Aug. 28, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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| Okay, welcome. | ||
| You're in the War Room. | ||
| It's Extraction Under Fire. | ||
| This is a series of specials that we're doing for the next couple of days until all the American troops are out. | ||
| One of the hardest military evolutions that you have. | ||
| What is a forced river crossing, a retreat under fire, and then an extraction under fire. | ||
| Saturday, 28 August, Year of the Lord 2021. | ||
| So we're going to have non-stop for the next two hours, and it's also going to pop in some other news on the Wuhan lab, on elections, on vaccines, all of it tucked in as we focus on this. | ||
| Our theory of the case here is All the geopolitics, the finance, the economics, the refugees, this thing is so complicated. | ||
| We're going to give you frameworks so that all the information you hear from the mainstream media you can put into context and understand what's going on. | ||
| By the way, the response on this has been unbelievable. | ||
| I've never seen downloads on a podcast like this. | ||
| It's been insane. | ||
| And I'm getting calls from people all over the world. | ||
| Thank you, and we're going to try to plow through with the top experts around military intelligence, all of it. | ||
| My in-studio co-host is Frank Gaffney. | ||
| We're going to start, we're going to have Michael Yan and John Mills in a second with reports about what's actually happening on the ground. | ||
| The strike last night, the drone strike, and also Michael Yan with an update from the airport. | ||
| Captain Bannon is also co-hosting with us today. | ||
| We've got just a list of who's who, of people that actually know their stuff. | ||
| I want to just reiterate, we broke here at 1030 on, was it Thursday now? | ||
| 1030 on Thursday that there were four Marines KIA. | ||
| Mainstream media didn't get to that to one o'clock in the afternoon where the Wall Street Journal confirmed it. | ||
| We confirmed it with our sources on the ground and the Pentagon never really talked about it until until until four o'clock three or four o'clock in the afternoon so that's the type of sources we have here pretty impeccable folks on the ground and it is it is total and complete chaos okay totally complete chaos story last night ABC's putting up It's about this Pineapple Express of all these former Special Forces guys going in there. | ||
| That's only a tiny part of the story. | ||
| There's so much more going on than that, and we're going to try to get to all of it in the next couple of days, but I want to thank the audience, all the live chats. | ||
| By the way, we review the live chats afterwards, and we have people monitoring this. | ||
| If you've got ideas, concepts, people you know, etc. | ||
| So we're going to talk refugees a day, military chain of command, By the way, only, there's been one officer in this entire fiasco, there's been one officer relieved for cause. | ||
| That was Colonel Scheller, after we played it on War Room and blew it up to make it go viral. | ||
| He was relieved for cause. | ||
| We played that at 10 o'clock in the morning, 10 a.m. | ||
| at the start of the show, he was relieved at 1430, right, by the Marine Chaining Command. | ||
| We're going to get to all that, have General Arbuckle here to talk about. | ||
| Also going to talk, I've got Frank Gaffney. | ||
| What old is news? | ||
| You know, Gaffney led really the charge about radical jihad in this country in the first years of the century. | ||
| Right after, actually before 9-11, Frank was banging the drum that, hey, This is a global problem. | ||
| You've got to get focused on it. | ||
| And if you don't, it's coming here. | ||
| Frank gave me the best phrase. | ||
| You may not have an interest in Jihad, but Jihad has an interest in you. | ||
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Okay? | |
| And it came home here, not just in 93 at the Towers. | ||
| It came back on 9-11. | ||
| And Frank, for years, was at the forefront of this, particularly to shake the conservative movement. | ||
| The conservative movement got very soft on a lot of issues like this. | ||
| Frank Gaffney was there, and that's why Frank Gaffney was ostracized. | ||
| He was called a wild man. | ||
| Just to put a strategic context on this. | ||
| We are coming up on the 20th anniversary of this. | ||
| We have over 10,000 dead just in these wars in Iraq, Afghanistan. | ||
| And remember, they keep saying 2,200. | ||
| You've got to add the 4,000 contractors. | ||
| And I want to get Jason Jones' piece up there. | ||
| Most of those contractors are pipe hitters. | ||
| These are not guys making hot dogs, okay? | ||
| These are guys out there in the field. | ||
| So there's over 10,000 dead in both wars. | ||
| There's, I think, 50,000 casualties. | ||
| The net present value of the total cost by Brown University is $9 trillion. | ||
| $2 trillion in Afghanistan and $7 trillion in Iraq. | ||
| We are coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9-11, and instead of the global focus of that being at the tip of Manhattan to commemorate our honored dead, which is the bloodiest day in American history, even worse than Antietam, right, and worse than Pearl Harbor, and worse than Normandy, right, so our honored dead, it'll be in Kabul, | ||
| Because now, after 20 years, 9 trillion dollars, 10,000 dead heroes, 50,000 wounded, 60 suicides a day from our veterans, PTSD everywhere, right? | ||
| Here, we're back to the... we're not just back to the beginning. | ||
| We've metastasized it, and this is causing the question exactly what we're doing. | ||
| You're better. | ||
| Remember, the Trump movement and you, the deplorables, are the biggest set of clowns in the world. | ||
| You breathe through your mouths. | ||
| They just want you to shut up. | ||
| They want to make your life as miserable as possible. | ||
| They want you to shut up and get out of the way. | ||
| And so, in the globalist elites of both parties, now we're at 20 years. | ||
| We have created, we have created a terrorist super state that has Al Qaeda, has ISIS, has the Taliban, who we all defeated on the battlefield. | ||
| We defeated, we destroyed the physical caliphate of, Trump did, of ISIS. | ||
| We destroyed the physical caliphate of ISIS. | ||
| We destroyed Al-Qaeda in the first couple of years of this war. | ||
| We crushed the Taliban. | ||
| Yet today we're sitting here, and even better, we're going to have Jay Khansar on here. | ||
| We now have an active, with the Haqqani Network and the ISI Pakistan, all the lies and misrepresentations, so all the tens of billions of dollars we gave Pakistan, now it's all up in living color. | ||
| And they've got access to at least 80, and probably more, but at least 80 we know, non-classified, 80 nuclear weapons. | ||
