00:00:01.000What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it?
00:00:04.000This 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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00:02:30.000They should be nowhere near powerful positions.
00:02:33.000They should be mid-level lawyers in some sort of corporate law firm working typical eight to five, eight to six jobs.
00:02:41.000But instead, they're running the most powerful government in the history of the world.
00:02:45.000It'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.
00:02:57.000Now, the regime, the Biden regime, is doubling down on their Afghan strategy.
00:03:07.000They're saying we got everything done we needed to get done.
00:03:12.000And this is a wonderful example of leadership.
00:03:16.000Now, Joe Biden says that the buck stopped with him while also blaming Donald Trump for the entire situation.
00:03:26.000Now, ending the war in Afghanistan was the right move.
00:03:30.000Collapsing 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.
00:03:41.000I want to read to you a bulletin that was sent out yesterday.
00:03:46.000And this should be on every single news channel.
00:03:52.000To American citizens, this is from the United States government.
00:03:56.000Thank you for registering your request to be evacuated from Afghanistan.
00:04:46.000The Biden administration yesterday, Jake Sullivan, came out and he said, look, we're working with the Taliban to try to clear safe passage.
00:04:54.000Oh, 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.
00:05:02.000Oh, hey, by the way, can you just give free passage to our citizens?
00:05:06.000This will turn into a hostage situation if it hasn't already.
00:05:11.000Estimates are between anywhere between 6,000 and 10,000 American citizens, not American allies, not Afghan interpreters, American citizens are still in Kabul.
00:05:23.000For all intents and purposes, this sounds no different than the DMV saying, oh, thanks for taking a number.
00:05:31.000The incompetency of our government is shining through.
00:05:35.000But is it, in some way, malevolent behavior?
00:05:40.000Is it that the government knew that this was going to happen and did nothing?
00:05:45.000You 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.
00:06:07.000But the narrative from the Biden regime is that they are surprised by this.
00:06:17.000Well, 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.
00:06:47.000The intelligence warned the Afghan of the Afghan military collapse, and Biden couldn't have cared less.
00:07:16.000He 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.
00:07:23.000No, it's even worse than that, Joe Biden.
00:07:25.000We have thousands and thousands and thousands of American citizens that can't come home.
00:07:31.000And your government is saying we cannot provide for your security.
00:07:36.000Now, 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.
00:07:51.000You'd think there'd be some form of a concentric circle strategy.
00:07:56.000I don't think you need to be George S. Patton to figure this out.
00:08:34.000And 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.
00:09:17.000Intelligence was telling us weeks and months ahead of time that Americans could be put into jeopardy if this was not handled properly and prudently.
00:09:27.000If this was not handled with wisdom and common sense, the whole country could fall.
00:09:35.000Now, put aside the argument, which is a good argument, what did we do here for the last 20 years and all the sacrifice associated?
00:09:43.000But now we have Americans that can't leave the country.
00:09:47.000So this would be a disaster for Biden if he got every American out of the country perfectly.
00:09:57.000This 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.
00:10:32.000In fact, some people say over 100 million people are struggling with some kind of pain, maybe from exercise or just getting older.
00:10:38.000Now, Pete and Seth Talbot, they are on a mission.
00:10:40.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:10:42.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:11:01.000So maybe you want to be able to do cartwheels or be able to do backflips like Producer Andrew.
00:11:06.000Maybe you want to be able to run a marathon, swim underwater, go scuba diving, jump out of an airplane, but maybe it's your knee pain, back pain, joint pain, whatever pain it might be.
00:11:24.000Joe 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.
00:11:43.000Just so you know, the Iran hostage crisis was 52 Americans.
00:11:49.000I think it was 52 Americans or so that were held hostage, and that destroyed the Carter presidency.
00:11:55.000This is a massive political liability for the Biden regime and the Democrat regime.
00:12:01.000John Kirby, who's also a lunatic, says that we don't know how many Americans are in Afghanistan.
00:12:07.000Could 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.
00:12:23.000If you are a plumber, your job is to fix the plumbing of the building.
00:12:27.000If your job is a carpenter, your job is to fix the framing of a building.
00:12:34.000The United States government and the people within the government have a very simple job.
00:12:39.000The job is to secure the blessings of liberty, promote the general welfare, and to protect American citizens, especially overseas.
00:12:48.000So 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?
