The Glenn Beck Program - Biden Betrayed the World | Guests: Ric Grenell & Rep. Loudermilk | 8/25/21

Episode Date: August 25, 2021

Glenn broadcasts from an undisclosed location in the Middle East as the Nazarene Fund’s rescue mission continues. Rep. Barry Loudermilk joins with his perspective that Biden has practically sided with our enemies. Former ambassador Richard Grenell calls in to argue that the Afghanistan debacle isn’t an intelligence failure. Oklahoma mom Allyson Reneau returns with an update on the female judges she’s trying to get out of Afghanistan. Glenn asks leftist civil rights organizations and Silicon Valley why they’re so silent. The White House is now touting its withdrawal as a “success.” Rep. Chris Stewart joins to describe just how “historic” this failure is and a possible Havana syndrome attack near VP Kamala Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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today. He is with us, however, to host the fantastic radio program. It's just about to begin. We start in about 10 seconds. Hello America. Yesterday. I left the show about half an hour early, and I didn't say anything about it because I had to board a plane. I had been flying all day yesterday, and last night, and about 70 minutes ago, I was flying over a moonscape. Sand that doesn't look really like sand. It doesn't look welcoming at all. it looks hostile to all life. We are in the Middle East, the Nazarene Fund,

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Middle East is afraid. And this region is collapsing, and so is, so are the gates of Kabul and the airport. And today I bring you, when I boarded the plane yesterday, I had high hopes because things were beginning to move. Then the plane that I got onto, and I have to tell you, we have to thank Kenneth Copeland Ministries for lending us his plane. I didn't want to spend any money. We have a large crew coming with us, and I didn't want to spend any money from the Nazarene Fund so we could be here.

So I'm paying for everything out of my personal pocket, and Kenneth Copeland has graciously taken care of the plane. I will tell you, it was pretty amazing. Ross Perrault, he said if my plane wasn't out in another part of the world right now, I would have loved to have been there and helped. There were a lot of people that have helped and are praying for these people here in the Middle East. When I left yesterday, we were getting... I think four planes now.

I'm trying to recall. I just got a five planes. I just arrived about an hour ago. I'm a little discombobulated. And where we're broadcasting from is like a little apartment. And we have right in front, they followed us from the airport, two giant black vans, blacked out windows, police lights. I'm sure it's for our safety. I'm sure that's what it is.

But they are following us from the airport and parked right in front of where we are. We weren't told we were going to have any security for our safety. But lo and behold, there it is. The region is unsure. They don't know what's coming next. what's coming tomorrow, what is even going to happen at the end of the day. It's late afternoon here in the Middle East, and last night we had to land in Ireland to pick up some more fuel, and the plane didn't have any Wi-Fi, so I've been disconnected since 1130 Eastern time yesterday morning.

and we downloaded everything we could at about, I don't even know what time zone it was or what time in the middle of the night sometime or another. We downloaded and we noticed things had greatly changed and the reason why they changed, as I piece it together, is our CIA director decided to meet with the Taliban yesterday. and when the CIA director met with the Taliban, he decided that he could meet the Taliban's demands, which I think is very good and gracious of the United States that will meet those Taliban demands. And so last night, in the middle of the night, we got word that we are going to begin pulling out. And already some of our troops have begun pulling out today. and our troops will be out of there in 72 hours. Meanwhile, there are people standing in a river of sewage around the airport,

holding up passports, holding up paperwork. They were promised that if they got to the airport, they would be taken. They're at the gates. The United States doesn't look like we're going to honor any of that. I just got this from Barry Loudermilk. He wrote, an hour ago, this message was passed to me from the military person in Kabul at the airport, who's been helping people get admitted.

This is what they wrote. We're out of time. The gates are pretty much closing or have closed. We're down to the wire. I'd say they need get away from here so the Taliban and ISIS don't round them up and kill them. There is no way for the military to process and move any more people, especially with the given deadlines. As I read it, this means there's no way for the U.S. mission to get any more people out by August 31st. There's no one else coming out except those who have already been admitted.

I'm not saying what anyone else should do, but I wanted to pass this information along in case it was helpful to anyone else. They later wrote back and said, the closure may not be permanent. The closure may be temporary, according to another source. But we don't know. It is disheartening when we look at the fact that just outside of the gates, we had 200 women judges. Tell me another place in the Middle East. where judges are women.

Where is the national organization of women, by the way? Where are all these organizations that claim to care so much about people? Why are they not pushing and putting pressure on the Biden administration? And you know why? You know why they're not doing it? Because they don't care. They don't stand for anything. I saw somebody write a nasty tweet to me that said,

oh well if you care so much about the women and children i bet you are down at the border yes as a matter of fact i was yes i was well now we're so very concerned about who comes across our border i got news for you if we can get our hands on those 200 judges women judges who are marked for death because the men that they put in jail, they put in jail for beating up their wife or being a part of terror. If the United States of America keeps hindering, we have to have the State Department's help

on allowing these people to go someplace else. The entire system is breaking down because the State Department refuses to give these people any permission to go to any other country. We have had commitments from several different countries. Western countries, not America. Not America. Of course not.

We can't take Christians in America. We'll take anybody. You get to the border. We'll take anybody. But we can't take vetted Christians. who are marked for death. No, no, no, no, no, that's too dangerous. And in fact, our State Department now won't assist

and just give the paperwork, just do the basic paperwork that says, yes, this is an American group. They're not human smuggling. They're allowed to cross the border. They're allowed to go into this next country. Yes, they won't even do that. Why, I wonder.

Why? Barry Lattermilk is with us. I just got him on the phone. Thank you, Barry, for answering so quickly and coming on the program. I don't understand my country anymore, Barry. I don't know what is happening to our country. And this is an abomination. Sided with our enemy over American people.

They're shutting down early because of the fear of ISIS when the previous president pretty much annihilated ISIS. And now we're running from them and we're negotiating with terrorists to give us permission to get our people out. This is not the America that I know. And I, my heart is breaking for all of those people there. My office has been working tirelessly to try to get people out.

The American citizens, those Christians who have been in there doing God's work undercover, and we're abandoning them. And I'm also, my heart is breaking for those military guys, 82nd Airborne, the guys who have committed their lives to freeing people from oppression and defending liberty. And their mottoes have always been, look, we're not going to leave any of ours behind, and they're now being told by their commander-in-chief,

you have to abandon your mission, and you have to leave Americans there. This is going to cause serious problems for a lot of those guys. there are you kidding me god bless those guys um barry is there anything that congress and the senate can do is there any kind of this is craziness it is and you know nancy pelosi calls us back in monday night not to deal with this issue not to not to do anything to help the american stranded but to pass her $5 trillion left socialist spending bill. And then she even, because so many people are upset,

she's doing this, Democrats don't even vote for it. She has to do an underhanded scheme to get it passed by putting a procedural motion on the floor that has language that says we're just going to deem the budget passed. That way they don't actually have to vote for it. This is how low our leadership has gotten. There are some things that Congress could do, but constitutionally, he is the commander-in-chief. He commands the military.

But if, you know, we have impeachment options, we have, you know, enacting the 25th Amendment option, but what do you get after that? Vice President Harris, who won't address any of this when she's asked about it by the media, she laughs, and then she jumps on a plane and goes scurrying out across the world and won't even address it. It's going to affect America worldwide for decades.

