The Glenn Beck Program - Eyewitness Afghan Stories | Guests: Hollie McKay & Allyson Reneau | 8/24/21

Episode Date: August 24, 2021

Glenn gives an encouraging update on the Nazarene Fund's rescue mission and calls out President Biden for his handling of the controversy. The director of the CIA had a secret meeting with the leader of the Taliban in Kabul. Journalist and author Hollie McKay joins to discuss what she saw on the ground in Afghanistan. Allyson Reneau joins to discuss how she helped rescue an Afghanistan all-girls robotics team from the Taliban. Jeff King, president of the International Christian Concern, joins to discuss the fate of Christians in Afghanistan. Stu goes over Andrew Cuomo finally leaving office, but why did it take so much to finally have him booted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So I just gave you an update that I got last night of $28 million for the Nazarene Fund. We are so grateful I had to sign yesterday for a bridge loan until we can get some of that money because we are renting airplanes. And you don't know how much fun it is to put your name down for a bridge loan on a 737 or 20. But anyway, we are grateful. And I have to point out, Bill O'Reilly was on with us on Friday. He never said anything about it except congratulations. And Saturday, I found out that a donation had come through from a Mr. B. O'Reilly. And it was a significant donation.

And I can't thank him enough. you should know that he is part of you and doing the right thing. Now, let me give you a story. Now, I am not saying that this is a feeling that we at the Nazarene Fund have noticed at all. But let me give you a story on what might be happening, according to one group of people that are trying to get planes out. This is an exclusive from the daily caller. The Biden administration has been an impediment to the private effort to get people out of Afghanistan, says Robert Strike,

who's arranging privately chartered flights to get Americans and vulnerable Afghans out of the country. The Brits and the South Africans have been awesome and heroic in getting people through the gate. strike whose military or sorry Washington based lobbying firm in 2017 paid by the government of Afghanistan for U.S. government affairs and commercial sector advice, executive and legislative branch engagement, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, said there are dozens and dozens of times he has reached out to the administration and to the Department of State and has yet to hear back. Now, some would say others are engaging the senator. and the pressure is starting to build on the State Department.

And that's why if you go to my Instagram page, while you slept last night, two planes from the Nazarene Fund landed and flew out 700 passengers, women and children and families being boarded on that plane. You'll see them being boarded on that plane on my Instagram page. do we have those by any chance we don't have them yet um i got them uh very very late last night and was just given permission to show them they are on the ground now but it has been uh a really really difficult thing to get the state department to respond the state department has to give

the other countries where the planes are landing permission they have have to say this is an American carrier and they are not human smuggling and and they're good to land. And all of the countries are waiting for that permission. And then they have, they give you a window. So you have this window to take off and land. Well, okay, it's a really big deal for those of us on the ground who are taking all of the names, figuring out who is on. They have to be translated in multiple different languages.

You know, it can't be, the whole manifest can't just be in English. It has to be in several different languages. It then has to be approved by the State Department all of the names on board. Then it has to be tied to the carrier, the tail number. And then it has to be tied to the same pilots and to the same pilots and to the same. same stewards and stewardesses, anybody else working on the plane, then it has to be tied to a country where it can be, where it can land, and we have to say where those people are going after that.

So we have to get all of that information to the State Department and then have them approve it. And once they approve it, we only have like a five-hour window, something like that, to be able to get the plane onto the tarmac and then take off and get back. Otherwise, it expires. Well, we, up until yesterday, we've had one of those, one of those notices from the State Department. And what's weird is they gave it to us an hour after it had expired. Oh, that's helpful. Yeah.

So it was very helpful, very, very helpful. We are on the phone with the State Department, and we are not getting any response, at least until we called a few senators, and I want to thank you for calling your senators yesterday. We could use more. We've had several congressmen and senators step to the plate. Please call your senators and congressmen and tell them to ask the State Department what the hell they're doing. I have a lot more to say on this, but I won't at this time. Let me just read what the Daily Caller said. After reaching out to the White House,

Strike said he received a response acknowledging the request, but got no follow-up from the White House. What I'm witnessing every day is the very best and the very worst of America, he explained. I've seen the humanity of private citizens who are contracting me and pledging their time, and in some cases their lives to bring our citizens and these African, sorry, Afghan patriots out of harm's way, while at the same time personally experiencing the Biden administration's abject failure to protected citizens and those Afghans that fought and worked alongside of us. It is morally reprehensible.

It has been the U.S. private sector who has stepped up to save blood and treasure the Biden administration is leaving behind. here's the thing. If we don't get safe passage, if we don't get the State Department and the administration to give us safe passage, then we can't do anything. You know, because we're worried about human trafficking.

So we got to make sure that we get everybody on there who's on there. And quite honestly, I have no problem giving the names and the background checks to the State Department. We're prepared to do that. We do it. But, you know, if we wanted to get somebody, let's say, across the border, which we would never do. But if we had, let's say, a friendly country there on one of the borders of Afghanistan, we can't even bring them across. Think of this.

We can't bring people across the border to a country that says they will take them. because the State Department won't give us permission to bring people across a border in Afghanistan. Oh, the irony. Oh, the irony. We should point out, too, for those, and there's been some people who have brought this concern up, I think it's an appropriate concern to make sure that we're not bringing people who are unvetted to the United States. And, of course, the answer to that is they are vetted and they're not coming to the United States. So those are legitimate concerns by people who have talked about this.

However, there are concerns that were immediately addressed before this was even announced. Honestly, even announced. Look at the pictures of the people that are getting onto our plane. You will see families. You will see moms, dads, and children getting onto the plane, right? Mm-hmm. Look at the people. Just search for some of the pictures of some of the people that were sitting there ready to get on to a C-131 transport.

Different pictures. Yeah, yeah, mainly men with no children and no wives. And again, those may be the people who made up the assistance to our military. Could be. Could be. Could be. I have much more confidence in a private sector after operation doing the vetting that I do the U.S. government under Joe Biden.

They can't even count the number of people that they've put on board. We can. We can tell you exactly how many people have arrived at a host country and how many departments. I can tell you the exact number. The Pentagon can't. How can you say you're vetting these people when you can't even count them? That doesn't make any sense. By the way, you know, there's, uh, Saki had a, um, uh, an interesting statement yesterday.

She made to Fox News about Americans not being stranded. I want you to hear this. Most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan. it's the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded. Does he have a sense of that? First of all, I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded. They are not. We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home home.

We are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans to get them home if they want to return home. There are no Americans stranded is the White House's official position on what's happening in Afghanistan. I'm just calling you out for saying that we are stranding Americans in Afghanistan. When we have been very clear that we are not leaving Americans who want to return home, we are going to bring them home. And I think that's important for the American public to hear and understand. Ah, okay. Okay. You know, it's weird is the people that are there feel stranded.

The people that are there, you know, it's really interesting to me that a massive area, Massive airlift. Because, you know, these private planes, we can't get these private planes down on the tarmac because all those, you know, those big transport planes, they're coming and going all the time. And they got helicopters. Just so you know, we've had three, three, count them, it's been a week. three U.S. military helicopters go out to save and rescue people. And, you know, don't worry about it.

