00:00:40.040So they put out this 12-page white paper that is just designed to say everything's perfect, everything's fine.
00:00:47.880And they're hoping that the media will bleat like sheep and go along with that the disaster, the debacle of Biden's surrender to the Taliban and withdrawal from Afghanistan will be forgotten.
00:01:04.160I think that's disrespectful to the 13 servicemen and women who were murdered there.
00:01:09.960I think it's disrespectful to the Afghans we left behind who were tortured, whose lives who may well have been murdered as well.
00:01:17.840I think it's disrespectful to all of those who shed blood, who lost limbs fighting in Afghanistan.
00:01:26.680And that this administration cares so little about their sacrifice, they're not even bothering to worry about what went wrong.
00:01:38.060You and I talked about this on a previous podcast not that long ago that one of the individuals on the ground there that was trying to save lives told his story finally that he believed he had the suicide bomber in his sights.
00:01:53.360There was no orders allowed basically for them to take out this prospective suicide bomber.
00:01:58.560And then all of a sudden he and he's blown up and survived it.
00:02:02.660Many others did not that you just mentioned.
00:02:04.580But for them to come out with a white paper, white paper is supposed to be nonpolitical serious documents.
00:02:09.560This was political propaganda at its best.
00:02:11.980So let me say that the podcast we did several weeks ago, if you didn't listen to it, let me encourage you to go back and listen to it because it really is.
00:02:20.680It's a powerful – this young Marine testified before the House of Representatives and he told his story.
00:02:30.560He told the story that the suicide bomber, they had intel about who he was and they spotted him and they had him in their sights and they could have taken him out.
00:02:39.480They could have taken him out before he committed the suicide bombing.
00:02:42.960And the political higher-ups in the Biden administration wouldn't allow them to do so.
00:02:47.360And the result was 13 servicemen and women were murdered and this young Marine was horrendously injured.
00:02:56.460He wasn't killed but he told his story.
00:02:58.640And I got to say the reason I would encourage you to go back and listen to that podcast is because the media won't cover it.
00:03:08.200They're facts that don't exist because if you listen – in that pod, we played almost the entirety of his congressional testimony because it was so powerful.
00:03:17.360And it's a story that in any sane world should be the lead story on the 6 o'clock news.
00:03:24.420And yet when we have journalists that refused to tell the truth, refused to cover news, refused to cover facts, that view their job as propagandists for the White House, it's terrible.
00:03:41.000And look, here you've got John Kirby, the appointed spokesperson, just standing up and –
00:03:47.080He was offended that the media even questioned him and this administration's response in Afghanistan.
00:04:21.720They were taking off with Americans and other people that were trying to clamor and some that lost their lives hanging on, trying to be stowaways on an airplane.
00:04:29.320And let's be clear, hanging on to the wheels as the planes were taking off.
00:04:37.060I got to tell you, if it were my spouse, my brother, my sister who died in that suicide bombing, listening to that – I'm going to speak nicely – that individual saying, I didn't see any chaos.
00:04:55.500Say that to the 13 coffins that came back with American flags on them.
00:05:02.600Say that to the Afghan interpreters who will risk their lives to help us, only to be abandoned by these clowns, to be tortured to death by the Taliban.
00:05:16.620Well, what about abandoning the Bagram Airfield, a secure military airfield that we spent billions building and abandoning it before the evacuation happened?
00:05:29.000For him to say he didn't see any chaos, I believe him.
00:05:32.600But that's because he's deliberately looking away.
00:05:34.920They don't want – they're like the monkey, see no evil, hear no evil.
00:05:40.580Because their screw-up cost people lives.
00:05:43.580And if he didn't see any chaos, it's only because he refused to look.
00:05:46.860Historically, white papers have usually been serious documents, not propaganda like this.
00:05:51.860And when they have tried to use these kind of big synopsis of historic events that have gone wrong for political reasons, usually the media will throw down on that.
00:06:26.860Whether it's John Kirby lying about Afghanistan, whether it is Mayorkas lying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, whether it's Corrine Jean-Pierre standing up and lying over and over and over again.
00:06:39.240People aren't just walking across the border, she says.
00:06:45.820The amazing thing about that lie of hers, it is a lie every day of the year, 365 days a year, because there has not been a day when Joe Biden was president when there were not people walking across the border.