Really is amazing. We're talking to Barry Loudermilk. Barry, what are the prospects going forward? Are we appropriately addressing the people who can make it to the airport? Do we have any prospect of removing these people by the 31st? You know, is the 34, I keep hearing this is Joe Biden's deadline. It certainly seems like it's the Taliban's deadline. And Joe Biden's just caving to their demands.

Look, I mean, the Department of Defense, they answer to the commander in chief. They answer to Joe Biden. And I can sense, the meetings we have with them, they are frustrated. They know that we need to extend this deadline. They know that we don't need to have the state department running this whole thing. It needs to be a DOD operation. but they are frustrated to all ends. And no, there's not enough time.

I mean, 36 hours, that's not ample time to get all the Americans out, much less all of those that assisted us. And we're just going to walk away. And we're going to abandon them, and we're going to leave it up to organizations like what you guys are doing, which becomes infinitely more difficult when you don't have the American military there and you don't have allies on the ground.

You don't have active intelligence going on. merging on being a traitor against the United States of America. That's an amazing thing to have to say. We have Barry Loudermilk with us. We have to take a quick 60-second break. Back in just a minute. American financing NMLS-182334. www. nmLS consumer access.org.

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10 seconds, station ID. We're back here with Glenn in, away somewhere far and very louder milk is with us. Glenn, are you hearing us now? We're having some connection issues. Yeah, I can hear you. Okay. All right, I'm not sure if Glenn is back with us here

but if we could just maybe take one more step at this because I cannot understand what position our military troops are in. I feel like I've talked to thousands of them over the years, Barry, and

they all would indicate to me that what they would want to do is get get off of this airport and get these people from the city and bring them and remove them from the country and they're being prevented from doing that have you talked to anyone on the ground in the military and what's the morale of the troops right now well i haven't talked to anybody this in the military who's on the ground right there you know they're we want to keep them focused on doing their mission right now. But I did put together a group of veterans this last Saturday, just opened it up to veterans, thinking we're going to get, you know, a lot of Afghan veterans come in and talk to us about, you know, what are they feeling? The majority of the ones

that came, I'm a veteran of the Desert Storm conflict. We had a couple of guys from Desert Storm, but the majority were Vietnam veterans. And they are being very effective by this because they're reliving, Saigon. And the feelings that they had, when they were forced to walk away from a war they had been fighting and leaving people behind. And I mean, they were very emotional. There was a lot of tears.

And, you know, these guys in the ground, they're focused on doing a mission that they were trained to do, that they swore an oath to do, and now they're told, you have to turn your back and run. So, Barry, may I ask you, we have a very short period of time. Sorry, we lost the connection earlier. We only have about 40 seconds. Have you looked into the State Department and what the State Department is doing?

They have run this thing into the ground and been an obstacle every step of the way. Absolutely. And, you know, working with you and some other folks trying to find, what is the problem? What can we do? in my office to help. I mean, my office is working day and night trying to get some people out of there. But we're just getting crickets out of the State Department.

It's like we know what we're doing, you don't matter, go away. And some of the things that are reasonable that you're asking for, like the diplomatic letters to get people across the border, they're not even responding. And this should be simple, something easy to do. And it's incompetence, it's putting politics above people.

It's unbelievable. Somebody needs to be held responsible, Barry. Thank you so much for all of your help and your office's help. We have many congressmen, many senators. Find out if your senator is on board and calling the State Department and saying, where are you? Where are you calling the administration and asking, how come nobody can get anyone on the phone for the basic assistance?

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the show yesterday, and we've been flying throughout the night to be able to get here. It is now late in the afternoon, and it is, it's a mess. It's an absolute mess. The good news is people have gotten out. The U.S. citizens and those with, you know, what they say, blue passports, those who also have letters allowing them to get in, many of those people were sitting on the tarmac, and now they are leaving the tarmac and getting into C, what is it, C1? What are they, 141s? The transplant, the transport planes. And the United States is saying that really, if you're not at the airport now,

you're not really going to get to go. And they're asking for people to back up from the gate because they've pretty much given the gates over to the Taliban and to ISIS. And people have been trying to get through the gate with their blue passport. And they can't. Now, the United States government is denying all of this.

But let me give you this from a CBS reporter. In one of the more strange communications from CBS I've ever seen, CBS reporter says, I just got off a video call with a U.S. citizen. A woman housing multiple women and children in her home. Some are very young. Others are physically disabled. I saw them all on a video.

She said she has tried multiple times with her blue passport and can't get to the airport. That's true. Those things are happening right now. Citizens cannot get to the airport. Then somebody on this Twitter feed said, you should contact Glenn Beck of the Nazarene Fund. They have planes. And somebody said planes are useless when people can't get to the airport. Yes, indeed, that's true. That's why we also have helicopters. They said, the next person tweeted, Dad of Queens, they have groups that are getting them to the airport as well. The Nazarene Fund is amazing. Misty said, he said today the State

Department was tanking their efforts. That's when the CBS reporter said, guys, none of this is true. As Dad of Queens responded and didn't get one from CBS News, are you talking about the State Department blocking or that the Nazarene Fund isn't doing what they're saying they're doing? Well, I am here to testify to you, in fact, be a witness, and that's one of the reasons why I'm here, to be a witness to history. Let me play the video. Here, if you can play that video that I sent you from the tarmac of Kabul, there are the transport planes, and you see the people that the United States government is taking in, lining up to get onto those planes. and lo and behold, you start to see another, a couple of other commercial jets, and this one is our air bus taking in women and children.

So I don't know what part of all of this is a lie, but that was taken from my team on the ground in Kabul. We'd like to get more people out, but we're not getting any help from this state. State Department and it is obscene what the State Department is doing. Right now you have the system collapsing on the outside. Okay, you can take these people who are in the Kabul Airport. We can't help you get anybody through the gate because, ooh, ooh, Taliban and ISIS.

And I guess we're now afraid of them. But by the way, where are you going to fly that plane? Because they're not giving us documentation for these people. We've vetted them. We know who they are, and there's nowhere to take them, because they are blocking the countries from taking them. They won't give them. You know, I told you a story the other day of Raul Wollenberg. Raul Wolle Wolleberg is a great American hero, except he's not American, he's Swedish, but he's an American hero. We asked him to do something. And then what a surprise, we abandoned him. We asked him. We asked him to just report on what was going on over in, I think it was Prague. I can't remember exactly. It was a little fuzzy this morning.

But it was in World War II. And we wanted to know, Budapest, we wanted to know what was going on with the Germans and the Jews. Well, he got there and he saw what was going on. And they were loading them on trains to bring him to death. camps and they were liquidating all of these people. And so what did he do? He started issuing what's called a Schutz pass. He against the king of Sweden. He started issuing schutz passes, which said, this person is now under the protection of the king of Sweden and they are Swedish citizens. Nobody in the world wanted Jews. The Nazis were in Sweden. The Nazis were in Sweden.

The king called Raul Wallenberg and said, what are you doing? You're going to get us all killed. He said, you want me to stop? You're going to have to come here and stop me myself. These are people. We can't get the State Department to issue our own Schutz passes anymore. But I have a little surprise for the Secretary of State and the State Department. I have the airplanes.

