Best of The Program | Guests: Megyn Kelly, Emily Miller, & Mark “Oz” Geist | 9⧸8⧸21
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Glenn and Megan talk about gender confusion in public schools, and why it's a big deal to them. Megan tells the story of why she left her son's public school and why she decided to leave her own.
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hey great podcast for you today megan kelly mark guys he's oz from uh from the benghazi
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nightmare otherwise known as uh 13 hours talk to him about the flashbacks that maybe he had
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while watching this all unfold now in afghanistan we have updates on that also what biden is doing
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what the state department is doing and of course a dramatic reading from lizzo where the hell
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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you know in the old days uh you had to be on one of the three networks or you had to be
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on the abc radio network and that was pretty much it uh now there are so many vehicles and you can
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start them yourselves uh as megan kelly did our our guest she started the megan kelly show on podcast
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she's been through the networks uh and now she is uh joining us on triumph which is the sirius xm
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channel that we are on she follows our program now every day at noon eastern welcome to the program
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megan kelly how are you hi glenn it's so good to be together again yeah in this moment and in the in
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more macro sense on triumph so i have to tell you i i listen to your podcast almost every day stew does
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too we were just talking about your podcast from yesterday it was uh you're just doing a great job
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i have to ask you why add more hours to your day you know what i didn't um what i did was basically
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move the podcast to a live radio show so it's all one in the same now as you know i'm the mother of
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three kids under the age of 12 so there's only so many hours in the day right and one of the reasons
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i left fox news was to actually see them and raise my own kids so i didn't want to do two hours
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of radio and two hours of podcasting so this is perfect for me it folds them all into one and now
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people can sort of hear me do the podcast live without a net which as you know is kind of exciting
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kind of fun and i get to take calls which is something i've never i've never done before with
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my audience so megan um i saw in an interview that you said you um you left your son's schools
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your your son's school because the boys were asked weekly if they're still sure they were boys
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yep can i tell you about this story yeah so i've talked a lot about um my son's school that i left
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and i i loved this school it's an amazing school uh and we were really sad that it took the turn that
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it took oh it's all it's gone dark just for drama um but what we found out from our son first of all
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when he was in third grade we found out they unleashed a three-week experimental transgender
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education program on these boys with really inappropriate videos the kids were confused
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these are eight and nine year olds glenn they don't know they have no idea what the school is even
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talking about with the trans thing and they got really in depth with really in your face videos
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and then parents complained and the school did something it hasn't done in its 400 year history which
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was they apologized even they realized they had done wrong then i said to my son a year later
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so how did they ever round back to the trans thing like whatever happened with and he's like
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every week i'm like what he said they bring it up every week i said how he said well they they managed
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to work into a lot of the conversations that you know in some places there are 100 they believe there
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are 100 genders how many people here still feel confident that they're a boy do you still feel
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sure you're a boy i said how often do they ask ask you that he said about once a week i'm like
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doug as i said to my husband we're out we're out of here this is not support this is not non-bullying
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this is indoctrination and it's deeply confusing to the children and wrong so you know i've heard
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this story before and i i haven't heard you answer are they still sure they are boys i mean
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they're 100 boys so what are you doing because it isn't new york i mean that's all new york seems to be
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now i mean because if it's happening in texas and happening in oklahoma i mean it's got to be at
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every school in new york city it's it's styled under the auspices of non-bullying right and so
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that's why they parade girls who were never expressing any gender confusion up on stage
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because they're going through a tough time and suddenly they say they're trans that they're trans
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boys they parade them up on stage at these all-girls schools and they get snaps right like
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you're going to celebrate this even though in 80 of the cases it's a passing phase it's the result of
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something the girls going through it used to be anorexia used to be cutting and now some of these
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girls are choosing to say they have gender confusion because it's trendy and the difference between those
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two things is you don't cut off your breasts when you're anorexic now you have other physical
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problems but there are reasons parents are putting their kids in the hospitals to solve that
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not to feed it right we don't celebrate a girl who is clearly thin who goes on stage and says i think
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i'm fat nobody's giving snaps for that and so the the whole ideology has turned support non-bullying
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kindness friendship allyship on its head well you have the um there's a new study out now transgender
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mortality rate much higher than the uh than the regular uh population so people who have had
