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The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1329 - The Americans Who Get Left Behind

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1329 - The Americans Who Get Left Behind", an episode of The Ben Shapiro Show published October 2, 2022 (1 h 1 min, about 11,779 words). It mentions 53 people, works and ideas, including Taliban, American Service members, Al Qaeda, Green card holders, Afghan allies.

What is discussed, and when

0:00 – 10:00: Taliban, American Service members, Green card holders, Al Qaeda
10:00 – 20:00: Taliban, Green card holders, Pearl Source, State Department
20:00 – 30:00: Taliban, American Service members, ZipRecruiter, Green card holders
30:00 – 40:00: Taliban, Afghan allies, Jordan Harbinger, Jordan Harbinger Show
40:00 – 50:00: Taliban, Afghan allies, Al Qaeda, American Service members
50:00 – 1:00:00: Taliban, Al Qaeda, Afghan allies, American Service members
1:00:00 – 1:01:18: The Ben Shapiro Show, Adam Sayevitz, Andrew Klavan, Bradford Carrington

Notable quotes from "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1329 - The Americans Who Get Left Behind"

Isis terrorists murder 13 American Service members and killed nearly 100 other people the Biden Administration reportedly handed a list of Americans green card holders and Afghan allies to.
about American Service members · at 0:00
So remember the whole purpose of this operation was to prevent U.S casualties from the Taliban we had not had this many casualties in a single day in Afghanistan for a decade…
about Taliban · at 1:23
About to be in Afghanistan things are about to be so bad in Afghanistan with the Taliban taking over and Isis and Al Qaeda In Cahoots with the Taliban at least insofar as…
about Al Qaeda · at 6:31
After August 31st without U.S troop presence the state department says we're in contact with the roughly 1 000 Americans We Believe remain in Afghanistan notice the language here they're excluding green card holders.
about State Department · at 9:36
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about Pearl Source · at 14:58
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about ZipRecruiter · at 22:25
He decided apparently that the best foreign policy here was a mashup of the fall of Saigon the Iran hostage crisis the bombing of the USS Barrack the U.S barracks in Lebanon in…
about Saigon · at 25:22
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about The Ben Shapiro Show · at 1:00:01

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

General Kenneth McKenzie — Person · 2 mentions · first at 16:42
Got instead a press conference from the Pentagon the person who is speaking via telephone was General Kenneth McKenzie of centcom and he admitted we are now relying on the…
Jordan Harbinger — Person · 2 mentions · first at 36:53
The time you've got a very different kind of sponsor for this episode the Jordan Harbinger show it's a podcast you really should give a listen to I know every day somebody…
Matt Walsh — Person · 2 mentions · first at 38:45
Political and cultural topics penned by everybody from Candace Owens to me and Matt Walsh and Nikki Haley and pretty much everybody else take for example my latest piece here's…
Alex Thompson — Person · 1 mention · first at 9:20
Shut the airport Gates the casualty numbers are growing by the minute a tragedy piled on a tragedy Alex Thompson the White House reporter and co-author of politico's West Wing…
Jamal Khashoggi — Person · 1 mention · first at 10:00
Killing them when the Taliban are killing them they don't matter at all when Jamal khashoggi legal green card holder of the United States is murdered by the Saudi government…
Claudia Banks — Person · 1 mention · first at 11:03
Okay so let's start with the Weaponry that we're leaving in Afghanistan's representative Jim Banks of Indiana he listed off yesterday the resources we just left to the Taliban now has access to over 85 billion dollars worth of American.
Mathis Glover — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:00:35
Show is produced by Elliot Feld executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford…
Pavel Wydowski — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:00:37
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 1:00:39
Supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam sayevitz…
Justin Barber — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:00:41
Production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam sayevitz audio is mixed by Mike coromina hair…
Adam Sayevitz — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:00:43
Associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam sayevitz audio is mixed by Mike coromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina…
Fabiola Christina — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:00:48
Edited by Adam sayevitz audio is mixed by Mike coromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire…
Jessica Kranz — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:00:49
By Mike coromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire production copyright daily wire 2021 hey…
Andrew Klavan — Person · 1 mention · first at 1:01:04
Because the Republic is collapsing the end of days is approaching and the Moon's turn to blood but on the Andrew klavan show that's where the fun just gets started so come on…
Elliot Fell — Person · 1 mention
Jen Psaki — Person · 1 mention
Liz Sly — Person · 1 mention
Mike Caromina — Person · 1 mention
Peter Doocy — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

Taliban — Company · 39 mentions · first at 0:10
Al Qaeda — Company · 8 mentions · first at 6:35
State Department — Company · 4 mentions · first at 9:40
The Ben Shapiro Show — Company · 3 mentions · first at 0:12
Washington Post — Company · 1 mention · first at 9:08
Him by Joe Biden owns this one top to bottom Liz lie of the Washington Post reported yesterday the Kabul Airport attack has mixed hopes of evacuation for the last thousands still hoping to make it out I'm hearing the US military is healing.
Saudi government — Company · 1 mention · first at 10:03
When Jamal khashoggi legal green card holder of the United States is murdered by the Saudi government that precipitates an international relations crisis when thousands of…
CENTCOM — Company · 1 mention · first at 16:45
Pentagon the person who is speaking via telephone was General Kenneth McKenzie of centcom and he admitted we are now relying on the Taliban for security that's what we did we…
Haqqani Network — Company · 1 mention · first at 53:50
Around the airport for the Taliban our trusted Partners over here you know who it is it's the so-called haqqani Network what is the haqqani network it's an Al-Qaeda offshoot…
Matt Walsh Show — Company · 1 mention · first at 1:00:28
The other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew claven show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot…
BLM — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

Readers Pass — Product · 2 mentions · first at 38:26
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biometric devices — Product · 1 mention · first at 11:51
Unfathomable to me and so many others is that the Taliban now has biometric devices which have the fingerprints eye scans and the biographical information of the Afghans who helped us over the last 20 years.
Morning Wire — Product · 1 mention · first at 39:03
Files 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 Saturday email covering…
USS Cole — Product · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

