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00:00:26.000Yesterday was one of the worst days in modern American foreign policy history.
00:00:31.000Yesterday saw the death of 13 American service members and at least 90 Afghans as two explosions ripped through crowds seeking evacuation in the wake of Joe Biden's Ill-fated and ridiculous, stupid pullout from Afghanistan.
00:00:46.000The geo-strategic implications are grave.
00:00:49.000According to the Wall Street Journal, more than 100 people were killed, including at least 13 U.S.
00:00:53.000service members and 90 Afghans at the Kabul airport Thursday.
00:00:56.000When two blasts ripped through crowds trying to enter the American-controlled facility, disrupting the final push of the U.S.-led evacuation effort.
00:01:03.000A suicide bomb attack at the airport's Abbey Gate was followed by an assault by gunmen, officials said.
00:01:07.000Another bomb attack took place nearby at a hotel outside the airport, according to officials.
00:01:40.000We'd had zero combat casualties in Afghanistan, count them zero, since February of 2020.
00:01:46.000And Joe Biden pulled out all the troops, and then he handed over Kabul to the Taliban, and then the Taliban allowed in ISIS, and then ISIS proceeded to kill 13 U.S.
00:01:55.000service members, wound 18 others, and kill 100 Afghans at the same time.
00:01:59.000The attack marked the deadliest day for the U.S.
00:02:01.000military since 2011, came just five days before the Biden administration's deadline for the complete military withdrawal from the country.
00:02:08.000And, this may not be the end, Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie has said, the military expects more attacks.
00:02:13.000It is a full-scale disaster area, and it was brought about completely and utterly by our incompetent, foolish president.
00:02:22.000What the president thinks when he is with us or the fact that he is not with us.
00:02:27.000I don't know whether to blame the fact that he is senile or the fact that he is incompetent because he's had these crappy ideas on foreign policy every step of the way.
00:02:33.000As Barack Obama once famously said, never underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up.
00:02:39.000Okay, so the man's not been right on a single foreign policy issue his entire career.
00:02:43.000And he's been holding this perspective, which is that we should just cut and run from Afghanistan since 2010, despite the fact that the mission radically changed from 2014 on when the United States and NATO dramatically withdrew troops, moving from 70, 80,000 troops in Afghanistan every year down to about 10,000 troops.
00:03:00.000And at the very end of this mission, 2,500 troops in Afghanistan acting as a cork in the bottle.
00:03:07.000And Joe Biden decided that we were going to pull out, and then everything that happened was going to happen.
00:03:12.000Now, what you're hearing from Joe Biden's defenders is, well, this is why we needed to leave, don't you see?
00:03:22.000My argument is that Joe Biden's decision to leave, and his decision to leave in the way that he left, meant that this was going to happen, and then it happened.
00:03:30.000The proof that I was right, and the proof that everyone who criticized Joe Biden was correct, is that everything we said would pass, came to pass.
00:03:39.000Joe Biden's argument is, if we had stayed, the same thing would have happened.
00:03:44.000The evidence of this has not been provided.
00:03:46.000The suggestion that Joe Biden has been making, which is that if we stayed, inevitably we would be drawn back into an Afghan war involving tens of thousands of American troops, is asinine on its face.
00:03:59.000And yet that is the entire justification for a thing that he did that has now resulted in precisely the result that he said he was attempting to avoid.
00:04:14.000The bravery of our guys in the face and women who are there in the face of what the limits that have been placed on them by this stupid half-assed administration Lead by the vaunted foreign policy team that brought you the Iran deal and the Iraq pullout leading to the rise of ISIS.
00:04:30.000Those same people have constructed this one.
00:04:33.000The bravery of the American service members who have put themselves in harm's way under these restrictions is awe-inspiring.
00:04:41.000Obviously, our prayers go out for their families at this hour.
00:05:24.000According to the New York Times, President Biden and other U.S.
00:05:28.000officials insisted that the carnage and continued danger would not halt the American-led airlift that, after a bladed and rocky start, has ferried more than 100,000 people out of Afghanistan in the last two weeks.
00:05:38.000Estimates of the total dead and wounded differed and were rising quickly as different hospitals and officials weighed in.
