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On this episode of the podcast, we talk about the latest in Afghanistan, a judge rules that Joe Biden's border patrol is illegal, and the new mayor of Kunduz, Afghanistan. We also take a look at the batting average of Joe Biden.
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Hello, America. Today on the podcast, I think a really good one, very emotional from many people
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on Afghanistan, the people that actually served. We bring you up to speed on all of it. We also
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take a look at the batting average of Joe Biden. Not so good. No, no, not so good. Opposite of good.
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And we bring some good news. I met with the attorney generals, the GOP attorney generals,
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22 of them yesterday up at a meeting that they have once a year. And boy, I was really bolstered
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by the attitude and the way they interpret their jobs. So we brought some good news. I had Eric
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Schmidt, who is the attorney general from Missouri. He's the guy that just got a judge to say what
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Joe Biden did on the border is illegal and it must be turned back to the Trump policies.
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And it looks like it's such a strong ruling that it it won't go very far when the Biden administration
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takes it back up and tries to get it to go to the Supreme Court. It's a very strong ruling. So
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that's one for the good guys on a pretty dark day. Here's the podcast.
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Hey, the Taliban had a press conference yesterday at the presidential palace and they did this
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cut five. They were singing the Quran, which is beautiful and lovely. And I love this particular
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tune. You know who didn't have a press conference? The White House. You know who didn't or wasn't seen
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in public? Joe Biden? Where's Joe Biden? Why is he not speaking out? Where was he?
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As the masses try to flee from Kabul, prisoners have been released. Only 5,000 prisoners were released.
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This is the video of it in the audio. 5,000 prisoners, some of them al-Qaeda, some of them Taliban,
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and they were just released probably because of COVID. I think the Taliban is concerned with the
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spread of COVID in the prisons and wanted to find, you know, some way to deal with it. And they looked
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to Bill de Blasio and Gavin Newsom, and they decided just to open up the prisons because of COVID. I'm sure
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nothing will go wrong there. Meanwhile, the worst is happening. I want to give you a story from
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the New York Times. Now, listen to how this story, you've seen the pictures. You know what's going on.
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Listen to this. It was his first day as the Taliban-appointed mayor of Kunduz. His name is
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Gol Mohamed Elias. He was on a charm offensive. Last Sunday, the insurgents seized control of the city
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in northern Afghanistan, which is in shambles after weeks of fighting. Power lines were down,
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water supply, powered by generators, didn't reach most residents. Trash and rubble littered the
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streets. The civil servants who could fix these problems were hiding at home, terrified of the
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Taliban's return. So the insurgent commander turned mayor summoned some to his new office and persuaded
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them to return to work. He said, quote, our jihad is not with you in the municipality. Our jihad is
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against the occupiers and those who defend the occupiers, Mr. Elias told the New York Times by
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telephone. But day by day, as municipal offices stayed mostly empty, Mr. Elias grew more frustrated
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and his rhetoric grew a little harsher. Taliban fighters began going door to door, searching for
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absentee civil workers. Hundreds of armed men set up checkpoints across the city. At the entrance to
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the regional hospital, a new notice appeared on the wall. Employees must return to work or face punishment
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from the Taliban. Just a week after the fall of the city, the first in a series of cities that the
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Taliban seized with breathtaking speed. The insurgents are now in effective control of all of
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Afghanistan, and they now must function as administrators that can provide basic services
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to hundreds of thousands of people. And the experience of those in Kunduz offers a glimpse of
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how the Taliban may govern and what may be in store for the rest of the country. In just days,
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the insurgents frustrated with their failed efforts to cajole civilian civil servants back into work
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began instilling a little terror, according to the residents reached by telephone. I'm afraid because
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I don't know what will happen next or what they will do, said one who asked not to be identified for
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fear of retaliation by the Taliban. Three days after the Taliban took control of Kunduz, the civil
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a civil servant received a call from an insurgent fighter telling him to go to his office. The
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mayor of Kunduz wanted to speak with him. The mayor invited Mr. Omar Hill, who had been staying home
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since the retreat of the government forces as insurgents flooded into the streets and a sense of
