The Megyn Kelly Show - Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban, with Sean Parnell and Charles C.W. Cooke

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00:00:31.220 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:00:33.140 Your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.

00:00:42.900 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:00:46.200 Well, we had a different show planned today but we switched it up

00:00:49.340 because we need to talk about Afghanistan.

00:00:51.940 The Taliban is now saying the war in Afghanistan is over.

00:00:56.540 And that they won.

00:00:59.120 They're back in control nearly 20 years after we first went into that country

00:01:03.940 in the wake of 9-11.

00:01:06.660 It was October 7th, 2001 that President Bush announced airstrikes

00:01:09.880 on the Taliban, on Al-Qaeda targets in Afghanistan.

00:01:14.820 And about a month later that the Taliban forces lost control

00:01:17.300 of the capital city of Kabul, which they now control again.

00:01:21.840 They've taken over all the major cities in Afghanistan.

00:01:25.600 They've taken over our Bagram Air Force Base.

00:01:29.240 They are letting Al-Qaeda prisoners out by the day.

00:01:33.180 The Afghan security forces are surrendering in droves

00:01:35.900 or simply taking off their uniforms.

00:01:38.520 There is terror among those who helped us in Afghanistan.

00:01:42.300 The civilian population that helped us as translators

00:01:45.100 or helped us navigate the roads or navigate food supplies

00:01:48.400 and so on and so forth, the journalists, Afghan journalists

00:01:52.180 who took up pens and pencils and paper

00:01:54.900 and tried to document what was happening over there

00:01:57.420 are writing now of their feelings of betrayal,

00:02:00.200 that they were promised that they would be helped out of the country

00:02:04.280 and we've abandoned that promise.

00:02:06.080 It's not going to happen.

00:02:07.360 They can't.

00:02:07.740 They have to go on to some website

00:02:09.440 and try to fill out forms, all of which are in English,

00:02:12.760 which, OK, you're a translator,

00:02:13.900 but still, there's some obstacles there

00:02:15.620 and they've basically been left behind,

00:02:18.200 some between 18 and 23,000 Afghans

00:02:21.300 who helped us, not to mention American citizens

00:02:23.360 who are having difficulty getting out

00:02:24.900 because we just picked up our toys and went home.

00:02:28.320 And President Biden is now being criticized

00:02:30.380 from the left, from the right,

00:02:31.580 even the media piling on

00:02:32.980 at how poorly this was handled,

00:02:36.620 how he's embarrassed our country.

00:02:39.020 He has humiliated the United States

00:02:41.300 and the way he handled this.

00:02:42.580 President Trump, former President Trump, of course,

00:02:45.680 is blaming Biden, saying he ought to resign in disgrace.

00:02:49.080 Biden's pointing the finger back at Trump,

00:02:50.500 saying you're the one who struck the deal,

00:02:51.700 saying our troops would leave by May 2021.

00:02:53.840 I extended it to September,

00:02:55.660 which is why they were leaving over the summer,

00:02:57.880 but you have only yourself to blame.

00:02:59.320 So what's the truth?

00:03:01.040 Well, we're going to get into all of it

00:03:02.280 and we've got a great, great set of guests today.

00:03:04.340 We've got Sean Parnell.

00:03:06.080 He is a decorated combat veteran.

00:03:08.480 He's the bestselling author of the book Outlaw Platoon,

00:03:12.260 which details his service in Afghanistan

00:03:15.180 and how rough it was and all the sacrifices

00:03:17.600 that were made.

00:03:18.300 Well worth your time.

00:03:19.640 And he's running for Senate in the state of Pennsylvania

00:03:22.000 on the Republican ticket.

00:03:24.020 We've also got Charles C.W. Cook,

00:03:25.680 who's an editor at National Review,

00:03:27.040 who is really helpful on exactly

00:03:29.280 what the Biden administration should have done here.

00:03:31.700 Yes, it was Trump's decision to say

00:03:33.160 we should pull out no more troops in Afghanistan.

00:03:35.260 And you may quibble with that.

00:03:36.620 Many do, saying,

00:03:37.800 why don't we leave a residual force?

00:03:39.300 We've got thousands of troops in Japan,

00:03:42.220 South Korea, in Germany.

00:03:43.960 Why wouldn't we leave some there?

00:03:45.620 Right.

00:03:45.920 It's a it's a hotbed for terror.

00:03:48.060 It always has.

00:03:48.740 But why wouldn't we leave a few thousand there?

00:03:50.360 Um, but he's got the actual specific questions to ask,

00:03:54.580 even if you want them all out.

00:03:55.960 Why did we do it the way we did?

00:03:57.880 What what exactly, he'll explain,

00:03:59.560 should Biden have been doing that he didn't do

00:04:01.500 that is leading to us now seeing

00:04:03.440 people who work at the embassy

00:04:05.360 on the rooftops waiting to be evacuated?

00:04:08.780 Because this is part of the visuals

00:04:11.100 that we've been watching on television,

00:04:13.000 the ones that Joe Biden said

00:04:14.140 would never happen.

00:04:16.600 Never.

00:04:17.000 Well, he was wrong about that and so many things.

00:04:21.680 And just as we put this show to bed,

00:04:22.960 we learned that the Biden administration

00:04:24.780 has updated the president's schedule.

00:04:27.120 He is now expected to speak

00:04:28.640 at 3.45 p.m. today on Afghanistan.

00:04:31.680 He's been dragged kicking and screaming,

00:04:33.300 essentially, out of his vacation at Camp David.

00:04:36.120 He wasn't going to speak.

00:04:37.100 He wasn't going to come back until Wednesday.

00:04:39.000 Wasn't going to speak until the earliest Tuesday.

00:04:41.500 The pressure's mounting on him so much.

00:04:43.560 He had no other choice.

00:04:44.660 There's a lot to go over.

00:04:45.500 So we're going to get to it in just one minute.

00:04:47.800 Stay with me.

00:04:54.260 Sean, hi.

00:04:54.960 We meet again.

00:04:56.080 We meet again.

00:04:56.840 How you doing?

00:04:57.700 What a disaster.

00:04:58.900 What a disaster.

00:05:00.740 I mean, we just talked about this,

00:05:02.940 but I think it's unfolded in a way

00:05:05.960 that some had indeed predicted.

00:05:08.380 But now we're just learning

00:05:09.540 about how little Biden cared

00:05:11.720 about how this was going to happen,

00:05:14.060 who it was going to hurt,

00:05:15.820 who it was going to endanger,

00:05:17.020 what kind of images it was going to create

00:05:18.620 that would be used against the country,

00:05:20.460 how we would abandon all of our allies

00:05:22.160 who'd been helping our troops,

00:05:23.280 guys like you who'd been over there

00:05:24.460 trying to fight nobly,

00:05:26.020 local Afghans who'd been our translators,

00:05:28.000 who'd been our assistants,

00:05:29.040 who'd been getting us from town to town,

00:05:31.480 just left there now begging, crying.

00:05:34.260 And it really seems like

00:05:35.900 absolutely no thought went into this.

00:05:37.640 Your thoughts.

00:05:39.340 It's hard to describe the sheer ineptitude

00:05:42.960 of the way Biden has handled this withdrawal.

00:05:47.280 It's just simply stunning to me

00:05:50.940 how removed he's been from this process.

00:05:55.140 And it's very, very important

00:05:57.440 to draw a distinction

00:05:58.980 between what President Trump

00:06:00.420 was trying to do with withdrawal

00:06:02.280 and what Joe Biden's trying to do.

00:06:03.780 Now, anytime you try to withdraw

00:06:06.520 from a place like Afghanistan,

00:06:08.380 the so-called graveyard of empires,

00:06:10.780 no plan is going to be perfect.

00:06:12.740 But at least President Trump's plan

00:06:15.360 was conditions-based.

00:06:18.140 In other words,

00:06:18.900 certain conditions on the ground

00:06:20.200 had to be met

00:06:20.820 before they moved on to the next phase.

00:06:22.620 At least President Trump

00:06:23.840 was engaged with regional leaders.

00:06:26.400 Like, for example,

00:06:27.540 Joe Biden hasn't talked

00:06:28.760 to the Prime Minister of Pakistan

00:06:31.080 since his seven months

00:06:33.020 of being in office.

00:06:34.340 I mean, Pakistan's obviously

00:06:35.440 a major regional stakeholder

00:06:37.520 in the area.

00:06:39.140 They share a border with Afghanistan.

00:06:40.740 Don't you think

00:06:41.140 if you're the leader

00:06:42.060 and commander-in-chief

00:06:43.140 of the United States of America

00:06:44.980 and planning retrograde operations

00:06:47.060 in Afghanistan,

00:06:47.740 don't you think it'd be important

00:06:48.580 to engage the Prime Minister of Pakistan?

00:06:51.760 And this is something

00:06:53.000 that I just can't wrap my mind around.

00:06:55.020 The fact that Joe Biden

00:06:57.160 moved President Trump's withdrawal date

00:07:00.060 from May to August,

00:07:01.900 or I'm sorry,

00:07:02.440 from May to September

00:07:03.420 for strictly political reasons.

00:07:06.840 Now, that's important

00:07:08.220 because it gave the Taliban

00:07:09.480 the time, the space

00:07:11.540 to consolidate, reorganize,

00:07:14.080 and plan an offensive.

00:07:15.200 And in the interim,

00:07:16.680 meet with China,

00:07:17.980 who absolutely has a stake

00:07:21.240 in what's going on in Afghanistan.

00:07:22.560 They are absolutely involved

00:07:24.960 behind the scenes.

00:07:25.940 And so, Megan,

00:07:28.200 there were so many,

00:07:30.300 and I don't, I mean, gosh,

00:07:31.560 we could spend hours

00:07:32.300 talking about Afghanistan,

00:07:33.420 but there were so many

00:07:35.060 strategic blunders here

00:07:36.380 that it's hard to imagine

00:07:38.980 messing up Afghanistan

00:07:40.680 more than the Biden administration

00:07:42.460 has done.

00:07:43.860 But here we are.

00:07:45.640 For folks who weren't paying

00:07:47.300 close attention over the weekend,

00:07:49.740 the Afghan government has collapsed.

00:07:52.680 President Ghani has fled the country.

00:07:54.460 The Taliban's taken Jalalabad,

00:07:56.540 the last major city besides Kabul,

00:07:59.600 not held by them,

00:08:00.460 but now they're in Kabul too.

00:08:02.100 Taken Bagram Air Base,

00:08:04.340 Parwan Prison,

00:08:05.200 where we were keeping bad guys.

00:08:06.780 Then we handed that over

00:08:07.720 to the Afghan security forces

00:08:08.880 a few months ago,

00:08:09.540 and they promptly lost it

00:08:11.040 to the Taliban now,

00:08:12.080 and they let all these prisoners out,

00:08:13.800 including al-Qaeda operatives.

00:08:16.280 They're now going to implement

00:08:18.320 Sharia law,

00:08:19.140 because that's what

00:08:19.680 the Taliban believes in.

00:08:20.920 We've got choppers

00:08:23.320 ferrying U.S. diplomats

00:08:25.260 out of Kabul to the airport.

00:08:28.000 The United States

00:08:28.640 is completely pulling out

00:08:29.660 of our embassy

00:08:30.140 over the next day or two.

00:08:32.460 We are inside,

00:08:33.760 our operatives,

00:08:34.960 our people are inside the embassy

00:08:36.160 burning important documents,

00:08:37.940 burning American flags.

00:08:39.060 It's our policy

00:08:39.640 not to leave those behind

00:08:40.500 to be used for propaganda.

00:08:42.060 The fact that our diplomats

00:08:43.760 are being put in this position

00:08:44.980 where they're unprotected,

00:08:45.940 they've got to burn

00:08:46.620 all the last remaining things

00:08:47.800 so that the Taliban...

00:08:48.600 I mean, what kind of an operation is this?

00:08:50.960 This is something you do

00:08:51.980 when you're...

00:08:52.440 It's an unexpected attack.

00:08:53.760 This is totally foreseeable.

00:08:56.340 First of all,

00:08:57.220 and there's a couple things

00:08:58.640 that I want to make very clear here.

00:09:00.220 There is absolutely

00:09:01.440 a 0% chance

00:09:03.400 that our intelligence

00:09:04.480 and our military

00:09:05.160 did not know

00:09:06.380 about this Taliban advance.

00:09:08.420 Megan,

00:09:08.920 we listen to their communications

00:09:10.660 24 hours a day,

00:09:11.780 seven days a week,

00:09:12.620 and you don't need

00:09:13.240 any sexy combo equipment

00:09:14.520 to do it,

00:09:15.020 just simply a walkie-talkie

00:09:16.300 tune to the right channel.

00:09:17.260 Our intelligence operatives

00:09:19.340 knew about this.

00:09:20.800 Now,

00:09:21.420 who in the Biden administration,

00:09:23.520 what suit

00:09:24.220 disregarded that intel?

00:09:25.880 I think it's critically important.

00:09:27.440 A couple other things.

00:09:28.540 As we move forward,

00:09:29.820 I am very, very afraid.

00:09:31.760 We still have thousands

00:09:32.860 of Americans

00:09:33.820 behind enemy lines

00:09:35.220 surrounded in a city

00:09:36.380 that's controlled

00:09:37.200 by the Taliban.

00:09:38.300 Thousands.

00:09:39.240 Now,

00:09:39.440 there are only so many places

00:09:41.020 in Afghanistan

00:09:41.740 that you can actually land

00:09:43.700 a commercial airline,

00:09:45.220 secure it,

00:09:45.720 and get civilians out.

00:09:46.640 One is in Bagram,

00:09:48.060 the Taliban control it.

00:09:49.680 One is in Kandahar,

00:09:51.060 the Taliban control it.

00:09:52.540 Kabul airport

00:09:53.340 is completely overrun.

00:09:55.160 There's another airstrip

00:09:56.400 in Gamal

00:09:57.240 that special forces

00:09:58.500 used to run

00:09:59.980 black ops out of

00:10:00.880 in and around

00:10:01.320 the Afghan-Pakistan border.

00:10:02.620 You can land a C-130 there,

00:10:04.040 but I doubt

00:10:04.520 that there's anybody

00:10:05.240 even in the Biden administration

00:10:06.760 that knows about that.

00:10:08.920 So,

00:10:09.380 we are in a very,

00:10:11.040 very desperate situation.

00:10:12.600 And,

00:10:13.220 God,

00:10:14.580 Megan,

00:10:15.360 the commander-in-chief

00:10:16.580 is missing in action.

00:10:19.080 He's completely AWOL.

00:10:20.940 In times of crisis like this,

00:10:23.200 look,

00:10:23.640 put the partisanship aside.

00:10:25.680 Democrat,

00:10:26.080 Republican,

00:10:26.520 does not matter.

00:10:27.420 Americans are trapped

00:10:28.200 behind enemy lines.

00:10:29.600 In times of crisis,

00:10:31.200 leaders,

00:10:31.820 real leaders

00:10:32.500 are involved

00:10:33.140 and not detached.

00:10:34.140 And this country

00:10:36.000 desperately needs

00:10:37.060 to hear

00:10:37.520 from Joe Biden

00:10:39.040 today

00:10:40.260 at the absolute latest

00:10:42.080 because

00:10:42.880 there is a major

00:10:44.920 leadership vacuum

00:10:46.060 in this country

00:10:47.460 right now

00:10:48.020 and the world

00:10:49.520 is watching

00:10:50.720 and our enemies

00:10:51.720 are laughing at us.

00:10:53.680 It's an unbelievable

00:10:54.880 embarrassment.

00:10:56.180 He's been sitting

00:10:56.600 at Camp David.

00:10:57.460 They put out a picture

00:10:58.260 of him getting briefed

00:10:59.700 via Zoom

00:11:00.400 and,

00:11:01.920 you know,

00:11:02.340 some technology

00:11:03.100 or like it.

00:11:04.580 And Jen Psaki,

00:11:06.040 the White House

00:11:06.360 communications director,

00:11:07.240 the White House

00:11:07.580 press secretary,

00:11:08.720 has been,

00:11:09.500 her out-of-office

00:11:10.240 notification is on,

00:11:11.260 Sean.

00:11:11.980 She's taking the week off.

00:11:13.780 Like,

00:11:13.900 I'm going to be out of office.

00:11:14.820 Well,

00:11:15.000 we'll get back

00:11:15.860 into the office

00:11:16.560 and get your boss

00:11:17.940 back into the office

00:11:18.860 and speak to the

00:11:20.140 American people,

00:11:20.860 speak to the families

00:11:21.720 of the troops

00:11:22.280 who now are going to

00:11:23.360 have to go back there.

00:11:24.300 So what happened was

00:11:25.160 Trump drew down

00:11:26.480 the remaining force

00:11:27.700 in Afghanistan

00:11:28.220 to 2,500

00:11:29.000 right before he left office.

00:11:30.520 And then you had

00:11:31.320 the chairman

00:11:31.660 of the Joint Chiefs,

00:11:32.860 Milley,

00:11:33.420 and you had

00:11:34.280 Austin,

00:11:35.200 the SECDF,

00:11:36.100 go into President Biden

00:11:37.300 and say,

00:11:37.740 you got to hike

00:11:38.520 that back up.

00:11:39.160 We got to go up

00:11:39.640 to about 4,500

00:11:40.400 in Afghanistan

00:11:41.300 to make it safe

00:11:43.220 to get out

00:11:43.840 our diplomatic personnel,

00:11:45.640 to make sure

00:11:46.840 this sort of transfer

00:11:47.760 to the Afghan security

00:11:48.960 forces goes as well

00:11:49.940 as we wanted to.

00:11:50.740 You know,

00:11:50.880 this thing has to be

00:11:51.620 handled carefully.

00:11:52.860 We can't just,

00:11:53.480 you know,

00:11:54.480 willy-nilly jump out of there.

00:11:55.860 And Biden

00:11:56.460 didn't want to do it.

00:11:57.540 And now you have

00:11:59.200 the scenes

00:11:59.660 of the people

00:12:00.160 on the rooftop

00:12:01.940 of the embassy

00:12:03.260 or the building

00:12:03.940 right next to the embassy.

00:12:04.820 The exact thing

00:12:05.640 Biden said

00:12:06.120 would not happen.

00:12:07.560 It happened in Saigon,

00:12:08.800 Vietnam,

00:12:09.180 when we left there.

00:12:09.820 And now it's happening

00:12:10.880 in Afghanistan.

00:12:12.080 You've got that.

00:12:13.120 And we have to send

00:12:13.980 back in 5,000 troops.

00:12:15.400 Now we have to send

00:12:15.900 more than he was advised

00:12:17.700 to send.

00:12:18.100 And he refused

00:12:18.960 to do it.

00:12:20.220 So you tell me

00:12:21.200 whether that's,

00:12:21.820 I mean,

00:12:21.960 it's just obvious

00:12:22.860 he's mishandled this.

00:12:24.080 This has been

00:12:24.500 completely botched.

00:12:26.400 I'm telling you,

00:12:27.620 he,

00:12:28.020 it's a disaster.

00:12:29.460 It's an unmitigated disaster.

00:12:31.200 And by the way,

00:12:31.880 look,

00:12:32.600 I'm wearing my

00:12:33.640 tactical commander hat here.

00:12:36.060 It's not simply

00:12:37.220 as easy as sending

00:12:38.140 in 5,000 troops anymore.

00:12:40.440 Where do you send them?

00:12:41.900 The United States

00:12:42.560 doesn't have a foothold

00:12:43.480 in Afghanistan anymore,

00:12:45.020 Megan.

00:12:45.640 And so this is why

00:12:46.700 I talk about,

00:12:47.740 like,

00:12:48.000 who made the decision

00:12:49.600 within the Biden administration

00:12:51.260 to abandon

00:12:53.200 Bagram Air Base.

00:12:54.700 I mean,

00:12:54.840 obviously the buck

00:12:55.500 stops with Joe Biden.

00:12:56.800 He's obviously responsible.

00:12:58.540 But in what world

00:12:59.540 does it make sense

00:13:00.540 to abandon

00:13:01.480 the only air base

00:13:03.500 that you have

00:13:04.560 that can secure

00:13:06.780 and exfil

00:13:07.940 thousands of Americans

00:13:09.220 who are still left

00:13:10.280 in Kabul

00:13:11.000 and are allies?

00:13:12.740 I mean,

00:13:12.960 and by the way,

00:13:13.520 there was a prison

00:13:14.160 and there's a prison

00:13:15.320 in Bagram as well

00:13:16.420 that contained

00:13:16.860 5,000 of the world's

00:13:18.380 worst terrorists

00:13:19.140 who are now

00:13:19.700 all on the loose.

00:13:21.420 That abandoning

00:13:22.540 Bagram Air Base

00:13:24.020 before we could get

00:13:25.460 all our people out

00:13:26.760 is the strategic blunder

00:13:29.620 of the century.

00:13:31.440 It is something

00:13:31.980 that will haunt

00:13:32.700 the Biden administration

00:13:33.740 for a long time

00:13:34.600 because the reality is,

00:13:35.900 Megan,

00:13:36.640 the Taliban

00:13:37.900 just as,

00:13:38.880 just a few weeks ago

00:13:40.300 in their meeting

00:13:41.240 with the Chinese

00:13:42.380 were trying to buy

00:13:43.140 surface-to-air missiles.

00:13:44.760 So,

00:13:45.280 can you imagine?

00:13:46.360 That's a game changer,

00:13:47.480 right?

00:13:47.880 You can't simply,

00:13:49.120 and this is why

00:13:49.720 you're watching

00:13:50.220 CH-47 helicopters

00:13:51.740 in and around Kabul

00:13:52.720 discharge flares.

00:13:53.900 They were flying in pairs,

00:13:55.380 the lead helicopter

00:13:56.140 discharging flares

00:13:57.200 and the helicopter

00:13:58.400 in the rear

00:13:59.540 picking up people,

00:14:01.420 right?

00:14:02.340 It's,

00:14:02.980 you're going to have to,

00:14:03.820 you're going to have to

00:14:04.620 have special forces teams

00:14:05.760 on the ground.

00:14:06.620 You're going to have to have

00:14:07.420 them clear for surface-to-air

00:14:08.580 missiles.

00:14:09.380 You're going to have them

00:14:10.020 have them secure

00:14:10.760 a landing strip

00:14:11.500 to get people out.

00:14:12.880 And then,

00:14:13.900 once that happens,

00:14:15.820 then maybe you can get

00:14:16.680 5,000 troops in there.

00:14:17.780 But as of this morning,

00:14:19.620 Kabul airport is shut down

00:14:20.980 because the runway

00:14:21.760 is overrun

00:14:23.320 with panicked Afghans.

00:14:24.780 I'm telling you,

00:14:25.620 I'm very,

00:14:27.740 very afraid

00:14:28.460 that there is going

00:14:29.640 to be a hostage crisis

00:14:30.800 here in Kabul.

00:14:32.420 And I don't know

00:14:32.860 what the future looks like,

00:14:34.000 but again,

00:14:34.580 I'm not,

00:14:35.220 I'm not even throwing

00:14:36.540 political jabs here.

00:14:37.800 It's just wargaming

00:14:39.140 the situation

00:14:40.000 and thinking that

00:14:40.980 at the end of the day,

00:14:41.920 right now,

00:14:42.460 the situation is

00:14:43.500 Afghanistan has fallen.

00:14:45.360 There are thousands

00:14:46.040 of Americans trapped

00:14:46.980 behind enemy lines

00:14:47.920 and our commander-in-chief

00:14:49.240 is MIA.

00:14:50.880 Oh, wow.

00:14:52.260 Senator Tom Cotton

00:14:53.380 said the same.

00:14:54.140 He said he's getting reports

00:14:55.260 from local

00:14:56.960 Arkansans over there

00:14:58.980 saying we,

00:15:00.220 we don't know

00:15:00.740 how to get out.

00:15:01.540 We need help.

00:15:02.880 And so it's not just

00:15:04.080 the Afghans

00:15:04.660 who helped us,

00:15:05.260 as you point out,

00:15:05.900 it's actual American citizens

00:15:07.140 who are stranded

00:15:08.560 without any meaningful way

00:15:10.100 of getting out

00:15:10.520 in the video

00:15:11.040 of these Afghan,

00:15:12.840 I guess,

00:15:13.440 security forces.

00:15:14.620 Maybe it's just

00:15:15.000 Afghan citizens

00:15:15.680 literally hanging

00:15:18.000 on the side

00:15:19.100 of our aircraft

00:15:20.660 on that runway.

00:15:23.000 They're stunning.

00:15:24.320 And it just speaks

00:15:25.200 to how poorly

00:15:26.140 this has been done,

00:15:27.280 how poorly

00:15:27.800 we've treated

00:15:28.260 our guys,

00:15:29.260 our allies there.

00:15:31.280 But I think

00:15:32.100 the answer,

00:15:32.920 Sean,

00:15:33.160 is Joe Biden

00:15:33.840 is the one

00:15:34.200 who made the call

00:15:34.800 because not only

00:15:35.800 was Milley,

00:15:36.560 the chairman

00:15:36.840 of the Joint Chiefs,

00:15:37.520 telling him,

00:15:38.340 you've got to

00:15:38.600 increase the troops.

00:15:39.460 This has got to

00:15:39.820 be handled just right.

00:15:40.620 Otherwise,

00:15:40.920 the Taliban

00:15:41.260 is going to take over.

00:15:42.640 And Lloyd Austin,

00:15:43.620 Secretary of Defense,

00:15:44.240 said the same.

00:15:45.320 But they appointed,

00:15:46.180 Congress appointed

00:15:46.980 an outside independent

00:15:47.920 panel to look at this

00:15:49.220 headed by military guys.

