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00:01:38.000Alrighty, so disaster continues to roll out in Afghanistan.
00:01:42.000The Taliban are doing what they do best, namely torturing and murdering people.
00:01:46.000So video has now emerged of the Taliban torturing translators, for example, and people who had translated on behalf of the American military who was there.
00:01:55.000And then yesterday, apparently, there are people who are carrying Afghanistan's old flag.
00:02:16.000You know the non-Taliban flag that was flying over Kabul until just a couple of days ago?
00:02:21.000And the Taliban did what they do best, they just opened fire into the crowd, according to Al-Arabiya.
00:02:26.000Members of the extremist group opened fire on the crowd, at least two people dead, at least ten people injured.
00:02:41.000I mean, this is... It's... For our empathetic president to just walk away from all of this knowing that he facilitated all of this without any plan for transition is really despicable.
00:02:55.000But as we'll see, President Biden, when it comes to this sort of stuff, is pretty despicable in general.
00:02:59.000Here's some video of Afghan girls begging in the American military to take them with them because they know what's going to happen, which is effectually sex slavery for everybody under a particular age.
00:03:09.000I remember when people say, well, you know, they're just going back to the lifestyle that They're just going back to what they knew before.
00:03:27.000Many of these girls have never known this lifestyle.
00:03:28.000The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001.
00:03:32.000Girls who are 18, 19, 20 years old have never lived under the Taliban.
00:03:37.000They do not remember what it is like to live under the Taliban.
00:03:39.000If you're under 25 years old in Afghanistan, this means you have never really experienced a Taliban rule in a way that you can remember.
00:03:46.000Because again, the United States took over the country in 2001 and then handed it over to our Afghan allies.
00:03:52.000So the bizarre idea that this was approved by the Afghan population, generally speaking, particularly in the major cities that were controlled by the United States, like Kabul is quite crazy.
00:04:05.000And you can see the fallout from this.
00:04:07.000Here, for example, is the first Afghan Air Force pilot who was female.
00:04:12.000Her name is Niloufar Rahmani, pleading for President Biden to hear her to save the families of people who worked with the United States who are going to get stuck there.
00:04:19.000All these women, by the way, are going to get raped.
00:04:21.000All these women are going to get sold into sex slavery.
00:04:22.000If you're a single woman, you will, by 13, 14 years old, have been Married off to somebody if not raped or you will be married and then raped.
00:04:30.000That is the way things worked under the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 when they ran the place and that has come back in spades.
00:04:37.000Here is this Afghan female pilot talking about it.
00:04:41.000As an Afghan woman, I would like for President Biden to hear me, the government, that please save the families that they need you, the women, the little girls that they always look up to the United States, the great army that the United States brought to Afghanistan, and also please save my family.
00:05:02.000Well, the good news is that the media are apparently dedicated to the proposition, at least to a certain extent, that the Taliban might be okay.
00:05:09.000You're starting to see this theme running through the media.
00:05:12.000I think there are some people in the media who are on the left and are surprisingly actually doing some honest media coverage.
00:05:18.000I think that you've seen this from, for example, Richard Engel over at NBC News.
00:05:21.000I think you've seen this from Jake Tapper over at CNN.
00:05:23.000There are some members of the media who are still doing some honest media coverage of this.
00:05:26.000But I think the tendency over the coming days is going to be to suggest that the Taliban have in some way moderated in the same way that the media went along with the narrative that the Iranian regime had moderated and therefore it was time for the United States to make concessions to the malocracy.
00:05:39.000I think you're going to get that from the Taliban as well with regard to the media.
00:06:45.000That is the wonderful Zabihullah Mujahid.
00:06:48.000I'm sure we'll hear more from the spokesperson for the 8th century barbarian Taliban.
00:06:52.000Malala Yousafzai, who you'll recall was hailed the world over for her willingness to fight for women's education in Afghanistan.
00:06:58.000She now writes in the New York Times, in the last two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education.
00:07:02.000Now the future they promised is dangerously close to slipping away.