I have the money. I will tell you right now, all of these refugees have been spoken for by countries all over the world, except for the United States. The United States won't take people who are Christians. We'll take everybody else, but not these Christians. Not these people who, as we told you yesterday, we had a phone call from a fantastic woman who has already saved girls from. from Afghanistan. And she said, I have 200 female judges, and they're all marked for death because they put their life on the line by sentencing men to prison. And then the Taliban opened up all the prison. And so who do you think they want to get? That woman who dare

put me in jail and tell me what I had to do? She's a woman. So 200 of these judges, including the judges of the Supreme Court. I don't know. I think they should have a country to go to. Now, we have several countries. We have the United Kingdom. We have Australia. We have several in the Middle East.

But we can't get the State Department should pass. Huh. So the State Department, I'm just, I just want you to know because I know you like law and order. I know you like to do things the right way. And so if you don't want to issue, you know, the papers so these people can go to other countries, I understand that. That's why I will fill up these planes and I will fly them to Mexico.

and these 200 female judges and the Christians, the families, the moms, the children, they'll all be playing someplace in Mexico, and then I'll walk them across the border, because that's the only way apparently you can come in legally to America. So I'll just walk them across the border and don't you dare think I won't do it. all the State Department has to do is just allow the paperwork to go through so these people can be resettled everywhere in the world in countries that want them.

America doesn't want them. That's fine. Then stop being like the Nazis. Let them go someplace else. I tell you, I feel exactly like the people must have felt when they were just when they had the means, when they had the money, when they had the angles, when they had everything to get them out, and the Nazis wouldn't let them go. Why? Because they wanted to kill them. Well, that's exactly what the Taliban is doing to these

people. The Taliban is going to kill these people. We have the airplanes. We have the countries that want to take them. We have the money to get them there. What the hell is the problem? them the State Department. Why? Why? These judges are, they were at the gate yesterday. They've left the gate now because we couldn't get them through. Huh. They're going elsewhere. We're going to get them out or we're going to die trying. And State Department, Joe Biden administration, you have set the world on fire. On fire. You have destroyed our credibility.

Now England is leaving before we get out of there because we're getting out of here. We're pulling troops out now. We're starting to pull our troops. When has the United States ever pulled troops out before the job was done? When? When?

When has the United States left? people behind. Can you help me out on that? Oh, it's probably Vietnam when we left people behind last time. That's right. I remember the POW camps. I remember wearing the bracelets of the people who we think left behind. Yeah, that was a really proud moment. Don't think I won't do it because I will. And I know it would probably be very unpopular with my listeners. But These are people. These are Christians. These are educated women.

And by God, I will walk them across the border. If you don't allow us to take them elsewhere to countries that want them, there's something wrong with you people in Washington, D.C., something deeply, deeply unsettling. You're not doing the job, so the American people are doing the job. the hell out of our way. About her dog's experience with Rough Green, she said, I ordered Rough Green's a few weeks ago while listening to Glenn Beck on the Blaze. If his dog loved it, I was sure mine would too.

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There's questions now from the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, they're charging. Some organizations are charging people to get on the planes. We are not charging anyone to get on the planes. And the refugees that get on, it's absolutely no cost to them. All of our planes leave with every single seat full. We haven't flown any plane that didn't have every seat filled. And right now, we're worried that this might stop.

the flights might stop as early as Friday. We're doing everything that we can to stop all of this. But we, again, are being thwarted. Let me give you two stories. One just came in. Glenn, a family found, I can't tell you which family, found a new gate. After the other gate was not allowing anyone to go in, Nazarene Fund was not able to bring them in.

So a family tried on their own to go through the gate. and a CIA stopped them. They held them for about 30 or 40 minutes and released them back outside. We're working hard now to get 3,000 to 7,000 Christians already at the airport, ready to go and coordinate with our State Department for the planes to take off and land these other missions, but it is hard to do currently. Then let me give you one more. We have a former CIA officer organized a rescue of 500 Afghani interpreters and other special visa holders.

They made it to the airport. They were turned around and kicked out by the State Department. I'd like to know who is in charge of the State Department. Every time we've been asking for the last three days, we can't get an answer. The senators that we have called cannot get an answer. Who is running this operation for the State Department? And why are they turning away people with blue passports and special visas? Why are they not being let in through the gate?

More in a minute. Live from the Middle East. Hello, America, and welcome to the program. Today, live from the Middle East, I am not allowed to tell you where I am, but we are deep in the Middle East and overseeing some of the operations of the Nazarene Fund. And hopefully I will be able to bring personal experiences as we meet and greet some of these people that are coming through. However, some of the countries that are taking them just to get them off the tarmac, they're being thwarted by the State Department. I wanted to talk to Richard Grinnell because he used to be the Director of National Intelligence. And that was the guy who was supposed to oversee the CIA and everybody.

And I don't know if he knows, but I would like to know. Is this all Biden? Is this a plan? What's happening to our State Department? What is the military doing? Who are we anymore? Richard Grinnell joins us in 60 seconds. Man, I wish everything was as easy as doing business with blinds.com.

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anybody trusts America anymore. I know I don't recognize my country anymore. It's embarrassing. Richard Grenel is with us. He was the former director of National Intelligence. And I mean, I just, I love this guy. Richard, how are you, sir? Thanks for having me. I'm really a pleasure to be here. Thank you. What can you tell us on what's going on? You know, it's very frustrating because right now what is happening was not an intelligence service. The military, gay Taliban, rule the Taliban, was going to do. take advantage of the life administration. It's important to remember what was not an

intelligence failure, but a political failure. It's a political class in Washington's East ignored the warning. Let me push back on you, just to pill a devil's advocate. I thought I believe any of this, but Biden will say, well, that was just one of many voices. And of course, there were there were voices that said it, you know, but everybody really said, that it was going to be fine. I think the reality is that that's not true. There were plenty of warnings from officials. And let's just Biden directly and Jake Sullivan directly.

I have this as fact warned that if you shut down Bogram and you take away the 2,500 troops, you will quickly have 5,000 NATO troops follow you in leaving. This will be a disaster. The Taliban will see this as there are. opportunity and you won't be able to respond. Now look, in the Trump administration, let's remember, Glenn, that on January 20th of this year, Donald Trump handed Joe Biden a stable Afghanistan, a functioning embassy at U.S. Embassy Kabul, and a Taliban that was deathly afraid of getting bombed if they took over a city. The problem is not talking to. The problem is not talking to.

to the Taliban. The problem comes in in what the Taliban hears. And what the Taliban heard under Donald Trump is, we cannot reconstitute. We cannot go forward and take over a city. We will get bombed. And obviously, once Joe Biden took office, the Taliban completely had a different calculus. They did not hear that. They started to take city by city and nothing happened that encouraged them to take over the whole country. Our troops were withdrawn before we evacuated the embassy. Look, I don't say this lightly, but for a secretary of state to sit in cabinet meetings and allow the military to leave Afghanistan before State Department employees are evacuated, that is abandoning State Department officials, foreign service officers, good Americans,

we should not allow this to happen. The Secretary of State should resign in disgrace for allowing the military troops to leave before we evacuated the embassy. The Foreign Service officers in these embassies, they don't carry guns. They're looking for political solutions. They're doing applications for immigrants who want to get out. These are frontline workers for the United States of America. and pushing our good brand, they don't have guns. They are not equipped in a hostile situation.

They should be protected. Otherwise, if they're not going to be protected, they should be evacuated. And they weren't. This is shameful. I've spent 10 years at the State Department, and I'm outraged that this happened to the State Department employees. Richard, I don't understand what's happening at the State Department. We have planes on the ground.

