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Pres. Donald J. Trump makes his first appearance on The Blend Back Program and talks about Afghanistan and what he would have done differently if he could go back in time to do things differently. He also gives an update on the situation in Afghanistan and gives updates on what s going on with the hunt against the Taliban.
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welcome to the podcast on the program today president donald trump he's the his first
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appearance ever with the program uh which is kind of crazy after all of this time he comes on and
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talks about uh afghanistan general milley he's very funny about general milley i don't think
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general milley found it that funny but uh i sure did uh he talks about everything that's going on
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in in the country today and maybe what he would have done differently we get into that with him
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also updates on what's going on with the nazarene fund and uh your efforts to help save people
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from certain death from the taliban including american citizens we of course appreciate that
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the nazarene fund.org is where you can go to help with that effort and a brand new development in
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the hunter biden laptop uh situation uh i will tell you it's not going to be a huge surprise to
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well let me set the scene this past weekend was the perfect example for everything wrong with joe biden
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the gross negligence of the past four years of media malfeasance everything that the left said
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would happen under donald trump just occurred over the last weekend let me just give you an update on
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where we are as a nation remember we were told oh everybody our allies just hate us so much because
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of donald trump and biden would come in and restore our integrity and our role in the world meanwhile
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britain's not talking to us france our longest uh ally and one of our most trusted nato allies
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recalled their ambassador for the first time in american history over a botched arms deal with australia
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oh and nato is about to collapse due to biden ignoring the nato heads of state they no longer
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trust us and are talking about a new european league instead of nato biden was going to be
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compassionate he would never put people in cages on the border well he didn't have cages we didn't
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even care enough to build a place for him now i haven't seen aoc crying on the texas border of the
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15 000 people that are living under the del rio bridge the border is worse than any time in american
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history a true humanitarian crisis all because biden reversed all of trump's partnerships with mexico
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and others we were promised the economy would roar back to life well we have 11 million unfilled jobs
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we're printing money for welfare the dow dropped 600 points yesterday because we're worried about
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another financial collapse this time in china who we are now fully in bed with biden would unite us
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57 percent of democrats now think trump supporters are the biggest threat to america followed by 56 percent
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that think the biggest threat is anti-vaxxers wow they've just made you doubly dangerous the people
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who support president trump the guy who got the vaccine done in record time and has had the vaccine
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himself and says other people should get it he and his supporters are called anti-vaxxers by joe
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no miracles are coming biden meanwhile trump was the dictator as biden forces companies to bend to his
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will on vaccines our president now last week told 100 million americans quote my patience is running thin
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gas prices are higher than ever we are no longer energy independent and because of what joe biden did in
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his first couple of weeks russia this morning is now holding europe hostage over oil and gas
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joe biden was for the working man now we find out yeah as long as you're in a union and if you don't
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mind runaway food inflation uh and it's not so bad unless you eat meat our schools are now run by the
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teachers union crt and you gotta mask your kids violent crime is through the roof i'm not sure what our
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military stands for anymore there's no accountability and the great uniter and global healer was handed
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peace in the middle east the historic abrahamic accords now in shambles they're back to appeasing
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iran putting israel in danger giving our weapons and planes to the taliban and to sum up in afghanistan
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americans have been left behind do you miss him yet president trump i started that list about
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20 minutes ago and i could have gone on i cannot believe it's only been nine months and this much
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damage has been done to our nation well i'd like to copy that list i think i'm going to get that and
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i'm going to maybe just you don't mind if i played your eyes like no not at all i wrote that
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that that is that is astounding that is astounding yeah there's plenty more it's pretty incredible
