The Charlie Kirk Show - 13 American Service Members | LIVE, Breaking Analysis as Chaos in Kabul Unfolded—with Dr. Keith Rose, Victor Marx, and Jack Posobiec

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00:01:20.000 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:01:22.000 This is Andrew Colvett filling in for Charlie Kirk just in these first few minutes here.

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00:01:29.000 We've had massive, massive developments on the Afghanistan front in a tragic morning for the United States, military, frankly, for our entire country.

00:01:40.000 A chaotic scene is unfolding in Kabul as we speak.

00:01:46.000 Here's what we know: a suicide bombing outside the Abbey Gate at Kabul's airport in Afghanistan injured at least three U.S. Marines.

00:01:55.000 U.S. officials have confirmed.

00:01:58.000 U.S. officials indicated that the attack set off a firefight at Abbey Gate, where get this, there were last night 5,000 Afghans and likely many Americans seeking access to the airport.

00:02:16.000 A second explosion happened outside the Baron Hotel.

00:02:21.000 Sources say we are getting indications of at least 13 casualties.

00:02:29.000 We've seen reports of as many as 15.

00:02:34.000 We have sources on the ground that are communicating with our team.

00:02:38.000 And again, this is unconfirmed, and I want to stress that.

00:02:43.000 These are preliminary indications.

00:02:44.000 The fog of war, all of this is very real, and we don't want to jump to any conclusions.

00:02:49.000 But I just want to explain and not hold anything back some of the things that we're hearing.

00:02:56.000 So, sources on the ground have told us that they believe there were four U.S. Marines killed.

00:03:00.000 Now, again, I cannot confirm that, and I want to stress that that is unconfirmed.

00:03:06.000 But to sort of frame this in a way that I think properly expresses just how chaotic and destructive and tragic this scene truly is, I think it's important that this audience knows exactly what we know and knows it when we know it.

00:03:25.000 The Pentagon is calling this a complex attack.

00:03:29.000 Initial reports speculated that it could have been a car bombing.

00:03:33.000 It turns out that is not the case.

00:03:36.000 This was a suicide bomber, at least two of them, at the Baron Hotel in Abbey Gate, working in unison, which means that there was coordination, which means there was planning.

00:03:52.000 Speculation abounds, whether this was the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIS-K.

00:04:01.000 There are factions on the ground that are all fighting for turf, fighting for influence, as the U.S. evacuates in a shameful manner.

00:04:16.000 We are creating this vacuum.

00:04:18.000 We are creating this chaos on the ground, which we've been talking about all week.

00:04:23.000 As a matter of fact, we were talking about it last week.

00:04:27.000 And this, unfortunately, is the sad conclusion this morning.

00:04:33.000 Now, I shouldn't really say conclusion because reports are indicating that many more attacks are to be expected, that this is just the beginning, and that we should brace for further casualties.

00:04:48.000 I want to play Cut 77.

00:04:50.000 This is Fox News, Jennifer Griffin, explaining how this was definitely a coordinated attack.

00:04:57.000 Play Cut 77.

00:04:59.000 We know from Pentagon sources, and anybody on the Hill is getting their information from here at the Pentagon, that it was a coordinated attack.

00:05:06.000 Anytime you have two explosions, a suicide bombing and an ongoing firefight and a second explosion at a nearby hotel, that is a coordinated terrorist attack.

00:05:15.000 The question is who carried it out?

00:05:18.000 And right now, there's no way of knowing, and there's no way of going after those who are responsible for that attack.

00:05:26.000 And right now, the military is just trying to get those evacuees off the tarmac and out of harm's way.

00:05:31.000 And let's play Cut 76.

00:05:33.000 This is Harris Faulkner giving a, she's just been tremendous on this, giving a very detailed explanation that these attacks could very well be ongoing.

00:05:43.000 Cut 76.

00:05:45.000 My team has just forwarded this to me, urgent sources telling us this could be, and it speaks to what you were just saying.

00:05:53.000 We don't know for sure who did what, but this could be a coordinated attack and maybe, and this is in all caps, ongoing as an event with more to come.

00:06:03.000 An ongoing event with more to come.

00:06:06.000 Now, I want to frame just how horrific this is.

00:06:09.000 And if you follow us on Telegram, we've been posting all morning some of the video and the images.

00:06:15.000 But I want to frame that in context properly by explaining how our inept commander-in-chief has been completely asleep at the wheel.

00:06:27.000 Our puppet president, Joe Biden, never taking questions, never facing the hard truth, and instead choosing to gaslight the American people time and time again when he had the opportunity to be honest and forthright.

00:06:43.000 Instead, Cut 78, this is Joe Biden from last week.

00:06:49.000 Talk about a clip that has not aged well for Mr. Biden.

00:06:54.000 Cut 78.

00:06:56.000 Still a lot of pandemonium outside the airport.

00:06:58.000 Well, there is, but look, but no one's being killed right now.

00:07:01.000 God forgive me if I'm wrong about that, but no one's being killed right now.

00:07:05.000 You might have missed it.

00:07:07.000 But he knocked on wood.

00:07:09.000 Joe Biden just knocked on wood with George Stepanopoulos, a political activist, posing as a media personality.

00:07:18.000 He just knocked on wood.

00:07:20.000 Hope is not a strategy, Mr. President.

00:07:23.000 I want to play another cut of our esteemed commander-in-chief who has completely humiliated the American people.

00:07:31.000 Cut 79, just days ago.

00:07:34.000 This is Joe Biden walking away as reporters, for once, are actually trying to do their job.

00:07:41.000 And he would not answer the tough question.

00:07:44.000 Play cut.

00:07:45.000 Thank you.

00:07:54.000 That's a reporter, and I stress, actually attempting to do their job for once, asking, do Americans face a real threat from ISIS now?

00:08:04.000 And instead of answering it, the coward in chief turned his back, not just on that reporter, but on all the American people and walked away.

00:08:12.000 And now we have credible reports from in the field that Americans are, we have American casualties. 0.58

00:08:19.000 Now, for those of you who might want to conflate that with deaths, we cannot confirm that.

00:08:25.000 Casualty could mean serious injury, but we do know at least three casualties that are American on the ground from the suicide attacks in Kabul.

00:08:38.000 Now, when we say that blood is on somebody's hands, it's a serious thing to say.

00:08:44.000 But I think in this moment, there is no more apt way to describe what just happened.

00:08:51.000 There is indeed blood on Joe Biden's hands because the whole world has been begging him to change his strategy.

00:09:01.000 The whole world, our allies in NATO, even the press corps, has been scratching their head at just how inept this withdrawal from Afghanistan is.

00:09:14.000 And yet here we are, as everybody warned, as everybody feared, there is now dead bodies in the streets of Kabul.

00:09:23.000 We have been negotiating with terrorists in good faith as if this was somehow going to end well.

00:09:30.000 And unfortunately, we have the first blasts that have taken lives.

00:09:35.000 And we just pray that none of those are American lives. 0.95

00:09:38.000 But it certainly is not shaping up to be a day where we expect good news.

00:09:43.000 I want to preface that this is the fog of war.

00:09:47.000 Details are coming as fast as we can get them.

00:09:50.000 I am joined by a friend of mine, a friend of the show, Dr. Keith Rose.

00:09:54.000 He's a foreign intelligence expert.

00:09:56.000 He's a man that is well-versed in country, in the region from Pakistan to Afghanistan.

00:10:03.000 He has been working to help evacuate folks.

00:10:07.000 I hope that's all right that I say that, Dr. Rose.

00:10:10.000 There's so much to cover here.

00:10:12.000 It's truly a somber mood in this studio, I can tell you.

00:10:15.000 I think it's a somber mood across the country.

00:10:17.000 So welcome to the Charlie Kirk show.

00:10:19.000 You know, we're honored to have you.

00:10:21.000 Thank you for making some time for this morning.

00:10:23.000 Good to be here.

00:10:24.000 So, Dr. Rose, please give us as best you can.

00:10:29.000 I know details are, it's a chaotic scene on the ground, but please, as best you can, I know you're in communication with folks on the ground all the time.

00:10:38.000 You've been sending us updates.

00:10:40.000 Tell us what you know.

00:10:41.000 Early this morning, well, actually, several hours ago, there was an IED that went off outside of Abbey Gate.

00:10:48.000 Abbey Gate is the most crowded gate going into Kaya, Kabul International Airport, because it's not only a gate, but it also has a large sewage ditch where several people were walking through the sewage to make it into the airport.

00:11:03.000 It was, I sent you some pictures.

00:11:05.000 Yeah, there was a lot of.

00:11:05.000 It was just packed.

00:11:07.000 Yeah, I saw there was, I was going to ask you about where the water was coming from.

00:11:10.000 Yeah.

00:11:11.000 Yeah, it was sewage.

00:11:13.000 And what happened?

00:11:14.000 Yeah, it's really a horrific event because our team and I know several other teams have been working literally for a week around the clock to get people out of Afghanistan.

00:11:26.000 And I've been working with a lot of guys, former intelligence agents.

00:11:32.000 I've been working with former military folks in the special operations community as well as active duty folks.

00:11:39.000 And we've all been working together privately because we haven't, we have some support from the lower level guys inside, which was very much appreciated, but we just haven't got any support from State Department or any of the higher level military officers or as high as you know the intelligence agencies.

00:12:00.000 No one seems to know what to do.

00:12:03.000 So we were all working together to get people out.

00:12:06.000 And so while we were doing that, we're in constant communication.

00:12:08.000 Most of us haven't been sleeping but a few hours a night.

00:12:11.000 And so when you're doing that, and all of a sudden we had another team that was positioned ready to move 60 guys in, the IED goes off.

00:12:19.000 And one of the military guys we're in touch with on the field said he felt the blast at 300 meters.

00:12:27.000 He was 300 meters from the gate and felt the blast.

00:12:30.000 I have a lot of guys outside the gate that have been sending me pictures.

00:12:34.000 And what I understand, official reports said at least 80 people are dead.

00:12:39.000 Unofficially from inside the base, I understand four Marines were killed.

00:12:43.000 Now, that's not verified.

00:12:46.000 They're saying there's various reports out there, three were wounded, but the person that told me would know.

00:12:52.000 So again, I just want to say that it's the fog of the fog of war, if you will.

00:12:58.000 And so all these reports of casualties are very preliminary.

00:12:58.000 The fog of war.

00:13:02.000 I will tell you, Dr. Rose, you have been right on basically everything as you've been giving us reports.

00:13:10.000 There's been a couple of times where we haven't actually gone public with those reports just because we couldn't confirm it with other sources.

00:13:17.000 And then you've been proven to be 100% right regarding the withdrawal timeline.

00:13:23.000 You were ahead of that by about a day.

00:13:25.000 I mean, there's just numerous instances where you've been keeping us abreast of this.

00:13:30.000 So while I want to hedge and say, hey, we don't have confirmed reports from the State Department, from the White House, you are getting this from sources on the ground that are looking at this with their own two eyes.

00:13:43.000 That's correct.

00:13:44.000 In fact, you know, and we don't know, again, fog of war.

00:13:49.000 We don't know 100%.

00:13:50.000 So people that have family members, we're praying for them.

00:13:53.000 And don't take anything as fact till you know it's fact.

00:13:57.000 That's right.

00:13:57.000 But at the same time, you know, this is one of those times you don't want to be right.

00:14:02.000 I wrote an article over a year and a half ago concerned about this exact thing.

00:14:06.000 We knew the Taliban were not honoring the peace accord that Ambassador Khalazad was working on.

00:14:13.000 The reason we knew it is because we read their traffic.

00:14:16.000 We had guys inside working with the Taliban, and we had people giving us information that we had, that I worked over there for over 12 years.

00:14:27.000 So I knew people along the way.

00:14:28.000 And we knew that they were not going to honor the peace plan.

00:14:32.000 And all this was passed forward to the appropriate departments and the Pentagon and the agency.

00:14:38.000 And no one paid attention.

00:14:40.000 And the outcome is tragic.