American Service members — Concept · 9 mentions · first at 0:00
Green card holders — Concept · 7 mentions · first at 0:07
Other people the Biden Administration reportedly handed a list of Americans green card holders and Afghan allies to the Taliban and Joe Biden is not with us I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show.
Afghan allies — Concept · 6 mentions · first at 0:07
Other people the Biden Administration reportedly handed a list of Americans green card holders and Afghan allies to the Taliban and Joe Biden is not with us I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show.
Iran deal — Concept · 2 mentions · first at 4:27
Administration led by the wanted foreign policy team that brought you the Iran deal and the Iraq pull out leading to the Riots of Isis those same people have constructed this one The Bravery of the American Service.
Isis — Concept · 2 mentions
Big Tech — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:22
Iraq pull out — Concept · 1 mention · first at 4:28
Led by the wanted foreign policy team that brought you the Iran deal and the Iraq pull out leading to the Riots of Isis those same people have constructed this one The Bravery of the American Service members who have put themselves In.
Iran hostage crisis — Concept · 1 mention · first at 25:26
He decided apparently that the best foreign policy here was a mashup of the fall of Saigon the Iran hostage crisis the bombing of the USS Barrack the U.S barracks in Lebanon in…
Iran-Contra affair — Concept · 1 mention
USS Barracks bombing (Beirut, 1983) — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

Saigon — Place · 3 mentions · first at 25:26
Kabul Airport — Place · 2 mentions · first at 0:53
More than 100 people were killed including at least 13 U.S service members and 90 Afghans at the Kabul Airport Thursday when two blasts ripped through crowds trying to enter…
South Korea — Place · 1 mention · first at 8:13
Combat casualties for the last 18 months in that case Bali is an endless war our true presence in South Korea is an endless war as her presence in Italy is an endless war when you're not taking combat casualties and you have a small.
Bagram Air Base — Place · 1 mention · first at 8:42
Is full-scale idiocy General Mark milley was asked just a week ago about why we went through for example from Bagram Air Base which remember we controlled his answer was that…
Tanzania — Place · 1 mention · first at 17:34
And let's say that from Afghanistan Al Qaeda had then launched attacks on U.S embassies in Kenya Tanzania and USS coal and finally and most particularly on September 11th and…
Kenya — Place · 1 mention

Sponsors

Pearl Source — Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at 15:02
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Jordan Harbinger Show — Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at 36:53
The time you've got a very different kind of sponsor for this episode the Jordan Harbinger show it's a podcast you really should give a listen to I know every day somebody…
ExpressVPN — Sponsor · 1 mention · first at 0:19
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Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Isis terrorists murder 13 American Service members and killed nearly 100 other people the Biden Administration reportedly handed a list of Americans green card holders and Afghan allies to the Taliban and Joe Biden is not with us I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show this show is sponsored by expressvpn it's time to stand up to Big Tech protect your data at expressvpn.com benwell yesterday was one of the worst days in modern American foreign policy history yesterday saw the death of 13 American Service members in at least 90 Afghans as two explosions ripped through crowds seeking evacuation in the wake of Joe Biden's ill-fated and ridiculous stupid pull out from Afghanistan the tactics were bad the strategy is worse the geostrategic implications our grave according to the Wall Street Journal more than 100 people were killed including at least 13 U.S service members and 90 Afghans at the Kabul

0:55 Airport Thursday when two blasts ripped through crowds trying to enter the American controlled facility disrupting the final push of the us-led evacuation effort a suicide bomb attack at the airport to Abigail was followed by an assault by gunmen official said another bomb attack took place nearby at a hotel outside the airport according to officials 18 U.S service members were also injured the Pentagon said to that 13 dead U.S service member numbers that that could actually go up the attack marked the deadliest state for the US military in Afghanistan since 2011.

1:23 so remember the whole purpose of this operation was to prevent U.S casualties from the Taliban we had not had this many casualties in a single day in Afghanistan for a decade and Joe Biden in Signal fashion somehow brought about this result pretty incredible we'd had zero combat casualties in Afghanistan count them zero since February of 2020. and Joe Biden pulled out all the troops and then he handed over Kabul to the Taliban and then the Taliban allowed in Isis and then Isis proceeded to kill 13 U.S service members wound to 18 others and kill a hundred Afghans at the same time the attack marked the deadliest State for the US military since 2011 came just five days before the bite administration's deadline for the complete military withdrawal from the country and this may not be the end Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie has said the military expects more attacks it is a full-scale disaster area and it was

2:16 brought about completely and utterly by our incompetent foolish president and I'm not sure what is worse what the president thinks when he is with us or the fact that he is not with us like I don't know whether to blame the fact that he is senile or the fact that he is incompetent because he's had these crappy ideas on foreign policy every step of the way is Barack Obama once famously said never underestimate Joe's ability to things up okay so the man's not been right on a single foreign policy issue his entire career and he's been holding this perspective which is that we should just cut and run from Afghanistan since 2010 despite the fact that the mission radically changed from 2014 on when the United States and NATO dramatically withdrew troops moving from 70 80 000 troops in Afghanistan every year down to about 10 000 troops and at the very end of this Mission 2500 troops in Afghanistan acting as a cork in the

3:06 bottle and Joe Biden decided that we were going to pull out and then everything that happened was going to happen now what you're hearing from Joe Biden's Defenders is well this was this is why we needed to leave don't you see this is why okay that is a bizarre argument so here is my argument my argument is that Joe Biden's decision to leave and his decision to leave in the way that he left meant that this was going to happen and then it happened the proof that I was right and the proof that everyone who criticized Joe Biden was correct is that everything we said would pass came to pass that is the proof Joe Biden's argument is if we had stayed the same thing would have happened the evidence of this has not been provided the suggestion that Joe Biden has been making which is that if we stayed inevitably we would be drawn back into an Afghan war involving tens of thousands of American troops is asinine

