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Really, really sad when you think of this anniversary now of what happened in Afghanistan.
Remember, Donald Trump, he talked to the head of the Taliban and he's told the story on air.
And others have confirmed it's all true.
And he said to the head of the Taliban, now remember his last 18 months as president, not a single American was killed in Afghanistan, not one person.
And we said to the head of the Taliban, now, before we even begin any discussions about the possible removal, which could have included America keeping control of Bagram Air Base, which, by the way, we built and is strategic, especially as it relates to our number one geopolitical foe, which would be China.
But he said to the guy, before we have this discussion, I want you to know something.
If you move one iota from where you are now stationed and you kill, if one American is killed, I will eviscerate you just like I did the caliphate, just like I did Solomani and Baghdadi and associates.
Now, somehow simultaneously, I don't know if it was an email, I don't know if it was a fax, I don't know if it was a text, while he was speaking to the guy on the phone, sent the guy the guy's actual location at the time of the phone call.
Now, what message was Donald Trump sending to the head of the Taliban?
I mean what I say, and I will blow you to smithereens if you dared to advance.
Anyway, fast forward, Joe Biden is the president.
He accelerates the American troops getting out of Afghanistan.
But what's happening is the Taliban then goes on the march.
They're not afraid of Joe Biden.
And they start moving up, moving up, moving up.
Joe Biden did nothing to push them back, which he should have done.
The net result is the disaster where we lose 13 Americans at Kabul airport, and many Americans abandoned behind enemy lines, and many Afghan allies abandoned behind enemy lines.
$87 billion in military equipment abandoned by Joe Biden because of the idiotic withdrawal.
And then the big lie, which is, I'm not leaving until every American is out.
That didn't happen either.
So now it's the two-year anniversary of the disastrous Afghan withdrawal, and it was an unmitigated disaster.
I mean, there's no other way to put it, an unmitigated disaster.
And it's so sad.
And this guy is, you know, the New York Post had a great piece today.
Two years after Biden's disastrous retreat from Afghanistan, he still won't take any responsibility.
As a matter of fact, he actually calls it a success.
Tell that to the families that lost loved ones because of his idiocy.
Mr. President, when you need a failure in Afghanistan, mistakes, there was a report on Afghanistan withdrawal saying there was failure and mistakes.
Do you want to meet?
There was mistakes during the UI and before.
No, no, all the evidence is coming back to him.
Remember what I said about Afghanistan?
I said Al-Qaeda would not be there.
I said it wouldn't be there.
I said we'd get help from the Taliban.
What's happening now?
What's going on?
Read your press.
I was right.
Read your press.
I was right.
And then he's sending billions of taxpayer dollars to the Taliban, a terrorist organization.
They still have not released Americans that want to get out of there.
I was admitted to by Winkin Tony Blinken like six months ago.
An unmitigated disaster by any measure.
It's pretty unbelievable.
Anyway, let me play a couple other things here.
This is Joe Biden saying, well, we're going to get all Americans out of Afghanistan.
Are you committed to making sure that the troops stay until every American who wants to be out is out?
Yes.
So Americans should understand the troops might have to be there beyond August 31st.
No, Americans don't understand that we're gonna try to get it done before August 31st.
But if we don't, the troops will stay.
If we don't, we'll determine at the time who's left.
And if there are American forces, if there's American citizens left, we're going to stay till we get them all out.
And then you have the former Army medic describing the chaos after the terrorist attack at the Abbey Gate, Kabul Airport, Afghanistan.
Listen to this.
I still carry these horrific scenes of Abbey Gate.
Even the smell.
Mothers carrying dead babies, the Taliban mercilessly beating people and civilians begging for their lives.
The crowd grew more desperate and erratic, and they knew they would be left behind.
On August 26th, after 11 days on the ground, I exited my vehicle near the Abbey Gate.
I took 10 steps from my vehicle and felt a heavy punch to my chest.
I looked up and saw a large plume of smoke and debris shooting into the sky.
Immediately, we ran towards the explosion, and the smell of feces and urine that constantly filled the corridors of H.Kaya was replaced with an overwhelming stench of iron.
Screams from little children, women, and grown men echoed in the tight corridor.
