The Charlie Kirk Show - What Did Biden Know and When Did He Know It?
Aired: 2021-08-18
Duration: 01:04:54


=== Biden's Afghan Hostage Crisis (15:04) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody.
[00:00:01]  What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it?
[00:00:04]  This is a massive hostage situation potentially on our hands that could be one of the largest political scandals in foreign policy history.
[00:00:13]  It's a mess.
[00:00:14]  It's a tragic, humiliating mess.
[00:00:16]  Our military is being run by clowns.
[00:00:19]  And we go into that.
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[00:01:08]  Afghanistan is a mess.
[00:01:09]  What did Biden know?
[00:01:10]  The scandal unfolds.
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[00:02:13]  The first thing I want to get to is this question of the Afghan, the Afghanistan debacle.
[00:02:20]  Is it incompetence or malevolence?
[00:02:23]  Now, it's easy to say that Joe Biden and his administration are clowns.
[00:02:28]  They are buffoons.
[00:02:30]  They should be nowhere near powerful positions.
[00:02:33]  They should be mid-level lawyers in some sort of corporate law firm working typical eight to five, eight to six jobs.
[00:02:41]  But instead, they're running the most powerful government in the history of the world.
[00:02:45]  It's hard to say that the Biden administration is malevolent when you see people like Jake Sullivan host a press conference and say basically nothing for 40 minutes.
[00:02:57]  Now, the regime, the Biden regime, is doubling down on their Afghan strategy.
[00:03:07]  They're saying we got everything done we needed to get done.
[00:03:10]  This was the right move.
[00:03:12]  And this is a wonderful example of leadership.
[00:03:16]  Now, Joe Biden says that the buck stopped with him while also blaming Donald Trump for the entire situation.
[00:03:26]  Now, ending the war in Afghanistan was the right move.
[00:03:30]  Collapsing the country and not being able to get out American citizens is humiliating and inexcusable and allowing the Taliban to take over in record time.
[00:03:41]  I want to read to you a bulletin that was sent out yesterday.
[00:03:46]  And this should be on every single news channel.
[00:03:52]  To American citizens, this is from the United States government.
[00:03:56]  Thank you for registering your request to be evacuated from Afghanistan.
[00:04:00]  Really?
[00:04:01]  The way people write emails sometimes is so condescending.
[00:04:04]  Thank you.
[00:04:05]  Why are you thanking them?
[00:04:06]  They might get their head chopped off.
[00:04:08]  The United States Embassy in Afghanistan has confirmed that an undefined number of U.S. government-provided flights will begin soon.
[00:04:16]  Please make your way to Hamid Karzai International Airport at this time.
[00:04:21]  Please be advised that the United States government cannot guarantee your security as you make this trip in all caps.
[00:04:30]  If you are in Afghanistan right now as an American citizen, the leaders of our country are telling you they cannot defend you.
[00:04:39]  The head of our government is saying, you're on your own.
[00:04:44]  Do your own deal.
[00:04:46]  The Biden administration yesterday, Jake Sullivan, came out and he said, look, we're working with the Taliban to try to clear safe passage.
[00:04:54]  Oh, so we're working with the people that we fought for 20 years, that we were told was the enemy, and now Jake Sullivan just has a direct line to the Taliban.
[00:05:02]  Oh, hey, by the way, can you just give free passage to our citizens?
[00:05:06]  This will turn into a hostage situation if it hasn't already.
[00:05:11]  Estimates are between anywhere between 6,000 and 10,000 American citizens, not American allies, not Afghan interpreters, American citizens are still in Kabul.
[00:05:23]  For all intents and purposes, this sounds no different than the DMV saying, oh, thanks for taking a number.
[00:05:29]  We'll get to you when we can.
[00:05:31]  The incompetency of our government is shining through.
[00:05:35]  But is it, in some way, malevolent behavior?
[00:05:40]  Is it that the government knew that this was going to happen and did nothing?
[00:05:45]  You see, the narrative from the Biden administration, as we are entering into one of the largest hostage situations in American history, potentially, more than Iran, more than anything that happened in Saigon, where if the Taliban chooses, they could take thousands of American citizens hostage and get whatever they want in return.
[00:06:07]  But the narrative from the Biden regime is that they are surprised by this.
[00:06:14]  They couldn't have seen this coming.
[00:06:17]  Well, the New York Times, who is usually state-run media for the Biden administration, said the following, quote, classified assessments by American spy agencies over the summer painted an increasingly grim picture of the prospect of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and warned of the rapid collapse of the Afghan military, even as President Biden and his advisors said publicly that was unlikely to happen as quickly according to current and former American government officials.
[00:06:47]  The intelligence warned the Afghan of the Afghan military collapse, and Biden couldn't have cared less.
[00:06:54]  In fact, he lied to us on July 8th.
[00:06:57]  He lied to us all throughout July when he did press conference.
[00:07:01]  He said, we're not going to have people airlifted off of buildings.
[00:07:06]  We're not going to have people evacuated.
[00:07:08]  Everything's going to be perfect and fine.
[00:07:11]  The Afghan military is very well armed.
[00:07:14]  Let's go to cut three.
[00:07:15]  Remember what he said?
[00:07:16]  He said, there's going to be no circumstance where you see people lifted off to the roof of the embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.
[00:07:23]  No, it's even worse than that, Joe Biden.
[00:07:25]  We have thousands and thousands and thousands of American citizens that can't come home.
[00:07:31]  And your government is saying we cannot provide for your security.
[00:07:36]  Now, these clowns that run our military, the military generals, you would think that the very basic tenant of withdrawal from a country is, hey, let's not withdraw every force we have until every American citizen has left the country.
[00:07:51]  You'd think there'd be some form of a concentric circle strategy.
[00:07:56]  I don't think you need to be George S. Patton to figure this out.
[00:07:59]  Hey, let's have a couple perimeters.
[00:08:01]  Let's draw this down slowly and methodically.
[00:08:05]  So by July 15th, all the non-military citizens can come home.
[00:08:10]  By July 25th, all the contractors can come home.
[00:08:15]  I mean, this is not overly complicated plans that need to be implemented.
[00:08:20]  Cut three, Joe Biden on July 8th, 2021.
[00:08:23]  There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.
[00:08:32]  It is not at all comfortable.
[00:08:34]  And then Joe Biden said in cut eight, the likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the country is highly unlikely.
[00:08:43]  Play cut eight.
[00:08:44]  The likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.
[00:08:51]  And now there is evidence to show that Biden ignored Mark Milley's request to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
[00:09:00]  Now, Mark Milley was probably too busy reading about white rage.
[00:09:04]  So one of his assistants probably sent the request to Joe Biden.
[00:09:08]  This will go down as one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history.
[00:09:13]  This was not a surprise.
[00:09:15]  This was not a shock.
[00:09:17]  Intelligence was telling us weeks and months ahead of time that Americans could be put into jeopardy if this was not handled properly and prudently.