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well look europe is very very unhappy with him not for a personality reasons because i got along great
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i actually got along great with merkel i got along great with boris i got along great with everybody
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macron of france the the problem that i had is that nato and europe they were ripping us off
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so badly on nato i mean you have no idea i got them to pay 430 billion dollars i said look you got
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to pay we're protecting you they were delinquent most of them were not paying or they were paying
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very little not what they were supposed to pay they had a very strong regulation they have to pay
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up to a certain point they weren't even close to it other than eight countries eight out of 28 so
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that was nato was a ripoff from the standpoint of that and they paid up when i came in they asked me
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they said well would you protect i said no you got to pay and once i said you got to pay your bills no
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other president to set it and they were ripping us but they got along with me but they didn't like a
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lot of the things i did like for instance uh the second thing about europe we can go to many other
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countries many other places but but the second thing about europe is they ripped us off on trade
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we don't sell farm products there we don't sell cars there we don't sell anything they have us so
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restricted and i was breaking that up until we had the rigged election result i mean i was breaking it up
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and we were going to have i mean when covid came in obviously we had to have another thing and we
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came up with a vaccine in nine months actually less believe it or not it was supposed to take four or
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five years and did a lot of good work therapeutically regeneron and a lot of other things which people
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don't talk about which is so important if you ever get it although you had it didn't you i did i did
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have it yeah i had i had a bad case of it but i was taking the minute i stopped taking hydroxychloroquine
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hydroxychloroquine i got it right i mean oh but that's right well that was another thing i should
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have said you should never take hydroxychloroquine they say you must have it you know you know the
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wall so we had after two and a half years of lawsuits which i ended up winning all of them 11
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of them at least uh we started building the wall and it was a month from being finished it was great
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and it's still great because it covers such vast sections but just little openings and you know
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unlike them i wanted to get all our equipment back okay i took why i wanted everything coming back
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from mexico who they didn't they didn't mind leaving 85 billion dollars worth of equipment and
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in uh afghanistan so so so what happens so what happens is europe is ripping us off land so badly
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on trade so when i was you know there on numerous occasions great relationships but i said you can't
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do that you got to buy our cars you got to buy you know things that we make also so we had about when
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i got there we had 190 billion dollars trade deficit which nobody knows and with china we had 507 billion
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dollars in a trade deficit and i did a great job and i made a trade deal with china which put our farmers
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in great shape they're doing well because of it i mean frankly and i don't even talk about it because
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of covid though i don't even mention it you know when i when i talk about a trade deal it's a big deal
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it's one of the biggest deals ever made i also redid our deal with canada you know with canada and
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mexico that was nafta was probably the worst trade deal ever made and now it's a great deal for the
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united states and it's you know what we did is amazing and he's breaking so much of it up it's terrible
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i uh i but we have such limited time with you i i want to cover a whole bunch of stuff um the can you
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just tell me it were they following the withdrawal plan that you had in place with afghanistan
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no not even a little bit and we had a great plan but it was a very tenuous plan it was based on many
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conditions for instance you can't kill american soldiers and i dealt with abdul you know abdul ghani
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karaka and i dealt with him and very strongly and he's the guy that's now the boss and he was the
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boss then and a lot of people weren't sure and i had you know numerous conversations but i said the
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first absolute first part of the first conversation that abdul hopefully we're going to get along
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but here's the story if you kill any americans or any american soldiers any we're going to hit you
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harder than any country has ever been hit before and we're starting in your village but we are going
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to hit you harder than any country has ever been hit before i hate to start off a conversation that