Marines and corpsmen around me fought through tears to provide life-saving aid to our emotionless and severely injured American brothers and sisters.
Over the next hour, I tried to save the lives of countless Marines.
We all tried our best.
It was a nightmare.
An injured Marine with blood-soaked pants squeezed my hand as tightly as he could and looked into my eyes, yelling, I don't want to die, as we took the first truckload of Marines into the hospital.
I reassured him that he would be fine, but as they carried him inside, I did not know if he would survive.
All right, joining us now, Marine Captain, active duty 2001 to 2006, Ry Barcott.
He is a prominent advocate for the Afghan allies left behind after the pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
And Joe Laude, Marine vet, who was there for the evacuation in Kabul and heads up the Operation Allies Refugee Foundation.
Thank you both for being here.
Two years later, Joe, you were there.
What was it like?
First of all, thank you, Sean, so much for having me and allowing me to, you know, and this community to speak on our experience.
The situation on the ground is, you know, when the whole thing was happening, I think the first word that comes to mind is desperation.
And even just that, you can't even put those scenes of desperation into words.
And, you know, just the mere fact that all of this came down to just the final two weeks of August.
You know, the guys and the girls that came out and pulled this all together was very significant.
Amiss the fact that this was such a catastrophic withdrawal.
So for two decades, we had promised the Afghanis that were helping us and supporting us and gathering intelligence for us.
We had told them that if the moment ever came that their lives would be in jeopardy, we'd get them out.
Didn't we make that promise as a country to them?
Absolutely.
And, you know, for the, you know, just the mere fact that we had left them behind, you know, just it enrages me.
It just makes me feel like this mission isn't over until everybody comes home.
And, you know, just the fact that, you know, this administration or the government when we came home and they were just so ready to move on and forget about Afghanistan, it definitely hit hard on the community for sure.
And didn't we leave behind computer information with the names and locations of many of the people that helped us over this two-decade conflict?
Yes, yes.
And, you know, just to add to that as well.
And by the way, and how many of those people have disappeared never to be seen or heard from again or have just been outright killed in public?
I don't have the statistics, but I hear about this every single day.
And it just adds insult to the wounds that we bear the brunt of.
And the fact that this government has just left all of us behind when it came to this situation.
Yeah, and these guys were, Joe's absolutely right.
This is Rybarka from With Honor.
And Sean, thanks again for having both of us on.
You know, our interpreters who fought right alongside our Marine units, our Special Forces units, they were in some of the dangerous, most dangerous jobs in the wars.
In fact, the only higher casualty rates were our brave explosive ordnance disposal soldiers and Marines.
No one else got as hit, as killed, their families targeted.
And the very least that we could do is at least give them, there are over 80,000 Afghan allies who are here in the United States who have been vetted.
And they're just sitting here in this legal limbo because Congress can't get out of the way of itself and actually do the right thing.
And that's why With Honor, our organization, which gets more post-9-11 vets, those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan into Congress, into elected areas across government, is so focused on doing the right thing.
There's a bill called the Afghan Adjustment Act.
Get it passed, get it passed this year.
It takes effort.
It takes folks that are actually going to stand up and do the right thing here.
And that's what we need to do.
Now, both of you are involved in efforts to get Americans that are abandoned out and our Afghan allies abandoned out.
How are those efforts going?
And maybe, Brian, we'll start with you.
Sure.
They are not going well.
They went pretty.
The initial evacuation, as Joe knows, was completely chaotic, of course.
But it was on all hands on deck for the vets.
I mean, the phone's blowing up, but we had a window.
We got it.
We ended up getting 80,000 Afghans to the United States, many of whom served right alongside of us, all of whom have been vetted.
I hear very few examples of Afghan allies that are able to get out now.
There are many that are every day getting death threats.
Some are getting killed, but very little action.
A lot of talk, very little action.
And are you hearing as I've been hearing is that these people are being dragged out of their homes and either killed in the street or never to be seen or heard from again?
Absolutely.
I mean, every day, I'm convinced every day that this is happening.
Do you think Joe Biden has blood on his hands?
Yeah, Sean, I definitely believe that, you know, I think it's time for our president to man up and admit some of these, you know, the responsibility of what happened over there.