00:14:43.000 Yeah, of course.

00:14:44.000 I mean, it's more than tragic.

00:14:45.000 I think we've all been racing for something like this to happen, praying it wouldn't.

00:14:49.000 But the ineptitude and just the sheer brazen gaslighting of this entire debacle has been incredible to watch.

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00:16:06.000 Hey, everybody.

00:16:07.000 Welcome back.

00:16:08.000 Charlie Kirk here.

00:16:09.000 Thank you, Andrew, for co-piloting.

00:16:11.000 You know, the cool thing about having a co-pilot is sometimes you need the co-pilot.

00:16:14.000 And so here we are back in Mission Command with our good friend, Keith Rose.

00:16:20.000 And thank you.

00:16:21.000 Now I can, now we are fully operational here.

00:16:23.000 Thank you, Andrew.

00:16:24.000 You did a wonderful job on this.

00:16:27.000 Yeah.

00:16:28.000 Tough morning in many different ways.

00:16:30.000 Back with our friend, Dr. Keith Rose, who is a foreign intelligence expert who has been working intimately on the ground in Kabul to try and help Americans and do the right thing.

00:16:42.000 And everything that Keith has been sharing with us on this program has come true in a real incredible way, more so than anyone we have seen in the activist media.

00:16:53.000 Keith, great to see you.

00:16:55.000 I have a question for you here, which I screenshotted a story that I sent to Andrew this morning and our team.

00:17:02.000 It was a Newsweek story where we had some heads up that this terrorist attack was going to happen.

00:17:07.000 I mean, I'm a little puzzled by that.

00:17:10.000 The Newsweek story said terrorist attack imminent.

00:17:12.000 Usually you don't get a heads up.

00:17:15.000 And if we had a heads up, why didn't we do anything about it?

00:17:18.000 Maybe this is just kind of a layman's question.

00:17:21.000 Maybe Andrew went through this, but can you help?

00:17:23.000 Can you help me understand that?

00:17:26.000 I can.

00:17:26.000 Actually, it came across the wire last night through the Intel channels that there was a credible, a very quote unquote, credible threat of an attack at the gate, an IED attack.

00:17:40.000 And they locked down the airport last night.

00:17:42.000 They even bulldozed.

00:17:45.000 What I understand is the 82nd Airborne even bulldozed a certain area to build up a barrier, is what I was told from someone inside the camp.

00:17:52.000 So we knew it was locked down because of this report.

00:17:58.000 I find it interesting.

00:17:59.000 They're saying that it's ISIS, quote unquote, but we know for a fact that the Haqqani organization is in Kabul right now.

00:18:09.000 We also know for a fact, and you can look this up, that one of the lead bomb makers of the Haqqanis was pardoned a while back or let out for some reason. 0.96

00:18:23.000 And we kind of made a stink of it in the media at that time, but the Qanis are known for their IED technology. 1.00

00:18:29.000 So I find it almost a throwaway line when we're trying to blame this on ISIS when there is no question that this was done under the authority of the Taliban. 0.88

00:18:40.000 It may have been the Haqqani network, but ISIS didn't sneak in in the middle of the Taliban, which are everywhere around the airport and plant this. 0.89

00:18:49.000 Although it does sound like it makes a good narrative if you want to say, well, the Taliban followed our agreement. 0.89

00:18:54.000 ISIS didn't.

00:18:56.000 I'm just getting ahead of it a little bit, but it doesn't make sense.

00:18:58.000 Well, Keith, from the Wall Street Journal, I'm just, this is an hour ago.

00:19:02.000 It says, in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network rises to power, and it undermines Taliban's claims of severing terrorist ties.

00:19:13.000 So this is kind of exactly in sync with what you're saying.

00:19:16.000 They're using, they're trying to say that we're going to be a responsible international actor, but really they're using the Haqqani network as their proxy.

00:19:26.000 They've always done that.

00:19:28.000 You know, I wrote a piece in Newsweek back in March of 2020 speaking about this exact thing about the Haqqani network and how this peace deal that Ambassador Khalazide was doing was a fool's errand because I understand the Akaqani network real well. 0.97

00:19:44.000 I've watched them over a decade.

00:19:47.000 And Siraj Akhani is basically, he's not a jihadist.

00:19:51.000 He's a dumbed-down version of the Sopranos.

00:19:54.000 And he's supported by the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence services.

00:19:59.000 That's not a question.

00:20:01.000 And that's the concern.

00:20:03.000 If our State Department was serious about leaving Afghanistan, then we would read the riot act to the Pakistani government and tell them no support for the terrorists.

00:20:13.000 A few days ago, I understand Siraj Akhani was in Lagma.

00:20:17.000 Now, I don't know if he's in Kabul, but I know his network is because his network at a roadblock in Kabul the other day killed a 10-year-old kid.

00:20:24.000 And so what you're seeing now is, and also to your point on the al-Qaeda, I'm going to back up a little bit.

00:20:31.000 We have been reporting for several years that Al-Qaeda was building up.

00:20:35.000 We have sent video and multiple reports to the Pentagon and into the proper channels showing that al-Qaeda was not diminished, but was actually getting stronger.

00:20:46.000 And I interviewed one of my guys the other day who said in Kabul, he's seen foreign fighters that speak Arabic, Chinese, and a language he didn't understand.

00:20:57.000 He thinks they were probably Chechens or Uzbeks.

00:21:01.000 So you have a host of foreign fighters which commit a lot of the atrocities. 1.00

00:21:07.000 Then you have the Taliban that have come in. 0.84

00:21:09.000 And all of this wasn't because they fought their way in, but they were sucked in by the vacuum we created by a complete abrogation of leadership and strategy in that area.

00:21:22.000 Now, Keith, maybe I don't quite understand the logistics of this, but if Joe Biden and the Biden regime would have given the green light to secure, let's say, a five-mile perimeter around the airport, this wouldn't have happened.

00:21:33.000 Is that correct?

00:21:34.000 If we would have been allowed our troops to do what they want to do right now, they are begging to actually be able to create some breathing space to go find Americans.

00:21:44.000 And other countries are doing this.

00:21:47.000 The Germans are sending intelligence forces and special forces out.

00:21:51.000 The Brits are, the Aussies are. 1.00

00:21:53.000 Is that correct, Keith, that this very well could have been prevented with the proper military strategy?

00:21:58.000 If I'm looking at this correctly, the Biden regime realized that they were in a difficult position here, difficult to say the least, but I think that Biden, at the best calculation, right, to give him the most benefit of the doubt that he does not deserve, he did not want to have to lose American troops and pay the political price for it.

00:22:18.000 I think that's what kind of caused the paralysis.

00:22:20.000 But now that might have already happened and there's bloodshed, is the kind of, is the unwillingness to actually act created more terror and bloodshed than actually if Biden would have allowed our troops to do their job?

00:22:34.000 Well, that's two parts you asked me, Charlie, so I want to answer both of them.

00:22:38.000 Our troops are there to protect and fight. 0.61

00:22:41.000 These are sheepdogs. 0.77

00:22:42.000 The Marines are being held inside the wire.

00:22:45.000 It's like taking a big pride of lions to a salad bar.

00:22:49.000 You're not giving them what they need.

00:22:51.000 You need to let them off the leash and do what Marines do best.

00:22:55.000 And Marines fight and they fight so well, but they fight when they have good leadership.

00:23:01.000 And a fish rots from the head down.

00:23:03.000 So what you're seeing right now, Charlie, is that they put in more troops and they didn't put them in quick enough.

00:23:10.000 And to your point, we only had 2,500 troops in Kabul before this.

00:23:15.000 We never had an issue because we had what we call tactical air.

00:23:18.000 We have air support.

00:23:20.000 We had good intelligence networks.

00:23:22.000 So we knew what was going on.

00:23:23.000 And we've had 2,500 troops for quite a while in Afghanistan.

00:23:27.000 And that's not a large number of troops.

00:23:29.000 We have more than that in South Korea.

00:23:31.000 But what happened is we abandoned our most strategic base and airfield in Bagra to come in.

00:23:39.000 I lived in Afghanistan.

00:23:40.000 I can tell you, Kabul airfield is in the middle of the city center, surrounded by big buildings, and it's impossible to secure adequately.

00:23:49.000 At the same time, we just got pushed out of our embassy almost overnight.

00:23:54.000 President Ghani left to everyone's surprise with what I understand pallets of cash.

00:24:02.000 And at the same time, when he left, we had no one from the State Department, no one from the administration stepping up and saying anything.

00:24:10.000 And these are lessons learned over two decades.

00:24:13.000 You do not show weakness to a group like the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, or any terrorists, because they see that as the starting gate, not the finish line.

00:24:24.000 And so what they're doing now is think about this for a second.

00:24:28.000 The administration said we have the greatest airlift ever.

00:24:31.000 That was a bold-face lie.

00:24:33.000 They said they have the best vetting and that everything is being done correctly.

00:24:38.000 That was a lie.

00:24:39.000 They said we will safely leave by the 31st.

00:24:42.000 That was our deal with the Taliban. 0.96

00:24:44.000 And shocker of all shockers, after the agency director goes over and meets with the Taliban, after our leads in the State Department say the Taliban not only don't follow what they said, they bloody us on the way out.

00:24:57.000 They kill, well, my understanding, they've killed Americans. 0.98

00:25:01.000 They have never abided by this deal.

00:25:03.000 And so you have feckless leadership, but more importantly, in the Biden administration, Charlie, it's not that they aren't doing anything.

00:25:11.000 They don't know what to do because a woke leadership is not about results.

00:25:17.000 It's a patina of an ideology that's not about producing anything.

00:25:24.000 And in this case, we need to produce a response that reestablishes our nation for security.

00:25:31.000 Because I can tell you from this, if we don't do anything, there won't be one American citizen safe that travels anywhere in the world.

00:25:38.000 It will be an open season on American citizens.

00:25:42.000 I'm going to give you the audience just a quick update.

00:25:45.000 The Taliban, just in this is from their spokespeople, I guess, strongly condemns the bombing, quote, quote unquote, of civilians at Kabul airport, quote, which took place in an area where U.S. forces are responsible for security.

00:26:01.000 So they're now.

00:26:02.000 That's a bald face lie.

00:26:04.000 Let me just tell you, because I mean, I've been working in this area a long time, and I had people there on the ground.

00:26:09.000 We were getting real-time video.

00:26:12.000 The troops are inside the building.

00:26:14.000 They're not responsible for the security outside the building.

00:26:17.000 The bomb didn't come from the inside.

00:26:19.000 It came from the outside.

00:26:21.000 And I can show you volumes of pictures like anybody can of the Taliban controlling the outside, beating people.

00:26:29.000 So what the Taliban is saying is that ISIS in the middle of the night snuck a massive bomb into the gate.

00:26:36.000 They could never have done it.

00:26:37.000 They could have never taken it through checkpoints.

00:26:39.000 The Taliban had that city. 0.80

00:26:41.000 They're choking it out.

00:26:43.000 And they're going around everywhere.

00:26:45.000 So what the Taliban are doing is trying to push away from this incident.

00:26:50.000 And they own it.

00:26:52.000 It happened under their authority.

00:26:55.000 And in that community, we should wrap it around their neck.

00:26:58.000 We should put a quick reaction force in there.

00:27:01.000 We should take Bagram back, secure an area until we safely evacuate everyone, which could be done over a month or so. 0.95

00:27:09.000 And that would be it.

00:27:11.000 So, Keith, do you think the reason why Biden did not want to do that is that he didn't want to lose more American lives?

00:27:17.000 But it turns out the unwillingness to act because of that fear actually might now contribute to a hostage situation and more American lives being lost.

00:27:27.000 I think it's more nefarious than that.

00:27:29.000 And I know this is going to be inflammatory, but I think Joe Biden made a deal in 2015 and he's paying his debt now with the Chinese because the winner in this are the Chinese. 0.82

00:27:41.000 They have an open Silk Road straight through to Iran and the Mediterranean.