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way it's not very friendly but that's okay i think you understand you've been fighting for your entire
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life so what happened what happened glenn is from that point for 18 months i believe it is
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approximately not one american soldier was killed we kept everything that we and you have to say i did
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want to get out but i wanted to get out with dignity and i wanted to take our equipment out
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and you know 85 billion dollars and i wanted to get i didn't want soldiers killed i've spoken to
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numerous of the parents who will only speak to me they won't speak to biden because they view what he did
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as having killed their child and what he did is just indefensible he took the military out first
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and he left all these people and then we became beggars to get the people out so i had a plan to
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get him out very quickly but first the americans would go out i say go out and you had a certain
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amount of time if somebody wants to stay we can't be responsible for them but not too many people would
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go out we were going to keep bagram open we were never going to close that because frankly
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bagram is more about china than it is about afghanistan is practically right on the border of
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china it's perfect and now we've lost that and you know who's taking it over china i hear china is taking
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it over we spend 10 billion dollars to build that base it's got the longest most powerful runways in
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the world and china is now got its representatives it looks like they're going to take it over
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glenn it's not even believable what's happened the way we got out you know they have apache helicopters
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these are really expensive weapons and really they have 28 of them and they're brand new they're the
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latest model they have you know other obviously planes i i even say this and you you're a man the reason
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you're great is because you're such common sense okay it's about most it's about 90 common sense
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let's face it and why wouldn't they bring pilots in to fly out the planes or the helicopters who
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would have taken an hour even if you land them in pakistan leave land them in any country you got
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10 countries you can land them in and get them out of there so they didn't do that let me um let me
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talk to you a little bit about pakistan um general uh hamid and um and the prime minister amram uh khan
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it has been remarkable helping us get uh christians or or or on this case they've been helping us on uh
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getting americans out and and people who are targeted they've been truly remarkable were that weren't
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they part of your plan yes i had a great relationship with khan you know he's a great
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athlete he was a great cricket player he was like the mickey mantle of cricket okay i don't know if
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you know that but he was a great athlete i guess you know that's how he was famous in the country and
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he became a prime minister and he was a friend of mine and he appreciated you know i wiped out isis
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100 of the caliphate which is much tougher than getting out of afghanistan yeah and we were getting out
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of afghanistan you know i took it down from 20 000 down to 2 500 troops or less and plus we had some
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european troops that i insisted be there because why should we be fighting all this stuff i mean
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another reason europe wasn't in love with me but they respected this country you know they respected
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us greatly now they don't they're laughing at us like we're fools and we are way he got out of
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afghanistan was in my opinion and your opinion too i think it was the most embarrassing event in the
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history of our country i you know it um it tells me something about the american soul that it is still
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uh wide awake and still open because i think people saw that and saw that that was the most dishonorable
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thing we've ever done it was dishonorable the way we treated our our allies for so long it leaving
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people behind leaving americans behind it has never been done never been done and now to have the
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the the pakistani general and the pakistani prime minister helping americans to get out and doing
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the things that our own federal government should be doing it's shameful it's shameful well it's uh
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an incredible thing but maybe more incredible is if you watch the news you see nothing about that
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catastrophe anymore you see nothing about i know the 13 soldiers warriors but you know they were brought in
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because we took everyone out and they they needed like an emergency and they brought these
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young generally young kids in and they weren't even there they brought them in they brought them in on
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an emergency basis they got blown up you know who they never talk about the people the our people
