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that we have assurances from the taliban. clearly the assurance of the taliban have given them aren t worth a darn thing, these people think that somehow because the taliban want humanitarian assistance or international recognition that we are going to be able to convince them to get americans out of the country after we surrendered territory on the battlefield. they re completely deluded and operating at a conference in high school not a matter of life and death we have abandoned hundreds of americans behind enemy lines in the report that you reference at the start of your show about flights, i have multiple sources on the ground telling me that is true and i ve heard nothing from the state department to give me confidence that they re tackling it with any sense of urgency in the last two weeks unaware of multiple private efforts underway to try and evacuate afghan allies, american citizens on private charters and the state department was standing in the
saying it s a state department prohibiting from taking off while there are other flights on the ground saying it s a taliban prohibiting them from taking it off. this is the issue this is president biden s mess, he created the hostage crisis and this white house, they gave the taliban, american citizens that they can used to work against us. the hostage crisis was created by president biden himself there is a norm is frustration i ve spoken to people on the ground and talk to americans as well as siv s those are people to hold special interest visas that were told that could come into the united states and our allies there s a lot of people on the ground that are considered what they call p1 high-level government officials being hunted down by the taliban as we speak this is a very, very dangerous situation people feel betrayed and imagine sitting on a plane waiting to be taken off
biden s evidence. the president was warned of the taliban taken over the 31st deadline and biden insisted on keeping it anyway. we now know from the leaked phone call where they tell the president and he told biden by the end of july how close things were to collapse. biden ignored that too. in the single most damning piece of evidence, we now know even after the record advance, the taliban effort to allow the u.s. to control all of cobble not just airport, biden keep saying there s no alternative, that is not true there was an alternative and he rejected it. as a direct result of these decisions, countless americans have been left stranded behind enemy lines. biden promise not to leave and to all americans were out. if there is american citizens left we will stay until we get them out. steve: that was august the 18th and look where we are
local, state, and federal level to make sure that we are working collectively to ensure we re ready for the disasters that come. it is a combination of making sure that we re ready and we rely on each other to respond to these events, but also working together to invest in reducing the impacts. the only way that we re going to be able to continue to respond to this large number of weather events that we re seeing is to start to reduce the impacts that we re seeing from them. chris: but simple question right now are we ready? i believe we re ready. we have invested a lot of money from the fema side into the state and local communities to enhance their preparedness. our grant programs continue to invest in their capabilities to help them make sure they are ready to respond. chris: administrator, thank you. thank you for taking the time to talk with us. we will be tracking the ongoing relief efforts. thank you. thank you, chris. chris: up next, americans and