The Charlie Kirk Show - What Did Biden Know and When Did He Know It?

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00:00:01.000 What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it?

00:00:04.000 This is a massive hostage situation potentially on our hands that could be one of the largest political scandals in foreign policy history.

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00:01:08.000 Afghanistan is a mess. 1.00

00:01:09.000 What did Biden know?

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00:02:13.000 The first thing I want to get to is this question of the Afghan, the Afghanistan debacle.

00:02:20.000 Is it incompetence or malevolence? 0.99

00:02:23.000 Now, it's easy to say that Joe Biden and his administration are clowns. 1.00

00:02:28.000 They are buffoons. 1.00

00:02:30.000 They should be nowhere near powerful positions. 0.96

00:02:33.000 They should be mid-level lawyers in some sort of corporate law firm working typical eight to five, eight to six jobs.

00:02:41.000 But instead, they're running the most powerful government in the history of the world.

00:02:45.000 It's hard to say that the Biden administration is malevolent when you see people like Jake Sullivan host a press conference and say basically nothing for 40 minutes.

00:02:57.000 Now, the regime, the Biden regime, is doubling down on their Afghan strategy.

00:03:07.000 They're saying we got everything done we needed to get done.

00:03:10.000 This was the right move.

00:03:12.000 And this is a wonderful example of leadership.

00:03:16.000 Now, Joe Biden says that the buck stopped with him while also blaming Donald Trump for the entire situation.

00:03:26.000 Now, ending the war in Afghanistan was the right move. 1.00

00:03:30.000 Collapsing the country and not being able to get out American citizens is humiliating and inexcusable and allowing the Taliban to take over in record time. 0.99

00:03:41.000 I want to read to you a bulletin that was sent out yesterday.

00:03:46.000 And this should be on every single news channel.

00:03:52.000 To American citizens, this is from the United States government.

00:03:56.000 Thank you for registering your request to be evacuated from Afghanistan.

00:04:00.000 Really?

00:04:01.000 The way people write emails sometimes is so condescending.

00:04:04.000 Thank you.

00:04:05.000 Why are you thanking them? 1.00

00:04:06.000 They might get their head chopped off. 0.93

00:04:08.000 The United States Embassy in Afghanistan has confirmed that an undefined number of U.S. government-provided flights will begin soon. 0.89

00:04:16.000 Please make your way to Hamid Karzai International Airport at this time.

00:04:21.000 Please be advised that the United States government cannot guarantee your security as you make this trip in all caps.

00:04:30.000 If you are in Afghanistan right now as an American citizen, the leaders of our country are telling you they cannot defend you.

00:04:39.000 The head of our government is saying, you're on your own.

00:04:44.000 Do your own deal.

00:04:46.000 The Biden administration yesterday, Jake Sullivan, came out and he said, look, we're working with the Taliban to try to clear safe passage.

00:04:54.000 Oh, so we're working with the people that we fought for 20 years, that we were told was the enemy, and now Jake Sullivan just has a direct line to the Taliban.

00:05:02.000 Oh, hey, by the way, can you just give free passage to our citizens?

00:05:06.000 This will turn into a hostage situation if it hasn't already.

00:05:11.000 Estimates are between anywhere between 6,000 and 10,000 American citizens, not American allies, not Afghan interpreters, American citizens are still in Kabul.

00:05:23.000 For all intents and purposes, this sounds no different than the DMV saying, oh, thanks for taking a number.

00:05:29.000 We'll get to you when we can.

00:05:31.000 The incompetency of our government is shining through.

00:05:35.000 But is it, in some way, malevolent behavior?

00:05:40.000 Is it that the government knew that this was going to happen and did nothing?

00:05:45.000 You see, the narrative from the Biden administration, as we are entering into one of the largest hostage situations in American history, potentially, more than Iran, more than anything that happened in Saigon, where if the Taliban chooses, they could take thousands of American citizens hostage and get whatever they want in return.

00:06:07.000 But the narrative from the Biden regime is that they are surprised by this.

00:06:14.000 They couldn't have seen this coming.

00:06:17.000 Well, the New York Times, who is usually state-run media for the Biden administration, said the following, quote, classified assessments by American spy agencies over the summer painted an increasingly grim picture of the prospect of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and warned of the rapid collapse of the Afghan military, even as President Biden and his advisors said publicly that was unlikely to happen as quickly according to current and former American government officials.

00:06:47.000 The intelligence warned the Afghan of the Afghan military collapse, and Biden couldn't have cared less.

00:06:54.000 In fact, he lied to us on July 8th.

00:06:57.000 He lied to us all throughout July when he did press conference.

00:07:01.000 He said, we're not going to have people airlifted off of buildings.

00:07:06.000 We're not going to have people evacuated.

00:07:08.000 Everything's going to be perfect and fine.

00:07:11.000 The Afghan military is very well armed.

00:07:14.000 Let's go to cut three. 0.81

00:07:15.000 Remember what he said?

00:07:16.000 He said, there's going to be no circumstance where you see people lifted off to the roof of the embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.

00:07:23.000 No, it's even worse than that, Joe Biden.

00:07:25.000 We have thousands and thousands and thousands of American citizens that can't come home.

00:07:31.000 And your government is saying we cannot provide for your security.

00:07:36.000 Now, these clowns that run our military, the military generals, you would think that the very basic tenant of withdrawal from a country is, hey, let's not withdraw every force we have until every American citizen has left the country.

00:07:51.000 You'd think there'd be some form of a concentric circle strategy. 0.89

00:07:56.000 I don't think you need to be George S. Patton to figure this out.

00:07:59.000 Hey, let's have a couple perimeters.

00:08:01.000 Let's draw this down slowly and methodically.

00:08:05.000 So by July 15th, all the non-military citizens can come home. 0.96

00:08:10.000 By July 25th, all the contractors can come home.

00:08:15.000 I mean, this is not overly complicated plans that need to be implemented.

00:08:20.000 Cut three, Joe Biden on July 8th, 2021.

00:08:23.000 There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.

00:08:32.000 It is not at all comfortable.

00:08:34.000 And then Joe Biden said in cut eight, the likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the country is highly unlikely.

00:08:43.000 Play cut eight.

00:08:44.000 The likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.

00:08:51.000 And now there is evidence to show that Biden ignored Mark Milley's request to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.

00:09:00.000 Now, Mark Milley was probably too busy reading about white rage.

00:09:04.000 So one of his assistants probably sent the request to Joe Biden.

00:09:08.000 This will go down as one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history.

00:09:13.000 This was not a surprise.

00:09:15.000 This was not a shock.

00:09:17.000 Intelligence was telling us weeks and months ahead of time that Americans could be put into jeopardy if this was not handled properly and prudently.

00:09:27.000 If this was not handled with wisdom and common sense, the whole country could fall.

00:09:35.000 Now, put aside the argument, which is a good argument, what did we do here for the last 20 years and all the sacrifice associated?