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and people on the other side 260 people but they don't talk about our soldiers whose legs were blown
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off that are right now sitting in a hospital maybe listening to your show congratulations on your
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success by the way thank you do great really great but they're sitting in a hospital with no legs with
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no arm they have been badly now we lost 13 but we have numerous really badly injured as you can imagine
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soldiers in the hospital right now nobody even mentions that but what's incredible is the news doesn't
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mention anything about this anymore in fact he's going to make a speech today he's going to talk
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about he got out of afghanistan now if you get out of afghanistan a lot of people like that and and you
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know people have different views on it but you know you get out but you leave with great dignity you
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leave with your weapons i always knew that government was a fake government we will give you another fake
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and ghani was you know he was uh seen leaving with loads of cash he had to leave some of it on the runway
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because it didn't fit into his helicopter and his plane so he left tremendous amounts of cash on the runway
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which nobody talks about and i would criticize him for years i used to criticize him because i heard certain
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things and i believe they were true and now he turned out to be true and the soldiers you know they're great
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fighters but they were fighting for a paycheck they were among the highest paid soldiers the afghans
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because we were paying six billion dollars to the soldiers to fight so they weren't really they were
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getting a paycheck that's why it collapsed so fast and i always said as soon as we leave within minutes
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that thing is going to collapse or before and i said ghani will be out right before us ghani had a lot
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of political power in the united states with the politicians that's the only thing kept him in office but
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so i knew that so therefore i want to take back the equipment because they're not going to use it
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because they're going to leave and that's what happened they left we could add the soldiers saved
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our people out everything beautiful and we could have been out in the same period of time it's really
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you know you're not talking about a different period of time or much of a different maybe you take an
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extra couple of months but you're talking about we would have been out i would have started in fact i had
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a may 1st date but they didn't meet the the conditions so we knocked the hell out of it we
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bombed them they were never going anywhere near me never anywhere near me and he understood remember
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they would never no country would ever have been hit so hard as what they if they killed americans
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right and think of it in chicago that a thousand people stay they what's happening in chicago is so
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bad with these democrats and new york is having a tremendous problem with crime the crime let me
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let me understand we didn't lose one soldier um can i ask you quickly the book is out uh today about
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general milley uh right the the failure from lloyd austin and general milley is historic
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but now we find out also that general milley uh possibly was undermining you with china while you
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were you were president you said and i thought it was very gracious of you to say i don't believe it
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i'll believe it when i see it do you believe it yet so i learned early on that he was a dope
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i learned that when you walk to the church that was smoldering from the rioters you know that's what
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they were anarchists that tried to burn it down that they tried to say were wonderful just you know
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protesters friendly protesters as i'm walking you see flame you see smoke i mean literally the day
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a day or two before they burned they tried to burn down the church which was built along with the
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white house i mean at the same time very very important institution everything and it's a church
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so they didn't quite make it but it was minutes from burning down all right and milley walked with me
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and i walked with numerous people but milley the next day i saw him apologizing from the day he
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apologized they essentially had nothing to do with him because they said this guy's a dope all he had
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to do is say uh it's my great honor to walk with the president or the presidency talk about not me
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talk about the presidency and there were other things he made a statement to me and i guarantee
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you that's what happened to biden he said to me because i said we're getting out of afghanistan we
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have to do it i said i want every nail i want every screw i want every bolt i want every plane i want
