The Glenn Beck Program - Taliban Seizure Is On Biden | Guests: Eric Schmitt & Rudy Atallah | 8/16/21

Episode Date: August 16, 2021

Jason Buttrill, an Afghanistan war veteran, former intelligence analyst for the DOD, and head writer for Glenn Beck, joins Glenn and Stu to discuss the horrific Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. The Taliban has taken over Afghanistan's capital Kabul, thousands are trying to flee Afghanistan, Sharia law is coming, but where is President Biden? Glenn takes calls from listeners who served in Afghanistan, who are devastated by what's currently happening. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt joins to discuss his success in challenging the Biden administration's immigration policy. Rudy Atallah, chief operating officer of the Nazarene Fund, joins to discuss the struggles the fund will now face in the wake of the Afghanistan/Taliban takeover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now, back in July of this year, here is a press conference with Joe Biden on the end of the war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable? No, it is not. Why? Because you have the Afghan troops, have 300,000 well equipped as well as equipped as any army in the world and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.

Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse. That is not true. Can you please clarify what they have told you about whether that will happen or not? That is not true. They did not reach that conclusion. What is the level of confidence that

they have that it will not collapse? The Afghan government and leadership has to come together. They clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place. The question is,

will they generate the kind of cohesion to do it? This weekend, we saw the most humiliating evacuation of the American, the billion-dollar American embassy. We have been treated to the pictures and the video of the Taliban coming in, now supported by U.S. drones. Why? Because apparently our military left them behind, along with a gigantic cache of weapons. We didn't feel it was necessary to take them back.

We have put ourselves back into the exact situation we were in. on September 10th, 2001. What's worse? Imagine if we would have gone into Germany and beat the Germans, but we knew that Nazis were in hiding and they were everywhere, and we decided to leave. And the Nazis took power again. Do you think they would fear the United States?

Do you think anyone on earth would fear the United States? Or would they say, there's no appetite for war? All you have to do is wait them out. We've already sent that message in Vietnam. But Joe Biden has sent that message unlike any other time in American history. our allies have called emergency meetings without us. Our allies, England, France, they are all now scrambling, saying we cannot allow this to stand. But they now know they're in a leadership role because we're gone and we left them,

with military weapons and drones. I wanted to bring in Jason Buttrill, who is our head researcher. And when I saw him this morning, I noticed that his eyes were all puffy, either lack of sleep, allergies, or a very stressful weekend. He was in Afghanistan,

one of the first Marines to go in to Afghanistan and fight there. Jason, how are you? Pissed off, I think is the more accurate, safe way to describe how I feel today. I was one of the lucky ones. I was one of the ones that had a mission when we went there. You know, we saw the first bombs drop. We fired the first shots. And our mission was clear.

Kill the Taliban, kill al-Qaeda. um, knock them out of government. That was my mission. And I'm glad that was the only mission. Because the follow-on mission, and I saw it in the faces of the people that relieved us, the occupation force,

they didn't really know what the hell their mission was. And I can tell you that that continued for 20 years. Um, that continued for 20 years. The people on the ground would tell anyone what the situation was. And that was we cannot trust this military. Now, there are some good Afghan fighters and I tip my hat to them.

And I think a lot of us that fought there could, probably name them by name. Some very brave men, the Afghan people are. But as a whole, the Afghan army could not be trusted. We would get the news reports for years. You know, U.S. soldiers shot in the back. Where did those news reports go? I stopped seeing them because apparently U.S. soldiers became a statistic not worthy of anything more. And that proceeded for another 19, 20 years. now you've got to look back and say what was your plan as many of us were getting shot in the back by these people because apparently someone in the Biden administration

was telling them that they were fine they were good to go they were good to go you played that clip a month ago they were good to go now who was telling the president that was the president lying when he said the intelligence community was telling you they're not ready I don't know but as I saw this morning there were leaks we're starting to come predictably out of the intelligence community saying, no, no, we were telling him the situation was not tenable. This was going to happen. And it did happen. So was it the military personnel? I wanted to give you a little context

of the military personnel on the ground. Back when ISIS swept through Syria and Iraq, the head of sentcom was General Lloyd Austin. He was the commanding general when they said, hey, you know, what's going on right now? It seems a little fishy. Why are the news, why are the intelligence reports coming out saying that everything's rosy when the situation was not rosy. Well, the scandal came out, the intelligence reports were being doctored just to make the administration look good, to make President Obama look good. General Lloyd Austin, for some reason, didn't go down for that. He's now the Secretary of Defense. So is this any surprise at all that these people are now in command? It's not a surprise to me at all. It's a simultaneously simultaneous throat and gut punch

today from England. The fact that the Pentagon has been focused on woke politics. Any comment on their focus? Yeah, General Millie, where's your resignation? That's what I'd like to know. You're so focused on that for standing down the military

for what was it a week to a month. I can't remember what it was to address extremism in the military? Is that what you were focused on and not listening to your battle commanders on the ground? Is that possibly what was happening? I would love to hear from General Millie. I'd love for him to call in this morning just so we could ask him, do you plan on resigning? I would love to know. We're reaching out to General Millie asking him to join us today and also asking just for a statement on the question, are you resigning? But it's, and it's not just him. It's the entire.

government is focused on that. And we pointed that out, the Department of Homeland Security, the intelligence community, they all made a hard pivot towards wholeness and extremism in the military. They never did this when, you know, we found out that there were terrorists in the military, you know, back during the Ford Hood shooting in Texas. They never stood the military down then. They never did what they were doing now. Why? Well, I mean, I'm sure they were doing their investigations, but it's probably not a good thing to reorient the entire thinking of the military and intelligence community during times of crisis. That's what we're in right now. And what's amazing to me is all the excuses, Glenn, all the excuses. First, we're not hearing anything from the administration

now. Apparently, we don't rate a explanation from this administration. I mean, they're still on vacation. Biden's still on vacation. Saki's gone on vacation, which is weird. But apparently that we don't we don't rate any other kind of explanation. We got that one ridiculous. statement that Nancy Pelosi was praising yesterday. But that one ridiculous statement where the president was like, well, apparently, you know, I inherited this from the Trump administration. Get out. You cannot have it both ways.

You cannot go in day one of your administration with this big spectacle of signing executive orders, erasing everything the president did. Erasing all of his personnel from your cabinet, getting rid of all the bureaucrats and everything that Trump put in. And now say in this one instance. it was his fault. We don't even know what Trump's plan was. I was a critic on Friday when I came on and said,

look, we shouldn't have been getting out of there in the summer months period, which I think that was part of Trump's plan. Right. We should have waited till the winner, but I don't know what the rest of his plan was. You can't say everything else he did was bad what he planned in Afghanistan.

We stuck to. Oh, so that was the one thing, huh? That was the one thing you stuck to now. It's his fault. And we also saw from General Lloyd Austin. He was very, very clear. he's like, well, you know, it's really crazy. You know, the Afghan army.

It's, you know, it's all on them. No, again, you can't put it on the Afghan army. You can't have it both ways. You can't say a month ago, all signs point to, they're ready, they're capable, they can defend. And because of that, that's why we're getting out. But today, the day that Afghans falling and the day after, you're saying, oh, it's all on them.

You cannot have it both ways on this. I want mass resignations on this. Massive resignations for this. And if Congress doesn't have the balls to hold. hold them to it, then I want a Daniel Ellsberg-esque whistleblower somewhere within the intel community, which I think it's going to happen because they're not going down for this. Intelligence community is not going down for this. You saw them weaponize against Trump.

