The Glenn Beck Program - America’s on the Wrong Side | Guests: Lara Logan & Sen. Cotton | 8/26/21

Episode Date: August 26, 2021

Live from the Middle East, Glenn gives an update on the situation in Afghanistan: The British Parliament seems to be done with Biden, and thousands of Americans may be left behind. Investigative journalist Lara Logan joins with what she’s heard about why the State Department is blocking rescue landings. Bombs have gone off at the Kabul airport, and mass casualties are being reported. Historian Victor Davis Hanson joins to take a look at today’s “cultural suicide.” Marine veteran Chad Robichaux joins with the latest updates from his rescue missions. America’s on the wrong side of the Afghanistan debacle. Sen. Tom Cotton joins with an update on Washington D.C.’s response. WallBuilders’ David Barton joins with the latest refugee news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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from the Middle East with your update on what is happening at the airport of Kabul it is a national disgrace an absolute disgrace and I believe at some point may even end up being described as crimes against humanity.

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and the death of American credibility. We talked about that for a minute, and he said there is no credibility with the United States anymore. Later, because I was asking this ambassador for help, getting people out, and asking him to make some room in their country for some people, I said, I promise you this, Mr. Ambassador, I give you my word. And then I paused and I said, and I know that doesn't mean much right now coming from an American. And he cut me off and he said, no, no, sir, you have credibility. Your president does not. I was floored to hear this from an ambassador of a major ally of ours. It was tragically sad, tragically sad.

I got off the phone and found out that Parliament, while I was on the phone, Parliament had said on the floor, the ministers of Parliament, had said that they could do no more with the United States. They would not involve themselves in any other operations until President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were gone. That is also shocking. But there is, to me, that's the least of our problems right now. They're, is being overlooked and it is being overlooked by our State Department, apparently under direct orders from the United States White House. We have several sources that are telling us in the State Department

that the State Department is getting their orders directly from the White House. They are telling who comes in and who does not come in through the gates. Last night they said, if you were at the gates and you're on foot, go back and get a car. Why is beyond me? Two nights ago, when I was flying over here, I was told that we had maybe 72 hours. Last night, I was told we had 24 hours, and today I am hearing we are hours away from any access and the opening of any gates. The Americans that are being left behind

range anywhere from 10,000 is the lowest estimate that I hear to as many as 35,000. We just got word that the entire staff at the embassy, which I believe was 1,500, don't quote me on that number. It was a large number. I think it was 1,500. All of the people that worked for us at the embassy, all of them are being left behind.

Those people will be killed. It is shocking what is happening. Last night, rescued by helicopter, there were only 20 that we could get out and rescue. And what I'm being told is actually less than 20. among those still stranded in Afghanistan are 24 students and parents from a California school district. I hope this has changed since this intelligence has come down. Evacquees say that they have been attacked by the Taliban prevented from getting to the Kabul airport.

Those who are not directly in the airport have very little chance of escape at this point. Taliban has stopped all Afghan citizens from reaching the airport. The airport for all intents and purposes is now closed. Earlier I got a message that said the Taliban was gassing tear gas at the gates to try to disperse the crowd. And two minutes later, it was a correction. They said, sorry, we are tear gassing to disperse the crowd at the gate. The possibility of an imminent attack, perhaps within hours, has been looming over Kabul's airport. This, according to Great Britain, I've seen several notes reporting the Taliban asking for

intelligent organizations to give a list of their employees and affiliates. Now, what this is is the Taliban saying to us and our intelligence, organizations, please give us a list of the people that are going to be coming to the airport, and we'll guarantee their passage after the 31st. Now, please tell me, dear God, that no one is dumb enough to give them a list of people that we should expect to be let through their gates, or that the Taliban would help to evacuate. The Taliban wants the Turkish military out, but wants them to leave personnel behind

to run the airport operations after the 831 withdrawal. But that is, the 831 withdrawal is a pipe dream. Pipe dream. The airport is closed right now. And the reason why it's closed is because, we are now evacuating our military. By the end of the day, I don't know how many military personnel will still be there. We got word last night that they were starting to move our military out within 24 hours.

We haven't been able to move any planes. I'm just waiting for word to see if we We got one plane out last night. It was turned around in midair. That's the reason why I was on the phone with an ambassador last night. It was turned around midair. It had women and children, 300 women and children on board. I don't have word yet if that is still sitting on the tarmac or if we have gotten it out.

We have a major story that I am waiting to, I'm holding until we know all of our people are off the ground and there's nothing else we can do. I will tell you that yesterday we've had several countries that have been willing to take people. And suddenly, for some reason, these countries are no longer willing to take people. and the State Department's no longer willing to vouch for anyone. Last night we had one country that remained open and that was Macedonia. And when we contacted Macedonia, we were told a State Department official told the ambassador in Macedonia not to take any of our refugees. The State Department and the White House are the biggest obstacle. in saving people.

I wish I could tell you the names of the countries that are assisting and taking people temporarily. But they want no credit. They don't want their names uttered at all. And it's a shame because the world should know who these heroes are. But they don't want any information out about them because they, believe that they will come under attack because the world is now negotiating with terrorists. That's the general update for today. There is much, much more to tell you.

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that we may have to shepherd, so I may be here a few days longer than I originally suspected. It is dicey all of this. Everything is fluid. And we're trying to make sure that we only tell you the things that we can confirm from more than one source. Even if it is our source, we want to make sure because things are so, just so fluid right now. And it is none of this, none of this makes sense. there is an estimate that at least 300 Afghans are in imminent danger of being targeted by the Taliban for associating with Americans and anybody who associated with the U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.

So you know, when we began raising money, what day is it over there, Stu? Is it Thursday? Yes. When it's, yeah, when it's, I'm sorry, it's at the very end of the day, it's, I don't even know, 7 o'clock or something here. At the end of the day, on Wednesday, we asked to raise $20 million to be able to get, we hoped, three to five thousand people out.

Well, we can tell you that the Nazarene Fund directly has brought 2,000 people out of Afghanistan. We're waiting. We have a plane that is loaded and ready to go and it has mechanical problems and it's on the airport, tarmac in Afghanistan. We are trying to get that one repaired. It may be our last flight out. There is another flight. One of our partners is Mighty Oaks. They have been doing incredible work. They have another point. plane that needs to get out of there as well. And when those two planes are out and on the tarmac, we will have a total of 5,000 refugees that we have rescued in just the last few days. And we are so very grateful to you and to everyone else. I can tell you, I think that the people on the ground, I don't know this for sure. but I think the people on the ground probably feel a little like Oscar Schindler

when at the end he stood and he looked at his ring and said I could have sold this ring how many people could I have saved with just this ring because it's hard to feel the victory in any of this because there are so many at the gates and so many we know are going to be targeted. We also see what is coming for the Afghanis. It's been a week since any of the banks were open. The Taliban took over and the banks closed down.

