Ben Shapiro talks about the latest on the latest in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, including the latest updates on the situation in New Orleans, the impact of the storm on the infrastructure and the impact on the recovery efforts. Also, the Biden administration finally admits we ll be leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans and green card holders behind in Afghanistan. According to the White House, it's time to rely on the Taliban. And Joe Biden can t be bothered to answer questions about any of it. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the Daily Wire. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NBC, and other media outlets. If you haven t gotten a VPN yet, why haven t you gotten one yet? Visit ExpressVPN.me/TheBenShapiroShow and use the promo code "VPN" to get 10% off your first month with discount code "UNDERSTANDING" when you sign up for a FREE trial of $10 or more! Subscribe to the show and receive $5 and receive a FREE copy of his newest book, "The Dark Lord's Guide to the Secret Code: The Secret Life of the Internet: A Guide to The Secret Code for the Internet's Most Powerful Man in the 21st Century, by clicking HERE. Learn more about him on his new book, The Dark Lord s Secret Life: The Man Who Couldn't Read a Quran. on Amazon Prime Day, coming out on Tuesday, September 18th, September 19th, October 18th and September 20th, 2019. Subscribe on Audible, September 25th, 2020, and much more. Thanks for listening to The Daily Wire's newest episode of The Daily Mail's "The Daily Mail s "The Secret Life and Other Podcasts" and The Huffington Post's newest podcast, The Root's Top 5 Podcasts! Subscribe and shares it on Apple Podcasts and other Podcasts on all of the best places to listen to the world's Best Podcasts, wherever else you get the most interesting and most valuable podcasting opportunities are listening to the most amazing things on the internet? The Daily Scoop on social media is going to learn more about the most influential podcast on the Internet and social media goes most authentic and coolest things going on around the internet and most influential places in the world, including your most authentic podcasting advice and tips on what s going to get it?
00:00:00.000The Biden administration finally admits we'll be leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans and green card holders behind in Afghanistan.
00:00:06.000According to the White House, it's time to rely on the Taliban.
00:00:09.000And Joe Biden can't be bothered to answer questions about any of it.
00:00:25.000Slash Ben, we'll get to all the news in just one moment.
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00:01:31.000Alrighty, so first, the updates on Hurricane Ida.
00:01:34.000So, it has apparently taken out all power, essentially, in New Orleans.
00:01:38.000There are 14 lines into New Orleans from the power companies, and 13 of them are apparently down, which means that for some three weeks, people are going to be without air conditioning and without power, unless they have a generator, which is just insane.
00:01:49.000According to the New York Times, In a statement on Sunday night, Entergy, a power company with 2.9 million customers across the South, said that all eight transmission lines that power the New Orleans area were out of service and that it was not clear when power might be restored.
00:02:01.000More than 199,000 customers in Jefferson Parish, part of the greater New Orleans region, were without electricity.
00:02:07.000According to poweroutage.us, which tracks utility performance across the country, more than 193,000 customers were without power in Orleans County, while about 11,000 were without power in Plaquemines Parish, south of the city.
00:02:19.000Before the outage in New Orleans, Entergy said that based on historical restoration times, people in the direct path of the storm could be without power for as long as three weeks, which is a humanitarian disaster in its own right.
00:02:29.000The generators are not going to be sufficient, obviously, for that amount of power.
00:02:34.000The hurricane has at this point slowed in speed, both in terms of the wind speed as well as the pace of movement over land.
00:02:43.000It's now down to about 60 miles an hour as opposed to 150 when it first hit land.
00:02:48.000So hopefully it will continue to weaken.
00:02:51.000And the Biden administration is saying that they will be there for whatever support is necessary.
00:02:58.000We've already pre-positioned resources that we know are going to be needed and equipment and response teams in the region.
00:03:06.000This includes 2.5 million meals and 3 million liters of water.
00:03:13.000We've got generators in place and we're in close touch with the power providers to get and restore power as soon as possible because a lot of it, a lot of it's going to go out.
00:03:24.000And we should be prepared that it can take a long time, no matter how much we've prepositioned, which we have, that it's going to take a long time for a lot of it to get back up.
00:03:33.000It could take a matter of weeks for some places.
00:03:37.000Now the good news is that the levies in New Orleans so far have held.
