Secretary of State Antony Blinken admits Americans will be stuck in Afghanistan past the August 31 deadline, and Joe Biden smirks at reporters for asking basic questions. Ben Shapiro explains the new line from the Biden administration, and why it's not your fault that you're stuck there, it's the administration's fault that it's you, the suckers! Plus, Pure Talk USA is offering 50% off your first month of service, and hundreds of dollars in savings down the road with the discount code "DUMP250" to help you get the most out of your phone, tablet, and other devices. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. For peace of mind, whenever you go online, go online and check out Express VPN. You can get a FREE 3-piece cleaning set from the ExpressVpn website. It's free and includes free printable cleaning products. Just pay the 2.95 postage, and you'll get a free sample of the cleaning products you can use to clean your home, car, office, and home office. All you need to pay for the service is free, no credit card required, no fee, no strings attached. Use the promo code "ExpressVPN" at checkout, and no additional fees will be required. If you like what you get, you get 20% off the entire service, plus an additional $5 when you sign up for ExpressVPN, plus a FREE 7-day shipping when you shop at ExpressVPN gets my service, I'm giving you $5 and get an extra $5,000 when you enter the offer starts, I'll get $10,000, plus I'll give you an additional discount when you become a VIP membership when you upgrade my VIP membership gets my offer of $50,000 gets you get an ad discount, and I get a discount of $25,000 or more, and they get an offer like that gets you an ad-free version of the service starts in my ad-only version of my site gets my product? Thanks to ExpressVPN starts in 2 weeks from my site. . I'll be working on a new ad-less version of The Daily Mail, will be working with Express VPN? Subscribe to my newsletter! Subscribe and review the show on my newsletter. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and other places I'm listening to my podcast, The Daily Beast? Subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform, The Weekly Beast?
00:02:46.000But the real point of that phrase was to create wiggle room.
00:02:50.000So now, If there is an American or an Afghan who gets stuck in Afghanistan, the idea will be that the United States did its best, but these people, they were just intransigent.
00:02:59.000They're probably Trump voters or something.
00:03:00.000They were just stuck there and they didn't want to leave.
00:03:43.000They saw the iceberg, and they ran directly into it.
00:03:45.000It wasn't like the thing came up by surprise.
00:03:49.000They ran directly into the iceberg because Joe Biden is a fool and wanted to run directly into the iceberg.
00:03:53.000And then, as the Titanic took on water, they offloaded a bunch of people onto the lifeboats.
00:03:57.000And then, when a bunch of people drowned and were stuck on the Titanic, they, as the captain of the Titanic, they said, well, you know, we did run a historic effort to get people off the Titanic and onto the lifeboats.
00:04:07.000In fact, Guinness Book of World Records, more people have been put on lifeboats today than have ever been put on lifeboats before.
00:04:17.000The State Department yesterday was forced to tell people not to come to Kabul Airport.
00:04:22.000Now remember, the deadline that was set as of yesterday, and was confirmed as of yesterday, was August 31st.
00:04:27.000It is currently, according to my calendar, which is reliable, August 26th.
00:04:32.000That means five days until we hit the deadline.
00:04:34.000And it's going to take at least 72 hours for us to pull out the remaining troops.
00:04:38.000Which means that if you work backwards and we still don't know whether it is noon on August 31st or if it's midnight on August 30th or if it's midnight on August 31st, we don't know.
00:04:47.000Okay, but let's assume that it's the very, it's 1159 p.m.
00:04:52.000This means that we have to remove our troops as of August 28th.
00:04:56.000So basically we have today and then two more days and that's it.
00:04:59.000We have two or three days maximum to get more people out.
00:05:02.000Yesterday was completely lost because the State Department was getting threats from ISIS, because ISIS is in town.
00:05:08.000And the Taliban are providing a very bare-bones level of security, unbelievably enough, for Americans to get out, presumably because we're bribing them.
00:05:16.000And that bare-bones level of security does not apply to Afghan nationals who are being stymied and held up, and many American citizens can't get in either.
00:05:23.000According to the State Department yesterday, they told people to go home.
00:05:26.000There are no more flights coming after probably August 28th, August 29th, certainly not after August 31st.
