Jason Buttrill, an Afghanistan war veteran, former intelligence analyst for DOD, and head writer for Glenn Beck, joins Glenn and Stu to discuss the horrific Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. The Taliban has taken over Afghanistan's capital Kabul, thousands are trying to flee Afghanistan, Sharia law is coming, but where is President Biden? Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt joins to discuss his success in challenging the Biden administration's immigration policy. Rudy Atallah, chief operating officer of The Nazarene Fund, joins to discuss the struggles the fund will now face in the wake of the Afghanistan/Taliban takeover.
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America today on the podcast, I think, really good, one very emotional from many people on Afghanistan, the people that actually served we bringing up to speed on all of it. We also take a look at the batting average of Joe Biden, not so good, now an out and out, and we bring some good news. I met with the attorney general's the d, a GEO peace, the attorney general's twenty two of yesterday up at a meeting that they have once a year and the boy I was really bolstered by the attitude and the way they interpret their jobs. So we brought some good news. I had Eric Schmidt who's, the attorney general from Missouri he's the guy that just got a judge to say what Joe Biden did on the border is illegal and it must be turned back to the Trump policies, and it looks like it's such a strong ruling that it it won't go very far when the light administration takes it back up and tries to get it to go to. The Supreme Court is a very strong ruling. So that's what is for the good guys on a pretty dark day? Here's the podcast!
the only thinking the Taliban had a press conference yesterday
the presidential palace, and they did this
cut five, they
Were.
singing the Quran, which is beautiful and lovely, and I love this particular tune. You know who didn't have a press conference, the White House, you know who didn't wasn't seen in public Joe Biden,
where's Joe Biden. Why
is he not speaking out
Where was he.
as the masses try to flee from Kabul.
Prisoners have been released
leave five thousand prisoners were released. Madman. Imagine this is the video of it in the audio
five thousand prisoners
male Qaeda's, some of them Taliban, and they
or just released, probably because of covered. I think the Taliban is concerned with this.
Of covered in the prisons and wanted to find
oh, you know some way to deal with it and they looked to build the Plaza and Gavin Newsome and they d
Just to open up the prisons because of coal
I'm sure nothing
will love
go wrong. There
Meanwhile,
the worst is happening,
what I want to give you a story from
the New York Times now
Listen to how this story. You ve seen the pictures you know what's going on since this.
it was his first day as the Taliban appointed mayor of Conduce- is
is goal Mohammed Elias. He was on a charm
offensive.
last Sunday the insurgents sees control of the city in northern Afghanistan, which is in shambles. After weeks of fighting power, lines were down water supply, powered by generators. Didn't we
most residents trash rubble littered the streets
the civil servants who could fix these problems were hiding at home, terrified of
Talibans return, so the
surgeon commander turned mayor summoned some to his new office and persuaded them to return to work. He said quote our
Jihad is not with you in the minimum municipality, our g
it is against the occupiers and those
who defend the occupiers, missed
lies told the New York Times by telephone but day by day.
As municipal offices stayed mostly empty. Mr Elias grew more frustrated and his residence is. Rhetoric, grew a little harsher Taliban fight
began going door to door searching for absentee civil workers hundred.
Of armed men set up checkpoints across the city. At the end,
and to the regional hospital. A new notice appeared on the wall.
Employees must return to work or face punishment from the
love on just a week.
After the fall of the city. The first in a series of cities of the Taliban seized with breathtaking speed
The insurgents are now in effective control of all of Afghanistan, and they now must function is administrators that can provide basic services, two hundred
Thousands of people and the Ex
millions of those in conduce offer
a glimpse of how the Taliban may govern and what
maybe in store for the rest of the country in
a few days the insurgents frustrated with their failed efforts to cajole civilian civil servants back into work began.
