Are, keep in mind, the countrys highest ranking military officers, their job is to follow the orders of elected officials that protect the country no matter how much their feelings may be hurt. But in this case, that is not what happened. Because the rules are different now. According to u. S. Army major general, the president s insults that day, similar comments he made in public, were a bitter humiliation for the countrys Military Leaders. And they made it their mission to undermine civilian control of the pentagon ever after. I was really shocked by how many of my former colleagues voted for the former president and openly supported him, but when trump turned on the military, well, the military turned on him. Keep in mind, that is not how democracy is supposed to work. Military leaders report to the people you elect. But again, that is not what happened. Stories began leaking about how the president , president trump, was ignoring classified intelligence about russian counties in afghanistan. Where do you think the stories came from . The pentagon, it was payback. The military simply refused to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan, even though they were ordered to do so by the president of the United States. Again, no more civilian control of the military. And Joe Biden finally became president on inauguration day, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mark Milley, was so excited he couldnt control himself. No one has a bigger Smile Today that i do, milley told michelle obama, sucking up like a child. You cant see it under my mess, but i do. The media, people who supported biden from the very beginning, including a former cia director, there are many of those on television these days, also celebrated. They told us the adults were back in charge. The Orange Man is gone. Everything is going to be better now. Anybody who has any connection to reality about what is going on around them should have watched that and said the adults are back in the room. It seems as though we have a professional adult once again in the White House, who is just simply doing the work. The theme i would say, the adults are back beard it is a relief to have adults in charge. Now we have adults in the White House. Okay, the adults are back in the room. There is a sense, i think The World over, that the adults have returned. We have an adult in the White House now, and it is glorious. Tucker [laughs] those clips are amazing to watch now, simply because they consist of the most childish people in the country celebrating adulthood. But they look especially absurd in light of what we just seen in afghanistan. These days, Joe Bidens friends in the pentagon and the foreign Affairs Desk at Nbc News no longer think he has an adult. He abandon american citizens, he got 13 americans killed, and suddenly, they seem a little ashamed. Plus, he is turning his back on the neocon project, and that is the greatest offense of all. But the greatest question is why our media and the military were talking like this in the first place. The adults are back in charge . What does that mean . If you follow what they have been telling us about afghanistan, you realize adults means people who are willing to pretend everything is fine when it is very much not fine. Consider that no matter how badly our mission in afghanistan was deteriorating, by the way, we were never clear what that mission was, but clearly, our strategy of pacifying the country was falling apart. No matter how badly it got in afghanistan, the pentagon and its many spokesmen repeatedly told us we were making them incredible progress, and progress of the where they used again and again and again. In 2005, for example, the head of u. S. Control command told reporters over the three years we have been operating here, afghanistan has shown interest in progress. Two years later, a website reported that there was a similar message, i would like to point out there was Significant Progress in the forward movement of the Afghan National Army. In 2008, the commander of the 101st airborne, apparently another adult, concurred that progress was ongoing, we are making some steady progress here. Than in 2010, coalition casualties increasing, but the progress somehow continued unabated. It was progress no matter what. And army general informed reporters at a News Conference in kabul, we are steadily making deliberate, can you guess, progress. That same year, Stanley Mcchrystal, than the general of all u. S. Forces in afghanistan, also wanted us to no progress was being made, i think we have made Significant Progress since the conditions in 2009 and beginning some progress and we will make real progress in 2010. Which we remind you was 11 years ago. Than Stanley Mcchrystal was fired for criticizing the obama administration, in particular the total incompetence of the current president , Joe Biden, and David Petraeus took over, and sure enough, general petraeus to quickly declared progress has been achieved in some critical areas and we are poised to realize more progress. Just a year later in 2011 petraeus double down and told lawmakers that year that the past eight months have seen important but hardfought progress. Speaking that summer to troops in kandahar, the Defense Secretary at the time echoed that theme. And what you have accomplished is extraordinary because over the last year, essentially, you