Sen. Chuck Schumer dances as Americans are stuck in Kabul, the Biden administration has no good answers to just why Joe Biden is disconnected from reality, and ISIS is on the rise again. All that and more on today s show with Ben Shapiro. Today s show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, stand up for your digital rights, take action at ExpressVPN.org/standupforyourdigitalrights. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/OurAdvertisers and use the promo code: CRIMINALS at checkout to get 10% off your first month with discount code CRIMENTIALS. You can also get 20% off any purchase of $99 or more when you enter the Promo Code CRIMENIALS when you sign up to receive $10 or more at checkout. This offer expires on November 30th, 2019, so don t wait until then to receive your discount offer. If you already have an ExpressVPN membership, you ll get 50% off for the first month when you upgrade to a 2-year plan! You'll get access to all of the features mentioned in this offer, plus an additional $50 off your 1-year membership when you make your first purchase. All you have to be able to access all of ExpressVPN's premium features, including the ability to surf, use the VIP membership, and get an ad-free version of the site, and access all the features, and features, for as little as $99.99. The offer is good at no longer than $99 a year, and gets you access to the best 4GB of the service, plus you get an extra $5,99 a month, plus a 20GB card, and an additional 50GB of VGA membership offer, for the choice of any other option, including unlimited 3GB of your choice, and a 5GB of data plan, for a maximum of $50, and up to $150,000 in total speed and $25,000 of your first year of the first year, plus they'll get you a maximum speed and 7GB of SPOTION. They also gets you all access to watch all of these features, plus the option to watch the show on the App Store and VSCO Pro and VGA Pro, Vimeo, and Vimeo Pro, they'll also get you all of that, plus all other options.
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00:01:34.000Apparently, the leadership of the Democratic Party, they just don't care very much.
00:01:38.000I'm not sure how else to read their activities this weekend.
00:01:41.000You had Nancy Pelosi off in Napa Valley dining with the DCCC, and you had Chuck Schumer dancing it up with Stephen Colbert in New York City.
00:01:50.000This is kind of an astonishing tape, given the fact that there are currently thousands of American citizens stuck in Kabul, and the Senate Majority Leader is dancing it up with Stephen Colbert, according to the New York Post.
00:02:00.000Senator Chuck Schumer was ripped on Twitter for dancing with Stephen Colbert backstage at the We Love NYC concert amid the ongoing catastrophe in Afghanistan.
00:02:07.000And as the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge across the U.S., backstage antics wrote Mayor de Blasio's Press Secretary Bill Neihart in a Twitter posting on Saturday, before the star-studded concert in Central Park was abruptly canceled because of storms and lightning.
00:02:26.000And thus was the We Love NYC celebration cancelled.
00:02:30.000Here is a little bit of some incredibly awkward dancing between the Senate Majority Leader and a man who used to be funny at one point, Stephen Colbert.
00:02:37.000Although it's been a long time, it's hard to remember, I know.
00:03:03.000Meanwhile, thousands of Americans are still stuck in Kabul with no way out.
00:03:07.000And now, the Taliban are openly mocking us.
00:03:11.000So, they put up a photo of their guys raising a Taliban flag in the same exact formation as the Marines on Iwo Jima in World War II.
00:03:22.000According to the Marine Corps Times, in one particular image released this week, members of the Taliban Badri 313 Battalion appeared to mock Joe Rosenthal's iconic 1945 image of the flag raised atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
00:03:35.000In the Taliban image, fighters belonging to Badri 313, which some are calling the Taliban's elite commando unit, are shown wearing full camouflage uniforms, combat boots, tactical gear, and night vision goggles.
00:03:44.000Similar photographs released in recent days show Taliban fighters carrying weapons and equipment issued by the United States or allied nations, including M4 carbines and what appear to be Trijicon Advanced Combat Optical Gun Sights, or ACOGs.
00:03:56.000The images are a noticeable departure from traditional depictions of Taliban fighters who seldom appeared with heavy weaponry or in full military garb, spoils left behind by the Afghan army. So things are going really well. They're going even better than that, actually. It turns out that over at the airport, a Fox News reporter is suggesting, Lucas Tomlinson, that the Taliban have been stepping up attacks on Afghans outside Abiy Gedi Kabul airport.
