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00:01:29.000We've had massive, massive developments on the Afghanistan front in a tragic morning for the United States, military, frankly, for our entire country.
00:01:40.000A chaotic scene is unfolding in Kabul as we speak.
00:01:46.000Here's what we know: a suicide bombing outside the Abbey Gate at Kabul's airport in Afghanistan injured at least three U.S. Marines.
00:01:58.000U.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.
00:02:16.000A second explosion happened outside the Baron Hotel.
00:02:21.000Sources say we are getting indications of at least 13 casualties.
00:02:44.000The fog of war, all of this is very real, and we don't want to jump to any conclusions.
00:02:49.000But I just want to explain and not hold anything back some of the things that we're hearing.
00:02:56.000So, sources on the ground have told us that they believe there were four U.S. Marines killed.
00:03:00.000Now, again, I cannot confirm that, and I want to stress that that is unconfirmed.
00:03:06.000But 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.
00:03:25.000The Pentagon is calling this a complex attack.
00:03:29.000Initial reports speculated that it could have been a car bombing.
00:03:36.000This 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.
00:03:52.000Speculation abounds, whether this was the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIS-K.
00:04:01.000There are factions on the ground that are all fighting for turf, fighting for influence, as the U.S. evacuates in a shameful manner.
00:04:18.000We are creating this chaos on the ground, which we've been talking about all week.
00:04:23.000As a matter of fact, we were talking about it last week.
00:04:27.000And this, unfortunately, is the sad conclusion this morning.
00:04:33.000Now, 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.
00:04:59.000We know from Pentagon sources, and anybody on the Hill is getting their information from here at the Pentagon, that it was a coordinated attack.
00:05:06.000Anytime 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.
00:05:33.000This 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.
00:05:45.000My team has just forwarded this to me, urgent sources telling us this could be, and it speaks to what you were just saying.
00:05:53.000We 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.
00:06:06.000Now, I want to frame just how horrific this is.
00:06:09.000And if you follow us on Telegram, we've been posting all morning some of the video and the images.
00:06:15.000But I want to frame that in context properly by explaining how our inept commander-in-chief has been completely asleep at the wheel.
00:06:27.000Our 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.
00:06:43.000Instead, Cut 78, this is Joe Biden from last week.
00:06:49.000Talk about a clip that has not aged well for Mr. Biden.
00:07:54.000That's a reporter, and I stress, actually attempting to do their job for once, asking, do Americans face a real threat from ISIS now?
00:08:04.000And 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.
00:08:12.000And now we have credible reports from in the field that Americans are, we have American casualties.
00:08:19.000Now, for those of you who might want to conflate that with deaths, we cannot confirm that.
00:08:25.000Casualty could mean serious injury, but we do know at least three casualties that are American on the ground from the suicide attacks in Kabul.
00:08:38.000Now, when we say that blood is on somebody's hands, it's a serious thing to say.
00:08:44.000But I think in this moment, there is no more apt way to describe what just happened.
00:08:51.000There is indeed blood on Joe Biden's hands because the whole world has been begging him to change his strategy.
00:09:01.000The whole world, our allies in NATO, even the press corps, has been scratching their head at just how inept this withdrawal from Afghanistan is.
00:09:14.000And yet here we are, as everybody warned, as everybody feared, there is now dead bodies in the streets of Kabul.
00:09:23.000We have been negotiating with terrorists in good faith as if this was somehow going to end well.
00:09:30.000And unfortunately, we have the first blasts that have taken lives.
00:09:35.000And we just pray that none of those are American lives.
00:09:38.000But it certainly is not shaping up to be a day where we expect good news.
00:09:43.000I want to preface that this is the fog of war.
00:09:47.000Details are coming as fast as we can get them.
00:09:50.000I am joined by a friend of mine, a friend of the show, Dr. Keith Rose.
00:10:24.000So, Dr. Rose, please give us as best you can.
00:10:29.000I 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.
00:10:41.000Early this morning, well, actually, several hours ago, there was an IED that went off outside of Abbey Gate.
