The situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate. President Biden says he has no regrets about the Afghanistan collapse, and his botched strategy, and our military leaders say we have no capacity to rescue Americans in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, some 10,000 to 15,000 Americans remain stranded in Kabul at this point. According to eyewitnesses, desperate women in Kabul are attempting to throw their babies over the razor wire to American soldiers in scenes reminiscent of Saigon, in which people are trying to get the hell out of the country before the Taliban come in. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by Express VPN.Your data is your business, and your data is protected at ExpressVPN.org. After two decades, this is what it has come down to. It s horrific news this morning, and we ll get to all of it in just one second. Ben Shapiro: It is horrific news, and this morning we'll get to it in a second, and you'll get all the horrific news in just a second. First, quick reminder: you're paying too much for your cell phone bill. If you're with Verizon or AT&T or T-Mobile, you're just paying way too much. You'll get the same great coverage as one of the big three, but at a fraction of the price. And switching is as easy as switching out your SIM card, and it's as cheap as switching to PureTalk USA, which means you can keep your phone bill down to $30 a month. Plus, you can get unlimited talk, text and text, and keep your number, or get huge discounts on the latest iPhones and Androids Plus, for just $30 per month. That's $30, you re-so you re not paying $30. That s $30! Plus, it s not going to be paying $300 a month anymore. And if you re saving $150 a month, you ll get $250 a month of coverage, $250, say Ben Shapiro to get started, $300, say, $800 a month! . Pure Talk USA Dial UK, $30/month, $25, $50, $100, $150, and $100 a week, $200 a year, $5, $500 a month? That s not $250? That s a good deal! Ben and Ben Shapiro's show is the Ben Shapiro show is a show that s your business protected by ExpressVPN, $1.00
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00:01:35.000The situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate.
00:01:39.000There's now video of Clarissa Ward from CNN trying to walk the gauntlet from Kabul, just the main area of the city, into the airport, and the Taliban stopping her, threatening her crew.
00:01:50.000As she says, it's nearly impossible for any normal Afghan to use their papers to get out of the country at this point.
00:01:56.000Meanwhile, some 10,000 to 15,000 Americans remain stranded in Kabul at this point.
00:02:01.000According to eyewitnesses, this is Sky News reporting, desperate women in Kabul are attempting to throw their babies over the razor wire to American soldiers in scenes reminiscent of Saigon, in which people are trying to get the hell out of the country before the Taliban come in.
00:02:16.000For all the people out there who keep saying things like, well, you know, the people in Afghanistan, they're just going back to what they know.
00:02:20.000Remember, the average age, the average age in Afghanistan, the median age, rather, The median age is 18.4 years old.
00:02:27.000The United States has been occupying Afghanistan since 2001, 20 years.
00:02:31.000So the average person in Afghanistan actually does not remember Taliban rule.
00:02:35.000The average person in Afghanistan has been living in a country occupied by the United States with a nascent democracy.
00:02:41.000For their entire lifetime, and this is particularly true for young women who are now going to be subjected to sex slavery and abuse.
00:02:47.000That is the next move for young women all over the country, but particularly in the major cities, which were again a lot more urban and a lot more controlled by the central government than the rural outlying areas.
00:02:57.000According to Sky News, You can hear a noise as you approach the high iron gates that are the only way into the compound that is the center of the British airlift operation out of Afghanistan.
00:03:05.000On either side of a narrow road, inside the walls of the compound at Kabul Airport, exhausted British soldiers lie in the shade, waiting for their turn to head back outside into the burning sun and the chaos once again.
00:03:18.000Thousands of people are flooding toward this innocuous place that will, for some, be the gateway to freedom, and for many others, the end of a dream of escaping the Taliban.
00:03:25.000After two decades, this is what it has come down to.
00:03:27.000A hasty retreat, a civilian evacuation, with the Taliban watching on.
00:03:31.000As every day passes, this relief operation gets more and more urgent and desperate as the British military tries to move thousands of people out of Afghanistan in just days.
00:03:38.000a dehumanitarian mission in what feels like a war zone, a makeshift barricade is all that separates the two armies who have fought for 20 years.
00:03:45.000The Taliban are just one meter away from the British soldiers a picture I never thought I would see, writes Stuart Ramsey, who's the chief correspondent for the Sky News.
00:03:54.000He says, there are women who are arriving day and night families, often with tiny children, risking their lives, ducking past gunfire at the gates of the civilian side of the airport, passing aggressive Taliban fighters who occasionally beat and harass them.