[00:09:27]  If this was not handled with wisdom and common sense, the whole country could fall.
[00:09:35]  Now, put aside the argument, which is a good argument, what did we do here for the last 20 years and all the sacrifice associated?
[00:09:43]  But now we have Americans that can't leave the country.
[00:09:47]  So this would be a disaster for Biden if he got every American out of the country perfectly.
[00:09:52]  And then the Taliban took over.
[00:09:54]  That would be bad.
[00:09:57]  This is even worse because the Taliban took over and we still have Americans in what is now becoming an open-air hostage situation that was created by Joe Biden.
[00:10:12]  Joe Biden is responsible for this.
[00:10:13]  The Biden regime is currently overseeing what could be the worst foreign policy debacle in American history.
[00:10:23]  And even the media knows it.
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[00:11:24]  Joe Biden was warned to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan to kind of create a, let's say, not just a perimeter, but at least a drawdown and a withdrawal that wouldn't humiliate the entire world and possibly give over thousands of American citizens to our enemies to hold hostage against us.
[00:11:43]  Just so you know, the Iran hostage crisis was 52 Americans.
[00:11:49]  I think it was 52 Americans or so that were held hostage, and that destroyed the Carter presidency.
[00:11:55]  This is a massive political liability for the Biden regime and the Democrat regime.
[00:12:01]  John Kirby, who's also a lunatic, says that we don't know how many Americans are in Afghanistan.
[00:12:07]  Could you imagine if the Trump administration oversaw the fall of Kabul and they had someone come out and say, you know, we really don't know how many American citizens there are.
[00:12:20]  You must do your job.
[00:12:23]  If you are a plumber, your job is to fix the plumbing of the building.
[00:12:27]  If your job is a carpenter, your job is to fix the framing of a building.
[00:12:34]  The United States government and the people within the government have a very simple job.
[00:12:39]  The job is to secure the blessings of liberty, promote the general welfare, and to protect American citizens, especially overseas.
[00:12:48]  So why is it that our media is focusing so much on Afghan refugees while there are American citizens that they have a moral duty and obligation, a sworn duty and obligation to protect?
[00:13:03]  Well, according to John Kirby, not John Kerry, not Mr. Heinz Ketchup, he says we don't even know the number of Americans in Afghanistan.
[00:13:11]  Play cut 28.
[00:13:13]  Oh, today, if I can get some specifics here, how many Americans do you believe to be in Afghanistan right now?
[00:13:19]  Well, we think there are certainly thousands of Americans.
[00:13:22]  We don't have an exact count.
[00:13:24]  I would say somewhere best guess between 5,000 and 10,000 that are near Kabul.
[00:13:32]  Oh, I could do that.
[00:13:33]  You could have me go on TV.
[00:13:35]  Best guess between 5 and 10,000.
[00:13:39]  What is the role of John Kirby?
[00:13:40]  What's his job?
[00:13:42]  He's the Pentagon spokesperson.
[00:13:46]  This guy's a buffoon.
[00:13:48]  I mean, I could do that.
[00:13:49]  I mean, just pick up a random guy off the street.
[00:13:51]  How many people do you think are in Afghanistan?
[00:13:53]  I don't know, somewhere between 5 and 10,000.
[00:13:55]  Oh, thank you for being so precise.
[00:13:57]  It's terrific.
[00:13:58]  And he doesn't know how many Americans are there.
[00:14:01]  He's an ignoramus.
[00:14:03]  Oh, so do you think there might be 2,552?
[00:14:07]  Yeah, it's kind of a sliding scale.
[00:14:09]  It could be 5,000 or 10,000.
[00:14:11]  Oh, so it could be double what you think it is.
[00:14:14]  Some estimates are upwards of 20,000.
[00:14:16]  Now, that's just a general question about American, just how we do immigration.
[00:14:22]  Actually, it wouldn't be immigration.
[00:14:23]  It would be kind of processing travel and visas.
[00:14:27]  Shouldn't we have a pretty accurate number of how many Americans are in a country that we're occupying?
[00:14:33]  Wouldn't that be probably a good metric to have?
[00:14:36]  Oh, by the way, we're going to pull out of a country.
[00:14:38]  How many Americans are here and what could possibly go wrong?
[00:14:43]  John Kirby, well, we don't really know.
[00:14:45]  It could be between 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 30,000.
[00:14:49]  I'm just waiting for one of these Democrats to say the Hillary Clinton thing.
[00:14:52]  What difference does it make?
[00:14:54]  It's not like they vote Republican.
[00:14:55]  I mean, vote Democrat.
[00:14:57]  I mean, more refugees.
[00:15:00]  That's going to be their answer.

=== Weapons Falling Into Taliban Hands (11:26) ===

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[00:16:23]  Leave no man behind is a phrase you hear a lot in the military.
[00:16:31]  It's a great book that Marcus Luttrell wrote.
[00:16:35]  I think that was the name of his book or something, something of that.
[00:16:39]  It's an American tradition and something that is an American virtue, I should say, in our military, that our military never leaves a man behind.
[00:16:49]  Even if that soldier has died, they will go back and retrieve the body.
[00:16:54]  Not every military does that across the world, by the way.
[00:16:57]  They will leave people behind to try to serve the greater good.
[00:17:01]  Not the American military.
[00:17:04]  And yet, the Biden administration, the Biden regime, is what we should call them, has abandoned, betrayed your fellow countrymen that are in Afghanistan right now.
[00:17:19]  This is the number one news story in the country that is being suppressed by the activist media.
[00:17:24]  CNN has this anchor who's making a fool of herself, wearing the full Muslim garb, walking the streets.
[00:17:30]  Oh, these are such wonderful people.
[00:17:32]  I think we have that somewhere in the cut sheet.
[00:17:34]  Do we have that somewhere?
[00:17:35]  These are such peaceful people.
[00:17:36]  They're chanting death to America, but I think they mean well.
[00:17:39]  I think she got shot at the other day, or she got threatened if shot at.
[00:17:42]  She's like, we had to stand up to them and they wanted to shoot our cameraman.
[00:17:47]  It's like, yeah, well, welcome to a Taliban world.
[00:17:50]  And she's a field reporter.
[00:17:51]  We have cut 11.
[00:17:52]  Okay.
[00:17:52]  Cut 11.
[00:17:53]  CNN is hearing a group of extremists and Taliban chant death to America.
[00:17:59]  And she said, well, they seem very friendly.
[00:18:02]  Cut 11.
[00:18:04]  They're just chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.
[00:18:08]  It's utterly bizarre.
[00:18:10]  At the president.
[00:18:11]  Typical CNN.
[00:18:13]  You know, they say they seem very friendly, but they're also chanting death to America.
[00:18:20]  So the Biden administration at this moment says there are no plans to get Americans to the Afghan airport, the Afghanistan airport.
[00:18:31]  Now, I want you to understand, this is not New York where you have LaGuardia and you have Newark and you have JFK and you have White Plains and you have Teterboro.