ATMs are dried up in Kabul. Everybody now is strapped for cash. the food prices are beginning to rise. There is going to be a hunger problem next. As they're ordering now that no dollars can be taken out of the country because there is a national cash squeeze, the Taliban spokesman declared that they will take action against any Afghans who are trying to take dollars out of the country by air,

or land. The cash would be seized and you would pay a high price. But also, I want you to know, we didn't get a chance to mention this yesterday. They are vowing to take into consideration and fight climate change. So we have that from the Taliban. You can, you can,

don't you, that make you feel good, Stu, that they're going to fight climate change. Makes me feel great. You know, they've, in the past, fought climate change as well. When they've murdered lots of people, the less people breathing, the better. Because each person has a carbon footprint, Glenn. So they've been able to help that in the past.

Yes. Yes. It's a controversial approach, but it is backed by science. So can I ask you, Stu, back at home, I mean, I left on Monday. It seems like it's been weeks. Or did I leave on Tuesday? No, I left on Monday. What is the feeling back?

back home? What is the coverage back home? Are people still paying attention to what's happening at the airport? They're definitely paying attention to what's happening at the airport, yes. There is an attempt by the White House to rework the narrative, to be kind, and to try to make it seem as if they're doing something impressive, as if this is a good thing. Oh, they are. Oh, they are. I mean, it's impressive to take the reputation of the United States and flush it down the toilet to where our closest allies want nothing to do with it. Yeah. It is, it's quite an impressive move to trap all these people right into like almost a, almost a cattle shoot, you know, of getting the most vulnerable and trapping them right into the arms of the Taliban. So it is impressive

what they're doing. It is impressive. One of the narratives they're trying to push out is that they were evacuating a lot of people. And they're saying they're, they're giving numbers for the quote unquote coalition. So it's not exactly clear what, what we're responsible for. But they're saying something like 70 to 80,000 people have been evacuated total. Now,

it's interesting because I think it was Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC. I think he's still there who said that, you know, he's like, you know, people evacuated. from Afghanistan after Kabul fell, 70,000 people who were evacuated after the fall of Saigon, zero. I think he thought this was a good point for Biden. But like my understanding of this process is you try to evacuate your people before the city's fall. Do I have that wrong?

I don't. No, you have that absolutely right. Yeah. Before the city fell, we got everyone out. now the city has fallen and it's almost impossible to get these people out. Yeah, you don't wait until after. The word from the State Department now is

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I just want you to know. We'll talk about this later, but I want you to know. The discrediting of the Nazarene Fund and probably me and this program is coming because we are not making friends with the State Department. We got a tip today from a news organization that had somebody inside of a government, a government organization, and they said that there was a meeting today. about us and the warning was they're coming. And I know that and that's fine. And what we're doing here is we believe God's work and so be it. If this is the end of our career, my career, it's fine. I am totally fine with that. I just want you to know that awful things are going

to be said in the future. I hope not. I hope not. but they're not going to let us sit here and do what we've done without ramifications. Laura Logan is with us now. Hello, Laura. How are you? You know, again, I'm very glad to be here, and I will tell you, I don't care what they say. I will stand by you in the Nazareem Fund, because the only people right now who are more evil than al-Qaeda and the Taliban are the State Department. and the agency and all the others who are doing everything possible in their power to prevent

decent Americans and good people standing up for our allies and rescuing people and saving them from certain deaths. And I've been up all night working this for eight days and it is reprehensible. So Laura, people don't understand what, how can the State Department do this? are they doing exactly? What is the White House? How are they thwarting? Can you share some examples? Oh, yeah, easily. So because I've been doing this all night. So, well, for example, I have had, like I had 150 people, families that I ripped out of their homes with children and everything else, all of whom are targeted for death because they worked with 60 minutes or they were legendary, you know, in the military and war for the Taliban al-Qaeda.

And as the plane was coming into land, my American Special Operations contact told me that they had been denied clearance. So suddenly out of nowhere, when they had clearance before, they denied clearance. The pilots, and I will tell you, there's so many operators on the ground who are just outraged at what they're being asked to participate in and be part of this betrayal. And so the team running the operation said, no, we're not going to do it. We're landing anyway. And they went to look without a landing strip and without lights for a place to land.

And they were coming in. And they were threatened that they would be shot down. So they had to, you know, they had to circle and they were running out of fuel. And they've gone back to another country. And they're trying to get the clearances again to come back in and being blocked by the state department. Yesterday, the state department changed again. the evacuation paperwork. They changed the paperwork.

You're in the last few moments. I'm going to tell you now, Glenn, I heard all through yesterday and through last night that by nightfall today in Kabul, which is not far away, they would be gone. We have reports of the 82nd Airborne, you know, evicting Christians and American citizens and others from the airport and bulldozing checkpoints.

We have reports of build it shut, which, of course, I can't confuse. firm from a distance, but there's been multiple. I will tell you, we have those same reports, Laura, so there's a second source. We have the same reports. And I just, I got to tell you that, I mean, I have literally got photographs, a woman, wife of a DEA agent with a child at the checkpoint, battered and beaten and bloody, who's fought her wait to get there.

We've got special operators, special operations guys and Marines who are out there, rescuing people, risking their lives. only to get to the airport and be denied access by the U.S. government, whether they instruct the Marines or the 82nd on the gates to shut them down, whether they shut down the Marines. Right now, one of my contacts that I've been working with for days said that he's had, you know, dozens and dozens of messages to the Marines have now gone unonset. They stopped talking to him, everybody's scrubbing their packages, and they're on their way out. And, you know, now there's reports of a suicide bomber and gunfire.

which families that I'm in touch with on the ground witnessed. I was talking them through it and trying to keep them calm. But I tell you what makes me so angry. They're going to, you watch, they're going to say that they had to shut everything down early because of the threat level. And it is doing this and shutting it down long before that even happened. And even more reprehensible and dishonest. This is how disgusting these people are.

They are now trying to say that Saraja Khan, the deputy leader of the Taliban, right, whose brother, Anas Akani was sitting next to Zolmi colors at the U.S.S. presidential envoy at the talks in Doha, that they have separated from the Taliban, and they've gone with ISIS-K. You know why they're saying that, Glenn? You know why they're making up that absolute lie? Because they know they've been called out. And I was one of the people that called them out. So was Tom Jocelyn at the Long War Journal and a bunch of others because the Haqani network is a foreign terrorist organization designated by the U.S. government in 2012, and it is illegal under U.S. law to negotiate or support terrorists to provide any kind of support for them in any way

whatsoever. And now that it's been called out, look, lo and behold, how convenient, how convenient that suddenly the deputy leader of the Taliban has split away, I don't believe it for one single second. In fact, I'll put my life on it, that that is an abject lie. Even if they say it themselves, that's a deal that they struck. When the head of the CIA went and met with Mullah Baradir, the man that they chose to lead the Islamic Emirates. And by the way, guess who they chose as their intel chief? The guy is going to be in charge of intelligence for the Taliban. His strongest ally is who, the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary God. He ran training camps for the Taliban inside Iran and he and the new head of IRGC are bonded at the hip and the one of the chief political

advisors of the Taliban in Kabul right now advising Molobar there is the other person in the Taliban who is close to IRGC. They're two top Iranian contacts and you watch out Israel and Taiwan and all of these countries all over the world because right now America's enemies are coming for us and all these people are going about their daily life in America and they want to talk about this and they want to talk about that and they just want to pretend that Afghanistan is not happening. You wait. Isolated on the world stage, we are defined by betrayal and drenched in the blood of Afghans and American citizens. And I've got soldiers, Special Operation soldiers, veterans, some of them 10, 15, 20 tours, vomiting last night, vomiting.

when they realized what they were being asked to participate in because this betrayal is an historic shame that will define the United States until the end of time for as long as we still have because it is part of a greater assault on this country that will ensure the end of America, the end of the American idea, and act as a warning to anyone all over the world.