00:04:07.000In the night, the paratroopers blockaded the road with cars and razor wire.
00:04:11.000A senior officer told me they had no choice because the situation was out of control, but said the blockade will live with some of his soldiers for the rest of their lives.
00:05:38.000On the second day of the Taliban takeover, a Taliban gunman dragged the doctor, who didn't want to use her full name, out of the taxi and whipped her for filming the chaos surrounding the evacuations at the Kabul airport.
00:05:47.000Since he's in control of Afghanistan, the Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more moderate than they were last time.
00:05:52.000Now remember, last time the Taliban took over in 1996, they also pledged to be moderate and to amnesty everybody who was fighting them.
00:05:57.000And then they proceeded to be one of the most brutal regimes on planet Earth.
00:06:01.000Dr. Zuhal was six years old when the Taliban took over Kabul the first time in 1996, the same age as her daughter is now.
00:06:07.000I have so many dreams for her, she said.
00:06:08.000My life and my achievements are tearing in two pieces in front of my eyes.
00:06:11.000I never want this to happen to my daughter already.
00:06:14.000Women are retreating from the public sphere.
00:06:17.000Fatima Ghalana, one of the few women that negotiated with the Taliban as part of the Afghan government, declined to comment.
00:06:22.000Fauzia Koufi, an outspoken women's rights defender and parliamentarian, said she was unable to give interviews under the current circumstances.
00:06:28.000In Kabul, many young women have never even worn a burqa.
00:06:31.000Some often appeared in public without headscarves.
00:06:33.000The wealthiest neighborhoods have come to resemble the West, with young Afghan men and women mixing freely in cafes modeled on Starbucks.
00:06:39.000That's the lifestyle Fatima Hosseini, a 28-year-old photographer, was accustomed to.
00:06:43.000Now she's afraid of appearing in public.
00:07:11.000Back in 2010, he was asked by Richard Holbrooke, then the special envoy by the Obama administration to Afghanistan and Pakistan, about a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, and what that would mean for the people of Afghanistan, the people who had allied themselves with us, sacrificed their lives, sacrificed themselves, on behalf of, yes, an American mission in Afghanistan.
00:07:29.000And his explicit response, according to Richard Holbrook's diary, this is Joe Biden, was, quote, F that.
00:07:35.000Nixon and Kissinger got away with it in Vietnam.
00:07:38.000And Joe Biden's main message here is no regards.
00:07:43.000So he was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos.
00:07:46.000And when a Democratic president is interviewed by George Stephanopoulos, usually it is a human centipede performance, because that's George Stephanopoulos' job.
00:07:54.000George Stephanopoulos was the press secretary for Hillary Clinton back during the 1990s.
00:07:59.000He is a Democratic apparatchik who somehow ended up as one of the chief anchors at ABC News, which is wild.
00:08:05.000Imagine if Karl Rove were one of the chief anchors for Fox News.
00:08:09.000Not like an opinion host, the chief actual news anchor.
00:08:11.000So normally when George Stephanopoulos is doing an interview with a Democratic politician, it looks more like softcore pornography than it does like an actual interview.
00:08:22.000But George Stephanopoulos could not save Biden from himself here.
00:09:31.000It's a perfect, it's a perfect operation.
00:09:34.000A perfect operation where Afghans are clinging to the wheel wells of planes escaping Afghanistan and then falling from 4,000 feet to their death on the tarmac.
00:09:43.000More than that, I gotta say, when Stephanopoulos asked him about what just happened there, and he says it was four or five days ago, So, number one, I was unaware that if a man falls 4,000 feet from the wheel well of a C-17 to the tarmac, that he remains alive four or five days later, that he actually dies, and then four or five days pass, and then he's okay again.
00:10:55.000There were seven people who were trampled to death at this airport.
00:10:58.000We have women throwing babies over the razor wire at this airport.
00:11:02.000We still have 10,000 to 15,000 Americans, American citizens, who are stuck in Kabul right now as we speak.
00:11:11.000We have another somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 Afghan allies, people who worked with our military, interpreters, and members of the special operations forces in Afghanistan.
00:11:21.000For whom American soldiers have signed affidavits basically saying that these are people who we ought to save.
00:11:27.000These aren't random Syrian citizens who are just being put upon by the government and we don't have any background information on them.
00:11:34.000These are people who actively worked with the United States government, with our military, with our military contractors.
00:11:57.000We were holding our bases in Afghanistan with a skeleton crew of somewhere between 2,500 and 3,500 people.