00:10:48.000Abbey 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.
00:11:14.000Yeah, 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.
00:11:26.000And I've been working with a lot of guys, former intelligence agents.
00:11:32.000I've been working with former military folks in the special operations community as well as active duty folks.
00:11:39.000And 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.
00:13:02.000I will tell you, Dr. Rose, you have been right on basically everything as you've been giving us reports.
00:13:10.000There'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.
00:13:17.000And then you've been proven to be 100% right regarding the withdrawal timeline.
00:13:23.000You were ahead of that by about a day.
00:13:25.000I mean, there's just numerous instances where you've been keeping us abreast of this.
00:13:30.000So 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.
00:13:57.000But at the same time, you know, this is one of those times you don't want to be right.
00:14:02.000I wrote an article over a year and a half ago concerned about this exact thing.
00:14:06.000We knew the Taliban were not honoring the peace accord that Ambassador Khalazad was working on.
00:14:13.000The reason we knew it is because we read their traffic.
00:14:16.000We 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.
00:14:45.000I think we've all been racing for something like this to happen, praying it wouldn't.
00:14:49.000But the ineptitude and just the sheer brazen gaslighting of this entire debacle has been incredible to watch.
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00:16:30.000Back 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.
00:16:42.000And 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.
00:17:26.000Actually, 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.
00:17:40.000And they locked down the airport last night.
00:17:45.000What 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.
00:17:52.000So we knew it was locked down because of this report.
00:17:59.000They're saying that it's ISIS, quote unquote, but we know for a fact that the Haqqani organization is in Kabul right now.
00:18:09.000We 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.
00:18:23.000And we kind of made a stink of it in the media at that time, but the Qanis are known for their IED technology.
00:18:29.000So 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.
00:18:40.000It 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.
00:18:49.000Although it does sound like it makes a good narrative if you want to say, well, the Taliban followed our agreement.
00:18:56.000I'm just getting ahead of it a little bit, but it doesn't make sense.
00:18:58.000Well, Keith, from the Wall Street Journal, I'm just, this is an hour ago.
00:19:02.000It says, in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network rises to power, and it undermines Taliban's claims of severing terrorist ties.
00:19:13.000So this is kind of exactly in sync with what you're saying.
00:19:16.000They'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.
00:19:28.000You 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.
00:20:03.000If 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.
00:20:13.000A few days ago, I understand Siraj Akhani was in Lagma.
00:20:17.000Now, 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.
00:20:24.000And 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.
00:20:31.000We have been reporting for several years that Al-Qaeda was building up.
00:20:35.000We 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.
00:20:46.000And 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.
00:20:57.000He thinks they were probably Chechens or Uzbeks.
00:21:01.000So you have a host of foreign fighters which commit a lot of the atrocities.
00:21:07.000Then you have the Taliban that have come in.
00:21:09.000And 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.
00:21:22.000Now, 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.
00:21:34.000If 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.
00:21:53.000Is that correct, Keith, that this very well could have been prevented with the proper military strategy?
00:21:58.000If 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.
00:22:18.000I think that's what kind of caused the paralysis.
00:22:20.000But 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?
00:22:34.000Well, that's two parts you asked me, Charlie, so I want to answer both of them.
00:22:38.000Our troops are there to protect and fight.
00:23:40.000I can tell you, Kabul airfield is in the middle of the city center, surrounded by big buildings, and it's impossible to secure adequately.
00:23:49.000At the same time, we just got pushed out of our embassy almost overnight.
00:23:54.000President Ghani left to everyone's surprise with what I understand pallets of cash.
00:24:02.000And 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.
00:24:10.000And these are lessons learned over two decades.
00:24:13.000You 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.
00:24:24.000And so what they're doing now is think about this for a second.
00:24:28.000The administration said we have the greatest airlift ever.
00:24:44.000And 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.
00:24:57.000They kill, well, my understanding, they've killed Americans.
