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Sept. 2, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
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Americans Living In Afghanistan, September 2nd, Hour 3
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Let me play a couple of ads.
Republicans occasionally, and you know my thoughts on the Republican Party, especially without Donald Trump leading the way.
They go right back to being weak and frail and wobbly and spineless and visionless.
I mean, Mitch McConnell, oh no, we'd never think about impeaching Joe Biden.
No, he would never.
Well, if Donald Trump, if you apply the same standards, they applied to Trump, you know, this phone call with the former president of Afghanistan that fled the country with millions and millions of dollars.
You'd say, yeah, Joe's telling the guy to lie.
And that also means that Joe knew it was a dire situation and kept it from us.
But anyway, so there are Senate Republicans, they put a great ad together.
And Trump's Save American PAC put a great ad together.
Some of it's visual, but you'll get the gist of both of them.
Likelihood there's going to be Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.
This is not just about the overall idea of leaving Afghanistan.
This is about leaving hastily and ineptly.
Secretary Blinken, how did President Biden get this so wrong?
With an emboldened and stronger Taliban that has greater access to weapons and technology that we supplied.
Despite the president's promise that the withdrawal of American troops would be responsible, deliberate, and safe, the Biden administration is now trying to explain why the U.S. was so caught off guard.
Breaking news and it's difficult can confirm that a number of U.S. service members were killed at the Kabul airport.
Do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have unfolded in the last two weeks?
I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that's happened.
Afghanistan cannot be used as a terrorist base, but Afghanistan has become a Disneyland for terrorists to plan for every contingency.
Total chaos.
It is heartbreaking.
It is depressing.
It's a failure.
And he needs to own that failure.
I bear responsibility for all that's happened.
He did not admit any mistakes.
He did not offer any change, of course.
He says we're going to continue forward.
He really isn't taking responsibility.
Mr. Biden, you did this.
You made the deal with that Taliban.
This is the consequences of it.
Go to hell, Biden.
Tens of thousands of people being left behind.
There's American citizens left.
We're going to stay on and get them all off.
We did not get everybody out.
Dozens and dozens of U.S. citizens went to the airport and the gates never opened.
The mission hasn't failed yet.
If this isn't failure, what does failure look like exactly?
But there's another to be.
Uh, yeah.
I don't believe this is their biggest problem.
I don't believe a single thing they say on anything anymore because they've lied to us repeatedly.
The worst thing that Congressman Mike Waltz said was this week.
And unfortunately, I don't disagree with him.
And he said, Afghanistan will make 1979 in Tehran look like a sleepover.
That's when they held Americans hostage, what, 52 Americans for 444 days.
We're on day 19 today.
Behind enemy lines, Americans abandoned and now hostage to the Taliban, or maybe at some point, ISIS-K, because I have a funny, sneaky suspicion that they're going to want those Americans too.
Congressman Waltz is with us, Florida native, Florida's 6th District, Colonel of the National Guard, combat-decorated Green Beret, former White House and Pentagon policy advisor.
He's disgusted, just as we are, about all of this.
I want to pick up where we left off last week first, because I think your prediction is correct, and I'll get to that in a minute.
I want to know because you're sharing with us that you know for a fact you're being told one thing behind closed doors, and we are being told a very different thing by the same people publicly.
Is that still happening?
Yeah, absolutely, Sean.
And the point of that ad and just Biden's incompetence and lies, last night I introduced a resolution, a vote of no confidence during our defense bill markup because you have so many Democrats that are outraged behind closed doors, but then publicly are silent.
So I made them vote on it and whether they have confidence in this commander-in-chief or not.
But of course, once again, we saw politics come into play.
Because at the end of the day, I mean, there are going to be investigations and hearings and all of those things to find out what happened, but I want accountability.
I have every veteran, Gold Star family, 9-11 victim coming to me and saying, who is going to stand up and say, I screwed up and not blame others?
At the end of the day, it sits with this commander-in-chief.
But we are still hearing behind closed doors, the intelligence is clear that Al-Qaeda and that Taliban are married at the hip.
They fully intend to attack the West again.
Now they're armed to the teeth to do so.
But when we ask behind closed doors, well, where is this over-the-horizon counterterrorism plan?
Now that we have no bases, no local allies, no troops on the ground, no diplomats even, and no eyes and ears, it's just nothing.
There really is no plan.
I mean, Biden presents like they have this.
When Joe Biden tells the American people we have all the leverage, and Jen Saki says we have all this leverage, and the generals are saying we have all this leverage, why do I see it the exact opposite way?