3:55 on its face there's no evidence to support that and yet that is the entire justification for a thing that he did that has now resulted in precisely the result that he said he was attempting to avoid this President is a joke his policy was a joke The Bravery of our guys in the face and and women who are there in the face of what the limits that have been placed on them by this stupid half-assed Administration led by the wanted foreign policy team that brought you the Iran deal and the Iraq pull out leading to the Riots of Isis those same people have constructed this one The Bravery of the American Service members who have put themselves In Harm's Way under these restrictions is awe-inspiring obviously our prayers go out for their families at this hour it is unbelievable I mean they knew that they didn't have enough people to hold the surrounding area of the airport they knew that Joe Biden had restricted them

4:54 from going in and Performing evacuation missions they knew that there weren't enough people on the ground not enough boots on the ground to even do their own security and yet they were in close contact with Afghans and Americans trying to get them out of the country it's just it's it's awe-inspiring stuff and uh and and this is the result of crappy policy of unbelievably horrific policy and immoral policy it is an immoral policy what Joe Biden did here is immoral on every level it is immoral according to the New York Times President Biden and other U.S officials insisted that the Carnage in continued danger would not halt the american-led airlift that after ablated and Rocky start has varied more than a hundred thousand people out of Afghanistan in the last two weeks estimates of the total dead moons have differed and were Rising quickly as different hospitals and officials weighed in since the Taliban takeover earlier this

5:47 month thousands of Afghan civilians and foreign citizens have gathered at the gates of the airport which has a military and civilian side desperate to be airlifted out of the country at times the area has descended into chaos as people scrambled toward evacuation flights two U.S military officials said evacuation flights were continuing but was not clear whether any gates at the airport were open most of the bombing victims were Afghan civilians including families with small children we'd been seeing the videos over the past few days of what it looked like at Abby gate directly outside of the airport and basically it looked like a corridor that was completely jam-packed with Humanity in the aftermath of the bombing the video is available the the bodies of those same people are visible littering the ground covering it blanketing the ground and then today after the bombing how bad are things

6:31 about to be in Afghanistan things are about to be so bad in Afghanistan with the Taliban taking over and Isis and Al Qaeda In Cahoots with the Taliban at least insofar as performing anti-American acts of Terror and anti-western acts of Terror things are about to be so bad there that people are still throwing in the exact area where 115 people were blown up yesterday that's how bad things are can you imagine in your own life doing that he went to a crowded he went to a crowded area there's a bombing there the next day and you went back there to same crowd you decided to go back there the next day knowing the threat was still there that's how bad things are over in Afghanistan and that is completely the creation of Joe Biden the excuses that have been made by the Biden Administration for turning tail and running and that's that's what's going to happen here right I mean we are going to turn tail they're going to run

7:20 we're going to remove all of our troops they're going to leave Americans stuck there any Afghan citizens stuck there and American green card holders stuck there and people who worked with us stuck there we're not talking like a few dozen we were talking thousands of people we're going to leave to the mercies of the Taliban or Isis or Al-Qaeda whoever gets to them first and that's the Fate that Americans can await in Afghanistan if Isis reaches you first presumably they'll behead you if the Taliban reaches you they will presumably hold you hostage until Joe Biden pays them some money or gives them some more billions of dollars in American military gear brought about completely by Joe Biden now all of this could have been prevented even if you believed in the pullout which again I think is idiotic policy I think that the arguments made that oh we had to end our endless war it doesn't count as an endless war when you

8:07 have 2 500 troops on the ground in zero combat casualties for the last 18 months in that case Bali is an endless war our true presence in South Korea is an endless war as her presence in Italy is an endless war when you're not taking combat casualties and you have a small footprint that does no longer count as an endless war but in any case even if you believe that we should have been pulling the troops out doing so without even securing the air base that has multiple runways without leaving enough troops on the ground to create a buffer zone around that airport is full-scale idiocy General Mark milley was asked just a week ago about why we went through for example from Bagram Air Base which remember we controlled his answer was that the the choice was given to him to go down to six to seven hundred troops and he was asked do we protect Bagram air base or do we protect the embassy and he recommended we protect the

9:00 embassy the problem there is the limit put on him by Joe Biden Joe Biden owns this one top to bottom Liz lie of the Washington Post reported yesterday the Kabul Airport attack has mixed hopes of evacuation for the last thousands still hoping to make it out I'm hearing the US military is healing shut the airport Gates the casualty numbers are growing by the minute a tragedy piled on a tragedy Alex Thompson the White House reporter and co-author of politico's West Wing Playbook wrote increasingly looking like U.S will end up leaving behind a thousand plus Americans and many times as many Afghans assisted the United States will have to try to evacuate them in different ways after August 31st without U.S troop presence the uh the state department says we're in contact with the roughly 1 000 Americans We Believe remain in Afghanistan notice the language here they're excluding green card holders

9:48 right green card holders are people who have the legal right to live in the United States legal permanent residents of the United States remember for for the media and for the government Marina cardholders matter when the Saudis are killing them when the Taliban are killing them they don't matter at all when Jamal khashoggi legal green card holder of the United States is murdered by the Saudi government that precipitates an international relations crisis when thousands of American green card holders are left in Afghanistan Behind Enemy Lines this is not worthy of a mention according to the state department however the vast majority over two-thirds of those 1 000 Americans believe that remaining in Afghanistan informed us they were taking steps to leave we believe many if not most of those individuals are nearly or already out oh well so that only leaves a few hundred which is significantly better well done

10:30 guys the Pentagon released a statement in the immediate aftermath giving thoughts and prayers to the wounded and the Taliban of course said it's not our fault they said it was the US's fault the US didn't do proper security and all of this is madness but the truest Madness of all is the Weaponry that we handed to the Taliban the trust we have now placed in the Taliban that trust by the way means that we literally gave them a list of people to go kill okay so let's start with the Weaponry that we're leaving in Afghanistan's representative Jim Banks of Indiana he uh he listed off yesterday the resources we just left to the Taliban the Taliban now has access to over 85 billion dollars worth of American military equipment that includes 75 000 vehicles over 200 airplanes and helicopters over 600 000 small arms and light weapons the Taliban now has more Blackhawk helicopters than 85 percent of the