00:03:41.000Apparently the infrastructure fixes that were done in the aftermath of Katrina have so far been solid.
00:03:45.000So we'll continue to bring you the latest on that situation, obviously.
00:03:48.000Meanwhile, the debacle in Afghanistan is coming to its semi-terminus tomorrow.
00:03:53.000It is scheduled to do so when all American troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan, leaving behind hundreds if not thousands of American citizens and American green card holders, and certainly tens or hundreds of thousands of people who worked with the United States government during the last 20 years.
00:04:07.000Joe Biden, for his part, continues to not answer questions.
00:04:11.000I mean, the fact that Joe Biden will not answer simple questions about what's going on in Afghanistan, where we're currently going to be leaving behind, again, hundreds, if not thousands of American citizens and certainly thousands of American green card holders.
00:04:23.000So yesterday, while he was making his announcements about Hurricane Ida, a reporter asked about Afghanistan and he simply refused to answer the question and then sort of turned his back on them.
00:04:33.000I'm not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead.
00:05:05.000And then, in a bit of a debacle yesterday, that is being undercovered by the media because if it were Donald Trump, you know, it would be, you know, the entire... It's amazing.
00:05:14.000If this were Donald Trump, this would be the entire news cycle endlessly.
00:05:17.000Because you remember that there was an entire news cycle during the last election cycle over whether Donald Trump had visited a World War I cemetery in Europe and at the time had made disparaging remarks about America's fallen soldiers.
00:05:28.000Remember there was an entire Politico news cycle and The Atlantic had covered it and it was Jeffrey Goldberg over at The Atlantic covering it and it was all unnamed sources.
00:05:36.000Imagine if Donald Trump had gone to Dover Air Force Base to do the dignified transfer of bodies of the American service people who had been killed in Afghanistan.
00:05:47.000And imagine if he'd looked at his watch.
00:05:49.000Really, this is kind of an amazing story.
00:05:54.000You can decide for yourself what Joe Biden is doing here.
00:05:56.000He doesn't look like he's hitching his sleeve to me.
00:05:58.000He looks like he's deliberately looking down at his watch and then realizing he shouldn't be looking at his watch while waiting for the bodies of American service members who are dead because of his Afghanistan policy.
00:06:19.000But Joe Biden, who has structured an Afghanistan policy so absolutely incoherent that certainly tens of thousands of people are going to be slaughtered by the Taliban.
00:06:27.000Certainly Americans are going to get left behind.
00:06:29.000And now he's at a place specifically, first of all, There's a general rule that if you go to Dover Air Force Base to do the dignified transfer of troops, to be present for that, you don't let the cameras in.
00:06:49.000She talks about the fact that George W. Bush would go to Dover Air Force Base quietly and without the cameras there to do the dignified transfer.
00:06:56.000Biden shows up, camera's in tow, and even then, he can't keep it together long enough not to apparently look at his watch.
00:07:01.000I don't know what else to take from that.
00:07:03.000Like, I haven't even heard an excuse from the White House on what he was doing there.
00:07:06.000Because in the video, it's pretty da- I mean, I've looked at my watch from time to time when I'm bored with something, and it looks exactly like that.
00:07:15.000And again, if it were Donald Trump, all you would hear about is how little Donald Trump obviously cares about the troops and how much of a photo op all of this is and all the rest.
00:07:22.000Joe Biden does it, and we're supposed to believe that he's Captain Empathy over here.
00:07:26.000Meanwhile, new news emerging on exactly how Kabul fell to the Taliban.
00:07:30.000There's an entire report in the Washington Post about the fall of Kabul, and it talks about the fleeing of the president of Afghanistan, how he was really supposed to stay for some sort of transition into a transitional government that would include the Taliban, which was going to be a fig leaf.
00:07:43.000But there's one part of the story that's truly astonishing, and that is Joe Biden and his administration were offered control of Kabul by the Taliban to evacuate Americans, and Joe Biden turned it down.
00:07:55.000It's in a piece titled, Surprise, Panic, and Fateful Choices, The Day America Lost Its Longest War, by Susannah George, Missy Ryans, Hyler Pager, Pamela Constable, John Hudson, and Griff Witt.
