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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
Pandemic. | ||
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
Okay, it is Monday, the 30th of August, Year of Our Lord 2021. | ||
We're going to be covering the storm, Hurricane Ida, this historic storm that hit New Orleans yesterday. | ||
We're also going to be covering extraction under fire. | ||
There's been a warning just put out shortly before we came on air about a potential mass casualty event in Kabul. | ||
Potential mass casualty event in Kabul. | ||
We've been covering this, as you know, non-stop. | ||
One of the most dangerous things you can possibly do, one of the most dangerous military Evolutions you can possibly have is an extraction under fire, and that's essentially what we have here. | ||
They had rockets today. | ||
They said, I think, six attempted rocket assaults into Kabul Airport. | ||
All of those were thwarted yesterday. | ||
An airstrike by a drone to take out what they've said is a potential suicide bomber. | ||
A car bomb, it's supposed to be a massive car bomb, they took that out. | ||
They're now saying also there was collateral damage of a house with civilians, up to I think nine or ten civilians, they're claiming six children. | ||
So around Kabul Airport, and particularly when you have the Taliban, you've turned over the security perimeter to the Taliban. | ||
This is what you can expect. | ||
So these brave, heroic American troops. | ||
That are under constant pressure, constant tension to basically get out all the American citizens. | ||
Right now there's, I think, guesstimated, and you can't trust any number that the Biden administration gives you, it's guesstimated that 300, they're saying 300, I think there's many more American citizens. | ||
these are passport holders, are left behind. | ||
Many more people that served with us or helped us, commandos, interpreters, et cetera, left behind to the tender mercies of the Taliban. | ||
The only thing that was organized in this entire mess, the only thing that was organized in this entire mess was the evacuation of refugees that come here to the United States. | ||
Northern Command, you saw that press briefing on Friday. | ||
The only thing that's been organized is this entire thing on Friday. | ||
They talked about, since April, they've been planning to have the mass extraction of evacuees. | ||
Evacuation of people. | ||
And by the way, not even checking passports, just coming in. | ||
And instead of keeping in the region, we're all for taking out our allies. | ||
People that really worked with us, really helped us, that would be, you know, challenged or, you know, taken by the Taliban, should come out of Afghanistan. | ||
Not even a question. | ||
But they should stay in the region. | ||
They should stay one of the, you know, many military bases for nine trillion dollars that we spent, or I should say wasted, On these two wars over the last 20 years, you've got the military bases from Iraq to Qatar to UAE, Egypt, you've got places everywhere, right? | ||
You've got more than enough bases, more than enough places to house people. | ||
You just have to house them there. | ||
They're talking about, the left-wing media now is trying to make this like the Berlin Airlift or like some tremendous thing that was accomplished, some tremendous thing that was done. | ||
This is a debacle. | ||
The only thing that was organized was the evacuee evacuation of these refugees and they should not come to the United States. | ||
Here's the reason. Remember the whole purpose of working with us to make sure they had a stable democracy in Afghanistan and had beaten the Taliban. | ||
If you're with us, then you're going to do that one day. | ||
You have to stay in the region. | ||
You're going home. Remember, we can't set the precedent that working with the United States gets you a golden lottery ticket to come to Wisconsin, to come to Kansas, to come to Texas. | ||
It can't work like that. | ||
If it is, then you're just draining out the best and the brightest out of their countries, and these countries will all collapse. | ||
So there's a lot to go through today. | ||
We're going to talk about The evolution yesterday up at Dover, right? | ||
We're going to go through that. | ||
The honored dead returned home. | ||
We're going to talk about that. | ||
It's not a ceremony. | ||
It was an event that took place, or in the military they call it an evolution. | ||
It was an evolution that took place. | ||
The dignified transfer of the remains of our 13 honored dead, 11 Marines. | ||
One Navy Corpsman and, of course, a member of the United States Army. | ||
Also, we're going to go into detail, and I've got Eric Prince as soon as I know. | ||
Eric's actually in the region. | ||
He's trying to call in by phone. | ||
I'll know here momentarily whether we have him or not. | ||
We're also going to have Boris Epstein on. | ||
Boris has been going after the guys at Perkins Coie and Mark Elias and really laying blame for this entire debacle on the people that got Joe Biden here. | ||
Remember, here's the thing to keep in mind. | ||
Elections have consequences. | ||
Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences and you're seeing the catastrophic consequences of this election take place right now as you have a complete debacle going on. | ||
Also, the only person, the only person in the chain of command, there has been one officer in the chain of command There has been one in this entire fiasco, the giving up of Bagram, the working with the Taliban, the giving up the whole collapse of the government, which they never forecasted, the great intelligence services and Biden and all these geniuses working with him, the whole collapse of the army that we put $800 billion into and the security forces. | ||
The whole collapse of everything, the government running for their lives, taking $169 million in cash, as reported by The Guardian, taking $160 million in cash and getting out of the country, right? | ||
Letting the whole thing collapse, right? | ||
There has been, by the way, and allowing the Taliban to have the perimeter, to guard the perimeter, there has been one officer that has been relieved for cause. | ||