Don't believe in it, don't fight for it, don't stand by it because they don't even believe in their own idea. Look at them. Laura, I can't, first of all, everything you say is true. I mean, I believe every word that you just said is, is accurate. The, the, the, what people don't understand. And it was shocking, shocking to me how many times in the last 24 hours since being here, I have heard former allies say, we're done. We're done. You know, to have parliament yesterday

discuss the fact that they will not come to our aid or perform any operations jointly with us until this president and vice president are out. I've never in my lifetime heard anything like that

from England or any of them. France is still currently out there saving people. Britain is staying behind after we leave tonight. We're going to leave. Why are we leaving before the 31st? When our allies are still on the ground. Glenn, I've got even bigger questions for you.

Why are we accepting that this is set in stone? Why are we accepting the most humiliating defeat at the hands of a terrorist organization aided and abetted by our allies. Did you see what the Pakistani president, Imran Khan, said? He literally said that the Taliban had been freed. The people of Afghanistan have been freed from third to the U.S. Do you know that since 1951, 70 years states have been funding billions of dollars?

Why are we sending Pakistan to finance the Taliban and Hakani and al-Qaeda to kill American soldiers on that battlefield, why are we not acknowledging our Afghan allies, the former vice president, Amul al-Azala, who is now acting president, who is fighting right now? Why are we pushing the Taliban's propaganda narrative that all the Afghans surrendered

and that the Afghan army and the special operations, they're worthless? All that money spent in all those years, and look at them, they're so useless. How many times have you read that or heard that? and it is an abject lie. Yes, there were soldiers that gave up, but there were many units that say to their ally,

why would you do this? Why would you take a highly specialized special operations force trained by the best operators we have that relies on mobility and in one moment, strip it of all of its mobility, the U.S. air support. And at the same moment, take all of the maintenance contractors that have kept the Afghan Air Force in the skies and strip those away.

And then at exactly the same moment, take away all of your auxiliary support that goes with that, your soldiers, your bases, your logistics, your supply lines. Why would you do that? And show me the army on earth that could possibly have all that stripped away from it in one moment. And I'm not saying they didn't have warning and they didn't know. That's not the same thing as having a replacement structure already there that's functioning and working. And also what people shouldn't be deceived by and shouldn't fall for is that, anyone who's saying what I'm saying right now isn't saying that we had to stay in Afghanistan forever or that the U.S. can't withdraw with special operations counterterrorism component we could still be doing as support

we could obliterate the Taliban literally obliterate the Taliban leadership their forces are all out in the open you know why because they're literally standing there laughing at you dancing on America's grave that's what they're doing they don't and the Taliban doesn't fear you and al-Qaeda doesn't fear you and Hezbollah doesn't fear you and Hamas doesn't fear you. The Iranians don't fear you. And neither do any of our other adversaries. Neither does Pakistan, neither is China. None of them. So you watch, Americans have, you know, they have had this false sense of security. They've gone off in the world knowing this, this invisible shield that we've had around us, that we're all protected by the power and the moral authority of this nation. Because the idea of freedom,

is the idea for which we are all, all prepared to fight and live and die for, right? That's the idea because we believe that this is a noble idea and it's worth fighting for. As Amulah, the acting president said to me in an interview just before all of this happened, he actually said to me, called me one day and he was worried because we have friends and I've known him for many years. So if the light goes out in America, it goes out everywhere. Then the whole world is plunged into darkness. It cannot go out in America. And, you know, that is what we're looking at, plant.

The light has gone out in America. It's not gone out in our hearts and souls as Americans, you know, and as people who believe in this. But if we don't stop what's happening now, then we are dying with it. So, Laura, I can't thank you enough. I have to run for a network break. I'd like to talk to you some more on this. Thank you for all of your hard work. We just got in that there is a large explosion at Abbey Gate at the Kabul Airport.

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off at one of the gates. We believe this is the English gate. I would imagine it's named after the Abbey Gate in Kent in England, but I'm not sure there's the American Gate, I believe it's the German Gate and the American English, German and American Gate. I think this is the English. This is a very, very bad situation, and it's happening just at the time when our last military are loading up and taking off. Our allies are being left behind. Americans are being left behind. This is a very, very bad situation for America. The ramifications are too enormous, I think, to even begin to speculate, but I'm going to ask somebody who's far smarter than I am, Victor Davis Hansen to tell us historically the comparisons and where he thinks this goes next.

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sitting on the tarmac right now. I don't have word if it is taken off yet or not. It had mechanical problems. David, is it still on the tarmac? Do you know? As far as we know, still on the tarmac. We also have one of our partners in this is Chad Robichow, who's supposed to be with us from the Kabul airport in about half an hour. I believe he and his team are still down, and I will ask him to tell you a story that happened last night, and God forbid this is going to change. This explosion could change everything.

when you hear the story of what happened with our 81st Airborne a while ago. Okay, let's go to Victor Davis Hansen, who is on with us, who is a historian and a really great political, conservative thinker. Victor, how are you, sir? Very good. Thank you for having me, Glenn. You bet. We just got this news about this explosion, and I'm here in the Middle East, and it is, I'm having a hard time concentrating because I'm thinking about all of the people that are on the ground and what all of this means. Can you war game this out for us?

What does this debacle over the last week in Afghanistan? What is this going to do to America? Well, there's a lot of historical context, Glenn. The amount of military hardware and equipment that we lost is enough to supply Israel with our current military aid for 35 years. So people don't have any idea. So we've got to keep that in context. I can't think of any historical parallel where the United States military abroad working in concert with its contractors, that supplied them, that fed them, that offered security in some situations when they're off duty.

I've never seen a situation where the military pulled out first and left them defend for themselves. I've never seen a situation where... I've never seen that either, and I cannot think of a reason we would do this. I mean, we have people still on the ground. We have humanitarian efforts still on the ground, and they are pulling out before we are. Why? I think it was because he arbitrarily defined just made a construct out of the idea that whether we are in Afghanistan or not would be defined narrowly by troops only.

And so he often even, you know, he slips and lets the truth come out when he says, well, if they don't want to come out. So in his vision, once the last American soldier is out, then he's done and he can say before 9-11, I'm the president that got us out. but all the other people didn't want to come out. And I think that's what he's been thinking of. And so it's kind of crazy. We've never had the situation before either.

