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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I was aghast last week to read that Biden has sent billions of dollars into Afghanistan as aid.
Um while we know for a fact that there are still Americans caught behind enemy lines.
Uh tomorrow will be the two-year anniversary of the Taliban's invasion.
That's when they captured Kabul Airport.
That's when 13, you know, Americans were killed unnecessarily.
Uh the idea that Joe didn't see the Taliban on the march as they were literally working their way up from the south all the way to the north in Afghanistan.
Every step of the way they could have been stopped.
They weren't.
There wasn't even any warning sent.
And then all of a sudden, last minute, oh, let's try and get everybody out of here.
And then Joe Biden, you know, leaving abandoning Americans after he promised he would never do that.
And in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, even to this day now, he's claiming, oh, I was right about Afghanistan.
Listen.
Mistakes.
There was a there was a report on Afghanistan and withdrawal saying there was failure mistakes.
Do you what you need?
There was mistakes during the withdrawal and before.
No, no, all the other is coming back there.
Remember what I said about Afghanistan?
I said Al Qaeda would not be there.
I said it wouldn't be there.
I said we get help from the Taliban.
What's happening now?
What's going on?
Read your press.
I was right.
I was right.
No, you were wrong.
More recently we heard the testimony of family members and how aghast they were.
One woman in particular, we played the cut last week, you know, meets Joe Biden and Joe Biden says, uh, you know, I know how you're feeling.
Uh came home in a flag draped coffin.
Uh it didn't happen.
Uh another person who was severely injured because he allowed the Taliban uh to take control of Kabul Airport before getting every American and every ally.
Many of these, by the way, allies that had been supporting us during our entire time in Afghanistan, they have been uh let's just say uh removed from their homes, never to be seen or heard from again.
But it gives the definitive account of what was a disastrous with withdrawal.
Um I think it's gonna be, you know, a huge book holding Biden and Democrats accountable, even though they just lie to the American people.
We still have, even according to Wink and Tony Blinken, Americans behind enemy lines that we know they're trying to so-called trying to get out.
Joe Biden had just played it.
We're gonna get all Americans out.
You did not.
He abandoned them behind enemy lines.
Anyway, the definitive account of how the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour and the chaos that unleashed unleashed on the world.
Anyway, Kabul about all of this is uh, you know, it's just heart wrenching.
There are still Americans and organizations that are trying very, very hard uh to get Americans trapped behind those enemy lines out of there.
Uh we're joined by Jerry Dunleavy, an investigative reporter.
He's focused on the Justice Department, the courts, the intel community, national security for the Washington Examiner for half a decade.
And uh he himself has published many groundbreaking stories of national importance uh from China's cover-up of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan to the FBI's atrocious mishandling of the Trump Russia investigation.
James Hassan is with us, a former uh Army captain, graduate U.S. uh.
Army Rangers School, an Afghan veteran who got the bronze star.
He's deeply embedded in the active duty military and veteran community and assisted so many in these veteran-led evacuation efforts of Afghan allies and American citizens, you know, since two years ago.
Uh welcome both of you uh to the program.
Congrats on the uh book.
Thanks for having us on, Sean.
Uh James, let me start with you.
Let's talk about how many do we have any idea how many Americans are still trapped behind uh those enemy lines that Joe abandoned?
I can uh I'll let Jerry speak to specifics about numbers.
We know it was far more than the administration ever acknowledged at the time and still acknowledges.
Uh yeah, the line over and over as we're moving closer to the end date on August 30th was about a hundred.
And it turns out there it wasn't about a hundred, it was it was thousands.
And the most uh uh atrocious part of this is that a blue passport, you know, signifying that someone is a citizen of the United States for a long time was the most valuable document in the world.
Because it meant that if you were captured by terrorists or you know, in a similar situation, that the American government would come to your rescue.
And here, for the first time in history, we had an American government that left, packed up and left, um, and abandoned thousands of Americans to the mercy of you know a stone age terrorist organization.
Um to say nothing of all of the ones who were beaten by the Taliban while they were trying to get through the gates.
Um but Jerry, if you want to fill in some more specifics, I'll kick that to you.
Yes, the only other thing that I would add to that is that uh you know, we President Biden made a promise to get all the Americans out.
He made it after the Taliban took Kabul, and uh of course one of the original sins here was letting it get to that point and the U.S. having to rely on the Taliban for security at Kabul Airport.
That is what we have been pushed down to is just that tiny airport with the Taliban controlling the rest of the country.
