Left americans behind on august the 31st? there are americans, there were americans that were still in afghanistan and still are. brian: yes. the answer is yes. how hard is it to say yes. you left hundreds, if not thousands behind. here to react are lieutenant colonel scott manning who tried to get him out himself former green beret and founder of task force bine apple sean parnell and pennsylvania senate candidate. i will start with you, scott. of course we left people behind. you wouldn t have to scramble, give up your job, put together a task force and try to get them out as a retired guy. did that outrage you? thanks, brian for having me on. what s frustrating to so many of our retired veterans right now there are still thousands of at risk afghans who are being hunted and executed right now. look, there are partner special operations forces from the commandos and afghan special
Don t well, they have had trouble according to the state department with people not registering, not letting them know, people who are involved with families there and don t want to leave, but is it also because we don t want people to know? we don t want the bad guys to know where all the american citizens are? that is certainly part of it, andrea. we ve heard this line of questioning for the last few weeks, there s been a lot of focus and rightly so from an american government and american military and american state department on what about the americans, how many americans have been left behind. when you look at the numbers we know the vast majority of people who have been evacuated are afghans, at risk afghans and sie holders and so on. that s going to be a continuing line of questioning. for intelligence and security purposes i don t know that they re going to be fully up front about that number because there s probably ongoing operations as well. what struck me about some of
Against the president s explicit commitment not to leave until all american citizens were out and to safety. and this is not what happened and now people desperately and frantically trying to get out. don t tell me that we re not leaving americans behind. you left them behind, joe biden left them behind and it was a disgrace. thank you for your help in continuing to help get american citizens and afghans and others out of the country. as you have seen we have continued to facility. i didn t ask you a question but since you want to address the issue. isn t it true that you left americans behind on august the 31st? there are some americans still in afghanistan and we are continuing to work to get them out.
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