Former president joins 'Hannity' to discuss Biden's spending agenda, Afghanistan withdrawal and border crisis
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The old boss is waiting so ill
have to say goodbye.
It will follow your race very
closely.
Joining us live on the phone for
exclusive interview, the 45th
president of the United States,
Donald Trey Trump.
If you urge United States
senators not to do what they
promised, what they wouldnt do, b,
they threw a lifeline to
chuck Schumer
by the way, Chuck Schumer
Elizabeth Warren, yup, theyre,
mocking Mitch Mcconnell and
making fun of the Republicans
and laughing at them.
He threw him a lifeline that
they didnt have to throw.
The republican Senate needs
to do leadership and ive been
saying it for a long time, Mitch isnt the guy, not the
Mitch isnt the guy, not the
right guy, not doing the job.
He gave us so much time to
figure out what to do because
they were in a big bun was
enabled to do anything.
He had the weapon and he was an
able to use it
its a shame,
its a shame.
These eleven people come out. I know
them. Some are wonderful and
some I dont agree with too
often
im not surprised to see some of
the names, but I will tell you
this
thats, not a good thing that
happened today.
He made a big mistake.
Let me start theres
a lot going on in the country
when you start with abandoning
Americans in Afghanistan. I want
to get into these issues in
detail.
You look the crisis at the
border. You look at Joe Biden
gave up energy independence that
you achieved for the first time
in seventy five years now, hes begging,
OPEC,
you look at inflation and the
cost of energy. You look at
America standing in the world.
You look at the issue in China.
The first thing I think needs to
be discussed is what day fifty four
Americans behind enemy lines
its been almost forty days since
Joe has even mentioned them.
We have thousands of green card
holders
unknown hundreds of Americans
and their families abandon.
He said he wouldnt do it thirteen
days before he abandon him
of we have military equipment
and billions of dollars that we
leave in the hands of
terrorists.
I never thought, Mr President,
in my lifetime that I would ever
see that happen.
Is there anything that we can do
now?
Look we have to get the
country back.
What happened in Afghanistan? My
opinion is the single most
embarrassing thing to happen to
our country may be in its
history.
The warriors that will were kill
spoke to the parents of many of
them. They were devastated. Why didnt?
They were devastated. Why didnt
take awe take out the military b?
Eighty five dollars billion of the best military
equipment? I bought it and
rebuild the entire military.
Eighty five dollars billion of the best
equipment military equipment in the world buried
him. They are taking it apart
him. They are taking it apart,
Russia, China, they got some and
theyre taking it apart.
They are going to examine it and
build it themselves.
They can never do what weekend
with the black hawk helicopters.
It looked like a total
surrender,
the most embarrassing moments.
Then you look across the border
and you see the pictures at the
border of hundreds of thousands
of people every couple weeks
into the country.
We have no idea who they are
and going back to Afghanistan,
and you take a look at the
people that came out of
Afghanistan. Only three percent of them
qualified to come out.
They rushed the airplanes and
they are plenty tough and smart.
A lot of energy. Those are the
people who got onto the plains:
three percent, three percent of the people qualified
and its incredible. What that
did to our country.
We are being left out all over
the world. We are not respected
anymore.
We had a thing going. You look
at Taiwan that was not
happening during the Trump
Administration with Taiwan
they understood you cant do
that
whats going on is a terrible
thing for our country.
I dont think weve ever been
this disrespected.
You know last time
on this program. I think we need
to put emphasis back on this,
that your conversation with the
leader of the Taliban, before you discussed any deal or withdrawal
discussed any deal or withdrawal
was number one based on your
stated threat that you would
obliterate them.
You remember exactly what you
said, because I have a source
that says you were brutal to
them
and that you said you would
destroy them, destroy their
province and it would be
everybody in the area would be
dead.
Did you say that
what I said and
had a very strong conversation?
I said I hate to turn the
conversation this way, but thats
the way it is.
I said we would do serious,
serious harm to them if they
killed any of our soldiers or
any american citizens
went on from there and then we
got back into a more normalized
conversation.
Well from that conversation on
eighteen months, I believe, is the
amount of time
we didnt lose one soldier, one
soldier shot at no American was
killed,
the understood exactly,
and they also understood
they had conditions.
They didnt fulfill the
conditions, so we hit them hard
and we stayed longer.
We were getting ready to move.
I want every bolt nail screw.
You know those buildings, those
beautiful canvas buildings that
we build as hangers. I want the
buildings taken out.
I want the canvas I want the
arrow plains. I want the tanks.
I want every single piece of
equipment we have.
Then we are going to bomb five
airfields and were going to
take blogger because its right next to China
right next to the nuclear
right next to the nuclear
facility.
It be great to keep it because
ten dollars million to build it that we
left
they left the lights on the
dogs. They are, they didnt
destroy the equipment they
didnt take the equipment.
They said they destroyed some
because they were so embarrassed.
They left without it.
Eighty five dollars million worth of equipment.
The entire budget military
budget of Russia for a year is
fifty dollars billion.
We left eighty five dollars billion worth of
equipment in the hands of the
Taliban.
You would obliterate
them if they didnt follow. Every
dog did and crossed to. Okay,
there was going to be a.
There was going to be a
condition: spaced withdrawal. Only
if conditions were suitable,
you would keep a gratuity the
air base which we for and billed
billed
can you explain to me when
Joe Biden had the months
of March April May June
July, all control of Kabul to
end airport.
The Taliban was south of Kabul.
Why didnt he evacuate
if it wasnt too obliterate them
and push them back.