They will weaponize against President Biden. Almost guarantee it. But we need someone to leak who is to blame for that. Who is feeding false information? What did they have to gain? Do you believe they were feeding false information? Or do you believe that they just didn't care? The White House didn't care.

I absolutely believe they were funneling false information. Absolutely. I mean, you saw it in with, this is just how it works. You saw it in ISIS. It becomes political. Dead soldiers become statistics. They really do. And that does not look good for administrations.

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8009062440 American financing.net. 10 seconds, station ID. Nancy Pelosi said that Joe Biden is to be, quote, commended for the action he has taken in Afghanistan. She said the Taliban must know that the world is watching its actions. We are deeply concerned about the reports regarding the Taliban's brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls. The U.S., the international community, and the Afghan government must do everything we can do

to protect women and girls from inhumane treatment by the Taliban. Any political settlement that the Afghans pursue to avert bloodshed must include having women at the table. The fate of women and girls in Afghanistan is crucial to the future of Afghanistan. And we strive to assist women. We must recognize that their voices are important. And all must listen to them for solutions, respectful of their culture. There is bipartisan support to assist the women and girls of Afghanistan.

Jason? I think the Taliban were going to put Sharia in place. But when they saw that tweet, they probably said okay fine you know we'll do a western style democracy now now we get it yeah it is uh it's remarkable to me how we have left so many people behind have any of you guys seen the um the the graphic videos can we roll this please of just walking down the street these are people the dead bodies in the street this is just the people that as the Taliban was coming through

they pulled out of houses they pulled out of their cars and just shot them and left them on the streets nobody's willing to come and get them because the Taliban would like them to remain in the streets as a reminder that they are back we told you last Friday that they were all going door to door, taking girls as young as 12 for their brides. When we come back, I am going to share with you how the New York Times is spinning this.

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singing the Quran, which is beautiful and lovely, and I love this particular tune. You know who didn't have a press conference? The White House. You know who didn't? Wasn't seen in public? Joe Biden.

Where's Joe Biden? Why is he not speaking out? Where was he? As the masses try to flee from Kabul, prisoners have been released. Only 5,000 prisoners were released. This is the video of it in the audio. Five.

thousand prisoners. Some of them Al-Qaeda, some of them Taliban, and they were just released. Probably because of COVID. I think the Taliban is concerned with the spread of COVID in the prisons

and wanted to find some way to deal with it and they looked to Bill de Blasio and Gavin Newsom and they decided just to open up the prisons because of COVID. I'm sure. nothing will go wrong there. Meanwhile, the worst is happening.

I want to give you a story from the New York Times. Now, listen to how this story, you've seen the pictures. You know what's going on. Listen to this. It was his first day as the Taliban-appointed mayor of Kandu's. his name is gole Muhammad Elias he was on a charm offensive last Sunday the insurgents seized control of the city in northern Afghanistan which is in shambles after weeks of fighting power lines were down water supply powered by generators didn't reach most residents trash and rubble littered the streets the civil servants who could fix these problems were hiding at home terrified of the Taliban's return so the insurgent commander turned mayor summoned some to his new office and persuaded them to return to work. He said, quote, our jihad is not with you in the municipality.

Our jihad is against the occupiers and those who defend the occupiers. Mr. Elias told the New York Times by telephone. But day by day, as municipal offices stayed mostly empty, Mr. Elias grew more frustrated and his rhetoric grew a little harsher. Taliban fighters began going door to door searching for absentee civil workers. Hundreds of armed men set up checkpoints across the city. At the entrance to the regional hospital, a new notice appeared on the wall. Employees must return to work or face punishment from the Taliban.

Just a week after the fall of the city, the first in a series of cities that the Taliban seized with breathtaking speed, the insurgents are now in effective control of all of Afghanistan. and they now must function as administrators that can provide basic services to hundreds of thousands of people. And the experience of those in Kunduz offers a glimpse of how the Taliban may govern and what may be in store for the rest of the country. In just days, the insurgents frustrated with their failed efforts to cajole civilian civil servants back into work, began instilling a little terror, according to the residents, reached by telephone. I'm afraid because I don't know what will happen next or what they will do, said one, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation by the Taliban.

Three days after the Taliban took control of Kanduz, the civil servant received a call from an insurgent fighter telling him to go to his office. The mayor of Kanduz wanted to speak with him. The mayor invited Mr. Omark, Hill, who had been staying home since the retreat of the government forces as insurgents flooded into the streets and a sense of unease gripped the battered city. He had experienced a similar moment twice before when the Taliban briefly in 2015 and 2016 seized the city. Both times the insurgents were pushed back with the help of American airstrikes. But this time, days after the Taliban

took control, the entire Afghan army corps charged with reclaiming the city, surrendering. to the insurgents they handed over all their weapons and vehicles in a stark sign that they would not be rescued when he arrived at the municipal office to speak to the new mayor the sprawling compound looked eerily untouched by war but the New York Times writes inside the building he joined eight municipal employees and mr. Elias you know the new mayor he introduced himself as the new mayor A young man with a long beard, Mr. Eliza assured them that they would not be targeted by the Taliban and instructed them to return to work to improve people's lives and morale. Sharing his mobile number, he told them, call if you have any trouble with the Taliban fighters.

We've captured the city, and now we can assure the people that we will provide the basic services. The mayor was quoted in another phone interview. halfway through the meeting a shopkeeper pleaded with the Taliban bodyguard to see the mayor like hundreds of others his kiosk had been mostly destroyed by fire during the Taliban's final push he said shopkeepers fearing for what remained of their stores that they would be looted wanted the Taliban's promise that they could return to the market to collect their things safely the mayor complied he even provided reimbursement for the taxi and bus fare that they spent on moving their goods.

For the rest of the day, the mayor met with other municipal leaders trying to get services restored. At the state-owned water and sewage corporation, he demanded that the water supply be turned back on. When a manager told him the power lines would first have to be repaired, he told the director of the electricity department to compel his employees to return. At the local health department, the new Taliban director of health delivered the same method. to the hospital staff and insurgent fighters gave Wother to the health workers and offered 500 Afghanis around $6 to each of the hospital guards to pay for a dinner that night. There was some good progress, writes the New York Times.

Oh my gosh. I bet they get a Nobel Prize for this. I bet they've got to win a Pulitzer, don't you think? Did Regina Talib and Ilan Omar write that article? Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? I will say that the Times

did write some pretty devastating things about this as well. Along with a lot of other mainstream media, I mean, a lot of these headlines, the Atlantic, this headline is Biden's betrayal of Afghans will live in infamy. And there's a lot.

I think just how quickly and how terribly this has turned has even shaken some of the mainstream media people. Now, of course, they'll probably come back eventually here. But I was surprised to see the even mainstream coverage being largely critical, with the exception, of course, notably of what you just read, which was pathetic. The fecklessness. This one is written by the bulwark.com.

I like this one. The fecklessness is not limited to Biden himself. His wider administration is complicit. State Department spokesman Ned Price has conceded the telework. is already committing war times, but he warned them that if they continue, they'd be internationally isolated. Oh, not into really, internationally isolated? Oh, boy, they're going to be canceled.

Culpability for the disaster rests on one other place, they write, the American people. White House officials have privately reassured themselves by noting that polls show an overwhelming majority of Americans support withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan, according to the Hill. So the Biden teams find reassurance in the fact that most Americans don't care about the risk of another 9-11, ethnic cleansing, or the destruction of a future for Afghan women. Really? So they are blaming the American people for that. A, that's what leadership is all about.