11:34 countries in the world but they don't just have weapons they also have night vision goggles body armor medical supplies and unbelievably unfathomable unfathomable to me and so many others is that the Taliban now has biometric devices which have the fingerprints eye scans and the biographical information of the Afghans who helped us over the last 20 years so all that's going well and by the way if that doesn't if that doesn't mean that we failed here how about the fact that in order to facilitate the evacuation apparently U.S officials in Kabul you ready for this they gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens green card holders and Afghan allies they gave them a list the Taliban the same people who Harvard Al Qaeda before 9 11 and refused to turn them over after 9 11. the same people who have slaughtered tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan including thousands of American troops we gave them a list

12:38 not just of Americans but of Afghan allies and green card holders who we are about to abandon in Afghanistan we gave them a list so now all they have to do is find those people and kill them we did that according to Politico he moved detailed to political by three U.S and Congressional officials was designed to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan as chaos erupted it also came as the Biden Administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport since the fall of Kabul in mid-august nearly 100 000 people have been evacuated most of whom had to pass through the taliban's many checkpoints but the decision to provide specific names to the Taliban which has a history of brutally murdering Afghans who collaborated with the United States and other Coalition forces during the conflict has angered lawmakers and military officials basically they just

13:24 put all those Afghans on a kill list said one defense official it's just appalling and shocking it makes you feel unclean um yes and so in just a second we'll get to the administration's response to all of this because it is astonishing it is degrading it demonstrates that the the greatest power in world history has been laid Low by our own bloated inefficiency stupidity and lack of moral rigor that we have decided as a society if we if we decide to okay this sort of behavior we have decided as a society as I said yesterday to to fatten ourselves up eat a bunch of potato chips slip into a warm bath and slit our own wrist as a society that is what we have decided to do if this is the sort of action by an Administration we have decided to okay politically it's unbelievable and by the way it came from the top this did this was no one else's decision the buck stops with Biden Biden was the formulator of this

14:15 policy Biden was the advocate of this policy Biden is the person who lied repeatedly on behalf of this policy will go through the timeline in just a little while here as to how many times this Administration lied leading up to the murder of 13 American Service members in Afghanistan and it may not be the end of the story in terms of how many people are murdered in this immediate round and certainly isn't going to be the end of the story in terms of the geopolitical ramifications of giving our enemies half of our military technology via Afghanistan as well as the impetus to move against all of our allies we'll get to all of this in just one second first let us talk about the fact that you can get a special special gift for the special woman in your life whether it is Mom whether it's your wife whether it's your girlfriend whether it's your sister there's just there's great jewelry that you can get out there

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16:25 state it is the state Department's job to facilitate the exit of people trying to get out to deal with the VISA issues it is the state Department's job to do the interfacing with the Taliban but yesterday there was no press conference from the state department fine so you've got instead a press conference from the Pentagon the person who is speaking via telephone was General Kenneth McKenzie of centcom and he admitted we are now relying on the Taliban for security that's what we did we decided that what would be a great idea just follow the logic here for a second we were going we said to the Taliban it is now your job to prevent terrorists from attacking United States interests now if only we had some sort of historical incident that might tell us whether that's a good idea or not if only we had some sort of predicate to determine whether it be a great idea to trust the Taliban to fight

17:16 terrorism like let's say that there had been a power in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 and let's say the day it harbored a fugitive named Osama Bin Laden and his entire Al-Qaeda Network base and let's say that from Afghanistan Al Qaeda had then launched attacks on U.S embassies in Kenya Tanzania and USS coal and finally and most particularly on September 11th and let's say that the United States and then approached the Taliban and said guys you need to hand over Bin Laden or we're going to destroy your entire regime and they had said fine come get us why it's almost as though when you trust the Taliban to prevent terrorism they immediately proceed I mean immediately the Taliban has been in charge of Kabul for less than 10 days they immediately proceed to let in all the terrorists remember Joe Biden said that the mission in Afghanistan was to prevent terrorism I've noticed a few terrorists in

18:04 Afghanistan recently I don't know if you noticed it I noticed it among like all the dead bodies of the babies and the U.S service members I noticed there was a little terrorism that the Taliban had been not only okay with but um they were the ones in charge of security and yet the US has now been forced into the position of relying on a month of the eight I keep saying it because it's true a bunch of Barbarian 8th Century goat herders moving now seized our equipment because we are pathetic and I mean our political leadership not our military our political leadership and some members of our military leadership as well because somebody needs to lose their ass over this somebody needs to get fired yeah and by the way the person who should resign is Joe Biden who is a disgrace to his office but don't worry we'll get to slow old senile Joe in a second okay here is the general of scent Kenneth McKenzie explaining don't worry

18:51 we're relying on the Taliban for security and so far it's been going great guys we believe it is their desire to continue those attacks and we expect those attacks to continue and we're doing everything we can to be prepared for those attacks that includes reaching out to the Taliban who are actually providing the outer security core and around the Airfield to make sure they know what we expect them to do to protect us and we will continue to coordinate with them as as they go forward they're protecting us now the Taliban now Mackenzie was asked a pretty obvious question which is do we even know if the Taliban let this happen because here's the thing the Taliban have real really they have very little interest in preventing this sort of stuff because as we will see the United States has no ability capacity or will to hold them accountable so let's say that you hire a security team for a wedding and the security team

19:39 utterly fails right they completely fail and somebody comes in and robs all the jewelry you then presumably will sue the security team right you'll hold the security team responsible because it's their job to provide the security however if you hire a security team and you inform them beforehand you will not be held responsible for anything that happens at this wedding nothing that we're just going to say that you're the best we've got and that's it what is to prevent the security team from saying two thieves guys go in and steal all the jewelry no split to take later what exactly is the taliban's interest in preventing Terror attacks on American targets humiliating America in the face of the Taliban weakening America in the face of the Taliban what it like what is the taliban's actual interest except they are afraid of U.S retaliation and if you remove the threat of U.S retaliation from the Taliban which is precisely what

20:28 this Administration has done why exactly do they care I'm not even saying that they coordinated the attack I'm saying why would they care if the attack takes place if you're not holding them responsible so here was Mackenzie explaining we don't even know if the Taliban let this happen we have no idea do you still trust the Taliban and is it possible that they let this happen so as to whether or not they let it happen I don't know I don't think there's anything to anything to convince me that they let it happen as to whether or not I trust them that's a that's not necessarily that's a word I use very carefully you've heard me say before it's not what they say it's what they do they have a practical reason for wanting us to get out of here by the 31st of August and that's but they want to reclaim they want to reclaim the Airfield uh we we want to get out by that day too if it's going to be