| And this war, and we're in a war now. | ||
| Elon Musk was very smart the other day when he tweeted out the quote from Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August. | ||
| We're now in a war, and the war's got a left flank on it. | ||
| If you look at a map, and that is this the Central Asian part of it, and particularly the Pakistan-India-China border, and it's got a right flank to it, which is the South China Sea in Taiwan. | ||
| This is Mackinder meets Mahan, okay? | ||
| And we're gonna walk through all that. | ||
| It's both the Central Asian landmass and who controls that, which everybody in history from Alexander to To Napoleon, to Genghis Khan, to all of them. | ||
| Have tried to control the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| Hitler, the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| Biggest war in world history, the Eastern Front of World War II, to control the Central Eurasian landmass. | ||
| We're here again, with the CCP calling the shots. | ||
| And so after, this is the point I want to make. | ||
| All the geniuses you see on TV, all the geniuses, and by the way, you had a center-right administration in Bush, and you had a center-left or far-left administration in Obama. | ||
| It's all the same. | ||
| Here, we get to the spot, we're right here. | ||
| We're right here. | ||
| 20 years afterwards, and it is to the 10th power worse. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, a couple of open remarks, then we're going to go to some live coverage with you guys. | ||
| Thoughts? | ||
| Because you've warned about this for years. | ||
| You considered, this is like Churchill, this is what a fourth turning does. | ||
| People who are like marginalizing, all of a sudden, boom, oh, maybe that guy knew what he was talking about. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, is there anything I said there wrong? | ||
| I think the only thing that might prove wrong, Steve, is that this is going to be many more fronts to this war than the two flanks you've talked about. | ||
| I think those are for sure. | ||
| And listen, thank you for the attaboy. | ||
| My role in this has simply been to try to help It's true. | ||
| But the point, Steve, is that what worries me as much as what you've said, which is bad enough, specifically the idea that we have allowed, in fact enabled, the metastasizing of this threat from what I call Sharia supremacism, is we still don't really understand that that is the threat. | ||
| Look at what's going on as we speak with people talking about, well, there's a new kinder, gentler Taliban that we're dealing with here. | ||
| Taliban doesn't have anything to do with ISIS-K or with Al-Qaeda. | ||
| This is rubbish, folks. | ||
| These are people who have one thing in common. | ||
| And by the way, they have it in common with the mullahs of Iran as well. | ||
| Oh, it's all part, yeah. | ||
| And that is Sharia. | ||
| They have their differences, and they have their, you know, fractious moments, and they will go at it with each other, but for the moment... | ||
| We are the common enemy. | ||
| We are the infidel. | ||
| We are the impediment to the realization of what they believe is Allah's grand design, which is the triumph of Islam worldwide. | ||
| And they will do everything they possibly can to bring about that end state. | ||
| And what that means, Steve, and we'll be talking about it in the course of this excellent program today, is they're going to use the war there The war that they can engineer beyond with Sharia supremacist elements that are now all over the world. | ||
| Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia of course. | ||
| But they're going to make common cause. | ||
| With the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| They're going to make common cause with the Russians. | ||
| They're going to make common cause with the bad guys in Latin America. | ||
| You can bet that it will be all against us. | ||
| And that's what makes, I think, this multi-front... | ||
| We have argued for years that the unrestricted warfare of the Chinese was cyber and information war and economic war, and if we didn't confront it, it was going to lead to kinetic war. | ||
| We're on the path to kinetic war right now in Afghanistan. | ||
| We're on the path to kinetic war. | ||
| Okay, let's talk about this for a second. | ||
| Do we have John Mills? | ||
| Is John Mills ready to go? | ||
| Okay, let's bring in Colonel John Mills. | ||
| John, walk us through, you know, they're making a huge deal about this strike last night. | ||
| What they did is got a guy going out for a cup of coffee. | ||
| This is what it is. | ||
| There's no senior leader. | ||
| He's a planner. | ||
| This is a guy going for a pack of cigarettes that they had to get. | ||
| So John Mills, tell us, but I want to know the apparatus that's around that we can use when we get serious about taking guys out. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
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Well, yeah, so your number one targets are always the planners and the financiers. | |
| So as a planner, you know, I kind of understand, you know, they're the key to this. | ||
| But this was Central Command. | ||
| I mean, I can assure you that what happened, national priorities changed instantaneously, instantaneously, and everything, all the national signal collection, national intelligence, To support and they had to pivot all the overhead orbits of Reaper. | ||
| There's other types, but let's just let's just talk about the Reaper, which is their primary. | ||
| It looks like it was Nangarhar Province, Jalalabad. | ||
| That's the traditional road back and forth between there and Peshawar. | ||
| So all the you know, and this is true of not being not being in any way of. | ||
| Characterizing wrong, but this is where your hardcore Islamic extremists would just flood in historically, and after 9-11, this is the route. | ||
| And we had to deal with these crowds, and we did very, very well. | ||
| But you've got a reaper... Hold it, hold it. | ||
| Just to put in perspective, to make sure everybody understands this, this is the route in 1842. | ||
| This is the route from the street from Kabul. | ||
| This is how they let the British Army get out. | ||
| 16,000 left, including women and children. | ||
| One got out. | ||
| And this is why they went right back to there, because it's infested, let's be blunt, it's infested with bad guys, okay? | ||
| Pakistan, come on, this is infested with bad guys, it's the Pashtuns down there, and they took out, hey, it was a senior guy, you've seen his mugshot, they took out a guy going for a pack of cigarettes, because Biden has to show, oh, and on MSNBC last night was like, it's so, he said what he was going to do, and he's doing it, right? | ||
| You're right. | ||
