Lindsey Graham argues if the president and his staff 'start paying terrorists' like the Taliban to get Americans out of Afghanistan, American lives 'around the world' are at risk.
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Several times yeah
Steve, thank you. Peter
Brian lets bring in Senator
Lindsey, Graham AIR Force veteran
and made many strips to
Afghanistan. Countless!
So is this. What victory looks
like
laughter
yeah? It is for the Taliban
theyre celebrating.
So here is the scary thing guys.
I think President Biden really
believes this was successful.
Joe Biden is a dangerous man
when it comes to our national
security and our economic well
being, and you really cant
believe a word hes telling you
lets just look at what hes
telling us about our own
national security.
The war is over
well. If the war is over, while
were still using drones to kill
terrorists in Afghanistan, I can
assure you the war between
Radical Islam and the United
States and Afghanistan is not
over, but here is whats, so
misleading about the Biden
administration
theyre, trying to convince us
that we can be protected from
another nine slash eleven by using drones in
Afghanistan.
Well, let me just remind you
about Iraq and Syria.
Joe Biden pushed really hard to
removal of our troops from Iraq.
He was told if you do, that ISIS
could surge
well. What happened
when we left our troops guys
we started using drones that did
not stop the caliphate from
forming
the drone program will not stop
ISIS from growing in Afghanistan.
It did not work in Iraq and
Syria
were very much exposed to a
nine slash. Eleven and again, this is the
same president who told you
there was no Al Qaeda presence
in Afghanistan about a week ago.
Its the same guy, that said all
of our allies are cheering us on
hes the same guy. That said,
the Taliban are waving. Americans
through
you, cant, believe anything he
says, but I think in his mind he
believes hes been successful,
and that scares the hell out of
me
Steve to your point. You cant
believe what he says.
Senator Graham the Wall Street
Journal today writes the
president and his advisors
have decided that the only way
out of this debacle is to liable
it
blame everybody else and claim
that defeat is really a victory.
Neither one is reassuring about
Mr Bidens character, his
judgment or more ominously,
the long three and a half years
left in his presidency,
well thats true
theyre, trying to turn the page
and theyre lying about the
state of play in Afghanistan.
Here is the state of play.
The Taliban are in control, but
it wont last that long
ill make a prediction on your
show.
I think a year from now the
whole country is going to
fall into a real civil war.
You got afghan resistance
fighters.
Have you heard the president or
anybody on his team mention for
one moment lets, go help
those guys who fought along our
side?
Brian? They just repelled the
Taliban
yeah they repelled the
Taliban, but Biden is
negotiating with the Taliban
hes, putting all his eggs in the
Taliban basket.
Well, the Taliban and Al Qaeda
are one thats how we got
attacked on nine slash eleven. Twenty years
ago,
ISIS considers the Taliban, the
rotary club and youve got
the resistance thats being
completely ignored.
The Taliban are destroying all
the cell towers in Panjure
Valley, so the
resistance cant communicate
with the world. So I would urge
the Biden administration to send
satellite phones and start
helping the resistance and if
they try to give one dime of aid
to the Taliban. I will fight
that as hard as I can in the
United States Senate,
because if you start paying
tariffs like the Taliban to get
Americans out of Afghanistan
or get our allies
out of Afghanistan, youre
putting Americans at risk all
over the world because it will
be open season on Americans
throughout the world by
terrorist organizations.
Ainsley senator weve heard so
many stories of our people, our
allies, who are Americans that
are trapped over there and still
trapped
theres one that was brought to
our attention this morning.
There is an interpreter there,
hes going by the name Mohammed,
and he tried to make it to the
airport. They told him you can
get on, but your wife and four
children cant. So of course he
didnt leave them.
He actually helped Joe Biden thirteen
years ago in two thousand and eight when he was a
senator and John Kerry, was on
this helicopter and so was Chuck
Hagel.
They had to land their
helicopter in the middle of a
snowstorm and this interpreter
was sent in and he helped so
many Americans, PETE Hegseth,
told us earlier on the show and
he rescued the senators and hes
still there, and his message to
Joe Biden is hello. Mr
President, save me and my
family
dont forget me here:
how are we going to get these
folks out that need to be
rescued?
I think were going to try
to bribe them out,
I think were putting on the
table. The Biden
administration is economic aid
to the Taliban.
If you release the hostages, the
Americans and the allies
who fought along our side, we
will give you money.