00:12:05.000If you look at the number of troops, United States troops on the ground in Afghanistan year on year, it had declined essentially every year since 2014.
00:12:15.000We went from having tens of thousands of troops, as in like 30, 40, 50 to 100,000 troops in the 2010, 2011, 2012 period, all the way down to about 10,000 troops in the post-2014 period, and then all the way down to 2,500 troops officially in Afghanistan as of January of this year.
00:12:35.000And Joe Biden decided that we had to precipitously pull out so he could get a headline about how he'd ended the quote-unquote endless war.
00:12:42.000The thing that's so amazing about that, by the way, is that when you look at where American troops are stationed all over the world, Afghanistan barely ranks in like the top 10 by the time that we left.
00:12:52.000Afghanistan had 25, 3,500 troops there.
00:15:06.000By the way, Joe Biden also told George Stephanopoulos that the Taliban have changed.
00:15:10.000He said, quote, I think they're going through a sort of existential crisis about what they want to be, what they, about, do they want to be recognized by the international community as being a legitimate government?
00:15:30.000And by the way, Biden is now saying he's grateful to the Taliban.
00:15:33.000He says, I'm not sure I would have predicted, George, nor would you or anyone else, that when we decided to leave, that they'd provide safe passage for Americans to get out.
00:15:40.000Are we sure they've provided safe passage for Americans to get out at this point?
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00:17:52.000By the way, that is not even talking about our Afghan allies who worked with us.
00:17:56.000Remember, just about a month ago, Biden's advisor, Cedric Richmond, was on with Jake Tapper, and he said pretty openly, we're not going to leave the Afghans behind.
00:18:07.000President Biden publicly promised that none of the more than 19,000 Afghans who have assisted the United States and at least begun the process of trying to get these special immigrant visas to flee Afghanistan so they won't be slaughtered by the Taliban.
00:18:22.000None of them, he said, will be left behind when the military pulls out in the coming weeks and months.
00:18:26.000But the Biden administration has been very light on details.
00:18:37.000Jake, you know that this is a serious issue.
00:18:38.000I think that the president was very clear that he's not leaving people behind.
00:18:42.000But if you're asking us to give you numbers, locations, and details, and timing, we're not necessarily going to do that because of the sensitivity of the information.
00:18:52.000We want to make sure that we protect the people who helped us and risked their lives to help us.
00:19:09.000According to Walter Russell Mead, it's not just the Afghans, however.
00:19:12.000One thing is clear, the Taliban hold the lives of thousands of U.S.
00:19:14.000citizens and the future of the Biden administration in their hands.
00:19:18.000The collapse of the Ghani government left as many as 15,000 Americans in permanent residence, along with an unknown number of other Westerners and foreigners trapped behind Taliban lines.
00:19:26.000Tens of thousands of Afghans employed by the old government, allied military commands, and Western-oriented nonprofits are, with their family members, also desperate to leave.
00:19:33.000forces control the Kabul airport, American citizens and Afghans with U.S.
00:19:37.000visas must run a gauntlet of Taliban roadblocks and checkpoints to reach the American perimeter.
00:19:42.000As for the thousands of Americans, citizens of allied nations, and endangered Afghan nationals stranded in other parts of the country, at press time, U.S.
00:19:48.000officials had no plan in place to bring them to safety.
00:19:51.000Congressional offices report being deluged with pleas for help from Americans behind enemy lines and from veterans seeking help for Afghan contacts and friends.
00:19:58.000I've told you about how I'm receiving emails.
00:21:02.000government has made clear that they can't actually provide people passage.
00:21:06.000According to Caitlin Collins, the CNN chief White House correspondent, the U.S.
00:21:09.000embassy in Kabul told American citizens in a security alert, quote, the United States government cannot ensure safe passage to the Hamid Karzai International Airport.
00:21:17.000Adding space on evacuation flights will now be available on a first come, first serve basis.
00:21:32.000All these people in Afghanistan, all the Afghans, are trying to erase their links with the American government.
00:21:37.000They're trying to just erase the fact they ever worked with the American government because if the Taliban find out that they did, they will be murdered.
00:21:49.000So there are all these images coming out of the Taliban beating the living hell out of people and shooting people.
00:21:55.000The Taliban, quote, they deny their fighters have been involved in this sort of violence, blaming the injuries on men impersonating the Taliban.
00:22:01.000Ah, you know, those famous Taliban impersonators.
00:22:03.000It's like Elvis impersonators in Vegas, Taliban impersonators in Kabul.
