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00:00:21.580 Hello, America, from the Middle East with your update on what is happening at the airport of Kabul.

00:00:34.940 It is a national disgrace, an absolute disgrace, and I believe at some point may even end up being described as crimes against humanity.

00:00:53.000 We will give you the update from Kabul in 60 seconds.

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00:02:11.740 From the Middle East in a country that we will not name,

00:02:29.260 it is a country that is doing a great service to humanity.

00:02:35.520 I talked to an ambassador last night of one of our allies, and it is sad what is going on.

00:02:47.660 The ambassador I spoke to was an – that country has been an ally of ours forever and a very, very good ally.

00:02:56.320 In the course of the conversation, he told me there are two tragedies that have come from this.

00:03:04.240 The number of people that are going to die because of the United States decision and the death of American credibility.

00:03:14.840 We talked about that for a minute, and he said there is no credibility with the United States anymore.

00:03:20.500 Later, because I was asking this ambassador for help getting people out and asking him to make some room in their country for some people,

00:03:38.200 I said, I promise you this, Mr. Ambassador, I give you my word.

00:03:45.020 And then I paused and I said, and I know that doesn't mean much right now coming from an American.

00:03:50.660 And he cut me off and he said, no, no, sir, you have credibility.

00:03:55.900 Your president does not.

00:03:58.720 I was floored to hear this from an ambassador of a major ally of ours.

00:04:06.880 It was tragically sad, tragically sad.

00:04:10.580 I got off the phone and found out that Parliament, while I was on the phone, Parliament had said on the floor,

00:04:21.380 the ministers of Parliament had said that they could do no more with the United States.

00:04:27.180 They would not involve themselves in any other operations until President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were gone.

00:04:37.740 That is also shocking.

00:04:41.300 But there is, to me, that's the least of our problems right now.

00:04:49.700 Humanity is being overlooked, and it is being overlooked by our State Department,

00:04:57.260 apparently under direct orders from the United States White House.

00:05:01.600 We have several sources that are telling us in the State Department that the State Department is getting their orders directly from the White House.

00:05:12.060 They are telling who comes in and who does not come in through the gates.

00:05:17.760 Last night, they said, if you were at the gates and you're on foot, go back and get a car.

00:05:24.280 Y is beyond me.

00:05:26.420 Two nights ago, when I was flying over here, I was told that we had maybe 72 hours.

00:05:38.700 Last night, I was told we had 24 hours, and today I am hearing we are hours away from any access and the opening of any gates.

00:05:51.400 The Americans that are being left behind range anywhere from 10,000, is the lowest estimate that I hear, to as many as 35,000.

00:06:01.900 We just got word that the entire staff at the embassy, which I believe was 1,500.

00:06:09.160 Don't quote me on that number.

00:06:10.720 It was a large number.

00:06:11.740 I think it was 1,500.

00:06:12.780 All of the people that worked for us at the embassy, all of them are being left behind. 0.94

00:06:21.060 Those people will be killed.

00:06:24.520 It is shocking what is happening.

00:06:34.620 Last night, rescued by helicopter, there were only 20 that we could get out and rescue.

00:06:42.500 And what I'm being told is actually less than 20.

00:06:46.960 Among those still stranded in Afghanistan are 24 students and parents from a California school district.

00:06:57.060 I hope this has changed since this intelligence has come down.

00:07:04.100 Evacuees say that they have been attacked by the Taliban, prevented from getting to the Kabul airport.

00:07:10.580 Those who are not directly in the airport have very little chance of escape at this point.

00:07:19.300 Taliban has stopped all Afghan citizens from reaching the airport.

00:07:23.480 The airport, for all intents and purposes, is now closed.

00:07:27.540 Earlier, I got a message that said the Taliban was gassing tear gas at the gates to try to disperse the crowd.

00:07:38.960 And two minutes later, it was a correction.

00:07:42.720 They said, sorry, we are tear gassing to disperse the crowd at the gates.

00:07:49.500 The possibility of an imminent attack, perhaps within hours, has been looming over Kabul's airport.

00:07:57.520 This, according to Great Britain.

00:07:59.300 I've seen several notes reporting the Taliban asking for intelligent organizations to give a list of their employees and affiliates.

00:08:12.500 Now, what this is, is the Taliban saying to us and our intelligence organizations,

00:08:20.500 please give us a list of the people that are going to be coming to the airport,

00:08:25.220 and we'll guarantee their passage after the 31st.

00:08:29.720 Now, please tell me, dear God, that no one is dumb enough to give them a list of people

00:08:41.080 that we should expect to be let through their gates or that the Taliban would help to evacuate.

00:08:50.300 The Taliban wants the Turkish military out, but wants them to leave personnel behind to run the airport operations after the 831 withdrawal.

00:09:04.020 But that is, that is, the 831 withdrawal is a pipe dream.

00:09:10.540 Pipe dream.

00:09:11.340 The airport is closed right now, and the reason why it's closed is because we are now evacuating our military.

00:09:24.080 By the end of the day, I don't know how many military personnel will still be there.

00:09:31.380 We got word last night that they were starting to move our military out within 24 hours.

00:09:43.460 We haven't been able to move any planes.

00:09:46.760 I'm just waiting for word to see if we got one plane out last night.

00:09:51.100 It was turned around in midair.

00:09:53.620 That's the reason why I was on the phone with an ambassador last night.

00:09:58.460 It was turned around midair.

00:10:00.460 It had women and children, 300 women and children on board.

00:10:07.040 I don't have word yet if that is still sitting on the tarmac or if we have gotten it out.

00:10:15.020 We have a major story that I am waiting to, I'm holding until we know all of our people are off the ground

00:10:26.820 and there's nothing else we can do.

00:10:29.600 I will tell you that yesterday, we've had several countries that have been willing to take people.

00:10:38.680 And suddenly, for some reason, these countries are no longer willing to take people.

00:10:45.240 And the State Department is no longer willing to vouch for anyone.

00:10:48.260 Last night, we had one country that remained open, and that was Macedonia.

00:10:54.220 And when we contacted Macedonia, we were told, a State Department official told the ambassador in Macedonia not to take any of our refugees.

00:11:07.380 The State Department and the White House are the biggest obstacle in saving people.

00:11:17.220 I wish I could tell you the names of the countries that are assisting and taking people temporarily.

00:11:25.220 But they want no credit, they don't want their names uttered at all.

00:11:32.620 And it's a shame, because the world should know who these heroes are.

00:11:38.880 But they don't want any information out about them, because they believe that they will come under attack,

00:11:47.300 because the world is now negotiating with terrorists.

00:11:51.980 That's the general update for today.

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00:13:16.900 Welcome to the program.

00:13:32.420 I'm in the Middle East.

00:13:33.540 Stu is manning things at home.

00:13:36.620 I hope to be home by this weekend, but there are some developments that I think are positive

00:13:45.580 that we may have to shepherd, so I may be here a few days longer than I originally suspected.

00:13:52.760 It is dicey, all of this.

00:13:58.860 Everything is fluid.

00:14:00.860 And we're trying to make sure that we only tell you the things that we can confirm from more than one source.

00:14:09.160 Even if it is our source, we want to make sure because things are so, just so fluid right now.

00:14:20.120 And it is, none of this, none of this makes sense.

00:14:24.860 There 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.

00:14:40.400 So, you know, when we began raising money, what day is it over there, Stu?

00:14:47.300 Is it Thursday?

00:14:49.200 Yes.

00:14:49.460 When, yeah, when it's, I'm sorry, it's at the very end of the day, it's, I don't even know, 7 o'clock or something here.

00:15:00.760 At the end of the day, on Wednesday, we asked to raise $20 million to be able to get, we hoped, 3,000 to 5,000 people out.

00:15:14.380 Well, we can tell you that the Nazarene Fund directly has brought 2,000 people out of Afghanistan.

00:15:25.620 We're waiting.

00:15:26.880 We have a plane that is loaded and ready to go, and it has mechanical problems, and it's on the airport tarmac in Afghanistan.

00:15:38.940 We are trying to get that one repaired.

00:15:41.860 It may be our last flight out.

00:15:44.060 There is another flight.

00:15:45.920 One of our partners is Mighty Oaks.

00:15:48.380 They have been doing incredible work.

00:15:51.660 They have another plane that needs to get out of there as well, and when those two planes are out and on the tarmac,

00:16:03.740 we will have a total of 5,000 refugees that we have rescued in just the last few days,

00:16:12.480 and we are so very grateful to you and to everyone else.

00:16:19.720 I 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.

00:16:30.320 When, at the end, he stood and he looked at his ring and said, I could have sold this ring.

00:16:36.420 How many people could I have saved with just this ring?

00:16:38.740 Because it's hard to feel the victory in any of this, because there are so many at the gates,

00:16:52.660 and so many we know are going to be targeted.

