The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Nikki Haley & Scott Mann ｜ 9⧸1⧸21

00:00:00.000 Hey, great podcast today. We have Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann on. He is he was the retired

00:00:08.240 Green Beret commander that led Task Force Pineapple that they went in in the cover of

00:00:14.220 darkness. These veterans and rescued Afghans brought them out of their hiding places and 1.00

00:00:20.760 brought them to safety. It's an amazing story. Also, Nikki Haley joins us today. And you can

00:00:27.560 lay your bets down on whose head explodes first, mine, Stu's or yours as we go after the president's

00:00:37.920 speech. And don't forget to check out the brand new episode of Glenn TV tonight. BlazeTV.com

00:00:43.560 slash Glenn. The promo code is Glenn. Tonight we go over everything that we can tell you

00:00:48.220 about Afghanistan. And it's it's quite an expose you don't want to miss. Right after a brand 1.00

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00:01:06.100 what? That's I don't. OK, well, just subscribe and rate and review. Thanks.

00:01:17.180 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:24.380 All right. OK. I don't know about you, but I'm excited. Oh, did you see the president's

00:01:34.420 speech last night or yesterday? Yeah. Yeah. It was. Pat, did you did you enjoy it? Oh,

00:01:41.280 oh, yeah. Like I've enjoyed a few things. Yeah. And Stu, I saw your show last night. I thought

00:01:48.360 you were going to have a brain hemorrhage. I did in the middle of the show. I'm surprised 0.88

00:01:52.100 you could talk. I if you can detect I am still a little raspy. Yes, I lost it. And I basically

00:01:58.500 blew a gasket for 20 straight minutes on this thing last night. Drove me insane. I know we

00:02:03.480 try to avoid the word now, but I think it applies. He's just evil. He's just evil incarnate.

00:02:11.180 He's not a good guy. He's not. I mean, I watched that last night. He does not care. He doesn't 0.92

00:02:17.260 care at all about what's going to happen to these people. Yeah. About the interpreter 1.00

00:02:22.280 that actually helped him specifically in 2008, who is still stuck in the country. He does not

00:02:29.540 care. Doesn't care. I don't think any of these people do, quite honestly. I really don't.

00:02:35.460 I don't think any of many of the people who are in Washington and especially those who are 0.75

00:02:43.040 the ones who are claiming all this woke crap, they don't they don't have any empathy. They don't have 0.86

00:02:50.380 empathy. And I don't think President Biden has it. And, you know, I don't know if I'm going to go

00:02:56.540 down the evil road with you. But join me. Join me. There's join me. Now at the end. All right.

00:03:05.380 Here is a here's a cut one from Joe Biden. Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in

00:03:15.640 Afghanistan, the longest war in American history. OK, it's not point. It's not one of the biggest

00:03:21.860 airlifts in history. Oh, my God. More than one hundred and twenty thousand people evacuated to say I want

00:03:27.760 to see the name to do that. That number is more than double what most experts thought were possible.

00:03:32.620 Oh, yeah. You know, twice as good as possible. No nation has ever done anything like it in all of

00:03:37.620 history. They didn't have to. Other countries don't have to do that. The capacity and the will and

00:03:42.700 ability to do it. And we did it today. The extraordinary success of this mission. Extraordinary

00:03:48.460 success. The incredible skill is bravely bravely. Selfless courage of the United States military

00:03:54.520 and diplomats and intelligence professionals. This success argument is the most it's incoherent

00:04:01.680 thing I've ever heard in my life. It's like it's like saying like, hey, we were playing with matches

00:04:06.480 and gasoline in the house and then we successfully evacuated out of the third story window by jumping

00:04:13.520 to safety. Well, like, wow, what a congratulations, I guess, is what I would say to that. Imagine Ronald

00:04:20.680 Reagan making this speech today. We all watched as the space shuttle Challenger reached its greatest

00:04:30.200 moment. This is a great day for NASA. Now, many people will focus on the explosion, but that teacher

00:04:41.900 that went up. She went higher than anyone else in this. And that's what we promised that she would

00:04:50.200 be the first in space. And we are just going to keep on going because nothing went wrong. And no nation

00:04:58.820 has ever picked up so many individual pieces of a space shuttle in such a short period of time.