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unease gripped the battered city. He had experienced a similar moment twice before when the Taliban briefly
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in 2015 and 2016 seized the city. Both times the insurgents were pushed back with the help of
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American airstrikes. But this time, days after the Taliban took control, the entire Afghan army corps
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charged with reclaiming the city surrendered to the insurgents. They handed over all their weapons and
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vehicles in a stark sign that they would not be rescued. When he arrived at the municipal office to
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speak to the new mayor, the sprawling compound looked eerily untouched by war. But the New York
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Times writes, inside the building, he joined eight municipal employees and Mr. Elias, you know,
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the new mayor. He introduced himself as the new mayor. A young man with a long beard, Mr. Elias assured
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them that they would not be targeted by the Taliban and instructed them to return to work to improve
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people's lives and morale. Sharing his mobile number, he told them, call if you have any trouble with the
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Taliban fighters. We've captured the city and now we can assure the people that we will provide the
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basic services. The mayor was quoted in another phone interview. Halfway through the meeting, a shopkeeper
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pleaded with the Taliban bodyguard to see the mayor. Like hundreds of others, his kiosk had been mostly
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destroyed by fire during the Taliban's final push. He said shopkeepers fearing for what remained of
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their stores that they would be looted, wanted the Taliban's promise that they could return to the
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market to collect their things safely. The mayor complied. He even provided reimbursement for the
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taxi and bus fare that they spent on moving their goods. For the rest of the day, the mayor met with
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other municipal leaders trying to get services restored. At the state-owned Water and Sewage
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Corporation, he demanded that the water supply be turned back on. When a manager told him the power
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lines would first have to be repaired, he told the director of the electricity department to compel his
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employees to return. At the local health department, the new Taliban director of health delivered the same
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message to the hospital staff and insurgent fighters gave water to the health workers and offered 500
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Afghanis around $6 to each of the hospital guards to pay for a dinner that night. There was some good
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progress, writes the New York Times. Oh, my gosh. I bet they get a Nobel Prize for this.
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I bet they got to win a Pulitzer, don't you think? Did Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar write that
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article? Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? I will say that the Times did write some pretty
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devastating things about this as well, along with a lot of other mainstream media. I mean,
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a lot of these headlines at the Atlantic, this headline is Biden's betrayal of Afghans will live
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in infamy. And there's a lot. I think just how quickly and how terribly this has turned has
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even shaken some of the mainstream media people. Now, of course, they'll probably come back
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eventually here. But I was surprised to see the even mainstream coverage being largely critical,
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with the exception, of course, notably of what you just read, which was pathetic.
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The fecklessness. This one is written by the Bulwark dot com. I like this one. The fecklessness
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is not limited to Biden himself. His wider administration is complicit. State Department
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spokesman Ned Price has conceded the Taliban is already committing war times, but he warned them
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that if they continue, they'd be internationally isolated. Oh, not into really internationally isolated.
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Oh, boy. They're going to be canceled. Culpability for the disaster rests on one other place. They write
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the American people. White House officials have privately reassured themselves by noting that
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polls show an overwhelming majority of Americans support withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan,
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according to the Hill. So the Biden teams find reassurance in the fact that most Americans
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don't care about the risk of another 9-11 ethnic cleansing or the destruction of a future for Afghan
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women. Really? So they are blaming the American people for that. A, that's what leadership is all
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about. And B, I don't know about you, but I do care about the women and the children and the future of
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the women and the children in Afghanistan. I do care about the risk of another 9-11. I do care about
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ethnic cleansing. I just don't want to be there forever with no mission. It doesn't mean, oh, I don't
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care. Just pull out and let the whole thing collapse and let evil just win and sweep a nation.
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What evidence do you have that you care about women in the Middle East being tortured?