00:09:43.000 But now we have Americans that can't leave the country. 1.00

00:09:47.000 So this would be a disaster for Biden if he got every American out of the country perfectly.

00:09:52.000 And then the Taliban took over.

00:09:54.000 That would be bad.

00:09:57.000 This is even worse because the Taliban took over and we still have Americans in what is now becoming an open-air hostage situation that was created by Joe Biden.

00:10:12.000 Joe Biden is responsible for this.

00:10:13.000 The Biden regime is currently overseeing what could be the worst foreign policy debacle in American history.

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00:11:24.000 Joe Biden was warned to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan to kind of create a, let's say, not just a perimeter, but at least a drawdown and a withdrawal that wouldn't humiliate the entire world and possibly give over thousands of American citizens to our enemies to hold hostage against us.

00:11:43.000 Just so you know, the Iran hostage crisis was 52 Americans.

00:11:49.000 I think it was 52 Americans or so that were held hostage, and that destroyed the Carter presidency.

00:11:55.000 This is a massive political liability for the Biden regime and the Democrat regime.

00:12:01.000 John Kirby, who's also a lunatic, says that we don't know how many Americans are in Afghanistan.

00:12:07.000 Could you imagine if the Trump administration oversaw the fall of Kabul and they had someone come out and say, you know, we really don't know how many American citizens there are. 0.79

00:12:20.000 You must do your job.

00:12:23.000 If you are a plumber, your job is to fix the plumbing of the building.

00:12:27.000 If your job is a carpenter, your job is to fix the framing of a building.

00:12:34.000 The United States government and the people within the government have a very simple job.

00:12:39.000 The job is to secure the blessings of liberty, promote the general welfare, and to protect American citizens, especially overseas.

00:12:48.000 So why is it that our media is focusing so much on Afghan refugees while there are American citizens that they have a moral duty and obligation, a sworn duty and obligation to protect?

00:13:03.000 Well, according to John Kirby, not John Kerry, not Mr. Heinz Ketchup, he says we don't even know the number of Americans in Afghanistan.

00:13:11.000 Play cut 28.

00:13:13.000 Oh, today, if I can get some specifics here, how many Americans do you believe to be in Afghanistan right now?

00:13:19.000 Well, we think there are certainly thousands of Americans.

00:13:22.000 We don't have an exact count.

00:13:24.000 I would say somewhere best guess between 5,000 and 10,000 that are near Kabul.

00:13:32.000 Oh, I could do that.

00:13:33.000 You could have me go on TV.

00:13:35.000 Best guess between 5 and 10,000.

00:13:39.000 What is the role of John Kirby?

00:13:40.000 What's his job?

00:13:42.000 He's the Pentagon spokesperson. 1.00

00:13:46.000 This guy's a buffoon. 0.99

00:13:48.000 I mean, I could do that. 0.99

00:13:49.000 I mean, just pick up a random guy off the street.

00:13:51.000 How many people do you think are in Afghanistan?

00:13:53.000 I don't know, somewhere between 5 and 10,000.

00:13:55.000 Oh, thank you for being so precise.

00:13:57.000 It's terrific.

00:13:58.000 And he doesn't know how many Americans are there. 0.99

00:14:01.000 He's an ignoramus. 0.88

00:14:03.000 Oh, so do you think there might be 2,552? 0.98

00:14:07.000 Yeah, it's kind of a sliding scale.

00:14:09.000 It could be 5,000 or 10,000.

00:14:11.000 Oh, so it could be double what you think it is.

00:14:14.000 Some estimates are upwards of 20,000.

00:14:16.000 Now, that's just a general question about American, just how we do immigration.

00:14:22.000 Actually, it wouldn't be immigration.

00:14:23.000 It would be kind of processing travel and visas.

00:14:27.000 Shouldn't we have a pretty accurate number of how many Americans are in a country that we're occupying?

00:14:33.000 Wouldn't that be probably a good metric to have?

00:14:36.000 Oh, by the way, we're going to pull out of a country.

00:14:38.000 How many Americans are here and what could possibly go wrong?

00:14:43.000 John Kirby, well, we don't really know.

00:14:45.000 It could be between 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 30,000.

00:14:49.000 I'm just waiting for one of these Democrats to say the Hillary Clinton thing. 1.00

00:14:52.000 What difference does it make?

00:14:54.000 It's not like they vote Republican.

00:14:55.000 I mean, vote Democrat.

00:14:57.000 I mean, more refugees.

00:15:00.000 That's going to be their answer.

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00:16:23.000 Leave no man behind is a phrase you hear a lot in the military.

00:16:31.000 It's a great book that Marcus Luttrell wrote.

00:16:35.000 I think that was the name of his book or something, something of that.

00:16:39.000 It's an American tradition and something that is an American virtue, I should say, in our military, that our military never leaves a man behind.

00:16:49.000 Even if that soldier has died, they will go back and retrieve the body.

00:16:54.000 Not every military does that across the world, by the way.

00:16:57.000 They will leave people behind to try to serve the greater good.

00:17:01.000 Not the American military.

00:17:04.000 And yet, the Biden administration, the Biden regime, is what we should call them, has abandoned, betrayed your fellow countrymen that are in Afghanistan right now.

00:17:19.000 This is the number one news story in the country that is being suppressed by the activist media. 0.74

00:17:24.000 CNN has this anchor who's making a fool of herself, wearing the full Muslim garb, walking the streets. 1.00

00:17:30.000 Oh, these are such wonderful people. 0.72

00:17:32.000 I think we have that somewhere in the cut sheet.

00:17:34.000 Do we have that somewhere?

00:17:35.000 These are such peaceful people.

00:17:36.000 They're chanting death to America, but I think they mean well.

00:17:39.000 I think she got shot at the other day, or she got threatened if shot at.

00:17:42.000 She's like, we had to stand up to them and they wanted to shoot our cameraman.

00:17:47.000 It's like, yeah, well, welcome to a Taliban world. 1.00

00:17:50.000 And she's a field reporter.

00:17:51.000 We have cut 11.

00:17:52.000 Okay.

00:17:52.000 Cut 11.

00:17:53.000 CNN is hearing a group of extremists and Taliban chant death to America.

00:17:59.000 And she said, well, they seem very friendly.

00:18:02.000 Cut 11.

00:18:04.000 They're just chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.

00:18:08.000 It's utterly bizarre.

00:18:10.000 At the president.

00:18:11.000 Typical CNN.

00:18:13.000 You know, they say they seem very friendly, but they're also chanting death to America.

00:18:20.000 So the Biden administration at this moment says there are no plans to get Americans to the Afghan airport, the Afghanistan airport.

00:18:31.000 Now, I want you to understand, this is not New York where you have LaGuardia and you have Newark and you have JFK and you have White Plains and you have Teterboro.

00:18:42.000 This is not Chicago where you have Midway and you have O'Hare and you have Palwaukee.