00:05:04.100 You don't dare question me about the solid rocket, the solid fuel boosters. How dare you say there

00:05:14.480 might be something wrong with the O-rings? Yeah. Do you know how many fish we saved from falling space

00:05:21.280 shuttle debris? Jeez. More than have ever been saved. More than have ever been saved in American history.

00:05:26.960 That is what he's doing. Uh-huh. You know, this is an extraordinary success. What does failure look

00:05:34.020 like to this guy? I'd hate to see it. I would hate to see what... Let me, let me, let me tell you

00:05:41.900 something. I want you, I wish, and I may show this picture on tonight's broadcast.

00:05:48.640 When you have seen the concertina wire, the razor wire that was all over the gates of the airport and

00:06:03.120 all around, uh, the, um, the border fence. When you see that, and we've seen pictures of people

00:06:12.300 throwing their babies over that fence, right? Yeah. And Marines catching them. What you haven't seen are

00:06:18.520 the pictures that I have seen of the babies that fell into the wire and then fought their way out

00:06:25.840 and didn't make it. I've seen those photos. You need to understand how bad this situation was.

00:06:37.040 Okay. Anytime he says this was a success, I want you to remember the image that you now have in your

00:06:44.940 head. This was not a success by any stretch of the imagination and people need to be held accountable

00:06:55.200 because if this is allowed to stand and these people are allowed to just continue on with no

00:07:03.960 ramifications, you do not want to see what our military will turn into.

00:07:10.180 I am telling you now we will become the darkest force ever, ever to walk the earth with our technology

00:07:22.900 and our resources, with our fighting machine that soon can be run robotically. We will make the Nazis look 0.91

00:07:36.160 like rookies. If you are listening to me and you are in the military, you need to stand up today.

00:07:49.060 You need to demand accountability. Do you know the only one that has, that has paid and had,

00:07:57.420 uh, had to pay for accountability is the Marine Colonel that stood up.

00:08:02.600 He's the only one that's been held accountable for anything.

00:08:08.600 This must not continue.

00:08:13.460 Listen, by the way, in our number two, because I'm going to give you some real stats.

00:08:20.780 All right, cut to the Taliban has made public commitments broadcast on television.

00:08:26.700 Oh, oh, oh, radio across Afghanistan. Why don't you say so safe passage for anyone wanting to leave?

00:08:33.020 OK, including those who worked alongside America. Stop. Oh, stop.

00:08:38.080 If they made TV announcements, then radio and radio, radio. Don't don't forget radio.

00:08:43.700 Yeah. Yeah. And the Taliban, you know, talk radio can't be trusted, but the Taliban can be trusted on radio. 0.97

00:08:50.300 Now, I don't know if they've tweeted it. I know they still have access to their Twitter accounts,

00:08:53.560 but I don't know if they tweeted it last night. I was getting a report from what's going on and I can't give you any details,

00:09:03.040 but I will tell you this. The Taliban cares less about the people who were helping 20 years ago and translating.

00:09:13.760 They still will kill them, but they are actively hunting for those people who have translated for us in the last five years. 0.99

00:09:24.440 And anyone who says, oh, they're going to let them through their checkpoint, doesn't know their ass from their elbow. 0.99

00:09:31.100 They have no idea what's going on or they are lying. 0.98

00:09:35.540 So, Mr. President, which one is it? Do you not really know what's going on?

00:09:42.620 If so, the 25th Amendment should be invoked.

00:09:48.300 If you do know what's going on, then you should be impeached for lying to the American people on such a grand scale.

00:09:56.840 It is staggering.

00:10:01.320 Finish the clip.

00:10:02.280 Next clip.

00:10:06.240 Let me be clear.

00:10:08.100 Leaving August the 31st.

00:10:09.980 Oh, this one.

00:10:10.540 Is not due to an arbitrary deadline.