And then we've never looked at casualties and fatalities in terms of how many people did not suffer. It would be like Lori Lightfoot telling us this weekend, we had 100,000 people in Chicago that weren't shot. Now, that's nice, but it doesn't tell us how many people were shot. So we're told, this is how many people got out. This is how many people got out. But they never tell us how many people are left there. And so we have no idea.

That's what we're worried about. We like the idea that we're bringing people out. But the key number is how many people are left there? Where are they? How can we get them out? And you get the impression that once we're out, i.e., the military is out, we could have a thousand Bo Bergdahl situations all over the country. And we know that just one person who, you know, left,

this post under dubious circumstances, probably treasonous circumstances, paralyzed the country to hand over for, to imagine we could have a magnitude of that several times over. So I have talked to people on the ground. I have talked to leaders of ambassadors of other countries. And, you know, last night, Parliament was talking about how they will not do any joint operation with this administration that they are done. We have betrayed all of our allies. England is still, they're still on the ground.

They're not leaving when we're leaving. They're at least staying till the 31st. I don't know why we're pulling out was still days to go before the 31st. I don't either. I don't know why we handed over the most valuable piece of strategic real estate in the Middle East, the Bagma Air Force base. It was defensible. It was the logical nexus where if we wanted to continue to graduate withdrawal, we could have done it all summer long, all fall, without any worry because it was secure.

We had 100% air superiority. So that made no sense. As far as the NATO allies, on a lot of key initiatives, they were starting to bristle before this. And that is they did not want to join Joe Biden in sort of clamping down on Chinese mercantile things. and a lot of Chinese expansionism. They were very wary, the Germans particularly, about confronting Vladimir Putin's aggressions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. They were very wary about not getting back into the Iran deal.

They wanted to get back in the Iran deal. And so on all these issues that we thought we were going to have a common front, they're all going to start freelancing. And I don't know how you get them back on the same page. And it's highly ironic because Donald Trump, After forcing them to pony up another $100 million and promised military preparedness was ostracized and caricatured as the anti-Natal person, he actually made the alliance stronger, although they might not have liked it publicly. And Biden was supposed to restore this international fervor among all the members, and yet he's almost destroyed it. If you were, I asked Neil Ferguson this the other day, and you both are historians,

If we continue on this track, put yourself as a historian 50 years from now. How do you write about this time period? What do you say? It's a cultural suicide. In other words, if you look at all of the stuff of civilizations that make it thrive and continue, we're all there. We have the top universities in science and math and professional schools in the world by far. We have, we're energy self-sufficient.

We're the second largest and most efficient food producer. We have the longest constitutional democracy alive right now. We're the only multiracial democracy it's ever worked in history. So by any standard of assessment, this shouldn't happen. It's happening, and it's happening because we are, since the last year and a half, as I see it, this woke suicide has pitted one institution against the other, one race against the other. And we can see it in the Joint Chiefs. We see them taking their eye off the ball and looking at white, whiteness this and whiteness that. We've had retired military violate their oath

in the uniform corner military justice not to disparage the commander in chief. They said vicious things about the president in the past. We've got the CIA compromise, the FBI compromised from these years of investigation that they were weaponized, same thing the IRS. Part in the fact of much more than 1968, more like 1860. And we're even getting that geographical force multiplier where people have come to the conclusion that work, Seattle doesn't work, Minneapolis, doesn't work, I'm moving to Utah, Texas, etc. Where are we getting these vast migrations where we're self-selecting? And if that continues, we're going to have a red country and a blue country.

And so it doesn't have to be this way. And I think a lot of it is that the hard left took over the institutions of the corporate boardroom, the university, K through 12, social media, traditional media, Silicon Valley, entertainment, the foundations, Hollywood, the majority of the population, they feel that they have the money and the cultural influence to affect these changes, whether it's on the border or the, these are Jacobins like the French Revolutionaries. They have seized control of the things that make America work. are not. So this is what they, this is what they said back in the 1960s when they went back to to analyze, you know, where did they go wrong and what do we need? They realized they needed corporate institutions. They needed to be in the boardrooms. They needed to be in positions of power to be able to complete it. Do they succeed this time? Yeah, they did. They brag about it. But do they succeed? Do they succeed in the end? I mean, I mean, are we, is this a sealed deal or are there ways to turn this around?

No, I think people are resisting and I don't think they have a majority. I think you're going to see it a very close California recall. The idea that just six months ago, the two book-in governors, the pillars of progressive governance at the state level, Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo would be, Cuomo's gone, and I think Newsom may well be gone. A lot of Hispanic voters here in California. that are Democrats do not like him for a variety of reasons of which we just talked about. And so I think the midterm elections are going to be a pushback. These special elections are being a pushback.

But everybody's got to get galvanized. I think that's why they're so panicky that they're changing the demography at the border. They want to have a national voting law. They're talking about one vote, Glenn, from getting rid of a 150-year nine-person Supreme Court, 180-year filibuster, 233-year electoral college, 60-year 50-state union. So all of these can be done or massaged by the Congress, and they're almost there, and they want to do it because they don't have popular support. So they want to change these institutions.

I can't thank you enough for being on with us. Thank you and keep up the good work. That's Victor Davis-Hanson. we have some more breaking news for you, and I believe we are going to talk to somebody at the airport in Kabul here in just about 10 minutes. I hope that's not the case, but I think that's where he's at. I hope he is off the ground,

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We don't know any more than that. It is a suicide bombing. There is one infant that we know that have been killed, but they are hauling people around in wheelbarrows right now. This is this, I don't know how this is America. I don't know how, but our administration right now is loading up our airplanes and they are loading up the 82nd Airborne.

They are loading them up. And I know members of the 82nd Airborne. I know our Marines. There is no way they are happy about this. I cannot wait to tell you a story, but I'm not going to do it until I know our people are off the ground. But if you think you've even been close to angry, wait and tell, and I'm going to name names. It's not, it's not mine to tell. We have somebody who is on the ground, and it's their place to name names because they witness.

it and so did others. But I will do everything I can to make sure that that individual is held responsible. Blood is on their hands. I would just ask that you would pray

hard for all of the people all over the world. I'm expecting in 90 minutes to get a briefing on something we are needing to change tactics last night. I said to David Barton from wallbuilders who is here. We're going to talk to him in a few minutes. I said to him earlier, I think this is why

we're here, because we, not coincidentally, I mean absolute divine providence. We happen to be at the right place at the right time and somebody who made the cut on coming over on the plane that I honestly wondered, why are we bringing this individual? But it just felt right that he was with us. And he happened to be the key on something rather massive. And there is divine providence. God is involved in all of this. But I am telling you right now, so is Satan evil. is powerful right now. And I testify to you that we are going to become the darkest most evil

nation to ever, ever be on the face of the earth if we don't turn from this now. If we don't soften our hearts and turn ourselves back to God and plead for his forgiveness, we are still responsible for what our government is doing because we elected this government. We chose this evil. And we must beg for forgiveness and then do everything we can to be good and worthy of blessings because we are going to need them. Please pray for peace. Pray that your heart is softened and pray for a shorthy. shield against evil.

