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| They keep moving the time that Joe Biden is supposed to address the nation. | |
| Maybe he's not awake. | |
| Maybe he needed a little nappy poo. | |
| But apparently Biden has decided, it's now widely reported, that he will comply with the Taliban's order that all U.S. troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan by August the 31st. | |
| Now, that's one week from today. | |
| Today is August the 24th. | |
| Last time I checked, Linda is 31 days in August. | |
| That would be one week from today. | |
| At some point, the and remember, the Taliban controls the perimeter around Hamid Karzai International Airport. | |
| They control with multiple checkpoints. | |
| We have chronicled at length in great specificity the challenges and the difficulty of getting American citizens that have been told by the State Department, make your way. | |
| Might be a good time to make your way to the Kazai International Airport. | |
| We cannot guarantee your safety. | |
| And notice that the checkpoints and entry points will be changing rapidly, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. | |
| And then Saturday they said, no, don't come today. | |
| It's not looking good out there today. | |
| So there's been great challenges and difficulty and no support whatsoever from the American military, the mightiest military force on the on the face of the planet to assist Americans trapped behind enemy lines, ostensibly hostages to the whims of the Taliban and their checkpoints. | |
| And there's been beatings and we've chronicled all of the other instances of violence and people turned away and the difficulty and challenges. | |
| Even Biden's government is admitting such. | |
| So why would Biden give in to this artificial deadline? | |
| Shouldn't it be we will leave when every American is safely let go? | |
| And not until then. | |
| Well, the Taliban said that they're not going to like that. | |
| Well, okay, well, then we're gonna have to now deal with the fact we should Joe, we shouldn't have been in this position to begin with. | |
| Joe Biden caused this. | |
| It was all preventable because the Taliban had been on the march for months, taking larger and larger and larger portions, geographical portions of Afghanistan. | |
| Because he wasn't following the Trump plan. | |
| The Trump plan was based one on conditions on the ground before, quote, the fighting season. | |
| I know it sounds odd, but they actually have a fighting season. | |
| That would be right now, we're in the middle of it. | |
| And two, it included keeping Pagrom Air Force Base, but most importantly, and I've confirmed this with Donald Trump himself, Mike Pompeo, his Secretary of State, with Mark Meadows and others that were on the call before there was ever any negotiations. | |
| Donald Trump was clear. | |
| If a single American was harmed ever by the Taliban, ever. | |
| If they didn't f follow every dotted I, cross T, comma, and period in any deal they might make, they'll be obliterated just like the president wiped out the caliphate in Syria and Iraq. | |
| They'd be obliterated. | |
| Not a single American died in almost what, the last 18 months of the Trump presidency. | |
| Was that an accident? | |
| No, I think they believed him, number one, and number two, he meant it. | |
| They knew he meant it. | |
| The Taliban now has been on the march, and this powerful Afghan army that Joe Biden kept bragging about even up to a couple of weeks ago, was crumbling. | |
| And he lied to us. | |
| So once they saw the march of the Taliban, they had all of this time to extract every American. | |
| While we controlled Kabul. | |
| It didn't have to get to this point where now Americans are trapped behind enemy lines. | |
| Now, this development after the threat yesterday, we played the Sky News report, the interview with the head of the, well, the spokesperson from the Taliban say no. | |
| The deadline's August 31st, it will remain August 31st. | |
| Now Biden apparently, even though military experts predict it could potentially leave thousands of American citizens abandoned behind enemy lines indefinitely. | |
| That can't be the policy, Joe. | |
| You've left us with no good options. | |
| You allowed this point to happen. | |
| But now that we're stuck with it, there's no good option. | |
| The only option then becomes risking American men and women, servicemen and women, a strong military presence, and that means our military must go all throughout Kabul and try and secure every single American on the ground. | |
| Now, the French are doing it, the Brits are doing it, even the Dutch are doing it. | |
| But the United States is not doing it. | |
| Explain that to me. | |
| Now, Joe's firm, you know, agreeing to stick with this firm August 31st deadline is going to end up being a disaster. | |
| This happened after the Taliban spokesperson at a meeting with our own CIA director, William Burns in Kabul, and said there will be no extensions to the Biden administration's August 31st date. | |