00:16:56.840 We also see what is coming for the Afghanis. 1.00

00:17:08.360 It's been a week since any of the banks were open.

00:17:15.680 The Taliban took over, and the banks closed down.

00:17:21.160 ATMs are dried up in Kabul.

00:17:23.880 Everybody now is strapped for cash.

00:17:26.200 The food prices are beginning to rise.

00:17:29.260 There is going to be a hunger problem next.

00:17:33.040 As they're ordering now that no dollars can be taken out of the country because there is a national cash squeeze,

00:17:44.240 the 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.

00:17:57.080 The cash would be seized, and you would pay a high price.

00:18:00.340 But also, I want you to know, we didn't get a chance to mention this yesterday.

00:18:05.220 They are vowing to take into consideration and fight climate change.

00:18:12.340 So, we have that from the Taliban. 0.79

00:18:16.000 You can, you can, don't you, doesn't that make you feel good, Stu, that they're going to fight climate change?

00:18:23.280 Makes me feel great.

00:18:24.220 You know, they've, in the past, fought climate change as well.

00:18:28.540 When they've murdered lots of people, the less people breathing, the better.

00:18:33.840 Because each person has a carbon footprint, Glenn.

00:18:36.380 So, they've been able to help that in the past.

00:18:38.920 Yes, yes.

00:18:40.300 It's a controversial approach, but it is backed by science.

00:18:43.860 So, can I ask you, Stu, back at home, I mean, I left on Monday.

00:18:48.680 It seems like it's been weeks.

00:18:50.240 But, or did I leave on Tuesday?

00:18:52.860 No, I left on Monday.

00:18:55.360 What is the feeling back home?

00:18:57.360 What is the coverage back home?

00:18:58.920 Are people still paying attention to what's happening at the airport?

00:19:03.240 They're definitely paying attention to what's happening at the airport, yes.

00:19:06.740 There is an attempt by the White House to rework the narrative, to be kind.

00:19:13.440 And to try to make it seem as if they're doing something impressive, as if this is a good thing.

00:19:19.840 Oh, they are.

00:19:20.920 Oh, they are.

00:19:21.840 I 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.

00:19:29.560 Yeah, it is.

00:19:30.960 It'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. 0.65

00:19:47.180 So, it is impressive what they're doing.

00:19:49.200 It is impressive.

00:19:49.780 One 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.

00:20:03.120 But they're saying something like 70,000 to 80,000 people have been evacuated total.

00:20:08.780 Now, 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.

00:20:30.760 I 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.

00:20:42.980 Do I have that wrong?

00:20:44.880 No, you have that absolutely right.

00:20:47.400 Yeah.

00:20:47.900 Before the city fell, we got everyone out.

00:20:51.860 Now, the city has fallen, and it's almost impossible to get these people out.

00:20:58.900 Yeah, you don't wait until after.

00:21:00.040 The word from the State Department now is, don't go to the airport.

00:21:06.380 Try a border.

00:21:09.020 Oh, okay.

00:21:10.120 Cool.

00:21:10.700 So should that be the Pakistani border, or should that be the Iranian border?

00:21:16.160 Which border are we talking about here, Uncle Joe?

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00:22:56.240 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:22:59.500 I just want you to know, we'll talk about this later,

00:23:02.320 but I want you to know the discrediting of the Nazarene Fund

00:23:09.040 and probably me and this program is coming

00:23:12.700 because we are not making friends with the State Department.

00:23:19.120 We got a tip today from a news organization

00:23:24.560 that had somebody inside of a government organization,

00:23:31.520 and they said that there was a meeting today about us,

00:23:36.800 and the warning was, they're coming.

00:23:40.420 And I know that, and that's fine.

00:23:43.140 And what we're doing here is we believe God's work,

00:23:48.640 and so be it.

00:23:50.320 If this is the end of our career, my career, it's fine.

00:23:54.160 I am totally fine with that.

00:23:55.680 I just want you to know that awful things are going to be said in the future.

00:24:02.100 I hope not.

00:24:03.140 I hope not.

00:24:04.380 But they're not going to let us sit here

00:24:08.340 and do what we've done without ramifications.

00:24:13.580 Laura Logan is with us now.

00:24:15.440 Hello, Laura.

00:24:16.020 How are you?

00:24:17.960 You know, hey, Glenn.

00:24:19.060 I'm very glad to be here, and I will tell you,

00:24:22.320 I don't care what they say.

00:24:24.060 I will stand by you and the Nazarene Fund

00:24:26.540 because the only people right now who are more evil than Al-Qaeda and the Taliban

00:24:32.060 are the State Department and the agency and all the others

00:24:36.520 who are doing everything possible in their power

00:24:39.380 to prevent decent Americans and good people standing up for our allies

00:24:45.820 and rescuing people and saving them from certain deaths.

00:24:49.960 And I've been up all night working this for eight days,

00:24:53.160 and it is reprehensible.

00:24:56.160 So, Laura, people don't understand.

00:25:00.300 How can the State Department do this?

00:25:03.580 What are they doing exactly?

00:25:05.060 What is the White House?

00:25:06.000 How are they thwarting?

00:25:07.020 Can you share some examples?

00:25:10.680 Oh, yeah, easily.

00:25:12.100 So, because I've been doing this all night.

00:25:13.900 So, well, for example, I have had, like, I had 150 people, families,

00:25:20.180 that I ripped out of their homes with children and everything else,

00:25:23.720 all of whom are targeted for death because they worked with 60 Minutes

00:25:28.140 or they were legendary, you know, in the military and fought the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

00:25:35.000 And as the plane was coming in to land, my American Special Operations contact told me

00:25:41.840 that they had been denied clearance.

00:25:43.940 So, suddenly, out of nowhere, when they had clearance before, they denied clearance.

00:25:48.420 The pilots, and I will tell you, there's so many operators on the ground

00:25:52.440 who are just outraged at what they're being asked to participate in

00:25:57.280 and be part of this betrayal.

00:25:59.200 And so, the team running the operation said, no, we're not going to do it.

00:26:03.460 We're landing anyway.

00:26:04.840 And they went to look without a landing strip and without lights for a place to land.

00:26:09.880 And they were coming in, and they were threatened that they would be shot down.

00:26:13.720 So, they had to, you know, they had to circle, and they were running out of fuel.

00:26:18.060 And they've gone back to another country, and they're trying to get the clearances again

00:26:23.480 to come back in and being blocked by the State Department.

00:26:25.560 And yesterday, the State Department changed, again, the evacuation paperwork.

00:26:31.180 They changed the paperwork.

00:26:32.840 You're in the last few moments.

00:26:34.460 I'm going to tell you now, Glenn, I heard all through yesterday and through last night

00:26:39.840 that by nightfall today in Kabul, which is not far away, they would be gone.

00:26:44.720 We have reports of the 82nd Airborne, you know, evicting Christians and American citizens

00:26:50.440 and others from the airport and bulldozing checkpoints.

00:26:55.320 We have reports of gates being welded shut, which, of course, I can't confirm from a distance,

00:27:01.560 but there's been multiple reports.

00:27:03.100 I will tell you, we have those same reports, Laura.

00:27:05.500 So, there's a second source.

00:27:07.000 We have the same reports.

00:27:08.140 And I just, I got to tell you that, I mean, I have literally got photographs of, you know,

00:27:14.720 a pregnant woman, wife of a DEA agent, with a child at the checkpoint, battered and beaten

00:27:20.800 and bloody, who's fought her way to get there. 1.00

00:27:23.900 We've got special operators, special operations guys and Marines who are out there rescuing people,

00:27:30.740 risking their lives, only to get to the airport and be denied access by the U.S. government,

00:27:37.160 whether they instruct the Marines or the 82nd on the gates to shut them down,

00:27:42.120 whether they shut down the Marines.

00:27:43.860 Right now, one of my contacts that I've been working with for days said that he's had, you know,

00:27:50.000 dozens and dozens of messages to the Marines have now gone unanswered.

00:27:53.800 They've stopped talking to him.

00:27:56.460 Everybody's scrubbing their packages.

00:27:58.300 And they're on their way out.

00:27:59.460 And, you know, now there's reports of a suicide bomber and gunfire,

00:28:03.840 which families that I'm in touch with on the ground witnessed.

00:28:08.560 And I was talking them through it and trying to keep them calm.

00:28:12.220 But I tell you what makes me so angry.

00:28:14.640 They're going to, you watch, they're going to say that they had to shut everything down early

00:28:19.060 because of the threat level.

00:28:20.720 And it is absolute nonsense.