00:10:13.100 Oh, it's not?

00:10:13.880 It was designed to save American lives.

00:10:16.980 Oh, my.

00:10:17.880 Oh, my.

00:10:18.460 Is that hard to take?

00:10:19.260 Oh, my.

00:10:19.960 Oh, my.

00:10:20.580 Oh, my.

00:10:21.980 Oh, my.

00:10:22.660 What are you talking about?

00:10:23.640 It wasn't an arbitrary deadline.

00:10:25.020 It was based on the Taliban deadline that they told us where there's going to be consequences if you're not out by then.

00:10:30.480 They gave us the red line.

00:10:31.700 Yeah, it was the Taliban's deadline. 0.62

00:10:33.500 It was not our deadline.

00:10:34.820 And I wonder if he used that.

00:10:36.280 It was designed to save American lives on the Gold Star families that just had 13 of their family members slaughtered.

00:10:45.700 So, this was designed to save lives.

00:10:50.420 And in addition to the 13 Marines and Navy personnel, there's 170 others that were killed.

00:10:59.140 You're not doing a very good job of saving lives if that's what this was about.

00:11:04.580 It couldn't have gone any better, though.

00:11:07.680 Do we have a Biden retreat speech earlier evacuations available?

00:11:12.340 Can we do that one?

00:11:13.340 Because this one I have to.

00:11:15.200 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:11:16.080 Gasket.

00:11:16.500 Here we go.

00:11:16.900 I may not be able to be on the air today because I have so much to say.

00:11:29.000 And I will get people killed if I say information that I shouldn't.

00:11:34.180 And I also may just kill my entire business if I say what I feel. 0.94

00:11:40.200 Oh, I was so close.

00:11:41.580 You want to talk about coming close to saying naughty words on television?

00:11:44.880 Yeah, me too.

00:11:45.540 I was so, so many times got halfway down a word and stopped mid-syllable.

00:11:51.760 Can I say something to you?

00:11:52.820 When you said that, I almost said naughty words.

00:11:55.380 You mean like this?

00:11:56.520 I almost said it just now.

00:12:03.580 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:12:06.140 It is an honor to have you on, Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann.

00:12:18.460 How are you, sir?

00:12:20.060 Hey, Glenn.

00:12:20.860 How are you?

00:12:21.360 I have been a fan of yours since I was Captain Scott Mann.

00:12:26.360 So it is a real honor to talk to you.

00:12:28.340 Well, I feel the same way.

00:12:30.080 But let's talk about what you've just recently done.

00:12:34.020 Can you tell us about Task Force Pineapple?

00:12:37.020 Yeah, Task Force Pineapple, it was a nickname that we got that was the rescue of one Afghan commando where he was in duress.

00:12:49.660 He was retired in duress and was trying to make his way out, but he couldn't.

00:12:55.120 So a handful of Green Berets, we got on the phone with him. 1.00

00:12:57.400 We became his eyes and his ears and another ABC reporter, James Meek, and a congressional staffer.

00:13:03.660 We formed our little – and we did it all remote.

00:13:05.240 I know some of the reporting is that we went into country.

00:13:08.040 We actually used our trust, our relationships, which is kind of the Green Beret way, working by with and through indigenous people.

00:13:15.200 And then we just became his eyes and ears, and we helped him navigate and move through the city.

00:13:19.440 Ultimately got him through the wire and onto an airplane with his family, and we did that with about 700 families or 700 Afghans in three days.

00:13:29.100 That's unbelievable.

00:13:30.680 Absolutely unbelievable.

00:13:32.000 Yeah, it's a testament to Glenn, too.

00:13:35.680 You know, our combat veterans, what I was so proud of for these retired Navy SEALs, these Green Berets, Marines, is that when everybody else got angry, they got to work.

00:13:46.000 You know, they just said, you know what, we're not going to leave anybody behind.

00:13:49.100 We're going to honor the promise to the families and the Afghans who stood up for us, and we don't leave people behind.

00:13:55.640 And that's just what we did.

00:13:57.100 And these are volunteers.

