that we left behind, and now they're stringing people
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  Speaker 1: up and hanging them from those helicopters and flying them
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  Speaker 1: around the city. That is what the Taliban is now doing,
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  Speaker 1: the same Taliban that we trusted to protect us and
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  Speaker 1: our soldiers at the Air Force base, at that base
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  Speaker 1: in Kabul, the Pentagon confirmed. At the last plane, and
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  Speaker 1: you're again supposed to be excited about this, left Kabo
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  Speaker 1: Airport on Monday, inning the US military mission in Afghanistan
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  Speaker 1: after two decades, while leaving hundreds of Americans behind. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from
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  Speaker 1: Afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate
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  Speaker 1: American citizens, third country nationals and vulnerable Afghans. That's what
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  Speaker 1: General McKenzie, the head of the US Central Command, said
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  Speaker 1: the reporters in a media briefing. The last Sea seventeen
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  Speaker 1: lifted off from the International Airport on August thirty, fifth
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  Speaker 1: afternoon at three twenty nine pm East Coast time. The
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  Speaker 1: last man aircraft is now clearing the airspace above Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 1: Mckinsi admitted that yes, hundreds of them American citizens have
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  Speaker 1: been left behind. I want you to think about our
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  Speaker 1: government right now. We left them behind. We left him
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  Speaker 1: behind on purpose, folks, We left them behind deliberately because
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden is obsessed with a press conference that he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to have saying I'm the one that got us out.
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  Speaker 1: And there were no American civilians on the last flight
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  Speaker 1: out because they were not able to make it to
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  Speaker 1: the airport. I want you to think about that. This
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  Speaker 1: is how weak our country is in just seven months
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  Speaker 1: under Biden's rule. And for all you idiots out there
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  Speaker 1: that voted for Joe Biden because you were upset about
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's mean tweets, Donald Trump would have never left
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  Speaker 1: Americans behind. Donald Trump would have never trust a Taliban
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  Speaker 1: for our security. Donald Trump would have never allowed our
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  Speaker 1: helicopters to be used to hang people and fly them
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  Speaker 1: around the city. Donald Trump would have never allowed our
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  Speaker 1: men and women to be attacked the way that they
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  Speaker 1: were attacked, not saying that they wouldn't have had attacks
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  Speaker 1: on them, but the way that they were attacked, trusting
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  Speaker 1: the Taliban to protect us. Donald Trump would have never
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  Speaker 1: checked his watch at the tarmac, well, the bodies are
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  Speaker 1: coming off the planes of American soldiers. But you guys
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  Speaker 1: were upset about some mean tweets from Donald Trump. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what this was really all about. Donald Trump said
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  Speaker 1: some mean things, had some mean tweets. The United States
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  Speaker 1: of America is admitting now that hundreds of American citizens
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  Speaker 1: have been left behind, and there were no American civilians
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  Speaker 1: in the last flight out because they were not able
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  Speaker 1: to make it to the airport. Quote, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of heartbreak associated with this departure. We did not get
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  Speaker 1: out everybody we wanted to get out, he said. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: gonna answer for that. We don't leave one American behind
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden's president for seven months, or leaven hundreds or
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  Speaker 1: thousands behind to be tortured and butchered and killed. Think
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  Speaker 1: about that. It is astounding to me how much this
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  Speaker 1: administration has just flat out lied to you, the American people.
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  Speaker 1: This administration broke a promise to leave no American behind.
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  Speaker 1: They're now admitting that they don't even know how many
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  Speaker 1: Americans they left behind. They have no idea. John Kirby
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  Speaker 1: coming out this morning, of course, going to a friendly place.