00:28:23.380 They were doing this and shutting it down long before that even happened. 0.99

00:28:28.480 And even more reprehensible and dishonest, this is how disgusting these people are. 0.76

00:28:34.600 They are now trying to say that Siraj Akhani, the deputy leader of the Taliban, right, 0.91

00:28:40.060 whose brother, Anas Akhani, was sitting next to Zomai Khalilzad,

00:28:44.820 the U.S. presidential envoy at the talks in Doha,

00:28:46.920 that they have separated from the Taliban and they've gone with ISIS-K.

00:28:51.520 You know why they're saying that, Glenn?

00:28:52.920 You know why they're making up that absolute lie?

00:28:56.940 Because they know they've been called out.

00:28:59.420 And I was one of the people that called them out.

00:29:01.220 So it was Tom Jocelyn at the Long War Journal and a bunch of others.

00:29:04.700 Because the Akhani Network is a foreign terrorist organization designated by the U.S. government in 2012.

00:29:12.260 And it is illegal under U.S. law to negotiate or support terrorists to provide any kind of support for them in any way whatsoever.

00:29:21.040 And now that it's been called out, look, lo and behold, how convenient,

00:29:25.740 how convenient that suddenly the deputy leader of the Taliban has split away.

00:29:31.420 I don't believe it for one single second.

00:29:34.120 In fact, I'll put my life on it, that that is an abject lie.

00:29:38.080 Even if they say it themselves, that's a deal that they struck.

00:29:41.360 When the head of the CIA went and met with Mullah Baradar, the man that they chose to lead the Islamic Emirates.

00:29:48.420 And by the way, guess who they chose as their intel chief?

00:29:51.080 The guy who's going to be in charge of intelligence for the Taliban is his strongest ally is who?

00:29:57.640 The IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary God. 0.97

00:30:01.020 He ran training camps for the Taliban inside Iran.

00:30:03.780 And he and the new head of IRGC are, you know, bonded at the hip.

00:30:09.360 And 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.

00:30:19.660 They're two top Iranian contacts.

00:30:22.040 And 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.

00:30:30.320 And 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.

00:30:36.100 And they sort of pretend that Afghanistan is not happening.

00:30:39.140 You wait, because we are now isolated on the world stage.

00:30:43.740 We are defined by betrayal and drenched in the blood of Afghans and American citizens. 1.00

00:30:51.220 And 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.

00:31:04.320 Because 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.

00:31:23.180 And 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.

00:31:33.520 Look at them.

00:31:35.680 Laura, I can't, first of all, everything you say is true.

00:31:40.260 I mean, I believe every word that you just said is accurate.

00:31:43.840 What 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.

00:32:02.300 You 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.

00:32:19.320 I've never in my lifetime heard anything like that from England or any of them.

00:32:27.100 France is still currently out there saving people.

00:32:31.060 Britain is staying behind after we leave tonight.

00:32:35.880 We're going to leave.

00:32:37.460 Why are we leaving before the 31st, when our allies are still on the ground?

00:32:43.420 Glenn, I've got even bigger questions for you.

00:32:47.340 Why are we accepting that this is set in stone?

00:32:51.140 Why are we accepting the most humiliating defeat at the hands of a terrorist organization aided and abetted by our allies?

00:33:01.380 Did you see what the Pakistani president, Imran Khan, said?

00:33:05.400 He literally said that the Taliban had been freed.

00:33:09.640 The people of Afghanistan had been freed from the chains of slavery.

00:33:13.880 That's how he referred to the U.S.

00:33:15.500 Do you know that since 1951, 70 years straight, the United States has been funding Pakistan?

00:33:23.880 That's really billions and billions and billions of dollars.

00:33:27.400 Why are we sending taxpayer dollars to Pakistan to finance the Taliban and Haqqani and Al-Qaeda to kill American soldiers on that battlefield?

00:33:37.640 Why are we not acknowledging our Afghan allies, the former vice president, Amrullah Saleh, who is now acting president, who is fighting right now?

00:33:48.440 Why 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? 0.55

00:33:58.120 All that money spent and all those years and look at them, they're so useless.

00:34:01.560 How many times have you read that or heard that? 0.97

00:34:04.660 And it is an abject lie.

00:34:07.100 Yes, there were soldiers that gave up, but there were many units that kept fighting.

00:34:12.100 And not only that, who would say to their ally, why would you do this?

00:34:16.700 Why 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?

00:34:29.700 And at the same moment, take all of the maintenance contractors that have kept the Afghan air force in disguise and strip those away. 0.79

00:34:37.200 And 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.

00:34:47.460 Why would you do that?

00:34:48.880 And show me the army on earth that could possibly have all that stripped away from it in one moment.

00:34:54.100 And I'm not saying they didn't have warning and they didn't know.

00:34:56.800 That's not the same thing as having a replacement structure already there that's functioning and working.

00:35:02.800 And 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.

00:35:13.380 We could still leave a special operations counterterrorism component.

00:35:17.740 We could still be doing air support. 0.93

00:35:20.100 We could obliterate the Taliban, literally obliterate the Taliban leadership. 0.57

00:35:25.420 Their forces are all out in the open. 0.89

00:35:27.260 You know why?

00:35:28.020 Because they're literally standing there laughing at you, dancing on America's grave.

00:35:34.140 That's what they're doing.

00:35:35.320 They don't fear you.

00:35:36.800 And you know what?

00:35:37.480 When the Taliban doesn't fear you and Al-Qaeda doesn't fear you and Hezbollah doesn't fear you and Hamas doesn't fear you, 0.54

00:35:44.180 the Iranians don't fear you, and neither do any of our other adversaries.

00:35:49.860 Neither does Pakistan. 1.00

00:35:51.060 Neither does China.

00:35:52.160 None of them.

00:35:53.280 So you watch.

00:35:54.260 Americans have, you know, they have had this false sense of security. 0.99

00:35:57.940 They've gone off in the world knowing this invisible shield that we've had around us,

00:36:02.960 that we're all protected by the power and the moral authority of this nation,

00:36:07.800 because the idea of freedom is the idea for which we are all, all prepared to fight and live and die for, right?

00:36:18.440 That's the idea, because we believe that this is a noble idea, and it's worth fighting for.

00:36:23.880 As Amul Asala, the acting president, said to me in an interview just before all of this happened,

00:36:29.900 he actually said to me, called me one day, and he was worried,

00:36:33.100 because we're friends and I've known him for many years,

00:36:35.840 and he said, Laura, what is happening there?

00:36:38.620 He said, you know, if the light goes out in America, it goes out everywhere.

00:36:43.600 Then the whole world is plunged into darkness.

00:36:47.280 It cannot go out in America.

00:36:49.300 And, you know, that is what we're looking at, Glenn.

00:36:51.440 The light has gone out in America.

00:36:53.480 It's not gone out in our hearts and souls as Americans, you know, and as people who believe in this.

00:36:58.860 But if we don't stop what's happening now, then we are dying with it.

00:37:04.480 Because now it's fake.

00:37:10.260 Laura, I can't thank you enough.

00:37:12.380 I have to run for a network break.

00:37:14.480 I'd like to talk to you some more on this.

00:37:16.400 Thank you for all of your hard work.

00:37:18.500 We just got in that there is a large explosion at Abbey Gate at the Kabul airport.

00:37:24.620 This is something that we have been warned about for the last 24 hours.

00:37:28.180 We'll bring you more details as they become available to us.

00:37:33.840 Back in just a minute.

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00:39:10.860 We have people on the ground right now at the Kabul airport.

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00:39:18.580 One of our planes also has mechanical problems.

00:39:21.220 I don't know if they're in the air yet,

00:39:22.940 but there's been a major explosion at the Kabul airport and our 82nd Airborne,

00:39:31.740 they're almost out of there, so at least they're safe.

00:39:37.540 I have quite a bit to say when we come back.

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00:42:14.040 This is the English Gate.

00:42:15.620 I would imagine it's named after Abbey Gate in Kent in England, but I'm not sure.

00:42:22.360 There's the American Gate, I believe it's the German Gate, and the American English, German, and American Gate.

00:42:29.820 I think this is the English.

00:42:33.460 This is a very, very bad situation, and it's happening just at the time when our last military,

00:42:42.720 are loading up and taking off.

00:42:47.160 Our allies are being left behind.

00:42:50.840 Americans are being left behind.

00:42:53.400 This is a very, very bad situation for America.

00:42:57.880 The ramifications are too enormous, I think, to even begin to speculate,

00:43:03.580 but I'm going to ask somebody who's far smarter than I am, Victor Davis Hanson,

00:43:08.200 to tell us historically the comparisons and where he thinks this goes next.

00:43:16.620 The ramifications, live from the Middle East. 0.86

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00:44:25.300 I'm live in the Middle East, in a country that does not want to be named.

00:44:30.560 They are afraid of repercussions from the terrorists that are now going to be taking over this region.

00:44:39.260 Not only ISIS, but Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda will be back, and the Taliban.