00:05:45.000Since the Taliban takeover earlier this month, thousands of Afghan civilians and foreign citizens have gathered at the gates of the airport, which has a military and civilian side, desperate to be airlifted out of the country.
00:05:53.000At times, the area has descended into chaos as people scrambled toward evacuation flights.
00:05:58.000military officials said evacuation flights were continuing, but it was not clear whether any gates at the airport were open.
00:06:04.000Most of the bombing victims were Afghan civilians, including families with small children.
00:06:08.000We've been seeing the videos over the past few days, what it looked like at Abbey Gate, directly outside of the airport.
00:06:14.000And basically, it looked like a corridor that was completely jam-packed with humanity.
00:06:20.000In the aftermath of the bombing, the video is available.
00:06:22.000The bodies of those same people are visible.
00:06:27.000Littering the ground, covering it, blanketing the ground.
00:06:30.000And then today, after the bombing, how bad are things about to be in Afghanistan?
00:06:33.000Things are about to be so bad in Afghanistan with the Taliban taking over and ISIS and Al Qaeda in cahoots with the Taliban, at least insofar as performing anti-American acts of terror and anti-Western acts of terror.
00:06:44.000Things are about to be so bad there that people are still thronging the exact area where 115 people were blown up yesterday.
00:07:32.000We're going to leave to the mercies of the Taliban or ISIS or Al Qaeda, whoever gets to them first.
00:07:38.000And that's the fate that Americans can await in Afghanistan.
00:07:41.000If ISIS reaches you first, presumably they'll behead you.
00:07:45.000If the Taliban reaches you, they'll presumably hold you hostage until Joe Biden pays them some money or gives them some more billions of dollars in American military gear.
00:07:54.000Brought about completely by Joe Biden.
00:07:57.000Now, all of this could have been prevented, even if you believed in the pullout, which again, I think is idiotic policy.
00:08:02.000I think that the arguments made that, oh, we had to end our endless war, it doesn't count as an endless war when you have 2,500 troops on the ground and zero combat casualties for the last 18 months.
00:08:13.000Our troop presence in South Korea is an endless war.
00:08:16.000Our troop presence in Italy is an endless war.
00:08:17.000When you're not taking combat casualties, and you have a small footprint, that does no longer count as an endless war.
00:08:24.000But, in any case, even if you believe that we should have been pulling the troops out, doing so without even securing the airbase that has multiple runways, without leaving enough troops on the ground to create a buffer zone around that airport, is full-scale idiocy.
00:08:39.000General Mark Milley was asked just a week ago about why we withdrew, for example, from Bagram Air Base, which, remember, we controlled.
00:08:46.000His answer was that the choice was given to him to go down to six to seven hundred troops And he was asked, do we protect Bagram Air Base or do we protect the embassy?
00:08:58.000And he recommended we protect the embassy.
00:09:02.000The problem there is the limit put on him by Joe Biden.
00:09:05.000Joe Biden owns this one top to bottom.
00:09:08.000Liz Sly of the Washington Post reported yesterday the Kabul airport attack has nixed hopes of evacuation for the last thousands still hoping to make it out.
00:09:21.000Alex Thompson, the White House reporter and co-author of Politico's West Wing Playbook, wrote increasingly looking like US will end up leaving behind a thousand plus Americans and many times as many Afghans who assisted the United States will have to try to evacuate them in different ways after August 31st without US troop presence.
00:09:41.000The State Department says we're in contact with the roughly 1,000 Americans we believe remain in Afghanistan.
00:09:48.000Green card holders are people who have the legal right to live in the United States, legal permanent residents of the United States.
00:09:54.000Remember, for the media and for the government, green card holders matter when the Saudis are killing them, when the Taliban are killing them, they don't matter at all.
00:10:00.000When Jamal Khashoggi, legal green card holder of the United States, is murdered by the Saudi government, that precipitates an international relations crisis.
00:10:07.000When thousands of American green card holders are left in Afghanistan behind enemy lines, this is not worthy of a mention.
00:10:15.000According to the State Department, however, the vast majority, over two-thirds of those 1,000 Americans believed remaining in Afghanistan, informed us they were taking steps to leave.