00:13:58.220 These are business owners.

00:13:59.820 These are employees.

00:14:01.300 They've called in sick from Amazon.

00:14:03.500 The one guy that led the Underground Railroad through a sewage canal that coordinated it is an elementary school teacher, inspired by Harriet Tubman, who retired from SF.

00:14:13.320 I mean, it's just amazing how our veterans showed us what leadership looked like.

00:14:18.580 So are you still—I'm not going to even ask you that.

00:14:22.940 I'm not even going to ask that question.

00:14:24.160 When you hear the president say that there's only a couple hundred people left, do you have a comment on that?

00:14:34.120 There's still a lot of work to be done.

00:14:36.320 And, you know, we don't want to work at cross purposes with the Biden administration or any administration.

00:14:41.680 We intend to honor a promise and fill the gap that the government's not filling.

00:14:46.380 Good for you.

00:14:46.860 What we're doing right now is we are pivoting into, you know, the airfield was what we think of as rescue.

00:14:53.340 We are now a citizen liaison network that is moving to recovery.

00:14:57.520 We have already been working to move Afghans in this new situation, and we have. 1.00

00:15:03.140 We've moved them to safety, and we've moved them to freedom.

00:15:05.720 Whether that's a federal judge, prosecutor, or a group of Christian children, that's what we're doing. 0.98

00:15:11.900 High-risk, high-profile Afghans. 1.00

00:15:14.060 We're not leaving anybody behind.

00:15:16.640 Operationrecovery.org, and we are moving people, and we're going to keep moving them.

00:15:20.060 And we're hoping that the Biden administration will work even closer with us the way, you know, FEMA works with Team Rubicon.

00:15:25.980 These are SF dudes and SEALs that have been doing this for 20 years.

00:15:30.200 We know what we're doing, and we're viable, and we can help.

00:15:34.900 Have we been involved in any of these things with you, the Nazarene Fund?

00:15:41.500 And if not, please know that we are there to help you any way we can.

00:15:46.260 We'd be honored to work with you.

00:15:47.480 I appreciate that.

00:15:47.960 I appreciate that, Glenn, and same here.

00:15:49.940 I think any of the, you know, this is a time for, I believe, that I'm so encouraged that Americans, regardless of our political affiliation, take those negative feelings and put them into resolve.

00:16:00.260 It's the first time that I've seen Americans getting behind our myths.

00:16:04.880 And, you know, our veterans, man, they have been through some crap, and they're showing us how we come together and how we lead with resolve.

00:16:12.640 And so we're right there at your shoulder.

00:16:14.220 I would love to do that, and we're going to honor this promise.

00:16:17.140 So anybody who's inspired by honoring the promise to these heroic Afghans, you know, let's do it together.

00:16:23.480 OperationRecovery.org and the others, let's get them home.

00:16:26.120 Yes, OperationRecovery.org slash donate.

00:16:30.000 Go there now.

00:16:31.880 This is an incredible, incredible mission.

00:16:35.240 Let me ask you, is it, I suppose because you're doing something about it, it's not as hard.

00:16:42.880 But I worry that anyone's going to work with any American anymore around the world because we just left so many high and dry.

00:16:51.760 Are you getting, have you felt any pushback from these people that were asking, hey, can you give us some intelligence on this?

00:16:59.780 Can you help us?

00:17:00.500 We have it because we use this concept called the shepherd concept.

00:17:05.520 So the volunteers, the Green Berets, the SEALs, the Rangers that are doing this, we have pre-existing relationships that go 20 years deep.

00:17:14.560 And what we're trying to communicate to the government is that, you know, when you say Afghanistan was for nothing, you don't understand.

00:17:21.700 You have 20 years of relationships, of tangible linkages with some of the most amazing humans on the planet.

00:17:28.320 We didn't have that pre-9-11, and that's why we got hit.

00:17:31.300 And right now we do have that, but if we're not careful, the rest of the world is watching us.