00:04:18.000They've been tearing up passports and other vital documents.
00:04:20.000One Afghan trying to escape says the Taliban knocked his wife's teeth out at a checkpoint, which of course is no shock at all.
00:04:27.000You have to understand that the Kabul airport, you think of an airport as like a big place with a lot of runways.
00:04:32.000Kabul airport is not a big place with a lot of runways.
00:04:46.000All the Taliban have to do to knock out the ability of anyone to fly anything out of Afghanistan at this point is send one more around into the runway.
00:04:55.000And everybody knows this, which is why they're treating the Taliban with kid gloves.
00:04:57.000Meanwhile, the Taliban are basically screening whoever goes through the checkpoints, the security.
00:05:03.000And this has resulted not just in Afghans being targeted, but also in Americans being targeted as well.
00:05:07.000If you have an American passport, and if you have the right credentials, the Taliban has been allowing people to pass safely through.
00:05:13.000being beaten by the Taliban as they approach these checkpoints.
00:05:32.000There have been incidents of people having some tough encounters with Taliban.
00:05:39.000As we learn about those incidents, we certainly go back and engage the Taliban leadership and press home to them that our expectation is that they allow our people with the appropriate credentials to get through the checkpoints.
00:05:56.000Oh, well, you know, as long as we're conveying our feelings to the Taliban, obviously that will change things.
00:06:01.000By the way, the State Department guidance right now is utterly unclear.
00:06:03.000They're basically saying we can't guarantee your safety to get to the airport.
00:06:07.000You should wait until we get back to you and give you instructions, but also don't call us because we're overwhelmed.
00:06:13.000So it remains a complete crap show over in Kabul.
00:06:18.000Meanwhile, Tony Blinken is trying to explain that the best way to get to the Kabul airport is to go yourself.
00:06:22.000We're not going to be sending soldiers out there the way that the British have, the way that the Italians have, like there are other people who are out there, the Ukrainians have, like they're sending their military into the city to go pick up their citizens and bring them back.
00:06:33.000Tony Blinken is saying basically you have to get there yourself and we'll try to figure out a way to get you out, but we can't guarantee your safety getting there, but also we're not going to come get you.
00:06:42.000So imagine for a second that you were an American stuck in Afghanistan.
00:06:48.000Would you try to brave the thousands of people who are now surrounding the Kabul airport, including Taliban fighters, to get through there?
00:06:55.000Let's say you're an American woman and you're trying to get through.
00:06:59.000Do you feel perfectly comfortable that you would get through the phalanx of Taliban fighters and barbarians who are now guarding the airport?
00:07:08.000Tony Blinken says, well, you know, we're doing our best.
00:07:11.000The best way, the most effective way, the way I'm focused on to get folks in, again, is to be in direct contact with them and to help guide them in, to give them instructions on where to go, when to go there, and then we can bring them into the airport safely and effectively.
00:07:26.000So they are still effectively on their own getting to the airport?
00:07:30.000Again, we found that the best way to do this is to be in direct touch with them.
00:07:35.000President, Secretary of Defense have been clear that we will do whatever it takes to get Americans home and out of harm's way.
00:07:46.000Yes, I'm sure that as people hear stories about people having the crap beat out of them by the Taliban, their first thought is, well, probably I'm just going to go there.
00:07:53.000You know, I mean, like, what could be the harm?
00:08:03.000Presumably the hundreds or thousands of Americans who are not in Kabul, right?
00:08:06.000This is just the Americans who are in Kabul.
00:08:08.000But there are Americans at NGOs all over Afghanistan.
00:08:11.000A lot of those people ain't coming home.
00:08:13.000And I promise you, a year from now, there are going to be videos of Americans in Afghanistan who are being held hostage by the Taliban.
00:08:21.000If you think that American involvement in Afghanistan ended with Joe Biden declaring that American involvement in Afghanistan is over, just watch the news for the next year or so.
00:08:37.000government doesn't actually know the precise answer to that question, and that's because we ask every American who comes to Afghanistan to register with the U.S.
00:09:11.000So they have no idea how many people are actually there.