instilling little terror according to the residents reached by telephone, I'm afraid,
because I dont know what will happen next or what they will do said. One who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation by the Taliban three
days after the Taliban took control of conduce
The civil society civil servant received a call from an insurgent fighter telling
To go to his office, the mayor,
Conduce wanted to speak with him? The mayor in
I did o o Mark Hill,
in staying home since the retreat of the government forces as insurgents flooded into the streets and a sense of unease grip, the battered city he
experienced a similar moment twice before when the two
Bon briefly and twenty fifteen and twenty six team. Sixteen sees the city both times the insurgents were pushed back with the help of american airstrikes, but this time data
the Taliban to control the entire afghan army core charge,
the reclaiming the city surrendered to the insurgents they hand
over all their weapons in vehicles in Aceh
sign that they would not be
rescued
when he arrived at the municipal office to speak to the new mayor, the spring
in compound looked eerily untouched by war, but the New York Times rights.
inside the building he joined
Eight municipal employees and
stir Elias. You know the new mayor.
he introduced himself as the new mayor
A young man with a long beard, Mr Ally's assured them they would not be targeted by the Taliban and instructed them to
turned to work to improve, improve people's lives and morale.
Sharing his mobile number. He told them call if you have any trouble with the Taliban fighters. We ve come
should the city and now
we can assure the people that we will provide the basic services
The mayor was quoted in another phone interview,
way through the meaning, a shopkeeper pleaded with the Taliban, bodyguard to see the mare like honey,
others his key asset, but mostly destroyed by fire. During the Talibans final push, he said she
keepers fearing for what remained of their stores that they would be looted, one at that
the bonds promise that they could return to the market to collect their thing safely. The mayor
complied
even provided reimbursement for the taxi and bus fare that they spent on moving their goods. For the rest,
the day,
the mayor met with other municipal leaders trying to
it services restored at
state owned water and sewage corporation? He demanded that the water supply be turned back on when a man
you told him, the power lines would first have to be repaired. He told the dry
tour of the electrical Electricity Department took
pal, his employees to return at the local health
parliament, the new Taliban director of Health, delivered the same message to the hospital staff and insert
in fighters, gave water to the health workers and offered five hundred Afghanis around six dollars to each of the hospital guards to pay for a dinner that died. There was some good progress rights. The New York Times
Oh, my gosh, I bet
Get a Nobel prize for this.
with a I bet. They there's gotta win a popular her. Don't you think
leave and a little more right that article. That amazing isn't that amazing. I will say that the times
rights, pretty devastating things about this
Well, I, along with a lot of other mainstream media. I mean a lot of these headlines of the Atlantic.
this headline is bindings. Betrayal of Afghans will live in infamy,
there's a lot. I think just how
quickly and how terribly this has turned has
even shaken sob of the mainstream media people. Now, of course, though, probably come back of it.
chile here, but I was surprised to see the even mainstream coverage being largely critical, with the exception. Of course, a notably of
You just read, which was pathetic. Thee feckless news. This one is written by the bulwarks comma like this, when the Feckless news is not limited to Biden himself, is wider? Administration is complicit state department
most, NED Price has conceded. The Taliban is already committing more times, but he warned them that if they continue their
be internationally isolated wool not into really internationally isolated, oh boy.
They're gonna be cancelled culpability for the disaster rest on one other place. They write them
african people. Why?
Officials have privately reassured themselves by noting that polls show an overwhelming majority of american support withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan Court,
to the hill, so
the Biden teams, fine reinsurer reassurance and the fact that most Americans don't care.
about the risk of another nine eleven ethnic.
cleansing or the discredit, destruction of a future for afghan women really
So they are blaming the american people for that a vast
what leadership is all about, and
B
I don't know about you, but I,
Do you care about
the women and children, and the future of the women and children in Afghanistan. I do
care about the risk of another nine eleven. I do care about ethnic cleansing age
I don't want to be there forever with no mission
it doesn't mean. Oh, I don't care just pull out, let the whole thing collapse and let evil just win and sweep a nation what
parents. Do you have that you care about women in the Middle EAST being tortured by me, and I only islands rainfall fry? That's it just out of that, but I mean this is: who ever there are alot of people who want to get out of there? Everyone wants to get at some level the ideal.
Was to get out of there with some level of competence. It wasn't just like lead
The entire thing go to flames that have the Taliban inside the presidential palace in two days.
One supported that
the way we guess there was that there is an idea that people didn't want to be engaged in this area for ever, but that was
to go along with. That was the idea that it wouldn't turn into exactly what it turned into in two days.
in two days I mean you are talking about this Jason. We we mentioned this off the air.
