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The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1322 - President Empathy Doesn’t Actually Give A Damn

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September 28, 2022 · 49 min · 10,186 words · 62 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1322 - President Empathy Doesn’t Actually Give A Damn", an episode of The Ben Shapiro Show published September 28, 2022 (49 min, about 10,186 words). It mentions 65 people, works and ideas, including Taliban, United States (states), Secretary of Defense, White Rage, The Ben Shapiro Show.

What is discussed, and when

0:00 – 5:00: Taliban, Pure Talk, Sky News, Clarissa Ward
5:00 – 10:00: Taliban, C-17, Dr. Zuhal, Fatima Galana
10:00 – 15:00: United States (states), Taliban, Kuwait, Saigon
15:00 – 20:00: Taliban, Helix Sleep, Cedric Richmond, Jake Tapper
20:00 – 25:00: Taliban, United States (states), ZipRecruiter, Caitlin Collins
25:00 – 30:00: Taliban, Secretary of Defense, United States (states), Matt Zeller
30:00 – 35:00: Taliban, Secretary of Defense, Wendy Sherman, United States (states)
35:00 – 40:00: White Rage, John Kirby, American Financing, Culture in Crisis
40:00 – 45:00: Taliban, Secretary of Defense, United States (states), Washington Post
45:00 – 48:45: Matt Walsh Show, Taliban, The Ben Shapiro Show, United States (states)

Notable quotes from "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1322 - President Empathy Doesn’t Actually Give A Damn"

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The gauntlet from Kabul just the main area of the city into the airport and the Taliban stopping her threatening her crew as she says it's nearly impossible for any normal…
about Taliban · at 1:42
Stuffed back into the burlap sacks of the burqa and then back into the basement according to the Wall Street Journal Dr zuhal used to drive herself to work this week she…
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Richard holbrook's diary this is Joe Biden was quote F that Nixon and Kissinger got away with it in Vietnam hey and Joe Biden's main messenger is no regards this is an astonishing clip so he was interviewed by George.
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Them from being able to even get into the air base okay meanwhile the secretary of defense of the United States right the most powerful military presence in the history of the world he says he's asked about evacuating Americans and he can't.
about Secretary of Defense · at 26:54
Will get to in just one second the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who's so concerned about white rage it's really it's really fortunate we have such Geniuses running our military establishment nobody gets fired for.
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Secretary of Defense — Person · 7 mentions · first at 26:58
Wendy Sherman — Person · 2 mentions · first at 30:23
Under Barack Obama this is abjectly pathetic the state department press secretary Wendy Sherman was asked about this yesterday and she says well no government could evacuate…
John Kirby — Person · 2 mentions · first at 39:00
Pilots and here is our military back in March this is March 11 2021. John Kirby the Pentagon spokesperson saying I want to be very clear right up front the diversity of our military is one of our greatest strengths would be winning.
Clarissa Ward — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:40
The situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate there's no video of Clarissa Ward from CNN trying to walk the gauntlet from Kabul just the main area of the city into the…
Dr. Zuhal — Person · 1 mention · first at 5:30
The burqa and then back into the basement according to the Wall Street Journal Dr zuhal used to drive herself to work this week she started taking a taxi to avoid reprisals…
Fatima Galana — Person · 1 mention · first at 6:16
Happen to my daughter already women are retreating from the public sphere Fatima galana one of the few women that negotiated with the Taliban is part of the Afghan government…
Henry Kissinger — Person · 1 mention · first at 7:36
Richard holbrook's diary this is Joe Biden was quote F that Nixon and Kissinger got away with it in Vietnam hey and Joe Biden's main messenger is no regards this is an astonishing clip so he was interviewed by George.
Cedric Richmond — Person · 1 mention · first at 17:55
About our Afghan allies who worked with us remember just about a month ago Biden's advisor Cedric Richmond was on with Jake Tapper and he said pretty openly we're not going to leave the Afghans behind we can't leave these people behind.
Jake Tapper — Person · 1 mention · first at 17:57
Us remember just about a month ago Biden's advisor Cedric Richmond was on with Jake Tapper and he said pretty openly we're not going to leave the Afghans behind we can't leave these people behind President Biden publicly promised that.
Walter Russell Mead — Person · 1 mention · first at 19:05
Is now saying a lot of those people are gonna get left behind so they're just damned Liars according to Walter Russell Mead it's not just the Afghans however one thing is clear…
Caitlin Collins — Person · 1 mention · first at 21:01
And the US government has made clear that they can't actually provide people passage according to Caitlin Collins the CNN chief White House correspondent U.S embassy in Kabul…
Jen Stoltenberg — Person · 1 mention · first at 23:59
NATO is telling the Taliban we expect them to provide safe passage this is Jens stoltenberg the NATO Secretary General well as long as you guys are telling them that you expect…
Matt Zeller — Person · 1 mention · first at 26:26
George Stephanopoulos maybe they'll moderate CIA analyst Matt Zeller who's been on CNN a lot he said here's what the taliban's actually doing they're taking people's passports in Kabul so if you show up with a passport to try and get.
Seth Moulton — Person · 1 mention · first at 45:38
They'll defend pretty much anything not all of them right we played representative Seth Moulton yesterday revving into Biden but the most Ardent Democrats absolutely will…
Barbara Lee — Person · 1 mention · first at 45:42
Revving into Biden but the most Ardent Democrats absolutely will here's representative Barbara Lee she says you know it was just a matter of unpreparedness I mean if we've been a little more prepared it would have been fine.
Mathis Glover — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:48
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Pavel Wydowski — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:49
Executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber…
Bradford Carrington — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:51
Supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam cyovitz…
Justin Barber — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:53
Production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam cyovitz audio is mixed by Mike caromina hair and…
Mike Caromina — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:58
Post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam cyovitz audio is mixed by Mike caromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the…
Fabiola Christina — Person · 1 mention · first at 48:00
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Jessica Kranz — Person · 1 mention · first at 48:02
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Adam Ciovitz — Person · 1 mention
Carl Rove — Person · 1 mention
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Fatima Hosseini — Person · 1 mention
Fawzia Koofi — Person · 1 mention
Ibram X. Kendi — Person · 1 mention
Noah Bierman — Person · 1 mention
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Richard Holbrooke — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