The Taliban uh was not uh helpful, and uh it turned away thousands of the Afghan allies that were trying to get out and turned away Americans as well, beating Americans and beating and killing the Afghan allies that we were trying to get out.
And what I can say in terms of the the number of Americans left behind, many hundreds, well over a thousand Americans were left behind when we left in twenty twenty-one.
And there are currently Americans being held hostage by the Taliban.
That's about as far as I can go with that, but there are Americans um still in Afghanistan who are um who have been captured and are are hostages of the Taliban.
You know, and this is the sad thing because the story really hasn't been told except by a few of us that have c you know, platforms and voices in conservative media and and Joe basically got a pass on this entire disaster, don't you think?
Jerry, I'll ask you.
Absolutely.
I mean, you know, there's a lot of questions raised about uh President Biden's um age and you know perhaps his fitness, and I think that you know, some of those questions are are very likely justified, but when it came to the decision uh in Afghanistan,
this decision to rapidly withdraw by September eleventh, the twentieth anniversary, in the middle of the Afghan fighting season, without consideration about how we keep the Afghan military fighting so it can keep the Taliban at bay, and with no consideration about how we get our Afghan allies and Americans out, closing Bagram, uh forcing us to run all this out of Kabul Airport.
This the the the driving decision maker behind all this was President Joe Biden.
Um he might not be the driving decision maker behind everything in the White House, but our book shows pretty clearly that this was Biden start to finish and ultimately this is on him.
Um very quickly, Sean, one of the things that uh we revealed the book is that when Biden first took office, one of the very first questions that he asked in um in a meeting, and we have this someone with direct knowledge, was how quickly can we get out of Afghanistan?
It wasn't how can we do this safely.
It wasn't how can we do this while protecting our allies and evacuating Americans?
It was just simply how quickly can we get out of there?
And the results speak for themselves.
All right, quick break more with Jerry Dunlavey and James Hassan on the other side, the new book Kabul, the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the American Warriors of fought to the end.
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All right, Jerry Dudleby, James Hassan, our final moments with them.
They have the new book out COBL, The Untold Story of Biden's fiasco and the American Warriors who fought to the end.
Uh Joe Biden, of course, abandoned them.
What are the efforts that are ongoing that nobody seems to really know about?
I've heard about it because I know some of the people that were involved in it.
What can you tell us?
Yeah, uh we've spoken quite a bit with with those individuals and and um I want to be very careful in how I answer to um you know protect the works that they're doing.
But I will tell you that uh this is um this is veteran-led.
Uh this is, you know, or you know, intelligence operative, you know, led as well.
I just private citizens in their own capacity.
Um some of them as after the government fell actually uh emptied their own 401k to be able to continue to rescue fellow Americans.
Um and uh it to give you um an example from just after you know a few weeks after the collapse, uh there was uh an American family who uh the father worked for the World Bank and they were they were stuck at actually, you know, by the the grace of God they were far enough away from the blast at Abbey Gate that that they were unharmed by it.
Uh but they were trying to make their way uh to the gates at that time.
And uh they ended up relying on the World Bank to get them out, even after uh contacting a uh an individual who worked for the State Department who helped arrange it in a private capacity because the first time that they tried and they showed up at a checkpoint, uh a border checkpoint between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the embassy didn't show up to to pull them through.
Uh and they watched the Taliban beat people who were trying to escape, and they had to drive eight hours back to Kabul and and try again.
And that's that's not atypical.
Uh not at all.
Well why is Joe Biden giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Afghanistan and the Taliban?
Because that's where the money's going.
Yeah.
Well well, Sean, um this this is a really significant problem because this money um, you know, is supposed to be for humanitarian purposes that the the Taliban is not good at governance.
Um obviously um half the population, the the women, um, all have lost um, you know, essentially all rights that they have.
Uh can't go to school, generally can't work, uh the country is destitute and hungry.
This money is supposed to be going uh to uh, you know, assist with humanitarian aid.
But the problem is that anything that goes on in Afghanistan uh is now they're the Taliban have their fingers in it.
And the uh State Department and USAID are stonewalling the effort by uh the Afghanistan inspector general.
Because the Afghanistan Inspector General wants to know if the money that is flowing in Afghanistan from U.S. taxpayers is making its hand making its way into the hands of the Taliban.
And essentially, State Department and USAID won't answer his question.
And he has concluded that, yes, indeed, the Taliban is siphoning uh US tax money that is flowing from the US to the UN to the Taliban.