00:05:33.000And the State Department put out a statement yesterday, quote, due to threats outside the Kabul Airport, U.S. citizens should avoid traveling to the airport and avoid airport gates unless you receive instructions to do so. Those at the Abbey Gate, East Gate or North Gate should now leave immediately. So if you are stuck outside the airport, they're telling you now to go home, the State Department, and wait for us to leave.
00:05:55.000Meanwhile, Antony Blinken, the State Department Secretary, he says there might still be 1,500 Americans in Afghanistan.
00:05:59.000Now, I'm not sure where they're getting these numbers.
00:06:01.000Because remember, every estimate, up until the last 48 hours, was that there were 10 to 15,000 Americans in Kabul.
00:06:09.000Tony Blinken and the rest of the team over at the State Department have now said that we've gotten at about 4,500 Americans.
00:06:14.000So, if he says there are 1,500 Americans in Afghanistan still, Plus the 4,500 who have left.
00:06:28.000Are they artificially lowering the numbers so that Americans don't know how many Americans are stuck there?
00:06:32.000Are we abandoning more people in Afghanistan than died on 9-11?
00:06:36.000To the tender mercies of the same people who protected the 9-11 terrorists?
00:06:41.000That is quite possible, given the statistics put out by this government.
00:06:44.000Here's Antony Blinken saying there could be 1,500 people still stuck in Afghanistan who are American citizens.
00:06:50.000Starting on August 14, when our evacuation operations began, there was then a population of as many as 6,000 American citizens in Afghanistan who wanted to leave.
00:07:01.000Over the last 10 days, roughly 4,500 of these Americans have been safely evacuated, along with immediate family members.
00:07:10.000Over the past 24 hours, we've been in direct contact with approximately 500 additional Americans and provided specific instructions on how to get to the airport safely.
00:07:24.000Okay, and then we told them that they can't get in because there's too much of a threat outside the gates, so go home.
00:07:30.000Again, the analysis has shifted somewhat.
00:07:31.000Remember, the number was 10,000 to 15,000 Americans.
00:07:34.000Now, Antony Blinken is saying 6,000 Americans, and there's that magical language, right?
00:09:22.000We're on track to complete our mission by August 31st, provided the Taliban continue to cooperate and there are no disruptions to this effort.
00:09:31.000The President has also asked for contingency plans in case he determines that we must remain in the country past that date.
00:09:39.000But let me be crystal clear about this.
00:09:42.000There is no deadline on our work to help any remaining American citizens who decide they want to leave to do so, along with the many Afghans who have stood by us over these many years and want to leave and have been unable to do so.
00:09:56.000That effort will continue every day past August 31st.
00:10:41.000You know what would have been useful about this point?
00:10:44.000When you think about it, what could have been super useful at this point is like a skeleton crew of maybe 2,500 American soldiers holding all the major cities in Afghanistan, along with an Afghan military, several hundred thousand strong, backed by superior American might and technology, holding the country if people wanted to leave.
00:11:01.000You know, that would have been useful.
00:11:25.000And sure, we're botching it in real time.
00:11:26.000But the reality is, the people who are to blame are the people who are still on the ground, stuck in Kabul.
00:11:31.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Blinken blamed Americans still on the ground for not leaving fast enough.
00:11:35.000After first being warned earlier this year to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible, that said, there would be no deadline in helping those who still want to leave.
00:11:49.000Blinken said what we're doing is very carefully tabulating everything we have, cross checking it, referencing it, using different databases.
00:11:55.000We'll have numbers for all those different categories in the days ahead and after this initial phase of efforts to bring people out of Afghanistan ends.
00:12:01.000But the idea is that we've reached out over and over and over again, and if people aren't responding, well, there's not much that we can do.
00:12:07.000Okay, well, assuming that people are not responding to your requests and to your letters does not mean that they actually want to stay.
00:12:15.000Do we know they're not being held by the Taliban?
00:12:17.000Do you know they have access to the internet?
00:12:19.000Do you know they haven't been cut off?
00:12:20.000We don't know any of those things, but this is the new line.
00:12:22.000The line is, if you're stuck in Afghanistan, it is your own fault.
00:13:15.000We told them... You know what would have been very helpful?