And that is, no, the leverage they have of the Americans that Joe Biden abandoned behind enemy lines that are hostage to these terrorists.
Who has the leverage, Congressman?
This administration, this president gave them the leverage on a silver platter in the form of hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans.
By the way, they're lying about that number, Sean.
It is far bigger.
I mean, just the number of Americans my staff and the veterans groups are in touch with alone exceed that.
I want to hear this very clearly.
Yep.
That you add in the green card holders, the family.
What do you want this audience to hear?
How?
Hundreds to thousands that are still there.
The children of Americans that are still there.
It's outrageous.
And we've given them this leverage.
They want access to billions in foreign currency.
They want international recognition.
The administration is already saying they're going to send humanitarian aid.
Where do you think, whose hands do you think that's going to end up in on top of all of the weapons that were left behind?
You know what I call that, Sean?
That's all called a ransom.
And paying ransoms to terrorists is illegal.
Providing aid to terrorists is illegal.
And providing aid or anything to an entity that staged a military coup is illegal.
And we are going to hold this administration to account.
And we're going to block and tackle every which way we can.
But we got to get back in charge and get the majority back to really get to the bottom of all of this.
Well, again, now let me ask you about this phone call that now has been revealed with Biden and Ghani.
It shows us that everything Biden was saying publicly about this great Afghan army, the whole world knew that the Taliban was on the march.
And I've done this time-delayed map take over the Taliban, their march through Afghanistan or the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan.
And I've been playing it repeatedly on TV for a reason is because the idea that we have no idea is a lie because they saw them on the march in March of this year, April of this year, May, June, July.
And then now he's telling in July the president that took off and took millions and millions with him.
He's telling him at the time, well, whether it's right or wrong, you just got to get out there and lie and say we're winning.
That's pretty much what he said on that phone call.
Biden in public is saying they have a 300,000-man army that's equipped and ready to fight and that can stand on its own.
Well, behind closed doors, months prior, was asking about the status of the Afghan army, and the Pentagon wouldn't bring the numbers.
I knew that they were undergoing defections, AWOL, morale problems, because Biden told the entire world that we were abandoning them.
And in one fell swoop, he pulled away their air support, their intelligence support, their logistics support, and their maintenance support.
And he knew that they were crumbling.
The other piece, Sean, I met with Ghani the night before he went to the Oval Office to see Biden, and he had two requests that Biden easily could have given.
One was to continue our air support, no troops on the ground, but our air support.
And two was find a way to allow the American contractors that were maintaining the Afghan air fleet to continue to do that.
And I think that would have stopped the momentum, bought us time, and given us the capability to destroy this equipment before it fell into Taliban hands.
Biden did nothing except have that phone call and tell him to tell Ghani to put on a happy face.
It's despicable and it's outrageous.
It's unbelievable to me because you know and I know that Donald Trump would be impeached over this.
Now, of course, we're not going to get any phone calls.
Is there any way you would know the answer to this question?
When the president, when President Trump, before they negotiated any deal, which was conditions based on the ground, which was prior to the fighting season, I know that sounds bizarre to people, but there's an actual season.
It included keeping Begram Air Force Base that we built and paid for.
All of that was included, and it included the threat before any discussion went any further of obliteration.
I've confirmed this with Mike Pompeo, with President Trump, with Mark Meadows.
And that phone call, those phone calls do exist.
Can we get access to those phone calls?
And do we have any way to get access to the Ghani and Biden phone call?
So those phone calls, I worked in the Bush White House.
Those phone calls are transcribed.
I mean, that's what President Trump released and said, there was nothing wrong with my call.
Here you go.
Because there's others listening in.
We have sent demands to the administration that they preserve all documents.
But Sean, you know, really being able to get to the bottom of it with Pelosi and Schumer in charge, I'm not going to lie to you.
That's going to be a challenge.
And we have seen this administration lie and cover up to just a phenomenal extent already.
So we'll keep pounding the table, Sean, to get access to what was actually said weeks and weeks before the fall of Kabul.
There was a whole menu of options of things Biden could have done to stop this calamity, the easiest of which, Which I sent a letter asking him to do was to reapply American air power, keep Bagram air based, take action against Pakistan, which was supporting this entire thing.
That alone would have halted their offensive, bought us time, get our people out and prevent this absolute surrender.
Quick break.
We'll come back more with Congressman Mike Waltz on the other side.
And as we continue with Congressman Mike Waltz, let me go back to how many Americans and Afghani allies are trapped behind enemy lines now because we know they're going door to door.
