maria: that was house speaker nancy pelosi dismissing weaponry and seized by the taliban. this stuff, blackhawk helicopters, a29 attack plane all which can be inspected by the taliban and/or chinese party used to take kill civilians or attack u.s. interests as we just heard from mike pompeo. joining me right now house minority leader kevin mccarthy, he s demanding that the gang of 8 receive classified briefing on the biden administration s plan to evacuate american citizens out of afghanistan. congressman, good to see you. thanks very much for being here. have you seen that plan yet? no and this is not what happens when you leave. i have heard the taliban has more blackhawk helicopters than australia. can you imagine that? even if the taliban cannot learn to fly those, where would they go?
a rush hour traffic kids going to school women going shopping men going to work so yes you kill people essentially but you say it s about leverage but it s about says we won t kill civilians and then kill civilians very would mean nothing yes that s one way of looking at it they would say look this is what other people call civilian casualties happening this is the cost of war this is how we kill only our age yes it s collateral damage and the other cause in collateral damage too and they were very quick today to claim this attack because we have moved if we look at doha into a very decisive face there looks like things are being ripped up in doha in fact the u.s. chief negotiator has already left it s just technicalities left so you know it s like small teams discussing tiny bit of detail and from what we hear is the next step will be a meeting in berlin scheduled for friday so us and what hala is that will come to
a rise in let s say air raids and night raids so everybody is power mongering because that is about leverage at the negotiation table taliban want to prove you know we can strike the heart of the capital at any point of time we want to and surely. if you are exploding detonating borne bomb as happened today even if you do that in front of a police station or recruitment center for the police you are meant to hit civilians because it is in the middle of the capital you know and there are civilians moving around this was a rush hour traffic kids going to school women going shopping men going to work so yes you kill people essentially but you say it s about leverage but if the taliban says we won t kill civilians and then kill civilians there would mean nothing yes that s one way of looking at it they would say look this is what other people call civilian casualties happening this is the course of war this is how we kill all of
war. if these arms sales go through which include things like munitions that are being used f for this effort in yemen, our weapons will be used by saudi arabia and the uae to do things like kill civilians. secretary of state pompeo who notified congress about this emergency yesterday needs to own the fact that the united states is going to be selling weapons to saudi arabia and the emirates and others that are going to be used to continue to target civilians in yemen. and i want to take a moment to talk about the troops in the middle east as well. president trump saying that we need additional troops there because iran is such a threat. has the threat from iran actually increased? what is driving that decision, do you think? i think it s very likely that the threat has increased. i think that it would be unlikely that the state department would withdraw such a significant amount of people from iraq if the threat hadn t increased. i think it s unlikely that the pentagon would recom
servicemen accused of war crimes. a fellow retired general officer of yours, mark hurtling, mutual friend. you and i both know a superior retired officer has written a really interesting piece pardoning soldiers accused of war crimes would be immoral. general, what s your take on this story? look, bryan arb i had three combat tours so there s no question that small unit combat is brutal. it s kill or be killed. but the u.s. armed forces is still guided by its values, by its discipline. it operates under the uniform code of military justice. and for sure we don t execute detainees or kill civilians. and if we do, we take action. a jury trial of your combat experience peers. so why mr. trump would intervene in that process which is widely not supported by the military chain in command, i m positive of that. this is a political act. it s ill thought out.