[00:18:42]  This is not Chicago where you have Midway and you have O'Hare and you have Palwaukee.
[00:18:47]  And shout out to WABC, by the way, listening on the wonderful station.
[00:18:51]  77 on the dial in WABC, New York.
[00:18:55]  This is not LA where you have Van Nuys and you have Orange County and you have LAX.
[00:19:01]  No, instead, there are a couple airports for the entire country of Afghanistan.
[00:19:09]  So if you can't get people to those airports, they're not getting out.
[00:19:13]  Cut 29, John Kirby says there are no plans to get Americans to the Afghanistan airport.
[00:19:21]  They would have impeached and Republicans would have voted to remove if Donald Trump would have said that about fellow American citizens.
[00:19:31]  Now, this is a pattern, though.
[00:19:32]  You remember Benghazi?
[00:19:34]  The Obama regime couldn't care less that Ambassador Chris Stevens was abandoned in Benghazi.
[00:19:42]  What if I told you there are a thousand times more Americans that are abandoned right now in Kabul than were at Benghazi?
[00:19:51]  Play cut 29.
[00:19:53]  What is the plan to get these people to the airport?
[00:19:59]  First of all, from a military perspective, John, our focus is at the airport, right?
[00:20:03]  Security and stability at the airport so we can keep operations going.
[00:20:06]  If they can't get to the airport, what does it matter if you have the capabilities to get them out from the airport?
[00:20:11]  John, I understand that.
[00:20:12]  And we all understand that the security situation in Kabul is not ideal.
[00:20:16]  Oh, the security situation is not ideal.
[00:20:20]  That's your message right now to Americans that are fighting for their life, that are trying to navigate the streets of Kabul just to try to get to the airport to try to get out.
[00:20:30]  That's their message.
[00:20:30]  Well, it's not ideal.
[00:20:32]  There is a basic promise and contract between the government and the citizens.
[00:20:38]  And that contract is: we're going to protect you and we're not going to make decisions intentionally that will put you in harm's way.
[00:20:45]  That's a very basic premise of government.
[00:20:47]  Some other things would be nice, but the basic thing is we are not going to make your life more dangerous based on decisions we make.
[00:20:57]  And the Biden administration is violating that first principle of government.
[00:21:01]  And instead of a leaning in strategy where they're actually trying to fix it, Biden's like, everything's perfect.
[00:21:08]  What are you talking about?
[00:21:09]  Buck stops with me.
[00:21:11]  Fine.
[00:21:12]  If Joe Biden was a leader, which he isn't, and the Biden regime cared, he would be on the next plane to either Doha or to Jerusalem, to Tel Aviv, somewhere in the Middle East, to set up a command and control outpost to show the world that he's doing something to fix this.
[00:21:31]  Instead, he's walking at a brisk one-one-hundredth of a mile, one miles per hour with his briefcase, searching for the next mint chocolate chip ice cream cone.
[00:21:44]  And instead, Kamala is heading to Vietnam of all places.
[00:21:48]  I don't know, to go to kind of go relive the glory days of when Saigon fell or something.
[00:21:53]  Is she going to go do a reenactment?
[00:21:54]  I don't know.
[00:21:56]  So you'll have Cami in Saigon, and Joe Biden is going to Ben and Jerry's in Vermont or something.
[00:22:04]  I don't know.
[00:22:05]  Hanoi Kami.
[00:22:08]  Meanwhile, the Taliban, by the way, can we have a discussion about this?
[00:22:12]  Is it Taliban or Taliban?
[00:22:15]  See, this is where we disagree.
[00:22:17]  Connor says it's Talib Taliban.
[00:22:20]  Some people on TV say, it's Taliban.
[00:22:24]  Taliban.
[00:22:26]  Say, that's insulting.
[00:22:27]  Okay.
[00:22:28]  Taliban.
[00:22:30]  Whatever.
[00:22:30]  It's like I can never get the Kamala or Kamala stuff.
[00:22:34]  Therefore, I call her Kami.
[00:22:35]  I'm not offending anyone that way.
[00:22:37]  Obama is the one who overemphasized the Taliban or friends.
[00:22:43]  If Biden was serious about leadership, he would be on Air Force One right now to the Middle East, setting up an emergency command and control center overseeing the successful evacuation of American citizens.
[00:22:52]  Now, there are news reports showing up that Americans are now sending aid to the Taliban, unconfirmed reports to get citizens back.
[00:23:00]  So basically, just cash for terrorists.
[00:23:02]  And the Taliban or Taliban leader who stormed the Capitol after the Afghan president left with bags of cash that we propped up through our government.
[00:23:14]  This guy was released from Gitmo because he said, I'm just the shopkeeper that I want to look after my own father.
[00:23:20]  We had him in our possession.
[00:23:22]  We had him in Gitmo.
[00:23:24]  We released him so he could go stage a counter move against our own citizens.
[00:23:31]  And you have the Biden regime spokesperson, John Kirby, saying there's no plans to get Americans to the Afghanistan airport.
[00:23:39]  We don't even know how many people are there.
[00:23:40]  It's just a mess.
[00:23:41]  You're on your own.
[00:23:42]  Lord of the flies.
[00:23:43]  Defend yourself.
[00:23:43]  Mogadishu all over again.
[00:23:45]  It's not like we have an obligation to our citizens.
[00:23:47]  No, our obligation at the Biden regime is to just go bring in a bunch of Afghan citizens to our country.
[00:23:52]  Betrayal.
[00:23:54]  Pentagon cut 30 says: there's no answer on U.S. actions being taken to prevent military.
[00:23:59]  This is the one that drives me nuts.
[00:24:02]  And I have some people make excuses for this.
[00:24:04]  I say, I reject the premise.
[00:24:07]  How hard is it to destroy weapons so that the enemy doesn't take the weapons?
[00:24:12]  And they say, well, we can't take them back with us.
[00:24:14]  I'm not a logistical expert, okay?
[00:24:17]  But figure it out.
[00:24:20]  Think a little bit creatively.
[00:24:22]  We're able to do some pretty technologically impressive things in the modern era.
[00:24:28]  Blow up all the weapons, but we got to keep them there.
[00:24:31]  Why?
[00:24:32]  Well, it's bad for the environment.
[00:24:33]  That's actually an answer that someone on the internet said, well, it's bad for the environment to destroy all the weapons.
[00:24:39]  Oh, it's worse for the environment, having the Taliban or the Taliban in charge, or having a bunch of M16 blown up, M16s blown up into smithereens.
[00:24:48]  Just so you know how wasteful your government is, you go spend tens of billions of dollars for weapons we never use to go leave on the side of roads so people that hate your guts can take those weapons to go shoot at American citizens at three to Kabul.
[00:24:59]  That's your government.
[00:25:00]  Play cut 30, no answer on U.S. actions being taken to prevent military equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban.
[00:25:08]  Cut 30.