Americans can get through the gate. They're letting them through the gate. Then why did those three military helicopters fly less than 200 meters to go pick up 169 Americans? If it's so easy to get through the gate, why did it? we have to send Chinook helicopters 200 meters away from the gate? Tell me that. Why? These are lies that you are hearing. These are lies. By the way, I think we have, we have flown in the last week under 20 flights. Under 20. We did two yesterday. We did two. Against all odds, two. In the last. In the last

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He took everything out. He left. and he left his dog but he said he only left it because he had to go Well I mean like if you're going to leave He's he's doing work for the people of New York And so he's going to go down there

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and we don't take the dog. We don't just leave him at the house. Oh, that's all right. He knows how to work the TV and the fridge in the oven. No, no,

he doesn't. No, he doesn't. It's a nice day, I think, though, for the people of New York. And honestly, all of us. Because Andrew Cuomo,

remember was being talked about as a presidential replacement for Joe Biden if he would be perfect that is exactly the kind of guy that's going to replace him I mean we have Kamala you think she's going to be any better than oh no yeah and Komo no my gosh I can't take that that laugh did you hear her talk about when she was asked about Afghanistan Yeah, I heard a little bit about it. Hey, what's happening in Afghanistan? Do you have any comments on Afghanistan? She laughed like that.

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But we are trying to. trying to stay focused on what's right in front of us. And that is this debacle of the Biden administration in Afghanistan. I wish I could get on the ground at the airport of Kabul. I'd like to see the faces of our troops. Because I'm just, I'm imagining that they are not happy at all. and would just love to see them. You know, if somebody would just bring a camera and just pan, see what they are feeling.

I imagine they want to do a lot more than they're being allowed to do. Oh, you've got to believe it. We have heard some reports over the past few hours that there have been some excursions into the city to pick up some people. Again, it seems like what we're doing is, begging the Taliban to allow us to do these things. Reportedly today, the CIA director met with the Taliban to try to, I guess, negotiate. Say that again. I didn't.

I think what I thought I heard you say was our CIA director met with the Taliban. So what did you really say? Like what did I actually say? Yeah, what just now? I heard, misheard. I'll just read this for you. CIA director secretly visited Taliban in Kabul. Okay.

A couple of problems. with that. One, it's not a secret if we're reading about it. The meeting is over. Yeah. Again, not something you should broadcast. I'm glad they did because the other problem I have of that is what is the CIA director doing meeting with the Taliban? Hasei. He's a former diplomat. He met on Monday with Abdul Ghani Baradar. I love that. I got to say, the president's name was Ghani. Now we've got Ghani on the Taliban.

I'm never going to be able to keep these people separate. I'm never going to know what anyone's talking about. Change your names. I got news for you. I don't know who anybody is anyway. Yeah. I mean, this is, can you just, I want you to take a moment, Glenn, to bring yourself back in time a little bit. Okay.

We started this show in before, I mean, we started doing the talk show in like 98 or 99. but the syndication deal we signed to go national we signed in August of 2001 so just weeks before the September 11 attacks and then we were supposed to start the show in January 2002 but they moved it up because of the attack so we've been basically on the air since September 11th the arc of the show a 20 year arc of this show yeah can you imagine let's say November 2001 I bring you back a heck of time to that to that period and I say you know know what's going to wind up happening is we're going to negotiate with the Taliban to basically give them the country and then we're going to strand and yes, Jen Saki, I said strand thousands of Americans and the Afghans who helped us in the 20 year war. All right. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. I got an answer for you. And then hold on. And then we're going to have the CIA director go negotiate with the Taliban to hopefully move the Taliban's red line to the United States.

If I were to give you that scenario, let's say, November 2001, how do you feel about that? Let me give you the scenario and my response. Let me give you the response I would have made in November. Stu. Stu. I know every empire has died in Afghanistan. I know that the British, the Soviet Union, there has never been anyone that. has won a war in Afghanistan, but I believe in our troops and I believe our troops will win the war.

Okay? If you would have said to me, well, Glenn, yes, we're going to win the war, but then we're going to elect a president who's just going to abandon everything on the ground, including our billion-dollar embassy. that we built because we won the war. And for 20 years, 20 years, any girl under 20 knows the power that she has, the inherent rights that she has. But our president is just going to hand it back over to the thugs and killers that we killed and ran out 19 years ago. Then I would say, that's a fantasy. That's a fantasy.

There's no way that could happen in America. I have terrible news. Wait, I thought we were talking about just hypothetically. Yeah, no. This is, it really is incredible. I mean, I remember when the Obama administration first sort of pitched negotiating with the Taliban, and it's been a bad idea from president to president since day one. It's never been a good idea to negotiate with the Taliban, ever.

No. And, you know, sure. I was crazy angry with Donald Trump when he did it. I thought it was an embarrassment when he did it. But that's nothing compared to this. And anybody who thinks that Donald Trump would have allowed this to happen? No way. No way.

Just let me just say this. Let's just say, and I don't believe this for a second, Let's just say he doesn't care about America at all. Now, obviously, that's not true. Yeah, it's not true. But Donald Trump is not going to allow Donald Trump to be humiliated, embarrassed that way. No way. No way.

No way. This is special skill of Joe Biden, Taliban Joe, to be able to go down this road. It really is. Because I don't, I, he does not even seem to have the. interest in protecting his own presidency. No. Let alone caring about the American troops or let alone caring about the Afghans that helped us or let alone caring about religious minorities there that are being murdered. Let alone forget all of that.

Forget all the women and girls that you say, I mean, guys, the left has absolutely no room to talk about the treatment of women and the treatment. of girls and how we have to protect the they have no credibility they have exposed themselves as not caring at all at all the people who should be screaming the loudest are the woke community yeah where's the me too and this and not to mention we've taken the taliban from a bunch of people who basically were you know fighting in caves against us during the War to one of the best and most well-armed militaries in the world. Well, they're well-armed because we left everything behind.

75,898 vehicles, 599,690 weapons, 208 aircraft, reconnaissance equipment, 16,191,191. This is from OpenTheBooks.com, by the way. communications equipment 162,643 items. Think about this, Glenn. We used to go back to this, go back again to 2001 for a moment. What is one of the greatest advantages?

This doesn't work out. This doesn't work out for us. What's one of the reasons why we do so well in warfare when our military? Because we have communications. We have night vision. Night vision, right? Just take night vision for a moment. Tens of thousands of night.

vision goggles and associated equipment. By the way, you... You paid for. And you cannot buy in stores. You can't buy it. You can't buy it. You bought it. You just can't use it.

Yeah. Americans can't buy it for your use. And so we gave that to the Afghan military, who then promptly turned it over to the Taliban here as this has developed. And now, if we, God forbid, if it gets out of control again and we have to go back in, which is totally possible, by the way, totally possible. If they again build an area that is free passage for terrorists and they start blowing up our buildings,

we're going to be back in there again. Don't dismiss this as if it's over because that's the whole problem with leaving. Don't count on Joe Biden to actually find a spine. It might be, yeah, no, I'm not saying Joe Biden. It might be 10 years from now. But eventually we're going to go back in there and we're going to have to deal with a Taliban that has all this equipment. Well, they'll have all that equipment anyway because. Joe Biden's son is allowing Chinese to come in and spy on our military and buy things, you know, through bribery, et cetera, et cetera.

That's another huge part of this. And China is going to give them all of that. I mean, did you see that China, I think Saudi Arabia and Russia and Iran have just made a deal? and China and Iran, I'm sorry, China and Russia have also made a deal with the Taliban. I think there's an axis of evil that is being formed and we strangely are trying to form our own apparent axis of evil. Where's the allied power here? Don't copy their organizational structures. Can I also say, too, Glenn, we have this idea of arming other countries and it doesn't,

always seem to work out the best possible way. I rephrase that a little bit. It never works out. But can I at least, this is just an idea. And you know, can we float, because this safety tree? Hey, safety tree. You can do it. I'm not going to cancel you.