21:14 possible to do so okay and um our reaction by the way here's the reality they want us out we want to get out and if there's a terrorist attack we're still we're still getting out so now what's their interest you skewed the incentive structure you idiot you skewed the incentive structure if there's no retaliatory response requiring a longer American president why does the Taliban care if Americans get murdered in large numbers or American citizens or Afghans outside the gates all right so all this was the lead up to the our our absent president of the United States a fool a moral idiot the president of the United States is not with us he is no longer sentient and honestly as I said at the beginning I don't know whether to blame his mental incompetence or his moral incompetence for this one so I blame the fact that he thought through the strategy or do I blame the fact that he is not with us

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23:47 which is his wand Barack Obama used to do the same thing it is highly irritating on a day when you're supposed to be speaking to the the family members of dead service people you really should show up on time okay so that was you know of minor consequence what was of major consequence is this befuddled senility ridden old man incapable of running his own Administration incapable of coming up with a coherent policy presiding over Administration that withdrew from Afghanistan for no apparent reason for No Gain we get nothing out of this we withdrew for no reason whatsoever and then we proceeded to withdraw in the stupidest possible way while lying every step of the way and now we are trusting the Taliban to do our security and now we are giving the Taliban kill lists of people who worked with us this fool this ridiculous fool you should if he had any honor at all he'd resign of course he won't

24:44 he is a he is a disgrace to his office he's a disgrace to the United States it saddens me to see our president because he is the elected president of the United States the fact that our president is this is an embarrassment it is immoral is a moral embarrassment he is a his presence in the Oval Office is a blot on the office not saying a lot because we've had a lot of bad presidents in the past this is the most disgraceful foreign policy decision and an act of malpractice I've seen in my entire lifetime and for people older than me it's still true he decided apparently that the best foreign policy here was a mashup of the fall of Saigon the Iran hostage crisis the bombing of the USS Barrack the U.S barracks in Lebanon in 1982 and Iran Contra shipping weapons to the enemy for No Gain actually at least in Iran Contra we're attempting to do something good here we just handed over 85 billion

25:42 dollars in military equipment to the worst people on Earth so Joe Biden finally wanders out to the microphones and he begins and I have to say I was shocked shocked by his appearance and he has looked as though he is falling apart for a long time he looked barely warmed over he sounded awful he was stumbling over every word he was utterly incoherent it was it was as though he had just escaped from a nursing home it was it was an amazing just visually speaking optically speaking it was an amazingly embarrassing moment here's the presidency this is what it sounded like when the president of the United States remember this is the day 13 American Service members were murdered by terrorists on his watch because the policies he created and instead of him coming out there and looking strong and tough instead of him coming out there and and looking as though our enemies should be afraid of us he looks beaten he looks

26:39 defeated he looked not just old but decrepit here was Joe Biden yesterday a tough day this evening in Kabul as you all know terrorists attacked that we've been talking about I'm worried about that the intelligence community has assessed has undertaken an attack by a group known as Isis K took the lives of American Service members that's how he opened that was his opening and that alone America's enemies must be drooling over this over this person they must be drooling over the dead horse that we've thrown out there and then he moved on in his speech to paying tribute to the service members but he couldn't help himself he had to then brag about the effectiveness of this evacuation mission he's still using the talking points from 48 hours ago you remember about 48 hours ago the administration started moving on from the talking point of this is a brilliant idea too our evacuation has been shockingly successful you know what

27:50 the Afghans falling from the wheel wells of planes onto the tarmac you know the evacuation is actually like we deserve credit yesterday the DNC was sending out emails bragging about how successful this evacuation was which as I said on the show is the equivalent of the captain of the Titanic not accidentally hitting the iceberg deliberately looking at the iceberg saying I'm gonna Ram this sucker directly into the iceberg the boat starts taking on water he rushes up to the top deck he unleashes the lifeboats he says everybody in the lifeboats two-thirds of the people get out and he says what an unbelievable Captain I am I have set the Guinness Book of World Records record for the most people evacuated from a Lifeboat okay that is what the administration has been doing so he's paying tribute to the service members yesterday who deserve all the credit in the world but he can't help himself praising his own mission

28:34 here these American Service members who gave their lives so overused word but it's totally appropriate we're heroes Heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous selfless mission to save the lives of others they're a part of an airlift an evacuation effort unlike any scene in history with more than one hundred thousand American citizens American partners Afghans who helped us and others taking the safety again that's him praising his own mission and Tim praising his own mission which is a failure okay then Joe Biden did what the media loved when he does he did the empathy thing right and by empathy it means that he he he tried to speak to what it feels like to be in this you know what none of those families would be mourning their sons and daughters today none of them if it had not been for this man's policies so I wonder how many of them really want to hear it from the presidents of the United States

29:41 but this is what he was elected to do he was elected to empathize not to proceed with good policy not to protect Americans because we're going to leave at the very least hundreds probably thousands of Americans and green card holders Behind Enemy Lines he was elected to emote he is the emotor in Chief and so here he was last night trying to paper over his gross incompetence and malpractice with a bit of uh with a bit of sentimentality we have some sense like many of you do what the families of these Brave heroes are feeling today you get this feeling like you're being sucked into a black hole in the middle of your chest there's no way out my heart aches for you this is utterly insincere I'm sorry it is you are responsible for that policy you're responsible for like I'd love to hear from the members of the military families as to what they feel because there are 17 million people who've served in the American Military

30:40 over the over the course of time who are alive in the United States right now 800 000 people have served in Afghanistan proper and I talked to many many Afghan veterans Afghan War veterans over the course of the last several weeks I can't name one of them who wants to hear emoting from Joe Biden as he proceeds to to Sully their legacy subject all of their allies to the threat of death from the Taliban and now to actual death at the hands of Isis k okay then Joe Biden had to uh make excuses for the Taliban right so here's part of the policy part of the policy is now just as it was with the Iran deal with the Obama Administration that once you make a deal with the devil you have to make excuses for why the devil isn't actually the devil now Joe Biden is making excuses for the Taliban so remember the entire incentive structure for the Taliban to protect Americans as they lead is that if the Taliban don't