have ejected the taliban from their home territory. And if we can hold this territory and expand the bubble, then i think i think by The End of the year, we can turn the corner in this conflict. Tucker he didnt actually use the word progress, he had more original language than that, but the message was the same. Just to make sure that message was crystal clear, senior Military Leaders kept using that word. A few years later, the chairman of the joint chiefs confirmed that progress was indeed continuing. At this point, we have made Significant Progress. He said that in 2013, than 3 liters in 2016, the new commander in afghanistan, John W nicholson said the same thing, we are seeing some progress. As recently as last year, spokesmen of Mark Milley said he was hard at work making sure to accelerate progress afghanistan. So if youre wondering why americans are so confused by the fact that kabul fell in an afternoon and the taliban control the country that we occupied for 20 years, maybe it is because they thought we were making progress. So consider that whole chronology you just heard. Consider the news that reuters broke this week about Joe Bidens recent conversation with the guy we installed as the president of the afghanistan, some College Professor called ghani. Joe biden told ghani that even if the taliban were taking over the country the summer, the most important thing to do was to keep up the appearance of, you guessed it, progress. I need not tell you that perception around The World and in parts of afghanistan i believe said things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban, President Biden said, and there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture,. We know that conversation took place because the pentagon and or the State Department leaked it to reuters. Now why would they do that . Because whatever bidens fault, he did pull american troops out of afghanistan, and they hate that. So they leaked an audiotape of the president speaking to another head of state. That is illegal. You Cant Conduct Statecraft if people are leaking the contents of your conversations. And yet they are doing that to get back at him because he broke the rules. He stopped at a permanent war. He did it ineptly, but he did it. So lying to the rest of us about what is actually happening with our troops and our money in our name in a foreign country, that has been the philosophy of this countrys Military Establishment for 20 years. It is also the philosophy of every Highranking Official in the biden administration. Projects the illusion of progress, even when it is clear we are failing. Tony blinken, who runs the State Department ineptly, just announced the news that more than 100 american citizens remain trapped in afghanistan, f progress. Now, u. S. Military flights have ended and our troops have departed afghanistan. A new chapter of Americas Engagement with afghanistan has begun. We believe there are still a small number of americans come under 200, and likely closer to 100, who remain in afghanistan and want to leave. We are trying to determine exactly how many. Tucker [laughs] we had 20 years to figure it out, but we have no idea how many americans including school children remain in afghanistan. Because we are the adults in the room. That is why we are going to lead with our diplomacy. And i what does that look like exactly, how do you lead with a Flood Policy . Heres one example. Back in april, Tony Blinken and the State Department announced Spending Hundreds of millions of dollars on social programs in afghanistan. And to destroy the patriarchy, because that is really our goal impose our modernist social values on prehistoric countries. We are going to pay for programs and support womens empowerment. Where did that money go . People like this, who posted this on social media, for 8. 5 years, i taught at the university in afghanistan, i found her the first gender Studies Program in afghanistan in history there. All of our hopes, dreams, progress, only to have it snatched away. We used to call this cultural imperialism to imagine that other cultures want your family structure, for example. Isnt it Up To the afghans what families they want . No. We tried to impose our customs on them and they hated it. Maybe that is one of the reasons the taliban took over in a weekend we heard people to leadr diplomacy. Meanwhile, we have been leaving with our diplomacy and leaving billions of american military Dollars Worth of equipment to the taliban. Row upon row of sophisticated Assault Rifles, boxes of pistols, ammunition, vision equipment, videos posted by the taliban online in recent Days Boast of what they say are there seizures of the Assault Rifles in the afghan city, and at the airport, Armored Humvees by the dozen, some mineresistant vehicles costing hundreds of billions of dollars a piece. Even a small drone. These are the potentially lethal spoils the taliban are believed to have captured in recent days from defeated afghan forces, weapons made in america, supplied by the u. S. To their fallen afghan allies. Tucker so, now, we are arming the taliban and were ruining our own citizens in afghanistan. Who could possibly have seen that coming . Glenn greenwald is one of the few journalists who did see it coming. He writes for sub stack, where All Of Us read him and you should, too. Thanks so much for coming on. So it is a