Safe space. Yeah. Can we at least put self-destruct buttons in these things? I want a self-destrook. The Taliban takes over. We blow up all the weapons from one remote button. I want, why, I want a drone that when they take off with a drone and they go to bomb somebody, it just flies back to the United States and lands safely. Why? I want a button that makes,

I want it to just, you know how they have those like ink packets that when you steal money from a bank and they explode? I want basically some version of that in every weapon we give to anybody else. So at some point when we decide they've gotten to the wrong hands, we just press the button and they all just go away. I don't think that you've gone far enough. No. I would like the night vision goggles that if you steal it or, you know, we just leave it behind, you push a button and knives go through your eyes. That's what I would like. But maybe it's just me. All right. Let me tell you about real estate agents. I trust.com. Everything is so up in the air these days, so many surprises coming from literally every direction. It's nice when once in a while there's

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and you wonder, who are the people responsible for putting someone this incompetent and frankly this, you know, mentally frail in this position? And that's, yes, of course, the media, and many people are saying, and you had some people on your show this week who were suggesting it was Susan Rice and Obama and maybe Valerie Jared. I'm sorry, as a political spouse, I can't help but look at Jill Biden. No one knew better his state of mind than Dr. Jill Biden. And if you ask me, the most patriotic thing Jill Biden could have done was tell her husband to love her husband and not let him run in this mental state that he's in. I think she failed the country as well.

Yeah. I've been saying that since, I don't know, 2018. The guy was in cognitive decline. I think it is, I think it's actually spousal abuse and abuse from the family. Now, you know, I think that family might look at abuse differently, seeing, you know, what they've done to Hunter and what Hunter is done to the family. So maybe, you know, maybe they don't understand abuse in a family. But I think it is, I think it's elderly abuse.

this guy he, you know, could have gone out as a respected guy, blah, blah, blah. Instead, they know he's not going to make it. They knew he wouldn't make it. They just needed a shill. They needed somebody that they could just run as a Trojan horse

to get all of their stuff thrown. They needed somebody that looked like a moderate and he was the only one that looked like a moderate that people would trust. And so they ran him. And it's absolutely reprehensible. But again, the ends justify the means. You or Joe Biden as an individual don't matter.

It's just the policies that matter. Who's going to get it done? Who can get it done? Well, Joe Biden, but that's cruel. Yeah, so we can get it done. Now how long we've been waiting to get it done? that's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.

And you shouldn't be shocked at what is happening in Afghanistan and all over the world now because the people who are doing it, the ends justify the means. They don't care about the individuals. I have an exact quote from someone. somebody in the State Department about the people on the tarmac that I'm not going to share right now. Oh, but I will. Where it just shows they don't care at all.

At all. They don't care about the individual. They care about their agenda and them not looking bad and them just, you know, get rid of this. So it goes away. and we can get on with our life. It's a reprehensible group of people. It is. And we are losing our humanity to them.

Don't. Just don't be a part of it. Don't excuse it. Don't sell it to anybody else. Just state the truth. It's the Glenn Back program. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

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Or, excuse me, you know, should eat it because it's healthy. They start with taste, then they go to the healthy part. And that's the way you should do it. And really don't care if you get to the healthy part. I mean, really just don't care if you get there. No, you don't care. Yeah, they. Tanya cares.

Yeah. Really? Does she, really? I mean, seriously, does she? I think she might. He has no reason to. No? No. No. No.

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She's also the author of the book, Only Cry for the Living. she has just returned out of Afghanistan and we welcome her to the program. Hi, Holly. How are you? Hi, I'm doing well. Thank you for having me. Good. Can you say where you are now? You're safe. Sure. I'm in task camp in Afghanistan and I am probably going to be in the region for a little while covering the situation from neighboring countries and some of the fallouts and just kind of hammering in these

twilight days of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. So, first of all, tell us what you think is going on. What, I mean, what is America doing? I wish I could tell you, Glenn, it's an absolute, I haven't seen anything that could be more of a mess than what we're seeing right now in the situation in Kabul Airport. Just people have been trying for days, and they physically cannot get there,

and people are terrified and being injured, and they're just at their width end. I'm receiving calls and emails really just every 20 minutes from somebody knew just in desperation of how do they get there. But, you know, what I'm seeing from other countries, though, I received some notifications today from Australian government who are actually mobilizing the Australian citizens and visa holders there to a particular place, a hotel near the airport and actually physically taking them in a helicopter. us. So we're seeing that being done also by the Brits. And it's frustrating to see that the U.S., the mighty U.S. is not able to do that. And we're not allowing our great men and women

who serve this country to leave the wire to do their job that they're there to do and that most of them want to do. So we're talking to Holly McKay. Holly, it's not that we can't do it. It's that we're not. I mean, when I read that, you know, Joe Biden is saying that, oh, you can get the gates? Americans getting through the gates? Well, then why did you take two helicopters and fly them 200 meters outside of the gates to pick up 170 Americans? When didn't they just go through the gates? Yeah, exactly. I just, there's just sort of a collective denial that's happening from the administration, and it's extremely frustrating because, you know, I'm one of the people that have to look at these Afghans and speak to these Afghans every day and try to

explain to them why my government is not able to help them even though they are citizens or people that have supported the U.S. or they have the correct paperwork and visas. And it's just like banging your head up against a brick wall. I'm just not sure why the president is digging his heels in like this and refusing to acknowledge the brevity of the situation. So they said, the White House says we're going to be able to get all Americans and everybody holds a proper visa out by the 31st. I don't think there's a prayer of that happening unless something changes today dramatically. Yeah.

Go ahead. Really, in my opinion, what that is going to take at this point is Kalilazan's office in Doha to have some very serious. done discussions with the Taliban leadership that they have been talking to now for several years. The only way I see that becoming is, you know, if the Doha leadership is able to somehow rein in, it's many, many rogue elements, which, you know, we could spend all day talking about that too, and allowing people to get through. And what I sort of foresee happening is possibly American citizens being allowed through, but Afghan Americans or Afghans with American visas.

they're going to be the ones that the Taliban is basically not wanting to leave. And the Taliban are being very open about that thing. We do not want Afghans leaving. We need as much, quote, unquote, talent here in our country. And they've been very adamant about that. So unless Khalilaz's office can do some serious diplomacy, I don't see that happening by the end of this month. So my audience last week, we raised, we're at, I think, $28 million now. and we have 20 air buses and boeings at an airport very close and we can't get the state

department to clear them and we also you know can't seem to get outside of the gates and get any permission from anybody to help bring these people in and I sat there last week when all this money was coming in and I thought to myself and it must have been the way people were that were saving Jews back in Germany these people mean nothing to you you're just going to kill them

why won't you just let them go they mean something to us let them go it's clearly not that they're trying to keep all the talent in Afghanistan these are just people they're going to kill am I wrong exactly

no not wrong at all or people that they can exert, you know, a terrible control and a terrible life over, you know, if they want to keep them alive, it would be on a power trip basis and to really, you know, put them in jail, talk to them, make their lives incredibly miserable. So I guess the more people that you can control, you know, the more power, the Taliban seems to think it has. But, yeah, they just, they won't let them go. And I think that is, it's just, it's sort of terrifying.

And I think, you know, part of the problem, too, is that the leadership has been in Doha. And so they don't really have any control over the many rogue elements. And mind you, 7,000 of the most hardened Taliban fighters who have been sitting in Bagram prison for the past 10, you know, upwards to 20 years, have just been released last week by the Taliban when they took over the air base. I mean, you know, we're seeing the release of Bagram. I'm not, we're seeing the release of Taliban prisons all over the country, but the release of the bag of the bad, that's the bad. So, mind you, they're in their first week of freedom. So, you know, it just gives me chills to think what's happening there. The women and children, I mean, I actually heard somebody say, oh, these people know what it's like over there.

That's the way they've lived. No, not for the last 20 years they haven't. A 20-year-old girl right now has not been raised to think that that's the way it is. She thinks that, you know, she's a powerful woman and can do things that guys can do, everything that we know in the West to be true. And now she's being faced with a life of absolute hell. Where are the people that are shouting about women's rights and the rights of children? Where is the outrage from Americans that are constantly saying that that is their goal to help? It seems to be awfully quiet.