We know that they're going to kill them.
Now, like you, unfortunately, I believe this could become Mogadishu.
Like you, I believe if ISIS K gets Americans, we could see social media postings of beheadings.
I don't want to even get into the details of where my mind goes because I know evil when I see it.
These are things we don't make up that have actually happened.
Go back to Daniel Pearl.
Go back to the beach scene of all the ISIS fighters, you know, severing the heads off of people.
This is what they are.
This is who they are and what they do.
I don't want this to happen to anybody.
Is there any option available?
And do we have any earthly idea?
Can we finally find out how many Americans are behind enemy lines?
How many Afghani allies are behind enemy lines?
Well, you know, and I'll point out, Sean, that the number two of the Taliban is a terrorist by the name of Siraj Haqqani.
His network, the Haqqani network, they're closely aligned with the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
You know, the administration wants you to believe there's good terrorists and bad terrorists.
We can work with the good ones against the bad ones.
They all intermarry.
They're all intermingled.
Yeah, sometimes factions fight.
At the end of the day, they're there to wage jihad on the West.
They're holding an American hostage.
Right now, they've been holding him for a year and a half.
He's a Navy veteran.
His name's Mark Freyrick.
The thing the Taliban wanted the most was for all U.S. forces to surrender and leave.
You would have thought Biden could have gotten one hostage back for that.
And they still have him.
They have a long-term.
Basically, you think they're going to use this is mostly going to be used as ransom, but there might be some killings to show that they're serious.
Nope, that's absolutely right.
And they have a long history of doing it.
And remember, this is the same crew that led, you know, that's around Biden, that was around Obama, that led to the rise of ISIS and Americans being beheaded on international television in arms jumpsuits.
The Jordanian pilot that was burned alive.
But this crew around a Biden, Sullivan, Blinken, Austin, all of them, believe you can appease terrorists if you just concede enough, if you just give enough, if you're just nice enough, they'll be nice back.
Unfortunately, I'm out of time for this interview, but I want to just thank you for being one of the few guys that have been so open and honest because it's been really hard to get truthful answers.
And I know we're being lied to.
I have enough people that have confirmed that for me repeatedly.
Congressman, we got to pray for our fellow Americans, pray for these allies that they don't get slaughtered.
But we have no leverage.
And I fear you may be right, but I pray to God we're both wrong.
I hope we're dead wrong.
I could say, oh, it worked out.
The Taliban kept their word.
I don't expect those words ever coming out of my mouth, to be honest.
Anyway, sir, thank you for the good work you're doing.
Please keep us informed along the way.
We'll keep up the fight.
Thank you.
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Let's say hi to Phil in Texas.
Phil, glad you called.
Thanks, Sean.
My dad lost his eyesight in Vietnam.
I was seven years old in 1975, and I remember vividly sitting on the living room floor with him behind me, watching the thing in Saigon unfold.
And he could see, or he couldn't see, he could hear the commentators.
And he asked me, son, what do you see?
And I told him, well, dad, they're holding on to the bottom of the helicopters.
And he said, oh, my God, I lost my sight for this.
So when I see the debacle that's unfolded in Afghanistan, and then I see in Dover that sock puppet looking at his watch, looking at his watch, while men and women, noble Marines, are being offloaded.
It made me sick to my core.
And I wanted, you know what, Sean?
Soldiers die.
That's a fact of life.
But when our Marines, the best we have to offer, are used as cannon fodder, that's something entirely different.
So I've got a message for the Biden regime, for all the puppeteers behind the scenes, pulling that empty sock puppet strings.
You keep the names of those Marines out of your filthy, treacherous mouths.
We all say their names.
We all memorialize them.
You have no right.
Keep their names out of your mouth.
I'm sickened, Sean, but when I see the internal and external threats in this country, listening to those gold-starred parents, it breaks my heart.
It breaks my heart.
I feel exactly as you do.
It breaks my heart.
I can't imagine this.
You know, here's the reality.
And I've spoken to them both now, on air and off-air.
They're never going to be the same.
You're never the same.
How could you possibly be the same?
And Biden looking at his watch.
Oh, I share your anger.
Did he have something else more important to do?
Was he looking for his nap time?
It's not even funny.
General Melley, you have no honor, sir.
You do not represent what an officer should represent.
Obama spent eight years fundamentally transforming and reimagining our officer corps, and you're seeing the results of that now.
But he does not represent the overwhelming majority of the officers in the enlisted and the armed forces.
He should be fired from Begram Air Force Base alone and giving that territory up, which, by the way, was not going to happen in the Trump deal.