00:17:36.940 And when Green Berets go into other countries to work by, with, and through indigenous people, they're going to say, you know what, I'll take your money, but I'm not working with you. 1.00

00:17:45.840 I'm not sticking my neck out because you don't get a mulligan when it comes to working with other humans.

00:17:50.500 Like, you've got to honor the promise, and that's what I worry about.

00:17:53.980 And I'm very open about that.

00:17:55.240 I say that to the Trump administration.

00:17:57.220 I say that to the, you know, to the Biden administration.

00:18:00.000 If you want Green Berets and operators like us to do our job, you have to honor promises you make on the back end and the front end.

00:18:07.760 Can you tell me what you feel about, or how do we repair our relationships, for instance, with England?

00:18:18.480 You know, I know that things between commanders of the 82nd and the SAS, I know it got ugly at the airport.

00:18:28.820 And I also know what people in England in power have told me.

00:18:35.400 They don't want to work with us anymore because we abandoned them.

00:18:39.000 How difficult is it going to be to repair this?

00:18:43.000 Well, it's going to take deliberate restoration.

00:18:46.200 You know, whether it's a marriage, whether it's, you know, a friendship, or whether it's, you know, an ally.

00:18:52.300 If you damage a relationship, it's up to you to atone and restore that relationship.

00:18:59.160 I teach that, you know, as part of the, you know, when I teach at the Green Berets is, you know, restoration of relationships is one of the hardest things you ever do.

00:19:07.020 Restoring trust.

00:19:07.780 That's going to have to happen.

00:19:08.820 But I will tell you this that I'm encouraged by is that when we, I did an interview with the BBC about Operation Pineapple when it was underway.

00:19:17.380 And I can't tell you how many Afghans were pulled out of the sewage canals because they were holding pineapples on their cell phones to those British troops, man.

00:19:26.040 And, you know, they're warriors just like us.

00:19:28.720 They know what authorities we had and we didn't have.

00:19:31.600 It was a very tense situation.

00:19:33.140 We've stood at each other's shoulders for centuries, and I have a feeling that we'll do that.

00:19:37.800 I just wish our political leaders would stop targeting each other and look at your combat veterans.

00:19:43.280 Look at how they're conducting themselves, right?

00:19:45.440 Look at how they're showing up and demonstrating what leadership looks like.

00:19:49.380 Let's give them some leadership that's worthy of their sacrifice and just follow their lead.

00:19:53.800 And that's all politicians have to do right now.

00:19:56.100 I have to tell you, and I think this is important for Americans to understand.

00:20:03.140 We have to have a military that is led by civilians.

00:20:07.740 That's really, really important.

00:20:10.660 But that is something very difficult, especially when the civilian people at the top are making all the wrong decisions.

00:20:18.360 But I want you to put yourself into the shoes of somebody that was at that gate as a Marine.

00:20:26.660 They knew what the right thing was to do, but they followed the orders.

00:20:31.800 And these were legal orders.

00:20:34.920 I mean, it's one thing.

00:20:35.800 You don't have to follow them when they're not legal.

00:20:37.640 But these were legal orders that these guys, to the core of their being, I know, vehemently disagreed with.

00:20:47.080 And yet they didn't break ranks.

00:20:50.260 They didn't go around and do something unconstitutional.

00:20:55.920 That must have been extraordinarily difficult for a lot of them.

00:21:00.540 And we should be very, very proud of our military that they didn't do that.

00:21:05.920 And what we should also understand, and this is where politicians have to get, you know, we have had a nation at war, Glenn, for 20 years.

00:21:13.840 And it's been less than 1% of the population that keeps going back and fighting.

00:21:17.660 And what you just described, when you put young men and women in that position, that's a moral injury.

00:21:24.480 It's a moral injury.

00:21:26.160 And moral injuries cut you down into the stomach.

00:21:29.780 They cut you down into the pelvic floor.

00:21:32.420 And they never leave you.

00:21:33.960 I know because I carry plenty.

00:21:35.560 And so what I would ask our politicians and our bureaucrats to do, you know, is if you're going to manage the perimeter security of a half-mile-wide airfield and then send, like, a three-star general in the process, let them do their job.