That is Lieutenant Colonel Stu Scheller that we had on Friday at 10 o'clock to open the show. | ||
On Friday, we played Colonel Scheller's LinkedIn video. | ||
He put a video up on LinkedIn. | ||
He was relieved for cause at 1430 in the afternoon. | ||
At 1430, he was relieved for cause by the United States Marine Corps, right? | ||
And now, Office of Naval Intelligence last night sent out a memo to everybody threatening Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, UCMJ. | ||
They threatened that if you criticize the President or people in the chain of command, you know, you can have your retirement taken away, you can be brought up in court martial charges. | ||
Trying to intimidate, directly trying to intimidate officer active duty officers and senior enlisted and also it kind of implied retirees that veterans couldn't do this that I've never seen anything like it in my entire life. | ||
Then today an email went out to the guys over Politico that reported it saying from the from the Corps saying that they had come in oh by the way Lieutenant Colonel Scheller did resign from the Marine Corps he quit just quit yesterday afternoon Email comes out today, or early this morning, I think from the Corps, saying, oh, we're protecting Colonel Scheller and we're taking care of him, implying he's got, like, a mental issue. | ||
Implying that he's disturbed, he's got PTSD. | ||
Hey, that officer I saw in that video didn't have a problem. | ||
He laid it out. | ||
He said he was prepared. | ||
He knew exactly what he was doing. | ||
He says, I'll probably be fired with this, I am prepared to walk away from it all. | ||
Had 18 years of military service, prepared to walk away from it all. | ||
So that we can call out people in the chain of command that should be held accountable for this. | ||
Pretty straightforward. | ||
Now they're saying, like the old Soviet Union, the Soviet Union used to have a, they had a hospital. | ||
And this hospital was for anybody in society, particularly people either in the apparatus of the military. | ||
That called out, that called out the problems, the rot in the apparatus. | ||
They were immediately deemed to be mentally, you know, they'd gone crazy, they'd gone insane, they'd had nervous breakdowns. | ||
And they were taken to this hospital, and of course drugged up, you know, if you ever heard about them again, they had the party line because they drugged them up and rolled them back out, or you just never heard of them again. | ||
They disappeared, like in China. | ||
They disappear you. | ||
This is what they're trying to do to Colonel Scheller. | ||
Colonel Scheller is not going to be disappeared, okay? | ||
He's as rational... Remember, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, right? | ||
And he's, in the fog of war, with startling clarity, with startling clarity, he laid out exactly what was the problem. | ||
Do I have the Seth Moulton sequence? | ||
Is that all set to go? | ||
Okay, is that... Okay, we're trying to get this organized. | ||
We had this yesterday, and we're going to play... | ||
We're going to play a sequence. | ||
We're going to play a sequence that shows you exactly everything that went on. | ||
I want to make sure that people understand. | ||
Our honored dead came back to Dover yesterday, and you see the big crocodile tears from Biden and this crowd. | ||
You see big crocodile tears for them. | ||
I want to play you exactly what went on. | ||
We're going to play, and when we get it together, we're going to play a segment from Seth Moulton. | ||
Who is a progressive left Democrat from Massachusetts, guy in Congress. | ||
However, before he was there, he was a lieutenant, led an infantry platoon in the Battle of Najaf, one of the toughest battles we had in Iraq in the early years, I think in 2004. | ||
The one that they went house for house for several weeks, had an AC-130 gunship up above them for cover. | ||
These Marines went Went house to house to house for weeks and weeks and weeks, and they were going to assault a mosque, and then they had to get Iraqi commandos and train those. | ||
They went, they dug in, and Moulton's one of the key. | ||
At the very last second, the Bush administration called it off. | ||
They cut a deal with the guys in the mosque, right? | ||
They cut it. | ||
Instead of destroying the guys in the mosque and killing the bad guys, the Bush guys blinked because the media was all over them. | ||
But Seth Moulton was a hero, took his platoon house by house by house. | ||
Seth Moulton got on a plane. | ||
Now, maybe he shouldn't have gotten on a plane. | ||
A lot of controversy about that. | ||
MTG was in here last week criticizing him and the Republican that went. | ||
But he came back to tell a tale that nobody's told yet. | ||
And what he did is he laid out. | ||
He says, hey, I went there and I know about securing perimeters. | ||
I thought the Marines were on one side of the of the gate and that the on the other side was a Taliban. | ||
He says, no, the Marines happen to be out in the crowd doing crowd control. | ||
The Marines happen to be out in the crowd doing crowd control. | ||
Okay? | ||
Then we had the General. | ||
We had General McKenzie on his briefing, on the briefing of the day that the Marines lost their lives. | ||
He came in and he makes this comment. | ||
He says, in this war, you're right up on them. | ||
And the way you do these, the security perimeter, you're right up on them. | ||
You're right up on them. | ||
You can feel their breath. | ||
Okay? | ||
And then they had Anderson Cooper. | ||
They had Anderson Cooper come on with the woman from From, I think she's Irish, comes on from PBS, been covering the Afghan war for 10 years. | ||
She's got the most incredible footage of what the Marines were actually doing. | ||
And of course, this is all left-wing media. | ||
This is not War Room, or this is not the John Fredericks Radio Show. | ||
This is not Dr. Gina Loudon, right? | ||
No. | ||
This is the, and by the way, when you see it, you go, exactly what happened? | ||
And this is what Colonel Scheller saw, and this is what the Marines know. | ||
People have to be held accountable for why those young Marines were put in that situation. | ||
Right? | ||