00:27:46.000 They get that multi-billion dollar copper play, which they desperately need in Afghanistan.

00:27:51.000 They get the rare earth minerals.

00:27:53.000 It strengthens their relationship with Pakistan.

00:27:56.000 China wins and rubs our face in it, causes us to lose face. 1.00

00:28:01.000 And this is so unprecedented.

00:28:04.000 Some people called it a black swan, Charlie.

00:28:05.000 This is a plaid unicorn.

00:28:07.000 We've never seen anything like this.

00:28:08.000 So, Keith, that's an explosive allegation that I'm very sympathetic to.

00:28:12.000 So stay right there.

00:28:13.000 That's super important, Keith.

00:28:15.000 Talk about how China actually might be pulling the strings behind Joe Biden and how China is the winner in Kabul. 0.77

00:28:22.000 This is fascinating.

00:28:23.000 China has always been working on this grand deal. 0.79

00:28:27.000 They're trying to elevate themselves to a world superpower.

00:28:31.000 And China doesn't have a lot of rare earth minerals.

00:28:35.000 They don't have a lot of raw materials.

00:28:38.000 They don't have a lot of intellectual property that they don't steal, but they're very good at something called barbarian management.

00:28:43.000 And that's manipulating a greater power, whether it be an army or whether it be a nation, by bribing or manipulating their leaders or sons of their leaders.

00:28:55.000 This is established back to the Mongol periods.

00:28:58.000 And so I believe that China manipulated the Biden administration back in 2015 when all of a sudden, by reports, there were billions of dollars or a billion dollars changed hands.

00:29:11.000 And Hunter Biden all of a sudden got a lot of money.

00:29:14.000 And I believe that Joe Biden's having to pay a debt now.

00:29:17.000 I think that's one of the reasons Hunter Biden can sell his artwork so easily.

00:29:21.000 But what this does for China is so good for them on so many levels and tragic for us. 0.96

00:29:29.000 It allows them to have a clear path through Afghanistan into Iran, which gives them access to a Mediterranean port.

00:29:38.000 It also strengthens their relationship with Pakistan.

00:29:42.000 It gives them access to a massive copper play in Afghanistan that's over, I don't know the exact worth, but I know it's over $40 billion of copper, which they need.

00:29:53.000 And it gives them access to a lot of rare earth minerals.

00:29:56.000 The other thing is it allows them to manipulate and be involved in something called the TAPI pipeline, the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India pipeline.

00:30:07.000 And why that's interesting is because we definitely know that the Taliban met over a month ago with TAPI officials talking about how they were going to facilitate the TAPI pipeline.

00:30:18.000 So the Taliban knew they were coming to power.

00:30:21.000 And it makes no sense whatsoever that we left Afghanistan the way we did because we not only left it and opened it up for the Taliban, but the way we left it, it humiliated our military and our nation. 0.99

00:30:37.000 It opened us up for every jihadist to see weakness. 0.94

00:30:41.000 And weakness is the fuel in their clown car.

00:30:45.000 It's what makes them move and makes them want to do things.

00:30:50.000 When President Trump was in office, the one thing is people knew they didn't want to mess with him because they knew he would do something.

00:30:57.000 I don't believe anyone died when President Trump was in office in Afghanistan.

00:31:00.000 Joe Biden just eclipsed that today.

00:31:03.000 And the way we're leaving now and leaving Charlie, this is important.

00:31:07.000 All those weapons behind.

00:31:09.000 We have some very proprietary top secret armor that we left that may be in China now.

00:31:16.000 Know that they were traveling across like we talked about earlier, the Pakistan border.

00:31:19.000 So, this is not only a win for China geopolitically, it's a win for them militarily.

00:31:25.000 And what is your final message?

00:31:26.000 What just to summarize it all, there are dozens of people dead right now because of this bombing.

00:31:32.000 It was preventable.

00:31:33.000 The Biden regime, according to you, is being blackmailed by China.

00:31:36.000 Tie this all together the best you can, Keith.

00:31:38.000 It's simple.

00:31:40.000 This is a man-made disaster.

00:31:43.000 This is not bad luck.

00:31:45.000 This is not, things didn't go right.

00:31:48.000 The United States of America has the best equipped fighting force in the world.

00:31:53.000 They were not allowed to perform.

00:31:56.000 We had all the information.

00:31:57.000 We were not allowed to process it and implement the information we had for a successful safe withdrawal.

00:32:04.000 There is no reason in the world that we had to withdraw when we did.

00:32:08.000 We had a stable force less than most of the other posts we have around the world, and we could have withdrawn safely.

00:32:15.000 So, what this says is says someone had wanted to do this.

00:32:19.000 This is beyond malfeasance, Charlie.

00:32:21.000 Someone wanted to inflict maximum damage.

00:32:24.000 You could not wargame this better to inflict maximal damage on us, but it could only be done from the inside.

00:32:32.000 Well, Keith, and we're going to have to leave it there.

00:32:34.000 I said something similar last week and came under a lot of backlash because I said I refuse to say that this was incompetence when it was, it's this, this it's intentional the way it's there.

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00:35:20.000 Keith called us this morning very early and he said four Marines are dead in Kabul after this IED.

00:35:26.000 No one was reporting this in the media and we tweeted that out.

00:35:30.000 And now the Wall Street Journal can confirm Kabul airport explosion kills four U.S. Marines amid evacuations.

00:35:37.000 Joe Biden was in an interview with George Stephanopoulos and knocked on wood saying, no Americans are dead yet.

00:35:44.000 Now four service members and Marines have been killed by this reckless withdrawal.

00:35:52.000 And we had heads up that this terrorist attack was coming.

00:35:56.000 And instead of trying to take ground and secure a perimeter and go after our own people, this happened.

00:36:04.000 And the Biden regime is going to have to answer for this now that American blood has been spilled.

00:36:09.000 And unfortunately, I think even more is going to come from that.

00:36:12.000 Keith, what are you hearing on the ground from your sources right now in Kabul?

00:36:18.000 Well, it's mass chaos.

00:36:19.000 What they did is after the first IED, they welded the gates shut and the 82nd folded in and they're doing a quick ex-fill.

00:36:28.000 They got to get out.

00:36:29.000 We are leaving after our Marines, which is arguably the best fighting force in the world, were not even allowed to defend themselves.

00:36:40.000 They had their hands tied behind their back.

00:36:42.000 And while Biden was knocking on wood, they were placking off an IED.

00:36:46.000 And another one, as you know, went off at the Barron Hotel.

00:36:50.000 And just to get rid of that rumor that ISIS is involved, the Barron Hotel last night, the Taliban put a 50-caliber machine gun, probably one of ours, on top of the Baron Hotel.

00:37:01.000 We all thought through video and others, other ways.

00:37:05.000 And so the Taliban were in control of the Barron Hotel.

00:37:09.000 And then they probably just left and blew it or out in front of it.

00:37:13.000 And so you have a lot of injured people.

00:37:16.000 But the big winner in all this is China, because China's just created a terrorist superstate. 0.93

00:37:21.000 They've humiliated us.

00:37:23.000 And now, and that's more important because it's greenlighting China to walk in to Taiwan because they've been preparing for this, Charlie, for decades. 0.73

00:37:33.000 And it doesn't require an amphibious invasion because China, I can promise you, with their language skills and their abilities, they're going to have a coup from within. 0.93

00:37:43.000 They have no language or cultural barrier in Taiwan.

00:37:46.000 So they probably have 100,000 agents just and special operations personnel embedded in Taiwan.

00:37:54.000 They have the intelligence, and these guys have probably just been working undercover.

00:37:58.000 So what they're going to do now is they're going to, and this might sound familiar, buy off the merchant class and kill off the ruling class, which is just the opposite of what they've done here in the United States, where they're buying off the ruling class and economically destroying the merchant class.

00:38:17.000 So there was, just for our audience's sake, I want to make sure that the details are clear here.

00:38:22.000 We've got Abbey, the Abbey Gate, and then we've got the Barron Hotel, correct?

00:38:27.000 Which is close to the airport.

00:38:28.000 Right.

00:38:28.000 And they all, they're both basically checkpoints or even choke points now at this point to the airport.

00:38:34.000 So what are we hearing as far as casualties at each point?

00:38:38.000 And you're saying it's more than what you're kind of hearing in the news media.

00:38:42.000 And I would normally hesitate to say this, but you've been right on everything else.

00:38:45.000 So go ahead and what are you hearing?

00:38:46.000 The last report I heard were 250 casualties.

00:38:50.000 I'm not sure whether that was combined or after, but I heard it after the Barron explosion.

00:38:55.000 So that was the second explosion.

00:38:57.000 That's correct.

00:38:57.000 Yeah.

00:38:58.000 And I was sent and I forwarded them to you pictures in the hospital of the people they're treating.

00:39:03.000 This is Beyond tragic because you have a city that was starting to have a shortage in food, a city that was having a shortage of basic supplies.

00:39:15.000 We were just beginning to get the reports of that.

00:39:16.000 The Taliban were going around and taking rations from people.

00:39:20.000 And now you have a city that has been basically under siege, not from an attack, but more by the vacuum created by our incompetence.

00:39:30.000 And then to have these mass injuries.

00:39:35.000 You have a mass triage situation.

00:39:37.000 It's going to fill all the hospitals.

00:39:39.000 It's going to be hard to, quote, flatten the curve, but at least, and this is true, they're not having a COVID problem there.

00:39:45.000 Unbelievable.

00:39:46.000 And so now we have four Marines dead.

00:39:48.000 And are there more attacks that are saying that are coming, Keith, that this is going to continue?

00:39:53.000 And why don't we allow our soldiers to start to fight?

00:39:57.000 Are you trying to tell me that we had the Marines basically playing traffic cops while there was an IED that came up instead of trying to protect the airport or allow Marines to do what they do best?

00:40:10.000 Am I understanding this right?

00:40:12.000 Charlie, traffic cops are out in the traffic.

00:40:14.000 The Marines were more like a dispatcher in an office.

00:40:18.000 They weren't even allowed out in the street.

00:40:20.000 And so these men that trained their whole life for a mission have been humiliated.

00:40:26.000 Charlie, this cannot go unresponded to.

00:40:32.000 This, I believe personally, and I may be wrong, this should be an extinction event for the Biden administration, the woke ideology, because if Americans cannot open their eyes and see the damage that has been done to this nation, then I don't see how we continue to exist.

00:40:54.000 I mean, so wouldn't it be logical to then retaliate against whomever is responsible for this bomb attack?

00:41:00.000 So you said something earlier, Keith, that it came across the wire.

00:41:03.000 Can you explain that to those of us that are not really kind of queued into military communication or technology?

00:41:09.000 Basically, that they got some sort of heads up that there was going to be an attack.

00:41:14.000 But wouldn't we know where that attack was coming from and the logistics of it?

00:41:17.000 Why didn't we try to prevent it?

00:41:18.000 Well, all we basically said is get away from the airport.

00:41:20.000 I mean, this seems so helpless here, Keith.

00:41:24.000 Why are we handcuffing the greatest fighting force in the history of the world while now we have four Marines dead and potentially even more Americans that are going to be either killed or held hostage?

00:41:33.000 Americans are dying. 0.97

00:41:35.000 Charlie, I don't want to armchair quarterback this too much, but I will tell you that my understanding is most of the intel reports were probably from signals.

00:41:44.000 They intercepted some communications.

00:41:47.000 I don't believe we have a robust human intelligence network out there, probably because from my understanding, the last agency asset got back to the U.S. over a week ago.

00:41:59.000 Now, I could be wrong, but that's what I'm hearing.

00:42:02.000 So when you have intelligence, it really starts out as information and you do what we call cross-your ends.

00:42:08.000 You may have a signals intelligence where you take it out of the sky, but then you have a human source that tells you something.

00:42:14.000 Or you may have something where you have a geospatial where a satellite or an aircraft picked up something.

00:42:18.000 And then you cross them up and you track and you go, okay, these are making sense.