00:13:17.000Is if the president of the United States last month hadn't told everyone in Afghanistan that all was well and things were going fine and the Taliban had no capacity to take over the country.
00:13:52.000The question is, are those, are those Americans, we're not even talking, by the way, about the Afghans who worked with us, who are giving second and third priority.
00:14:01.000The Taliban is going to come in and they're going to execute all of them.
00:14:04.000And Biden originally promised, you can see again how the language shifted.
00:14:07.000We shifted with Americans from, we're getting everybody out to, we'll get out everybody who wants to go to, look how many people didn't want to go.
00:14:15.000With Afghan nationals who were working with the United States, who had special immigrant visas.
00:14:19.000With Afghan translators, the line was, everybody who wants to get out, everybody we can get out, we'll get out everybody.
00:14:25.000Then it was, we'll get out as many people as we can.
00:14:28.000Then it was, well, sorry, And the media are already declaring them, you know, great at this.
00:14:33.000Like, you can see the worm turning with regard to the media who are starting to move on from the story and be like, well, they did get thousands of people out.
00:14:40.000I mean, it is a World Guinness Book of World Records record for how many people they're getting out.
00:14:45.000The evacuation is not under America's control because we handed over control of the country to the Taliban.
00:14:49.000Here's John Kirby from the Pentagon saying that.
00:14:52.000We are in daily communication with Taliban commanders about who we want to see get in and what the credentials are, what they look like, what's valid.
00:15:03.000And that communication happens literally every day.
00:15:07.000We have been nothing but open with the Taliban about who we expect them to let in.
00:15:14.000Again, Fully recognize that not every step of this process is in our firm control.
00:15:24.000Oh, it's not in our firm control, guys.
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00:16:43.000All right, so ISIS is actually, so the Biden administration was like, well, the Taliban is kind of in charge.
00:16:47.000Well, now it turns out that ISIS is actually kind of in charge.
00:16:50.000According to the New York Times, The United States has been battling the Taliban and their militant partners in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and the Haqqani Network, for 20 years.
00:16:57.000By the way, the Taliban are now providing security for Americans at the airport, and so are the Haqqani Network.
00:17:05.000But the biggest immediate threat isn't to any of those people.
00:17:07.000It is Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K.
00:17:11.000The terrorist group's affiliate in Afghanistan.
00:17:14.000It's like Special K, except Islamic terrorists.
00:17:16.000Created six years ago by disaffected Pakistani Taliban, ISIS-K has carried out dozens of attacks in Afghanistan this year.
00:17:22.000American military and intelligence analysts say threats from the group include a bomb-laden truck, suicide bombers infiltrating the crowd outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, and mortar strikes against the airfield.
00:17:32.000By the way, all it takes to end everyone being able to get out is one mortar hitting the runway at Khamid Karzai International Airport.
00:17:38.000When you hear international airport, you imagine like LAX or O'Hare, right?
00:17:43.000You don't imagine like a single runway.
00:17:45.000That's what Khamid Karzai International Airport is.
00:18:28.000official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential assessments confirmed the U.S.
00:18:33.000was tracking a specific incredible threat at the airport from ISIS-K, which has carried out dozens of attacks in recent years.
00:18:39.000The threats lay bare a complicated dynamic between the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Haqqani Network and their bitter rival, ISIS-K, in what analysts say portends a bloody struggle involving thousands of foreign fighters on both sides.
00:18:49.000Apparently, there are 8,000 to 10,000 members of ISIS-K in Afghanistan.
00:18:54.000Afghanistan has now become the Las Vegas of terrorists, of the radicals, and the extremists, said Ali Muhammad Ali, a former Afghan security official.
00:19:00.000People all over the world, radicals and extremists, are chanting, celebrating the Taliban victory.
00:19:04.000This is paving the way for other extremists to come to Afghanistan.
00:19:07.000Wait, you're telling me that when we abandon Afghanistan, it's going to become, wait for it, a terror center for people who hate the United States and the West, and who might perform terrorism?
00:19:16.000Why did we go there in the first place again?
00:19:45.000We are looking at a range of options for how we can continue to provide consular support, facilitate departures for those who wish to leave after August 31st.