00:08:04.000So like the entire staff of the Washington Post.
00:08:06.000About halfway down in the article is buried this little tidbit.
00:08:10.000officials were as surprised as anyone.
00:08:12.000The Americans had expected Ghani, who was the president of Afghanistan who fled because he was afraid he'd be disemboweled by the Taliban.
00:08:18.000They expected Ghani would stay for an orderly transition to an interim authority as the agreement that negotiators in Doha, Qatar had struck promised.
00:08:26.000News of Ghani's departure received secondhand meant that hope had been crushed.
00:08:29.000He not only abandoned his country, but then unraveled the security situation in Kabul, said a senior U.S.
00:09:14.000You can make sure that order is kept in Kabul with the military presence you have left, and you can evacuate your people, or you can trust us to do it.
00:09:22.000And Joe Biden chose to trust the Taliban.
00:09:25.000Throughout the day, says the Washington Post, Biden had remained resolute in his decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan.
00:09:31.000The collapse of the Afghan government hadn't changed his mind.
00:09:34.000McKenzie, aware of these orders, told Baradar the U.S.
00:09:36.000mission was only to evacuate American citizens, Afghan allies, and others at risk.
00:09:39.000The United States, he told Baradar, needed the airport to do that.
00:09:42.000On the spot, an understanding was reached, according to two other U.S.
00:10:16.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden has been lying this entire time about the unanimity of his military advisors.
00:10:20.000You noticed last week in the aftermath of the horrific bombing that claimed the lives of 13 American service members and probably 165 other people.
00:10:29.000Remember, in the aftermath of that bombing, Joe Biden got on national television and claimed that there was unanimity among his military advisors about the strategy.
00:10:36.000That was just an overt lie, according to the New York Times.
00:10:39.000In framing the decision before him as either complete withdrawal or endless escalation, Mr. Biden has been telling the public that there was, in fact, no choice at all, because he knew that Americans had long since grown disenchanted with the Afghanistan war and favored getting out.
00:10:52.000The fact that Mr. Trump was the one to leave behind a withdrawal agreement has enabled Mr. Biden to try to share responsibility.
00:10:58.000Critics consider that either disingenuous or at the very least unimaginative, arguing there were viable alternatives, even if not especially satisfying ones, that may not have ever led to outright victory, but could have avoided the disaster now unfolding in Kabul and the provinces.
00:11:11.000Megan O'Sullivan, Deputy National Security Advisor under George W. Bush, said, quote, the administration is presenting the choices in a way that is at best incomplete.
00:11:18.000No one I knew was advocating the return of tens of thousands of Americans into open combat.
00:11:24.000Some of the current military leadership of Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, asserted keeping a relatively modest force of as few as 3,000 to 4,500 troops along with the extensive use of drones and close air support could have enabled Afghan security forces to continue holding off the Taliban without putting Americans at much risk.
00:11:44.000General David Petraeus, the retired commander of American forces in Afghanistan and former CIA director under both Biden and Obama said, quote, there was an alternative that could have prevented further erosion and likelihood and likely enabled us to roll back some of the Taliban gains in recent years.
00:11:57.000He said with the Afghans doing the fighting on the front lines and the US providing assistance from the air, such a forced posture would have been quite sustainable in terms of the expenditure of blood and treasure.
00:12:06.000But the White House rejected such a middle ground, contending it amounted to more war.
00:12:12.000And the result, of course, is Americans are now going to be trapped in Kabul, trapped in Afghanistan.
00:12:16.000Many of them will be slain, because the question is, who reaches them first?
00:12:19.000The Taliban to hold them hostage for cash, or ISIS to simply kill them?
00:12:24.000By the way, what the Taliban got in this deal?
00:12:26.000Basically, the result of this war is that the Taliban are now in a stronger position than they ever were from 1996 to 2001, because the amount of armaments that we provided them is just insane.
00:12:36.000Hey, this Is a graphic in the New York Times on what the Taliban just received from the United States.
00:12:42.00022,000 Humvees, 634 M117s, 169 M113s, armored personnel carriers, 42,000 pickup trucks and SUVs, 64,000 machine guns, 8,000 trucks, 162,000 radios, 16,000 night vision goggles and devices, which by the way, was the chief American advantage in terms of special forces, because none of these people could see in the dark, but our guys could.