31:31 we might stay and retaliate against them but Joe Biden has removed all of that by making excuses for the Taliban because he has to cover his own political ass in case the Taliban turned out to be the bad guys we know they are so here he was yesterday blaming Isis K but relieving the Taliban of responsibility that was the important thing over the past few weeks I know you're many of you are probably tired of hearing me say it yes we've been made aware of our intelligence community that the Isis k an arch enemy the Taliban people who were freed when both those prisons were opened has been planning a complex set of attacks on the United States personnel and others this is why from the outset I've repeatedly said this mission was extraordinarily dangerous on why I've been so determined to limit the duration of this Mission okay so our mush-mouth president then makes a mush headed argument this is his argument all

32:35 the way through if bad things happen in Afghanistan because we took the cork out of the bottle then clearly they would have happened if we hadn't take the cork out of the bottle that is the argument so if if we did X and Y happened then certainly if we had not done X Y definitely would have happened but way worse I'm sorry but you're counter factual no longer applies you did X and Y happened and it was perfectly predictable that y would happen so by the way he's not making excuses for why we should cut and run so there is a bombing it kills Americans instead of him saying we're going to stay long enough to get every American citizen out and if you touch us we will kill you which is what any normal American president would say his argument is look something bad happened yesterday that's an excuse for us to get out even faster it just shows why we need to get out super fast okay then Joe Biden says we uh we're

33:24 we're going to complete the mission okay but of course he has defined the mission is getting out by August 31st the timeline is the mission for Joe Biden normally you define the timeline on the back of what you need to accomplish normally if I decide that we need as a company to achieve a certain thing we then say how long will it take to achieve this thing and then we Define the timeline by what we are seeking to achieve in this particular case Joe Biden defined the timeline and the mission is now the timeline which means a lot of people are going to get stuck over there there is Joe Biden trying to make excuses for this we can and we must complete this Mission and we will and that's what I've ordered them to do we will not be deterred by terrorists who will not let them stop our mission we will continue the evacuation I've also awarded my commander to develop operational plans to strike Isis

34:18 K assets leadership and Facilities we will respond with force and precision at our time at the place we choose in a moment of our choosing okay that part is the best part right so he says we're going to get them we're going after them we're gonna sometime in the future later when I want to not right now that's what that means that means Isis just killed Americans and they're going to get away with it because guess what in three days okay it is now the 27th in three to four days we are gone we do not have any assets on the ground we do not have any allies on the ground we don't have eyes on the ground okay all this talk about how we are going to go after the Isis he's hoping you forget that's what's going to happen here if that's what he's hoping of course he wasn't going to say because for him to retaliate now means you need more troops on the ground not fewer so instead he's just doing this we'll

35:15 push it off you know we'll we'll get them at a time it sounds strong it is actually weak obviously okay and then he just tells a series of lies that are meant to make you feel comfortable but better just lies here's what you need to know these Isis terrorists will not win we will rescue the Americans in there nope we will get our Afghan allies nope and our mission will go on nope America will not be intimidated nope has four direct lies in that means five actually in a row the Isis terrorists will not win they already have you handed them Kabul we'll rescue the Americans in there you're not we haven't been doing large-scale extraction missions to rescue Americans in there and you've already admitted hundreds if not thousands of Americans will remain after we leave we'll get our Afghan allies out nope you just handed a list of them to the Taliban so the Taliban can go shoot them and kill their

36:07 families our mission will go on nope your mission is over in four days America will not be intimidated too late you jackass too late you're the president of the United States babbling nonsensically like a mental ward patient about how the Taliban are our friends now hey there's more of this okay it didn't stop it didn't stop and by the way we haven't even gotten to the series of lies that led up to this because that this man is a damned liar and Americans are dead because this man is a liar and thousands of Americans and American green heart holders are stuck under the auspices of the Taliban because this man is a fool and a liar and a disgrace to his office we'll get to more of this in just one second first let us talk about another podcast you should give a listen to when you have the time you've got a very different kind of sponsor for this episode the Jordan Harbinger show it's a podcast you

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39:47 you weren't and we have information suggesting your military commanders were basically all warning you back in February March that this was going to happen and you ignored them because you are a nitwit here is our nit-witted president of the United States there's been complete unanimity from every commander on the objectives of this mission nope nope unless by unanimity on the objectives of the mission you mean you told them exactly what you wanted to happen and how many troops they could have to do it and then they had to somehow scramble to make that happen for you okay so Joe Biden concludes his speech and again so much of this was optic as well if you watched it in real time he's just not there he's not there I won't even say that the lights are on but nobody's home the lights are not even on several of the light bulbs are out there was the president of the United States it was an embarrassing

40:35 display last night may God bless you all and may God protect his troops and all those standing watch for America we have so much to do within our capacity to do it we just have to remain steadfast steadfast we will complete our mission and we will continue after our troops have withdrawn find means by which we defined any American wishes to get out of Afghanistan we will find them and we will get them out so that is him admitting that Americans are going to be left behind fully and his daughtering and Confused fashion okay then he took a few questions from a list as always and he admits right up front they gave me a list who is they you know have you ever heard it's such a weird tick and he doesn't nearly all the time now they gave me a list who your night nurse who gave you the list why do you have a list why can't you just call on people are you incapable of pointing your finger it was Joe Biden explaining that

41:51 they they you know the same nice lady who who gives me my pills every morning gave me this list here ladies and gentlemen I gave me a list here the first person I was instructed to call on was Kelly O'Donnell of NBC the first person I was instructed to call on what in the actual Okay so um one of the first questions is did you make a mistake in working with the Taliban and of course he's like I've never made a mistake in my entire life and some criticism uh even from people in your party about the dependence on the Taliban to secure the perimeter of the airport do you do you feel like there was a mistake uh made in that regard no I I don't look um no one trusts them we're just counting on their self-interest to continue to generate their activities and it's in their self-interest that we leave when we said and that we get as many people out as we can now last part is just a lie why is it in their interest that we get as many