00:19:54.000And our expectation, and the expectation of the international community, is that people who want to leave Afghanistan after the U.S.
00:20:00.000military depart should be able to do so.
00:21:38.000That's when the White House actively cuts the audio feed of Joe Biden, the president of the United States, because they don't want people noticing that he's a rambling old idiot.
00:21:48.000Thank you guys, I'm so glad you came to the show.
00:22:11.000Okay, so meanwhile, Peter Doocy actually asked Jen Psaki about all this.
00:22:15.000He's like, you know, Joe Biden is joking about this, but I've noticed that there's a bit of a humanitarian crisis on the ground in Afghanistan.
00:22:35.000Well, I think the question he was asked, if I remember correctly, was about when he will provide information about a decision on August 31st.
00:22:43.000I don't want to paraphrase the question if that was an inaccurate description of the question.
00:22:46.000Very important for a lot of people watching.
00:22:47.000Of course it's a very important question.
00:22:51.000Okay, of course it's a very important question, but he's just joking about it because he likes two scoops of chocolate chip ice cream.
00:22:58.000The important thing is that he slipped while he was chasing his dog around the bathroom.
00:23:02.000These are the important things to know about Joe Biden.
00:23:05.000Meanwhile, I've noticed that we've also shifted our stance on what the U.S.
00:23:08.000military is for and what America's foreign policy looks like with regard to terrorists.
00:23:12.000So Jen Psaki was asked, didn't it used to be said that we were not in favor of negotiating with terrorists and aren't you now negotiating with terrorists?
00:23:18.000And Jen Psaki's like, well, yeah, kind of.
00:23:20.000Why haven't we heard the President say the United States does not negotiate with terrorists?
00:23:27.000Well, of course it is, Peter, but I would also say that there's a reality that the Taliban is currently controlling large swaths of Afghanistan.
00:23:39.000And right now our focus and our priority is getting American citizens evacuated and our Afghan partners evacuated.
00:23:45.000And I would say, given the numbers that we've outlined and briefed for you, that we've had made a great deal of progress in doing exactly that.
00:23:55.000I mean, the answer is yes, we are negotiating with terrorists because they hold the whip hand over us.
00:23:59.000Again, there's been a complete reversal here between the sort of vision of what the American military is actually for and what Democrats apparently believe the American military is for.
00:24:09.000Democrats in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, they said, okay, we can't treat the military like garbage anymore because that was really bad for us politically.
00:24:15.000So instead, we will treat the military as though they are victims.
00:24:19.000And so our sole job is to protect the military from actually having to do anything.
00:24:23.000Every time there's a foreign deployment, our chief goal is to not be in there, right?
00:24:28.000We're basically to make work program according to many Democrats.
00:24:31.000Now if you ask members of the military, they're not into it.
00:24:33.000Members of the military know what they signed up for.
00:24:35.000What they signed up for is to defend American citizens.
00:24:37.000I can think of no greater situation requiring military defense of American citizens than hundreds, thousands of American citizens stuck behind enemy lines in Kabul, probably a hundred yards away from where the American military sits.
00:24:51.000I mean, typically in American history, this would be a good time for America's military might to overwhelm the people who are in the nearby area, pick up the Americans, and then if you want to leave, you leave.
00:25:01.000But because the logic has shifted, because in the minds of Democrats, they would rather sacrifice American civilians in Kabul than risk American military going out to save the American civilians in Kabul.
00:25:15.000And by the way, the logic is so insane that we have now come to the point where the logic was not even, are we going to risk American military lives to save American citizens in Kabul?
00:25:25.000The logic several months ago was, are we going to leave Americans in Afghanistan where their lives are not at risk Or are we going to pull them out in order to say that we protected them?
00:25:36.000Remember, there have been zero combat casualties in Afghanistan for the United States since February of 2020.
00:25:41.000You were significantly more likely to die as a cop in Chicago than you were to die as a soldier in Afghanistan between February 2020 and today.
00:27:04.000We're gonna spend, what, five trillion dollars this year?
00:27:07.000You're telling me that we couldn't make a bargain with Erik Prince?
00:27:10.000Spend five thousand dollars ahead to get Americans out of there?
