afghanistan. and theand they left everyth. they they leftht in the dark of night. they lefft thet lights on . they left the dogs, by the way, you know, the people left that . they left the doors. everyone, you know, the dog lovers. and you got a lot of them. i love dogs.le you love dogs. the but they left the dogs.what people said what? one of the first questions i got, what did they dorman with the dogs? mostly german shepherds. they left them. what they did, the way they got out was soth horrible.ot therybody knows that was their plan that had nothinatg to do with me. tten getting out out, too. we would have gotten out with strength and dignity. and what happened? they got out and the other here. oh yeah, it was trump s fault. oh, that s right. lon it was trump. wou trump.have i was gone for b long.een nd wewould have been out faster than them. we would have had all wld h the equipment. we lould have haave thd the amen citizens. we left hostages.eric we lefant americans behind.
the most embarrassing moment that this country has ever hadry ,frankly, the way we t got that, nothing getting out, we had to get out. it was ridiculous.ou waits ridiculous to be there to be there. and i had that so good, so tight, so tough. i spoke to the leader,. to the i said,, if you do anything, rl you re going to get hit really hard. literally, i even he said , but sir, why? why he goes, why or why?u send do you send me a picture ofsa my house? i said, you have to figure thaid tbdul one out, . but we didn t have one death int eighteen months. h in 1he knew not one death. and then to see the way we got out, we were surrendering, liker taking the military out firsret leaving eighty five billion dollars worth of equipment behind, giving up bagram. i was going to keep bagram. i was getting out, but not for afghanistan. it sit s one hour away from whee china makes its nuclear weapons . it s one o of the biggestf airforce bases in the world. i think the biggesforce bat wite runways t
stupid people. and think of thaupe t the waanye they left afghanistan and nobody was fired. i fired a lotan ant people becao they didn t do a good job at fire . let me ask you talk to putin about ukraine. what what did you say to him? him i could see that he loved and i. said he loved ukraine.ve he considersd it to be a part f russia. yeah, i said that when i m president, we had a veryt. good relationship. . he was a i mean, look, i is the worst thing that ever happened to him. i clos. sed up this pipeline you never heard the word the words nord stream two until they came along nord stream two is that pipeline. and i ha d a great relationship with them, but it was very tough because they had a fakem a russia investigation.d and i told them and he told me,e he said it s very hard forbecaus us to deal , don t you think? i said very hard because we have a fake investinn that tg nt that turned out to be a fake anw for two years. it went on and we could havemi done very well with russia
to, that it was the right decision. there s a lot to be proud of. peter doocy live. peter? dana, officials here are not planning any major changes to the way things work, admitting the intel on afghanistan was bad, but conceding that intel is a tough business. who s going to get fired over this? peter, the purpose of the document that we re putting out today is to sort of collate the chief reviews and findings of the agencies that did after action reviews. it s not the purpose of it is not accountability. in a 12-page report put together by white house officials they lay heavy blame on the trump administration for negotiating with the taliban and then ghosting the biden team
complaining that he needs to explain the government aircraft, that he was rather on a private trip. i would just caution in director wray s regard that if he s under 24/7 security, as many of our top officials are, that he may well supposed to be using government aircraft. as you know, that is the rule for some of these people in intelligence and the fbi. we ll have to see what the response is from them. yes. this is an oman of what is going to happen if republicans win control of either house of congress. they have pretty good prospect of winning the house of representatives. they re going to be able to demand testimony, demand documents, to hold hearings and do inquiries on this issue, on afghanistan, on hunter biden. and that is something that will,