00:15:50.780 And they came back

00:15:51.420 and said,

00:15:51.880 if you pull out

00:15:52.900 too soon

00:15:53.360 without the appropriate

00:15:54.260 sort of precautions

00:15:55.820 in place,

00:15:56.840 this is what's going

00:15:57.800 to happen.

00:15:58.220 And it's everything

00:15:58.720 that we're seeing happen.

00:16:00.040 And Biden reportedly

00:16:01.160 said to these guys,

00:16:02.320 I don't really care.

00:16:04.380 He said,

00:16:05.340 I'm not keeping

00:16:06.820 the troops there

00:16:07.420 any longer.

00:16:08.100 I'm going to follow

00:16:08.680 the plan that Trump set.

00:16:10.180 You know,

00:16:10.760 and in his defense,

00:16:11.720 Trump did say

00:16:12.360 troops out by May.

00:16:13.300 He extended it

00:16:14.220 to September

00:16:14.780 and he said,

00:16:16.040 if we need

00:16:16.960 to stay longer,

00:16:18.020 whose son or daughter

00:16:19.040 do I send?

00:16:19.940 You want your son

00:16:20.740 or daughter to die

00:16:21.540 when the Afghan

00:16:22.180 security forces won't?

00:16:24.560 Because,

00:16:24.960 and you look at it,

00:16:25.640 this is in his defense,

00:16:27.040 the Afghan security forces

00:16:28.180 ran.

00:16:29.900 They did nothing.

00:16:31.040 We spent

00:16:31.600 $83 billion

00:16:32.840 trying to train

00:16:33.820 these guys.

00:16:34.580 They completely

00:16:35.720 gave up

00:16:36.500 as soon as

00:16:37.220 the Taliban showed up.

00:16:38.140 And so I see

00:16:38.680 the point that Biden

00:16:39.740 will probably make

00:16:40.800 when he comes

00:16:41.160 to the microphones

00:16:41.700 of why should

00:16:43.360 you fight?

00:16:43.900 Why should we send

00:16:44.520 the Sean Parnells

00:16:45.380 of the world

00:16:45.780 when the locals

00:16:47.700 won't fight?

00:16:48.740 Yeah.

00:16:49.120 Well,

00:16:49.500 I think there,

00:16:50.140 I think,

00:16:51.220 let's just be clear.

00:16:53.040 It's time to leave

00:16:54.000 Afghanistan,

00:16:54.740 right?

00:16:54.940 We've been there

00:16:55.380 20 years.

00:16:56.080 I just turned 40

00:16:56.940 in July.

00:16:57.860 So think about that.

00:16:59.360 We've been in Afghanistan

00:17:00.260 for half of my life.

00:17:02.260 It's,

00:17:02.680 it's time to go.

00:17:04.480 But it's the manner

00:17:05.920 in which President

00:17:07.100 Biden conducted

00:17:08.820 the withdrawal

00:17:10.100 that,

00:17:11.200 that is,

00:17:12.600 that is,

00:17:13.180 was just disastrous.

00:17:14.320 It seemed,

00:17:15.220 again,

00:17:15.440 we've,

00:17:15.660 we talked about him

00:17:16.420 just being disengaged.

00:17:18.420 But yeah,

00:17:19.580 of course we don't want

00:17:20.340 to send America's

00:17:21.180 sons and daughters

00:17:21.780 into the fight anymore

00:17:22.700 in investing

00:17:23.320 $88 billion

00:17:24.140 in the Afghan

00:17:24.940 National Army

00:17:25.720 that collapsed

00:17:26.380 in and itself

00:17:27.040 in a month.

00:17:28.400 Questions need to be asked.

00:17:30.120 How did this happen?

00:17:32.320 But Joe Biden,

00:17:33.720 he owns this disaster.

00:17:35.620 I mean,

00:17:35.800 President Trump,

00:17:36.640 again,

00:17:37.260 again,

00:17:37.860 at least had

00:17:38.940 a conditions-based withdrawal.

00:17:40.300 So for your viewers,

00:17:41.100 what does that mean?

00:17:41.600 It means he's talking

00:17:42.480 to regional leaders.

00:17:43.320 He's talking

00:17:43.880 to the Afghan National Army.

00:17:45.260 He's talking

00:17:45.540 to the Afghan Security Forces.

00:17:47.140 He's keeping contractors

00:17:48.400 at Bagram

00:17:49.100 and in Kandahar

00:17:50.120 who can perform

00:17:51.040 maintenance

00:17:51.420 on their aircraft.

00:17:52.600 I think,

00:17:53.140 again,

00:17:53.720 as a military commander

00:17:54.700 early on,

00:17:55.640 right,

00:17:55.920 watching the Taliban

00:17:56.780 advance over the last

00:17:58.060 week or so,

00:17:59.320 the Afghan National Army

00:18:00.520 and the Afghan

00:18:01.020 Security Security

00:18:01.440 Forces early on

00:18:02.680 tried to fight back,

00:18:04.460 right?

00:18:04.840 But then they realized

00:18:06.000 that they weren't

00:18:06.880 getting backup

00:18:07.400 from their aircraft.

00:18:08.720 They had no air support

00:18:09.800 whatsoever

00:18:10.300 because our contractors

00:18:11.540 who serviced

00:18:12.160 the Afghan National Army's

00:18:13.480 Air Force

00:18:13.960 were gone.

00:18:15.380 They were pulled

00:18:15.800 out of the country

00:18:16.380 by Joe Biden

00:18:17.180 and I think

00:18:17.920 they just gave up.

00:18:19.140 The former ambassador

00:18:21.420 to Afghanistan

00:18:22.460 under President Obama,

00:18:24.880 okay,

00:18:25.200 this is,

00:18:25.620 you know,

00:18:25.760 he worked for Obama,

00:18:26.500 for Obama.

00:18:27.100 Biden,

00:18:27.660 Ryan Crocker,

00:18:28.620 came out,

00:18:29.200 this is a quote,

00:18:29.720 and said,

00:18:30.000 I am left

00:18:30.560 with some grave

00:18:31.180 questions in my mind

00:18:32.320 about Biden's

00:18:33.460 ability to lead

00:18:34.280 our nation

00:18:34.740 as commander-in-chief,

00:18:35.980 to have read

00:18:36.900 this so wrong

00:18:38.000 or even worse,

00:18:39.220 to have understood

00:18:39.980 what was likely

00:18:40.900 to happen

00:18:41.460 and not care.

00:18:43.880 I mean,

00:18:44.320 to have somebody

00:18:44.920 like that coming out

00:18:45.720 and say that

00:18:46.120 Biden's getting

00:18:46.720 no support.

00:18:47.600 I mean,

00:18:47.940 the only people

00:18:48.680 I've heard support

00:18:49.380 what's happening

00:18:49.940 right now,

00:18:51.300 interestingly,

00:18:52.380 are kind of,

00:18:53.000 well,

00:18:53.080 you've got sort of

00:18:53.540 the crazy sort of

00:18:54.540 like former Governor

00:18:55.320 Jerry Brown

00:18:56.080 of California,

00:18:56.780 all right,

00:18:57.000 so sort of

00:18:57.660 far leftists.

00:18:59.840 But then you've got

00:19:01.080 people who are

00:19:01.760 truly Trump loyalists

00:19:03.100 who are very

00:19:03.860 America-firsty

00:19:05.120 and sort of like,

00:19:05.880 hey,

00:19:06.000 this has been

00:19:06.440 a failed experiment.

00:19:07.840 You know,

00:19:08.100 we kept our eye,

00:19:09.480 we took our eye

00:19:10.260 off the ball

00:19:10.680 in Afghanistan

00:19:11.180 and no more,

00:19:12.260 not another American life,

00:19:13.260 let's get out.

00:19:13.900 I've heard some people

00:19:14.540 just sort of say,

00:19:15.380 you know,

00:19:16.440 we're sad,

00:19:17.380 we're sorry

00:19:18.040 for the Afghan folks

00:19:19.860 who helped us,

00:19:20.780 but no more,

00:19:22.420 no more American bloodshed,

00:19:23.520 not one more,

00:19:24.240 you know,

00:19:24.560 if we've got to

00:19:24.900 get out ugly,

00:19:25.540 let's just get out.

00:19:26.560 Yeah,

00:19:26.820 well,

00:19:27.100 listen,

00:19:27.540 I mean,

00:19:28.320 this is the balance,

00:19:30.440 right,

00:19:30.720 Megan?

00:19:31.260 The question

00:19:32.220 on the Republican

00:19:33.040 side of the aisle

00:19:33.700 anyway,

00:19:34.180 and probably

00:19:34.540 on some of the Democrats

00:19:35.460 is the humanitarian

00:19:36.340 crisis that would ensue

00:19:38.640 after an American pullout.

00:19:40.560 And I think that,

00:19:41.500 you know,

00:19:42.040 if our withdrawal

00:19:42.880 was conducted properly,

00:19:45.180 a lot of that

00:19:46.100 humanitarian crisis

00:19:47.320 could have been avoided

00:19:48.300 or at least delayed

00:19:49.380 for a long time

00:19:50.920 to the point

00:19:51.440 where we can get

00:19:51.880 our allies

00:19:52.420 out of that country.

00:19:53.360 But as leaders,

00:19:54.840 right,

00:19:55.180 as people who are

00:19:55.940 making the decisions

00:19:57.100 to send America's

00:19:58.780 sons and daughters

00:19:59.600 into the fight,

00:20:01.160 this is why I always say

00:20:03.300 you have a moral obligation.

00:20:06.140 We as a country

00:20:06.760 have a moral obligation

00:20:07.940 that when we send

00:20:08.740 our sons and daughters

00:20:09.580 into the fight

00:20:10.080 that we win.

00:20:11.160 Otherwise,

00:20:11.700 you're going to have

00:20:12.380 an entire generation

00:20:13.680 of Americans

00:20:14.380 who served,

00:20:15.240 fought,

00:20:15.600 and bled

00:20:16.020 questioning

00:20:16.900 and wondering

00:20:17.920 what the heck

00:20:18.500 it was for.

00:20:19.120 And at the end

00:20:20.620 of the day,

00:20:21.540 right,

00:20:22.180 yes,

00:20:22.940 we had an obligation

00:20:24.020 and we made a promise

00:20:24.980 to the Afghans

00:20:25.780 that yes,

00:20:26.320 we are going to protect you,

00:20:27.920 fight for freedom,

00:20:28.880 and we'll stand with you.

00:20:30.040 But the question is,

00:20:31.480 and it's a question

00:20:32.100 that all of us

00:20:32.700 as Americans

00:20:33.200 need to ask,

00:20:33.980 and especially our leaders

00:20:34.920 in Washington,

00:20:35.720 is when is that obligation

00:20:36.760 fulfilled?

00:20:37.380 Is 20 years enough?

00:20:38.640 I think it is.

00:20:39.620 Because as leaders,

00:20:40.960 right,

00:20:41.140 we also have an obligation

00:20:42.620 to the Americans

00:20:44.840 who are going to go fight,

00:20:46.700 bleed,

00:20:46.920 and die over there,

00:20:47.580 the idea that

00:20:49.060 the mission is clear,

00:20:50.720 that victory

00:20:51.560 is clearly defined,

00:20:53.120 and that end-state operations

00:20:54.500 are also clearly defined.

00:20:55.920 And this is why

00:20:56.680 I've been saying

00:20:57.260 over the last,

00:20:58.040 you know,

00:20:58.460 couple of weeks

00:20:59.260 is that this nation,

00:21:00.640 I think,

00:21:01.000 really needs to get back

00:21:02.040 to the days

00:21:03.180 of declaring war,

00:21:04.900 right?

00:21:05.220 And the last war

00:21:05.920 we did that in

00:21:06.520 was World War II

00:21:07.400 and involving Congress

00:21:09.780 and putting our mission

00:21:11.100 down on paper

00:21:12.160 and being accountable

00:21:13.280 to that mission

00:21:13.960 and what end-state

00:21:14.680 looks like.

00:21:15.180 Because when wars

00:21:15.900 aren't declared,

00:21:17.260 right,

00:21:17.580 they tend to go on

00:21:18.920 forever.

00:21:19.920 And the mission changes,

00:21:21.580 it evolves,

00:21:22.340 and that's how we end up

00:21:23.140 in a situation

00:21:23.720 like we're in in Afghanistan

00:21:24.680 where we've been there

00:21:25.560 for 20 years

00:21:27.180 and we wonder

00:21:28.740 what the heck

00:21:29.220 it was for.

00:21:30.280 So what about that?

00:21:31.740 Because I'm thinking

00:21:33.220 about those,

00:21:33.920 I'm thinking about

00:21:34.360 the families

00:21:34.840 of the 2,300 servicemen

00:21:36.480 and women

00:21:36.800 who died in Afghanistan.

00:21:38.360 I'm thinking about

00:21:39.260 the 20,000 like yourself

00:21:40.640 who were wounded

00:21:41.220 over there

00:21:42.440 and wondering,

00:21:44.780 you know,

00:21:45.360 I don't think

00:21:46.380 you can necessarily

00:21:47.080 say we won.

00:21:48.640 I think that's a stretch,

00:21:50.420 but I also know

00:21:51.860 I, like you,

00:21:52.600 experienced 9-11

00:21:53.440 as an adult.

00:21:54.420 I was a little older

00:21:55.200 than you.

00:21:56.260 And I know

00:21:57.340 for the last 20 years

00:21:58.140 we haven't had

00:21:58.840 a massive terror attack

00:22:00.000 on U.S. soil

00:22:00.960 because we've been

00:22:02.000 fighting them over there.

00:22:02.960 And that was part

00:22:03.600 of the goal.

00:22:04.080 Yes,

00:22:04.320 we started to do

00:22:05.300 democracy building

00:22:06.160 and so on,

00:22:06.700 nation building.

00:22:07.980 And Afghanistan

00:22:08.860 did have

00:22:09.360 democratic elections

00:22:10.180 I think three or four times.

00:22:12.580 But look,

00:22:13.200 that's a tough,

00:22:13.840 tough territory

00:22:14.480 to go in

00:22:14.980 and try to revamp,

00:22:16.420 you know,

00:22:16.640 to have a makeover in.

00:22:18.940 So,

00:22:19.380 did we win?

00:22:21.860 How do you see

00:22:23.440 the fight

00:22:23.960 and the loss

00:22:24.780 of blood and treasure

00:22:25.500 over there now?

00:22:26.840 Well,

00:22:27.240 I would say

00:22:28.200 that American service

00:22:30.100 men and women

00:22:30.880 who served in Afghanistan

00:22:32.080 have a lot

00:22:33.000 to be proud of.

00:22:33.980 They did a lot

00:22:34.640 of extraordinary

00:22:35.180 things over there.

00:22:36.240 They defeated

00:22:37.740 the enemy

00:22:38.140 at every turn.

00:22:39.340 You know,

00:22:40.380 we killed

00:22:41.360 a lot of people,

00:22:42.780 bad guys,

00:22:43.680 very,

00:22:44.320 very bad guys

00:22:45.520 in Afghanistan

00:22:46.340 that would have done

00:22:47.620 the United States harm,

00:22:48.860 no question about it.

00:22:50.640 We built wells

00:22:52.640 for villages.

00:22:54.220 We delivered

00:22:54.680 humanitarian assistance.

00:22:56.160 We taught little girls

00:22:57.200 how to read.

00:22:57.940 We built schools.

00:22:59.740 We did a lot of good

00:23:00.760 for the Afghan people

00:23:01.760 and we gave them

00:23:02.840 a shot at freedom.

00:23:04.060 Their service

00:23:04.600 was not wasted.

00:23:05.520 At some point,

00:23:06.680 the Afghan people

00:23:07.340 were going to have

00:23:07.740 to stand up

00:23:08.240 and fight for it

00:23:08.900 on their own

00:23:09.740 if they really,

00:23:11.920 truly want it.

00:23:12.940 But I'm not going

00:23:15.560 to lie to you,

00:23:16.080 Megan.

00:23:16.260 This has been

00:23:16.760 a real complex time

00:23:18.520 for me emotionally.

00:23:20.900 I'm surprised

00:23:22.080 by how much

00:23:23.080 this is affecting me.

