Glenn Beck delivers an update on the situation at the American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, and what is happening at the airport, and why it is a national disgrace and a crime against humanity. Glenn Beck Program is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
00:04:41.300But there is, to me, that's the least of our problems right now.
00:04:49.700Humanity is being overlooked, and it is being overlooked by our State Department,
00:04:57.260apparently under direct orders from the United States White House.
00:05:01.600We have several sources that are telling us in the State Department that the State Department is getting their orders directly from the White House.
00:05:12.060They are telling who comes in and who does not come in through the gates.
00:05:17.760Last night, they said, if you were at the gates and you're on foot, go back and get a car.
00:07:59.300I've seen several notes reporting the Taliban asking for intelligent organizations to give a list of their employees and affiliates.
00:08:12.500Now, what this is, is the Taliban saying to us and our intelligence organizations,
00:08:20.500please give us a list of the people that are going to be coming to the airport,
00:08:25.220and we'll guarantee their passage after the 31st.
00:08:29.720Now, please tell me, dear God, that no one is dumb enough to give them a list of people
00:08:41.080that we should expect to be let through their gates or that the Taliban would help to evacuate.
00:08:50.300The Taliban wants the Turkish military out, but wants them to leave personnel behind to run the airport operations after the 831 withdrawal.
00:09:04.020But that is, that is, the 831 withdrawal is a pipe dream.
00:10:29.600I will tell you that yesterday, we've had several countries that have been willing to take people.
00:10:38.680And suddenly, for some reason, these countries are no longer willing to take people.
00:10:45.240And the State Department is no longer willing to vouch for anyone.
00:10:48.260Last night, we had one country that remained open, and that was Macedonia.
00:10:54.220And when we contacted Macedonia, we were told, a State Department official told the ambassador in Macedonia not to take any of our refugees.
00:11:07.380The State Department and the White House are the biggest obstacle in saving people.
00:11:17.220I wish I could tell you the names of the countries that are assisting and taking people temporarily.
00:11:25.220But they want no credit, they don't want their names uttered at all.
00:11:32.620And it's a shame, because the world should know who these heroes are.
00:11:38.880But they don't want any information out about them, because they believe that they will come under attack,
00:11:47.300because the world is now negotiating with terrorists.
00:14:00.860And we're trying to make sure that we only tell you the things that we can confirm from more than one source.
00:14:09.160Even if it is our source, we want to make sure because things are so, just so fluid right now.
00:14:20.120And it is, none of this, none of this makes sense.
00:14:24.860There is an estimate that at least 300 Afghans are in imminent danger of being targeted by the Taliban for associating with Americans and anybody who associated with the U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.
00:14:40.400So, you know, when we began raising money, what day is it over there, Stu?
00:15:51.660They have another plane that needs to get out of there as well, and when those two planes are out and on the tarmac,
00:16:03.740we will have a total of 5,000 refugees that we have rescued in just the last few days,
00:16:12.480and we are so very grateful to you and to everyone else.
00:16:19.720I can tell you, I think that the people on the ground, I don't know this for sure, but I think the people on the ground probably feel a little like Oscar Schindler.
00:16:30.320When, at the end, he stood and he looked at his ring and said, I could have sold this ring.
00:16:36.420How many people could I have saved with just this ring?
00:16:38.740Because it's hard to feel the victory in any of this, because there are so many at the gates,
00:16:52.660and so many we know are going to be targeted.
00:16:56.840We also see what is coming for the Afghanis.
00:17:08.360It's been a week since any of the banks were open.
00:17:15.680The Taliban took over, and the banks closed down.
00:17:26.200The food prices are beginning to rise.
00:17:29.260There is going to be a hunger problem next.
00:17:33.040As they're ordering now that no dollars can be taken out of the country because there is a national cash squeeze,
00:17:44.240the Taliban spokesman declared that they will take action against any Afghans who are trying to take dollars out of the country by air or land.
00:17:57.080The cash would be seized, and you would pay a high price.
00:18:00.340But also, I want you to know, we didn't get a chance to mention this yesterday.
00:18:05.220They are vowing to take into consideration and fight climate change.
00:19:21.840I mean, it's impressive to take the reputation of the United States and flush it down the toilet to where our closest allies want nothing to do with it.
00:19:30.960It's quite an impressive move to trap all these people right into, like, almost a cattle shoot, you know, of getting the most vulnerable and trapping them right into the arms of the Taliban.
00:19:47.180So, it is impressive what they're doing.