| We've got a global apparatus up there. | ||
| Somebody at the Pentagon says, we've got to shoot a couple of these, and we've got to get a bad guy. | ||
| John, what I want to know is the capabilities we have right now, if we want to rain down holy hell on them, how big a capability do we have? | ||
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Oh, yeah, yeah. | |
| I mean, we have the carrier air wing. | ||
| We have essentially B-52s, B-1s, you know, from Diego Garcia. | ||
| You know, our forward air operations center is in the gutter. | ||
| And they just will keep a bomb truck overhead 24-7 in a B-52 or a B-1 or a B-2, and they can just J-DAMS everything. | ||
| J-DAMS, J-DAMS, J-DAMS. | ||
| They could, I think, is the operative word, though, John. | ||
| They could. | ||
| Do you have an AC-130 that's on call to come in here if they have to? | ||
| One of those big gunships? | ||
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I am sure they search that, the AC and the MC variants. | |
| But they're vulnerable during daylight, so we really reserve those for the night. | ||
| Because you really, man pads are a threat, and so you've got to be really careful about that. | ||
| But yeah, we can rain, we can actually give them fire. | ||
| It's all about will. | ||
| It's all about will. | ||
| And I just, they said, oh, this is an ISIS-K, this exact segmentation as if they're in a database card-carrying of only one group or another group, that is just not reality. | ||
| I mean, it's a blur and a mess of many groups. | ||
| They like to very precisely segment, you're part of this group, you're part of that group. | ||
| That's not, that's not really, they're not card-carrying members of one group or another group. | ||
| John, we've got to bounce. | ||
| We want to thank you. | ||
| We'll see you back here on Monday. | ||
| Thank you for stepping away from the Activities Day. | ||
| Calling by phone, Colonel John Mills, one of the central guys at CENTCOM during the first days of this war in the airspace. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Great American. | ||
| We'll be back in a moment in the war room. | ||
| Evacuated more than 100,000 people from Afghanistan. | ||
| All heroes? | ||
| All Americans? | ||
| No. | ||
| As of tonight, just about 5,000 of that total are American citizens. | ||
| That's 5%. | ||
| So you're thinking the other 95% must be heroes, right? | ||
| All translators? | ||
| 95,000 translators? | ||
| That's what CNN is telling you. | ||
| But no. | ||
| Just today, the State Department admitted it has no idea how many of these people have what we're calling special immigrant visas. | ||
| That would indicate they actually worked with the U.S. | ||
| military and might be heroes. | ||
| Maybe even translators. | ||
| So no, they're not all heroes. | ||
| We don't know who they are. | ||
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In the context of this massive, in many ways, unprecedented evacuation effort, our first goal has been to bring as many people to safety as quickly as possible. | |
| So in many cases, we are going to be in a better position to provide you fidelity on numbers in the coming days and the coming weeks. | ||
| As this process has been ongoing, our goal has been to put as many people on as many planes as we can. | ||
| So to restate, they're not all heroes. | ||
| We can't say that because we don't know who they are. | ||
| The head of U.S. | ||
| Northern Command, General Glenn Van Hurk, just admitted this. | ||
| He told our Jennifer Griffin that more than half of the Afghan refugees coming into the United States do not have special immigrant visas. | ||
| So they didn't work for the U.S. | ||
| military. | ||
| They're not heroes. | ||
| They're not translators. | ||
| So why do we have a moral obligation to let them live here and give them free health care? | ||
| Okay, that is, and by the way, we'll put this up in the live chat. | ||
| It's an amazing segment by Tucker Carlson last night, what we talked about on yesterday's evening show at five o'clock. | ||
| And here's the buried lead. | ||
| I don't think Tucker got to this, but the general admitted in his briefing that they had been working on this plan since April. | ||
| I want everybody to embrace this, particularly when we talk, Captain Bannon's going to come in, we're going to highlight the honored dead of the 13 that died. | ||
| This plan to get the Afghans out? | ||
| The plan to get the Afghans out has been worked on since April. | ||
| The only organized thing that's going on, you see now you have this Pineapple Express, which is former Special Forces guys going over there to get people out. | ||
| You're going to hear another story about actual Special Forces guys just going rogue to get real people out, real, their commando buddies, the translators, etc. | ||
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| Okay? | ||
| Pineapple Express doing it. | ||
| The General admits, since April of this year, they have had a very thorough thing, and I will tell you, I'll be brutally frank, we watch this stuff non-stop every second of it. | ||
| 24 hours. | ||
| The team here and in Denver, amazing. | ||
| The only organized presentation I have seen the entire time is the Northern Command General. | ||
| The reason is, on this topic, nothing else, on this topic, refugees, boom, we got here, we got, they got culturally appropriate food. | ||
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They talk to culturally appropriate food. | |
| At Dulles. | ||
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Halal. | |
| In the different, halal, in different bases. | ||
| You just don't call down to the guy at the truck and say, hey, I need halal food. | ||
| This part is the only, look, I am absolutely, there are no conspiracies, and I also say there's no deep state, it's up in your grill, okay? | ||
| It ain't deep, it's right there, but they're no coincidences. | ||
| Since April, the one organized thing they have had, and we're going to show this footage here later, about which PBS had on, The NPR, the PBS had on about what the reality, and Seth Moulton, who's a super progressive, a war hero at the job, he was shocked. | ||
| You see those young Marines? | ||
| They're just keeping a crowd back. | ||
| Every officer that put them there in the whole chain of command has to be fired and their retirement taken away. | ||
| Yet the organized thing, super organized, hyper organized, I mean that Northern Command briefing yesterday was the only, you look at the disasters at the State Department, you look at the White House, you look at Admiral Kirby at the Pentagon, Kirby's sitting there, boom, the generals, boom, we're doing this, boom, we're doing that, boom, we're doing that, we got the culture appropriate food, they got soccer fields set up. | ||
| They got education for the kids. | ||