These are young Marines who most of them were either not born or just born at 9-11. | ||
They all volunteered. | ||
Right? | ||
After all this fiasco, all this debacle, all this lack of leadership, all this drift in our country, They enlisted during President Trump's presidency, I might add. | ||
They enlisted to be Marines, okay? | ||
We've got Eric Prince. | ||
How far away do we have from my package? | ||
I need to know this. | ||
Okay, fine. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Eric, I want to bring you in first. | ||
I want to play that sequence when we get it, Eric. | ||
We'll have it over the break. | ||
But first, I want you to just give your strategic assessment. | ||
I know you're in the region. | ||
You're spending all your time trying to get people out. | ||
We're not here to criticize, you know, I'm not here to moan about the chain of command because I know that's a problem. | ||
But give us your strategic assessment. | ||
They're warning about a mass casualty event as these guys retrograde out. | ||
What's your assessment right now? | ||
Where are we standing in Kabul? | ||
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I will breathe easier when the final plane carrying American soldiers leaves. | |
The gates are effectively shut so there's no other Americans Or at-risk Afghans being allowed out. | ||
There was one flight that flew out of Mazar Sharif this morning after extensive Taliban inspection of all the people. | ||
And so I saw a quote yesterday written by a Canadian, and he described the horrific self-immolation of American credibility. | ||
And that was the best thing I've seen. | ||
That talks about what a self-inflicted wound to our credibility, to our standing in the world amongst our allies, and an abandonment of kind of everything that I thought were American principles, even to the point now of hindrance and maligning of private efforts to rescue Afghan Christians, Afghan women, Afghan minorities, people that are at severe risk. | ||
To these jihad-embracing enemies of freedom. | ||
And I cannot stomach to hear the Biden administration talk about how much they love minorities and female rights and all the rest when they're walking away and abandoning so many people that just don't want to live under domination like that. | ||
Okay, Eric, can you hang on? | ||
I know you're calling in from the region. | ||
We're gonna take a short commercial break. | ||
We're gonna turn with Eric Prince. | ||
By the way, Eric's mentioning Lord Conrad Black, one of the most brilliant thinkers in the world, wrote a piece yesterday. | ||
Really, and he was a never-Trumper, right? | ||
He was kind of a never-Trumper. | ||
I shouldn't say never-Trumper. | ||
Let's say he was never-Trumper-adjacent for a while. | ||
But he wrote a piece about everybody understands that the world would be a better place if Trump was president right now, today. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
We're going to turn with Eric Prince in a moment. | ||
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It is worth something I never thought. | |
We've given them to literally sift through a sea of humanity. | ||
Thousands and thousands of Afghans to try to pluck out our allies, our friends, and their families. | ||
Their husbands, their wives, their little girls and boys, and put their kids on their back and hold their hands and literally, literally pull them to freedom. | ||
So I expected to see a gate with Marines on one side and Afghans on the other, but that's not the way this can work. | ||
Because we waited so long to start this evacuation, we have to go out in the crowd. | ||
So these Marines were out there, feet from the Taliban with their horse whips, at tremendous risk. | ||
Literally saving lives. | ||
But these Marines who grew up knowing that the Taliban harbored the people who attacked us on 9-11, we're now asked to work with these terrorists. | ||
But we have to to save lives. | ||
And one of the most important things we learned by being there on the ground is that that crazy relationship with the Taliban is actually going to be really important going forward. | ||
Politico is shedding light on that, quote, crazy relationship with the Taliban, reporting this, quote, U.S. | ||
officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders, and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city's airport, a choice that's prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials. | ||
They want to reclaim the airfield. | ||
We want to get out by that day, too, if it's going to be possible to do so. | ||
So we share a common purpose. | ||
As long as we've kept that common purpose aligned, they've been useful to work with. | ||
We thought this would happen sooner or later. | ||
It's tragic that it happened today. | ||
It's tragic there was this much loss of life. | ||
We are prepared to continue the mission. | ||
Earlier, we told you about one of the Marines who was killed in Thursday's suicide bombing outside the airport in Kabul. | ||
20-year-old Lance Corporal Riley McCollum was a dedicated Marine, according to his sister, a father, with a baby due in just three weeks. | ||
I want to show you now video similar to some we showed you last night. | ||
It's roughly near where that blast occurred. | ||
It was taken before, obviously, the blast in days before, to show you the kind of mission that Lance Corporal Riley McCollum and other U.S. | ||
service members are engaged on, the difficulty of it, the close quarters. | ||
This comes from PBS news hour correspondent Jane Ferguson. | ||
She recorded it days before the attack. | ||
She says it's the entrance point to Abbey gate, a international airport and that the detonation occurred a few feet behind from where this video was recorded. | ||
She says Taliban are in the front trying to sort through the crowd. | ||
U.S. also has troops there, totally exposed, obviously risking their lives for this mission and very little separating them and Afghans from potential terrorists. | ||
Jane Ferguson, the PBS NewsHour correspondent who shot that footage, joins us tonight. | ||
Also with us is retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmett, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs. | ||
Jane, I appreciate you being with us. | ||