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transgendered uh surgery they're even worse off than the people who have just gender dysphoria uh glenn
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we we have trans people in our family and one who's rather close to our family and this person
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had the full transition the the surgery and everything and really wound up saying it it didn't solve
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my problems it created more of them it created more all the things you know how it is we all have
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unhappinesses in our life we all have things that we lament or that depress us i think for a lot of trans
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people or people who think they're trans they view the surgery their transition you know the living life
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as the opposite sex as the answer to those things right that we all suffer from but it's not the answer to
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all those problems and in fact it can create a lot of new problems that are now irreversible if you
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have the surgery so here's the here's the really scary thing this is happening now because of social
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media it's happening with girls who never never were having this this problem and it's happening with
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mainly girls that are are doing all kinds of things to the body they the uh doctors aren't allowed to
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say well now wait a minute let's slow down let's talk about it how some can't how about some counseling
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and so they're going through this surgery and it's caused by social media many people believe
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at least for the numbers that are happening this is criminal absolutely criminal the absolute surrender
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of the medical community to this insanity is a scourge on this nation it's disgusting what's happening
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with our doctors there are people who are legitimately transgender who have gender dysphoria
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and for those people we should be supportive and they should get the care that they need but what
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we've done instead is taken everyone who expresses any sort of gender confusion and said you're trans
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you're trans and we have our psychiatrists doing this whereas instead of probing what's happening in
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your family are you going through a divorce are you suffering from bullying have you been in the target
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a lot of these girls they're overweight they have acne they're not popular maybe they're on the
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spectrum that's sadly been the case in some of these instances where instead of going with an actual
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diagnosis of being someplace on the autism spectrum they get a diagnosis of oh you're trans and parents
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instead are saying oh we'll take that okay that that's like a trendy thing that the kid can get snaps
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for as opposed to being mildly autistic it's it's crazy um and and the thing is glenn the the the medical
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community not only do they say yes affirm affirm but once you prescribe um puberty blockers and then
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testosterone to a young girl who's suddenly saying she's a boy she's infertile she cannot have children
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the fact that we're doing this so willy-nilly in the name of allyship or you know support is it's
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abusive it's all criminal i'm so sick of the allyship and the all of this bullcrap we're over in the
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middle east and we have saved homosexuals we have saved women we have saved children and uh and
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every step of the way where's the national organization of women where's the me too movement
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where's the lgbtqi movement where are they they're nowhere to be found it's a lie these civil rights
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organizations that claim to be leading civil rights they're bogus it's a sham all of it is a sham
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you and i both know they're they might be there to help you if you're a liberal democrat yeah maybe
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not not even necessarily look at tara reed lifelong liberal democrat accused joe biden went to times up
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was basically told to pound sand because that organization with anita dunn running their
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communications was tied up with joe biden so they lied to her and said oh we never take a case
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that involves a politician well it wasn't true and now that organization has completely been
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it's fallen apart i mean the the entire board has resigned now the head of that company was or that
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organization was helping andrew cuomo instead of the accusers it they're corrupt they're they're there
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to cozy up to power not to fight it and they certainly have no interest in in helping somebody who
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has an r after their name their name that's why caitlin jenner who by the way is coming on my show
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today with larry elder that would be fun that's why she she she's hated by them you would think
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caitlin jenner she's the most famous trans person in the world they can't stand her right not because
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she hasn't spoken out on trans issues but because she's a conservative republican right so megan how is
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this are we making progress i mean i i feel like the world is absolutely on fire the world i described
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where everyone said i was nuts it's not going to happen is the world we're living in now it's the
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beginning of that world um and i do have some hope because i've seen average person people stand up and
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say i'm not playing this game anymore i'll just do it myself um and i think there is a greater desire
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universally for the truth and just not i'm not i'm sorry i'm not going to play the game i'm not
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going to be an ally with things that are not true yeah are we getting better worse where are we in
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this cycle do you think i don't think we're doing better on the trans front i have to say i think we're
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still stuck in the midst of uh a crisis in understanding how to deal with that i think on the
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racialization of the nation i feel like people are fighting back now that's been so prevalent in our
