Fox Nation host Lara Logan and former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus discusses Biden's Afghanistan debacle on 'Hannity'
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Our prayers are with your
friends and people, you know, and
everyone else in that situation
we are also learning even more
about just how gruesome just
how brutal life under the
Taliban really is.
For example, an afghan mom
blinded by the Taliban says they
will feed womens bodies to
dogs
and afghan karate champion
telling Reuters that she fears
everything is finished for all
female athletes in the country.
What an absolute human tragedy
here, with more reaction from a
former State Department
spokeswoman, Morgan, Ortagus,
Monmouth, Foxnation, dot, com host
Lara Logan
Lara youve spent time there.
I believe, Morgan you are as
well, but you know the reality
of the situation on the ground.
What are you hearing?
You know Sean, as I have
been sitting here listening and
to the show a friend of mines.
Brother was just shot inside the
airport in Kabul.
Another friend of mine called
because a former intelligence
official that we both know
whose family is being hunted
its not just immediate family,
its extended family as well.
The Taliban have all the
biometric records they have
taken over the intelligence
agencies. They have addresses
detailed lists of everyone who
they are looking for.
Oh boy,
killing their children
and hearing the same thing.
Saras hearing gates are open
gates are closed, checkpoints
are open. Checkpoints are
closed between the military and
state. The orders are changing
constantly, nobody is making
decisions and those are private.
American citizens, many former
veterans, but not all, some of
whom are on the ground and some
of whom trying to rescue people
trying to hunt. You know, find
the families of special
operations, soldiers and move
them to safe houses because
they are being hunted and what
they are telling me. Is there
literally on the brink of going
to the Germans and the
Australians to get the mission,
because the? U dot S military and
state Department, keep blocking
the flights they keep refusing
clearances and that they are so
frustrated that at this point
they think that General Milley
should resign that he is making
this mission impossible. They
dont understand why there isnt
a perimeter already established
and controlled by the? U DOT S
military
five days in at this point they
say it is unacceptable and what
I am hearing from afghan
security officials who have been
directly involved and talking to
people right now, is that that
August 31st deadline is not
optional or the: u dot S. The
Taliban is telling the U dot s that
they have to be out of the
country by then
they are pushing for one hundred percent power.
They are ordering afghan
officials who they are
supposedly in talks with to
swear allegiance to the
Talibans islamic emirate.
If you recall, it became the
leader of Al Qaeda after
Bin Laden, he swore publicly to
the Islamic at the right of the
Taliban, and they want to see
the Taliban flag flying over
Afghanistan for the 20th
anniversary of nine Slash eleven.
That is what afghan intelligence
and security officials have been
telling me, and they say there
are no talks that the
europeans- everybody else, knows
it and they are just grabbing
up their people and running for
the exits as fast as they can,
because this is going so far
south
and they are not
having success. Getting to the
locations they want.
Morgan. You are with Secretary
of State Pompeo during this
entire time that all of this had
been negotiated under very
different circumstances and
terms that would have dire
consequences immediately.
Had the Taliban ever stepped out
of line,
we did not lose a single
American in over a year in the
last year of Donald trumps
presidency. As a result of that,
tell us what you know and what
you are hearing.
You know many people on the
ground there today as we speak,
yeah Sean ive spent the
last week trying to get friends
out people that I worked with
over the last ten years that I
have been personally in and out
of Afghanistan.
I was there several times with
MIKE Pompeo, but you had on
Kayleigh, Mcenany and others
earlier talking about the plight
of women in Afghanistan.
Remember just a few years ago,
in two thousand and seventeen I went with the
American University of
Afghanistan to speak at a
Womens Entrepreneurship
conference in Afghanistan.
I was at the hotel which Lara
has traveled and reported
throughout the world, so she
knows this hotel very well.
I was speaking to a crowd of
women at a conference.
I think we were there for at
least two days and the vision
of those women is really burned
into my head, but ill tell you
whats different from when the
Taliban ruled twenty years ago to
how they rule. Now
there is a generation of women
of young women that were born.
You know right when the Taliban
fell, or maybe they were
toddlers, but they have grown up
with social media.
They have grown up in a free and
independent Afghanistan,
and I see some of them still
bravely protesting.
I dont know how they have the
guts to do this, but I have seen
the images of some of them doing
it. Some of the female
politicians speaking out, you
know I worry about the
Afghanistan that we are leaving
behind. Obviously there are so
many people that are desperately
trying to get out.
You really have a brain drain,
Sean. You know I was helping a
friend thank God. He got out
who was a lawyer in Afghanistan,
a Harvard educated lawyer in
Afghanistan. We were able to get
him and his immediate family
out. You think about all of
these people that may have been
educated in the United States or
trained with us. The smartest
people in Afghanistan are
fleeing because they are subject
to being killed by the Taliban.
So I think the real human
tragedy of all of this that we
will see unfold is not only the
fact that it is likely that
Al Qaeda will reconstitute. We
think that is probably a given,
but the human aspect in all of
this, not just what they are
seeing right now, but the fact
the smartest people are fleeing
the country, whats left
yeah if they can get
out
thats the scary part and those
wrists Lara are talking about,
are chilling.
They have the names the
database.
Thank you both.
We appreciate getting some
truth because we are not
getting it from Joe Biden.
All right, dont forget watch
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Transcript generated on 2021-09-05.