The video that you took, I mean, it's so important to see this. | ||
It really gives you a sense of just the close quarters, the sheer number of people, and the lack of any real safety for U.S. | ||
troops there. | ||
Can you just explain, I mean, was there actual screening being done by the Taliban? | ||
Because I can't imagine that folks who are walking around with, you know, pieces of pipe to beat people with are necessarily great at screening people. | ||
Anderson, it wasn't really a screening or any kind of security screening by the Taliban. | ||
What we really were watching was crowd control and a deeply crass, violent kind of crowd control, where, as you say, they were beating people with sticks. | ||
They were firing guns in the air very, very often whenever the crowds would get too intense and too panicked and pushed towards them. | ||
But really, in all my years of covering the conflict in Afghanistan, I've never seen anything like it. | ||
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forces just standing essentially in the street, surrounded by civilians. | ||
And, of course, with the Taliban just down the street, supposedly controlling the flow of those civilians. | ||
They were hugely exposed. | ||
It's worth pointing out that it would have been impossible to screen these people. | ||
This was a mass crush of panicked civilians. I mean at this point people were just trying to keep them alive. It was incredibly hot. It's August in Afghanistan and you saw people fainting every day. Seven people last weekend died in the crushes. | ||
I want to go ahead and cut it because I got Eric Prince. | ||
Okay that sequence, by the way we didn't have time to put the General McKenzie clip in there. | ||
We says, hey, and we'll get it in later because we're going to tighten this thing up, that you're right up on them, you can feel their breath as you pat them down. | ||
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This sequence, and I want to make sure people understand, no one's put it together like this, but it's not about that. | ||
It's that they won't show these clips again. | ||
That played on Anderson Cooper on Friday night has not replayed one time as we've monitored on CNN. | ||
That's the most damning footage of all. | ||
The war correspondent, Jane Ferguson from PBS, who's covered Afghanistan for years, you can tell she's in shock. | ||
She goes, they were just, the Marines were just there standing in the street. | ||
They're not guarding a gate. | ||
Remember, this is the place where the kids, the people last week being, by the way, crowd controlled by the, Seth Moulton and Jane Ferguson said, crowd controlled by the Taliban. | ||
Horse whips, sticks, and pipes beating you. | ||
And it's 110 degrees, you're jammed in there, and you realize your life's gonna be over. | ||
This is the same place they were handing the children last week. | ||
Make sure that you understand that. | ||
That the ISIS and these guys understand symbolism. | ||
They understand optics. | ||
They understand information warfare and propaganda. | ||
Where those babies were being handed over is where they blew it up. | ||
And nobody in the chain of command, they put those young, let's call them kids, the bravery of these kids, unbelievable. | ||
This is not about them. | ||
Their valor and their bravery is unquestioned, and their dedication, not just to country, but to humanity, right? | ||
Humanity. | ||
That's the best that America has to offer right there, thrown away. | ||
Let's be blunt about it. | ||
Eric Prince, you've done a lot of security things. | ||
You turned over the perimeter to the Taliban, and then you saw the sequence right there from Seth Moulton all the way through. | ||
Give me your assessment as a guy that manages this, leads this for a living, sir. | ||
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Well, look, they were so far behind the power curve, it's yet another chink in the armor of really bad moves. | |
I mean, when the people of Kabul first overran the airport, right after the city fell, Probably half. | ||
I mean, in the many, many thousands of people just stayed inside the airport, and those people were evacuated to the United States on C-17s without any vetting, without any necessary correlation to having helped or served America. | ||
So who knows who those people really are? | ||
You know, a much better method, and it's easy to hindsight, but to make everyone go to the soccer stadium, for example, and at least have a vetting process of some sort But again, State Department people greatly withdrew. | ||
The Secretary of State was on the Hamptons vacationing on the day Kabul fell. | ||
So there clearly was not a lot of focus and not a lot of people paying attention to prepare for this onslaught. | ||
Again, they believed their own nonsense that Kabul was going to hold out for months and And like I said, already back in in early spring, this thing will be done before Labor Day. | ||
I got to ask you about you just said that the and by the way, there may be a little blowback here because Eric's out of the country. | ||
You just said the people were maligning efforts. | ||
You got this Pineapple Express, which are former special forces and other people that are doing their own independent stuff. | ||
There are people all around are doing their own independent stuff, whether they're Christians, whether that's people they fought with in the war. | ||
You said that the State Department is maligning or the administration is maligning. | ||
What did you mean by that? | ||
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They're telling the governments in the area to not cooperate with these private organizations. | |
It's just crazy. | ||
It's the opposite of Dunkirk. | ||
It would be like the First Lord of the Admiralty of Britain when Dunkirk was actually happening, telling people they couldn't go to sea because they didn't have a current inspection on their boat. | ||
It's wrong. | ||
It is the opposite of whatever has made America great, that Americans do rise to the occasion and they fill in when government can't get it done. | ||
In this case, I think the administration is kind of trying to cover their Cover their tracks and just to put it out of people's minds. | ||