| This is not something you come up with in 24 hours because this is the one organized thing of it. | ||
| And then they have the State Department let the cat out of the bag. | ||
| None of this is SIV. | ||
| The guys pulling out the commandos and the interpreters and their buddies who saved their lives on battlefields in 20 years are a bunch of former guys that are back in there, the Pineapple Express, and you're going to see actually organized efforts by others inside that said, hey, what are you doing? | ||
| You're just taking everybody, you're leaving the real guys behind. | ||
| This is going to blow up and we need every Republican, and remember, this is not about nativism and xenophobia or none of that, because you've got good guys in the get-out. | ||
| Every person that worked for us in a real capacity has to be taken out and kept in the region. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Because we're going back, guys. | ||
| This is like MacArthur's the Philippines. | ||
| You're going to go back and free your country. | ||
| Working for us doesn't give you the ticket. | ||
| You don't hit the lottery to come and live in Wisconsin. | ||
| That can't be the deal. | ||
| That can't be done. | ||
| Otherwise, while you're around here, we're just going to take all the good guys out and bring them to America and let the rest of the world devolve into chaos and anarchy? | ||
| Is that the program? | ||
| Not so good, guys. | ||
| And by the way, not so good. | ||
| I'm trying to put the best face on it, okay? | ||
| I'm saying, hey, they stay in the region. | ||
| Qatar, UAE, all our great buddies, Saudi Arabia, every guy living off the tit, right? | ||
| And that's what you're living off of. | ||
| I want to go now to Dr. Nailah Rush. | ||
| From CIS, the great CIS. | ||
| She's got a couple things to say about this. | ||
| She's broken away from a meeting today to join us by phone. | ||
| Dr. Rush, please tell us what's going on, because this one's driving me nuts. | ||
| I got Omar, I got Ilhan Omar now on MSNBC telling us that it's only the white supremacists that don't want this to happen and we should be taking 400,000. | ||
| Dr. Rush, what say you? | ||
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Hi, thanks for having me. | |
| What I say is that we're talking about SIVs or we're talking about refugees. | ||
| We need to be very clear what we're talking about. | ||
| You have millions of Afghans who now probably want to leave Afghanistan because of Taliban rule, who have not worked with the U.S. | ||
| forces. | ||
| So they are not entitled for an SIV. | ||
| These are a different issue. | ||
| There are two SIV programs. | ||
| that were said, and these are limited in numbers. | ||
| So even when you say SIVs, these are limited in numbers. | ||
| I'm not going to bore everybody with the details. | ||
| But in short, there's one SIV translator for translators that is capped at 55.06 per fiscal year. | ||
| There's another one, SIVs, for those Afghans who work for or on behalf of the U.S. forces who is also capped. | ||
| It is capped by number, meaning in total it's 34,500 visas. | ||
| Once these spots are filled, the program ends, unless it's added on it. | ||
| They just added 8,000. | ||
| So anyway, point is, there's only around 19,000 SIV spots left. | ||
| Some are pending, meaning some already applied, but the application didn't go through. | ||
| So these that we see coming in, and we say SIVs, we're not sure if they already have the SIV, meaning they already have this special immigrant visa, and they can come to the United States, and as soon as they arrive, they get a green card, or they have pending applications, meaning their security processes, etc., has not been finished, and they are planning on doing it here. | ||
| That is why they are being paroled. | ||
| And you have refugee applicants that are going to be processed. | ||
| So it is not clear who is on this plane. | ||
| into the United States, so they will give them something like a parole visa, which is a temporary one year, et cetera. | ||
| And you have refugee applicants that are going to be processed. | ||
| So it is not clear who is on this plane. | ||
| What they said, I think yesterday, is that half of the 6,000 who came have SIVs. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| Unreal. | ||
| Dr. Nela Rush, we've got to bounce. | ||
| You're at CIS. | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| How do people follow you? | ||
| I know you're putting up information all the time. | ||
| We want to get it out to everybody. | ||
| How do people get access to this? | ||
| Because this is pretty technical. | ||
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They can go to chiis.org. | |
| Everything is out there, and they can follow me at Naila Rashid at Twitter, but I'm not very social media. | ||
| I'd rather write and people read me. | ||
| May I add one last thing, please, very quickly? | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| The last program that was added recently in July by President Biden for the Afghans, supposedly, who worked for the U.S. | ||
| forces and are not eligible for SIVs, It's called the Direct Access for the Refugee Resettlement Program. | ||
| That is, they opened it up. | ||
| It's called the P2 program. | ||
| This program existed, the same one for Iraqis who worked with U.S. | ||
| forces. | ||
| We welcomed around 100,000 Iraqis through this program, mostly under the Obama years. | ||
| This program recently was suspended because of fraud, and it is being investigated as we speak. | ||
| And so as we stop one program for the Iraqis, we open up another one for the Afghans. | ||
| And now the chaos with Afghanistan. | ||
| One last story. | ||
| I don't know if you heard about the Afghan who was evacuated by French forces. | ||
| He arrived there. | ||
| He was helping the French people to evacuate Afghans from the French embassy and French nationals. | ||
| He was evacuated by the French forces. | ||
| Other people there recognize him as a Taliban, and he was arrested. | ||
| It is chaotic. | ||
| And if you don't have... Once you get into the United States with an SIV or not an SIV, if your application is not accepted, what do they do? | ||
| You have the United Nations' non-fulfillment. | ||
| They cannot send you back. | ||
| You are here to stay. | ||
| And when we say 20,000 SIVs, these are the numbers Dr. Rush, we love it. | ||
| We're going to have you back this week when we get you on camera. | ||
| Thank you very much for taking time away to do it. | ||
| becomes a hundred thousand. I know I end up that I don't want to take too much of your time. | ||
| Dr. Rush we love it we're gonna have you back this week when we get you on camera thank you very much for taking time away to do it Dr. Nala Rush from CIS. | ||