I think that's a great first step is to, you know, actually honor these 13 that sacrificed their lives so that others may live.
And then just to add, you know, we're also a part of this organization called Moral Compass Federation.
that represents different, you know, 24 other veteran groups that were so in this mission of trying to help all these Afghans that we left behind.
And so that, you know, this whole promise is, you know, to this entire community of GWAT veterans and our Afghan allies that we owe it to them.
Because if not, you know, if President, whatever the government is doing, you know, it kind of relies on us that they're the front of this responsibility.
Well, you know, I appreciate everything you've done.
And I want to thank you both for, you know, the continued work.
I know you can't talk a lot about it, but I appreciate both of you.
And it's sad that we, you know, Joe Biden considers this a success and the media won't cover it as usual because he's in the Biden Protection Program.
Thank you guys.
Appreciate it.
Is there a way people can help you?
You have a website?
Yeah, please check out withhonor.org.
And for this bill in particular, it's led by Congresswoman Marionette Miller-Meeks from Iowa, a great vet, Republican.
And we need to get this done so you can contact your congressperson and tell them, prioritize this.
Let's get it done.
Appreciate you being with us, guys.
Thanks for everything you're doing.
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We're getting hourly updates from the chief meteorologist of the Sean Annity Show, and that is Weatherbell.com's Joe Vistardi.
Hurricane Idahlia hitting Florida pretty hard this morning, at one point being a cat for hurricane, now making its way through Georgia up until up to the South Carolina coast.
How hard are they getting hit, and how hard will they get hit?
They're looking at Charleston getting hit pretty hard and some other coastal areas of South Carolina.
Yeah, I think Savannah, Charleston, all the way up to Myrtle, Wilmington, probably going to get 40 to 60 mile an hour winds.
The very, very heavy rain goes to the west of the track.
So that track is going to be on the Georgia-South Carolina border, maybe about 75 miles west of Charleston, 8 o'clock tonight.
By tomorrow morning, it'll be located near Cape Fear, North Carolina.
So the interesting thing is along the track, the wind is not going to be that bad until the storm is either with a storm approaching or the storm goes by.
You folks on the outer banks, for about six hours tomorrow, probably between midday and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the winds could be gusting to hurricane force on the outer banks from the north.
Here's what happens.
These storms go inland.
They rapidly weaken in the low levels, but the mid and upper levels stay relatively strong.
As soon as they get back out over the water, everything lines back up, so the wind suddenly picks back up again.
And the problem you have inland is that if you get 40, 60 mile an hour wind gusts with this situation, you have six or 12 inches of rain, trees and power lines are going to come down.
There's going to be a lot of flooding.
The great thing is it's a fast mover.
It's going to be on its way out tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night, and then out into the Atlantic on Friday.
I'm actually a little worried it turns back to the south and tries to produce a big loop, but it would do so as a tropical storm in a week or something.
So the real concern is over the next 24 hours.
What is your advice then for the people being slammed in Georgia and South Carolina?
It's coming their way.
I do find at times there are people that are very reluctant and resistant to leave their homes, if told to evacuate.
I don't understand why, but they just feel like they can ride it out.
Well, I would obey the local FEMA officials.
They know that.
Look, I got to tell you, a couple of years ago, my son and I went hurricane hunting down there with Ida.
And, you know, we rode out the storm and it was, you know, where we were, we knew how to be safe and all that.
But when we were coming back, we got caught in one of the storm spiral bands.
The storm was way inland over Mississippi.
And it is amazing how fast water can rise.
You hear about that stuff.
And that is one of the big things.
If you live next to a creek or a river or something like that, you can get these immense rises very quickly.
Or if you're on a highway and, you know, this just looks like there's a little bit of water on the left and right of the highway a mile later, you're already surrounded.
So, you know, you've got 12 to 24 hours to deal with it.
Rather be safe than sorry.
Fortunately, it is in a weaker state than when it made landfall in that area of Florida that it did.
And by the way, this was a textbook case for intensification.
If you follow me on Twitter or Weatherbell, you saw us from last week talking about this.
This is like out of Penn State meteorology in the 70s as to why this thing was going to intensify.
Michael, the same way.
Ian the same way.