[00:25:08]  No U.S. actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban by destroying it or anything else.
[00:25:15]  I don't have the answer to that question.
[00:25:17]  Don't have the answer.
[00:25:19]  Don't have an answer.
[00:25:20]  Yeah, I mean, it's not like our job to make sure that the enemy doesn't get armed.
[00:25:23]  Now, this is something that I got to give Senator Rand Paul credit.
[00:25:26]  There's a couple things that he has really focused on.
[00:25:31]  And one of those is how we are quick to arm, but we don't ever actually trace where those arms go.
[00:25:38]  And Senator Rand Paul did a wonderful job when we had this whole push under the warmonger McCain to go give, I think it was the Syrian rebels arms.
[00:25:48]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:25:48]  It was the Syrian rebels.
[00:25:50]  And Senator Ram Paul gave this incredibly eloquent speech about how it's not a person-to-person transfer.
[00:25:57]  It's that these arms get intercepted, they get traded, and eventually your enemies end up with your weapons.
[00:26:05]  And that's exactly what happened.
[00:26:06]  We were fighting ISIS with our own weaponry.
[00:26:09]  And that's precisely what's happened in Afghanistan right now.
[00:26:12]  Where now the Taliban is stronger, more powerful, and better armed than before 9-11.
[00:26:21]  Any general that has overseen this should resign in disgrace.
[00:26:25]  Instead, they're going to get promoted to go run think tanks in Washington, D.C.

=== Stain On Biden's Record (02:00) ===

[00:26:30]  I think Britt Hume had some phenomenal comments, which is the cost politically that the Biden regime and Democrats are going to have to experience because of this.
[00:26:42]  Play Cut 32.
[00:26:43]  That it's a disaster, that it was horribly planned, it was misbegotten, the intelligence is bad, the judgment was bad, and the decision to do it like this was worst of all.
[00:26:52]  And you're hearing that from all quarters now.
[00:26:54]  And I think if people look at these images, the images will stay in people's minds.
[00:26:58]  I mean, that pathetic scene on that tarmac today with people chasing that airplane, grabbing on some falling off.
[00:27:04]  I mean, people won't forget that.
[00:27:05]  And it will be a stain on Joe Biden and his record that I think will endure.
[00:27:10]  Stain on his record that will endure.
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[00:28:25]  The very unimpressive dullard named Joy Reed decided to do a segment on me.

=== Cuban Refugees And Voter Trouble (12:31) ===

[00:28:30]  I don't even know.
[00:28:31]  We can air this in a little bit.
[00:28:32]  I do want to get to this good.
[00:28:33]  I tease this and we can get to some good news.
[00:28:35]  We can always handle Joy Reed later.
[00:28:37]  She was talking to Elon Omar about this.
[00:28:40]  She said, Charlie Kirk, radio show host, says that he doesn't want more people like you in the country.
[00:28:46]  What do you have to say about that?
[00:28:48]  Elon just kind of smiles awkwardly, quite honestly.
[00:28:51]  But it's true.
[00:28:52]  We don't want more people that are unappreciative like Elon Omar.
[00:28:55]  And no, it has nothing to do with skin color.
[00:28:58]  It has to do with culture and her ingratitude towards this wonderful country that we're in.
[00:29:03]  Elon Omar is exhibit A as to why we must have prudence and we must have practical judgment and we must be careful before bringing in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people into our country.
[00:29:18]  How popular is Joe Biden?
[00:29:20]  It's a really good question, isn't it?
[00:29:22]  Well, recent polling shows that he is tumbling.
[00:29:28]  Joe Biden's approval rating is below 50% for the first time, 49.8%, and 49.4% in the real clear politics average.
[00:29:37]  Independence that seemed tied to the Delta surge and predates the problems in Afghanistan.
[00:29:43]  And so 538 says, quote, we don't know the range in which Biden's approval will ultimately settle, but are the past two presidents or any indication it'll be a narrow one.
[00:29:51]  Now, according to Politico, his numbers are, quote, the 46th president's allies should probably stop worrying about his approval rating, just as much done as they possibly can while they still have Congress.
[00:30:02]  That's New York magazines.
[00:30:03]  I'm sorry.
[00:30:04]  And now I want to get to a story in Connecticut, which is very important, about a special election that is causing Democrats to be very nervous.
[00:30:16]  Now, special elections can be indicators, can be harbingers of things to come.
[00:30:27]  In a Connecticut Senate seat that was in Democrat hands, where Joe Biden won by double digits, a Republican won Alexis Gavanter, candidate for state Senate 36, in a solidly Democrat seat in Connecticut.
[00:30:49]  Now, this spells major trouble for Joe Biden and his regime and the Democrats.
[00:30:56]  Virginia governor's race is right around the corner.
[00:30:59]  Larry Elder's attempt to be governor of California is coming up very soon.
[00:31:03]  In fact, a new poll comes out today that says Trump would win the election if held today, as one in 10 Democrats regret their vote.
[00:31:13]  2022 is about to be a red wave, everybody.
[00:31:18]  And Democrats are running out of things that they can run on.
[00:31:20]  They're running out of issues they can complain about as they remask your children.
[00:31:25]  And Joe Biden's approval rating plunges seven points.
[00:31:28]  And it's going to go down from there as inflation starts to kick in, as economic numbers are not what they should be, as Kabul is taken over, the southern border is wide open.
[00:31:39]  What has Joe Biden done that has been meaningful or helpful to even just the Democrat voters?
[00:31:48]  And in Connecticut, a seat that was won by Biden by 25 points, a Republican won.
[00:31:59]  To illustrate the significance of the victory, this is from Breitbart.com.
[00:32:03]  The Democrat Legislative Campaign Committee told supporters that a loss in Connecticut State 36 would put all of the committee's 2018 gains in jeopardy.
[00:32:13]  It's a big deal.
[00:32:15]  This is Connecticut, one of the most liberal states in the country.
[00:32:21]  There's something happening, everybody, and we have to keep our foot on the gas.
[00:32:26]  If you go to big data polling, which is Richard Barris's, Joe Biden's approval and disapproval rating, he's at 51% disapprove, 47% approved.
[00:32:36]  They have flipped upside down in literally the course of a couple weeks.
[00:32:40]  And it's going to go down from there.
[00:32:42]  The knife is in free fall.
[00:32:43]  And if Joe Biden tries to catch it, you know what it's like to try to catch a falling knife.
[00:32:48]  So despite all of this nonsense, all the frustration, I'm here to tell you we are winning local recall elections.
[00:32:54]  School boards are getting recalled successfully.
[00:32:57]  And the momentum is growing.
[00:32:59]  We can't let up, everybody.
[00:33:01]  I want to get to this here where Cut 63, Joe Biden gets totally demolished in an Australian press as being utterly unfit to be president of the United States.
[00:33:13]  This is the Australian press.
[00:33:15]  Play Cut 63.