Just like the Taliban wouldn't have been on the march.
They would have been blown into oblivion.
I mean, the fact that gets me really even more angry, not that I'm trying to work you up, Phil, is all of this was easily preventable.
All of it.
This was not a heavy lift.
It was Americans seeing the Taliban on the march and obliterating them without risking a single American life with the new modern technology we have for warfare.
This was not hard.
Leaving all of that, all of our top weapons behind and planes and blackhawks and drones.
I just like, I cannot believe what a spectacular fail this is.
And listening to this incoherent, mumbling, bumbling, you know, so-called president, he doesn't even know what day of the week it is.
It's heartbreaking to know this.
They lost their kids.
You have kids, Phil?
Yes, sir.
My son is 35.
Yeah.
You lose your kid.
You ever going to be the same?
Never, never.
I look at my grandson every day now and what's unfolding in this country.
And it's hard to sleep at night.
It's hard to get my mind around what kind of country he's going to have.
He's only four years old.
The epitome of innocence.
It's a sad time for our country.
I feel so bad for these families.
I don't have adequate words for them, but I do want them to talk about their kids because these are the best of the best that America has to offer.
This is our American treasure.
I am at the point if we're going to do it, we can never, ever, ever allow this to happen again.
You know, we start out all gung-ho.
Everyone wants to go to war.
Then we go to war.
Then they politicize the war.
Then they put handcuffs on the soldiers during war.
Then they want to bring them up on trial for if they don't make a perfect split-second decision.
And then we leave like this in disgrace.
I can't take it anymore.
We can't lose another limb or another life of an American hero, our national treasure, when we know for certain that these people in Washington will politicize any conflict.
Thank you for the call.
Appreciate it.
Nick is in Florida.
Nick, you're smart.
I'm dumb.
You pay no state income tax.
You have an overall tax rate way lower than mine, and I'm an idiot.
Thanks for calling.
Thank you, Sean.
It's a pleasure to be on your show.
My question today is: as a 23-year-old male living in the United States, should I be concerned with the current president's decisions and actions that he's taken so far?
Yeah.
You know, it's funny.
I guess you get a little bit older and now that my kids are in their 20s, you just beg, your thinking evolves as you get a little older, right?
You get a little more mature.
You have a little more life experience.
This isn't your first rodeo.
You're 23.
You got your whole life ahead of you.
But when you get older and your kids are, you know, turn 20, 25, whatever age they are, you know, you start thinking, okay, what's this country going to be like for them and for their kids and for their great-great-grandkids?
You know, I mean, of course I'm worried about it for you.
It's the reason I'm so passionate about it.
It's, you know, I've gotten fortunate in my life, started with nothing.
I don't really have to work for the money.
I do it because I love my country, love what I do, and I care, and I care a lot, and it's my passion.
And if I didn't do this on this show every day, thank you all for giving me this microphone and on TV every night, thank you all for watching because you make it possible.
I'd be driving around in a car by myself and probably somewhere in Florida and you'd see this crazy old person talking to himself.
That would be me.
So I want to leave the country better for you.
I want America to be great, the greatest country on the face of the earth.
It's not good for the world for America to be in its current condition weak.
The world's in chaos because our allies look to us, whether we want to accept the capital C captain on our jersey or not.
We're the leader.
And when we're not leading, it doesn't end well for anybody.
And that's where we are right now.
We're leaderless, to be very frank.
Now, I'm urging people to do certain things.
Make sure election reform is your top priority this year to have signature verification, voter ID, chain of custody control, updated voter rolls every election.
Partisan observers need to observe the count, vote start to finish, up close where they can see it.
We need that now etched in law in the entire 50 states.
You know, we all, look, these laws weren't followed in 2020.
I'm not getting into the whole what happened in 2020.
The laws weren't followed.
Partisan observers didn't observe.
So that's just a fact.
We can't let that happen again.
The Constitution of Pennsylvania, if you want to change the Constitution, there's a process for that, and it's not through legislation.
So, you know, that's kind of my mission.
I mean, but I will tell you this: take this to the bank, Nick.
I tell my own children this too.
If you set your mind to something, and if you work hard, and if you make good decisions in your life, and by good decisions, you know, make the choice to say no to drugs.
I know it's simple, but don't go there.
Well, weed is legal.
Don't go there.
That's my advice.
And, you know, drink socially.
You don't have to get Adam Schiff-faced.
You don't have to.
You don't have to be the dope throwing up in the bushes.
Love God and your neighbor as yourself.