And B, I don't know about you, but I do care about the women and the children and the future of the women and children in Afghanistan. I do care about the risk of another 9-11. I do care about ethnic cleansing. I just don't want to be there forever with no mission. It doesn't mean, oh, I don't care. just pull out and let the whole thing collapse and let evil just win and sweep a nation. What evidence do you have that you care about women in the Middle East being tortured? I mean, it's not like the Nazarene Fund.

Right. That's it. Just the Nazarene fun. But I mean, this is, there are a lot of people who wanted to get out of there. I mean, everyone wants to get out of there at some level. The idea was to get out of there with some level of competence. It wasn't just like let the entire thing go to flames and have the Taliban inside the presidential palace in two days. No one supported that. Yes, there was an idea that people didn't want to be engaged in this area forever.

But that was to go along with that was the idea that it wouldn't turn into exactly what it turned into. In two days. In two days. I mean, you were talking about this, Jason. We mentioned this off the air. You were here. You're on my show, I don't know, a few months ago. and you said, yeah, I think it's going to be back in Taliban control in six months.

And you came on here the other day and he said, hey, I think it might be until September 11th. We didn't even make it until Monday. That was a show we did on Friday. And they were in taking pictures and doing press conferences in singing inside the presidential palace two days later. This is the, the most catastrophic handling of any situation of any president in my lifetime. I've never seen anything like this. I'm continually blown away all weekend at how pathetic this is. I've never seen anything like it.

Have you ever seen anything like this? Yeah, but I'm older than you. So I saw Iran with Jimmy Carter and I saw with... Again, like that, Iran with Jim. We didn't have control of Iran. Right? Like, this is... We were an embassy inside of another country.

Yes, I understand that we, you know, we are also an embassy in a country in Afghanistan, but that was under our control and our direction for 20 years. I was also going to say, I'm old enough to remember, and I think it was Ford, when we pulled out of Vietnam. Yeah, Saigon is the one thing that people go back to. And everyone knew. Everyone knew. The argument was, we pull out, the communist will come in and slaughter all of these people. and it's going to be a very bad thing.

No, no, no, they're going to be prepared. It's going to be fine. We can leave. You know, it's just a bloodbath over there and we shouldn't be involved in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they were climbing over the fences of our embassy. And when, I love this, when Blinken said, you know, this is definitely not, not Saigon. You are not going to see helicopters land on the roof of our embassy. No, you know why?

Because our billion dollar embassy had a helicopter landing pad down on the ground, not on the roof like we did in Saigon. Not to mention it's not even our embassy anymore. No, it's not. We've got a billion dollars into the thing. Billion. We just handed it over to them. I mean, at least though in Saigon, you know, test me on my history here. But we knew this was coming in Saigon.

Yeah, yeah, we did. And we evacuated a lot of the Americans and we left a specific number. I want to say it was 1,500 or I can't remember exactly how many it was, which was at 1,250. That was our belief that we could get, we could evacuate those people before the Taliban, or in this case, the Vietnamese got there. Northern Vietnamese. Correct. So the situation was like we then started evacuating the Vietnamese that we wanted to get out. and we had this plan that, okay, once they hit this point

when we have to start taking the Americans out, and that's why it was such a close call, but we knew it was coming for months. Right. And we were evacuating those who helped us. Yeah. We didn't, we aren't evacuating the people who helped us. That was our complaint two weeks ago. Now we're going to be lucky to get the Americans out.

We had to send troops in to evacuate our own people. Yeah, but only 5,000. Which, it continues to end. escalate. We're going to have about 100,000 troops on the airport by next week. I think I think the newest figures are 6,000 to secure that airport, which again, was more than double what we had when we said we were going to get them out. We had around 3,500, something like that. Incredible. It's incredible. Back in just a minute, let me tell you about Bill Bar. You know, when you, when I'm not here, you know me well enough to know, I am usually just working out. I'm on

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This is the Glenn Beck program. So what happened to the president of Afghanistan? I know that he had a peaceful transition of power at gunpoint. And he cut a video with his daughters. saying, please don't kill all of the innocent women. Oh, that's great. That's great. He had his pick of stands to go to.

Really? The rumor is he went to either Tajikistan or Uzbekistan. But he didn't stay in Afghanistan. That much we definitely know. Hmm. Hmm. As the evacuation continues, we continue to bring coverage from all sides. You know, that are sane coming up.

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Gulf War. He later reversed the decision saying George H.W. Bush should have gone all the way to Baghdad. So first he was like, we shouldn't be fighting. And then when we didn't go to Baghdad, he's like, we should have given him hell all the way to Baghdad. He supported the Iraq War before opposing the Iraq war. And then he also wanted to partition Iraq into three countries. I heard. I remember that. That was part of his 2008 campaign. That was his big foreign policy plank. He was going to divide it into three countries. Was he going to build a

wall? I doubt it. Yeah, of course not. Obviously. As vice president, he opposed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Remember, it was the hardest decision president has made in over

250 years. It was 500 years. 500, yes. Well, you know what? We've only had a president for about what, 240 some. I'm just pointing out. Hadn't been a president in 500 years, but it was the toughest decision and his decision was

don't kill Osama bin Laden, don't do it. Which brings us now to Afghanistan. It was about a month ago, cut one, when Biden said this. Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable? No, it is not.

Why? Because you have the Afghan troops, have 300,000 well equipped as well equipped as any army in the world and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable. Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse. That is not true. Is it, can you please clarify what they have told you about whether that will happen or not? That is not true. They did not, they did not reach that conclusion.

So what is the level of confidence that they have that it will not collapse? The Afghan government and leadership has to come together. They clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place. They can do it. The question is, will they? Will they? generate the kind of cohesion to do it. Okay, but they're going to do it because they're well equipped. They can do it. They're going to do it. I'm telling you right now, it's going to be

fine. It was a very difficult decision. Probably the hardest decision in the last 750 years that any president has had to make. But they have the ability to do it. The question is, will they? Now, this weekend, of course, he hasn't had to. a press conference. He's nowhere to be found, which is weird. I think he's finding himself, you know? Do we have a president right now? Is there one around? Do we have one?

He's so bad at this. I don't know that I want him around. No, he's talking more, but he's finding himself. He's walking around right now going, who am I? Where am I? Where am I? There's someone in the building. That's a mirror, sir. That's where we are with this guy.

Oh, I'm just going to get my shotgun and just fire a couple of rounds through the door. Anyway, he was saying that they, the question is, will they do it? Well, we don't want to blame the Afghanis. So who does the Secretary of State, Blinken,

blame for what's happening now in Afghanistan? Cut nine. Does President Biden not bear the blame for this disastrous exit from Afghanistan. How dare you? Jake, we've seen two things.

First, we've known all along, we've said all along, including the president, that the Taliban was at its greatest position of strength at any time since 2001 when it was last in charge of the country. That is the Taliban that we inherited. And so we saw that we're very much capable of going on the offensive

and beginning to take back the country. But at the same time, we had invested over four administrations billions of dollars, along with the international community, in the Afghan security and defense forces, building a modern military with the most sophisticated equipment, 300,000 forces strong, with an air force that the Taliban didn't have. And the fact of the matter is, we've seen that that force has been unable to defend the country, and that has happened more quickly than we anticipated. So they inherited this problem. They inherited it, which is weird because in general,

July, cut to Joe Biden said this. I made a commitment that when I made a mistake, I'd tell you, and I've made mistakes. And when I think I got it right, I'll say it. Well, take responsibility for what I do and say. He's going to take responsibility. Somehow or another, I don't think he's going to take responsibility of this. Now, so you know, some people might be thinking, they just let the prisons, wide open. The Taliban has a problem with America. Al-Qaeda is back to the labs, kids.