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schools with the crt and the diminishing of black people because of their skin color and the shaming
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of white people because of theirs i think parents are fighting back on that regular civilians if you
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will civilly not people like pundits like you and me but but i don't know about the trans thing
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but i aren't all of these things kind of connected like uh anthony fauci has zero credibility and that
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thing is going to come undone in a big way so we're we're we're not listening to authority figures we're
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not listening to these so-called uh uh science gods we we're we're looking for common sense coupled with
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science and coupled with facts but we're not listening and giving the credibility you can go
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ahead and try to smear people like you used to um and try to smear you and destroy you try to smear me
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and uh and destroy me i don't think it works i don't think any of this stuff i think it's all coming
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undone do you agree or not i should say that i i don't i don't know i i would like to say yes because
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i've generally believed that you don't fight when somebody calls you a racist all the time it's like
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you know i don't get out there and say oh no no no because who are you going to persuade the people
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who want to believe that about you are determined to believe it and your fans the people who know you
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they don't believe it to begin with they don't need to hear you take on you know these crazies who
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use those terms indiscriminately so i i've just long believed there's no moving people on things like
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that i do think that these terms you know bigotry whether it has to do with gender sexuality um race
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what have you they've been completely diluted to the point now where they have far less meaning and
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and that's that's a shame right they used to actually mean something where they could change
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people's hearts and minds they don't anymore but i do think that the regular civilians like my
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neighbors let's say you know people who i live next to when i'm at the jersey shore in the summer
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they are still afraid of these very loud woke warriors and it's a small group i think they think
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that they're they're bigger than they are it's i think it's 10 of the population is that and i do think
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people like us who have these microphones if we don't start being louder and louder and encouraging
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people to push back against this nonsense in their schools at their corporations in their sports in
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their media in their hollywood choices then then we're going to lose then that 10 is going to grow
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and grow and grow and become even more powerful megan kelly always good to talk to you i'd love to
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spend some time i hope you are following what's going on with the state department uh in afghanistan
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it is a crime and needs to be exposed um thank you so much megan you can hear her on her podcast
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or now you can hear her on channel 111 it's the triumph channel if you're listening to us on uh
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xm serious now just keep it where it is she'll be on right after this program megan thank you so
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much always good to talk to you thanks glenn lots of love
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emily miller uh she's a journalist she's also a former state department deputy press secretary under
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the bush administration and she joins us now uh you can find her uh at emilypostnews.com
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or you can follow her on twitter at emily miller um she has been detailing what's going on in
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afghanistan and uh i i've been reading her every day she's you're very good emily uh thank you for
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your coverage and your honesty welcome thank you thank you for me i'm so glad to talk to you i've
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been following every detail of what you've been doing to help get these people out and i'm just glad
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we're all doing what we can yeah everybody's i mean it is really a nice thing to see i don't see any
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infighting i don't see anybody you know taking victory except for the state department uh taking
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victory laps everybody is just working together and trying their best to do what they can and
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we're all kind of putting our pieces together which is nice it really is and i mean we'll look at this i
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think in history um as two things one the greatest failure of the united states government in history
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by far um but number two the strength of the american people while our president president
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biden is so weak so weak and because of him the united states government fell apart and can't do its job
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but in that void came all of all of us and you know it's the special forces operators who started
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this saying we'll go ourselves and many of them have and many of them are planning on it we'll go
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ourselves and get our guys out and it's as you said the ngos it's all these veterans who are
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taking in the names planning they're getting out aircraft or however and and people like me we started
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this group called project exodus a special forces operator and i did i didn't even know him a week
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ago um and so now project exodus has joined with we have i don't know how many names have come in to us
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now and we're tracking them all we're getting their passport numbers for the americans we're getting
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their sv status for the others and we are talking to all of them every single day to give them safety
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information and plan rescues however just as you said uh i think it was two days ago we we consolidated
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all of us all of us pine book express is the best known one our group but there's tons of them across
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the country and we share intel we share names we share databases this is the strength of the american