00:25:03.000And so you have feckless leadership, but more importantly, in the Biden administration, Charlie, it's not that they aren't doing anything.
00:25:11.000They don't know what to do because a woke leadership is not about results.
00:25:17.000It's a patina of an ideology that's not about producing anything.
00:25:24.000And in this case, we need to produce a response that reestablishes our nation for security.
00:25:31.000Because 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.
00:25:38.000It will be an open season on American citizens.
00:25:42.000I'm going to give you the audience just a quick update.
00:25:45.000The 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.
00:27:11.000So, 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?
00:27:17.000But 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.
00:27:27.000I think it's more nefarious than that.
00:27:29.000And 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.
00:27:41.000They have an open Silk Road straight through to Iran and the Mediterranean.
00:27:46.000They get that multi-billion dollar copper play, which they desperately need in Afghanistan.
00:28:23.000China has always been working on this grand deal.
00:28:27.000They're trying to elevate themselves to a world superpower.
00:28:31.000And China doesn't have a lot of rare earth minerals.
00:28:35.000They don't have a lot of raw materials.
00:28:38.000They don't have a lot of intellectual property that they don't steal, but they're very good at something called barbarian management.
00:28:43.000And 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.
00:28:55.000This is established back to the Mongol periods.
00:28:58.000And 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.
00:29:11.000And Hunter Biden all of a sudden got a lot of money.
00:29:14.000And I believe that Joe Biden's having to pay a debt now.
00:29:17.000I think that's one of the reasons Hunter Biden can sell his artwork so easily.
00:29:21.000But what this does for China is so good for them on so many levels and tragic for us.
00:29:29.000It allows them to have a clear path through Afghanistan into Iran, which gives them access to a Mediterranean port.
00:29:38.000It also strengthens their relationship with Pakistan.
00:29:42.000It 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.
00:29:53.000And it gives them access to a lot of rare earth minerals.
00:29:56.000The other thing is it allows them to manipulate and be involved in something called the TAPI pipeline, the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India pipeline.
00:30:07.000And 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.
00:30:18.000So the Taliban knew they were coming to power.
00:30:21.000And 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.
00:30:37.000It opened us up for every jihadist to see weakness.
00:30:41.000And weakness is the fuel in their clown car.
00:30:45.000It's what makes them move and makes them want to do things.
00:30:50.000When 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.
00:30:57.000I don't believe anyone died when President Trump was in office in Afghanistan.
00:32:21.000Someone wanted to inflict maximum damage.
00:32:24.000You could not wargame this better to inflict maximal damage on us, but it could only be done from the inside.
00:32:32.000Well, Keith, and we're going to have to leave it there.
00:32:34.000I 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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00:36:29.000We are leaving after our Marines, which is arguably the best fighting force in the world, were not even allowed to defend themselves.
00:36:40.000They had their hands tied behind their back.
00:36:42.000And while Biden was knocking on wood, they were placking off an IED.
00:36:46.000And another one, as you know, went off at the Barron Hotel.
00:36:50.000And 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.
00:37:01.000We all thought through video and others, other ways.
00:37:05.000And so the Taliban were in control of the Barron Hotel.
00:37:09.000And then they probably just left and blew it or out in front of it.
00:37:13.000And so you have a lot of injured people.
00:37:16.000But the big winner in all this is China, because China's just created a terrorist superstate.
00:37:23.000And 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.
00:37:33.000And 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.
00:37:43.000They have no language or cultural barrier in Taiwan.
00:37:46.000So they probably have 100,000 agents just and special operations personnel embedded in Taiwan.
00:37:54.000They have the intelligence, and these guys have probably just been working undercover.
00:37:58.000So 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.
00:38:17.000So there was, just for our audience's sake, I want to make sure that the details are clear here.
00:38:22.000We've got Abbey, the Abbey Gate, and then we've got the Barron Hotel, correct?
00:38:58.000And I was sent and I forwarded them to you pictures in the hospital of the people they're treating.
00:39:03.000This 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.