00:09:14.000Meanwhile, Fox News' Trey Yingst, he says there is no clear plan in place to rescue the Americans who are outside of Kabul.
00:09:19.000Because remember again, not all of the Americans are in Kabul.
00:09:23.000The question we keep hearing, whether it's people reaching out online saying we have relatives or friends trapped in Kabul or elsewhere, they keep asking, what's the plan?
00:09:33.000Who can I contact to make sure that my loved ones get to the airport?
00:09:37.000And while there is a limited plan to get countries, including the United States, on the ground here to evacuate those who can make it to the airport, there is no clear plan in place to save the thousands of Americans who are not only spread out around Kabul, but in other cities, Herat, Kandahar, smaller cities around the country.
00:09:57.000All of this because Joe Biden decided to precipitously pull out with no warning, without really any plan.
00:10:03.000He said we were going to pull out April 14th, but he didn't start actually evacuating people.
00:10:07.000So instead, we just moved the military out and we left all the materiel and human beings behind, which is precisely the opposite of what you would do, even if you're in favor of the withdrawal, which again, I think is politically foolish.
00:10:19.000But even if you're in favor of the withdrawal, even if you think that this was something that had to be done, we may as well do it sooner rather than later, you at least have to leave the soldiers in there long enough to make sure that we get our stuff and people out.
00:10:29.000Instead, we just handed our military technology over to the Taliban.
00:10:34.000We basically cut our own hamstrings so we can't actually effectuate a way of getting people out of there to the point where now, not only do we not have an ability to get people out of there, the Biden administration is openly at this point talking about bombing all of the people and resources that we left there.
00:10:55.000So the idea is we left all of these military resources behind.
00:11:16.000We are no longer in charge over there.
00:11:19.000According to Politico, in the chaos of the moment, it's unclear to U.S.
00:11:22.000officials how much equipment the Taliban has seized and how much of that sits unattended on bases and in small combat outposts across the country.
00:11:28.000That uncertainty over the status of a massive arsenal is sparking fears of a regional arms bazaar that could be a boon to terrorist groups and insurgents.
00:11:36.000The images that have spread across the world over the past week of Taliban fighters posing in front of captured helicopters and light attack aircraft have allowed the group to further humiliate the former Afghan and American governments.
00:11:46.000But these images don't concern longtime extremism watchers as much as the proliferation of guns, bullets, and grenades.
00:11:53.000So now, I guess we're going to have to send troops back in to blow all that stuff up.
00:11:57.000CNN, meanwhile, reporting there really is no access to the airport.
00:12:01.000The Americans have closed all the gates access.
00:12:04.000There is no access to the airport at the moment, except through one British access point called Camp Barron, which is on the outskirts of the airport where people are processed there and then moved into the airport once they've been cleared to fly out.
00:12:19.000Now, that has been the case now for many hours.
00:12:23.000That is Sam Kiley of CNN reporting as of yesterday.
00:12:25.000Sky News also reporting on the chaos and saying, yeah, no, things are not organized out here.
00:13:30.000Seven people were crushed just over the weekend in panic at the airport.
00:13:34.000So things are going absolutely swimmingly.
00:13:36.000Thousands continue to try to flee the country.
00:13:38.000The British military on Sunday acknowledged at least seven deaths at the airport.
00:13:43.000And again, apparently one of the people who was killed was a two-year-old.
00:13:47.000Apparently, soldiers had covered several corpses in white clothing.
00:13:51.000Other troops stood on concrete barriers trying to calm down the crowd.
00:13:54.000Others may have been trampled, suffocated, or suffered heart attacks as Taliban fighters fired into the air to try to drive back the crowds as well.
00:14:02.000And, um, apparently the, uh, the temperatures have reached about 93 degrees Fahrenheit over there.
00:14:07.000So, uh, so things are very hot and, uh, and, and sticky and just, it's pretty terrible all the way through.
00:14:14.000Meanwhile, who's actually setting the rules here?
00:15:10.000You can always start small, and you can buy more seats later on if you want your Allform sofa to grow and change with you when you move or when your family grows.
00:15:16.000Allform sofas are delivered directly to your door.
00:15:18.000In the past, if you wanted to order a sofa, you'd need to hire somebody to come assemble it for you.