00:21:51.440 Let them give them the authority to do a non-combatant evacuation operation.

00:21:56.180 It's called a NEO.

00:21:57.280 We've done them for years.

00:21:58.600 We know how to do it.

00:21:59.820 And if you start applying politics to the world of soldiering and the world of fighting, you put your young Marines and your young paratroopers into these moral injuries, and they never get over it.

00:22:12.080 And we're losing 22 a day, not solely to that, but it's a big part of it.

00:22:17.460 And politicians and bureaucrats bear that responsibility.

00:22:20.680 And to our citizenry, you know, if we're not going to put a commanders-in-chief in place that really get that, we need to think about that when we pull the levers.

00:22:28.360 And this isn't partisan.

00:22:29.820 You know, we have an inherent responsibility to take care of our force, and that includes not putting them in positions of moral injury.

00:22:37.920 That's our job.

00:22:38.880 Let me – I don't want you to get into politics, and I don't want you to – I don't want to cause you any problems, so feel free not to answer this.

00:22:46.100 But I think there must be people held accountable for this.

00:22:53.240 This was – and it wasn't necessarily a military thing.

00:22:57.560 I think it really falls to the State Department and the White House.

00:23:00.900 But there also were some top people at the very, very top that made mistakes in the Pentagon.

00:23:06.760 Should people be held responsible for this?

00:23:10.660 And if so, who?

00:23:13.020 Yeah, I'm always in favor of accountability.

00:23:15.860 You know, one of the things that I wrote in my book Game Changers years ago about the Afghan war was that, you know, for the first 10 years of my life, or in Afghanistan, you know, I was in a trance of just retribution because my ranger buddy Cliff was killed in the Pentagon.

00:23:29.320 And I kind of abandoned the way that I should have been doing things as a Green Beret.

00:23:33.640 I was focused on just walking the enemy down instead of working with locals.

00:23:38.160 I own that.

00:23:39.100 I still own that.

00:23:40.160 I just – I wish that our politicians, our generals, our flag officers would – you know, like that lieutenant colonel that resigned in protest.

00:23:50.860 Like, where's that?

00:23:51.960 I would just like to see more of that on the military side.

00:23:55.500 Like, throw your rank on the table and say, no, like, if you do that, you can have my rank.

00:24:00.580 I mean, I haven't seen that lately at a senior level, and I'd love to see it.

00:24:03.840 I'd love to see, you know, that happen.

00:24:06.140 But then, yeah, I do think there should be accountability on this.

00:24:08.660 But, you know, for me right now and the combat veterans that are in it, we're focused on playing our position in support of the government as a citizen liaison network, whatever that looks like.

00:24:18.960 But what we're not going to do is break the promise.

00:24:20.940 That's not going to happen, and we've all committed to that, and we're volunteers, and we're, you know, we're doing this because it's right.

00:24:28.560 And so I hope there is accountability.

00:24:30.600 We all do.

00:24:31.340 But in the meantime, there's a lot of work to be done.

00:24:33.520 Scott, I so appreciate you, and I'm going to put you on hold, and one of my producers will give you my private email and text, because I mean what I say.

00:24:48.640 Anything you need, day or night, you contact, and we will be there for you.

00:24:53.340 I appreciate that, sir, and the same goes with me.

00:24:55.880 Thank you.

00:24:56.300 Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann, a president of Rooptop Leadership, retired Green Beret commander, and leader of Task Force Pineapple.

00:25:05.560 I highly urge you to donate and support OperationRecovery.org slash donate.

00:25:16.700 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:25:26.300 We are thrilled to have the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, former South Carolina governor, and good friend Nikki Haley joining us now.

00:25:41.260 She's just written a Washington Post opinion piece, America Must Not Recognize the Taliban.

00:25:47.840 Welcome.

00:25:49.640 Thanks so much, Glenn.

00:25:50.840 It's great to be with you again.

00:25:52.000 Yeah, it's great to talk to you.

00:25:53.200 So help me out here.