| We're gonna drill down on this and we need every Republican to man the barricades in this. | ||
| This is outrageous. | ||
| This is another scam. | ||
| This is another complete... The only thing they had organized, the only thing they had organized was this plan. | ||
| You're telling me there don't need to be investigations? | ||
| Yeah, Benny Thompson, why don't we put off the January 6th in just a couple of three weeks to get to the bottom of all the corruption and everything that took place here? | ||
| It's completely and totally outrageous. | ||
| And when you talk about fraud, what that means, almost certainly, is you've got people inside our country, as she says, you can't get out, who are actually playing for the other team. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Real problem. | ||
| By the way, when you started the screening, the blue and green in the early years of Trump was the way they were killing people. | ||
| Those are the most highly vetted guys out there. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back. | ||
| General Arbuckle demanding senior officers resign. | ||
| Next. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| Extraction under fire. | ||
| You're in the War Room. | ||
| It is Saturday, 28 August, Year of the Lord 2021. | ||
| Before I bring in General Arbuckle, this thing on the refugee thing is not just a scam, it's a dangerous scam. | ||
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It is. | |
| It's a very dangerous scam, and we cannot allow it to happen. | ||
| And this is where the Republicans gotta grow a set. | ||
| I got McCarthy up there, and they're yelling and screaming about the chain of command, and they're yelling and screaming about Biden, but they're always doing misdirection plays. | ||
| That's fine, and we gotta do that. | ||
| But, and it should be McCarthy, but we gotta bring in heavy artillery, so that's where General Arbuckle and the guys that have been there and fought and done that, they're now stepping up. | ||
| But we need McCarthy and these guys who are all solely intent, they're all, don't call me a racist, don't call me a nativist, don't call me that. | ||
| On MSNBC today, which, by the way, they're not talking about anything on Afghanistan. | ||
| Nothing, except the refugee issue. | ||
| Nothing about the debacle. | ||
| They already understand they gotta pivot this message hard or the guy's gonna be at 26% and nothing's gonna get done. | ||
| But they, they, and we can pull it later, maybe from, we gotta pull, but we don't have time to play it. | ||
| They said about the John Lewis thing, oh, the reason no Republicans ran it, this is a quote from one of the guys, the reason no Republicans voted for it, it's a party totally run by white supremacists. | ||
| So, Kevin and was it Jim Banks and all you guys? | ||
| They hate you. | ||
| So understanding that, you've got to step up now. | ||
| And I don't want to hear any bleeding hearts. | ||
| This is not about getting the people that are allied with us. | ||
| We have to because, hey, guess what? | ||
| We're in the beginning of a big-time war over there. | ||
| And we need allies. | ||
| And we need people who believe in freedom and democracy and all of that. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Those are our guys. | ||
| They can't go out of the region. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Like the Philippines, they're going to go back and take their country back from the Taliban. | ||
| They're not going to do that in Wisconsin, okay? | ||
| And we have to also say the thing, you don't get a lottery ticket to get to America, right? | ||
| Here's one of the reasons. | ||
| I said this to Steve Cortez the other day. | ||
| And we've been all over the hard-working blue-collar folks and Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley, of which three of the nine congressmen that stood up to Pelosi, three of them were on counties connected in the Rio Grande Valley, the three big counties. | ||
| This is the vanguard of the Trump revolution. | ||
| I told Cortez, I said, when we find out who the 12 are, 50% minimum will be Hispanics. | ||
| And I think we're getting there. | ||
| And by the way, the first individual Captain Bannon did last night, when we did the commemoration, the very first individual was from Laredo. | ||
| Now, I realize down there in Texas they say, well, Laredo's not... Hey, it's Rio Grande Valley adjacent. | ||
| It's the gateway to the Rio Grande Valley. | ||
| First guy, Lance Corporal. | ||
| First guy out. | ||
| Some hero. | ||
| The Hispanics are... So, no. | ||
| When we get those guys in Silicon Valley, and we get them all good paying jobs in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and all the African-Americans in the cities, and particularly the veterans, when we got those guys making a hundred thousand bucks a year and so forth, then maybe you do that. | ||
| No. | ||
| By being a commando or a... and translate, does not get you a golden lottery ticket to get to Wisconsin. | ||
| That's got to be stopped. | ||
| The Republican Party's got to step up this, and they're not going to want to do it. | ||
| You watch, you see these worms. | ||
| Gaffney's been fighting this for 20 years. | ||
| He could hell have been thrown out of the Republican Party 10 times. | ||
| I had CPAC one year. | ||
| I had to do, for two years in a row, I had to do my own CPAC by buying a sponsorship in CPAC to get a conference room. | ||
| The uninvited. | ||
| The uninvited, and Gaffney was the top. | ||
| The reason I did, Gaffney was number one. | ||
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He was not just uninvited, his thing was starting. | |
| There has been, in this fiasco, the only organized thing you have is the refugee resettlement program. | ||
| That's the only way, and because General, the NORTHCOM General Tallis, they've been planning it since April, and that's why you have Halal Food, and they got soccer fields, and they got education, and coloring books, and all that, okay? | ||
| I understand it, because the military, you get it organized, go, if you start in April. | ||
| Everything else is a fiasco, and we got 13 now, honored dead, with more to come, right? | ||
| Of these young kids. | ||
| Mo, last night, the oldest age was 22. | ||
| I'm watching CNN live at 10 o'clock at night. | ||
| Maureen Bannon went through three or four individuals with backgrounds and everything. | ||
| CNN said that we don't really have names yet. | ||
| And they threw out one guy. | ||
| I said, names? | ||
| This is five hours later. | ||
| They don't want to talk about, and they particularly don't want to talk about, it's Hispanic working class that defend their country. | ||
| They're heroes and patriots, okay? | ||
| And not buying any of this crap they're putting up there. | ||