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00:23:53.000It's an absolute disaster in Afghanistan as far as getting people out.
00:23:57.000The NATO Secretary General said yesterday, well, you know, NATO is telling the Taliban we expect them to provide safe passage.
00:24:03.000This is Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General.
00:24:05.000Well, as long as you guys are telling them that you expect them to provide safe passage, I'm sure the Taliban will do what you say.
00:24:11.000Or alternatively, the Taliban now hold all the cards.
00:24:14.000Because the United States decided to withdraw with no plan at all to even protect the American citizens on the ground, the Taliban hold all the cards.
00:24:20.000What happens if the Taliban just say no?
00:24:22.000Is the United States going to deploy thousands of troops into Kabul to go house to house to find the American citizens who are there?
00:24:29.000Do you think Joe Biden is going to do that?
00:24:58.000And then, a few weeks later, the Taliban will emerge from their caves to explain that in fact they were given billions of dollars by the Biden administration, hundreds of millions of dollars by the Biden administration in order to free what are essentially American hostages now in Afghanistan.
00:25:18.000Anyway, here's the NATO Secretary General threatening with nothing.
00:25:22.000Our diplomats on the ground, our people on the ground, are working hard to enable those who are threatened, those who have worked for us, staff and others, to enable them to get to the airport.
00:25:35.000And we're also sending a very clear message to the Taliban that we expect them to provide safe passage to enable people to get to the airport.
00:25:45.000As of now, it seems like what you're saying is this depends on the good graces of the Taliban?
00:25:53.000We don't control the territory outside the airport.
00:26:17.000They're not going to do any of that stuff, and the Taliban know it.
00:26:19.000You just surrendered the country to a bunch of 8th century barbarian cavemen.
00:26:24.000And now you're like, maybe they'll be nice.
00:26:26.000By the way, again, Joe Biden is saying they will be nice.
00:26:28.000He is telling George Stephanopoulos maybe they'll moderate.
00:26:31.000CIA analyst Matt Zeller, who's been on CNN a lot, he said, here's what the Taliban's actually doing.
00:26:35.000They're taking people's passports in Kabul.
00:26:36.000So if you show up with a passport to try and get past the barricade and get into the airport, they'll just take your passport from you.
00:26:43.000We need to basically tell the Taliban that they need to shut down their checkpoints in the city because they're actively taking people's passports.
00:26:51.000passports taken from them, their green cards taken from them.
00:26:54.000Afghans are having their documentation stolen from them by the Taliban in an attempt to prevent them from being able to even get into the airbase.
00:27:03.000Okay, meanwhile, the Secretary of Defense of the United States, the most powerful military presence in the history of the world, he says he's asked about evacuating Americans, and he can't guarantee that we will keep troops in there for long enough to even evacuate Americans.
00:27:19.000Look at the way he's hedging his bets here.
00:27:21.000This is because this is reality, okay?
00:27:25.000When we say that we are going to evacuate 10,000 to 15,000 Americans, there are a bunch of Americans who are out there in the countryside.
00:27:39.000Here is the Defense Secretary of the United States of America talking about how we cannot evacuate Americans thanks to a ragtag backwater group of cavemen firing AK-47s and who were just handed billions of dollars in American military technology by a surrendering American pusillanimous president.
00:28:03.000I think it may be the most humiliating thing any American has ever seen in their lifetime, period.
00:28:07.000And it took two years for the United States to, after the United States' large-scale withdrawal from Vietnam, it took about two years for everything to collapse in Vietnam.
00:28:16.000And now the United States is left begging and pleading with the Taliban to evacuate American citizens.
00:28:20.000Here's the defense secretary of the most powerful military power in the history of the world, Saying that, you know, we'll try and get people out until the clock runs out.
00:28:29.000By the way, when he says until the clock runs out, that is a tacit admission that we are now working on the Taliban's timetable.
00:28:35.000We're really working hard to get as many people through as possible.
00:28:40.000And quite frankly, we're not, it's obvious, we're not close to where we want to be in terms of getting the numbers through.
00:28:47.000So we're going to work that 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
00:28:51.000And we're going to get everyone that we can possibly evacuate, evacuated.
00:28:58.000And I'll do that as long as we possibly can until the clock runs out or we run out of capability.
00:29:05.000Okay, we'll do it until the clock runs out or we run out of capability.
00:30:29.000The State Department Press Secretary Wendy Sherman was asked about this yesterday, and she says, well, no government could evacuate all these citizens.
00:31:01.000Kabul, I don't know if you've ever been there, is an enormous city.