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people this is what i want i hope that the people in afghanistan see that even though the government
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our government has failed failed so miserably you can always trust the stress of american people and
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i also hope our enemies around the world see that i do too that we are not weak our president is weak
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we are strong and we will always do our job that is a that that is a great great point you know when
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russia planned all kinds of invasions in america the one thing they never had on the board was an invasion
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from mexico through texas because they knew texans would stand up uh and i think i hope that the our
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enemies see that here that no matter what our government says about us it's not true it's not
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true it's not the weakness of this president does not have nothing to do with the weakness of the
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american people and our enemies were who all were in afghanistan the russians the chinese they know
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they see this i mean they see this because they see americans on the ground there fighting they see
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us helping the northern resistance force giving them intel helping them unfortunately it's been a
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horror what's happened to them because the pakistan pakistan our weapons that we're
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funding in pakistan have been used against the northern forces it's shameful but the our enemies
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know the taliban isis k they know americans are in there and we're not walking away from this
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they can put up that stupid photo with the green night vision goggles of the last person leaving
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that's not that's going to show failure for us success is going to be that we stayed and we went
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back and we are going to get these people out of there so help me out on a couple of things let's
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start with the number of americans that are there chuck schumer just said yesterday every american that
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wants to be out is out well i know we have over 100 ourselves that are in safe houses uh and ready to
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get out wanting to get out been sitting there with airplanes for a week now and can't get out
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yep i know your planes um i mean i just want to focus for one second on the planes they i want people
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to understand it's not just about the six planes i think that's gotten somewhat confused in the media
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it's not just about six planes in your planes and your people it's about that this is a really hard
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country to get out of yeah i don't think this is not france where you can just walk across the border
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to a better country this is a really complicated country and the best way that we can get these
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americans out is by planes we can't get them out of planes because the state department won't let us
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have the right documentations to fly to other countries so once those six planes start then we
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can start putting more people on planes and like you said all the people who are in state houses in
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mazar i mean sorry safe houses people who are stuck in kabul can't go to the airport because the u.s closed
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the airport right so the bigger goal here is to get everyone to fly out unfortunately if this continues
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like this with the state department we're going to have to start using land routes and that's so much
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more dangerous and it's so much more difficult um but as you said just for hard numbers i um
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the numbers that i keep hearing and i heard this from somebody inside the pentagon who saw a database
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in the state department uh is a thousand and another source who has been working on this rescue since
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a little bit earlier a couple of weeks earlier than i have had it at 750 so the government knows it's
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750 to a thousand i mean i know that's still a big gap for american citizens like you should know
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it to the number um but that's it's that many people so we have uh we've been having problems
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with the state department as as you said and as i just tried to explain to the audience a few minutes
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ago uh what that paperwork is and how easy it is to give um what what what do you think you've been in
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the state department before why why would they be doing this i i i worked this is why afghanistan means
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so much to me is i worked at the state department in the bush administration bush 43 i worked for
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i was secretary powell's uh press secretary and then secretary rice's kandaleesa rice
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i'm with them i went to afghanistan this is 2003 4 5 and it was so hopeful it was so hopeful i remember
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going my best memory is going to come how to see women register to vote for the first time in their
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lives they had a whole place so they got to register to vote for the first time they were so excited i mean
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it was so hopeful and i we all those of us who are who are part of it were just you know our military
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has lost many lives but it was for the greater good of getting rid of getting going after people who
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did 9-11 the terrorists who did 9-11 and al-qaeda and then giving these people freedom in those early
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years and now a lot of the same people work at state department um they are just they are not i mean
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look i would say there are a lot of good brave people state department has taken jobs over the
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years that i i would never take in countries i would never live in and they live in them and they
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are great i don't even want to blame them i don't know it's biden's fault it's president biden's fault
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it all falls on him he's in hiding it's hard to blame a man who's not there 100 because all it takes
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is ordering them what to do no matter what state department does not operate by itself it's a
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political agency lincoln was nominated or given his job by president biden he takes orders and