| There has been, for all the other fiascos and disasters, and this is the American Din-Din-Fu, right? | ||
| One officer has been relieved for cause. | ||
| One officer has been relieved for cause. | ||
| Colonel Scheller, Lieutenant Colonel Shull of the Marines that we played his video that he put up on his LinkedIn because he couldn't take it anymore. | ||
| And he said, I'm prepared to jeopardize everything so that the chain of command is held accountable. | ||
| I'm prepared. | ||
| He's 18 years in, fought the entire time a true warrior. | ||
| I'm prepared to throw it all away because nobody's put their stars on the table. | ||
| And he says, I will be fired. | ||
| He says, I know what's going to come to me. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| He's on the war room at 10 o'clock with the tape at 1430. | ||
| He's relieved for cause. | ||
| Relief for cause, not because of how he performs his duty, which is immaculate, right? | ||
| This guy's a hot runner. | ||
| No. | ||
| He's relieved for cause because he went on LinkedIn and he says, I will throw it all away to hold the chain of command. | ||
| Somebody's got to be held accountable for this. | ||
| I got to get that footage ready of PBS did. | ||
| When you see what these young Marines did, and Seth Moulton, Who's a super progressive, but a war hero from the Battle of Najaf. | ||
| He went over there. | ||
| He was shocked. | ||
| He says, hey, I thought the Marines are going to be on one side of the gate and the guys on the other side of the gate. | ||
| The young Marines are out there with their arms together with a mass of humanity, a mass of humanity. | ||
| Every officer that put them in harm's way. | ||
| And this is why the parents aren't taking calls from Joe Biden. | ||
| That's why you haven't seen Biden. | ||
| They would be all over the media today with that if they had it. | ||
| A bunch of these parents aren't going to take the calls. | ||
| You see your sons out there with this massive thing? | ||
| Outside the gate. | ||
| Outside the gate. | ||
| But hang on, we got the Taliban that's vetting it. | ||
| The Taliban, the guy had 25 pounds of high explosives on a vest. | ||
| 25 pounds. | ||
| You don't think you're doing a little check on that and see that out there? | ||
| No. | ||
| They let him through. | ||
| Because they're all working together. | ||
| ISIS-K. | ||
| ISIS-K. | ||
| You know it's ISIS-K. | ||
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It's all crap. | |
| Right? | ||
| I want to bring in General Arbuckle. | ||
| General Arbuckle Is prepared to lead a group of flag officers and generals to say, uh-uh, this has got to stop. | ||
| We demand accountability and people have got to be fired if they don't have enough honor to resign. | ||
| General Arbuck, I want to turn it over to you. | ||
| Take it from there, sir. | ||
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Yeah, I see. | |
| Hey, before I do that, I just want to make a quick comment on Colonel Schiller. | ||
| If you want an example of top-level courage, that's him. | ||
| You know, we know there are two types of courage. | ||
| One's on the battlefield, physical courage. | ||
| The other is moral courage. | ||
| And that's what he's displayed at the very, very top level. | ||
| And let's not forget Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lohmeyer also, who got relieved from command for speaking out in some sort of fashion. | ||
| Yeah, regarding accountability, you know, age old military leadership principle that you're well familiar with, I know, is that you're supposed to seek responsibility and take responsibility for our actions. | ||
| And tied into that, of course, is being held accountable for what we do or fail to do. | ||
| And that's what this letter is all about. | ||
| It's currently, let me be clear, it's currently in the staffing stages right now. | ||
| We're going out to retired admirals and generals asking for them to sign it. | ||
| And yeah, that's the picture of it right there. | ||
| And the theme is being accountable. | ||
| And one of the things we've enjoyed in the military among the public United States is Being respected as an institution for years, and we still are. | ||
| And I believe one of the primary reasons we're seen as the highest respected institution in the United States is the fact that we have held each other accountable in the past for our actions, either ethically or legally. | ||
| So that's what this is all about. | ||
| And the letter basically says that we're asking for the resumations of the Secretary of Defense Austin and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley. | ||
| for their actions surrounding this Afghanistan debacle. | ||
| Now, what we're pointing out in here is that as those two individuals are designated as principal military advisors to the President of the United States in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief, they have the primary role of recommending to the President what should be done or should not be done in any military operation. | ||
| And I'm convinced that they did that. | ||
| I mean, I just know that they went in and talked to President Biden about this rapid withdrawal, and I'm confident they would have said, look, we need to extend this deadline beyond the 31st for the following reasons, the dangers involved and so forth, and also keep our base such a program. | ||
| Now, if they did that, the question is how forceful were they in presenting that case to the president? | ||
| If they did within their powers everything to convince the president it was a bad move, And we ought to extend the deadline and do this in a sequential time phase operation with maximum security and control. | ||
| Good. | ||
| But if they did not do everything within their power to convince the president to extend the deadline and do this operation properly, they should have resigned. | ||
| At that point, it's kind of a falling resort moment as we talk about the military. | ||
| We have the obligation to present the best advice we can to our superiors, in this case, the president. | ||
| And if he says no, I'm going to go ahead and do it my way, which is what happened in this case, they have a choice. | ||
| They can either salute and march off and follow those orders, which is what is happening, or they can resign and protest. | ||
| And the letter says that's what they should have done. | ||
| General Arbuckle, real quickly, this has got a couple of minutes in the segment. | ||
| Can you give us two or three specifics Of what their failures were in advising the President on not doing tough, what were the two or three things that are most egregious that you would say rise to the level that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense, which has never happened in the history of the country, should resign? | ||
| What is it specifically about this that have you and these other flag officers so upset? | ||