Taliban — Company · 41 mentions · first at 1:47
The Ben Shapiro Show — Company · 4 mentions · first at 0:09
Sky News — Company · 3 mentions · first at 2:02
Americans remain stranded in Kabul at this point according to eyewitnesses this is Sky news reporting desperate women in Kabul are attempting to throw their babies over the…
Wall Street Journal — Company · 3 mentions · first at 5:29
Matt Walsh Show — Company · 3 mentions · first at 47:12
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Wired Magazine — Company · 1 mention · first at 16:30
Washington Post — Company · 1 mention · first at 40:58
Going to happen in Afghanistan now Mark milley apparently was giving warnings according to the Washington Post to Biden that this was a bad idea but apparently that didn't…
Andrew Klavan Show — Company · 1 mention · first at 47:38
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Products & tech

C-17 — Product · 2 mentions · first at 9:00
God help us Joe Biden we've seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17 we've seen Afghans fall it was four days ago five days ago what did you think when you first saw…
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White Rage — Concept · 5 mentions · first at 31:43
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Places & events

United States (states) — Place · 20 mentions · first at 2:26
Average age in Afghanistan the median age rather the median age is 18.4 years old the United States has been occupying Afghanistan since 2001 20 years so the average person in…
Saigon — Place · 2 mentions · first at 2:11
Their babies over the razor wire to American soldiers in scenes reminiscent of Saigon in which people are trying to get the hell out of the country before the Taliban come in…
Vietnam — Place · 2 mentions · first at 7:36
Kuwait — Place · 1 mention · first at 12:57
Afghanistan had 25 3 500 troops there we have over 5 000 troops in Qatar we have 5 000 troops in Kuwait we have 26 000 troops in Korea we have something like 12 000 troops in…
Hamid Karzai International Airport — Place · 1 mention · first at 21:11
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Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 President Biden says he has no regrets about the Afghanistan collapsing and his botched strategy and our military leaders say we have no capacity to rescue Americans in Afghanistan I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show the Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by expressvpn your data is your business protected at expressvpn.com Ben we'll get to all the news it is horrific news this morning okay so all of it in just one second first quick reminder you're paying too much for your cell phone bill like you really are if you're a Verizon or at T or T-Mobile you're just paying too much it's time to switch over to Pure Talk Pure Talk can save your family over 800 a year you'll get the same great coverage because Pure Talk is on the exact same network as one of the big three but at a fraction of the price and switching is as easy as switching out your sim card you can keep your phone keep your number or get huge discounts

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1:33 Shapiro to get started alrighty so the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate there's no video of Clarissa Ward from CNN trying to walk the gauntlet from Kabul just the main area of the city into the airport and the Taliban stopping her threatening her crew as she says it's nearly impossible for any normal Afghan to use their papers to get out of the country at this point meanwhile some 10 to 15 000 Americans remain stranded in Kabul at this point according to eyewitnesses this is Sky news reporting desperate women in Kabul are attempting to throw their babies over the razor wire to American soldiers in scenes reminiscent of Saigon in which people are trying to get the hell out of the country before the Taliban come in for all the people out there who keep saying things like well you know the people in Afghanistan they're just going back to what they know remember the average age the

2:22 average age in Afghanistan the median age rather the median age is 18.4 years old the United States has been occupying Afghanistan since 2001 20 years so the average person in Afghanistan actually does not remember Taliban rule he the average person in Afghanistan has been living in a country occupied by the United States with a nascent democracy for their entire lifetime and this is particularly true for young women who are now going to be subjected to sex slavery and abuse that is the next move for young women all over the country but particularly in the major cities which were again a lot more urban uh and a lot more controlled by the central government than the rural outlying areas according to Sky News you can hear a noise as you approach the high iron gates that are the only way into the compound that is the center of the British airlift operation out of Afghanistan on either side of a narrow

3:06 road inside the walls of the compound at Kabul Airport exhausted British soldiers lie in the shade waiting for their turn to head back outside into the burning Sun and the chaos once again the noise is the sound of shouting it's the noise of desperation thousands of people are flooding toward this innocuous place that will for somebody to Gateway To Freedom and for many others the end of a dream of escaping the Taliban after two decades this is what it has come down to a hasty Retreat a civilian evacuation with the Taliban watching on as everyday passes this relief operation gets more and more urgent and desperate as the British military tries to thousands of people out of Afghanistan in just days it's a humanitarian mission in what feels like a war zone a makeshift barricade is all that separates the two armies who have fought for 20 years the Taliban are just one meter away from the British soldiers a

3:48 picture I never thought I would see rights Stuart Ramsey who's the chief correspondent for the Sky News he says the the there are women who are arriving day and night families often with tiny children risking their lives ducking past gunfire at the gates of the civilian side of the airport passing aggressive Taliban fighters who occasionally beat and harass them in the night the paratroopers blockaded the road with cars and razor wire a senior officer told me they had no choice because the situation was out of control but said the black kid will live with some of his soldiers for the rest of their lives quote it was terrible women were throwing their babies over the razor wire asking the soldiers to take them some got caught in the wire I'm worried for my men I'm counseling some everyone cried last night it looks like chaos but there's a method the soldier called the soldiers call out for interpreters as different