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  Speaker 1: MSNBC was asked that simple question and his answer, it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like they don't even care join us now. Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: Press Secretary retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy,
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  Speaker 1: John Kirby, Admiral Kirby, thanks for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Do you have a sense this morning
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  Speaker 1: as you talk to people on the ground and you
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  Speaker 1: talk to people across the Defense Department about how many
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  Speaker 1: Americans remain in Afghanistan today? I don't think there's an
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  Speaker 1: exact figure. Will we believe we got the vast, vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of American citizens out something to the tune of
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  Speaker 1: six thousand of them, and we think it's probably in
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  Speaker 1: the low hundreds that are still there. And there were
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  Speaker 1: also several hundred others that didn't want to leave. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I love this didn't want to leave. They're mudding the
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  Speaker 1: waters on this didn't want to leave. And there's some
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  Speaker 1: people that maybe they really didn't want to leave. And
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  Speaker 1: if they really didn't want to leave, and that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: if that's their choice, right, that's what they decide to
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  Speaker 1: do that they don't want to leave, but to group
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  Speaker 1: them together like, oh, well there was a bond to
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  Speaker 1: people that just didn't want to leave. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: We now have people by the way of our military
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  Speaker 1: that are now resigning. One Marine who resigned after being
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  Speaker 1: fired for demanding Afghan accountability said, we will bring the
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  Speaker 1: whole blanking system down. I am honorable. You can ask
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  Speaker 1: any Marine who served with me for seventeen years. I
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  Speaker 1: dare to ask them all and find out what I'm
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  Speaker 1: made of. We're just getting started. Had enough. Marine Lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: Colonel Stuart Scheller on Sunday announced in a video that
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  Speaker 1: he was resigning his commission as a lieutenant colonel in
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  Speaker 1: the Marine Corps following being fired as a battalion commander
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  Speaker 1: for asking for accountability from his senior leadership on the
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  Speaker 1: bots Afghan withdrawal and his original video posted Thursday, after
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  Speaker 1: the desks of thirteen service members, including one he knew personally,
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  Speaker 1: He said, I want to say this very strongly. I've
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  Speaker 1: been fighting for seventeen years. I'm willing to throw it
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  Speaker 1: all away to say to my senior leaders, I demand accountability.
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  Speaker 1: He announced his video on Sunday, after the enormous outpouring
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  Speaker 1: of supporting debate over his video, that he was resigning
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  Speaker 1: his commission as an officer in the Marine Corps, shortly
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  Speaker 1: short of the twenty years he needed to be eligible
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  Speaker 1: for lifelong retirement and medical benefits. He said, quote, I
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  Speaker 1: want to make the announcement today after seventeen years. I
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  Speaker 1: currently not pending legal action, and I can stay in
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  Speaker 1: the Marine Corps for another three years, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's the path I'm on. I'm resigning my Commission's
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  Speaker 1: United States Marine effective now. I'm sure there's some Marine
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  Speaker 1: Administrative message on how I'm supposed to do that, and
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  Speaker 1: I work through that, but I have forfeited my retirement
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  Speaker 1: all entitlements. I don't want a single dollar. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want any money from the VA. I don't want any
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  Speaker 1: VA benefits. I'm sure I'm entitled to a one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent I you know, breathe on the smell of smoke
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  Speaker 1: of burning blank for years. I don't want any of it.
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  Speaker 1: All I asked for was accountability for my senior leaders
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  Speaker 1: when there are clear, obvious mistakes that were made. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying we can take back what has been done.
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  Speaker 1: All I asked for was accountability for the people to
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  Speaker 1: comment on what I said and to say, yes, some
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  Speaker 1: mistakes are made, and had they done that, I would
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  Speaker 1: have gone back into rank and file submitted an accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted this. The morning after I posted my video
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  Speaker 1: and I came into work, my boss came in the
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  Speaker 1: what are you trying to accomplish? And that was a
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  Speaker 1: very tough question for me, and my response was, I
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  Speaker 1: want senior leaders to accept accountability. I think them accepting
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  Speaker 1: accountability would do more for service members and PTSD and
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  Speaker 1: struggling with purpose and any other transparent piece of paper message.
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  Speaker 1: And I haven't received that For the over two million
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  Speaker 1: that I would potentially receive in retirement for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of my life, however much extra the disability would be.