00:07:05.000The Taliban, who until losing power 20 years ago, barred nearly all girls and women from attending school and doled out harsh punishment to those who defied them, are back in control.
00:07:13.000Like many women, I fear for my Afghan sisters.
00:07:17.000She says, Afghan girls and young women are once again where I have been in despair over the thought they might never be allowed to see a classroom or hold a book again.
00:07:23.000Some members of the Taliban say they will not deny women and girls education or the right to work, but given the Taliban's history, Afghans' women's fears are real.
00:07:30.000Already, we are hearing reports of female students being turned away from their universities, female workers from their offices.
00:07:35.000None of this is new for the people of Afghanistan.
00:07:37.000She says that she's going to try and funnel money in there, but good luck to her.
00:08:46.000All it took was maintaining a bare-bones troop presence, 2,500 troops, in a support capacity, fixing airplanes, and he decided, not worth it, let's leave these barbarians in charge of a country of 38 million people.
00:08:57.000Probably that'll provide no threat to the United States in terms of an uptick in terror threat.
00:09:02.000And by the way, subjecting 38 million people to the predations of some of the worst people on planet Earth.
00:09:08.000There was a time, by the way, when Joe Biden, who is now ardently against nation building, he said there was no alternative to nation building.
00:09:57.000I don't think he operates on the basis of empathy or on the basis of rational calculation.
00:10:01.000But just to remind you, for all those people who believe that Joe Biden is a kindly old grandfather figure, here's what Joe Biden had to say in 2010 about pulling out of Afghanistan.
00:10:10.000So, Richard Holbrooke, We don't have to worry about that.
00:10:39.000By the way, again, our weaponry is now in the hands of these barbarians.
00:10:42.000According to Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, who did just a cataclysmically bad performance yesterday in front of the press.
00:10:49.000I mean, this is just a catastrophe in terms of public relations.
00:10:52.000The National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, Rhodes Scholar, genius all the way around, Obama holdover.
00:10:58.000He says, oh yeah, by the way, billions of dollars of our weaponry is now in the hands of the Taliban.
00:11:02.000What happens to the billions of dollars worth of weaponry that the U.S. gave Afghanistan?
00:11:03.000Does the U.S. have a plan for that or does it remain in the Taliban's hands?
00:11:12.000We don't have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
00:11:23.000And obviously, we don't have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.
00:11:41.000No, they're gonna come up— They're gonna show up with their MRAPs and be like, you know what, guys?
00:11:44.000We know that you're leaving, and just as a parting gift, we decided to give you back this billions of dollars in military hardware, including sophisticated drone technology.
00:11:51.000By the way, we are busily trying to scrub any biometric materials that we have in Afghanistan, because the Taliban are going through all of that stuff, and they are finding everybody who worked with us, and then they are murdering those people.
00:12:02.000So Jake Sullivan was also asked why Biden had ignored intelligence reports suggesting that precisely this was going to happen.
00:12:13.000I mean, many of us have been predicting this for years, that if the United States pulled out, there'd be absolute chaos in Afghanistan.
00:12:19.000For God's sake, I wrote a novel in like 2016 or 2015, talking about what would happen if the United States pulled out of Afghanistan precipitously and how the embassy would fall.
00:12:28.000It didn't take a genius to figure this stuff out.
00:12:30.000This is the most obvious thing in the world.
00:12:32.000Many in the intelligence community were saying, yeah, this is going to collapse really, really fast.
00:12:36.000Jake Sullivan was asked, so why did you ignore all of that?
00:12:39.000Numerous officials have told ABC that there were key intelligence assessments warning the Taliban could overwhelm the country and take the capital within weeks.
00:12:48.000Did the White House disregard that intelligence and push ahead?
00:12:53.000I'm not actually familiar with the intelligence assessments you're describing, but I also don't want to get into specific intelligence products.
00:13:03.000And one thing I will not do from this podium or anywhere else is talk about what a different component of the interagency did or didn't do.
00:13:15.000Yeah, I mean, he's committed to the classification process, obviously, and that's why he's not answering the question.
00:13:19.000Not because the Biden administration completely and thoroughly blew this, but because he has to make sure that classified information doesn't spill into the public sphere.