They've released all of these bad guys and they're coming after us. September 11th, September 11th, the 20th anniversary of September 11th is right around the corner. But don't worry, kids, DHS is on the case. Cut 19. Department of Homeland Security. A new terror alert has been issued by Homeland Security tonight. Pete Williams is here. Pete, what do we know about this? Well, DHS says this new terrorism advisory is not based on any actual threats or plots, but it says there's a rise in anti-government rhetoric. Some of this is opposition to COVID public health rules like mask and vaccine measures. Some calls for violent action are based on claims of election fraud or a belief that Donald Trump can be reinstated. And DHS says the coming 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.

religious holidays later this year could be catalyst for violence. The last terror advisory was issued in May. Stop, just a second. So I want to make sure I have this right. People who are angry about masks and COVIDs are a terror threat. This last one expired over the weekend. The last terror threat, you know, January 6th, we were worried about those guys. That one just expired.

But they replaced it immediately with a new one that people are angry about masks and vaccinations. and the domestic terror threat, we don't have any information on anything. But we think that could happen. And of course, election fraud. People are still upset about that. Can you believe those crazy people? They're just bad people. They're killing your grandmother, you know.

They're just such horrible people. We have to silence them some way or another. But they're, for some unknown reason, angry. And they might do something. And of course, the 20th anniversary of 9-11 and some upcoming religious holidays. Oh, religious holidays. Oh, maybe he's talking about Christmas. Is that the religious holiday we're worried about?

Christmas? Religious holidays? Hmm. So don't worry because our government and DHS is on it. By the way, West Point is now teaching Marxism. West Point is now teaching Marxism and CRT. So if you want your kids to be able to be in the strongest army ever, you send them to West Point because they'll learn about social inequality,

another class is on military leadership, leading inclusive teams, and the politics of race, gender, sexuality, and diversity. Now, why? Why would our Pentagon be making stupid moves like they're making in Afghanistan? I can't imagine. But let's focus on the successes. Right now, consumer sentiment plunged to its lowest level since 2011, amid fears that the Delta variant will add to the negative,

economic effects of COVID-19, the University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment plummeted to 70.2 in early August from its level of 81.2 in July. This according to an update that has just been released, the drop represents a 13 and a half percent decline and was way off from consensus expectations from experts. In fact, even during the height of the pandemic in spring of 2020, consumer confidence was not this low. But don't worry. We've got everything under control. Yeah, there's a little inflation.

I mean, energy is only up 41% year over year, but that's just transitory. Don't worry about it, you know. So is your money. You know, it's transitory. It's not going to be around forever. By the way, an update in Joe Biden's America today, inmate freed under COVID release, has now been charged with committing murder after being let out. Not sure if that counts as a COVID death, but I'm guessing it probably will.

Good news for the American people. Biden administration has prompted the largest permanent. increase in food stamps. Yes, that's right. Because we care about people. The Biden administration has revised the nutrition standards of the food stamp program and is prompted now the largest permanent increase to benefits in the program's history. Let me say that again.

The largest permanent increase, permanent increase to benefits in the program's history. Now, they did this because they looked at those nutrition. standards and said, you know, I don't think there's enough nutrition going into these food stamp programs. We, this is not enough to be able to have the right nutrition. And so they just changed the standards. They didn't mean to raise the prices and give people more money. They didn't want to do it.

They fought against it, I'm sure. But now it's a permanent increase, the largest permanent increase. Of course, Cuba, pay no attention to those people that are still struggling for their freedom. Hunter Biden's prostitution video. Don't worry. US intelligence isn't doing anything, but they're, but that's because they're concentrating on the upcoming religious holidays. You never know what holidays those might be, but it could happen.

so please be careful people who don't want to wear masks could blow us all up very soon I don't know about you but sorry just quoting Joe Biden I am so glad he's the president of the United States anybody regret their decision to vote for him

I would love to open up the phones today to anyone who voted for Joe Biden. Are you willing to admit it today? Yeah, that's right. Let me tell you about rec tech. I got a rec tech in my rec room.

And my rec room, I put a rec tech smoker and grill her in there. And my lovely wife, Jill, she came down. She's like, what the hell are you doing? You can't put a smoker in the rec room in the basement. And I said, oh, lovely wife, Jill, I want to make out with you so much. And so we started making out and having geriatric sex. And then suddenly I realized, that's not my lovely wife, Jill.

And I thought, it's my, it's my lovely wife Jill's sister. And then I realized, no. Oh my God, it's the dog. But I've got a rec tech. Rec tech, RECT, REC, T, M and M-M-L-P, dot, which I think is the period. And then you have to spell out. Don't spell out dot. And then com.

And that's C-O-M. Let me help you out on that. that's r-e-t-e-k-e-k-e-e-ne-no-no-no-no-mo-no-mo-mo dot com 10 seconds station ID so I have our chief researcher jason betrille in with us and honestly I have I've worked Jason how long have we worked together eight years eight ten years eight ten years I've never seen you like this I've seen you upset about things I've seen you uncover things and you come into my office you're like You are not going to believe it. But I've never seen you this personally affected by something in the news.

And I thought about you and the 200, I believe it's 200, 200, 2,446 people that died and 20,66 that were injured in Afghanistan and how they must be feeling today. Those numbers have pissed me off for a long time in Afghanistan. And what my hope was is that they would never just become numbers and statistics. It would have been for something. And overnight, literally, well, I guess it was two days. That was about it, 48 hours, and it was reduced to nothing. I've never felt that big of a gut punch, I think, in my life, really. All of that.

It's almost like this party is the party of Canada. It really is. We're seeing it at home. We're seeing it abroad. Secretary Blink in that clip you played earlier where he was like, we inherited this. Really? Did you inherit it for the eight years you were in power still pursuing similar things? We saw it in Iraq. Obama and Secretary Blinkin was a part of that apparatus. Pulled troops out too early with no real plan. Screw it. They wanted a political statement, whatever. ISIS is born, runs rampant across the country, the caliphate. We're seeing it now. You're seeing the beginning of another caliphate. Sharia law is coming to Afghanistan. No. It's coming. They said they're not going to do that. Oh, yeah. Provide goods and services like the New York Times. Those goods and services are, sure, someone steals some bread from your shop. We'll be there to service that guy's hand right off. We tried. We tried. We tried everything we could. And the only thing that worked was cutting people's hands off. We tried. We didn't want to. That mayor that you were talking about that was, you know, that seemed like the New York Times was just propping up and was such a great guy. Well, the New York Times did find the best soft spots of Stalin in the day, too, so you can understand. That's true. Well, you know, the government officials know exactly what's going to happen. The Afghanistan president, he knew exactly what was going to happen. He took off because one week before September 11th,

the leader of the opposition in Afghanistan at the time was assassinated. That was seven days about right before 9-11. Yeah, all opposition will be crushed, and Sharia law is coming. The only question now is how big the caliphate will get. So have you talked to any of your friends? I'd love to open up the phones. Again, wide open for anybody who voted for Joe Biden. Don't worry. 12 million people listening right now. Don't worry about it.

Don't worry. Can we find one that will admit to voting for Joe Biden today? Phone line is wide open 888-727BECK. But I'd also like to hear from former soldiers that were in Afghanistan. What does all of this mean to you today? 8 at 8-8-7-27-B-E-C-K. Call us now. Army-M-A-E-M-A-T.

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Welcome to the show. Hi, Glenn. Hi. Hi. So I'm an Air Force veteran. I served in Kanda Heart Air Base during the Barack Obama years. And I agree with Jason 100%. What we did over there, first of all, we were working our tails off.