| And Defense Department's press Secretary Kirby said today that the White House is still aiming toward the end of the month for complete withdrawal of Americans, American troops in Afghanistan. | |
| Well, the problem is at some point, not that many days away now. | |
| We only have a week. | |
| The efforts to get people out of Kabul to Karzai International Airport will end. | |
| And the military will have to start jumping on those planes themselves. | |
| And that means that any American left behind will then be hostages to the Taliban. | |
| Think they're going to let them out? | |
| Forget about the Allies. | |
| They already got the computer programs with the list and names of every single Afghan that assisted us the last 20 years. | |
| And they're going door to door and they're going to kill them all. | |
| How do you know, Hannity? | |
| Because that's what terrorists do, and that's what they're pledging to do. | |
| I actually believe them. | |
| They may be evil, but they're not stupid. | |
| In addition to the 6,000 troops at Cables Airport, there are dozens of armored vehicles. | |
| Now they have about 85 billion worth of our military equipment. | |
| Now they're the best armed they've ever been in their entire history. | |
| So they're saying no. | |
| And Joe's going, I'm sorry, Joe. | |
| The answer should be telling the Taliban, we're getting all Americans out. | |
| We will get our people out however damn long it takes. | |
| There's no deadlines you're going to set for us. | |
| And then send the necessary military reinforcements in to get that job done. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Now, you put us in this position. | |
| There really isn't a good option. | |
| That's not the ideal option. | |
| The ideal option was a month ago. | |
| With the Taliban on the march, our intelligence, they got the hell out of there. | |
| My sources say the CIA's been out of there for weeks. | |
| So we're going to have to do something, Joe. | |
| Even that idiot Adam Schiff admits that it's unlikely that the number of Americans who still need to be evacuated will be evacuated. | |
| He said, you know, getting all Americans and allies out of the country is unlikely. | |
| On the House Intel Committee. | |
| Then we have the Pentagon spokesman saying just several thousand Americans have been evacuated in the last 10 days. | |
| What? | |
| They said 20,000, 2,000 in the last 24 hours. | |
| John Kirby announces yesterday several thousand Americans have been evacuated since August the 14th. | |
| Several thousand. | |
| Biden himself confirmed that between 10 and 15,000 Americans are trapped there. | |
| According to Biden's Pentagon, after a full 10 days of pedal to the metal evacuations, We've only managed to evacuate several thousand Americans during his morning briefing. | |
| Kirby refused repeated request to give a specific number. | |
| They don't even know. | |
| They don't even know how many Americans are there. | |
| How is that possible? | |
| The team conducting there are teams conducting private evacuations. | |
| People are sending in chartered planes that cost tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. | |
| There's a team led by two men. | |
| It was in the Daily Caller, Robert Strick and Robert Taylor, I have no idea who they are. | |
| Anyway, they've been coordinating chartered flights to get Americans the hell out of there. | |
| Taylor's a former Republican Virginia congressman. | |
| Said the lack of support from the administration is frustrating and a massive F up. | |
| He said they've reached out to the administration dozens and dozens of times. | |
| They don't even hear back from them. | |
| One American mother trapped behind enemy lines had a message for circle back Baghdad Bob Gensaki and says, yes, we are stranded. | |
| The woman, apparently on Fox and Friends this morning, went under a pseudonym, thanked Republican Repres Republican representative Carol Miller and her team for being my only strength in communicating with her to help find a solution. | |
| We're in danger. | |
| We are in danger, Mr. President. | |
| Please help us. | |
| Yes, we are stranded. | |
| Gen Saki took issue with that. | |
| Taliban police are now beating Afghans for daring to wear Western clothes. | |
| The situation is deteriorating by the minute. | |
| Even Obama's Department of Homeland Security Secretary is predicting that Biden's Afghan crisis is gonna get a whole lot worse. | |
| Said he believes what's happening at Karzai International Airport is gonna get a lot worse before it ever gets better. | |
| This is a country of 38 million people. | |
| We've got to deal with the American citizens, those who qualify for immigrants' visas. | |
| Now, I'm not against getting allies the hell out of there, but are we doing background checks when they get here? | |
| Because we better, because I wouldn't put it past any of these terror groups that our own government admits have re-emerged. | |
| The only one that doesn't seem to admit it is Joe Biden. | |
| I mean, this how could this ever happen? | |
| By the way, all Nancy Pelosi cares about is her 4.1 trillion dollar spending package. | |