00:19:49.780One of the narratives they're trying to push out is that they're evacuating a lot of people, and they're saying they're giving numbers for the quote-unquote coalition, so it's not exactly clear what we're responsible for.
00:20:03.120But they're saying something like 70,000 to 80,000 people have been evacuated total.
00:20:08.780Now, it's interesting because I think it was Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC, I think he's still there, who said that, you know, he's like, you know, people evacuated from Afghanistan after Kabul fell, 70,000 people who were evacuated after the fall of Saigon, zero.
00:20:30.760I think he thought this was a good point for Biden, but, like, my understanding of this process is you try to evacuate your people before the cities fall.
00:28:52.920You know why they're making up that absolute lie?
00:28:56.940Because they know they've been called out.
00:28:59.420And I was one of the people that called them out.
00:29:01.220So it was Tom Jocelyn at the Long War Journal and a bunch of others.
00:29:04.700Because the Akhani Network is a foreign terrorist organization designated by the U.S. government in 2012.
00:29:12.260And it is illegal under U.S. law to negotiate or support terrorists to provide any kind of support for them in any way whatsoever.
00:29:21.040And now that it's been called out, look, lo and behold, how convenient,
00:29:25.740how convenient that suddenly the deputy leader of the Taliban has split away.
00:29:31.420I don't believe it for one single second.
00:29:34.120In fact, I'll put my life on it, that that is an abject lie.
00:29:38.080Even if they say it themselves, that's a deal that they struck.
00:29:41.360When the head of the CIA went and met with Mullah Baradar, the man that they chose to lead the Islamic Emirates.
00:29:48.420And by the way, guess who they chose as their intel chief?
00:29:51.080The guy who's going to be in charge of intelligence for the Taliban is his strongest ally is who?
00:29:57.640The IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary God.
00:30:01.020He ran training camps for the Taliban inside Iran.
00:30:03.780And he and the new head of IRGC are, you know, bonded at the hip.
00:30:09.360And one of the chief political advisors of the Taliban in Kabul right now advising Mullah Baradar is the other person in the Taliban who is close to IRGC.
00:30:22.040And you watch out, Israel and Taiwan and all of these countries all over the world, because right now, America's enemies are coming for us.
00:30:30.320And all these people are going about their daily life in America and they want to talk about this and they want to talk about that.
00:30:36.100And they sort of pretend that Afghanistan is not happening.
00:30:39.140You wait, because we are now isolated on the world stage.
00:30:43.740We are defined by betrayal and drenched in the blood of Afghans and American citizens.
00:30:51.220And I've got soldiers, special operations soldiers, veterans, some of them 10, 15, 20 tours, vomiting last night, vomiting when they realized what they were being asked to participate in.
00:31:04.320Because this betrayal is an historic shame that will define the United States until the end of time for as long as we still have, because it is part of a greater assault on this country that will ensure the end of America, the end of the American idea.
00:31:23.180And act as a warning to anyone all over the world, don't believe in it, don't fight for it, don't stand by it, because they don't even believe in their own idea.
00:31:35.680Laura, I can't, first of all, everything you say is true.
00:31:40.260I mean, I believe every word that you just said is accurate.
00:31:43.840What people don't understand, and it was shocking, shocking to me how many times in the last 24 hours since being here, I have heard former allies say, we're done, we're done.
00:32:02.300You know, to have parliament yesterday discuss the fact that they will not come to our aid or perform any operations jointly with us until this president and vice president are out.
00:32:19.320I've never in my lifetime heard anything like that from England or any of them.
00:32:27.100France is still currently out there saving people.
00:32:31.060Britain is staying behind after we leave tonight.
00:33:15.500Do you know that since 1951, 70 years straight, the United States has been funding Pakistan?
00:33:23.880That's really billions and billions and billions of dollars.
00:33:27.400Why are we sending taxpayer dollars to Pakistan to finance the Taliban and Haqqani and Al-Qaeda to kill American soldiers on that battlefield?
00:33:37.640Why are we not acknowledging our Afghan allies, the former vice president, Amrullah Saleh, who is now acting president, who is fighting right now?
00:33:48.440Why are we pushing the Taliban's propaganda narrative that all the Afghans surrendered and that the Afghan army and the special operations, they're worthless?
00:33:58.120All that money spent and all those years and look at them, they're so useless.
00:34:01.560How many times have you read that or heard that?
00:34:07.100Yes, there were soldiers that gave up, but there were many units that kept fighting.
00:34:12.100And not only that, who would say to their ally, why would you do this?