Hold it. | ||
Let me make sure I understand this. | ||
You're saying that our State Department, the Biden administration, is in contact with the governments in the region all around Afghanistan where people trying to get flights into to get people out. | ||
They're telling them not to cooperate with the individuals pulling people out. | ||
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Correct. | |
Tell me how that works. | ||
You're telling me that when people are like, I don't know, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, UAE, let's pick it. | ||
You pick anyone you've got. | ||
Our State Department has actually made formal contact with this government saying, don't give these guys air clearances, don't let them come into the country? | ||
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Instead of tailwinds, there's a lot of headwinds. | |
And there's a lot of people that are on the ground in Kabul. | ||
These private organizations have not gotten the cooperation, have basically said, pack up, go home. | ||
and and and stop doing this on your own or do you think the command to you that they're going to put the oj after the the after after these people is it didn't have a justification for this is there is there some logic or at least some logic that they're arguing about this about why they're doing that uh... i have yet to see any logic in any of this entire debacle how is that if the hadn't been impacting | ||
these individual efforts to get people out of the country and get them to these Because they ain't bringing them back to the United States, they're taking them into these local areas. | ||
What is the impact of that? | ||
People are not going to be extracted? | ||
That either Christians or people that work with people as commandos or interpreters or their families are not going to get out because of this? | ||
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I would say there's... | |
There is a reduction in U.S. | ||
government cooperation on these efforts, not an increase. | ||
And that is very troubling. | ||
That doesn't mean that a lot of these people still aren't going to be evacuated, or at least a damn hard attempt made to do so. | ||
Eric, I know you've got to bounce. | ||
We've got about 30 seconds. | ||
People have been arguing, is this malevolence of this government or incompetence? | ||
Is it incompetence or malevolence? | ||
You pick it. | ||
Which one? | ||
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I think that they all reinforce each other's paradigm and they never really, I mean, this government, this administration talks all about diversity, but they didn't have diversity of thought over the last, for the duration of it. | |
No, no one, no corporal that smelled cordite sitting around those tables. | ||
It was all the Ivy League, um, uh, tapered supposedly executives, uh, experts that supposedly knew what they were doing. | ||
And clearly, Uh, they did not know anything what they were doing, and so no diversity of thought. | ||
Groupthink got us to this point. | ||
And now the question is, is there going to be accountability for failed leadership up and down the chain, or not? | ||
About this president's relationship with grief, of course, the grief he's experienced himself, having lost two children, a wife, in tragic circumstances. | ||
The role he's played as Consular-in-Chief, so often sharing that empathy that he's built over the course of years himself. | ||
This on display yesterday, but in a very different way, Willie. | ||
This is really the first time he is doing this as a result of decisions he's made as President of the United States, and this is a burden White House officials are telling me he's feeling very significantly at this moment. | ||
You could see him yesterday watching every one of those transfer cases from the moment they stepped off the plane to the moment they were put in those vehicles and Really bowing his head in prayer each time. | ||
You think of the moment just a few days ago when he spoke to the country, and at one point after bowing his head for a moment of silence, he grasped what looked like a bracelet around his arm. | ||
That was actually parts of the rosary that belonged to his son Beau, of course, a member of the Delaware National Guard who served in Iraq. | ||
The president obviously didn't lose his son in war, but he believes His son's cancer, in part, was a consequence of his time in war. | ||
The burn pits that he was near during his time there. | ||
And so a very difficult day for the president over a course of a series of difficult days that very well could define his presidency, Willie. | ||
I played the clip, rechecked his watch. | ||
Okay, you're in the war room. | ||
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Actually, we're going to have a workshop after the War Room today. | |
It's called Clip Management. | ||
Details of that to come. | ||
Okay, so this is how the left wing is trying to spin this. | ||
Biden and his entourage, the Biden regime was there. | ||
If we can pull that up just as a still, just them standing there and just the whole entourage. | ||
We have, I don't know, 30 people in his entourage of his leadership of his regime standing there on the tarmac at Dover, awaiting for the beginning of the dignified transfer of the remains of these of our honored dead. | ||
They're all vaccinated. | ||
Everyone is vaccinated. | ||
And they're on an open tarmac in a windy day. | ||
You can see the hair blowing. | ||
You can see the suits are blowing. | ||
It's a, you know, it's a, it's a, as a naval officer, you say it's a freshening breeze, right? | ||
It's, it's windy. | ||
So it's windy. | ||
They're fully vaccinated. | ||
And they're kind of quasi socially distance a little bit, not totally, but quasi socially distance on an open tarmac. | ||
And what do they have? | ||
They got a mask up. | ||
They have to mask up. | ||
Fully vaccinated, on a windy tarmac, open air, quasi-socially distanced, but we gotta have the mask. | ||
Because we want to show the world that we're, um, we want a virtue signal. | ||
They couldn't show the honored dead their faces. | ||
For a few minutes, and trust me, I'll get any epidemiologist, I'll get anybody in the world on here and convince me you could pass COVID, the CCP virus, to each other. | ||