00:42:22.000 I'm hearing it from more than one source.

00:42:26.000 Right now, I think they had a valid source.

00:42:29.000 That's what I was hearing.

00:42:30.000 They all thought, and it was signals, that this was going to happen.

00:42:33.000 And they prepared for it the best they could, but then they relaxed and went back.

00:42:39.000 And the problem here is, Charlie, there's no leadership or accountability.

00:42:43.000 It starts with the commander-in-chief is the head of the armed forces.

00:42:49.000 And it should make every American just stop where they are and look and go, wait, the commander-in-chief is in charge.

00:42:57.000 And this commander-in-chief has literally, not metaphorically, turned his back on every question asked to him about this.

00:43:06.000 And so you have people dead and you lost 2,000 people roughly at Pearl Harbor.

00:43:12.000 We lost 3,000 plus at 911.

00:43:16.000 Charlie, we're going to leave Afghanistan losing more Americans than we lost prior to going in there. 0.87

00:43:21.000 How many Americans are still in Afghanistan?

00:43:23.000 And we're pulling out in the next five days.

00:43:24.000 That's what we're told.

00:43:25.000 So we're pulling, there's an IED.

00:43:28.000 Four Marines get killed.

00:43:29.000 We're still pulling out.

00:43:30.000 Americans are abandoned. 0.51

00:43:31.000 Am I understanding this correctly?

00:43:33.000 I'm surprised if they're not out in 48 hours.

00:43:37.000 I don't know that for a fact, but I think they're going to collapse in as fast as possible.

00:43:41.000 I understand all the checkpoints you can't process anymore.

00:43:44.000 I can tell you personally, I know of hundreds of Americans that are still there, but I don't know of them all.

00:43:51.000 I've heard estimates anywhere from 1,500 to 15,000.

00:43:56.000 And that's a broad range.

00:43:58.000 But we don't know how many Americans are there.

00:44:01.000 And that's the Malfeasance.

00:44:03.000 We should, because everyone gets an Afghan visa and it's stamped and it goes into a system. 0.96

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00:46:35.000 Keith, am I understanding this correctly that the airport is closed, no one else can get in the airport?

00:46:39.000 Is that right?

00:46:41.000 My understanding is that the gates are all sealed, that no one else will be processed or brought in.

00:46:47.000 That doesn't mean, I guess, Charlie, that they could bring some people on covertly, but my understanding is all formal processing is shut down at this point.

00:46:55.000 I know we have retasked our guys to get people out over land and through different ways.

00:47:01.000 And so, what does that mean?

00:47:03.000 That means that if you're an American still stuck in Kabul because your government didn't prioritize you in the EVAC process, you're on your own.

00:47:10.000 You are now living under Taliban control.

00:47:12.000 Is that right?

00:47:13.000 I have gotten probably 10 texts while we've been talking from people all over the country and in other countries asking me to help them coordinate.

00:47:24.000 And again, Charlie, I'm not an expert.

00:47:25.000 I'm just someone that was there and paid attention.

00:47:30.000 I don't understand what's going on with our quote leaders.

00:47:33.000 We have a lot of people in positions that should understand this that don't.

00:47:36.000 But there's a good group of guys that are working and gals to take care of folks and to make sure that they get out of the country. 0.99

00:47:45.000 It may not be as quickly, but we pray that it's safe.

00:47:49.000 So, Keith, what now should be the message?

00:47:51.000 And I'm not trying to say we have to politicize this, but unfortunately, the regime needs to be challenged.

00:47:57.000 What needs to be the message on this, Keith?

00:47:59.000 Because they're going to try to say, well, death happens all the time at war.

00:48:03.000 There's nothing, you know, just get used to it.

00:48:05.000 That's going to be their message.

00:48:07.000 This is why it was never going to be easy.

00:48:08.000 It's always going to be messy.

00:48:09.000 Get used to it. 1.00

00:48:10.000 Suck it up. 0.99

00:48:11.000 Keith, make the argument to our rather sizably growing audience right now. 0.99

00:48:17.000 Why that is a lie?

00:48:19.000 What needs to be the message by the opposition party?

00:48:22.000 Well, I think we have a controlled opposition party and bordering on a uniparty.

00:48:28.000 I think the message should be this.

00:48:30.000 I think the Republicans need to get in a room by themselves, look at each other and say, it's like a typical hot wash.

00:48:36.000 We failed.

00:48:37.000 We didn't fail a little bit.

00:48:39.000 We have failed the American people miserably and then do something about it.

00:48:46.000 They're so busy, it appears, tweeting out and talking, giving talking points out and saying how bad this administration is, yet they're not doing anything to change the course of our current trajectory here in this country.

00:49:03.000 Why isn't the Freedom Caucus coming up with not talking points, but truth points?

00:49:08.000 Because we have truth on our side and going back to their home districts and getting on their local affiliates and coming out with their messaging, which their local affiliates will take time away from the dog pageants they're covering to actually cover these guys.

00:49:22.000 And then that can be pushed on social media.

00:49:24.000 Here, I can, I'll sum it up very clearly.

00:49:26.000 The problem with the Republicans is the same problem that the administration has in Afghanistan.

00:49:32.000 They have no strategy.

00:49:35.000 And when they were hit, they don't know what to do.

00:49:38.000 So they revert back to talking instead of acting.

00:49:42.000 And that's why I like President Trump so much.

00:49:44.000 He came in, he saw a problem, and he wasn't perfect, but he really tried to solve it.

00:49:49.000 And it seems like our controlled opposition loves to talk about problems.

00:49:54.000 There are a lot of YouTube heroes, but in actuality, there is zero fruit being produced at this time in our nation's history, and we need it.

00:50:04.000 You know, Keith, what you're doing, I just want to reiterate for the audience, you know, Keith hasn't been sleeping for like the last five to seven days.

00:50:10.000 You're doing heroes.

00:50:12.000 He's working harder than our president.

00:50:13.000 Yeah, you're telling him he is.

00:50:14.000 It's absolutely true.

00:50:15.000 So thank you for everything you're doing.

00:50:16.000 Thank you to the president.

00:50:17.000 You know, I'm one of a lot of people that are doing this.

00:50:20.000 Believe me, I'm not special.

00:50:21.000 No, that's true.

00:50:22.000 There is a network of these people like Keith that served over there that can't stand what is happening and they are actually stepping up, unlike our president.

00:50:30.000 Yeah.

00:50:30.000 And, you know, it's just, it's, it's malfeasance and it's immoral.

00:50:34.000 So we feel like we have, we have an obligation to the people that took care of us.

00:50:38.000 And you're a representation of the heart of this country.

00:50:40.000 And I mean, what we're seeing from this leadership is not a representation of what this country actually is, the spirit and the fight and the people.

00:50:48.000 And that's why this is so traumatic.

00:50:50.000 I think this event is going to go down in history as one of the most traumatic psychological events.

00:50:55.000 Obviously, the lives lost and the chaos and the tragedy for the family themselves is unthinkable.

00:51:00.000 But psychologically, the impact to our nation that watching this failure at the highest levels is going to do to us, I think it's something we're going to be talking about for years to come, decades, unfortunately.

00:51:10.000 That's exactly right.

00:51:11.000 And the Pentagon has come out and they said we can confirm that a number of U.S. service members were killed, a number in today's complex attack at Kabul airport that they knew was coming and they did nothing to preempt.

00:51:21.000 A number of others are being treated for wounds.

00:51:24.000 We also know that a number of Afghans fell victim to this heinous attack.

00:51:27.000 Our thoughts and prayers go out to loved ones and teammates of all those killed and injured.

00:51:31.000 That is the end of the Pentagon statement.

00:51:33.000 10 seconds ago.

00:51:34.000 Charlie, that sums it up.

00:51:36.000 There weren't Marines that died in the service of their country.

00:51:41.000 They were servicemen that were numbered.

00:51:43.000 They did not even identify what they stood for and who they and the flag on their uniform and this part of the service they were in.

00:51:53.000 They did not even give them that.

00:51:54.000 They reduced them to numbers because that's what this administration does. 1.00

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00:53:05.000 We are joined by Jack Bauer himself, Jason Borin.

00:53:09.000 Together, Victor Marks is a friend of mine.

00:53:13.000 He is a high-risk humanitarian with successful missions in Iraq, Syria, North Africa, Southeast Asia.

00:53:19.000 He is running a command center to try to help in Afghanistan.

00:53:22.000 And I'm telling you, you ever meet Victor Marks, and if you've done something wrong, run the other way.

00:53:27.000 This guy, he is a hero.

00:53:29.000 Victor, can you hear me?

00:53:31.000 I can.

00:53:31.000 Do you have me?

00:53:32.000 Yes, we are live right now.

00:53:34.000 Victor, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:53:37.000 Hey, thank you.

00:53:38.000 I appreciate you having me, Charlie.

00:53:39.000 So, Victor, yeah, good to see you.

00:53:41.000 You are just in the region.

00:53:42.000 You have tons of context of what's happening in Afghanistan.

00:53:45.000 Give us the update right now.

00:53:47.000 What is happening in Kabul?

00:53:49.000 Okay, well, let me say this first: the good news.

00:53:53.000 We've been able to get the coalition out of 5,289 refugees.

00:54:01.000 And even in one of our centers, two babies were born.

00:54:05.000 So that's the good news, okay?

00:54:07.000 We have success.

00:54:08.000 The bad news, it is absolutely probably the worst thing I've ever seen.

00:54:12.000 I have to work in.

00:54:14.000 We're trying to get people out because of the lack of communication and poor leadership, as always.

00:54:23.000 But right now, there's been two suicide bombings this morning.

00:54:28.000 One was at the Abbey Gate, which is at the Sullivan camp.

00:54:32.000 It's a kind of Marine base and it's at the airport.

00:54:36.000 And the other was at the Barron Hotel.

00:54:39.000 Many were killed.

00:54:40.000 And sadly, we're hearing right now, four Marines, my fellow Marines, were killed.

00:54:47.000 There's been nothing but non-stop frustration at the lack of participation of leadership from the White House.

00:54:55.000 I mean, right now, we know Americans have been killed.

00:54:59.000 The airbase has been attacked.

00:55:02.000 Mortars have been dropped.

00:55:04.000 And a blunted operation last night with three close to 300 orphans that we, with our associate team and network, through very courageous effort, got all together at the airport for pickup.

00:55:22.000 And our plane that was coming in was waved off, and the kids were actually pushed back outside of the gate.

00:55:31.000 This is how crazy the situation is there.

00:55:35.000 And I just want to say that we need people praying and we need our Congress, we need our politicians, and we need Americans to step up and say it's enough.

00:55:47.000 And so, Victor, I want to follow up on one part of this.

00:55:49.000 Andrew, do you want to ask the question?

00:55:50.000 I don't know if your mic is working.

00:55:51.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:52.000 Victor, hopefully, you can hear us.

00:55:54.000 Yeah, so we were hearing similar reports about the orphans.

00:55:57.000 There was a bunch, it sounds like a number of you guys that were working behind the scenes to coordinate this operation to get the orphans and some women and children in.

00:56:07.000 And then, I mean, I don't want to speculate, but I'm hearing they were turned away.

00:56:12.000 Why were they turned away?

00:56:13.000 And do we know what happened to them?

00:56:14.000 Were they in the bomb sites, either of them?

00:56:18.000 Do we have any information on them?

00:56:20.000 Well, we did get them inside the airport.

00:56:23.000 We got them into the gates and process. 0.98

00:56:26.000 And then because of, let's just say, high threat, I never want to second guess military commanders and the decisions that they make because of maybe perhaps more information.

00:56:41.000 But to push them out was absolutely unbelievable.

00:56:46.000 And we have contact with them.

00:56:50.000 And just so the listeners know and can pray, we've regrouped and we're going to try to do the rescue again.

00:56:59.000 And man, I pray to God nobody gets in our way because we let people know last week there's a certain point when if the administration doesn't allow our military to do what needs to be done, then by God, his grace, there's a lot of former guys who will cowboy up and go get stuff done.