00:34:16.700Why would you take a highly specialized special operations force trained by the best operators we have that relies on mobility and in one moment strip it of all of its mobility, the U.S. air support?
00:34:29.700And at the same moment, take all of the maintenance contractors that have kept the Afghan air force in disguise and strip those away.
00:34:37.200And then at exactly the same moment, take away all of your auxiliary support that goes with that, your soldiers, your bases, your logistics, your supply lines.
00:34:48.880And show me the army on earth that could possibly have all that stripped away from it in one moment.
00:34:54.100And I'm not saying they didn't have warning and they didn't know.
00:34:56.800That's not the same thing as having a replacement structure already there that's functioning and working.
00:35:02.800And also what people shouldn't be deceived by and shouldn't fall for is that anyone who's saying what I'm saying right now isn't saying that we have to stay in Afghanistan forever or that the U.S. can't withdraw.
00:35:13.380We could still leave a special operations counterterrorism component.
00:37:34.720I want you to know that not all real estate agents are exactly the same.
00:37:44.180You know, imagine a real estate agent comes to the door, comes in, sits down with you.
00:37:49.160You talk for a little bit about the house, what your goals are, what's realistic, what's not, all of that.
00:37:53.720Then he pulls out his phone and a piece of paper and pulls up the names of every single person that you're going to need to get the job done, done right.
00:38:38.700These are people that we have found, we have monitored, we have looked for the best track records in the area, and we recommend them to you.
00:45:10.080As far as we know, still on the tarmac.
00:45:13.240We also have one of our partners in this is Chad Robichaux, who's supposed to be with us from the Kabul airport in about half an hour.
00:45:22.780I believe he and his team are still down, and I will ask him to tell you a story that happened last night, and God forbid, this is going to change.
00:45:38.480This explosion could change everything when you hear the story of what happened with our 81st Airborne a while ago.
00:45:48.920So, okay, let's go to Victor Davis Hanson, who is on with us, who is a historian and a really great political conservative thinker.
00:46:10.880I just, we just got this news about this explosion, and I'm here in the Middle East, and it is, I'm having a hard time concentrating because I'm thinking about all of the people that are on the ground and what all of this means.
00:46:29.580What does this debacle over the last week in Afghanistan, what is this going to do to America?
00:46:36.680Well, there's a lot of, I mean, we have to put it in some kind of historical context, Glenn.
00:46:42.880The amount of military hardware and equipment that we lost would have, is enough to supply Israel with our current military aid for 35 years.
00:46:59.220I can't think of any historical parallel where the United States military abroad working in concert with its contractors that supplied them, that fed them, that offered security in some situations when they were off duty.
00:47:14.240I've never seen a situation where the military pulled out first and left them to fend for themselves.
00:47:38.680I think it was because he arbitrarily defined, just made a construct out of the idea that whether we are in Afghanistan or not would be defined narrowly by troops only.
00:47:50.400And so he often even, you know, he slips and lets the truth come out when he says, well, if they don't want to come out.
00:47:56.520So in his vision, once the last American soldier is out, then he's done, and he can say before 9-11, I'm the president that got us out, but all the other people didn't want to come out.
00:48:09.160And I think that's what he's been thinking of.
00:48:53.180And you get the impression that once we're out, i.e. the military is out, we could have 1,000 Bo Bergdahl situations all over the country.
00:49:01.920And we know that just one person who left his post under dubious circumstances, probably treasonous circumstances, paralyzed the country to hand over four Taliban kingpins.
00:49:13.680But you can imagine we could have a magnitude of that several times over.
00:49:17.020So I have talked to people on the ground.
00:49:22.280I have talked to leaders of ambassadors of other countries.
00:49:29.360And, you know, last night, Parliament was talking about how they will not do any joint operation with this administration, that they are done.
00:50:09.980It was the logical nexus where if we wanted to continue the graduated withdrawal, we could have done it all summer long, all fall, without any worry because it was secure.
00:50:25.120As far as the NATO allies, on a lot of key initiatives, they were starting to bristle before this.
00:50:31.580And that is they did not want to join Joe Biden in sort of clamping down on Chinese mercantile theft and a lot of Chinese expansionism.
00:50:41.160They were very wary, the Germans particularly, about confronting Vladimir Putin's aggressions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.
00:50:49.540They were very wary about not getting back into the Iran deal.
00:50:53.500They wanted to get back in the Iran deal.
00:50:56.040And so on all these issues that we thought we were going to have a common front, they're all going to start freelancing.
00:51:02.020And I don't know how you get them back on the same page.