00:39:15.000We were just beginning to get the reports of that.
00:39:16.000The Taliban were going around and taking rations from people.
00:39:20.000And now you have a city that has been basically under siege, not from an attack, but more by the vacuum created by our incompetence.
00:39:48.000And are there more attacks that are saying that are coming, Keith, that this is going to continue?
00:39:53.000And why don't we allow our soldiers to start to fight?
00:39:57.000Are 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?
00:40:12.000Charlie, traffic cops are out in the traffic.
00:40:14.000The Marines were more like a dispatcher in an office.
00:40:18.000They weren't even allowed out in the street.
00:40:20.000And so these men that trained their whole life for a mission have been humiliated.
00:40:26.000Charlie, this cannot go unresponded to.
00:40:32.000This, 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.
00:40:54.000I mean, so wouldn't it be logical to then retaliate against whomever is responsible for this bomb attack?
00:41:00.000So you said something earlier, Keith, that it came across the wire.
00:41:03.000Can you explain that to those of us that are not really kind of queued into military communication or technology?
00:41:09.000Basically, that they got some sort of heads up that there was going to be an attack.
00:41:14.000But wouldn't we know where that attack was coming from and the logistics of it?
00:41:18.000Well, all we basically said is get away from the airport.
00:41:20.000I mean, this seems so helpless here, Keith.
00:41:24.000Why 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?
00:41:35.000Charlie, 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.
00:41:47.000I 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.
00:41:59.000Now, I could be wrong, but that's what I'm hearing.
00:42:02.000So when you have intelligence, it really starts out as information and you do what we call cross-your ends.
00:42:08.000You may have a signals intelligence where you take it out of the sky, but then you have a human source that tells you something.
00:42:14.000Or you may have something where you have a geospatial where a satellite or an aircraft picked up something.
00:42:18.000And then you cross them up and you track and you go, okay, these are making sense.
00:42:22.000I'm hearing it from more than one source.
00:42:26.000Right now, I think they had a valid source.
00:44:03.000We should, because everyone gets an Afghan visa and it's stamped and it goes into a system.
00:44:08.000And when you leave, you get an exit visa.
00:44:11.000So it amazes me that we can, we talked about this earlier.
00:44:14.000They know exactly how much equipment they had in the military there, but they don't know how many people we had there.
00:44:22.000And the reason that is, you mentioned that to me, I'm not taking credit for that, but the reason that is, is you have to get a contract to replace the equipment, but there's not a vendor for people.
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00:46:41.000My understanding is that the gates are all sealed, that no one else will be processed or brought in.
00:46:47.000That 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.
00:46:55.000I know we have retasked our guys to get people out over land and through different ways.
00:47:03.000That 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.
00:47:10.000You are now living under Taliban control.
00:47:13.000I 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.
00:47:24.000And again, Charlie, I'm not an expert.
00:47:25.000I'm just someone that was there and paid attention.
00:47:30.000I don't understand what's going on with our quote leaders.
00:47:33.000We have a lot of people in positions that should understand this that don't.
00:47:36.000But 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.
00:47:45.000It may not be as quickly, but we pray that it's safe.
00:47:49.000So, Keith, what now should be the message?
00:47:51.000And I'm not trying to say we have to politicize this, but unfortunately, the regime needs to be challenged.
00:47:57.000What needs to be the message on this, Keith?
00:47:59.000Because they're going to try to say, well, death happens all the time at war.
00:48:03.000There's nothing, you know, just get used to it.
00:48:39.000We have failed the American people miserably and then do something about it.
00:48:46.000They'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.
00:49:03.000Why isn't the Freedom Caucus coming up with not talking points, but truth points?
00:49:08.000Because 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.
00:49:22.000And then that can be pushed on social media.
00:49:24.000Here, I can, I'll sum it up very clearly.
00:49:26.000The problem with the Republicans is the same problem that the administration has in Afghanistan.
00:49:35.000And when they were hit, they don't know what to do.
00:49:38.000So they revert back to talking instead of acting.