00:57:21.000 Wait, so Victor, I want to make sure I understand that correctly because I've been hearing that from a lot of former service members.

00:57:28.000 As now we know four Marines were killed today as they were playing traffic cop, not empowered to actually fight the enemy.

00:57:35.000 And we knew this terrorist attack was coming.

00:57:38.000 So if I understand this correctly, a lot of veterans are going to say, you know what?

00:57:42.000 I will take a flight to Islamabad and get a car and go do this myself if I have to.

00:57:47.000 Am I understanding that correctly?

00:57:50.000 You are, but here's my absolute counsel, okay, to all the great veterans and very capable people.

00:57:59.000 We're now in the long run.

00:58:01.000 This is a long game now.

00:58:03.000 With thousands of Americans that are trapped inside of Bashirness and thousands, and then missionaries and Christians and people who helped us. 0.57

00:58:13.000 The X spot at Kabul is over.

00:58:18.000 So we would just tell people, please don't limit a camel and get your 300 windmag out and head our way. 0.75

00:58:29.000 What we need is everybody, battle patience.

00:58:34.000 We've got great teams together.

00:58:36.000 We're going to start orchestrating long-term rescues and recovery for this to happen.

00:58:42.000 And although I'm not a foreign intelligence operative, I will say this: that the teams and heroes that are working with me are unbelievable.

00:58:52.000 And shout out to, I mean, Save our Allies and Chad Robichaux, my colleague Jeff Teeth, who's a former Delta operator with 1,000 missions, and the men and women that no one's going to know that are doing the hard work, you know, especially in the intelligence aspect and on the ground, because we can't give the information.

00:59:16.000 But this is when Americans have to stand up.

00:59:19.000 I mean, people are dying.

00:59:21.000 Americans are dying. 0.97

00:59:22.000 And this is horrific beyond belief.

00:59:26.000 So, really quick, Victor, we've heard different estimates on your own personal intelligence on the ground as you have teams working.

00:59:32.000 How many Americans are still stranded in Kabul and can they get to the airport?

00:59:38.000 Okay.

00:59:39.000 First, I would say at the minimum, there's eight to ten thousand.

00:59:44.000 Wow, wow.

00:59:45.000 And that's that's based on your sources, the people you know on the ground.

00:59:50.000 Yes, I will say this on your show: that one of our one of our operators in the special operations community on the ground told me just hours ago he believes the estimate in the country of Afghanistan is closer to 20,000.

01:00:08.000 Wow.

01:00:10.000 And so, can they get to the airport?

01:00:13.000 I mean, I've heard it's sealed off.

01:00:14.000 The processing is done.

01:00:15.000 Negative.

01:00:16.000 No, they haven't been able to get to the airport for a long time.

01:00:21.000 When President Biden said the Taliban is allowing you through, that simply is not the reality on the ground. 0.92

01:00:28.000 And, you know, we have had Americans make it through, but I'm telling you, it has been the absolute crap show of anything. 0.74

01:00:40.000 What should have happened and what we keep telling people, the only solution, and it just doesn't look like it's going to happen currently, but is a NEO, a non-combative evacuation operation to get all the Americans out.

01:00:56.000 But you have to leverage and utilize our incredible military, men and women who are even there now at Kabul, who could absolutely start to execute this operation. 0.96

01:01:12.000 And I'll tell you what, if any cowards from ISIS-K who set off these suicide bombers or if the Taliban started getting silly, we would smoke them. 0.99

01:01:24.000 We would absolutely obliterate them without any type of prejudice because of what they're doing. 0.99

01:01:32.000 And I'll tell you guys something very sad. 0.98

01:01:35.000 I got a report last night that a father in his stress and duress killed his daughters to keep the Taliban from taking them.

01:01:45.000 This is the level of survival and fear.

01:01:50.000 I've got groups right now that I'm trying to get out.

01:01:53.000 And of course, the orphans take the precedent.

01:01:56.000 And then, of course, we want Americans out. 1.00

01:01:58.000 But we're having to move to long game.

01:02:01.000 And without the cooperation of the administration, groups like ours and coalitions we've got and very, I would say, tier one solid professional networks, we're going to continue to do the work.

01:02:16.000 You know what?

01:02:17.000 It costs money because we get zero funding from the government.

01:02:22.000 So if people want to help, we're putting it right where it needs to be, including providing food, water, medical for people of faith, Christians still inside. 0.99

01:02:34.000 And I'll tell you something, because Charlie, I know you were friends.

01:02:38.000 We share the same faith.

01:02:40.000 There's actually a small church in Afghanistan in a certain area, I won't say.

01:02:49.000 And you know what?

01:02:50.000 They said the small church and the leadership said, we've prayed and we're supposed to stay here.

01:02:59.000 Even if we can get them out, they said we want to stay here to make sure that the church continues and faith continues to thrive in such darkness.

01:03:09.000 It's incredible.

01:03:10.000 That's courage.

01:03:11.000 That's heroes of the faith.

01:03:12.000 Amazing.

01:03:13.000 Yeah, Victor, I wanted to ask you something.

01:03:14.000 You said, and we want to know how to help you guys.

01:03:18.000 So please make sure we make that very clear here.

01:03:21.000 But Justin, you mentioned you're not getting any support from the administration.

01:03:25.000 Justin, U.S. State Department goes into hiding and cancels today's briefing.

01:03:30.000 The State Department is also telling Americans to leave the airport area and to get far from it.

01:03:35.000 So one question, why are we hearing from the State Department that they're canceling all their meetings?

01:03:39.000 Like, you know, why can't they brief us?

01:03:41.000 Yeah.

01:03:41.000 And where the heck are Americans supposed to go if they can't go to Kabul?

01:03:45.000 Is Bagram going to come back online miraculously or something?

01:03:50.000 It's a great question.

01:03:51.000 And one, you know, it shouldn't surprise anybody.

01:03:54.000 The consistent lack of leadership from the administration is only proof that we got the wrong person in the White House and he's surrounded himself with incapable leaders.

01:04:05.000 When a mistake is made, you assess the situation, you pivot for a better solution, and you surround yourself with capable men and women to do the right thing.

01:04:15.000 These men and women that are making these decisions have what we call thin data, meaning they're getting little briefs.

01:04:22.000 They're hearing from think tanks that no one has actually, very seldom these people have ever gone in the country, lived among the people, and understand what it takes to get it done.

01:04:33.000 And I'll tell you what, it's an atrocity because lives have been taken.

01:04:39.000 Lives are in the balance.

01:04:40.000 And with the Americans, we were telling people when Biden was making these assertions, yeah, just leave your place and go to the airport.

01:04:48.000 We were saying, no way, no, no way, it's not going to happen.

01:04:52.000 And now he's saying, they're saying, don't come to the airport.

01:04:55.000 Of course not.

01:04:56.000 It's the X.

01:04:57.000 And the administration allowed it to be so.

01:05:01.000 Victor, I want to ask you a question.

01:05:02.000 You serve.

01:05:03.000 You are a Marine.

01:05:04.000 Is that right?

01:05:05.000 That's correct.

01:05:06.000 I want you to tell us how this is, in your opinion, I don't want to lead the questioner.

01:05:10.000 Was this a man-made disaster in Afghanistan? 1.00

01:05:13.000 Was this preventable, what we are seeing?

01:05:17.000 It absolutely was.

01:05:19.000 I mean, when you factor in all the challenges that go into situations like this with better planning, with better leadership, again, I'm going to point to the White House, even the State Department.

01:05:32.000 This could have done better.

01:05:34.000 I'm not taking away from those who've, they're in certain positions that have done the best, but ultimately, it doesn't stop with the president.

01:05:44.000 And there's been such poor leadership.

01:05:48.000 And now there's blood on his hands because of bad decisions.

01:05:52.000 So, yeah, this absolutely, again, if we just start with the NEO, the non-combative evacuation operation, had that been done not by the State Department, which honestly, they don't know what they're doing, put it back over to the DOD, or we have firepower, Marines that are trained.

01:06:10.000 Heck, the 82nd Airborne could have executed.

01:06:13.000 And there are a lot of good men and women at Kabul right now.

01:06:17.000 And believe me, they're fast pulling out.

01:06:20.000 That situation has deteriorated to where they're taking mortars, small arms fire, suicide bombers, and we've lost American lives.

01:06:30.000 And it could have been avoided.

01:06:32.000 So, Victor, in the couple minutes we have remaining, what can people do to help?

01:06:36.000 People feel helpless right now.

01:06:38.000 On the political side, we're going to be.

01:06:39.000 I'm calling for the 25th Amendment impeachment, resignation, removal from office.

01:06:44.000 Some people are using court martial.

01:06:46.000 Yeah, some people are using the T-word treason.

01:06:49.000 Some people are saying court-martial, whatever.

01:06:51.000 I mean, we'll deal with that.

01:06:52.000 But what can people do right now?

01:06:54.000 Because our government is quite honestly uninterested in saving American lives.

01:06:58.000 They're not deploying Marines, not deploying special forces.

01:07:01.000 Victor, you know, a lot of these special forces guys.

01:07:03.000 I got two calls from them last night and I met them throughout the years.

01:07:06.000 They said, Charlie, all my special forces buddies, you let us into Kabul, 200 of us.

01:07:12.000 We could retake the city, and there'd be a lot of dead people that got in our way.

01:07:16.000 I mean, what can people do to help right now that are just regular civilians?

01:07:20.000 Well, that's the truth.

01:07:22.000 With the right people in place, you have to kill God people to change people's minds. 0.99

01:07:28.000 You got to hurt people's feelings in order to change the environment.

01:07:33.000 And far too long, our good men and women who are very good at that have been humstrong.

01:07:40.000 So, for the audience, I would say this: and I want to pray: right now, I'm getting comms and I'm communicating.

01:07:49.000 Excuse me, we're mounting a second attempt to rescue these orphans.

01:07:54.000 We need people to pray.

01:07:56.000 I always believe there's a spiritual component in things like this.

01:07:59.000 When bad things happen, we call it manifestations of evil.

01:08:02.000 When we were recovering and rescuing and helping facilitate things, getting women and children back from ISIS these last six years, we understand, and this is we're comfortable in conflict, but I would say prayer matters.

01:08:15.000 One, and two, uh, track with us because misinformation and wrong motives really can mess up a process.

01:08:27.000 So, I would encourage people to track with us.

01:08:29.000 We have a daily intelligence brief that will go into the inbox, and that's victormarks.com forward slash brief.

01:08:37.000 If you want to get the truth factual and accurate, go there.

01:08:40.000 And then, lastly, if people can support the work we're doing, it matters.

01:08:46.000 And, you know, we know what's facing us in front, we know what we've accomplished behind.

01:08:52.000 And through our coalition networks, people, and what we're doing in the future, we need a war chest of funds.

01:08:58.000 And I know some people have been able to accomplish it, but without access and placement, it's there's a limit to what they can do.

01:09:06.000 And that's the two questions you ask people: you have to have access and placement with the network in order to get things done.

01:09:13.000 And all things possible, ministries and our coalition and partners, we are getting it done.

01:09:20.000 At least 60 people killed in the Kabul explosion and four Marines that we know of.

01:09:25.000 VictorMarks.com.

01:09:27.000 Victor, thank you so much for joining us and thank you for stepping up with all the resources you have to save Americans because our government is not doing that, unfortunately.

01:09:36.000 Our government and State Department and our military want to do that, but our leadership will not be distracted with such things such as America's in duress.

01:09:46.000 And so you deserve a lot of credit, Victor.

01:09:47.000 You're part of a group of people.

01:09:49.000 We just had Keith Rose on before who's doing something very similar.

01:09:52.000 It's a small group of you guys.

01:09:53.000 You are the true patriots.

01:09:54.000 You really are.

01:09:55.000 VictorMarks.com.

01:09:56.000 If you guys want to help support that, it's V-I-C-T-O-R-M-A-R-X. 1.00

01:10:04.000 Look, a lot of you are eating foreign meat.