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where our good friend and the founder of Mighty Oaks is on the ground. Hello, Chad. How are you? Good, Glenn. How are you? good you're still at the airport in Kabul actually I'm I'm out I'm in the same neighborhood you are out so yeah okay good I've been worried

we still have two of our guys there and what about the airplane what about the airplane that was full of people I don't want to tell that story that's your story to tell if you're ready to tell that I'm just worried about those people people. Yeah, man, I wish I could. It wasn't an airplane, it was buses. And I wish I could say it right now. We have to get our guys off the ground first. That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. So tell us, tell us what you know, Chad. Tell us what the situation is like. You were there earlier, I know. Yeah, we have, you know, us together with the coalition we have with what you guys are doing in Nazareen Fund. We got 5,200 people off the ground.

And that's, you know, so it's one of these stories that, you know, it's tough to reconcile because you have this one side of you. It's so happy and joyful. I just got back from the humanitarian center where we've been bringing people in the country that we're in. And I got to see these people that I'm looking around and it just overwhelmed me. And I got just so emotional because, you know, we've been. We've been working hard so hard all week. You know, I've only got six hours of sleep in the last five days. And we've been working so hard and we've been working so hard and walk in to see these people and know that they have a chance.

They have hope. And she was little kids. And I got to see my interpreter that I got out in his family and his kids ran up to me and hugged me. And I was just so emotional and overwhelmed. So there's this sense of joy. But then there's also this sense of what we, you know, what we've seen in Kabul where you have people left. American citizens left. People were still in sewage ditches

trying to climb their way over Constantino wire, throwing their kids. I didn't see it, but one of my buddies Joe saw three babies dead in the Constantino wire where moms tried to throw their babies over to Constantino wire or moms or dad trying to throw

their babies over to Constitina wire just hoping you know, rather give away their baby than have it be under the Taliban and the babies got tangled up in the Constitia wire and we're dead in there. And, you know, and now we're hearing reports of dads shooting their daughters, not because they want to kill their daughters, because they don't want their daughters to endure the suffering of the Taliban.

And it's just a horrific situation, and the Mahard just breaks, and those people are just still, they're left there. And we did it. Our government, you know, I've never, as a proud American, as someone, And I'm the most patriotic guy I think I know and to ever feel embarrassed and ashamed of our country. I sat in front of this morning. I sat in a conference room and had four generals from a foreign military, amazing nation that had helped these people. 18 lawyers, their minister of interior, the minister of foreign affairs.

And I just thanked them for helping us, but I also had to apologize for our country and putting them in a situation. and putting them in a situation to have to help. And now our country, most importantly, I think all you're listening to you to hear is we still are not doing the right thing.

The White House is still stopping people from doing the right thing. Our state department is paralyzed. They will not move these people. And they put it on the entire rest of the world is participating in its humanitarian crisis. This is not a political statement about your Trump versus Biden

and all that stuff that everybody's been caught up in the last years, not when the strongest greatest nation in the world behaves us. I had a phone call with an ambassador of a country last night, and I had exactly the same, same conversation. And I was amazed at how this country, A, dismissed America now, just as they're just, you know, we don't, we don't trust anymore. but also who would not dwell on it, said, but that's a different story.

This is about saving people. And here's this great country that wasn't playing politics at all, didn't care, doesn't want any of the credit. And they are moving heaven and earth. And because of our State Department, their hands were tied. Yeah, we're talking about the same country, and it's like, I'm looking at these people.

I'm looking at their military. I'm looking at their government. The volunteers, the workers, they're feeding these families. I went in the humanitarian center today. There's doctors and toys for the kids, and it's amazing. And I'm like, you people are incredible. Like, they are so amazing to be treating these refugees this way. they feel like they're in a home right now.

These people feel like this is not a tent city. It's beyond unbelievable what these people are doing. And our government won't do anything. They won't lift a finger to help. I think I'm at the place that you are without being able to see the humanitarian side of it because I'm kind of boxed in and not allowed to go to some of the places that you are. and I am, I can't tell you the, when you're only seeing the bad side, I feel such empathy for our soldiers. Because this must be the way they feel.

Because there's like, it's just the walls close in on you. And you're like, what is happening? Well, I mean, how these young, obviously, you know, my Yokes Foundation, you know me, like, There's nothing more a love and support. I've committed my life to America's military warriors. So I love our troops. But our military is not doing the job of the military right now. The State Department took over to NEO,

and the NEOD, the NEO, the non-combatant evacuation operation, which is a DOD function. The White House gave it to the State Department, and our State Department is using our military, like Embassy Security. They treated that airport. They have no business. They don't know what a NEO is. They don't know how to run a NEO.

That's not the State Department's job. The White House gave it to them because they thought our military was too emotionally attached to Afghanistan after 20 years. And the state department treated the airport like a embassy. They treated like an embassy. So, Chad, help me out with this. I believe that our soldiers, the boots on the ground, the people, you know, of the 82nd Airborne, et cetera, they're good, solid people, and they know what's right. But it appears as though the brass, it comes from a different place, cut more from like the White House.

Am I reading this wrong? You're reading it 100%. Man, I wish I could tell you that story right now. And when I can, I want to expose this story because it's horrific. but I will tell you when you tell the story and we'll get our teeth into it and I will I will be right with you I will not let go until those people pay they have to pay I mean from from I know joint chief Millie on down they they you know have made our made our U.S. military

have used our United States military to do a job in a way that costs America that's costing American lives and the lives are our allies and I couldn't imagine, you know, being in the position of our military service members right now and being forced to do things that are immoral, inhumane, and against who America is, they're against everything they raised their hand and made a oath to do. And they're being forced to do that by the leaders in Washington, D.C., sitting back and, you know, making decisions based on whatever the White House is saying. but not what's right.

And America always great. As America does what's, at the end of the day, America, you know, does what's right. That's what's right. And how many Americans do you think are going to be left behind? I got word, I don't know if this is true now. I don't know what's true and what's not. I got word that the embassy staff, all the foreign embassy staff left behind. How many Americans do you suppose are left behind?

Well, you know, we've continued to hear the number 10,000, but I've also heard that a number could be twice that many, because the State Department does not require you to register. I think the one thing White House Press Secretary Saki said was that that's been right is that, you know, U.S. people don't have to register and don't have to register when you leave. And it's the freedom we have. And so it's not a very track, that's not a very well-tracked database that the State Department has. State Department really didn't have any idea, but between 10 and 20,000 are going to be left there. And look, the military, this is over. The military is leaving. I wouldn't be surprised to wake up tomorrow morning. And, you know, I don't know, U.S. listeners are different time zone.

But here, you know, it's about to unite. I wouldn't be surprised to wake up tomorrow morning. And they're gone. Well, the Pentagon just said that they aren't going anywhere until the 31st, but they're That's different than what we hear on the ground here. Yeah. We hear that things are advancing rapidly, and they're pulling the troops out right now.