We're trying to rebuild and the Taliban would come in and destroy everything that we tried to build. And the Obama administration had a complete disdemeanor. regard, just a complete disregard for everything that we try to do. They, and now the Joe Biden administration is doing the same thing. It's just unbelievable. It's heartbreaking. I cry for our men and women over there. I saw the coffins draped in our flags coming home. It was something that I will never forget. And I'm just, I'm just torn up about this as a veteran, as a person who served in Afghanistan. Dan. Well, I'm sorry to

to hear that. Do you think it would have been the same? They're blaming it on inheritance. Or is this Joe Biden? No, this is definitely the administration. You know, what Donald Trump tried to do was the right thing. He knew. He knew that we needed to leave there. And even though I'm a fan of Dan Crenshaw,

I don't agree with us having to stay over there. I don't agree with it. We're just, we're wasting resources. We're wasting human life. It's been how long now, and they still have not figured it out. We go to basic training for six weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks, whatever it is, whatever branch, and we get it. We figure it out.

You know, we become soldiers. We become airmen. We become sailors. And yet they, with all the training and all the equipment and all the resources that we provide to them, they still can't figure it out. They don't know how to stand up for themselves and just fight against what their trying to, you know, trying to fight against, which is, which is a tyrannical type administration, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, I'm going to lost the words right now because

I'm so, so broken up about this. Denise, thank you for your service. Thank you for everything you did in Afghanistan. And, gosh, sorry that it is ended this way. Let me go to Mickey in South Carolina. Hello, Mickey. Hi, Glenn. Thank you for taking my call. Yes, I want to admit that I made a mistake for voting for Joe Biden. Oh, my gosh. What was your thought at the time? My thought at the time was I'm an animal and wildlife advocate, and I was upset with what some of the choices that were being made by the administration regarding the protection

of our land. And that was my thought at the time. I thought that we would get relief from that and get good decisions out of the new administration. And then what has turned you to say, holy cow. Oh, my gosh. Everything that I've been hearing regarding what's being implemented in our education system is heartbreaking. My baby sister is a school teacher or retired one,

and it's just, I don't have words for it. It's unconscionable. And how do you feel about Afghanistan today? That was the penit. That's my breaking point. That's what prompted the call. Really? So maybe last week or the week before, you wouldn't have called and said you regretted your vote.

I wouldn't have. However, I was seriously thinking about it on a daily basis. And then that, when I heard that, when I heard this, it just was, I, yeah, I regret. I made a mistake. Well, we all make mistakes. That's great. Mickey, we all make mistakes. thank you for being brave enough to recognize it.

You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you for your call. 8 at 8-8-7-27-B-E-C-K is the phone number. It's quite amazing what is happening in America right now, isn't it? It sure is, Glenn. Yes. Look, I understand how people, look, we've been critical on the air of,

of Trump's handling of the situation as well. But it's nothing compared to what we're talking about here. Oh, Trump that Trump would, it would not have happened. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way Donald Trump would have allowed this to happen just because it would have pissed him off too much. Oh my gosh. It's just the fact that if it started to go this way as we were withdrawing, he would have changed directions and made sure it did not go this way.

Yeah, he might have said, I want everybody to grab a parachute. Your guys are, you're parachuting out because. I need not refuel. I'm going to load in the sky. I'm going to load bombs into this plane. Yeah. I mean, it would have been rapid. It wouldn't have happened.

It wouldn't. It would not have happened. Honestly, let's be honest about it. There's no way they would have even tried this if he was president. They wouldn't have done it. Now, in six months, in a year, in two years, maybe. I think there's an excellent chance.

It would have happened eventually. And honestly, that was part of the calculus going in. Look, you negotiated a deal with the Taliban. We all know how this is going to turn out. And I think people knew eventually they were going to be back in control of this country. There's no way it would have happened this way, though. They would have been terrified of what Donald Trump would have done.

He may have completely reversed and gone back in with 100,000 troops, frankly. There's no way that the one thing you can always say about Donald Trump is, A, don't humiliate him. Don't screw with him. Don't humiliate him. and don't humiliate the United States of America. If you are making him the administration and America look bad, he's going to correct that problem.

Yeah. And this is a problem too that, like, they knew about already. Listen to this. A group of religious warriors riding on captured American military vehicles, vanquish a U.S. trained military which relinquishes much of his power without a fight. sound familiar? That's what happened in Iraq as the U.S. withdrawal of troops from the country at the end of 2011. Within three years, it took three years, by the way. An army of ISIS fighters was only a few miles away from the gates of Baghdad, blah, blah, blah. It was Vice President Joe Biden, who had negotiated the Obama administration's drawdown from Iraq. The headline is Biden deserves blame for the debacle in Afghanistan. The place I'm reading this from is CNN.com. CNN, dot com. This is so

historically catastrophic that even places like CNN are acknowledging how bad it was. This is a guy who went through this himself, not that he can remember last week, but just a few years ago,

went through this exact process and saw the same damage and like, think about this, Glenn. Like, we have, we went Through the Nazarene Fund was born. Your idea basically on a charity that was going to help rescue people from the results of this guy's last catastrophic foray into international affairs. And here we are again. Now he's the president.

Somehow he got elected on that record and is in office doing the same thing except worse in a place where we were for even longer. I put a call in this morning to the head of operations for the Nazarene Fund just to ask him because he knows the Middle East. He lived in the Middle East forever, raised in the Middle East. And just to ask him, can we do anything to help the women and children there? Can we help the women and the little girls that are now being taken by the Taliban? can we help them? What are we going to do about it? Because, I mean, the people that we have left behind with really, all you had to do was wait until the winter.

Just don't pull the troops out until January. At least would give them some time. It would give them six months to get their feet solid. Yeah. And we did nothing. We did nothing. We did nothing. Think about Glenn back when Donald Trump was president.

names Brett Kavanaugh to be Supreme Court justice. Yeah. And women all over the country show up to protest in their red cloaks. Yeah. Of the Handmaid's Tale. Where are they today? What is happening in Afghanistan right now is literally the plot of the Handmaid's Tale. A theocratic regime comes in and takes women who were doctors and puts them into sexual servitude.

That is the plot of the Handmaid's Tale. Joe Biden is overseeing it happening in a country that we could have done something about it in. And they don't care. No, they don't care. I don't see anybody out in their cloaks today. They don't care. This is the thing that all Americans need to understand. When they talk about global warming, they don't mean it.

They don't mean it. You might. They don't. It's a money-making scheme. that's it it's a power grab that's it if you trust these people

to actually care about the environment then let me ask you why is Joe Biden's son and him in bed with China they're building coal plants every week they're opening new coal plants

you think they care then why aren't they consistent on the biggest polluter on the planet, China? You think they care about women, then why weren't they all up in arms on Cuomo? You think the press actually cares? Why aren't they all up in arms about Cuomo? Why aren't they all up in arms about one of the worst abusers and dirt bags? and a guy who's getting money from China,

Hunter Biden. Why don't they care? You imagine if that would have been a Trump kid that they had one lost laptop? He's got two lost laptops. They don't care. All of this is to keep us fighting with each other. All of this is to do.

divide us. They're not running to the rescue. I don't see anyone. Anyone on the left, ringing their hands going, good God, what have we done? What are we going to do to help these women and children in Afghanistan?

Oh, well, meanwhile, our side, because I know I'm not alone. I reached out first thing this morning and said, what are we going to do? with the Nazarene Fund. How are we going to help? Because we can't just abandon these women and children. Oh, they care about revolutions.