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Right, that's it. Just the Nazarene fund. But I mean, this is, there are a lot of people who
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wanted to get out of there. I mean, everyone wants to get out of there at some level. The idea was to
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get out of there with some level of competence. It wasn't just like, let the entire thing go to
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flames and have the Taliban inside the presidential palace in two days. No one supported that.
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Yes, there was a, there's an idea that people didn't want to be engaged in this area forever,
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but that was, to go along with that was the idea that it wouldn't turn into exactly what it turned
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into in two days, in two days. I mean, you were talking about this, Jason, we mentioned this off
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the air. You were here, you're on my show, I don't know, a few months ago. And you said, yeah,
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I don't know, it's going to be back in Taliban control in six months. And you came on here the
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other day and you said, hey, I think it might be till September 11th. We didn't even make it till
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Monday. That was a show we did on Friday. And they were in taking pictures and doing press conferences
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and singing inside the presidential palace two days later. This is the, the, the most catastrophic
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handling of any situation of any president in my lifetime. I've never seen anything like this.
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I'm continually blown away all weekend at how pathetic this is. I've never seen anything
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like it. Have you ever seen anything like this? Yeah. I, but I am older than you. So I saw,
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um, Iran with Jimmy Carter and I saw with, uh, again, like that Iran, which we didn't have control
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of Iran, right? Like this is, this is, we were an embassy and inside of another country. This is,
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yes, I understand that we, you know, we are also an embassy in another country in Afghanistan,
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but that was under our control and our direction for 20 years. I was also going to say, I'm old
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enough to remember. And I think it was Ford when we pulled out of Vietnam. Yeah. Saigon is the one
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thing people go back to. And everyone knew, everyone knew the argument was we pull out,
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the communist will come in and slaughter all of these people. And it's going to be a very bad
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thing. No, no, no. They're going to be prepared. It's going to be fine. We can leave, you know,
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it's just a bloodbath over there and we shouldn't be involved in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they
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were climbing over the fences of our embassy. And when I love this, when, uh, Blinken said,
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you know, this is definitely not, not Saigon. You are not going to see helicopters land on the roof
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of our embassy. No. You know why? Because our billion dollar embassy had a helicopter landing pad
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down on the ground, not on the roof, like we did in Saigon. Not to mention, it's not even our
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embassy anymore. No, it's not. We've got a billion dollars into the thing and we just handed it over
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to them. I mean, at least though in Saigon, you know, test me on my history here, but we knew this
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was coming in Saigon. Yeah, yeah, we did. And we evacuated a lot of the Americans and we left a
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specific number. I want to say it was 1500 or I can't remember exactly how many it was, which was
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our 1250. That was our belief that we could get, we could, uh, evacuate those people before the
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Taliban or in this case, uh, the Vietnamese, uh, got there, uh, Northern Vietnamese. Correct. So
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the situation was like, we then started evacuating the Vietnamese that we wanted to get out. And we
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had this plan that, okay, once they hit this point, when we have to start taking the Americans out and
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that's why it was such a close call, but we knew it was coming for months. Right. And we were evacuating
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those who helped us. Yeah. And we didn't, we aren't evacuating the people who helped us.
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That was our complaint two weeks ago. Now we're going to be lucky to get the Americans out.
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We had to send troops in to evacuate our own people. Yeah, but only 5,000. Which it continues
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to escalate. We're going to have about a hundred thousand troops on the airport by next week.
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I think, I think the, the, the newest figures are 6,000 to secure that airport,
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which again, it was more than double what we had when we said we were going to get them out.
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So there was some, uh, good news on the border and I am going to let the man who actually,
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uh, led the way on this, tell you about what it all means. Eric Schmidt, he is the Missouri
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attorney general. I spent some time with him, uh, yesterday at a meeting of attorney generals
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and, uh, invited him on the program today to, uh, meet you again. We've had him on before. Eric,
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So first of all, congratulations. Tell the American people what happened on Friday.