00:13:03.000Well, according to John Kirby, not John Kerry, not Mr. Heinz Ketchup, he says we don't even know the number of Americans in Afghanistan.
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00:16:23.000Leave no man behind is a phrase you hear a lot in the military.
00:16:31.000It's a great book that Marcus Luttrell wrote.
00:16:35.000I think that was the name of his book or something, something of that.
00:16:39.000It'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.
00:16:49.000Even if that soldier has died, they will go back and retrieve the body.
00:16:54.000Not every military does that across the world, by the way.
00:16:57.000They will leave people behind to try to serve the greater good.
00:17:04.000And 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.
00:17:19.000This is the number one news story in the country that is being suppressed by the activist media.
00:17:24.000CNN has this anchor who's making a fool of herself, wearing the full Muslim garb, walking the streets.
00:18:13.000You know, they say they seem very friendly, but they're also chanting death to America.
00:18:20.000So the Biden administration at this moment says there are no plans to get Americans to the Afghan airport, the Afghanistan airport.
00:18:31.000Now, 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.
00:18:42.000This is not Chicago where you have Midway and you have O'Hare and you have Palwaukee.
00:18:47.000And shout out to WABC, by the way, listening on the wonderful station.
00:20:12.000And we all understand that the security situation in Kabul is not ideal.
00:20:16.000Oh, the security situation is not ideal.
00:20:20.000That'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.
00:21:12.000If 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.
00:21:31.000Instead, 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.
00:21:44.000And instead, Kamala is heading to Vietnam of all places.
00:21:48.000I don't know, to go to kind of go relive the glory days of when Saigon fell or something.
00:22:37.000Obama is the one who overemphasized the Taliban or friends.
00:22:43.000If 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.
00:22:52.000Now, there are news reports showing up that Americans are now sending aid to the Taliban, unconfirmed reports to get citizens back.
00:23:00.000So basically, just cash for terrorists.
00:23:02.000And 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.
00:23:14.000This guy was released from Gitmo because he said, I'm just the shopkeeper that I want to look after my own father.
00:24:33.000That's actually an answer that someone on the internet said, well, it's bad for the environment to destroy all the weapons.
00:24:39.000Oh, 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.
00:24:48.000Just 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.
00:25:20.000Yeah, I mean, it's not like our job to make sure that the enemy doesn't get armed.
00:25:23.000Now, this is something that I got to give Senator Rand Paul credit.
00:25:26.000There's a couple things that he has really focused on.
00:25:31.000And one of those is how we are quick to arm, but we don't ever actually trace where those arms go.
00:25:38.000And 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.
00:26:06.000We were fighting ISIS with our own weaponry.
00:26:09.000And that's precisely what's happened in Afghanistan right now.
00:26:12.000Where now the Taliban is stronger, more powerful, and better armed than before 9-11.
00:26:21.000Any general that has overseen this should resign in disgrace.
00:26:25.000Instead, they're going to get promoted to go run think tanks in Washington, D.C.
00:26:30.000I 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.
00:26:43.000That 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.
00:26:52.000And you're hearing that from all quarters now.
00:26:54.000And I think if people look at these images, the images will stay in people's minds.
00:26:58.000I mean, that pathetic scene on that tarmac today with people chasing that airplane, grabbing on some falling off.
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00:28:25.000The very unimpressive dullard named Joy Reed decided to do a segment on me.
00:28:52.000We don't want more people that are unappreciative like Elon Omar.
00:28:55.000And no, it has nothing to do with skin color.
00:28:58.000It has to do with culture and her ingratitude towards this wonderful country that we're in.
00:29:03.000Elon 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.
00:29:20.000It's a really good question, isn't it?
00:29:22.000Well, recent polling shows that he is tumbling.
00:29:28.000Joe Biden's approval rating is below 50% for the first time, 49.8%, and 49.4% in the real clear politics average.
00:29:37.000Independence that seemed tied to the Delta surge and predates the problems in Afghanistan.
00:29:43.000And 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.
00:29:51.000Now, 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.
00:30:04.000And 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.
00:30:16.000Now, special elections can be indicators, can be harbingers of things to come.
00:30:27.000In 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.
00:30:49.000Now, this spells major trouble for Joe Biden and his regime and the Democrats.
00:30:56.000Virginia governor's race is right around the corner.
00:30:59.000Larry Elder's attempt to be governor of California is coming up very soon.
00:31:03.000In 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.
00:31:13.0002022 is about to be a red wave, everybody.