00:13:25.000You mean classified information about what we knew about the collapse of the Afghan security?
00:13:31.000Like, because we can all see it in real time happening, like, now.
00:13:35.000I don't need a classified report from six months ago to tell me what was going to happen.
00:13:38.000I can see it happening, like, in the moment, right now.
00:13:42.000My favorite here is Jake Sullivan saying, oh yeah, no, no, we definitely take responsibility, but by the way, everyone else is responsible.
00:13:47.000I take responsibility for this, but really it's on you.
00:13:49.000It's really on sort of everyone, isn't it?
00:13:51.000I mean, like, sure, a man comes home and he says to his wife, yeah, you know, she says to him, you cheated on me.
00:13:57.000He says, right, you know, and I take responsibility for that, but really isn't about all of us.
00:14:01.000Isn't it about the bigger picture here?
00:14:03.000Here's Jake Sullivan doing this pathetic routine.
00:14:06.000He's taking responsibility for every decision the United States government took with respect to Afghanistan because, as he said, the buck stops with him.
00:14:14.000I am also taking responsibility and so are my colleagues, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the directors of our intelligence agencies.
00:14:23.000We as a national security team collectively Oh, we take total responsibility for all of our decisions.
00:14:27.000good decision, every decision that doesn't produce perfect outcomes, that is what responsibility is.
00:14:36.000Now, at the same time, that doesn't change the fact that there are other parties here responsible as well.
00:14:43.000Oh, we take total responsibility for all of our decisions.
00:14:48.000By the way, speaking of people who are doing excellent reporting, Clarissa Ward over at CNN. He's been getting some flack for no reason, it seems to me, for her reporting on the ground.
00:14:58.000She's now having Don a burqa in order to continue reporting over there.
00:15:31.000According to the Biden administration, on Tuesday, this is the Wall Street Journal reporting, the airport in Kabul was open for both military and civilian flights, but access remains near impossible for the thousands of Afghans seeking to leave Afghanistan as the Taliban strengthen control over the city and a Taliban leader returned from exile.
00:15:47.000sent additional troops to secure the perimeter and manage air traffic control and ground operations following two days of chaos while Westerners and Afghans raced to escape the country.
00:16:02.000embassy staff should, if this were an orderly transition, be the last people to leave, right?
00:16:06.000They have to be there on the ground to process the paperwork.
00:16:08.000They were the first people to leave because this play, this is just a show.
00:16:11.000I mean, it's just, it is a bleep show.
00:16:14.000However, many thousands of Afghans who had worked for Western embassies and organizations remain stranded and unable to reach the airport for evacuation flights.
00:16:21.000The Taliban erected checkpoints at the entrances of the airport.
00:16:23.000They're whipping and beating Afghans who attempted to cross even with their paperwork.
00:16:28.000Plus, by the way, there is no guarantee that Americans who are there are going to be able to get out at this point.
00:16:41.000Jake Sullivan was asked, are we going to have troops there past August 31st to facilitate the exit of both Americans who are stuck in Afghanistan and Afghan allies who are stuck in Afghanistan?
00:16:52.000And Jake Sullivan wouldn't commit to that.
00:16:53.000By the way, the date as of right now is August 18th.
00:16:57.000So he's saying, we may not have troops past there 13 days out from now to help people get out.
00:17:47.000We did dramatically accelerate the SIV process and move out a substantial number of SIV applicants and their families.
00:17:54.000But the Afghan government and its supporters, including many of the people now seeking to leave, made a passionate case that we should not conduct a mass evacuation lest we trigger a loss of confidence in the government.
00:18:08.000We shouldn't, I mean, like the excuse making here.
00:18:11.000So the reason that we didn't evacuate earlier is because we were told by the Afghan government, which no longer exists, that if we evacuated earlier, then it might undercut their credibility.
00:18:21.000Wait a second, wasn't the President of the United States one month ago saying that the Afghan government would not capitulate?