Oh, Facebook, Google. We really need to help and let the little people be heard. In the Middle East, yeah, yeah. They coordinated the Arab Spring. But as soon as the Cuba Spring happened, they shut it all down. Oh, I can't do anything. We are so helpless and powerless.

We at Google, we don't have the resources to help them get the internet. Mm-mm. Gosh darn it, I wish we could. Hey, Bird. I mean, it is crazy. The lies and the deceit that the left has used. You think they care about the African American community? Then why aren't they doing more outreach?

Because the African American community is the least likely to be vaccinated. You see, because they don't care about vaccinations. All they care about is demonizing the Republicans and white Republicans so they can continue to have us fight one another. instead of saying, look, okay, we have a problem over here. The African-American community doesn't trust the government. Let's get into that community and all of us help because they don't care. They're lying to you.

And I just don't know what it's going to take. I mean, you know, maybe someday they'll reveal themselves as just an evil union that doesn't actually care about the education of your children. I don't know what they could do to convince you of that. I mean, they'd have to, I don't know, keep your school closed because they wanted to force your children into vaccines and to wear masks. But that's not even when you give them that, that's not enough. You know, they want to renegotiate their contracts that have to include redistribution of wealth.

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You know what? No, I'm not going to start a conversation with somebody and then have to cut them short. I want to open up the phone lines to you. We have a lot of people calling up with a lot of different points of view coming up. I want you to think about the policies of this administration. And I want you to think about them not in the way of how bad they are. I want you to set out and look at it like this. For instance, on immigration,

if your goal was to unleash COVID as rapidly as you can, wouldn't it be in, would you change anything of the Obama, the Biden policy on the border, of letting Mexicans, which Mexico has a horrible, COVID problem. Would you change that policy? If your goal was to harm the American worker, would you change his open border policy at all?

If your goal was to overwhelm the system, would you change the policy at all? Uh, I wouldn't. And I thought, well, yeah, you could pay them to come in, but then I thought of the NGOs that they are dismissing that are paying for all of their bus trips coming right into our border, and we are paying them because we're now offering free health care. This is a success if you're trying to destroy America. Luckily, we got some good news on Friday,

and I want to introduce you to the man who led the charge. on this in 60 seconds. So Angela wrote in 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. Oh, she has a four-year-old miniature dachshund. Holy cow, those things are picky.

And they can be a... She said, my four-year-old, Doxon Parker, loved it right away. I put it in his bowl and he left. It slapped it up, much to my surprise. Quinn, my 14-year-old shepherd boxer mix, was a bit more reluctant and didn't seem enthusiastic at first. But I kept sprinkling it on her food daily, and after a week she eagerly was awaiting it in the morning and now gobbling it down. I have noticed a definite increase in energy in both of the dogs. Thank you so much.

Angela, you're welcome. I'm glad you took my challenge and fed it to your dog or your dogs. you just wait, give them a couple of months. You'll see your dogs really change. They really start to get healthy, and it seems like they're younger, at least for mine. Rough Greens, RUFF Greens.com slash Beck. Just get a free bag of Rough Greens, a little trial sample bag that you can try out for a week with your dog just to make sure that they'll eat it. You just pay for shipping.

It's roughgreens.com slash Beck or call 833 Glenn Thurons. So, 833, 833, Glenn 33. So there was some good news on the border. And I am going to let the man who actually led the way on this tell you about what it all means. Now, Eric Schmidt, he is the Missouri Attorney General. I spent some time with him yesterday at a meeting of Attorney Generals

and invited him on the program today to meet you again. We've had him on before. Eric, welcome to the program. Great to be with you, Glenn. So, first of all, congratulations. Tell the American people what happened on Friday. It's a big win, Glenn, for border security, for national security to stop the flow of illegal immigration, drug trafficking, human trafficking, with the judge's order that he issued a little after 5 o'clock, the federal judge issued a little after 5 o'clock on Friday. So to give it some context, on day one, Joe Biden reversed President Trump's very successful,

remain in Mexico policy or otherwise known as the migrant protection protocols, which is to say that as people are coming here, if you're seeking asylum, which by the way, it was found that nine out of ten asylum claims were bogus. The Biden folks didn't even acknowledge that or even referenced that. The judge points that out that he didn't even do their due diligence. But as you were coming here seeking asylum, that Mexico was the waiting room because what we know is that

if you let those folks into the United States, give them a court date on the honor system and they're released into the interior of the United States, you don't ever see them again. And that's exactly what has been happening. The 1.1 million people since January has come here legally.

And probably, not probably, but it has created a perverse incentive. And the judge cited this, that if you have people who get paid to get people here illegally. If they know all they have to do is say, we're seeking asylum

and they are in the United States, it's very lucrative for these really bad guys to take advantage, by the way, of people along the way, too. It's big business. And so the Trump policy that said Mexico's the waiting room significantly cut down on this

illegal activity. We said the Biden administration can't do what they did, which is to reverse that policy, and a judge agreed with us. So the good news here is that we're going to get back to President Trump's remain in Mexico policy. And it's a great example of federalism at work. Okay. So hang on.

Before we get into this, I just want to know a couple of things. The judge said that they had to reverse it. What was in your case that showed that they didn't have the right to drop this particular thing that Trump had in place. And we can talk about some other executive actions that President Biden took there were illegal. On day one, in basically two sentences, just says we're reversing it and opens up the borders. Okay. The reality is, under a very technical scheme, the Administrative Procedure Act, you have to go

through a process of taking in notice and comment, hearing from people who want to weigh in, and balancing all of those things before you make it administrative. change. Now, I would argue that we've allowed way too many administrative departments, the department heads to make law, and we ought to allow that, you know, got to get back to Article one branch. But be that as in May, they didn't even do that. Then we filed the lawsuit. Then they came back in a haphazard way to try to cover their tracks and said, oh, no, we actually did consider this. And the judge said, no, you didn't. You didn't in the first place. You didn't later. You've been caught red-handed. This is an illegal act. This is an illegal executive action. Therefore, we are back now.

through the policy that was lawfully enacted by the Trump administration to remain in Mexico policy. So this is, again, an example of you have to push back. We're not going to accept this sort of lawlessness of the Biden administration. And they've done this on social cost of greenhouse gases. They've done this on the Keystone XL pipeline, and there's a number of lawsuits in the pipeline there to challenge this. But this is by far in a way, I think, the most significant victory against the Biden administration for these kind of actions. I'm speaking to the Attorney General of Missouri, Eric Schmidt, who led the way on this. Now, Eric, you say this is a very good thing because they've been ordered to do it.

Well, they've been ordered to do other things, and they're not obeying the courts. They're dismissing the courts. Also, this was happening in a district court, if I'm not mistaken, here in Texas. what makes you think that this will be supported because the government is going to appeal? What makes you believe this will actually win at the highest level? Well, this was a very well-reasoned opinion, and I think the judge who was an Amarillo, and by the way, the Department of Justice tried very hard to move it out of that because this particular DOJ was trying to get it to an Obama-appointed judge.

But the reality is the rule of law prevailed here, and that's all you really want from the judiciary, as far as I'm concerned, to interpret the law as it's written not how they want it to be. That's not the left's view of what they want judges to do. They're much more in favor of judicial activism. But the judge gave them seven days to appeal. So they would appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is a strong conservative. And I mean that in the sense of, you know, they rule based on the law. So we're confident that the court of appeals will reject the appeal. But this is a big deal because if you think of what's happening at the border, it's a total disaster.

