00:03:14.040They did the evacuation at a Kabul national airport, which is in the middle of a dense urban area, and tragically resulted in 13 servicemen and women being murdered because of those decisions.
00:03:26.640And the incompetence and the ideology, and understand it was both.
00:03:33.020But it was also ideology that they refused to recognize.
00:03:36.040This is an administration that refused to recognize radical Islamic terrorism exists.
00:03:41.740And so we saw the images of planes taking off in Kabul with people clinging to the tires and trying to get into the wheel wells, the panic, the terror, the chaos, the death.
00:03:52.980And politically, the Biden administration, that was the turning point.
00:03:56.240And after that, they began shipping in thousands and tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of Afghans.
00:04:03.580And because ideologically they don't acknowledge radical Islamic terrorism as a threat, they didn't vet them.
00:04:09.320They just said, hey, the more people we bring into this country who hate America, the more people are going to vote Democrat.
00:05:06.240And on top of that, every single month when you pay your bill, you're actually giving back to conservative causes.
00:05:12.320That fight for your First or Second Amendment rights, the rights of unborn children, and for our men and women in uniform, our veterans, our wounded warriors, our fallen soldiers, and supporting their families.
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00:05:30.320The matter of the fact is there's a lot of companies out there that actually fight against our values.
00:05:35.300So why give them your cash and support them when they're fighting against what you believe in?
00:05:39.640Big Mobile gives massive donations to democratic causes, candidates, and radical organizations that fight against everything we believe in.
00:07:30.000We're going to put up, for those of you who are watching the podcast on YouTube, we're going to put up a tweet that I sent out in August of 2021.
00:08:48.100And listen, during the war in Afghanistan, there were Afghans who made courageous decisions to help the U.S. government.
00:08:57.060And I think it's wrong and immoral to just leave them to be murdered by the Taliban.
00:09:00.600So I think we had an obligation to do something.
00:09:02.960But there are a lot of options short of bringing them to America.
00:09:06.160There are a whole bunch of Muslim countries in the Middle East where they would not pose the same terror threat that they pose here.
00:09:13.820And a perfectly reasonable approach would be we're going to set up refugee camps with our allies throughout the Middle East, move those refugees there.
00:09:26.520And for those that pass a vigorous screening test, it is possible some of them might come to the United States, but only after we were absolutely certain that there was not a risk of a terror attack like we saw.
00:09:39.680By the way, you and I talked about this.
00:09:41.480I knew several people that worked, that fought for our country in Afghanistan.
00:09:45.360And they said their most frustrating aspect of the pullout was the U.S. was almost like they were playing a numbers game.
00:09:53.080Well, we got out 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000.
00:09:56.440And they said their interpreters were being hunted down.
00:10:00.620People that helped American soldiers were being hunted down.
00:10:04.100They weren't actually pulling out the people that deserved to be pulled out.
00:10:07.960It was just a numbers game after the disaster to try to make it go away.
00:10:14.300They were both over-inclusive and under-inclusive.
00:10:17.440In other words, they were missing people who really had been allies of the United States because there was no serious process to identify who would risk their lives, who was at real danger of persecution and murder.
00:10:29.480And they were also just letting people, waving people in.
00:10:32.480I want you to listen to this cross-examination that I did of Tony Blinken, then the Secretary of State, at the time.
00:10:42.620But I want to ask you flat out, did the State Department give the Taliban a list or multiple lists of Americans and or Afghans that we wanted out?
00:10:51.900Those reports and the idea that we would do anything to endanger our citizens or anyone else at a time when we were trying to save their lives is flat out wrong.
00:11:01.220So just like a yes or no, did you give them the list?
00:11:03.860Let me be very clear, Senator, if I may, please.
00:11:09.120In limited instances where we were seeking to get a bus or a group of people through a checkpoint, we gave a manifest to the people at the checkpoint to demonstrate that those people were expected to hit one.
00:11:23.100Roughly how many names were on the list you gave?
00:11:42.520This is a hearing to discover how many names and how many of those individuals you gave the Taliban the name to have been targeted for torture or murder.
00:11:50.460Senator, by definition, these were in limited instances with a bus or a group of people to get them through a checkpoint.
00:11:58.460So not only did you fail to evacuate Americans and green card holders who were there, but you also brought in tens of thousands of Afghans who had wholly inadequate vetting, bringing many of them to the United States.
00:12:14.620And one of the things that has done is that has brought in a humanitarian crisis to America.
00:12:21.580Child marriage and domestic abuse, tragically, are widespread in Afghanistan.
00:12:26.480According to the World Health Organization, more than half of the women in Afghanistan are married as child brides, and 90 percent of women are subject to domestic abuse.
00:12:38.300On August 27th, according to public reports, you distributed internal documentation highlighting numerous instances in intake centers of sexual abuse in which much older, grown Afghan males appeared with children, young children, claimed they were their brides, claimed they were their wives.
00:13:00.300And the document said the State Department urgently requested guidance.
00:13:07.300Subsequently, the Department of Homeland Security said that it showed the desperation of families that they were willing to give little girls to grown men to be subject to sexual abuse and child wives.
00:13:23.300How many children have been subject to sexual abuse?
