country. and they are walking in and caravans in other ways. what is happening. so i never saw anything so stupid in my life until the last few days. with afghanistan. it blows the stupidity of the southern border away. what happened and what is happening in afghanistan is unbelievable. and we are being set up by very tough people that are very great negotiators. i will tell you one thing, automatically great negotiators. they have been fighting for 1,000 years and everything about them they negotiate. being set up, they have all those people and in a certain way i guarantee you they consider them to be hostages. we will see what happens over the coming weeks. but this is not a story that just ended today or yesterday. this is a story that will go on for a long time, and it could be a very, very bad ending. sean: we have americans caught behind enemy lines right now and we were told this could never happen, and it happened.
border, but it is handled even worse. nobody handled the southern border worse than him. we have the most secure border we ever had, and now the worst border we have ever had. afghanistan is the exact same thing. think of this, we have a military that is holding. you get it reduced down to 2,500 soldiers and they were doing a good job. it was fine. there was a smaller force. taking it down from close to 20 over 22,500 and we were fine, but we have the military they are and we take the military out before we took our civilians out, and before we took the interpreters and other, we want to try to help with, by the way i am america-first. the americans come out first, but also we will help people that help us we have to be very careful with the vetting coming to see some rough people in there, but we will help those people. can you imagine? what we were going to do, very quickly as we were going to take the military out to last, okay,
and we had no problems. you remember that. you remember the big button versus the little button and the whole thing. let me just we get along great, we had a very good relationship. we met, got no credit for that one, no problem. by the way, south korea, got them to pay billions of dollars. we are protecting south korea, they are very wealthy. they built the ships and the televisions, they do everything. they are very rich. they were paying us nothing. i got them to pay billions and billions of dollars because we are protecting them from north korea. and i had a very good relationship with president moon and all the people of south korea. in fact, they liked me and i like to them. but i said why are we doing this for nothing? japan, the same thing. to so many, we are protecting the world. we can t do this. it s not we are not supposed to be doing this. if you look at russia and china, how many countries are they fighting for? one.
high, your reaction to that aspect of the economy alone? so energy-independence was one of my greatest achievements, i thought. i think the vaccine, energy-independence, what we did on the border, frankly afghanistan would ve been great. we would ve been out and we would ve been out with dignity and pride and it would ve worked out great, none of this stuff going, there is no again, it is not the concept of leaving, it is the way they withdrew. it was not even possible to believe. but gasoline as you know is $1.87 when i was leaving office, and now it s going to be up to over $5 very soon, and they are talking to opec. i know the opec people very well, you talk about negotiators, they are killing us. and what you not say is that biden failed with opec, they told him no on the cutbacks. they failed with opec.
is will you, are you considering a run again in 2024, i will let you answer it anyway you want, but go back to the original question, now that we have all of these americans behind enemy lines, you have in the 45 seconds we have left, what would you do now to help with that specific situation? because the campaign finance laws are extremely complicated and unbelievably stupid, i m actually not allowed to answer that question, can you believe that? but i will put it this way, i think you will be happy and a lot of our friends will be happy. but i m not actually allowed to answer it. it makes it very difficult if i do, so people, you re going to be happy, because i love this country and i hate to see what is happening. sean: would you be willing to get on the phone with the people that you gave very harsh words to and talk to them on behalf of americans that are behind enemy lines tonight?