That is a dangerous way to do
business when it comes to
terrorism and if they start
doing that, ISIS is going to
turn on Taliban even more
ferociously.
Do you remember the movie
Sophies choice where you had
a concentration camp that had a
daughter and a son, and the
Germans said which one do
you want me to take?
Hundreds of people came to these
checkpoints and they had to pick
between them and their families.
Joe Biden, if there was a
contest to screw up Afghanistan
and make America less safe, the
plan by Joe Biden would have
won the contest.
I can not tell you how dangerous
life is going to be for those
inside of Afghanistan
who helped us, and I can not
stress enough how much were
exposed twenty years after nine slash eleven to
another attack originating in
Afghanistan, because the strategy
we have in place will not work
Brian, so over. The horizon
dont exist because it comes
from the Middle EAST because we
cant get any of the stands to
allow us
didnt work in Iraq and
Syria,
Brian it didnt,
no, it didnt and thats. What
brings me to my other point?
He said we shouldnt go through
the threats in twenty twenty one. We shouldnt
be going by the threats of two thousand and one
we face threats from Somalia. Al
Qaeda affiliates in Syria and
ISIS is attempting to create a
caliphate in Syria,
okay, Al Qaeda affiliates in
Syria. We were there, he doesnt
know were in Syria, but guess
who is in Afghanistan?
The number two guy to Bin Laden
is now in Kabul,
the network affiliated with Al
Qaeda, the closest and the most
lethal. They are providing the
security and the Taliban
have people with them that hate
them that are even worse than
the Taliban.
You dont have to travel out of
Afghanistan to meet our enemies,
Senator
what does he not get?
Well, I think hes dilutional
about the situation
on the ground.
A week ago he said theres, no Al
Qaeda presence in Afghanistan.
I about fell over when I heard
that
the number two guy in the
Taliban organization is an
akani member with a
ten dollars million bounty on his head
offered by the: U Dot S government
its illegal under our law, to
negotiate with foreign terrorist
organizations.
I think the Taliban are foreign
terrorist organizations, because
the number two guy has a
ten dollars million bounty on his head.
Real quickly lets look at
Syria and Iraq.
We have american soldiers inside
of Syria, working with the Kurd
S to keep ISIS from
coming back.
We have five thousand people almost
inside of Iraq to make sure ISIS
doesnt come back.
We have special forces on the
ground in Africa, whats the
one theatre where terrorists
are there by the thousands. We
have no troops
Afghanistan.
Where is the one place that we
got attacked from twenty years ago?
Afghanistan,
Joe Biden, has learned nothing in
the last twenty years.
This is the biggest mistake
since nine slash eleven
hes put our nation at risk
whose going to fight along our
side after we abandon all these
allies in Afghanistan and the
likelihood of another nine slash. Eleven
originating from Afghanistan is
ten times greater than it is from
Iraq, Syria or Africa.
Brian and Nobodys been fired.
They all have their jobs, so
were waiting for this chaos for
three and a half four years
Steve twenty years after nine slash. Eleven, the
Taliban is back in Control
Brian and they got a casket of
us with a flag draped over it
thats how reformed they are.
Ainsley. You havent heard of
any threats. Have you?
Oh, my god, I cant well
lets look at it. This way,
guys
how smart do you have to be to
figure out that if Al Qaeda and
ISIS are roaming freely inside
of Afghanistan and the only
thing protecting us is the
Taliban,
the Taliban doesnt have the
will or the capability to
protect the american interest
were blind and were naked.
Yes, ive heard of threats
its just going to be a matter
of months, not years before the
threats materialize,
the training camps will be open
pretty soon for Al Qaeda and
ISIS is flourishing.
The number of ISIS fighters
doubled when they had the
jailbreak.
This is a witchs brew of evil
in Afghanistan.
The vacuum created by this
stupid withdrawal has put
us at risk. Thousands of people
have fought along. Our side are
going to get killed.
They just shot a guy for being a
folk singer.
Do you think the Taliban is
really any different?
I promise you this.
If we try to legitimize the
Taliban, I will declare war
on the Biden Administration and
the: U Dot S Senate
Brian. You got to get the
majority
Ainsley and we have an open
border,
Steve Senator Lindsey. Graham.
Thank you.
Well, get Democrats who are not
completely blind to whats going
on.
Transcript generated on 2021-09-02.