00:27:14.000Here is Jen Psaki going after Erik Prince anyway.
00:27:17.000Two comments specifically, though, on Erik Prince.
00:27:20.000I mean, he has already made so much money from the Afghan conflict, and now, in these sort of final waning days, is once again essentially exploiting people in order to make profit.
00:27:33.000I mean, what is the position of the administration that this is taking place as you are offering flights free of charge?
00:27:41.000I don't think any human being who has a heart and soul would support efforts to profit off of people's agony and pain as they're trying to depart a country and fearing for their lives.
00:27:52.000What would you say about a politician who tried to politically profit off of people's agony and pain by pulling out 2,500 troops for no apparent reason and leaving a country of 38 million people to the tender predations of the Taliban as well as thousands of Americans behind enemy lines?
00:28:05.000What would you say about the heart and soul of somebody like that?
00:28:08.000What would you say about the heart and soul of an administration that is sending empty planes away from Afghanistan rather than just paying somebody to get people out of there?
00:28:17.000What would you say about that administration?
00:28:20.000I love the ire that Jen Psaki can muster for Erik Prince.
00:28:23.000Again, this is not a defense of Erik Prince.
00:28:26.000The point here is that Jen Psaki is ready to go ape on Erik Prince.
00:28:32.000Meanwhile, the administration she works for is leaving Americans behind enemy lines and then telling the world it is because the Americans are stupid that they have been left behind enemy lines.
00:29:16.000They went back, likely before the troops left, so they could say hello or goodbye one more time.
00:29:21.000What wouldn't you do to go see your family one more time, let alone know you only have a window of time to go see them?
00:29:27.000Ferdoun Hasemi, an Afghan immigrant community liaison for the school district, told the publication, quote, the families go out there for summer break. The only reason they're there is to see family.
00:29:35.000If you watch the news, you see the airports are really crowded, even for people with passports.
00:29:38.000It's hard to get to the gates. We're trying to help them as much as possible, trying to reach them, trying to contact them. The students range in age from preschool to high school.
00:29:44.000The school year began August 17th, two days after the nation's capital of Kabul fell to the Taliban.
00:29:50.000So probably all the students want to stay.
00:30:26.000It incentivizes more of this, which is typically why you don't negotiate with terrorists, right?
00:30:30.000That was always what the phrase was about.
00:30:31.000You don't incentivize them to do bad things, knowing they can earn concessions from you.
00:30:36.000GOP representative Major from Michigan, he says that the Americans who are left there, it's going to make the Iran hostage crisis look like nothing.
00:30:46.000We're on the cusp, Harris, of having the biggest mass hostage situation in American history.
00:30:52.000It's going to make 1979 and Tehran look like a sleepover because you're going to have thousands of Americans left behind that the Taliban will then have for leverage when they want international recognition, they want money, they want economic assistance, and they've got a gun to the head of American citizens because Joe Biden left them.
00:31:13.000Okay, that's actually Representative Michael Walt, Republican of Florida, who served in Afghanistan in the United States Army.
00:31:21.000And everybody, both sides of the aisle, knows this is the case.
00:31:24.000Here is a Democratic representative, Chrissy Houlihan, Democrat of Pennsylvania, and she says the same thing.
00:31:30.000She says, we're going to leave people behind.
00:31:31.000Remember that time that the slogan was, leave no man behind?
00:31:34.000And now it's just, leave people behind and then blame them?
00:31:38.000The utter disgusting irresponsibility and blame shifting from this.
00:31:41.000And remember that time that Joe Biden says the buck stops here?
00:31:44.000Actually, it stops at the preschooler from San Diego who's now stuck with the Taliban.
00:31:48.000That preschooler didn't return phone calls from the State Department.
00:31:51.000Effectively what I'm hearing, and I think many others are hearing, is that we are making progress in the sense that we're escalating the number of people we're able to successfully get out every single day.
00:32:02.000But I do think that it is worrisome, as we talked about just now, that we probably won't be able to accomplish the mission of leaving no one behind with the timelines that we have.
00:32:10.000And so I think that the atmosphere and the mood within the meeting was bipartisanally one of encouraging the president to reconsider that date.
00:32:22.000Okay, and he didn't reconsider that date.
