recession. why the hell are so many smart people so damn stupid? joining me now michele bachmann dean of the robertson school of government at regent university. i usually don t get upset about much bachmann but i m upset i don t see this going very well over in europe with joe biden in charge. do you? well, we saw his foreign policy genius displad displayed last august when he left 84 billion worth of the finest most advanced technical equipment on earth and he handed over bagram air force base to the chinese no, i don t think so a lot of people are real happy right now or have confidence in joe biden s foreign policy expertise. we know he has been a complete failure at the economy and if he brought his report card home now to dr. jill, she would be giving him an f on economy, f on
what you say when you re $2 trillion in value, you have a pretty high lofty expectations placed on you by wall street and the markets. if you dive deeper into the apple numbers, i mean, $84 billion in sales in three months, $20 billion in record profit and still selling a lot of iphone 13s and a lot of cash, $13 bill. they say they make more off of their app businesses. it s incredible. keep the pods in your ear though. they always fall out amount separate issue. susan, thanks very much. susan li on all of those developments. meantime, getting your kids vaccinated. no sooner that we got word that an fda panel said it s okay to
over others. by now i m sure you heard about carlos watson and the implosion of ozzie media. the media company never really achieved prominence in the field of journalism, nor did it ever make an impact producing multimedia content, but that sure didn t stop investors from filling watson s coffers with more than $70 million in funding. why? because he had that gift of making white people comfortable. for those of us who don t prioritize their feelings over our actual equality, funding for our platforms is far less available. in 2017, venture capital investment reached just over $84 billion. now, that s a height not seen since the dot com bubble of the early 2000s, but practically none of that money went to startups run by people of color. a majority of funds went to college educated white males. white people make up more than 70% of venture capitalists while
resource efs to do that. you all testified yesterday it wasn t a matter of if the afghan army would fail and the taliban would take over, you were shocked by the rate it happened. the billions of dollars in equipment has been left behind has been under much scrutiny. knowing that they were going to fail, why were more steps not taken to secure that military equipment or destroy it knowing now it s with the taliban. the 84 billion included all of the let s cut to the equipment left behind. why was so much left behind. aircraft, weapons, why was that there when you knew they were going to fail? the other thing i would say all the equipment that we were using as i stated earlier was evacuated by general miller.
0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced we ll implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u.s. troops who remain there by january 15th. on january 15th he announced there were 2500 troops left. on january 20th biden became president. 2500 troops were then in afghanistan. on april 14th president biden announced his intention to continue the withdrawal all regular u.s. troops by september 11th. four months after the pre-planned may 1st deadline. on july 2nd italy and germany withdrew their troops on july 17th we have had specific testimony here on what then happened from july 17th on. a