| Kevin McCarthy said, uh, cut the infrastructure crap, and let's focus on getting our fellow Americans the hell out of Afghanistan. | |
| Or the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. | |
| You know, Joe takes no questions again yesterday. | |
| They've they've like two hours late already. | |
| What time was that press conference originally scheduled? | |
| Wasn't it one o'clock today? | |
| Linda? | |
| Yeah, I mean, it's been in truth, Sean, it's been changed about six times, and then he was supposed to come out about a half an hour ago after being two hours late, and then they pushed it back to 4 30. | |
| Yeah, Saki claiming no Americans are stranded. | |
| But Joe Biden himself said, but we can't guarantee the outcome. | |
| He put us in this position. | |
| It's an impossible position. | |
| I don't even want to have to ask our military men and women to go in there and go behind enemy lines to extract American citizens. | |
| But what other option do we have at this point? | |
| That's not a great option. | |
| But that's the only one we've got that I see. | |
| Will they do it? | |
| Will they risk their lives? | |
| Yes. | |
| They're willing to do it. | |
| But if you don't make the call today, it's not gonna meet the deadline that apparently you agreed to, Joe. | |
| And that means that even Adam Schiff acknowledges Americans, you're gonna leave them behind. | |
| Behind enemy lines. | |
| Hostage to the whims of a terrorist organization. | |
| What part of that are you not understanding? | |
| The magnitude of which cluster that you have created and put our fellow Americans in jeopardy for no reason. | |
| Totally completely preventable. | |
| I guess those tough tweets of Donald Trump really really scared people. | |
| This doesn't scare people. | |
| We'll continue. | |
| All right, 25 to the top of the hour. | |
| I can't even believe that I am going to report this to you at some point. | |
| They keep canceling when Joe Biden, I guess, after he finally wakes up from his nap or something. | |
| That's hours ago they've been telling us that he was going to address the country. | |
| Our own Jennifer Griffin at Fox News, a great correspondent, reported minutes ago that U.S. troops now have begun withdrawing from Kabul Airport. | |
| And that airport gates are closing. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't have words to describe. | |
| That means we're what? | |
| Leaving Americans there? | |
| We're just going to abandon them? | |
| Leave them stranded, defend for themselves behind enemy lines. | |
| Behind terrorist enemy lines? | |
| What does that mean? | |
| Speculation is swirling that the U.S. evacuation effort is now ended, leaving thousands of American citizens behind enemy lines. | |
| Look, I'm only telling you what she reported minutes ago. | |
| She's been a Fox for a long time. | |
| She's a great reporter. | |
| She's rarely wrong. | |
| I can't think of an instance she'd ever was. | |
| Congressman Mike McCall has added his voice to the chorus of experts saying that there's no way Biden will evacuate all the Americans now stranded in Afghanistan. | |
| They have yet to identify who, how many? | |
| You know, like I told you in the last segment, this woman responding to Gensaki, excuse me. | |
| I'm stranded. | |
| So now Joe Biden is going to be bullied by the Taliban into this artificial deadline, and even top Democrats on the Intel committee that dope Adam Schiff recognizes they can't get people out of there in time. | |
| And our answer is we're going to leave. | |
| And Joe made this decision after a secret meeting between the CIA director, William Burns, and the Taliban's de facto leader. | |
| That's their answer. | |
| Is they're just going to cut and run and you fend for yourself. | |
| Wow. | |
| New York Times reporting that some that the U.S. is turning allies away from Kabul Airport. | |
| We're turning them away. | |
| These Afghan interpreters and, you know, the reports out too that the Taliban already has their names. | |
| They will be executed. | |
| They will be murdered. | |
| Upon our eventual departure, which apparently is a week from today. | |
| A stated priority group for evacuation are being turned away from Kabul Airport by American officials in order to give priority to U.S. citizens and greed card holders. | |
| Why would you turn them away? | |
| Let them in. | |
| Well, they've got a chance. | |
| Now I would vet every one of them before they ever allow them into this country. | |
| But otherwise, they're they're walking dead. | |
| They're marked for dead. | |
| I mean, it is unbelievable. | |
| You know, having seized Kabul, the Taliban can now tap into all of our government databases, communications data, identify every single person that doesn't get out that assisted us in the last 20 years. | |
| Videos show a rush to destroy the U.S. equipment as Kabul was falling. | |
| That's how ill-prepared they were. | |
| We now have the Taliban using all of the military equipment we have. | |
| An Afghan refugee with suspected suspected links to the Taliban is in custody in France. | |
| That's why I said we better start vetting people if we're going to let them anywhere near the country. | |