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  Speaker 1: I think that money should go back to all the
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  Speaker 1: senior general officers because I think they need it more
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  Speaker 1: than I do, because when I'm done with what I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to do, You're all going to need jobs and
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  Speaker 1: the security. I want to be clear that I love
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  Speaker 1: the Marine Corps. I think you know there's a fascination
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  Speaker 1: with special Forces over the last fifteen years. Special Forces
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  Speaker 1: people that come in the middle of the night and
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  Speaker 1: they kill the biggest targets that the United States has,
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  Speaker 1: and I have much respect. I worked to Marine Special
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  Speaker 1: Operations Command for a year. But what I'll say in
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  Speaker 1: the conventional marine on the ground, who has the smell
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  Speaker 1: of burning blank. Who When I was in Afghanistan, I
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  Speaker 1: was exposed to it so much that burning blank acts
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  Speaker 1: to smell like bacon and eggs, and I grew to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the smell. Those people who are there every day
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  Speaker 1: don't get to leave the next morning or in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night, who go outside the wire, get
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  Speaker 1: blown up, bring their marines back, and then go back
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  Speaker 1: out there the next day. They don't get the credit
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  Speaker 1: they deserve, and they deserve accountability. You have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what I'm capable of doing. To all the congress and centers,
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  Speaker 1: every media station across the globe, to all the rich philanthropists.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the support, and I'm going to need your support.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need a single dollar. I just need every
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  Speaker 1: single person that's willing to go back outside the wire
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  Speaker 1: every single day, to wear a blue collar and just
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  Speaker 1: going to work every single day and feed their families.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the people that I need follow me and
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  Speaker 1: we will bring the whole blanking system down. I am honorable.
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  Speaker 1: You can ask any marine you're serving me for the
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  Speaker 1: last seventeen years, I dare to ask them all and
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  Speaker 1: find out what I made of. We're just getting started.
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  Speaker 1: White House. Yes, we left Americans behind. Do we know
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  Speaker 1: the exact figure? Do we know? Join us now? Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: Press Secretary retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy,
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  Speaker 1: John Kirby. Admiral Kirby, thanks for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Do you have a sense this morning
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: as you talk to people on the ground and you
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: talk to people across the Defense Department about how many
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Americans remain in Afghanistan today? I don't think there's an
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  Speaker 1: exact figure, Willie. We believe we got the vast, vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of American citizens out, something to the tune of
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  Speaker 1: six thousand of them, and we think it's probably in
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  Speaker 1: the low hundreds that are still there. And there were
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  Speaker 1: also several hundred others that didn't want to leave. Well
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  Speaker 1: that's the and I know this is now a diplomatic mission,
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  Speaker 1: as you all have said, and this is for the state.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, let's just throw it on them. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that don't want to leave.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of people that don't want to leave.
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  Speaker 1: You want me to believe that there's a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: Americans that you guys were begging to get out and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't want to leave. Give me a break. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think any of us are stupid enough to believe this?
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  Speaker 1: You know it. Retired green beret who ran kable rescue
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  Speaker 1: missions said Americans trapped behind enemy lines turn back and
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  Speaker 1: fired at the Taliban. These are the heroes, the retired
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  Speaker 1: United States Army greenberrey who ran a daring rescue mission
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  Speaker 1: that likely say the lives at least five hundred people
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  Speaker 1: who would have been trapped in Kabul by the Biden
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  Speaker 1: administration's disasters withdrawal set on money. There are Americans and
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  Speaker 1: Afghan allies trapped behind enemy lines, including children, and that
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  Speaker 1: at least one group were turned by Taliban fighters who
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  Speaker 1: then fired at them. This idea that the Taliban was
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  Speaker 1: helping us get out, protecting us the airport is a lie.
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  Speaker 1: American University of Afghanistan students were told, quote, we have
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  Speaker 1: given your names to the Taliban and there is no
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  Speaker 1: evacuation coming. Let me read that for you one more time.
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  Speaker 1: This is Joe Biden, how little he cares about American lives.
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  Speaker 1: American University of Afghanistan students were told, we have given
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  Speaker 1: your names to the Taliban and there's no evacuation coming.
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  Speaker 1: Elections have consequences, my friends. Elections have consequences, and it's
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  Speaker 1: costing people lives now. And this president wants you to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate his sur render to the Taliban and was checking
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  Speaker 1: his watch while our dead servicemen were being honored at
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  Speaker 1: Dover Airbase. I'll leave it at that. Make sure you
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