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every tank but i want it down to the nail screws bolts i want the tents you know those big beautiful
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tents that house the planes i never saw tents as great as that they're like hangers i said i want
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all of them deconstructed i want them i want every single thing and he said sir it's cheaper to leave
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it than it is to bring it i said wait a minute let me ask you a question because i'm a construction
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guy so i understand this stuff better than anybody i said let me ask you a question you think if you
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have an airplane there and you're going to leave the airplane instead of putting a tank of gas in
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and the airplane might have cost 40 million 50 million dollars we got really good stuff or the
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apache helicopters i said you mean some brand new by the way millions and millions of dollars so
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do you think it's it's cheaper to leave it where it is then have a have 200 pilots fly over and fly
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all the equipment out do you think it's cheaper yes sir it's cheaper to leave it than it is i said
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i gotta tell you i think you you gotta be nuts i mean give me a tank of gas and a pilot and i got
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i got i just picked up 40 million dollars a 40 million dollar airplane but he was strong he just
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it was amazing so i learned early that this guy's a dope but what he did do is he hurt our country and
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he hurt us on trade because i was making trade deals he hurt our country and he shouldn't have been
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allowed to do it and bad things should happen to him mr president it is a privilege to have you on
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uh you could stay for more i know you have a busy schedule but we'd like to have you back on again
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thank you so much president donald trump thank you very much
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this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening
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so yesterday i am you know it's like i have i swear to you it's like i have tourettes uh in some
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ways uh i will say the wrong things that i know are wrong because i know that i'm not supposed to
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say those things and it's just like comes out uh it's like with names stew i have names down it's
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totally the minute i get on the air i can't say a name you know the name you've said the name 500
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times in a row and then you get on the air and you say it wrong or you forget it completely yeah i
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mean it's it happens it's horrible yesterday let me just clarify on a couple of things before we get
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into this story 32 girls and their families with the fifa registered afghan women's youth national
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soccer team were evacuated to portugal we told you that yesterday um in great part by the help of
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the pakistani prime minister and your donations you probably have read stories about the soccer
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players getting out before the u.s troops left but that's a different national soccer team that's adult
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players they were evacuated to australia these girls are on the youth national soccer team they were in
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real trouble after the bomb went off and the u.s troops withdrew their rescue is really nothing short
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of a miracle uh they are fifa registered but i fifa but i was again you said fifa to me off the air
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25 times and then you get on the air and you say fifa yeah anyway uh that is true it's another example
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and this is why you're in the radio hall of fame that's exactly right they're like this guy somehow
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made it i mean that is that's worth hall of fame we're not saying the show's good we're just saying
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he kept a job this long it's amazing it's amazing um fifa was not involved in their rescue but they
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were uh monitoring the situation nick mckinley is with us now he is the founder and executive director
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of deliver fund how are you doing nick doing good glenn thanks for having me you bet uh nick and i have
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not met until yesterday and uh deliver fund is well explain what you do and how we came to know each
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other so deliver fund we are a counter human trafficking organization and we work primarily
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with law enforcement in the u.s and overseas to identify human traffickers so that they can rescue
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the victims and hold the human traffickers accountable little did i know and i think you
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didn't know this either little did i know um we mercury one is one of your major uh sponsors uh and
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that's correct and here we are we tried to find each other uh recently you tried to find out who was
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running these planes out of and um gosh we here we uh we've had such close relationship and neither of
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us knew it um yeah and little did we know we're right down the road from each other yeah um so nick
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tell me about the uh tell me about the girls and how all of this happened the the whole thing happened
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because uh so to kind of start at the beginning deliver fund was working with uh the u.s administration