You are here, you're, my show. I don't know if you months ago, you said I do it's going to be back in Taliban controlled six months. You came on here the other day and he said hey why I think it might be till September 11th.
we could till Monday
That, though, is a sure we did on Friday and they were into
pictures and doing press conferences in singing inside the presidential palace. Two days later,
the this is the view them.
catastrophic handling of any situation of any press.
In my lifetime, I've
Never seen anything like this, I am continually
blown away all weekend and how pathetic this is
I've never seen anything like it. Have you ever seen anything like this one, but I am older than you
I saw a ran with Jimmy Carter and I saw with again like they around what should we do
have control of IRAN right like this
so they they envisage that we were well an embassy in inside of another country. This
Yes, I understand that we need, and we are also an embassy knows that your country in Afghanistan, but that was under our control in our direction for twenty years. I was also to say, I'm old enough to remember, and I think it was Ford when
pulled out of Vietnam. Saigon is that one thing people go back to end. Everyone knew
everyone knew the argument: was we
pull out
Communist will come in and slaughter all of these people and its
going to be a very bad thing. No, no! No they're going to be prepared. It's going to be fine, we can leave you know it's just
blood bath over there, and we shouldn't be involved in blah blah blah blah blah and then
were climbing over the fences of our embassy and when
I love this when blinking said you know this is
fortunately not not,
Saigon. You are not going to see helicopters land on the roof
of our embassy, no, you know why, because our billion dollar embassy had a helicopter landing pad down
the ground not on the roof like we do in Saigon, but dimension is not even our embassy anymore. No, it's not
A billion dollars into the thing is just handed over to them at least, though in Saigon, we're gonna tell me,
history here, but we
knew. This was coming in in second area we did, and we
actuated allow.
the americans- and we left a specific number once it was fifteen hundred or chemical, exactly how many it was, which was our twelve fifty. That was our
belief that we can get. We kicked evacuate those people,
for the Taliban in this,
the Vietnamese, got their northern bit work. So
this situation was like. We then started evacuating the
it means that we wanted to get out and we had this,
man that ok once they hit this point when we have start taking the Americans out and that's why it was such a close call, but we know it was coming from up right and we were a vacuum waiting. Those who helped us
we didn't live. We aren't evacuating the people who helped us. That was our complaint. Two weeks ago now,
gotta be lucky to get the Americans out. We have
send troops into to evacuate our own people, even only five thousand bush. It continues to escalate
we have a hundred thousand troops are the airport by next week of cutting the than the newest figures are six thousand to secure that airport and winning
Yet what is more than double what we had when we said we're gonna get them out. We
around thirty, the best of the Glen Bank, Good NEWS on the border
and I am going to let the man who actually lead the way on this tell you
about what it all means. Eric Schmidt, he is the Missouri attorney general eyes,
some time with him yesterday at a meeting of attorney generals and
invited him on the programme today to meet you again. We ve had a man before Eric welcome to the programme greatly with you,
so far
first of all king
regulations.
tell the american people. What have
on Friday
it's a big wind planned for border security for national security. To stop the flow of ill in the illegal immigration, drug trafficking, human trafficking, with the judges order that he issued a little after five o clock
judge issued will, after five o clock on Friday, so
to give it some context on day, one Joe Biden reversed
president trumps very successful remaining next,
go policy or otherwise known as the migrant protection protocols, which is to say that as p
we're coming here. If your
seeking asylum which, by the way it was found that nine out of ten asylum claims were bogus. The binding folks
will acknowledge that or even Rapid said, the judge,
but I believe and do the due diligence but as you are coming here seeking asylum that makes it
what are we waiting room because what we do
Who is that, if you let those folks into United States
given the court date on the honor system, in the release them
the interior, the states, you don't ever see him again and that exact
What has been happening? One point: one million people since January come ways
yeah, I'm proud of you, but it is clear
the perverse incentive in a judge cited. That said, if you have people who get paid,
to get people here illegally. If they know all they have to do is say we're seeking asylum.