00:51:05.520And it's highly ironic because Donald Trump, after forcing them to pony up another hundred million dollars and promise military preparedness, was ostracized and caricatured as the anti-NATO person.
00:51:19.160He actually made the alliance stronger, although they might not have liked it publicly.
00:51:22.940And Biden was supposed to restore this international fervor among all the members.
00:52:36.440And it's happening because we are, since the last year and a half, as I see it, this woke suicide has pitted one institution against the other, one race against the other.
00:52:48.300And we can see it when the Joint Chiefs, we see them taking their eye off the ball and looking at whiteness this and whiteness that.
00:52:57.380We've had retired military violate their oath in the uniform corner of military justice not to disparage the commander in chief.
00:53:05.540They said vicious things about the president in the past.
00:53:08.040We've got the CIA compromised, the FBI compromised from these years of investigation that they were weaponized.
00:53:16.800So we're tearing the country apart in a faction of much more than 1968, more like 1860.
00:53:25.100And we're even getting that geographical force multiplier where people have come to the conclusion that Portland doesn't work, Seattle doesn't work, Minneapolis doesn't work.
00:53:35.380I'm moving to Utah, Texas, et cetera, where we're getting these vast migrations where we're self-selecting.
00:53:42.840And if that continues, we're going to have a red country and a blue country.
00:53:49.180And so it doesn't have to be this way.
00:53:52.320And I think a lot of it is that the hard left took over the institutions of the corporate boardroom, the university, K through 12, social media, traditional media, Silicon Valley, entertainment, the foundations, Hollywood, professional sports.
00:54:07.200And even though they don't have the majority of the population, they feel that they have the money and the cultural influence to affect these changes, whether it's on the border or diminishing energy and sufficiency or the redefinition of crime and defunding the police.
00:54:24.980So they're revolutionaries and they have all the institutions of power.
00:55:06.980I mean, are we is this a is this a sealed deal or are there ways to turn this around?
00:55:12.740I think no, I think people are resisting and I don't think they have a majority.
00:55:16.800I think you're going to see it a very close California recall.
00:55:20.880The idea that just six months ago, the two bookend governors, the pillars of progressive governance at the state level, Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo would be Cuomo's gone.
00:55:34.360A lot of Hispanic voters here in California that are Democrats do not like him for a variety of reasons of which we just talked about.
00:55:42.720And so I think the midterm elections are going to be a pushback.
00:55:45.400These special elections are being a pushback.
00:55:47.580But everybody's got to get galvanized.
00:55:49.540I think that's why they're so panicky that they're changing the demography at the border.
00:55:53.920They want to have a national voting law.
00:55:55.760They're talking about one vote, Glenn, from having an getting rid of one hundred and fifty year nine person Supreme Court, one hundred and eighty year filibuster, two hundred and thirty three year electoral college, six year, 50 state union.
00:56:11.800So all of these can be done or massaged by the Congress and they're almost there and they want to do it because they don't have popular support.
00:56:20.680So they want to change these institutions.
00:56:24.360I can't thank you enough for being on with us.
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00:59:03.180There is, um, uh, there is, uh, one infant that we know that had been killed, but they are hauling people around in wheelbarrows right now.
00:59:15.940This is, this, I don't know how this is America.
00:59:19.900I don't know how, but our administration right now is loading up our airplanes and they are loading up the 82nd Airborne.
00:59:38.040There is no way they are happy about this.
00:59:41.440I cannot wait to tell you a story, but I'm not going to do it until I know our people are off the ground.
00:59:51.980But you, if you are, if you think you've even been close to angry,
00:59:59.280wait until, and I'm going to name names.
01:00:02.080It's not, it's not mine to tell we have somebody who is on the ground and it's their place to name names because they witnessed it and so did others.
01:00:17.300But I will, I will do everything I can to make sure that that individual is held responsible.
01:01:51.100And I, I, I testify to you that we are going to become the darkest, most evil nation to ever, ever be on the face of the earth if we don't turn from this now.
01:02:12.640If we don't soften our hearts and turn ourselves back to God and plead for his forgiveness.
01:02:20.560We are still responsible for what our government is doing because we elected this government.
01:05:40.280You know, we have, you know, us together with the coalition we have, with what you guys are doing at Nazarene Fund, we have 5,200 people off the ground.
01:05:50.960And that's, you know, so it's one of these stories that, you know, it's tough to reconcile because you have this one side of you that's so happy and joyful.
01:05:58.340I just got back from the Humanitarian Center where we've been bringing people in the country that we're in, and I got to see these people that I'm looking around, and it just, it overwhelmed me.