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01:10:11.000 I am a big believer in eating American meat.

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01:11:04.000 And Erica.

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01:12:43.000 10.

01:12:44.000 10 American service members have died now in Kabul.

01:12:49.000 That's right.

01:12:50.000 Tweet from Brett Baer is, yeah, 10 U.S. servicemen killed.

01:12:57.000 The number unfortunately keeps rising.

01:12:59.000 We also have indications of at least 150 casualties.

01:13:04.000 And we heard earlier from Keith, Dr. Keith Rose, that he was getting from his sources, it was 250.

01:13:10.000 So there's also some video footage that we see circulating of some of the blasts.

01:13:16.000 10 service members.

01:13:17.000 That's got to be the most killed in at least five years in one day in the Middle East.

01:13:22.000 10 U.S. service members that were told not to fight.

01:13:24.000 We're not here to fight.

01:13:25.000 We're here to just kind of do paperwork.

01:13:27.000 And Biden knocked on wood and chuckled while he sent Camilla Harris to Hanoi.

01:13:33.000 He sent the vice president to Vietnam while lives were in danger.

01:13:37.000 No threats that were ushered against potential retaliation.

01:13:40.000 You know how you would have prevented this?

01:13:42.000 Exactly what we talked about in this program.

01:13:44.000 All Biden had to do is say, if there is one American that's killed, the Taliban village of women and children burned to the ground.

01:13:49.000 The Taliban would have self-regulated this.

01:13:49.000 You know what?

01:13:51.000 They know.

01:13:52.000 Are you kidding me?

01:13:53.000 They know exactly what all the dirty bombs are.

01:13:55.000 How did we get intelligence about this before it happened?

01:13:58.000 And Jen Saki said that this was an amazing success.

01:14:03.000 I think it's worth in this moment kind of playing a clip from Kaylee Mack and that she's been talking to the president, President Trump, this whole time, and she had some interesting things to say.

01:14:14.000 The only reason I want to play this is I just think it's what we're dealing with now in a feckless leader in Joe Biden who is not speaking to the American people.

01:14:22.000 The Pentagon.

01:14:24.000 Where is he?

01:14:24.000 Where's Joe Biden?

01:14:25.000 I'm going to lose my patience here, Andrew.

01:14:26.000 You should.

01:14:27.000 I'm going to lose it.

01:14:27.000 I think we're all losing.

01:14:28.000 I am, I, you know, it's fruit of the spirit of self-control, and I'm doing my best here.

01:14:32.000 Where is the president of the United States, everybody?

01:14:35.000 Where's the State Department?

01:14:36.000 Where's the Department of Defense?

01:14:39.000 Who's in charge of this country?

01:14:41.000 Who's in charge?

01:14:42.000 Just so you know, at least 60 killed now and 150 wounded in Kabul attacks.

01:14:47.000 And now we're getting other reports, the imminent threat from another bombing of the North Carolina.

01:14:51.000 They've known this for six hours minimum.

01:14:53.000 Just so you know how the news cycle works.

01:14:55.000 It goes halfway.

01:14:56.000 Let's just say they've known this for at least a couple hours. 0.91

01:14:58.000 And they sent out this ridiculous press conference.

01:15:01.000 And what did they say with Trump? 0.66

01:15:03.000 If there was one thing, where's Trump?

01:15:04.000 He does a press conference immediately.

01:15:06.000 Where is Joe Biden?

01:15:07.000 And he would take questions.

01:15:08.000 Where is Kamala Harris? 0.99

01:15:09.000 Where is Tony Blinken? 0.68

01:15:10.000 Where is that worthless, feckless, spineless John Kirby?

01:15:14.000 Where's Mark Milley with all the medals of wars that he retreated to?

01:15:18.000 Where's Lloyd Austin, the diversity pick of the Department of Defense?

01:15:20.000 Who is running the country?

01:15:22.000 Well, and that's why I want to play this clip.

01:15:24.000 Don't let it get worked up too much.

01:15:26.000 All of that just makes what we're about to play.

01:15:28.000 Play Kaylee.

01:15:29.000 Play the clip here, and we'll take it on the other side.

01:15:33.000 You would have never had an accent like this. 0.97

01:15:34.000 He said to me yesterday, we managed to get Afghanistan under control with 2,500 troops.

01:15:40.000 It was a measured withdrawal, bit by bit, to where we had it secure.

01:15:45.000 He came close to wanting to pull out our troops several times, but he listened to the generals.

01:15:49.000 He listened to those around him and negotiated a conditions-based withdrawal.

01:15:54.000 Not only that, the Taliban feared President Trump.

01:15:57.000 They looked at what happened to Soleimani.

01:15:59.000 They looked at what happened when Syria gassed its own people. 0.87

01:16:02.000 He took action.

01:16:04.000 He's a man of action. 0.97

01:16:05.000 And now you have a buffoon as our commander-in-chief. 0.94

01:16:08.000 He vacations in Delaware. 0.99

01:16:09.000 He doesn't take questions.

01:16:11.000 He turns his back on the American people.

01:16:12.000 And President Trump said it best.

01:16:13.000 He's a surrenderer-in-chief.

01:16:15.000 We have a surrender.

01:16:16.000 He's kind of co-pilot.

01:16:18.000 It is now what it's 2.15 Eastern.

01:16:20.000 Is that right?

01:16:21.000 Yep, 2.10.

01:16:22.000 And there is zero comment from the president.

01:16:24.000 Is Biden just kind of watching while 10 military service members die while playing traffic cop with your reckless withdrawal?

01:16:32.000 Is that just the new normal?

01:16:34.000 While Joe Biden declares war on Ron DeSantis and the unvaccinated and the Taliban or ISIS or whomever, because they're all part of, and Keith Rose made this argument.

01:16:45.000 They're all tied together.

01:16:46.000 I know they all supposed to hate each other.

01:16:47.000 They work as proxies.

01:16:48.000 But they all work as proxies, okay? 1.00

01:16:50.000 And they all want Americans dead. 0.73

01:16:52.000 So Joe Biden, in his mass incompetency or malevolency, just allowed this thing to unfold. 0.86

01:16:58.000 And we were told it's perfectly fine.

01:16:59.000 And you know what really upsets me, Andrew?

01:17:01.000 Is last week or a couple of days ago, we did the knock-on wood foreign policy.

01:17:05.000 Remember that?

01:17:06.000 We said the knock-on wood doctrine, and we said Americans are going to die because of this.

01:17:10.000 And just then, there's another imminent threat of another bombing on the north gate of Kabul.

01:17:14.000 10 Americans are dead.

01:17:15.000 10 service members are dead.

01:17:17.000 It's going to get worse, too.

01:17:18.000 We're hearing that.

01:17:20.000 It's going to get worse.

01:17:21.000 We should be having Jack Posobiec join us in just a second, but he was just mentioning the same.

01:17:25.000 He said what he's hearing is that it's about to get a little bit, a lot of bit worse.

01:17:29.000 Who's in charge?

01:17:30.000 The Taliban are in charge, Charlotte. 1.00

01:17:32.000 I mean, but go through the motions, Biden, and pretend that you're running the country.

01:17:38.000 Kamala Harris, anyone.

01:17:39.000 Is Jensaki there?

01:17:40.000 She always likes to run her mouth. 1.00

01:17:42.000 Oh, no, she's too busy for the cover of Vogue magazine. 0.85

01:17:46.000 Or Jensaki is...

01:17:48.000 Oh, third explosion reported near Kabul airport interminute gunfire. 1.00

01:17:52.000 Can you please let the dogs loose so we can start killing these? 0.99

01:17:55.000 Can I say that word? 1.00

01:17:57.000 Well, I mean, kill the bad guys. 1.00

01:17:58.000 Kill. 1.00

01:17:59.000 Can we let the dogs loose, please? 1.00

01:18:01.000 Enough playing games.

01:18:02.000 Put the special forces and Navy SEALs in the streets and start counting the bad guys as they start getting killed. 0.96

01:18:07.000 All of them.

01:18:07.000 You know what was striking to me?

01:18:08.000 We had.

01:18:09.000 Start piling the Taliban bodies up by the side of the buildings. 0.99

01:18:11.000 No more Americans are allowed to be dying in Afghanistan.

01:18:15.000 I mean, what was striking to me is you got Keith Rose, who's an absolute patriot and a hero, completely fearless.

01:18:22.000 And then you've got Victor Marks, who is like a hero.

01:18:26.000 Yeah.

01:18:26.000 These guys, you heard him.

01:18:28.000 What Victor said, he said, let us cowboy up.

01:18:30.000 He said, I'm going to go cowboy up and solve this myself. 0.94

01:18:32.000 Yeah, these are goat herding perverts, okay?

01:18:37.000 You talk to these special forces.

01:18:38.000 They say 100 of us could take the city in a night.

01:18:41.000 Okay?

01:18:42.000 And just so you understand, these guys just learned how to use sophisticated weaponry.

01:18:47.000 Yes, they blow themselves up and they were tough to fight in the hills.

01:18:50.000 They are not built for this.

01:18:51.000 Let me just say right now.

01:18:52.000 And Biden knew it.

01:18:55.000 Remember, it was Joe Biden that tried to talk Obama out of the Osama bin Laden raid.

01:18:58.000 Remember that?

01:18:58.000 Was that right?

01:18:59.000 Yeah, it is.

01:19:00.000 Yeah.

01:19:01.000 Biden doesn't like confidence.

01:19:03.000 How compromised is Biden?

01:19:04.000 Who's in charge?

01:19:07.000 Getting worked up here, everybody.

01:19:08.000 And I hope you are too.

01:19:10.000 10 Americans just got killed because of the recklessness.

01:19:13.000 And now there's a third explosion, and we're just supposed to sit idly by like the peanut gallery.

01:19:18.000 Like the Marines are just supposed to watch this happen.

01:19:23.000 What did Jen Saki say the other day?

01:19:25.000 We have the tape here somewhere.

01:19:28.000 Well, this is what happens when you negotiate with terrorists, by the way.

01:19:31.000 So this whole thing is predicated on good faith with the Taliban, Taliban.

01:19:35.000 Good faith. 0.99

01:19:36.000 And they're terrorists.

01:19:38.000 So what happened?

01:19:39.000 Cut 59.

01:19:40.000 Play Cut 59.

01:19:41.000 So far, Afghanistan is nothing but a success. 0.61

01:19:44.000 Cut 59.

01:19:46.000 I would say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.

01:19:52.000 So, and that is bringing American citizens out.

01:19:56.000 It is bringing our Afghan partners out.

01:19:57.000 It is bringing allies out.

01:19:59.000 So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.

01:20:03.000 Anything but a success.

01:20:05.000 No.

01:20:05.000 10 Americans.

01:20:06.000 What are their names?

01:20:07.000 Who are they?

01:20:07.000 This is worse than Benghazi, just so you know.

01:20:09.000 Benghazi, we lost four Americans and lost our embassy.

01:20:12.000 We've lost our embassy here.

01:20:14.000 Now, four Americans, 60 Afghans dead.

01:20:16.000 And this was, you know, what's so frustrating about this is that we saw this happening in slow motion.

01:20:20.000 Didn't we enter?

01:20:21.000 We were warning about this last week.

01:20:23.000 Like, hey, they control the whole city.

01:20:25.000 Who's going to have, who's going to get the Afghans out? 1.00

01:20:27.000 Who's going to be happening?

01:20:28.000 Who's going to get, I mean, who's going to get the Americans out? 1.00

01:20:30.000 What happened in the Afghan military?

01:20:32.000 And now there's a third explosion.

01:20:34.000 Third explosion.

01:20:36.000 So what they do in these instances, just so people are aware, they set off one explosion in one location.

01:20:42.000 This is why they call it a complex attack.

01:20:43.000 And when you set off an explosion in one location, that funnels the crowd to another location.

01:20:49.000 And then they let off another explosion when the crowd gets more, when it gets more densely populated in a certain area.