00:19:03.000And that is, day by day, getting as many American citizens, as many SIV applicants, as many members of a vulnerable population who are eligible to be evacuated to the airport and out on planes.
00:19:15.000And we're going to do that in an expeditious fashion.
00:19:17.000That is the focus of the President, of our Secretary of Defense, of our Secretary of State, and everybody on our national security team.
00:19:24.000So that is where we will keep our efforts.
00:19:26.000You know, they're keeping their focus on making sure that everybody gets out, but they're not guaranteeing that everybody's going to get out.
00:19:32.000It's kind of awkward, because it's sort of as though they've kept their focus on the border, but they've done nothing over there.
00:19:37.000In a second, we're going to get to the actual plan for getting people out.
00:21:07.000According to the UK Daily Mail, the White House confirmed it is relying on the Taliban to help provide safe passage for civilians looking to evacuate Afghanistan as the State Department warns U.S.
00:21:15.000civilians there to shelter in place until it is safe to leave.
00:21:25.000Can you tell us what is it exactly, the commitment that you have secured from the Taliban regarding the safe passage of Americans as well as tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghans?
00:21:37.000The Taliban have informed us that they are prepared to provide the safe passage of civilians to the airport.
00:21:43.000And we intend to hold them to that commitment.
00:22:03.000I'm sure after you pulled out and after you said, screw all the people who are there, I'm sure that they are quaking in their boots at the notion That this balding Rhodes Scholar is going to somehow threaten them into submission if things go wrong.
00:23:07.000We're working hand-in-glove with the State Department in terms of supporting their plans at processing these individuals.
00:23:14.000But again, that's something that we're going to be doing on a case-by-case, day-by-day basis.
00:23:18.000Right now, though, I don't want to set the expectation that we are equipped and able to go out into the countryside and physically move people into Kabul.
00:23:28.000Our focus right now, the troops that we have there, are at the airport.
00:23:31.000The idea is to make sure we can get the air operations not only have they resumed, but to keep them in place for as long as possible.
00:23:41.000Kirby was also asked about our Afghan allies and whether they can get out.
00:23:45.000And he's like, well, you know, we're gonna have to check their paperwork.
00:23:46.000And Clarissa Ward of CNN was having none of it.
00:23:48.000Again, she's been doing excellent work here.
00:23:50.000I don't know why people are giving her flack.
00:23:53.000I'm the one who has to look them in the eye.
00:23:57.000Can I offer them your assurance that everyone who has worked with American organizations will be got out of this country safely?
00:24:08.000Clarissa, first of all, thanks for your incredibly brave reporting and the images and the stories that you're telling.
00:24:15.000We're all grateful and we all know how hard and how dangerous that work is.
00:24:19.000I would ask you to tell them that there is a process that they can apply for through the State Department to To get onto the list and get onto the manifest, and I would ask them to work with State Department authorities there in Kabul to do that.
00:24:35.000And if they are through that process, I can assure them, and you can assure them on our behalf, that we in the Pentagon will do everything we can to help get them out of the country over the next couple of weeks.
00:24:45.000That's what we're flowing in extra aircraft for.
00:24:47.000That's why we're flowing in extra troops to maintain security at that airport so that we can do that.
00:24:52.000You'll notice that what he is saying there provides no guarantee that people who should be able to get out of the country get out of the country.
00:24:56.000You know, they should file their paperwork.
00:25:42.000So I think the argument could then be made that the rise in crime rates in America's major cities in the aftermath of the police pulling back is just evidence.
00:25:49.000I mean, if people don't, obviously people don't want crime.
00:25:52.000Defund the police is probably a good idea then, right?
00:25:54.000If you take away the people who are the protective force and then bad things happen.
00:25:58.000This just proves that people wanted bad things to happen.
00:26:00.000So you shouldn't have had a protective force there in the first place.
00:26:02.000This is so counterintuitive and nonsensical.
00:26:06.000What has unfolded over the past month has proven decisively that it would have taken a significant American troop presence, multiple times greater than what President Biden was handed, to stop a Taliban onslaught.
00:27:10.000But don't worry, Jake Sullivan says that our allies should actually feel comforted by all of this.