Yeah, it's sickening. It's sickening. I know so many women who have gone to become doctors and lawyers and teachers and just doing really incredible things. And now to think that their lives are going to be relegated to a dank basement. And every time they step out of the house, they're going to have to be completely covered and accompanied by a male relative. They're not going to be able to work or go to school or to really have any sense of, be seen or heard. It's just an unfathomable thought. It's just, yeah, especially in urban areas like Kabul, where women have just, yeah, they have grown up to have these rights or just to think that that has been stripped away from them like that.

I just, I can't even wrap my head around it right now. Tell me about your escort of the Taliban out. Tell me about that. Yeah. So what happened was my photographer, Jake and I. I, we were, we had a base in Kabul and we were actually planning to be, both of us spent considerable time in Afghanistan before and we were planning to be here through to November. So about three months, really capturing the end of the era in terms of the US.

And then, you know, how Afghanistan was going to survive in that first little chapter. We weren't quite envisioning things to fall the way that they did. So we were there working Kabul for a little while and decided to go up to Mazar Sharif, which is the northern province. And it was actually the province where the US first came in after 9-11, and it was the first one taken back from the Taliban. And if anyone's seen the movie, 12 Strong, I think it's called. You'll see that there is a Marshall Dostom who was sort of heralding that first group.

And he's someone I spent a little bit of time with a couple of years ago interviewing in Turkey. And so coming back, we thought I would go and visit him again and do another interview. and there was sort of this lot of hope that his forces combined with some other Northern Alliance leaders in the North were joining with some of the Afghan SF commandos and looked to be a viable fighting force against the Taliban who were quickly taking a lot of the northern provinces. But Mazaf is an extremely anti-Taliban place. And so it wasn't like that they had any community support that they may have had in other

provinces that are in the south or along the Pakistan border, which tend to be. be a little bit more sympathetic to the Taliban. Mezaa wasn't like that at all. So we went north, I believe it was Thursday of the week before last. And, you know, we got there and it was just, it was this vibrant city that I'd grown to know and love and the markets were full and people were out. And we were, I was going around interviewing the shopkeepers and I was outside there sort of very, have a very famous blue mosque.

And I was outside there in the park, you know, sitting with the women, talking to the men, talking to people that have fled as another. provinces who were escaping the Taliban and things just felt very full of life. And I was sitting there just trying to think, how is this place on the verge of being attacked by the Taliban? I, you know, nobody sort of seemed too concerned. And I thought, well, you know, maybe everything's fine. And I kept in very close contact with a lot of my Afghan security officials who said,

no, there's no way Mazar is ever going to fall. And if it does, it's going to be a long way away. So I felt very confident being there. And then the following day, Friday, you noticed a shift and it was quite bizarre. And we still went out, we're still in the streets, I'm still doing interviews and things. But less people were around and you just sort of started to see that there was something. And people kept telling me, shopkeepers are like, they're coming. And I thought, you know, they're still a fair way away.

And I thought, no, they're really going to push them back. You've got this incredible fighting force. And then by Saturday, it was just bizarre. And I woke up and we went out and there were just people lined up around the bank trying to get their money out so that they could flee. And I was trying to get hold of so many of my interpreters and fixes and things to help me out with some stories. And everybody just kept saying everybody's left. Everybody's gone to Kabul. Everybody's ran away kind of thing.

And it's a 10-hour drive between Mazar and Kabul. So I was a bit stuck and then I ended up finding someone who was able to come out and do some translation for me. and I got into a cab and I started to see all these people fleeing from the outside villages and they were coming into the city and we were trying to interview them and we're driving along this very abandoned road outside the city

and this cab driver just turned and looked at me and he said I'm scared I don't want to go any further and I said oh okay we'll go back no problem and the interpreter was sort of on the phone and he turned around and he had this very bizarre big smile on his face and he said to me oh they've broken through the front line

they're coming to Mazar and I thought there's no way this is happening. You know, this place was just alive yesterday. And the afternoon kind of continued, and my photographer and I went out to this kebab cafe, and it was just not a soul on the street. It was very eerie. And we sat down, and then we just looked at each other

and went, something is really wrong. Something we don't know is really, really wrong. Let's go. And so we hurried back to the hotel we were staying. And just as I'm hurrying back through these streets, I see this swarm of motorcycles coming into the city. And that was the teller. band and they basically were able to come in and take over that city without a shot.

So we kind of made it in just in time and sort of hold up on the roof of where we were staying and we were able to kind of look down and see basically the way that they were just able to come through and take over a complete city. And so from there it was kind of, we were completely surrounded. And it was just a very unnerving feeling because I thought, oh my goodness, what, what am I going to do next? I wasn't planning to be in the city as it fell. Okay, all right. Hold on just a second. Let me just take one minute break. We're back with Holly McKay here in a second. She'll finish the story. Sandra was having trouble sleeping for a very long time because through the night she would wake up in pain. Problem was the inflammation in her joints and it made her ache all through her body. You know the aching feeling that you get when you have the flu. It's what she was feeling every single night. And there was no hope of change in sight until she heard about relief factor. She was skeptical, but she was also desperate. And I know what that feels like.

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Why didn't they fight? So the night before, I actually spent the night before with the Afghan Special Forces Commandos. And what I'd been gathering and what they were able to affirm to me and also affirmed to me after the fact when I went back to them, and they're all in hiding now, of course, running for their lives, when they explained to me what happened was that they were basically sold out, Glenn. So this is how corrupts the Afghan, you know, within the ranks of both the government and the military,

and I really feel that the U.S. throughout this entire occupation turned a blind eye to the level of corruption, and that was a big factor. Yep. Yep, we did. And so what happened was there was a deal struck between one of the top A&A, Afghan National Army leaders in the area who was just appointed by Ghani,

mind you a week before this happened. He was appointed and he and a bunch of other kind of leaders all struck a deal with the Taliban in advance to basically hand over the city. They got their money or whatever it is they got. They got to flee. They were all gone. They were all often to Uzbekistan or whatever.

Doctrine out of it. They'd all left the country. These poor men, and this is what upset me most when President Biden was blaming the Afghans for running away. These poor men, some of them very young kids, some, you know, boys, young men, I should say, some of them being very experienced fighters,

were basically left to this lord out. They didn't know a deal had already been struck for them to surrender. They didn't know that, so they're fighting. My contact when the commander said to me, you know, he got to 4 o'clock that afternoon, and they were just being overwhelmed and overrun, and he said, then somebody came in and told him that basically everybody had left.

and he just said the morale. He just said, you know, basically they were just told you guys just need to run because the city's already been handed over. Oh, my gosh. They'll just kill you. So these poor young men and women are fleeing toward the Uzbek border. And then they sort of get there and they're dumping, you know, whatever. You know, this is a sad bit, too, is, you know, they're having to dump their weapons

and dump their vehicles and things. And they're trying to get into Uzbekistan, which I think had to end up shutting the border because it was so overwhelmed. So they were really left to the slaughter. And I can't blame them at that point for wanting to run away when they know that their own leaders on their side had already sold them out. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, what are you going to do at that point?

You're going to run for your life. Who are you fighting for at that point? You're not fighting for your country anymore. So the Taliban says to you that, you know, hey, we're not the Taliban of 20 years ago. We've got about three minutes to finish the story. I'm so sorry. Love to have you on again. Oh, of course.