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on counter human trafficking policy you know laws and things like that and then when afghanistan
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went high order and all of a sudden everything just started being the chaos that it is uh the
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administration reached out and said hey we need we need some help getting people out of afghanistan
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and you know we're we're a pretty apolitical organization and that our focus is on human lives
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and so we'll work with anybody to just just to save those human lives so we we started working uh with
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uh the original uh uh the original group of the u.s government personnel that were getting people
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out uh started helped with the khalid wardok rescue helped with a bunch of other rescues of
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people who were working for the administration uh for the u.s administration through all the
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administrations during the war it's important to understand that the taliban was telling these people
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we're going to kill you and sell your children so it's kind of an ultimate you know poke in the eye
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to their enemies to be able to do that and since we're counter human trafficking that's right in our
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right in our skill set and so we started helping to evacuate people we're originally doing that
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through eagle base that's all over the media nothing classified about that uh which is the cia base
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in kabul and then we got asked to help get out the the girl soccer team we thought this would be
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yet another easy operation we put them into the same mechanism everything would be just fine
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and then suicide bombs started going off that people don't changed everything people don't
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understand how much that changed everything when that suicide bomb went off the doors were closing
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immediately immediately nothing nothing that everybody had planned was going to happen
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absolutely that and then once that suicide bomb went off kind of the rules of the game on the ground
00:27:27.680
started changing by the hour so you put together an entire plan to get somebody out and then four of
00:27:33.900
the mechanisms in your plan were no longer viable so it was just this constant pivot you know
00:27:39.720
internally we were saying it was like building an airplane while you're flying it it was incredibly
00:27:45.340
difficult operating circumstances and and we didn't have time to you know be all over instagram
00:27:50.840
and all over social media to be trying to talk about what it is we were doing we're just trying to get
00:27:55.240
the work done uh then fast forward to uh we had two failed missions where we're trying to get
00:28:02.260
these girls out and uh one of them uh they're literally watching eagle base burn to the ground while
00:28:08.220
they're standing about a half a kilometer away from it uh that was their way out tried again the
00:28:14.200
next day we had them within about 40 meters of the black gate a lot of people understand what that is
00:28:20.800
and then couldn't get them out because the u.s military would not open the gates so we sent them home
00:28:29.640
and then very rapidly uh the taliban started going door to door looking for young girls uh and once we
00:28:38.020
started getting the cries for help from the girls saying you know the taliban on our street
00:28:41.680
we had to pivot very very quickly and so we uh implemented a mechanism we had on the ground to get them
00:28:49.460
into the north and to figure out how to get them out uh of the country and that was that was when the
00:28:57.380
real real heroics started uh usa id uh in the current administration was kind of running running the lead on this
00:29:05.960
and they were absolutely phenomenal i'm glad to hear that and and what yeah and and it was it was
00:29:12.680
it was excellent to see you know with everything that's going on in the political environment being
00:29:17.940
what it is there were some real heroics from all sides uh the first thing that we knew was we had to
00:29:25.340
we had to have a landing place for these girls because in support for people to understand we see them
00:29:30.360
as as young lives that need to be saved but many countries around the world saw them as a busload
00:29:37.960
of expensive refugees and we had to we had to counter that right by showing that these are these are lives
00:29:46.700
these are these are people whose lives matter i mean these are these are teenage girls who
00:29:53.040
were the taliban to get their hands on them were going to be forcibly raped through a forced marriage
00:30:03.700
by somebody anywhere from 20 to 40 years their senior for the rest of their lives i was uh we can't
00:30:11.240
stand by and let that happen yeah and and this is why the nazarene fund we we spend a lot of money
00:30:17.480
um on the aftercare because we can't just dump them into countries won't take them and so you like
00:30:25.280
we have we'll teach you a language we'll give you a job skill uh we'll pay for your housing for you know
00:30:32.000
a year just so you get your feet settled and then you you've got to perform and they do we've seen it
00:30:38.360
in f in uh australia they will perform they will meet those standards but no country just wants you know
00:30:46.380
10 000 refugees that have no place to go and no one taking care of them that's exactly right so that
00:30:54.720
was the first the first problem to be solved and uh between usaid kind of pushing the diplomatic
00:31:01.820
envelopes back and forth and senator coon's office uh was was absolutely instrumental and makes me
00:31:08.820
great uh yeah so the the the country of portugal stepped up and said we'll provide political asylum
00:31:17.400
for these girls that was absolutely phenomenal that is what needed to happen in order to to trigger
00:31:25.600
everything else that was needed to get them out of the country because before we were working
00:31:30.920
mechanisms to try to get them into other countries and they and the other countries said sure we'll let
00:31:36.260
them stay we'll even let them stay here for 30 days but we want to guarantee that they're following