The Nazarene Fund, which is a charity that I started years ago, it has become this very, very competent charity. We operate all over the world. We have now, as of today, I think we're $3,000 shy of $30 million. We have all the planes. We have very competent people working in Kabul with the generals and everybody at the airport. We have the ability to move thousands of people, but we can't get the State Department to do anything. Everything with the State Department is like pulling teeth. And now they're not giving the, I don't remember what it is, but the permission for these other countries to take these people.

We have countries that want to take these people and they won't give us any of the documentation, any of the work. they're all fully vetted everything. What is happening? Well, let me tell you one thing that's happening is that the paperwork processing and a lot of the language skills for the State Department are done by what we call local employed staff. LES is how they call it. And the locally employed staff are Afghans. They have now been told by the Taliban that they cannot leave the country. They will be targeted because they worked for the American embassy.

These people are in grave danger, and the State Department has not allowed them the locally employed staff, who have worked with Americans for decades to not be evacuated. The Taliban is not letting them out, and the U.S. military, the Biden administration is not demanding that these locally employed folks get evacuated. So they are in hiding, Glenn. Their lives are now in danger. We do not have a functioning embassy. And people are outraged by this. When the military leaves, you can't expect the State Department to stay in a hostile zone. Who's responsible for this?

Who's pulling the strings at the State Department? I blame Secretary Blinken's weakness. for not standing up in a cabinet meeting. I've been in cabinet meetings, and it's a lively discussion, and decisions are being made. And if you are not at the table defending your agency, then you are doing a disservice to your employees.

Clearly, Secretary Blinken and Wendy Sherman, the Deputy Secretary of State, allowed these decisions to be made where the military would be evacuated and their State Department employees would not be taken care of. How is that possible? I have no idea. But we do know, when you talk about strings being pulled,

we do know that when Susan Rice was the National Security Advisor for Barack Obama, her two deputies, one was Tony Blankin, our current Secretary of State, and the other was Abraham, our current director of national intelligence. both the intelligence agencies and the State Department are led by Susan Rice deputies. Susan Rice is pulling the strings. She has the title of domestic policy advisor. No one in America believes she's working on Medicare policy. What is it that we can do?

You know, I've talked to so many senators and congressmen and they're all screaming bloody murder. what is it that we can do? Because once they leave office, I mean, sorry, once they leave the airport, all these people are going to be slaughtered, Richard. Just slaughtered. It is Americans are going to be held hostage if we don't get this right. And I think that what we can do, first of all, we have very poor choices right now. We are in a corner. We have a variety of really bad.

But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. If I'm president in the United States and you come into me and this is going on, I say, I'm going to airlift, you know, 10,000 Marines, and I'm going to clear that damn area out and get our people out. Isn't that an option? That is absolutely an option. That's a dangerous option, but it is an option that I think we have to look at, because all resources should be used, the U.S. government resources, to get Americans out.

My point is we're in a very bad situation with terrible options, which are forcing our hand to go in and in a messy situation try to clear areas in order to get to the Americans. This is causing our American men and women who work in the military unnecessary conflict zone. They shouldn't be, and yet we find ourselves in the situation. But I think what we have to be able to do is articulate very clearly as people who have access to the media and social media. Every particular can get them home soon. Okay, Richard, can you hold with me for just five more minutes? Because I want to put you in that briefing room. And I'm the president of the United States, and I want you to advise me,

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We can load so many people. We can have these planes turned around every 30 minutes, but we can't get the State Department to help us. Now, Richard, I'm going to put myself in the role of a really scary president, I think, for most people. I'll put myself in president. You're the advisor. And coming at this, the first,

thing I would say to you is, Richard, I am smoking mad at the State Department. Are you telling me that this isn't the State Department's fault? This is the military's fault? Well, if you're the president and we're in this situation, first, I'm going to say, no, sir, it's your fault. You have made really four choices. If this was Donald Trump, I wouldn't have to be in this position. But let's just say that it's a generic president, because I'm not going to be working for Joe Biden. But let's say that it's a generic president and we found ourselves in the situation. I would go in and I would say, Mr. President, you must instruct the Secretary of Defense immediately to do whatever it takes to airlift Americans out immediately. Send as many planes in as you can, both at Bogram and at the

Kabul airport. buy any of this that we can't land in Bagram. You can tell the Taliban we're landing and we're going to bomb anybody that comes close to our planes. And then you instruct the Secretary of State to get all of the Americans to either place and you make sure that we have an accurate list of everybody who is an American and who has been approved and they will get out either through Kabul or through Bogrom. How do you support that, because we're not alone in trying to get people out, how do you support those private organizations that are also trying to get people out?

Well, look, it's the Americans first at this point. You've got to get the Americans out. If you're an American, if you have an American passport, or you are a locally employed staff member with an American ID, American government issued ID, then you will be on list and that you can get out. By the way, I don't buy any of this, that Secretary Blinken doesn't know the exact number. Of course, he knows the exact number. It's hard to know how many Americans are in Germany, but it's really easy to know how many Americans are in a conflict zone like Afghanistan. People don't move to Afghanistan as Americans did not stay connected

to the embassy. That's just not reality. How many were going to leave behind, Richard, the way we're going now? I pray to God every day, zero, because if we leave anyone behind, that is a hostage situation. And again, this is, I don't understand how the Secretary of State of the United States could sit in cabinet meetings and allow these decisions to unfold leaving Americans behind. This is the job of the Secretary of State. And I can tell you that the Foreign Service, I've worked at the State Department for 10 years, I know many Foreign Service officers who voted for Joe Biden, who are furious with what is happening at the State Department.

There are calls for Secretary of State Blinken and Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to resign in disgrace from the Foreign Service. These people are outraged that they are being tagged as sloppy or bureaucratic or unable to do their jobs. Richard, we have about 40, 30, 40 seconds to answer this. How badly damaged is our relationship with Great Britain and Germany and France, all of our allies? Well, look, I have to say, as knowing Chancellor Merkel fairly well, negotiating with her for a long time, they wanted Joe Biden. The international community wanted Joe Biden. They wanted a United States that wasn't heavy-handed and didn't lead and allowed.

And allowed them to do what they wanted. So, you know, they've made this that in some ways. They helped. Richard Grinnell, former acting director of national intelligence. Always great to talk to you, sir. Stay safe. Thank you. This is. Right now, we have an administration that can't even be bothered to get its own citizens out of a dangerous country.