00:23:24.500 You know,

00:23:24.980 when you serve

00:23:26.580 and you went

00:23:28.160 to Afghanistan

00:23:28.760 and you go to combat

00:23:29.920 and you fight

00:23:31.820 and you take life

00:23:34.000 that changes you

00:23:35.420 and you leave

00:23:37.600 a portion of yourself

00:23:38.780 over there

00:23:39.380 and I think

00:23:40.940 that's part of the reason

00:23:41.780 why veterans

00:23:42.700 from every generation

00:23:43.900 go back to the battlefield

00:23:44.960 years later

00:23:45.800 and I think

00:23:46.320 in hopes to find

00:23:47.420 that part of themselves

00:23:48.300 that they lost

00:23:49.220 and watching Afghanistan

00:23:52.000 collapse in on itself

00:23:53.540 basically

00:23:54.720 was just like

00:23:56.000 going back

00:23:56.720 to the Stone Age

00:23:57.520 really

00:23:57.840 because that's,

00:23:58.980 you know,

00:23:59.520 you want to go back

00:24:00.300 to a time

00:24:00.780 where Jesus Christ

00:24:01.620 walked the earth

00:24:02.320 at the AK-47

00:24:03.360 in the pickup truck

00:24:04.940 and you got Afghanistan

00:24:06.340 and so

00:24:07.800 you half wonder

00:24:09.900 it's like

00:24:10.380 am I ever going

00:24:11.000 to find that aspect

00:24:11.880 of myself

00:24:12.440 that I lost

00:24:13.060 over there again

00:24:13.760 and so

00:24:14.700 if you're someone

00:24:15.640 that's watching this

00:24:16.540 and you have

00:24:17.380 a veteran in your family

00:24:18.700 that fought

00:24:19.120 in the Afghan war

00:24:19.880 or you know

00:24:20.300 a Gold Star family

00:24:21.220 a family that lost

00:24:22.100 someone over there

00:24:22.900 reach out to them

00:24:24.140 and check in on them

00:24:24.920 because I guarantee you

00:24:25.940 this is not an easy time

00:24:26.960 for them

00:24:27.840 yeah

00:24:28.360 wow

00:24:29.140 I feel

00:24:30.640 I feel every word

00:24:31.500 of what you just said

00:24:32.220 I think about

00:24:33.840 the fact that

00:24:34.800 they're letting

00:24:35.160 these Al-Qaeda operatives

00:24:36.220 and bad Taliban operatives

00:24:37.760 out of the jails

00:24:38.660 out of the prisons

00:24:39.400 that we set up

00:24:40.100 and it's like

00:24:41.200 some of our soldiers

00:24:42.840 died trying to get

00:24:43.880 those guys captured

00:24:44.740 right

00:24:45.360 and now it's just like

00:24:46.260 well here's the keys

00:24:47.040 come on back

00:24:48.120 and that's the thing

00:24:49.260 about terror

00:24:50.060 you know the

00:24:50.680 just a couple of headlines

00:24:52.360 on it

00:24:52.700 the Joint Chiefs of Staff

00:24:53.820 again Milley said

00:24:54.840 he told the senators

00:24:55.720 that the U.S. homeland

00:24:56.540 is now at greater risk

00:24:57.980 from terror groups

00:24:58.720 that Afghanistan

00:25:00.200 is very likely

00:25:01.180 say the experts

00:25:02.040 to become a sanctuary

00:25:02.900 for radical Islamic terrorists

00:25:04.260 again

00:25:04.640 that it's going to be

00:25:06.000 a terrorist safe haven

00:25:07.040 now

00:25:07.440 Al-Qaeda is still

00:25:09.060 heavily embedded

00:25:09.780 with the Taliban

00:25:10.600 and the BBC

00:25:11.160 had a report out

00:25:12.040 just yesterday

00:25:12.600 saying

00:25:13.100 the Taliban promised

00:25:14.880 Al-Qaeda

00:25:15.240 that the two groups

00:25:15.960 would remain allies

00:25:17.080 so

00:25:18.640 you know

00:25:19.620 General Jack Keene

00:25:20.560 who I love on Fox

00:25:21.360 he's been jumping up

00:25:22.420 and down about this

00:25:23.100 saying look

00:25:23.600 this battle

00:25:24.600 whatever

00:25:25.780 however many

00:25:27.140 tributaries

00:25:28.140 it went down

00:25:29.140 wrongly or rightly

00:25:30.040 the battle really

00:25:31.380 has been about

00:25:31.960 fighting Islamic terrorism

00:25:33.100 and stopping it

00:25:34.320 from coming to the

00:25:34.960 United States

00:25:35.520 and that battle

00:25:36.320 doesn't have an end date

00:25:37.320 so it's still on

00:25:39.020 and I'm

00:25:39.720 I'm worried

00:25:40.800 I'm worried

00:25:41.760 I

00:25:42.220 as much as we have

00:25:43.400 all this time

00:25:43.860 on our hands

00:25:44.260 we worry about

00:25:44.960 all this woke

00:25:45.600 woke bullshit

00:25:46.560 here in the

00:25:47.060 United States

00:25:47.680 right

00:25:47.980 it's like

00:25:48.240 we've taken

00:25:48.940 such a weird

00:25:49.620 turn

00:25:50.080 like the real

00:25:51.580 fight

00:25:52.020 it is

00:25:53.180 genuinely

00:25:55.000 frightening

00:25:55.540 and it may be

00:25:56.560 seriously back on

00:25:57.640 it

00:25:58.580 Megan it is

00:25:59.480 and I have to

00:26:00.900 tell you

00:26:01.240 it really

00:26:02.020 upsets me

00:26:02.880 that over

00:26:04.180 the last

00:26:04.700 seven months

00:26:05.360 and I've talked

00:26:05.860 about this

00:26:06.240 a couple times

00:26:06.980 over the last

00:26:07.700 week or so

00:26:08.380 that it seems

00:26:09.480 like our

00:26:09.900 generals

00:26:10.720 the people

00:26:11.840 that are supposed

00:26:12.240 to be leading

00:26:12.760 us

00:26:13.020 are focused

00:26:14.060 on

00:26:14.680 you know

00:26:15.480 critical race

00:26:16.320 theory in the

00:26:16.880 ranks

00:26:17.280 and testifying

00:26:18.160 to the

00:26:18.940 importance

00:26:19.360 of understanding

00:26:20.220 white rage

00:26:21.080 on Capitol

00:26:21.760 Hill

00:26:22.200 and pronouns

00:26:24.000 and bios

00:26:24.920 and things

00:26:25.500 like that

00:26:26.140 and boy

00:26:27.540 the threat

00:26:28.440 that's out

00:26:29.020 there though

00:26:29.600 is real

00:26:30.540 and and again

00:26:32.140 I talked

00:26:32.900 we talked

00:26:33.380 about this

00:26:33.760 in the last

00:26:34.280 show

00:26:34.560 is that

00:26:34.900 that people

00:26:35.560 talk about

00:26:36.140 diversity

00:26:36.640 as if it's

00:26:37.160 the be all

00:26:37.600 end all

00:26:38.040 and of course

00:26:38.520 it's very

00:26:39.300 very important

00:26:40.260 but what makes

00:26:41.420 our military

00:26:41.980 exceptional

00:26:42.520 is the unity

00:26:43.660 beyond all

00:26:44.380 that

00:26:44.700 and being

00:26:45.100 unified

00:26:45.700 in the face

00:26:46.560 of the great

00:26:47.200 many threats

00:26:47.820 that this nation

00:26:48.720 faces

00:26:49.280 is very

00:26:50.360 very important

00:26:51.160 and over the

00:26:51.800 last seven

00:26:52.260 months

00:26:52.480 it doesn't

00:26:52.900 seem like

00:26:53.260 our generals

00:26:53.720 were focused

00:26:54.180 on that

00:26:54.520 at all

00:26:54.860 it doesn't

00:26:55.240 seem like

00:26:55.700 our generals

00:26:56.220 were focused

00:26:57.080 on the

00:26:57.880 withdrawal

00:26:58.420 in Afghanistan

00:26:59.080 right

00:26:59.900 and we're

00:27:00.460 seeing

00:27:00.920 the disastrous

00:27:02.180 consequences

00:27:02.980 of that

00:27:03.800 distraction

00:27:04.620 play out

00:27:05.220 on the

00:27:05.460 battlefield

00:27:05.780 right now

00:27:06.980 in very real

00:27:07.800 time

00:27:08.180 on our

00:27:08.640 television

00:27:08.960 sets

00:27:09.340 all around

00:27:09.920 America

00:27:10.400 what is

00:27:11.600 this

00:27:11.920 what message

00:27:12.900 does this

00:27:13.700 send to the

00:27:14.120 world about

00:27:14.600 whether they

00:27:14.960 can trust

00:27:15.420 America

00:27:15.920 right now

00:27:17.220 it's the

00:27:17.800 message that

00:27:18.400 we're projecting

00:27:18.900 across the

00:27:19.480 world is

00:27:19.920 one of

00:27:20.440 weakness

00:27:20.860 and again

00:27:23.280 where's Joe

00:27:24.520 Biden

00:27:24.900 I'm sorry

00:27:26.100 where is the

00:27:26.900 commander-in-chief

00:27:27.800 leaders in

00:27:29.620 times of

00:27:30.140 crisis

00:27:30.660 lead

00:27:31.440 where is

00:27:32.720 he

00:27:32.920 what's

00:27:33.700 going on

00:27:34.320 how are we

00:27:35.080 going to get

00:27:35.360 our people

00:27:35.740 out of there

00:27:36.340 it's

00:27:38.080 difficult to

00:27:39.180 describe

00:27:39.900 how weak

00:27:41.280 this makes

00:27:42.100 America

00:27:42.780 look

00:27:43.580 and it's

00:27:44.360 very

00:27:44.800 it should

00:27:45.200 concern

00:27:45.560 everybody

00:27:45.920 I don't

00:27:46.420 care what

00:27:46.740 political

00:27:47.040 party you

00:27:47.560 come from

00:27:48.000 but this

00:27:48.520 should worry

00:27:49.000 everybody

00:27:49.420 and I think

00:27:49.820 this also

00:27:50.420 needs to be

00:27:50.940 said

00:27:51.260 does Joe

00:27:52.620 Biden

00:27:52.980 and gosh

00:27:53.740 I'm not

00:27:54.260 trying to

00:27:55.000 throw political

00:27:55.780 jabs here

00:27:56.500 okay

00:27:57.020 but does Joe

00:27:57.960 Biden have

00:27:58.400 the wherewithal

00:27:58.960 to do this

00:27:59.420 job

00:27:59.740 does Joe

00:28:00.440 Biden

00:28:00.760 have the

00:28:01.160 wherewithal

00:28:01.680 to be

00:28:01.960 president

00:28:02.300 of the

00:28:02.600 United

00:28:02.800 States

00:28:03.240 it

00:28:03.760 certainly

00:28:04.100 doesn't

00:28:04.400 seem like

00:28:04.860 he does

00:28:05.300 and

00:28:06.300 in times

00:28:07.680 of crisis

00:28:08.180 that's

00:28:09.280 especially

00:28:10.040 apparent

00:28:10.820 is it

00:28:11.240 not

00:28:11.520 I mean

00:28:12.260 it's

00:28:12.500 this

00:28:12.760 crisis

00:28:13.320 has gone

00:28:13.720 on for

00:28:14.060 72

00:28:14.500 hours

00:28:15.000 and we

00:28:15.440 haven't

00:28:15.900 even

00:28:16.200 seen

00:28:16.900 the

00:28:17.360 president

00:28:17.680 of the

00:28:18.060 United

00:28:18.280 States

00:28:18.660 he

00:28:19.100 hasn't

00:28:19.420 even

00:28:19.680 taken

00:28:20.040 a

00:28:20.300 single

00:28:20.820 press

00:28:21.200 conference

00:28:21.700 like

00:28:22.460 anything

00:28:23.400 from him

00:28:24.280 is better

00:28:24.760 than

00:28:24.980 nothing

00:28:25.300 so I

00:28:25.940 really

00:28:26.360 do

00:28:26.700 think

00:28:27.100 it's

00:28:27.440 fair

00:28:27.660 to

00:28:27.860 ask

00:28:28.320 can

00:28:29.500 he

00:28:29.620 handle

00:28:29.880 this

00:28:30.220 because

00:28:31.080 if he

00:28:31.440 can't

00:28:32.080 step

00:28:32.360 aside

00:28:32.800 please

00:28:33.480 let

00:28:33.960 somebody

00:28:34.280 else

00:28:34.500 do

00:28:34.660 the job

00:28:35.140 because

00:28:35.440 America

00:28:35.920 needs

00:28:36.920 leadership

00:28:37.300 right now

00:28:37.840 and I'm

00:28:38.780 not sure

00:28:39.060 that Joe

00:28:39.380 Biden

00:28:39.640 can provide

00:28:40.200 it

00:28:40.400 so and

00:28:41.640 you've

00:28:41.780 got

00:28:41.900 Kamala

00:28:42.200 Harris

00:28:42.480 by the

00:28:42.760 way

00:28:42.860 jumping

00:28:43.120 up and

00:28:43.380 down

00:28:43.580 and saying

00:28:43.960 I was

00:28:44.780 the last

00:28:45.120 person in

00:28:45.540 the room

00:28:45.780 when he

00:28:45.980 made the

00:28:46.300 decision

00:28:46.640 for the

00:28:47.020 withdrawal

00:28:47.380 I was

00:28:47.900 a critical

00:28:49.180 part of

00:28:49.660 all of

00:28:49.980 this

00:28:50.140 would you

00:28:50.860 just be

00:28:51.200 quiet

00:28:51.540 that's not

00:28:52.040 helpful to

00:28:52.540 you or

00:28:52.980 anyone else

00:28:53.520 yeah

00:28:54.740 yeah

00:28:54.800 I

00:28:55.180 you know

00:28:55.700 I

00:28:56.420 agree

00:28:56.800 I

00:28:58.100 just

00:28:58.680 think

00:28:59.020 that

00:28:59.340 Megan

00:29:00.020 this

00:29:01.260 nation

00:29:01.660 is

00:29:02.360 really

00:29:02.640 perilously

00:29:03.260 balanced

00:29:03.780 on a

00:29:04.180 knife's

00:29:04.520 edge

00:29:04.760 and I

00:29:05.500 feel

00:29:05.700 like

00:29:05.900 everybody

00:29:06.300 knows

00:29:06.720 it

00:29:06.900 and

00:29:07.280 feels

00:29:07.580 it

00:29:07.820 and

00:29:08.620 it's

00:29:09.180 so

00:29:09.760 so

00:29:10.340 incredibly

00:29:10.860 important

00:29:11.300 right now

00:29:11.760 for us

00:29:12.340 to come

00:29:12.700 together

00:29:13.080 as a

00:29:13.680 people

00:29:13.980 and face

00:29:15.100 the great

00:29:15.400 many threats

00:29:16.020 that we

00:29:17.440 have abroad

00:29:17.980 together

00:29:18.500 and really

00:29:19.600 unify

00:29:20.160 in support

00:29:20.820 of our

00:29:22.080 country

00:29:22.360 here at

00:29:22.780 home

00:29:23.080 because

00:29:23.620 we've

00:29:25.220 got to

00:29:25.940 work

00:29:26.260 overtime

00:29:27.080 to make

00:29:27.920 sure

00:29:28.360 that our

00:29:29.100 kids

00:29:29.560 inherit

00:29:30.640 a country

00:29:31.340 that is

00:29:32.200 great

00:29:32.820 and free

00:29:33.540 and right

00:29:34.140 now

00:29:34.560 the way

00:29:35.380 things are

00:29:35.740 going

00:29:36.100 it certainly

00:29:36.840 doesn't feel

00:29:37.380 like they're

00:29:37.700 going to

00:29:37.860 have that

00:29:38.280 does it

00:29:38.720 I

00:29:39.200 just

00:29:40.080 America

00:29:41.680 for the

00:29:42.320 longest

00:29:42.640 time

00:29:43.160 it's

00:29:44.260 actually

00:29:45.500 the greatest

00:29:46.380 benevolent

00:29:47.160 superpower

00:29:47.700 the world

00:29:48.220 has ever

00:29:48.660 known

00:29:48.980 and our

00:29:50.100 leadership

00:29:50.500 on you

00:29:51.160 know

00:29:51.300 whether

00:29:51.540 Democrat

00:29:51.980 or

00:29:52.160 Republican

00:29:52.600 right

00:29:53.060 we've

00:29:53.800 always

00:29:54.200 sort of

00:29:54.680 filled

00:29:55.060 the void

00:29:55.700 of that

00:29:56.140 benevolent

00:29:56.620 superpower

00:29:57.000 the leadership

00:29:57.680 that we've

00:29:59.100 always had a

00:29:59.720 leadership role

00:30:00.580 in the world

00:30:01.660 right

00:30:02.200 but it

00:30:02.880 certainly

00:30:03.200 seems like

00:30:03.880 that role

00:30:04.420 is diminishing

00:30:05.260 and it's

00:30:06.760 Joe Biden

00:30:07.680 is just

00:30:08.480 I'm telling you

00:30:09.560 he's just

00:30:10.040 not up to the

00:30:10.740 task to do

00:30:11.320 this job

00:30:12.060 and this

00:30:12.740 crisis

00:30:13.160 just highlights

00:30:13.940 it

00:30:14.200 now the

00:30:15.180 message is

00:30:15.800 you know

00:30:16.200 you don't

00:30:17.880 trust us

00:30:18.460 at your

00:30:18.880 own peril

00:30:19.360 because we

00:30:20.260 made promises

00:30:20.900 to those

00:30:21.700 tens of

00:30:22.340 thousands

00:30:22.740 they're saying

00:30:23.300 translators

00:30:25.080 guys who

00:30:25.520 helped people

00:30:26.160 like you

00:30:26.540 when you were

00:30:26.840 serving over

00:30:27.260 there deal

00:30:27.660 with the

00:30:27.920 locals

00:30:28.220 and sort

00:30:28.540 of make

00:30:28.780 progress

00:30:29.160 you have

00:30:29.840 to be able

00:30:30.120 to speak

00:30:30.420 a language

00:30:30.740 or have

00:30:31.000 somebody

00:30:31.220 with you

00:30:31.660 who can

00:30:32.100 and navigate

00:30:33.100 Afghanistan

00:30:33.680 in other

00:30:34.080 ways

00:30:34.360 and we

00:30:34.640 made promises

00:30:35.240 to all

00:30:35.600 those guys

00:30:35.960 that we

00:30:36.200 would look

00:30:36.460 out for

00:30:36.760 them

00:30:36.940 we would

00:30:37.240 get them

00:30:37.500 out of

00:30:37.700 the

00:30:37.800 country

00:30:38.140 now they're

00:30:38.960 sitting

00:30:39.200 there

00:30:39.400 as

00:30:39.580 sitting

00:30:40.140 ducks

00:30:40.980 just waiting

00:30:41.880 for the

00:30:42.160 Taliban

00:30:42.480 to come

00:30:43.240 kill

00:30:43.520 them

00:30:43.840 and the

00:30:44.380 Taliban

00:30:44.720 saying

00:30:45.140 things

00:30:45.380 like

00:30:45.520 oh

00:30:45.780 you know

00:30:46.040 we're

00:30:46.260 not going

00:30:46.700 to be

00:30:46.900 that kind

00:30:47.400 of leader

00:30:47.920 you know

00:30:48.340 we're going

00:30:48.640 to be

00:30:48.840 benevolent

00:30:49.400 and yet

00:30:50.220 we're already

00:30:50.940 seeing reports

00:30:51.540 we talked

00:30:51.860 about this

00:30:52.120 last week

00:30:52.560 where they're

00:30:53.960 executing

00:30:54.480 people who

00:30:55.320 have surrendered

00:30:55.800 Afghan security

00:30:56.920 force members

00:30:57.820 who have

00:30:58.160 surrendered to

00:30:58.840 them

00:30:59.040 we're seeing

00:30:59.660 the cops

00:31:00.100 over there

00:31:00.420 Afghan police

00:31:01.220 officers

00:31:01.600 just take

00:31:02.000 off their

00:31:02.320 uniforms

00:31:02.840 and just

00:31:03.420 dump

00:31:03.660 them

00:31:03.960 to go

00:31:04.520 you know

00:31:04.820 so they

00:31:05.060 don't get

00:31:05.380 hurt by

00:31:05.760 the Taliban

00:31:06.180 and sort

00:31:06.540 of a full

00:31:06.980 surrender

00:31:07.380 not to

00:31:08.240 mention

00:31:08.500 Sean

00:31:08.800 what's going

00:31:09.100 to happen

00:31:09.360 to the

00:31:09.580 women

00:31:09.820 you know

00:31:10.300 you talk

00:31:11.160 about how

00:31:11.560 we help

00:31:12.260 little girls

00:31:12.760 learn to

00:31:13.420 read

00:31:13.700 well you

00:31:14.180 can forget

00:31:14.540 that now

00:31:15.040 because

00:31:15.240 under Sharia

00:31:16.060 law the

00:31:16.420 women don't

00:31:16.760 get to

00:31:16.980 go to

00:31:17.200 school

00:31:17.420 the girls

00:31:18.540 don't get

00:31:18.840 to go

00:31:19.160 and so

00:31:19.860 I don't

00:31:20.780 know I

00:31:20.960 just feel

00:31:21.300 like

00:31:21.880 the

00:31:22.280 international

00:31:23.460 community

00:31:24.000 looking at

00:31:25.120 us

00:31:25.360 abandon

00:31:25.960 our

00:31:26.220 promises

00:31:26.640 you know

00:31:26.960 we

00:31:27.080 abandon

00:31:27.420 the

00:31:27.660 Kurds

00:31:28.480 under

00:31:28.820 the

00:31:28.960 Trump

00:31:29.140 administration

00:31:29.600 and now

00:31:30.000 we're

00:31:30.140 abandoning

00:31:30.780 our

00:31:31.000 Afghan

00:31:31.340 helpers

00:31:31.800 under

00:31:32.320 the

00:31:32.460 Biden

00:31:32.700 administration

00:31:33.200 I

00:31:33.460 wonder

00:31:33.680 how

00:31:33.860 we're

00:31:34.000 going

00:31:34.080 to

00:31:34.120 get

00:31:34.240 helpers