00:13:09.000We handed them 360,000 assault rifles.
00:13:13.000So just, you know, Joe Biden is more interested in you getting an assault rifle if you're a member of the Taliban than if you're an American citizen.
00:13:20.000If you want to buy an AR-15 in the United States, he thinks that you're very bad and very dangerous.
00:13:23.000If you're a member of the Taliban, he, along with his administration, will hand them 360,000 assault rifles, 126,000 pistols, 176 artillery pieces.
00:16:00.000It's one of the only things I have seen for years, a question where Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, all over 80%, say exactly the same thing, that we should stay until all Americans are evacuated.
00:16:12.000As you point out, not going to happen.
00:16:20.000is not guaranteeing that American friends and visa holders are getting out after August 31st.
00:16:24.000Once we're out, basically you're on your own.
00:16:26.000If you're a green card holder or someone else who wants to get out, is the U.S.
00:16:34.000guaranteeing that you will be able to get out?
00:16:37.000I don't think we can guarantee, but what we can do is work toward, and this is what the President directed the Secretary of State to continue diplomatic efforts with international partners to secure means for third country nationals, Afghans with visas who may be eligible for our programs, of course any American citizen who remains in country to leave the country even after the U.S.
00:17:12.000We have evacuated at this point nearly 5,500 American citizens from Kabul.
00:17:19.000We can never get an absolutely precise count of how many Americans were in Kabul because Americans aren't required to put themselves in a database as living in Afghanistan.
00:17:28.000We believe that we're down to a population of 300 or fewer American citizens who have yet to get out.
00:17:57.000Then it was Americans and green card holders.
00:18:00.000You notice the green card holders have completely gone away.
00:18:02.000They're just not part of the conversation anymore, even though green card holders have the same rights as American citizens in terms of being able to come back to the United States, which is why the United States had a real foreign policy problem when Jamal Khashoggi, a non-American citizen but green card holder, was killed by the Saudi government.
00:18:18.000Now they've shrunk it down to just American citizens.
00:18:20.000And then they say, we're not sure how many are out there, but we're doing a great job of getting them out.
00:18:25.000There were reports last night that American citizens were basically being turned away from the interior ministry and from the airport.
00:18:35.000The administration is for the moment denying that, although we're hearing conflicting reports.
00:18:40.000Meanwhile, Jake Sullivan, that same NSA incompetent buffoon from the Obama administration, he has denied that the United States gave the Taliban a kill list.
00:18:48.000This was reported by Politico and actually followed up on by the New York Times.
00:18:51.000The suggestion was that in order to get American citizens and SIV holders, special immigrant visa holders, and green card holders out, the United States had handed the Taliban lists of people to let through.
00:19:02.000But that also gave the Taliban a list of people to kill if they decided not to let those people through.
00:19:07.000And then Joe Biden said last week, you'll remember, he was asked specifically about it.
00:19:52.000It is irresponsible and unfounded reporting.
00:19:56.000Okay, but then he admitted in the same exact interview that we had, in fact, given them a list.
00:20:01.000In terms of letting buses through, for example.
00:20:04.000So of course we've transferred information over to them.
00:20:06.000And we have reports that the Taliban are already going around just with captured information that they've garnered from American sources, and they're killing people.
00:20:14.000Meanwhile, the people who are actually doing a lot of the hard work in getting people out are private organizations.
00:20:18.000It's like Glenn Beck flying jets, flying planes into Afghanistan to try and get people out.
00:20:25.000It's American special forces operators going without American governmental permission to go and try and get people out.
00:20:32.000According to ABC News, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night, dubbed the Pineapple Express, to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News.
00:20:45.000Moving after nightfall, in near pitch-black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the U.S.
00:21:21.000Marines, a Navy corpsman, an Army soldier, another servicemember, and wounded 15 other servicemembers.
00:21:26.000They were wounded among the Pineapple Express travelers from the blast.
00:21:29.000Members of the group said they were assessing whether unaccounted-for Afghans they were helping had been killed.
00:21:34.000As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets, and enablers and their families into the airport in Kabul overnight, handing them each over to protective custody of the U.S.
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00:23:36.000Their plan involves trusting the Taliban.