So, yeah, so basically long story short, the only way we realized that we were actually going to get out of the city was to have the Taliban take us out. There was too many checkpoints. There's no way we could have passed ourselves safely. So the Taliban threw some very careful deployment. Thankfully, some really great state department people. Plus, the Uzbek consul and Mazar was extremely helpful. We were able to get an escort. Yeah, and immediately the first thing that, you know, the Taliban driver says to me is he just got out of it.

bag room too. That was, you know, very nonchaline. And basically he wanted to tell me, wanted to welcome me, said the governor, the governor wished he could have been there to talk to me, but he was busy and then sort of said, we're not the same. There's a lot of propaganda about us. But then I started obviously read through the lines that I probed and I wanted to know, well, what is your future for Afghanistan?

And it was very clear. And they made nothing, no effort to hide the fact they wanted a very stringent interpretation of Sharia. and that, you know, women were going to be covered and stuck into their basements. And, you know, anyone who steals was going to get their hand cut off. So they were pretty blunt about that. Having said that, they were very polite to me because I was a foreigner and I recognized that. I know that my Afghan friends and colleagues are not going to be given the sort of the nice treatment that I received, you know.

And that's what sort of scares me. So I was lucky, but that luck won't be extended. I would love to have you back on, maybe even perhaps later this week, just to talk about some of your other experiences and to be able to, because you've been everywhere, you have seen the worst of the worst. And I'd love to hear how this compares to what has already happened elsewhere. What is coming for Afghanistan? Holly McKay, the name of her book is Only Cry for the Living.

She's a journalist and war crimes investigator and an amazing storyteller. Holly McKay, thank you. Back in a minute. We have somebody else who just got a bunch of women out of Afghanistan. We're going to talk to her about that in just a minute. First, I want to, I want you to do something for yourself today. I know your schedule is busy, but I would ask that you would just take a minute to check out Patriot Mobile. The idea of changing your mobile phone provider probably.

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And she thought, these kids are in trouble. She wanted to help get them out. And she did. So how did this mom do it? We have her on the phone with us now. Allison, hi, how are you? Hi, Glenn. It's a pleasure to be with you today.

Actually, it's an honor. Thank you. I appreciate this opportunity. Thank you. So, Allison, I mean, so many people feel like I'm just a mom or I, you know, what do I, what can I possibly do? You didn't think that. You just did it. Well, I'm the mother of 11 biological children and nine of those children are girls, are girls.

And all with one man, by the way. Good for you. And, you know, I met these, I worked in the space industry in Washington, D.C. after obtaining my master's at Harvard at 55 years old in 2016. Wow. And the doors swung open for me to walk into this field. It's been an honor to work with our best and brightest and humble and genius people. And one thing they taught me was failure was not an option.

They make science fiction fact. and they are really unstoppable. I was invited to be on a very prestigious board of directors that I actually don't even deserve to be on, called Explore Mars. They advocate in Washington, D.C. for human space exploration. And each year we have a conference in D.C. where we bring in a lot of leaders to promote

and to talk about exploration. We decided we would bring over these five girls on the Afghan robotic team. and Elon Musk actually paid their way. These girls came, and our goal was to allow them to immerse themselves in the space industry, to brush shoulders with astronauts and to dream big. I immediately had a connection with these girls having so many daughters, and I think it was vice versa.

And one of the things they requested after going to the White House and museums was, Allison, we just want to go to an amusement park. And I thought, and so I quickly raised the money. about 15 minutes for all these girls to go and have video of them there and they just had an amazing time. You know, sometimes kids just need to be kids. Yeah. But I kept in touch with them for a couple of years through text. And in December of 2020, they began to request, hey, we're going to graduate high school. We'd like to come to the United States to get our degrees in engineering. Could you help us with scholarships? And we've been doing a lot of groundwork in that area.

but I woke up on Tuesday, August 3rd, with an overwhelming dreadful feeling that they were in great danger. At this time, nothing had quite collapsed yet or anything like that. And I thought to myself, this must be a divine warning. I couldn't shake it. I tried to. And I immediately began to reach out to people way above my pay grade. I knew I would have to find some power and some influence. And I didn't know where to start.

I just was armed with a courage and a cause and a cell phone. and just began to, for two weeks, night and day, tried to find something. I kept running into brick wall after brick wall after brick wall. A lead would go hot like if something was going to happen and then it'd go cold. I was working in conjunction with their leader and mentor, who is from Afghanistan, who lives in the United States. So she was working hard on her passive influence,

and I was going hard in my U.S. area. There's sometimes when you have a dream and if nothing is working, you need to take drastic action. You need to do something wild. And I decided I would fly to Qatar. It was a good chance they might be flying there. Evacuated by the Qatar government. We tried India.

We tried Canada. We tried a lot of different places. And we just weren't getting anywhere. So on Tuesday, a couple of weeks ago, or a week ago, I had a one-way ticket. And I thought, wow, when I get there, I don't know anybody. I'm traveling alone. And so I called, I remembered I had a former roommate. Washington, D.C. a couple of years ago that had been transferred there with the military.

And I thought, I need to ask her, you know, where do I eat? Where do I stay? Can I go jogging in the mornings? What do I wear in public? Headscarves? What's proper? And she said, what's going on? And I told her. And she said, do you know I work in the U.S. Embassy in Qatar? I go, I had no idea. And she said, yeah, I have the ear of the high officials there. I can help you. Send me their passports. Send me their information. And I'll prepare it. I'll prepare it all and present it. She stayed up all night. She went back to the embassy, stayed up all night for midnight to six, and presented this, and our U.S. officials really jumped on it.

It began to alert people on the ground in Kabul, and the Qatari government got the girls to the airport. Our officials were right on top of it the whole way, flanking the operation, were at the airport in case something went wrong. And somehow in a sea of chaos of the pictures you saw of 8 million people plus all the refugees, miraculous these girls were evacuated. And I didn't have to make the trip to Cutter, by the way. My friend said, no need to come.

You need to stay on the phone. You need to stay on the ground. You don't need to be flying 20 hours and being silent with these girls. So it was reported that I did fly there, but I think it was just assumed. So anyhow, the girls are safe. They're in Qatar. And hats off to that government for stepping up. I will tell you, there are a lot of very brave.

Muslim countries that are stepping up. And they are terrified because they know the weakness of the West right now. And they also know if they're outed. They will have all kinds of problems from Hezbollah and ISIS and the new Al-Qaeda, et cetera, et cetera. And they're doing remarkable things, just truly remarkable things. You're right. I have to tell you, Alison. it's it's amazing to see and I can I can relate entirely yesterday was not a good day for me

and I at one point I said you know what it's just not supposed to happen I mean maybe maybe because every single door is closing and maybe it's just not supposed to happen let's go to another direction and I stopped myself and I thought that is so defeatist no keep moving forward. And it's hard, especially like you when you were completely alone. I commend you. Thank you. But, Glenn, there's nothing that happens unless there's a team. And it wasn't just me. Okay. So I just want to commend all the people that were involved. What a tremendous job they did. And how fast they left into action. You know, sometimes you think it's someone that's full of power and influence that you're going to get a hold of that's going to do the job for you. No. But here was just little roommate of mine.

that God connected me with and suddenly it exploded and it began to work. And I'm just shocked how one willing person who cares, God can use them. Yep. It's really remarkable. Allison, thank you so much. God bless. I hope to meet you someday. We're not that far, just down the street.

We are. And I just want to mention real quickly, if you have one more minute, is that okay? Because of the media coverage I've had over the last few days. days the cries for help from within Afghanistan from women who are in hiding, professional women who have been fired, who are being hunted, who are being tortured. Reports last night have two killed and shot, and these are professional educated women. One beat to death, one blinded. I was back, I was back on ground at ground zero again. What worked for the girls that I helped was not going to work to evacuate these people that are in hiding. And I said, send me the list. I'm not going to leave one behind. How can you help?