01:06:07.280And I got just so emotional because, you know, we've been working hard so hard all week.
01:06:12.840You know, I've only got six hours of sleep in the last five days, and we've been working so hard, and we're walking to see these people and know that they have a chance.
01:06:21.460And, and, and see these little kids, and, and I got to see my interpreter that, that I got out and his family, and his kids ran up to me and hugged me, and I was just so emotional and overwhelmed.
01:06:30.780So there's this sense of joy, but then there's also this sense of what we, you know, what we've seen in Kabul where you have people left, American citizens left, people who are still in sewage ditches trying to climb their way over Constantinowire, throwing their kids.
01:06:46.560I didn't see it, but my buddy, one of my buddies, Joe, saw three babies dead in the Constantinowire where moms tried to throw their babies over the Constantinowire, or moms or dads tried to throw their babies over the Constantinowire, just hoping, you know, rather give away their baby than, than have it be under the Taliban.
01:07:06.020And, and the babies got tangled up in the Constantinowire, and, and, you know, and now we're hearing reports of dads shooting their daughters, not because they want to kill their daughters, because they don't want their daughters to endure the suffering of the Taliban.
01:07:22.860And, and it's just a horrific situation, and my heart just breaks, and all these people are just still, they're left there, and we, and we did it, our government, you know, I've never, as a proud American, as someone, I'm the most patriotic guy I think I know, and, and to ever feel embarrassed and ashamed of our country.
01:07:44.060I sat in front of a, this morning, I sat in a conference room, and I had four generals from the foreign military, amazing nation that had helped these people, 18 lawyers, their minister of interior, the minister of foreign affairs, and I just thanked them for helping us, but I also had to apologize for our country, and, and putting them in a situation to have to help, and now our country, most importantly, I think all your listeners need to hear, is we still are not doing the right thing.
01:08:14.060The White House is still stopping people from doing the right thing. Our State Department is paralyzed, they will not move these people, and they put it on, the entire rest of the world is participating in this humanitarian crisis on a biblical scale, but the one government that caused this problem is not participating and helping, and it's an embarrassment to our country, and, and we need to, we, the people, need to hold our White House accountable for this, and this is not a political statement about,
01:08:44.060your Trump versus Biden, your Trump versus Biden and all that stuff that everybody's been caught up in the last years, this is about what's morally right. As human beings, the world can't function this way, not when the strongest, greatest nation in the world behaves this way, and treats people this way.
01:08:59.560I, I, I, I, I had a phone call with an ambassador of a country last night, and I had exactly the same, same conversation, and I was amazed at how this country, a dismissed America now, just as they're just, you know, we don't, we don't trust anymore.
01:09:27.980But also, but also, who would not dwell on it, said, but that's a different story. This is about saving people. And here's this great country that wasn't playing politics at all, didn't care, doesn't want any of the credit.
01:09:47.520And they are moving heaven and earth. And because of our State Department, their hands were tied.
01:09:58.380Yeah, we're talking about the same country. And it's like, I'm looking at these people, I'm looking at their military, I'm looking at their government, the volunteers, the workers, they're feeding these families.
01:10:10.920I went in the humanitarian center today, there's, there's doctors and toys for the kids. And it's amazing. And I'm like, you people are incredible. Like, they're so amazing to be treating these, these refugees this way.
01:10:27.160They feel like they're in a home right now. These people feel like there's, this is not a tent city. It's beyond unbelievable what these people are doing. And, and our government won't do anything, they won't lift a finger to help.
01:10:40.920I think I am. I think I'm at the place that I think I'm at the place that you are without being able to see the humanitarian side of it, because I'm kind of boxed in and not allowed to go to some of the places that you are.
01:10:59.860And, and I am, I can't tell you the, when you're only seeing the bad side, I feel such empathy for our soldiers, because they, this must be the way they feel, because I, there's like, it's just the walls close in on you. And you're like, what is happening?
01:11:23.460Well, I mean, how, how these young, obviously, you know, my Oaks foundation, you know, me, like there's nothing more I love and support. I've committed my life to America's military warriors. And so I love our troops and, and, but our military is not doing the job of the military right now.
01:11:42.640So the state department took over the NEO and, and the NEO, the non-combatant evacuation operation, which is a DOD function.
01:11:49.440Uh, the white house gave it to the state department and our state department is using our military like embassy security. They treated that airport. They have no business. They don't know what a NEO is. They don't know how to run a NEO. That's not the state department's job.