Follow the golden rule and work your ass off.
And follow your dream working your ass off.
That's what I tell my own kids.
Yeah, dad, I know.
You used to wash dishes.
I know, dad, blah, blah, blah.
They don't want to hear it.
I didn't want to hear it from my parents either.
But I appreciate my parents now more than ever.
Not a day that goes by, I don't think about them and appreciate all they did for me.
You know, what my father was saying to me when he said he couldn't believe how fiercely independent I was, he knew I was working.
He knew that I was going to get in some trouble, but I wasn't going to get in really stupid trouble, which was all true.
I was a little incorrigible at times.
So that's my advice for you.
Work your ass off.
Outwork everybody else.
You want to know the key to my success?
I'm not the smartest.
I'm not the funniest.
That's for sure.
I'm not the, I will say I'm right up there, if not the top at working the hardest.
I am like a marine all week.
I get up out of bed.
I don't sleep a whole lot.
I get up out of bed.
I work out hard.
I'm trying to stay in shape.
I'm stronger than I've ever been.
I then, you know, eat very, very little, if anything.
Then I get right to it.
Sweet Baby James has a pack.
It's about a mile high.
And then I do my reading and my prep, and it's intense.
And then, you know, take as few calls as I possibly can.
I do this show with great passion because I love doing it.
I'll take a little break after.
I'll go get a little bite to eat.
Then I start writing my monologue, which I've already started since, you know, eight o'clock in the morning, throwing ideas out where I'm headed.
And based on the news developments of the day, I want to keep it as current as possible and get the monologue written and put my final dot the final I's, cross the final T's, and I'm ready to roll.
That's what I do all week.
And that's my schedule.
And I'm honored and thankful and grateful to do it.
All right.
Does that help you at all, or am I just lecturing you?
No, I really appreciate you telling me that, and I appreciate you having me on the show.
Let me ask you a question.
If you could pick one thing that you want to do in life, what is it?
Well, I'm very passionate about making music and producing music.
And go kick ass and be the best at it.
That's my advice.
Thank you so much, Sean.
I appreciate that.
All right.
I wish you the best.
God's blessings.
Tom and Santa Barbara, KTMS.
How do I know?
I lived out in Santa Barbara and I was run out of town, frankly, rightfully so.
What's going on, Tom?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, listen, I remember you're talking about your humble beginnings.
I'm about a mile away from where you were on the radio when I was in grad school at UCSB.
And I remember the Sturm and Drung that you created.
By the way, they now brag.
Sean Hannity started his career here.
They don't brag about the part that they ran me out of town, which, by the way, everyone on the air at that college station sucked.
Everybody sounded awful.
Everybody didn't know what the hell they were doing, but I was the only one that was out of his mind.
So anyway, I'm grateful that I had the opportunity.
I really am.
Yeah, you know, as a lone conservative in a graduate program studying history and public policy, hearing you on the radio say, hey, that guy's down over at Stork Tower on TSB.
I was shocked.
I said, how could they let a conservative on the air?
They never would do that.
And it was like 40 hours of unaired broadcasting.
I started on first the campus little AM and then they moved me to the FM and that was the end.
It ended very quickly.
I remember.
But yeah.
Shock jock yanked off air.
I've got it framed.
I had a unibrow at the time.
I can show it to you.
It's hilarious.
Well, it was great.
It was cathartic to hear someone of like mind at the time, and you went on to big things.
But listen, yesterday I enjoyed hearing, and I really appreciated your hearing.
You had on some of the Gold Star dads who lost people over there in Afghanistan.
And, you know, I was sad, but also furious.
And, you know, Sean, it was either a failure of military execution, which it wasn't.
It was either a failure of the Intel community, which it wasn't, or it was a case of the White House putting politics above his job of being commander-in-chief.
And I guess I just want to ask you: do you think the American people understand, you know, and going into the next election and into 2024 as well, do they understand that the main job of the president of the United States, you're not president of health care, you're not president of education, you're not president of, you know, critical race theory.
You're president of the United States, and the main job is to be commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
And he's totally got it, you know, just an historic failure.
Do you think the American people are going to punish?
I'm not confident that they're there where we need them to be yet, but I think we're getting there.
You know, I see Tea Party 2.0, Trump 2016 2.0 all unfolding in November of 2022.
But is it guaranteed?
No, it is not.
We got a lot of work to do.
A lot.
Anyway, my friend, God bless you.
I appreciate your kind words.
You're making me feel old, but 33 years in radio, believe it or not.
All right, Hannity tonight, Nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
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