4:34 nationalities arrive at the barricade including Afghans with a valid Asylum case passports and paperwork are then checked if they pass mustard their directions to the entry gate to be processed some make it others don't terrified men terrified families men women large numbers of children are sent back through the barbed wire this is um unfortunately the reality in Afghanistan thanks to Joe Biden's precipitous and meaningless and meritless pullout Fatima not her real name made it through the barricade clutching her daughter's hand she thinks she might have a case but doesn't know who to speak to she's terrified and in tears her husband joined the Taliban and took to beating her she and her four-year-olds have nothing but a un letter identifying them as victims Afghanistan is Taliban Taliban is terrorist my husband is a terrorist Talib she explains to me just says we'll go anywhere any country

5:17 and this of course is going to be common across Afghanistan meanwhile women across Afghanistan of course are being stuffed back into the burlap sacks of the burqa and and then back into the basement according to the Wall Street Journal Dr zuhal used to drive herself to work this week she started taking a taxi to avoid reprisals from the Taliban who once banned women from driving it didn't help on the second day of the Taliban takeover a Taliban gunman dragged the doctor who didn't want to use her full name out of the taxi and whipped her for filming the cast surrounding the evacuations at the Kabul Airport since he's in control of Afghanistan the Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more moderate than they were last time now remember last time the Taliban took over in 1996 they also pledged to be moderate and to amnesty everybody who's fighting them and then they proceeded to be one of the most

5:59 brutal regimes on planet Earth Dr zuha was six years old when the Taliban took over a couple the first time in 1996 the same age as her daughter is now I have so many dreams for her she said my life and my achievements are tearing in two pieces in front of my eyes I never want this to happen to my daughter already women are retreating from the public sphere Fatima galana one of the few women that negotiated with the Taliban is part of the Afghan government declined to comment follows yakufi Ann outspoken women's rights Defender and parliamentarian said she was unable to give interviews under the current circumstances and Kabul many young women have never even worn a burqa some often appeared in public without headscarves the wealthiest neighborhoods have come to resemble the West with young Afghan men and women mixing freely in cafes modeled on Starbucks that's the lifestyle Fatima hosani a 28

6:42 year old photographer was accustomed to now she's afraid of appearing in public I had my Liberty I had my freedom and went to the gym to restaurants sometimes I would not cover my hair in public everything has changed in a week right this is the situation in Afghanistan the good news is that we have president's empathy out there the most empathetic presidents of all time right Super Grandpa empathy he's out there just to show how much he cares what an empathetic guy now quick reminder he's not empathetic he has never been empathetic back in 2010 he was asked by Richard Holbrook then the special Envoy by the Obama Administration to Afghanistan and Pakistan about a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan and what that would mean for the people of Afghanistan the people who had Allied themselves with us sacrificed their lives sacrificed themselves on behalf of yes an American mission in Afghanistan

7:29 and his explicit response according to Richard holbrook's diary this is Joe Biden was quote F that Nixon and Kissinger got away with it in Vietnam hey and uh and Joe Biden's main messenger is no regards this is an astonishing clip so he was uh he was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos and when a Democratic president is interviewed by George Stephanopoulos usually it is a human centipede performance because that's George stephanopoulos's job George Stephanopoulos was the press secretary for Hillary Clinton back during the 1990s he is a Democrat Democratic apparatch who somehow ended up as one of the chief anchors at ABC News which is wild right imagine if Carl Rover one of the chief anchors for Fox News would be very strange not like an opinion host the chief actual news anchor so normally when George Stephanopoulos is um is doing an interview with the Democratic politician it it looks more like soft

8:19 core pornography than it does like an actual interview but George Stephanopoulos could not say Biden from himself here he just could not so he asks him a pretty simple question he asked him it's chaos at the airport right we're watching people fall from Planes Joe Biden's answer here is one of the most atrocious answers I've ever heard from an American president on any topic and go back and listen I was highly critical of many of the things that Trump said in interviews uh certainly critical of the stuff that Obama said in interviews on a regular basis this is I think the worst thing I've ever heard an American president say in an interview and that that encompasses a lot of bad things being said in interviews here is George Stephanopoulos with the presidents of the United States God help us Joe Biden we've seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17 we've seen Afghans fall it was four days ago five days ago

9:06 what did you think when you first saw those pictures what I thought was weird we have to gain control of this we have to move this more quickly we have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport and we did he said you don't think this could have been handled this actually could have been handled better in any way no mistakes no no no mistakes it's been error free it's a perfect it's a perfect operation a perfect operation where Afghans are clinging to the wheel wells of planes escaping Afghanistan and then falling from 4 000 feet to their death on the tarmac perfect perfect operation more than that I gotta say when Stephanopoulos asked him about what just happened there he says it was four or five days ago so number one I was unaware that if a man falls four thousand feet from the wheel well of a C-17 to the tarmac that he remains alive four or five days later that he actually dies and then four or

10:04 five days pass and then he's okay again it was four or five days ago that is the response of this petulant man-child president this adult this adult president his response is it was four or five days ago what what if it was a year ago would that make it four or five days ago how in the world is that supposed to make any difference At All by the way it wasn't it was two days ago when he gave this interview I understand that every time Joe Biden takes a mid-morning nap and wakes up he thinks it's a new day but it absolutely is not hey this is this is just an astonishing dead election by the president of the United States and for Captain empathy over here to be saying well it was four or five days ago and could you have handled anything better here no nothing could have been handled better nothing truly nothing there are seven people who are trampled to death at this Airport we have women throwing babies over the