01:20:56.000 And then what happens is they probably run to the next location, which is why we're hearing about a third attack and gunfire.

01:21:03.000 So again, you let the dogs loose?

01:21:08.000 100%.

01:21:09.000 I mean, this is not a fair fight.

01:21:11.000 And Biden is refusing to engage in it.

01:21:14.000 So according to your president, according to the Biden regime, it's okay if American body count gets into the double digits.

01:21:21.000 Hey, triple digits.

01:21:22.000 It's not like it's our fight.

01:21:24.000 Remember what Joe Biden said?

01:21:25.000 Joe Biden's whole rationale for the way he did the withdrawal is it's killing season and I don't want Americans to die.

01:21:32.000 Well, now 10 Americans are dead.

01:21:33.000 And where is he?

01:21:34.000 Where is he?

01:21:36.000 Where is Biden?

01:21:37.000 Where is Saki?

01:21:38.000 Where are these people?

01:21:40.000 13 U.S. service members have now been killed.

01:21:47.000 Preventable deaths in Kabul.

01:21:52.000 And Joe Biden owns this.

01:21:54.000 He was warned about this.

01:21:57.000 We told him that this was going to happen.

01:21:59.000 Not just me, but many others.

01:22:01.000 Well, he doesn't listen to me, but you know what I mean.

01:22:03.000 We said this publicly, and he did nothing about it.

01:22:07.000 13 American service members, Marines and members of the military, dead today that we know of in 10 and critical condition.

01:22:21.000 And it's going to rise from there with another explosion, and we are not even fighting back.

01:22:27.000 We're just letting it happen.

01:22:28.000 That's the new American way.

01:22:30.000 Just take it up however you want.

01:22:32.000 Enjoy it.

01:22:35.000 The new American regime position is enjoy the abuse.

01:22:41.000 While 13 American military service members die, there will be 13 caskets that leave Kabul Airport with flags draped over them that have to land in America.

01:22:51.000 What's Joe Biden going to say to those family members?

01:22:54.000 Joe Biden's whole rationale is that I didn't want the killing to continue while the killing continued because of you, Joe Biden.

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01:24:37.000 Teddy McCain tweeted September 22nd, 2020, he will be a commander-in-chief that the finest fighting force in history of the world can depend on because he knows what it's like to send a child off to fight.

01:24:49.000 Joe Biden always ends his speeches saying something that says, God bless the troops.

01:24:54.000 Where are you, Mr. Biden?

01:24:55.000 Where is the Biden regime right now?

01:24:58.000 Jack Pasebic joins us from HumanEvents, Humanevents.com.

01:25:02.000 Jack has the best sources in the White House of anyone that I've seen better than Maggie Haberman.

01:25:06.000 And that's saying something.

01:25:07.000 He's breaking stories that it's hard to even believe.

01:25:10.000 Jack, I want you to listen to these clips alongside of us if we're able to do that.

01:25:13.000 Are we?

01:25:14.000 Okay, let's play 83 and then 84.

01:25:17.000 And then I want to get Jack Pasebic's reaction.

01:25:18.000 Cut 83.

01:25:21.000 We made clear to the Taliban that any attack, any attack on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport will be met with swift and forceful response. 0.57

01:25:34.000 Swift and forceful response.

01:25:36.000 Well, 13 Americans are now dead and the list is growing, unfortunately. 0.77

01:25:41.000 Jack Pasebic joins us.

01:25:42.000 Jack, what are you hearing and seeing?

01:25:46.000 Well, see, the situation on the ground is not what the administration is saying.

01:25:51.000 And I think that's to put it bluntly, the Taliban doesn't have control over the entire city of Kabul any more than the U.S. government has control over the entire airfield there.

01:26:04.000 There are people right now that are doing chartered line of flight, line-of-sight flights into Kabul that are just kind of picking up there.

01:26:12.000 And if you find someone who's crazy enough to charter a flight anywhere within the region and you can get there, you can go to Kabul right now, right? 0.64

01:26:18.000 It is a complete free-for-all.

01:26:21.000 So that's number one on the ground.

01:26:22.000 Number two is that there are terrorist groups.

01:26:25.000 There are militias.

01:26:27.000 There are all sorts of that our military was prior to all of this doing a very good job of keeping at bay and at least keeping our people and our operations safe by drawing them down, pulling them back and slapping the handcuffs on with these ridiculous rules of engagement saying that we can't go out and start conducting offensive operations to defend our position, to defend the people that we are trying to get out, right?

01:26:55.000 When we have no idea who is in these throngs of people is ridiculous.

01:26:59.000 So of course, when ISIS knows that this is a spot where all the people that worked with the Americans are congregating, it's indefensible.

01:27:08.000 It's out in the public.

01:27:09.000 There's open sewers.

01:27:10.000 There's human.

01:27:11.000 You've seen the videos coming out all week.

01:27:13.000 Of course, there was going to be a terrorist attack there.

01:27:16.000 But Joe Biden is so feckless as to think that, oh, the Taliban's just going to keep their deal.

01:27:21.000 No, that's absolutely not the situation.

01:27:24.000 Taliban's been fighting ISIS, but that doesn't mean there aren't ISIS forces still in the area that we could deal with if you just let our military do their job.

01:27:33.000 So Jack, letting the military do the job.

01:27:36.000 What are the specific things that now need to be done as 13 Americans have died today?

01:27:41.000 It seems that the Biden regime has been more focused on making sure that service members are vaccinated and like by potentially revoking their ability to serve than executing a successful withdrawal from Kabul.

01:27:58.000 Who's in charge here, Jack?

01:28:00.000 You've got, and this is a broader question.

01:28:03.000 You know, Charlie, the last time you and I spoke, we talked about a scenario where the U.S. and China went into war over Taiwan.

01:28:11.000 I said the U.S. is prepared to face an imminent military failure on the world states.

01:28:17.000 Now, we were talking about Taiwan, but you look at what's happened here in Afghanistan and everything that we said on that podcast has come true. 0.91

01:28:24.000 Every single thing was the psychological and complete moral underpinning and the decimation of the credibility of our institutions throughout Washington, D.C., throughout the Pentagon, throughout the intelligence community, right?

01:28:38.000 These institutions have been crumbling before our eyes for years, and now we are seeing the fruits of that.

01:28:45.000 Now we are seeing what happens when you let these rotten institutions run things the way they see fit, rather than having actual leaders go in there and let people know how to get the job done.

01:28:56.000 So, Jack, you were a naval intelligence officer, and the reports are 11 Marines killed and one Navy medic.

01:29:02.000 Yeah, just updated.

01:29:03.000 11 Marines now dead, one Navy medic.

01:29:06.000 And that's not an exhaust.

01:29:07.000 We don't know if 13 are killed.

01:29:09.000 Last report, there were 10 in critical conditions.

01:29:11.000 So, I mean, in theory, you know, they're all at risk right now.

01:29:15.000 Yes, and Navy medic, that's a, that's fleet marine service.

01:29:17.000 So they've Navy medics usually run with Marines out there.

01:29:20.000 So I know some.

01:29:22.000 I know some very, I have very good friends in that community, as a matter of fact.

01:29:25.000 So, Jack, let me ask you.

01:29:26.000 You have very good sources in the White House.

01:29:27.000 Are they thinking of a response to this attack on our country, this military attack?

01:29:31.000 Are we going to respond with force?

01:29:33.000 What's going?

01:29:34.000 Like, what are you hearing?

01:29:35.000 Are we going to finally be able to deploy special forces?

01:29:38.000 And by the way, by the way, there was a huge push that was going on over the past week that Austin was actually for about retaking Bagram, sending the Rangers in, sending in a battalion, fast roping in, taking over, then putting in a company, securing that airfield so that we'd have something that wasn't in the middle of the city, that was an actual military fortified point that people would be able to, that we'd be able to control.

01:30:03.000 It's about 45 miles north of Kabul, clear the road, and have the military go out and conduct these offensive operations and actually go out and push for this, right?

01:30:12.000 Joe Biden shot it down.

01:30:14.000 Joe Biden said he didn't want a Blackhawk down moment.

01:30:18.000 And that was the refrain that won out inside the administration: is that they are terrified of what they think is going to be a black hog down moment because they don't understand what it's like to just let the troops go in and do what they need to do and let the combat commanders actually run operations.

01:30:35.000 They want to control everything from thousands and thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C.

01:30:40.000 So they dip their toe in and they get out and they believe that they can solve everything with just one surgical strike and it's not going to be messy and everything is going to be fine and it'll all be taken care of.

01:30:49.000 No, absolutely not.

01:30:50.000 Right?

01:30:51.000 This is war is messy.

01:30:52.000 War is hell, right?

01:30:53.000 That is the name of the game.

01:30:55.000 And these guys know what they signed up for.

01:30:57.000 A lot of people were pushing for the retaking of Bagram.

01:30:59.000 It was shot down.

01:31:01.000 It's just hard to believe.

01:31:02.000 And so now reports are showing that Joe Biden is in the Oval Office.

01:31:05.000 Has he woke up from his catnap?

01:31:08.000 Yeah, did the shot work?

01:31:09.000 Is it set in yet, Jack?

01:31:10.000 It's 2:40 Eastern.

01:31:11.000 There are 13 Americans dead that we know of.

01:31:13.000 It could be 12, but I mean, this is part of coverage, right?

01:31:17.000 Andrew, this is 12, 13.

01:31:19.000 Some are saying 13, some are saying 12.

01:31:21.000 Jack, this has got to be some of the most casualties in one day that we've seen in the last decade.

01:31:26.000 Is that right?

01:31:28.000 I'd have to go back to my database, but yeah, it's been a long time since I remember seeing a headline like that, right?

01:31:34.000 And keep in mind that we're not involved in combat operations right now, right?

01:31:37.000 So we're not actually involved in, you know, this wasn't some raid on a Taliban or an ISIS stronghold.

01:31:44.000 In fact, Taliban and ISIS fighting each other.

01:31:47.000 Taliban largely cleared ISIS out of Jalalabad.

01:31:50.000 But this wasn't that.

01:31:52.000 This was us, right, trying to retrograde our forces and get our people out.

01:31:58.000 So you're talking about casualties now that have been incurred during a which essentially should be a logistics operation.

01:32:06.000 They're not.

01:32:07.000 And by the way, we have full on-the-shelf plans.

01:32:11.000 They're called not combatant evacuation operations, NEOs, or NEOs, that we could be conducting right now if you actually let people go in.

01:32:18.000 But they're not allowing these combatant commanders, these military commanders, to actually go in and do the things that they're trained to do.

01:32:25.000 Why?

01:32:26.000 Because the State Department and the administration are trying to run this entire thing politically.

01:32:31.000 Andrew?

01:32:33.000 Yeah, I mean, we're, I'm really fascinated about what you were just saying regarding the Cold War that has now turned hot inside the White House.

01:32:43.000 That's where my head's going.

01:32:44.000 I mean, the fact that you address the nation?

01:32:46.000 Yeah, is he going to address the nation?

01:32:48.000 I mean, we're hearing, you know, I just, I'm seeing a couple of tweets saying Biden needs to answer every question from the press, every single one.

01:32:48.000 Is the question.

01:32:56.000 Are you hearing that he's actually going to be addressing the nation?

01:32:56.000 I don't know.

01:32:59.000 I'm looking for confirmation on that.

01:33:02.000 He's going to have to.

01:33:03.000 I haven't gotten any specifics on that yet, but he's going to have to.

01:33:07.000 I've got active duty 06s, you know, colonel-level people saying that he needs to either step down or he needs to explain what's going on here because it feels like the commander of chief is completely AWOL while leading people to their deaths.

01:33:25.000 It's absolutely five hours ago, and we haven't heard from him.

01:33:28.000 I mean, not even a tweet.

01:33:29.000 And no, the only statement from the White House today is a statement on women's equality.

01:33:33.000 Is that right?

01:33:34.000 This is true.

01:33:34.000 A proclamation on women's equality.

01:33:36.000 And all of this was preventable.