00:18:47.000 And shout out to WABC, by the way, listening on the wonderful station.

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00:18:55.000 This is not LA where you have Van Nuys and you have Orange County and you have LAX.

00:19:01.000 No, instead, there are a couple airports for the entire country of Afghanistan.

00:19:09.000 So if you can't get people to those airports, they're not getting out.

00:19:13.000 Cut 29, John Kirby says there are no plans to get Americans to the Afghanistan airport.

00:19:21.000 They would have impeached and Republicans would have voted to remove if Donald Trump would have said that about fellow American citizens.

00:19:31.000 Now, this is a pattern, though.

00:19:32.000 You remember Benghazi?

00:19:34.000 The Obama regime couldn't care less that Ambassador Chris Stevens was abandoned in Benghazi.

00:19:42.000 What if I told you there are a thousand times more Americans that are abandoned right now in Kabul than were at Benghazi?

00:19:51.000 Play cut 29.

00:19:53.000 What is the plan to get these people to the airport?

00:19:59.000 First of all, from a military perspective, John, our focus is at the airport, right?

00:20:03.000 Security and stability at the airport so we can keep operations going.

00:20:06.000 If they can't get to the airport, what does it matter if you have the capabilities to get them out from the airport?

00:20:11.000 John, I understand that.

00:20:12.000 And we all understand that the security situation in Kabul is not ideal.

00:20:16.000 Oh, the security situation is not ideal.

00:20:20.000 That's your message right now to Americans that are fighting for their life, that are trying to navigate the streets of Kabul just to try to get to the airport to try to get out.

00:20:30.000 That's their message.

00:20:30.000 Well, it's not ideal.

00:20:32.000 There is a basic promise and contract between the government and the citizens.

00:20:38.000 And that contract is: we're going to protect you and we're not going to make decisions intentionally that will put you in harm's way.

00:20:45.000 That's a very basic premise of government.

00:20:47.000 Some other things would be nice, but the basic thing is we are not going to make your life more dangerous based on decisions we make.

00:20:57.000 And the Biden administration is violating that first principle of government.

00:21:01.000 And instead of a leaning in strategy where they're actually trying to fix it, Biden's like, everything's perfect.

00:21:08.000 What are you talking about?

00:21:09.000 Buck stops with me.

00:21:11.000 Fine.

00:21:12.000 If Joe Biden was a leader, which he isn't, and the Biden regime cared, he would be on the next plane to either Doha or to Jerusalem, to Tel Aviv, somewhere in the Middle East, to set up a command and control outpost to show the world that he's doing something to fix this.

00:21:31.000 Instead, he's walking at a brisk one-one-hundredth of a mile, one miles per hour with his briefcase, searching for the next mint chocolate chip ice cream cone.

00:21:44.000 And instead, Kamala is heading to Vietnam of all places.

00:21:48.000 I don't know, to go to kind of go relive the glory days of when Saigon fell or something.

00:21:53.000 Is she going to go do a reenactment? 0.99

00:21:54.000 I don't know.

00:21:56.000 So you'll have Cami in Saigon, and Joe Biden is going to Ben and Jerry's in Vermont or something.

00:22:04.000 I don't know.

00:22:05.000 Hanoi Kami.

00:22:08.000 Meanwhile, the Taliban, by the way, can we have a discussion about this?

00:22:12.000 Is it Taliban or Taliban?

00:22:15.000 See, this is where we disagree.

00:22:17.000 Connor says it's Talib Taliban.

00:22:20.000 Some people on TV say, it's Taliban.

00:22:24.000 Taliban.

00:22:26.000 Say, that's insulting.

00:22:27.000 Okay.

00:22:28.000 Taliban.

00:22:30.000 Whatever.

00:22:30.000 It's like I can never get the Kamala or Kamala stuff.

00:22:34.000 Therefore, I call her Kami. 0.83

00:22:35.000 I'm not offending anyone that way.

00:22:37.000 Obama is the one who overemphasized the Taliban or friends.

00:22:43.000 If Biden was serious about leadership, he would be on Air Force One right now to the Middle East, setting up an emergency command and control center overseeing the successful evacuation of American citizens.

00:22:52.000 Now, there are news reports showing up that Americans are now sending aid to the Taliban, unconfirmed reports to get citizens back.

00:23:00.000 So basically, just cash for terrorists.

00:23:02.000 And the Taliban or Taliban leader who stormed the Capitol after the Afghan president left with bags of cash that we propped up through our government.

00:23:14.000 This guy was released from Gitmo because he said, I'm just the shopkeeper that I want to look after my own father.

00:23:20.000 We had him in our possession.

00:23:22.000 We had him in Gitmo.

00:23:24.000 We released him so he could go stage a counter move against our own citizens.

00:23:31.000 And you have the Biden regime spokesperson, John Kirby, saying there's no plans to get Americans to the Afghanistan airport.

00:23:39.000 We don't even know how many people are there.

00:23:40.000 It's just a mess.

00:23:41.000 You're on your own.

00:23:42.000 Lord of the flies.

00:23:43.000 Defend yourself.

00:23:43.000 Mogadishu all over again.

00:23:45.000 It's not like we have an obligation to our citizens.

00:23:47.000 No, our obligation at the Biden regime is to just go bring in a bunch of Afghan citizens to our country.

00:23:52.000 Betrayal.

00:23:54.000 Pentagon cut 30 says: there's no answer on U.S. actions being taken to prevent military.

00:23:59.000 This is the one that drives me nuts.

00:24:02.000 And I have some people make excuses for this.

00:24:04.000 I say, I reject the premise.

00:24:07.000 How hard is it to destroy weapons so that the enemy doesn't take the weapons?

00:24:12.000 And they say, well, we can't take them back with us.

00:24:14.000 I'm not a logistical expert, okay?

00:24:17.000 But figure it out.

00:24:20.000 Think a little bit creatively.

00:24:22.000 We're able to do some pretty technologically impressive things in the modern era.

00:24:28.000 Blow up all the weapons, but we got to keep them there.

00:24:31.000 Why?

00:24:32.000 Well, it's bad for the environment.

00:24:33.000 That's actually an answer that someone on the internet said, well, it's bad for the environment to destroy all the weapons.

00:24:39.000 Oh, it's worse for the environment, having the Taliban or the Taliban in charge, or having a bunch of M16 blown up, M16s blown up into smithereens.

00:24:48.000 Just so you know how wasteful your government is, you go spend tens of billions of dollars for weapons we never use to go leave on the side of roads so people that hate your guts can take those weapons to go shoot at American citizens at three to Kabul. 0.70

00:24:59.000 That's your government.

00:25:00.000 Play cut 30, no answer on U.S. actions being taken to prevent military equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban.

00:25:08.000 No U.S. actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban by destroying it or anything else.

00:25:08.000 Cut 30.

00:25:15.000 I don't have the answer to that question.

00:25:17.000 Don't have the answer.

00:25:19.000 Don't have an answer.