00:31:34.760 in

00:31:35.200 the

00:31:35.320 future

00:31:35.660 when

00:31:36.340 we

00:31:36.500 have

00:31:36.700 to

00:31:36.820 unleash

00:31:37.080 some

00:31:37.260 sort

00:31:37.420 of

00:31:37.520 military

00:31:37.820 operation

00:31:38.400 well

00:31:39.180 the

00:31:39.680 humanitarian

00:31:40.240 crisis

00:31:40.780 that's

00:31:41.280 that's

00:31:41.560 about

00:31:41.780 to

00:31:41.980 unfold

00:31:42.360 in

00:31:42.540 Afghanistan

00:31:43.080 is

00:31:43.900 is

00:31:44.300 going

00:31:44.460 to

00:31:44.520 be

00:31:44.660 tragic

00:31:45.060 and

00:31:46.560 ultimately

00:31:47.000 it

00:31:47.200 requires

00:31:47.660 the

00:31:47.880 Afghans

00:31:48.460 and

00:31:48.620 Joe

00:31:49.020 Biden

00:31:49.400 and

00:31:49.640 I

00:31:49.820 think

00:31:50.000 President

00:31:50.420 Trump

00:31:50.780 were

00:31:50.980 right

00:31:51.240 about

00:31:51.480 this

00:31:51.880 that

00:31:52.220 it

00:31:52.660 is

00:31:52.980 going

00:31:53.280 to

00:31:53.500 require

00:31:54.000 the

00:31:54.260 Afghans

00:31:54.900 to

00:31:55.080 stand

00:31:55.440 up

00:31:55.780 and

00:31:56.000 fight

00:31:56.300 for

00:31:56.520 themselves

00:31:56.940 we

00:31:57.240 can't

00:31:57.540 be

00:31:57.700 there

00:31:58.060 in

00:31:59.040 perpetuity

00:31:59.660 but

00:32:01.000 this

00:32:01.940 this

00:32:01.960 it

00:32:02.820 is

00:32:03.240 tragic

00:32:03.700 what's

00:32:04.400 happening

00:32:04.740 there

00:32:05.080 I

00:32:05.940 think

00:32:06.260 it

00:32:06.460 was

00:32:06.580 a

00:32:06.900 wholly

00:32:07.320 avoidable

00:32:09.240 tragedy

00:32:10.320 I

00:32:10.840 mean

00:32:11.040 I

00:32:11.540 again

00:32:12.160 why

00:32:12.700 couldn't

00:32:13.300 we

00:32:13.440 have

00:32:13.580 kept

00:32:13.800 the

00:32:13.980 2500

00:32:14.500 or

00:32:15.460 you

00:32:15.800 know

00:32:15.880 the

00:32:16.020 3500

00:32:16.660 troops

00:32:17.020 there

00:32:17.360 to

00:32:17.980 avoid

00:32:18.440 this

00:32:18.840 you

00:32:19.040 know

00:32:19.120 what

00:32:19.200 I

00:32:19.240 mean

00:32:19.360 like

00:32:19.540 I

00:32:19.680 understand

00:32:20.060 let's

00:32:20.400 get

00:32:20.540 out

00:32:20.740 and

00:32:20.960 we

00:32:21.140 don't

00:32:21.260 want

00:32:21.360 to

00:32:21.420 see

00:32:21.540 any

00:32:21.700 more

00:32:21.860 loss

00:32:22.200 of

00:32:22.340 American

00:32:22.620 life

00:32:22.920 over

00:32:23.100 there

00:32:23.260 it's

00:32:23.380 been

00:32:23.480 20

00:32:23.700 years

00:32:23.940 but

00:32:24.500 why

00:32:24.780 couldn't

00:32:25.100 we

00:32:25.420 have

00:32:25.540 troops

00:32:25.760 all

00:32:25.960 over

00:32:26.100 the

00:32:26.220 world

00:32:26.460 you

00:32:26.780 know

00:32:26.940 maintaining

00:32:27.540 a

00:32:27.700 military

00:32:28.020 presence

00:32:28.400 for

00:32:28.580 us

00:32:28.700 or

00:32:28.800 a

00:32:28.940 base

00:32:29.140 so

00:32:29.260 we

00:32:29.380 can

00:32:29.460 get

00:32:29.520 what

00:32:29.640 why

00:32:29.860 couldn't

00:32:30.680 we

00:32:30.820 have

00:32:30.940 kept

00:32:31.120 doing

00:32:31.360 that

00:32:31.540 there

00:32:31.760 my

00:32:32.780 position

00:32:33.300 my

00:32:33.780 position

00:32:34.220 on

00:32:34.420 Afghanistan

00:32:34.900 is

00:32:35.240 of

00:32:35.420 course

00:32:35.660 we

00:32:35.800 need

00:32:35.920 to

00:32:36.020 draw

00:32:36.200 down

00:32:36.400 combat

00:32:36.820 operations

00:32:37.480 of

00:32:37.960 course

00:32:38.440 the

00:32:38.700 Afghan

00:32:39.080 people

00:32:39.480 and

00:32:39.600 the

00:32:39.680 Afghan

00:32:39.980 government

00:32:40.360 they

00:32:40.680 need

00:32:40.880 to

00:32:41.020 govern

00:32:41.300 and

00:32:41.780 secure

00:32:42.360 themselves

00:32:42.920 but

00:32:43.840 again

00:32:44.460 this

00:32:44.760 speaks

00:32:45.820 back

00:32:46.220 to

00:32:46.600 the

00:32:47.040 decision

00:32:47.400 to

00:32:47.680 give up

00:32:48.220 Bagram

00:32:48.500 Air

00:32:48.700 Force

00:32:48.940 Base

00:32:55.960 very

00:32:56.580 small

00:32:56.980 presence

00:32:57.520 in

00:32:57.880 Bagram

00:32:58.240 of

00:32:59.420 American

00:32:59.760 troops

00:33:00.240 that

00:33:01.580 gives

00:33:01.860 you

00:33:01.960 an

00:33:02.100 airstrip

00:33:02.520 it

00:33:02.740 gives

00:33:03.020 you

00:33:03.140 the

00:33:03.280 ability

00:33:03.680 to

00:33:03.980 target

00:33:04.360 the

00:33:04.580 worst

00:33:04.860 of

00:33:04.980 the

00:33:05.100 worst

00:33:05.300 without

00:33:05.660 any

00:33:06.220 real

00:33:06.600 like

00:33:07.160 American

00:33:07.940 troops

00:33:08.340 on the

00:33:08.820 ground

00:33:09.140 in

00:33:09.300 Afghanistan

00:33:09.800 you can

00:33:10.180 conduct

00:33:10.500 airstrikes

00:33:11.040 right

00:33:11.280 from

00:33:11.460 Bagram

00:33:11.800 anywhere

00:33:12.160 in the

00:33:12.460 country

00:33:12.740 to

00:33:12.920 help

00:33:13.260 the

00:33:14.480 Afghan

00:33:14.820 National

00:33:15.220 Army

00:33:15.500 do

00:33:15.700 the

00:33:15.860 job

00:33:16.160 and

00:33:16.300 keep

00:33:16.480 the

00:33:16.600 enemy

00:33:16.800 at

00:33:16.980 bay

00:33:17.300 could

00:33:17.840 have

00:33:17.940 done

00:33:18.100 that

00:33:18.300 with

00:33:18.460 probably

00:33:18.760 2,500

00:33:20.080 troops

00:33:20.640 pretty

00:33:20.920 easily

00:33:21.380 and

00:33:25.960 give

00:33:26.180 up

00:33:26.340 Bagram

00:33:26.720 right

00:33:27.380 and

00:33:28.020 again

00:33:28.380 like

00:33:29.080 well

00:33:29.260 but

00:33:29.400 what

00:33:29.580 about

00:33:29.780 that

00:33:29.960 you

00:33:30.220 defend

00:33:30.680 Trump

00:33:30.980 on

00:33:31.140 that

00:33:31.300 but

00:33:31.460 Trump

00:33:31.720 is

00:33:31.860 the

00:33:31.960 one

00:33:32.080 who

00:33:32.220 said

00:33:32.480 we're

00:33:33.020 getting

00:33:33.200 them

00:33:33.320 all

00:33:33.500 out

00:33:33.700 and

00:33:33.800 we're

00:33:33.900 getting

00:33:34.020 them

00:33:34.140 all

00:33:34.280 out

00:33:34.380 by

00:33:34.500 May

00:33:34.700 1st

00:33:35.080 and

00:33:35.200 even

00:33:35.400 Trump

00:33:36.140 came

00:33:36.340 out

00:33:36.520 and

00:33:36.640 said

00:33:36.880 about

00:33:38.040 Biden

00:33:38.480 originally

00:33:38.980 saying

00:33:39.380 let's

00:33:39.740 get

00:33:39.880 the

00:33:40.020 troops

00:33:40.260 out

00:33:40.500 he

00:33:40.680 said

00:33:41.040 Biden's

00:33:42.060 Afghanistan

00:33:42.420 troop

00:33:42.740 withdrawal

00:33:43.020 program

00:33:43.320 is

00:33:43.460 quote

00:33:43.660 wonderful

00:33:44.140 this

00:33:44.360 is

00:33:44.480 not

00:33:44.660 now

00:33:45.380 this

00:33:45.600 is

00:33:45.720 in

00:33:45.840 April

00:33:55.960 not

00:33:56.460 why

00:33:56.880 what's

00:33:57.340 so

00:33:57.540 wrong

00:33:57.880 about

00:33:58.180 twenty

00:33:58.640 five

00:33:58.920 hundred

00:33:59.340 I

00:33:59.620 get

00:33:59.840 twenty

00:34:00.160 five

00:34:00.480 thousand

00:34:01.040 twenty

00:34:01.920 five

00:34:02.180 hundred

00:34:02.460 as a

00:34:02.940 peacekeeping

00:34:03.580 measure

00:34:03.980 doesn't

00:34:04.760 seem

00:34:05.060 that

00:34:05.360 crazy

00:34:05.860 well

00:34:06.860 I

00:34:06.980 think

00:34:07.160 Trump's

00:34:07.660 intent

00:34:08.060 and

00:34:08.280 he

00:34:08.420 said

00:34:08.700 this

00:34:08.940 many

00:34:09.140 times

00:34:09.540 before

00:34:09.940 is

00:34:10.180 to

00:34:10.280 have

00:34:10.480 people

00:34:10.920 ready

00:34:11.340 on a

00:34:11.760 moment's

00:34:12.180 notice

00:34:12.420 to

00:34:12.660 conduct

00:34:13.020 airstrikes

00:34:13.760 and

00:34:14.400 so

00:34:14.820 you

00:34:16.340 know

00:34:16.460 but

00:34:16.580 Biden

00:34:17.000 his

00:34:18.120 plan

00:34:18.540 was

00:34:18.980 a

00:34:19.460 wholesale

00:34:19.980 withdrawal

00:34:20.860 without

00:34:21.300 even

00:34:21.540 talking

00:34:21.860 to

00:34:22.020 any

00:34:22.200 of

00:34:22.320 the

00:34:22.420 regional

00:34:22.680 leaders

00:34:22.980 on

00:34:23.120 the

00:34:23.220 ground

00:34:23.500 none

00:34:23.920 whatsoever

00:34:24.400 no

00:34:24.680 communication

00:34:25.260 whatsoever

00:34:25.780 just to

00:34:26.600 add to

00:34:26.860 that

00:34:27.020 you

00:34:27.200 you

00:34:27.460 mentioned

00:34:27.780 this

00:34:27.980 earlier

00:34:28.300 Trump

00:34:28.640 said

00:34:28.840 it

00:34:28.940 would

00:34:29.040 be

00:34:29.180 conditions

00:34:29.800 based

00:34:30.320 and

00:34:31.300 the

00:34:31.860 problem

00:34:32.400 here

00:34:32.760 is

00:34:32.980 that

00:34:33.260 not

00:34:33.720 only

00:34:34.000 it

00:34:34.960 seems

00:34:35.180 like

00:34:35.320 they

00:34:35.400 didn't

00:34:35.540 look

00:34:35.680 at

00:34:35.780 conditions

00:34:36.160 at

00:34:36.340 all

00:34:36.640 there

00:34:36.860 was

00:34:36.960 a

00:34:37.060 really

00:34:37.180 good

00:34:37.380 piece

00:34:37.640 in

00:34:37.740 the

00:34:37.820 New

00:34:37.900 York

00:34:38.000 Times

00:34:38.260 the

00:34:38.380 other

00:34:38.460 day

00:34:39.080 by

00:34:39.740 an

00:34:39.900 AEI

00:34:40.460 fellow

00:34:40.920 talking

00:34:41.240 about

00:34:41.480 how

00:34:41.920 the

00:34:42.780 Taliban

00:34:43.360 takes

00:34:44.040 the

00:34:44.640 winter

00:34:45.020 off

00:34:45.600 they're

00:34:46.480 basically

00:34:46.760 not

00:34:47.040 around

00:34:47.300 in

00:34:47.440 the

00:34:47.520 winter

00:34:47.880 or

00:34:48.640 really

00:34:48.980 so

00:34:49.240 much

00:34:49.420 the

00:34:49.600 spring

00:34:49.920 it's

00:34:50.140 the

00:34:50.320 summer

00:34:50.600 where

00:34:50.840 they're

00:34:51.160 strongest

00:34:51.880 and

00:34:52.660 when

00:34:52.900 does

00:34:53.040 Biden

00:34:53.740 say

00:34:54.100 we're

00:34:54.500 going

00:34:54.600 to

00:34:54.680 pull

00:34:54.880 all

00:34:55.080 of

00:34:55.180 our

00:34:55.260 guys

00:34:55.520 in

00:34:56.180 July

00:34:56.660 in

00:34:57.000 July

00:34:57.260 and

00:34:57.440 August

00:34:57.620 it's

00:34:57.980 no

00:34:58.120 accident

00:34:58.540 it

00:34:58.780 went

00:34:59.020 down

00:34:59.240 the

00:34:59.360 way

00:34:59.460 it

00:34:59.580 did

00:34:59.720 he

00:34:59.840 just

00:35:00.020 refused

00:35:00.420 to

00:35:00.620 look

00:35:00.840 at

00:35:00.940 conditions

00:35:01.320 on

00:35:01.480 the

00:35:01.560 ground

00:35:01.800 and

00:35:02.500 it's

00:35:02.740 no

00:35:02.920 accident

00:35:03.440 that

00:35:03.760 all

00:35:04.020 of

00:35:04.160 this

00:35:04.320 is

00:35:04.460 happening

00:35:04.880 under

00:35:05.240 Joe

00:35:05.480 Biden

00:35:05.820 the

00:35:06.560 enemies

00:35:06.920 of

00:35:07.280 this

00:35:07.540 of

00:35:08.020 this

00:35:08.480 country

00:35:08.880 are

00:35:09.580 not

00:35:09.960 afraid

00:35:10.340 of

00:35:10.520 him

00:35:10.700 the

00:35:11.380 enemies

00:35:11.880 of

00:35:12.140 America

00:35:12.540 were

00:35:13.220 petrified

00:35:14.260 of

00:35:14.780 President

00:35:15.100 Trump

00:35:15.460 when

00:35:16.220 Soleimani

00:35:16.860 attacked

00:35:17.360 our

00:35:17.760 embassy

00:35:18.380 like

00:35:19.180 two

00:35:19.440 days

00:35:19.660 later

00:35:19.920 he

00:35:20.080 was

00:35:20.240 dead

00:35:20.520 the

00:35:21.220 enemies

00:35:21.520 of

00:35:21.660 America

00:35:22.060 knew

00:35:22.480 that

00:35:22.720 they

00:35:22.880 couldn't

00:35:23.180 mess

00:35:23.540 with

00:35:23.720 America

00:35:24.120 as

00:35:24.400 long

00:35:24.560 as

00:35:24.700 President

00:35:25.000 Trump

00:35:25.300 was

00:35:25.780 in

00:35:25.920 office

00:35:26.260 they're

00:35:26.920 not

00:35:27.200 afraid

00:35:27.840 of

00:35:28.240 Joe

00:35:28.400 Biden

00:35:28.700 and

00:35:29.020 to

00:35:29.500 your

00:35:29.660 point

00:35:29.940 about

00:35:30.480 moving

00:35:31.520 the

00:35:32.080 date

00:35:32.320 of

00:35:32.440 our

00:35:32.560 withdrawal

00:35:32.880 from

00:35:33.260 May

00:35:33.620 to

00:35:34.140 September

00:35:34.900 well

00:35:35.340 May

00:35:36.580 the

00:35:37.400 fighting

00:35:37.740 season

00:35:38.120 in

00:35:38.880 is

00:35:39.400 just

00:35:39.860 getting

00:35:40.160 kicked

00:35:40.480 off

00:35:40.940 in

00:35:41.640 May

00:35:41.900 the

00:35:42.140 spring

00:35:42.340 offensive

00:35:42.720 just

00:35:43.040 starts

00:35:43.340 around

00:35:43.560 April

00:35:43.860 May

00:35:44.140 time

00:35:44.480 frame

00:35:44.820 moving

00:35:46.080 the

00:35:46.280 withdrawal

00:35:46.640 date

00:35:46.880 back

00:35:47.200 to

00:35:47.380 August

00:35:47.920 or

00:35:48.220 September

00:35:48.680 when

00:35:49.880 Afghanistan

00:35:51.120 is just

00:35:51.740 out of

00:35:52.300 control

00:35:52.740 and

00:35:53.080 the

00:35:53.520 fighting

00:35:54.220 season

00:35:54.760 has

00:35:56.000 begun

00:35:56.500 was also

00:35:57.600 a

00:35:57.780 disastrous

00:35:58.220 decision

00:35:58.800 there were

00:35:59.340 so many

00:36:00.260 strategic

00:36:00.980 blunders

00:36:01.660 as part

00:36:02.720 of

00:36:03.120 Biden's

00:36:03.720 plan

00:36:04.120 here

00:36:04.560 that it's

00:36:05.180 just hard

00:36:05.600 to wrap

00:36:05.900 your mind

00:36:06.300 around

00:36:06.560 all of

00:36:06.920 them

00:36:07.060 and

00:36:07.300 honestly

00:36:07.820 you tell

00:36:08.180 me

00:36:08.320 Sean

00:36:08.520 it was

00:36:08.820 to

00:36:08.980 get

00:36:09.140 a

00:36:09.280 photo

00:36:09.600 op

00:36:09.980 it

00:36:10.600 was

00:36:10.760 so

00:36:10.960 that

00:36:11.200 on

00:36:11.400 the

00:36:11.540 20

00:36:11.920 year

00:36:12.220 anniversary

00:36:12.740 of

00:36:13.140 September

00:36:13.660 11th

00:36:14.680 Joe

00:36:15.020 Biden

00:36:15.500 could

00:36:15.820 look

00:36:16.100 into

00:36:16.260 the

00:36:16.440 cameras

00:36:16.800 and

00:36:17.000 say

00:36:17.180 I'm

00:36:17.760 the

00:36:17.940 one

00:36:18.320 I'm

00:36:18.840 the

00:36:18.980 one

00:36:19.220 who

00:36:19.420 got

00:36:19.700 all

00:36:20.080 of

00:36:20.200 our

00:36:20.340 guys

00:36:20.680 out

00:36:21.040 and

00:36:21.560 instead

00:36:21.880 we're

00:36:23.220 we're

00:36:23.240 we're

00:36:23.260 going

00:36:23.340 we're

00:36:23.500 going to

00:36:24.480 look at

00:36:25.020 the

00:36:25.340 Taliban

00:36:26.580 flying

00:36:27.340 their

00:36:27.740 flag

00:36:28.240 they

00:36:28.460 already

00:36:28.940 released

00:36:29.540 a

00:36:30.080 mock

00:36:30.440 photo

00:36:30.960 taking

00:36:31.640 the

00:36:31.860 U.S.

00:36:32.340 troops

00:36:32.560 at

00:36:32.760 Iwo Jima

00:36:33.360 hoisting

00:36:34.280 the

00:36:34.400 flag

00:36:34.800 and

00:36:35.440 it

00:36:35.640 was

00:36:35.740 a

00:36:35.840 bunch

00:36:35.960 of

00:36:36.100 Taliban

00:36:36.520 operatives

00:36:37.120 hoisting

00:36:37.600 the

00:36:37.760 Taliban

00:36:38.140 flag

00:36:38.740 implementing

00:36:39.600 Sharia

00:36:40.100 law

00:36:40.500 that's

00:36:41.380 now

00:36:41.580 the

00:36:41.760 photo

00:36:42.040 op

00:36:42.320 we're

00:36:42.500 going

00:36:42.600 to

00:36:42.680 get

00:36:42.980 and

00:36:43.480 apparently

00:36:44.060 this

00:36:44.320 was

00:36:44.460 a

00:36:44.580 contingency

00:36:45.160 Joe

00:36:45.740 Biden

00:36:46.020 forgot

00:36:46.300 to

00:36:46.540 consider

00:36:46.940 absolutely

00:36:47.860 right

00:36:48.320 it

00:36:48.960 and

00:36:49.360 you know

00:36:49.860 Joe

00:36:50.540 Biden

00:36:50.820 is

00:36:51.060 going

00:36:51.200 to

00:36:51.280 he

00:36:51.460 owns

00:36:51.760 it

00:36:51.940 he

00:36:52.500 owns

00:36:52.820 it

00:36:53.140 he

00:36:53.640 the

00:36:54.220 fact

00:36:54.760 this

00:36:55.520 is

00:36:55.660 something

00:36:55.880 that

00:36:56.240 bothered

00:36:56.600 me

00:36:56.920 a lot

00:36:57.800 as

00:36:57.980 well

00:36:58.260 the

00:36:58.840 fact

00:36:59.340 that

00:36:59.660 that

00:37:00.080 his

00:37:00.320 first

00:37:00.720 statement

00:37:01.220 he

00:37:01.920 blamed

00:37:02.680 essentially

00:37:03.140 blamed

00:37:03.700 President

00:37:04.220 Trump

00:37:04.520 for what

00:37:04.880 happened

00:37:05.300 in

00:37:05.760 Afghanistan

00:37:06.520 it

00:37:08.040 just

00:37:08.520 inherited

00:37:08.960 it

00:37:09.140 as if

00:37:10.700 he

00:37:10.820 has

00:37:11.000 no

00:37:11.200 powers

00:37:11.620 it

00:37:12.800 absolutely

00:37:13.420 it

00:37:14.000 absolutely

00:37:14.500 disgusts

00:37:15.580 me

00:37:15.760 as

00:37:16.020 commander

00:37:16.480 in

00:37:16.720 chief

00:37:17.040 Joe

00:37:17.660 Biden

00:37:17.980 is

00:37:18.180 responsible

00:37:18.760 for

00:37:19.060 everything

00:37:19.440 that

00:37:19.680 happens

00:37:20.140 or fails

00:37:20.780 to

00:37:21.000 happen

00:37:21.440 under

00:37:24.740 his

00:37:24.940 command

00:37:25.260 period

00:37:26.020 end

00:37:26.400 of

00:37:26.540 story

00:37:26.880 the

00:37:27.320 buck

00:37:27.540 stops

00:37:27.900 with

00:37:28.080 him

00:37:28.340 thinking

00:37:30.260 about

00:37:30.500 you

00:37:30.660 today

00:37:30.920 thank

00:37:31.320 you

00:37:31.600 for

00:37:32.040 your

00:37:32.200 service

00:37:32.520 you

00:37:32.720 and

00:37:32.820 your

00:37:32.920 fellow

00:37:33.120 veterans

00:37:33.540 and

00:37:34.260 our

00:37:34.380 active

00:37:34.640 duty

00:37:35.020 personnel

00:37:35.620 I

00:37:35.940 just

00:37:36.140 can't

00:37:36.560 imagine

00:37:36.780 what

00:37:36.980 this

00:37:37.120 is

00:37:37.240 like

00:37:37.400 for

00:37:37.540 all

00:37:37.680 of

00:37:37.800 you

00:37:37.900 thank

00:37:38.140 you

00:37:38.240 for

00:37:38.420 the

00:37:39.100 heartfelt

00:37:39.400 moment

00:37:39.760 on

00:37:39.960 that

00:37:40.080 I

00:37:40.200 appreciate

00:37:40.540 it

00:37:40.880 yeah

00:37:41.760 thanks

00:37:42.140 for

00:37:42.280 having

00:37:42.460 me

00:37:42.600 Megan

00:37:42.820 I

00:37:42.980 really

00:37:43.200 appreciate

00:37:43.580 the

00:37:43.740 time

00:37:44.020 up

00:37:46.180 next

00:37:46.480 Charles

00:37:46.940 C.W.