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president biden everyone under him takes orders from him that's how it operates i've been calling
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all my friends inside the state department the ones who are still there the career foreign service
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and they are frustrated and they're doing everything they can to give me information that they can
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but what i can see from the inside is it's just a total failure just they fell through the cracks
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it is incompetence i'll tell you i i had a when i posted on twitter i think um last thursday there
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are six planes grounded who can't get out of afghanistan because the state department well
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guess who suddenly wanted to return my call the spokesman of the state department ned price
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suddenly and look i'm nothing as ned he and i got along great it was a very cordial conversation
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and i said to him and he asked me to speak confidentially and i want to i want to keep
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to that and he told me how many americans were actually on the plane and he explained to me that
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the problem for them was that they as you've heard them say is that it's a mix of people it's americans
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plus and green card holders but it's also people with we have emily we have vetted every those are
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our planes those were our people that i mean other groups helped find them they were on our planes we
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had the manifest and everyone's name went through ofact every single name the state department has a
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manifest we understand that those were persecuted about half of them were persecuted christians
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we vet these guys better than the federal government does that's why i mean it that's why
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the the nazarene fund is partners with countries like um australia we can get the prime minister of
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australia on the phone at any time they have said we'll take your people anytime you need somebody we will
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take them because we know who they are uh it's a bullcrap lie well let me ask you that because this is
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i'd like to clear this up with you he said he did do you control all six of those planes because
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no four okay four all right got it let me just tell you this and i will i will i'll break confidence
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just a teeny bit i'm not gonna break confidence in fact it won't get anyone in trouble but just on
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this part because i really think it'll go down as the example of how incompetent this government is
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now ned is not ned is a spokesman um obviously he's with blinken all the time so he knows what you
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know he knows all the intel but he's not the guy who's operating afghanistan there's a whole desk for
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that i've worked with them they know their stuff he said to me that the reason for the holdup was
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all the mixed people but he said the reason was that they didn't have a phone number for the for
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the new york times operator and i mean they who's operating the plane that has new york times people on
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it and i said um well i don't think not our phone that's not our plane yeah that's a different one
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and it kind of made me curious if this whole thing is being confident being kept sacred by the state
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department because it's a reporter and also made me curious actually make me probably likely that the
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whole media kept this kept that quiet last week and i broke their silence but um because it's reporters
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but that'll go down we'll look at that in history but he said that they didn't have a contact and
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they've been trying all night to contact people oh my god oh my gosh we have somebody we oh my gosh
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i know i know it's gonna drive you crazy here's what's gonna drive you even more crazy so one of
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the guys on our team project express is in direct contact with conair is that how you say
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camera camera camera i've only ever texted it that's right direct contact with our with the
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rep for camera and he's the one who's actually giving the real information nothing the question
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of like where they can land the process of the documents that they don't have the destination
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documents and you know all that um and just it's about issue but i get back to him and i said we
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really need to do some help here state department needs contact for the operators of each of those
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planes and he said to me what does he mean by operators and i was like oh i just actually assumed
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that was a phrase you knew and this guy's special forces he's overseas um and he's our direct contact
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with that airline and he said he said it's just one guy at cam air and i'm like well do you have a
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phone number for him and so he texts me i won't say his name on on air he texts me the guy's cell phone
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number and i call back to ned at state department i'm like it's this man at the airlines here's his
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cell and he's like oh great thank you so much oh my gosh emily it is i mean they have
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i i i'd like to talk to you off the air i i need to share some stories with you um because it's it's uh
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this is i i think this is criminal what's going on um thank you so much emily for everything that
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you are doing i i really appreciate it thank you for project exodus um it's it's just good to see
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people doing what is right uh you can follow her at emilypostnews.com or on twitter emily miller
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uh and she is one of the creators of uh project exodus getting people out and finding them and
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getting communication from them so i am trying to eat healthier and i am but the thing is i don't
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like healthy food i don't like any of it you've heard of a fat suit right i mean there's got to be
00:28:35.180
when are we getting a skinny suit something that will make me look skinny because i just want
00:28:39.920