00:06:56.860And the brazenness of it, he can stand up and say, well, I didn't see any chaos because he knows that the number of journalists remaining in America is vanishingly small, that they might as well have pom-poms and miniskirts and be chanting, go Biden, because that's where they are.
00:07:23.900Nobody's saying that everything was perfect, but there was a lot that went right.
00:07:28.080And a lot of Afghans are now living better lives in this country and other countries around the world because of the sacrifices and the work of so many American government officials.
00:07:37.060So, yeah, there's a lot to be proud of, Peter.
00:09:42.540And he thinks the American people are either stupid or lazy.
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00:10:52.620Senator, I want to play just another example of Kirby because he wasn't backing down.
00:11:28.580We turned it over, as the previous administration would have done, too, because part of their thinking was they were going to have to turn this material over.
00:11:35.800It was turned over appropriately and carefully and deliberately with the Afghan National Security Defense Forces.
00:11:44.600It wasn't done appropriately in an orderly fashion the way that he described it.
00:11:48.760And it wasn't turned over to the Afghan forces the way he implied because we saw this stuff pop into the hands of actual terrorists instantly on social media.
00:11:58.880So he left out kind of the most important context.
00:12:02.360It's true that we gave the Afghan military weapons to kill the Taliban.
00:12:06.740What the Biden administration screwed up and did is they let all those weapons fall in the hands of the Taliban.
00:12:13.400So literally, we gave them these weapons to shoot the terrorists.
00:12:17.960Now the terrorists have the weapons that were given to shoot the terrorists.
00:12:23.900And by the way, among other things, what all has been lost?
00:12:26.520So the Taliban are believed to control more than 2,000 armored vehicles, including U.S. Humvees, up to 40 aircrafts, potentially including Blackhawks and scout attack helicopters and ScanEagle military drones.
00:12:41.940Between 2002 and 2017, the United States gave the Afghan military an estimated $28 billion in weapons, including guns, rockets, night vision goggles, and small drones for intelligence gathering.
00:13:00.420Between 2003 and 2016, the United States provided Afghan forces with 208 aircraft.
00:13:07.900And since 2003, the United States has provided Afghan forces with at least 600,000 infantry weapons, including M-16s, including 162,000 pieces of communication equipment, and including over 16,000 night vision goggles.
00:13:29.240And the night vision goggles, when you talk to special forces, troops that have been deployed there, the night vision goggles actually concerned them maybe more than anything else because one of the great advantages our military had in dealing with the terrorists is that we had the ability to see at night and to wage warfare at night, and the terrorists couldn't see us.
00:13:49.660Now, thanks to these guys' incompetence, the terrorists, the terrorists are equipped like a U.S. military battalion.
00:14:00.620And for him to claim, well, gosh, it was theirs.
00:14:03.860No, the weapons were given to kill them.
00:14:11.180And the sad thing is we know Americans are going to lose their lives with those M-16s, with those weapons, with those night vision goggles.
00:15:33.020I'm not a believer in staying there forever.
00:15:34.600But when you are doing a drawdown, it makes sense to have a serious, competent plan for drawing down, number one, to get all the Americans out.
00:15:45.340Number two, to get your allies, the Afghans who risked their lives, out.
00:15:51.140Number three, to vet the Afghans who are coming to make sure you're not bringing terrorists.
00:15:56.520What was amazing about what Biden did is it was utter chaos on a couple of fronts.
00:16:01.900Number one, the White House set an arbitrary political deadline.
00:16:04.580They said, okay, troops must be drawn down to 2,500 or fewer.
00:16:10.420And their goal was they wanted to be out on the anniversary of September 11th.
00:16:51.400It's a political goal, never mind the military problems.
00:16:53.960And so they forced the military to abandon Bagram Airfield.
00:16:59.040Now, the problem is if you're going to do a withdrawal, you want to do it from a secure airfield where people can't come in with suicide bombers and kill people.
00:17:09.900When they abandoned Bagram and handed it to the Taliban, they were forced to do their withdrawal from a crowded commercial airport in the middle of a dense urban environment that didn't have a secure perimeter.
00:17:25.460And their withdrawal of Afghans was both over-inclusive and under-inclusive.
00:17:32.280It was under-inclusive in that they left a great many people behind who had risked their lives to help the American military.
00:17:40.340And it is grotesquely immoral that we know that at least some of those have been tortured and perhaps even murdered by the Taliban as a result of their helping America.