00:44:44.460 There was just a, what is being described as a complex suicide bombing.

00:44:50.980 We don't have any of the details.

00:44:54.260 Please pray.

00:44:55.240 We have a plane full of refugees that is sitting on the tarmac right now.

00:45:02.980 I don't have word if it has taken off yet or not.

00:45:06.480 It had mechanical problems.

00:45:07.940 David, is it still on the tarmac?

00:45:09.460 Do you know?

00:45:09.860 No.

00:45:10.080 As far as we know, still on the tarmac.

00:45:13.240 We 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.

00:45:22.780 I 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.

00:45:38.480 This explosion could change everything when you hear the story of what happened with our 81st Airborne a while ago.

00:45:48.920 So, okay, let's go to Victor Davis Hanson, who is on with us, who is a historian and a really great political conservative thinker.

00:46:04.380 Victor, how are you, sir?

00:46:06.640 Very good.

00:46:07.220 Thank you for having me, Glenn.

00:46:08.160 You bet.

00:46:10.880 I 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.

00:46:25.220 Can you war game this out for us?

00:46:29.580 What does this debacle over the last week in Afghanistan, what is this going to do to America? 0.73

00:46:36.680 Well, there's a lot of, I mean, we have to put it in some kind of historical context, Glenn.

00:46:42.880 The amount of military hardware and equipment that we lost would have, is enough to supply Israel with our current military aid for 35 years.

00:46:53.560 So people don't have any idea.

00:46:56.280 So we've got to keep that in context.

00:46:59.220 I 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.

00:47:14.240 I've never seen a situation where the military pulled out first and left them to fend for themselves.

00:47:22.040 I've never seen a situation where—

00:47:24.240 I've never seen that either, and I cannot think of a reason we would do this.

00:47:29.980 I mean, we have people still on the ground.

00:47:32.080 We have humanitarian efforts still on the ground, and they are pulling out before we are.

00:47:38.240 Why?

00:47:38.680 I 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.

00:47:50.400 And 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.

00:47:56.520 So 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.

00:48:09.160 And I think that's what he's been thinking of.

00:48:11.900 And so it's kind of crazy.

00:48:14.140 But we've never had this situation before either.

00:48:17.780 And then we've never looked at casualties and fatalities in terms of how many people did not suffer.

00:48:25.060 It would be like Lori Lightfoot telling us this weekend, we had 100,000 people in Chicago that weren't shot.

00:48:32.400 Now, that's nice, but it doesn't tell us how many people were shot.

00:48:35.640 So we're told this is how many people got out.

00:48:38.480 This is how many people got out.

00:48:39.660 But they never tell us how many people are left there.

00:48:42.620 And so we have no idea.

00:48:43.620 That's what we're worried about.

00:48:45.300 We like the idea that we're bringing people out.

00:48:47.700 But the key number is how many people are left there?

00:48:51.000 Where are they?

00:48:52.040 How can we get them out?

00:48:53.180 And 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.

00:49:01.920 And 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. 0.80

00:49:13.680 But you can imagine we could have a magnitude of that several times over.

00:49:17.020 So I have talked to people on the ground.

00:49:22.280 I have talked to leaders of ambassadors of other countries.

00:49:29.360 And, you know, last night, Parliament was talking about how they will not do any joint operation with this administration, that they are done.

00:49:42.660 We have betrayed all of our allies.

00:49:45.920 England is still, they're still on the ground.

00:49:48.640 They're not leaving when we're leaving.

00:49:51.100 They're at least staying till the 31st.

00:49:53.780 I don't know why we're pulling out with still days to go before the 31st.

00:50:00.160 I don't either.

00:50:01.340 I don't know why we handed over the most valuable piece of strategic real estate in the Middle East, the Bagram Air Force Base.

00:50:08.260 It was defensible.

00:50:09.980 It 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.

00:50:20.640 We had 100 percent air superiority.

00:50:23.400 So that made no sense.

00:50:25.120 As far as the NATO allies, on a lot of key initiatives, they were starting to bristle before this.

00:50:31.580 And 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. 0.76

00:50:41.160 They were very wary, the Germans particularly, about confronting Vladimir Putin's aggressions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.

00:50:49.540 They were very wary about not getting back into the Iran deal.

00:50:53.500 They wanted to get back in the Iran deal.

00:50:56.040 And so on all these issues that we thought we were going to have a common front, they're all going to start freelancing.

00:51:02.020 And I don't know how you get them back on the same page.

00:51:05.520 And 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.

00:51:19.160 He actually made the alliance stronger, although they might not have liked it publicly.

00:51:22.940 And Biden was supposed to restore this international fervor among all the members.

00:51:28.020 And yet he's almost destroyed it.

00:51:30.000 If you were, I asked Neil Ferguson this the other day, and you both are historians.

00:51:43.580 If we continue on this track, put yourself as a historian 50 years from now, how do you write about this time period?

00:51:53.680 What do you say?

00:51:58.500 It's a cultural suicide. 0.62

00:52:00.960 In other words, if you look at all of the stuff of civilizations that make it thrive and continue, we're all there.

00:52:07.280 We have the top universities in science and math and professional schools in the world by far.

00:52:13.760 We're energy self-sufficient.

00:52:16.000 We're the second largest and most efficient food producer.

00:52:19.120 We have the longest constitutional democracy alive right now.

00:52:24.980 We're the only multiracial democracy that's ever worked in history.

00:52:28.960 So by any standard of assessment, this shouldn't happen.

00:52:34.040 And yet it's happening.

00:52:36.440 And 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.

00:52:48.300 And 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.

00:52:57.380 We've had retired military violate their oath in the uniform corner of military justice not to disparage the commander in chief.

00:53:05.540 They said vicious things about the president in the past.

00:53:08.040 We've got the CIA compromised, the FBI compromised from these years of investigation that they were weaponized.

00:53:15.320 Same thing with the IRS.

00:53:16.800 So we're tearing the country apart in a faction of much more than 1968, more like 1860. 0.76

00:53:25.100 And 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.

00:53:35.380 I'm moving to Utah, Texas, et cetera, where we're getting these vast migrations where we're self-selecting.

00:53:42.840 And if that continues, we're going to have a red country and a blue country.

00:53:49.180 And so it doesn't have to be this way.

00:53:52.320 And 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.

00:54:07.200 And 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.

00:54:24.980 So they're revolutionaries and they have all the institutions of power.

00:54:28.580 They are not outsiders.

00:54:30.440 These are Jacobins like the French revolutionaries. 0.99

00:54:32.580 They have seized control of the things that make America work.

00:54:37.200 So this is what they said back in the 1960s when they went back to analyze, you know, where did they go wrong and what do we need?

00:54:47.500 They realized they needed corporate institutions.

00:54:51.040 They needed to be in the boardrooms.

00:54:52.740 They needed to be in positions of power to be able to complete it.

00:54:56.960 Do they succeed this time?

00:54:59.380 Yeah, they did.

00:55:00.080 They brag about it.

00:55:01.400 They say, well, we're not on the street now.

00:55:03.700 But do they succeed in the end?

00:55:06.980 I mean, are we is this a is this a sealed deal or are there ways to turn this around?

00:55:12.740 I think no, I think people are resisting and I don't think they have a majority.

00:55:16.800 I think you're going to see it a very close California recall.

00:55:20.880 The 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.

00:55:32.380 And I think Newsom may well be gone.

00:55:34.360 A 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.

00:55:42.720 And so I think the midterm elections are going to be a pushback.

00:55:45.400 These special elections are being a pushback.

00:55:47.580 But everybody's got to get galvanized.

00:55:49.540 I think that's why they're so panicky that they're changing the demography at the border.

00:55:53.920 They want to have a national voting law.

00:55:55.760 They'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.

00:56:11.800 So 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.

00:56:20.680 So they want to change these institutions.

00:56:24.360 I can't thank you enough for being on with us.

00:56:28.540 Thank you and keep up the good work.

00:56:31.100 That's Victor Davis Hanson.

00:56:33.580 We have some more breaking news for you.

00:56:36.320 And I believe we are going to talk to somebody at the airport in Kabul here in just about 10 minutes.

00:56:44.060 I hope that's not the case, but I think that's where he's at.

00:56:47.800 I hope he is off the ground.

00:56:50.380 But we will we will see in just a few minutes.

00:56:53.340 Stand by more in a minute.

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00:58:25.440 This is the Glenn Beck program live from the Middle East.

00:58:31.040 Um, I am hundreds of miles away from the Kabul airport and, uh, I know how I feel inside.

00:58:42.320 Um, I cannot imagine being at the airport now.

00:58:47.980 Um, it is, it is, there are three Marines we know, uh, that have been hurt.

00:58:58.600 Uh, we don't know any more than that.

