And then him good evening and good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight, if you tuned in to see the hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee today and if you didnt he missed out, but if he did, you may have been a little surprised to see Mark Milley sitting there, you remember Millie hes, the fleshy hood eyed man, chairman of the joint Chiefs of staff. He is also a national disgrace. Is a living insult to the military overseas thats, not an insult its objectively. True, I get yet somehow, despite the overwhelming evidence that Mark Milley is dishonest. Incompetent, partisan, dishonorable mark Milley still has a highly prominent job. Thats the amazing thing, and not only is Mark Milley still employed at the very highest level. He is still lying and doing so with his characteristic relish and enthusiasm. Today, for example, with an entirely straight face. Mark Milley delivered an impassioned lecture about the

importance of civilian control of the military. This country, doesnt, want generals figuring out what orders we are going to accept or do or not, thats, not our job. Oh really is that so Mark Milley isnt. This the same mark Milley, who once illegally seized personal control of our Countrys Nuclear Arsenal and then, when that wasnt sufficient promised to tip off the governor of China about future military operations and did all of this who didnt like his boss, who, unlike him, was yes, civilian elected by voters, thats the very same mark Milley, the one lecturing about the military? It was all pretty amusing in a dark way, but he did make you wonder what is this about? Why is Mark Milley, saying something so obviously preposterous expect to be helping him in some way when did need it was helping him him. What you watch in the Senate hearing today was pure blame. Shifting

Joe bidens foreign policy is a legitimate disaster. Nobody disputes that, but Mark Milley wants you to know that none of it is his fault. Secretary of defense. Wants you to know that too. So. Does the head of Central Command General Mckenzie, all three of them want to make it crystal clear that the scenery dull maxing out on the White House did this its his fault, not theirs. It was Joe Biden. They told us today who forced american troops to leave Afghanistan before we evacuated all american citizens and because the Pentagon reflexively in every case follows every order up to the letter from the sitting president. They had no choice but to obey these crazy decisions. Watch them explain General Milley its your testimony that you recommended two thousand five hundred troops approximately stay in Afghanistan. Yes, my assessment was back in the fall of apostolate twenty and remained consistently throughout that we should keep a steady, could bounce up to three thousand five hundred, maybe

something like that General Mckenzie. Do you share that assessment? Senator? I do share that assessment. President Biden last month, in an interview with George tough Annapolis, said no military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence in Afghanistan. Did these officer and general millers recommendation get to the president personally, their input was received by the president and considered by the president for sure in terms of what they specifically recommended senator as they just said, they are not going to provide what they recommended in the conference you following this wheels officially coming off, but what sleaze balls these guys are? We told Joe Biden to keep two thousand five hundred troops in the country we demanded it. On the other hand, because we are bound by the ancient and sacred rules of confidentiality. We cant really tell you what we told the president, because that would be wrong cackles. These people so thoroughly deserve each other.

It is wonderful to see them rent one another out which is exactly what they proceeded to do for the entirety of todays hearing Watch General Mckenzie explained that, despite the fact that he personally oversaw the disaster in Afghanistan, actually he had nothing to do with it. It was all demented grandpa pulling the strings from the White House. I wont share my personal recognition to the president, but I will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation. I recommended that we maintain two thousand five hundred troops in Afghanistan and I also recommended earlier in the fall of twenty twenty, that we maintain four thousand five hundred at that time. Those are my personal views. I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the afghan military forces and eventually the afghan government. What a dirt ball that guy is Emma. Did you hear that I cant share a condition, but here was my recommendation: cackles

take those metals off you dont deserve them until today, many of them have been undermining Biden indirectly. Far, be it for us to defend Joe Biden, who deserves no defense, but it is a defense of the american system which works well when civilians control the military. Up until today they have been leaking bidens phone calls for exam. Will the president of Afghanistan thats illegal, but they did it anyway. Theyve been giving nasty background, quotes to the stenographers and NBC News today was different. Todays performance took place in public, it was on the record and it was under oath and in that performance they directly contradicted the commander in chief as a reminder, heres what Joe Biden was saying just a few weeks ago on ABC your top military advisors, warned against. They wanted you to keep about two thousand five hundred troops. No, they didnt. It was split that wasnt true, they didnt tell you. They