[00:33:17]  We now face a more unsafe world with the militant Islamist Taliban more emboldened than ever.
[00:33:23]  And there are concerns amongst many in the U.S. security establishment that the world will once again see a rise of terrorist attacks.
[00:33:30]  Can't even string a bloody sentence together.
[00:33:32]  Biden is utterly unfit to be the president of the United States.
[00:33:36]  And it blows my mind how world leaders like Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson suck up to such an intellectually bereft individual.
[00:33:44]  More honest than most of the American media.
[00:33:47]  Can't even string a bloody sentence together.
[00:33:49]  I couldn't set it better myself.
[00:33:51]  And yet Joe Biden is now saying he stands with his decision.
[00:33:54]  He planned for every contingency.
[00:33:57]  While there are anywhere between 5,000 to 10,000 Americans right now that are pleading for help and our own government released a press release to them.
[00:34:06]  Thank you for registering.
[00:34:08]  We cannot ensure your safety.
[00:34:10]  That's why you're there.
[00:34:12]  That's why the U.S. government exists to ensure their safety.
[00:34:16]  Play Cut 64, Joe Biden saying he planned for every contingency.
[00:34:22]  Play Cut 64.
[00:34:23]  I stand squarely behind my decision.
[00:34:27]  After 20 years, I've learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.
[00:34:37]  That's why we're still there.
[00:34:39]  We were clear-eyed about the risks.
[00:34:42]  We planned for every contingency.
[00:34:44]  Plan for every contingency as there are tens of thousands.
[00:34:47]  There are over 5,000 to 10,000 Americans, maybe even more.
[00:34:50]  Some say 30,000 Americans.
[00:34:51]  How we don't know is unacceptable.
[00:34:53]  That is the job of the State Department of the United States to know where Americans are when they travel abroad, especially into combat theaters, and even more so when you do a withdrawal of troops.
[00:35:03]  Probably pretty important.
[00:35:05]  I want to go to this cut here, and we've talked about how this has all been a strategy to try and increase the amount of refugees that are coming to America.
[00:35:14]  Now, the example that I used, and I will stand by this example, is that America does not need more people like Elon Omar that are ingrates, that are in leadership on committees overseeing our foreign policy, where she's never said a good thing about America, where she has a nasty tone, a bitterness towards our beautiful nation.
[00:35:40]  And she comes from war-torn Somalia, Mogadishu.
[00:35:43]  We accepted her.
[00:35:44]  She runs for Congress in a heavily Somali community, where she then becomes an insurgent against the United States as a member of Congress.
[00:35:53]  Now, Joy Reed finds this to be highly offensive, where she talks about my comments on MSNBC with Elon Omar attacking me.
[00:36:02]  And I'll stand by it.
[00:36:03]  You could attack me all you want.
[00:36:04]  You can call me a bigot or whatever.
[00:36:06]  None of that stuff is true, obviously.
[00:36:09]  What is true, though, Joy Reid is the actual bigot.
[00:36:11]  Elon Omar is the ingrate.
[00:36:13]  If we're not going to have immigration policy that prioritizes people that, I don't know, love the country, then we're all just afraid of being called names by the other side.
[00:36:21]  Play Cut 68, Joy Reed, and Elon Omar attack our program.
[00:36:25]  Play Cut 68.
[00:36:26]  Well, I was going to say there's one person I know who doesn't worry about it.
[00:36:30]  They know that being outshined is happening.
[00:36:32]  I don't remember his name.
[00:36:33]  I just think he looks like the annoying orange.
[00:36:35]  What is his name?
[00:36:37]  Charlie Kirk, who literally said that what he fears is that there'll be millions of you.
[00:36:43]  He named you by name.
[00:36:44]  If you even want to be bothered with responding to him, I want to give you that opportunity.
[00:36:50]  He needs geography classes and somebody needs to send him a globe, maybe.
[00:36:57]  Not from Afghanistan.
[00:36:59]  I'm from Somalia.
[00:37:00]  And Somali refugees are in this country.
[00:37:03]  And many of them are prospering just as I have.
[00:37:07]  And, you know, that man and others can cry about it.
[00:37:10]  But the reality is this is a country that welcomes refugees.
[00:37:14]  And they don't just welcome refugees.
[00:37:15]  They send one to Congress.
[00:37:17]  There you go.
[00:37:18]  And my advice to, what is his name, Charlie?
[00:37:21]  Cry more, dear, because we are going to be an open country just as we, the Statue of Liberty ain't going nowhere.
[00:37:28]  Yeah, we're going to be an open country.
[00:37:29]  We're going to let everyone in.
[00:37:30]  So, yes, Elon Omar, I know that you're from a war-torn Islamic country called Somalia off of the Horn of Africa in Eastern Africa.
[00:37:38]  If you actually heard what I said, your little trite response would have been unnecessary.
[00:37:45]  But your exhibit A as to why a refugee policy can destroy the country.
[00:37:50]  Elon Omar is actively participating in the vocal and intentional destruction of the country.
[00:37:57]  Her voting record, her language, the people who she associates with.
[00:38:02]  That has not made America freer.
[00:38:04]  Our refugee policy towards Somali Americans has made America a less free country.
[00:38:11]  It's made us less secure, that's for sure.
[00:38:13]  And if we're unable to talk about this because you're afraid of what the media is going to call about you, then you are living under the tyranny of political correctness.
[00:38:21]  Now, what's really interesting is that, and Connor, can you dig this up?
[00:38:26]  The Biden administration does not want to take Cuban refugees, but they're willing to take Afghan refugees.
[00:38:33]  I wonder why.
[00:38:35]  I wonder why Cuban refugees are deported and you have Mayorkas saying, do not come here.
[00:38:42]  But the Afghan refugees are given non-stop flights from Kabul.
[00:38:46]  I wonder why.
[00:38:47]  It's because the Afghans are more likely to be loyal Democrat voters.
[00:38:53]  Let's get that clip actually from Mayorkas.
[00:38:56]  Mayorkas said, allow me to be clear, if you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.
[00:39:01]  So you have Mayorkas, who is the head of the, what is he, Department of Homeland Security, saying to Cubans, you're not allowed here.
[00:39:11]  And by the way, he said that to Haitians as well.
[00:39:13]  And it's very interesting.
[00:39:14]  The Haitian community in parts of Florida is very conservative, very conservative.
[00:39:20]  So they don't like them either.
[00:39:22]  You see, everything comes back to political power.
[00:39:26]  And especially Cuban refugees are very Republican.
[00:39:30]  So people like Elon Omar, they make obedient Democrat voters.
[00:39:35]  Afghans, same thing.
[00:39:38]  But Cubans tend to be the most conservative, most Republican in the entire country.
[00:39:44]  And yet Mayorkis is a Cuban refugee who fled to America on a boat at one years old.
[00:39:51]  And he's now saying, if you come from Cuba on a boat, you're not welcome here.
[00:39:55]  Las Vegas Review Journal had a phenomenal article by Victor Jokes.