Fully vaccinated. | ||
You're fully vaccinated. | ||
Fully vaccinated. | ||
Right? | ||
You are socially distanced. | ||
You're on a tarmac in the open, and it's windy. | ||
I want somebody to tell me what the point zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, one percent chance that you could pass the CCP virus. | ||
And with that, you don't take the mask off so that the honored dead can go by and down from heaven they can see your faces. | ||
Who consigned him there? | ||
Let's be blunt. | ||
I know it's harsh. | ||
I'm sorry it's harsh. | ||
But that's reality. | ||
You want me to go back and play the Anderson Cooper clip again? | ||
You want me to go back and play the General McKenzie clip again? | ||
You want me to go back and play the Seth Moulton clip again? | ||
You want me to get a Colonel Scheller's piece and show you a combat leader who called them all out? | ||
One person in this debacle, one, has been relieved for cause. | ||
One. | ||
Lieutenant Colonel Stu Scheller. | ||
Why? | ||
He said, hey, as a combat marine leader, people have to be held accountable. | ||
Oh, but he's fired, and let's put in an email. | ||
We're protecting him and his family. | ||
We're protecting him and his family. | ||
And no, he might have some mental issues. | ||
We're protecting him and his family. | ||
Note to the Corps, Colonel Scheller does not need protection, okay? | ||
He's fine. | ||
He's fine. | ||
You got the problem. | ||
And the problem is right there in Dover yesterday. | ||
Right? | ||
Two of the families didn't even want to participate. | ||
And, of course, this thing says, oh, it's such a grieving thing. | ||
No, they didn't want to participate because they didn't want that regime up there doing it with the mask. | ||
I want an epidemiologist. | ||
I want to pick it. | ||
You know, Tony, have Tony Fauci run the numbers. | ||
Tell me. | ||
me. Point zero zero zero zero zero one percent chance on an open tarmac on a windy day when you're fully vaccinated and you do not have the respect for the honored dead to take the mask off. | ||
This is not managed to climb by the elites anymore. | ||
This is an implosion of our elites in the Uniparty. | ||
This is an implosion. | ||
That's what won. | ||
That's what got us through Valley Forge. | ||
That's what held the angle at Gettysburg. | ||
Right? | ||
That's at Peleliu and Tarawa. | ||
That's the 8th Air Corps over Europe? | ||
That? | ||
You don't think we have rot? | ||
Scheller told you, you don't think we have rot at the core of these institutions today? | ||
It's more than just leadership. | ||
The CRT thing showed you. | ||
Colonel Lohmeyer showed you. | ||
This is rot. | ||
Rot. | ||
It's all sitting up there. | ||
And Joe Biden. | ||
And they're trying to, now they're trying to spin it. | ||
First off, this is the Berlin Airlift. | ||
This has been the Berlin Airlift, right? | ||
You heard, right there, Eric Prince. | ||
They're calling other nations around there when people are trying to get out people that serve. | ||
Remember, the veterans over there are not taking random folks off the street. | ||
They're taking people that saved their lives when they were there. | ||
The Christian people are not taking random guys off the streets. | ||
And I'm not saying come here to the United States. | ||
I'm adamant about that. | ||
You can't do that. | ||
But to get in these foreign countries, where Eric Prince is reporting, they're calling the countries and telling them, don't cooperate. | ||
They're calling the guys in that tarmac. | ||
The guys in that tarmac are calling people, the people who report them are calling people to say, don't work with the Christian groups, don't work with the former veterans, don't work with the special operators, don't work with everybody who came back from retirement, put their own money, got planes, did all of it, are going in harm's way to pull people out, don't do that. | ||
Yet, what we're going to do is send our young men and women The best we have, the very best we have, the very best we have. | ||
We're going to play later. | ||
I didn't want to do it for the honored dead, but we'll play later. | ||
The TikTok thing of the school teacher in Costa Mesa, right? | ||
The flag intimidates her. | ||
She hates the American flag, right? | ||
And the guy, when this was all going on, when Kabul was falling, when all that, Jen Psaki's got the guy flitting around the executive office building in the West Wing, right? | ||
The guy with the long fingernails will play all that. | ||
You've got to embrace that. | ||
I want you to embrace it. | ||
Right? | ||
I want America to see exactly what they were doing and what they think and what their values are compared to the young men and women that they put in harm's way. | ||
That they put in harm's way. | ||
Yes, I know what they volunteered for. | ||
But you have to have responsibility. | ||
Listen to Scheller. | ||
I want to repeat. | ||
There has been one person relieved for cause in this entire debacle. | ||
One person relieved for cause. | ||
Lieutenant Colonel Shelley. | ||
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. | ||
And trust me right now, in the command structure, he's king until somebody else steps up and takes some responsibility. | ||
And this is only one-tenth of the horror stories I could tell you. | ||
Inundated all night. | ||
People around here are not getting any sleep. | ||
It's one of the reasons we have a little issue with clip management this morning. | ||
People are not getting sleep. | ||
And that's just not us. | ||
I'm not saying we're not doing anything compared to the people over there doing things and the people we know and have contacts that have everything. | ||
Remember, this show was on Friday or Thursday when at 1030 we reported the four Marines were killed. | ||
When the White House and the mainstream media didn't do it to one o'clock in the afternoon and the White House and Pentagon didn't do it to four o'clock until they were forced to. | ||
Why? | ||
Because of the context of those people in there doing these types of things. | ||
Both contractors and people on the ground, right? | ||