wanted troops to stay, no, not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame all troops. They didnt argue against that. So no one told or military advisors did not tell you know. We should keep two thousand five hundred troops, its been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that. No, no one said that to me that I can recall: oh its, not a defense of any of them. They are all so awful and undeserving of leading this great country. They should not be in charge of this country its too good a country for people like this, so you already have the generals, claiming they told Biden. The afghan withdrawal would be a total disaster Biden. Just in the tape he saw said they did not tell him that the question is was Langford, someone is lying, Joe Biden doesnt always line. He doesnt remember anything. He doesnt know what he had for lunch Heres, what we know for sure- and this is the point of todays hearing- end of the point that matters going forward. No one in the pentagons leadership will ever be held accountable for this. The latest

in a very long string of colossal scrubs that have dramatically reduced american power and prestige around the world and gotten a ton of people killed. No one. This is unbelievable. Lets say you worked in a nuclear power plant and Wendy had too many beers on your lunch break and he fell asleep in the reactor. Melted down and thousands died. And then you got a massive raise thats, pretty much whats happening here. The House of representatives just passed, seven hundred and seventy six dollars billion defense budget. How big is that? Well its fully twenty four dollars billion more than even the White House requested. None of Us Congress just threw in a little extra for a job. Well done a bonus for the generals who left eighty dollars billion worth of american military equipment for the Taliban to use good work, guys so its official now, no one will ever be punished for any of it, not for abandoning the air base. That was idiotic. Everyone knew it ever. They did it anyway, not for leaving american

citizens behind as they fled, not for leaving our troops exposed to the attack that killed. Thirteen young american serviceman, not for the drone strike that glow of children, the one they lied about for weeks. The people who did these things are in great shape. Tonight they will retire exactly when they feel like retirement, at which point they will get full benefits and jobs at Lockheed thats. How our system no works. Its very very frustrating not because recrimination is good, but because, in order to function a system to be accountable and as of tonight, theres only one man in the entire: u DOT S government who is being punished for the failure, the catastrophic failure in Afghanistan just one man, he is the lieutenant colonel in United States Marine Corps hes an honorable and honest man. He is also blameless. He had no role in any of these decisions. What was his crime s? Crime was criticizing those decisions in August he posted this video on the internet.

If a battalion commander has the simplest complaint boom fire, we have a secretary of defense that testified to Congress in May that the Afghan National Security force could withstand the Taliban advance. We have chairman enjoyed cheats, who come out as a member. That was both to advise the military policy. We have a marine combatant commander. All of these people are supposed to advise and im, not saying we got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying: did any of you throw your rank on the table and say hey its a bad idea to evacuate. Bagram, airfield the strategic airbase before we evacuate everyone thats an honorable in use on the screen, thats a man whos in it for the right reasons. He cares about the country and wants to defend it. Theres a man who believed in his superiors who is not cynical, who is genuinely confused by his superiors, unwillingness to admit their own error. His confusion comes from decency

and all most immediately, his superiors reacted to that video. They didnt apologize for the disaster. Didnt explain why they did with the dead. They punished him. They relieved him of his command and they told him to shut up and stop talking, but he didnt stop talking heres how he responded. To recap, my position in the fall out of Afghanistan, I demanded account ability for my senior leaders at I say again that I understood that I might lose my retirement and my family stability as it has played out. I have in fact lost all three of those things. What I do it again, I dont know my name is Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller and I was the only officer in the entire american coalition fired in the debacle of the afghan follow. I acknowledge that I should have been fired. However, the hypocrisy of the general officers who are not being held to the same standard is a microcosm for the entire problem that is going to bring

down the great institutions of this republic that we love thats. The man you want serving in your officer corps in a serious country. A person who takes his job seriously is patriotic, who is honest? Who demands account ability and before you say its the military? They dont have freedom of speech, youre not allowed to give a political statement. Two points, one that was not up politically explicit statement. Endless number of openly partisan statements of the leaders of the Pentagon Mark Milley was openly thrilled by the election of Joe Biden. Was he punished for that? No, he was elevated in Congress again, just rewarded him in the entire leadership of the? U DOT S military with twenty four extra billion dollars, but Stuart Scheller for telling the truth. Well, heres what happened to him military brass forest him to undergo a psychological evaluation, because only a crazy person would ask for accountability after the disaster in Afghanistan

and then, when he wouldnt admit he was crazy. They threw him in prison in jail where he sits tonight. His father just released this statement explain his son is now behind bars with violent criminals. How long is he there hes there indefinitely? This is happening to might or might tonight America all our son did was ask the question that everyone was asking themselves that they were too scared to speak out loud. It was asking for account ability, I think, even asked for a apology that we made mistakes, but they couldnt do that which was mind blowing. They had a gag order on him and ask him to speak. He did speak and they incarcerated him very. They dont know what to do with them.