little weird for the News Organization that repeated uncritically and not just on the left, i hate to say it, but almost all of them repeated these kind of happy talk about how afghanistan was progressing for 20 years, then whip around and are shocked that actually, it is a mess and always has been, there is some dishonesty there, isnt there . The whole thing was a fraud, and you know, you can go back to things like, in 2019, the Washington Post publishing what they call the afghanistan papers, not a book out by the reporter who broke that really important story and did a good job on it, with a obtained secret documents going through 2016 and the obama years, where internally, they were saying the exact opposite of what they wert the war in afghanistan, just like with vietnam. They were saying to the public, as you just show it, making great progress, faith in the afghan security forces, internally they knew the Afghans Acuity forces were a joke, illiterate people who could not do anything, drug addicts, people who had no interest in fighting, would disappear as soon as they got their paycheck. The whole war for years and years and years was a lie, and so, while i do agree, of course, that there are in aptitudes and how we withdrew, the fact that we withdrew, because two president s first president trump, than President Biden in short it happened, is something to celebrate, in large part because it is the first time in as long as i can remember, as these people what i do know is The Deep State, that manipulate us all the time, that lie to us all the time for their own benefit, have finally lost, and the media is turning against biden not because they suddenly became fair, but because they have been in bed with The Deep State, that is to fed them Russia Gate and all the leaks during the trump years, and they are angry on behalf of the faction that they generally serve. Tucker i hate to say i agree with you. I think biden is an awful president , the worst i can remember, and totally out of it, senile. On the other hand, he is president of United States. You are not supposed to leak an audiotape of his recorded conversation with another head of state. That is a felony, for one thing. And for another, how could any president do real diplomacy if he is being undermined by permanent washington . Why shouldnt we be worried about that . You know, i think this is the key point, for me at least, when i look at the trump years. People ask me, why what you are as worried as other people come on, you know, the left come about the Trump Presidency, and my reason was because what i saw it in opposition to the Trump Presidency was something far more dangerous. They took their masks off and made clear the cia, the pentagon, the permanent Military And Security state inside the United States, that they were willing to intervene in u. S. Politics to undermine the elected president , the very first article i wrote before trump was inaugurated in januare The Deep State goes to war with the elected president. The fact that we have a Deep State that the u. S. Media was cheering, they were thrilled that these generals and they were heralding as heroes, for ignoring trumps orders, for keeping classified information away from him, for manipulating him, for subverting his decisions, they were cheering these generals as saving us from our elected leader, which is the definition of a Deep State, at the same time that they were calling anyone who was pointed out that we have a Deep State, unhinged, crazy conspiracy theorists. That, to me, is the most dangerous development of the last five years, is that unelected generals and intelligence operatives and the media cheered, the power to override our democracy whenever they thought that was in our best interest to do so. Tucker and that leaves the entire population powerless. Your vote doesnt matter, and that makes the society super volatile and dangerous, and i agree with you 100 . I used to laugh at the term The Deep State, but it is totally real, unfortunately. Glenn greenwald, i appreciate your coming on today. Thank you. Good to be with you tucker. Thanks. Tucker thanks. So we maybe have not spent enough time thinking about what the chaos in afghanistan will mean for the future of the west, but Douglas Murray has done a lot about it. He says what we are seeing now in afghanistan will have massive consequences through the generations. If there is one person who can see clearly into the generations, it is our friend Douglas Murray and we are honored to have them join us now. Douglas murray, thank you so much for coming on. Its a very civil question what does this mean going forward for the United States . I think it is an extremely sad corner for every body who admires the United States and believes the United States has been a force for good in The World. Americas competitors and enemies are inevitably smacking their lips at the moment about the humiliation of america in afghanistan. But i think it is americas friends and allies who will be even more concerned. You know, this president came in pretending that his predecessor had been totally uninterested in diplomacy and that biden was going to miraculously knit together all The Worlds democracies. Hes done exactly the opposite. He did not consult his allies. He didnt consult his friends. He ignored his friends when they asked him things. He ignored his