00:17:50.840But it was also over-inclusive in that at the end, it seemed like they were just grabbing up anyone who showed up.
00:17:57.180And so we don't know how many terrorists the Biden administration flew to America.
00:18:03.460What we do know is that included among those that they evacuated were adult men with child brides because, look, you'd have a family that was desperate to get their little girl out of Afghanistan.
00:18:19.280And so they'd take a little girl, a young 10, 11, 12-year-old girl, and hand that child over to a grown-ass man and say, have her as your wife.
00:18:31.900And you asked Anthony Blinken about this.
00:18:34.800I want to play this because this is that moment where, again, this administration doesn't want to admit this happened.
00:18:40.200Across the entire government, everyone involved in the evacuation effort, whether it's at a transit point in one of the countries that we negotiated with,
00:18:50.220whether it's here in the United States at Dulles or Philadelphia or the military bases,
00:18:55.800we have all of our officers at extreme vigilance to look for and to deal with any cases or concerns that arise.
00:19:07.200Did you receive the urgent guidance and how many child brides have you seen?
00:19:10.620I don't know the specific guidance you're referring to.
00:29:12.380Look, it is the policies of the left attacking and demonizing police officers, trying to defund police officers, trying to abolish the police, combined with putting into place George Soros DAs like Alvin Bragg in New York who release violent criminals onto the street, who don't prosecute criminals on the front end.
00:29:36.520And then when they do get in, they let them go.
00:29:48.320And he moved from Palo Alto down to Miami.
00:29:55.280And he and I had breakfast a while back, and he was telling me that he said friends of his from Palo Alto will come down to Miami to visit him, and he'll take them out to dinner.
00:30:06.140And, you know, he drives a very nice, very fancy sports car.
00:30:19.900And what he said was in Northern California, if you park a car on the street, even in a nice, nice neighborhood, that car is going to get broken into.
00:31:22.080Because the press is not actually reporting the facts.
00:31:25.260Because the facts would not be convenient for their political narrative.
00:31:29.180Look, last week in D.C., a staffer for Rand Paul was stabbed on the street multiple times.
00:31:38.820It was like 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
00:31:40.960In a busy D.C. street, he gets stabbed.
00:31:43.880When you have these left-wing mayors, district attorneys, police chiefs, when they undermine the cops and they let violent criminals go, the results are horrific.
00:31:56.260And I'll tell you, this is occurring at the same time.
00:31:58.840So the U.S. Sentencing Commission has just proposed to allow district judges broad discretion to grant what's called compassionate release for prisoners who haven't served their full sentences.
00:32:13.080Under federal law, when you're convicted of a federal crime, you get a sentence, a sentence under what's called the sentencing guidelines that were passed, Congress passed them into law, to provide uniformity and predictability so that people who committed the same crimes would serve similar sentences.
00:32:32.600That there wasn't – there had been massive disparities.
00:32:36.260If you got lucky and got a soft-on-crime judge, they'd let you go.
00:32:40.940If you got a really tough-on-crime judge, they'd lock you up.
00:32:43.380So the sentencing guidelines were passed to give some consistency, uniformity, predictability.
00:32:50.380Well, Joe Biden has managed to appoint new people to the Sentencing Commission, and they just proposed taking the compassionate release provision, which was designed to be really narrow.
00:33:05.280Someone has cancer and they're about to die and say, okay, all right, we'll let you go for the last couple of months of your life so you can be outside of prison.
00:33:14.880You know, circumstances that are narrow and exigent, but under these revisions, it's opening the door.
00:33:23.880Look, Joe Biden has been filling the courts with soft-on-crime left-wing activists, with criminal defense attorneys, with people who worked as George Soros district attorneys, with people who have been advocates of abolishing the police.
00:33:41.860They're becoming federal judges, and with this change in the Sentencing Commission, you're going to see these Biden radicals teaming up with the Obama radicals that are already on the court, releasing more and more violent criminals.
00:33:56.920And I've got to say, Ben, look, in the normal world of political back and forth, there are things conservatives and liberals can disagree on.
00:34:17.980I'm pro-life, you're pro-life, but there are many people who are genuinely and passionately pro-choice, and reasonable people can wrestle with that issue.
00:34:28.980I genuinely don't understand these leftists that see a murderer and think the answer here is let the murderer go.
00:34:41.780I don't know how to articulate the argument how society is better, how anyone is better off letting violent criminals go out on the streets.