00:59:00.940 It is a suicide bombing.

00:59:03.180 There 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.

00:59:15.940 This is, this, I don't know how this is America.

00:59:19.900 I don't know how, but our administration right now is loading up our airplanes and they are loading up the 82nd Airborne.

00:59:31.900 They are loading them up.

00:59:33.120 And I, I know members of the 82nd Airborne.

00:59:36.400 I know our Marines.

00:59:38.040 There is no way they are happy about this.

00:59:41.440 I cannot wait to tell you a story, but I'm not going to do it until I know our people are off the ground.

00:59:51.980 But you, if you are, if you think you've even been close to angry,

00:59:59.280 wait until, and I'm going to name names.

01:00:02.080 It'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.

01:00:17.300 But I will, I will do everything I can to make sure that that individual is held responsible.

01:00:23.460 Blood is on their hands.

01:00:25.500 I would just ask that you would pray hard for all of the people all over the world.

01:00:41.220 I'm expecting in 90 minutes to get a briefing on something we are needing to change tactics.

01:00:52.540 Last night, I, I, I said to David Barton from Wall Builders, who is here, we're going to talk to him in a few minutes.

01:01:00.760 Um, I said to him earlier, I, I, I think this is why we're here.

01:01:08.920 Um, because we, not coincidentally, I mean, absolute divine providence.

01:01:18.480 We happen to be at the right place at the right time.

01:01:21.460 And somebody who made the cut on coming over on the plane that I honestly wondered, why are we bringing this individual?

01:01:30.800 But it just felt right that he was with us.

01:01:33.920 And he happened to be the key on something rather massive.

01:01:39.520 Uh, and there is divine providence.

01:01:41.860 God is involved in all of this, but I am telling you right now, so is Satan.

01:01:47.680 Evil is powerful right now.

01:01:51.100 And 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.

01:02:12.640 If we don't soften our hearts and turn ourselves back to God and plead for his forgiveness.

01:02:20.560 We are still responsible for what our government is doing because we elected this government.

01:02:29.100 We chose this evil.

01:02:31.620 And we must beg for forgiveness and then do everything we can to be good and worthy of blessings because we are going to need them.

01:02:45.440 Please pray for peace.

01:02:47.840 Pray that your heart is softened and pray for a shield against evil.

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01:04:13.820 We'll have all the breaking details coming up next.

01:04:28.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program live from the Middle East.

01:04:31.280 I'm going to take you directly to Kabul, the airport now, where our good friend and the founder of Mighty Oaks is on the ground.

01:04:41.840 Hello, Chad.

01:04:42.420 How are you?

01:04:44.720 Good, Glenn.

01:04:45.460 How are you?

01:04:47.220 Good.

01:04:48.360 You're still at the airport in Kabul?

01:04:52.520 Actually, I'm out.

01:04:54.740 I'm in the same neighborhood you are.

01:04:56.340 You are out.

01:04:58.000 Okay.

01:04:58.480 So, yeah, we still have two of our guys there.

01:05:03.440 And what about the airplane that was full of people?

01:05:09.160 I don't want to tell that story.

01:05:10.340 That's your story to tell if you're ready to tell that.

01:05:14.360 I'm just worried about those people.

01:05:17.380 Yeah.

01:05:18.300 Man, I wish I could.

01:05:19.920 It wasn't an airplane.

01:05:20.620 It was buses.

01:05:21.920 And I wish I could say it right now, but we have to get our guys off the ground first.

01:05:27.380 That's fine.

01:05:28.180 That's fine.

01:05:28.980 That's fine.

01:05:31.320 So, tell us what you know, Chad.

01:05:34.660 Tell us what the situation is like.

01:05:37.500 You were there earlier, I know.

01:05:40.280 You 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.

01:05:50.960 And 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.

01:05:58.340 I 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.

01:06:07.280 And I got just so emotional because, you know, we've been working hard so hard all week.

01:06:12.840 You 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.

01:06:20.900 They have hope.

01:06:21.460 And, 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.

01:06:30.780 So 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.

01:06:46.560 I 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.

01:07:06.020 And, 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. 0.77

01:07:22.860 And, 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.

01:07:44.060 I 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.

01:08:14.060 The 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,

01:08:44.060 your 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.

01:08:59.560 I, 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.

01:09:27.980 But 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.

01:09:47.520 And they are moving heaven and earth. And because of our State Department, their hands were tied.

01:09:58.380 Yeah, 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.

01:10:10.920 I 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.

01:10:27.160 They 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.

01:10:40.920 I 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.

01:10:59.860 And, 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?

01:11:23.460 Well, 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.

01:11:42.640 So the state department took over the NEO and, and the NEO, the non-combatant evacuation operation, which is a DOD function.

01:11:49.440 Uh, 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.

01:12:02.800 The 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.

01:12:16.020 So, 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.

01:12:35.380 But, 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?

01:12:50.280 You'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.

01:12:58.460 I 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.

01:13:09.220 They 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.

01:13:24.120 That'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.

01:13:44.200 They 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.

01:13:57.920 And America always great is that America does what's at the end of the day, America, you know, does what's right.

01:14:04.620 It's right. And, uh, and, uh, how, how many Americans do you think are going to be left behind? I, I, I got word.

01:14:12.820 I 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?

01:14:26.140 Well, 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.

01:14:39.200 You 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.

01:14:49.620 And, 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.

01:14:56.380 So the state department really didn't have any idea, but between 10 and 20,000 were going to be left there.

01:15:01.640 And 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.

01:15:16.840 I wouldn't be surprised to wake up tomorrow morning and they're gone.

01:15:20.920 Uh, 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.

01:15:31.640 Um, yeah, we, we hear that, uh, things are, uh, advancing rapidly, uh, and they're pulling the troops out right now.

01:15:40.460 Um, 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.

01:15:50.980 It appears, it appears they're leaving. Now, if they stay to 31st, just to say they did, you know, uh, they may do that.

01:15:58.800 And 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.

01:16:09.000 You 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.

01:16:20.820 I 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. 0.71

01:16:30.900 You, 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.

01:16:46.700 Um, did that, as that, are those people safe?

01:16:51.440 Those women and children? 1.00

01:16:52.520 Uh, there, there was women and children on, on, uh, that we were going to pick up that flight. 0.82

01:16:57.640 Those, those are safe.

01:16:58.880 Yes.

01:17:00.060 Thank God.

01:17:00.720 And, and, you know, and, and look, we, you and I talked about this.

01:17:05.300 Everyone was just trying to do the right thing at a thousand miles an hour.

01:17:08.260 No, I know.

01:17:08.800 And, uh, no, I know.

01:17:09.900 And, uh, it's a good thing.

01:17:11.360 So, 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.

01:17:25.580 Thank God they're out.

01:17:26.960 Um, yeah, that was, that was a CSS story.

01:17:30.400 So I don't know where they are, but I know, I know they, those people didn't get put back out the fence.

01:17:36.480 Okay.

01:17:36.960 Um, let us know, Chad, when, uh, when we can, uh, uh, help expose what's going on.

01:17:45.640 Um, because, uh, I, I, I know the story that you have to tell, uh, and it, it will horrify Americans.

01:17:54.460 It will truly, truly horrify Americans.

01:17:58.200 So, um, thanks for everything that you're doing.

01:18:01.600 I'm watching my phone.

01:18:02.640 I'm watching my phone for the wheels to go up in that plane.

01:18:04.800 And as soon as I do, I'll text you.

01:18:05.920 Okay.

01:18:07.360 Thank you, Chad Robichaux.

01:18:09.360 Uh, I, I can't thank him enough.

01:18:12.660 You should pray for him and, uh, the mighty Oaks foundation.

01:18:16.320 It is an amazing group of people who are doing incredible things, uh, here on the ground.

01:18:22.960 Thank you so much, Chad.

01:18:25.060 Back in a minute.

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01:19:57.320 What this, I'm live in the Middle East, and I guess what I'm feeling, I have felt before.

01:20:08.140 And that is when I first started recovery.

01:20:14.880 When you stop drinking and you realize you have to just face the truth of what you've allowed yourself to become.

01:20:22.140 It doesn't mean that's who you are.

01:20:24.600 It's who you've allowed yourself to become.

01:20:28.380 And honor and integrity and the truth are really the only thing that matter in life.

01:20:37.140 Without it, you have nothing.

01:20:38.440 And the truth is pretty ugly here.

01:20:44.400 And it is, it's, you're not able to blame it on anybody but the United States.

01:20:51.180 What we are currently doing to the people in Afghanistan is a horror show. 1.00

01:20:59.820 And I am so grateful for the hope that you have provided them and the hope that you provide me.

01:21:09.900 Please keep all of our team that's on the ground in harm's way and all of the people in Afghanistan in your prayers.