00:27:16.000If you're Taiwan now under threat from China, if you are Israel under threat from Hamas, then you should feel comforted by America's commitment here because it's not like we just cut and run and left a giant country, a strategically important country that borders both India and Pakistan and also Iran.
00:27:32.000It's not like we just left that country in the hands of literally the worst people on the planet.
00:27:35.000Who were responsible for the destruction of the Twin Towers in 2001 and the Pentagon in 2001 and the murder of 3,000 Americans in 2000.
00:27:43.000It's not like we just did any of that.
00:27:45.000All of our allies should feel super confident given the fact that we are now going to leave our allies in Afghanistan to be abjectly murdered.
00:28:52.000This is a weak, pathetic, mewling administration.
00:28:55.000China, meanwhile, held an assault drill near Taiwan after so-called provocations, according to Reuters.
00:29:01.000China carried out assault drills near Taiwan on Tuesday with warships and fighter jets exercising off the southwest and southeast of the island in what the country's armed forces said was a response to, quote, external interference and provocations.
00:29:11.000And so they're now looking at the possibility of military action against Taiwan.
00:29:14.000They've already threatened and said, well, you know, the truth is that the United States ain't going to do anything.
00:29:20.000Meanwhile, the State Department had no answer on why exactly the Biden administration was so sanguine about Chinese prospects in Afghanistan.
00:29:29.000Remember, the State Department said just this week, they said, you know, China and Russia, they're probably pretty upset we pulled out from Afghanistan.
00:29:37.000The thing they wanted most was for us to stay.
00:29:39.000Weird, says Andrea Mitchell, again, shockingly doing an act of journalism here, saying, I've noticed that China are happy to work with the Taliban.
00:29:47.000China is moving towards recognition of the Taliban already.
00:29:51.000Well, look- Without any guarantees of human rights or any other guarantees?
00:29:56.000It just so happens that China, the People's Republic of China, is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
00:30:03.000So I can tell you precisely what they said when they signed onto the statement on August 16th.
00:30:13.000But what they're doing today is moving towards recognizing the Taliban.
00:30:17.000I am going to have to defer to officials in Beijing to speak to what they're doing.
00:30:22.000I can tell you precisely what they signed on to, precisely what... But what does that tell you about their intent?
00:30:29.000I'm not here to divine the intents of the PRC government.
00:30:47.000So if you're an ally of the United States, you have to be feel super uncomfortable at this point.
00:30:51.000Like, why wouldn't you engage in the real politic of attempting to triangulate by by playing off the United States against, for example, China and Russia?
00:30:58.000Why wouldn't you be attempting to reach out to other great powers for some semblance of support?
00:31:02.000Why wouldn't you become more of a free agent?
00:31:03.000See, the United States, in order to have allies, has to make commitments and has to fulfill those commitments.
00:31:09.000We have, so far this decade, abandoned the Kurds, abandoned the people of Hong Kong, abandoned the dissidents in Iran, abandoned the dissidents in Cuba, abandoned the entire country of Afghanistan.
00:31:18.000We're about to abandon our allies in Taiwan.
00:31:21.000So what exactly is the incentive for anyone to make a sacrifice in order to be an ally to the United States?
00:31:30.000And remember, this is the same administration that is currently attempting to, for example, legitimize, in large measure, Israel's opponent.
00:31:37.000So if you're Israel, do you trust the United... If you're Saudi, if you're the Saudis, do you trust the United States at this point to have your back if things get hairy?
00:31:47.000By the way, Hamas, which has been, which was treated by the entire media, not as the provocateur and terrorist group that it is in the last Israel-Hamas conflict, but instead as a sort of victimized power.
00:31:58.000Hamas is celebrating the Taliban takeover.
00:31:59.000They issued a statement welcoming, quote, the defeat of the American occupation in all Afghan land and praising the Taliban's, quote, courageous leadership on this victory, which was the culmination of its long struggle over the past 20 years.
00:32:09.000Definitely people that we should force Israel into negotiations with.