There's a 21-year high in illegal crossings. You have, in Missouri's interest in this, by the way, not being a border state is we've taken on human trafficking. We've spent a lot of resources. Our state has made it a priority to take on the dark underworld of human trafficking. And these cartels are very, very engaged in human trafficking, including trafficking drugs across the board. And it's very profitable for them right now because people are, you know, being released into the interior of the United States. Eric, we spent time together yesterday. I was lucky enough to be invited up to the Republican Attorney General's meeting, which I think you have, what, once a year?

And I was impressed with how many of you guys know exactly what you are up against and that you are the last line of defense. I mean, after you guys, we're down to our local sheriff. You are the last line of defense to be able to stand for the bill of rights. What was the... Go ahead. No, I was going to say, and, you know, on our discussion, I think that this really is a fight to save America. And I don't, I don't mean that rhetorically in some grandiose speech.

I mean it very practically. I think the Republic is truly on the line. And I think that for us, and this is what I believe. And I think a lot of Americans, certainly your listeners do. I know you do. That America is the most noble, important experiment in the history. history of the world. What the founders said was everybody before us in 1776 had it exactly backwards. We don't need to ask, our rights don't come from a king or a queen or some despot.

Our rights come from God. And what government is, what government is, is a project to protect those rights, to protect those individual rights that were given by God. So your ability to speak your mind, your ability to defend yourself, are born with those things. And America is, very unique in the history of the world. It's an exception. That's what American exceptionalism means. We are exceptional in the sense that most places around the world still to this day don't believe that. And if we lose this fight to save America, there's no going back.

We are the last best hope for mankind. We got to get it right. So when you talk about these things that are happening in Washington, D.C., federalizing elections and undermining election security just to obtain power by using what they were doing during the pandemic to loosen those, integrity measures just to gain power, to teach our kids to despise America, as opposed to teaching them what America really is about, the Bill of Rights, which is very important. But most, you know, I think it starts with Declaration of Independence, which is our mission statement. It says who we are, what we believe, what we stand for, and the Constitution then sets forth that framework to

protect those rights. The states came together to create a federal government of limited powers. and the people reigns supreme, not some sovereign authority who claims that they got their power from God, and we have to ask permission. That's very unique. We don't talk about that as much anymore, but I certainly view my mission as an attorney general and now running for the United States Senate as protecting that, protecting individual rights. Somebody asked me, we announced a cold case arrest last week in St. Louis, and as part of my job as Attorney General of the state's chief law enforcement officer, or legal officer. I was asked a question, how do you feel about fear being used right now

to get people to wear masks? And I said, basically there's nothing new in the sun. That's what every dictator and every tyrant has said since the beginning of the world, they've used it fear to aggregate and accumulate power.

I do not want to live in some futuristic dystopian biomedical security state. And I'm going to do everything I can, the powers that I swore to protect the Constitution to protect individual rights, And I think we have to be absolutely committed to that. And if we are, if we're being together on that, we're going to win this thing.

And our kids will look back, our grandkids will look back and be very, very proud of each. And you don't have to be the Attorney General to stand up for that. I see people going to school board meetings. I see people going to city council meetings or standing up who don't want to take this anymore. They believe in America, what we are and who we are, what we can be. So that's a very important role for me as they, James. I, we're talking to Eric Schmidt, the Missouri Attorney General, and he is going to be running for Senate in the state. I had to leave right after I spoke to all of you last night.

And I'm wondering how many of the people, because I didn't get a chance to ask the whole room, out of the 22 that were there, how many of them are on the same page with you now, that you're saying, what you're saying this morning. I think it's a very committed group. It is a very committed group to these principles. We have a unique role in our system in that, as we've talked about governments, our project to protect those rights, that's our job. That's our job to protect the rights. My job isn't to give cover to some authoritarian regime because of the government.

That's not my job. My job is to make sure that people can say their peace under the First Amendment, that under the Second Amendment, people can protect themselves. And so you see a lot of the work that we do. We're leading a brief on making sure that this restrictive regime in New York, where you have to tell the government or some bureaucrat that you're really in danger to be able to conceal carry. That's not what the founders ever intended.

We're fighting that fight, whether it's, you know, the abortion issue going to the United States Supreme Court. We're fighting that fight. Whether it's protecting First Amendment rights or, you know, you could go down to pick the issue. I think right now pushing back against the federal government. and by the way, also pushing back against local governments that want to treat people as subjects and not citizens. We're committed to that fight. I believe it in my tour.

And I'm telling you, Glenn, you know it from your listeners. There is something happening right now in the city council rooms, in the school board rooms, in these hearing rooms. People don't want to lose America. They don't. because it is this shining city on a hill. And we've always been a people that wanted to know what's on the other side of that mountain

and what people see right now is a cliff. And we have a choice. What is our role going to be in the future of this republic? As Ben Franklin said, you know, we walked out of the convention, you've got a republic, ma'am, if you can keep it. It's hard work. Because human nature, and the founders knew this,

human nature is, you see it across the world, It's happened before is to accumulate power, dole out favors to your cronies. So the founders knew that spreading out power among the branches with federalism, making sure that no one person or branch was too powerful, all of that. If federalism works horizontally and vertically, was meant to do one thing, protect individual liberty. Eric? That's our path forward.

I can't thank you enough for everything you're doing. We're watching you guys carefully. I am, you know yesterday I offered support on anything that we can do to help you guys out because I do believe you are the fire line. Thank you so much. And my best to everybody else that are having meetings this week with you all the attorney generals. Thank you so much. By the way, I want to thank you for all you're doing to talk about these issues too and your listeners. Thanks for having me.

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I don't. Because did you, at any point, because you've got the scar makeup on. It's not makeup. I don't believe it's a real scar. I don't think anybody believes it's a real scar. Yeah, it is a real scar. No, I did not. No, I didn't.

In fact, everybody was a little uncomfortable. I could see everybody looking at my scar and nobody said anything. They're like, good God, man. I got in a fight with a socialist. You know what I mean? I did say. Somebody did ask yesterday and I said, You know, he looks frail, but George Soros packs quite a wallop.

I was in a knife fight. And you should see him. You should see him. But thank you for the little pirate music. I appreciate that. Well, I just feel like it's appropriate. For anyone, especially watching on police TV. Do you think that's going away?

Do you think that's going to disappear? I knew you had a big scar. It's not as bad as I thought. Really? It's actually looks better than I thought. Enormous. And I think it looks pretty bad. It's tough, man.

You've had a rough couple weeks here. Yeah, it's been bad. It's been bad. It's been bad. But it's the good kind of cancer. Well, this one's not. But the rest of them are the good kind of cancer. This is good.

This is what happens as you get old. You start talking more and more about your doctor's appointments. No, no, it's good. It's no, it's fine. It's fine. Right? Right? It's fine.

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writes the Guardian, when people in the Malistan district of southern Afghan province woke up to find that the conflict that it swirled around them for weeks had finally reached their small town and Taliban fighters were closing in. By noon of that day, 22-year-old Fatima, seven months pregnant, was seeking shelter from bullets raining down on her home in her village, which was caught in the vicious crossfire between Taliban militants and government forces. Surviving the battle was not the only thing on our mind, however. Her family were terrified that the Taliban gained control of their village, they would begin taking women like Fatima as they had taken other

young women in parts of the country falling under their control. We had heard of cases where the Taliban would kill young men and sexually abuse girls and young women of the family. The fears of Fatima and her family were justified. When the Taliban finally came to our village, they wanted to take a young girl with them but she ran to the roof of her house and ended her life ah nazarene fund was uh started because when our troops were pulled out of um of iraq something called isis uh came in and they were kidnapping and raping and killing uh families but mainly with women and children were bringing them into sex slavery. We started the Nazarene Fund and now our chief operating officer, our CEO, is Rudy Atala.