00:49:42.000And that's why I like President Trump so much.
00:49:44.000He came in, he saw a problem, and he wasn't perfect, but he really tried to solve it.
00:49:49.000And it seems like our controlled opposition loves to talk about problems.
00:49:54.000There 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.
00:50:04.000You 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.
00:50:22.000There 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.
00:50:30.000And, you know, it's just, it's, it's malfeasance and it's immoral.
00:50:34.000So we feel like we have, we have an obligation to the people that took care of us.
00:50:38.000And you're a representation of the heart of this country.
00:50:40.000And 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.
00:50:50.000I think this event is going to go down in history as one of the most traumatic psychological events.
00:50:55.000Obviously, the lives lost and the chaos and the tragedy for the family themselves is unthinkable.
00:51:00.000But 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.
00:51:11.000And 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.
00:51:21.000A number of others are being treated for wounds.
00:51:24.000We also know that a number of Afghans fell victim to this heinous attack.
00:51:27.000Our thoughts and prayers go out to loved ones and teammates of all those killed and injured.
00:51:31.000That is the end of the Pentagon statement.
00:51:54.000They reduced them to numbers because that's what this administration does.
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00:55:04.000And 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.
00:55:22.000And our plane that was coming in was waved off, and the kids were actually pushed back outside of the gate.
00:55:31.000This is how crazy the situation is there.
00:55:35.000And 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.
00:55:47.000And so, Victor, I want to follow up on one part of this.
00:55:49.000Andrew, do you want to ask the question?
00:55:54.000Yeah, so we were hearing similar reports about the orphans.
00:55:57.000There 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.
00:56:07.000And then, I mean, I don't want to speculate, but I'm hearing they were turned away.
00:56:20.000Well, we did get them inside the airport.
00:56:23.000We got them into the gates and process.
00:56:26.000And 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.
00:56:41.000But to push them out was absolutely unbelievable.
00:56:50.000And just so the listeners know and can pray, we've regrouped and we're going to try to do the rescue again.
00:56:59.000And 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.
00:57:21.000Wait, so Victor, I want to make sure I understand that correctly because I've been hearing that from a lot of former service members.
00:57:28.000As now we know four Marines were killed today as they were playing traffic cop, not empowered to actually fight the enemy.
00:57:35.000And we knew this terrorist attack was coming.
00:57:38.000So if I understand this correctly, a lot of veterans are going to say, you know what?
00:57:42.000I will take a flight to Islamabad and get a car and go do this myself if I have to.
00:58:03.000With thousands of Americans that are trapped inside of Bashirness and thousands, and then missionaries and Christians and people who helped us.
00:58:36.000We're going to start orchestrating long-term rescues and recovery for this to happen.
00:58:42.000And although I'm not a foreign intelligence operative, I will say this: that the teams and heroes that are working with me are unbelievable.
00:58:52.000And 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.
00:59:16.000But this is when Americans have to stand up.
00:59:45.000And that's that's based on your sources, the people you know on the ground.
00:59:50.000Yes, 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.
01:00:16.000No, they haven't been able to get to the airport for a long time.
01:00:21.000When President Biden said the Taliban is allowing you through, that simply is not the reality on the ground.
01:00:28.000And, you know, we have had Americans make it through, but I'm telling you, it has been the absolute crap show of anything.
01:00:40.000What 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.
01:00:56.000But 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.
01:01:12.000And 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.
01:01:24.000We would absolutely obliterate them without any type of prejudice because of what they're doing.
01:01:32.000And I'll tell you guys something very sad.
01:01:35.000I got a report last night that a father in his stress and duress killed his daughters to keep the Taliban from taking them.
01:01:45.000This is the level of survival and fear.
01:01:50.000I've got groups right now that I'm trying to get out.
01:01:53.000And of course, the orphans take the precedent.
01:01:56.000And then, of course, we want Americans out.
01:01:58.000But we're having to move to long game.
01:02:01.000And 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.