I thought it would be, I thought there would be 20 people, and it was 212 women, Afghan judges in hiding, Supreme Court. And I asked my commando friends on the ground that are helping me, and they said, yes, they will be the first to die. They'll be the first to die because they have imprisoned men. They have imprisoned people who are beating their wives. Right. And all those prisoners have been released, and these women are being hunted.

And it was 212 women. How can we help you? How can we help you? You know, we've got a NASA, former NASA General Counsel friend of mine working on this, along with the Yale Law School, who are assembling all the data of these women, submitting all their information to state department. It's turning fast. I've got an extraction team on the ground. And I think, and I've got an ambassador that reached out to me over the European Union that says, I'm going to find asylum. He's already called so many countries, and they're working on it as well.

Okay. But the one thing I'm missing is planes. A plane? plane. You're talking to a guy who has 20 of them. Yes. You get them to the airport. I'll need to have my team get in touch with you. You need to work it out because of the State Department and everything else. But you get them to the tarmac. I'll get them on a plane. Good. Well, we're Americans and we figure it out, don't we, Glenn? Yeah, we do. Yes, we do. You get them to the tarmac. I'll get them to another country where they'll be safe. And I just want to say, Mr. President, if you hear this message, we need more time. We need more time. Please give us more time.

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I was able to confirm that they were off the ground and safe at about 5 a.m. Eastern time. And it's all because of you and teamwork. As our last guest just said, it's the power of one. But as she said, it's a team. And that's that is the, I mean, you just heard it. She's like, look, I have everything. I have all the paperwork. I have the documents.

I have the government saying, yes, I just. don't have a plane. Well, I've got a plane. I mean, we've got a plane sitting right there on the tarmac probably soon, if not already, on the tarmac. We have the capability of turning them around every 30 minutes, but we can't get the State Department to move on it. But it is just the power of one individual just saying, I'm doing this part. Does anybody have another piece and somebody standing up and doing their part? And tomorrow I'm going to tell you a story of how individuals really make a difference and you think I don't have the power to do anything.

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stew in just a minute on Cuomo. We are almost at $30 million raised for the Nazarene Fund and our evacuation mission in Afghanistan. I have an update on that coming up in just a second. And from somebody who has been there and seen it, what is happening to the Christians in Afghanistan? We go there in 60 seconds. So what is on your playlist right now? What's the soundtrack of your day look like? You can listen to podcasts.

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I'm sorry about that. I am. That's right. Thank you for being on with us. And thank you for keeping track of what's happening all around the world. It's getting really dangerous in a lot of places in the world to be a Christian? Yeah, unfortunately, it is. I have jokingly say it's a growth industry we're in, and unfortunately it's even starting to come home to roost here in the States. I'd like to hear more about that in a second. First, tell me what is happening with the Christians.

What is life like for a Christian? And I believe there are about 15,000 converts from the last 20 years. Yeah, that's close to right number. And, you know, Glenn, those converts are kind of in different categories. Some of them have come out publicly and said, look, I'm going to live openly as a Christian, not just as a Christian, but as a convert from Islam. And in a place like Afghanistan, that's a death sentence, especially when the Taliban comes in. It's one thing when your uncle, the United States, is in control. But when that falls apart, that means those guys are, they have a target on the back and they're going to be killed. And in fact, they're going to be killed.

If I have this right, the Taliban said just last week, the Christian converts, if we find you, we will set you on fire. You will burn to death and be set on fire while alive. We all know, these guys are horrible. They're going door to door. They're checking people going. Are you going to, have you been to mosque? Are you going to mosque? Christians are getting calls saying, we know you, we're watching you.

and others are being assassinated. It hasn't moved to the Christians yet. It's really starting with the judges and the intel people and the special forces. They're being dragged out of their homes and shot, probably at about a rate of 10 per day. We expect that soon, unfortunately, you're going to see Christians dragged out of their homes and killed. We know, because we're trying to save many, we know that they're not really congregating together anymore. They're trying to stay as separate as possible so they don't get each other killed. And many of them are in hiding with their family.

Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, it's always tricky with what can be said in this situation. But, you know, there's a mass of humanity that most people know about that surrounds the U.S. air base. And so obviously there's people in there. All of those people are targeted for one reason or another. and some of her friends are in there. And yet at the same time, there's those public converts I spoke of,

but there's a whole mass of others that you're referring to. And they've been underground, and yet at the same time, it's not going to take too long to figure out who these people are, especially when they get tortured before the murdered and say, who else is a Christian? They'll start working through and doing those kind of things,

including the others you mentioned. And they'll know who they are because they're not showing up at mosque. Yeah, and even those who are willing to go to that length, to keep their life to say, look, I'm going to go to mosque, you know, just to stay hidden. Because if I don't, it's going to be clear. But some of them just won't do that. They're going to say, I can't do that. That would make me a fake. And then they're going to be discovered pretty quickly.

I mean, it's, are you, I mean, you have to feel this way, doing what you do. When you see these people and meet these people and you see their faith, don't you kind of feel like a fraud? I mean, because Americans have never been pushed against the wall like this. I've never had to choose my life or my faith before, and I hope I would, I hope I would stand strong. But these people are just incredible, just incredible. Glenn, I never ask me that question. It's something I often say, I'll confess about myself. And I think that's just a humble response because I so often will look at these people and I'll say, you know,

if that's a Christian, then what am I? Because what would we do in this situation? They're really, you see, the deepest faith, and it coupled with the deepest cost, and it's an amazing thing to be associated with them and to be able to serve it. It is. It is. And, you know, our country wouldn't take them under Barack Obama. Our country won't take them now under Joe Biden. And these are the people that would renew us. These people would come into our faith communities, and we would learn so much from them. I mean, I have so much respect. And every time I ever think about, would I stand up?

You know, you always kind of get down to, well, could you say things that could, you know, help you escape and get away? Would you be willing to play the game? These people don't play the game. They don't play the game. They're like, yes or no, I'm either a Christian or I'm not. So many. And they've even, like I said, they've even come out already. So they didn't even choose to stay hidden.

Some of them have converted, and then even on their ID cards, you know, it shows what's going on. And so that kind of courage is something. And it's frustrating because there are people in that ring around the base that have to get through where they're going to be assassinated. And there's the talk from the administration, and then there's the actuality of what's going on the ground. Very few people are getting through. And to my knowledge, none of our friends have gotten through. Well, anything that we can do to help your organization, you know, I've just signed for a bridge loan yesterday for 20 737s and A320s. And as we get them rolling, any Christians that can get into the airport,

we will take them in. If you, if, please let's just team up off air because anything we can do, we will. Well, first of all, you just solved a mystery because I was just, I just got off the phone with our contacts inside. And we were aware of these planes that are available. And we were like, now, who did this? We were speculating who did it? So you just provide the answer. Yeah.

I so appreciate that. You're amazing. Yeah. It's our audience that has done it. I mean, we've, absolutely. Last week, I went on the air and said, we need money. We are just about to break $30 million.

And so we have the money. We have, you know, we're just, we really need prayers because the State Department is standing in our way. Otherwise, we'd be lifting off all the time. Yeah, no, that's the deal. I mean, and just for your listeners, it's like, look, I'm on the outside. We have no connection. It's the first time we've ever spoken. and I just got off the phone and it's like the planes are out there waited.

We don't know who's provided them. And yet the problem is getting them through the gate. And it's honestly, it's beyond the Christians. I feel for all these people. I do too. They all have, you know, they have a target on their back. And on the one hand, you'd say you understand the position of military. They don't want to get embarrassed.