10:59 razor wire at this airport we still have 10 to 15 000 Americans American citizens who are stuck in Kabul right now as we speak we have another somewhere between 60 and 100 000 Afghan allies people who worked with our military interpreters and members of the Special Operations forces in Afghanistan for whom American soldiers have signed affidavits by basically saying that these are people who we ought to save and these are random Syrian citizens who are just being put upon by the government and we don't have any background information on them these are people who actively worked with the United States government with our military with our military contractors they're stuck over there and Joe Biden can't explain how he could have done this any better hey then Joe Biden goes even further right he says well there was no way no way that we could have gotten out without chaos this was inevitable this

11:53 was the inevitable ending to this Saga inevitable we were holding our bases in Afghanistan with a skeleton crew of somewhere between 2 500 and 3 500 people if you look at the number of troops United States troops on the ground in Afghanistan year on year and it declined essentially every year since 2014. we went from having tens of thousands of troops as in like 30 40 50 to 100 000 troops in the in the 2010 2011-2012 period all the way down to about 10 000 troops in the post-2014 period and then all the way down to 2500 troops officially in Afghanistan as of January of this year and Joe Biden decided that we had to precipitously pull out so he could get a headline about how he'd ended the quote-unquote endless war the thing that's so amazing about that by the way is that when you look at where American troops are stationed all over the world Afghanistan barely ranks in like the top ten by the time that we left

12:51 Afghanistan had 25 3 500 troops there we have over 5 000 troops in Qatar we have 5 000 troops in Kuwait we have 26 000 troops in Korea we have something like 12 000 troops in Italy we have 40 000 troops still in Japan we have 33 000 troops in Germany this is not a quote-unquote endless war for the United States there was no necessity for this quote-unquote precipitous pull out and when he says there's no way to get out without chaos no there absolutely was here is Joe Biden saying this it's insane the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing I don't know how that happens I don't know how that happened so for you that was always priced into the decision yes unbelievable by the way quick note here if he thought it was inevitable that this cast was going to happen then then why is he taking a vacation really why by the way a bit of a conflicting message there we were told by his

13:48 military it was totally unexpected a month ago he was saying that the Taliban would not be able to take Kabul so either he was lying then or he's lying now those are the only two choices or he's lying both times it is quite possible that he was informed by his intelligence community that this is a significant possibility he lied about it a month ago then it happened and then he said oh yeah it was totally foreseeable so he's lying both times that's the most probable situation and remember he says there was no way to get us out without chaos just a month ago here's Joe Biden saying this ain't gonna be Saigon did you see any between this this draw people feeling none whatsoever zero what you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our Embassy six if I'm not mistaken the Taliban is not the South the North Vietnamese Army they're not they're not remotely comparable in terms of

14:41 capability there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a Embassy in the of the United States from Afghanistan it is not at all comfortable that was July 8th July 8th unbelievable on freaking believable by the way Joe Biden also told George Stephanopoulos that uh the Taliban have changed said what I think they're going through a sort of existential crisis about what they want to be do what they about do they want to be recognized by the International Community as being a legitimate government yeah that's that's exactly right probably they're going through an existential crisis well done sir he's a delusion delusional fully delusional fully delusional and by the way Biden is now saying he's grateful to the Taliban he says I'm not sure I would have predicted George nor would you or anyone else the one we decided to leave that they'd provide safe passage for Americans to get out

15:37 are we sure they've provided safe passage for Americans to get out at this point we'll get to that in just one second and this is full scale Insanity first let us talk about your Sleep Quality so I'll be honest with you I haven't been sleeping particularly well given the situation in the world but when I do lay my head down I need to be on a mattress that is perfect for me a mattress made just for me Helix sleep is that mattress they've made a quiz it takes just two minutes to complete it matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you why would you buy a mattress made for someone else with Helix you're getting a mattress you know will be perfect for the way you sleep everybody is unique Helix knows that so they have several different mattress models to choose from they have soft medium and firm mattresses mattresses great for cooling you down if you sleep hot even a helix plus mattress for plus

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16:58 interviews he's doing are with people like George Stephanopoulos that that and the reason for that is because he doesn't want to take tough questions George Stephanopoulos is there to massage Biden through these awkward moments these awkward moments here is Joe so Joe Biden gave a speech yesterday on vaccination public speech run vaccination and then you just took off he ran from the room because this is what the man does God bless you all and may God protect our troops thank you

17:29 goodbye catch you later see you later and he's out and now he may be out but the Americans who are stuck in Afghanistan absolutely are not according to Walter Russell need writing for the Wall Street Journal some fifteen thousand U.S citizens and residents are behind Taliban lines there is no easy way to get them out by the way that is not even talking about our Afghan allies who worked with us remember just about a month ago Biden's advisor Cedric Richmond was on with Jake Tapper and he said pretty openly we're not going to leave the Afghans behind we can't leave these people behind President Biden publicly promised that none of the more than nineteen thousand Afghans uh who have assisted the United States and at least begun the process of trying to get these special immigrant visas to flee Afghanistan so they won't be slaughtered by the Taliban none of them he said will be left behind when

18:20 the military pulls out in the coming weeks and months but but the Biden Administration has been very light on details nothing has happened yet these people respectfully sir need more than words and and Promises they need action Jake you know that this is a serious issue I think that the president was very clear that he's not leaving people behind but if you're asking us to give you numbers locations and details and timing we're not necessarily going to do that because of the sensitivity of the information we want to make sure that we protect uh the people who helped us and risk their lives to help us um no you don't you're not protecting the people who risk their lives and help us anyway as we were going to see the entire Military Intelligence apparatus is now saying a lot of those people are gonna get left behind so they're just damned Liars according to Walter Russell Mead it's not just the Afghans however