allies. He left americans behind. He betrayed his allies. And this is the thought of experience that people remember. Americas enemies will remember it. Its competitors will remember it. And his friends will remember it. Because the upshot of 20 years in afghanistan and the humiliating, humiliating defeat, which only the White House is still pretending can be portrayed as a success you know, the biggest retreat the fastest retreat in history, is what they are trying to portray it as. The only people who believe that the White House. Everybody else can see that after 20 years in afghanistan, america has shown that it is not a particularly dangerous enemy to have and it is not a particularly good friend to have, either. Tucker so what is the consequences of that . Weakness invites aggression, correct . Yes, always. Always. If America Isnt interested in the World Or Isnt interested in doing things while in The World, than other people certainly are. You know, there is a fundamental frivolity about all of this. As kabul fell, the secretary of State Blinken was vacationing in the hamptons. The british Foreign Secretary was vacationing in crete. You know who does not take summer holidays . The taliban. Turns out they do not take a Summer Break or go elsewhere for sunnier climes. That is because we did not treat this as seriously as they did. Everybody had been rolling out the quote in recent days yet again that the talibans famous quote, you know, you have the watches but we have the time, but it is not just about watches or time, it is about a seriousness, it is about whether you actually intended to do what you claimed your mission was. If america was serious about afghanistan, it would not have left the country with Hundreds Of Thousands of machine guns, pistols, and much more. What we have heard in recent days, even about that, which i know you are coming on to later in the show, what we have heard about that is a sort of lackluster claim by some of the remaining defenders of biden saying oh, no, most of that wont be able to be operated by the taliban. Lo and behold, the taliban have a Black Hawk Over Kandahar and one over kabul within a day. General mckenzie says the retreat from the airport in kabul, they destroyed 150 vehicles. He also said they destroyed the Surfacetoair Missile System just as they left, so the one real boast of the u. S. As they left Kabul Airport was that at least they didnt leave an Operating System behind that meant the taliban could immediately shoot the last american plane leaving Kabul Airport. This is nothing to boast about. There is nothing to boast about about 20 years of presence in afghanistan, which i might remind you, america invited her nato allies to come into. Tucker thats right. It was nato that came in on the one for all, all for one principal, and at The End of the day, America Left on her own, without allies, without friends, with nothing to show. Tucker in the worst possible way. Its a dangerous moment. Douglas murray, i appreciate your insight, thank you. Its a great pleasure. Tucker well, as if the humiliation cannot become more profound, we told you recently that biden administration made a financial aid to the taliban. We learn one reason why it is going to be happening. The taliban has promised to fight climate change. Not making that up. Next. My Retirement Plan with voya keeps me moving forward. Even after paying for this. Love you, sweetheart they guide me with achievable steps that give me confidence. This is my granddaughter. Shes cute like her grandpa. Voya doesnt just help me get to retirement. Theyre with me all the way through it. Come on, grandpa later. Got grandpa things to do. Aw, grandpas are the best well planned. Well invested. Well protected. Voya. Be confident to and through retirement. upbeat Pop Music in background throughout Tucker Welcome back to a Special Edition of Tucker Carlson tonight. One of the many promises the taliban has made since taking control of afghanistan is to form a more inclusive government. Inclusive. Not a term the taliban are famous for using. What does that mean exactly . Insight in this recent News Cast from afghanistan, where the taliban held the Tv Anchor at gunpoint. But they have also promised to fight terrorism and most important to fight climate change. They are accepted by the international community. The biden administration seems prepared to accept them with open arms, particularly if they become warriors against climate change. A few days ago on abc, Jake Sullivan come hole he was a rhodes scholar, indicated the u. S. Government would be willing to give economic aid to the taliban. Dan, thanks so much for coming on. We could have shortcircuited a lot of these 20 years in afghanistan if only we had gotten them in Say October of 2001 to fight climate change. Why didnt we do that . Thats a really good question. I really dont know the answer to that. It is baffling to me, the idea we think these folks have turned around and all of a sudden are a paragon of moral virtue. Thats pretty wild, isnt it . Tucker [laughs] well, and not just a paragon of moral virtue, they are like western liberals. [laughs] going to restart the Gender Studies Classes and ban suvs. Its absolutely insane. Reporters without borders reported i think seven journalists have been attacked, a Journalists Family Member was killed recently, part of a german journalism