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Not far from where everything is happening, relatively speaking. And we are working day and night to make sure that everything is buttoned up and taking. By the just because I want to make sure that your money is, we view your money as sacred money, it's like tithing to me. None of my travels or my team's travels, none of it is paid for by the Nazarene Fund. I insisted it, not a single meal, not a not a cupcake. And yes, there will be cupcakes on this trip. Everything is paid for by me personally. And I can't thank the Kenneth Copeland Ministries enough for lending us their plane to get us over here. I left the show yesterday in the last half hour of the show just kind of disappeared and reappeared

about 60 minutes before this broadcast today. We got off the plane. I can't say where I am in the Middle East just for security reasons. But, mainly because the countries that are dealing with refugees don't want anyone to know that they're dealing with the refugees because they are afraid of other countries threatening violence on them. This is a really touchy situation and there is absolutely no leadership from the United States. Yesterday, I talked to Alison Renaud and left the conversation. with, okay, let's see if we can help. Let me get an update now from Alison Renaud. She's the woman in Oklahoma who is just remarkable, who just won't take no for an answer. She is the one who helped

rescue the Afghan all-girls robotic team and brought 10 girls into safety. And now there are 200 judges. These include Supreme Court justices. I mean, imagine anywhere in the Middle East, a female judge. Well, they had them in Afghanistan and all of them are in hiding now because of, you know, they were the ones that put these guys in prison, which the Taliban just opened. And a female judge is not going to make it in a Taliban world. So we told Allison yesterday, we have an airplane. Where are they? Allison, give us an update on what's happened in the last 24 hours. Hi, Glenn. Thanks for having me on the show, and God bless Kenneth Copeland for allowing you to use their plane. He's the one that taught me not to take no for an answer.

Good for you. It's true. My force is on the ground over there. First of all, we were able to get 15 judges out. We don't know exactly how it happened. I can't give you – I'm not at liberty to give you any details yet, but there's so many more. And just keep in mind, this is grown. You know, there's 212 judges in hiding, but they all are older, so they have two or three kids plus their husbands, and we don't want to leave anybody behind.

Sure. So it's quickly grown to 700 people. We do have reports that the Taliban's about to take out the Internet, which will make our job harder, where there's no communication. But, you know, like I said, we're Americans, and we figure it out. And our extraction team on the ground doesn't seem to be fazed. They worked in this area for over 20 years, and they said, we'll figure it out. also a report that the airport situation is tearing extreme, it's becoming extreme. It's been breached as of yesterday by ISIS and Taliban, and it's quickly become,

Kabul is quickly not becoming an option in any way. However, there's more than one way that's in a cat. So not to give away too much strategy, but extraction is beginning to prepare what I would call an underground railroad. And we just have to do it a different way. So we won't be stopped. And we are constantly getting a price for help from these people. They are spending, they're having prayer meetings all night long, just hoping.

They said their only weapon left is prayer. But, you know, we're just keeping their hopes up. And when the United States leave, we're not done. We're not done. We're not going to abandon these people. And we're not going to abandon what our servicemen and women work for. so it's not over when the U.S. pulls out, possibly even by Saturday. Yeah, we just have to be more resourceful.

We feel the same way. Allison, has my team been in touch with you? Are we assisting in every way that is helpful to you? It's amazing the offer that you gave me for the planes, and I did speak to our extraction team. I'll just call them our commandos. The commandos said we definitely are going to need those, but probably the option of coming out at the Kabul airport may not work. But I'll tell you what, if you have any ideas, then you have people on the ground that can get them there.

But right as you called me, I got to text. Go ahead. I'm sorry to interrupt our time. Our delay is so bad. Go ahead. it's okay at 8 at 9 30 a.m. the airport is now closed completely to all afghans they won't allow the men at all she said we are crying the Taliban went to the house of a judge and anyway I won't go into the rest of the detail but it's real and it's serious and it's terrorizing and but but you know what god crush is impossible every day in our lives and you know he's not going to run out of miracles So we're going to continue to work and help these women. And I appreciate your interest.

And thank you so much for having me on the show. Oh, my gosh. Allison, we will do anything we can. You know, we're all in this together. And I just got an email from somebody else. It's another group that is trying to get people out. And we have to put our resources together. We're blessed to have money.

We're blessed to have airplanes. and operatives, but there are places where you guys might be or somebody else might be or they may have a plane someplace where we don't. It doesn't matter. We just have to get these people on a plane and get them out. That's exactly what we did with the Afghan girls. This lady and I just kept working every angle. We didn't care.

We weren't in competition. We just, we kept trying. If India wouldn't open their doors, now can we try here? And then suddenly, you know, God makes a way. He is the waymaker. So I'm not faith. How are the women that you are texting? How are they holding up?

You know, one of my jobs to fill them with light and hope and love and let them know they're valuable. We see them, we hear them, their lives matter. I'm constantly infusing them with those kind of words. And they just say, you know, this is giving us energy to go on. This is giving us hope. And we just want to be a witness for Christ to these women as well, just by loving them and letting them know that they're important. They're very important to us.

So it's tragedy of what they're going through, but it's not over yet. Okay. It's not over. There's a long way to go. And we are with you in the long haul, Allison. Thank you so much. God bless you. Thank you, Glenn.

Bye-bye. You bet. Bye-bye. I will tell you, The one thing that really, really is so very obvious is where are the rest of Americans? Where are they? Where are the, I know Quinn Tarantino raised a couple of million dollars to get people out. And I commend him and I would, I strongly dislike, you know, the people he hangs with, but

I'd help him in any way if he can get people out of there. We have to work together. But where is the National Organization of Women? Where is all these so-called civil rights organizations that tout that they care so much about women and children and minorities and all these poor people that are coming across the border? Where are they? Where are they?

You know, this isn't just putting people on a plane. These people are vetted. We know who these people are. Is that the problem? Is that it? Where is Jack from Twitter? I have been astounded at the things that I can find from the Taliban itself online. And I don't have a problem with it. I like to know what they're thinking.

I like to know what they're saying. I don't want them kicked off. But you kick... Donald Trump off and you won't kick the Taliban off? Well, they haven't violated, you know, any of our rules. Your rules, they're violating basic human rights. Again, I don't want you to kick them off. But out of all the people in America, you've kicked off,

you leave the Taliban on. Oh, okay. You couldn't find a way to get the internet to the people of Qaeda. Cuba. I swear to you, when this internet goes down and our high-tech corporations don't find a way to bring the internet back to the people who, some of them American citizens, who are just trying to get out. if you don't find a way to put the internet back on for those people in Afghanistan, I don't, I, you're an enemy of the people, you're the enemy of humanity. You are working with China to oppress people and help them put Uyghurs into concentration camps. You're helping them do it.

You're helping them build a social score so people can be kept off of buses and trains and planes out of shopping malls because they're not one with the party. You're building that with them. You couldn't find a way to support the people in Cuba. You couldn't find a way to find and to help the people in Afghanistan. You people are despicable. Silicon Valley, you're despicable. You're on the wrong side. You're on the wrong side of good versus evil, and you're on the wrong side of history. History will record the names of people who are standing up for people in danger because of who they are or what they believe. You think that conservatives don't care about, you know, oh, we don't care about gay people. Really? I'm the guy. I'm the guy that went to the, what's the big gay group in New York, the big representing Stu, what's the group that I went to and, you know, it's the gay alliance.

I have so many jokes to go to right now and I can't get the actual name to you. Glad is I think what you're thinking of. Glad, glad, glad, thank you. That's how unimportant they are now. Glad. Where's Glad? You don't care about, you know, conservatives don't care about gay people.

I went to Glad. And I said, look, my audience will kill me for standing with you. But I'll stand with you if you will stand against the mullahs. We can disagree on wedding cakes and everything else. But we have to stand about what is happening in Iran to gay people. they had no interest no interest these so-called civil rights groups

are shams where are where is the national organization of women standing up for all of the women in Afghanistan where are you where are your planes where are your donations where are your voices

where are the signs printed by a union strangely as you stand up in front of the state Department or march in front of the White House. Nowhere to be found because you are on the wrong side. You don't actually care. Well, I hope the rest of the world sees America for the actual Americans that are standing up. Our government is not us. Our government has separated itself from us and from what we believe a long time ago, America is represented now by its people. And the people are crying out for justice and safety.