00:16:24.000Or what is your thought process on extending the evacuation operation?
00:16:30.000The discussions going on among us and the military about extending our Our hope is we will not have to extend, but there are going to be discussions, I suspect, on how far along we are in the process.
00:16:42.000So there are discussions on whether we're going to have to extend.
00:16:44.000In the meantime, in the meantime, the Taliban are saying, you're not extending.
00:16:55.000As I mentioned, there's only one way out of this hostage situation for the Biden administration.
00:16:59.000That is to hand billions of dollars to the Taliban.
00:17:01.000We are going to become the chief funders of some of the worst terrorist supporters on planet Earth and the worst regime on planet Earth.
00:17:06.000That is what the United States has been transformed to.
00:17:09.000From the greatest fighting force on planet Earth, killing tens of thousands of Taliban members every year in coordination with our Afghan allies, to the people sponsoring the Taliban.
00:17:17.000That is what we are going to turn into.
00:17:18.000Because the Taliban has now met with Sky News in Doha, Qatar.
00:17:22.000And here is what Sky News is reporting.
00:17:24.000Taliban spokesperson Dr. Suhail Shaheen said, quote, it's a red line.
00:17:28.000President Biden announced on August 31st they would withdraw all their military forces.
00:17:32.000So if they extend it, that means they're extending occupation.
00:17:44.000If they are intent on continuing the occupation, it will provoke a reaction.
00:17:49.000All of that comes as Boris Johnson is personally begging with Joe Biden to extend the deadline to allow more people to flee the reign of terror of the Taliban.
00:17:55.000Meanwhile, desperate scenes grow at Kabul International Airport.
00:17:58.000According to Sky News, people are prepared to leave everything and risk their lives to escape life under the militant group rule.
00:18:03.000When pressed on this issue, that people are clinging onto aircraft, leaving the country, and that that is far from routine, Dr. Shaheen, he's probably a great doctor, probably.
00:18:12.000Dr. Shaheen, the spokesperson for the Taliban.
00:18:15.000He said, They want to reside in Western countries.
00:18:21.000And that is a kind of economic migration because Afghanistan is poor and 70% of the people in Afghanistan live under the poverty line.
00:18:26.000So everyone wants to resettle in Western countries to have a prosperous life, but it's not about being scared of the Taliban.
00:18:32.000When asked about footage that the Taliban are going door-to-door and threatening people and closing down girls' schools and banning women from television, and when asked about a story from CNN that the brother of an Afghan translator was just murdered the other day.
00:18:46.000CNN is reporting that the Taliban have sentenced the brother of an Afghan translator to death, according to letters obtained by CNN, accusing him of helping the U.S.
00:18:53.000in providing security to his brother, who served as an interpreter to American troops.
00:18:58.000So the Taliban are obviously doing all this sort of stuff.
00:19:51.000Okay, so the Taliban are in charge, they're setting the deadline, and they've said there will be consequences if we move past August 31st, which of course means that the United States is now Basically, the Taliban is playing the tune and the United States, the most powerful country in the history of the world, is dancing to the tune of a bunch of 8th century barbarians armed with weapons that we gave them.
00:20:12.000The way that we are coping with this, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, is we are now ordering commercial airlines to provide passenger jets to help with the growing U.S.
00:20:22.000Lloyd Austin activated Stage 1 of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, created in 1952 after the Berlin Airlift, to provide 18 airliners to help ferry passengers arriving at bases in the Middle East from Afghanistan, according to the Pentagon spokesperson.
00:20:34.000The current activation is for 18 planes, four from the United Airlines, three from American, Atlas Air, Delta Airlines, and Omni Air, and two from Hawaiian Airlines.
00:20:44.000Captain John Perkins, spokesman for the military's transportation command, said the commercial airliners would begin service on Monday or Tuesday.
00:20:49.000They would fly evacuees from the Middle East to Europe and from Europe to the United States.
00:20:54.000So obviously this is a well-planned, well-coordinated effort when you have to call on Hawaiian Airlines to airlift people out of Afghanistan.
00:21:01.000Not gonna say that's on their normal flight schedule.
00:21:02.000It's like, so yesterday they were flying from, you know, LAX to Maui.