00:13:26.300What have you done to rescue young children from illegal and abusive relationships after being brought to America by the State Department?
00:13:36.300Across 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,
00:13:46.300whether it's here in the United States at Dulles or Philadelphia or the military bases.
00:13:52.300We have all of our officers at extreme vigilance to look for and to deal with any cases or concerns that arise.
00:14:04.300Did you receive the urgent guidance and how many child vides have you seen?
00:14:07.300I don't know the specific guidance you're referring to.
00:14:50.300We have covered on Verdict before the incredible epidemic of child rapes from Pakistanis in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom's turning a blind eye to this pattern, this massive challenge of young children, young girls being raped.
00:15:08.300Tragically, in Afghanistan, that is also a very real problem.
00:15:13.300The statistics on child brides are horrifying.
00:15:15.300Ninety percent of women reported to have been subject to domestic abuse.
00:15:19.300And understand, when the Taliban was taking over in Afghanistan, there were families that were desperate.
00:15:24.300And so they would have a little girl, a seven, eight, nine-year-old girl that they would give to a grown man who was getting on a plane and say, here, take her as your wife to get her out of here.
00:15:33.300And that little girl would then be raped for the rest of her life.
00:15:38.300And the Biden State Department, they knew it was going on, but they didn't act to stop it.
00:15:45.300And understand, this is ideology at play.
00:15:48.300Everyone, not everyone, many of those who manned the Biden administration were alums of the Obama administration.
00:15:55.300Under the Obama administration, I chaired a hearing because the Obama White House had sent out a written guidance to the Department of Homeland Security to purge, and they used the word purge, any reference to radical Islam or the Muslim Brotherhood or jihad.
00:16:13.300And as a result, DHS either edited or deleted more than 800 of their records, erasing references to radical Islam, Muslim Brotherhood jihad.
00:16:24.300And then miraculously later on, when you had a terror attack, they'd say, well, we have no record that this is connected to radical Islam.
00:16:30.300It's like, well, because you had a purge and you deleted all the records.
00:16:34.300Ideologically, those same left-wing ideologues that were in the Obama administration, they went forward to the Biden administration.
00:16:41.300And so it's a reason why, if they've got people who are American allies, you heard Tony Blinken say, oh, yeah, well, we would give lists of them to the Taliban.
00:16:51.300And it's a fundamental misunderstanding.
00:16:53.300It's also, bizarrely, look, Democrats claim they care about women's rights.
00:16:57.860Well, it turns out that is not true when it's dealing with women or girls being raped by radical Islamists.
00:17:03.920That, for them, in their Marxist hierarchy of oppression, being Palestinian, being Taliban, being ISIS, is much more oppressed than being women.
00:17:16.480So women's rights go out the window in the leftist hierarchy.
00:17:21.240But it's not just the child brides and the humanitarian victims from Afghanistan.
00:17:26.240It is the very real risk of terror attacks here.
00:17:29.860I want to play this podcast, Verdict, in September of 2021.
00:17:34.940Here's what we were covering on Verdict in September 21.
00:17:46.420They're wide open and they are free to go anywhere they want.
00:17:49.880And the Biden administration apparently doesn't care if these are adult men with little girls who they are sexually assaulting.
00:17:57.180The vetting is so half-assed that there is a very real risk that if even one or two jihadis are in the mix, that we could see a suicide bomb like we saw in Afghanistan, but in an American mall or restaurant.
00:18:13.060If they're letting people hop on these planes who have been convicted of crimes in the United States, surely the vetting is not top-notch.
00:18:20.660And it's not as though they're only going to Fort Bliss.
00:18:58.020They're trying to say because of Donald Trump rewriting the history and the warnings going back to, as we just played there, from September of 2021 on this exact thing happening in reality.
00:19:08.260Yeah, at the same time, I wrote an op-ed in Fox News where I said, unfortunately, I believe we will see American blood spilled because of these foolish mistakes.
00:19:17.700And I went on to say the truth is that the Taliban doesn't want to be welcomed into the community of civilized nations.
00:19:24.120They are vicious terrorists who want to kill us.
00:19:27.020Unfortunately, because of the catastrophic mistakes the Biden administration made in Afghanistan, we are much more at risk for deadly attacks by the Taliban or al-Qaeda, which Pentagon officials estimate could regroup in Afghanistan in the next year or two.
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00:28:16.460All right, Senator, I want to go back to a little over a year ago, and let's just remind people of the Democratic Party and also how we got to the point that we're at right now.
00:28:25.420Well, this just shows the overlap we were talking about before, that ideologically today's Democrat Party refuses to acknowledge the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, refuses to acknowledge radical Islam, and that it is fundamentally anti-American.
00:28:39.740And so in April of 24, there were protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, and it was the International Al-Quds Day rally where they began chanting death to America.
00:28:53.020And when that happened, so Dearborn, Michigan is in Rashida Tlaib's district.
00:28:58.240She is the member of Congress that represents Dearborn, Michigan.
00:29:01.480You have a rally inter-district chanting death to America, and Fox News quite reasonably came and asked her if she would condemn that.
00:29:09.260Give a watch and give a listen to how she responded.