I'm in they are in the United States.
very lucrative, pretty really bad guys to take advantage by
people along the way to its big business, and so the term policies said
Mexico is a waiting room, significantly cut down on this illegal activity,
so the Bite administration, cannot do what they did, which is to reverse that policy in a judge agreed with us. So the good
who's here is that we're gonna get back to you
president trumps remaining
Ethical policy. Let a great example of federalism at work
thankfully, the solar cell hang out before we get into this. I just I don't wanna know a couple of things.
judge said that they had to reverse it. Why? What was in your case that
showed that they didn't have the right to drop this
particular thing that from putting in place great question so
all day one, and we can talk about some other executive action that President Biden took every illegal day, one impatiently two sentences. Just as well reversing in an open
not the Boers, a guy.
The reality is under very technical scaly up the
the administrative procedure at you have to go through a process of taking it.
Noticing comment hearing from you
don't you want away and imbalances
all those things before you make it administrative changed. I would argue that we have allowed
Too many administrative departments in the barn,
to make law and we allowed. I gotta get back to article one branch, but be that as it may.
They didn't even do that, then we file the lawsuit. Then they can.
back in a half hazard way to try to cover their tractors. The owner. We do actually did consider this ensured in the church said. No, you didn't you didn't in the first place, you didn't,
Peter you been taught red handed. This is an illegal act is an illegal executive action. Therefore, we are back now to the policy that was lovely inactive,
The prompt chop administration remain in Mexico policy, so this is again.
an example of you have to push back we're not going to accept the sort of law
those were the bite administration and done this on social cost of Green
gases they done this on the keystone. Actual pipeline is a number of lawsuits in the pipeline. There. The challenges petition,
by far and away the most significant.
victory against the by the ministration kind of actions
I am speaking to the attorney general of Missouri. Eric Schmidt
who
lead. The way on this Tao era.
you say this is a very good thing, because they ve been org
Do it well
been ordered to do other things and they're not obey.
In the courts there dismissing the court also
This was happening in a district court. If I'm not mistaken here in Texas, what makes
Think that this will be supported gig as the government
is going to appeal why
makes you believe this will actually win at the highest level?
was a very well reasoned opinion. Then I think the judge there was an Amarillo and, by the way, the department justice tried very hard to move it out of that, because this party,
they were due to play. Your J was trying to get it to an Obama, appoint
judge, but
The reality is that the rule of law-
held here in that's all you really want from the judiciary as far as I'm concerned to interpret the laws, it's really not how they want it to be that not the less view of of what they want,
understood either much more Jaber. Judicial activism by the judge gave him seven days to appeal, so they would appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals which
is a strong conservative, and I mean that in the sense of penal Babe Ruth
based on the wall, so we're confident that
what of appeals will reject the appeal petition.
The big deal, because, if you think of what's happening
water is a total disaster. We ve not theirs
twenty one year high in illegal crossings,
you had in Missouri its interest in this by the way, I'm not
the border stages we ve taken on human trafficking. We spent a lot of resources are state, is made it a priority to take on
dark underworld of human trafficking,
his cord hills, are very
very engage in human trafficking in Korea, including trafficking drugs across the board, in its very profitable for them right now, because people are being released into the Interior, the United States,
he we spend time together. Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited up to the Republican
Ernie Generals meeting, which
think you have what once a year and killed
and I was- I was impressed with how many of you guys
exactly what you are up against and that you are the last line of defence? I mean
after you guys
down to our local sheriff, you
are the last line of defence to be able to stand for the the bill of rights.
What was the work? Go ahead?
As you say, and in the sky,
I think that this really is a fight to save the mirror.
I don't I don't know
You mean that rhetorically in some brandy
speech I needed very practically. I think the Republic
is truly on the line, and I think that for Us- and this is what I believe- and I think,
a lot of American. Certainly your listeners. Do I know you do the merit,
It is the most noble. Important experiment
the history of the world with a founder
said. Was everybody
before us seventeen. Seventy six headed exactly backwards.
We don't need to add our rights, don't come from a king or queen or some dusted. Our rights come from.
You gotta do is
government is, is a project to protect those rights to protect?
Those individual rights that were given by God, secure Billy, did speak your mind. Your ability defend yourself are born with those thanks.