00:31:18.000And Democrats are running out of things that they can run on.
00:31:20.000They're running out of issues they can complain about as they remask your children.
00:31:25.000And Joe Biden's approval rating plunges seven points.
00:31:28.000And 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.
00:31:39.000What has Joe Biden done that has been meaningful or helpful to even just the Democrat voters?
00:31:48.000And in Connecticut, a seat that was won by Biden by 25 points, a Republican won.
00:31:59.000To illustrate the significance of the victory, this is from Breitbart.com.
00:32:03.000The Democrat Legislative Campaign Committee told supporters that a loss in Connecticut State 36 would put all of the committee's 2018 gains in jeopardy.
00:32:15.000This is Connecticut, one of the most liberal states in the country.
00:32:21.000There's something happening, everybody, and we have to keep our foot on the gas.
00:32:26.000If 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.
00:32:36.000They have flipped upside down in literally the course of a couple weeks.
00:33:01.000I 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.
00:33:57.000While 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.
00:34:53.000That 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.
00:35:05.000I 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.
00:35:14.000Now, 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.
00:35:40.000And she comes from war-torn Somalia, Mogadishu.
00:35:44.000She runs for Congress in a heavily Somali community, where she then becomes an insurgent against the United States as a member of Congress.
00:35:53.000Now, Joy Reed finds this to be highly offensive, where she talks about my comments on MSNBC with Elon Omar attacking me.
00:36:13.000If 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.
00:36:21.000Play Cut 68, Joy Reed, and Elon Omar attack our program.
00:38:04.000Our refugee policy towards Somali Americans has made America a less free country.
00:38:11.000It's made us less secure, that's for sure.
00:38:13.000And 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.
00:38:21.000Now, what's really interesting is that, and Connor, can you dig this up?
00:38:26.000The Biden administration does not want to take Cuban refugees, but they're willing to take Afghan refugees.
00:40:04.000This 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.
00:40:13.000I 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.
00:40:20.000And by the way, there must be limitations on your immigration.
00:40:23.000I think we should have a moratorium at this current moment when we have the issues that we have in our country.
00:40:29.000And 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.
00:40:38.000Yet if you are from Cuba, nope, it's because they don't like their politics.
00:40:46.000Democrats are creating a self-righteous, allegedly morally sanctimonious immigration policy based on who's going to benefit their political regime.
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00:43:35.000The 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.
00:43:45.000And we know that the flow of immigration lowers wages, can be a threat to the public infrastructure, and amongst many other issues.
00:43:54.000And yet, why is it that the Biden regime overrunning schools, virus transmission, all sorts of things?
00:44:00.000Yet, 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?
00:44:06.000Well, Maorkis, remember when he said to Cubans, do not try to come to the United States by sea.
00:44:14.000Oh, so if you illegally cross from Honduras into our border or Mexico, you're welcome.
00:44:21.000But 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.
00:44:45.000And 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.
00:44:54.000Because 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.
00:45:22.000If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.
00:45:28.000If you take to the sea, you will not be heard.
00:45:32.000You will not be welcomed into the United States.
00:45:35.000We're not lifting a finger to help homeless American veterans.
00:45:40.000We have a fentanyl crisis on our hands.
00:45:44.000Suicide is the second leading cause of death for post-9/11 veterans, accounting for 22.3% of all deaths.
00:45:52.000When Donald Trump ran on putting America first, this is what he meant.
00:45:57.000What he meant was that we have limited resources, limited capacity, and our priorities are backwards.
00:46:04.000It's time for us to put our own citizens first.
00:46:06.000It's time for us to put our people first.
00:46:09.000And 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.
00:46:21.000One 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.
00:46:44.000Just her words themselves are bashing the country that benevolently accepted her.
00:46:51.000Elon Omar is the embodiment of the snake poem.
00:46:59.000The snake asked to be brought in from the cold.
00:47:02.000You brought the snake and you cared for the snake and then the snake bit you and you say, why'd you do that?
00:47:21.000So yes, there are examples of how immigration policy and refugee resettlement has made America a less desirable place to live.
00:47:30.000How it has impacted other public policy measures.
00:47:35.000Why is Minneapolis defunding its police department?
00:47:38.000Well, 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?
00:47:52.000Very few people are speaking out against this.
00:47:55.000Tucker is, JD Vance is, a couple others.
00:47:58.000But 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.