You know, again, I don't know what is true and what is not, unless we hear from the people who are actually on the ground and they've seen it. It appears they're leaving. Now, if they stay to 31st just to say they did, you know, they may do that, and they may leave a contingency just to say they did and pull out, but right now,

there's really no relevance of them even being there because we are not rescuing people anymore. You know, we, we, as the NGO, doing this, a shutdown.

The military's not doing anymore. The gates are sealed. As far as rescue, it's over. I mean, we've essentially handed over our citizens to the Taliban. Chad.

I believe it would be the most horrific hostage situation in history of the United States. You had a plane that was getting ready to take off and it was canceled because we flew a plane in and that hit a cap here where we're at. Are those people safe? Those women and children? there was women and children on on uh that we were going to pick up that flight those those are safe yes thank god and you know and and look we we and i talked about this everyone was just trying to do the right thing at a thousand miles an hour no i know and uh no i know and uh it's a good thing so yeah they have just they've just i i know it's just been on our on our mind uh and on our heart that

these people were possibly trapped as things get better. Thank God they're out. That was a CSS story. I'm not where they are, but I know those people didn't get put back out the fence. Okay. Let us know, Chad, when we can help expose what's going on, because I know the story that you have to tell. And it will horrify Americans.

It will truly, truly horrify Americans. So thanks for everything that you're doing, Chad. I'm watching my phone. I'm watching our phone for wheels to go up on that plane, and as soon as I do, I'll text you. Okay, thank you. Chad Robichot, I can't thank him enough. You should pray for him and the Mighty Oaks Foundation. It is an amazing group of people who are doing incredible things here.

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It doesn't mean that's who you are. It's who you've allowed yourself to become. And honor and integrity and the truth are really the only thing that matter in life without it you have nothing. And the truth is pretty ugly here. And it is, it's, you're not able to blame it on anybody but the United States. What we are currently doing to the people in Afghanistan is a horror show. And I am so grateful for the hope that you have provided them and the, and the, you hope that you provide me. Please keep all of our team that's on the ground in harm's way and all of the people in Afghanistan in your prayers. More from the Middle East in a minute. And welcome to the

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from leaving and through divine providence which i will tell you in a little while um we happen to be traveling with somebody who had an answer and he has been working for 24 hours and that answer is about to come through um but uh we were talking about the cost of this and um it's going to cost about uh it's going to cost about $2 million for a thousand people. And everybody looked at me and I said, gosh, I can't believe we're negotiating for people. But gee, I think $2 million is probably a good price for a thousand people. But it is bizarre what is going on right now.

And our country is on the wrong side. for the first time in my life, I am ashamed, truly ashamed, morally ashamed of our country. Senator Tom Cotton joins us now, and I'm guessing he feels somewhat the same way about what is happening. Senator, how are you, sir? Thanks for joining us. Gwen, it's good to be back on with you, but under very difficult circumstances, of course. what's happened in Afghanistan over the last couple of weeks. It's sad. It's tragic. It is shameful, disgraceful, humiliating, embarrassing. And maybe worst of all, Gwen, it wasn't predictable. It was predicted. Many observed that if President Biden executed his decision withdrawal in the middle

of the finding season by withdrawing the critical enabling support that the Taliban had, I'm sorry, that the Afghan army had, for instance, with Western contractors to keep their Air Force flying, would be pulling the wrong out from underneath them. And you've started to see some reports come out in the media that says that it was predicted directly to Joe Biden, no matter what he's been saying, the American people, that this would be the fate that we face right now. Senator, you know, there are bad decisions. But this is a pattern here now. just a pattern because of what he has done before. I mean a pattern here. There is a doubling down

of everything. There is a refusal to see what is going on, which makes me wonder if A, the president is mentally competent, and that's being kind, or there is something else at play here, because there is not an ally that is with us. There is not a sane individual left, right, center. It doesn't matter. Politics all aside. We are, we are, there's blood all over our hands on this. And I can't figure out why. Why is this happening? Why is he doing this? So, Glenn, I mean, the pattern, I would say it goes back now 50 years. Remember, Bob Gates famously said of Joe Biden when they both served in the Obama administration, that he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security decision of his lifetime.

It was 40 years when Secretary Gates wrote that, it's 50 years now. The difference is for most of those 50 years, it didn't matter too much because he was a senator and then a vice president. He wasn't in charge, but he is in charge now. And you see in catastrophic relief the consequences of his terrible judgment. Now, I think his attitude over the last two weeks does also reflect something of Joe Biden's character, kind of like the anytime he's challenged, he defaults to this wise guy attitude of mocking the media. Now, I understand that he's not used to being challenged by the media, but they finally have started to press him on his numerous,

and press those people around him. And you can tell that it gets under his skin and he gets spiteful. and prideful and bitter, and he just digs in his hills even more, even though the circumstances on the ground are obviously deteriorating, and they have been for some time. Well, that's what I can't figure out, is anyone telling him the truth of what's going on, or is the Pentagon for the... Is there anyone that is standing up in his counsel,

that is saying, Mr. President, A, I understand you already made the decision, but now the entire world is not standing with us, and people are going to die. There are Americans that you are leaving behind. Is anyone saying that to him? The question has been dangerously detached from morality now for a couple of weeks. Just as frankly that speech in early July was when he said there'd be no Saigon moment. we wouldn't have a collapse of the government. I think it's pretty clear, based on the news report,

that both the Department of Defense and our intelligence agencies were sounding those alarms to President Biden. But another thing about which I want to remind your listeners that Bob Gates said, is that Joe Biden has a very mistrustful relationship with senior military leaders. Even Barack Obama has said in his own memoirs that Joe Biden, his vice president constantly cautioned then President Obama about listening to the senior military leaders at the Pentagon, about how they were going to try to box him in, how they'd try to direct policy, not implement his policy. And I think you see the consequences of that, of President Biden's attitude now, is that despite the warnings from senior leaders, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies,

he plowed straight ahead. So I think, Glenn, the real question then becomes are the genuine news. And I have questions that they are based on those speeches he's given. And also, Glenn, I have to say, I think some of them view this as just kind of a bad, you know, newsday. You know, like in a campaign, you send Joe Biden out to a radio interview in the campaign last year, and he makes a gap. And you've got a couple days of bad headlines, but pretty soon things move on. And they're treating this fiasco in Afghanistan like it's just a bad headline from a campaign. And they want to just turn the page and get back to their reckless $3.5 trillion. budget. But it's not just a bad headline. Whenever you've got hundreds, if not thousands of

Americans trapped behind enemy lines, those Americans are going to be stuck there after Tuesday to say nothing of the green card holders that we can't get into the country. And those Afghans who served alongside us and who have been vetted and approved for a special immigrant visa. The word is here. I'm in the Middle East. And the word is here that there are 1800 that worked for the embassy that have special visas, want to get out, and have no chance of getting out now. We're leaving them behind. It's reprehensible. Yeah, I mean, it is reprehensible. It's appalling. It's also strategically foolish. Imagine the challenges we'll have for years to come if we ever need local supports in a hot spot around the world.