America is Jerry
unique in the history of what is an exception, that's what american exception was removed. We are exceptional in the sense that most
places around the world still to this day. Don't believe that if we lose
this fight to save a mere
there is no going back- we are the last- that's hope from any kind. We gotta get right. So when you talk about these things,
their happening in Washington Dc Subtle,
eyes in elections and undermining election security just to obtain power. By using-
what they were doing during the pandemic. To loosen those
integrity measures just to gain power, to teach our kids to decide
America, as opposed to teaching them what America really is about the bill of rights, which is,
important, but mostly, I think it starts with declaration than the tenets, which is our mission statement. It says who
or what we believe. What we stand for that
constitution sets forth that's framework to protect those rights. States came
other to create a federal government of limited powers and the people reign supreme.
Not from sovereign authority who claims that they got their power from God and we have to ask permission: that's very weak,
Talk about that is much anymore, but I certainly view my mission
the attorney general now running for the United States Senate as protecting that
individual right. I somebody asked me an approach. We announced the cold case arrest
last week I didn't say Louis, is parliament
the trader was the chief law enforcement officers legal office arouse asked a question
How do you feel about fear being used right now to get people to wear masks, and I said this year,
dictators. Not anyone saw that's what every dictator,
retiring have said at the beginning of the world. They used, it fear too
idle gate and accumulate power,
I do not want to live in some futuristic, disturbing and biomedical security state, and I'm gonna do everything I can the powers it. I swore to protect the constitution,
protect individual rights, and I think we have to be asked-
will be committed to that. If we are, if we be
together on that we're gonna win this thing in our kids
our green kids look back and be very, very proud of each of you don't have to be the attorney general to stand up. For that. I see people.
The school board these. I think people going,
City Council meetings were standing up, good, don't wanna, take this
the more they believe in America. What we art, who we are, what we can be, so that's a very important role, her
Neither do I we're talking to Eric Schmidt, the misery attorney general and he is going to be running for Senate in the state
I am
had to leave right after I I spoke
all of you
last night, and I am wondering how many of the people I exciting get a chance to ass the whole room.
the twenties too, that were there, how many of them are on the same page with you now that you're saying what you're saying this morning
I think it's a very committed group
very committed group to these principles. We have a unique role in our system in that, as we can
about governments are project to protect those rights at our job. That's our job to protect the rights my job is to
give covered some
or tyrian regime because of the government's that's, not my job. My job is to make sure that people can see.
peace under the first amendment, but under the second, and then the people can protect themselves, and so on that
So you see a lot of the work that we do. We're, leaving a brief on making sure that this restrictive regime in New York, where you have to tell the government or some beer
rather you're, really in danger to be able to conceal, carry that's not with them
Anders ever intended, were fighting that fight, whether it
abortion is you go in the United States Supreme Court were fighting that fight, whether its protecting first
many rights or you can.
Go down. Take the issue,
now pushing back against the federal government and by the way, also pushing back against local governments that want to treat people as subjects in not citizens. We are committed to that fight.
I believe that in my poor, in I'm telling you blame you
You know it from your listeners. There is
something happening right now
city council rooms in the school board rooms in these fury rooms.
I don't want to lose America. They don't because it is this
shining city on a hill and weed
We ve been a people that want to know. What's on the other side of the mountain of what people say, right now is a cliff, and we have a choice
What is our role gonna be in the future of this republic? It has been Franklin said:
we walked out of the convention. It you ve got a republic me
If you can keep, it is hard work because human
turn, the founders, knew this
human nature is. You see it across the world? It happened before it is too.
Accumulate power dole out favours to your cronies,
The founders knew that spreading
power among the branches were startled.
the making sure that no one person or branch was too powerful. All of that is
its federalism. Words horizontally vertically was meant to do. One thing. Protect
individual liberty, Eric, not our platform,
I can't thank you enough for everything you do and were watching you guys carefully. I am I
but you know yesterday offered support on anything that we can do to help you guys out, because I do
leave. You are the fire line. Thank you. So much
and my best everybody else that are having meetings this week with you,
all the attorney general's. Thank you so much.
It simply by the way I want to thank you for all your doing it too. To talk about these issues. To your lesser thanks for having you bad things, you're listening to the best of the Glinda, it was an exceptionally hot summer morning on thirteen July rights, the guardian when
people in the malice stand district of southern afghan province woke up to find that the conflict that its world around them for weeks had finally reach their small town and tallow.