00:25:20.000 Yeah, I mean, it's not like our job to make sure that the enemy doesn't get armed.

00:25:23.000 Now, this is something that I got to give Senator Rand Paul credit.

00:25:26.000 There's a couple things that he has really focused on.

00:25:31.000 And one of those is how we are quick to arm, but we don't ever actually trace where those arms go.

00:25:38.000 And Senator Rand Paul did a wonderful job when we had this whole push under the warmonger McCain to go give, I think it was the Syrian rebels arms.

00:25:48.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:25:48.000 It was the Syrian rebels.

00:25:50.000 And Senator Ram Paul gave this incredibly eloquent speech about how it's not a person-to-person transfer.

00:25:57.000 It's that these arms get intercepted, they get traded, and eventually your enemies end up with your weapons.

00:26:05.000 And that's exactly what happened.

00:26:06.000 We were fighting ISIS with our own weaponry.

00:26:09.000 And that's precisely what's happened in Afghanistan right now.

00:26:12.000 Where now the Taliban is stronger, more powerful, and better armed than before 9-11.

00:26:21.000 Any general that has overseen this should resign in disgrace.

00:26:25.000 Instead, they're going to get promoted to go run think tanks in Washington, D.C.

00:26:30.000 I think Britt Hume had some phenomenal comments, which is the cost politically that the Biden regime and Democrats are going to have to experience because of this.

00:26:42.000 Play Cut 32.

00:26:43.000 That it's a disaster, that it was horribly planned, it was misbegotten, the intelligence is bad, the judgment was bad, and the decision to do it like this was worst of all.

00:26:52.000 And you're hearing that from all quarters now.

00:26:54.000 And I think if people look at these images, the images will stay in people's minds.

00:26:58.000 I mean, that pathetic scene on that tarmac today with people chasing that airplane, grabbing on some falling off.

00:27:04.000 I mean, people won't forget that.

00:27:05.000 And it will be a stain on Joe Biden and his record that I think will endure.

00:27:10.000 Stain on his record that will endure.

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00:28:25.000 The very unimpressive dullard named Joy Reed decided to do a segment on me. 1.00

00:28:30.000 I don't even know.

00:28:31.000 We can air this in a little bit.

00:28:32.000 I do want to get to this good.

00:28:33.000 I tease this and we can get to some good news.

00:28:35.000 We can always handle Joy Reed later. 0.92

00:28:37.000 She was talking to Elon Omar about this.

00:28:40.000 She said, Charlie Kirk, radio show host, says that he doesn't want more people like you in the country.

00:28:46.000 What do you have to say about that?

00:28:48.000 Elon just kind of smiles awkwardly, quite honestly.

00:28:51.000 But it's true.

00:28:52.000 We don't want more people that are unappreciative like Elon Omar.

00:28:55.000 And no, it has nothing to do with skin color.

00:28:58.000 It has to do with culture and her ingratitude towards this wonderful country that we're in.

00:29:03.000 Elon Omar is exhibit A as to why we must have prudence and we must have practical judgment and we must be careful before bringing in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people into our country. 1.00

00:29:18.000 How popular is Joe Biden?

00:29:20.000 It's a really good question, isn't it?

00:29:22.000 Well, recent polling shows that he is tumbling.

00:29:28.000 Joe Biden's approval rating is below 50% for the first time, 49.8%, and 49.4% in the real clear politics average.

00:29:37.000 Independence that seemed tied to the Delta surge and predates the problems in Afghanistan.

00:29:43.000 And so 538 says, quote, we don't know the range in which Biden's approval will ultimately settle, but are the past two presidents or any indication it'll be a narrow one.

00:29:51.000 Now, according to Politico, his numbers are, quote, the 46th president's allies should probably stop worrying about his approval rating, just as much done as they possibly can while they still have Congress.

00:30:02.000 That's New York magazines.

00:30:03.000 I'm sorry.

00:30:04.000 And now I want to get to a story in Connecticut, which is very important, about a special election that is causing Democrats to be very nervous.

00:30:16.000 Now, special elections can be indicators, can be harbingers of things to come.

00:30:27.000 In a Connecticut Senate seat that was in Democrat hands, where Joe Biden won by double digits, a Republican won Alexis Gavanter, candidate for state Senate 36, in a solidly Democrat seat in Connecticut.

00:30:49.000 Now, this spells major trouble for Joe Biden and his regime and the Democrats.

00:30:56.000 Virginia governor's race is right around the corner.

00:30:59.000 Larry Elder's attempt to be governor of California is coming up very soon.

00:31:03.000 In fact, a new poll comes out today that says Trump would win the election if held today, as one in 10 Democrats regret their vote.

00:31:13.000 2022 is about to be a red wave, everybody.

00:31:18.000 And Democrats are running out of things that they can run on.

00:31:20.000 They're running out of issues they can complain about as they remask your children.

00:31:25.000 And Joe Biden's approval rating plunges seven points.

00:31:28.000 And it's going to go down from there as inflation starts to kick in, as economic numbers are not what they should be, as Kabul is taken over, the southern border is wide open.

00:31:39.000 What has Joe Biden done that has been meaningful or helpful to even just the Democrat voters?

00:31:48.000 And in Connecticut, a seat that was won by Biden by 25 points, a Republican won.

00:31:59.000 To illustrate the significance of the victory, this is from Breitbart.com.

00:32:03.000 The Democrat Legislative Campaign Committee told supporters that a loss in Connecticut State 36 would put all of the committee's 2018 gains in jeopardy.

00:32:13.000 It's a big deal.

00:32:15.000 This is Connecticut, one of the most liberal states in the country.

00:32:21.000 There's something happening, everybody, and we have to keep our foot on the gas.

00:32:26.000 If you go to big data polling, which is Richard Barris's, Joe Biden's approval and disapproval rating, he's at 51% disapprove, 47% approved.

00:32:36.000 They have flipped upside down in literally the course of a couple weeks.

00:32:40.000 And it's going to go down from there.

00:32:42.000 The knife is in free fall.

00:32:43.000 And if Joe Biden tries to catch it, you know what it's like to try to catch a falling knife.

00:32:48.000 So despite all of this nonsense, all the frustration, I'm here to tell you we are winning local recall elections.

00:32:54.000 School boards are getting recalled successfully.

00:32:57.000 And the momentum is growing.

00:32:59.000 We can't let up, everybody.

00:33:01.000 I want to get to this here where Cut 63, Joe Biden gets totally demolished in an Australian press as being utterly unfit to be president of the United States.

00:33:13.000 This is the Australian press.

00:33:15.000 Play Cut 63.

00:33:17.000 We now face a more unsafe world with the militant Islamist Taliban more emboldened than ever.

00:33:23.000 And there are concerns amongst many in the U.S. security establishment that the world will once again see a rise of terrorist attacks.

00:33:30.000 Can't even string a bloody sentence together.