01:21:17.480 More from the Middle East in a minute.

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01:22:00.460 Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:04.680 I want to start with some good news.

01:22:09.260 And I'm also...

01:22:10.860 I guess part of that good news is we have Tom Cotton on who can tell us the truth of what he knows is going on.

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01:22:24.000 I had one of the most bizarre experiences of my life just before this opening monologue here out in the hallway.

01:22:35.880 And I want to explain it to you and share some news with you.

01:22:40.560 Coming up in 60 seconds.

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01:24:04.860 Welcome to the program.

01:24:08.440 I'm going to finish this story in a minute, but I will tell you that I, in between breaks, I went out into the hallway.

01:24:15.720 And we have been working on something for the last 24 hours because the receiving airports are full.

01:24:27.240 And our State Department is blocking these people from leaving.

01:24:31.260 And through divine providence, which I will tell you in a little while, we happen to be traveling with somebody who had an answer.

01:24:40.420 And he has been working for 24 hours, and that answer is about to come through.

01:24:44.640 But we were talking about the cost of this, and it's going to cost about $2 million for 1,000 people.

01:25:04.120 And everybody looked at me, and I said, gosh, I can't believe we're negotiating for people.

01:25:16.300 But, gee, I think $2 million is probably a good price for 1,000 people.

01:25:23.740 But it is bizarre what is going on right now, and our country is on the wrong side.

01:25:31.900 For the first time in my life, I am ashamed, truly ashamed, morally ashamed of our country.

01:25:43.580 Senator Tom Cotton joins us now, and I'm guessing he feels somewhat the same way about what is happening.

01:25:52.120 Senator, how are you, sir? Thanks for joining us.

01:25:55.380 Glenn, it's good to be back on with you, but under very difficult circumstances, of course.

01:26:00.100 What's happened in Afghanistan over the last couple weeks is sad.

01:26:04.640 It's tragic. It is shameful, disgraceful, humiliating, embarrassing.

01:26:08.900 And maybe worst of all, Glenn, it wasn't predictable.

01:26:12.140 It was predicted.

01:26:12.940 Many 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,

01:26:26.500 or I'm sorry, that the Afghan army had, for instance, with Western contractors to keep their Air Force flying,

01:26:32.940 we'd be pulling the rug out from underneath them.

01:26:34.600 And you're starting to see some reports come out in the media that says that it was predicted directly to Joe Biden,

01:26:39.960 no matter what he's been saying to the American people, that this would be the fate that we face right now.

01:26:47.120 Senator, you know, there are bad decisions,

01:26:50.920 but this is a pattern here now.

01:26:57.440 It's not just a pattern because of what he has done before.

01:27:00.940 I mean a pattern here.

01:27:03.500 There is a doubling down of everything.

01:27:06.540 There is a refusal to see what is going on,

01:27:10.480 which makes me wonder if, A, the president is mentally competent, and that's being kind,

01:27:18.120 or there is something else at play here,

01:27:20.600 because there's not an ally that is with us.

01:27:23.860 There is not a sane individual, left, right, center.

01:27:28.060 It doesn't matter.

01:27:29.220 Politics all aside.

01:27:31.540 We are, we are, there's blood all over our hands on this.

01:27:37.900 And I can't figure out why.

01:27:41.260 Why is this happening?

01:27:44.560 Why is he doing this?

01:27:46.320 So, Glenn, I mean, the pattern, I would say it goes back now, 50 years.

01:27:50.460 Remember, Bob Gates famously said of Joe Biden when they both served in the Obama administration

01:27:56.460 that he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security decision of his lifetime.

01:28:04.980 It was 40 years when Secretary Gates wrote that.

01:28:07.480 It's 50 years now.

01:28:08.560 The difference is for most of those 50 years,

01:28:11.100 it didn't matter too much because he was a senator and then a vice president.

01:28:15.120 He wasn't in charge.

01:28:16.160 But he is in charge now.

01:28:19.020 And you see in catastrophic relief the consequences of his terrible judgment.

01:28:27.380 Now, I think his attitude over the last two weeks does also reflect something of Joe Biden's character.

01:28:36.380 Kind of like the, anytime he's challenged, he defaults to this wise guy attitude of mocking the media.

01:28:43.500 Now, I understand that he's not used to being challenged by the media,

01:28:46.240 but they finally have started to press him on his numerous falsehoods and press those people around him.

01:28:54.560 And you can tell that he gets under his skin and he gets spiteful and prideful and bitter.

01:28:59.680 And he just digs in his heels even more,

01:29:01.840 even though the circumstances on the ground are obviously deteriorating.

01:29:07.500 And they have been for some time.

01:29:11.060 Well, that's what I can't figure out.

01:29:13.140 Is anyone telling him the truth of what's going on?

01:29:18.640 Or is the Pentagon for this?

01:29:20.660 Is there anyone that is standing up in his council that is saying,

01:29:28.760 Mr. President, A, I understand you already made the decision,

01:29:34.780 but now the entire world is not standing with us and people are going to die.

01:29:41.780 There are Americans that you are leaving behind.

01:29:46.420 Is anyone saying that to him?

01:29:49.220 Glenn, all of his speeches on the question have been dangerously detached from reality now for a couple weeks.

01:29:56.480 Just as frankly that speech in early July was when he said there'd be no Saigon moment,

01:30:00.900 we wouldn't have a collapse of the government.

01:30:03.820 I think it's pretty clear based on the news report that both the Department of Defense

01:30:08.720 and our intelligence agencies were sounding those alarms to President Biden.

01:30:14.260 But another thing about which I want to remind your listeners that Bob Gates said

01:30:19.080 is that Joe Biden has a very mistrustful relationship with senior military leaders.

01:30:23.560 You know, even Barack Obama has said in his own memoirs that Joe Biden,

01:30:28.440 as vice president, constantly cautioned then-President Obama about listening to the senior military leaders at the Pentagon

01:30:37.080 about how they were going to try to box him in, how they try to direct policy, not implement his policy.

01:30:43.080 And I think you see the consequences of that, of President Biden's attitude now,

01:30:46.660 is that despite the warnings from senior leaders, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies,

01:30:52.400 he plowed straight ahead.

01:30:53.960 So I think, Glenn, the real question then becomes,

01:30:57.080 are those closest to him in the White House, in his inner circle,

01:31:01.960 speaking the truth to him?

01:31:03.860 Are they conveying the genuine news?

01:31:06.040 And I have questions that they are based on those speeches he's given.

01:31:08.740 And also, Glenn, I have to say, I think some of them view this as just kind of a bad, you know, news day.

01:31:16.940 You know, like in a campaign, you send Joe Biden out to a radio interview in a campaign last year,

01:31:21.060 and he makes a gap, and you've got a couple days of bad headlines.

01:31:24.260 But pretty soon things move on.

01:31:26.360 And they're treating this fiasco in Afghanistan like it's just a bad headline from a campaign.

01:31:31.980 And they want to just turn the page and get back to their reckless three and a half trillion dollar budget.

01:31:35.960 But it's not just a bad headline whenever you've got hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans trapped behind enemy lines.

01:31:42.860 It's reality.

01:31:44.620 And those Americans are going to be stuck there after Tuesday to say nothing of the green card holders 1.00

01:31:50.060 that we can't get into the country and those Afghans who served alongside us 0.81

01:31:55.220 and who have been vetted and approved for a special immigrant visa.

01:31:58.140 They're all going to be stranded.

01:31:59.220 The word is here, I'm in the Middle East, and the word is here that there are 1,800 that worked for the embassy

01:32:10.980 that have special visas, want to get out, and have no chance of getting out now.

01:32:17.580 We're leaving them behind.

01:32:19.500 It's reprehensible.

01:32:21.520 Yeah, I mean, it is reprehensible.

01:32:24.480 It's appalling. 0.99

01:32:25.300 It's also strategically foolish. 0.82

01:32:28.240 Imagine the challenges we'll have for years to come if we ever need local support in a hotspot around the world.

01:32:36.920 This is one reason why great and respected countries keep their word,

01:32:43.500 which Joe Biden now has broken flagrantly and in a way that will reverberate for years to come.

01:32:51.380 So is, I mean, is there, there's no way to, there's no way to stop this?

01:32:59.240 There's not an appetite in Congress to, and I don't mean from the Republicans, I mean from the Democrats.

01:33:07.560 Is there not enough people in Congress and in the Senate to stand up and be a check

01:33:15.100 and a balance on this reckless, dangerous behavior?

01:33:21.980 Well, Glenn, I think what you've seen from the Democrats is a deafening silence.

01:33:26.960 A very, very few number of Democrats, oftentimes veterans themselves,

01:33:32.340 maybe serving on the armed services or in the intelligence committee,

01:33:35.620 have suggested that we need to, at a minimum,

01:33:37.840 stay as long as it takes to get out all of the Americans who are in Afghanistan. 0.72

01:33:42.860 But most Democrats just don't want to talk about it at all.