| These groups are evil, but that doesn't necessarily mean stupid. | |
| Leaked email describing the Afghan refugee conditions. | |
| U.S. Central Command sent a wake-up call to colleagues that the sweltering cutter air base where the Biden administration is housing a lot of these Afghan evacuees, a wash and feces and urine and a rat infestation. | |
| And you just you can't make any of this up. | |
| By the way, anyone know where Kamala Harris is? | |
| She's telling us to buy Christmas presents now and warning about climate change in China, but fails to address the unfolding catastrophe that is Afghanistan. | |
| I'm only touching the surface of the news out here. | |
| Why did Joe Biden agree to be bullied by the Taliban and pull out with his artificial deadline? | |
| Why? | |
| It makes no sense. | |
| It makes no sense that they didn't. | |
| We have the best intelligence gathering services in the world. | |
| We saw the Taliban on the move. | |
| We saw the Afghan army crumbling. | |
| We saw all of it. | |
| This is insane. | |
| Never thought in our lifetime. | |
| I'm sorry, Linda. | |
| What did you say? | |
| 800-941 Shauna's a toeferry number. | |
| She wants me to play something. | |
| I have no idea what it is. | |
| Let's play it. | |
| Their parents are inside and their children are outside. | |
| The children are right here. | |
| He's standing right here. | |
| Amid the chaos, we were showing two children apparently left behind when their parents were among the few to be admitted here. | |
| Mr. Biden, you did this. | |
| You planned this. | |
| You made the deal with the Taliban. | |
| This is the consequences of it. | |
| This is the repercussions of it. | |
| Mr. Biden, it's your L calculation. | |
| You were against Trump. | |
| Now we are against you. | |
| Go to hell, Biden. | |
| Fox News, lower third. | |
| U.S. officials. | |
| Military has started their Afghan exit. | |
| They're starting their exit, the military before every American is first rescued behind enemy lines to terrorists. | |
| God help every one of them, and that's not a joke. | |
| I mean, God help them. | |
| I mean, what's the plan? | |
| Just surrender? | |
| That's now the plan. | |
| He allowed this to happen. | |
| Put our military in untenable position. | |
| Now the White House is changing course on pace to meet the August 31st deadline, may adjust. | |
| Apparently, they're getting no leeway from the Taliban. | |
| They are taking instructions from the Taliban. | |
| They've empowered the Taliban. | |
| They've emboldened the Taliban. | |
| They let the Taliban march all the way up for the entire country and take Kabul without stopping any point in the way and pushing them back militarily or being smart enough to expedite the evacuation of Americans and our allies there. | |
| We are stranded at home, this woman said in this interview. | |
| When we try to get to the airport, we're either beaten up or afraid for our lives. | |
| All four days, we didn't hear anything from anywhere. | |
| And they're saying go to the airport, but we're not being given clear guidance. | |
| They're saying one thing the next day they come and say something else. | |
| So you really don't know what to do. | |
| There's a lot of miscommunicating going on. | |
| This is the day after Gensaki battled Fox News. | |
| I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded, she said. | |
| They're not. | |
| Yeah, they are. | |
| This woman said, I'm stranded. | |
| We can't even count the number of citizens in the Wall Street Journal today, it says. | |
| Logistics conditions at the Kabul International Airport are growing more dire as the Biden administration now is sticking to their August 31st deadline because that's what the Taliban is demanding. | |
| That gives us seven days to evacuate thousands of people. | |
| The journal continues compounding the problem or challenges born of the more rapid than expected Taliban takeover. | |
| That's Joe's intel failure, that's Joe's defense failure. | |
| President Biden will meet virtually with leaders of the group of seven leading nations to discuss the coordination. | |
| Well, how come the Brits, the French, and the Dutch are sending in people into Kabul behind enemy lines to rescue their citizens? | |
| On top of that, the Wall Street Journal points out the U.S. warns the Islamic State threat to Americans in Afghanistan. | |
| Now we're warned that the Islamic State is posing a threat, as well as Al Qaeda. | |
| Jake Sullivan, the president's national security advisor, when asked about it, said, yeah, the ISIS threat is real, it is acute, it is persistent, and it is something we are focused on with every tool in our arsenal. | |
| Biden even said that we know the terrorists may seek to exploit the situation and target innocent Afghans or American troops. | |
| We're maintaining constant vigilance to monitor and disrupt threats from any source. | |
| Boy, that doesn't exactly give me confidence. | |
| Imagine if you were one of the Americans trapped behind enemy lines. | |