[00:40:00]  Amnesty, happy Biden won't welcome Cuban refugees.
[00:40:04]  This is the best argument, the counter response to Elon Omar and Joy Reed that say, oh, well, Charlie Kirk hates others and you don't want to accept them.
[00:40:12]  I want to be prudent.
[00:40:13]  I want to accept people into the country that have proven they will speak our language, assimilate to our culture, have a reverence for our history.
[00:40:20]  And by the way, there must be limitations on your immigration.
[00:40:23]  I think we should have a moratorium at this current moment when we have the issues that we have in our country.
[00:40:29]  And yet along the southern border, Biden says you can open up and come in as long as you're from Honduras and Nicaragua and you're from El Salvador or Mexico.
[00:40:38]  Yet if you are from Cuba, nope, it's because they don't like their politics.
[00:40:42]  From Somalia?
[00:40:43]  Sure, come on in.
[00:40:44]  Afghanistan?
[00:40:45]  Come on in.
[00:40:46]  Democrats are creating a self-righteous, allegedly morally sanctimonious immigration policy based on who's going to benefit their political regime.

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=== Why We Must Put People First (03:55) ===

[00:43:35]  The people in charge say we now have a moral obligation to take in tens of thousands of unvetted Afghans while we have so many structural problems at home.
[00:43:45]  And we know that the flow of immigration lowers wages, can be a threat to the public infrastructure, and amongst many other issues.
[00:43:54]  And yet, why is it that the Biden regime overrunning schools, virus transmission, all sorts of things?
[00:44:00]  Yet, why is it the Biden regime says we must take in a bunch of people from here, but we don't want them from here?
[00:44:06]  Well, Maorkis, remember when he said to Cubans, do not try to come to the United States by sea.
[00:44:12]  You will not be welcome here.
[00:44:14]  Oh, so if you illegally cross from Honduras into our border or Mexico, you're welcome.
[00:44:21]  But if you come by sea and you're a Cuban, which therefore means you're going to be a more Republican voter, because the Cuban community in Florida is one of the most loyal Republican voting communities in the country, we don't want you here.
[00:44:33]  Do you see what's going on here?
[00:44:34]  We are going to be lectured for the next couple of weeks about how we need to go bring in hundreds of thousands of Afghans.
[00:44:42]  They already have 80,000 identified.
[00:44:45]  And yet this administration did not lift a finger to help the freedom fighters in Havana or at least offer them asylum to come to our country.
[00:44:54]  Why?
[00:44:54]  Because Majorkis is under very strict orders from the leaders of the Democrat regime that it's going to mess up their ability to try to win back Florida.
[00:45:07]  Play Cut 69.
[00:45:08]  The time is never right to attempt migration by sea.
[00:45:13]  To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking.
[00:45:19]  Allow me to be clear.
[00:45:22]  If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.
[00:45:28]  If you take to the sea, you will not be heard.
[00:45:32]  You will not be welcomed into the United States.
[00:45:35]  We're not lifting a finger to help homeless American veterans.
[00:45:40]  We have a fentanyl crisis on our hands.
[00:45:44]  Suicide is the second leading cause of death for post-9/11 veterans, accounting for 22.3% of all deaths.
[00:45:52]  When Donald Trump ran on putting America first, this is what he meant.
[00:45:57]  What he meant was that we have limited resources, limited capacity, and our priorities are backwards.
[00:46:04]  It's time for us to put our own citizens first.
[00:46:06]  It's time for us to put our people first.
[00:46:09]  And also act in, have policies that act in a way that hopefully will point to a nation that doesn't want to bitterly tear itself apart all the time.
[00:46:21]  One of the reasons why we should not accept more people like Elon Omar and why Elon Omar has become the mascot for an immigration moratorium is because forget the part that she has a culture that, you know, radical Islamic culture that is not willing to assimilate at times to America.
[00:46:44]  Just her words themselves are bashing the country that benevolently accepted her.
[00:46:51]  Elon Omar is the embodiment of the snake poem.
[00:46:59]  The snake asked to be brought in from the cold.
[00:47:02]  You brought the snake and you cared for the snake and then the snake bit you and you say, why'd you do that?
[00:47:09]  I cared for you so nicely.
[00:47:10]  And the snake said, I'm a snake.
[00:47:12]  Didn't you know?
[00:47:15]  And she's also a vicious anti-Semite.
[00:47:17]  She hates Jews, Elon Omar.
[00:47:19]  Cannot stand them.
[00:47:21]  So yes, there are examples of how immigration policy and refugee resettlement has made America a less desirable place to live.

=== The Snake Bit Us In Afghanistan (14:43) ===

[00:47:30]  How it has impacted other public policy measures.
[00:47:35]  Why is Minneapolis defunding its police department?
[00:47:38]  Well, when you bring in tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people that do not understand law and order and come from a war-torn country like Somalia Mogadishu, where all they know is anarchy, who needs police around?
[00:47:52]  Very few people are speaking out against this.
[00:47:55]  Tucker is, JD Vance is, a couple others.
[00:47:58]  But many Republicans and conservatives are afraid to push back against this refugee issue because they're afraid of the accusations that are going to be thrown at them from the other side.
[00:48:06]  We don't care about that on this program.
[00:48:08]  We speak the truth.
[00:48:09]  They can insult us all we want.
[00:48:10]  We really don't care.
[00:48:12]  If we say something that we don't mean, then we'll obviously clarify that.
[00:48:16]  Brian Kemp, Republican governor of Georgia, he wants more people into his country from Afghanistan.
[00:48:23]  Larry Hogan, same thing.
[00:48:26]  Weak leaders with no wisdom.
[00:48:29]  If we're not careful, all of a sudden, the Somali project in Minneapolis will come to almost every single city across the country.
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[00:49:48]  President Trump has done more commentary and has done more interviews about this than our current president.
[00:49:56]  Why is that?
[00:49:57]  I want to go through President Trump's interview with the great Sean Hannity last evening.
[00:50:03]  I want to start with 53.
[00:50:05]  And President Trump does remind us that we mishandled Afghanistan for the last 15 years, 20 years.
[00:50:13]  And President Trump is right to say that the endless foreign occupation of Afghanistan was not in our best interest.
[00:50:21]  You can say that while also simultaneously saying the withdrawal from Afghanistan was humiliating and was an absolute travesty for our nation.
[00:50:33]  Let's play cut 52.
[00:50:35]  Well, it's good to be with you, Sean, but it's a terrible time for our country.
[00:50:39]  I don't think in all of the years our country has ever been so humiliated.
[00:50:44]  I don't know, would you call it a military defeat or a psychological defeat?
[00:50:48]  There's never been anything like what's happened here.
[00:50:52]  You can go back to Jimmy Carter with the hostages.
[00:50:55]  We all thought that was a great embarrassment, and we were pulled out of that by Ronald Reagan.
[00:51:00]  This is many, many times worse.