00:34:50.380And yet that's what these radicals are doing, and it's what the Biden administration keeps leaning in further and further on.
00:34:58.100Last question on this, and I think the shock for me seems to be how many cities are dealing with violent high crime numbers, and yet when their elections come up and they have a chance to change course, they don't do it.
00:35:10.660I mentioned Chicago earlier, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, out-of-control violent crime right now, carjackings through the roof, rape through the roof, 45 cars are stolen every 24 hours right now in my hometown.
00:35:25.820And this is because of an activist DA that came in and has said, we're going to let them all go all the time.
00:35:33.340They had a guy that was accused of murder the other day that got out on no bail because he was poor.
00:35:37.960And you see this and you think, all right, well, surely at some point they're going to be voted out.
00:35:43.140And then you see Chicago, they get rid of Lightfoot, and they put in someone that is even more radical.
00:35:47.900Why is that happening, and are we going to just lose these cities forever?
00:35:51.700Because people that have the means to get out, this is my theory, are getting out as fast as they can, regardless of they're Republican or Democrat.
00:35:58.680If you're sane and you have the means, you run as fast as you can for safety, for you, your kids, your grandkids.
00:36:06.100And then there are just activists left that get to decide how this is going to go for the rest of their lives with all this chaos.
00:36:12.060Look, if you want to understand the pattern of the lawless left, if you want to understand the George Soros prosecutors.
00:36:30.000Look, it has nothing to do with the fact that he's Jewish.
00:36:33.160What it has to do with is he spends tens of millions of dollars electing district attorneys who come into office promising to let violent criminals go.
00:36:43.720And part of the way the Marxists operate is when you point out what they're doing, they scream racist at you for daring to point out what he's doing.
00:36:55.240If we had George Soros as a guest on this show, I don't know how he would defend that.
00:36:58.900I legitimately do not understand what his reasoning is that he thinks the world would be better if we let murderers and rapists go to commit more murders and more rapes.
00:37:13.360I don't – my mind doesn't comprehend that logic.
00:37:17.100If you want to know more, though, you ought to buy my latest book, Justice Corrupted.
00:37:21.720Justice Corrupted explains in length – there's an entire chapter on the George Soros DAs.
00:37:26.900There's an entire chapter on the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots and how this is deliberate, how it's systematic, and it lays out the facts.
00:38:45.600But everything he said up to this point is that he is going to hurt the police more, weaken the police more, and empower the criminals more.
00:38:57.660And when you elect radical Democrats like this, people die.
00:39:04.980Good people flee the city, and then there's even more carnage.
00:39:10.100The left is fond of the slogan Black Lives Matter.
00:39:13.900They don't actually believe it because the consequence of electing left-wing radicals who undermine law enforcement is that more black lives are lost.
00:39:23.940There will be African-American children, there will be women, there will be men murdered in Chicago because of the consistent assault of left-wing Democrats on police officers.
00:39:37.160And I got to tell you, as I travel around, you've flown around the country with me quite a bit.
00:39:40.300But inevitably, when I see police officers, I make a point of stopping, of shaking their hands, of saying thank you.
00:40:57.360Men masquerading as women, also known as trans men in women's sports.
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00:44:31.440The district court ultimately ruled for the state of West Virginia, so rejected the plaintiff's claim that the West Virginia law was unconstitutional or contrary to federal law.
00:44:43.000The judge clearly didn't like ruling that way.
00:44:45.440The judge wrote that even if you don't like this law, it's clear under federal law and the Constitution that you can separate boys' sports from girls' sports, and there's not a legal impediment to doing so.
00:44:58.020So the district court rules for the state of West Virginia.
00:45:02.080The plaintiff appeals and the Fourth Circuit, the Court of Appeals, entered a new injunction enjoining the law while the appeal was pending.
00:45:11.220The court of appeals didn't issue an opinion, just entered an injunction while the appeal was pending.
00:45:17.500This is the appeal of that emergency injunction.
00:45:21.740So what happened is the state of West Virginia went up to the Supreme Court and said,
00:45:25.780will you reverse the injunction that the Court of Appeals put in place?
00:46:02.220I would grant the state's application.
00:46:04.360But even Justice Alito and Justice Thomas acknowledge, and I'll read from this dissent, quote,
00:46:11.280It is true that West Virginia allowed the district court's injunction to go unchallenged for nearly 18 months before seeking emergency relief from a second identical injunction.