00:25:54.980 The Taliban, according to the president of the White House, you know, we've got a lot of leverage on them.

00:26:02.160 I don't know what it is.

00:26:03.760 And they've promised to be good.

00:26:05.760 Why shouldn't we recognize the Taliban? 1.00

00:26:08.600 Because they are a jihadist terrorist group.

00:26:11.720 I mean, the Taliban is no different than ISIS or al-Qaeda. 0.98

00:26:16.000 They're all bad.

00:26:17.000 They all have a warped view of human rights, if any at all.

00:26:21.520 They are all sharing a moral victory.

00:26:23.680 And we'll start to see heavy recruitment.

00:26:26.820 We'll start to see lone wolf scenarios.

00:26:29.400 And the part that I really don't get is Biden and company need to remember.

00:26:34.300 It was the Taliban that harbored those that that did the harm to us on 9-11.

00:26:41.580 That's who this is.

00:26:42.780 And it is the Taliban who has, you know, helped harbor Osama bin Laden. 0.88

00:26:48.460 They've helped harbor al-Qaeda. 0.87

00:26:50.160 Like, all of this is not a group that needs to be trusted.

00:26:53.480 It's why that group never needed to be trusted to secure the airport.

00:26:56.660 And the reason we lost 13 of our finest.

00:26:59.040 I mean, they've got to stop giving credibility to the Taliban.

00:27:02.880 And what we're trying to do is tell everyone to go to StandForAmerica.com and sign the petition that we're sending to all of Congress not to recognize the Taliban.

00:27:12.820 Because if you recognize the Taliban as the head of Afghanistan, you're basically saying send them money.

00:27:19.500 We know what they'll do with the money.

00:27:21.320 We've seen what they've done with money before. 0.99

00:27:23.720 It's going to go to killing people.

00:27:26.460 It's going to go to harboring weapons.

00:27:28.160 It's going to be harboring terrorists.

00:27:29.480 And it's going to go towards continuing to allow for threats on the U.S. soil.

00:27:34.080 So it would be a horrible mistake.

00:27:35.640 And why Blinken and those are continuing to talk to the Taliban just is beyond me.

00:27:42.800 I don't know if you know or have a better guess on how many Americans are still left there and how many people are trapped that are trying to get out.

00:27:51.100 I can tell you that number is in the thousands.

00:27:53.580 If you look at all of them, maybe even into the tens of thousands.

00:27:59.780 But our State Department is blocking our every move, our every move.

00:28:08.020 You know, I think you can see a lot in the fact that I was listening to Blinken's speech the other day.

00:28:13.700 And, you know, we have 200, maybe even 100.

00:28:17.040 OK, first of all, one is too many.

00:28:19.060 Because when you're talking about rescuing Americans, you're basically saying we have a hostage situation.

00:28:25.140 The second thing is all of these Americans couldn't even get to Kabul. 0.96

00:28:28.920 They're much further out in Afghanistan in those areas.

00:28:32.840 They can't get there.

00:28:34.180 And when they do go to a checkpoint, their passports and their green cards are being taken away.

00:28:39.100 So they're not being realistic and honest with the American public.

00:28:42.560 They know that there's more than just the 200 they say that they have.

00:28:46.320 And I think that, you know, if you listen now on the news, the conversation between Biden and and President Ghani got out.

00:28:54.980 And basically what Biden's saying to Ghani is this doesn't look good.

00:28:59.040 You need to fix the perception problem.

00:29:01.460 Well, you know, instead of trying to hide how bad it really was that the Taliban was taking over, why didn't Biden say, OK, we've got to change course.

00:29:11.100 We've got to do something different.

00:29:12.680 This isn't going well.

00:29:13.900 Like that was all the warning signs to say we need to do something different, not telling Ghani, smile and act like it's going better than it is.

00:29:22.060 And I think that's what Blinken's doing and trying to, you know, say that there's less Americans there than they are.

00:29:27.660 This is a terrible situation.

00:29:29.420 I mean, that we've been put in and a terrible situation for our military who knows in their blood that they're never supposed to leave an American behind.