00:33:32.000 Biden is utterly unfit to be the president of the United States. 0.97

00:33:36.000 And it blows my mind how world leaders like Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson suck up to such an intellectually bereft individual.

00:33:44.000 More honest than most of the American media. 0.86

00:33:47.000 Can't even string a bloody sentence together.

00:33:49.000 I couldn't set it better myself.

00:33:51.000 And yet Joe Biden is now saying he stands with his decision.

00:33:54.000 He planned for every contingency.

00:33:57.000 While there are anywhere between 5,000 to 10,000 Americans right now that are pleading for help and our own government released a press release to them.

00:34:06.000 Thank you for registering.

00:34:08.000 We cannot ensure your safety.

00:34:10.000 That's why you're there.

00:34:12.000 That's why the U.S. government exists to ensure their safety.

00:34:16.000 Play Cut 64, Joe Biden saying he planned for every contingency.

00:34:22.000 Play Cut 64.

00:34:23.000 I stand squarely behind my decision.

00:34:27.000 After 20 years, I've learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.

00:34:37.000 That's why we're still there.

00:34:39.000 We were clear-eyed about the risks.

00:34:42.000 We planned for every contingency.

00:34:44.000 Plan for every contingency as there are tens of thousands.

00:34:47.000 There are over 5,000 to 10,000 Americans, maybe even more.

00:34:50.000 Some say 30,000 Americans.

00:34:51.000 How we don't know is unacceptable.

00:34:53.000 That is the job of the State Department of the United States to know where Americans are when they travel abroad, especially into combat theaters, and even more so when you do a withdrawal of troops.

00:35:03.000 Probably pretty important.

00:35:05.000 I want to go to this cut here, and we've talked about how this has all been a strategy to try and increase the amount of refugees that are coming to America.

00:35:14.000 Now, the example that I used, and I will stand by this example, is that America does not need more people like Elon Omar that are ingrates, that are in leadership on committees overseeing our foreign policy, where she's never said a good thing about America, where she has a nasty tone, a bitterness towards our beautiful nation.

00:35:40.000 And she comes from war-torn Somalia, Mogadishu.

00:35:43.000 We accepted her.

00:35:44.000 She runs for Congress in a heavily Somali community, where she then becomes an insurgent against the United States as a member of Congress.

00:35:53.000 Now, Joy Reed finds this to be highly offensive, where she talks about my comments on MSNBC with Elon Omar attacking me.

00:36:02.000 And I'll stand by it.

00:36:03.000 You could attack me all you want.

00:36:04.000 You can call me a bigot or whatever.

00:36:06.000 None of that stuff is true, obviously.

00:36:09.000 What is true, though, Joy Reid is the actual bigot.

00:36:11.000 Elon Omar is the ingrate.

00:36:13.000 If we're not going to have immigration policy that prioritizes people that, I don't know, love the country, then we're all just afraid of being called names by the other side.

00:36:21.000 Play Cut 68, Joy Reed, and Elon Omar attack our program.

00:36:25.000 Play Cut 68.

00:36:26.000 Well, I was going to say there's one person I know who doesn't worry about it.

00:36:30.000 They know that being outshined is happening.

00:36:32.000 I don't remember his name.

00:36:33.000 I just think he looks like the annoying orange.

00:36:35.000 What is his name?

00:36:37.000 Charlie Kirk, who literally said that what he fears is that there'll be millions of you.

00:36:43.000 He named you by name.

00:36:44.000 If you even want to be bothered with responding to him, I want to give you that opportunity.

00:36:50.000 He needs geography classes and somebody needs to send him a globe, maybe.

00:36:57.000 Not from Afghanistan. 0.94

00:36:59.000 I'm from Somalia.

00:37:00.000 And Somali refugees are in this country.

00:37:03.000 And many of them are prospering just as I have.

00:37:07.000 And, you know, that man and others can cry about it.

00:37:10.000 But the reality is this is a country that welcomes refugees.

00:37:14.000 And they don't just welcome refugees.

00:37:15.000 They send one to Congress.

00:37:17.000 There you go.

00:37:18.000 And my advice to, what is his name, Charlie?

00:37:21.000 Cry more, dear, because we are going to be an open country just as we, the Statue of Liberty ain't going nowhere.

00:37:28.000 Yeah, we're going to be an open country.

00:37:29.000 We're going to let everyone in.

00:37:30.000 So, yes, Elon Omar, I know that you're from a war-torn Islamic country called Somalia off of the Horn of Africa in Eastern Africa.

00:37:38.000 If you actually heard what I said, your little trite response would have been unnecessary.

00:37:45.000 But your exhibit A as to why a refugee policy can destroy the country. 1.00

00:37:50.000 Elon Omar is actively participating in the vocal and intentional destruction of the country.

00:37:57.000 Her voting record, her language, the people who she associates with.

00:38:02.000 That has not made America freer.

00:38:04.000 Our refugee policy towards Somali Americans has made America a less free country. 1.00

00:38:11.000 It's made us less secure, that's for sure.

00:38:13.000 And if we're unable to talk about this because you're afraid of what the media is going to call about you, then you are living under the tyranny of political correctness.

00:38:21.000 Now, what's really interesting is that, and Connor, can you dig this up?

00:38:26.000 The Biden administration does not want to take Cuban refugees, but they're willing to take Afghan refugees.

00:38:33.000 I wonder why.

00:38:35.000 I wonder why Cuban refugees are deported and you have Mayorkas saying, do not come here.

00:38:42.000 But the Afghan refugees are given non-stop flights from Kabul.

00:38:46.000 I wonder why.

00:38:47.000 It's because the Afghans are more likely to be loyal Democrat voters.

00:38:53.000 Let's get that clip actually from Mayorkas.

00:38:56.000 Mayorkas said, allow me to be clear, if you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.

00:39:01.000 So you have Mayorkas, who is the head of the, what is he, Department of Homeland Security, saying to Cubans, you're not allowed here.

00:39:11.000 And by the way, he said that to Haitians as well.

00:39:13.000 And it's very interesting.

00:39:14.000 The Haitian community in parts of Florida is very conservative, very conservative.

00:39:20.000 So they don't like them either.

00:39:22.000 You see, everything comes back to political power.

00:39:26.000 And especially Cuban refugees are very Republican.

00:39:30.000 So people like Elon Omar, they make obedient Democrat voters.

00:39:35.000 Afghans, same thing.

00:39:38.000 But Cubans tend to be the most conservative, most Republican in the entire country.

00:39:44.000 And yet Mayorkis is a Cuban refugee who fled to America on a boat at one years old.

00:39:51.000 And he's now saying, if you come from Cuba on a boat, you're not welcome here.

00:39:55.000 Las Vegas Review Journal had a phenomenal article by Victor Jokes.

00:40:00.000 Amnesty, happy Biden won't welcome Cuban refugees. 1.00

00:40:04.000 This is the best argument, the counter response to Elon Omar and Joy Reed that say, oh, well, Charlie Kirk hates others and you don't want to accept them.