43:05 people out as we can it's in their interest that we leave when we say we're going to leave because they want us out that part's true but you already guaranteed we're leaving so there's no countervailing Factor there if I say I'm leaving no matter what no matter what which is what Biden said over and over and over and over again what's the obligation on them and by the way it is not in their interests that everybody leaves with the United States it's very much in their interest that they have a bunch of hostages that they can hold over the head of the United States so the U.S has no option But continuing to funnel the money and make nice with them everybody knows this hey now it get it it's pretty incredible um he is asked specifically at one point about this political story I mentioned earlier that the United States handed a list essentially a kill list to the Taliban and Joe Biden is not with us he

43:53 is not in the loop he is not mentally there this is an amazing unbelievable discombobulated answer so yes there have been occasions like that and to the best of my knowledge in those cases the bulk of that has occurred they've been let through but I can't tell you with any certitude that there's actually been a list of names I know there may have been but I know of no circumstance it doesn't mean it's not didn't exist that here's the names of 12 people they're coming let them through that could very well have happened that very well could have happened you're the president of the United States of America isn't it of relevance to you whether the US military under your direct command is handing lists of Afghans who worked with us to the Taliban it very well could have happened already then this is just it's so beautiful he's asked us he bear responsibility for this and Joe Biden's like this is by Peter Ducey and um and

44:51 he says he does bear responsibility but but here we go I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that's happened of late but here's the deal you know I wish you one day say these things you know as well as I do that a former president made a deal with the Taliban okay again you know that it I take the blame but uh it's Trump but it's Trump weird because you said in an open interview that whether or not Trump had done anything you would have done exactly the same thing and then of course he poses the false alternative we had to do it this way this unbelievably crappy way or we'd have to pour thousands of more troops into Afghanistan and also we've accomplished our objectives which is weird because our objective presumably was to fight terrorism as Joe Biden's about to say I noticed some terrorism yesterday against Americans out of only one alternative poor thousands of more troops back into

45:45 Afghanistan to fight a war that we had already won relatives of why the reason we went in the first place I have never been of the view okay we can stop it there when he says that we could fight poor mortal troops into Afghanistan to fight a war we had already won relatives why we went and then he later he says we went to prevent Al Qaeda from being in Afghanistan well um you know it's preventing Al Qaeda from being in Afghanistan us being there with a skeleton crew of 2500 people that's what was happening the lasting images from this presser are not going to be any of the things he said it's just going to be the images and there were two particular ones that came out one was Joe Biden like a small child being called on in class without having done his homework burying his face in the podium essentially as Peter Ducey asks him a difficult question here's what that looked like no no no wait a minute I'm asking you a

46:39 question is that accurate the best you're not well I think they have an issue that image of the old man clutching a binder to his chest and lowering his head as though he is being victimized and put upon after 13 American Service members die in service to his garbage mission that is an unbelievable image and then it finishes with him saying he has to leave because you know he has another meeting for real guys for real things yes I do because looking at this way folks and I'm gonna I have another meeting for real I have another meeting for real oh as opposed to for fake this what a disgrace he is what a disgrace he is okay but to understand the true disgrace that Joe Biden is you have to actually follow the timeline of what he has been saying for months and all the lies his administration has been telling because the lies never stopped at any point at any point and he's going to continue to lie when

47:49 he says I'm getting Americans out I'm getting all the Afghan allies out we're going to perform missions we're gonna go get it do you believe a word that comes out of his drooling mouth do you believe a word that comes from this man if you do you are a fool because we're about to play an entire timeline of the stuff that Joe Biden has said since April when he announced we were pulling out he has not said ah true thing this entire way so let's begin this begins April 14th this is when Joe Biden announced that we were leaving here's how he described the operation that was going to lead to our exit in Afghanistan will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit we'll do it we'll do it responsibly deliberately and safely and we will do it in full coordination with our allies and partners who now have more forces in Afghanistan than we do and the Taliban should know that if they attack us as we draw down we will defend

48:45 ourselves and our partners with all the tools at our disposal oh really um so yeah um not a word of that was true responsibly in coordination with our allies our allies think we're a bunch of idiots because the president is so you betrayed our allies he betrayed the Afghans we didn't do this responsibly we didn't do this deliberately so that was just a lie okay fast forward to July this of course his most famous live when he says this isn't going to be anything like the fall of Saigon he's right it's way worse than the fall of Saigon do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam with some people feeling none whatsoever zero what you had is you had entire Brigade 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 capability there's going to be no

49:37 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 not comfortable I mean that's good to know it's not comfortable um so that was July 8th Kidman that was a lie everybody knew that was a lie and this notion that it was like a giant shock it's just not true it wasn't a giant child okay so he was lying on April 14th when he said that this would be a a considered move and the Taliban wouldn't take over the country and all that then on July 8th he said that they're not like the Viet Cong and this wouldn't be like Saigon so he was lying then now fast forward to the last week and a half or so so today is August 27th so all of this stuff that we are about to examine is from the last 11 days the number of Lies this President and his administration have told in the last 11 days boggles the mind but they think

50:26 that you are a fool and they think that you don't follow this stuff and so they assume that they'll be able to get away with this the most humiliating foreign policy debacle of my lifetime bar none okay so let's fast forward to August 16. Joe Biden says the buck stops with him and the reason that we are leaving is because we can't take more casualties thousands of more casualties again this was a lie when he said it we had taken zero American casualties in combat since February of 2020 at the moment that he said this on August 16th he said the buck stops with him this is designed to prevent American casualties I noticed a few American casualties yesterday I am president of the United States of America and the buck stops with me I'm deeply saddened by the facts we now face but I do not regret my decision to end America's War fighting in Afghanistan and maintain a laser focus on our counterterrorism missions there and