01:12:02.800The white house gave it to them because they thought our military was too emotionally attached to the Afghan, uh, to Afghanistan after 20 years. And, uh, and the state department treated the airport like a embassy. They treated it like an embassy.
01:12:16.020So, so, so Chad, help me out with this. I believe that our soldiers, that the boots on the ground, the people, you know, of the 82nd airborne, et cetera, they're good, solid people, and they know what's right.
01:12:35.380But, uh, it, it, it appears as though the, the, the, the brass, it comes from a different place. Cut more from like the white house. Am I reading this wrong?
01:12:50.280You're reading it a hundred percent, man. I wish I could tell you that story right now. And when I can, I want to expose this story because it's, it's horrific, but.
01:12:58.460I will tell you when you, you tell the story and we'll get our teeth into it. And I will, I will be right with you. I will not let go until those people pay.
01:13:09.220They have to pay. I mean, from, from, uh, joint chief Millie on down, they, they, you know, have made our, made our U S military, uh, have used our United States military to, to do a job in a way that costs America.
01:13:24.120That's costing American lives and the lives of our allies. And, and, and, and, and I couldn't imagine, you know, being in, being in the position of our military service members right now, uh, and, and being forced to do things that are immoral, inhumane, and, uh, and against who, who America is there against everything.
01:13:44.200They raised their hand and made an oath to do. And, uh, and they're being forced to do that by the leaders, uh, in Washington, DC, sitting back and, you know, making decisions based on whatever the white house is saying, but not what's right.
01:13:57.920And America always great is that America does what's at the end of the day, America, you know, does what's right.
01:14:04.620It's right. And, uh, and, uh, how, how many Americans do you think are going to be left behind? I, I, I got word.
01:14:12.820I don't know if this is true now. I don't know what's true and what's not. Um, I got word that, uh, the embassy staff, all the foreign embassy staff left behind, um, how many Americans do you suppose are left behind?
01:14:26.140Well, you know, we've continued to hear the number 10,000, but I've also heard that a number could be twice that many, uh, because the state department does not require you to register.
01:14:39.200You know, I think the one thing, uh, white house press secretary Saki said was that that's been right is that, you know, us, us people don't have to register and, uh, don't have to register when you leave.
01:14:49.620And, uh, you know, it's the freedom we have. And, uh, so it's not a very track, that's not a very well tracked database that the state department has.
01:14:56.380So the state department really didn't have any idea, but between 10 and 20,000 were going to be left there.
01:15:01.640And look at the military, this is over. The military is leaving. Uh, I wouldn't be surprised to wake up tomorrow morning and, uh, well, different, you know, I don't know your U S listeners, different time zone, but here, you know, it's, it's about three night.
01:15:16.840I wouldn't be surprised to wake up tomorrow morning and they're gone.
01:15:20.920Uh, well, the, the Pentagon just said that they aren't going anywhere until the 31st, but that's different than what we hear on the ground here.
01:15:31.640Um, yeah, we, we hear that, uh, things are, uh, advancing rapidly, uh, and they're pulling the troops out right now.
01:15:40.460Um, uh, you know, again, I don't know what, what is true and what is not, uh, unless we hear from the people who are actually on the ground and they've seen it.
01:15:50.980It appears, it appears they're leaving. Now, if they stay to 31st, just to say they did, you know, uh, they may do that.
01:15:58.800And they may leave a contingency just to say they didn't pull out. But it right now, there's really no relevance of them even being there because we are not rescuing, uh, people anymore.
01:16:09.000You know, we, we, as the NGO doing this, the shutdown, the military is not doing anymore. The gates are sealed. Um, as far as rescue, it's, it's, it's over.
01:16:20.820I mean, we've, we've essentially handed over our citizens to the Taliban, you know, what I believe to be the most horrific hostage situation in history of the United States.
01:16:30.900You, you had a plan, you had a plane that was getting ready to take off and it, it was canceled because we flew a plane in and that hit a cap, um, here, uh, where, where, where we're at.
01:16:46.700Um, did that, as that, are those people safe?
01:17:11.360So, you know, they've just, they've just, I know it's just been on our, uh, on our mind, uh, and on our heart that these people were possibly trapped as things get better.
01:18:27.500You know, your dog doesn't know the difference between healthy and unhealthy food, but his body does.
01:18:32.200When you're feeding him dry kibble food, for instance, his body is telling him that everything he's eating is dead and there's nothing really good for him.
01:18:39.880It might fill up his stomach, but it's not good.
01:18:42.860Kibble food has to be sterilized for a long shelf life.