These storms are very interesting, Sean, in that they're very intense at the center, but they're not as big as the old powerful storms, the Donna's, the Carlas, which were much more wide and they had a lot more what we call kinetic energy, impacted a larger area.
But where this hits and where it goes by, it's a fist of fury for a while, and you've just got to batten down the hatches, let it go by, and then you come out.
Most people will be fine in two, three days.
It will not affect the football weekend in the Southeast.
I've had questions about that thrown at me.
It'll be gone by then.
Well, that's religion down in the Southeast.
So a good thing it's not going to impact football.
Joe Bistardi, we'll check back in with you next hour.
You've been amazing today.
And as always, we appreciate it.
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Thanks, sir.
All right, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, April is in Kentucky.
April, hi, how are you?
And we are glad you called.
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you for having me.
I wanted to talk about the GOP, or as I call them, the Grand Overture Party, because they make all these great facade of we're going to do these hearings.
But ultimately, what it's come down to, there's no actions, no discernible actions that the people can see that are aimed at actually stopping what is occurring.
You know, they promised no 87,000 IRS agents.
They promised the release of the J6 videos.
They promised to audit and look at the funds that were going to Ukraine.
And then what happens when we get to that massive debt spending limit, they can't.
The Republicans actually had some strong power there with their numbers.
But instead of getting that money back of unspent money, they put an exemption in there.
If you've merged the funds, you get to keep them.
You know, when it came to auditing the Ukraine funds, they put the person in charge of the committee, and he changes from, well, instead of looking at the Ukraine funds, we're going to look at why do we have so many white males in banking?
I don't care the color of the skin of people in banking.
I care that they're reliable and trustworthy.
Let me answer.
Well, first of all, the Republicans are going to have a big test, and I'm probably going to agree with you.
If I had to predict today whether or not all of them, and it's a slim majority, you got to give, you know, you got to have a reality check on that.
You have, you know, various points of view.
And not every Republican is conservative.
I would imagine that a lot of the things that I would do or conservatives in the House would want to do is not going to happen.
And there may be consequences this time.
That to me has been so far their biggest failure.
As it relates to the investigations, I think they've done a phenomenal job.
And they've done it with one obstacle thrown in their face after another.
DOJ just sent another letter to Jim Jordan, I think, yesterday, saying that they're not going to cooperate and hand over the materials that they have been requesting and subpoenaing.
You know, just like they didn't want to hand over the suspicious activity reports, just like they didn't want to hand over the 1023 form.
I mean, you know, Republicans have slowly, steadily been fighting.
And I think that the evidence, the walls are closing in on Joe Biden and this very real Joe Biden bribery, money laundering, scandal allegations.
This is now a real political problem for Joe Biden.
Well, and I think that's the problem.
They're playing it as a political game instead of realizing these are people.
Oh, no, no, it's bigger than a political game.
The next step will be the impeachment inquiry.
I would make the argument we don't need the inquiry.
I think we have enough evidence there to move straight to impeachment.
Now, the problem for Republicans is they have a four-vote majority.
It's not very big.
So if they don't get every single member on board, now when we get to that point, you will know the names of any Republican that is not going to do their job and hold Joe Biden and the Biden family syndicate accountable because trust me,
people like me will be all over it telling you every name every day because what they're doing, if Donald Trump ever did this, he would be impeached and convicted if he had ever done this.
Right, but that's what I'm saying.
Instead of playing it the political game, the Democrats have set the precedent for local and state prosecutors to start filing charges.
It's time to start putting the Democrats on the defensive instead of letting them constantly play the offensive game.
You've got some prosecutors out there that need to step up.
You have Maxine Waters, who went out there and made these big statements that there's going to be more, needs to be more violence in the streets if Chauvin isn't convicted.
Well, that's influencing a jury.
You had Presley, you had Harris, you had Waters, you had Pelosi out there inciting violence during the 2020s.
Why haven't they been held accountable?
Instead of leaving it all at the federal, start taking some of the steps the Democrats have done.
Oh, I think I would have gone back and I think that's a good idea.
However, if I'm prioritizing, I think the weaponization of the FBI and the DOJ would take priority, and that's Jim Jordan's committee.