treats all the time i grew up in a bakery for the love of pete the bad news is no skinny suit is
00:28:45.340
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the benghazi annex security team member the founder of shadow warriors project
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and now uh heading up some evacuation efforts in afghanistan the one and only mark geist known as
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oz hey mark how are you man good how are you i am good i am uh unfortunately i thought of you
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and benghazi while the the just the chaos was happening at the kabul airport how similar did
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that did that give you any flashbacks any kind of feeling like oh boy they're doing it again
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you know it did um and and what really kind of hit home um as it was progressing was i thought back to
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the people who were in charge of our government at that time and the in charge of the state department
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were you know ambassador uh rice i mean those same people are now doing the same thing once again and
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they didn't learn from the first time where they failed to do what was right and to send help and
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the appropriate help instead of always trying to do this uh i kind of call it that uh uh fish handshake
00:30:49.060
with everybody yeah um and that's their approach to foreign policy is we're going to shake your hand
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and we're going to try to you know negotiate it out when you're dealing with a group of people who
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um do not negotiate they believe in power they believe in strength and they believe in force and
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that's the enemy that we have our gates in afghanistan and now because of the way we pulled
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out of there i believe we have to be ready for it here at home because we have a southern border
00:31:18.740
that's not secure jeez lindsey graham said the other day he thinks we're going to have to go back
00:31:23.940
into afghanistan because he said this is going to be the center of global terrorists and i mean we've
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only made them stronger and things are going to start happening around the world and here that he thinks
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we'll be back within five years i think we'll be back within the next 45 to 90 days
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holy cow why do you say that i just think with the way that we have pulled out that we didn't leave
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any type of uh agreement we didn't force them to come to the table with and be accountable to
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not just america and americans but to the world as a whole and now we're trying to treat the taliban who
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we forced out through um through i mean through combat out of afghanistan and we've allowed them
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back and now we're treating them as the official government when truly the official government is
00:32:20.180
still fighting up in the panjir valley at least hopefully hopefully they still are to this day
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um our weapons are being used against them um and so they're having a hard time standing but they
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are still standing um why do you say we'll go back in i mean it's the same people that got us out and
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i mean what is going to change at the pentagon state department white house what do you see coming
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that would change that i think what's going to happen that's what is going to happen from afghanistan
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itself and with what's going on there um behind the scenes and what we're going to what we won't see
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until we have brave afghans who are going to get information out about what truly is the taliban is
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going to be doing to people and i think it's going to be so horrendous that it's going to require
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the world to stand up and take heed of what it is what's going on there
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in some ways i hope you're right i mean i don't want to go back in there but i mean i don't know
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if you heard about the police officer the female police officer that was pregnant in front of her
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13 year old 12 13 year old boy um she was brutally killed and then they cut her brain out uh with knives
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and screwdrivers in front of him and the world is not really paying attention just
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not paying attention and that's i'm i can guarantee you not an isolated incident
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no not at all and you know we have american citizens who in essence are being held hostage
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by the taliban in moza sharif i mean you know that we have airplanes up there there are planes i think
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the nazarene project through you have helped fund that are being held and restricted and you know
00:34:21.640
it's in those people are that are manifested for those flights are american citizens and they're not
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being allowed to leave and we're not doing anything and we have a president who's on vacation and we have
00:34:33.240
a vice president who's trying to campaign for gavin newsom who has run california into the ground
00:34:41.600
we're talking to uh mark geist known as oz he was a part of the benghazi benghazi annex security team
00:34:49.500
um you might remember him from the movie uh 13 hours uh a remarkable remarkable story he is now
00:34:58.320
helping with uh evacuation efforts in afghanistan uh so you say and i know and we both know there are
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plenty of americans we we have left behind there is nothing more dishonorable uh than what we have
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done in afghanistan losing is one thing being dishonorable in our loss is entirely a different
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thing um tell me what you're doing in afghanistan um so my non-profit is called shadow warriors project
00:35:32.020
and it came out of what happened to me and in um benghazi and uh you know as private security
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contractors um we have a workman's comp policy when we get injured or killed and that's it
00:35:45.200
uh my pay stopped the day i left uh the country of libya which was on september 12th um jeez
00:35:54.040
and we we started this because we have in the past 20 years we've had over 5 000 private military
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contractors killed over 30 000 injured in the war on terror and they've had to depend on a workman's
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comp policy and no one's there to have their back and especially those who are in the security
00:36:13.980
side of things that are facing the day-to-day threats just as our military are and um we wanted
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to make sure that they didn't struggle when they got injured or killed they didn't have to worry
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about that and that's what really started our program and since then over the last uh seven