00:32:13.000Meanwhile, by the way, there seems to be this idea out there by the Biden administration that all this is going to make Biden more popular, that in the end, pulling out from Afghanistan is going to create vast popularity.
00:32:23.000The American people are congenitally isolationist.
00:32:26.000Americans are not particularly fond of presidents who campaign on the basis of going into war.
00:32:30.000Going all the way back to World War I, when Woodrow Wilson literally campaigned in 1916 on the slogan, he kept us out of the war, and then proceeded to take us into World War I. So Americans are really not fond of war.
00:32:43.000But there is one thing that Americans hate worse than getting in war, and that's getting our ass kicked by a bunch of savage barbarians from the 8th century.
00:32:49.000We are not fond of that look, particularly.
00:32:51.000And Joe Biden is feeling that in the approval ratings.
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00:35:18.000And so many of the folks in the media, they keep pretending that at some point, at some point Biden is going to emerge unscathed from all this, which is what they really care about because here's the deal.
00:35:34.000It is a phrase that Charles Krauthammer once used in a speech, a very famous speech in 2009, where he said, decline is a choice.
00:35:40.000You know, people act as though the decline of the United States is inevitable, but you actually have to make the active choice for decline.
00:35:48.000The bloated, cancerous social democracy ideas of Europe for home, and he has chosen the surrender-first caucus politics abroad.
00:35:56.000We are a country and a republic in decline, and that decline is in fact a choice.
00:36:01.000We are not muscular in our own defense.
00:36:03.000We are not interested in our own interests.
00:36:05.000We have decided we are going to blow out the debt at home.
00:36:07.000We are going to spend more money than God or man has ever seen or created.
00:36:10.000And we are going to destroy our own credibility on the world stage and hand it over to our enemies at the same time.
00:36:15.000We are watching the self-cannibalization of the American legacy in real time.
00:36:20.000But the media are convinced that all this is fine for Joe Biden, because if Joe Biden doesn't spend the money on guns over there, he can spend the money on butter here at home, is the idea.
00:36:28.000So Nicole Wallace is leading this ridiculous group of folks over at MSNBC.
00:36:36.00095% of the American people will agree with everything he just said.
00:36:44.00095% of the press covering this White House will disagree.
00:36:47.000And for an American president to finally be completely aligned with such an overwhelming majority of what the American people think about Afghanistan is probably a tremendous relief to the American people.
00:37:04.000Okay, so this is what the media are going to turn to.
00:37:06.000So again, I'm not going to say the whole media because there's some who are honest enough to note what is happening here.
00:37:10.000But the Nicole Wallace party line here, which is that eventually the American people are going to turn in favor of all of this and be super happy about it.
00:37:38.000According to Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor, Joe Biden, in the process of this entire debacle, has not spoken to a single foreign leader.
00:37:45.000Remember, this is the great diplomacy first president.
00:37:48.000This is the man who said on national TV just two days ago that he was pursuing diplomacy ties with our international allies.
00:37:55.000He has been in Camp David Playing old Atari games and watching Matlock while eating Ensure with a Spoon, while not calling any of our allies, according to Jake Sullivan.
00:38:07.000He has not yet spoken with any other world leaders.
00:38:11.000Myself, Secretary Blinken, several other senior members of the team have been engaged on a regular basis with foreign counterparts and we intend to do so in the coming days.
00:38:21.000Right now the main issue is an operational issue.
00:38:24.000It's about how we coordinate with them to help them get their people out.
00:38:30.000We've not spoken to any foreign leaders.
00:38:32.000And by the way, Jen Psaki was asked, so when does Biden return to D.C.?
00:38:36.000Said, well, there's really no timetable.
00:38:37.000Because remember, he did his little press conference and then he just walked out and headed right back to vacation.
00:38:43.000The President will return to the White House.
00:38:46.000I don't have an exact time for you, but tomorrow he will both be doing an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC, and he will also, where he will of course, I'm certain, be speaking to the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
00:38:58.000He'll also be delivering some remarks on COVID as well.
00:39:02.000In terms of additional portions of the schedule next week, we're still working those through, so I don't have an update for you at this moment in time.