Um, and of course, we know what the Taliban is using uh that money for to maintain uh its hold on power to build up its military, and the Taliban is also still uh making payments to the Al Qaeda fighters that are present and training in Afghanistan.
Sean, if if I may, uh I'd like to add one more uh story about uh individuals trapped and rescued by veterans' groups after the uh after the fall because I think the listeners would appreciate it.
And that's about uh the interpreter who saved Joe Biden back in 2007 when his helicopter was forced down.
The Biden administration took a whole lot of heat at the very end when uh this man wrote um yeah, under a pseudonym in a Wall Street Journal begging for help.
And they got a lot of questions about it.
And later on, they they took credit.
He's now out of the country, but they took credit for for rescuing him uh publicly.
When in fact, they weren't even aware that he was out of the country until he was at a safe house in Pakistan.
And more to the point, when that happened, when they were made aware, they immediately state department uh officials immediately went to that safe house, exposing its location, putting everyone else in danger.
We talked to the individuals who are who are running it.
Um took that family, left all of the other stranded ones who've been evacuated as well, and then flew that interpreter and his family out of the country, and then publicly said it was because of their extensive and uh you know long um you know long planned uh efforts, when in fact that nothing has been further from the truth.
Well, we appreciate the the work you're doing.
Uh America needs to hear it.
I can't believe so many people never talk about it.
Uh for the longest time, we're just counting down, you know, day whatever held hostage.
Well, it'll be two years tomorrow.
Uh anyway, Jerry Dunlevy, James Hassan out with the new book, Cobble, uh the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the American warriors who fought to uh uh end this fiasco.
Uh they fought to the end.
Uh thank you both for being with us, Amazon.com, Hannity.com now and bookstores across the country.
Thank you both.
Thank you very much, Sean.
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You know, look, uh, if these companies don't want to learn the lesson from Budweiser and Bud Light, you know, have at it.
But it just keeps Happening, and I'm just sitting here scratching my head.
Okay.
I would imagine that if you're in the candy business, you want to sell as much candy as possible.
Linda, you like candy, but you don't need candy like me, right?
I love candy.
You love candy.
You do have a you even in it's to this day in in your studio, you have candy, correct?
I have a reserve.
This is a very true statement.
Casey, in case you're having a bad day, not caused by me.
Nothing to do with it.
Potentially.
Potentially.
Very rarely is it caused by you.
So Skittles is now the latest company getting pushback.
Uh many people have soured on the popular candy.
Skittles to me, I just the texture is kind of cool, but it's like just a handful of sugar.
I just don't want that crap in my my body.
Anyway, but they have new packaging, LGBTQ packaging, you know, which says pride, etc., rainbows all over the place.
Uh anyway, so they they've gone completely woke.
Okay, now they're getting pushback and people saying they're gonna it's all over the place to boycott Skittles.
And by Saturday night, the first post went up and um was seen it almost instantaneously by nearly two million people.
Anyway, the back backlash ensued after their their title company, which is Wrigley, which in turn is owned by Mars.
Uh they swapped their rainbow colored package for new LGBTQ plus friendly illustrations and messages.
Not sure sure why they doubled down on it, but they did.
And this uh uh new package features colorful illustration on the black and white background and include phrases like black trans lives matter and joy is resistance.
Okay, look, if if they want if they're targeting one specific market, and you know, that's fine.
And hopefully, you know, this is gonna be a profitable endeavor for them.
I have no problem.
But they have the freedom to do that.
And when people that you know, by the way, have reacted very negatively to politics with products are gonna end up boycotting you.
Don't be surprised what the consequences are, because they're probably gonna be it's gonna be an expensive decision on your part.
And just remember, one other fine point that I think a lot of these companies need to be attention to is it's back to school season.
We're about a month and change out from Halloween.
I mean, if you're in any store right now, all you see is back to school, school supplies, and Halloween.
So I'm like, you're deciding to make a statement about this when people are buying snacks for lunches and people are buying snacks for Halloween.
It could not be more dumb.
It's like um when MM's did the thing with the green MM.
Remember, they took her out of high heels and they gave her Adidas shell tops or whatever.
Oh my god.
I'm like, why?
Who uh is that what we're looking when I eat a green MM, is that going to empower me?
I mean, do you wear high heel heels?
Last time I've got to be.
Not only do I wear high heels, I wear shell tops.
I love Adidas shell tops.
I got about 10 pairs of them.
They're my favorite sneaker.