19:09 one thing is clear the Taliban hold the lives of thousands of U.S citizens and Futures and the future of the Biden Administration in their hands the collapse of the ghani government left as many as 15 000 Americans and permanent residents along with an unknown number of other westerners and foreigners trapped behind Taliban lines tens of thousands of Afghans employed by the old government allied military commands in western-oriented nonprofits are with their family members also desperate to leave while U.S forces control the Kabul Airport American citizens and Afghans with U.S visas must run a gauntlet of Taliban roadblocks and checkpoints to reach the American perimeter as for the thousands of Americans citizens of Allied Nations and endangered Afghan National strands in other parts of the country at press time U.S officials had no plan in place to bring them to safety Congressional offices report being

19:49 deluged with pleas for help from Americans Behind Enemy Lines and from veterans seeking help for Afghan contact and friends I've told you about how I'm receiving emails I right I'm just a political commentator I'm receiving emails from people asking how do I get somebody out I'm getting calls from people how do I get somebody out okay this is utter craziness I got a letter last night quote I'm a former Marine officer that serves in Helmand Afghanistan in 2011. I've been trying to assist my Afghan interpreter Tommy with an SIV for years now he served tenaciously in fact I witnessed his vehicle getting blown up in front of me from an IED even after this episode he continued to work with and put his faith in us Tommy is currently stranded with his wife and young daughter a few miles from the Kabul Airport together he and I are devising evacuation plans but as you know the situation on the ground is very

20:35 dangerous and uncertain and then this marine officer asked for help in how do we get this guy out okay that is the situation on the ground and for American citizens as well well 1100 U.S citizens permanent residents and family members were evacuated on Tuesday according to the Wall Street Journal there were reports of people being beaten and turned back from the airport apparently U.S government is basically begging the Taliban to let people out and the US government has made clear that they can't actually provide people passage according to Caitlin Collins the CNN chief White House correspondent U.S embassy in Kabul told American citizens in a security alert quote the United States government cannot ensure safe passage to the Hamid Karzai International Airport adding space on evacuation flights will now be available on a first come first serve basis so the US government is saying we can't

21:22 even get you to the airport we can't the Uber can get you to the airport we can't get you to the airport all these people in Afghanistan all the Afghans are trying to erase their links with the American government they're trying to just erase the fact they ever worked with the American government because if the Taliban found out that they did they will be murdered that is the situation on the ground the Taliban for their part this is the funniest story of the day grimly hilarious so they're all these images coming out of the Taliban beating the living hell out of people and shooting people the Taliban quote they deny their Fighters have been involved in this sort of violence blaming the injuries on men impersonating the Taliban ah you know those famous Taliban impersonators it's like Elvis impersonators in Vegas Taliban impersonators and Kabul there is no real Taliban it's just in your mind

22:07 maybe Taliban is just an idea it's like antifa it's just an idea out there in just a second we'll get to the utter inability of the West to provide safe passage to American citizens to get out and the fact that the likely next step is going to be bribery your taxpayer dollar is going to go straight to the Taliban that is the next step here we all know it we'll get to that in just one moment first let us talk about the fact that right now there are more open jobs than there are people applying for those jobs right now in the United States that can make it difficult for employers it can also make it difficult for employees to find the right job well this is where a zip recruiter comes in according to Forbes gyms nail salons hotels mom and pop stores and more are set to go on an epic hiring spree in the coming months to meet the pent-up demand for all of those Services all of those businesses reopening means millions of

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23:31 use zip recruiter here at Daily wire you should as well right now try zip recruiter for free at this exclusive web address ziprecruiter.com daily wire that is ziprecruiter.com d-a-i-l-y-w-i-r-e ziprecruiter.com daily wire just go to ziprecruiter.com daily wire ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire alrighty so it's an absolute disaster in Afghanistan as far as getting people out the NATO Secretary General said yesterday well you know NATO is telling the Taliban we expect them to provide safe passage this is Jens stoltenberg the NATO Secretary General well as long as you guys are are telling them that you expect them to provide safe passage I'm sure the Taliban will do what you say or alternatively the Taliban now holds all the cards because the United States decided to withdraw with no plan at all to even protect the American citizens on the ground the Taliban holds all the cars what happens if the talibans will say no

24:18 is the United States going to deploy thousands of troops into Kabul to go house to house to find the American citizens who are there is that do you think Joe Biden is going to do that I don't what are you gonna do sanction the Taliban they have no economy what exactly is the threat here you guys just abandoned the place and then you're like ah you better let out our guys why would they do that the answer is they would do that if we bribe them okay that is the next step here the next step is that the Biden Administration is going to send pallets of cash to the Taliban and then Biden is going to say look how they moderated look at that they moderated they let all of our people out so really this isn't that bad I handled this beautifully everybody got out and then a few weeks later the Taliban will emerge from their caves to explain that in fact they were given billions of dollars by the Biden Administration

25:02 hundreds of millions of dollars by the Biden Administration in order to free what our essentially American hostages now in Afghanistan and they will humiliate Biden that is how this is going to play out with like 75 certainty like Anyway here's the NATO Secretary General threatening with nothing how would they permits on the ground our people on the ground are working uh hard to enable those who are threatened those who have worked for those staff and others to enable them to get to the airport and also sending a very clear message to Taliban that we expect them to provide safe passage to enable people to get to the airport as of now it seems like what you're saying is this depends on the good graces of the Taliban we don't control the territory outside the airport so yes that's yes this is we are relying on the good graces of the Taliban the Taliban have no good graces the only reason that they release the Americans