01:33:38.000 Could have secured a perimeter.

01:33:40.000 We could have allowed our boys to fight.

01:33:42.000 We could have done any one of these.

01:33:43.000 We could have had the non-combatant evacuation operations.

01:33:46.000 We could have offered air support.

01:33:48.000 But Joe Biden and the Biden regime, they were more interested in declaring war on Ron DeSantis and unvaccinated Americans.

01:33:55.000 Joe Biden has done more press conferences in the last week about mandating vaccines.

01:33:59.000 Meanwhile, Cami is in Hanoi or Ho Chinan City or Saigon or wherever the heck she is, reenacting Apocalypse Now. 0.86

01:34:07.000 And so, cackling.

01:34:08.000 Cackling to her delight.

01:34:12.000 So, Jack, I do have to ask this: you say it's chaos in the White House.

01:34:15.000 Are they feeling this as the existential potentially, what did he, what did what did he call it?

01:34:20.000 The extermination event? 0.74

01:34:22.000 That's what Keith Rose called it.

01:34:23.000 Yeah.

01:34:23.000 Are they feeling that in the White House, Jack, from all of your very credible sources?

01:34:28.000 They've got to be seeing at least the polling.

01:34:32.000 You have to, the way to look at this is to put the two pieces of what you just pointed out together, right?

01:34:37.000 There's a reason that Joe Biden is doing these COVID press conferences all of a sudden, walking out, delivering statements, and then walking back because there is one sliver left of the hard blue Democrats, right, that still support him.

01:34:52.000 And that's the only issue they support him on is over COVID.

01:34:56.000 So they think that if he can just cling on to those, then that's one way that can possibly lead him through all the way to, and they're trying to get him to midterms, right?

01:35:05.000 They thought they were going to get a full term out of him.

01:35:07.000 Now they're saying, well, if we can just get him to 23, right?

01:35:10.000 If we can just get him to 23 right now.

01:35:12.000 So that's why they're saying if we can hold on, if we can hold on to what's happening on COVID, we know we're going to lose on everywhere else, but if we can hold on to this, then maybe the administration can make it through all of this, right?

01:35:25.000 That's what the planning is behind the scenes, where publicly it looks ridiculous to many people that say you've got this massive military debacle, the likes of which we haven't seen in U.S. history going on.

01:35:38.000 Because again, we put ourselves in this box, right?

01:35:41.000 We walked it.

01:35:42.000 We decided to walk down this dark alley at this time without backup, right?

01:35:46.000 That's what Joe Biden did.

01:35:47.000 Joe Biden lets Joe Biden let Kabul be taken over by the Taliban.

01:35:51.000 He sat idly by eating ice cream in Delaware and Camp David while it was happening.

01:35:55.000 The Afghan forces did nothing.

01:35:57.000 Instead of securing perimeters and holding a line on cities and then destroying the weapons, getting our people out, then the military out.

01:36:04.000 Now at least 12, maybe 13 Americans are dead.

01:36:07.000 And unfortunately, more explosions are happening.

01:36:09.000 It's total chaos.

01:36:10.000 And it's a one-way fight.

01:36:14.000 Can I make a suggestion?

01:36:16.000 The way things are going, wouldn't it be good to have a stockpile of emergency food for a prolonged food shortage?

01:36:21.000 Look, chaos is coming.

01:36:23.000 I wish it wasn't.

01:36:23.000 We're in a cycle of decline.

01:36:25.000 I wish we can, I hope we can reinvigorate it.

01:36:27.000 But what if things fall apart?

01:36:28.000 What if our grid is hacked?

01:36:29.000 What if there is an event we didn't expect?

01:36:32.000 Well, over the last year, we should all be expecting the unexpected.

01:36:36.000 The Red Cross and FEMA now recommend having at least three months' worth of emergency food per person.

01:36:42.000 You know, I gotten this interesting dialogue with a reporter.

01:36:45.000 I told the reporter, you know, I'm a prepper. 0.97

01:36:46.000 She said, oh, you're a crazy prepper. 0.76

01:36:48.000 I said, I'm not crazy. 0.99

01:36:48.000 I'm rational. 0.99

01:36:49.000 And guess what?

01:36:49.000 You'll be coming knocking on my door for food when our grid gets hacked or when all the power goes out or where there's chaos.

01:36:55.000 And guess what?

01:36:56.000 I might not give it to you.

01:36:57.000 I'm kidding.

01:36:57.000 Maybe I will.

01:36:58.000 The point is that I am proud to prepare for things that are going to happen because we have seen where things go.

01:37:04.000 And guess what?

01:37:04.000 The human condition is one of decay.

01:37:07.000 I wish it wasn't.

01:37:07.000 I wish better times were ahead and utopia and all this sort of stuff.

01:37:10.000 But if we're honest with ourselves, honest, we need to protect the people we love.

01:37:14.000 And that includes being prepared.

01:37:16.000 That doesn't mean you have to be paranoid, but be prepared.

01:37:19.000 Now you can order the four-week food kit and 25% off the regular price.

01:37:23.000 You get breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, and snacks totaling over 2,000 calories a day.

01:37:28.000 In other words, you'll be well-fed while others are standing in food lines.

01:37:32.000 To get your 25% discount on a four-week food kit, go to preparewithkirk.com.

01:37:39.000 That's preparewithkirk.com right now, and your order will ship quickly and arrive discreetly at your door if you act now.

01:37:49.000 So it's super simple.

01:37:50.000 You buy it and you store it.

01:37:52.000 And then when all of a sudden things start to fall apart, you open up that cupboard and you know your family has food.

01:37:58.000 You know that you can nourish yourself.

01:38:01.000 Do you know that certain estimates say that after 48 hours, total chaos will occur and grocery stores will be pillaged and plundered?

01:38:10.000 Preparewithkirk.com.

01:38:12.000 Protect your family.

01:38:13.000 Prepare rationally.

01:38:15.000 PrepareWithPerk.com.

01:38:19.000 This is Andrew Colvett, producer Andrew, filling in for this final segment with Jack Posobiec, former analyst.

01:38:26.000 Navy or CIA, Jack?

01:38:27.000 I always get it confused.

01:38:28.000 Either way, you have the best sources.

01:38:31.000 So I was a Navy intelligence officer and also did some work with DIA through a DIA deployment.

01:38:39.000 There it is.

01:38:39.000 Okay, great.

01:38:40.000 So, again, a lot of emails.

01:38:42.000 I just checked.

01:38:43.000 We're getting a ton of emails about this 25th Amendment question.

01:38:47.000 I think people are so pissed off right now.

01:38:51.000 You know, and this is what they miss in Washington.

01:38:54.000 You know, we can talk about, you know, trans agenda.

01:38:57.000 We can talk about CRT.

01:38:58.000 We can talk about all of these issues that are tremendously important.

01:39:01.000 But there is something very core to the American spirit about losing in a military engagement.

01:39:08.000 We don't like it.

01:39:09.000 We're not used to it.

01:39:11.000 It cuts against everything we know to be true about our national character and our history.

01:39:16.000 This has people more fired up than anything I've seen in a long time.

01:39:20.000 The news is tragic, and I don't want to move on beyond it too fast, Jack.

01:39:24.000 But our folks want to know, what do you know?

01:39:28.000 How do you know it?

01:39:29.000 Tell us what you can.

01:39:30.000 I mean, what do we know?

01:39:32.000 Kamala Harris.

01:39:33.000 I don't, yeah, before anybody gets too far ahead of their skis on jumping into the predicted markets or anything, that the conversations would not be imminent, right?

01:39:45.000 They're talking more about like after midterm going and having a conversation between the various sides.

01:39:53.000 Though that being said, the events of today may have pushed that.

01:39:57.000 Emotions are raw.

01:39:58.000 A lot of people, keep in mind, all the people in that cabinet, all the people in that administration, they've got careers, they've got reputations to uphold in Washington, D.C., various other firms.

01:40:08.000 They know that they can't hide the incompetence anymore, and they're trying to find some way out of it.

01:40:15.000 And this is right there in front of them.

01:40:17.000 So, you know, it could possibly be like some potential power sharing deal could be made where, all right, you're going to go through midterms, but then after that, you know, you're going to resign so we don't have to invoke it.

01:40:28.000 And again, these are just conversations that are being had.

01:40:31.000 It's not that there's any finality or that they're actually going to go through with any of this stuff, but it's always a sort of joke for any vice president.

01:40:38.000 But now they're actually having the tone has shifted and they are speaking about it seriously.

01:40:43.000 So one of the things that I've noticed is that there appears to be very little warmth.

01:40:48.000 There appears to be very little, you know, even on-air time.

01:40:52.000 I mean, Kamala Harris was gone for like six days and then she showed up in Southeast Asia. 0.98

01:40:59.000 Is this why they sent her away?

01:41:01.000 Because there was this Cold War brewing and now, as you're calling it, a hot war inside the White House?

01:41:09.000 Right.

01:41:09.000 So the shade war gone hot.

01:41:11.000 And remember, this is what they were doing again and again with Kamala Harris, right?

01:41:14.000 They went to the G7.

01:41:15.000 They sent her to Guatemala.

01:41:17.000 They wanted to be in charge of things that they were getting positive marks for in the polls, like taking credit for economic returns.

01:41:25.000 It really just has to do with the lockdowns going away.

01:41:27.000 And they were saddling her with issues like the border, which is a complete failure.

01:41:32.000 And so they were trying everything they could to throw sand on the tracks of that train that's coming because they know that they can't prop up Joe Biden much longer because everyone in the world can see it.

01:41:47.000 So they were trying to saddle her down with all these different must-fail situations.

01:41:52.000 Right.

01:41:52.000 So she's flaming mad.

01:41:54.000 When they wanted her to stand with Biden during that press conference that you just mentioned, she refused.

01:41:58.000 Remember, we always hear Biden-Harris administration, Biden-Harris administration, right?

01:42:02.000 But on this one, she sat in the green room.

01:42:05.000 She didn't come out and stand with him.

01:42:06.000 She came out afterwards, you know, over the weekend and didn't even take her mask off, just kind of stood there silently.

01:42:12.000 And then you get the pink shirt that comes out with her, like her heads in her hands. 0.98

01:42:16.000 And then to this trip that's going on right now, this is pre-scheduled.

01:42:19.000 They asked her to not go.

01:42:22.000 They wanted her to stay and have pictures of the situation room and everything else going on.

01:42:27.000 And she said, no, I'm out of here.

01:42:29.000 You are not going to pin this on me.

01:42:31.000 That's incredible.

01:42:32.000 That's incredible intelligence.

01:42:34.000 Jack, thank you for that.

01:42:36.000 Nobody else has been reporting on what's going on inside the White House like you have.

01:42:41.000 So hat tip to you, my friend.

01:42:42.000 Really well job.

01:42:43.000 Really, really great job.

01:42:44.000 We only have a minute left here, Jack.

01:42:46.000 The main question we get about this: everybody wants to see Biden go, but then you're left with Kamala Harris.

01:42:54.000 How do you weigh those two potential realities in tension?

01:42:58.000 And again, I don't want to get out of our skis, but if we're going to talk about hypotheticals and on a day like this, I think we should, how do you weigh those two in tension?

01:43:06.000 I think people have to start getting ready to accept the fact that Kamala Harris is going to be the first female president of the United States.

01:43:14.000 Wow.

01:43:15.000 And she will be selected, not elected.

01:43:17.000 Not a single person will have voted for her.

01:43:20.000 There will have been no campaign nationally to elect her president, and yet she will assume the office because Joe Biden is not going to finish his first term.

01:43:28.000 Jack, that's sadly, I think you might be right.

01:43:31.000 And well, that is the last 10 seconds of the show, guys.

01:43:34.000 Thank you, Jack, for joining us.

01:43:39.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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01:43:53.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 26, 2021

13 American Service Members | LIVE, Breaking Analysis as Chaos in Kabul Unfolded—with Dr. Keith Rose, Victor Marx, and Jack Posobiec

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