00:36:28.420
years we've really grown um where we have a lot of different apparatus we have a canine program where
00:36:34.220
we get service dogs to both contractors and veterans um a lot of times they're one in the same
00:36:40.000
and then we have a canine therapy program where we bring in eight to 12 combat vets pair them uh we
00:36:46.600
introduce them to christ we pair them with the dogs for a week we use the dogs to teach them how to
00:36:51.160
manage their anxiety and stress and then we have peer-to-peer counseling and and that's kind of
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the crux of our that's our foundation but then when afghanistan um went awry we knew that we had
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contractors that were overseas that were stuck there and so we wanted to get involved and we partnered
00:37:10.200
with uh a lot of different veteran service organizations because we knew that the government
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wasn't going to be there i mean we've all experienced that before so we have partnered with other groups
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and are working tirelessly every day to uh since it started to get um people out and luckily through
00:37:28.820
our connections that we've had with other military personnel our experience that we've gained over the
00:37:33.900
last 20 years of fighting this enemy we've been very successful can you can you tell me because i was
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reading about it and it says um we're partnering with other veteran service organizations in de-conflicting
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and supporting each other in assisting american citizens green card holders pastors missionaries as
00:37:51.540
well as afghan allies from being left behind what do you mean de-conflicting well is making we're
00:37:58.600
help coordinating who's working in um different areas so we're not um wasting time or resources by
00:38:07.160
having uh multiple groups doing the same thing trying to help with connecting the right people
00:38:14.800
to each other that can help support one another instead of be working in areas that would cause um
00:38:22.040
consternation between them just with uh surrounding countries with coordinating with other countries where
00:38:28.760
we can get the refugees into uh and you know we've done this pretty much without the help of any
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government groups whatsoever it's just american citizens who have worked with the government
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and military personnel who are now veterans that uh saw a need and i mean um it's very similar i call it
00:38:51.880
operation uh dunkirk in a sense is uh it's exactly right it's it's um it's people taking care of
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those that are getting left behind you know i was talking to uh emily miller about a half an hour ago and
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she said she hopes that the people of afghanistan see and i think the rest of the world needs to see it
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especially our enemies don't confuse our government with the people the people are not disorganized
00:39:19.700
the people get things done we still are the roll our sleeves up and get the damn job done no matter
00:39:25.840
what the odds it's our government that has given up on really not just the people left behind but i
00:39:32.100
think given up on america that you know biden doesn't even have the agreement in kosovo is uh coming up
00:39:39.720
here in the next couple of uh weeks he doesn't even they're not even engaged on it the last president
00:39:46.520
worked really hard to get a peace agreement there it's coming up we're not even engaged it's like
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they've given up on america being anything other than a has-been i can agree with you more i mean
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it's you know we've given up on afghanistan and like you said we're giving up on kosovo and
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and eastern europe um all for the sake of what i mean right for the sake of money for the sake of
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you know like afghanistan we left behind not only the people we've left behind and we left behind
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it's estimated anywhere between 900 billion and 2.4 trillion dollars in precious minerals that are
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instrumental in building circuit boards and computer equipment and communications equipment and
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all sources i've talked to the chinese are in there already trying to make deals the russians are
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already back in there um i have no doubt that the uh russian intel services the gru are um assisting
00:40:52.100
we we've had operators going in trying to help that say they have seen the russians on the ground
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and uh today the story broke that china is looking at bagram as a uh as a destination for all of their
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you know heavy equipment if you will well and why would you not i mean bagram sits in a in a in probably
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the most defensible place in afghanistan um you've got the high ground you've got multiple runways it's
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a large facility and why we didn't um at least blow it up that is our at a minimum that but start before
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that glenn oh i know why didn't we use that as our area of helping get out right afghans and we still
00:41:38.300
could be flying we still could be flying the great tails out of that air force base easy yes easy and
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and we wouldn't have had to put un unvetted people into america we wouldn't have had to need the use or
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the support of other countries because bagram's big enough we could have isolated people that want to
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come to america we could have went ran them through the terror database we could have done everything
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that needed to be done and i mean i hate to talk about what could have been done but we have to look
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at what could have been done to understand why we're in the mess we're in yes um mark geist um you can
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follow him at mark geist.com uh or mark geist swp that shadows warrior project uh any way we can help you
00:42:25.020
mark with what you're doing i i can't thank you enough for what you guys are doing on the ground
00:42:29.520
you know the thing right now is we've got people that are we have people in um safe houses we've
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got american citizens and green card holders that we are trying to get out um you know it's we'd love
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to help get all the others out and we're going to continue with that as well well i right now it's
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like that we need to get out of here i know and uh as soon as our planes start to fly we have four on
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the tarmac now we're waiting for the state department to get the hell out of our way
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and uh we've got 10 others lined up so i i hope we can uh partner with you in any way that we can
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just to help people thank you so much mark hey glenn thank you so much you bet god bless
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