00:31:40.880
on somewhere else and we're not going to have to take care of them forever so for portugal stepping up
00:31:46.180
and making that happen really really launched the entire operation um so once we got the political
00:31:54.640
asylum then it was a matter of you know getting overflight clearances and all things that you're familiar
00:31:59.700
with uh but then it was okay now we have now we have the problem can we get them out over land
00:32:05.600
and that was becoming an increasingly less viable option yeah plus we're talking about a bunch of
00:32:11.460
teenage girls you're not part of the world these girls are commodities so how are we going to guarantee
00:32:17.220
if we take them out of the land especially if they're smuggled out that they're not going to be abused
00:32:21.840
along the way so air was really the most viable option and we we had heard that there were folks who had
00:32:32.260
lines on airplanes couldn't really figure out who that was uh in the beginning and yet at the same
00:32:39.920
time we were burning thousands of dollars a day housing and feeding these girls so one of our uh one
00:32:47.220
of our donors uh andrew duncan stepped in and said i'll cover that cost wow and that was a huge help
00:32:53.100
because we were able to then have a little bit of breathing room to be able to figure out who who is
00:32:59.120
who's the magic people who have these airplanes who seem to be able to seem to be able to uh you know
00:33:05.760
get things moving um and then that's when we were introduced to rudy and the nazarene fund and from that
00:33:12.440
point uh the collaboration between us and rudy uh it just just was was incredible and there's a really
00:33:20.540
important piece here that's really a feather in the cap of the nazarene fund and that is okay no no go ahead
00:33:27.760
um and that is the fact that the nazarene fund uh was smart enough to have credit with cam air
00:33:36.280
so you know it's it's one thing to be able to pay for an airplane and uh you know thanks to andrew
00:33:43.120
uh andrew duncan you know we were able to to pay for those airplanes but it's another thing to be
00:33:49.220
able to pay for the airplane right now because obviously wires take a long time to clear yeah and
00:33:54.660
so that was very smart of you guys to have that credit so that uh as soon as there was a window
00:33:59.460
of opportunity we're able to take advantage of that opportunity and and fly right then and there
00:34:05.740
well rudy is um he's been running this operation for the nazarene fund and he's just amazing i think
00:34:12.080
it's a miracle him being placed where he is now has just been miraculous uh he pretty much runs
00:34:19.560
all of the airspace uh now if for any kind of uh operation like this he's kind of really doing
00:34:26.980
all of it uh in afghanistan which is crazy just crazy yeah and and it's interesting i i see you know
00:34:35.980
all these groups out there saying oh we we have we have planes you have a manifest and and when it
00:34:40.800
when it all comes down to it it's all rudy uh rudy's the guy making it happen i know everybody i know
00:34:47.100
all right so you guys did excellent hiring him if you are looking for a really rock solid group
00:34:54.360
to invest in that's the way i look at charitable money it's an investment in people and who does
00:35:00.300
the best job and who gets the most right to where you want it to go deliverfund.org it's something that
00:35:08.280
mercury one has been investing uh in if you will deliverfund.org we've we've helped them for
00:35:15.720
several years and we're thrilled to be able to help them with the nazarene fund uh on the ground
00:35:21.480
but please donate to deliverfund.org um so the other thing is and i uh you know donald trump and i were
00:35:30.940
just talking about uh prime minister khan uh who he said was a big part of his plan to hold this thing
00:35:37.960
together uh prime minister khan has been amazing uh along with uh general i think it's nazir what
00:35:46.180
is his name do you remember um but they've been remarkable in putting this together i don't know
00:35:52.680
how it happened but i think he was like a fan or something uh and i was i was asked to write to him
00:36:01.460
because he'll listen to your your email and i'm like what and he did and tell us the role that he
00:36:09.760
has played in this so so prime minister khan definitely uh uh deserves uh our thanks and uh and
00:36:18.840
and a debt of gratitude for uh for what the role that he played uh and i think it's important for
00:36:24.080
people to understand why so you know they say that luck is when preparation meets opportunity
00:36:31.780
uh personally i like to i like to say that luck is nothing more than divine intervention and there
00:36:37.040
was some serious divine intervention going on here so uh so prime minister khan turns out uh as i
00:36:44.940
understand it uh actually uh listens to the glenbeck radio show and so uh once yeah i mean
00:36:54.060
who who saw that coming yeah and so what was needed in order to get these planes to to take off
00:37:01.140
was for somebody to interface with the taliban um i happen to find myself fresh out of taliban contacts
00:37:08.700
and so somebody somebody had to had to had to do that because because whether we like it or not
00:37:17.640
the taliban is the government on the ground in afghanistan and there's nothing nick mckinley is going
00:37:22.420
to do about that and what we do with deliver fund we always work within the system to enhance the
00:37:28.040
system we don't work against the system so if we're going to get these planes off the ground
00:37:33.680
it's only going to be because the taliban allows them to take off so that was that's a that was a real
00:37:39.480
problem and it took it took weeks to figure out how to solve that problem so even though all the
00:37:44.920
heroics had been done on the diplomatic side somebody had to get the taliban to allow the planes to take
00:37:51.980
off and and even almost more important than that somebody had to tell the taliban not to mess with
00:37:58.120
the passengers who are going to get on the plane nick i got a report last night that when the girls
00:38:03.980
came to the airport because pakistan had said leave them alone when they got to the airport not a single
00:38:12.900
one was even asked they were just asked for their name they didn't where they weren't asked for
00:38:17.640
anything and they were left entirely alone just go go to the airplane that's and that is all because
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of prime minister khan it is it is thank you so much nick i appreciate it i hope to uh talk to you
00:38:30.360
again and and hear some more of your uh stories and thank you for everything that you and your team
00:38:35.120
are doing at deliver fund if you'd like to donate deliver fund.org deliver fund.org