00:10:23.000We believe many, if not most, of those individuals are nearly or already out.
00:10:26.000Oh, well, so that only leaves a few hundred.
00:10:47.000But the truest madness of all is the weaponry that we handed to the Taliban, the trust we have now placed in the Taliban.
00:10:55.000That trust, by the way, means that we literally gave them a list of people to go kill.
00:11:00.000So, let's start with the weaponry that we're leaving in Afghanistan.
00:11:02.000Representative Jim Banks of Indiana, he listed off yesterday the resources we just left to the Taliban.
00:11:10.000The Taliban now has access to over $85 billion worth of American military equipment.
00:11:18.000That includes 75,000 vehicles, over 200 airplanes and helicopters, over 600,000 small arms and light weapons. The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world.
00:11:39.000They also have night vision goggles, body armor, medical supplies, and unbelievably, unfathomable to me and so many others, is that the Taliban now has biometric devices, which have the fingerprints Eye scans and the biographical information of the Afghans who helped us over the last 20 years.
00:12:54.000According to Politico, the move, detailed to Politico by three U.S.
00:12:57.000and congressional officials, was designed to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan as chaos erupted.
00:13:03.000It also came as the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport.
00:13:07.000Since the fall of Kabul in mid-August, nearly 100,000 people have been evacuated, most of whom had to pass through the Taliban's many checkpoints.
00:13:13.000But the decision to provide specific names to the Taliban, which has a history of brutally murdering Afghans who collaborated with the United States and other coalition forces during the conflict, has angered lawmakers and military officials.
00:13:24.000Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list, said one defense official.
00:13:39.000It demonstrates that the greatest power in world history has been laid low by our own bloated inefficiency, stupidity, and lack of moral rigor.
00:13:48.000That we have decided as a society, if we decide to okay this sort of behavior, we have decided as a society, as I said yesterday, to fatten ourselves up, eat a bunch of potato chips, slip into a warm bath, and slit our own wrists.
00:14:00.000As a society, that is what we have decided to do.
00:14:02.000If this is the sort of action by an administration, we have decided to okay politically.
00:14:14.000Biden was the formulator of this policy.
00:14:16.000Biden was the advocate of this policy.
00:14:18.000Biden is the person who lied repeatedly on behalf of this policy.
00:14:20.000We'll go through the timeline in just a little while here as to how many times this administration lied leading up to the murder of 13 American service members in Afghanistan.
00:14:30.000And it may not be the end of the story in terms of how many people are murdered in this immediate round.
00:14:34.000And it certainly isn't going to be the end of the story in terms of the geopolitical ramifications of giving our enemies half of our military technology via Afghanistan, as well as the impetus to move against all of our allies.
00:14:44.000We'll get to all of this in just one second.
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00:16:13.000Alrighty, so the first response that came yesterday The State Department said, we called the lid, no press conference, which is kind of amazing since it's the State Department's job to, you know, facility, facilitate the matters of state.
00:16:27.000It is the State Department's job to facilitate the exit of people trying to get out, to deal with the visa issues.
00:16:33.000It is the State Department's job to do the interfacing with the Taliban.
00:16:36.000But yesterday there was no press conference from the State Department.
00:16:52.000We decided that what would be a great idea, just follow the logic here for a second.
00:16:56.000We were going, we said to the Taliban, it is now your job to prevent terrorists from attacking United States interests.
00:17:03.000Now, if only we had some sort of historical incident that might tell us whether that's a good idea or not.
00:17:11.000If only we had some sort of predicate to determine whether it would be a great idea to trust the Taliban to fight terrorism.
00:17:18.000Like, let's say that there had been a power in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
00:17:23.000And let's say that they had harbored a fugitive named Osama bin Laden and his entire Al-Qaeda network base.
00:17:30.000And let's say that from Afghanistan, Al Qaeda had then launched attacks on U.S.
00:17:35.000embassies in Kenya, Tanzania, on USS Cole, and finally and most spectacularly on September 11th.
00:17:41.000And let's say that the United States had then approached the Taliban and said, guys, you need to hand over Bin Laden or we're going to destroy your entire regime.