This is one reason why great and respected countries keep their word, which Joe Biden now has broken flagrantly and in a way that will reverberate for years to come. So is, I mean, is there, there's no way to, there's no way to stop this. There's not an appetite in Congress to, and I don't mean from the Republicans. I mean from the Democrats, is there not enough people in Congress and in the Senate to stand up and be a check and a balance on this reckless, dangerous behavior? Well, Glenn, I think what you've seen from the Democrats is a definite silence. A very, very few number of Democrats, oftentimes veterans themselves may be serving on the armed services or the intelligence committee, have suggested that we need to at a minimum stay as long as it takes to get out all of the Americans who are in Afghanistan. But most Democrats just don't want to talk about it all. As you saw with

Nancy Pelosi, she just wanted to talk about their reckless $3.5 trillion dollar budget. They're like President Biden's flipblades. They just want to keep their head down, grit and bear it like it's a bad news cycle on a campaign and then turn the page. Hopefully after next Tuesday, it's all going to be out of the headlines and the media will move on. be worse. I don't see how are we going to move on if we have hundreds or even thousands of Americans who are stranded in Afghanistan when the Taliban at that point control not just all the border crossings but all the airports in the country. And this is, I mean, the only hope, and I say this with just callous disregard to humanity, but the only hope is that there

will be no press there to report it. But so far, the Taliban still has. Twitter still has Facebook. And I don't think they're going to be shy and showing some of it. Yeah. Maybe then they'll violate the Twitter standards. Well, I mean, that is a big difference between, one of the big differences between where we are now and where the Taliban was 20 years ago before 9-11 is social media didn't really exist back then. And as we've seen with ISIS over the years, ISIS is very aggressive.

and their use of social media for propaganda purposes and recruiting and training. And I suspect that'll be the same. That'll be true of the Taliban as well. Quickly, one last question. I know you've got to run. Thank you, A, for kicking some butt with the State Department. But can you give me an update on the State Department? We last night had an ambassador called in, I think it's Macedonia. They closed off. We were looking for places where, we can fly people in just to hold them.

And Macedonia was one of them. And our ambassador or the ambassador of Macedonia was called by the State Department and told not to take any of these people. What the hell? I had heard that specific report, Glenn, but I've heard similar reports. I know that our people on the ground inside the airport, both Department of Defense intelligence agencies and our State Department officials are trying to move heaven and earth to get people into the airport out of the country.

But the senior leadership of the State Department is a different kettle of fish. I heard a story just this morning that we weren't even allowing British nationals to get inside the airport with their Afghan partners and fly to Great Britain at private expense. So again, this wouldn't even have an impact on the American government or taxpayer. And it's not a country that people have never heard of. It's Great Britain. I'm very disturbed by these reports. and I'm trying to get answers on all of them.

At a minimum, we should be allowing countries that are willing to accept Afghans or willing to send charter or charity flights in the Kabul to do that to clean up some of President Biden's mess. Yes, yes, you don't want to do it. Fine, we'll do it, we'll do it. But they won't even, I mean, they are obstructing us every step of the way. And I don't know if it's out of spite, ignorance. I have no idea.

I don't care. but it should stop now. Yeah, no, Glenn, I definitely, I hear you and I agree with you. And I'm just worried that they're about to roll up stakes in the next 24, 48 hours. I mean, if Joe Biden's hell bent to have every last troop on the airport on Tuesday, August 31, well, they're not going to be flying mass evacuation charters out, you know, through Tuesday afternoon. They've got to start getting our troops down as well. Well, we will for as long as we possibly can.

Senator, thank you so much. Thanks for your service to the country here in Afghanistan. And thank you for your service in the Senate as well. God bless. Thank you, good. You bet. Senator Tom Cotton, back in a minute. Man, do you remember that teacher last week?

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It's not charging. Welcome back to the program. Glenn is in the Middle East. We're going to connect with him here in just a moment. The details coming out of Kabul and the airport are horrifying to say the least. Some of the footage that is on social media now is still yet to be confirmed, but is, I mean, To say it's gruesome and disturbing would be to undersell it dramatically. There are, you know, legitimately piles of people all over the place around where this bombing occurred.

The U.S. is now confirming U.S. and civilian casualties. We don't know what that means yet. We don't know. We've seen it reports of at least four U.S. Marines that were at least injured, or maybe killed. The reporting from the ground is saying, this is it, that they're not going to do anything else.

No more people are going to be let in. They're just going, the August 31st thing looks like it may be off. This may just be us leaving as soon as we can get people off of the base. This is it. They're saying no more planes to take off. so this is uh glen are you back with us or not i can't uh no okay i was told he was um but we're

we're kind of trying to reconnect with him in the middle east this is this is something we talked about over and over again over the past week which was as as this had been discussed by us and and by many people critical of the biden administration it was discussed as this thing that Joe Biden screwed up and put a lot of people in danger and look at this catastrophe as they try to have people around the airport and and it's a mess and all of this. And as we said over and over again, that discussion was a discussion about the best case scenario. The best possible thing that can come out of this is just that Joe Biden really screwed up and stranded thousands of people for some time and in a very messy situation we're able to get them out eventually

because the Taliban decided to be super nice and allow it to occur. What we're seeing now is approaching more of the worst case scenario where someone, we don't know who, they're talking, they're trying to blame this new ISIS K, I guess a new variant for the attack. Taliban is claiming that they've had. their own people killed in the attack. We'll see how that plays out. But this could get much, much worse

and is getting much, much worse. We're going to have Glenn back from the Middle East here in just a moment. AAA 727 Beck is the phone number. A dark day in U.S. history. You are in the middle of witnessing it. We'll have all the details in just a minute.

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and we have seen and heard an awful lot that some of which we can't tell you yet. Some of it good, some of it bad. But first let's start with the good. We have 4,100, no, 5,100 people out now. So 5,000 people have been saved. it's my understanding there is one more plane on the tarmac that is ready to go

there were others that we will tell you the story about later when we are able to but the problem is last night it was about 24 hours ago we had a problem that the

host countries that are landing these planes would have a cap of about 4,000 people, one of the countries, and all of the countries had reached their cap. And the reason why that was happening is because the State Department was not vouching for anybody so we could move them on to other host countries. And so everything... And can I add, too, that the State Department had vetted all these people.