26:00 here is if they're paid off that is the only reason because what exactly is Joe Biden going to do launch a bunch of airstrikes into the countryside what exactly is NATO going to do at this point reoccupy they're not gonna do any of that stuff in the Taliban know it he just surrendered the country to a bunch of 8th Century Barbarian cavemen and now you're like maybe they'll be nice maybe by the way again Joe Biden is saying they will be nice he is telling George Stephanopoulos maybe they'll moderate CIA analyst Matt Zeller who's been on CNN a lot he said here's what the taliban's actually doing they're taking people's passports in Kabul so if you show up with a passport to try and get past the barricade and get into the airport they'll just take your passport from you we need to basically tell the Taliban that they need to shut down their checkpoints in the city because they're actively taking people's passports I've

26:44 had U.S citizens who have had their U.S passports taken from them their green cards taken from them Afghans are having their documentation stolen from them by the Taliban in an attempt to prevent them from being able to even get into the air base okay meanwhile the secretary of defense of the United States right the the most powerful military presence in the history of the world he says he's asked about evacuating Americans and he can't guarantee that we will keep troops in there for for long enough to even evacuate Americans look at the way he's hedging his bets here this is because this is reality okay when we say that we are going to evacuate 10 to 15 000 Americans there are a bunch of Americans who are out there in the countryside Dan coming home there are a bunch of Americans in Kabul many of those people will not be coming home the Biden Administration knows this because they blew it they blew it all

27:34 the way here is the defense secretary of the United States of America talking about how we cannot evacuate Americans thanks to a ragtag Backwater group of cavemen firing AK-47s and who are just handed billions of dollars in American Military technology by surrendering American pusillanimous president this is this is so humiliating it's the most humiliating thing I've ever seen in my life with regard to American foreign policy I mean it is not close I think it may be the most humiliating thing any American has ever seen in their lifetime period and it took two years for the United States too after the United States is large-scale withdrawal from Vietnam it took about two years for everything to collapse in Vietnam this took about five minutes and now the United States has left begging and pleading with the Taliban to evacuate American citizens here's the defense secretary of the most powerful

28:17 military power in the history of the world saying that you know we'll try and get people out until the clock Runs Out by the way when he says until the clock runs out that is a tested admission that we are now working on the taliban's timetable we're really working hard uh to get as many people through as possible and quite frankly we're not we're it's obvious we're not close to where we want to be in terms of getting the numbers through so we're going to work that 24 hours a day seven days a week and we're going to get everyone that we can possibly uh evacuate evacuate it and I'll do that as long as we possibly can until the clock runs out or we run out of capability okay we'll do it until the clock runs out or we run out of capability the f are you talking about the clock runs out who's clock who's clock they're only two players in this scenario the Taliban and buy that's it those are no other players so whose

29:13 clock are we talking about Joe Biden's artificial timeline for getting out or are we now talking about the fact that the Taliban has set a clock for the United States to lead and Joe Biden is going to obey the clock of again the worst people on planet Earth these barbarians that's who we're going to obey that's or our military capability runs out our military capability we spend billions hundreds of billions of dollars every year on the United States military our capability runs out for doing what driving people to the airport into Defiance of a ragtag group of people armed with like bicycle locks like what what are you what the what are you talking about what that's the secretary of defense of the United that guy needs it that guy needs to be out he needs to he needs to resign but frankly Biden should resign I mean he's not going to obviously he's not going to be impeached by a democratic Congress

30:05 but if anybody had any Stones they would this is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life as an American citizen it is the most muelling pathetic disreputable thing I've ever seen in my life in terms of American foreign policy and it is not close we saw a lot of crap under Barack Obama this is abjectly pathetic the state department press secretary Wendy Sherman was asked about this yesterday and she says well no government could evacuate all these citizens no one could really I mean when you think about it it's really hard well yeah it is hard when you get rid of all the American troops they're protecting all the air bases that allowed people to leave yes that does make it rather difficult does it not maybe somebody should have conveyed that to the president or maybe having conveyed that to the president if he insisted on going ahead with his plan somebody should have resigned in protest

30:46 didn't we hear that a lot during the Trump Administration if you hate it so much you should leave well well anyone Bueller here's Wendy Sherman Kabul I don't know if you've ever been there is an enormous City enormous and it has um uh in fact uh had more and more people come to Cabo because they thought it was the safest place to be in Afghanistan uh so it is difficult under any circumstances and I don't know of any uh government that would be capable of reaching out to where everybody might be particularly those who have not signed up to us to help them thank you which is why you shouldn't have surrendered the city Lloyd Austin doubled down on this the Secretary of Defense says we don't have the capacity to collect our people we just don't we can't do it right so originally what was funny about this particular exchange is that Mark milley will get to in just one second the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

31:43 who's so concerned about white rage white rage it's really it's really fortunate we have such Geniuses running our military establishment nobody gets fired for losing Wars around here pretty impressive you want to talk about a government make work program apparently the choice of staff is one of them so as the defense secretaryship so so he started off this little exchange Mark milley by saying this is a political problem and then Lloyd Austin jumps in to save the president and he says no it's not it's not a political problem it's a capacity problem I would draw a distinction bar between extracting someone in an inextremist condition or circumstance versus going out and collecting up large numbers of uh of American citizens you have the capability to go out and collect Americans we don't have the capability to go out and collect up large numbers of of people we don't have the capability to collect

32:40 them okay you know what that capability amounts to it amounts to literally you drive a car where the citizen is you pick them up in your car you bring them back to the airport you're saying we can't do that the reason they can't do that is because the Taliban has set up checkpoints and so what they're really afraid of is that somebody will get into a shooting fight with the Taliban at the outskirts of the airport and then the airport will be overrun by the Taliban that is the fear the fear is that America will attempt to deploy its forces into Kabul in order to pick up all the Americans and the Taliban won't let them and then you'll be in a shooting war and Biden doesn't want that because he doesn't want to have to put troops back into Kabul and then have an urban fight with the Taliban in the city that he just conceded so instead we'll just leave the Americans out there and then we'll hope that the Taliban are