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Well, knowing the consequences of holding that deadline, Steve, overall, and of course that is jeopardizing the safety and security of American citizens, leaving them behind. | |
| That would be at the top of the list. | ||
| I mean, our allies, you've been talking about that, plus losing 85 or so billion dollars worth of equipment into the enemy's hands. | ||
| There's going to be catastrophic results from that, not to mention our reputation as a world leader. | ||
| And moreover than that, in bullying our enemies, the Taliban, China, Russia, and so forth. | ||
| All those were known consequences that should have been laid out. | ||
| Terrible consequences. | ||
| And if the president didn't listen, Their only recourse was to say, look, in good conscience, I cannot follow that order. | ||
| I must resign. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| General Arbuckle, hang on one second. | ||
| We got a couple of, do I have Michael Yan? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Michael, can you, I'm going to bring in Michael Yan. | ||
| In general, we're going to hold you over through the next break. | ||
| Michael, we got a couple of minutes. | ||
| Can you give us an update of what you know, what's actually going on in Kabul and particularly at the airport and around it? | ||
| Can you give us an update on your sources? | ||
| Sure can. | ||
| Aircraft are still taking off right now. | ||
| C-17 just took off. | ||
| It's at about 15,000 feet now. | ||
| There's another loading right now. | ||
| I was just told about 30 minutes ago that the gates were opened. | ||
| Afghans are being allowed in right now. | ||
| I was not told whether or not they are U.S. | ||
| citizens, but that they are Afghans. | ||
| I see an E-11 going in right now. | ||
| It's feet dry over water. | ||
| And also, there's numerous KC-135 refuelers that have been going in. | ||
| They turn their beacons off when they get close. | ||
| Of course, before sunlight today, we saw a B-52 turn its beacon off right before they take that left turn. | ||
| There's huge amounts of aircraft. | ||
| They said the British are finished coming and going, but I see a British aircraft right now near Gwadar that's leaving. | ||
| So the airlift is huge. | ||
| But those last few aircraft that leave, this is getting so incredibly dangerous because the Taliban Right now, of course, everybody's danger close, which means they're already close enough to our forces that we can't use airstrikes on them. | ||
| And, you know, you talked about Jalalabad earlier. | ||
| I've driven that road many times between Kabul and Jalalabad. | ||
| It's extremely dangerous. | ||
| I went out to a place called Surobi at one time. | ||
| You might recall the Uzben Valley ambush when Taliban killed 10 French. | ||
| We had every airplane in the world up there and that didn't stop that attack. | ||
| Real quickly, Mike, we got about 20-30 seconds. | ||
| When is the official changeover to the Taliban? | ||
| Because there were reports last night they're coming in the military side and working with the Americans. | ||
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Do you know what the official turnover is? | |
| Well, you know, I sat on your show about three days ago, probably more like the 29th, which sounded kind of crazy, but it's looking like 29th or 30th. | ||
| Okay, hang on for a second. | ||
| Michael Young, combat correspondent for many years in Afghanistan. | ||
| General Arbuckle, we've got a lot going on. | ||
| Take a short commercial break. | ||
| Extraction under fire. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, Captain Bannon with us. | ||
| Take a minute and get a cup of coffee. | ||
| Join us back here in about two minutes. | ||
| I just want to make it, the one thing that's organized, and we just heard this from Michael Yan, they're taking Afghanis out like crazy. | ||
| They're loading it up, right? | ||
| And the Taliban's letting that happen. | ||
| Note to self. | ||
| Note to self. | ||
| Just write that down. | ||
| Hmm, Taliban, let these guys come through. | ||
| No accident, comrade. | ||
| Look, the people that worked as allies for us should go out. | ||
| They should stay in region. | ||
| We got plenty. | ||
| Hey, for nine trillion dollars over the last 20 years, we got plenty of bases over there. | ||
| OK, plenty of space. | ||
| Don't need to do that in Wisconsin. | ||
| Certainly shouldn't be here in Dallas. | ||
| OK, and that's going to have to understand that's going to be a uncomfortable fight. | ||
| But it's got to happen for security. | ||
| Remember, in the first year of the Trump administration, the casualties we had were blue and green. | ||
| These were the most highly vetted guys of all. | ||
| These were high commandos, people that would be in the rooms with the generals. | ||
| Right after I left, remember, they blew, they tried to blow Scotty, I think it was Scotty Miller, the guy who relieved, tried to blow him up. | ||
| They got that close to him because they're in a briefing, a briefer. | ||
| Don't tell me vetting. | ||
| I don't want to hear vetting. | ||
| It's unvettable. | ||
| It's not vettable. | ||
| That's why you have the Pineapple Express guys over there, former guys. | ||
| Heck, you got Jim Gant, the Lawrence of Afghanistan, right? | ||
| Don't know if he brought his wife from the Washington Post with him this time, but you got that crazy guy. | ||
| You got these wild men over there trying to save guys they fought, but Gant was up in the valley for 22 months, Jan knows that, up there for two, three, he was Kurtz, he was Colonel Kurtz, they had to pull him out. | ||
| He's over there, he's directing stuff from Seattle to get guys out, he knows their commanders. | ||
| Isn't it interesting that they're not on the list? | ||
| Why are they not at Dulles? | ||
| Why did the guys that fought there have to put their own money together to get airplanes or flying jets? | ||
| And people already know, and y'all know this, in Kabul, it's like a regional airport. | ||
| It's not O'Hara, it's not Kennedy. | ||
| It's a tiny regional airport in the United States. | ||
| You're coming in, you're landing. | ||
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Okay? | |
| Because there's nothing... Just wait for the Taliban to take over. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| You come in, you're landing. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You've got American former Special Forces guys, and you're going to hear the story that I think you've got Special Forces guys saying there's nothing going on here to get the good guys out. | ||
| They're getting the good guys out themselves. | ||
| The Taliban loading up the planes all day long. | ||