00:23:38.000So for the last couple of months, we keep hearing from Joe Biden, I don't trust the Taliban, I don't trust the Taliban.
00:23:43.000Weird then that you trust the Taliban.
00:23:45.000So Secretary of State Antony Blinken Made the rounds yesterday.
00:23:49.000And he explained that after August 31st, there will be no American presence on the ground in Kabul.
00:23:54.000So for all the talk about how we are going to exert our best efforts to get people out, we will not have a single human being on the ground in Kabul to make that happen.
00:24:00.000So basically, that means that we're going to be bribing people.
00:24:03.000That's literally the only way that you get this to happen.
00:24:06.000In terms of having an on-the-ground diplomatic presence on September 1st, that's not likely to happen.
00:24:12.000But what is going to happen is that our commitment to continue to help people leave Afghanistan who want to leave and who are not out by September 1st, that endures.
00:24:54.000Here's Antony Blinken talking about how the Taliban are our friends now.
00:24:57.000I told you, as soon as you cut a deal with terrorists, you become a PR firm for the terrorists.
00:25:00.000That's what the Biden administration is now.
00:25:03.000You may have seen that just yesterday a very senior Taliban official went on television and radio across the country and repeatedly assured people in Afghanistan that they would have the freedom to travel after August 31st.
00:25:15.000He even specifically said those who work for the Americans and those who want to leave for whatever reason will have that freedom.
00:25:22.000Now of course we don't take the Taliban at their word, we take them by their deed and that's what we're going to be looking to.
00:25:27.000We have more than a hundred countries, 114 countries The international community signed a letter to the Taliban, guys.
00:25:32.000That's how we know people are going to get out.
00:25:33.000community expects the Taliban to make good on a commitment to let people continue to leave the country after August 31st.
00:25:40.000The international community signed a letter to the Taliban guys.
00:25:45.000That's how we know people are gonna get out.
00:25:47.000Because if there's one thing the Taliban is deeply afraid of, it's the international community.
00:25:51.000By the way, during the Taliban's first run, three, count them, three countries even recognized the Taliban as a ruling regime.
00:26:01.000So clearly, the kind of pressure that Tony Blinken wants to bring to bear here, you know, the international community writing nasty worded letters to the Taliban leadership, the illiterate Taliban leadership, that's going to work out just fantastically well.
00:26:14.000That's the kind of pressure he means to bring to bear.
00:26:17.000NSA Jake Sullivan, again, deep incompetent.
00:26:29.000After August 31st, we believe that we have substantial leverage to hold the Taliban to its commitments to allow safe passage for American citizens, legal permanent residents, and the Afghan allies who have travel documentation to come to the United States.
00:26:44.000We will use that leverage to the maximum extent, and we will work with the rest of the international community to ensure the Taliban does not falter on these commitments.
00:26:55.000Wow, we're gonna work with the international community?
00:27:02.000And let's say that we had troops on the ground, preventing the Taliban from taking over the country in the first place with zero American casualties.
00:27:07.000What if we just... I don't know, what if we just left that?
00:27:13.000No, we threw and we handed over the entire country to these barbarians.
00:27:15.000And then we're like, but if we send them a mean message, if we DM them about how we're going to be supes pissed if they don't let people out, then probably they'll be really, really nice.
00:27:25.000By the way, here is the text of the overwhelmingly brutal text sent by 114 nations, including Yemen and Zambia.
00:27:33.000I mean, if I'm the Taliban, I'm running scared from Djibouti.
00:28:25.000Okay, so China and Russia are not on the list of the government calling for these people to be able to evacuate.
00:28:33.000Yeah, it's pretty incredible, is it not?
00:28:34.000Here is the text of the list, quote, we are all committed to ensuring that our citizens, nationals and residents, employees, Afghans who have worked with us and those who are at risk can continue to travel freely to destinations outside Afghanistan.
00:28:46.000We have received assurances from the Taliban that all foreign nationals and any Afghan citizen with travel authorization from our countries We'll be allowed to proceed in a safe and orderly manner to points of departure and travel outside the country.
00:28:57.000We will continue issuing travel documentation to designated Afghans, and we have the clear expectation of and commitment from the Taliban that can travel to our respective countries.