organization, i believe. This is wild. These people that believe that the taliban has flipped over a new leaf, there is one really good way to tell that is not true these videos of Usama Bin ladens bodyguard for years, right, was there during the planning stages of 9 11 and spent time in a pakistani prison until he was magically released a few months after Bin Laden was killed. This guy is now riding around afghanistan with a taliban escort. So this idea that the taliban and Al Qaeda are not intrinsically linked is demonstrably not true. We are going to suffer the consequences now for our own naivete and arrogance. Tucker i think thats right. I wonder now that the biden administration has become a military and diplomatic partner with the taliban, we have armed them, more than any country of its size in The World, how long it took a left start defending the taliban and calling you racist for criticizing them . [laughs] oh, boy. Milley loves the critical race theory, right . We spent that 15 Million i think in pakistan on the gender studies, so hey, we should be fine, i think. Look, im a hopeful guy. Tucker yeah. Are you depressed . I mean, you have in a world of people who fought in afghanistan. I mean, what how sad is it to see this, honestly . Well, ill tell you, tucker, the most important thing that any Human Being can be is there for the people who need them. Tucker right. This administration has failed at that most basic moral principle of human existence, and now they have robbed the u. S. Service members of their ability to do that same thing, and theres going to be a moral injury that persists throughout her generation in the same way vietnam. Tucker i think thats exactly right. If you cant protect your own people, you are worthless and dishonorable. Thats right. And tam holloway, i appreciate you coming out tonight. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. Tucker as we left afghanistan, the biden administration decided to leave the taliban with a parting gift. About 90 Million in stateoftheart Military Equipment. We are learning much more about exactly what the biden administration handed to the taliban. And right now, at tuckercarlson. Com, you can still order a signed copy of the new book the long slide. Well be right back. I will bless those who bless you here in israel and the former Soviet Union the jewish people are living in very difficult times. There are now thousands of destitute elderly jews who are desperately in need of basic food. 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That included everything from an entire air force, Black Hawk helicopters, aircraft, Hundreds Of Thousands of battle rifles, trucks, armored vehicles. Now the taliban has a lot of that equipment. It is one of the best armed militaries of its size in The World. The taliban. Victor Davis Hanson is a fellow at the hoover institution. We are honored to have him with us tonight. Professor, thank you very much for coming. The taliban come after 20 years, is more legitimate in the eyes of the socalled international community, and very heavily armed, much better than it was in 2001. How do you assess this development . I think we are underestimating it, tucker. If you look at all the Military Aid that we have given israel since the founding of the jewish state, this is about 85 of that. Over a 70 year period. We are all worried about the Aircraft Carrier Gerald ford. 12 billion, the most expensive Aircraft Carrier in history. We could have had seven of them for the price of money, for the price of weapons that we have left in afghanistan. We talk about tanks, the Weapon Depot that we left afghanistan has equivalent worth of three times of all the tanks that we have ever deployed, we have ever had in the army. And finally, we are all upset about the f35 fighter, the 90 Million boondoggle, some people think it is. We could have had A Thousand of those for the amount of equipment we left in afghanistan. So this is the greatest loss of Military Equipment in the history of warfare. By one power. Its absolutely staggering, and yet, we take it so nonchalantly. The people responsible for this should be either fired or resigned. They have done so much damage to the United States, and they have empowered a precivilizational Terrorist Band into making them into a considerable, you know, militia that will cause havoc for the next 20 years. And i think it is just atrocious, and nobody is taking any blame for it. This is well aside from the 7,000 scanners they left that are now being used to find out who helped us. This is beyond the list of names of people who wanted to get out that the taliban have. And the final thing, tucker, as we were told by a top ranking general again and again that the taliban, we have the same agenda. We wanted out quickly by the 31st, they did, so we could trust them. We were working together. But we didnt have an agenda that was anywhere near there is, their agenda was we want you out on the 31st, but we want to cause as much humiliation, death, and destruction as we can get away with so you dont come back, and we wanted none of that. So there is something terribly wrong with our military. I dont know whether it is their distraction because of wokeness, as they go through the ranks and rosters trying to weed out potential, i dont know, supremacists, or they are just incompetent, or they are too worried about the Revolving Door of going in and out from Defense Contractor boards, but we need a bipartisan investigation of our top brass and the system, its a systemic failure and its costing us dearly. Tucker possible the anglosphere is committing mass suicide, that is another explanation, as you are seeing it all over The World from englishspeaking countries. Victor Davis Hanson, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. Tucker we are learning much more about how many afghans the biden administration has accepted into this country and where they are going. Heres a hint they are not all translators. [laughs] most of them need translators. We have details when we return on this Special Edition of Tucker Carlson tonight. One of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. 