00:21:08.000military is like, okay, we're gonna need you to redirect to Kabul.
00:21:12.000I'd love to be on that flight crew, gang.
00:21:15.000Captain Perkins said in a telephone interview the military had requested wide-body, long-haul aircraft capable of carrying several hundred passengers.
00:21:21.000He said discussions had started with the airlines last week, and some carriers had volunteered, but the demand was great enough for Austin to order more airlines to honor their obligations under the Reserve Fleet Program.
00:21:31.000Civilian planes would not fly into or out of Kabul, where a rapidly deteriorating security situation is hampered.
00:21:36.000Instead, they would help transport thousands of Afghans arriving in Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE.
00:21:41.000So they're not actually flying into Kabul, but they are flying into the Middle East, where they weren't flying before, and they'll be flying people out of there.
00:21:46.000That's how well-coordinated this effort has been.
00:21:50.000Meanwhile, ISIS is back, so that's exciting.
00:21:54.000Embassy in Kabul are deeply disheartened by U.S.
00:21:57.000evacuation orders and have expressed a deep sense of betrayal, according to NBC News, by the way.
00:22:02.000There was a cable that said memos had been sent to Afghan staff at the embassy on Wednesday inviting them to head to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
00:22:08.000It told them to take food and prepare for difficult conditions.
00:22:11.000No one anticipated the brutal experience that occurred, according to the embassy staff.
00:22:14.000Staffers reported being jostled, hit, spat on, and cursed at by Taliban fighters near the airport.
00:22:19.000Adding criminals were taking advantage of the chaos while the U.S.
00:22:21.000military tried to maintain order in an extremely physical situation.
00:22:24.000Some staff members reported they were almost separated from their kids.
00:22:27.000Others collapsed and crushed people and had to be taken to the hospital with injuries, according to the cable.
00:22:32.000Others said they had collapsed on the road because of heat exhaustion.
00:22:35.000One staff member said it would be better to die under the Taliban's bullet than face the crowds again.
00:22:39.000Happy to die here, but with dignity and pride, said another.
00:23:04.000And there are lots of services that are available to you, like the interwebs.
00:23:07.000So why would you stand in line in an auto parts store?
00:23:09.000You get to the front of the line, you get some doofus at the front who tells you all about the different parts they have, and then says they are out of stock for the part you need, orders it, upcharges you, it says come back in two weeks.
00:23:20.000Why not just go to the internet and use rockauto.com?
00:23:22.000Rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible, rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear, like airlines do.
00:23:29.000Why would you spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
00:23:31.000They're a family business, serving auto parts customers online for 20 years.
00:24:02.000Meanwhile, in case you were wondering whether the terror problem in Afghanistan is going to continue to be a problem, the answer is ISIS is back.
00:24:24.000It is something we are focused on with every tool in our arsenal, said Jake Sullivan, the president's national security advisor, he told CNN on Sunday when asked whether crowds of Kabul International Airport are vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
00:24:36.000Because, by the way, that is a real possibility.
00:24:38.000You got a bunch of Americans and Afghan allies who are just lined up around this place.
00:24:43.000All it would take is one ISIS guy with an AK to mow down a bunch of those people.
00:24:47.000President Biden speaking from the White House said, quote, we know that terrorists may seek to exploit the situation and target innocent Afghans or American troops. We're maintaining constant vigilance to monitor and disrupt threats from any source. Concerns over Islamic State attacks were one reason the US.
00:25:01.000Embassy warned Americans on Saturday to avoid traveling to the airport in Kabul and to avoid airport gates, defense officials have said.
00:25:08.000If Americans can't go to the airport, and they can't go to the airport gates, and you're worried about ISIS killing them, what are you going to do now?
00:25:53.000national security officials to appear on Sunday morning news programs to discuss the evacuation effort.
00:25:58.000But honestly, if you think things are bad now over there, wait until there's an actual terrorist attack on the gates outside of the Kabul airport.
00:26:07.000Because then you're just relying on the Taliban to basically provide full-fledged security.
00:26:11.000Right now it's not just, will the Taliban be nice enough to allow our people to leave if we bribe them?
00:26:15.000Now the question is, will the Taliban actually go to war with Al-Qaeda to stop Al-Qaeda from killing people who are outside the gates?