00:29:06.000We note the public statements of the Taliban confirming this understanding.
00:29:12.000They told us that they were going to do this, and therefore we note their public statements.
00:29:17.000Oh, you can blow their hair back there.
00:29:19.000That's some real heavy stuff right there from the international community that just cut and ran in the face of 8th century goat-herding barbarians.
00:29:28.000Even Martha Raddatz, who is a pretty reliable voice in favor of Democrats, even she was saying to Tony Blinken, you're saying we should trust the Taliban, aren't you really?
00:29:36.000Just about 24 hours ago, a very senior Taliban leader spoke on television and on the radio throughout Afghanistan and repeatedly assured the Afghan people that they would be free to travel after August 31st.
00:29:50.000But Secretary Blinken, they do not trust... I mean, I know you say you don't trust the Taliban, but now you're telling me we should trust what the Taliban said.
00:29:59.000Those people in hiding... I'm not saying that, Martha.
00:30:01.000I'm not saying we should trust the Taliban on anything.
00:30:03.000I'm simply reporting What one of their senior leaders said to the Afghan people.
00:30:29.000And by the way, at the same exact time that the Taliban is pledging that they're going to allow people to travel, They're shooting people!
00:30:37.000Okay, Carlotta Gall for the New York Times is reporting.
00:30:39.000When Taliban troops seized control of the Afghan capital two weeks ago, the invading units made a beeline for two critical targets, the headquarters of the National Security Directorate and the Ministry of Communications.
00:30:49.000Their aim, recounted by two Afghan officials who had been briefed separately on the raid, was to secure the files of Afghan intel officers and their informers, and to obtain the means of tracking the telephone numbers of Afghan citizens.
00:31:00.000The speed with which Kabul fell on August 15th was potentially disastrous for hundreds of thousands of Afghans who'd been working to counter the Taliban threat, from prominent officials to mid-level government workers who have since been forced into hiding.
00:31:11.000Few officials found the time to shred documents, and thousands of top-secret files and payroll lists fell into the hands of the enemy, two officials said.
00:31:19.000So far, the Taliban has presented a moderate face.
00:31:22.000But in allying provinces, it's pretty obvious what exactly is happening.
00:31:27.000The scale of the campaign is unclear because it's being conducted covertly.
00:31:32.000But the fear among Afghans is palpable.
00:31:35.000Many people have gone into hiding, changed their locations and telephone numbers, broken off communications with friends and colleagues.
00:31:39.000People are texting Americans saying, this may be the last time I text you because they're afraid the Taliban are going to murder them.
00:31:45.000But don't worry, they're very trustworthy.
00:31:46.000In fact, they are so trustworthy that John Kirby, the spokesperson for the Pentagon, refused to rule out Taliban's involvement in the ISIS attack that claimed 13 American lives the other day.
00:31:57.000I understand that you're reliant on them for protection around the airport, but are you ruling out them being involved because you're so dependent on the Taliban right now?
00:32:06.000Actually, I didn't hear General McKenzie put it that way, Jen.
00:32:10.000In fact, I think in one of the questions he got, and I think it was Idris's, he said, Idris asked, was there a failure?
00:32:18.000And the general said, of course, there was a failure somewhere, obviously.
00:32:21.000And he even alluded to the fact that it could have been at a Taliban checkpoint.
00:32:27.000So we've not been certain about that at all.
00:32:33.000They're openly admitting the Taliban could have just let through the ISIS murderers, the suicide bombers that killed 170 people.
00:32:42.000I mean, they did make some public statements, says Tony Blinken.
00:32:45.000By the way, Kirby was also asked about question... He was also asked about the Taliban releasing ISIS fighters, because that is what happened when they swept into the prisons.
00:33:12.000catch you later. Because we have to trust the Taliban now, because that's the actual strategy, to trust the Taliban. The State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, won't even answer if the Taliban should be given a seat at the UN. Because we have now been forced into this position.
00:33:24.000They're holding Americans hostage, and American green card holders, and American allies.
00:33:28.000And so they've got the whip hand here. Everybody knows it.
00:33:31.000We are the most powerful country in the history of the world, with the most powerful military in the history of the world, and we are being held hostage by a bunch of bedraggled illiterates, who are refugees from the 7th century, now handling our drones.