00:37:47.400 Cook

00:37:47.620 on

00:37:48.380 the

00:37:48.820 insane

00:37:49.500 Biden

00:37:49.860 predictions

00:37:50.300 on

00:37:50.780 what

00:37:50.940 would

00:37:51.100 not

00:37:51.340 happen

00:37:51.820 in

00:37:52.400 Afghanistan

00:37:52.860 and

00:37:53.280 how

00:37:53.440 he's

00:37:53.600 been

00:37:53.740 wrong

00:37:54.120 at

00:37:54.980 every

00:37:55.380 turn

00:37:55.700 well

00:37:59.860 let's

00:38:00.100 start

00:38:00.380 with

00:38:00.640 how

00:38:01.040 bad

00:38:01.540 a

00:38:01.780 disaster

00:38:02.260 this

00:38:02.580 is

00:38:02.820 how

00:38:02.980 big

00:38:03.300 a

00:38:03.420 disaster

00:38:03.780 this

00:38:04.080 is

00:38:04.500 top

00:38:05.160 of

00:38:05.260 the

00:38:05.360 Sunday

00:38:05.560 New

00:38:05.740 York

00:38:05.880 Times

00:38:06.300 free

00:38:06.780 fall

00:38:07.180 in

00:38:07.560 Afghanistan

00:38:08.100 Jack

00:38:09.180 Keene

00:38:09.420 General

00:38:09.740 Jack

00:38:10.020 Keene

00:38:10.300 who

00:38:10.980 orchestrated

00:38:12.020 the

00:38:12.540 surge

00:38:12.940 he

00:38:13.140 was

00:38:13.240 the

00:38:13.380 architect

00:38:13.680 of

00:38:13.900 the

00:38:14.040 surge

00:38:14.300 in

00:38:14.440 Iraq

00:38:14.800 back

00:38:15.680 in

00:38:15.800 the

00:38:15.880 day

00:38:16.080 calls

00:38:16.400 this

00:38:16.600 astounding

00:38:17.400 and

00:38:17.700 humiliating

00:38:18.540 Ryan

00:38:19.280 Crocker

00:38:19.720 former

00:38:20.040 US

00:38:20.360 ambassador

00:38:20.760 to

00:38:20.960 Afghanistan

00:38:21.360 under

00:38:21.760 Obama

00:38:22.200 calls

00:38:22.540 it

00:38:22.660 an

00:38:22.800 indelible

00:38:23.380 stain

00:38:23.940 on

00:38:24.680 Biden's

00:38:25.240 presidency

00:38:25.820 Kevin

00:38:26.540 McCarthy

00:38:27.040 an

00:38:27.340 embarrassment

00:38:27.880 for

00:38:28.180 our

00:38:28.340 nation

00:38:28.740 Axios

00:38:29.560 even

00:38:29.780 the

00:38:29.940 press

00:38:30.200 getting

00:38:30.440 in

00:38:30.620 on

00:38:30.740 it

00:38:30.880 saying

00:38:31.140 a

00:38:31.340 stunning

00:38:31.720 failure

00:38:32.120 for

00:38:32.360 the

00:38:32.480 West

00:38:32.760 an

00:38:33.260 embarrassment

00:38:33.760 for

00:38:34.060 Biden

00:38:34.340 I

00:38:34.600 could

00:38:34.740 go

00:38:34.960 on

00:38:35.280 and

00:38:35.980 you

00:38:36.240 say

00:38:36.520 well

00:38:37.480 I

00:38:37.680 think

00:38:38.120 all

00:38:38.440 of

00:38:38.580 those

00:38:38.820 descriptions

00:38:39.320 are

00:38:40.080 appropriate

00:38:41.000 it's

00:38:41.960 a

00:38:42.100 disaster

00:38:42.620 and

00:38:44.180 it

00:38:44.440 is

00:38:44.760 not

00:38:45.380 acceptable

00:38:46.320 or

00:38:46.660 meaningful

00:38:47.000 to

00:38:47.380 respond

00:38:47.960 to

00:38:48.560 that

00:38:48.820 sort

00:38:49.100 of

00:38:49.220 criticism

00:38:49.700 by

00:38:50.020 saying

00:38:50.340 well

00:38:50.580 what

00:38:50.820 do

00:38:51.000 you

00:38:51.120 want

00:38:51.340 to

00:38:51.480 do

00:38:51.620 then

00:38:51.820 just

00:38:52.100 stay

00:38:52.360 forever

00:38:52.800 given

00:38:53.220 that

00:38:53.540 what

00:38:54.560 we're

00:38:54.780 talking

00:38:55.080 about

00:38:55.400 here

00:38:55.680 is

00:38:55.880 not

00:38:56.220 the

00:38:56.440 decision

00:38:56.780 to

00:38:57.020 stay

00:38:57.320 or

00:38:57.560 go

00:38:57.980 but

00:38:59.020 the

00:38:59.180 manner

00:38:59.460 in

00:38:59.700 which

00:38:59.900 it

00:39:00.060 was

00:39:00.260 done

00:39:00.620 which

00:39:01.160 was

00:39:01.520 botched

00:39:02.400 botched

00:39:03.460 in

00:39:03.620 a

00:39:03.740 way

00:39:03.960 no

00:39:04.340 foreign

00:39:04.860 policy

00:39:05.300 execution

00:39:05.880 has

00:39:06.220 been

00:39:06.400 botched

00:39:06.800 in

00:39:07.020 decades

00:39:07.560 the

00:39:08.560 comparisons

00:39:09.560 to

00:39:09.760 Vietnam

00:39:10.160 abound

00:39:11.200 today

00:39:11.660 his

00:39:12.000 Saigon

00:39:12.360 moment

00:39:12.940 but

00:39:13.740 before

00:39:14.020 we

00:39:14.180 get

00:39:14.280 to

00:39:14.400 that

00:39:14.740 the

00:39:15.140 Biden

00:39:15.420 promises

00:39:15.900 I

00:39:16.320 mean

00:39:16.460 he's

00:39:17.020 if

00:39:17.520 you

00:39:17.640 look

00:39:17.800 back

00:39:18.020 on

00:39:18.160 Biden's

00:39:18.500 history

00:39:18.760 and

00:39:18.880 I

00:39:18.980 remember

00:39:19.240 when

00:39:19.420 he

00:39:19.560 was

00:39:19.720 saying

00:39:19.900 we

00:39:20.040 should

00:39:20.180 divide

00:39:20.500 Iraq

00:39:20.900 into

00:39:21.180 three

00:39:21.700 or

00:39:21.840 four

00:39:22.020 different

00:39:22.320 states

00:39:22.740 remember

00:39:23.060 this

00:39:23.320 I

00:39:23.420 mean

00:39:23.520 he's

00:39:23.720 just

00:39:23.880 been

00:39:24.160 so

00:39:25.040 out

00:39:25.420 there

00:39:25.640 on

00:39:25.840 foreign

00:39:26.100 policy

00:39:26.700 for

00:39:28.020 so

00:39:28.340 long

00:39:28.660 and

00:39:28.840 so

00:39:29.140 wrong

00:39:29.560 and

00:39:30.140 but

00:39:30.380 unfortunately

00:39:35.880 you

00:39:36.660 called

00:39:37.040 him

00:39:37.180 out

00:39:37.320 for

00:39:37.460 this

00:39:37.640 in

00:39:37.740 a

00:39:37.860 column

00:39:38.120 yesterday

00:39:38.580 it's

00:39:39.500 been

00:39:39.740 making

00:39:40.100 the

00:39:40.260 rounds

00:39:40.460 but

00:39:40.580 we

00:39:40.700 put

00:39:40.900 together

00:39:41.220 a

00:39:41.420 budded

00:39:41.640 soundbite

00:39:42.160 of

00:39:42.480 his

00:39:42.920 predictions

00:39:44.100 about

00:39:44.920 what

00:39:45.200 would

00:39:45.380 happen

00:39:45.800 in

00:39:46.040 Afghanistan

00:39:46.500 and

00:39:46.920 more

00:39:47.100 importantly

00:39:47.420 what

00:39:47.700 wouldn't

00:39:48.180 happen

00:39:48.600 and

00:39:49.480 well

00:39:49.680 let's

00:39:49.860 talk

00:39:50.080 about

00:39:50.280 how

00:39:50.480 wrong

00:39:50.720 they

00:39:50.880 were

00:39:51.160 listen

00:39:51.580 your

00:39:52.140 own

00:39:52.340 intelligence

00:39:52.880 community

00:39:53.540 has

00:39:53.800 assessed

00:39:54.180 that

00:39:54.380 the

00:39:54.560 Afghan

00:39:54.940 government

00:39:55.420 will

00:39:55.780 likely

00:39:56.460 collapse

00:39:57.220 that

00:39:57.460 is

00:39:57.580 not

00:39:57.780 true

00:39:58.120 so

00:39:59.100 what

00:39:59.640 is

00:39:59.880 the

00:40:00.200 level

00:40:00.680 of

00:40:01.040 confidence

00:40:01.480 that

00:40:05.880 government

00:40:06.040 and

00:40:07.440 leadership

00:40:07.740 has

00:40:08.080 to

00:40:08.220 come

00:40:08.400 together

00:40:08.800 they

00:40:10.160 clearly

00:40:10.780 have

00:40:11.160 the

00:40:11.320 capacity

00:40:11.940 to

00:40:13.320 sustain

00:40:14.060 the

00:40:14.420 government

00:40:14.780 in

00:40:15.380 place

00:40:15.800 is

00:40:16.340 a

00:40:16.500 Taliban

00:40:16.860 takeover

00:40:17.760 of

00:40:18.100 Afghanistan

00:40:18.640 now

00:40:19.180 inevitable

00:40:19.660 no

00:40:20.340 it

00:40:21.380 is

00:40:21.520 not

00:40:21.900 because

00:40:23.480 you

00:40:24.080 have

00:40:24.300 the

00:40:24.440 Afghan

00:40:24.820 troops

00:40:25.180 have

00:40:25.360 300,000

00:40:27.240 well

00:40:29.040 equipped

00:40:29.500 as

00:40:29.700 well

00:40:29.920 equipped

00:40:30.200 as

00:40:30.380 any

00:40:30.660 army

00:40:31.080 in

00:40:31.440 the

00:40:31.560 world

00:40:31.940 and

00:40:32.920 an

00:40:33.060 air

00:40:33.220 force

00:40:33.660 against

00:40:34.800 something

00:40:35.180 like

00:40:35.520 75,000

00:40:37.000 Taliban

00:40:37.600 it

00:40:38.840 is

00:40:39.000 not

00:40:39.260 inevitable

00:40:39.740 some

00:40:41.200 Vietnamese

00:40:42.320 veterans

00:40:42.760 see

00:40:43.260 echoes

00:40:43.980 of

00:40:44.620 their

00:40:44.840 experience

00:40:45.560 in

00:40:46.040 this

00:40:46.200 withdrawal

00:40:46.540 in

00:40:46.720 Afghanistan

00:40:47.160 do

00:40:47.540 you

00:40:47.740 see

00:40:47.940 any

00:40:48.200 parallels

00:40:48.740 between

00:40:49.140 this

00:40:49.700 withdrawal

00:40:50.160 and

00:40:50.540 what

00:40:50.660 happened

00:40:50.940 in

00:40:51.120 Vietnam

00:40:51.400 with

00:40:51.640 some

00:40:51.840 people

00:40:52.080 feeling

00:40:52.400 none

00:40:52.800 whatsoever

00:40:53.320 zero

00:40:54.220 the

00:40:55.240 Taliban

00:40:55.880 is

00:40:56.280 not

00:40:56.680 the

00:40:57.240 north

00:40:58.000 Vietnamese

00:40:58.440 army

00:40:58.900 they're

00:40:59.860 not

00:41:00.080 remotely

00:41:01.120 comparable

00:41:01.700 in

00:41:02.000 terms

00:41:02.160 of

00:41:02.280 capability

00:41:02.820 there's

00:41:03.640 going to be

00:41:03.920 no

00:41:04.160 circumstance

00:41:04.680 you see

00:41:05.320 people

00:41:05.660 being

00:41:05.900 lifted

00:41:06.160 off

00:41:06.420 the

00:41:06.640 roof

00:41:06.900 of

00:41:07.740 a

00:41:08.200 embassy

00:41:08.960 of

00:41:09.540 the

00:41:09.680 United

00:41:09.960 States

00:41:10.460 from

00:41:11.240 Afghanistan

00:41:12.060 it is

00:41:12.900 not

00:41:13.220 at all

00:41:13.580 comfortable

00:41:14.100 you've

00:41:14.960 spoken to

00:41:15.420 the fact

00:41:15.780 that the

00:41:16.100 Taliban

00:41:16.420 are

00:41:16.920 sort

00:41:17.500 of

00:41:17.600 at

00:41:17.740 their

00:41:17.880 militarily

00:41:18.520 strongest

00:41:19.040 point

00:41:19.520 that you've

00:41:20.040 seen

00:41:20.200 in 20

00:41:20.560 years

00:41:20.960 how do

00:41:21.720 you feel

00:41:22.180 personally

00:41:22.720 about that

00:41:23.220 with the

00:41:23.460 benefit

00:41:23.700 of

00:41:23.860 hindsight

00:41:24.140 and

00:41:24.340 all

00:41:24.520 of

00:41:24.640 the

00:41:24.760 dollars

00:41:25.080 and

00:41:25.260 investments

00:41:25.680 and

00:41:26.040 American

00:41:26.700 troops

00:41:27.060 that

00:41:27.240 were

00:41:27.340 sent

00:41:27.580 there

00:41:27.780 relative

00:41:29.140 to

00:41:29.700 the

00:41:30.040 training

00:41:30.460 and

00:41:30.760 capacity

00:41:31.300 of

00:41:31.940 the

00:41:32.220 ANSF

00:41:33.120 and

00:41:33.600 the

00:41:34.060 federal

00:41:34.940 police

00:41:35.480 they're

00:41:35.900 not

00:41:36.060 even

00:41:36.240 close

00:41:36.720 wow

00:41:37.720 yep

00:41:39.360 I mean

00:41:39.720 it's

00:41:39.880 really

00:41:40.080 stunning

00:41:40.460 right

00:41:40.760 it's

00:41:41.100 he was

00:41:41.540 wrong

00:41:42.000 about

00:41:42.260 every

00:41:42.680 single

00:41:43.040 one

00:41:43.240 of

00:41:43.340 those

00:41:43.480 and

00:41:43.720 Charlie

00:41:44.020 this

00:41:44.560 was

00:41:44.780 July

00:41:45.400 that's

00:41:46.100 when

00:41:46.240 he

00:41:46.360 was

00:41:46.520 saying

00:41:46.740 all

00:41:46.920 of

00:41:47.020 that

00:41:47.200 yeah

00:41:47.800 one

00:41:48.700 of

00:41:48.860 the

00:41:49.220 criticisms

00:41:50.120 of

00:41:50.900 the

00:41:51.120 critics

00:41:51.560 if

00:41:51.780 you

00:41:51.920 will

00:41:52.180 has

00:41:52.640 been

00:41:53.200 that

00:41:54.420 Trump

00:41:54.920 put

00:41:55.720 this

00:41:55.960 into

00:41:56.220 motion

00:41:56.560 and

00:41:56.780 Biden

00:41:57.100 was

00:41:57.340 just

00:41:57.580 executing

00:41:58.120 it

00:41:58.400 and

00:41:58.560 I

00:41:58.820 think

00:41:59.000 we

00:41:59.160 should

00:41:59.300 start

00:41:59.600 by

00:41:59.800 pointing

00:42:00.060 out

00:42:00.240 this

00:42:00.360 is

00:42:00.520 false

00:42:00.840 I'm

00:42:02.480 not

00:42:03.380 defending

00:42:04.200 Donald

00:42:05.440 Trump's

00:42:05.780 foreign

00:42:05.980 policy

00:42:06.420 or

00:42:06.820 Donald

00:42:07.420 Trump

00:42:07.680 in

00:42:07.920 general

00:42:08.260 Donald

00:42:09.520 Trump

00:42:09.740 is

00:42:09.900 not

00:42:10.100 president

00:42:10.420 of

00:42:10.720 the

00:42:10.840 United

00:42:11.080 States

00:42:11.480 anymore

00:42:11.880 Joe

00:42:12.480 Biden

00:42:12.800 is

00:42:13.100 Joe

00:42:14.540 Biden

00:42:14.940 was

00:42:16.240 not

00:42:16.520 bound

00:42:17.080 by

00:42:18.580 Donald

00:42:19.020 Trump's

00:42:19.600 agreement

00:42:20.180 he

00:42:20.820 was

00:42:20.960 not

00:42:21.200 executing

00:42:21.740 a

00:42:21.980 treaty

00:42:22.360 that

00:42:22.840 had

00:42:22.960 been

00:42:23.100 ratified

00:42:23.640 by

00:42:23.940 Congress

00:42:24.540 he

00:42:25.140 was

00:42:25.280 not

00:42:25.480 executing

00:42:26.020 a

00:42:26.260 statute

00:42:26.780 that

00:42:27.320 had

00:42:27.440 been

00:42:27.560 passed

00:42:27.920 by

00:42:28.140 Congress

00:42:28.520 or

00:42:28.760 a

00:42:28.920 provision

00:42:29.240 within

00:42:29.560 the

00:42:29.760 Constitution

00:42:30.200 that

00:42:30.660 he

00:42:30.820 was

00:42:31.000 obliged

00:42:31.500 to

00:42:32.740 advance

00:42:33.280 and

00:42:33.760 as

00:42:33.900 we've

00:42:34.080 seen

00:42:34.240 during

00:42:34.580 the

00:42:34.700 last

00:42:34.860 two

00:42:35.060 weeks

00:42:35.280 Joe

00:42:35.520 Biden

00:42:35.780 doesn't

00:42:36.580 actually

00:42:36.960 care

00:42:37.560 when

00:42:38.360 he

00:42:38.480 is

00:42:38.620 supposed

00:42:38.940 to

00:42:39.160 do

00:42:39.320 these

00:42:39.600 things

00:42:40.000 Joe

00:42:41.140 Biden

00:42:41.440 was

00:42:41.640 making

00:42:41.900 a

00:42:42.080 decision

00:42:42.480 as

00:42:42.940 the

00:42:43.100 commander

00:42:43.520 in

00:42:44.380 chief

00:42:44.740 just

00:42:45.460 as

00:42:45.620 he

00:42:45.760 did

00:42:45.960 for

00:42:46.160 example

00:42:46.660 with

00:42:47.300 the

00:42:47.440 Iran

00:42:47.740 deal

00:42:48.020 which

00:42:48.680 Trump

00:42:49.040 made

00:42:49.460 a

00:42:50.080 decision

00:42:50.420 on

00:42:50.740 and

00:42:51.180 Biden

00:42:51.540 reversed

00:42:52.040 just

00:42:52.320 as

00:42:52.480 he

00:42:52.620 did

00:42:52.880 with

00:42:53.100 the

00:42:53.340 Paris

00:42:53.720 Accords

00:42:54.240 which

00:42:54.480 Trump

00:42:54.780 made

00:42:55.000 a

00:42:55.120 decision

00:42:55.440 on

00:42:55.780 and

00:42:56.780 Biden

00:42:57.280 reversed

00:42:57.800 if

00:42:58.440 if

00:42:58.460 you

00:42:58.560 go

00:42:58.720 back

00:42:58.980 and

00:42:59.120 look

00:42:59.360 at

00:42:59.460 Joe

00:43:01.640 Biden

00:43:01.980 statements

00:43:02.660 and

00:43:03.020 Kamala

00:43:03.660 Harris

00:43:03.940 his

00:43:04.120 own

00:43:04.300 statements

00:43:04.720 too

00:43:05.080 you

00:43:05.720 will

00:43:05.920 see

00:43:06.120 that

00:43:06.320 this

00:43:06.620 was

00:43:06.900 his

00:43:07.140 call

00:43:07.520 this

00:43:08.260 was

00:43:08.440 his

00:43:08.620 policy

00:43:09.020 when

00:43:09.220 he

00:43:09.340 was

00:43:09.500 running

00:43:09.820 it

00:43:10.820 was

00:43:10.960 his

00:43:11.140 policy

00:43:11.500 10

00:43:11.840 years

00:43:12.100 ago

00:43:12.340 when

00:43:12.520 he

00:43:12.600 said

00:43:12.740 we

00:43:12.880 shouldn't

00:43:13.220 be

00:43:13.360 over

00:43:13.600 there

00:43:13.880 fighting

00:43:14.240 for

00:43:14.500 women's

00:43:14.880 rights

00:43:15.180 it's

00:43:15.400 not

00:43:15.560 why

00:43:15.740 we

00:43:15.900 were

00:43:16.040 there

00:43:16.320 he

00:43:17.120 wanted

00:43:17.400 to

00:43:17.660 leave

00:43:17.940 and

00:43:18.280 he

00:43:18.420 overruled

00:43:18.980 his

00:43:19.180 staff

00:43:19.560 to

00:43:19.740 do

00:43:19.920 so

00:43:20.080 now

00:43:27.800 the

00:43:28.220 military

00:43:28.700 well

00:43:29.180 the

00:43:29.400 military

00:43:29.680 is

00:43:29.820 under

00:43:30.100 civilian

00:43:30.620 control

00:43:31.080 and

00:43:31.240 it

00:43:31.340 should

00:43:31.500 be

00:43:31.720 but

00:43:32.480 when

00:43:32.660 you

00:43:32.800 do

00:43:32.980 that

00:43:33.220 as

00:43:33.400 a

00:43:33.540 president

00:43:33.860 you

00:43:34.660 have

00:43:34.920 to

00:43:35.160 own

00:43:35.520 it

00:43:35.740 and

00:43:36.700 he

00:43:36.940 did

00:43:37.300 he

00:43:37.760 owned

00:43:38.080 it

00:43:38.280 he

00:43:38.500 said

00:43:38.720 finally

00:43:39.160 we're

00:43:39.460 going

00:43:39.640 to

00:43:39.800 do

00:43:39.980 this

00:43:40.240 he

00:43:40.420 made

00:43:40.640 all

00:43:40.860 the

00:43:41.000 predictions

00:43:41.380 that

00:43:41.740 you

00:43:41.920 just

00:43:42.280 played

00:43:42.700 and

00:43:43.200 he

00:43:43.320 got

00:43:43.520 it

00:43:43.660 wrong

00:43:43.900 and

00:43:44.300 even

00:43:44.760 if

00:43:45.180 he

00:43:46.460 hadn't

00:43:46.980 had

00:43:47.320 as

00:43:47.700 much

00:43:48.040 wiggle

00:43:48.380 room

00:43:48.680 as

00:43:48.980 much

00:43:49.220 latitude

00:43:49.660 as

00:43:50.060 much

00:43:50.300 power

00:43:50.740 as

00:43:51.000 he

00:43:51.140 did

00:43:51.420 here

00:43:51.760 he

00:43:52.500 would

00:43:52.660 still

00:43:52.920 have

00:43:53.040 been

00:43:53.200 in

00:43:54.120 charge

00:43:54.380 of

00:43:54.520 the

00:43:54.660 minutiae

00:43:55.480 I

00:43:55.840 wish

00:43:58.100 Congress

00:43:58.480 were

00:43:58.660 more

00:43:58.820 involved

00:43:59.140 in

00:43:59.300 our

00:43:59.440 foreign

00:43:59.660 policy

00:44:00.060 I

00:44:00.480 wish

00:44:00.680 they

00:44:00.880 declared

00:44:01.380 war

00:44:01.720 I

00:44:02.000 wish

00:44:02.200 they

00:44:02.560 rescinded

00:44:03.740 the

00:44:03.880 declarations

00:44:04.500 of

00:44:04.680 war

00:44:04.880 I

00:44:05.120 wish

00:44:05.300 they

00:44:05.420 didn't

00:44:05.660 pass

00:44:06.000 these

00:44:06.240 open

00:44:06.620 ended

00:44:06.940 AUMFs

00:44:07.720 that

00:44:07.820 sit

00:44:08.020 on

00:44:08.160 the

00:44:08.280 books

00:44:08.480 for

00:44:08.640 20

00:44:08.920 years

00:44:09.240 I

00:44:09.580 wish

00:44:09.720 they

00:44:09.880 set

00:44:10.140 more

00:44:10.360 concrete

00:44:10.760 goals

00:44:11.100 but

00:44:11.620 even

00:44:12.260 if

00:44:12.440 they

00:44:12.580 did

00:44:12.780 that

00:44:13.000 to

00:44:13.240 the

00:44:13.460 letter

00:44:13.900 the

00:44:14.860 commander

00:44:15.260 in

00:44:15.500 chief

00:44:21.420 and

00:44:21.800 the

00:44:21.980 details

00:44:22.500 here

00:44:22.820 were

00:44:23.060 botched

00:44:23.540 from

00:44:23.760 start

00:44:24.100 to

00:44:24.280 finish

00:44:24.500 this

00:44:24.760 is

00:44:24.900 just

00:44:25.100 an

00:44:25.280 extraordinary

00:44:26.160 example

00:44:27.560 of

00:44:28.480 incompetence

00:44:29.220 there

00:44:29.420 was

00:44:29.580 no

00:44:29.880 reason

00:44:30.440 here

00:44:30.800 that

00:44:31.360 this

00:44:31.560 had

00:44:31.740 to

00:44:31.880 end

00:44:32.080 up

00:44:32.260 like

00:44:32.440 this

00:44:32.680 even

00:44:33.100 if

00:44:33.380 he

00:44:33.540 decided

00:44:34.020 that

00:44:34.980 we

00:44:35.380 should

00:44:35.560 get

00:44:35.760 out

00:44:36.000 of

00:44:36.200 Afghanistan

00:44:36.760 and

00:44:37.720 that

00:44:37.840 we

00:44:37.960 should

00:44:38.120 do

00:44:38.300 it

00:44:38.420 now

00:44:38.720 yeah

00:44:39.400 can

00:44:39.780 you

00:44:39.960 go

00:44:40.160 through

00:44:40.420 because

00:44:40.700 I

00:44:40.880 thought

00:44:41.060 you

00:44:41.220 did

00:44:41.380 a

00:44:41.540 good

00:44:41.720 job

00:44:42.020 of

00:44:42.200 listing

00:44:42.500 some

00:44:42.820 of

00:44:42.980 the

00:44:43.100 questions

00:44:43.640 that

00:44:44.320 we

00:44:44.460 need

00:44:44.600 to

00:44:44.680 be

00:44:44.840 asking

00:44:45.280 in

00:44:45.940 terms

00:44:46.180 of

00:44:46.320 the

00:44:46.460 timing

00:44:46.860 you

00:44:47.100 know

00:44:47.340 like

00:44:47.540 why

00:44:47.920 why

00:44:48.280 did

00:44:48.420 we

00:44:48.580 pull

00:44:48.800 all

00:44:48.960 the

00:44:49.100 military

00:44:49.560 before

00:44:50.440 all

00:44:50.980 of

00:44:51.120 our

00:44:51.380 citizens

00:44:51.880 were

00:44:52.180 out

00:44:52.340 was

00:44:52.540 one

00:44:52.740 of

00:44:52.840 the

00:44:52.940 questions

00:44:53.220 you

00:44:53.360 asked

00:44:53.460 but

00:44:53.600 there

00:44:53.740 are

00:44:53.860 a few

00:44:54.080 questions

00:44:54.520 we

00:44:54.660 need

00:44:54.840 answers

00:44:55.160 to

00:44:55.400 sure

00:44:56.320 well

00:44:56.660 I

00:44:57.140 would

00:44:57.300 like

00:44:57.480 to

00:44:57.660 know

00:44:57.920 as

00:44:58.180 somebody

00:44:58.460 who

00:44:58.720 is

00:44:58.840 not

00:44:59.060 a

00:44:59.340 foreign

00:44:59.700 policy

00:45:00.180 expert

00:45:00.740 why

00:45:02.220 and

00:45:02.960 again

00:45:03.220 assume

00:45:03.780 that

00:45:04.080 leaving

00:45:04.540 is

00:45:04.760 the

00:45:04.900 correct

00:45:05.360 thing

00:45:07.020 to

00:45:07.180 do

00:45:07.440 and

00:45:08.620 assume

00:45:09.360 that

00:45:09.920 he

00:45:10.220 even

00:45:10.520 had

00:45:10.680 no

00:45:10.840 choice

00:45:11.180 in

00:45:11.340 the

00:45:11.420 long

00:45:11.600 run

00:45:11.900 I

00:45:12.440 would

00:45:12.580 like

00:45:12.740 to

00:45:12.880 know

00:45:13.020 why

00:45:13.280 as

00:45:13.520 a

00:45:13.700 matter

00:45:14.020 of

00:45:14.400 detail

00:45:15.840 as

00:45:16.900 the

00:45:17.220 man

00:45:17.520 in

00:45:17.740 charge

00:45:18.100 of

00:45:18.300 the

00:45:18.440 military

00:45:18.900 and

00:45:19.520 various

00:45:19.980 federal

00:45:20.340 contractors

00:45:21.060 the

00:45:21.900 Biden

00:45:22.220 administration

00:45:22.780 chose

00:45:23.640 to

00:45:24.460 pull

00:45:25.340 out

00:45:25.760 thousands

00:45:27.280 of

00:45:27.620 troops

00:45:28.020 before

00:45:30.100 we

00:45:30.380 had

00:45:30.540 got

00:45:30.800 out

00:45:31.200 all

00:45:32.120 American

00:45:32.580 citizens

00:45:33.260 before

00:45:34.460 we

00:45:34.700 had

00:45:34.860 got

00:45:35.140 out

00:45:35.480 the

00:45:35.800 I

00:45:36.020 believe

00:45:36.240 23,000

00:45:37.480 Afghan

00:45:38.220 citizens

00:45:38.900 who

00:45:39.200 helped

00:45:39.560 us

00:45:40.520 20

00:45:40.900 years

00:45:41.260 of

00:45:41.460 war

00:45:41.760 before

00:45:42.880 we

00:45:43.100 had

00:45:43.280 got

00:45:43.560 out

00:45:43.920 any

00:45:44.560 international

00:45:45.280 staff

00:45:46.340 and

00:45:46.940 contractors

00:45:47.660 frankly

00:45:48.580 before

00:45:49.040 we

00:45:49.280 got

00:45:49.520 out

00:45:49.740 anyone

00:45:50.180 we

00:45:50.480 wanted

00:45:50.840 to

00:45:51.520 get

00:45:51.880 out

00:45:52.120 for

00:45:52.400 any

00:45:52.680 reason

00:45:53.040 I

00:45:53.740 would

00:45:53.840 like

00:45:53.980 to

00:45:54.140 know

00:45:54.340 why

00:45:54.800 we

00:45:55.800 have

00:45:56.160 a

00:45:56.280 whole

00:45:56.460 bunch

00:45:56.780 of

00:45:56.960 military

00:45:57.360 hardware

00:45:57.900 in

00:45:58.340 Afghanistan

00:45:58.860 now

00:45:59.400 that

00:45:59.700 has

00:45:59.840 fallen

00:46:00.120 into

00:46:00.420 the

00:46:00.600 hands

00:46:00.960 of

00:46:01.340 the

00:46:01.500 Taliban

00:46:01.840 I

00:46:03.000 would

00:46:03.100 like

00:46:03.260 to

00:46:03.440 know

00:46:03.780 why

00:46:04.880 the

00:46:05.420 prisons

00:46:06.060 are

00:46:07.580 now

00:46:08.620 being

00:46:08.960 opened

00:46:09.360 up

00:46:09.680 and

00:46:10.280 the

00:46:10.440 people

00:46:10.760 that

00:46:10.960 we've

00:46:11.180 spent

00:46:11.420 20

00:46:11.820 years

00:46:12.120 and

00:46:12.220 a lot

00:46:12.480 of

00:46:12.600 American

00:46:12.980 lives

00:46:13.300 capturing

00:46:13.820 are

00:46:14.220 being

00:46:14.540 put

00:46:15.280 back

00:46:15.720 into

00:46:16.560 the

00:46:17.020 same

00:46:17.240 ranks

00:46:17.640 that

00:46:17.940 they

00:46:18.100 left

00:46:18.500 when

00:46:19.260 we

00:46:19.420 got

00:46:19.680 them

00:46:19.940 there

00:46:21.320 is

00:46:21.880 no

00:46:22.420 situation

00:46:24.280 in which

00:46:25.140 saying

00:46:25.440 well we

00:46:25.920 should

00:46:26.160 have

00:46:26.340 left

00:46:26.800 answers

00:46:27.300 those

00:46:27.720 questions

00:46:28.180 I

00:46:28.340 mean

00:46:28.460 this

00:46:28.660 is

00:46:28.800 a

00:46:29.060 silly

00:46:29.340 analogy

00:46:29.820 but

00:46:30.080 it's

00:46:30.540 a bit

00:46:30.740 like

00:46:30.940 saying

00:46:31.200 well