00:39:37.000You have to, in order to get into Hawaii, you have to show that you've been vaccinated or you have to show a negative PCR test within the last 48 hours.
00:39:45.000And Hawaii has the exact same trajectory as Florida.
00:39:47.000So it turns out the Delta variant is extremely transmissible.
00:39:51.000But Biden needs some talking point to get people to stop talking about the fact that he's an incompetent buffoon.
00:39:56.000Even Chuck Todd, who's normally administration cheerleader, he says, uh, yeah, the veneer of competence, that's gone.
00:40:03.000I do think the biggest political fallout from this is competency.
00:40:06.000Joe Biden's greatest strength against Donald Trump in the campaign was the idea that he's been around the block, he knows what he's doing, we're facing this crisis with COVID, we need some basic competency back in government, no more chaos.
00:40:19.000He's lost the competency high marks that he was getting at one time.
00:41:14.000He's not been there for quite a while.
00:41:16.000The lights are on, but nobody is home.
00:41:18.000That attic is missing a couple of boxes and the people around him are doing nothing to facilitate actual competency in government.
00:41:25.000Representative Seth Moulton, Democrat from Massachusetts, who actually is a former military member.
00:41:30.000Even he was ripping on the President of the United States yesterday on MSNBC.
00:41:35.000With the number of people we need to get out and the number of days that we had before U.S.
00:41:40.000troop withdrawal is complete, they should have been conducting this evacuation for months.
00:41:46.000This is the first question I asked Secretary Austin when he came before the House Armed Services Committee just two months ago.
00:41:52.000I said, Mr. Secretary, why have you not already begun this evacuation?
00:41:58.000All the scenes of total chaos that we saw play out on the TV yesterday could have been avoided if the administration had planned for this in advance.
00:42:15.000It's an act of pure insanity what has happened here.
00:42:19.000By the way, how delusional does the United States remain?
00:42:22.000So, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield was asked on CNN by Wolf Blitzer about the Taliban violating people's rights.
00:42:30.000Her answer was, in no uncertain terms, the United Nations would be putting through, quote, a very strongly worded press statement from the Security Council that we expect the Taliban to respect women's rights and to be respectful of humanitarian law.
00:42:45.000The Biden administration and our allies.
00:42:47.000Our allies on the UN Security Council, like China and Russia, definitely.
00:42:52.000That's a strongly worded statement to a bunch of 8th century barbarians who are literally wielding whips.
00:42:57.000I kid you not, according to CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, they're wielding whips at the airport to smack any Afghan attempting to leave the country and escape their barbaric rule.
00:43:08.000If we issue a strongly, a very strongly worded statement, says Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the UN.
00:43:14.000If we do that, definitely, they will stop doing what they have been doing.
00:43:18.000Because after all, they're not 8th century barbarians we just handed billions of dollars in sophisticated military hardware.
00:44:11.000There are a lot of people on the left who are far more concerned with the enemies within than with the enemies abroad.
00:44:16.000This is why you saw the spectacle of General Mark Milley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying to Congress that he was deeply, deeply concerned about the roots of white rage.
00:44:56.000These jackasses have made a mockery, like an absolute mockery of the sacrifices of the brave men and women of the American armed services who sacrificed in many cases, in thousands of cases, their lives, in tens of thousands of cases, their body parts, their livelihoods, their mental health, in order to establish American security on the ground in Afghanistan and provide us a base to fight terrorism from.
00:45:20.000And yes, to add to the humanitarian values that were in Afghanistan.
00:45:24.000Those people have been abjectly betrayed by this administration.
00:45:27.000I'm getting letters from them all day long, the last several days.
00:45:31.000And this administration, they were focusing on what really mattered.
00:45:34.000And that was the threat of white supremacy within.
00:45:36.000That was the threat of domestic terrorism in the United States.
00:45:42.000There are bad people in the United States.
00:49:32.000We have violent terrorists in the United— By the way, you know what happened with that?
00:49:35.000You know how many people were actually murdered on that day?
00:49:41.000The answer is that no actual people were murdered on that day.