00:34:12.000But ultimately, what we will be looking for, what our international partners will be looking for, are deeds, not words.
00:34:23.000So, we'll be looking for deeds, not words.
00:34:25.000And also, we're not gonna rule out just admitting them to the family of nations.
00:34:30.000All this led yesterday to a dramatic video of the mother of a fallen Marine, Riley McCollum, that's the name of the Marine who died in the last Kabul suicide bombing, blasting Joe Biden.
00:34:41.000Now, as a general rule, I do not think that it is worthwhile to focus in on the family members of people who have been tragically slain.
00:34:51.000I remember in the aftermath of 9-11, there was this real attempt by the media to push the 9-11 widows and to use them as sort of a front for their political agenda.
00:35:01.000I remember Maureen Dowd suggested that they had unchallengeable moral authority, the so-called Jersey Girls, even though what they were saying was not politically super coherent.
00:35:11.000But what's good for the goose is good for the gander here.
00:35:14.000And if the Democratic Party continues to play this game, where every time there's a bad thing that happens, family members of the slain have unending moral authority, then certainly I think that we should hear from the mother of a fallen Marine, Riley McCollum.
00:35:27.000Here is the mother blasting the President of the United States.
00:35:31.000I wanted my son to represent our country, to fight for my country, but I never thought that a speckless piece of crap would send him to his death and smirk on television while he's talking about people dying with his nasty smirk.
00:35:45.000It is so disgusting that these people cannot even acknowledge the fact that they just killed my son for nothing, for an ill-managed Um, debacle of a freaking withdrawal from a country that we had total control of.
00:36:25.000You'd have to fire the president of the United States.
00:36:28.000So, this Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel named Stuart Scheller, he put out a two-minute video calling for some sort of answerability from the people at the top of the military chain who presided over this debacle.
00:36:41.000People are upset because their senior leaders let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, we messed this up.
00:36:49.000Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, the strategic air barriers, before we evacuate everyone?
00:36:58.000And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, we completely messed this up?
00:37:04.000About 18 hours after this Lieutenant Colonel uploaded the video, he posted that he had been relieved of duty.
00:37:10.000He said, to all my friends across the social networks, I've been relieved for cause based on a lack of trust and confidence as of 2.30 today.
00:37:16.000My chain of command is doing exactly what I would do if I were in their shoes.
00:37:18.000I appreciate the opportunities the command provided.
00:37:21.000To all the news agencies asking for interviews, I will not be making any statements other than what's on my social platforms until I exit the Marine Corps.
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00:40:40.000Alrighty, so in the aftermath of the devastating suicide bombing last week by ISIS that killed 13 Americans, the United States launched a couple of counter-strikes.
00:40:55.000The idea was to show Americans that America wasn't just receding on the world stage, that we still had the power to do what we wanted to do.
00:41:04.000So, on Friday, USENCOM announced that we had conducted an airstrike against an ISIS-K planter.
00:41:10.000Spokesman Captain Bill Erdman said U.S.
00:41:12.000military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today.
00:41:18.000The reason they keep saying over the horizon is because Joe Biden has said that we are going to be able to conduct counterterrorism from quote-unquote over the horizon, despite the fact that our nearest air bases are going to be in Qatar, which is hundreds of miles away.
00:41:29.000And the reality is that if you actually want to do serious damage to your enemy, you have to have eyes and ears on the ground.
00:41:35.000You have to have somebody painting the target with a laser.
00:41:37.000You have to make sure you know you're hitting the right people.
00:41:54.000We know of no civilian casualties, said Urban.
00:41:56.000That announcement came a day after Joe Biden vowed to retaliate for a terrorist attack.
00:42:01.000And so it is not clear who exactly they killed.
00:42:03.000It is not clear exactly how high up they were in the ISIS food chain.
00:42:08.000So until we find out that, I think a little skepticism is warranted, given the fact that the Biden administration has literally lied about everything else throughout this entire process.
00:42:15.000So if we killed some ISIS higher-ups, then kudos.
00:42:18.000If we killed some low-level lackey for ISIS, and this is supposed to somehow alleviate the problem of us having withdrawn from an entire country of 38 million people and handing it over to the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS, I have doubts.