00:32:23.000Democratic Representative Jason Crow of Minnesota, he said the same thing.
00:32:26.000He said, our Afghan allies are stuck back there too.
00:32:29.000As you look at the new numbers, getting more people on planes, getting more people out, how do you assess the situation right now and what needs to be done?
00:32:38.000After all the briefings, the information I've reviewed, both as a member of the Intelligence Committee and the Armed Services Committee, as well as the congressional live briefings that we've received in the last 24 hours, I'm not seeing a path.
00:32:54.000Okay, so, I mean, even the Democrats are acknowledging what a disaster this is.
00:33:04.000Admiral James Stavridis, who of course served in the United States Navy and helped to preside over the Afghanistan war, he said, we lost.
00:33:12.000It's over, we lost, and now they're going to take hostages.
00:33:16.000What is it like for you as someone who has served there and has commanded troops to see this dynamic at play after the Taliban was driven out of that country so quickly?
00:33:26.000Well, as we say in North Florida, sometimes you got to know the difference between quitting and getting beat.
00:33:33.000And what I mean by that is we have got to recognize that in this case we have lost this conflict.
00:33:55.000The Taliban are apparently gearing up in literally American uniforms, carrying American guns.
00:34:01.000They've got American weapons all around them.
00:34:03.000They're riding American Humvees, according to the Washington Post.
00:34:07.000On his tour through the fallen city of Kabul last week, Taliban-aligned militant Khalil Haqqani rose to address a crowd at the capital's largest place of worship, Pul-il-Kishti Mosque, as he clutched a U.S.-made M4 rifle.
00:34:17.000His security guards, similarly armed, were draped in the U.S.
00:34:19.000combat aesthetics that have come to symbolize the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
00:34:23.000Sporting high-cut helmets with night-vision goggle mounts, plate carriers, and U.S.
00:34:26.000camouflage patterns, the guards looked like caricatures of the elite troops who have hunted insurgents in nightly raids and firefights.
00:34:32.000The bounty of U.S.-provided weapons and vehicles long paraded by Taliban insurgents after capturing or stealing them from Afghan forces has grown to alarming proportions, well beyond the ability of U.S.
00:34:43.000And while throughout the war, militants prized rifles and other sophisticated personal equipment, the sudden and stunning collapse of the Afghan military has allowed for armored vehicles, helicopters, and a glut of heavy weapons to be commandeered by militants now running the country.
00:34:58.000provided at least $18 billion to the Afghan military for equipment and transportation, and pretty much all of that is now in the hands of the Taliban.
00:35:04.000So we've got Americans in the hands of the Taliban, our weaponry in the hands of the Taliban, but according to the Democrats, this was unavoidable.
00:35:11.000At least Democrats who are willing to stand for the Biden administration.
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00:37:15.000Also, tonight, we're gonna be talking about the debacle in Afghanistan.
00:37:19.000We're gonna be talking about the rise again of lockdowns and curfews and mask mandates and the forever pandemic.
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00:38:10.000And meanwhile, you have Nancy Pelosi out in full scale defense for the Biden administration, and it was all inevitable.
00:38:59.000We want to make sure that there's a big bright light shining on Afghanistan if they wish to participate globally in any way.
00:39:11.000Oh, so your threat is, and the Biden administration's threat is, that if the Taliban turn out to be bad, which, I mean, that would be weird if they turned out to be super bad.
00:39:21.000It would also be really weird if it ended up being a terror haven.
00:39:39.000What we definitely will do is threaten them with economic sanctions.
00:39:42.000Because people who have been living in caves for the last 20 years or so, what they are most afraid of is losing the conveniences of daily life.
00:39:49.000If there's one group of people who are afraid of you cutting off their internet access, it is the Taliban.
00:40:22.000She's angry because there were two congresspeople, Peter Major from Michigan and Seth Moulton from Massachusetts, who went over and did an unplanned junket to Afghanistan to see what the situation is actually on the ground over there.
00:40:36.000Now, they did it with a minimum footprint.
00:40:38.000They did not take seats away from people who needed to leave the country.
00:40:43.000And they came back with some pretty valuable information because we are being lied to day by day by the Biden administration.