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It's a big win, Glenn, for border security, uh, for national security to stop the flow of
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illegal immigration, drug trafficking, human trafficking with the judge's order that he
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issued a little after five o'clock, the federal judge issued a little after five o'clock on Friday.
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Um, so to give it some context on day one, uh, Joe Biden reversed president Trump's very successful
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remain in Mexico policy or otherwise known as the migrant protection protocols, which is to say that
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as people were coming here, uh, if you're seeking asylum, which by the way, it was found that nine
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out of 10 asylum claims were bogus. Um, the, uh, Biden folks didn't even acknowledge that or even
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reference that. The judge points that out that he didn't even do the due diligence. But as you were
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coming here, seeking asylum, that Mexico, what was the waiting room? Because what we know is that
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if you let those folks into the United States, give them a court date on the honor system and they're
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released in the interior of the United States, you don't ever see him again. And that's exactly what
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has been happening. The 1.1 million people since January has come here legally and probably in,
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not probably, but it has created a perverse incentive. And the judge cited this, that if you have
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people who get paid to get people here illegally, if they know all they have to do is say,
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we're seeking asylum and they are in the United States, it's very lucrative for these really bad
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guys to take advantage, by the way, of people along the way too. Um, it's big business. And so the Trump
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policy that said Mexico is the waiting room significantly cut down on this illegal activity.
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We said the Biden administration can't do what they did, which is to reverse that policy. And a
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judge agreed with us. So the good news here is that, um, we're going to get back to president
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Trump's remain in Mexico policy. And it's a great example of federalism at work. Okay. So, so hang on,
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before we get into this, I just, I want to know a couple of things. Um, the judge said that they had
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to reverse it. Why, what was in your case that showed that they didn't have the right to drop
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this particular, uh, thing that Trump had in, in place? Great question. So on day one, and we can
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talk about some other executive actions that president Biden took that were illegal on day one,
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in basically two sentences, just says we're reversing it and opens up the borders. Okay. The reality is
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under a very technical scheme, the, uh, uh, the, uh, administrative procedure act, you have to go
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through a process of taking in notice and comment, hearing from people who want to weigh in, um,
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and balancing all of those things before you make an administrative change. Now I would argue that
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we've allowed way too many administrative departments and department heads to make law.
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And we ought to allow that, you know, got to get back to article one branch, but be that as it may,
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they didn't even do that. Then we filed the lawsuit. Then they came back in a haphazard way
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to try to cover their tracks and say, Oh no, we did actually did consider this in judge. And the
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judge said, no, you didn't, you didn't in the first place. You didn't later. Uh, you've been
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caught red handed. This is an illegal act. This is an illegal executive action. Therefore we are back
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now to the policy that was lawfully enacted by the Trump administration to remain in Mexico policy.
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So this is again, an example of you have to push back. We're not going to accept this sort of
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lawlessness of the Biden administration. And they've done this on social cost of greenhouse
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gases. They've done this on the Keystone XL pipeline. And there's a number of lawsuits in
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the pipeline there to challenge this, but this is by far and away, I think the most significant
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victory against the Biden administration for these kinds of actions. Um, I'm speaking to the, uh,
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attorney general of Missouri, Eric Schmidt, um, who, um, who led the way on this. Now, Eric,
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you say this is a very good thing because they've been ordered to do it. Well, they've been ordered
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to do other things and they're not obeying the courts. They're dismissing the courts. Also,
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this was happening in a district court, if I'm not mistaken here in Texas. Um, what makes you think
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that this will be supported because the government is going to appeal? What makes you believe this
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will actually win at the highest level? Well, this was a very well-reasoned opinion. And I think the
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judge who was an Amarillo, and by the way, the department of justice tried very hard to move it
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out of that because, uh, this particular DOJ was trying to get it to an Obama appointed judge. Uh,
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but the reality is the rule of law prevailed here, and that's all you really want from the judiciary
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as far as I'm concerned to interpret the law as it's written, not how they want it to be. That's
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not the left, um, view of, of what they want judges to do. They're much more, you know, in favor
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of judicial activism, but the judge gave them seven days to appeal. So they would appeal to the Fifth
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Circuit Court of Appeals, which, uh, is a strong conservative. Um, and I mean that in the sense of,
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you know, they rule based on the law. So we're confident that the Court of Appeals
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will reject the appeal, but this is a big deal because if you think of what's happening at the
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border, it's a total disaster. We've not, there's a 21 year high in illegal crossings. You have,
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and Missouri's interest in this, by the way, um, not being a border state is we've taken on human
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trafficking. We've spent a lot of resources. Our state has made it a priority to take on the dark
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underworld of human trafficking. And these cartels, uh, are very, very engaged in human
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trafficking, including trafficking drugs across the border. And it's very profitable for them right
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now because people are, you know, being released into the interior of the United States.