00:26:21.000And that is a very real possibility given the fact the State Department is now telling people not to go to the airport because they're afraid of terrorist attacks.
00:26:31.000intelligence assessments have said the group could completely reconstitute in Afghanistan within 18 months to two years after an American withdrawal.
00:26:47.000So, the good news is, we have a president who is clearly with us, a president who is clearly in control, a president who has defined this policy and plan for every contingency, and totally knows what's going on right now.
00:27:00.000Or, alternatively, we have a house plant.
00:27:03.000Who is not with us, and has not been with us for quite some time.
00:27:07.000So, Chris Wallace had on the Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, who has really outdone himself this time.
00:27:12.000And Tony Blinken is not good at his job, and he is extraordinarily not good at his job.
00:27:16.000Chris Wallace on Fox News asked him, you know, the president keeps saying things that are not true, like over and over.
00:27:21.000The president said Al Qaeda isn't in Afghanistan.
00:27:37.000Like is the president like on this planet as of any time recently?
00:27:42.000Or is he just too wrapped up in that Matlock marathon?
00:27:45.000on cable channel 799 to pay attention to what's going on.
00:27:49.000Here's Chris Wallace with Tony Blinken.
00:27:51.000Tony Blinken's answer here is somewhat disturbing.
00:27:53.000Mr. Secretary, does the president not know what's going on?
00:27:58.000This is an incredibly emotional time for many of us, and including allies and partners who've been shoulder to shoulder with us in Afghanistan for 20 years.
00:28:10.000So the question was, does the president know what's going on?
00:28:13.000And the Secretary of State's answer is, it's an emotional time for us all.
00:29:07.000That is the only reason the Taliban are in control.
00:29:10.000Someone in our audience might listen to you, Mr. Secretary, and say, oh, so we have to ask the Taliban for permission for American citizens to leave.
00:29:29.000What I'm focused on, what we're all focused on, is getting people out and making sure that we're doing everything possible to do that.
00:29:37.000And in this case, it is, I think, a requirement of the job to be in contact with the Taliban, which controls Kabul.
00:29:46.000If your jaw's not on the floor after listening to clips like that, I don't know what to tell you.
00:29:50.000The most powerful country in world history has put the Taliban in charge of Kabul, with thousands of American citizens still stranded in country.
00:29:58.000The Taliban is in charge of the gates.
00:30:00.000In terms of who gets in and who gets out, the Taliban is supposed to be in charge of preventing terror attacks on Americans and Afghans.
00:30:06.000People who they want to kill, by the way.
00:30:08.000And Tony Blinken's like, well, you know, they're in charge.
00:30:12.000And when asked whether he is comfortable with that, his answer is, we're focused on the future.
00:30:37.000And by the way, I was on the phone with President Karzai the day before, when he was telling me his intent, as he put it, to fight to the death.
00:31:38.000And because there's no hand at the wheel, no hand at the tiller, a decision to direct the... to essentially tie the tiller such that the ship is directed directly at an iceberg.
00:31:50.000And then to be like, well, I guess, you know, if an emergency arises, we'll do something.
00:32:33.000Two major events, I think is fair to say.
00:32:35.000One is the killing of Osama bin Laden, the other is the pullout.
00:32:38.000Joe Biden was on the wrong side of both of those.
00:32:40.000Joe Biden opposed the raid that killed bin Laden.
00:32:42.000And now, he was in favor of withdrawing with no contingency plan, radically, without any sort of advance for- like, you would know how to do this.
00:32:54.000You, like the regular Joe, plumber Joe, you would know how to do this.
00:33:11.000And then when the flood hits, you could try to row back in on a rowboat to get those things.
00:33:15.000Or, knowing the flood is coming, you could, theoretically, take your kids, put them in the back of the car, take the boxes of stuff you want, put that in the back of the car, and then drive away and call the insurance company.
00:33:25.000Which one do you think Joe Biden did here?
00:33:27.000Joe Biden was like, not only is a flood coming, I'm going to unleash the flood.
00:33:35.000Also, I'm going to leave my kids in the house over here and all of my pictures, all my old photos.
00:33:39.000I'm just going to leave that stuff there.