00:49:44.000The only person who was actually killed on that day, as in actively killed on that day, was Ashley Babbitt, who was one of the protesters, one of the rioters, right?
00:49:50.000She was engaging in criminal activity.
00:49:53.000And the entire place was cleared within three hours and the government went on.
00:49:58.000So if that sounds a lot like the Taliban to you, it's because you're a crazy person.
00:50:00.000It's because you're out of your damned mind.
00:50:03.000There are also gradations of people doing bad things and believing terrible things.
00:50:08.000The people who invaded the Capitol building in the belief that the election was illegitimate are not remotely on the level of human beings in Afghanistan who wish to crowd women back into basements, keep them there as sex slaves for decades on end, make sure they can't go to school, make sure that everybody lives under the most brutal and violent form of Sharia law.
00:50:28.000Like, can we make any sort of gradations here?
00:50:31.000Can we say that even if we think that the January 6th riots were an act of evil, that that is a different level of evil than people who are literally living in Stone Age barbarism and murdering people in order to ensure that Stone Age barbarism rules?
00:50:48.000And in fact, the people in the United States who did this are much more dangerous to us than the Taliban.
00:50:52.000They're much more dangerous, like, because 9-11 never happened, you see.
00:50:56.0009-11 was a figment of your imagination.
00:50:58.0009-11, in fact, what happened on January 6th is worse than 9-11 in the minds of the left, because it came from here, even though it resulted, again, in no murders.
00:51:09.000That is not to downplay the evil of that.
00:51:12.000But the comparison to 9-11 itself is idiotic.
00:51:25.000The real threat is people who think like you.
00:51:27.000And by the way, if you don't think that they are conflating everybody, if you think that Colbert is just talking about the rioters, you're wrong.
00:51:33.000Who you'll recall, I debated on Bill Maher, and I pointed out that Malcolm Nance has a really, really nasty habit of conflating the people who engaged in criminal activity on January 6th with everyone who voted for Trump.
00:51:45.000His theory is that Trump voters everywhere are going to engage in an actual violent civil war, which would explain why we need to pull out from Afghanistan to activate against those people.
00:51:53.000Here's Malcolm Nance doing what he does most often, which is claim that he has inside intelligence information suggesting that a massive civil war is about to break out in the United States, led by Trump.
00:52:03.000These guys view themselves as this fanciful group of patriotic freedom fighters, the second coming of the Sons of Liberty.
00:52:11.000And there are many of them who are preparing for civil war right now.
00:52:16.000All the shame that we tried to give them after January 6th, that's gone.
00:52:21.000There are many of them right now that are ready to fight, and we're seeing politicians in the state houses and the Capitol who are actually, you know, pushing them subliminally to fight.
00:53:56.000But if you can draw the parallel, the left has been doing this for 20 years, by the way, but now it's really kicked into high gear since Trump.
00:54:03.000If you can draw the parallel between enemies abroad and enemies at home, you can treat enemies at home as we treated enemies abroad.
00:54:14.000Because for members of the radical left and increasingly the mainstream left, if the idea is we rebuild moral capital by destroying the enemies here at home, this is how tyranny happens.
00:54:30.000We've probably killed tens of thousands of members of the Taliban over the years.
00:54:34.000If there's an equivalent group in the United States to the Taliban, we would have to treat them like we treated the Taliban, would we not?
00:54:42.000Members of the left are eager and happy about that, of the hard left.
00:54:46.000If that sentiment grows, that really is a threat to the future of the country on a broad scale.
00:54:50.000But we have many threats to the future of the country.
00:54:51.000We have the radicals on the left who think that everybody who disagrees with them is the American Taliban and must be thoroughly destroyed.
00:54:57.000We have a group of people on the left who believe that government ought to rule all of our lives on the basis of the slimmest and thinnest of reeds, like at this point, the COVID pandemic.
00:55:07.000We have people on the left who believe that the pathway back to American moral capital is to completely destroy the American economic system by burdening it with the greatest spending binge in the history of anything, and to destroy America's credibility on the foreign stage.