| Now, they're saying that 22,000 people were evacuated from Kabul on the one hand, but on the other hand, they're saying only a few thousand Americans have gotten out in the last 36 hours or 48 hours. | |
| They don't have an exact number on anything. | |
| Biden is urging the Taliban to provide for the well-being of Afghanistan. | |
| Are you really that stupid, Joe? | |
| They don't care. | |
| They're terrorists. | |
| It's not likely, Adam Schiff says. | |
| I can't even believe I'm quoting him. | |
| Spokesman uh uh Pentagon spokesperson, press secretary John Kirby, won't rule out airlifts. | |
| What do you mean you won't rule them out? | |
| This live Gensaki, let's put it up. | |
| With our Afghan companies assessing the roads leading to the airport to allow foreigners to pass. | |
| For evacuation efforts, what does this mean for Afghans who assisted and can't get through? | |
| Now, what are you gonna be? | |
| Does this effectively cut off those Afghans from being evacuated? | |
| No, that is not how you should read it. | |
| Uh one I should note we have been in direct contact, not just with American citizens, but with SIV applicants, uh special immigrant visa applicants, and Afghans who uh we whose uh departure we are facilitating about how and when to come to the airport. | |
| And our expectation, which we have also conveyed to the Taliban, is that they should be able to get to the airport. | |
| It is also true, and I know this may be some of the um confusion out there, uh, that there are a number of Afghans who may not we may they may not qualify for these programs, and we've seen over the past several of the past nine days, a rush of people attempt to come to the airport. | |
| We certainly understand that, but that also creates a security risk and one that we have great concern about. | |
| So to be clear, individuals who are eligible for special immigrant visas or others who we are helping facilitate their evacuation and their departure. | |
| Americans are telling her I can't take it because it's nothing but lying propaganda. | |
| That's just that's all it is. | |
| It's not it's nonsense. | |
| Because they are being turned away. | |
| American citizens are being turned away. | |
| They have no control, and she just admitted we've discussed with the Taliban. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| That gives me no confidence. | |
| Retired Navy SEALs post, this guy Jocko has gone viral. | |
| Interesting. | |
| Interesting what it means to have a strong American president. | |
| I'm not sure why Kamala Harris was cracking up when asked about Americans trapped in Afghanistan. | |
| I didn't particularly find it particularly funny. | |
| The scenes that we're watching here, the U.S. is turning away, by the way. | |
| This was a national review, some of the Afghan allies from Kabul Airport to give priority to American citizens, so she's contradicting all of that, and now we're gonna create a safe haven for terrorists to plot plan and scheme their next attack on America. | |
| Why is it that our intelligence agencies, according to reports, got their people out of there and and Joe Biden left American citizens there? | |
| And why won't Joe Biden unilaterally say we will we will stay as long as it takes to get every single American out of there is as long as it takes. | |
| Why don't you date lay down the law, Joe? | |
| You have a say in this also. | |
| Because I think the problem is that he realizes at this point that he's now put Americans in an untenable position. | |
| Americans can't get out. | |
| Now, Taliban leaders, this was a media it, their spokesperson said today that his group will no longer permit. | |
| Now you just heard Circle Back, Baghdad Bob, Gensaki, you know, lying and saying that, oh no, no, that's not true. | |
| It's misinformation. | |
| No, they are gonna get, we're not gonna leave them behind. | |
| Our allies. | |
| Well, the Taliban spokesperson just said today that his group will no longer permit Afghan nationals to leave their country. | |
| Change your policy. | |
| Please don't encourage our friends to leave. | |
| Don't encourage our engineers, our doctors, our military. | |
| We need them. | |
| We're not in favor of allowing any Afghans to leave. | |
| The way to the airport has now been closed. | |
| Afghans are not allowed to go there. | |
| They're not allowed. | |
| Foreigners are allowed to go, but we have stopped Afghan nationals to go because the crowd is more. | |
| There's a danger that some will lose their lives. | |
| There might be a stampede. | |
| And he said Americans have the opportunity and all the resources to take all the people that belong to them, but we're not going to allow Afghans to leave, and we will not extend the deadline. | |
| Biden committed last week to retrieving every American and every Afghan ally. | |
| The Taliban is telling him otherwise. | |
| And now, according to reports, we're pulling our military out. | |
| They're claiming they evacuated 57,000 people. | |
| But we're now we know from all of the our contacts in Washington, Congressmen and Senators, that they're being called by American citizens and our allies saying we can't get out. | |
| Senator Tom Cotton is next. |