00:40:12.000 I want to be prudent.

00:40:13.000 I want to accept people into the country that have proven they will speak our language, assimilate to our culture, have a reverence for our history.

00:40:20.000 And by the way, there must be limitations on your immigration.

00:40:23.000 I think we should have a moratorium at this current moment when we have the issues that we have in our country.

00:40:29.000 And yet along the southern border, Biden says you can open up and come in as long as you're from Honduras and Nicaragua and you're from El Salvador or Mexico.

00:40:38.000 Yet if you are from Cuba, nope, it's because they don't like their politics. 1.00

00:40:42.000 From Somalia?

00:40:43.000 Sure, come on in.

00:40:44.000 Afghanistan?

00:40:45.000 Come on in.

00:40:46.000 Democrats are creating a self-righteous, allegedly morally sanctimonious immigration policy based on who's going to benefit their political regime.

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00:43:35.000 The people in charge say we now have a moral obligation to take in tens of thousands of unvetted Afghans while we have so many structural problems at home. 0.99

00:43:45.000 And we know that the flow of immigration lowers wages, can be a threat to the public infrastructure, and amongst many other issues. 0.99

00:43:54.000 And yet, why is it that the Biden regime overrunning schools, virus transmission, all sorts of things?

00:44:00.000 Yet, why is it the Biden regime says we must take in a bunch of people from here, but we don't want them from here?

00:44:06.000 Well, Maorkis, remember when he said to Cubans, do not try to come to the United States by sea.

00:44:12.000 You will not be welcome here.

00:44:14.000 Oh, so if you illegally cross from Honduras into our border or Mexico, you're welcome. 1.00

00:44:21.000 But if you come by sea and you're a Cuban, which therefore means you're going to be a more Republican voter, because the Cuban community in Florida is one of the most loyal Republican voting communities in the country, we don't want you here. 1.00

00:44:33.000 Do you see what's going on here?

00:44:34.000 We are going to be lectured for the next couple of weeks about how we need to go bring in hundreds of thousands of Afghans.

00:44:42.000 They already have 80,000 identified.

00:44:45.000 And yet this administration did not lift a finger to help the freedom fighters in Havana or at least offer them asylum to come to our country.

00:44:54.000 Why?

00:44:54.000 Because Majorkis is under very strict orders from the leaders of the Democrat regime that it's going to mess up their ability to try to win back Florida.

00:45:07.000 Play Cut 69.

00:45:08.000 The time is never right to attempt migration by sea.

00:45:13.000 To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking.

00:45:19.000 Allow me to be clear.

00:45:22.000 If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.

00:45:28.000 If you take to the sea, you will not be heard.

00:45:32.000 You will not be welcomed into the United States. 0.98

00:45:35.000 We're not lifting a finger to help homeless American veterans.

00:45:40.000 We have a fentanyl crisis on our hands.

00:45:44.000 Suicide is the second leading cause of death for post-9/11 veterans, accounting for 22.3% of all deaths.

00:45:52.000 When Donald Trump ran on putting America first, this is what he meant.

00:45:57.000 What he meant was that we have limited resources, limited capacity, and our priorities are backwards.

00:46:04.000 It's time for us to put our own citizens first.

00:46:06.000 It's time for us to put our people first.

00:46:09.000 And also act in, have policies that act in a way that hopefully will point to a nation that doesn't want to bitterly tear itself apart all the time.

00:46:21.000 One of the reasons why we should not accept more people like Elon Omar and why Elon Omar has become the mascot for an immigration moratorium is because forget the part that she has a culture that, you know, radical Islamic culture that is not willing to assimilate at times to America. 0.94

00:46:44.000 Just her words themselves are bashing the country that benevolently accepted her.

00:46:51.000 Elon Omar is the embodiment of the snake poem.

00:46:59.000 The snake asked to be brought in from the cold.

00:47:02.000 You brought the snake and you cared for the snake and then the snake bit you and you say, why'd you do that?

00:47:09.000 I cared for you so nicely.

00:47:10.000 And the snake said, I'm a snake.

00:47:12.000 Didn't you know? 0.99

00:47:15.000 And she's also a vicious anti-Semite. 1.00

00:47:17.000 She hates Jews, Elon Omar. 1.00

00:47:19.000 Cannot stand them. 0.98

00:47:21.000 So yes, there are examples of how immigration policy and refugee resettlement has made America a less desirable place to live. 1.00

00:47:30.000 How it has impacted other public policy measures.

00:47:35.000 Why is Minneapolis defunding its police department?

00:47:38.000 Well, when you bring in tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people that do not understand law and order and come from a war-torn country like Somalia Mogadishu, where all they know is anarchy, who needs police around? 0.62

00:47:52.000 Very few people are speaking out against this.

00:47:55.000 Tucker is, JD Vance is, a couple others.

00:47:58.000 But many Republicans and conservatives are afraid to push back against this refugee issue because they're afraid of the accusations that are going to be thrown at them from the other side.

00:48:06.000 We don't care about that on this program.

00:48:08.000 We speak the truth.

00:48:09.000 They can insult us all we want.

00:48:10.000 We really don't care.

00:48:12.000 If we say something that we don't mean, then we'll obviously clarify that.

00:48:16.000 Brian Kemp, Republican governor of Georgia, he wants more people into his country from Afghanistan.

00:48:23.000 Larry Hogan, same thing.

00:48:26.000 Weak leaders with no wisdom.

00:48:29.000 If we're not careful, all of a sudden, the Somali project in Minneapolis will come to almost every single city across the country. 1.00

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00:49:48.000 President Trump has done more commentary and has done more interviews about this than our current president.

00:49:56.000 Why is that?

00:49:57.000 I want to go through President Trump's interview with the great Sean Hannity last evening.

00:50:03.000 I want to start with 53.

00:50:05.000 And President Trump does remind us that we mishandled Afghanistan for the last 15 years, 20 years.

00:50:13.000 And President Trump is right to say that the endless foreign occupation of Afghanistan was not in our best interest.

00:50:21.000 You can say that while also simultaneously saying the withdrawal from Afghanistan was humiliating and was an absolute travesty for our nation.

00:50:33.000 Let's play cut 52.

00:50:35.000 Well, it's good to be with you, Sean, but it's a terrible time for our country.

00:50:39.000 I don't think in all of the years our country has ever been so humiliated.

00:50:44.000 I don't know, would you call it a military defeat or a psychological defeat?

00:50:48.000 There's never been anything like what's happened here.

00:50:52.000 You can go back to Jimmy Carter with the hostages.

00:50:55.000 We all thought that was a great embarrassment, and we were pulled out of that by Ronald Reagan.

00:51:00.000 This is many, many times worse.

00:51:02.000 And you're dealing with thousands and thousands of Americans and others that are stranded and very dangerously, really stranded in Afghanistan.