You know how many times I've worn them since they did that?
Zero.
It sucks.
You have to make a stand with your dollar.
Bottom line.
Hear about this lady who had a what she's calling a bad moment on a plane, marketing exec Texas, you know, demanding that she be let off her American Airlines flight from Dallas to Orlando before takeoff.
You know, running up and down the aisle.
I'm telling you, I'm getting the F off this plane.
And there's a reason I'm getting off the plane.
Everyone can either believe it or not believe it.
And anyway, very visibly distressed, saying that there's this mother effer back there and is not real.
Pointing to the back of the plane, causing confusion over who she was concerned about.
You could sit on this plane and you can die with them or not.
I'm not going to.
Anyway, she was allowed to leave the plane before it took off, and anyway, it was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Do we have to does everyone have to change their name all the time?
I have decided I am now calling it Twitter regardless of its name, just so you know.
Anyway, she's first and foremost, she's apologizing.
I want to take full accountability for my actions.
They were completely unacceptable.
Distressed or not, I should I should have been in control of my emotions, and I was not.
I have no she must have seen somebody over there she didn't like or something.
I don't know.
That whole story is very, very strange.
It took them like eight weeks to find her, and the person in the video giving the apology looks nothing like the person in the pictures on the dang plane.
The whole thing is weird.
I uh I don't know.
I'm not sure what that story is about.
Oh man, Lionel Richie fans apparently an hour after the show starts, he's supposed to appear with Earth Wind and Fire, I guess at Madison Square Garden this weekend.
Anyway, abandons the show.
Fans were already in their seats waiting for the performance, blaming it on severe weather, uh, would make meaning he couldn't land in New York.
And anyway, he had been performing his you know, sing a song all night long tour in Boston the night before, four hour drive from New York City, and instead of an apology, he just said he was bummed he can't be there and due to severe weather and being unable to land in New York surrounding areas, I'm unable to make the show tonight.
I'm so bummed.
We're rescheduling.
People already in their seats.
I mean, that would really piss me off.
It really would.
But wait, so the story is he couldn't get there because of the weather.
Yeah, which makes no sense because the people have been seated for an hour.
That's very, very strange.
I mean, if you're gonna have a weather problem, you would have been there long before that.
Why do I think there's more to the story?
There's always more to the story.
Uh all right, eight hundred nine four one Sean on number, you want to be a part of the program.
Uh Bob Long Island, New York next on the all new AM seven ten WOR.
What's going on?
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Great.
I just want to thank you for everything you do, number one, and number two, our prayers go out to the people in Maui.
Uh it was a great conversation you had about Afghanistan.
Just my thoughts on Afghanistan real quick, which was the downfall of the United States on the world stage right there.
That started it, in my in my opinion.
And how we can really get a message out there, people don't listen to politicians.
Well, how we get out there is a guy like Trump who can raise money and bring along all the thirteen people, the parents of these fallen soldiers, and tell their stories, because they know it like it is, I can guarantee it.
They know more than anybody else does about you know what really uh went down in Afghanistan.
It's sad.
I mean, when you really think about it, it's just awful.
It's terrible.
I mean we just and we abandon our uh then they're then they're you know, when they get up and they give them a little time to, you know, bleed their hearts out, but they they have a lot to say, and I guarantee you people in this country want to hear it from them.
I had this confirmed numerous times when Donald Trump was before he even st started any negotiation about a potential pull out, which you know, he'd been very clear he didn't want to s remain in these long, protracted, expensive barn conflicts any longer as president.
And he called the leader of the Taliban, and remember the last eighteen months he was president, not a single American was killed.
Not one.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And he he was and this has been corroborated by numerous people, said to the head of the Taliban, uh, let me be very clear, before we s talk about anything involving a withdrawal.
Well, first of all, he was gonna keep Bagram Airbase, which would have been strategically very smart to keep, and and that would have been ours, which should have been.
We built it.
Uh secondly, he said, let me be clear.
If one American gets hurt, or if you move one Iota from where you are, while I'm while I'm engaged in this pull out, if we have one, uh I will eviscerate you as badly as I did the caliphate.
And I've been told by numerous people that he literally sent over, I'm not sure the means of communication, facts, text, whatever, email, uh, the exact location of where the head of the Taliban was at the moment they were having that phone call.
I think that sends a pretty clear message.
I could take your ass out right now.
That's right.
And a guy like Cash Patel was right there when he did it all.
He knows it.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty pretty fascinating, right?
No, I know your time is short.