01:18:46.060It has to be able to last on the shelf for two years.
01:18:49.780So what's missing are the key things that your dog needs.
01:18:53.120Vitamins, minerals, probiotics, antioxidants, all the stuff you need to be healthier and happier.
01:18:59.000And in a lot of cases, this is how it was with my dog, Uno.
01:26:12.940Many observed that if President Biden executed his decision withdrawal in the middle of the fighting season by withdrawing the critical enabling support that the Taliban had,
01:26:26.500or I'm sorry, that the Afghan army had, for instance, with Western contractors to keep their Air Force flying,
01:26:32.940we'd be pulling the rug out from underneath them.
01:26:34.600And you're starting to see some reports come out in the media that says that it was predicted directly to Joe Biden,
01:26:39.960no matter what he's been saying to the American people, that this would be the fate that we face right now.
01:26:47.120Senator, you know, there are bad decisions,
01:40:59.400But we're kind of trying to reconnect with him in the Middle East.
01:41:03.820This is something we talked about over and over again over the past week, which was as as this had been discussed by us and by many people critical of the Biden administration, it was discussed as this thing that Joe Biden screwed up and put a lot of people in danger.
01:41:26.040And look at this catastrophe as they try to have people around the airport and and it's a mess and all of this.
01:41:32.620And as we said over and over again, that discussion was a discussion about the best case scenario.
01:41:40.680The best possible thing that can come out of this is just that Joe Biden really screwed up and stranded thousands of people for some time.
01:41:50.180And in a very messy situation, we're able to get them out eventually because the Taliban decided to be super nice and allow it to occur.
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01:45:12.860It's my understanding there is one more plane on the tarmac that is ready to go.
01:45:18.620There were others that we will tell you the story about later when we are able to.
01:45:23.700But the problem is, last night, it was about 24 hours ago, we had a problem that the host countries that are landing these planes had a cap of about 4,000 people.
01:45:45.840And all of the countries had reached their cap.
01:45:49.460And the reason why that was happening is because the State Department was not vouching for anybody so we could move them on to other host countries.
01:46:18.780And the State Department will not follow through.
01:46:21.680So we've had planes turn around in the air and come back.
01:46:24.280Or we've had them stop on the ground because the State Department won't let those people on the ground go to the next step, the next staging area, because they won't vouch for them.
01:46:33.320And yet you can't even get on the plane if you hadn't been through the State Department.
01:46:36.340And so now these host countries that have been taking them out of Kabul, they're supposed to go to Kabul.
01:46:43.820And then we verify that is who you are, yada, yada.
01:46:48.260We've already done that in Kabul, but then we do it again.
01:46:52.680And we make sure that everybody is who they say they are.
01:48:12.460We're just not going to say it right now.
01:48:13.880Right, and I'm not going to say it until those planes are down on the ground anyway because we don't need any more hassles from anybody else.
01:48:21.920But it looks like we are going to be able to take 5,000 people and move them in plane load after plane load right away,
01:48:33.480which would then open up all of these countries to take more if anyone can get any more planes off the ground.
01:48:41.960So we could take another 5,000 people out if there's support.
01:48:48.560We're kind of looking now at the British and the French as the only ones that are going to be able to help do that because nobody else is doing it.
01:48:59.020Well, it even looks like that because Kabul is really under American control that they're not even letting the British and others go out.
01:49:06.600So even our allies are able to get their private planes out of there.
01:49:11.100So the State Department really has shut down the flow.
01:49:13.600You know, if we can get these folks moved to these other countries, we could get more people into these countries and keep moving people out of Kabul.
01:49:20.880But at this point, it doesn't look like the State Department's going to let us or our allies take any more out.
01:50:30.260They wouldn't have dared lift their head.
01:50:33.120Yeah, this would be a non-story, but at the same time, the military can't do that.
01:50:39.300And I've been reflecting today, and it's a frustration, but it's also I'm so pleased that the Constitution set up a civil authority over the military.
01:50:49.140Because we cannot have a coup this way.
01:50:51.060If our military got frustrated with President Biden and said, we're going to go save these guys, what stops them from having a coup next time they don't like any president?
01:50:59.200And so the fact that I don't like the fact that our military has its hands tied, but I like the fact our military has its hands tied because the Constitution was so wise in that regard.
01:51:11.120That will prevent us from ever becoming a third world country having a coup.
01:51:14.140As a historian, David, can you think of a time in American history like this?
01:51:27.480There has always been, for all the presidents that I can think of, even the ones I disagree with, there has been an American-first mentality.