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Um, um, Eric, we spent time together yesterday. I was lucky enough to be, um, invited up to the
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Republican attorney general's, um, meeting, uh, which I think you have what once a year
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and, and I was, uh, I was impressed with how many of you guys, uh, know exactly what you are up
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against and that you are the last line of defense. I mean, after you guys were down to our local
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sheriff, you are the last line of defense to be able to stand for the, the bill of rights.
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What was the look, go ahead. No, I was going to say, and, and, you know, on our discussion,
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I think that this really is a fight to save America. And I don't, I don't not mean that
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rhetorically in some grandiose speech. I mean it very practically. I think the Republic is truly on
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the line. And I think that for us, and this is what I believe. And I think a lot of Americans,
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and certainly your listeners do, I know you do, that the America is the most noble, important
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experiment in the history of the world. What the founders said was everybody before us in 1776 had
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it exactly backwards. We don't need to ask, our rights don't come from a king or a queen or some
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despot. Our rights come from God. And what government is, what government is, is a project
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to protect those rights, to protect those individual rights that were given by God. So your ability to
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speak your mind, your ability to defend yourself, are born with those things. And America is very
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unique in the history of the world. It's an exception. That's what American exceptionalism means.
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We are exceptional in the sense that most places around the world still to this day don't believe
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that. And if we lose this fight to save America, there's no going back. We are the last best hope
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for mankind. We got to get it right. So when you talk about these things that are happening in
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Washington, D.C., federalizing elections and undermining election security just to obtain
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power by using what they were doing during the pandemic to loosen those integrity measures just
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to gain power, to teach our kids to despise America, as opposed to teaching them what America
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really is about. The Bill of Rights, which is very important. But most, you know, I think it starts
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with the Declaration of Independence, which is our mission statement. It says who we are, what we
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believe, what we stand for, and the Constitution then sets forth that framework to protect those rights.
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The states came together to create a federal government of limited powers. And the people
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reign supreme, not some sovereign authority who claims that they got their power from God,
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and we have to ask permission. That's very unique. We don't talk about that as much anymore,
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but I certainly view my mission as an attorney general and now running for the United States
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Senate as protecting that, protecting individual rights. Somebody asked me, and we announced a cold
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case arrest last week in St. Louis as part of my job as attorney general of the state's chief law
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enforcement officer, legal officer. And I was asked the question, how do you feel about fear being used
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right now to get people to wear masks? And I said, you know, basically there's nothing new in the sun.
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And that's what every dictator and every tyrant has said since the beginning of the world.
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They've used it fear to aggregate and accumulate power. I do not want to live in some futuristic,
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dystopian, biomedical security state. And I'm going to do everything I can with the powers that I
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swore to protect the Constitution, to protect individual rights. And I think we have to be
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absolutely committed to that. And if we are, if we band together on that, we're going to win this
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thing. And our kids will look back, our grandkids will look back and be very, very proud of each.