00:31:05.000enormous. And it has, in fact, had more and more people come to Kabul because they thought it was the safest place to be in Afghanistan. So it is difficult under any circumstances.
00:31:20.000And I don't know of any government that would be capable of reaching out to where everybody might be, particularly those who have not signed up to us to help them.
00:31:32.000which is why you shouldn't have surrendered the city.
00:31:37.000The Secretary of Defense says, we don't have the capacity to collect our people.
00:31:42.000Right, so originally what was funny about this particular exchange is that Mark Milley, who we'll get to in just one second, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who's so concerned about white rage.
00:32:19.000I would draw a distinction, Barbara, between extracting someone in an in extremis condition or circumstance versus going out and collecting up large numbers of American citizens.
00:32:34.000Do you have the capability to go out and collect Americans?
00:32:38.000We don't have the capability to go out and collect up large numbers of people.
00:32:45.000We don't have the capability to collect them.
00:32:46.000Okay, you know what that capability amounts to?
00:32:48.000It amounts to literally you drive a car where the citizen is, you pick them up in your car, you bring them back to the airport.
00:32:54.000The reason they can't do that is because the Taliban have set up checkpoints.
00:32:57.000And so what they're really afraid of is that somebody will get into a shooting fight with the Taliban at the outskirts of the airport, and then the airport will be overrun by the Taliban.
00:33:05.000The fear is that America will attempt to deploy its forces into Kabul in order to pick up all the Americans, and the Taliban won't let them, and then you'll be in a shooting war.
00:33:13.000And Biden doesn't want that because he doesn't want to have to put troops back into Kabul and then have an urban fight with the Taliban in a city that he just conceded.
00:33:19.000So instead we'll just leave the Americans out there and then we'll hope that the Taliban are nice and the Taliban will be nice so long as we pay them American taxpayer dollars so they can continue to propagate their evil regime of rape, torture, and tyranny.
00:33:40.000We're going to end up giving them the money.
00:33:42.000Because how else are we going to get our guys out?
00:33:44.000And why exactly would they let us get our guys out if that's the case?
00:33:47.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden had to be bullied by George Stephanopoulos into making a commitment to leave American troops there as long as necessary to get the Americans out.
00:33:54.000By the way, that's not going to happen.
00:33:55.000There are going to be Americans who get stuck in Afghanistan.
00:33:57.000I'm just saying that's going to happen right now.
00:33:59.000And if it doesn't happen, it's because Joe Biden is going to bribe the Taliban.
00:34:02.000Commitment holds to get everyone out that, in fact, we can get out and everyone should come out.
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00:37:32.000So the rest of our military infrastructure just as bad as Lloyd Austin.
00:37:41.000You'll remember General Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair, the heroic Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair who stood up to the predations of Donald Trump.
00:37:48.000He said that Donald Trump had a Reichstag fire moment, made no sense about the January 6th events.
00:37:53.000He also was preoccupied, preoccupied with the problem of white rage, went in front of Congress and explained why he had assigned troops to read Ibram X. Kendi's garbage.
00:38:08.000Mark Milley was talking about how important it was to study white rage.
00:38:11.000Here was Mark Milley just six weeks ago.
00:38:13.000I'm not going to address specifically white rage, or black rage, or Asian rage, or Irish rage, or English rage, or German rage, or any other rage, right?
00:38:20.000But I do think it's important that we as a professional military not only understand foreign countries and foreign cultures and foreign societies, that's important that we do that, but we also need to understand our own society and understand the soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and the society they're coming from.
00:38:36.000And I think that's important for leadership to study.
00:38:53.000And when we weren't spending time with our military leaders, when we weren't spending time with white rage, our Pentagon was spending time attacking Tucker Carlson for making disparaging comments about uniforms for pregnant pilots.
00:40:18.000You have to make sure that you're pushing diversity, transgender troops, and white rage.
00:40:22.000All those things, those are things that the Defense Department has to be on top of day in and day out.
00:40:26.000What they don't really have to be on top of is whether Afghanistan is going to collapse inside of two weeks if the United States military pulls out and abandons our Afghan allies.
00:40:34.000In fact, that's what we were told by General Mark Milley literally yesterday.
00:40:37.000Mark Milley came out, he said, I had no information that would have led to this.
00:40:40.000Really, you had no, there were no indicators?
00:40:45.000This was a talking point for people who followed foreign policy for literally years, that if the United States pulled out, the Taliban would take over within weeks.