01:02:17.000It costs money because we get zero funding from the government.
01:02:22.000So 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.
01:02:34.000And I'll tell you something, because Charlie, I know you were friends.
01:02:50.000They said the small church and the leadership said, we've prayed and we're supposed to stay here.
01:02:59.000Even 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.
01:03:51.000And one, you know, it shouldn't surprise anybody.
01:03:54.000The 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.
01:04:05.000When 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.
01:04:15.000These men and women that are making these decisions have what we call thin data, meaning they're getting little briefs.
01:04:22.000They'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.
01:04:33.000And I'll tell you what, it's an atrocity because lives have been taken.
01:05:19.000I 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.
01:05:34.000I'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.
01:05:44.000And there's been such poor leadership.
01:05:48.000And now there's blood on his hands because of bad decisions.
01:05:52.000So, 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.
01:06:10.000Heck, the 82nd Airborne could have executed.
01:06:13.000And there are a lot of good men and women at Kabul right now.
01:06:17.000And believe me, they're fast pulling out.
01:06:20.000That situation has deteriorated to where they're taking mortars, small arms fire, suicide bombers, and we've lost American lives.
01:07:56.000I always believe there's a spiritual component in things like this.
01:07:59.000When bad things happen, we call it manifestations of evil.
01:08:02.000When 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.
01:08:15.000One, and two, uh, track with us because misinformation and wrong motives really can mess up a process.
01:08:27.000So, I would encourage people to track with us.
01:08:29.000We have a daily intelligence brief that will go into the inbox, and that's victormarks.com forward slash brief.
01:08:37.000If you want to get the truth factual and accurate, go there.
01:08:40.000And then, lastly, if people can support the work we're doing, it matters.
01:08:46.000And, you know, we know what's facing us in front, we know what we've accomplished behind.
01:08:52.000And through our coalition networks, people, and what we're doing in the future, we need a war chest of funds.
01:08:58.000And 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.
01:09:06.000And that's the two questions you ask people: you have to have access and placement with the network in order to get things done.
01:09:13.000And all things possible, ministries and our coalition and partners, we are getting it done.
01:09:20.000At least 60 people killed in the Kabul explosion and four Marines that we know of.
01:09:27.000Victor, 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.
01:09:36.000Our 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.
01:09:46.000And so you deserve a lot of credit, Victor.
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01:13:53.000They know exactly what all the dirty bombs are.
01:13:55.000How did we get intelligence about this before it happened?
01:13:58.000And Jen Saki said that this was an amazing success.
01:14:03.000I 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.
01:14:14.000The 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.
01:16:34.000While 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.
01:22:35.000The new American regime position is enjoy the abuse.
01:22:41.000While 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.
01:22:51.000What's Joe Biden going to say to those family members?
01:22:54.000Joe 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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01:24:37.000Teddy 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.
01:24:49.000Joe Biden always ends his speeches saying something that says, God bless the troops.
01:25:21.000We 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.
01:25:42.000Jack, what are you hearing and seeing?
01:25:46.000Well, see, the situation on the ground is not what the administration is saying.
01:25:51.000And 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.
01:26:04.000There 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.
01:26:12.000And 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?
01:26:27.000There 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?
01:26:55.000When we have no idea who is in these throngs of people is ridiculous.
01:26:59.000So of course, when ISIS knows that this is a spot where all the people that worked with the Americans are congregating, it's indefensible.
01:27:11.000You've seen the videos coming out all week.
01:27:13.000Of course, there was going to be a terrorist attack there.
01:27:16.000But Joe Biden is so feckless as to think that, oh, the Taliban's just going to keep their deal.
01:27:21.000No, that's absolutely not the situation.
01:27:24.000Taliban'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.
01:27:33.000So Jack, letting the military do the job.
01:27:36.000What are the specific things that now need to be done as 13 Americans have died today?
01:27:41.000It 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.
01:28:00.000You've got, and this is a broader question.
01:28:03.000You 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.