00:46:24.000And it is a wise rule in general that a litigant whose claim of urgency is belied by his own conduct should not expect discretionary emergency relief from a court.
00:46:38.940In other words, a big part of the reason that the Supreme Court did not vacate this injunction is because West Virginia essentially acquiesced to it for a year and a half, did nothing for 18 months.
00:46:53.500And emergency relief, either granting an injunction or vacating an injunction, is exceptional relief.
00:47:01.260It's provided because it's an emergency.
00:47:03.540And 18 months later, it's not an emergency anymore.
00:47:05.920It is very hard to say it's an emergency when you didn't do anything for 18 months.
00:47:09.900And so there have been lots of headlines saying, oh, the Supreme Court said that biological males can compete in girls' sports.
00:47:38.440Referencing it, it's just two pages long.
00:47:40.520The opinion there tells you it was more of a procedural thing, not a policy.
00:47:44.340And even Justice Toledo and Justice Thomas are acknowledging, hey, wait, there's a real problem here because they sat and acquiesced.
00:47:53.280But they went on and said, well, even so, it's a state law and the Court of Appeals didn't write an opinion and we shouldn't enjoin it with no explanation whatsoever.
00:48:02.000So, look, that has some force, but I wouldn't read this Supreme Court decision as foreshadowing that the Supreme Court 7-2 is going to rule that biological males have a right to compete in girls' sports.
00:48:18.500I don't think they're going to, and I don't think that's what this case means.
00:48:22.100One other thing that happened this week is there's a swimmer, Riley Gaines, who's become very famous and a lot of support from conservatives and Christians because she came out, was one of the very first in women's swimming to come out and say, it is unfair that you're asking me, who I'm one of the best swimmers in women's sports, if not the best, in certain aspects of women's swimming, to compete with biological men.
00:48:48.600When she did this, the world, of course, erupted.
00:49:11.860Police had to barricade her in a room as they basically rushed her from the stage.
00:49:18.600She was held in that room, barricaded with the cops for about an hour, and the student body that was coming after her said some of those horrific things to her as a woman.
00:49:29.880And if we wanted to bleep it all out, you wouldn't hear anything but a big, long bleep.
00:49:35.340We decided we're going to let you see this.
00:49:37.460I wanted to warn, and you wanted to as well.
00:49:39.160If you have kids listening, kids watching, they don't need to see this.
00:49:42.680But I do think that parents and grandparents need to understand this has become what's normal on college campuses if you are a conservative speaker or even a conservative student or someone standing up for yourselves as an athlete saying,
00:49:58.120I shouldn't have to compete with men when I'm a woman.
00:50:01.240So, look, that's exactly right, and I'll say a couple of things.
00:50:03.780Number one, Riley Gaines was a very successful female swimmer competing against, among others, Leah Thomas.
00:50:15.480Leah Thomas decided that he was a she, that he was a woman.
00:50:22.100More than halfway through college, competing as a man, as a male swimmer.
00:50:25.280And as a male swimmer, was thoroughly mediocre, was not winning meets regularly, and once Leah became Leah the woman, Leah Thomas won the NCAA national championship in swimming.
00:50:40.920Now, there are biological differences between men and women.
00:50:44.940There are biological differences in strength, in body mass.
00:50:48.560There's a reason why these controversies only emerge one way.
00:50:54.420You know what, if a biological woman wants to compete against men, nobody would care.
00:51:02.800If someone from the WNBA wants to compete in the NBA, great, that'd be amazing to watch.
00:51:07.980There's a reason we have a WNBA, because there is no woman on the face of the planet who can stop LeBron James.
00:51:14.580There may not be a man on the planet, but there is a reason.
00:51:18.700There are real and material differences between the genders.
00:51:22.520And so Riley Gaines was on campus, and she's at San Francisco State University, and she's there to speak.
00:51:31.780And there's a violent protest, and she says that she was physically hit twice by a biological man who now claims he's a woman.
00:51:42.080So you have a man physically assaulting, beating a woman, because she dares to say it's unfair to girls, it's unfair to women, to force them to compete against people who are biological males.
00:51:56.320And this video is right after she was assaulted.
00:51:58.440This video is her being pulled out of the room by the police officers.
00:52:03.780This video is her being chased by the activists.
00:52:06.620And I want to underscore for our listeners, you know, Ben and I, we actually debated whether or not to air this.