We are crying out to not leave our own behind. We are crying out for a military that actually has some balls and does the right things. Back in a minute. All right, it's back to school again. new teachers, new friends, new indoctrinations. Yay, it's going to be great, kids. There's 33 new genders. Marxism is great. God is dead. And of course, everything sucks because of the free market. And racism. Well, racism probably comes from the free market and those darn founders. Ah, to be young again. Unfortunately, the stuff taught all over the country right now is that kind of

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that will remain nameless just because of the security issues and also the countries in the Middle East do not want to be known for helping Afghanis escape. Can we play the, video that I released early right at the beginning of this broadcast. You can find it on my Instagram page. There you see the American citizens being transported by the United States. And here you see the Airbus 380. That is our airplane and that is being loaded with

refugees. These are families, moms, dads, children. These are Christians, not entirely Christians as we are opening it up to other people that have been, I mean, if American wants to get onto our plane, they can get onto our plane. If somebody with the right credentials wants to get onto our plane, they will. We're also helping the members. of the Supreme Court and the court system that are women to get out. These judges are amazing women and we're helping them get out. It is sunset now. It's at night. Things are going to start to slow down, although they didn't last night while I was on a plane. We had to land. I've been flying since about this time yesterday. And we had to land in Ireland to refuel. And it just got an update. It had to be in the

middle of the night in Ireland. Nothing was going on. But I had a feeling nothing really goes on in Ireland. It was about two in the morning and we got an update. And I saw some pictures at night. I don't know if we have those pictures up that we can show the TV audience if you're watching on Blaze TV. But we loaded another plane. I think we have about 1,700 people out in the last 24 hours. We can do so much more, so much more. But the things on the ground are beginning now to fall apart. There are reports now that there are people who helped our military during the war.

that are coming to the air base or the airport and coming with letters from the military, correctly identifying them as people who helped, but on the wrong letterhead and are being removed from the airport, not able to get on the planes. Yes. This is real? This is a, yeah, this is a cluster. I mean, one hand doesn't.

know what the other hand is doing that's incredible though i mean that's the whole point of sorry i'm so tired um they yeah they don't have any idea what they're doing they're not working together the state department is a complete failure because this isn't what they do the the military does this kind of stuff um the good news is is that um you know we found that the military had air lifted a guy who's on, you know, a top 10 terror list. And when he got down, so you know, these people are, they might just get onto the airport and get past a lot of stuff. But once they're landing.

Yeah, it's tougher. In these other countries, we are, we are finishing the work to vet. And when I say we, I mean the United States government. You guys are not. There's that, this is a totally different group of people that you're dealing with. Yes. But yes. Yes.

Like, that's, that's one of the. things they keep talking about is they're bringing them largely to just different U.S. air bases and they can go through and do the sorting process there. There is a report that the White House is now upset. They're upset at the way the media is handling the coverage of this. And I will say, like, this, someone mentioned on Twitter, and I think this is the right way to think about it. In some ways, this is the golden age of the media right now.

I've never seen them handle a story so well for a multiple week period. Now, I assume this is going to turn around and they're going to start saying they're probably going to start listening to the White House. But what the White House wants is they want props on Afghanistan. This is what Politico is reporting. They have, they say in a span of the week that White House went from struggling to explain a rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan to beating its chest. Top Biden officials and administration allies have begun. aggressively touting the success of their evacuation efforts in the war-torn country, offering frequent updates on the number of evacuees.

They've framed the operation as historic in line with the Berlin airlift. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. First of all, it is historic. Mark my words. It is historic. But as people that are on the ground know, this is an. absolute, it's an absolute cluster. I mean, you know, I hate to bring up, I hate to bring up that

ISIS and Al-Qaeda now have effectively shut the airport gates, that we can't get anybody in and out of the gates now because they have shut that. But now that was just, I mean, I don't even know why I bring that up. That was just five minutes ago. And five minutes ago was so long ago, I'm sure they're getting things under control now. Why are we harping on things like that? It is deteriorating at a rapid speed. It may not make it to Saturday. Help me with this, because I've seen this framing often from the White House and even the media,

which is we had a situation where as of August 1st, our plan was to have an embassy in Kabul with an, with an, with an, with an Afghan army protecting that city until, who knows, maybe a year, maybe two years, maybe five years down the line, maybe the Taliban takes over, maybe they don't, we'll see what happens. That was our plan as of August 1st. Okay. Now we are withdrawing these troops and we keep hearing this framing of Biden's timeline of August 31st. however what we've seen between august first and august 31st is the taliban taking over the entire country the taliban telling us that if we go a minute past august 31st they're going to they can't control themselves who knows what will happen

hostages could be taken people could be killed planes may not be able to to land safely uh and then the biden coming on television and all the white house officials saying like we're going to do everything we can to get out by August 31st. We're going to try. We're going to try to get everyone that wants to leave from Afghanistan that's American because, you know, there's lots of Americans who want to hang out. You know, still they have gym memberships.

They don't want to, you know, they may expire and they don't want to, they want to make sure they get every day out of their membership. All this nonsense as if there's people that want to stay in Afghanistan. This is not Biden's deadline. This is a deadline that the Taliban is setting for us. Is it not? Oh, it absolutely is. And we had the director of the CIA meet in a secret meeting yesterday about the deadline. And he came out and said, nope, there's no change on the deadline. We're absolutely, you know, August 31st. And we're just abiding by that deadline. Even though the G7 begged, begged the United States and said, don't, please don't hold to this. Please, we can't. can't get everybody out in time.

It's not, it's not working. Please, the G7, the seven biggest Western economies all begged. Please don't do this. And we did it anyway. Because our word is our bond. Well, is it? Is it? Because I thought our word was to people who worked with us.

We won't leave you behind. I thought that was our word. Our word in June to our allies was to say we will stay and ensure cobbels stability so you can keep your embassy there to people like the UK. You can keep your personnel there because we're going to protect you. In June, we guaranteed that to our allies. Now you see what the situation. Yeah, but how old were you in June? I mean, I don't even remember.

I was like it was like I was five years old back then. And to show you how pathetic this is from the Biden administration. administration. Remember, the initial deadline was May. So this is after the deadline. They're going to our partners and saying, hey, of course we're going to ensure stability of Kabul. And

that has now completely fallen apart. What does this mean, do you think, for our allies? Like, what it, how do they look at us and how do they react after this? They don't trust us at all. I mean,

I'm I'm interested. to talk to people here in the Middle East that are not from America who are allies of ours. They don't trust us at all. They won't trust us from here on out. Joe Biden has destroyed the reputation. They may not have liked Donald Trump because, you know, he was crazy or he was, you know, tough on them. Whatever, whatever the spin is, they didn't like him. And they liked Joe Biden because, you know, he was. because they thought it would be business as usual.

But it's not business as usual. This is not America. This is America creating a gigantic vacuum. Our allies are wondering in Taiwan, is America even going to stand? And Taiwan, the answer is no. As long as this president is president, the answer is no, we will not send in anybody to help you.