00:46:31.380 should

00:46:31.900 I

00:46:32.060 sell

00:46:32.300 my

00:46:32.500 house

00:46:32.780 or

00:46:32.940 not

00:46:33.260 and

00:46:33.940 you

00:46:34.020 say

00:46:34.180 okay

00:46:34.400 I'll

00:46:34.600 sell

00:46:34.780 my

00:46:34.980 house

00:46:35.320 and

00:46:36.160 then

00:46:36.340 in

00:46:36.600 handing

00:46:36.860 it

00:46:37.040 over

00:46:37.200 to

00:46:37.340 the

00:46:37.460 next

00:46:37.660 people

00:46:37.960 you

00:46:38.200 smash

00:46:38.540 all

00:46:38.740 the

00:46:38.880 walls

00:46:39.120 down

00:46:39.400 you

00:46:40.180 can't

00:46:40.480 at

00:46:40.620 that

00:46:40.800 point

00:46:41.040 say

00:46:41.400 well

00:46:42.120 I

00:46:42.280 thought

00:46:42.840 it was

00:46:42.980 the

00:46:43.080 right

00:46:43.220 decision

00:46:43.540 to sell

00:46:43.900 my

00:46:44.080 house

00:46:44.420 yeah

00:46:44.720 maybe

00:46:45.080 but you

00:46:46.020 had

00:46:46.260 a

00:46:46.580 choice

00:46:47.080 as to

00:46:47.500 how

00:46:47.700 you

00:46:47.880 did

00:46:48.100 it

00:46:48.220 how

00:46:48.500 you

00:46:48.700 handed

00:46:49.040 it

00:46:49.240 over

00:46:49.400 how

00:46:49.600 you

00:46:49.780 executed

00:46:50.340 that

00:46:50.700 and

00:46:51.320 this

00:46:51.520 just

00:46:51.720 seems

00:46:51.940 to

00:46:52.100 have

00:46:52.220 been

00:46:52.360 done

00:46:52.680 in

00:46:53.660 a

00:46:53.760 completely

00:46:54.120 incompetent

00:46:54.700 way

00:46:54.820 and

00:46:54.940 in

00:46:55.040 a

00:46:55.160 baffling

00:46:55.520 way

00:46:55.720 because

00:46:56.100 journalists

00:46:56.800 were

00:46:57.020 asking

00:46:57.400 the

00:46:57.620 white

00:46:57.820 house

00:46:58.200 in

00:46:58.540 April

00:46:59.040 when

00:46:59.740 the

00:46:59.880 decision

00:47:00.180 was

00:47:00.420 first

00:47:00.840 telegraphed

00:47:02.560 well

00:47:03.080 what are

00:47:03.340 we

00:47:03.440 going

00:47:03.560 to

00:47:03.680 do

00:47:04.000 about

00:47:04.600 the

00:47:04.820 23,000

00:47:05.820 odd

00:47:06.120 interpreters

00:47:06.760 in

00:47:06.920 Afghanistan

00:47:07.420 what are

00:47:07.860 we

00:47:07.920 going

00:47:08.000 to

00:47:08.100 do

00:47:08.220 about

00:47:08.400 oh

00:47:08.640 there's

00:47:08.800 a

00:47:08.900 plan

00:47:09.080 there's

00:47:09.240 a

00:47:09.320 plan

00:47:09.500 there's

00:47:09.640 a

00:47:09.720 plan

00:47:09.940 well

00:47:10.460 there

00:47:10.580 wasn't

00:47:10.940 and

00:47:11.560 you

00:47:11.640 read

00:47:11.900 the

00:47:12.160 pieces

00:47:12.640 in

00:47:12.860 the

00:47:12.980 Daily

00:47:13.180 Beast

00:47:13.460 yesterday

00:47:13.880 and

00:47:14.300 in

00:47:14.480 the

00:47:14.720 Atlantic

00:47:15.140 we

00:47:15.720 pulled

00:47:16.060 out

00:47:16.300 all

00:47:16.540 of

00:47:16.680 the

00:47:16.840 contractors

00:47:17.460 who

00:47:18.040 were

00:47:18.200 necessary

00:47:18.680 to

00:47:19.140 keep

00:47:19.440 the

00:47:19.640 Afghan

00:47:20.060 Air

00:47:20.360 Force

00:47:20.640 in

00:47:20.920 the

00:47:21.100 air

00:47:21.420 which

00:47:22.240 has

00:47:22.360 done

00:47:22.540 two

00:47:22.840 things

00:47:23.340 one

00:47:23.940 it

00:47:24.440 prevented

00:47:25.020 that

00:47:25.500 air

00:47:25.740 force

00:47:25.940 from

00:47:26.100 being

00:47:26.260 able

00:47:26.440 to

00:47:26.620 give

00:47:26.820 ground

00:47:27.160 support

00:47:27.600 to

00:47:27.840 the

00:47:28.000 Afghan

00:47:28.340 troops

00:47:28.700 that

00:47:28.860 were

00:47:28.980 fighting

00:47:29.340 the

00:47:29.560 Taliban

00:47:29.880 two

00:47:31.300 it

00:47:31.680 left

00:47:31.960 all

00:47:32.160 those

00:47:32.400 airplanes

00:47:33.120 on

00:47:33.800 the

00:47:33.980 ground

00:47:34.360 and

00:47:34.760 they're

00:47:34.920 now

00:47:35.240 in

00:47:35.800 the

00:47:35.940 hands

00:47:36.220 of

00:47:36.360 the

00:47:36.460 people

00:47:36.720 we've

00:47:36.980 been

00:47:37.100 trying

00:47:37.380 to

00:47:37.820 prevent

00:47:38.640 sweeping

00:47:38.980 across

00:47:39.300 the

00:47:39.460 Middle

00:47:39.660 East

00:47:39.840 for

00:47:40.000 the

00:47:40.120 last

00:47:40.300 20

00:47:40.580 years

00:47:40.840 and

00:47:41.060 those

00:47:41.400 were

00:47:41.580 choices

00:47:42.080 independently

00:47:44.040 of

00:47:44.380 the

00:47:44.500 broader

00:47:44.800 strategic

00:47:45.740 aim

00:47:46.100 Biden

00:47:46.880 was

00:47:47.100 wrong

00:47:47.340 from

00:47:47.520 the

00:47:47.640 beginning

00:47:47.900 Blinken

00:47:48.300 was

00:47:48.560 wrong

00:47:48.840 too

00:47:49.080 as

00:47:49.240 you

00:47:49.340 point

00:47:49.560 out

00:47:49.680 it

00:47:49.780 wasn't

00:47:49.980 that

00:47:50.140 long

00:47:50.340 ago

00:47:50.700 and

00:47:51.220 Blinken

00:47:51.480 was

00:47:51.720 on

00:47:52.060 meet

00:47:52.680 the

00:47:52.800 press

00:47:53.000 with

00:47:53.160 Chuck

00:47:53.360 Todd

00:47:53.560 over

00:47:53.760 the

00:47:53.900 weekend

00:47:54.260 and

00:47:54.900 Chuck

00:47:55.260 Todd

00:47:55.500 to

00:47:55.640 his

00:47:55.780 credit

00:47:56.020 put

00:47:56.380 it

00:47:56.500 right

00:47:56.680 to

00:47:56.880 him

00:47:57.220 his

00:47:58.120 earlier

00:47:58.480 sound

00:47:58.860 bite

00:47:59.020 where

00:47:59.200 he

00:47:59.400 actually

00:47:59.880 said

00:48:00.260 I

00:48:00.560 don't

00:48:00.800 think

00:48:01.160 that

00:48:01.340 the

00:48:01.480 Taliban

00:48:01.800 overtaking

00:48:03.340 everything

00:48:03.620 I

00:48:03.920 don't

00:48:04.040 think

00:48:04.200 it's

00:48:04.340 going

00:48:04.460 to

00:48:04.540 be

00:48:04.700 something

00:48:04.940 that

00:48:05.140 happens

00:48:05.440 from

00:48:05.860 a

00:48:06.020 Friday

00:48:06.260 to

00:48:06.480 a

00:48:06.640 Monday

00:48:06.860 it

00:48:07.460 literally

00:48:07.880 was

00:48:08.260 from

00:48:08.440 a

00:48:08.560 Friday

00:48:08.740 to

00:48:08.900 a

00:48:09.020 Monday

00:48:09.220 okay

00:48:09.600 so

00:48:10.240 he

00:48:10.600 was

00:48:10.800 asked

00:48:11.180 about

00:48:11.420 this

00:48:11.660 the

00:48:11.800 secretary

00:48:12.040 of

00:48:12.240 state

00:48:12.460 on

00:48:12.920 NBC

00:48:13.200 over

00:48:13.440 the

00:48:13.560 weekend

00:48:13.800 take

00:48:14.040 a

00:48:14.120 listen

00:48:14.340 I

00:48:14.660 want

00:48:14.760 to

00:48:14.820 play

00:48:14.980 something

00:48:15.280 you

00:48:15.520 said

00:48:15.820 in

00:48:16.160 June

00:48:16.580 about

00:48:17.080 the

00:48:17.240 withdrawal

00:48:17.700 and

00:48:18.100 get

00:48:18.260 you

00:48:18.340 respond

00:48:18.640 to

00:48:18.820 it

00:48:18.900 on

00:48:18.980 the

00:48:19.080 other

00:48:19.220 side

00:48:19.500 here

00:48:19.640 it

00:48:19.740 is

00:48:19.940 I

00:48:20.980 don't

00:48:21.300 think

00:48:21.620 it's

00:48:22.000 going

00:48:22.140 to

00:48:22.260 be

00:48:22.380 something

00:48:22.640 that

00:48:22.840 happens

00:48:23.140 from

00:48:23.460 a

00:48:24.020 Friday

00:48:24.320 to

00:48:24.720 a

00:48:24.920 Monday

00:48:25.140 so

00:48:25.920 I

00:48:26.360 wouldn't

00:48:26.820 necessarily

00:48:28.000 equate

00:48:28.500 the

00:48:29.140 departure

00:48:29.500 of

00:48:29.800 our

00:48:29.940 forces

00:48:30.340 in

00:48:31.260 July

00:48:31.560 August

00:48:32.040 or

00:48:32.660 by

00:48:32.840 early

00:48:33.060 September

00:48:33.460 with

00:48:34.280 some

00:48:34.660 kind

00:48:34.960 of

00:48:35.080 immediate

00:48:35.480 deterioration

00:48:36.960 in

00:48:37.840 the

00:48:38.120 situation

00:48:39.020 how

00:48:40.520 did

00:48:40.680 that

00:48:41.200 assessment

00:48:41.600 end up

00:48:42.400 so

00:48:42.600 wrong

00:48:42.860 is

00:48:43.460 that

00:48:43.640 an

00:48:43.840 intelligence

00:48:44.260 assessment

00:48:44.720 that

00:48:44.920 went

00:48:45.080 wrong

00:48:45.380 is

00:48:45.540 that

00:48:45.720 Pentagon

00:48:46.300 assessment

00:48:46.700 that

00:48:48.340 does

00:48:50.060 not

00:48:50.260 age

00:48:50.460 well

00:48:50.700 two

00:48:51.240 things

00:48:51.440 Chuck

00:48:51.700 first

00:48:52.660 we've

00:48:53.580 known

00:48:53.720 all

00:48:53.900 along

00:48:54.220 that

00:48:54.640 the

00:48:55.540 Taliban

00:48:55.840 was

00:48:56.160 at

00:48:56.320 its

00:48:56.560 strongest

00:48:56.960 position

00:48:57.900 in terms

00:48:58.220 of

00:48:58.340 its

00:48:58.460 strength

00:48:58.760 since

00:48:59.300 2001

00:48:59.960 when we

00:49:00.680 came

00:49:00.840 to

00:49:00.980 office

00:49:01.280 that

00:49:01.860 was

00:49:02.140 the

00:49:02.300 fact

00:49:02.580 and

00:49:03.440 we

00:49:03.840 said

00:49:04.060 all

00:49:04.220 along

00:49:04.540 including

00:49:05.000 back

00:49:05.580 then

00:49:05.840 that

00:49:06.480 there

00:49:06.580 was

00:49:06.680 a

00:49:06.760 real

00:49:06.880 chance

00:49:07.160 the

00:49:07.400 Taliban

00:49:07.660 would

00:49:07.920 make

00:49:08.220 significant

00:49:08.820 gains

00:49:09.140 throughout

00:49:09.440 Afghanistan

00:49:09.900 but

00:49:11.340 on

00:49:11.580 the

00:49:11.700 other

00:49:11.840 hand

00:49:12.120 I

00:49:12.840 have

00:49:12.980 to

00:49:13.100 tell

00:49:13.240 you

00:49:13.380 that

00:49:13.600 the

00:49:14.340 inability

00:49:15.120 of

00:49:15.620 Afghan

00:49:15.900 security

00:49:16.300 forces

00:49:18.340 has

00:49:19.280 played

00:49:19.600 a

00:49:19.900 very

00:49:21.280 powerful

00:49:21.980 role

00:49:22.260 in what

00:49:22.500 we've

00:49:22.700 seen

00:49:22.960 over

00:49:23.540 the

00:49:23.680 last

00:49:24.040 few

00:49:24.820 weeks

00:49:25.120 so

00:49:25.900 the

00:49:26.080 answer

00:49:26.300 is

00:49:26.580 Trump

00:49:27.000 Trump

00:49:27.700 allowed

00:49:27.920 the

00:49:28.080 Taliban

00:49:28.360 to

00:49:28.680 get

00:49:28.920 very

00:49:29.800 strong

00:49:30.180 the

00:49:30.460 strongest

00:49:30.760 that

00:49:31.120 they've

00:49:31.360 been

00:49:31.520 since

00:49:31.720 2001

00:49:32.280 and

00:49:32.940 what

00:49:33.940 can I

00:49:34.180 tell you

00:49:34.420 the

00:49:34.540 Afghan

00:49:34.840 security

00:49:35.220 forces

00:49:35.560 are

00:49:35.760 terrible

00:49:36.080 they

00:49:36.400 were

00:49:36.540 weak

00:49:36.840 they

00:49:37.120 put

00:49:37.280 down

00:49:37.420 their

00:49:37.580 arms

00:49:37.860 and

00:49:38.600 you

00:49:38.740 know

00:49:38.840 sorry

00:49:39.140 but

00:49:39.380 there's

00:49:39.520 only

00:49:39.740 so

00:49:40.240 much

00:49:40.380 we

00:49:40.520 could

00:49:40.620 do

00:49:40.820 the

00:49:41.560 entire

00:49:42.860 rationale

00:49:43.520 for

00:49:44.020 the

00:49:44.140 Biden

00:49:44.440 presidency

00:49:45.100 was

00:49:48.340 sometimes

00:49:50.080 I think

00:49:50.700 that's

00:49:50.920 a good

00:49:51.140 thing

00:49:51.400 and

00:49:51.640 sometimes

00:49:52.040 I think

00:49:52.600 that's

00:49:52.900 a bad

00:49:53.220 thing

00:49:53.560 but

00:49:55.280 for

00:49:55.960 this

00:49:56.260 president

00:49:56.680 and his

00:49:57.200 staff

00:49:57.800 to say

00:49:58.420 well this

00:49:58.860 is

00:49:59.040 Trump's

00:49:59.420 fault

00:49:59.760 I

00:50:00.080 think

00:50:00.540 is

00:50:00.840 passing

00:50:02.480 the

00:50:02.740 buck

00:50:03.020 Joe

00:50:04.600 Biden

00:50:05.040 has

00:50:06.520 been

00:50:06.800 president

00:50:07.280 now

00:50:07.840 for

00:50:08.480 seven

00:50:08.960 months

00:50:09.440 and

00:50:11.220 he

00:50:12.640 already

00:50:13.340 missed

00:50:13.900 the

00:50:14.180 deadline

00:50:14.780 that

00:50:16.100 was

00:50:16.260 set

00:50:16.660 by

00:50:17.300 the

00:50:18.860 deal

00:50:19.160 that

00:50:19.360 Trump

00:50:19.620 came

00:50:20.180 to

00:50:20.440 some

00:50:21.540 of

00:50:21.700 the

00:50:21.780 provisions

00:50:22.120 of

00:50:22.340 that

00:50:22.500 deal

00:50:22.720 for

00:50:22.880 what

00:50:23.040 it's

00:50:23.220 worth

00:50:23.400 were

00:50:23.560 violated

00:50:23.960 by

00:50:24.220 the

00:50:24.360 Taliban

00:50:24.660 so

00:50:25.100 even

00:50:25.760 if

00:50:25.940 you

00:50:26.060 took

00:50:26.240 a

00:50:26.440 formal

00:50:26.900 legalistic

00:50:27.780 approach

00:50:28.160 to

00:50:28.320 this

00:50:28.560 Biden

00:50:29.460 did

00:50:29.700 not

00:50:29.840 have

00:50:30.060 to

00:50:30.520 abide

00:50:31.780 by

00:50:32.000 all

00:50:32.200 of

00:50:32.340 them

00:50:32.520 there

00:50:32.900 had

00:50:33.040 been

00:50:33.160 a

00:50:33.380 material

00:50:34.000 breach

00:50:34.460 right

00:50:36.020 he

00:50:36.460 didn't

00:50:36.700 he

00:50:36.940 didn't

00:50:37.180 abide

00:50:37.420 by

00:50:37.680 them

00:50:37.840 I

00:50:37.980 mean

00:50:38.060 this

00:50:38.200 was

00:50:38.300 supposed

00:50:38.480 to

00:50:38.600 be

00:50:38.700 done

00:50:38.880 already

00:50:39.220 and

00:50:39.460 they

00:50:39.920 delayed

00:50:41.040 and

00:50:41.340 that

00:50:41.480 shows

00:50:41.760 they're

00:50:41.980 capable

00:50:42.340 of

00:50:43.900 delaying

00:50:44.440 and

00:50:45.020 his

00:50:45.380 staff

00:50:45.780 told

00:50:46.180 him

00:50:46.460 look

00:50:47.960 the

00:50:49.420 troop

00:50:50.240 levels

00:50:50.620 you're

00:50:50.900 talking

00:50:51.300 about

00:50:51.680 are

00:50:51.940 insufficient

00:50:52.580 to

00:50:53.840 hold

00:50:54.400 the

00:50:55.600 country

00:50:55.940 in

00:50:56.180 check

00:50:56.500 and

00:50:57.160 Biden

00:50:57.500 made

00:50:57.800 his

00:50:57.960 own

00:50:58.160 call

00:50:58.380 and

00:50:58.560 again

00:50:58.800 that

00:50:59.060 is

00:50:59.240 his

00:50:59.440 role

00:50:59.800 we

00:51:00.060 do

00:51:00.260 not

00:51:00.440 have

00:51:00.680 rule

00:51:00.880 by

00:51:01.080 generals

00:51:01.480 in

00:51:01.680 the

00:51:01.780 United

00:51:02.060 States

00:51:02.420 but

00:51:02.580 if

00:51:02.700 you're

00:51:02.860 going

00:51:03.080 to

00:51:03.260 take

00:51:03.520 that

00:51:03.700 decision

00:51:04.160 own

00:51:05.480 it

00:51:05.740 and

00:51:07.020 of

00:51:07.140 course

00:51:07.240 this

00:51:07.420 brings

00:51:07.680 us

00:51:07.800 to

00:51:07.940 another

00:51:08.180 question

00:51:08.560 which

00:51:08.800 is

00:51:08.940 where

00:51:09.160 on

00:51:09.300 earth

00:51:09.520 is

00:51:09.720 he

00:51:09.940 I'm

00:51:10.820 not

00:51:11.200 big

00:51:11.700 on

00:51:11.900 that

00:51:12.180 as

00:51:12.440 a

00:51:13.020 libertarian

00:51:13.660 who

00:51:13.780 would

00:51:13.900 like

00:51:14.100 to

00:51:14.240 see

00:51:14.400 the

00:51:14.580 executive

00:51:15.020 branch

00:51:15.500 diminished

00:51:16.100 in

00:51:17.380 general

00:51:17.940 but

00:51:24.400 you

00:51:25.580 could

00:51:25.700 be

00:51:25.860 Calvin

00:51:26.240 Coolidge

00:51:26.880 and

00:51:27.040 this

00:51:27.200 is

00:51:27.300 what

00:51:27.420 a

00:51:27.540 president

00:51:27.840 is

00:51:28.120 supposed

00:51:28.360 to

00:51:28.580 do

00:51:28.780 and

00:51:29.580 he's

00:51:29.740 hiding

00:51:30.040 he's

00:51:30.860 nowhere

00:51:31.180 to

00:51:31.440 be

00:51:31.620 seen

00:51:31.900 he's

00:51:32.320 acting

00:51:32.880 as if

00:51:33.220 this

00:51:33.400 is

00:51:33.620 a

00:51:33.880 story

00:51:34.180 that

00:51:34.360 can

00:51:34.520 be

00:51:34.680 addressed

00:51:35.020 on

00:51:35.240 Wednesday

00:51:35.640 or

00:51:36.680 Thursday

00:51:37.120 and

00:51:38.420 it

00:51:38.540 can't

00:51:39.060 and

00:51:39.420 it's

00:51:39.820 very

00:51:40.100 disappointing

00:51:40.840 frankly

00:51:42.840 well it

00:51:44.340 matters

00:51:44.640 not only

00:51:45.080 for

00:51:45.320 the

00:51:45.680 you know

00:51:46.300 the

00:51:46.440 gold

00:51:46.640 star

00:51:46.820 families

00:51:47.220 who

00:51:47.400 have

00:51:47.540 lost

00:51:47.960 sons

00:51:48.900 and

00:51:49.080 daughters

00:51:49.320 over

00:51:49.560 there

00:51:49.860 but

00:51:50.140 for

00:51:50.740 the

00:51:50.860 people

00:51:51.040 who

00:51:51.200 have

00:51:51.320 been

00:51:51.440 wounded

00:51:51.720 over

00:51:51.960 there

00:51:52.200 and

00:51:52.340 those

00:51:52.480 of

00:51:52.600 us

00:51:52.700 who

00:51:52.800 support

00:51:53.120 them

00:51:53.300 and

00:51:53.420 so

00:51:53.640 on

00:51:53.880 it

00:51:54.440 matters

00:51:54.740 for

00:51:54.920 those

00:51:55.160 of

00:51:55.280 us

00:51:55.420 who

00:51:55.560 are

00:51:55.680 concerned

00:51:56.160 legitimately

00:51:56.820 rightfully

00:51:58.140 about

00:51:59.120 terror

00:51:59.940 and

00:52:00.880 what's

00:52:01.400 going

00:52:01.560 to

00:52:01.720 happen

00:52:01.960 now

00:52:02.380 that

00:52:02.640 all

00:52:02.860 these

00:52:03.040 al-qaeda

00:52:03.420 fighters

00:52:03.820 who

00:52:04.140 our

00:52:04.400 guys

00:52:04.620 sacrificed

00:52:05.320 lives

00:52:06.380 to put

00:52:07.220 in

00:52:07.480 prisons

00:52:08.340 over

00:52:08.580 there

00:52:08.820 are

00:52:09.000 now

00:52:09.180 free

00:52:09.640 running

00:52:10.080 around

00:52:10.380 out

00:52:10.580 there

00:52:10.760 and

00:52:10.960 the

00:52:11.120 whole

00:52:11.480 country

00:52:11.900 is

00:52:12.020 being

00:52:12.200 run

00:52:12.540 by

00:52:13.560 a

00:52:14.300 force

00:52:14.640 that's

00:52:14.920 dedicated

00:52:15.220 to

00:52:15.480 Islamic

00:52:15.840 law

00:52:16.280 that

00:52:17.080 already

00:52:17.880 harbored

00:52:18.400 al-qaeda

00:52:18.880 for

00:52:19.140 many

00:52:19.360 years

00:52:19.640 and

00:52:19.780 I

00:52:19.940 realized

00:52:20.580 in

00:52:20.720 the

00:52:20.800 deal

00:52:20.920 with

00:52:21.080 Trump

00:52:21.280 one

00:52:21.680 of

00:52:21.760 the

00:52:21.860 promises

00:52:22.180 was

00:52:22.580 we

00:52:23.040 won't

00:52:23.380 allow

00:52:23.620 anybody

00:52:23.920 to

00:52:24.240 plot

00:52:24.720 attacks

00:52:25.380 against

00:52:25.640 the

00:52:25.820 United

00:52:26.040 States

00:52:26.380 in

00:52:26.520 Afghanistan

00:52:26.980 but

00:52:27.900 Charlie

00:52:28.380 they

00:52:28.560 can't

00:52:28.800 even

00:52:28.920 get

00:52:29.080 the

00:52:29.240 water

00:52:29.540 to

00:52:29.780 run

00:52:30.000 the

00:52:30.140 way

00:52:30.320 it

00:52:30.460 ought

00:52:30.680 to

00:52:30.900 you

00:52:31.100 want

00:52:31.240 to

00:52:31.320 tell

00:52:31.440 me

00:52:31.560 even

00:52:31.800 if

00:52:31.980 they

00:52:32.080 were

00:52:32.240 inclined

00:52:32.740 to

00:52:32.940 stop

00:52:33.160 terror

00:52:33.460 groups

00:52:33.740 from

00:52:33.920 forming

00:52:34.280 that

00:52:34.940 they

00:52:35.080 could

00:52:35.280 do

00:52:35.520 it

00:52:35.740 so

00:52:36.380 that's

00:52:36.940 the

00:52:37.040 kind

00:52:37.200 of

00:52:37.280 thing

00:52:37.400 you

00:52:37.520 would

00:52:37.700 like

00:52:37.860 to

00:52:37.980 hear

00:52:38.120 some

00:52:38.340 reassurances

00:52:38.920 from

00:52:39.200 your

00:52:39.380 commander

00:52:39.680 in

00:52:39.860 chief

00:52:40.040 on

00:52:40.280 I

00:52:41.560 think

00:52:41.940 that

00:52:42.400 and

00:52:42.620 of

00:52:42.780 course

00:52:42.980 this

00:52:43.140 applies

00:52:43.440 less

00:52:43.740 to

00:52:43.880 Joe

00:52:44.100 Biden

00:52:44.340 because

00:52:44.520 we

00:52:44.740 haven't

00:52:45.080 heard

00:52:45.260 from

00:52:45.500 him

00:52:45.760 I

00:52:46.300 think

00:52:46.580 the

00:52:46.840 Democratic

00:52:47.360 party's

00:52:47.900 position

00:52:48.240 on

00:52:48.500 this

00:52:48.680 is

00:52:48.840 the

00:52:49.000 least

00:52:49.280 sustainable

00:52:49.800 of

00:52:50.060 all

00:52:50.320 as

00:52:51.220 far

00:52:51.400 as

00:52:51.540 I

00:52:51.660 see

00:52:51.920 it

00:52:52.120 as

00:52:52.720 a

00:52:53.020 realist

00:52:53.740 you

00:52:53.980 have

00:52:54.140 two

00:52:54.360 options

00:52:54.780 one

00:52:55.900 is

00:52:56.600 to

00:52:56.780 say

00:52:57.140 look

00:52:57.600 America

00:52:58.500 first

00:52:58.980 we've

00:52:59.620 been

00:52:59.780 there

00:52:59.940 20

00:53:07.040 propping

00:53:08.200 up

00:53:08.460 governments

00:53:09.040 either

00:53:09.300 way

00:53:09.720 yes

00:53:10.560 the

00:53:10.760 consequences

00:53:11.400 will be

00:53:11.840 terrible

00:53:12.200 if we

00:53:12.580 leave

00:53:12.940 but

00:53:13.660 that's

00:53:14.200 life

00:53:14.640 and

00:53:15.500 you

00:53:15.660 essentially

00:53:16.220 adopt

00:53:16.840 the same

00:53:17.260 approach

00:53:17.760 as we

00:53:18.200 do

00:53:18.360 to

00:53:18.520 say

00:53:18.700 North

00:53:19.000 Korea

00:53:19.300 we

00:53:19.580 know

00:53:19.740 what

00:53:19.880 happens

00:53:20.200 there

00:53:20.440 we

00:53:21.240 just

00:53:21.420 don't

00:53:21.680 think

00:53:21.940 on

00:53:22.120 balance

00:53:22.540 that

00:53:22.760 it

00:53:22.880 is

00:53:23.040 worth

00:53:23.400 invading

00:53:24.320 whether

00:53:24.520 for

00:53:24.740 geostrategic

00:53:25.540 reasons

00:53:25.860 or

00:53:26.160 we

00:53:26.300 don't

00:53:26.420 want

00:53:26.560 to

00:53:26.680 lose

00:53:26.940 people

00:53:27.620 we

00:53:28.560 don't

00:53:28.760 think

00:53:28.940 it's

00:53:29.240 worth

00:53:29.480 it

00:53:29.660 and

00:53:29.880 we

00:53:30.040 take

00:53:30.480 that

00:53:30.700 trade

00:53:31.100 the

00:53:32.120 other

00:53:32.320 option

00:53:32.640 is

00:53:37.040 predicated

00:53:38.680 upon

00:53:39.540 a

00:53:40.400 commitment

00:53:40.740 to

00:53:41.260 the

00:53:41.640 individual

00:53:42.120 and

00:53:43.280 we

00:53:43.500 have

00:53:43.700 a

00:53:43.820 responsibility

00:53:44.420 whether

00:53:45.140 to

00:53:45.820 everyone

00:53:46.140 in the

00:53:46.480 world

00:53:46.800 or

00:53:47.060 just

00:53:47.320 to

00:53:47.500 the

00:53:47.640 places

00:53:47.920 we've

00:53:48.220 already

00:53:48.520 invaded

00:53:49.040 as

00:53:49.420 in

00:53:49.600 Afghanistan

00:53:50.060 to

00:53:51.540 maintain

00:53:52.240 order

00:53:53.040 and

00:53:53.260 peace

00:53:53.640 where

00:53:54.340 possible

00:53:54.840 if

00:53:55.300 we

00:53:55.500 leave

00:53:55.820 we

00:53:56.020 know

00:53:56.220 what's

00:53:56.420 going

00:53:56.560 to

00:53:56.680 happen

00:53:56.940 especially

00:53:57.380 to

00:53:57.640 women

00:53:57.840 so

00:53:58.200 we

00:53:58.360 can't

00:53:58.860 those

00:53:59.580 are

00:53:59.720 two

00:53:59.900 coherent

00:54:00.400 positions

00:54:01.040 I'm

00:54:01.940 not

00:54:02.120 saying

00:54:02.380 that

00:54:02.520 they're

00:54:02.700 equal

00:54:02.960 positions

00:54:03.480 but

00:54:03.760 they're

00:54:04.000 coherent

00:54:04.440 positions

00:54:05.020 the

00:54:05.860 position

00:54:06.240 that

00:54:06.460 the

00:54:06.580 Democratic

00:54:07.040 Party

00:54:07.420 seems

00:54:07.720 to

00:54:07.860 be

00:54:07.980 taking

00:54:08.280 in

00:54:08.440 the

00:54:08.540 last

00:54:08.720 couple

00:54:09.000 of

00:54:09.160 days

00:54:09.460 is

00:54:10.240 we

00:54:11.000 should

00:54:11.180 get

00:54:11.420 out

00:54:11.640 it's

00:54:11.900 the

00:54:12.040 right

00:54:12.220 thing

00:54:12.400 to

00:54:12.540 do

00:54:12.780 well

00:54:13.060 done

00:54:13.240 to

00:54:13.380 President

00:54:13.760 Biden

00:54:14.180 also

00:54:14.660 we're

00:54:15.020 horrified

00:54:15.600 by

00:54:15.820 what's

00:54:16.080 about

00:54:16.280 to

00:54:16.440 happen

00:54:16.720 well

00:54:18.060 what

00:54:18.800 does

00:54:19.020 that

00:54:19.220 do

00:54:19.560 for

00:54:19.800 anyone

00:54:20.140 you

00:54:20.360 know

00:54:20.440 Nancy

00:54:20.740 Pelosi

00:54:21.140 on

00:54:21.400 Saturday

00:54:21.820 she

00:54:22.700 said

00:54:22.960 that

00:54:23.220 there

00:54:23.580 was

00:54:23.720 wisdom

00:54:24.280 in

00:54:25.280 President

00:54:25.660 Biden

00:54:25.980 decision

00:54:26.420 and

00:54:26.680 then

00:54:26.820 she

00:54:27.080 then

00:54:27.360 said

00:54:27.600 she

00:54:27.800 was

00:54:27.960 extremely

00:54:28.840 worried

00:54:29.320 about

00:54:29.600 what

00:54:29.780 was

00:54:29.900 going

00:54:30.040 to

00:54:31.040 women

00:54:31.360 in

00:54:31.720 Afghanistan

00:54:32.320 well

00:54:33.560 the

00:54:34.000 wisdom