[00:51:02]  And you're dealing with thousands and thousands of Americans and others that are stranded and very dangerously, really stranded in Afghanistan.
[00:51:13]  And then Donald Trump goes on to talk about the details of the agreement with the Taliban, saying that if you meet with the Taliban, because that's who you're negotiating with, if anything bad happens to Americans or anybody else, they'll hit you with the force that no one's been hit before.
[00:51:28]  This is a really important point before we play this.
[00:51:32]  Is that Teddy Roosevelt, who is not a warmonger, by the way?
[00:51:36]  Some people accuse him of being a colonialist.
[00:51:38]  It's half true, but he was not a warmonger.
[00:51:41]  He won a Nobel Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japan war.
[00:51:49]  That was a really big conflict.
[00:51:51]  And Teddy Roosevelt won a prize from that.
[00:51:53]  Teddy Roosevelt famously said to speak softly and carry a big stick.
[00:51:58]  Ronald Reagan said, we need peace through strength.
[00:52:01]  It's interesting because Democrats are usually so weak that through their dovish worldview, they actually end up getting us into wars, like Woodrow Wilson, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like Lyndon Baines Johnson.
[00:52:16]  Let's play cut 53 on how Trump says you have to meet with the Taliban, but they have to know you mean it.
[00:52:28]  There's a proper way to end wars, and there's an improper way to end wars.
[00:52:33]  And Joe Biden decided to do a reckless deed by ending the wars basically with no regard to Americans or the sacrifice we put in.
[00:52:45]  Play Cut 53.
[00:52:47]  And of course you have to meet with the Taliban.
[00:52:49]  They're the ones that you're negotiating with.
[00:52:51]  I spoke on numerous occasions to the head of the Taliban, and we had a very strong conversation.
[00:52:59]  I told him up front, I said, look, before we start, let me just tell you right now that if anything bad happens to Americans or anybody else, or if you ever come over to our land, we will hit you with a force that no country has ever been hit with before.
[00:53:15]  A force so great that you won't even believe it.
[00:53:18]  And your village, and we know where it is, and I named it, will be the first one.
[00:53:23]  Mr. President, I want to interrupt.
[00:53:26]  They knew he meant it.
[00:53:28]  Taking out Qassam Soleimani, dropping the mother of all bombs, the Moab.
[00:53:32]  They knew that President Trump was going to act with disproportionate force against the enemies.
[00:53:40]  Now, President Trump said that the Afghans didn't fight because they were just doing it for massive amounts of money.
[00:53:50]  And America was paying them.
[00:53:52]  This is a really important point, that this was almost like a social welfare program of us subsidizing the Afghan government.
[00:54:02]  That this is no different than kind of a great society, Lyndon Baines-Johnson-style program, where the Afghans didn't even want to be in the fight, that they were just doing it for the money that was being paid to them.
[00:54:15]  I want you to think about this, that they were looking at Afghanistan almost as a social welfare project.
[00:54:22]  And the president of Afghanistan just flees the country at almost a moment's notice.
[00:54:27]  Play cut 54.
[00:54:29]  Just one thing, and I have to say, and this is different from everyone else.
[00:54:33]  I said, why are they fighting?
[00:54:34]  Why are these Afghan soldiers fighting against the Taliban?
[00:54:39]  And I was told some very bad information by a lot of different people.
[00:54:43]  The fact is, they're among the highest paid soldiers in the world.
[00:54:48]  They were doing it for a paycheck because once we stopped, once we left, they stopped fighting.
[00:54:54]  So all of the people that talk about the bravery and everything, I say everybody's brave.
[00:54:58]  But the fact is our country was paying the Afghan soldiers a fortune.
[00:55:03]  So we were sort of bribing them to fight.
[00:55:06]  And that's not what it's all about.
[00:55:08]  Bribing them to fight, not actually being engaged with what they want to do on the ground.
[00:55:16]  They were never invested in this.
[00:55:18]  It's almost a failed colonialist experiment that somehow we can get the Afghans to fight this battle for us.
[00:55:27]  Getting a lot of different emails of people saying, well, Charlie, what can we now do about this?
[00:55:32]  Well, Cut 62, President Trump warns us that the Taliban will now use Americans as hostages.
[00:55:38]  I want to reiterate this.
[00:55:39]  There are anywhere between 5,000 to 40,000 Americans still in Afghanistan that have been left behind.
[00:55:48]  And now we are sending more troops back into Afghanistan than we had before six months ago to try to secure them.
[00:55:55]  So now we're reinvading the country that we once invaded because we had to imprudently get out of the country so quickly.
[00:56:02]  It's a mess.
[00:56:03]  Play Cut 62.
[00:56:05]  The Taliban has circled the airport, and who knows if they're going to treat us right?
[00:56:11]  You know, all of a sudden they'll say, well, frankly, if they were smart, they'd really, and they are smart, and they are smart.
[00:56:17]  They should let the Americans out.
[00:56:20]  But we've had situations where you have two or three or four hostages.
[00:56:24]  We could have 40,000 Americans, not to mention others like people that helped us in Afghanistan.
[00:56:31]  So we've never had a situation like this.
[00:56:34]  We have 40,000 potential hostages, a minimum of 11,000, but it could be as many as 40.
[00:56:41]  They have no idea how many.
[00:56:43]  Nobody knows how many.
[00:56:44]  They don't know anything.
[00:56:45]  We don't know how many.
[00:56:47]  And the government has come out and said, we don't know how many people are here.
[00:56:50]  We do not know how many people are in Afghanistan.
[00:56:54]  I want you to think about that.
[00:56:55]  Isn't that the whole job to know where our citizens are?
[00:56:58]  And they will be used as hostages against the American government.
[00:57:02]  We have an email question here.
[00:57:04]  Charlie, where are the Republican leaders calling this out?
[00:57:08]  Now, this is something I will say, that if you want to get the Republican leaders invigorated, all of a sudden talk foreign policy, especially about withdrawing from a country.
[00:57:16]  They have just been very, very animated in the last couple of days.
[00:57:21]  And there's one question here that said, Charlie, what can we do about this?
[00:57:25]  Dear Charlie, I've watched in horror about what is going on in Afghanistan.
[00:57:29]  I believe we need to send our military back over to secure Kabul and the major cities.
[00:57:33]  I'm the wife of a veteran and I'm a mother.
[00:57:36]  The scale of the atrocities that will occur if we don't is enormous.
[00:57:40]  Who can authorize this?
[00:57:41]  Can Congress do this without Biden?
[00:57:43]  Who do we have to call to make this happen?
[00:57:46]  Please don't tell me we can't.
[00:57:47]  We can.
[00:57:48]  Thank you.
[00:57:49]  The Constitution of the United States clearly outlines that the president is the commander-in-chief.
[00:57:57]  Congress cannot send troops without the president's consent.
[00:58:02]  Now, I think they can pass a declaration of war, but if I'm not mistaken, it still requires the president's agreement.