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And you don't have to be the attorney general to stand up for that. I see people going to school
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board meetings. I see people going to city council meetings who are standing up, who don't want to
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take this anymore. They believe in America, what we are, who we are, what we can be. So that's a very
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I, uh, we're talking to Eric Schmidt, uh, the Missouri attorney general, and he is, uh, going to
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be running for, um, uh, Senate in the state. I, I, um, I had to leave right after I, I spoke to all of
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you, um, last night. And I, I'm wondering how many of the people, cause I didn't get a chance to ask the
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whole room out of the 22 that were there. How many of them are on the same page with you now
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that you're saying what you're saying this morning?
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I think it's a very committed group. Um, it is a very committed group to these principles. We have
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a unique role in our system in that, as we talked about governments, our project to protect those
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rights. That's our job. That's our job to protect the rights. My job isn't to give cover to some
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authoritarian regime because it's the government. That's not my job. My job is to make sure that
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people can say their piece under the first amendment, but under the second amendment,
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people can protect themselves. And so, and that's, so you see a lot of the work that we do. We're
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leading a brief on making sure that this restrictive regime in New York, where you have to tell the
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government or some bureaucrat that you're really in danger to be able to conceal carry. That's not what
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the founders ever intended. We're fighting that fight, whether it's, you know, the abortion issue
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going to United States Supreme court, we're fighting that fight, whether it's protecting
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first amendment rights or, you know, you could go down the pick the issue. I think right now,
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pushing back against the federal government. And by the way, also pushing back against local
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governments, um, that want to treat people as subjects and not citizens. We're committed to
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that fight. Um, I believe it in my core and I'm telling you, Glenn, you, you know it from your
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listeners, there is something happening right now in the city council rooms, in the school board rooms,
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in these hearing rooms, people don't want to lose America. They don't because it is this
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shining city on a Hill. And we've always been a people that wanted to know what's on the other
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side of that mountain. And what people see right now is a cliff and we have a choice.
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What is our role going to be in the future of this Republic? Because as Ben Franklin said,
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you know, when he walked out of the convention, it's, you've got a Republic man, if you can keep
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it, it's hard work because human nature and the founders knew this human nature is you see it
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across the world. It's happened before is to, uh, accumulate power, dole out favors to your cronies.
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So the founders knew that spreading out power among the branches, uh, with federalism, making
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sure that no one person or branch was too powerful. All of that is, as federalism works horizontally and
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vertically was meant to do one thing, protect individual Liberty, Eric, and that's our path
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forward. I can't thank you enough for everything you're doing. We're watching you guys carefully.
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I am, um, I, uh, you know, yesterday offered support on anything that we can do to help you
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guys out because I do believe you are the fire line. Thank you so much. And, uh, my best to
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everybody else that are having meetings this week, uh, with you, all the attorney generals. Thank you
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so much. It's by the way, I want to thank you for all you're doing to, to, to talk about these
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issues too, and your listeners. Thanks for having me on. You bet. Thank you.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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It was an exceptionally hot summer morning on 13th of July writes the guardian when people in the
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Malistan district of Southern Afghan province woke up to find that the conflict that it swirled around
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them for weeks had finally reached their small town and Taliban fighters were closing in by noon
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of that day, 22 year old Fatima, seven months pregnant was seeking shelter from bullets raining
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down on her home in her village, which was caught in the vicious crossfire between Taliban militants
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and government forces. Surviving the battle was not the only thing on her mind. However,
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her family were terrified that the Taliban gained control of their village.
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They would begin taking women like Fatima as they had taken other young women in parts of the
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country falling under their control. We had heard of cases where the Taliban would kill young men
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and sexually abuse girls and young women of the family. The fears of Fatima and her family were
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justified. When the Taliban finally came to our village, they wanted to take a young girl with them,
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but she ran to the roof of her house and ended her life.