| And Tucker said last night, 100,000 out, 5,000 even part of the program. | ||
| That's what's coming through Dulles. | ||
| Military installations across the country. | ||
| Military installations throughout the country. | ||
| And this is going to be quite unpleasant because they're going to sit there and go, you're white supremacist, you're a nativist. | ||
| No, we're none of that. | ||
| We want to make sure And for our honored dead. | ||
| Right? | ||
| These working class Hispanics that gave their life for their country. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Last night when Mo Banda did it, the oldest person we had was 22. | ||
| Now we have a person that's 23 and a young woman got killed. | ||
| A service member, a Marine. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| The oldest person is 23 years old. | ||
| I think the average age is going to be slightly over 20. | ||
| Embrace that. | ||
| The bulk of the people killed so far were not born when the towers were hit. | ||
| And they volunteered for this. | ||
| That's why their parents are not taking anything, because they're worried of General Arbuckle. | ||
| They want to see some hedgerow, and they don't want to be Colonel Scheller. | ||
| They want to see some scenery. | ||
| When you see this footage, we'll play it later. | ||
| Those young kids, Seth Moulton's shocked. | ||
| He says they're just out there in essentially crowd control. | ||
| Fully exposed. | ||
| Don't listen to Taliban and ISIS-K. | ||
| The guy has 25 pounds of high explosives. | ||
| I think that might show on an Afghani. | ||
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Biden said there was no evidence of collusion between the two. | |
| How could that have happened? | ||
| Absolutely, because our intelligence is so on top of it. | ||
| The thing, while I got you here, General, we only got a couple minutes, I gotta ask you, post-Vietnam, we don't have time to go through the analysis of Vietnam in this, we'll do that another time, but in the post-analysis, the Democrats cut off all the money after Watergate to our allies. | ||
| It was cut and run, just like they're here, cut and run, the devil catch the high most, exactly like they're here. | ||
| Joe Biden among them. | ||
| Joe Biden among them. | ||
| And what, $25 million, the killing fields of Khmer Rouge in Southeast Asia, $20-$25 million. | ||
| General Arbuckle, your thoughts and analysis about the analogy of that and what's going to happen here, sir? | ||
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I think you're right on there, Steve. | |
| Both cases, it was a political decision to back out the wrong way, leave our allies high and dry, and the consequences are massive deaths, murder, torture, all the bad things that have begun there in Afghanistan right now. | ||
| And this is going to escalate rapidly in the future, as you know, and I know. | ||
| It's absolutely terrible. | ||
| It's all politically driven. | ||
| General, just the timing, the letter, and this letter is brutal. | ||
| We want to make sure we're getting it up on the live chat so people can see it. | ||
| You're organizing it now over the weekend. | ||
| You anticipate this is going to be out, is going to be signed and out by Monday, I take it? | ||
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Yes, it's not released publicly yet. | |
| We plan to do a press release on Monday with whatever signatures we have at that time. | ||
| Currently we have about 75. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| So we'll hold it back then until that time. | ||
| I do want to say that we've got a lot of guys that are in country right now or in the region that we're going to have on here. | ||
| A lot of those guys have to punch because they've got a couple, three things to do. | ||
| So we're going to have to reorganize the show, which is fantastic. | ||
| We had a couple of guys, Frank Amosco, And Frank Wuko, who's a former DHS guy under President Trump, and also Chad Robodeaux. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| He's over in the region. | ||
| These guys are working non-stop. | ||
| People are not sleeping right now because this is absolutely an emergency. | ||
| General Arbaugh, I want to thank you very much. | ||
| We'll have you back on. | ||
| You attend a press release on Monday with the signatures. | ||
| No, I don't, Steve. | ||
| I'm too far removed. | ||
| and you're asking for the basic resignation of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general milley and the chairman of the uh... sector sector of general also i think it you know both these individuals general oracle you know i don't see them to forward for twenty one years We had General Flynn was on yesterday, who knew both of them well. | ||
| Baldick and Flynn knew them both well. | ||
| They're actually shocked. | ||
| I mean, Flynn is speechless of the behavior. | ||
| He says he's known these guys for 30 years, right, about the behavior. | ||
| Served with them. | ||
| General Arbuckle, thank you very much. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| You've been at the tip of the spear here on the critical race theory, and now we see what the problem is. | ||
| The command structure is focused on critical race theory and wokeness, and they're not focused on actually running our military like it should be run. | ||
| There has been one guy fired. | ||
| Colonel Scheller has been relief of command. | ||
| The one guy in this, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man, is king. | ||
| He's the guy that stands up and says, hey, we have a problem here. | ||
| It's not with the warfighters. | ||
| It's not with the kids on the ground. | ||
| Their valor is beyond dispute. | ||
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| As you see these young, working-class kids out there in crowd control, essentially. | ||
| Totally unprotected. | ||
| Every officer that signed off on that should be fired if they don't have enough respect and dignity to resign. | ||
| General Arbuckle, thank you so much for joining us aboard. | ||
| We look forward to seeing you on Monday when the letter comes out. | ||
| Okay, you got Frank Gaffney, Captain Bannon. | ||
| We've got a PAX show, Jay Consola. | ||
| We're going to talk about the broader war here. | ||
| Also, Michael Young is going to stick with us. | ||
| Some more details. | ||
| I guess it's a refugee. | ||
| What we have here is an extraction of fire of American troops, but you got the refugees. | ||
| The Taliban's loading them up. | ||
| Let's load them up. | ||
| Next stop, Dulles, then Wisconsin and Texas. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| The best organized plan in the Biden administration. | ||
| One thing they're organized on? | ||
| Many refugees here in the United States, unvetted as possible. |
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