00:18:20.000has now been forced into the position of relying on a bunch of, I keep saying it because it's true, a bunch of barbarian 8th century goat herders who have now seized our equipment because we are pathetic.
00:18:31.000And I mean our political leadership, not our military, our political leadership, and some members of our military leadership as well, because somebody needs to lose their ass over this.
00:18:41.000And by the way, the person who should resign is Joe Biden, who is a disgrace to his office.
00:18:44.000But don't worry, we'll get to slow old senile Joe in a second.
00:18:49.000Here is the general of CENTCOM, Kenneth McKenzie, explaining, don't worry, we're relying on the Taliban for security and so far it's been going great, guys.
00:18:56.000We believe it is their desire to continue those attacks, and we expect those attacks to continue.
00:19:00.000And we're doing everything we can to be prepared for those attacks.
00:19:03.000That includes reaching out to the Taliban, who are actually providing the outer security cordon around the airfield, to make sure they know what we expect them to do to protect us.
00:19:13.000And we will continue to coordinate with them as they go forward.
00:19:43.000And somebody comes in and robs all the jewelry.
00:19:46.000You then, presumably, will sue the security team, right?
00:19:48.000You'll hold the security team responsible because it's their job to provide the security.
00:19:52.000However, if you hire a security team and you inform them beforehand, you will not be held responsible for anything that happens at this wedding.
00:21:36.000If there's no retaliatory response requiring a longer American president, why does the Taliban care if Americans get murdered in large numbers, or American citizens, or Afghans outside the gates?
00:21:47.000All right, so all this was the lead up to our absent President of the United States, a fool, a moral idiot, The President of the United States is not with us.
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00:23:31.000All right, so yesterday, the President of the United States dotted out to the podium, took about four or five questions, and then dotted off.
00:23:41.000He had called the presser for 5 p.m., in which he was going to speak, and he then showed up at approximately 5.25, which is his long.
00:23:52.000Barack Obama used to do the same thing.
00:24:53.000It saddens me to see our president, because he is the elected president of the United States, the fact that our president is this is an embarrassment.
00:25:08.000His presence in the Oval Office is a blot on the office.
00:25:11.000And that's saying a lot because we've had a lot of bad presidents in the past.
00:25:13.000This is the most disgraceful foreign policy decision and an act of malpractice I've seen in my entire lifetime.
00:25:22.000And for people older than me, it's still true.
00:25:25.000He decided apparently that the best foreign policy here was a mash-up of the fall of Saigon, the Iran hostage crisis, the bombing of the U.S.
00:25:33.000barracks in Lebanon in 1982, and Iran-Contra shipping weapons to the enemy.
00:26:10.000It was as though he had just escaped from a nursing home.
00:26:15.000Visually speaking, optically speaking, it was an amazingly embarrassing moment.
00:26:20.000This is what it sounded like when the President of the United States said, remember, this is the day 13 American service members were murdered by terrorists.
00:26:31.000And instead of him coming out there and looking strong and tough, instead of him coming out there and looking as though our enemy should be afraid of us, he looked beaten, he looked defeated, he looked not just old, but decrepit.
00:27:21.000And that alone, America's enemies must be drooling over this, over this person.
00:27:28.000They must be drooling over the dead horse that we've thrown out there.
00:27:32.000And then he moved on in his speech to paying tribute to the service members, but he couldn't help himself.
00:27:38.000He had to then brag about the effectiveness of this evacuation mission.
00:27:42.000He's still using the talking points from 48 hours ago.
00:27:44.000You remember about 48 hours ago, the administration started moving on from the talking point of this is a brilliant idea to our evacuation has been shockingly successful.
00:27:52.000You know, with the Afghans falling from the wheel wells of planes onto the tarmac, you know, the evacuation is actually a bit like we deserve credit.
00:27:58.000Yesterday, the DNC was sending out emails bragging about how successful this evacuation was.
00:28:03.000Which, as I said on the show, is the equivalent of the captain of that Titanic not accidentally hitting the iceberg, deliberately looking at the iceberg, saying, I'm going to ram this sucker directly into the iceberg.