00:40:47.000So it's pretty, I mean, you have Congress people do this sort of stuff all the time, right?
00:40:50.000Congress has an oversight function of the executive branch.
00:40:52.000You have Congress people who routinely travel places to make sure that things are happening.
00:40:56.000This is why you have Congress people travel down to the border, for example.
00:40:58.000It's why you have Congress people travel over to Europe to make sure that what we say is happening is actually happening at the White House level.
00:41:04.000Nancy Pelosi, however, is super mad, super angry at Seth Moulton and Peter Major for going over to Afghanistan.
00:41:25.000When did you learn that Congressman Bolton and Congressman Meyer traveled to Afghanistan?
00:41:30.000And is that what prompted your letter instructing members not to travel to the region?
00:41:34.000It's not just about them going to Afghanistan.
00:41:36.000We're going to the region because there's a call on our resources diplomatically, politically, militarily and the rest in the region as well.
00:42:01.000House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to defy the White House and meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad steps up a tug of war between Democrats and President George W. Bush over foreign policy.
00:42:09.000Despite Bush's admonitions, the talks were counterproductive and sent mixed signals.
00:42:14.000Pelosi on Wednesday sat down with Assad, accused by Washington of backing terrorism and adding to Middle East instability.
00:42:20.000Newly empowered Democrats already doing battle with Bush over who is really the decider on Iraq policy are taking a more assertive role on foreign policy.
00:42:28.000So, Nancy Pelosi, you'll recall, actually went over to Syria and hung out with Bashar Assad, who is just preparing to kill, you know, half a million Syrian civilians.
00:42:38.000And she did that without the permission of the White House.
00:42:41.000So she is a rich one to be talking about how bad it is for Congress people to descend to an evacuation area to survey the situation and then report back accurately to the American people.
00:42:59.000In the same way that Americans forgot about Benghazi, in the same way that Americans apparently have now forgotten about 9-11, they're hoping that Americans just forget about this.
00:43:07.000By the time we hit 2022, it won't matter anymore.
00:43:09.000You'll be worried about your pocketbook.
00:43:11.000You'll be worried about what's going on with COVID.
00:43:13.000You won't be worried anymore about the thousands of civilians trapped behind enemy lines in Kabul.
00:43:19.000The only way, by the way, to make it a non-issue for you is to just ignore whatever happens over there.
00:43:23.000So if Americans start being tortured and killed, don't look for the Biden administration to do anything more than shoot a few missiles at camel asses the same way that Bill Clinton did in the 1990s after the bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
00:43:37.000Lead him to basically blow up a supposed chemical factory in Sudan.
00:43:41.000Look for the same sort of thing to happen from now on.
00:43:44.000If Americans are mistreated, if things get really egregious in Afghanistan, even if pictures emerge of the Taliban humiliating Americans, don't look for Joe Biden to do anything there anymore.
00:43:54.000He has to justify the decision he is making right now.
00:44:04.000That decision has to be made glorious by Joe Biden.
00:44:06.000The only way to make that decision glorious is to suggest that peace and at least stability now reign in Afghanistan and that there is no ongoing threat from Afghanistan.
00:44:14.000So the next few years are going to be about Joe Biden downplaying any threat from Afghanistan.
00:44:19.000They're going to be about Democrats pretending that this is a massively successful airlift.
00:44:22.000They're going to be about ignoring whatever comes next afterward or giving some mush mouth nonsense about how we are negotiating and we're going to get our people out eventually.
00:44:31.000And five years later, the people will still be there and they'll still be held hostage by the Taliban and we'll still be covertly giving aid to the Taliban.
00:44:38.000And they're hoping that you forget about all of this.
00:44:39.000They're hoping that you forget about the geopolitical consequences of handing over Afghanistan to the Taliban.
00:44:44.000They're hoping you don't notice that China feels emboldened and starts to go after Taiwan and starts to cut off Shipping lanes in the South China Sea.
00:44:51.000They're hoping you don't notice that Russia is going to start getting pretty feisty with Latvia and Estonia.
00:44:55.000Because Americans don't care about foreign policy until they are forced to care about foreign policy.
00:44:59.000So the next couple of years, at a very minimum, are going to be about making you forget.