01:33:45.500 As you saw with Nancy Pelosi, she just wanted to talk about their reckless three and a half trillion dollar budget.

01:33:50.140 They want, they're like President Biden's flip blades.

01:33:52.480 They just want to keep their head down, grit and bear it like it's a bad news cycle on a campaign,

01:33:58.620 and then turn the page.

01:34:00.100 Hopefully after next Tuesday, it's all going to be out of the headlines and the media will move on.

01:34:04.660 It's going to be worse.

01:34:05.640 I don't see how, how are we going to move on if we have hundreds or even thousands of Americans

01:34:09.980 who are stranded in Afghanistan when the Taliban at that point control not just all the border crossings,

01:34:14.800 but all the airports in the country.

01:34:16.740 And this is, I mean, the only hope, and I say this with just callous disregard to humanity,

01:34:26.140 but the only hope is that there will be no press there to report it.

01:34:31.860 But so far, the Taliban still has Twitter, still has Facebook, 0.98

01:34:37.700 and I don't think they're going to be shy in showing some of it.

01:34:42.240 Yeah.

01:34:42.500 Maybe then they'll violate the Twitter standards.

01:34:45.100 Well, I mean, that is a big difference between, one of the big differences between where we are now

01:34:53.160 and where the Taliban was 20 years ago before 9-11 is social media didn't really exist back then.

01:35:00.520 And as we've seen with ISIS over the years, ISIS is very aggressive in their use of social media

01:35:06.420 for propaganda purposes and recruiting and training.

01:35:09.180 And I suspect that'll be the same, that'll be true of the Taliban as well. 0.52

01:35:12.200 So, quickly, one last question.

01:35:15.660 I know you've got to run. 0.75

01:35:17.420 Thank you, A, for kicking some butt with the State Department.

01:35:22.560 But can you give me an update on the State Department?

01:35:25.600 We, last night, had an ambassador called in, I think it's Macedonia.

01:35:31.280 They closed off.

01:35:33.040 We were looking for places where we can fly people in just to hold them.

01:35:38.700 And Macedonia was one of them. 0.98

01:35:40.500 And our ambassador, or the ambassador of Macedonia, was called by the State Department

01:35:46.660 and told not to take any of these people.

01:35:51.020 What the hell?

01:35:51.900 Yeah, I had heard that specific report, Glenn, but I've heard similar reports.

01:35:56.180 I know that our people on the ground inside the airport,

01:35:59.060 both Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and our State Department officials,

01:36:03.720 are trying to move heaven and earth to get people into the airport and out of the country.

01:36:07.940 But the senior leadership at the State Department is a different kettle of fish.

01:36:12.000 I heard a story just this morning that we weren't even allowing British nationals to get inside the airport

01:36:18.600 with their Afghan partners and fly to Great Britain at private expense.

01:36:23.860 So, again, this wouldn't even have an impact on the American government or taxpayer.

01:36:28.040 And it's not a country that people have never heard of.

01:36:30.300 It's Great Britain.

01:36:30.880 And I'm very disturbed by these reports, and I'm trying to get answers on all of them.

01:36:34.720 At a minimum, we should be allowing countries that are willing to accept Afghans 1.00

01:36:38.120 or willing to send charter or charity flights into Kabul to do that to clean up some of President Biden's myths.

01:36:43.760 Yes. Yes. Yes. You don't want to do it.

01:36:48.080 Fine. We'll do it. We'll do it.

01:36:51.080 But they won't even—I mean, they are obstructing us every step of the way.

01:36:56.720 And I don't know if it's out of spite, ignorance.

01:37:00.680 I have no idea. I don't care.

01:37:02.700 But it should stop now.

01:37:04.620 Yeah. No, Glenn, I definitely—I hear you, and I agree with you.

01:37:10.680 And I'm just worried that they're about to roll up stakes in the next 24, 48 hours.

01:37:14.740 I mean, if Joe Biden's hell-bent to have every last troop out of the airports on Tuesday, August 31,

01:37:22.360 well, they're not going to be flying mass evacuation charters out, you know, through Tuesday afternoon.

01:37:26.580 They've got to start getting our troops out as well.

01:37:29.720 Well, we will for as long as we possibly can.

01:37:32.480 Senator, thank you so much.

01:37:35.140 Thanks for your service to the country here in Afghanistan.

01:37:39.340 And thank you.

01:37:41.160 Thank you for your service in the Senate as well.

01:37:44.120 God bless.

01:37:44.660 Thank you, Glenn.

01:37:45.980 You bet.

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01:39:28.600 Welcome back to the program.

01:39:30.900 Glenn is in the Middle East.

01:39:33.640 We're going to connect with him here in just a moment.

01:39:37.120 The details coming out of Kabul and the airport are horrifying to say the least.

01:39:42.720 Some of the footage that is on social media now is still yet to be confirmed, but is.

01:39:51.120 I mean, to say it's gruesome and disturbing would be to undersell it dramatically.

01:39:58.320 There are, you know, legitimately piles of people all over the place around where this bombing occurred.

01:40:06.920 The U.S. is now confirming U.S. and civilian casualties.

01:40:12.660 We don't know what that means yet.

01:40:15.040 We don't know.

01:40:16.800 We've seen reports of at least four U.S. Marines that were at least injured or maybe killed.

01:40:22.800 The reporting from the ground is saying this is it, that they're not going to do anything else.

01:40:33.400 No more people are going to be let in.

01:40:36.180 They're just going.

01:40:37.880 The August 31st thing looks like it may be off.

01:40:40.760 This may just be us leaving as soon as we can get people off of the base.

01:40:45.420 This is it.

01:40:48.080 They're saying no more planes to take off.

01:40:53.260 So this is Glenn, are you back with us or not?

01:40:56.720 I can't.

01:40:57.580 No.

01:40:58.240 OK, I was told he was.

01:40:59.400 But we're kind of trying to reconnect with him in the Middle East.

01:41:03.820 This 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.

01:41:26.040 And look at this catastrophe as they try to have people around the airport and and it's a mess and all of this.

01:41:32.620 And as we said over and over again, that discussion was a discussion about the best case scenario.

01:41:40.680 The 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.

01:41:50.180 And 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. 0.92

01:42:00.260 What we're seeing now is.

01:42:04.800 Approaching more of the worst case scenario.

01:42:08.160 Where.

01:42:09.880 Someone we don't know who the they're talking, they're trying to blame this new ISIS K, I guess a new variant for the attack. 0.60

01:42:17.940 Taliban is claiming that they've had their own people killed in the attack.

01:42:22.920 We'll see what how that plays out.

01:42:25.220 But this could get much, much worse and is getting much, much worse.

01:42:32.360 We're going to have Glenn back from the Middle East here in just a moment.

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01:42:59.860 This is the Glenn Beck program.

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01:44:26.480 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:44:31.000 I'm glad you're here today.

01:44:33.900 There's a lot going on.

01:44:35.440 David Barton from Wall Builders and also on the Board of Directors of the Nazarene Fund has been traveling with us.

01:44:45.000 And we have seen and heard an awful lot, some of which we can't tell you yet.

01:44:53.900 Some of it good, some of it bad.

01:44:56.840 But first, let's start with the good.

01:45:01.000 We have 5,100 people out now.

01:45:08.880 So 5,000 people have been saved.

01:45:12.860 It's my understanding there is one more plane on the tarmac that is ready to go.

01:45:18.620 There were others that we will tell you the story about later when we are able to.

01:45:23.700 But 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.

01:45:44.700 One of the countries.

01:45:45.840 And all of the countries had reached their cap.

01:45:49.460 And 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.

01:45:58.240 And so everything.

01:46:01.460 And can I add, too, that the State Department had vetted all these people.

01:46:04.840 They were all on a list.

01:46:06.240 They're on the State Department list.

01:46:08.080 The people who got on the plane are on that list.

01:46:10.560 They're in the air.

01:46:11.500 They're going to the country. 0.93

01:46:12.600 And the State Department calls the country and says, we won't vouch for the people on the plane.

01:46:16.940 They're on your list.

01:46:17.920 That's how they got there.

01:46:18.780 And the State Department will not follow through.

01:46:21.680 So we've had planes turn around in the air and come back.

01:46:24.280 Or 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.

01:46:33.320 And yet you can't even get on the plane if you hadn't been through the State Department.

01:46:36.340 And so now these host countries that have been taking them out of Kabul, they're supposed to go to Kabul.

01:46:43.820 And then we verify that is who you are, yada, yada.

01:46:48.260 We've already done that in Kabul, but then we do it again.

01:46:52.680 And we make sure that everybody is who they say they are.