They don't want a suicide bomber. But look, we've been handling this type of situation for a long time in Iraq. I think they've learned something. and you think if they could just get them on the base and sort them, if they have to throw some of the fish back, so be it, if they're scammers or whatever, but get these people out of that

ring around the airport. And by the way, Glenn, they have no food, no water, no medicine, and their phone charges, they're only linked to their survival to any hope they have. They don't even have phone chargers. So if anything, if they could just get that out into that

area, we have, we put a plane up in the sky yesterday. It was about this time that it was being loaded. And they had been on the tarmac for days. And as we were loading them onto the plane, our guy said, we have to call for medical aid when we land because everyone on this plane is dehydrated. We need IVs.

Well, those people sat on the tarmac waiting for the State Department for six additional hours before they were allowed to take off. Yeah. And we work with the State Department. We're big fans, but this has got to change. It's a disaster. And something has got to break free. It's like, let's just put humanity first and get bureaucracy out of the way,

and let's move fast and save lives. But I can't tell you how much I appreciate what you guys are doing and based on your initiative and drive and your heart. So amazing. We'll help you any way we can. I'm going to have one of our producers put you in touch with the Nazarene Fund. And if there's any way we can help you, we will. We will.

Thank you, sir. You bet. I appreciate it. You bet. Bye-bye. You know, it's an amazing thing how we all can just come together and just put our differences aside. And the nice thing about it is no one that I know of gives a flying crap who gets a credit. Nobody cares.

And everybody that I know of, I mean, we know that there is a possibility that some of our people who are out trying to rescue people and bring them in. We know there's a possibility that they may be killed or the people their shepherding could be killed. And that would be really bad. We're a group of people and I would put Jeff in this same category. He just kind of said pretty much the same thing. We don't, we're not looking for anything. Let's just put humanity first. We don't care who gets the credit and we'll take the blame.

I'm fully aware. My wife said to me this weekend, she said, Glenn, this is so dangerous. What happens if blah, blah, blah. And I said, honey, they're going to find some way to make us into evil bad guys anyway. What difference does it make? We know they're going to say things. Do you know, I read a story last night. Glenn Beck says he raised X number of dollars.

I say that. Well, you did say it. Technically, it is an accurate headline. Yeah. You have said it. Yeah. Isn't it interesting? Because that's not the headline I would.

right. They're implying that we didn't raise that money. They're implying that somehow or another this is just a I guess what, a made up fantasy land? Definitely I would say they left it open for interpretation. Interpretation. You could take it that way. Yes. You could. I'm just, I saw that same headline and I thought to myself,

at least they wrote something about it. Yes. You know, I will tell you, that was my first thought as well. Wow, they're writing something about it. What have we seen? Seriously. I mean, I saw the independent story who wrote who mentioned it when we were at $20 million. I saw a, the story, I think it was insider, business insider that wrote that one that you're talking about. Yeah, I don't know. And then I saw there's one today from Faithwire that says after raising over $28 million to rescue Afghan Christians, Glenn Beck shares an incredible update and has the pictures that you shared on your Instagram today. But, you know, obviously I think the blaze has covered it,

which is great. Outside of that. That's it. It's about it. Which is amazing. I'm waiting for the Glenn Beck attack articles that are coming. Oh, it's coming. It's coming.

They will smear Glenn Beck just bought a $25 million house in Malibu. They will come up with something. And I can tell you. Can I come visit? Oh, yeah. You should see it. It's really nice. It's a total coincidence.

I bought it this weekend. And I bought it. I bought 12 and a half Bougatis. Really? Yeah. How did you buy a half Bugatti? It's difficult. It's difficult.

They'll do it. Was it a time share? No, no. They'll just, they'll cut it in half. Look, if you buy 12, they'll send you a half baguadi if you'd like to pay for it. Sort of customer service we need. So anyway, I'm going to give you the situation on the ground. I have the latest update from.

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It is truly amazing. Let me give you an update. Yesterday, we had an aircraft of 340 that took off. Then today, this morning I announced that we had two jets that have taken off. The last jet is currently in the process of turning it around quickly as possible. to grab another 340 on the tarmac. Yesterday was really challenging. This is getting this from the head of our operations over in the Middle East.

He said it all worked out by the grace of God. One of our aircraft broke down on the tarmac in Kabul. We had to replace the battery and organize the passengers to get them on the correct manifest list. Confusion because another aircraft on the ramp had important passengers heading to another destination and all the names were written apparently in Pasch 2, which none of us speak, but we had to get all of those names translated and all of the documents translated. Anyway, the aircraft took off after sitting on the ramp. It was fully loaded.

We finally got the permission from the State Department. We will, I can't talk about that. our biggest obstacle remains the State Department and the White House. We have senior officials not going to say where I'm not going to read any of that. Tensions outside of the gate extremely high. People are on top of each other. The Taliban continues to obstruct at every turn. Lots of concern today over IEDs going off outside of the gate.

contrary to popular knowledge, the Taliban and ISIS hate each other. And ISIS wants the Taliban to suffer and may do so via some sort of attack at the gates. That way they can blame it on the Taliban. Personally, I can't wait until we're all out of there so they can just kill each other. It would be fantastic if they would just spend the time, you know, thinning the herd of bad guys. I welcome them. unlike other administrations, I don't think we should arm them, but maybe that's just me. We will try to give you an update as things begin to move.

I know I can confirm that 700 Christians, women, children, families have now landed in a safe country in the Middle East, which will remain nameless for their safety and the country's safety. but I can confirm today that the first 700 have landed and they are okay and now being processed to go to their new homes all around the world. We need your prayers and if you still want to donate, you can. We can always use that. This is going to be an ongoing effort, not just in Afghanistan, but unfortunately all across the Middle East as America becomes weaker. you can donate at the Nazarenefund.org or Mercury1.org. Knowing who you can count on in this country is extremely important. They're very few people that I think we can count on.

There was one group that was started. It was AMAC. It was started when we were at Fox. And I was talking about another, you know, a seniors group. And I'm like, what are these people doing? They are selling people down the river. That's when a very smart guy decided to start Amak. He is fighting on our side.

This, now he has unfortunately passed away, but his family is in charge of Amak now, and they are warriors, warriors for the Constitution. They stand firm with the truth, and they will not fold under pressure. It is one group I think you can count on, and it's the Association of Mature American Citizens, otherwise known as Amat. There's now 2 million members strong. I urge you to become a member.

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Go to the Nazareenfund.org to put in your donation and help the people in crisis in Afghanistan. The Nazareen Fund.org. Andrew Cuomo is awful. Yes, of course, but Andrew Cuomo is also gone. Goodbye, Andy. Andrew Cuomo is officially out of office. The long New York-based nightmare is over. He wrote today, said,

I hereby tender my resignation for the office of governor, the state of New York. This resignation will be effective at midnight, which is already passed this past day, midnight, August 24th, 2021. It has been my pleasure to serve with you both. Oh, it really has been our pleasure, hasn't it? Watching Andrew Cuomo flail through the past,

God, how long has it been 10 years of being governor? He wanted another term. He wanted to outdo his father. That was his big goal to get to his fourth term as governor of New York. He did not succeed. In fact, he didn't even equal his father. who actually lasted his full three terms. Now, Andrew Cuomo, of course, is made news as he's gone out of office, as he typically does.

Cuomo, who had been staying with his sisters in Westchester County, recently had asked staff members in the executive mansion if anyone would like to keep his dog, captain, who has remained at the state-owned residence after the governor moved out last week. Now typically when you move out of your home You bring the dog with you I mean I think That's the normal way of doing things And if you're going to go live with your sister

Then maybe you bring your dog with you Maybe your sister takes care of it But apparently he left it at the mansion Now This is coming from two state police Police sources through the Albany Times Union They said that the governor had asked mansion staff members If anyone would be interested in caring for the dog

apparently he had nipped a few people over the years and was a little bit of a problem. Of course, obviously Cuomo denied this because that's what Cuomo does. When anyone criticizes him about anything, he just denies it and acts as if you're crazy for asking. He has denied it and through initially a spokesperson, a person who is all over the report about how he abused women, he came out and said, oh, come on, this is a lie. You can't possibly think this is true. And finally, Andrew Cuomo tweeted about his dog, saying some people just can't get the facts straight. Yes, I was downstate monitoring storm response for a few days.