00:42:31.000It's very much akin to the Bill Clinton strategy of Osama bin Laden bombs a couple of American embassies so we shoot a camel in the ass in Somalia.
00:42:50.000Now it's turning out that may not be the entire story.
00:42:52.000According to CNN, nine members of one family, including six children, were killed in a U.S.
00:42:56.000drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul.
00:43:00.000A relative of the dead told a local journalist working with CNN.
00:43:02.000Now, you always have to wait to see what facts come out here, because you see these sorts of reports in terror-prone regions nearly everywhere.
00:43:10.000Every time the United States hits a target, whether it was in Iraq or in Afghanistan, It was very easy to see somebody come out of the woodwork and claim that it had been a big strike against civilians.
00:43:19.000You see the same thing every time Israel strikes a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip, for example.
00:43:24.000You'll have messengers of Hamas who tried out front to say how many children were killed and that it was really an attack on civilians, etc, etc.
00:43:30.000So we'll have to wait to see what is reliable, what is not.
00:43:32.000This is at least what CNN is reporting.
00:43:35.000carried out a defensive airstrike in Kabul, targeting a senior, targeting a suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber who posed an imminent threat to the airport, according to CENTCOM.
00:43:42.000The youngest killed was a two-year-old girl, according to a brother of one of those killed.
00:43:46.000He said they were an ordinary family. We are not ISIS or Daesh.
00:43:49.000This is a family home where my brothers lived with their families.
00:43:52.000Neighbors and witnesses at the scene of the drone strike in Kabul told CNN several people were killed, including children.
00:43:57.000A neighbor told CNN, quote, Another neighbor told CNN, The U.S.
00:43:59.000and brought water to put out the fire, I saw there were five or six people dead.
00:44:02.000The father of the family and another young boy.
00:44:04.000And there were two children. They were dead.
00:44:05.000They were in pieces. There were also two wounded.
00:44:07.000Another neighbor told CNN they estimated there might have been 20 people killed in the strike.
00:44:15.000The US military acknowledged later Sunday there were reports of civilian casualties following the strike.
00:44:20.000In an incredibly weak statement, Captain Bill Urban, he said, quote, We know there are substantial and powerful subsequent explosions resulting from the destruction of the vehicle, indicating a large amount of explosive material inside that may have caused additional casualties.
00:44:37.000The people on the ground there have been releasing lists of the folks that they claim have been killed, including an Afghan interpreter who's working with the Americans, allegedly.
00:44:45.000Again, I say allegedly on all this because all the information is still emerging, so I keep emphasizing that it's uncertain, because in fact, it is uncertain at this point.
00:44:54.000The vehicle that was targeted by the U.S.
00:44:56.000in Sunday's airstrike was next to a building.
00:44:58.000It contained at least one suicide bomber, according to a U.S.
00:45:00.000It remains unclear if the vehicle was intended to be a car bomb or if the suicide bomber was using it for transport.
00:45:05.000The official says it was loaded up and ready to go.
00:45:09.000Apparently, the threat could also have been a car bomb or somebody with a suicide vest, and Urban said that they were assessing the possibilities of civilian casualties, but we have no indications at this time.
00:45:19.000Also, the United States remains on high alert in the waning hours of the American movement outside of Afghanistan.
00:45:26.000They're alert to the possibility of future terrorist attacks.
00:45:28.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is focused in on all that which matters.
00:45:32.000Apparently, according to the Telegraph in the UK, Joe Biden's advisors have been telling people that he will quote unquote, hold grudges and will punish Britain for Afghanistan because people in Britain have been criticizing him and saying that he is senile.
00:45:47.000Number one, that he will remember nearly anything.
00:45:50.000I don't think that Joe Biden is in a state to remember nearly anything at this point.
00:45:55.000But the fact that he is expending effort at this point, being angry at people when it is so clear that he is not only blown this, but that he's leaving people behind is truly astonishing.
00:46:04.000Within the week, we'll be hearing after the United States withdraws, leaving hundreds, if not thousands of people behind.
00:46:09.000We'll be hearing in the coming week, I'm sure, the words of General Hank Taylor, Deputy Director of the Joint Staff for Regional Operations, talking about what a wonderful triumph this was for the United States, even as the Taliban take full control of Kabul.