[00:58:09]  And they're not going to do that.
[00:58:10]  Congress is not going to pass a declaration of war to go retake Kabul.
[00:58:14]  And let me just say, we shouldn't send more troops into Afghanistan to go reinvade.
[00:58:19]  At the very least, what the troops should be done is at least on an extraction mission to go take every single American out of Afghanistan and deliver them back to the United States.
[00:58:28]  That's it.
[00:58:29]  But re-securing an entire city, it'll take at least another thousand lives lost, which we already did at the early stages of the war.
[00:58:37]  We did that in a Shakana campaign.
[00:58:39]  We took Kabul in like a couple weeks.
[00:58:41]  And then the real fighting started in the valleys and in the Kandahar Valley region and others.
[00:58:48]  This is a tough one for people to realize that Afghanistan is going to remain under Taliban control for the foreseeable future.
[00:58:56]  Maybe a couple decades, maybe even 100 years, maybe a couple hundred years.
[00:59:00]  The same place that we were told that we had to go into.
[00:59:04]  Getting out of the country prudently was the right thing to do.
[00:59:08]  This was done recklessly.
[00:59:11]  And reinvading the country would be a triple mistake on top of a double mistake.
[00:59:16]  The question is: was it gross incompetence or was this some sort of an agenda?
[00:59:21]  Well, considering it's a mass government operation, it's not impossible to believe that this was not gross incompetence.
[00:59:29]  You can see in real colors, in real terms, how they mismanaged something as simple as this.
[00:59:38]  And Joe Biden ignored his generals to have 2,500 troops there to at least secure the exit, to at least allow the withdrawal to happen.
[00:59:48]  We need to find out more of how these decisions were made.
[00:59:51]  Who was in charge of this?
[00:59:54]  What was the flow of information as this was occurring?
[00:59:57]  And this would have been less than 1% of the Pentagon budget, which Mitch McConnell said.
[01:00:03]  Just to make sure that we don't have tens of thousands of Americans in a hostage situation in Afghanistan.
[01:00:09]  I want to complete one point here with Cut 58.
[01:00:11]  Tucker Carlson last evening reacts to Jen Psaki saying that bringing America, that we will be bringing Americans special visa applications and vulnerable populations.
[01:00:20]  Listen to this, Cut 58.
[01:00:22]  Notice how she puts all three together: Americans, special visa applicants, vulnerable populations.
[01:00:28]  What the hell is that?
[01:00:30]  You know, who's vulnerable as Americans who are trapped in Afghanistan right now?
[01:00:33]  They're American citizens.
[01:00:34]  The American government exists to help American citizens, not to help vulnerable populations, whatever that is.
[01:00:40]  That's a definition that changes depending on which interest group is in power.
[01:00:44]  No, it's Americans.
[01:00:45]  That's the point.
[01:00:45]  It's the American government.
[01:00:47]  But nobody cares.
[01:00:49]  Our leaders are telling us that what really matters is importing tens of thousands of Afghan refugees into the United States before we've even evacuated all of the Americans who are stuck there.
[01:01:01]  And he continues the point in Cut 46 and how Mitt Romney says it really doesn't matter.
[01:01:07]  Americans are there.
[01:01:08]  What's most important is bringing Afghan refugees into America.
[01:01:11]  Cut 46.
[01:01:12]  Quote: America must not stand idly by, Mitt Romney tweeted today.
[01:01:16]  The president must urgently rush to defend, rescue, and give and expand asylum.
[01:01:21]  There is no time to spare.
[01:01:24]  There's lots of time to spare as Americans die of fentanyl ODs and millions of foreign nationals whose identities we can't confirm move here.
[01:01:31]  But when it comes to bringing Afghans to our country, there's no time to spare.
[01:01:35]  And Liz Cheney firmly agrees with that.
[01:01:37]  So does her friend Bill Crystal and Nancy Pelosi and Victoria Newland at the State Department and so many more, so many more just like them.
[01:01:45]  These are the architects of the disaster we are watching unfold on television.
[01:01:50]  They should be groveling for our forgiveness, but they're not.
[01:01:53]  Why?
[01:01:53]  Because contrition requires decency.
[01:01:55]  There's no chance.
[01:01:57]  Craig emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[01:01:59]  He says, thousands of Americans trying to get out of Afghanistan, but they're already taking plane loads of Afghan refugees first.
[01:02:04]  No big surprise.
[01:02:06]  Just conflating them all together.
[01:02:09]  This is going to go down as one of the worst foreign policy failures in American history.

=== Massive Political Liability Ahead (02:40) ===

[01:02:13]  I'm going to reiterate something I said earlier: that Joe Biden's poll numbers are tumbling from this.
[01:02:20]  51% disapprove, 47% approve.
[01:02:24]  On foreign policy, Joe Biden has a 51% disapproval rating.
[01:02:29]  On economy and jobs, 50% disapproval.
[01:02:32]  Immigration and border, 55% disapproval.
[01:02:35]  Crime, 55% disapproval.
[01:02:37]  U.S.-China, 51 disapproval.
[01:02:40]  He does have a 52% approval on coronavirus pandemic.
[01:02:44]  But on every other issue, he has a 50-plus disapproval rating.
[01:02:49]  Biden approval by party detail.
[01:02:52]  Independents, 31% strongly disapprove of Joe Biden.
[01:02:57]  22% of Independents somewhat disapprove.
[01:03:01]  That's plus 50%.
[01:03:04]  68% of Republicans strongly disapprove.
[01:03:06]  Not exactly shocking news.
[01:03:09]  What's interesting is that 7% of Democrats somewhat disapprove of Joe Biden.
[01:03:18]  And the numbers are going down from there.
[01:03:20]  This is going to be a massive political liability as it continues.
[01:03:24]  What is the strategy now to get those Americans that are in Afghanistan out?
[01:03:29]  Who's in charge?
[01:03:30]  Who is calling the shots?
[01:03:32]  Who's meeting where?
[01:03:34]  Instead, we have the exact opposite that's happening.
[01:03:39]  We have our government saying everything's fine.
[01:03:40]  There's nothing to see here.
[01:03:42]  It was a perfect strategy according to our own government.
[01:03:47]  Republicans in Congress need to start to use their oversight ability to get answers and also movement.
[01:03:53]  Senator Tom Cotton has said that he is getting overwhelmed with calls of American citizens from Afghanistan to try to get help to leave the country.
[01:04:05]  The first plane out of Afghanistan should have been Americans.
[01:04:10]  But quite honestly, to them, what's an American anyway?
[01:04:13]  They let illegals vote in elections.
[01:04:15]  They keep the borders wide open.
[01:04:17]  They don't believe they have any sort of special obligation to American citizens stuck in Kabul.
[01:04:23]  You need to be praying and helping any way you can and demanding your lawmakers to help these Americans that are now trapped in a foreign country that has been overtaken by an enemy, that this doesn't turn into another Iran hostage crisis.
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