Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) explained the Biden administration evacuated Afghan refugees with 'no particular attachment to the United States' during the U.S. withdrawal.
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Brian bombing Afghanistan
Mosque on Sunday raising fears
to some that the country is on
the brink of a civil war
Ainsley. It comes as experts say:
Bidens rushed withdrawal led to
aircraft leaving Kabul with
empty seeds seats.
We saw some of those images
remember
here. Some more one hundred thousand afghan
allies left behind
Steve a lot of Americans too
pledging blackouts as government
fails to pay electric bill on
time. Just like a lot of other
people,
g dot, OP, Senator Tom Cotton served
in Afghanistan.
He joins us, live
senator good morning to you.
Thank you,
its good to be back in studio
with Yall
Ainsley happy to have you here
Steve go back about a month
ago
you were actually trying to help
some of the afghan allies get
out and you did successful,
but now the news. Apparently,
these airplanes were flying in
and flying out empty, because
people would not allow the
Americans and our allies to get
on the plain
Brian. Can I tell you exactly
why that happened
talked to people on the ground
two reasons?
First, so chaotic that even our
own citizens green card
holders, our Afghans, who had
fought with our troops and were
approved for special immigrant
visa couldnt, get into the
airport,
so people who were supposed to
be on those planes couldnt get
in time to board them.
The second reason is: they were
trying out of the Kabul Airport.
One run way
get to the point too many air
planes backed up and too many
coming in, had to take to have to
get them out,
got to Balgram, multiple runways
and more space to park
airplanes.
You wouldnt have had that
problem. It goes back to Joe
Bidens Ill, planned disorganized,
chaotic decision to withdrawal
from Afghanistan,
Brian dont. You think the state
Department deserves some of the
discredit because Antony
Blinken, according to the
Defense Department, it was up to
state to organize a lot of this
stuff.
The reason why these people
didnt get out
the reason why the manifest
werent full the State
Department sat on its hands.
Absolutely
we heard last week from the
generals who helped organize
this air, lift that the State
Department refused to call for
the evacuation of noncombatants.
For american civilians and green
card holders until the very last
minute,
the military was planning for it
as early as April and may right
after Joe Biden made this
decision, should we do that Tony
Blinken States Department sat
on its hands the Taliban on the
gates of Kabul. What is so
unfeweriating see these seats
empty.
We remember how we felt on those
mornings reporting on this
hearts, go out to all the people
stranded left behind and wanted
one of those seats
their livelihoods. Their lives
depended on it when you say they
couldnt get through the gates.
At the airport we didnt have
our troops thereon the ground to
help our american citizens or
our allies get ton these planes.
Then you read, some of them who
had credible documents were
stopped and were not allowed to
get on the planes, while others
that hadnt been vetted were
allowed through
whats the vetting process. Now
for all the people that are here
that came from Afghanistan, have
we vetted all of them?
No, absolutely not Ainsley
Joe Biden, screwed it up coming
and going.
First, we left a lot of people in
Afghanistan who should have
imont out
seconds. We brought a lot of
people out who shouldnt have
gotten out.
People had no particular
attachment to the United States
and fought with our troops,
seen reports of a young female
soldier being assaulted at Fort
Bliss in El Paso or sex offenses
by of began men by Fort Mccoy, an
other offenses. There is really
no vetting
Brian and just walking off the
base
hard to do in Afghanistan.
One reason it took so long
interview people face to face
Afghanistan is a night or day
world country
you dont call up the FBI or the
high school or local police.
We have almost no way to vet
these people.
The Biden administration is
taking their name. If it is their
name testing it against
databases, and if they dont come
back well, they must be fine to
go
Steve. I heard one interview
somebody was interviewing. Who
exactly did we fly out?
The number was seventy five percent of the
people. The Afghans were not
special immigrant visa holders.
In other words, we Fli flew out
seventy five percent of the wrong people,
unbelievable
basically whoever was able to
get into the airport, especially
on first chaotic days after the
fall of Kabul.
Again, we have no idea who these
people are taking it on face
that theyre, using their real
name and testing against
incomplete databases and saying
well, if we dont have a record
of you being a terrorist, you
must be type
you north, going to attack
Americans and commit sex
offenses against american women.
You are not going to bring any
kind of disease or anything else
into the country, and you dont
have right under american law to
be here.
You are not like the brave
Afghans with whom I served to HO
fought along side us who risked
their lives and family lives who
we left behind
Ainsley. What do we do?
Send them back or what happens?
The Biden administration is
basically clearing everyone
through
just like all the migrants we
saw at the border in Del Rio a
couple weeks ago.
Basically, the word is out across
the world. If you get to our
southern border, can you get
in a lot of special immigrant
visa holders would have been
better off to get out of Kabul
and go to Mexico.
Brian got everyone else coming
through through Colombia and
Panama, Costa Rica and right
through
Senator great, to see new
person
great being back
Steve you, while you are in New
York City, do your Christmas
shopping. Nothing is going to be.
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