00:54:34.620 Joe

00:54:35.840 Biden

00:54:36.200 supposedly

00:54:37.120 demonstrated

00:54:38.080 is

00:54:39.100 going

00:54:39.380 to

00:54:39.580 lead

00:54:39.800 directly

00:54:40.360 to

00:54:40.780 what's

00:54:41.120 going

00:54:41.240 to

00:54:41.400 happen

00:54:41.720 to

00:54:42.640 those

00:54:42.940 women

00:54:43.180 Jen

00:54:43.500 Saki

00:54:43.900 preposterously

00:54:45.080 last

00:54:45.520 week

00:54:45.800 said

00:54:46.280 the

00:54:46.440 Taliban

00:54:46.760 needs

00:54:47.160 to

00:54:47.340 think

00:54:47.580 about

00:54:47.880 where

00:54:48.160 it

00:54:48.320 wants

00:54:48.520 to

00:54:48.720 sit

00:54:49.040 within

00:54:49.880 the

00:54:50.140 international

00:54:50.620 community

00:54:51.180 which is

00:54:51.860 a little

00:54:52.060 bit

00:54:52.220 like

00:54:52.460 saying

00:54:52.880 Jeffrey

00:54:53.560 Dharma

00:54:53.920 really

00:54:54.180 needs

00:54:54.380 to

00:54:54.560 think

00:54:54.820 whether

00:54:55.020 he

00:54:55.160 wants

00:54:55.320 to

00:54:55.440 be

00:54:55.540 a

00:54:55.680 member

00:54:55.840 of

00:54:56.000 this

00:54:56.200 church

00:54:56.600 he

00:54:57.140 doesn't

00:54:57.640 they

00:54:58.960 know

00:54:59.600 where

00:54:59.800 they

00:54:59.940 sit

00:55:00.160 in

00:55:00.320 the

00:55:00.420 international

00:55:00.860 community

00:55:01.440 they're

00:55:02.100 live

00:55:02.480 streaming

00:55:02.940 what

00:55:03.220 they're

00:55:03.460 trying

00:55:03.720 to

00:55:03.900 do

00:55:04.180 and

00:55:05.400 as

00:55:06.940 such

00:55:07.340 I

00:55:07.900 find

00:55:08.200 it

00:55:08.380 especially

00:55:09.120 distasteful

00:55:10.040 far

00:55:10.360 more

00:55:10.600 distasteful

00:55:11.180 frankly

00:55:11.600 than

00:55:12.000 the

00:55:12.180 Trumpian

00:55:12.640 whatever

00:55:13.200 because

00:55:14.740 they're

00:55:15.340 taking

00:55:16.080 the

00:55:16.420 Trumpian

00:55:17.080 approach

00:55:17.980 while

00:55:18.340 pretending

00:55:19.020 that

00:55:20.480 they are

00:55:21.000 defending

00:55:21.480 human

00:55:21.900 rights

00:55:22.260 and

00:55:22.460 they're

00:55:22.640 doing

00:55:22.880 no

00:55:23.360 such

00:55:23.700 thing

00:55:24.060 again

00:55:24.700 own

00:55:25.280 it

00:55:25.540 up

00:55:27.240 next

00:55:27.500 we'll

00:55:27.660 talk

00:55:27.800 to

00:55:27.920 Charles

00:55:28.160 about

00:55:28.460 the

00:55:28.700 politics

00:55:29.080 of

00:55:29.320 this

00:55:29.580 how

00:55:30.140 do

00:55:30.600 they

00:55:30.780 play

00:55:31.160 where

00:55:31.840 do

00:55:32.340 we

00:55:32.440 think

00:55:32.600 the

00:55:32.740 American

00:55:33.040 public's

00:55:33.600 sentiment

00:55:34.100 on

00:55:34.520 this

00:55:34.720 is

00:55:34.860 going

00:55:34.980 to

00:55:35.040 be

00:55:35.300 and

00:55:36.060 a

00:55:36.300 remarkable

00:55:36.800 day

00:55:37.200 in

00:55:37.320 American

00:55:37.700 media

00:55:38.480 history

00:55:38.900 at

00:55:39.100 least

00:55:39.240 modern

00:55:39.640 history

00:55:40.080 where

00:55:40.780 the

00:55:41.220 press

00:55:41.820 is

00:55:42.400 doing

00:55:42.580 the

00:55:42.720 right

00:55:42.880 thing

00:55:43.120 we'll

00:55:43.520 get

00:55:43.620 to

00:55:43.720 that

00:55:43.840 next

00:55:44.120 but

00:55:44.660 first

00:55:45.140 I'm

00:55:45.740 going

00:55:45.760 to

00:55:45.800 bring

00:55:45.940 you

00:55:46.000 a

00:55:46.100 feature

00:55:46.300 we

00:55:46.440 have

00:55:46.580 here

00:55:46.720 on

00:55:46.840 the

00:55:46.920 show

00:55:47.080 called

00:55:47.300 Asked

00:55:47.720 and

00:55:47.800 Answered

00:55:48.220 where

00:55:48.320 we

00:55:48.440 try

00:55:48.620 to

00:55:48.720 get

00:55:48.820 after

00:55:49.020 some

00:55:49.240 of

00:55:49.360 our

00:55:49.540 listener

00:55:50.200 and

00:55:50.400 viewer

00:55:50.600 mail

00:55:50.980 and

00:55:51.840 by

00:55:52.000 the

00:55:52.080 way

00:55:52.220 speaking

00:55:52.520 of

00:55:52.720 viewer

00:55:52.900 mail

00:55:53.140 we

00:55:53.420 have

00:55:53.620 viewers

00:55:54.000 now

00:55:54.320 because

00:55:54.560 we're

00:55:54.760 posting

00:55:55.160 some

00:55:55.840 of

00:55:55.960 our

00:55:56.080 clips

00:55:56.440 on

00:55:57.060 YouTube

00:55:57.380 so

00:55:57.760 if

00:55:57.840 you

00:55:57.880 want

00:55:57.980 to

00:55:58.040 check

00:55:58.180 it

00:55:58.260 out

00:55:58.360 just

00:55:58.520 go

00:55:58.620 to

00:55:58.740 youtube.com

00:55:59.540 forward

00:55:59.760 slash

00:56:00.020 Megan

00:56:00.260 Kelly

00:56:00.580 M-E-G-Y-N-K-E-L-L-L-Y

00:56:02.980 and you can see

00:56:03.640 we sort of pick a couple

00:56:05.580 each day

00:56:06.260 because we're gearing up

00:56:07.140 for putting the whole show

00:56:08.360 on YouTube

00:56:08.780 starting on September 7th

00:56:10.420 so we'll kind of get our feet wet

00:56:11.540 and you can take a look

00:56:13.080 at the guests

00:56:13.500 it's kind of fun to see them

00:56:14.400 right

00:56:14.700 even for me

00:56:15.160 it's fun to see them

00:56:15.860 although now I have to do my hair and makeup

00:56:17.360 I'm no longer wearing the same outfit every day

00:56:18.960 three days in a row

00:56:19.660 I've made an effort

00:56:21.360 in any event

00:56:22.080 okay so we're going to bring you this feature

00:56:23.300 Asked and Answered

00:56:24.260 and Steve Krakauer

00:56:25.020 our executive producer

00:56:26.560 calls through the questions

00:56:28.460 and comes up with some good ones

00:56:29.700 hey Steve

00:56:30.080 hey Megan

00:56:30.880 yes this comes to us from Jenna Powell

00:56:32.520 who wants to know

00:56:33.460 with all the crap going on in this country right now

00:56:35.360 and I guess as we

00:56:36.020 know from today's show

00:56:37.020 around the world

00:56:37.600 she's struggling to maintain

00:56:39.240 a positive outlook

00:56:40.240 she's a mother of a 26 year old daughter

00:56:42.340 a 23 year old son

00:56:43.560 she worries for them

00:56:44.660 and her grandchildren

00:56:45.460 and she says

00:56:46.460 it irks her

00:56:47.240 that so many Americans

00:56:48.200 are wholly uninformed

00:56:49.700 or have zero interest

00:56:50.980 in finding out

00:56:51.760 so how do you do it

00:56:52.960 she wants to know

00:56:53.520 because clearly

00:56:54.120 you're far more informed than her

00:56:56.160 and she still sees

00:56:57.780 that you're positive

00:56:58.520 and happy and hopeful

00:56:59.460 she wants to get some help

00:57:01.220 oh

00:57:01.840 well thank you for that

00:57:03.160 I will say you're right

00:57:04.720 I think people who are not

00:57:05.860 closely following the news

00:57:07.080 tend to be happier people

00:57:08.080 I think you know

00:57:09.780 you are right

00:57:10.320 ignorance is bliss

00:57:11.300 and the people I know

00:57:13.280 who follow no news

00:57:14.160 tend to be pretty happy

00:57:15.060 but you know

00:57:16.080 you're either built that way

00:57:17.300 or you're not

00:57:17.880 and it sounds like you're not

00:57:18.920 so don't fight it

00:57:20.060 you're going to be consuming news

00:57:21.320 because you want to know

00:57:21.920 what's happening about

00:57:22.620 in your country

00:57:23.620 and in the world

00:57:24.600 and I'm the same

00:57:25.700 and it can be dark

00:57:27.100 and it can bum you out

00:57:28.160 there's no question

00:57:29.320 I think the reason

00:57:30.940 I just don't feel pessimistic

00:57:33.240 in general

00:57:33.740 about the country

00:57:34.340 or the news

00:57:34.940 you know

00:57:35.680 on a larger basis

00:57:37.540 is

00:57:38.040 I believe in Americans

00:57:39.500 you know

00:57:40.500 and I believe in the concept

00:57:41.440 of America

00:57:42.060 and how we're built

00:57:43.320 and our spirit

00:57:44.000 so

00:57:44.960 and I also believe

00:57:46.120 that the press misrepresents

00:57:47.420 how people really feel

00:57:48.580 and they're not representative

00:57:49.500 of the majority of Americans

00:57:50.900 nor is Twitter

00:57:52.280 or anything on social media

00:57:53.440 you know

00:57:54.340 it's

00:57:54.680 and I know this

00:57:55.660 having lived it

00:57:56.400 right

00:57:56.620 because I've been through

00:57:57.180 a bunch of controversies

00:57:58.140 where people beat up

00:57:58.840 on me in the press

00:57:59.560 and I think

00:58:00.460 oh my god

00:58:00.820 I must be the scourge

00:58:02.040 of the nation

00:58:02.500 then I go outside

00:58:03.680 and I see real people

00:58:04.760 and they're so loving

00:58:05.700 even if they don't share

00:58:06.520 my politics

00:58:07.120 they're so kind

00:58:08.000 they have a nice word

00:58:09.440 and that's one nice benefit

00:58:11.500 of being

00:58:12.660 you know

00:58:13.100 somebody who's well known

00:58:14.340 is

00:58:14.860 strangers will come up to you

00:58:16.360 and offer you

00:58:16.840 their opinions of you

00:58:17.760 and it's always kind

00:58:19.800 it's not to say that

00:58:20.720 there aren't haters out there

00:58:22.380 but I'm just saying

00:58:23.520 it reassures me

00:58:25.000 that what you see online

00:58:26.480 and what you hear

00:58:26.960 from the media

00:58:27.540 isn't real

00:58:28.900 it's not actually

00:58:29.800 representative

00:58:30.360 of real Americans

00:58:32.320 and how they feel

00:58:33.960 so you just have to

00:58:35.140 keep reminding yourself

00:58:35.980 of that

00:58:36.360 right

00:58:36.540 like hysterical press

00:58:37.920 they're not to be trusted

00:58:39.240 as you know

00:58:39.760 and it's just a huge

00:58:40.720 huge asterisk

00:58:41.620 on everything

00:58:42.000 they try to spoon

00:58:42.880 feed you

00:58:43.560 but I do think

00:58:44.760 the other thing is

00:58:45.420 you got to limit it

00:58:46.180 to some extent

00:58:46.760 you got to remember

00:58:47.520 to spend time

00:58:48.780 with your family

00:58:49.260 with your friends

00:58:49.920 watching stupid TV

00:58:50.940 every once in a while

00:58:51.800 turn on a Real Housewives

00:58:52.900 or watch sports

00:58:54.180 or I don't care

00:58:55.580 whatever your guilty

00:58:56.620 pleasure is

00:58:57.260 do it

00:58:57.780 you know

00:58:58.780 have a glass of wine

00:58:59.480 or go for a run

00:59:00.380 or do an exercise class

00:59:01.980 or just spend time

00:59:03.320 doing like Play-Doh

00:59:04.020 with your kid

00:59:04.520 whatever it may be

00:59:05.480 your kids are older

00:59:06.140 so let's say

00:59:07.980 you go to a movie

00:59:09.380 and make it a stupid one

00:59:10.520 don't always do

00:59:11.240 sad documentaries

00:59:12.340 that Hollywood's

00:59:13.240 forcing it

00:59:14.080 go watch a rerun

00:59:15.240 of Animal House

00:59:15.920 see the eat me cake

00:59:18.660 running down the bleachers

00:59:19.800 you can't not laugh

00:59:20.780 I don't know

00:59:23.460 I like that stuff

00:59:24.420 my family right now

00:59:25.180 actually we're watching

00:59:25.820 as a family

00:59:26.360 modern family

00:59:27.180 you know that sitcom

00:59:28.160 it was on for 10 plus years

00:59:30.060 we never saw it

00:59:30.980 so we're watching it

00:59:32.400 night after night

00:59:33.600 just a half an hour

00:59:34.220 here or there

00:59:34.720 and it's so funny

00:59:35.760 it's laugh out loud funny

00:59:37.040 you need to begin

00:59:37.820 or end your day

00:59:38.420 with a laugh

00:59:39.120 not the news

00:59:40.400 I do not subject

00:59:41.560 my children to the news

00:59:42.540 I would never sit them

00:59:43.620 in front of the nightly news

00:59:44.520 at all

00:59:44.980 they'll have enough time

00:59:46.520 to worry about that stuff later

00:59:47.540 and do the same

00:59:48.840 for yourself

00:59:49.360 right

00:59:49.940 you're in charge

00:59:51.020 of what you consume

00:59:51.820 make sure it's fact-based

00:59:53.880 don't go down

00:59:54.740 the YouTube rabbit holes

00:59:55.740 and make sure

00:59:57.140 you're monitoring content

00:59:58.420 whether it be

00:59:58.980 not too many hours

00:59:59.880 on social media

01:00:00.740 which is depressing

01:00:01.420 people don't really

01:00:02.120 look like that

01:00:02.700 they don't really

01:00:03.440 feel like that

01:00:04.100 it's all a product

01:00:05.340 meant to manipulate

01:00:05.960 your brain

01:00:06.520 and your buying habits

01:00:07.660 or just your news consumption

01:00:09.660 which is also

01:00:10.180 very manipulative

01:00:10.960 not this show

01:00:11.980 I try to be honest

01:00:13.220 and not push agendas

01:00:14.820 on you

01:00:15.200 but a lot of the

01:00:16.260 cable news shows

01:00:16.900 out there

01:00:17.240 and a lot of the

01:00:17.680 podcasts too

01:00:18.220 to be perfectly honest

01:00:19.360 anyway

01:00:19.840 protect yourself

01:00:20.660 and don't forget to laugh

01:00:22.040 all of which brings me

01:00:23.840 to my mother

01:00:24.280 I have a funny story

01:00:26.440 to tell you about her

01:00:27.080 if I want to laugh

01:00:28.040 I call her

01:00:28.600 because she's now

01:00:29.260 80 years old

01:00:29.900 but she's just as funny

01:00:30.680 as she ever was

01:00:31.300 and I have a

01:00:32.120 I have a story

01:00:32.980 that is going to make you laugh

01:00:34.000 so my mom's talking about

01:00:35.260 how she doesn't

01:00:35.940 always remember everything

01:00:37.020 now

01:00:37.360 you know

01:00:37.620 she's been telling a story

01:00:38.460 she loses it

01:00:39.560 mid-sentence

01:00:40.500 kind of like Biden

01:00:41.800 except she doesn't have

01:00:43.660 access to the nuclear codes

01:00:45.040 and my mom says

01:00:46.140 her new thing

01:00:46.940 is to say

01:00:47.380 oh you know what I'm saying

01:00:48.420 tell me what I'm saying

01:00:49.960 so that's where we are now

01:00:54.240 we have to pay

01:00:55.120 extra attention

01:00:55.900 in the stories

01:00:56.480 because I may have to

01:00:57.520 repeat it back to her

01:00:58.300 later

01:00:58.580 or just figure out

01:00:59.860 where it's going

01:01:00.380 and bring it to her

01:01:01.280 so keep fun people

01:01:02.620 in your life

01:01:03.160 who make you laugh

01:01:03.780 who make you smile

01:01:04.460 and not all serious

01:01:06.380 serious dark souls

01:01:07.940 like you see in the news

01:01:08.940 anyway

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01:01:10.920 for trusting us

01:01:12.520 to be part of your news feed

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01:01:14.580 you know

01:01:15.760 by consuming the news

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01:01:17.660 totally dark and depressing

01:01:18.560 with me

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01:01:20.220 more optimistic

01:01:20.860 about the world

01:01:21.540 and our role in it

01:01:23.700 our ability to battle

01:01:25.000 some of the darker forces

01:01:26.020 and enjoy

01:01:27.780 and still enjoy

01:01:28.620 our limited time here

01:01:30.200 right

01:01:30.440 our limited time

01:01:31.420 together

01:01:32.280 anyway

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01:01:59.760 okay back to charles

01:02:00.800 in one second

01:02:01.280 we have

01:02:06.440 sean parnell

01:02:07.540 and we spoke

01:02:08.080 spoke with him

01:02:08.780 a week or

01:02:09.520 two weeks ago

01:02:10.580 about afghanistan

01:02:11.740 and in his book

01:02:12.620 you know

01:02:12.980 he talks about

01:02:13.440 his service over there

01:02:14.300 and I didn't

01:02:15.220 repeat it

01:02:15.840 in the interview

01:02:16.440 because it was

01:02:16.960 too disturbing

01:02:17.480 and I won't hear

01:02:18.320 but he does a bit

01:02:20.040 on who the taliban

01:02:20.960 really are

01:02:21.520 and the child rape

01:02:23.300 ongoing

01:02:24.480 child torture

01:02:25.480 that he and our

01:02:26.520 other guys witnessed

01:02:27.220 this is a despicable

01:02:29.100 group of people

01:02:30.060 and we knew

01:02:31.400 full well

01:02:32.120 who we were dealing

01:02:32.920 with when we cut

01:02:33.980 the deal with trump

01:02:34.760 I mean pompeo

01:02:35.720 was asked about that

01:02:36.520 trump secretary of state

01:02:37.340 was asked about that

01:02:38.000 on fox news sunday

01:02:38.760 by chris wallace

01:02:39.560 you know saying

01:02:40.800 hey you know

01:02:41.780 they're pointing the finger

01:02:42.660 at you

01:02:42.940 this is not a good

01:02:43.580 group of people

01:02:44.320 why did you think

01:02:45.240 you could trust the taliban

01:02:46.340 and pompeo said

01:02:47.120 you deal with the enemy

01:02:47.920 you have

01:02:48.500 but biden was in a position

01:02:50.360 if he's going to come out

01:02:51.800 and criticize this

01:02:52.840 to change it

01:02:53.500 he was in a position

01:02:54.440 to change it

01:02:55.060 and instead

01:02:55.500 he just wants to point

01:02:56.420 at trump

01:02:57.020 I want to ask you

01:02:58.240 about pompeo though

01:02:58.920 because um

01:02:59.560 the trump administration

01:03:01.560 and those who are in it

01:03:02.540 are pointing hard

01:03:03.300 at biden right now

01:03:04.320 and biden's pointing

01:03:05.200 hard at them

01:03:06.000 saying I inherited

01:03:06.780 everything

01:03:07.160 and you let the taliban

01:03:08.060 get so strong

01:03:08.760 but here was pompeo

01:03:09.940 trying to trying

01:03:10.920 to explain

01:03:12.720 why this actually

01:03:14.200 isn't trump's fault

01:03:15.060 and why this would not

01:03:16.020 have happened

01:03:16.640 under president trump

01:03:18.000 at the mouth

01:03:18.480 the plan should have been

01:03:19.440 much like we had

01:03:20.400 was that we would have

01:03:21.360 an orderly conditions

01:03:22.380 based way

01:03:22.920 to think about how

01:03:23.840 to draw down

01:03:24.560 our forces there

01:03:25.260 we actually delivered

01:03:26.360 on that promise

01:03:27.200 I think weak

01:03:28.840 american leadership

01:03:29.540 always harms

01:03:30.640 american security

01:03:31.660 so this is in the context

01:03:33.080 of a biden administration

01:03:34.100 that has basically

01:03:35.460 abandoned the global stage

01:03:36.700 in favor of climate change

01:03:38.040 right they've been focused

01:03:39.180 on critical race theory

01:03:40.200 while the embassy

01:03:41.160 is at risk

01:03:42.620 what do you make of that

01:03:43.660 I don't buy that

01:03:44.840 I'll tell you why

01:03:45.440 I think this probably

01:03:46.300 wouldn't have happened

01:03:47.100 under trump

01:03:47.780 and that's that

01:03:48.820 I think he would have

01:03:49.740 backed off

01:03:50.460 as obama did

01:03:51.540 for eight years

01:03:52.320 and as trump did

01:03:53.600 for four

01:03:54.940 and as biden did

01:03:55.960 for a little bit as well

01:03:57.060 and remember

01:03:57.920 biden blew past

01:03:58.920 the deadline

01:03:59.400 but I don't think

01:04:01.360 that this would have

01:04:02.140 been different

01:04:03.580 in its end result

01:04:05.040 under trump

01:04:05.580 I think it's possible

01:04:06.860 that it would have

01:04:07.880 been managed better

01:04:08.840 not because donald trump

01:04:10.100 is a great manager

01:04:11.620 but because I think

01:04:13.520 his department

01:04:14.160 would have been

01:04:14.740 more focused on this

01:04:16.040 and less on critical race

01:04:17.660 theory and climate change

01:04:18.640 and all of that

01:04:19.180 and wouldn't have fallen

01:04:20.500 into the bad habit

01:04:21.800 of speaking

01:04:22.500 about the taliban

01:04:24.060 as one might speak

01:04:25.060 at a harvard symposium

01:04:26.020 on intersectionality

01:04:27.440 now that is a real flaw

01:04:30.020 in the democratic party

01:04:31.440 and I think

01:04:32.820 that's going to hurt them

01:04:33.760 and the politics

01:04:34.680 are the least important

01:04:36.260 part of this

01:04:36.860 but I do think

01:04:38.300 it's going to hurt them

01:04:38.940 because this reinforces

01:04:39.900 every single stereotype

01:04:41.380 of a movement

01:04:43.800 that thinks

01:04:44.380 that you can

01:04:45.320 that you can use words

01:04:48.440 to create reality

01:04:49.740 and sometimes

01:04:51.200 in liberal western societies

01:04:53.800 where we're all committed

01:04:54.920 to broadly the same thing

01:04:56.680 much as we fight

01:04:57.720 that's true

01:04:59.040 but not when you're dealing

01:05:00.440 with 7th century theocrats

01:05:02.200 who are open

01:05:02.840 about what they want to do

01:05:04.060 you can't shame those people

01:05:06.160 they're not hiding it

01:05:07.740 they're open

01:05:09.220 they have a philosophy

01:05:11.820 they have allies

01:05:13.380 Al-Qaeda

01:05:13.900 Pakistan

01:05:14.420 they know what they're about

01:05:16.820 so I do think

01:05:18.740 that could have been

01:05:19.480 a little bit different

01:05:20.740 but I think

01:05:21.360 this was going to happen

01:05:23.080 once again though

01:05:25.420 where I find it

01:05:26.160 the most repugnant of all

01:05:28.220 is that it is now

01:05:29.340 not possible

01:05:29.980 even to pretend

01:05:30.960 you think you can have it always

01:05:32.200 you cannot say

01:05:33.920 well I think we should get out

01:05:35.060 and I hope it works out

01:05:36.220 because it hasn't worked out

01:05:37.900 so now we know

01:05:39.920 what we're dealing with

01:05:41.100 and so we have

01:05:42.120 a clear choice

01:05:44.300 and for

01:05:45.360 Nancy Pelosi

01:05:46.400 and Jen Psaki

01:05:47.100 to say

01:05:47.820 well

01:05:48.140 we really hope

01:05:49.360 the international community

01:05:50.480 can bring pressure

01:05:51.840 to bear

01:05:52.320 and leave this country

01:05:53.960 in a salutary state

01:05:55.520 come on

01:05:56.020 come on

01:05:56.620 oh please

01:05:57.180 right

01:05:57.800 now

01:05:58.200 but let's talk about

01:05:59.000 the politics of it though

01:05:59.900 the American people

01:06:01.620 are overwhelmingly

01:06:02.340 in favor of

01:06:03.800 withdrawing the troops

01:06:04.840 from Afghanistan

01:06:05.580 they're over this

01:06:07.240 that's not to say

01:06:08.320 they're going to maintain

01:06:09.020 that position

01:06:10.280 on

01:06:10.680 you know

01:06:11.740 the last 2500

01:06:12.680 now

01:06:14.160 in the wake

01:06:15.680 of what we've seen

01:06:16.460 and obviously

01:06:17.020 we're sending 5000

01:06:17.820 back over there

01:06:18.720 to try to get our people out

01:06:20.120 we'll see how that goes

01:06:21.020 but anyway

01:06:21.820 the public sentiment

01:06:22.940 has largely been in favor

01:06:24.160 of withdrawing the troops

01:06:25.180 the American people

01:06:26.140 are over

01:06:26.640 the Afghanistan war

01:06:28.680 however

01:06:29.900 this has been

01:06:31.560 an interesting situation

01:06:33.140 when it comes to

01:06:33.880 the media coverage

01:06:34.720 because for once

01:06:36.380 Charlie

01:06:36.800 they're not running

01:06:38.340 cover for him

01:06:39.140 they're not

01:06:40.000 the media coverage

01:06:40.900 has been

01:06:41.360 pretty unflattering

01:06:43.240 for Joe Biden

01:06:44.120 we put together

01:06:45.160 just a

01:06:45.820 a little sampling

01:06:47.380 a montage

01:06:47.900 but

01:06:48.480 it's been pretty brutal

01:06:49.940 listen

01:06:50.280 hello I'm Jake Tapper

01:06:51.780 in Washington

01:06:52.540 where the state

01:06:53.300 of our union

01:06:53.940 is watching

01:06:54.780 a tragic

01:06:55.900 foreign policy

01:06:56.900 disaster

01:06:57.600 unfold before our eyes

01:06:59.540 the rapid crumbling

01:07:00.720 of the country

01:07:01.420 has caught

01:07:02.080 the Biden White House

01:07:03.020 flat-footed

01:07:03.680 it seems shocking

01:07:04.560 that President Biden

01:07:05.760 could have been

01:07:06.300 so wrong

01:07:07.340 and Tim

01:07:07.960 we're hearing comparisons

01:07:08.900 of this moment

01:07:11.400 what we're seeing

01:07:12.020 in Kabul

01:07:12.480 to the fall

01:07:13.940 of Saigon

01:07:14.460 the iconic image

01:07:15.640 of people fleeing

01:07:16.420 the U.S. Embassy

01:07:17.120 by helicopter

01:07:17.920 aren't we already

01:07:18.800 in the midst

01:07:19.580 of a Saigon moment?