They were all on a list. They're on the State Department list. The people who got on the plane are on that list. They're in the air. they're going to the country and the state department calls the country and says we won't vouch for the people on the plane. They're on your list. That's how they got there. And the state department will not follow through so we've had planes turn around in the air and come back or we've had them stop on the ground because the state department won't let those people on the ground go to the next step,

the next staging area, because they won't vouch for them. And yet you can't even get on the plane if you hadn't been through the state department. And so now these host countries that have been taking them out of Kabul. They're supposed to go to Kabul and then we verify that is who you are, yada yada. We've already done that in Kabul, but then we do it again and we make sure that everybody is who they say they are and then they go to the next country. Well, the State Department was blocking us from getting people out of Kabul. Then they are blocking us from getting people out of these airports and these airports are overrun and they can't take anymore. Through divine providence, and I'm not going to give you any details until it's done,

but this is literally, David, a God thing, would you agree? Yeah, it is a God thing. People talk about God fingerprints. This is a handprint. Yeah. This is not a fingerprint. We're traveling with somebody. We brought somebody with us who at the last minute said,

hey, can I jump on the plane with you guys? And we said yes. And we kind of all thought, he's a really good guy to have and he kind of knows a little bit of everybody and we thought it'll be great to have him but didn't really have a job for him you know and then last night as we're talking he said um i think i can get countries to open up and two countries in particular and we just got word it david isn't an official word it's not official word it's not official enough to say the country so but but it's official it's gonna happen we're just not

gonna yeah right now right and I'm not gonna say it until those planes are down on the ground anyway right because I don't we don't need any more hassles from anybody else but it looks like we are gonna be able to take 5,000 people and move them in plane load after plane load right away which would then open up all of these countries to take more if anyone can get any more planes off the ground. So we could take another 5,000 people out if their support. We're kind of looking now at the British and the French as the only ones that are going to be able to help do that because nobody else is doing it. Well, it even looks like that because Kabul is really under American control that they're not

even letting the British and others go out. So even our allies are able to get their private planes out of there. So the State Department really has shut down the flow. You know, if we can get these folks moved to these other countries, we could get more people into these countries and keep moving people out of Kabul. But at this point, it doesn't look like the State Department's going to let us or our allies take any more out. So that is the, that's the situation here. I know David has been, you've been tracking a lot of stuff. We're at the end of our day here. It's dark here, and people are starting to come home, have dinner, and then go to bed soon.

Your reflections on the day here. It's torn emotions, because on the one hand, I know our military. I get two kids in Army right now on deployments, different places, and service, different placements. And I know that if we untied the hands of the military, we're not having any of this trouble at Kabul. At all. There's no, none of it.

And I know the military capabilities, and my frustration is we don't have to have this going on. We didn't have to have that bomb going off. We could have had a wide perimeter way out. None of this would be a problem. ISIS K would not be in Afghanistan. They wouldn't have dared lift their hands. head. This would be a non-story, but at the same time, the military can't do that. And I've been

reflecting today, and it's a frustration, but it's also, I'm so pleased that the Constitution set up a civil authority over the military, because we cannot have a coup this way. If our military got frustrated with President Biden said, we're going to go save these guys, what stops them from having a coup next time they don't like any president? And so the fact that I don't like the fact that our military has its hands tied, but I like the fact our military has its hands tied because the Constitution was so wise in that regard. That'll prevent us from ever becoming a third world country having a coup. As a historian, David, can you think of a time in American history like this? Wow. No. What makes it unique? There has always been, for all the

presidents that I can think of, even the ones I disagree. with, there has been an American first mentality. And even when I disagreed with them politically, they were very good about trying to maintain our strength and our reputation internationally. I can't think of a place, you know, the closest we're going to get is Vietnam, and that's the closer we're going to get, and that's where politicians manage the war, not the military guys. Oh, wait, is that what's happening here? Politicians managing the war, not the military guys. but that was you know i hate even bringing that up but Biden's the one who brought that up that we're not going to be there and yet here we are so that's the closest i can come you know if i go back

to zachary taylor if i go back to all the other wars i can think of all the other conflicts there's nothing like this precedent like this there's been places where that like with teddy roosevelt americans were taking captive in cuba and we just went in and crushed it that was just not going to happen you're not going to hold americans so It's really hard to think of anything really that is close to what's happening here, with the embarrassment we're suffering, with the way that other nations are looking at us, our loss of prestige. There's always been people who hated America, but not allies.

Yeah, and I don't mind that we're embarrassed or humiliated. I'm ashamed that we are, we're lying and we're lying to ourselves and we're betraying our allies and the people. I mean, we are really truly, easily on the wrong side here. Yeah. And this is one of the things that history tends to get right over time. You know, it may be 20, 30 years before the full story comes out with a lot of this because even the media started to challenge Joe Biden,

they're still not getting the full story out. I mean, what we're seeing over here and what we have the reports of and the intelligence we're getting, they have access to, and it's just not making it back home. So at some point, that's going to come out, just as it did in Vietnam. The media did a really bad job there. In retrospect, we have a lot more knowledge of what happened than what the media told us. And that will happen here eventually.

It just takes a while to get there. David Barton from Wall Builders and from the Nazarene Fund. Thanks for everything. I want to tell you a story. And it's just a story. It's just a story. But, you know, it's weird how sometimes stories. turn out to be, you know, very close to real life.

I'm not saying that about this story. But, you know, there was a company that really wanted a pipeline from Afghanistan, up all the way to Russia and then across Russia and into Russia and into, into Europe and the Afghani leadership didn't want that they didn't they didn't want their reserves to be exploited like that and and this country had gone to other countries and the other countries were were for it but then there was this this horrible change of of of policy and new people became in charge. And their payment for doing a deal was military equipment and making sure that nobody bothered them anymore.

Anyway, that's just a crazy, crazy story. By the way, there is a company that does want to build that pipeline that's not, fantasy. The rest of it is completely made up. But that, you know, it's weird. Is that company is named Burisma?

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have been killed. Although if you have seen any of the footage that has come out from on social media, you know it's much, much more than that. There are piles of people all over the place. And this is

a worsening journey into the worst case scenario. I will remind you that two days ago, Jen Saki told us that she wouldn't call the evacuation anything but a success. Two days ago, the White House behind the scenes

went to any publication that would listen to them and say that they needed to have their due credit for what is going on in Afghanistan and you probably saw if you're on social media, if you're on Twitter, if you watch cable news, you probably saw many people who are aligned with the administration

parroting that exact sentiment. People on MSNBC did it, people all over the media did it. They wanted their props for Afghanistan. Well, I hope they get them. because they deserve all of the credit for what is occurring there right now. This is theirs. Joe Biden said that any attack on our forces would be met with swift and forceful response.

So far, no sign of anything swift or forceful from this administration. The exact opposite. The ending of an ongoing, pathetic. march to failure. It's incredible to watch it occur in real time. This is the United States of America we're talking about. This is our country. And this is the face they are putting on it.

My understanding of the process is that you don't allow thousands of your own people to be stranded in a country before you allow it to be taken over. seems to be the decision was made quite a long time ago that we were going to hand the country back to the Taliban eventually but could we at least have evacuated our people

before we did it? Apparently the answer to that is no. As you may know, we had plenty of places for airplanes to take off in this country. Not very long ago, but we gave them all up before we evacuated our people. Now, we have multiple suicides. bombs going off right outside the airport and every piece of reporting on the ground and from

people who are in touch with military officials are saying basically it's over. We are not even going to make it to the deadline the Taliban set for us. We are going to evacuate people as fast as possible. And the quote from a source inside the military was that it is increasingly, likely that yes, thousands of Americans will be left behind. It's hard to overstate.

The whole day, the whole freaking day, is hard to overstate. Just a terrible day in U.S. history. We'll have more on it tonight. Stu Does America on the Blaze. We'll see you tomorrow.