00:28:19.000He says, everybody in the lifeboats, two thirds of the people get out.
00:28:22.000And he says, what an unbelievable captain I am.
00:28:24.000I have set the Guinness Book of World Records record for the most people evacuated from a lifeboat.
00:28:30.000Hey, that is what the administration has been doing.
00:28:31.000So he's paying tribute to the service members yesterday, who deserve all the credit in the world, but he can't help himself, praising his own mission here.
00:28:37.000These American service members who gave their lives, it's an overused word, but it's totally appropriate here, were heroes.
00:28:47.000Heroes who've been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others.
00:28:56.000They're a part of an airlift and evacuation effort unlike any seen in history.
00:29:02.000With more than 100,000 American citizens, American partners, Afghans who helped us, and others taken to safety.
00:29:15.000Again, that's him praising his own mission.
00:29:30.000None of those families would be mourning their sons and daughters today.
00:29:35.000None of them, if it had not been for this man's policies.
00:29:38.000So I wonder how many of them really want to hear it from the presidents of the United States.
00:29:44.000But this is what he was elected to do.
00:29:45.000He was elected to empathize, not to proceed with good policy, not to protect Americans, because we're going to leave at the very least hundreds, probably thousands of Americans and green card holders behind enemy lines.
00:30:34.000Like, I'd love to hear from the members of the military families as to what they feel.
00:30:38.000Because there are 17 million people who've served in the American military over the course of time who are alive in the United States right now.
00:30:46.000800,000 people have served in Afghanistan proper.
00:30:48.000And I've talked to many, many Afghan veterans, Afghan war veterans, over the course of the last several weeks.
00:30:56.000I can't name one of them who wants to hear emoting from Joe Biden as he proceeds to sully their legacy, subject all of their allies to the threat of death from the Taliban, and now to actual death at the hands of ISIS-K.
00:31:10.000Okay, then Joe Biden had to make excuses for the Taliban, right?
00:31:17.000Part of the policy is now, just as it was with the Iran deal with the Obama administration, that once you make a deal with the devil, you have to make excuses for why the devil isn't actually the devil.
00:31:25.000Now Joe Biden is making excuses for the Taliban.
00:31:27.000So remember, the entire incentive structure for the Taliban to protect Americans as they leave is that if the Taliban don't, we might stay and retaliate against them.
00:31:36.000But Joe Biden has removed all of that by making excuses for the Taliban because he has to cover his own political ass in case the Taliban turn out to be the bad guys we know they are.
00:31:44.000So here he was yesterday blaming ISIS-K but relieving the Taliban of responsibility.
00:31:58.000We've been made aware by our intelligence community that the ISIS-K An arch enemy, the Taliban, people who were freed when both those prisons were opened, has been planning a complex set of attacks on the United States personnel and others.
00:32:20.000This is why, from the outset, I've repeatedly said this mission was extraordinarily dangerous, And on why I've been so determined to limit the duration of this mission.
00:32:33.000Okay, so our mush-mouthed president then makes a mush-headed argument.
00:32:36.000This is his argument all the way through.
00:32:38.000If bad things happened in Afghanistan because we took the cork out of the bottle, then clearly they would have happened if we hadn't taken the cork out of the bottle.
00:33:06.000Instead of him saying, we're gonna stay long enough to get every American citizen out.
00:33:10.000And, if you touch us, we will kill you.
00:33:13.000Which is what any normal American president would say.
00:33:15.000His argument is, look, something bad happened yesterday.
00:33:18.000That's an excuse for us to get out even faster.
00:33:20.000It just shows why we need to get out super fast.
00:33:24.000Okay then, Joe Biden says, we're going to complete the mission.
00:33:28.000Okay, but of course, he has defined the mission as getting out by August 31st.
00:33:31.000The timeline is the mission for Joe Biden.
00:33:34.000Normally, you define the timeline On the back of what you need to accomplish.
00:33:38.000Normally, if I decide that we need, as a company, to achieve a certain thing, we then say, how long will it take to achieve this thing?
00:33:46.000And then we define the timeline by what we are seeking to achieve.
00:33:48.000In this particular case, Joe Biden defined the timeline, and the mission is now the timeline, which means a lot of people are gonna get stuck over there.