33:16 nice and the Taliban will be nice so long as we pay them American taxpayer dollars so they can continue to propagate their evil regime of rape torture and tyranny that's all that's happening here the United States is now going to be the chief funder of the Taliban that's what's going to happen we are going to end up giving them the money because how else are we going to get our guys out and why exactly would they let us get our guys out if that's the case meanwhile Joe Biden had to be bullied by George Stephanopoulos into making a commitment to leave American troops there as long as necessary to get the Americans out by the way that's not going to happen they're going to be Americans who get stuck in Afghanistan I'm just saying that's going to happen right now and if it doesn't happen it's because Joe Biden is going to bribe the Taliban commitment holds to get everyone out that in fact we can get out and everyone

34:00 should come out and that's the objective that's what we're doing now that's the path we're on and I think we'll get so Americans should understand the troops might have to be there Beyond August 31st no America should understand that we're going to try to get it done before August 31st but if we don't the troops if they don't will determine at the time who's left and and if they're American Force if there's American citizens left we're going to stay low get them all out oh my God you see it's unbelievable how George Stephanopoulos has to walk him through that right so he gives an answer and his answer is basically we'll determine at the end of the August 31st deadline who's left and stephanopus is like um what now so you're saying that if they're America if there are Americans left we might leave anyway so he has to prompt Biden until he gets to the right answer there and and there's a massage his ass until the

34:53 correct answer comes popping out of there so George George Stephanopoulos is doing here amazing stuff okay but don't worry it's not just Joe Biden who ought to resign and Lloyd Austin our pathetic defense secretary who ought to resign it's it's the entire infrastructure the entire infrastructure ought to be thrown out on their butts they all ought to be thrown out on their butts we'll get to Mark Milly the the important investigator of military white rage in just one second first let's talk about your mortgage so your mortgage is certainly the biggest bill you have every single month there's no reason for it to be you can get it refined right and if you haven't re-fied it you're making mistake since the pandemic started 20 of homeowners have refined their homes that is a very smart decision because you likely saved yourself hundreds of dollars a month am I right now what about the rest of you

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36:22 second on this again horrific day in American history the most pathetic display frankly I have I've ever seen in my life from the United States first if you haven't yet pulled the trigger and joined the daily wear I'm going to assume you haven't heard of our readers pass that's a steal for just four bucks a month the daily wire readers pass unlocks exclusive editorial content that unpacks trending political and cultural topics penned by everybody from me to Dan Crenshaw plus analysis pieces like my brand new analysis piece 4 000 words long here's what went wrong in Afghanistan and here's what we should have done differently or take a deep dive with readers past collections different series of articles on a given subject current collections include a culture in crisis and BLM the organization behind a movement when you sign up with readers pass you also get access to the morning wire newsletter a Monday through

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37:52 to read ibrahimax Kennedy's garbage it was very important right our focus in the military is on all the things that matter like six weeks ago Mark milley was was talking about how important it was to study white rage who was Mark milley just six weeks ago I'm not gonna address specifically white Rage or black Rage or Asian Rage or Irish Rage or English razor Germany or any other race right but I do think it's important uh that we as a professional military not only understand foreign countries and foreign cultures and foreign societies that's important that we do that but we also need to understand our own society and and understand the soldiers sale as Airmen Marines and the society they're coming from and I think that's important for leadership to study thank you you said the words white rage yeah I said I'm not going to discuss it right now I think it's a very complicated topic and we

38:38 don't have the time to go into the Nuance of it right this minute it's so nuanced so important we had to study it I mean we had to spend time on it and when we weren't spending time with our military leaders when we weren't spending time with white rage our Pentagon was spending time attacking Tucker Carlson for making disparaging comments about uniforms for pregnant Pilots and here is our military back in March this is March 11 2021. John Kirby the Pentagon spokesperson saying I want to be very clear right up front the diversity of our military is one of our greatest strengths uh would be winning would winning wars be uh one of our greatest strengths in the military would abandoning our pose be one of the greatest strengths of the military because I'm hearing that that uniforms for pregnant Pilots are very very important to the Pentagon but not getting our asses kicked by a bunch of Backwater tribesmen it's apparently not

39:25 super important to our Pentagon what I've seen it for myself in long months at Sea and in the combat wage by our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan I've seen it up on Capitol Hill just this past month I see it every day right here at the Pentagon said John Kirby what we absolutely won't do is take personal advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military maybe those folks feel like they have something to prove that's on them well I feel like the US military leadership not the military men and women the military leadership has something to prove like can you win a god bleeping War how about that I feel like you have something to prove can you win a war can you not surrender to again can you not leave 10 to 15 000 Americans hanging out in Kabul waiting for the Taliban to arrive at their homes with the bullwhips maybe you have something to prove or but I understand look it's a busy time in

40:06 the US military infrastructure right in in the higher chain of the US military it is a busy time you have to make sure that you're pushing diversity transgender troops and white rage all those things those are things the defense department has to be on top of day in and day what they don't really have to be on top of is whether Afghanistan is going to collapse inside of two weeks if the United States military pulls out and abandons our Afghan allies in fact that's what we were told by General Mark milley literally yesterday Mark Miller came out he said I had no information that would have led to this really yet no one there were no indicators none seriously like none this was a talking point for people who followed foreign policy for literally years that if the United States pulled out the Taliban would take over within weeks this is no shock to anybody who's watching this thing with any level of