01:46:55.580 And then they go to the next country.

01:46:57.960 Well, the State Department was blocking us from getting people out of Kabul.

01:47:02.620 Then they are blocking us from getting people out of these airports.

01:47:07.200 And these airports are overrun and they can't take anymore through divine providence.

01:47:13.980 And I'm not going to give you any details until it's done.

01:47:16.540 But this is literally, David, a God thing.

01:47:19.960 Would you agree?

01:47:20.540 Yeah, it is a God thing.

01:47:22.380 People talk about God fingerprints.

01:47:24.100 This is a handprint.

01:47:25.060 This is not a fingerprint.

01:47:26.500 We're traveling with somebody.

01:47:27.740 We brought somebody with us who at the last minute said, hey, can I jump on the plane with you guys?

01:47:32.380 And we said yes.

01:47:33.360 And we kind of all thought he's a really good guy to have and he kind of knows a little bit of everybody.

01:47:42.920 And we thought it'll be great to have him, but didn't really have a job for him.

01:47:47.780 And then last night, as we're talking, he said, I think I can get countries to open up.

01:47:59.240 And two countries in particular, and we just got word.

01:48:04.260 David, is it an official word?

01:48:06.520 It's not official enough to say the country.

01:48:08.560 Okay.

01:48:09.420 But it's official.

01:48:11.560 It's going to happen.

01:48:12.460 We're just not going to say it right now.

01:48:13.880 Right, 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.

01:48:21.920 But 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,

01:48:33.480 which would then open up all of these countries to take more if anyone can get any more planes off the ground.

01:48:41.960 So we could take another 5,000 people out if there's support.

01:48:48.560 We'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.

01:48:59.020 Well, it even looks like that because Kabul is really under American control that they're not even letting the British and others go out.

01:49:06.600 So even our allies are able to get their private planes out of there.

01:49:11.100 So the State Department really has shut down the flow.

01:49:13.600 You 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. 0.99

01:49:20.880 But at this point, it doesn't look like the State Department's going to let us or our allies take any more out.

01:49:26.440 So that's the situation here.

01:49:32.620 I know David has been – you've been tracking a lot of stuff.

01:49:38.540 We're at the end of our day here.

01:49:41.540 It's dark here, and people are starting to come home, have dinner, and then go to bed soon.

01:49:48.480 Your reflections on the day here?

01:49:50.680 It's torn emotions because, on the one hand, I know our military.

01:49:57.740 I've got two kids in Army right now on deployments, different places, and service, different placements.

01:50:04.680 And I know that if we untied the hands of the military, we're not having any of this trouble at Kabul.

01:50:10.520 At all.

01:50:11.080 There's none of it.

01:50:12.220 None of it.

01:50:13.040 And I know the military capabilities, and my frustration is we don't have to have this going on.

01:50:18.280 We didn't have to have that bomb going off.

01:50:19.860 We could have had a wide perimeter, way out.

01:50:22.500 None of this would be a problem.

01:50:23.940 ISIS-K would not be in Afghanistan.

01:50:30.260 They wouldn't have dared lift their head.

01:50:33.120 Yeah, this would be a non-story, but at the same time, the military can't do that.

01:50:39.300 And 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.

01:50:49.140 Because we cannot have a coup this way.

01:50:51.060 If 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?

01:50:59.200 And 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.

01:51:11.120 That will prevent us from ever becoming a third world country having a coup.

01:51:14.140 As a historian, David, can you think of a time in American history like this?

01:51:23.160 Wow.

01:51:24.180 No.

01:51:26.060 What makes it unique?

01:51:27.480 There 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.

01:51:36.900 And even when I disagreed with them politically, they were very good about trying to maintain our strength and our reputation internationally.

01:51:46.380 I 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, 1.00

01:51:51.560 and that's where politicians manage the war, not the military guys.

01:51:54.520 Oh, wait, is that what's happening here?

01:51:56.880 Politicians managing the war, not the military guys.

01:52:01.060 But 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.

01:52:07.420 So that's the closest I can come.

01:52:09.560 You 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.

01:52:17.900 There's been places where that, like with Teddy Roosevelt, Americans were taken captive in Cuba, and we just went in and crushed it.

01:52:25.300 That was just not going to happen.

01:52:26.460 You're not going to hold Americans. 1.00

01:52:28.000 So it's really hard to think of anything, really, that is close to what's happening here.

01:52:32.980 With 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.

01:52:42.340 Yeah, and I don't mind that we're embarrassed or humiliated.

01:52:46.560 I'm ashamed that we are lying, and we're lying to ourself, and we're betraying our allies and the people.

01:52:58.280 I mean, we are really, truly, easily on the wrong side here.

01:53:03.140 Yeah, and this is one of the things that history tends to get right over time.

01:53:07.280 And, 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.

01:53:16.060 I 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.

01:53:23.060 So at some point, that's going to come out, just as it did in Vietnam. 0.99

01:53:26.460 The media did a really bad job there.

01:53:28.680 In retrospect, we have a lot more knowledge of what happened than what the media told us, and that will happen here eventually.

01:53:34.380 It just takes a while to get there.

01:53:35.700 David Barton from WallBuilders and from the Nazarene Fund, thanks for everything.

01:53:42.200 I want to tell you a story, and it's just a story.

01:53:49.160 It's just a story.

01:53:52.320 But, you know, it's weird how sometimes stories turn out to be, you know, very close to real life.

01:54:00.600 I'm not saying that about this story.

01:54:02.320 But, 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.

01:54:26.320 into Europe and the Afghani leadership didn't want that.

01:54:32.560 They didn't they didn't want their their reserves to be exploited like that.

01:54:40.120 And and and this country had gone to other countries and the other countries were were for it.

01:54:48.640 But then there was this this horrible change of of policy and new people became in charge.

01:54:59.460 And and and their payment for doing a deal was military equipment and and making sure that that nobody bothered them anymore.

01:55:13.460 Anyway, that's just a crazy, crazy, crazy story.

01:55:20.080 By the way, there is a company that does want to build that pipeline.

01:55:24.060 That's not fantasy.

01:55:27.280 The rest of it is completely made up.

01:55:29.940 But that that that you know, it's weird.

01:55:32.540 Is that company?

01:55:33.460 Is named Burisma.

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01:56:55.160 So two bombs at least have gone out off near the Kabul airport.

01:57:10.840 We know from our State Department there were U.S. casualties and civilian casualties.

01:57:16.320 We don't know all of the numbers.

01:57:17.880 Some of the reporting is saying at least four U.S. servicemen have been wounded or killed.

01:57:26.340 The Taliban is saying at least 13 people have been killed.

01:57:31.240 Although 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.

01:57:39.820 There are piles of people all over the place and this is a worsening journey into the worst case scenario.

01:57:54.700 I will remind you that two days ago, Jen Psaki told us that she wouldn't call the evacuation anything but a success.

01:58:06.380 Two 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.

01:58:26.940 And 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.

01:58:40.080 People on MSNBC did it.

01:58:42.180 People all over the media did it.

01:58:47.700 They wanted their props for Afghanistan.

01:58:50.080 Well, I hope they get them because they deserve all of the credit for what is occurring there right now.

01:58:58.740 This is theirs.

01:59:02.660 Joe Biden said that any attack on our forces would be met with swift and forceful response.

01:59:12.160 So far, no sign of anything swift or forceful from this administration.

01:59:17.320 The exact opposite. 0.98

01:59:20.340 The ending of an ongoing, pathetic march to failure. 0.95

01:59:30.280 It's incredible to watch it occur in real time. 0.94

01:59:33.420 This is the United States of America we're talking about.

01:59:36.220 This is our country.

01:59:37.820 And this is the face they are putting on it.

01:59:40.300 My 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.

01:59:58.100 Seems to be the decision was made quite a long time ago that we were going to hand the country back to the Taliban eventually. 0.80

02:00:04.500 But could we at least have evacuated our people before we did it?

02:00:10.040 Apparently, the answer to that is no.

02:00:11.620 As you may know, we had plenty of places for airplanes to take off in this country not very long ago.

02:00:20.020 But we gave them all up before we evacuated our people.

02:00:24.160 Now, 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.

02:00:41.360 We are not even going to make it to the deadline the Taliban set for us.

02:00:50.260 We are going to evacuate people as fast as possible.

02:00:53.980 And the quote from a source inside the military was that it is increasingly likely that, yes, thousands of Americans will be left behind.

02:01:05.700 It's hard to overstate.

02:01:15.060 The whole day, the whole freaking day is hard to overstate.

02:01:19.420 Just a terrible day in U.S. history.

02:01:23.980 We'll have more on it tonight.

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 26, 2021

America’s on the Wrong Side ｜ Guests： Lara Logan & Sen. Cotton ｜ 8⧸26⧸21

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