Fighters were closing in
by noon of that day. Twenty two year old, Fatima, seven months, pregnant, was seeking shelter from bullets raining down on her home in her village, which was
in the vicious crossfire between Taliban militants and government forces survive.
The battle was not the only thing on our mind, however. Her family
were terrified that the Taliban gain control of their village. They would begin
making women
like Fatima as they had taken other young women in parts of the country falling under their control. We had heard of
cases where the Taliban would kill young men in sexually abused girls and young women of the family.
The fears of famine or family were justified when the tallow
and finally came to our village. They wanted to
take a young girl with them
but she ran to the roof of her house and
did her life.
Ah.
Nazareth fund was started
because when our troops were pulled out of thumb
of a rack, something
Gold ISIS came in and they were kidnapped
and raping, and killing
families, but mainly women and children, were bringing amended sex slavery
we started. The Nazareth Fund and now our chief operating officer C O, is Rudy taller,
and I wanted to get him on the phone right away today to see what he knows about the situation in Afghanistan and if he sees sees away for us eventually to help
Rudy. How are you, Sir,
I hear your voice gland good to talk to you tell me
tell me what you know about what's happening in Afghanistan and how bad it is for the people it? We ve left behind.
It's extremely bad. I mean I'm getting I'm getting calls right now from both states from
from the region from Lebanon from all over the place,
If you, if you watch the news media in the Middle EAST,
on their showing. You know, repeats of of people falling off to seventeen on take off people die.
People scrambling looking looking for ways to escape Afghanistan, we
actually evacuated without leaving them single choice or protecting any
them, and now all my military friends that Sir
over there I had, in fact I have a former navies.
she'll here with me staying at my house- and we were talking about it, he did the combat towards a napkin
Spanish, our folks are allies.
That helped us on the ground. Now our stock, in which really good
Happen is eventually Al Qaeda is gonna, get its foothold harry
I'm gonna, go back on the rise and the people, the people there,
you know or not, killed that
trains
eventually gonna flip, because they want to survive and maintain themselves, and so so these two
individuals are now going to be working again
since not only that, but now
Al Qaeda and the Taliban have access to you.
Armament use weapons. U S, drones knowledge, drones, Roans, yet drones absent
They scan eagles. We use a scan eagle eye when we did the merest Alabama hostage rescue, so
yes and China's in their recognize them already is gonna recognise the Afghans, the Russian going to recognise the Afghans you can
on Al Qaeda three point all coming back with a gusto
sooner or later will start seeing all these terrorist attacks around the world and what,
in my heart,
really frustrates me more than anything,
we that we worked twenty years too.
Two to achieve it
the drain. Now we got a star from from ground zero again because of this very poor decision by the White House
Rudy love. Are we going to be able to be in a situation where we can help these women and children at some point?
as the Nazareth Fund
I'm. Looking I'm looking at different ways to do that: it's not
the easy we have. We no longer have any allies in the region. I mean it's just down up Pakistan, the
there is under constant persecution? Now Afghanistan, avi cease fallen. There's nobody in the region that we have we work, we lacked we're. Gonna have to work very quietly.
and know you know just need just need to figure out the best ways to support these people, whether its in place or slowly
get them out of the country. I mean it's, it's
as you said in your opening remarks, which were
still dealing with the problems in Syria from port.
visions during the Obama administration and
we're still rescuing kidnapped women and children, there are still thousands missing and that's it
ongoing situation, so Afghanistan's gonna be in the same and the same.
a job, but you know right now- it's extremely dangerous put on hold
that we're going to find a way to do something
Thank you very much. Our prayers are with you in and everybody
that
part of our military. This it's gotta, be a just a brutal brutal weekend for you and me are ours is not much. He asked. Thank you so much
God bless. That's a lieutenant, colonel
Rudy Ayatollah. He is the chief operating officer of the Nazareth Fund, something that you founded helping women
children and all slaves and
largest minorities that are trapped
behind enemy lines. We try to get them out,
find out more or make a donation
the Nazareth fun dot org. Now,
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