But Captain and I are a man and his dog. He is part of our family, and that's the way it will always be. And he tweeted a great photo, and it kind of warmed your heart a little bit. It's Andrew Cuomo, petting his dog with his loving daughters, looking along. I mean, it's a beautiful photo. And it almost looks like a professional photo, really. It really is a nice picture. It does kind of look like a professional photo.

I think it, oh, that's because it was. It was from People magazine from 2020. So it was not a current photo at all. Once again, Andrew Cuomo, in another moment of this one, a minor crisis, lies yet again. Because that's what he does. That's who he is. That's why he's gone.

because he lies all the time. That's who Andrew Cuomo is. Andrew Cuomo lies. That's what he does all of the time. All of the things he says, every time he says them are lies. He cannot physically say something that is true. It is not within his skill set.

Of course, obviously, he is still under investigation. Now, they've thrown out the impeachment part of the proceedings because as you all understand, Democrats think it's crazy to impeach a politician after they've left office. That would be insane. Never have they ever recommended impeaching a politician after they have left office. Can you imagine such a crazy thing supported by Democrats? I know I can't.

But that was legitimately. their excuse. Oh, come on, it's a moot point. The guy's leaving office. Do you remember the last year? Do we not recall what happened in January as President Trump was about to leave office? What you recommended happened after he left office? Do you remember all of this? This is not ring a bell at all. Doesn't matter. I will say, though, Democrats really, almost to the level that I do, hated Andrew Cuomo. I mean, they really despised Andrew Cuomo, and that's the only way he's leaving office. As you know, Democrats don't leave office because they've been involved in a scandal. I mean, we have governors in this country who are, who have been photographed in blackface and are

still running their states. That is what happens when you're a Democrat. If you get involved in a scandal, you don't need to leave. You see. stay. You stay and the media covers for you and we all move on. That's what happens. But Andrew Cuomo actually passed this sort of mythical line. Somehow he was able to get through the wall of protection from the Democratic Party. And you can only do that by being really, really efficient in how terrible of a person you are. Because people are now saying, well, look, this is frustrating because he's being kicked off out of office because of the Me Too scandal. And of course, that's important.

If you read the report, which I have done, and we've gone over here on this program, you realize that there is a lot in the report. It's not just a couple of jokes he made. It's not just a couple of hand gestures that got mistaken. He did a lot, and he deserves to be removed for what he did. He's fighting that still. He released a video yesterday, still proclaiming his innocence. there are a lot of accusations against him.

And he, of course, deserves due process, barely, but he deserves due process. And if it was just that, I don't think he would be removed. How many times have we seen Democratic politicians walk right through a scandal like this? It doesn't matter how many women accuse you of things. If you're a Democrat, generally speaking, unless you're Harvey Weinstein, you're pretty much going to make it through. But he went so much further than that.

all of the people that hated him in New York, all of the lies, all of the investigations. The nursing home scandal was necessary to remove him from office. If that did not occur, he would not be gone. Now, I would absolutely rather have him in office than have thousands of families grieving their relatives. I would prefer that all of the thousands of people, that he is responsible for their deaths, I would prefer they were still alive and even though it would suck for the people of New York that he was still in office,

you'd like the idea that people with beating hearts still had them beating. Unfortunately, that's not an option because of what Andrew Cuomo did with the nursing homes. And we should remember the way this is being framed now and tossed away is, look, it was a difficult time. It was a hard time. for every politician and, you know, maybe he made a mistake.

He did. This is not an understandable mistake. Any more than it's an understandable mistake to not evacuate your tens of thousands of people out of a country as you handed over to the Taliban. It's not a mistake you can excuse. He put known infected patients with a pandemic virus in the same rooms with the most vulnerable people. he knowingly imported and guaranteed the import of COVID-19 into nursing homes. This is not an understandable oopsie.

This is probably the single worst decision made in the entire pandemic era. Add on to that the fact that he was one of, that was he was one of only a few Democratic governors who did that, some of which still have survived that crisis. And it proves that you need all of these elements to remove someone like, Andrew Cuomo. Governor of New Jersey is still in office somehow after he did the same thing. One thing he did not do, though, was prevent nursing homes, prevent nursing homes,

from even testing patients that were coming in for COVID-19. Why? In their own words, because they wanted to make sure that COVID-19 patients were not discriminated against because of their COVID-19 status. As if it was their skin color. Oh, we care. We can't discriminate against those people with a deadly virus that could be passed to the most vulnerable person in the bed next to them. Even after he was warned by the nursing homes that many of the nursing homes he was importing COVID-19 into did not have private rooms.

They were sharing rooms, people who were infected and people who were not infected. Well, he brought everybody together because after that, everybody was infected. and thousands died because of that move. Thousands. He then covered it up over and over and over again. To the point of to this moment, they are still underreporting how many people are dead in New York from COVID-19.

The CDC has different numbers than the state of New York. Why? Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo is under investigation still by the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office for covering up the death toll. He's still under... investigation for profiting $5.1 million to write a book in which he bragged about his leadership

over the very people who later got him thrown out of office. This has been an unmitigated catastrophe. And it's easy now for the media to look at it and say, okay, well, he's out of office. He did some really bad things and he's gone. That's only because there were people in the conservative media and people who just were victimized. Some of them actually Democrats, by the way, who stood up and said, wait a minute, we're not going to let this one slide. We'll let a lot of stuff slide. We're not going to let this slide.

I often will single out Janice Dean for her role in this. You know her from Fox News, of course. Her husbands, both of their parents, died in nursing homes during this era. and she was, she's like the nicest person in the universe and she was willing to come out and step out in front of the cameras over and over again to remind people of what Andrew Cuomo has done here and hold him to account. And without her, this would not have occurred.

She's going to be on my program, Stu Does America, tonight, as we do a little bit of a celebration of Andrew Cuomo getting out of our lives, at least for a short time. But you have to remember, that Cuomo was praised by the media. This man was seen as a potential replacement for Joe Biden if somehow maybe his cognitive abilities weren't up to snuff.

They were saying that, you know, look, he might be a disaster in a debate with Donald Trump. And if he fails and falls apart, maybe we just insert Andrew Cuomo. Maybe that's what we do. because he's done such a good job with a pandemic. Had he done a good job with a pandemic, look back at what he was actually saying in the press conferences

he's constantly praised for. And that's one of the things that needs to be remembered here. This is not a situation where Andrew Cuomo made a few mistakes in a tough time. It's not a situation where Andrew Cuomo had, he did a really good job early on and but then fell apart. No, he did a terrible job from day one. He was telling people in mid-March to get on the subways. He continually criticized Donald Trump for acting too slow,

even though he was behind Trump every step of the way, every step of the way. He later made a poster mocking Donald Trump for comparing COVID-19 to the flu in, like, February, when he himself did it in mid-March. All of this is to tell you that thank God for the people of New York, for my relatives who live in New York, that they no longer have to be ruled by this terrible creature. Thank God it's over for at least the time being. Unfortunately, he has $18 million in the bank and he's going to do everything he can to buy his way back into politics.

Maybe not in office, but in a way of, to influence things negative. as he only, only Andrew Cuomo can do. All of this is to tell you tonight we're going to have a celebration on Studeau's Outster. Please join us. It's on YouTube podcast wherever you go. Studeosamerica.com has all the links. And I will tell you one more time, Andrew Cuomo is awful.

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