And service members and intelligence services telling exactly what's going on. | ||
You only know one one-hundredth of what's happening. | ||
And it is a debacle on every level, including the humiliation of our great nation. | ||
The humiliation. | ||
And we've created, guess what we've created? | ||
I want you to embrace this. | ||
You must embrace this. | ||
Of those young, of the honored dead that came back. | ||
There's been 10,000 that came back before him. | ||
10,000. | ||
Embrace that. | ||
What was it, Johnny? | ||
What was the guy, the CIA operative, the first guy that got killed? | ||
Remember in the paramilitary thing, right? | ||
First guy killed. | ||
Remember that guy at the prison? | ||
The first guy killed. | ||
And they had a service member about a week later. | ||
Here's what you've done, here's what we've done, here's what the elites, your betters, the people that, like Eric Prince said, the guys from the think tanks, the people that know so much more, that are so better than you, because you're part of the Trump movement, you're part of America First, you're part of MAGA, you're deplorable, you're a deplorable, okay? | ||
Happens to be your sons and daughters over there, but you don't know anything. | ||
Here's what we've done. | ||
In 20 years, with 9 trillion dollars, 9 trillion dollars, 10,000 dead, doesn't include the contractors, I think there's another couple thousand contractors, right? | ||
So let's say 10 to 15,000 dead, 50,000 wounded, PTSD an entire generation, 60, was it 60 veterans a day committing suicide, right? | ||
Totally on opioids, drugs, all of it. | ||
Shattered families, shattered lives. | ||
That volunteered for the defense of their country. | ||
Those kids, think about it. | ||
How many were not born or born around 9-11? | ||
You think that's patriotism? | ||
That's patriotism personified. | ||
Patriotism personified. | ||
And guess what? | ||
The magazine, the tip sheet of the party of Davos, the tip sheet, The Economist, finally dust off something in bold red. | ||
What's next for global jihad? | ||
What's next for global jihad? | ||
Because they admit what the, uh, what the, what NATO and our elites and our, uh, leadership with Biden, right? | ||
What's next for global jihad? | ||
You know what, you know what their answer is? | ||
A lot. | ||
And it's all over. | ||
It's going to be in your life. | ||
So we've created, after 20, and there's, and Biden says, I'm getting us out of the war. | ||
I'm getting us out of the war. | ||
Note to self, the war is just starting. | ||
You're not getting out of a war! | ||
You're retreating from den-bin-fu! | ||
That's what you're doing! | ||
You put him in there in harm's way, and now you're trying to extract- they're trying to extract themselves with no help from you whatsoever! | ||
I want to go back to that tarmac, where he checked his watch. | ||
He went- and then he said, let me see, here's what they're doing. | ||
You know, he's got this habit of checking his rosary beads. | ||
He's in Beau's Rosary. | ||
And that's the first time I've heard this new one. | ||
Look, his son died in tragic circumstances, died of a brain tumor, right? | ||
And just coming to his fullness as a man, no doubt tragic, a brain tumor. | ||
But he had five years of the best treatment in the world, and died after five years of treatment. | ||
Look, it's horrible. | ||
I've known people that die of brain cancer, it's horrible. | ||
But then to equate it, to try to equate it to the Bosnia thing, and that smoke pits, and that that was caused by war, and he's kind of a war casualty? | ||
That's actually worse, and that's as bad as bringing it up the other day, when he tried to compare the son that died of brain cancer in the top universities in the country, in the top brain thing, to the honored dead that you put out there in crowd control! | ||
That wasn't gate control, you threw him out in the crowd! | ||
You threw him out in the crowd! | ||
And you got the big crocodile tears on MSNBC and CNN, and you got the big cro- Don't share- Spare me the crocodile tears. | ||
Spare me. | ||
Just spare me. | ||
What- Thought- You should have thought about that before you threw them out there in that mob with the horse whips of the Talib- The crowd control of the Taliban. | ||
Horse whips, canes, and sticks. | ||
And that's MSNBC and CNN and PBS. | ||
That ain't the war room telling you that. | ||
I want you mad. | ||
I want you so mad you can't take it. | ||
Because only when you're mad are you gonna demand changes. | ||
Shella's mad. | ||
He threw away his career. | ||
Okay? | ||
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Okay, Rebecca Warren, Extraction Under Fire. | ||
I wanna go to Captain Maureen Bannett. | ||
We got a lot. | ||
We're gonna honor the dead throughout the day. | ||
Uh, and, but Maureen, before you get that, I just gotta ask you, Because I know you have a lot of junior officers that you stay in contact with in veterans groups, etc. | ||
I just got to ask you about the Biden situation at the end, checking the watch, your thoughts on that. | ||
By the way, you've looked at that many times. | ||
We've talked about that tape. | ||
Was he reaching for his rosary beads? | ||
Was there anything related to that movement of his that was related to anything of any type of prayer or reaching for rosary beads, ma'am? | ||
It was not. | ||
It was clear that he was checking his watch. | ||
I understand that he had a FEMA brief that afternoon. | ||
The briefing doesn't start until he gets there. | ||
There was nothing else he had to do but honor those 13 service members who lost their lives. | ||
So there was no reason for him to be checking his watch. | ||
It was completely disrespectful. | ||
What does that show to active duty service members and also to the veterans when you see something like that? | ||
It shows That their commander-in-chief doesn't care about them, that they risk their lives, and he does not care. | ||
It puts the morale extremely low within the active-duty military and very, very low among the veterans. | ||
You know, MSNBC, the counselor-in-chief, counselor-in-chief, you know, we've got to lean on Joe Biden, and people have got to be patted on the head by Joe Biden. | ||
What kind of fantasy is that? | ||
I haven't heard anybody say that. | ||