00:51:13.000 And then Donald Trump goes on to talk about the details of the agreement with the Taliban, saying that if you meet with the Taliban, because that's who you're negotiating with, if anything bad happens to Americans or anybody else, they'll hit you with the force that no one's been hit before.

00:51:28.000 This is a really important point before we play this.

00:51:32.000 Is that Teddy Roosevelt, who is not a warmonger, by the way?

00:51:36.000 Some people accuse him of being a colonialist.

00:51:38.000 It's half true, but he was not a warmonger.

00:51:41.000 He won a Nobel Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japan war.

00:51:49.000 That was a really big conflict.

00:51:51.000 And Teddy Roosevelt won a prize from that.

00:51:53.000 Teddy Roosevelt famously said to speak softly and carry a big stick.

00:51:58.000 Ronald Reagan said, we need peace through strength.

00:52:01.000 It's interesting because Democrats are usually so weak that through their dovish worldview, they actually end up getting us into wars, like Woodrow Wilson, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like Lyndon Baines Johnson.

00:52:16.000 Let's play cut 53 on how Trump says you have to meet with the Taliban, but they have to know you mean it. 1.00

00:52:28.000 There's a proper way to end wars, and there's an improper way to end wars.

00:52:33.000 And Joe Biden decided to do a reckless deed by ending the wars basically with no regard to Americans or the sacrifice we put in.

00:52:45.000 Play Cut 53.

00:52:47.000 And of course you have to meet with the Taliban. 0.92

00:52:49.000 They're the ones that you're negotiating with.

00:52:51.000 I spoke on numerous occasions to the head of the Taliban, and we had a very strong conversation.

00:52:59.000 I told him up front, I said, look, before we start, let me just tell you right now that if anything bad happens to Americans or anybody else, or if you ever come over to our land, we will hit you with a force that no country has ever been hit with before. 0.74

00:53:15.000 A force so great that you won't even believe it.

00:53:18.000 And your village, and we know where it is, and I named it, will be the first one.

00:53:23.000 Mr. President, I want to interrupt.

00:53:26.000 They knew he meant it.

00:53:28.000 Taking out Qassam Soleimani, dropping the mother of all bombs, the Moab. 0.85

00:53:32.000 They knew that President Trump was going to act with disproportionate force against the enemies.

00:53:40.000 Now, President Trump said that the Afghans didn't fight because they were just doing it for massive amounts of money.

00:53:50.000 And America was paying them.

00:53:52.000 This is a really important point, that this was almost like a social welfare program of us subsidizing the Afghan government.

00:54:02.000 That this is no different than kind of a great society, Lyndon Baines-Johnson-style program, where the Afghans didn't even want to be in the fight, that they were just doing it for the money that was being paid to them. 0.98

00:54:15.000 I want you to think about this, that they were looking at Afghanistan almost as a social welfare project.

00:54:22.000 And the president of Afghanistan just flees the country at almost a moment's notice.

00:54:27.000 Play cut 54.

00:54:29.000 Just one thing, and I have to say, and this is different from everyone else.

00:54:33.000 I said, why are they fighting?

00:54:34.000 Why are these Afghan soldiers fighting against the Taliban?

00:54:39.000 And I was told some very bad information by a lot of different people.

00:54:43.000 The fact is, they're among the highest paid soldiers in the world.

00:54:48.000 They were doing it for a paycheck because once we stopped, once we left, they stopped fighting.

00:54:54.000 So all of the people that talk about the bravery and everything, I say everybody's brave.

00:54:58.000 But the fact is our country was paying the Afghan soldiers a fortune.

00:55:03.000 So we were sort of bribing them to fight.

00:55:06.000 And that's not what it's all about.

00:55:08.000 Bribing them to fight, not actually being engaged with what they want to do on the ground.

00:55:16.000 They were never invested in this.

00:55:18.000 It's almost a failed colonialist experiment that somehow we can get the Afghans to fight this battle for us. 0.99

00:55:27.000 Getting a lot of different emails of people saying, well, Charlie, what can we now do about this?

00:55:32.000 Well, Cut 62, President Trump warns us that the Taliban will now use Americans as hostages.

00:55:38.000 I want to reiterate this.

00:55:39.000 There are anywhere between 5,000 to 40,000 Americans still in Afghanistan that have been left behind.

00:55:48.000 And now we are sending more troops back into Afghanistan than we had before six months ago to try to secure them.

00:55:55.000 So now we're reinvading the country that we once invaded because we had to imprudently get out of the country so quickly.

00:56:02.000 It's a mess.

00:56:03.000 Play Cut 62.

00:56:05.000 The Taliban has circled the airport, and who knows if they're going to treat us right? 0.99

00:56:11.000 You know, all of a sudden they'll say, well, frankly, if they were smart, they'd really, and they are smart, and they are smart.

00:56:17.000 They should let the Americans out. 1.00

00:56:20.000 But we've had situations where you have two or three or four hostages.

00:56:24.000 We could have 40,000 Americans, not to mention others like people that helped us in Afghanistan.

00:56:31.000 So we've never had a situation like this.

00:56:34.000 We have 40,000 potential hostages, a minimum of 11,000, but it could be as many as 40.

00:56:41.000 They have no idea how many.

00:56:43.000 Nobody knows how many.

00:56:44.000 They don't know anything.

00:56:45.000 We don't know how many.

00:56:47.000 And the government has come out and said, we don't know how many people are here.

00:56:50.000 We do not know how many people are in Afghanistan.

00:56:54.000 I want you to think about that.

00:56:55.000 Isn't that the whole job to know where our citizens are?

00:56:58.000 And they will be used as hostages against the American government.

00:57:02.000 We have an email question here.

00:57:04.000 Charlie, where are the Republican leaders calling this out?

00:57:08.000 Now, this is something I will say, that if you want to get the Republican leaders invigorated, all of a sudden talk foreign policy, especially about withdrawing from a country.

00:57:16.000 They have just been very, very animated in the last couple of days.

00:57:21.000 And there's one question here that said, Charlie, what can we do about this?

00:57:25.000 Dear Charlie, I've watched in horror about what is going on in Afghanistan. 0.96

00:57:29.000 I believe we need to send our military back over to secure Kabul and the major cities.

00:57:33.000 I'm the wife of a veteran and I'm a mother.

00:57:36.000 The scale of the atrocities that will occur if we don't is enormous.

00:57:40.000 Who can authorize this?

00:57:41.000 Can Congress do this without Biden?

00:57:43.000 Who do we have to call to make this happen?

00:57:46.000 Please don't tell me we can't.

00:57:47.000 We can.

00:57:48.000 Thank you.

00:57:49.000 The Constitution of the United States clearly outlines that the president is the commander-in-chief.

00:57:57.000 Congress cannot send troops without the president's consent.

00:58:02.000 Now, I think they can pass a declaration of war, but if I'm not mistaken, it still requires the president's agreement.

00:58:09.000 And they're not going to do that.

00:58:10.000 Congress is not going to pass a declaration of war to go retake Kabul.