01:28:11.000I said the U.S. is prepared to face an imminent military failure on the world states.
01:28:17.000Now, 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.
01:28:24.000Every 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?
01:28:38.000These institutions have been crumbling before our eyes for years, and now we are seeing the fruits of that.
01:28:45.000Now 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.
01:28:56.000So, Jack, you were a naval intelligence officer, and the reports are 11 Marines killed and one Navy medic.
01:29:35.000Are we going to finally be able to deploy special forces?
01:29:38.000And 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.
01:30:03.000It'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?
01:30:14.000Joe Biden said he didn't want a Blackhawk down moment.
01:30:18.000And 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.
01:30:35.000They want to control everything from thousands and thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C.
01:30:40.000So 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.
01:32:07.000And by the way, we have full on-the-shelf plans.
01:32:11.000They're called not combatant evacuation operations, NEOs, or NEOs, that we could be conducting right now if you actually let people go in.
01:32:18.000But they're not allowing these combatant commanders, these military commanders, to actually go in and do the things that they're trained to do.
01:32:33.000Yeah, 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.
01:32:44.000I mean, the fact that you address the nation?
01:32:46.000Yeah, is he going to address the nation?
01:32:48.000I 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.
01:33:03.000I haven't gotten any specifics on that yet, but he's going to have to.
01:33:07.000I'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.
01:33:25.000It's absolutely five hours ago, and we haven't heard from him.
01:34:23.000Are they feeling that in the White House, Jack, from all of your very credible sources?
01:34:28.000They've got to be seeing at least the polling.
01:34:32.000You have to, the way to look at this is to put the two pieces of what you just pointed out together, right?
01:34:37.000There'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.
01:34:52.000And that's the only issue they support him on is over COVID.
01:34:56.000So 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?
01:35:05.000They thought they were going to get a full term out of him.
01:35:07.000Now they're saying, well, if we can just get him to 23, right?
01:35:10.000If we can just get him to 23 right now.
01:35:12.000So 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?
01:35:25.000That'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.
01:35:38.000Because again, we put ourselves in this box, right?
01:35:57.000Instead of securing perimeters and holding a line on cities and then destroying the weapons, getting our people out, then the military out.
01:36:04.000Now at least 12, maybe 13 Americans are dead.
01:36:07.000And unfortunately, more explosions are happening.
01:39:33.000I 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?
01:39:45.000They're talking more about like after midterm going and having a conversation between the various sides.
01:39:53.000Though that being said, the events of today may have pushed that.
01:39:58.000A 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.
01:40:08.000They know that they can't hide the incompetence anymore, and they're trying to find some way out of it.
01:40:15.000And this is right there in front of them.
01:40:17.000So, 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.
01:40:28.000And again, these are just conversations that are being had.
01:40:31.000It'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.
01:40:38.000But now they're actually having the tone has shifted and they are speaking about it seriously.
01:40:43.000So one of the things that I've noticed is that there appears to be very little warmth.
01:40:48.000There appears to be very little, you know, even on-air time.
01:40:52.000I mean, Kamala Harris was gone for like six days and then she showed up in Southeast Asia.
01:41:17.000They wanted to be in charge of things that they were getting positive marks for in the polls, like taking credit for economic returns.
01:41:25.000It really just has to do with the lockdowns going away.
01:41:27.000And they were saddling her with issues like the border, which is a complete failure.
01:41:32.000And 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.
01:41:47.000So they were trying to saddle her down with all these different must-fail situations.
01:42:44.000We only have a minute left here, Jack.
01:42:46.000The main question we get about this: everybody wants to see Biden go, but then you're left with Kamala Harris.
01:42:54.000How do you weigh those two potential realities in tension?
01:42:58.000And 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?
01:43:06.000I 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.
01:43:15.000And she will be selected, not elected.
01:43:17.000Not a single person will have voted for her.
01:43:20.000There 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.
01:43:28.000Jack, that's sadly, I think you might be right.
01:43:31.000And well, that is the last 10 seconds of the show, guys.