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Ah, Nazarene fund was, uh, started because when our troops were pulled out of, um, of Iraq,
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something called ISIS, uh, came in and they were kidnapping and raping and killing, uh, families,
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but mainly women and children, uh, were bringing them into sex slavery. Um, we started the Nazarene fund
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and now our chief operating officer, our CEO is Rudy Atala. Uh, and I wanted to get him on the phone,
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um, right away today to see what he knows about the situation in Afghanistan. And if he sees a way for us
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Yeah. Good to talk to you. Um, tell me, tell me what you know about what's happening in Afghanistan
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and how bad it is for the people that we've left behind. Uh, it's extremely bad. I mean, uh, I'm,
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I'm getting, I'm getting calls right now from Gulf States, from, uh, from the region, from Lebanon,
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from all over the place. Um, if you, if you watch, uh, the, the news media in the middle East,
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um, they're showing, you know, repeats of, of, of people falling off C-17s on takeoff,
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uh, people dying, people scrambling, looking, looking for ways to escape Afghanistan. We just
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absolutely, uh, evacuated without leaving them a single choice or protecting any of them. And, uh,
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all my military friends, uh, that served over there, I had, in fact, I have a former Navy SEAL
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here with me staying, uh, at my house and we were talking about it. He, uh, he did, uh, four combat
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tours in Afghanistan. He said, all our folks, our allies that, uh, that helped us on the ground now
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are stuck. And what's really going to happen is eventually Al Qaeda is going to get its foothold.
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Terrorism is going to go back on the rise and the people, the people that, uh, you know, are not
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killed that we've trained are eventually going to flip because they want to survive and maintain
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themselves. And so, so these trained individuals are now going to be working against us. Not only
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that, but now Al Qaeda and the Taliban have access to U S armament, U S weapons, U S
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Drones, knowledge, drones, drones. Yes. Drones. Absolutely. Scan Eagles. We use the scan Eagle,
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uh, when we did the Marisc Alabama hostage rescue. So, so yes. And China's in there recognize them
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already is going to recognize the Afghans. The Russians are going to recognize the Afghans.
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You can bank on Al Qaeda 3.0 coming back with Augusto. And sooner or later, we'll start seeing
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all these terrorist attacks around the world. And what breaks my heart and what really frustrates
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me more than anything, everything that we worked 20 years to, to, to achieve is down the drain. Now we
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got to start from, from ground zero again, because of this very poor decision by the white house.
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Rudy, um, are we going to be able to be in a situation to where we can help these women and
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We're, I'm, I'm looking, I'm looking at different ways to do that. Um, it's, it's not going to be
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easy. We have, we no longer have any allies in the region. I mean, it's, it's just down. Uh,
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Pakistan, the church there is under constant persecution. Now, Afghanistan obviously has fallen.
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There's nobody in the region that we, if we work, we want, we're going to have to work very
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quietly. And, and I'm, uh, you know, I need, just need to figure out the best ways to support these
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people, whether it's in place or slowly get them out of the country. I mean, it's, it's, uh,
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as you said, in your opening remarks, we're still dealing with the problems in Syria from poor
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decisions during the Obama administration. And, and we, we're still rescuing kidnapped women and
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children. There are still thousands missing and that's an ongoing situation. So Afghanistan is
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going to be in the same, in the same, uh, genre, but, but, uh, you know, right now it's extremely
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dangerous, but I'm hoping that we're going to find a way to do something. Rudy, thank you very much.
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Our prayers are with you and, and everybody that, um, is part of our military. This has got to be a,
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just a brutal, brutal weekend, uh, for you and, um, your comrades. Yes. Thank you so much, Rudy.
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God bless. That's a Lieutenant Colonel, uh, Rudy Atala. He is the chief operating officer of the
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Nazarene fund. Uh, something that you, uh, founded helping women and children and all slaves, um,
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and religious minorities that are trapped, uh, behind enemy lines. We try to get them out. You can find
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out more or make a donation to the Nazarene fund.org now.