And maybe that's what people want, but that's not the way to do it. You don't just pull out of the world. It will collapse. If the next time there is a September 11th, good luck trying to get the world to stand with us. We have betrayed them. We have made them look like fools. They've done everything that we've asked them to do. And now we just ditch them and say, hey, you're on your your own guys, it's reprehensible, absolutely reprehensible. This is an impeachable offense. This is, America has to decide, is this who we are? Is this what we want? Because I got news for you, you have no security, none. If the United States is negotiating with a terrorist organization and they won't allow us to get even our own people out, I don't care what the Pentagon says.

Oh, we're going to be out. We're not going to move. We'll have all our people. That's a lie. There's no way to do it. There's no way to do it. You can't get the people to the airport. And it will be a hostage situation.

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Every single time. I'm just sitting here, you know, we have black security vans that we didn't ask for, but I'm sure this country just really cares about our society. security so very much. It's nice of them. But yeah, but they followed us from the airport and no real reason for them to be sitting right outside of our door, but they are. And, you know, it's just in this part of the world, you know, I had to ask, can I bring my Bible with me?

Can I, what can we say? What can't we say? it is it's a it's a different world a really different world without giving anything away about your location of course knowing your location there's not a reason you could possibly drive it was like one of these things where you wouldn't they wouldn't just show up where you are like it would have to be intentional no it's not like there's a you know a nightclub or an FBI-style office right down the street. There's no reason why these two black vans are sitting in front of our place.

But we love it. We love it. We love it. Yeah, there's nothing like that. So, Glenn, the latest you've heard is we are approaching $30 million when it comes to total donations. Is that right? Yeah, I haven't had an update. I got one right when I got off the plane, and it was, I think,

I think it was $3,000 shy of $30 million. Money is not the problem. Prayers are deeply, deeply, deeply needed. And we are also working with others. I'm trying to get some of the other groups that we're working on now or working with to come on the show because you need to know the names of all these people that are doing amazing things here. trying to get people out of harm's way. There's lots and lots of people from America that are putting their resources, their time, their talent. There's a lot of people that have

been over in Afghanistan that are now volunteering their time to get back in there and find these people. I think you're going to hear really bad stories, but you're also going to hear some really amazing stories of people risking their lives to help us. And I firmly believe the best way for us to save our country is to save our souls. And the best way to save our souls is to get outside of us and help others. And, you know, if you could adopt these people in your minds as your person, your son, your daughter, your mom, your dad, and start caring about them in that way, it would be, a big improvement. Do you have any indication as to the differences between evacuating people out of Afghanistan

in the middle of this crisis and the previous efforts of the Nazarene Fund, which largely were around Iraq and Syria with the rise of ISIS? What are the more difficult, less difficult? Do we have any sense of that? Yeah, I think this is more difficult because this. is a known effort. You know, there are so many trying to get out and the Taliban knows others are inside of the country trying that, you know, might look like me trying to get them out. You know, we could fly a helicopter or whatever and not be spotted as knowing exactly

what they're trying to do when we were over in Syria and Iraq. This one, I think, is much, much more difficult because ISIS is there and the Taliban is there. And they know who we're looking for. Well, what you said is really concerning because if we're sending in people that look like you to rescue these people, I want my money back. I think America wants their money back. This is not. I mean, we're going in and we're, you know, we're just over the border and we're like, I got to sit down for a minute. I mean, this has been a long journey so far.

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producer said, you know, it looks like you're, looks like you're just in a motel six, you know, in Dallas. And I'm like, well, would you like me to show you the, the security detail from the Middle East that's been following us outside? I don't, we are not supposed to say where we are. I'm not, I'm not even sure we're supposed to be broadcasting, but, hey, it just happened. It's one those things. But we want to protect this country that is being gracious to let us in and taking so many refugees. I just got a notice from the government a few minutes ago that I don't know, I doubt it's going to be tonight because it is already, what is it, 9 o'clock here, 10 o'clock at night. It is 735. So it's 7.30 at night. And, but I'm going to go meet with some of the people that we have

freed in. I can't bring cameras. I can't bring anything but myself. So I hope to be able to bring that story to you by this time tomorrow. Representative Chris Stewart is with us now in Washington, D.C. Hi, Chris. How are you? Good morning, Glenn. I'd say, hey, thank you. God bless you for you in the Nazarene Fund and the, you know, the hundreds of thousands of people, maybe more who have contributed. That kind of effort is what's so important right now.

Yeah. Chris, I was talking to Richard Grinnell about an hour ago about this debacle, and the White House is now saying to the press that they're demanding, you know, a little you know, a little pat on the back for how well this is going now. I don't think I've ever seen anything worse than this, and it gets worse by the hour. Yeah, this is a generational failure. Glenn, I really believe that just like we see pictures of Saigon evacuation, the helicopter at the top of the embassy,

and every American knows what that is, even though it took place 50 years ago. 50 years from now, our grandkids will see pictures of those 800 Afghans in that C-17, and they're going to know instantly what it is. This will be remembered. And it's not going to be remembered as a great success for President Biden. It will be remembered as the greatest failure in a generation and how they can try to twist this and try to turn the narrative that they should be congratulated.

Well, it's beyond description. But American people aren't that stupid. And they're not looking at this thinking, man, they've done a great job. And even the press, for heaven's sakes, recognize it. Now, I expect, and I'll bet you do as well, the press will eventually turn on this and try to create the impression that it was handled well. No way in the world they're going to be able to pull that off. It's just such a catastrophe. It can't be refrained as anything other than

that. Do you believe that, you know, we're pulling troops out beginning today. Today, the airport is a mess. There are pictures now of people standing in, you know, knee-deep in sewage, just trying to get close to the gate to show their passports to show their papers that they should be let into the gates. And the White House says we'll have everybody out. We'll have everybody out that, you know, a U.S. citizen. Do you believe that?

No, of course I don't. I don't think there's a person in the world who believes that, except. or perhaps President Biden. And if he does, he is the only one. But we've already begun to wind down. We talk about the August 31st deadline as if, you know, at 12 o'clock on that day, all U.S. forces just click their, you know, click their heels and they are transported back to the U.S. We have already begun the drawdown.

As you know, 300 Marines who were embassy security forces, who, by the way, Glenn, or Marines, they know how to fight. I can promise you, those guys didn't want to be evacuated. wanted to stay there with their brothers and do what they could to help this situation. But yesterday, 300 Marines brought down. And if you just look at the timeline, and this is blazingly obvious, but it's something that needs to be, I think, discussed, we have 6,000 U.S. forces there now, six days to be able to draw them out and counting.

It takes at least three days now to begin and to focus on those security forces. And by the way, withdrawing forces when they're surrounded and when they're outnumbered And when they're outgunned, by the way, now because the Taliban has, as you know, billions of dollars of U.S. weapons, that is an incredibly delicate and a very dangerous operation. And it has to be done over time. So I think the focus over the next really six days, but particularly in last three days, will be on just that, getting the U.S. military out. And there's no way in the world you're going to get out all the American citizens. And there's no way in the world we're going to get out those Afghans who with great courage, and commitment believed us when we said, we will not abandon you. Work with us, work as interpreters,

work in whatever fashion you can to help us. We will not abandon you. And that is exactly what we're doing to them right now. Chris, you're one of the best fiction writers. I know you're a great writer. And you also write nonfiction books. But just write a little fiction with me here for a second. It's two months, I'm sorry, it's two weeks from now. Are we going to be seeing and dealing with hostages? Well, I think that depends if you talk to White House spokeswoman. It depends on what the definition of a hostage is at that point, right? Just like some of the other definitional battles they've had.