And I wanted to get him on the phone right away today to see what he knows about the situation in Afghanistan and if he sees a way for us eventually to help. Rudy, how are you, sir? Hey, good. Good to hear your voice, Glenn. Yeah, good to talk to you. Tell me what you know about what's happening in Afghanistan and how bad it is for the people that we've left behind. It's extremely bad. I mean, I'm getting calls right now from Gulf states, from the region, from Lebanon, from all over the place.

If you watch the news media in the Middle East, they're showing repeats of people falling off C-17s on takeoff. People dying, people scrambling, looking for ways to escape Afghanistan. We just absolutely evacuated without leaving them a single choice or protecting any of them. And all my military friends that served over there, in fact, I have a former Navy SEAL here with me staying at my house, and we were talking about it. He did four combat tours in Afghanistan. He said, all our folks are allies that help. us on the ground now are stuck. And what's really going to happen is eventually Al Qaeda is going to

get its foothold. Terrorism is going to go back on the rise. And the people that, you know, are not killed that we've trained are eventually going to flip because they want to survive and maintain themselves. And so these trained individuals are now going to be working against us. not only that, but now Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have access to U.S. armament, U.S. weapons, U.S. drones. Knowledge. Drones. Drones.

Yes. Drones. Absolutely. Scan Eagles. We used the scan eagle when we did the Mariska Alabama hostage rescue. So, so yes. And China's in there. Recognize them already.

He's going to recognize the Afghans. The Russians are going to recognize the Afghans. You can bank on Al-Qaeda 3.0 coming back with Augusto. And sooner or later, we'll start seeing all these terrorist attacks around the world. And what breaks my heart and what really frustrates me more than anything, everything that we worked 20 years to achieve is down the drain. Now we've got to start from ground zero again because of this very poor decision by the White House. Rudy, are we going to be able to be in a situation to where we can help these?

women and children at some point as the Nazarene Fund? I'm looking at different ways to do that. It's not going to be easy. We no longer have any allies in the region. I mean, it's just down. Pakistan, the church there is under constant persecution. Now Afghanistan obviously has fallen. There's nobody in the region that we, if we work,

we're going to have to work very quietly. And I just need to figure out the best ways to support these people, whether it's in place or slowly get them out of the country. I mean, it's, as you said in your opening remarks, we're still dealing with the problems in Syria from poor decisions during the Obama administration. And we're still rescuing kidnapped women and children. There are still thousands missing. And that's an ongoing situation.

So Afghanistan is going to be in the same genre. But, you know, right now it's extremely dangerous, but I'm hoping that we're going to find a way to do something. Rudy, thank you very much. Our prayers are with you and everybody that is part of our military. This has got to be just a brutal, brutal weekend for you. And your comrades. Yes. Thank you so much, Rudy.

God bless. Lieutenant Colonel Rudy Atala. He is the chief operating officer of the Nazarene Fund, something that you founded, helping women and children and all slaves and religious minorities that are trapped behind enemy lines. We try to get them out. You can find out more or make a donation to the Nazarene Fund.org now. How many millions of dollars were raised for the Nazarene Fund? Do you know off the top of your head? I know the initial amount was $26 million. It's incredible.

Yeah. Incredible. And unfortunately now the job is going to get, as he said. I mean, Rudy is always, I mean, he was with the National Security Council. I mean, he has been a presidential advisor. This guy, he knows it, and he knows the Middle East. And he's always like, don't worry. He's a big God guy.

We'll get him. We'll get him. We got it. to have him just say, I've never heard him go, whew. Now, I asked him for the first time this morning, so he hasn't had time,

but I've never heard him discouraged or say, I don't know. It's going to be tough. Yeah. You know, it's interesting looking at this in that a lot of people are saying, well, I can't believe we train, spent all this money training this army, and they just folded like this.

and it doesn't make sense, right? The actual thing that occurred is probably worse, which is a lot of the people we trained, holding a lot of the weapons we gave them, are much more closely aligned with the Taliban than we expected. And now, they're trained and have those weapons and we'll be fighting with them. Right.

Do you remember the Kurd situation under George H.W. Bush when we just let the Kurds just get, slaughtered because we wouldn't supply air support. That's really the problem. They were not prepared to fight without air support. They've got their own Air Force. Uh-huh. Do they?

What does that Air Force really look like and how trained were they to provide the kind of air cover that the United States government does? Oh, no. They didn't have that sort of capability. And some of the criticism is that we were so good with the air. support that they couldn't do anything on their own. Right. And they essentially became dependent on our support.

Correct. Which may very well be true. However, it's not going to solve this situation now. We can all talk about this. You know, this is what happens when you essentially put, you know, AOC's Twitter feed into policy. That's what this is. Let me take a couple of phone calls here. First from Michelle.

She's a veteran. Did a couple of tours in Iraq. How are you feeling today? Miserable. Just miserable. I spent Thursday night talking an Afghan vet in our neighbor, the friend of our neighbors down off the ledge. Um, it just, you cannot explain the both rage and despair of the Afghan vets right now. I'm here at Fort Hood. And I just, it's mind-bogglingly stupid. because it was all so predictable. In fact, I will give half a cheer to General Mark Millie, who I, you know, mostly dislike. And I think like 98% dislike.

But he and some other generals prepared plans for this. I mean, this is not a new thing, the withdrawal from Afghanistan. And he said, hey, we need this, this and this to happen. We need to get our allies out. You know, there have been reports floating around for a decade and about how to withdraw safely. Get our troops out of there, get our allies and equipment out of there. And Biden said, I'm going to do it. Okay, well, here are our plans.

This is what needs to happen before we can withdraw. Biden was like, cool, thanks, bro. and did his own thing. Yeah, I actually did read the same reporting about Millie in that, at least that the last, the last few months was arguing for a some sort of improved withdrawal. Now, he's also really famous for leaking favorable stories about himself to the press. So I'm not sure how to take that, but I did read that same reporting. Michelle, please pass on our condolences and, uh, and our heartfelt. gratitude for all of you that stood up and and fought. It was, uh, it was not wasted on the hearts

of the American people. Thank you so much, Michelle. Let me go to John in New York. Hello, John. Uh, I'm sorry. How are you doing? Good. This is, uh, John in Pennsylvania. Sorry, go ahead. How are you, Mr. Beck? Very good. Good. Hey, uh, first time, long time. Thank you. I just want to let you know. Preface the conversation with, I respect the office. I do not respect the man. I feel as though one thing was lacking from this plan, and that's a word called strategy. Strategies defined as a plan of action designed to achieve a major or overall aim.

He had his own strategy, but it wasn't a military strategy. How do I score enough points to win another election? Should I make it that far with my health? I'm trying to remain composed here because there's things I want to say that I can't say. I'm a combat bet. I'm a wounded combat bet. My life has been irreparably changed from this conflict. My resolve has not.

I still stand with the American people. I will do anything for the American people. And if I was asked to go back, I would go back tomorrow. God bless you, John. Thank you so much. Adam, last call. You're on the Glenbeck program. Hello.

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and everything works out better and the country gets along better. And everything this man has done since he got into all, office is wrong. Wait, wait, wait, did you, did you vote for Biden? Yeah, I, I figured what the hell. I mean, I knew my vote didn't matter anyway. I'm in New York. Yeah.

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people were falling from the sky and we watched the video early this morning and couldn't see it the video is very clear now it appears to be real to at least news sources are carrying it people are holding on to these airplanes

like the wheels yeah and they're just falling from the sky that's how desperate things are right now pray for the people of Afghanistan pray for the people that helped us pray for the women and children of Afghanistan