00:58:14.000 And let me just say, we shouldn't send more troops into Afghanistan to go reinvade. 0.98

00:58:19.000 At the very least, what the troops should be done is at least on an extraction mission to go take every single American out of Afghanistan and deliver them back to the United States. 0.98

00:58:28.000 That's it.

00:58:29.000 But re-securing an entire city, it'll take at least another thousand lives lost, which we already did at the early stages of the war.

00:58:37.000 We did that in a Shakana campaign.

00:58:39.000 We took Kabul in like a couple weeks.

00:58:41.000 And then the real fighting started in the valleys and in the Kandahar Valley region and others.

00:58:48.000 This is a tough one for people to realize that Afghanistan is going to remain under Taliban control for the foreseeable future.

00:58:56.000 Maybe a couple decades, maybe even 100 years, maybe a couple hundred years.

00:59:00.000 The same place that we were told that we had to go into.

00:59:04.000 Getting out of the country prudently was the right thing to do.

00:59:08.000 This was done recklessly.

00:59:11.000 And reinvading the country would be a triple mistake on top of a double mistake.

00:59:16.000 The question is: was it gross incompetence or was this some sort of an agenda?

00:59:21.000 Well, considering it's a mass government operation, it's not impossible to believe that this was not gross incompetence.

00:59:29.000 You can see in real colors, in real terms, how they mismanaged something as simple as this.

00:59:38.000 And Joe Biden ignored his generals to have 2,500 troops there to at least secure the exit, to at least allow the withdrawal to happen.

00:59:48.000 We need to find out more of how these decisions were made.

00:59:51.000 Who was in charge of this?

00:59:54.000 What was the flow of information as this was occurring?

00:59:57.000 And this would have been less than 1% of the Pentagon budget, which Mitch McConnell said.

01:00:03.000 Just to make sure that we don't have tens of thousands of Americans in a hostage situation in Afghanistan.

01:00:09.000 I want to complete one point here with Cut 58.

01:00:11.000 Tucker Carlson last evening reacts to Jen Psaki saying that bringing America, that we will be bringing Americans special visa applications and vulnerable populations.

01:00:20.000 Listen to this, Cut 58.

01:00:22.000 Notice how she puts all three together: Americans, special visa applicants, vulnerable populations.

01:00:28.000 What the hell is that?

01:00:30.000 You know, who's vulnerable as Americans who are trapped in Afghanistan right now?

01:00:33.000 They're American citizens.

01:00:34.000 The American government exists to help American citizens, not to help vulnerable populations, whatever that is.

01:00:40.000 That's a definition that changes depending on which interest group is in power.

01:00:44.000 No, it's Americans. 0.65

01:00:45.000 That's the point.

01:00:45.000 It's the American government.

01:00:47.000 But nobody cares.

01:00:49.000 Our leaders are telling us that what really matters is importing tens of thousands of Afghan refugees into the United States before we've even evacuated all of the Americans who are stuck there. 0.99

01:01:01.000 And he continues the point in Cut 46 and how Mitt Romney says it really doesn't matter.

01:01:07.000 Americans are there.

01:01:08.000 What's most important is bringing Afghan refugees into America.

01:01:11.000 Cut 46.

01:01:12.000 Quote: America must not stand idly by, Mitt Romney tweeted today.

01:01:16.000 The president must urgently rush to defend, rescue, and give and expand asylum.

01:01:21.000 There is no time to spare.

01:01:24.000 There's lots of time to spare as Americans die of fentanyl ODs and millions of foreign nationals whose identities we can't confirm move here. 0.99

01:01:31.000 But when it comes to bringing Afghans to our country, there's no time to spare. 1.00

01:01:35.000 And Liz Cheney firmly agrees with that.

01:01:37.000 So does her friend Bill Crystal and Nancy Pelosi and Victoria Newland at the State Department and so many more, so many more just like them.

01:01:45.000 These are the architects of the disaster we are watching unfold on television.

01:01:50.000 They should be groveling for our forgiveness, but they're not.

01:01:53.000 Because contrition requires decency.

01:01:53.000 Why?

01:01:55.000 There's no chance.

01:01:57.000 Craig emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:01:59.000 He says, thousands of Americans trying to get out of Afghanistan, but they're already taking plane loads of Afghan refugees first.

01:02:04.000 No big surprise.

01:02:06.000 Just conflating them all together.

01:02:09.000 This is going to go down as one of the worst foreign policy failures in American history.

01:02:13.000 I'm going to reiterate something I said earlier: that Joe Biden's poll numbers are tumbling from this.

01:02:20.000 51% disapprove, 47% approve.

01:02:24.000 On foreign policy, Joe Biden has a 51% disapproval rating.

01:02:29.000 On economy and jobs, 50% disapproval.

01:02:32.000 Immigration and border, 55% disapproval.

01:02:35.000 Crime, 55% disapproval.

01:02:37.000 U.S.-China, 51 disapproval.

01:02:40.000 He does have a 52% approval on coronavirus pandemic.

01:02:44.000 But on every other issue, he has a 50-plus disapproval rating.

01:02:49.000 Biden approval by party detail.

01:02:52.000 Independents, 31% strongly disapprove of Joe Biden.

01:02:57.000 22% of Independents somewhat disapprove.

01:03:01.000 That's plus 50%.

01:03:04.000 68% of Republicans strongly disapprove.

01:03:06.000 Not exactly shocking news.

01:03:09.000 What's interesting is that 7% of Democrats somewhat disapprove of Joe Biden.

01:03:18.000 And the numbers are going down from there.

01:03:20.000 This is going to be a massive political liability as it continues.

01:03:24.000 What is the strategy now to get those Americans that are in Afghanistan out?

01:03:29.000 Who's in charge?

01:03:30.000 Who is calling the shots?

01:03:32.000 Who's meeting where?

01:03:34.000 Instead, we have the exact opposite that's happening.

01:03:39.000 We have our government saying everything's fine.

01:03:40.000 There's nothing to see here.

01:03:42.000 It was a perfect strategy according to our own government.

01:03:47.000 Republicans in Congress need to start to use their oversight ability to get answers and also movement.

01:03:53.000 Senator Tom Cotton has said that he is getting overwhelmed with calls of American citizens from Afghanistan to try to get help to leave the country.

01:04:05.000 The first plane out of Afghanistan should have been Americans. 0.99

01:04:10.000 But quite honestly, to them, what's an American anyway?

01:04:13.000 They let illegals vote in elections.

01:04:15.000 They keep the borders wide open.

01:04:17.000 They don't believe they have any sort of special obligation to American citizens stuck in Kabul.

01:04:23.000 You need to be praying and helping any way you can and demanding your lawmakers to help these Americans that are now trapped in a foreign country that has been overtaken by an enemy, that this doesn't turn into another Iran hostage crisis.

01:04:36.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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01:04:45.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 18, 2021

What Did Biden Know and When Did He Know It?

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