00:48:06.000We don't care about that on this program.
00:48:29.000If we're not careful, all of a sudden, the Somali project in Minneapolis will come to almost every single city across the country.
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00:50:05.000And President Trump does remind us that we mishandled Afghanistan for the last 15 years, 20 years.
00:50:13.000And President Trump is right to say that the endless foreign occupation of Afghanistan was not in our best interest.
00:50:21.000You can say that while also simultaneously saying the withdrawal from Afghanistan was humiliating and was an absolute travesty for our nation.
00:51:02.000And you're dealing with thousands and thousands of Americans and others that are stranded and very dangerously, really stranded in Afghanistan.
00:51:13.000And 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.
00:51:28.000This is a really important point before we play this.
00:51:32.000Is that Teddy Roosevelt, who is not a warmonger, by the way?
00:51:36.000Some people accuse him of being a colonialist.
00:51:38.000It's half true, but he was not a warmonger.
00:51:41.000He won a Nobel Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japan war.
00:51:51.000And Teddy Roosevelt won a prize from that.
00:51:53.000Teddy Roosevelt famously said to speak softly and carry a big stick.
00:51:58.000Ronald Reagan said, we need peace through strength.
00:52:01.000It'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.
00:52:16.000Let's play cut 53 on how Trump says you have to meet with the Taliban, but they have to know you mean it.
00:52:28.000There's a proper way to end wars, and there's an improper way to end wars.
00:52:33.000And Joe Biden decided to do a reckless deed by ending the wars basically with no regard to Americans or the sacrifice we put in.
00:52:47.000And of course you have to meet with the Taliban.
00:52:49.000They're the ones that you're negotiating with.
00:52:51.000I spoke on numerous occasions to the head of the Taliban, and we had a very strong conversation.
00:52:59.000I 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.
00:53:15.000A force so great that you won't even believe it.
00:53:18.000And your village, and we know where it is, and I named it, will be the first one.
00:53:52.000This is a really important point, that this was almost like a social welfare program of us subsidizing the Afghan government.
00:54:02.000That 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.
00:54:15.000I want you to think about this, that they were looking at Afghanistan almost as a social welfare project.
00:54:22.000And the president of Afghanistan just flees the country at almost a moment's notice.
00:57:04.000Charlie, where are the Republican leaders calling this out?
00:57:08.000Now, 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.
00:57:16.000They have just been very, very animated in the last couple of days.
00:57:21.000And there's one question here that said, Charlie, what can we do about this?
00:57:25.000Dear Charlie, I've watched in horror about what is going on in Afghanistan.
00:57:29.000I believe we need to send our military back over to secure Kabul and the major cities.
00:57:33.000I'm the wife of a veteran and I'm a mother.
00:57:36.000The scale of the atrocities that will occur if we don't is enormous.
00:58:10.000Congress is not going to pass a declaration of war to go retake Kabul.
00:58:14.000And let me just say, we shouldn't send more troops into Afghanistan to go reinvade.
00:58:19.000At 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.
00:59:54.000What was the flow of information as this was occurring?
00:59:57.000And this would have been less than 1% of the Pentagon budget, which Mitch McConnell said.
01:00:03.000Just to make sure that we don't have tens of thousands of Americans in a hostage situation in Afghanistan.
01:00:09.000I want to complete one point here with Cut 58.
01:00:11.000Tucker Carlson last evening reacts to Jen Psaki saying that bringing America, that we will be bringing Americans special visa applications and vulnerable populations.
01:00:49.000Our 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.
01:01:01.000And he continues the point in Cut 46 and how Mitt Romney says it really doesn't matter.
01:01:24.000There'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.
01:01:31.000But when it comes to bringing Afghans to our country, there's no time to spare.
01:01:35.000And Liz Cheney firmly agrees with that.
01:01:37.000So 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.
01:01:45.000These are the architects of the disaster we are watching unfold on television.
01:01:50.000They should be groveling for our forgiveness, but they're not.
01:03:42.000It was a perfect strategy according to our own government.
01:03:47.000Republicans in Congress need to start to use their oversight ability to get answers and also movement.
01:03:53.000Senator 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.
01:04:05.000The first plane out of Afghanistan should have been Americans.
01:04:10.000But quite honestly, to them, what's an American anyway?
01:04:17.000They don't believe they have any sort of special obligation to American citizens stuck in Kabul.
01:04:23.000You 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.
01:04:36.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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