I've got a lot of people... | ||
Go ahead, ma'am. | ||
I was going to say, I don't know what reality they're living in because that's not, that's not him at all. | ||
You know, it's interesting you use that term. | ||
That's what Jonathan Karl said about what Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, he used that exact phrase. | ||
He says, I don't know what reality. | ||
He was talking about the spin they had about this being like the Berlin Airlift or like an air bridge Dunkirk. | ||
Jonathan Karl and Martha Raddatz yesterday, this is mainstream media, lit up Tony Blinken. | ||
And then, and then they, and Jack Taper, Taper, Tapper, Jack Tapper, Jake Tapper lit up Jake Sullivan. | ||
Based on that same phrase, I don't know what reality you're living in. | ||
And that was about the extraction. | ||
Okay, we're going to have Boris. | ||
We've got a lot to do here. | ||
But, I'm so angry about this. | ||
Because it's so fundamental to what's happening. | ||
And remember, I've argued for years about the information and the information cyber war and the economic war against the CCP on unrestricted warfare and also the Jihad. | ||
But I said if we don't watch ourselves, if we don't do this the right way, if we don't go on offense on those two wars, we're going to slide to a kinetic war. | ||
We're sliding to a kinetic war. | ||
I mean, we're in a kinetic war. | ||
We're sliding to a kinetic war. | ||
The western flank of that's going to be Pakistan, Afghanistan, China against India up there in Kashmir. | ||
The eastern flank of that is going to be the South China Sea and Taiwan. | ||
As sure as the turning of the earth, as sure as the turning of the earth, don't take Steve Bannon's word for it, Read The Economist and others. | ||
And by the way, this is the party of Davos. | ||
This has got the lightest touch. | ||
Okay? | ||
Where next for global jihad? | ||
Answer, everywhere. | ||
Okay? | ||
We're sliding to a kinetic war because there are betters. | ||
As divine providence would have it, in the irony of ironies, on Friday, the 245th anniversary of American Thermopylae in Brooklyn, with his brave Maryland regiment of militiamen, Right? | ||
held so that Washington's army could retreat from this British expeditionary force six weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We came this close to having the Continental Army decimated, end of the American Revolution, we're a British colony, right? And you'd be arguing about guys in Parliament today. | ||
What happened is that we had an extraction under fire from Brooklyn Heights across to Manhattan. | ||
Patrick K. O'Donnell's written a couple of books about that. | ||
Washington's Immortals and the Indispensables. | ||
You gotta get both of them. | ||
Patrick, you got a couple minutes. | ||
Walk us through today, the 245th anniversary today of the extraction under fire by General Washington. | ||
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Today, Steve, was the American Dunkirk. | |
The greatest evacuation in American history. | ||
This is where the Continental Army was saved by John Glover's Marblehead Men, and at this exact minute, the final boats are going across the East River and saving the Army. | ||
But this was an 11-hour ordeal, a process, where every boat that they could find in Manhattan was rounded up, and they pressed them into service with only two hours of planning or time. | ||
They told Glover and his Marblehead regiment to evacuate the entire army. | ||
The first to go around 10 p.m. | ||
the night before was the artillery and some of the horses and some of the heavy equipment and the wounded. | ||
And then they moved the rest of the army across and the final boats were going across at this hour. | ||
And what's quite amazing is the providential fog sets in at exactly the right time around dawn. | ||
And continues to screen the movement of the Army as it crosses in the hands of John Glover's boats. | ||
Really, it's an incredible story. | ||
It's a miracle. | ||
Because as you mentioned, this is a point, this is an inflection point where all could have been lost. | ||
The British had delivered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Brooklyn. | ||
Had it not been for the American Thermopylae and the Marylanders that make this epic stand that allows the Army to retreat back to their entrenchments, the next two days are crucial. | ||
Patrick, 245 years ago, to this minute is when the last boats went off. | ||
We got about two minutes, Patrick. | ||
Walk them through the reason they got off. | ||
The last man off was who? | ||
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One of the last men off was George Washington himself. | |
This is true leadership, Steve. | ||
There was chaos as dawn came up at the dock, as the boats were going out, the embarkation point. | ||
And Washington himself, His presence, his gravitas, he lifts a massive boulder over his head and says he will sink the boat in front of him to hell if the men don't restore order, and they do. | ||
This is kind of leadership at its finest. | ||
The commander-in-chief is the last man out practically, and he's directing the operation. | ||
You're going to go to your website, you've got to get the Washingtons and morals about the American Thermopylae and then the Indispensables about 245 years ago right now. | ||
This is not about, when I say DNA, this is not about racial DNA, this is about spiritual. | ||
The fighting spirit DNA of leadership. | ||
245 years ago, to this minute, Washington leaves Brooklyn Heights and saves the Continental Army. | ||
Patrick, how can people get access to your writings, your books, etc.? ? | ||
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I'm at, at Combat Historian on Gitter, and at Combat Historian on Twitter, and my website is PatrickKODonald.com. | |
The books is The Indispensables, which tells the story, and Washington's Immortals, Amazon or BarnesandNoble.com. | ||
They're right in front of the store, or you can buy them on the website. | ||
Thank you very much, brother. | ||
By the way. | ||
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Thank you. | |
The irony, 245 years ago, to the minute, an extraction under fire, how it should be done, How it should be done. |