Real uh on the air, it's real quick, another thought on this uh appointee of Weiss being the head of the investigation now on on on Hunter Biden.
The problem is that we're having is we're the Republicans are giving the Democrats too much time.
Now that this has happened, th th that was the final straw.
What they have to do is go right from inquiry to impeachment of not only Joe Biden, but also Merritt Garland, to tie them up in court, tie them up in impeachment hearings to give them more more problems to worry about because they have too much time and and too much resource to go after Trump and try to take him down.
And bottom line, all Trump has to do to push off a lot, um and I'm not a scholar.
All have to do, all he has to do is have all his lawyers put together a tremendous amount of discovery, and and I think you you follow me on that, and put it out there to the court.
They'll have to postpone that for a year.
I'm not sure that look, I mean, we had Roger Stone on.
Look at Roger Stone's case.
Yeah, I mean, he was awesome.
I love that guy.
All right, so he had a pre-dawn raid at his house, frogmen, CNN cameras, you know, guns drawn, and uh he was he was literally the gag order was so prohibitive during the trial, and then after the trial, after he's found guilty.
First they say, Well, we don't want to prejudice the jury pool.
Uh, but they took away any ability for him to even go on any social media platform, any radio show, any TV show, and say, I'm innocent.
That would be freedom of speech.
That should not be stifled by by any judge in any jurisdiction at any time.
And uh, you know, it's just pretty pretty simple, but you know, that's not the way it's gonna work.
I'm telling you right now, I don't see a fair trial opportunity for President Trump in New York, in DC, or in Fulton County, Georgia, where they leaked earlier today, uh, and then removed a document about the charges, potential charges of Donald Trump.
Not good on their part.
And why do I believe that was probably an accurate document that's already been uh made up?
Whether or not the grand jury actually voted on it, we don't know.
Appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
Let us say hello hello to JT is in Alabama.
What's up, JT?
How are you?
Hello, Sean.
Thank you for having me on.
Thank you.
What part of Alabama are you in?
I'm in Ozak.
I know exactly where you are.
What's going on?
Oh, good.
I I faithfully watch you every eight o'clock at night.
My wife knows I'm coming in the house and she knows what station to put it on.
And I gotta say, thank you for for opening your series every night with uh with attack on Biden.
Well, by the way, eight o'clock central time, just for those people because you everyone hears me say nine Eastern.
There's one thing you're missing though, and I wanted to talk about Devin Arch's phone calls to uh you know uh Hunter's phone calls to his dad.
Uh you know, you're a pretty busy guy in your in your job.
I know when I had I had my own salesman and I have my own business, I was a very busy person from eight in the morning till uh ten o'clock at night sale reports of this speeches, whatever.
You're taking people out to dinner.
How many times have friends or family called you where you said, I can't take that call?
I'm in the mind of a meeting.
I'm but it happens all day long.
I mean, while I'm doing my radio show, I mean, I have people call me all the time, and I just it's sorry I can't talk now um air.
That's what I'll write them.
I know with my family, my children, I I bet you 50% of the time they called me when I was a salesman, I said, I can't take the call, let me call you back later.
What you're missing is his son called his dad twenty times, and every time he answered the call.
Now, he was the vice president of the United States.
Gotta be the second most busiest job in the world.
Uh you know, the president is obviously the busiest.
I mean, you've got to be on call nonstop, and that was when he had a brain, you know, when he was vice president.
You're telling me his son called him twenty times and he took the call and answered the phone call and talked to the people.
That's telling me everyone.
But remember, Joe never discussed uh his farm the farm business deals with either his son, brother, or anybody for that matter.
Joe said he never met with his son's business partners.
Joe said that the family never got money from China.
Joe said that Hunter Biden has done nothing wrong.
Well, he didn't have any experience.
He was a drug addict at the time.
What did he offer these companies for these millions?
I understand that, but you're missing this.
These calls had to be pre-planned.
He had to call he didn't call them twenty times, he called him forty times, sixty times, saying, Dad, I'm gonna call you up at this time of day, on this day.
You be ready, and you'll be alone in a room because we don't want any witnesses.
You talking to me and talking to these people.
And you take the call because you're going to be the closer.
It's going to be worth 10 million to the family or 3 million or whatever it is.
I don't think he got that deep in the weeds, but he knew exactly what he was doing.
He definitely was the closer.
Remember Barisma.
You know, Barisma was very clear.
They needed DC help.
And Joe gave it to them.
And he got the prosecutor fired.
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