40:48 knowledge but Mark listen when you're reading ibrahamax Kennedy I understand it's absorbing stuff you can't be bothered to actually worry about what's going to happen in Afghanistan now Mark milley apparently was giving warnings according to the Washington Post to Biden that this was a bad idea but apparently that didn't require any contingency planning by Mark milley or anything I mean the man does have priorities here he was yesterday the time frame of a rapid collapse that was widely estimated and ranged from weeks to months and even years following our departure there was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this Army in this government in 11 days nothing he saw by the way nothing he said well I mean to be fair he wasn't seeing a lot of stuff it is very busy being woke very busy he didn't see anything here's NBC News yesterday reporting that the CIA warned of a rapid

41:43 collapse like weeks ago NBC News has learned that in recent weeks the CIA had been warning about a potentially rapid takeover by the Taliban and total collapse of the Afghan military and government but we don't know if that message ever got to the White House right yeah that's right Joe and really the Washington blame game is in full swing at this point you have military officials saying they wanted to begin evacuating our Afghan Partners as early as may but they were prevented from doing so by the White House you have the intelligence Community saying they were shocked at the speed at which the military completed that drawdown within Afghanistan that was mostly done by July yeah oh well but I was informed by Mark milley that uh there's no way anybody could have foreseen this at the same time I was being told by President Biden that everyone first saw it so really strange the conflicting

42:33 messages coming out of this garbage Administration really strange by the way you know it's not just Joe Biden we've been hearing that it's the Biden Harris Administration see that's the way that the Press likes to work this thing it's the Biden Harris Administration when they're doing something the Press loves but as soon as it's a bad thing that everybody acknowledges is bad then it just becomes the Biden Administration there's only one problem for Kamala Harris the successor to Joe Biden who's on his last legs here she owns this she was part of this according to Noah Biermann writing for the Los Angeles Times vice president Kamala Harris has been at least visually front and center as President Biden has overseen America's Retreat from Afghanistan she attends most of his security briefings and had to leave a meeting with Business Leaders Thursday afternoon to attend an urgents intelligence session as the

43:14 Taliban rapidly cemented control over the country when the white has released a photo Sunday a Biden sitting alone at a tele briefing from The Situation Room in Camp David Harris was on the other end of the screen occupying the Central Square among Biden's codery of virtual advisors she watched his high profile speech Monday from a nearby room at the White House a detail officials made sure to highlight in a continuing effort to Brand the Biden Harris Administration as an unusually close team the harrowing images are likely to be a defining moment in Biden's presidency but the execution of the withdrawal will also be added to Harris's resume yep they own this crap they own it they own it all the way there is no unowning it or disowning it not going to happen Nancy Pelosi for her part she can enthusiastically Embrace any piece of horrifying news coming out of her own party a woman who enthusiastically

44:00 Embraces the Rashida Talib ilhan Omars and aocs on the cover of Rolling Stone can certainly Embrace a complete rapid pull out from Afghanistan that results in the complete subjugation of 38 million human beings and the essential hostage taking of 10 to 15 000 Americans and what can't Nancy Pelosi Embrace what cannot Nancy Pelosi Embrace if called upon to do so by her God the Democratic party here is Nancy Pelosi defending Joe Biden I commend the president for the action that he took it was strong it was decisive and it was the right thing to do we should have been out of Afghanistan a while back but now we are unfortunately one of the possibilities was that it would be a dis a disarray as it is but that has to be corrected and this is my understanding from the assurances we have received that the military will be there negotiating with the Taliban for the safe exit of American citizens and Friends people who

44:58 have helped us our allies there oh we're gonna be negotiating that's gonna work yeah it'll be bribery gang watch for the pallets of cash I'm telling you right now bribery if you like paying your tax dollars to the Taliban you can thank Joe Biden for that because that's exactly what we are going to be doing you think that it was a big mistake to spend you know 40 billion dollars or so propping up the the Afghan government and making sure that we had a base of operations from which to strike terrorists in in Afghanistan wait until we're paying billions of dollars to the Taliban for the tender Grace of having them allow American citizens to leave the country meanwhile representing the Democratic defense of this is just it's amazing they'll defend pretty much anything not all of them right we played representative Seth Moulton yesterday revving into Biden but the most Ardent Democrats absolutely will here's

45:42 representative Barbara Lee she says you know it was just a matter of unpreparedness I mean if we've been a little more prepared it would have been fine I believe that uh the execution is all all has not gone well I believe that we should have been better prepared and but I also know that um for instance with many of the Afghans who have provided the type of assistance that we desperately needed there were very few lists if any of who they were and so that's just an example of the lack of preparedness oh it's just unpreparedness guys perhaps the best comment comes courtesy of democratic representative Jared golden he was asked specifically about the fall of the United States Embassy here was his response the thought that the American Embassy there is going to be occupied by the Taliban on 9 11.

46:30 2021 the 20th anniversary what emotions go through your mind when you hear that um it's a building you know it's a building um I I let's let's point out by the way we've still got about 6 000 troops on the ground at Kabula International Airport and uh hoping every one of them comes home safe but their mission is important they got to stay there till we get all American Personnel out safely that's their job and I know that they're proud to be doing it right now man I mean golden should know better than this he was a he was a marine he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan his congressman from from Maine saying it's a 700 million dollar building that was Sovereign United States Territory by the way alrighty we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of I'm sure depressing content coming up soon is the Matt Walsh show airing at 1 30 p.m Eastern be sure to check it out over at dailywear.com I'm Ben Shapiro this is

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48:11 extinct some may consider this a minor problem others say it's actually a good thing we'll discuss that also Joe Biden finally answers some questions about his Afghanistan evacuation plan the left continues to argue that the Taliban in Afghan stand really aren't any worse than conservatives here in America and a doctor in Alabama announces that he will not see any patients who haven't been vaccinated while another doctor elsewhere in the country takes a picture of himself crying on the job and posts it to Twitter to raise awareness about the fact that he's an attention star of drama queen we'll discuss all of that and much more today on the Matt Walsh show

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