00:40:52.000This is no shock to anybody who's watching this thing with any level of knowledge.
00:40:56.000But Mark, listen, when you're reading Ibram X. Kendi, I understand it's absorbing stuff.
00:41:00.000You can't be bothered to actually worry about what's going to happen in Afghanistan.
00:41:03.000Now, Mark Milley apparently was giving warnings, according to The Washington Post, to Biden that this was a bad idea.
00:41:09.000But apparently that didn't require any contingency planning by Mark Milley or anything.
00:41:48.000Here's NBC News yesterday reporting that the CIA warned of a rapid collapse like weeks ago.
00:41:53.000NBC News has learned that in recent weeks, the CIA had been warning about a potentially rapid takeover by the Taliban and total collapse of the Afghan military and government.
00:42:03.000But we don't know if that message ever got to the White House, right?
00:42:09.000And really, the Washington blame game is in full swing at this point.
00:42:12.000You have military officials saying they wanted to begin evacuating our Afghan partners as early as May, but they were prevented from doing so by the White House.
00:42:20.000You have the intelligence community saying they were shocked at the speed at which the military completed that drawdown within Afghanistan.
00:43:06.000According to Noah Bierman writing for the Los Angeles Times, Vice President Kamala Harris has been at least visually front and center as President Biden has overseen America's retreat from Afghanistan.
00:43:15.000She attends most of his security briefings and had to leave a meeting with business leaders Thursday afternoon to attend an urgent intelligence session as the Taliban rapidly cemented control over the country.
00:43:24.000When the White House released a photo Sunday of Biden sitting alone at a telebriefing from the Situation Room in Camp David, Harris was on the other end of the screen, occupying the central square among Biden's coterie of virtual advisors.
00:43:34.000She watched his high-profile speech Monday from a nearby room at the White House, a detail officials made sure to highlight in a continuing effort to brand the Biden-Harris administration as an unusually close team.
00:43:45.000The harrowing images are likely to be a defining moment in Biden's presidency, but the execution of the withdrawal will also be added to Harris's resume.
00:43:59.000Nancy Pelosi, for her part, she can enthusiastically embrace any piece of horrifying news coming out of her own party.
00:44:06.000A woman who enthusiastically embraces the Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omars, and AOCs on the cover of Rolling Stone can certainly embrace a complete rapid pullout from Afghanistan that results in the complete subjugation of 38 million human beings and the essential hostage taking of 10 to 15,000 Americans.
00:44:19.000I mean, what can't Nancy Pelosi embrace?
00:44:22.000What cannot Nancy Pelosi embrace if called upon to do so by her God, the Democratic Party?
00:44:27.000Here is Nancy Pelosi defending Joe Biden.
00:44:30.000I commend the president for the action that he took.
00:44:33.000It was strong, it was decisive, and it was the right thing to do.
00:44:37.000We should have been out of Afghanistan a while back.
00:44:41.000But now we are, unfortunately, one of the possibilities was that it would be a and disarray as it is.
00:44:52.000And it is my understanding from the assurances we have received that the military will be there negotiating with the Taliban for the safe exit of American citizens and friends, people who have helped us, our allies there.
00:45:09.000Oh, we're going to be negotiating and that's going to work.
00:45:17.000If you like paying your tax dollars to the Taliban, you can thank Joe Biden for that because that's exactly what we are going to be doing.
00:45:23.000You think that it was a big mistake to spend, you know, $40 billion or so propping up the Afghan government and making sure that we had a base of operations from which to strike terrorists in Afghanistan?
00:45:33.000Wait until we're paying billions of dollars to the Taliban for the tender grace of having them allow American citizens to leave the country.
00:45:39.000Meanwhile, the Democratic defense of this is just, it's amazing.
00:45:50.000She says, you know, it was just a matter of unpreparedness.
00:45:52.000I mean, if we'd been a little more prepared, it would've been fine.
00:45:55.000I believe that the execution, as all of us have seen, has not gone well.
00:46:01.000I believe that we should have been better prepared.
00:46:04.000But I also know that, for instance, with many of the Afghans who have provided the type of assistance that we desperately needed, there were very few lists, if any, of who they were.
00:46:16.000And so that's just an example of the lack of preparedness.
00:46:31.000The thought that the American Embassy there is going to be occupied by the Taliban on 9-11-2021, the 20th anniversary, what emotions go through your mind when you hear that?
00:46:49.000Let's point out, by the way, we've still got about 6,000 troops on the ground at Kabul International Airport, and hoping every one of them comes home safe.