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Sen. Graham: If Biden admin gives one dime of aid to Taliban, I'll fight it

2021-09-01 | 🔗
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.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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.
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