00:33:56.000Here is Joe Biden trying to make excuses for this.
00:33:59.000We can and we must complete this mission, and we will.
00:34:04.000And that's what I've ordered them to do.
00:34:08.000We will not be deterred by terrorists.
00:34:11.000We will not let them stop our mission.
00:35:58.000We haven't been doing large-scale extraction missions to And you've already admitted hundreds if not thousands of Americans will remain after we leave.
00:36:30.000And by the way, we haven't even gotten to the series of lies that led up to this because that this man is a damned liar and Americans are dead because this man is a liar and thousands of Americans and American green card holders are stuck under the auspices of the Taliban because this man is a fool and a liar and a disgrace to his office.
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00:39:43.000He tried to blame everybody except for himself.
00:39:46.000So as we will see later, he tried to blame Trump, but he blamed his military commanders by saying, you know, we were all unanimous on this.
00:39:52.000And we have information suggesting your military commanders were basically all warning you back in February, March, that this was going to happen and you ignored them because you are a nitwit.
00:40:01.000Here is our nitwitted president of the United States.
00:40:03.000There has been complete unanimity from every commander on the objectives of this mission.
00:40:14.000Unless by unanimity on the objectives of the mission, you mean you told them exactly what you wanted to happen and how many troops they could have to do it, and then they had to somehow scramble to make that happen for you.
00:40:23.000Okay, so Joe Biden concludes his speech.
00:40:25.000And again, so much of this was optic as well, if you watched it in real time.
00:43:18.000But you already guaranteed we're leaving.
00:43:19.000So there's no countervailing factor there.
00:43:22.000If I say I'm leaving no matter what, no matter what, which is what Biden has said over and over and over and over again, What's the obligation on them?
00:43:32.000And by the way, it is not in their interest that everybody leaves with the United States.
00:43:34.000It's very much in their interest that they have a bunch of hostages that they can hold over the head of the United States.
00:43:50.000Um, he is asked specifically at one point about this Politico story I mentioned earlier, that the United States handed a list, essentially a kill list to the Taliban.
00:45:26.000Weird, because you said in an open interview that whether or not Trump had done anything, you would have done exactly the same thing.
00:45:31.000And then, of course, he poses the false alternative.
00:45:33.000We had to do it this way, this unbelievably crappy way, or we'd have to pour thousands of more troops into Afghanistan.
00:45:40.000And also, we've accomplished our objectives, which is weird, because our objective presumably was to fight terrorism, as Joe Biden's about to say.
00:45:44.000I noticed some terrorism yesterday against Americans.
00:45:50.000Pour thousands of more troops back into Afghanistan to fight a war that we had already won relative to why the reason we went in the first place.
00:46:29.000And there were two particular ones that came out.
00:46:31.000One was Joe Biden, like a small child being called on in class without having done his homework, burying his face in the podium, essentially, as Peter Doocy asks him a difficult question.
00:47:03.000That image of the old man clutching a binder to his chest and lowering his head as though he is being victimized and put upon after 13 American service members die in service to his garbage mission.
00:47:43.000Okay, but to understand the true disgrace that Joe Biden is, you have to actually follow the timeline of what he has been saying for months.
00:47:50.000And all the lies his administration has been telling, because the lies never stopped at any point.
00:48:03.000Do you believe a word that comes out of his drooling mouth?
00:48:07.000Do you believe a word that comes from this man?
00:48:10.000If you do, you are a fool because we're about to play an entire timeline of the stuff that Joe Biden has said since April when he announced we were pulling out.
00:48:18.000He has not said a true thing this entire way.
00:48:35.000We'll do it responsibly, deliberately and safely.
00:48:39.000And we will do it in full coordination with our allies and partners who now have more forces in Afghanistan than we do.
00:48:48.000And the Taliban should know that if they attack us, as we draw down, we will defend ourselves and our partners with all the tools at our disposal.
00:50:09.000Okay, so he was lying on April 14th when he said that this would be a considered move and the Taliban wouldn't take over the country and all that.
00:50:15.000Then on July 8th, he said that they're not like the Viet Cong and this wouldn't be like Saigon.