51:23 other parts of the world I cannot and will not ask our troops to fight on endlessly in another in another country's Civil War taking casualties suffering life-shattering injuries leaving families broken by grief and loss this is not in our national security interest okay keeping 2500 troops there with zero combat casualty since February was not in our national security interest withdrawing them that 13 of them could be murdered the hands of Isis K that was definitely International interest that was August 16th fast forward two days Joe Biden has watched as withdrawal has turned into a debacle already by this point we've already seen the video of Afghans falling from the bottom of planes trying to escape in clutches of the Taliban he does an interview with George Stephanopoulos on August 18th and um he says nobody has died at knock on wood pathetic still a lot of pandemonium outside the airport well they're in but look but no

52:18 one's being killed right now God forgive me for if I'm wrong about that but no one's being killed right now that knows me by the way by the point he said that people had already been killed outside there like seven people had already died during the evacuation by that point now the new death toll as of this moment has now stretched all the way up to something like 170 people are dead 170 including the 13 U.S service members and 18 more wounded okay then that same interview Joe Biden says we're not going to leave Americans or American Allies behind a lie all troops are supposed to be out by August 31st even if Americans and our Afghan allies are still trying to get out they're going to leave we're going to do everything in our power to get all Americans out and our allies out um nope nope so he's lying then okay fast forward two days after that now we're only six days we're now seven days ago

53:15 okay this is August 20th Joe Biden again reiterates we are not going to leave Americans behind he was lying let me be clear any American who wants to come home we will get you home nope wrong lie hey also that same presser he says you know the good news is Al Qaeda is not in Afghanistan uh there's only one problem everyone knew Al Qaeda was in Afghanistan not only is Al Qaeda in Afghanistan you know the people who are actually handling the the security around the airport for the Taliban our trusted Partners over here you know who it is it's the so-called haqqani Network what is the haqqani network it's an Al-Qaeda offshoot not only is Al Qaeda in Afghanistan they're handling the security at the airport Joe Biden is trusting this man is a disgrace and a liar let's put this thing in perspective here what interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with Al Qaeda gone we went to Afghanistan for the express

54:17 purpose of getting rid of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan as well as as well as getting Osama Bin Laden and we did oh did we Al-Qaeda is still in Afghanistan and by the way so is Isis and the people we hand the country back to are the exact same people who harbored those people again it boggles them high that we are supposed to like he thinks you are such a that that we handed the same country back to the same people who harbored Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda and we're supposed to now treat them as reasonable peace Partners as they go around shooting people in the head they're dragging people out of their homes and shooting them in the head if they worked with the Americans and Joe Biden says don't worry there won't be any uptick in Terror well the terrorists are handling the security around the airport that's how stupid he thinks you are in that same press conference August 20th Joe Biden says don't worry any

55:08 attack on our forces will be met with a Swift and forceful response well um the bombing happened 24 hours ago we have seen no Swift response we've seen no forceful response we have seen no response from the president of the United States we've made clear to the Taliban that any attack any attack on our forces or disruption of our operations in the airport will be met with Swift and forceful response oh well then that's um well yeah clearly because he's lying okay fast forward a couple days after that now Joe Biden has asked a question about Isis and he does what he does best he runs away because he's a damned coward thank you that Americans face now bye catch you later by the way that same day he said that we had expanded the airport safe Zone right he said this to the American people August 22nd this is five days ago and four days before Isis just blew everybody up we have uh constantly uh how can I say

56:05 increased rational access to the airport where more folk can get there more safely it's still a dangerous operation but I don't want to go into the detail of how we're doing that I think you're going to see they're going to get out number two we have made a number of changes including extending the access around the airport and the safe Zone oh really it seemed like that that seemed like a super safe zone right outside the airport by all available metrics it was super safe okay then same day he says do we trust the Taliban I don't trust anyone I'm just giving them lists of American Allies so they can kill them I don't trust anybody including you I love you but you know there's not a lot of people I trust there's not a lot of people I trust like I don't trust you the same way I don't trust you hey then his press secretary jensaki who is his Night Nurse right that's sexual Night Nurse Joe Biden comes out he craps

57:03 the bed and it's jensaki's job to clean it up jensaki says August 23rd remember this is four days ago three days before what just happened at the airport in terms of the giant ISIS attack gen sake insisted no Americans are stranded it's all your imagination there are no Americans stranded this lying dishonest pathetic Administration here's genesaki does the person have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan it's the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded does he have a sense of that first of all I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded they are not we are committed to Bringing Americans who want to come home home we are in touch with them via phone via text via email via any way that we can possibly reach Americans to get them home if they want to return home there are no Americans stranded is

57:59 the White House's official position on what's happening in Afghanistan I'm just calling you out for staying that we are stranding Americans in Afghanistan when I said when we have been very clear that we are not leaving Americans who want to return home who want to return home is always there a key word there because the idea is that we're going to blame the people who remain also we are leaving them behind clearly Joe Biden said it last night don't worry we'll figure out after we're out of there have no resources on the ground have zero leverage because we ain't going back in then we'll figure out how to get them out so she was lying then next day she just again this was literally two days now before the ISIS attack she says um this is a massive success I don't think you guys are giving us credit for what a massive success it is for us to load the lifeboats with people after we blew a hole under the water line of the Titanic

58:47 after we dynamited this boat I don't think you're giving us enough credit for how many people we've offloaded onto the lifeboats I would say that this is now on track Peter to be the largest airlift in U.S history uh so and that is uh bringing American citizens out it is bringing our Afghan Partners out it is bringing allies out uh so no I would not say that is anything but a success it's a it's she won't say anything but a success there's only one word you can use for what we've been seeing according to the Biden Administration two days ago and that's success just success so I leave it to you is this Administration competent capable are they acting in the best interests of America's future or the American people or indeed in the interest of the American Service members or is this an Administration a clown car careering out of control with a senile person at the head of IT occasionally bloviating a particularly stupid idea

59:44 and everybody rushing to fill the gap you tell me there are a lot of dead bodies that tell the story in Kabul today alrighty we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content first you cannot forget to end your week by checking out the Andrew claven show Drew's shows every Friday he's got an exciting evening plan for you so head on over to dailywire.com at 7 pm Eastern 6 PM Central tune in I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show foreign if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and if you want to help spread the word please give us a five star review and tell your friends to subscribe too we're available on Apple podcast Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew claven show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot Feld

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