01:51:36.900And even when I disagreed with them politically, they were very good about trying to maintain our strength and our reputation internationally.
01:51:46.380I can't think of a place, you know, the closest we're going to get is Vietnam, and that's the closest we're going to get,
01:51:51.560and that's where politicians manage the war, not the military guys.
01:51:54.520Oh, wait, is that what's happening here?
01:51:56.880Politicians managing the war, not the military guys.
01:52:01.060But that was, you know, I hate even bringing that up, but Biden's the one who brought that up that we're not going to be there, and yet here we are.
01:52:09.560You know, if I go back to Zachary Taylor, if I go back to all the other wars I can think of, all the other conflicts, there's nothing like this, precedent like this.
01:52:17.900There's been places where that, like with Teddy Roosevelt, Americans were taken captive in Cuba, and we just went in and crushed it.
01:52:28.000So it's really hard to think of anything, really, that is close to what's happening here.
01:52:32.980With the embarrassment we're suffering, with the way that other nations are looking at us, our loss of prestige, there's always been people who hated America, but not allies.
01:52:42.340Yeah, and I don't mind that we're embarrassed or humiliated.
01:52:46.560I'm ashamed that we are lying, and we're lying to ourself, and we're betraying our allies and the people.
01:52:58.280I mean, we are really, truly, easily on the wrong side here.
01:53:03.140Yeah, and this is one of the things that history tends to get right over time.
01:53:07.280And, you know, it may be 20, 30 years before the full story comes out with a lot of this, because even if the media started to challenge Joe Biden, they're still not getting the full story up.
01:53:16.060I mean, what we're seeing over here and what we have the reports of and the intelligence we're getting, they have access to, and it's just not making it back home.
01:53:23.060So at some point, that's going to come out, just as it did in Vietnam.
01:54:02.320But, you know, there was a company that really wanted a pipeline from Afghanistan up all the way to Russia and then across Russia and into Europe.
01:54:26.320into Europe and the Afghani leadership didn't want that.
01:54:32.560They didn't they didn't want their their reserves to be exploited like that.
01:54:40.120And and and this country had gone to other countries and the other countries were were for it.
01:54:48.640But then there was this this horrible change of of policy and new people became in charge.
01:54:59.460And and and their payment for doing a deal was military equipment and and making sure that that nobody bothered them anymore.
01:55:13.460Anyway, that's just a crazy, crazy, crazy story.
01:55:20.080By the way, there is a company that does want to build that pipeline.
01:55:50.100But there is there is another part of America that is standing true to what we once knew.
01:55:56.760And while the ground gets shakier, we have to find that solid ground and that solid ground is responsibility, fiscal responsibility, spiritual responsibility.
01:56:12.580Get your fiscal house in order by calling American financing right now.
01:56:16.840They're not here to help the bank out.
01:57:17.880Some of the reporting is saying at least four U.S. servicemen have been wounded or killed.
01:57:26.340The Taliban is saying at least 13 people have been killed.
01:57:31.240Although if you have seen any of the footage that has come out from on social media, you know it's much, much more than that.
01:57:39.820There are piles of people all over the place and this is a worsening journey into the worst case scenario.
01:57:54.700I will remind you that two days ago, Jen Psaki told us that she wouldn't call the evacuation anything but a success.
01:58:06.380Two days ago, the White House behind the scenes went to any publication that would listen to them and say that they needed to have their due credit for what is going on in Afghanistan.
01:58:26.940And you probably saw, if you're on social media, if you're on Twitter, if you watch cable news, you probably saw many people who are aligned with the administration parroting that exact sentiment.
01:59:37.820And this is the face they are putting on it.
01:59:40.300My understanding of the process is that you don't allow thousands of your own people to be stranded in a country before you allow it to be taken over.
01:59:58.100Seems to be the decision was made quite a long time ago that we were going to hand the country back to the Taliban eventually.
02:00:04.500But could we at least have evacuated our people before we did it?
02:00:11.620As you may know, we had plenty of places for airplanes to take off in this country not very long ago.
02:00:20.020But we gave them all up before we evacuated our people.
02:00:24.160Now, we have multiple suicide bombs going off right outside the airport and every piece of reporting on the ground and from people who are in touch with military officials are saying, basically, it's over.
02:00:41.360We are not even going to make it to the deadline the Taliban set for us.
02:00:50.260We are going to evacuate people as fast as possible.
02:00:53.980And the quote from a source inside the military was that it is increasingly likely that, yes, thousands of Americans will be left behind.