But if you were an American or if you were Afghani who has been promised that they will be evacuated, and you're no longer able to do that, and you're under the power, and have no ability to remove yourself, that seems to me like a hostage. Now, whether the Taliban actually holds a gun to their head and says you can't leave, or if they just shut down every method of leaving, any means of eating, it's the same outcome.

And the great fear, and this is obvious, I think it's the one thing that everyone understands. The Taliban could in a moment, sorry, the Taliban could at a moment say these are our hostages. they could put guns to the head, which is why, by the way, Glenn, two days ago or yesterday, the president went to the Taliban and says, hey, we need more time than August 31st. They said, no. And the president came back and said, oh, good.

Well, I've announced we're going to leave on August 31st. It's because he has that great fear of these Americans and these Afghans being held hostage. And why did we send the CIA chief over to meet with the Taliban yesterday? What was that all about? You know, that really is kind of an unusual occurrence. and working in Intel, it was puzzling to many of us. I think this is my observation on this, and I think it's probably right. I think he's one of the few people around the president that he probably trusts right now,

because that's not normally its CIA's purview. Normally that would be someone from state would be involved with that, perhaps with some military detail assigned to him. But that was an interesting thing, and I honestly don't understand the explanation for it, and we haven't been provided with one. And you're on the Intelligence Committee, your oversight on that. The embassy, we left Bagram and just left it, turned off the lights. I don't even understand it.

We built a billion-dollar embassy. There's got to be things in there that we don't want other people to have. And I certainly don't want to have the Taliban allow them to have our billion dollar building. Are we going to blow that up? Yeah, I don't know, but I mean, I can tell you this. The former president made it very, very clear on a number of occasions, and he spoke about this publicly, and he was adamant about it in private. We will take every American citizen, we will take every Afghan ally, then we will withdraw U.S. troops. Second thing, we will not leave them a single stick of equipment. And as you know, we've left them billions of dollars. And Bargram was a great,

example of that. It's a very secure location. Now, it's difficult to evacuate people from because it's isolated and it's nearly impossible to get U.S. citizens and Afghan allies to Bagram. So there is that, and that's understand why we wanted to protect Kabul and use that as a primary resource. But to your point, Glenn, about the facility, the building, the equipment that's there. And unfortunately, we know classified information that was left there. To abandon that overnight, without any explanation to our allies, by the way, who are also relying on Bogram for much of their support, and the explanation is, well, we couldn't protect both of them. Then adapt your plan. If you can't protect a resource that you need, adapt the military

operation so that you can. You can't just turn out the lights, as you said, in the middle of night and leave it for the Taliban. I don't know if you saw this, but Kamala Harris was in Vietnam yesterday and her plane was delayed I haven't heard an update on this I've been on a plane all night but her plane was delayed because of the Cuba syndrome what they're calling the Cuba syndrome some people they didn't say who that were was on her junket over there were affected by something that we only identify as the Cuba syndrome some sort of array from somebody targeting her hotel rooms and her staff's hotel rooms. I can't imagine that that would have happened just even a few weeks ago to a vice president,

but do we know if she's okay, what happened, and who would be responsible for something like that? Yeah, this is what we know and that I think I can discuss. The Savannah syndrome, the Cubist syndrome, as you talk about, we've been aware of it now for probably three years or just short of three years. There are not just a few. There are hundreds of people who have been, we believe, who have been attacked by this. We think we understand what kind of weapon it is. It should frighten the life out of every American to think that diplomats and members of U.S.

leaders of the U.S. government can't travel overseas safely any longer if this is to continue. So with the vice president, again, as I understand, it was a couple diplomats who were in the Hanoi embassy, who had, were showing symptoms of this. The symptoms are fairly consistent. They're long term. This isn't an imaginary thing. This is an actual physical manifestation. And we have no way to counter it and no way to identify when an attack is taking place.

Again, it puts every one of our diplomats, every one of our military, every government person and civilian as well. Glenn, you could be a target of this potentially, anyone overseas. And you have no idea when or how. it takes place. It really is a concern for us that originally the CIA didn't take it nearly as serious as they needed to. They take it very, very seriously now. But we've got an awful long way to go before we understand this and are able to protect U.S. persons from such an attack. So who do we think is responsible for this? I mean, China, Russia, either? Well, take your pick. And, you know, the information on that is fairly closely held and it's

understandable, but, you know, there's a number of allies that are... Can you tell me, can you tell me how it works? I mean, can you tell me, is it a, what are the symptoms? How long does it last? Is it deadly? Yeah, it's not deadly in the sense. It doesn't kill you. There's a number of that possible explanations, a microwave, an intense microwave, a couple other possible scientific explanations. the symptoms are everything from nausea to disorientation, severe headaches, you know, dizziness, et cetera, et cetera, long-term loss of memory. And again, this is something you can physically demonstrate through an examination.

It's not, you know, it's not something just imaginary. It's not something where they can scan the body and the brain and say, no, we see no evidence of it. They actually do see evidence of it. It's physical. and some of the early individuals who were victims of this, it's been now years, and they still experience many of these symptoms. So it's not something that hits you in a night,

and the next day you feel better. Many of these symptoms have been prolonged, and as I said have been ongoing ever since the original attacks. Act of war kind of stuff, if we knew exactly who it was, wouldn't it? Attacking the people with our vice president? It would be, and it's not the only type of that kind of scenario where we, you know, we're in this kind of a gray zone. I mean, look some of the cyber attacks against us, you know,

certainly aggressive acts, whether they're acts of war or not. It depends on, you know, where you want to draw the line. But it's not the only indication or the only example of us being at risk. Chris Stewart, thank you so much. God bless. Please keep fighting for us in Washington and with the State Department and the military to get these people out. We're there and we need your.

support. Thank you, Chris. Oh, we will do that. Promise you. We will do that. Thank you for everything you do, Glenn. You got it. Back in a minute. Michael lives in Arizona. He writes in about his experience with Relief Factory. He says, I have never experienced a product that has made such a huge difference in the way that I feel. I had daily headaches due to stiffness from hard work in old age. They have completely underlined, disappeared. I feel 20 years younger. Relief Factor has absolutely changed my well-being and I recommend it to anybody suffering for aches and pains. Thank you, Glenn, so much for recommending it. Michael, I'm glad you had this experience. I know how much relief factor has helped me with my own pain and how much it continues to do so. I take it three times a day still.

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He, of course, is the MSNBC host. I think he still hosts a show there, doesn't he? I think he does. I'm not 100% sure on that, but he used to be at least an MSNBC host. And he tweets, this comparison, I think, trying to brag about the administration's performance. He notes, evacuated from Afghanistan after Kabul fell, 70,700. Evacuated from Vietnam after Saigon fell, zero. Now, it was my understanding you tried to evacuate your people before the city falls.

Am I wrong on that? Is that, am I thinking about this incorrectly? My thought was, if you are at, let's see, at all competent, you get your people out of the country before it falls into catastrophe. You don't brag about how many people you left there and then were forced to evacuate after the city fell. Am I not getting this? The world is upside down.

Now that the administration is attempting to take to the media a case that they deserve credit for what a wonderful job we have, it's more important than ever that we know the facts. Triple-8-727 Beck is the phone number. We'll talk to you tomorrow.