01:07:20.620 no we're not

01:07:21.580 remember

01:07:22.440 this is not Saigon

01:07:24.080 we went to Afghanistan

01:07:25.340 20 years ago

01:07:26.220 with one mission

01:07:27.000 and that mission

01:07:28.180 was to deal with the folks

01:07:29.060 who attacked us

01:07:29.640 on 9-11

01:07:30.160 isn't that exactly

01:07:31.600 what we're seeing now?

01:07:32.920 I mean even the images

01:07:34.020 are evocative

01:07:35.400 of what happened

01:07:36.000 in Vietnam

01:07:36.460 let's take a step back

01:07:38.700 this is manifestly

01:07:40.060 not Saigon

01:07:40.600 this is the Saigon moment

01:07:43.180 for President Biden

01:07:44.780 and that this will be

01:07:46.300 a legacy

01:07:46.960 an albatross

01:07:47.700 around his neck

01:07:48.400 for the rest of time

01:07:49.820 and you also had

01:07:50.940 a really massive

01:07:52.160 intelligence failure here

01:07:53.700 that the U.S. did not realize

01:07:55.740 how quickly

01:07:56.660 the Taliban

01:07:57.600 could take over

01:07:58.820 I'm not shocked at all

01:08:00.060 and I thought Kabul

01:08:01.400 was going to fall

01:08:01.960 right around now

01:08:02.760 that was just a gut instinct

01:08:04.340 and I think lots of people

01:08:05.400 that I spoke to

01:08:06.180 believe that

01:08:07.200 it was quite clear

01:08:08.480 that this

01:08:09.340 that it was going

01:08:10.180 to come to this

01:08:10.820 when you started to see

01:08:12.040 the Taliban

01:08:13.020 take territory

01:08:14.200 without having to fight

01:08:15.660 months ago

01:08:16.660 it's looking very much

01:08:18.280 like the Taliban

01:08:19.260 will be back in power

01:08:20.660 on the 20th anniversary

01:08:22.040 of 9-11

01:08:22.700 that penultimate thought

01:08:24.760 there was from

01:08:25.340 Richard Engel

01:08:25.860 of NBC News

01:08:26.640 who's been saying

01:08:27.400 this is so predictable

01:08:28.240 why is everybody

01:08:28.900 acting so shocked

01:08:30.560 and I mentioned this

01:08:31.580 but Ryan Crocker

01:08:32.700 the former Obama administration

01:08:33.880 the ambassador

01:08:34.920 to Afghanistan

01:08:35.480 under Obama

01:08:36.160 said and I quote

01:08:37.400 I'm left with

01:08:38.000 some grave questions

01:08:38.840 in my mind

01:08:39.400 about Biden's ability

01:08:40.380 to lead our nation

01:08:41.300 as commander in chief

01:08:42.820 whoa

01:08:43.300 well I want to start

01:08:44.900 by slightly questioning

01:08:46.220 one of your premises

01:08:46.940 which is the American people

01:08:48.040 are in favor of this

01:08:49.300 I think that's correct

01:08:50.200 and of course

01:08:50.740 they've chosen

01:08:51.580 dovish candidates

01:08:52.400 since George W. Bush

01:08:53.720 arguably he was

01:08:54.600 the dovish candidate too

01:08:55.700 although I did see

01:08:57.020 this morning

01:08:57.440 a couple of things

01:08:58.200 that made me wonder

01:09:00.300 the first is

01:09:00.940 if you ask the question

01:09:01.800 in a slightly different way

01:09:02.940 should we leave

01:09:03.540 a good number of troops

01:09:04.900 there to prevent

01:09:05.460 the Taliban

01:09:05.880 from coming back

01:09:06.700 you have a majority

01:09:07.380 saying yes

01:09:08.140 and the second

01:09:09.080 someone pointed out

01:09:10.040 to me was that

01:09:10.720 you saw similar polling

01:09:11.740 on Iraq

01:09:12.300 until ISIS started

01:09:13.420 to rise up

01:09:14.140 and at that point

01:09:15.540 the sentiment changed

01:09:16.940 so it'll be interesting

01:09:17.840 in two three months

01:09:18.940 to see whether

01:09:20.400 this is what

01:09:21.100 people want

01:09:23.560 which I suppose

01:09:24.460 in a cynical sense

01:09:25.980 is what Biden's relying upon

01:09:27.320 and I think with the press

01:09:28.920 the press is of course

01:09:29.900 correct here

01:09:30.640 and that coverage

01:09:32.120 is deserved

01:09:33.080 it does show you

01:09:35.020 how biased the press

01:09:36.020 usually is

01:09:36.960 because on this one

01:09:38.100 they've either taken

01:09:39.120 the view

01:09:39.580 that this is what

01:09:40.520 what they are upset

01:09:44.480 about

01:09:44.940 you know

01:09:45.740 whereas usually

01:09:46.620 it is not

01:09:48.740 or that it's

01:09:51.060 just unavoidable

01:09:51.980 I mean

01:09:53.260 maybe this is

01:09:54.560 impossible

01:09:55.060 to spin

01:09:56.080 but it was just

01:09:56.780 a little disconcerting

01:09:58.360 yesterday

01:09:58.700 watching the

01:09:59.500 morning shows

01:10:00.660 because you think

01:10:01.160 wow this is what

01:10:01.960 the press could be

01:10:02.540 like every single day

01:10:03.440 I mean

01:10:04.020 obviously we don't

01:10:05.140 have this sort of

01:10:05.780 disaster every single

01:10:06.940 day thank goodness

01:10:07.660 but the harsh questions

01:10:09.880 the inability

01:10:11.580 and refusal

01:10:13.360 to let dissembling

01:10:14.860 slide

01:10:15.440 just the tone

01:10:18.060 in general

01:10:19.420 was what the press

01:10:20.300 should be

01:10:20.900 and indeed

01:10:21.540 what the press

01:10:22.300 was

01:10:23.440 for the entirety

01:10:24.700 of the Trump

01:10:25.540 administration

01:10:26.240 but yeah

01:10:28.880 I mean

01:10:29.200 this is

01:10:29.560 this is a monumental

01:10:30.560 failure

01:10:32.040 and it has to be

01:10:33.420 evaluated

01:10:34.060 as the press

01:10:34.680 has done a good job

01:10:35.340 of doing

01:10:35.700 independently

01:10:36.820 of the broader

01:10:37.700 goal

01:10:38.040 which is

01:10:39.200 yeah

01:10:39.500 if you decide

01:10:40.620 to leave

01:10:41.220 then leave

01:10:41.940 but not like this

01:10:43.200 so the politics

01:10:45.280 of it

01:10:45.660 you know

01:10:45.920 because people

01:10:46.340 are focused

01:10:46.940 on the midterms

01:10:47.660 a bit

01:10:48.080 you know

01:10:48.500 we're still

01:10:49.220 a ways out

01:10:49.720 but the Republicans

01:10:50.920 are all looking

01:10:51.560 at the midterm

01:10:52.460 elections

01:10:52.820 as some sort

01:10:54.120 of saving grace

01:10:55.460 to these far left

01:10:56.440 policies

01:10:56.920 Biden's been pushing

01:10:57.800 this obviously

01:10:59.460 doesn't help

01:11:00.340 but traditionally

01:11:01.200 would something

01:11:01.800 like this

01:11:02.400 drive votes

01:11:03.500 I think it depends

01:11:05.860 I think it depends

01:11:09.320 on

01:11:10.000 what else

01:11:12.640 happens

01:11:13.480 and how

01:11:14.340 this relates

01:11:15.360 to Joe Biden

01:11:16.460 as he likes

01:11:17.060 to present himself

01:11:18.160 if

01:11:20.100 by next year

01:11:21.560 the Biden

01:11:23.280 administration

01:11:24.040 is

01:11:25.760 mired

01:11:27.000 in

01:11:27.620 maybe crisis

01:11:29.800 is too strong

01:11:30.620 a word

01:11:31.080 but

01:11:31.460 that's a good

01:11:34.860 word

01:11:35.140 is mired

01:11:36.020 in

01:11:36.720 malaise

01:11:38.460 then this

01:11:39.880 is going

01:11:40.240 to really

01:11:41.280 hurt them

01:11:41.760 I mean

01:11:42.320 you can see

01:11:42.960 a scenario

01:11:43.480 in which

01:11:45.660 we have

01:11:46.820 reached

01:11:47.480 30 trillion

01:11:48.200 dollars worth

01:11:48.760 of debt

01:11:49.180 we have

01:11:50.860 enormous

01:11:51.760 deficits

01:11:52.280 because the Democrats

01:11:53.480 on the back

01:11:54.200 of both parties

01:11:55.100 spending 5 trillion

01:11:56.100 dollars fighting

01:11:56.780 COVID

01:11:57.180 decided to spend

01:11:59.120 another

01:11:59.620 four

01:12:01.780 maybe more

01:12:03.080 you can see

01:12:05.700 a scenario

01:12:06.760 in which

01:12:07.160 the inflation

01:12:07.840 risk

01:12:08.460 is real

01:12:09.260 and doesn't

01:12:10.140 look like

01:12:10.540 it's going

01:12:10.920 away

01:12:11.300 you can see

01:12:13.140 a scenario

01:12:14.560 in which

01:12:15.660 various

01:12:17.580 culture war

01:12:18.740 fights

01:12:19.200 and I don't

01:12:20.380 use that

01:12:20.700 disparagingly

01:12:21.540 meaningful

01:12:22.960 culture war

01:12:24.140 fights

01:12:24.480 have trickled

01:12:25.360 down to the

01:12:26.040 local level

01:12:26.600 for example

01:12:27.180 critical race

01:12:28.080 theory

01:12:28.380 which despite

01:12:29.480 what many

01:12:30.140 in the press

01:12:30.580 say is not

01:12:31.140 fake

01:12:31.460 is actually

01:12:32.040 motivating

01:12:32.740 real people

01:12:33.680 at the local

01:12:34.200 level

01:12:34.540 and in which

01:12:35.740 our foreign

01:12:36.120 policy looks

01:12:37.120 like a disaster

01:12:37.860 and America

01:12:38.700 seems embarrassed

01:12:39.340 on the world

01:12:39.840 stage

01:12:40.140 and you can

01:12:40.660 see

01:12:41.020 the

01:12:43.360 swing

01:12:44.420 voters

01:12:44.840 and

01:12:45.840 the middle

01:12:46.680 class

01:12:47.140 voters

01:12:48.500 who abandoned

01:12:49.460 Trump

01:12:49.900 saying well

01:12:50.480 Trump's not

01:12:50.900 on the ballot

01:12:51.360 this president's

01:12:52.740 not doing

01:12:53.140 a good job

01:12:53.740 and we're

01:12:54.440 going back

01:12:54.960 to the

01:12:55.480 Republican

01:12:55.820 Party

01:12:56.260 so yeah

01:12:57.420 I can

01:12:57.700 absolutely

01:12:58.180 see this

01:12:58.500 I don't

01:12:58.920 think if

01:12:59.320 everything's

01:12:59.840 rosy by

01:13:00.480 next year

01:13:01.000 and the

01:13:01.220 economy's

01:13:01.660 booming

01:13:01.920 and the

01:13:02.340 country's

01:13:02.760 fine

01:13:03.080 that too

01:13:04.320 many voters

01:13:04.840 will look

01:13:05.160 back and

01:13:05.480 say well

01:13:05.780 yes but

01:13:06.240 do you

01:13:06.420 remember

01:13:06.600 what happened

01:13:07.400 in Afghanistan

01:13:08.180 but unfortunately

01:13:09.320 for Joe

01:13:09.700 Biden and

01:13:10.380 for America

01:13:10.800 it doesn't

01:13:11.280 look as if

01:13:11.780 everything's

01:13:12.200 going to be

01:13:12.500 rosy by

01:13:12.980 next year

01:13:13.640 so he

01:13:15.400 should be

01:13:16.280 worried about

01:13:16.960 this

01:13:17.280 and the

01:13:17.920 other piece

01:13:18.280 of it of

01:13:18.660 course is

01:13:19.020 the threat

01:13:19.560 of a terror

01:13:19.980 attack

01:13:20.320 that's what

01:13:21.000 we really

01:13:22.480 need to worry

01:13:23.000 about

01:13:23.280 that they

01:13:23.620 are going

01:13:23.920 to use

01:13:24.320 this land

01:13:25.960 to do

01:13:27.140 what they

01:13:27.480 did prior

01:13:28.000 to September

01:13:28.780 11th

01:13:30.060 2001

01:13:30.560 which is

01:13:31.340 form groups

01:13:32.120 to plan

01:13:32.620 our demise

01:13:33.520 and come up

01:13:34.020 with clever

01:13:34.440 new ways

01:13:34.940 of getting

01:13:35.300 at us

01:13:35.640 that we

01:13:35.920 hadn't

01:13:36.500 anticipated

01:13:37.180 or considered

01:13:37.780 and I

01:13:38.700 just don't

01:13:39.000 know whether

01:13:39.400 Joe Biden

01:13:39.960 to round

01:13:40.540 back to

01:13:40.940 our original

01:13:41.860 point

01:13:42.300 who's been

01:13:42.660 wrong about

01:13:43.220 so many

01:13:44.040 things in

01:13:44.720 his foreign

01:13:45.140 policy history

01:13:45.980 is going

01:13:47.020 to be

01:13:47.240 anticipating

01:13:47.820 that in

01:13:48.800 the way

01:13:49.120 we would

01:13:49.480 want

01:13:49.960 of a

01:13:50.580 sound

01:13:51.040 sage

01:13:51.840 commander

01:13:52.700 in chief

01:13:53.240 well look

01:13:55.340 Joe Biden

01:13:55.820 is not

01:13:56.180 a sound

01:13:56.580 sage

01:13:56.940 commander

01:13:57.360 in chief

01:13:57.820 I think

01:13:59.680 it is

01:13:59.980 fair to

01:14:00.380 say

01:14:00.680 that we

01:14:01.280 have not

01:14:01.660 had great

01:14:02.300 leadership

01:14:02.980 in the

01:14:03.540 White House

01:14:03.940 for quite

01:14:04.340 a long

01:14:04.580 time

01:14:04.920 and that

01:14:06.340 whatever

01:14:07.700 virtues

01:14:08.500 Joe Biden

01:14:09.200 possesses

01:14:09.760 that Donald

01:14:10.100 Trump did

01:14:10.580 not have

01:14:11.200 do not

01:14:11.800 change

01:14:12.160 that

01:14:12.500 he has

01:14:14.980 been wrong

01:14:15.440 on pretty

01:14:15.820 much every

01:14:16.280 foreign

01:14:16.540 policy

01:14:16.860 question

01:14:17.220 he also

01:14:17.680 has the

01:14:18.100 benefit

01:14:18.400 of correcting

01:14:19.440 himself when

01:14:20.020 he is

01:14:20.160 right

01:14:20.560 he is

01:14:21.900 a guy

01:14:22.300 who

01:14:23.220 almost

01:14:25.900 goes out

01:14:26.300 of his

01:14:26.500 way

01:14:26.960 to make

01:14:28.220 the wrong

01:14:28.580 calls

01:14:29.120 this is

01:14:29.720 a man

01:14:30.000 who voted

01:14:30.360 for the

01:14:30.660 second

01:14:30.900 Iraq war

01:14:31.340 but opposed

01:14:31.760 the first

01:14:32.380 he voted

01:14:33.200 for the

01:14:33.620 second one

01:14:34.180 but opposed

01:14:34.640 the surge

01:14:35.360 he was

01:14:36.300 against the

01:14:36.800 killing of

01:14:37.160 Osama bin

01:14:37.700 Laden

01:14:38.060 he wanted

01:14:38.960 to partition

01:14:39.580 Iraq

01:14:40.520 and look

01:14:41.920 at every

01:14:42.340 single thing

01:14:42.960 he predicted

01:14:43.580 in July

01:14:44.780 that you

01:14:45.280 played

01:14:45.640 he is

01:14:46.520 just always

01:14:46.920 wrong

01:14:47.320 and we

01:14:48.120 put him

01:14:48.460 in the

01:14:48.640 White

01:14:48.840 House

01:14:49.140 and I'm

01:14:49.700 sure people

01:14:50.140 had various

01:14:50.840 reasons for

01:14:51.360 doing that

01:14:51.860 but if you

01:14:52.980 were to go

01:14:53.720 up to 30,000

01:14:54.560 feet and

01:14:55.340 scour the

01:14:56.040 country for

01:14:56.620 someone to

01:14:57.080 be the

01:14:57.360 commander-in-chief

01:14:58.180 it would

01:14:59.160 have been

01:14:59.420 somewhat odd

01:15:00.060 to pick

01:15:00.420 Joe Biden

01:15:00.980 and he

01:15:02.140 is now

01:15:02.600 in that

01:15:02.940 position

01:15:03.340 and it

01:15:04.200 just

01:15:04.400 it really

01:15:05.060 you know

01:15:05.740 I don't

01:15:06.340 think I've

01:15:06.740 said but

01:15:07.360 the last

01:15:07.880 president in

01:15:08.500 my entire

01:15:09.000 life writing

01:15:09.580 about politics

01:15:10.320 Megan

01:15:10.600 it's just

01:15:11.260 not how I

01:15:11.840 think

01:15:12.140 even two

01:15:12.760 days after

01:15:13.340 the new

01:15:13.680 president

01:15:14.080 has been

01:15:14.600 inaugurated

01:15:15.300 but seven

01:15:16.660 months

01:15:17.140 that you

01:15:18.500 know that

01:15:18.760 is not

01:15:19.320 how America

01:15:20.440 works we

01:15:21.020 invest a

01:15:21.680 huge amount

01:15:22.380 of power

01:15:22.900 in the

01:15:23.180 executive

01:15:23.500 branch far

01:15:24.180 too much

01:15:24.640 in my

01:15:25.020 view and

01:15:26.300 the least

01:15:26.840 we can

01:15:27.220 expect of

01:15:27.800 the people

01:15:28.300 who acquire

01:15:29.940 it is to

01:15:31.080 take responsibility

01:15:32.640 for the

01:15:33.200 decisions that

01:15:33.900 they make

01:15:34.660 don't leave

01:15:36.300 me now we

01:15:36.780 got more

01:15:37.100 coming up

01:15:37.480 in 60

01:15:38.000 seconds

01:15:38.380 all right

01:15:43.480 last question

01:15:44.120 how worried

01:15:46.020 do you

01:15:46.240 think we

01:15:46.520 should be

01:15:47.060 about other

01:15:48.800 conflicts

01:15:49.420 breaking out

01:15:50.060 now if

01:15:51.060 when it

01:15:51.480 when a

01:15:51.680 country

01:15:52.040 loses a

01:15:53.480 war that's

01:15:54.360 what's

01:15:54.560 happened

01:15:54.800 here I

01:15:55.820 realize you

01:15:56.240 can argue

01:15:56.640 it different

01:15:56.980 ways but

01:15:57.460 if a

01:15:57.680 country

01:15:57.880 loses a

01:15:58.420 war they're

01:15:58.880 they're not

01:15:59.300 too keen

01:16:01.320 on getting

01:16:01.980 dragged back

01:16:02.600 into another

01:16:03.080 one and

01:16:04.440 there's been

01:16:05.140 some speculation

01:16:05.760 in the press

01:16:06.320 I've read

01:16:06.720 about what's

01:16:07.600 going to

01:16:07.800 happen with

01:16:08.400 Taiwan now

01:16:09.400 what happens

01:16:09.940 with other

01:16:10.380 countries and

01:16:11.560 power grabs

01:16:12.420 by by places

01:16:13.700 like China

01:16:14.360 are they

01:16:15.340 likely to get

01:16:15.880 more aggressive

01:16:16.480 or the

01:16:16.780 Russians to

01:16:17.240 get more

01:16:17.520 aggressive

01:16:17.880 because they

01:16:18.520 don't think

01:16:18.960 there's any

01:16:19.500 American

01:16:19.940 appetite from

01:16:21.420 the top on

01:16:22.000 down to

01:16:23.320 stand up to

01:16:24.500 the world's

01:16:25.360 bullies

01:16:25.720 yeah I think

01:16:27.580 it's the

01:16:28.120 combination of

01:16:29.800 sensing a

01:16:30.800 lack of

01:16:31.120 appetite and I

01:16:31.900 think that

01:16:32.420 that is the

01:16:33.620 correct instinct

01:16:34.500 and for

01:16:35.580 example do

01:16:37.020 you think

01:16:37.300 there would

01:16:37.600 be a

01:16:38.180 broad

01:16:39.800 desire in

01:16:41.580 the United

01:16:41.980 States to

01:16:42.620 go to war

01:16:43.220 over Taiwan

01:16:43.980 none

01:16:45.320 Ukraine

01:16:46.780 and the

01:16:50.100 sense that

01:16:51.220 a given

01:16:51.720 administration

01:16:52.260 is weak

01:16:53.100 or chaotic

01:16:53.940 or can't

01:16:54.480 be trusted

01:16:54.960 and that's

01:16:55.780 another

01:16:55.980 embarrassing

01:16:56.420 part of

01:16:56.940 this it's

01:16:57.320 not just

01:16:57.620 that we

01:16:57.960 messed up

01:16:58.480 here it's

01:16:59.000 that there

01:16:59.400 are people

01:16:59.780 out there

01:17:00.240 saying with

01:17:00.960 good reason

01:17:01.680 well we

01:17:02.540 clearly can't

01:17:03.180 trust the

01:17:03.660 United States

01:17:04.280 the United

01:17:04.740 States is

01:17:06.180 unreliable

01:17:06.920 and when

01:17:07.520 you get

01:17:08.080 to that

01:17:09.640 stage you

01:17:10.820 neither sense

01:17:12.300 that the

01:17:12.740 American

01:17:13.160 public

01:17:13.680 would want

01:17:15.740 to fight

01:17:16.320 nor sense

01:17:18.340 that irrespective

01:17:19.280 of what that

01:17:19.760 public wanted

01:17:20.360 to do the

01:17:21.280 president or the

01:17:22.180 congress would

01:17:23.180 stand up

01:17:23.860 so yeah I do

01:17:26.240 worry about it I

01:17:27.100 don't think this is

01:17:28.000 going to happen

01:17:28.480 tomorrow but I

01:17:30.240 do think that

01:17:31.140 over time as

01:17:32.800 the result of

01:17:33.600 various bad

01:17:34.520 decisions that

01:17:35.440 we've made as

01:17:36.280 voters the

01:17:38.720 conception of

01:17:41.080 the US has

01:17:42.640 changed you

01:17:43.740 know there

01:17:44.020 was probably a

01:17:44.920 high watermark

01:17:45.820 of respect

01:17:48.640 for and fear

01:17:50.080 of the United

01:17:50.840 States probably

01:17:51.820 around 1991

01:17:52.740 you came off

01:17:54.020 eight years of

01:17:54.660 President Reagan

01:17:55.360 and then you

01:17:56.660 had George HW

01:17:57.640 Bush you had

01:17:58.240 that lightning

01:17:58.840 fast victory

01:17:59.680 in Iraq

01:18:02.000 Q8

01:18:02.780 now no

01:18:05.060 so yeah this

01:18:06.640 is of course a

01:18:07.280 big worrying

01:18:07.680 yeah it's

01:18:09.180 starting to feel

01:18:09.960 a little

01:18:10.320 a little

01:18:11.340 1970s-ish

01:18:12.760 it's starting to

01:18:13.360 feel a little

01:18:13.840 Carter-esque

01:18:14.660 and we all

01:18:16.560 know that's not

01:18:17.040 a good thing

01:18:17.600 Charles C.W.

01:18:18.840 Cook always a

01:18:19.480 pleasure thank you

01:18:20.100 so much for

01:18:20.520 doing this and

01:18:21.200 being here

01:18:21.660 thank you so

01:18:22.660 much for having

01:18:23.120 me

01:18:23.340 coming up

01:18:27.680 tomorrow we're

01:18:28.300 going to be

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The Megyn Kelly Show - August 16, 2021

Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban, with Sean Parnell and Charles C.W. Cooke ｜ Ep. 146

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