And the investigation into the Biden family syndicate, that would take a much higher priority for me as well.
But yeah, should we have had the equivalent of a January 6th committee for the 574 riots in the summer of 2020 that killed dozens of Americans and injured thousands of cops and resulted in billions of property damage?
Yeah, they still have the footage and they can show the pictures of the people that were never arrested.
And we could follow through and we should have justice.
But I got to run.
I appreciate the call, April.
God bless you.
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Brad in Louisiana.
Brad, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Oh, I'm doing good, Sean.
I just had basically a comment.
I'm a truck driver, and all over the country, the conversation I hear the most is that Trump and Biden are going to be the nominees.
And whoever loses is going to go to jail.
And that's what's fueling Volo turnout this election.
What do you think about it?
Well, I mean, obviously, I don't think Donald Trump has fair venues.
I'm beginning to be more optimistic that Mark Meadows and others that have brought this case in Georgia saying that, wait a minute, these were, I should not be charged on a state level when I was acting as a chief of staff of the president working for the federal government.
That would be a federal issue to deal with.
In other words, that Fannie Willis wouldn't have jurisdiction.
I think that's a very strong case.
And I think they can win that.
We'll find out.
It was interesting the way the judge came back.
I believe is asking now for, if there are some actions that were official duties and some campaign actions, does that warrant this being a federal matter and not a state matter?
I think the law is pretty clear on it myself.
And I got one more thing, Sean.
I owe you an apology and the rest of the country an apology.
Oh, whoa, why do you want, you don't owe me an apology for what?
I do.
I do because I voted for Joe Biden.
He ran as a moderate middle of the road.
And the entire time you were saying, don't fall for it.
It's a rule.
He's going to be the most radical president ever.
And I didn't believe it.
And look where we at.
And I want to apologize to you and the rest of the country for not believing you.
I'm sorry.
I definitely accept your apology, but it's totally unnecessary.
I'm glad.
I hope there are more people like you waking up to just how bad things are.
You know who I feel sorry for?
I'm not sitting here wringing my hands feeling sorry for myself.
I'm not.
I'm really worried about future generations, our kids, our grandkids.
I'm worried about the 61% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
I've been there, done that long enough time in my early adult life.
It's not pleasant.
I'm worried about people, you know, for bare necessities, you know, running up their credit card debt.
I'm worried about China, Russia, Iran, and the world in the absence of a real president that knows what day of the week it is.
It's very dangerous for the world.
The world needs a strong America.
And I just want to get our country back on track.
I'm worried that people are just so obsessed with their hatred of all things Donald Trump that they will do anything, you know, to elect Joe Biden.
And that means cover for him.
That means, you know, just flat out lie.
No, he's perfectly well.
He's cognitively well.
Why are you saying something like that?
I mean, I'm still getting people like that, but this is bigger than this is for all of us.
This country needs to be on a much better path.
We're capable of so much more.
And I know, and it could be fixed easily.
All the problems Joe's created, we can fix them all.
Anyway, I really appreciate your kind words.
Glad you've seen the light a little bit, and that's all good.
That means you're growing as a person and you're wide open.
You just are open-minded.
I like that a lot.
All right, quick break right back to our phones, 800-941-Sean, our number as we continue.
Thanks for being with us.
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Chris and Marilyn, what's up, Chris?
How are you?
Sean, actually, I do think Biden knows what day of the week it is.
It's either Ice Cream Day or Beach Day, right?
I think you're probably right.
Hey, listen, I wanted to call on a serious note.
For the abortion issue, I know that before you were talking about Mastriano and how he lost because of life of the mother, rape and incest, which I agree with you on that.
But now I kind of feel like it's going back to, well, if it's just the first trimester, that's fine.
I just feel like we need to stand strong on that issue.
I feel like it's kind of a no-compromise issue.
I mean, we just had this huge victory in the Supreme Court.
You know, why not just stand tall on that, you know, instead of just saying, eh.
I'm just giving you, I'm not talking about the morality of abortion.
I'm giving you political reality.
And in swing states where 20,000 votes is going to make all the difference, if you survey, and I look at polls all the time, suburban moms, Republicans will lose tens and tens and tens of thousands of votes.
And I'm looking at the reality.
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