00:33:41.000And hey, that was an unforeseen, but I had a plan for it.
00:33:44.000My plan is that I was going to come back later in a rowboat.
00:33:48.000OK, so if you just think that's his team that came up with that plan, First of all, we have multiple reports of people telling Joe Biden this was the dumbest plan ever.
00:34:13.000But now we have Joe Biden, who is not at the top of his game.
00:34:17.000And there was never a top of his game.
00:34:19.000We're not talking about like Michael Jordan in the declining Washington Wizards years.
00:34:23.000We're talking about Benoit Benjamin at the end of his career.
00:34:27.000OK, this is not somebody who is like a great guy, a great player who has now declined somewhat from his peak.
00:34:34.000We're talking about, like, the fringe guy.
00:34:36.000We're talking about, like, Brian Scalabrini at the end of the bench.
00:34:40.000And it's the waning days of his career when he can no longer move.
00:34:44.000And by the way, no rep on Benoit Benjamin or Brian Scalabrini, both of whom were much better at their jobs than Joe Biden is at his job, which is saying a lot because neither one of them are great players.
00:35:01.000If you ask him like a tough question about the fact that he just, you know, blew up America's foreign policy, like completely blew it up because China is ecstatic today.
00:35:10.000We just lost every base we have in the region.
00:35:12.000It's not just that we've lost bases in Afghanistan.
00:35:54.000I'm gonna have to look to Russia and China, try to cut a few deals, try to shore up, you know, kind of backfill some sort of national security here.
00:36:03.000It's, I've never seen anything remotely like it.
00:36:05.000And the president of the United States is not with us.
00:36:48.000This wasn't the Taliban defeated the United States military in armed combat.
00:36:52.000This was not even the Taliban defeated the Afghan military in armed combat.
00:36:55.000This was the United States withdrew close air support from the Afghan military, withdrew all American military contractors, allowing the Afghan Air Force to fly.
00:37:04.000This is the United States completely destroyed the bases for the Afghan army.
00:37:31.000Now, what's hilarious is that he says like these two clips back to back.
00:37:34.000So he says, I don't trust anybody, including you.
00:37:36.000I don't trust the Taliban, but he's going to urge the Taliban to respect the well-beings of Afghans.
00:37:41.000Oh, I'm sure that's what's going to happen, Mr. President.
00:37:43.000I'm sure that's what's going to happen.
00:37:44.000Now you've pulled out all protective forces and destroyed all of our allies and left anyone who allied with us at the risk of being shot in the face by the Taliban.
00:37:52.000I am sure that the Taliban are thinking to themselves, how can we protect the well-being of Afghans in coordination with the desires of the Biden administration that just gave us Apache attack helicopters?
00:38:11.000Here's the president of the United States.
00:38:14.000The Taliban has to make a fundamental decision.
00:38:24.000Is the Taliban going to attempt to be able to unite and provide for the well-being of the people of Afghanistan, which no one group has ever done since before, for hundreds of years?
00:38:41.000And if it does, it's going to need everything from additional help in terms of economic assistance, trade, and a whole range of things.
00:38:52.000The Taliban is going to have to make a decision.
00:38:54.000Okay, so let's say they have to make a decision.
00:38:56.000Who knows what decision they're going to make?
00:38:58.000On the one hand, they could do all the things Joe Biden wants them to do.
00:39:01.000On the other hand, they could tell him to go screw himself, kill everyone who allied with us, stuff the women back into burqas, and then back into the basement, and then rape them, and do whatever the hell they want.
00:39:46.000Well, the good news is that if Joe Biden should actually be declared incompetent, which may, in fact, have to happen at some point here, then the person who will replace him, Kamala Harris, she's up for the job, right?
00:39:57.000Oh, wait, we have video of Kamala Harris, too.
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00:42:22.000In this same presser, he literally forgot the name of his FEMA administrator, which I understand is a forgettable thing, but not if you're president and it's your administrator.
00:45:12.000The new poll out today shows Americans wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan, but they disapprove of the way you've handled it.
00:45:20.000Poll also found that based in part on what's transpired in the last week, the majority of Americans, and forgive me, I'm just the messenger, no longer consider you to be competent, focused, or effective in the job.