00:29:37.220 Yeah. And Americans all know that.

00:29:38.900 Thank God so many Americans are stepping to the plate and and just being honorable.

00:29:43.380 I mean, it's remarkable what's happening outside of Washington.

00:29:48.120 Let me ask you, I just I just had a Green Beret commander on with me and I said, you know, what?

00:29:52.880 What is it what is it going to be like to be a Green Beret in a foreign country when you're trying to get people to help you?

00:30:01.020 And how are our foreign relations going to be with the military?

00:30:04.500 I'd like to ask you kind of the same question.

00:30:08.540 What what authority do we have anywhere in the world or in the U.N.

00:30:16.820 now?

00:30:18.300 Well, first of all, I think that, you know, at the end of Biden's speech was pretty much the beginning of his lame duck presidency,

00:30:25.480 because he has lost all the trust and confidence of our military men and women and their families.

00:30:31.120 He's lost the trust and confidence of our allies from Taiwan to Ukraine to Israel to India.

00:30:37.960 You name it.

00:30:39.220 He's lost the trust and confidence of the American people.

00:30:42.160 And the way countries are looking at him is, you know, never was there a time that I thought NATO would be having conversations without the U.S.

00:30:49.480 And that is happening now.

00:30:51.080 You've got the Europeans where, you know, the British and the French went out of their way to get their citizens out. 0.98

00:30:57.120 And the American government basically told them, don't come to the airport.

00:31:01.240 I mean, everyone is looking at America now, realizing they're weaker.

00:31:06.400 Russia and China are emboldened.

00:31:08.480 China is now trying to make moves on Bagram Air Force Base.

00:31:11.320 They have recognized the Taliban.

00:31:13.520 They're trying to get the minerals.

00:31:15.320 Russia now realizes Ukraine is more susceptible.

00:31:19.480 Biden already gave Nord Stream 2 pipeline to allow them to do that.

00:31:23.560 And you're going to start to see more hackings because Russia knows they're not going to do anything about it.

00:31:28.400 Iran is going to continue to start more nuclear production because they're no longer worried about the threat of Iran. 0.93

00:31:34.960 And you're seeing Kim in North Korea starting his production back because Biden in this one scenario,

00:31:41.040 showed that he's a very weak president and that the U.S. is not going to do anything about it.

00:31:46.500 And so it's put us in a terrible situation.

00:31:49.960 If I were in Taiwan today, I would be freaking out because I would think that, you know,

00:31:58.160 China is going to move on Taiwan in probably in the next two years.

00:32:03.060 Got to have Biden in office.

00:32:05.120 We know Taiwan is already freaking out and Biden is going to meet with Zelensky, the head of Ukraine today.

00:32:11.060 And I can assure you, Zelensky is going to tell him we don't feel comfortable.

00:32:16.100 You know, right now they're trying to become a member of NATO.

00:32:18.880 The U.S. was going to help them do that.

00:32:20.760 Well, they don't believe the U.S. can help them do that now.

00:32:23.880 Secondly, you went and you agreed to Nord Stream 2, which automatically gave Russia the upper hand. 0.67

00:32:29.280 And now, oh, by the way, you couldn't protect Afghanistan where you had been 20 years.

00:32:33.720 What makes you think that you're going to be able to protect us?

00:32:36.460 It's a very unsettling time for our friends around the world.

00:32:40.000 Nikki Haley, always good to talk to you.

00:32:41.820 It's never good to talk to you because we always find out the truth.

00:32:45.500 And it's not been good for a while.

00:32:47.240 Well, you know, I do want to say this to you, Glenn.

00:32:50.620 Thank you for helping to get the Christians out of Afghanistan. 1.00

00:32:53.360 That was God's work.

00:32:54.840 And I'm telling you, if ever there was a threat, it was on them.

00:32:58.200 And I know you had a big hand in that.

00:33:00.280 And I just thank you and God bless you for it.

00:33:02.060 Thank you very much, Nikki.

00:33:02.920 I appreciate it.

00:33:03.460 We'll talk again.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 01, 2021

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