Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight happy Thursday. Nobody seems to remember this, but it was just a few months ago that Joe Biden gave the so called Intel Community a vital new mission, and they had he said until the end of August to find out where the coronavirus came from. Did it emerge from a penguin in a wet market, or did the chinese military create the virus in a bio weapons lab in Wuhan, Joe Biden assured us he was going to get to the bottom of it. He had the candy asked sleuths in the world working on that mystery. They will figure it out. He said you can trust them. So here we are at the end of August and what is the answer? Where did covid come from so far? No one has told us, and we are starting to suspect that nobody ever will its not like. The media are planning to push that issue. Vladimir Putin is not from China, they dont care the coronavirus investigation. What coronavirus investigation like Joe Biden himself? They

have no memory of anything that happened three months ago and come to think of it. Maybe that was the whole point of the exercise. You announce a fake inquiry into something you have absolutely no interest in learning more about, and then you bet on the fact that everyone will forget that inquiry exists pretty tricky. Maybe that is the real purpose of the Intel agencies actually not to gather intelligence but to provide political cover to the politicians who control them. Oh, that is a good question. Wolf. I will have the CIA look into it and get back to you right just stay on the line. This call may be monitored for quality assurance. It sounds cynical, we know, but it is striking when you think about it. Just how often politicians invoke the Intel community when they are lying to you here was Joe Biden. Just last month, your own intelligence community has assessed that the afghan government will likely collapse. Thats. Not true. Can you please clarify what they have told you about whether

that will happen or not? That is not true. They did not reach that conclusion. So the Intel agencies never said the Taliban would sweep into Kabul. That is what Joe Biden claims. Do you believe him? You probably dont. The Intel world may be partisan and deceitful. It certainly is, but we are betting. They are not completely stupid. Obviously they knew the afghan government could collapse. They must have told Joe Biden that, or at least the people around Joe Biden can we prove that they told him. No, we cant prove it, and that is the beauty of using the Intel agencies for cover you get to make any claim you want to make and no one can prove you are lying because the truth is highly classified. Maybe you are starting to understand why no one ever defines of the CIA. They are too useful. That was from July the clip we just played and at the time Biden told us. The Intel

community did not reach the conclusion that the afghan government would fall to the Taliban. Now it is August and the afghan government has indeed fall into the Taliban. That is not our assessment, as they say in Washington, it actually happened. The afghan troops threw down the rifles the president ran away. There is a black Taliban flag hanging over the capital. So how did this all happen and more to the point? How did our extravagantly funded intelligence agencies not know it was going to happen? Well, actually they did know. Sort of that is Joe Bidens new position. He explained it yesterday on ABC News Watch back in July. You say, Taliban takeover was highly unlikely. Was the intelligence wrong, or did you downplay it? There was no consensus, you go back and look at the intelligence reports. They said it was more likely to be some time went by the end of the year year. Are you following this? In the space of a single month, the official line went from our intelligence agencies. Think

everything is fine. In Afghanistan, post quote to there was no consensus in the intelligence agencies that everything was not fine or something like that. It is not exactly clear what Joe Biden was saying there. All we can be totally certain of is that we will never get to see the documents he was referring to. So really anything could be true, assuming truth still exists, pretty smart mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, is not as clever a smarter man might have couched his lies for plausible deniability down the road, but unfortunately Mark Milley is not that man. Here is what he claims this week in public. There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in eleven days. That was totally unequivocal. According to Mark Milley, there was zero intelligence,

nothing that I or anyone else saw suggesting a coming collapse in Afghanistan, so he literally had no idea what was coming, because nobody told him the people paid to keep track were not keeping track. The Intel agencies failed completely and given their budgets and power. That is shocking. If you think about it for a minute. Clearly, someone should be fired if not court martialed, but no says Joe Biden. Thats, not true in fact, says Joe Biden, looking straight into the face of his old friend the anchor at ABC, no one in the entire. U dot S government and certainly not in the White House, could have done anything different or better. As we withdrew from Afghanistan. The bad parts you saw on television were inevitable. No mistakes of any kind by anyone connected in any way to Joe Biden occurred. No one can be blamed for anything. No one should feel guilty. Everyone is sleeping, just fine. Thank you very much watch you dont think this could have been handled. This exit could have been handled better in any way. No mistakes.

No, I dont think it could have been handled in a way. We are going to go back in hindsight and both come up with the idea that somehow there was a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing. I dont know how that happens. I dont how that happened. So for you that was always priced into the decision. Yes really. Mr President, you couldnt have handled this better in any way, not even a tiny adjustment, NO says Joe Biden. Meanwhile, desperate people tumble from airplanes thousands of feet in the air, many thousands of Americans remained trapped tonight in a country now controlled by the Taliban, but no problem says the President: how do you assess a statement like that? Well, our friend piers Morgan described it as breathtakingly arrogant and disturbingly delusional, and that sounds about right. If possibly a little understated watching it, you wonder, does Joe Biden understand with this moment means to the country he leads.

We had to leave Afghanistan. He was right about that. It was always going to be ugly. That is true, but this ugly, this humiliating this destructive to Americas Authority in the world as damaging to our future. No none of that was foregone. None of that was necessary. All of that was a choice that Joe Biden and his advisors made intentionally over months. They priced it in, as he just told us, they knew it was going to happen, but they did it anyway. What does that say about them? What does it tell you that they left thousands of american citizens behind when they fled and then seemed and seem markedly unconcerned about what might happen to have those american citizens in Afghanistan under the Taliban? Well, it tells you an awful lot. The United States government to restate exists to serve its own citizens, the? U dot S government exists to

serve its own citizens period, the? U dot! S! Government has no other purpose the moment, the? U dot S government stopped serving? U dot s! Citizens is the moment the? U dot S government becomes illegitimate. That is true. That has always been true since the day the country was founded, and it is obvious to most people who live here. Does Joe Biden understand it sincerely its possible that he doesnt toward the end of his interview with ABC there was a telling exchange that exchange was never broadcast on camera. Now television networks, edit interviews very often for time, but ABC News- appears to have chosen to edit out portions that may Joe Biden look how to put it, not presidential, incoherent confused. We think it is worth knowing what happened, especially in a moment of national crisis, so we are going to read from the transcript that we were provided, and here it is George Stephanopoulos. I think a

lot of Americans even a lot of veterans who served in Afghanistan agree with you on the big strategic picture. They believe we had to get out, but I wonder how you respond to an army special forces officer, Javier Mccabe. He did seven tours. He was shot twice. He agrees with you. He says we have to cut our losses in Afghanistan, but he adds I just wish we could have left with. Honor. Here is Joe Bidens response. Look that is like asking my deceased son BO, who spent six months in Kosovo as an army major- and you know, im sure he had regrets coming out of Afghanistan. I mean come out of Iraq. He had regrets to how it is going, but the idea what is the alternative? Now we are waiting for that tape, but that is the transcript. Now the presidents son was in the Navy, not the army. He was in the army, not the Navy, its not clear from that. We believe he was in the army

and not the navy. He did not serve in Afghanistan. He served in Kosovo and Iraq. Joe Biden cant seem to remember those details. We are not attacking him. We are not telling you this from glee. We are telling you, because it is true. This is the man leading our country. The scary thing about what is happening in Afghanistan is not that Afghanistan is collapsing. Afghanistan has always been in various states of collapse by our standards for a thousand years. The scary thing about Afghanistan is that it reveals american weakness and weakness of thats aggression. Power vacuums are always filled. The problem with what we just read to you is that it reveals weakness at the very center of the: U Dot S government weakness that possibly cant be.