00:50:25.000So all of this stuff that we are about to examine is from the last 11 days.
00:50:29.000The number of lies this president and his administration have told in the last 11 days boggles the mind.
00:50:34.000But they think that you are a fool and they think that you don't follow this stuff.
00:50:38.000And so they assume that they'll be able to get away with this.
00:50:41.000The most humiliating foreign policy debacle of my lifetime, bar none.
00:50:44.000Okay, so let's fast forward to August 16.
00:50:48.000Joe Biden says the buck stops with him.
00:50:50.000And the reason that we are leaving is because we can't take more casualties, thousands of more casualties.
00:50:56.000Again, this was a lie when he said it.
00:50:57.000We had taken zero American casualties in combat since February of 2020 at the moment that he said this on August 16th.
00:51:04.000He said the buck stops with him is designed to prevent American casualties.
00:51:07.000I noticed a few American casualties yesterday.
00:51:11.000I am president of the United States of America and the buck stops with me.
00:51:18.000I'm deeply saddened by the facts we now face.
00:51:23.000But I do not regret my decision to end America's warfighting in Afghanistan and maintain a laser focus on our counterterrorism missions there and other parts of the world.
00:51:34.000I cannot and will not ask our troops to fight on endlessly in another country's civil war, taking casualties, suffering life-shattering injuries.
00:51:46.000Leaving families broken by grief and loss.
00:51:50.000This is not in our national security interest.
00:51:54.000Okay, keeping 2,500 troops there with zero combat casualties since February was not in our national security interest.
00:51:58.000Withdrawing them so that 13 of them could be murdered at the hands of ISIS-K.
00:52:02.000That was definitely in our national interest.
00:54:41.000Al Qaeda's still in Afghanistan, and by the way, so is ISIS.
00:54:43.000And the people we handed the country back to are the exact same people who harbored those people again.
00:54:47.000It boggles the mind that we are supposed to, like he thinks you are such a moron, that we handed the same country back to the same people who harbored bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
00:54:58.000And we're supposed to now treat them as reasonable peace partners as they go around shooting people in the head.
00:55:03.000They're dragging people out of their homes and shooting them in the head if they worked with the Americans.
00:55:08.000And Joe Biden says, don't worry, there won't be any uptick in terror while the terrorists are handling the security around the airport.
00:55:17.000At that same press conference, August 20th, Joe Biden says, don't worry, any attack on our forces will be met with a swift and forceful response.
00:55:23.000Well, the bombing happened 24 hours ago.
00:55:30.000We have seen no response from the president of the United States.
00:55:34.000We made clear to the Taliban that any attack, any attack on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport will be met with swift and forceful response.
00:55:46.000Oh, well, then that's, um, well, yeah, clearly, because he's lying.
00:55:49.000OK, fast forward a couple of days after that.
00:55:51.000Now Joe Biden is asked a question about ISIS, and he does what he does best.
00:55:53.000He runs away because he's a damned coward.
00:55:56.000Mr. President, what about ISIS and the threat that Americans face now?
00:57:17.000Joe Biden comes out, he craps the bed, and it's Jen Psaki's job to clean it up.
00:57:21.000Jen Psaki says August 23rd, remember this is four days ago, three days before what just happened at the airport in terms of the giant ISIS attack.
00:57:31.000Gensaki insisted no Americans are stranded.
00:58:01.000We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.
00:58:04.000We are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans Who wants to return home is always their keyword there, because the idea is that we're going to blame the people who remain.
00:58:18.000I'm just calling you out for saying that we are stranding Americans in Afghanistan when I said when we have been very clear that we are not leaving Americans who want to return home.
00:58:29.000Who wants to return home is always their keyword there because the idea is that we're going to blame the people who remain.
00:58:55.000I don't think you guys are giving us credit for what a massive success it is for us to load the lifeboats with people after we blew a hole under the waterline of the Titanic.
00:59:46.000Or indeed in the interest of the American service members?
00:59:49.000Or is this administration a clown car careening out of control with a senile person at the head of it, occasionally bloviating a particularly stupid idea and everybody rushing to fill the gap?