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Hume: Americans stuck in Afghanistan is a direct result of decision to withdraw

2021-09-07 | 🔗
Senior political analyst Brit Hume blames the Biden administration for rushing the military pull-out.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Alright, Joe Bidens State, alright Joe Bidens State Department, said Monday. They helped four Americans escape from Afghanistan. This morning I talked with Cory Mills about the topic he told me. He worked with a group of vets and law makers to get those Americans out himself. The state department didnt help at all. Originally our plan was to do an air evac that was thwarted by the state, command and state department. When we landed our plane, we had a crew fly over from the FAA to approve the plane was a designation of a humanitarian aircraft. Twenty five Americans on that plane, nine thousand feet in decent, approved Landy slot. They waved us off.
I hear this over and over again in different situations. Foxnews dot com shows state Department is blocking flights from lapping at U Dot S air bases. Even with I dot S citizens onboard Brit, we are straoeuing to put this together. We have no sources on the ground. Its been cross checked. Mills is a hundred first right. The state department came to this family after crossing this countrys board. What is your thoughts on what we are seeing? Its clear Brian trace this back to the original decision to get the military out before the civilians are out and before this was a reasonable plan to get them out. Now we are where we are. We have people helped by individual groups, disputes who was responsible who helped and who didnt you have situations with Americans on planes on the ground. The state department may not
want to clear them out. They dont know who is on the planes. Brian we dont know who we have out so far. We have tens of thousands of Afghans out do we know if they were properly vetted in the chaotic scene of people knee deep in sewage and rushed to the tarmac and rushed out. This is this is an absolute train wreck. All of the disputes we see now about people not getting out and so on are a result of official decision stands to reason. They would be other places in the country. Chad told me this morning on radio, a recon marine working with a group called save our allies. He doesnt believe there are a hundred left. He believes over. A thousand are left from the calls he is getting. The state department wont answer. I dont believe what the Secretary of State or president has told us on this.
Its all proven untrue. We certainly have seen instance, after instance. They said they would do this and did something else, the most conspicuous one I dont think Joe Boyd EN will ever live down. He promised in a televised interview. We would stay for all of the Americans to get out and he didnt do that than manifest. Nobody is pretending they got all of the Americans out, except for Chuck Schumer. He has said I saw it on videotape. We got all Americans out that wanted to get out. Thats, not true. Nobody in the administration is say Thagz true, this is what were confronted with. This is a stain that will be a long time wearing off. If it does, I suspect it never will Brit. I watched thirty five minutes of meet the press, not a word about Afghanistan. It was about poll ratings.
This is a lead story in any other era. Why isnt this a lead story? Now the compelling video cargo jets people falling off the side, human tragedy, the explosion, killing thirteen Marines eighteen struggling for their lives. How is that not a lead story in american television? I think the answer is obvious. Brian, we dont have the news coverage we use to where it was neutral. Nowadays, journalists get to indulge their opinions, and many are editors that want to coster stories that make their side of things. The left side look better. They dont want to cover stories that do the opposite. We see this in spades now, on the front pages of newspaper, with a continuing crisis in and about Afghanistan is being pushed off the front pages in favor of Joe Bidens three dollars and fifty cents trillion spending plan or whatever the next thing is.
The journalists would like to see the word move on. I have more faith in the american people when it comes to war and peace and the american lives they care more than politicians understand. I wish they would roadways up and make Afghanistan matter.
Transcript generated on 2021-09-08.