biden has shut it dispowrng americans are going to be left behind, and the taliban are going to have a hostage bonanza at anytime of their choosing. it s disgraceful and shameful. maria: look, i know that it was a prior [inaudible conversations] if yeah, go ahead, brian. that inventory that our u.s. service members are now having to fight against, we used those weapons, we carried those weapons across the battlefield. we know what they can mean in terms of harm, not just the improvised explosive devices and the vehicle-borne ieds, but the ordnance, the mortars, the body armor, the night vision that they now have that limit us from conducting nighttime operations that could help give us a little bit of an edge over those enemies, the surface-to-air assets they now have that they can put down our assets that are in the sky. michael and i know as well as anybody, that inventory is the most advanced military weaponry that was given to them by
your personal reaction, because with it has to be personal for both of you, to see these prisoners now let out. maria, it goes so far beyond personal. you said i lost two legs and a finger, that s a scratch. that s the truth. that s a scratch compared to what michael new nye, our frien, suffered. i could give you my list on my arm right here, right? three of my friends right there, they gave their lives rolling up these people that were left out. another one of my friends right there gave his life rolling up these people that president biden let out. more friends right there gave their lives rolling up these people that president biden left out. it s so far beyond the injuries. and you see the sacrifices that are now taking place because of those that were let out that are saying this is the way we need to go out there and secretly
accomplished something political to get out, not a strategic objective of making america safer, getting our citizens out alive, making our service members in a safer world that they go out there and conduct their operations, making our homeland safer. no strategic objectives met. their only strategy was to say how can we make things politically better optically. that was their objective, and obviously, when they tried to do that, they made every aspect of geopolitics and if safety across the globe in the most dire possible situation. that s what they actually accomplished. maria: michael yeah, maria maria: your thoughts here. go ahead. yeah, just to add to that, bagram air base was the only base in the world that we had sandwiched between china, russia iran and that we could also strike these terrorist groups, the only one. not a single country around afghanistan has agreed to host an additional base. it s also just a few hundred miles from the chinese province,