Why didnt? He move everybody out
when he had full control of
Kabul and the airport, the
perimeter.
What would he wait until the
Taliban took over Kabul?
Nobody
understands it in the media
stock, covering it
not only fake news, but old news
theyre trying to get rid of it.
I read a article two days ago,
where theyre shelling the
machine guns
the most sophisticated weapons
in the world.
They are selling these machine
guns and guns on the black
market.
Other countries are buying them,
they are selling them.
You dont need that many six hundred or
seven hundred thousand guns they have night
goggles that are better than
anything. We have
the latest model brand new
out of the box, never used
before
the latest model,
all stuff that you know very
good fighters, but they never
liked the Taliban fighting at
night.
Now they can fight at night
and they can do what they want
to do.
They have the best
they have the Apache
helicopters,
they have the best equipment in the world, buried eighty five billion
dollars.
That was in the deal
they understood.
I spoke to Abdul and they
understand we are leaving and
taking our equipment taking our
american citizens.
If they wanted to stay, they had
the right to stay, but they do
not want to stay.
We were taking them in the last
out would have everything
gone.
The last out would have been the
military.
The big mistake to take our
military out first, and I can
just see these people saying
Abdul hes, the leader. Now, if
you look, he is the leader. Still,
I can see them saying a duel.
The american military has left
and him saying there is no way
youve got to be crazing,
they go no. No. They left
going in and going to Kabul and
theyll find out that they left
these guys couldnt believe they
left.
If thats, what happened?
Let me move to the
border. Mr President,
when you first ran, it became a
big issue.
If you implemented whats known
as the stay in Mexico policy,
thats been abolished,
you build five hundred miles of new wall.
We had the lowest rate of
illegal immigrants and nearly forty
years
you eliminated the catch and
release program.
The wall. Building a stop to come
stay in Mexicos program has
ended
its not catcher, release its
process and release.
We request that you show up in
court. You dont have to. We are
not mandating. I doubt people
will honor the request.
We are on the path to have a
record number of illegal
immigrants, probably a 30 year,
high, closing in on two million
illegal immigrants in the
country,
no vaccine mandates for american
citizens, no covid checks,
a high rate of covid positivity,
no security, background checks of
people, radical associations,
its all enfolding, to before our
eyes.
If you saw the cages you had it
under complete control.
Now we see the Democrats trying
to slip an amnesty in this
reconciliation bill.
You know at this point, ive
got to believe that this is done
on purpose.
They are not enforcing the law.
If you didnt enforce the law,
theyd want to impeach, you
seems like theyre, aiding and
abetting and lawbreaking.
What are your thoughts on the
border?
Youre right
about that, and I will say, the
border we had was the strongest.
Probably ever
all they have to do is leave it
alone.
You know they sued us the
Democrats in Congress for two
and a half years.
We won all the suits, but two
and a half years we were able
to start.
It would have been finished in a
period of weeks.
Now we are paying six dollars million a
week for contractors not to
build the wall.
The wall was almost complete and
its one of the things that led
to this great record. To
one thing you didnt say, is
drugs.
Drugs were at the lowest
point drugs coming in in
particular fund at all, which is
a brutal drug.
It was stopped. It was at a
level we had not seen in a long
time
a low level
now its coming in at levels
that we have never seen
three four five times more
than we ever had coming in
pouring into our country,
theres, something wrong.
You wouldnt believe you could
even say this, but somebody
doesnt love our country
when they allow this to happen
to our country. We have hundreds
of thousands of people pouring
in every two weeks,
hundreds of thousands
coming from countries we dont
even know from where they are
coming.
If you know they are emptying
out many countries,
I used to say three Guatemala,
Mexico, Honduras, you could add
El Salvador, but I say three or
four countries come out here,
its fifty countries.
They are emptying out their
prisons into the United States.
They are jails. Some of the
toughest people on earth are
being dumped into the
United States because they dont
want them.
They dont want to take care of
them for the next forty years.
These people that are the
roughest prisoners anywhere,
are being dumped into the
United States for us to take
care of them.
What are they doing?
They are destroying our country
thats, a big part of
the spending bill.
This is the difference between
America. First policy is an
american last policies
when you were out and you were
pushing to get the money
fighting to get the money which
you eventually found a way to
build a five hundred miles of wall that
you built. You talked about a
big wall with a beautiful wall,
you used to say with a big door
in it
im for legal immigration. All
for my grandparents coming from
Ireland,
you remember my family story.
They had no money in my in their
pocket. They grew up poor
im pro immigration.
Is it wrong to ask for a
security check to make sure you
dont have radical associations
in the middle of a pandemic?
It should be not give
preferential treatment to people
who dont respect our law,
should they at least have a
covid test
health check.
Is it wrong to say that if were
going to invite you into our
country, we dont care where you
come from? Youve got to be able
to provide for yourself, and you
wont, be a financial bridge Vern,
the american people.
It seems like a pair conditions.
Would you support that
youve got to
support that and for every body
else they have to go through it,
but they just happen to walk in
and they dont have to do
anything that were supposed to
be done.
Nobody talks about so we
have hundreds of thousands of
people flowing in from Haiti.
Haiti has a tremendous aids
problem.
Aids is a step beyond
AIDS is a real bad problem,
so hundreds of thousands of
people are coming into our
country and if you look at the
stats- and you look at the
numbers, if you look at just
take a look, its whats
happening in Haiti, a tremendous
problem with aids,
many of those people will
probably have aids in their
coming into our country.
We dont do anything about it.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-10.