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Com Tucker Welcome back to a Special Edition of Tucker Carlson tonight. In the final months of the u. S. Occupation of afghanistan, about 30,000 afghan nationals were fleeing the country each week. Some 300,000 have already made it to turkey, where they will likely attempt to reach western europe. These numbers do not include the Tens Of Thousands of afghan nationals who were evacuated by the u. S. Military in the final days, left American School children behind. Exactly how many afghan citizens are coming to the United States . The State Department will tell us despite the fact we live here and it is technically speaking our country. They are however telling nonprofits, socalled ngos, Up To 50,000 afghan citizens could arrive without b cells, and that is a good thing. A Contributing Editor at the conservative and joins us now, i appreciate you coming on. It does seem, to the layman, that the effort to evacuate afghan nationals, refugees, from afghanistan, and bring them to the United States, was much better thought through and far better coordinated than the evacuation of american citizens. Am i imagining that . No, it really does seem that way. And it is not just the effort, it is also the frankly propaganda or the public Relations Aspect of this, where it is, again, just like the progress that you mentioned with the Afghan National Army making progress, it is the talking point of afghan allies, afghan allies, and again, people who have helped us, we do have some debt of obligation to them, but i do think we have to be very careful about the Vetting Process behind all of this. I am just thinking about the European Experience in 2015, 16, and i am seeing a lot of similar media pressure, not just on the United States, but on countries like turkey and the balkan states, essentially the countries that are on the Land Drought from afghanistan over to europe, and kind of pushing them, you have to have porous borders because these people are in dire straits. And you know, in 2016, 16, i speak persian, so i could embed with a lot of the migrants who are on the trail, i stayed with smugglers in istanbul, i walked with the afghans through the greek isles, into the balkan states, and i was initially inclined to say they are all referees because they tell you. And syrian refugees. Only a third or half you encountered were syrians, there were afghan ease, iraqis, and Tens Of Thousands, Hundreds Of Thousands of afghans were fleeing afghanistan as refugees during the reign of the u. S. Backed kabul government. So the question that raises is how many of the Tens Of Thousands, Hundreds Of Thousands that are going to be on the move now heading for europe, how many of those, what kind of pressure do they face . If they were fleeing under the u. S. Backed government, are they all really refugees . How many of them actually economic migrants . How many are irradiance and passing themselves off because the afghan dialect of persian is identical to irani and persian. Again, how are you vetting the difference between them, but the media calls all of them refugees, refugees, refugees, and they are forcing countries like turkey, browbeating turkey, which is now doing the right thing, mainly for its own Self Interest because its people are fed up with frankly migrants from points further east. None of these details makes it to the reporting you are seeing in places like the new york times. Tucker no, that is exactly right. I dont think most americans understand what a disaster that Migration Wave in 15 and 16 turned out to be. It looks like people are intentionally trying to end the idea of the nationstate, the distinct country with its culture, borders, language like, that is over in some places. Yeah, i think that is the real agenda here. In 2015, 16, it found an expression or an excuse in the syrian crisis. In 2021, well, there is a crisis in afghanistan. But again, that distinction between Migrant And Refugee refugee has to have a wellfounded fear of persecution, and either the kind of process they have to go through. Every afghan who faces a tragedy, including afghans born in iran, meaning they never set foot in warravaged afghanistan cometh every single one of those is an refugee, then the entire population of vast swaths of the earth should be granted asylum in western and northern europe. That is a crazy idea. Tucker we trust the taliban to ensure the Safe Passage Of Americans out of afghanistan, but we also think they are so repressive that everyone who lives in afghanistan has a right to come here. Does not make sense, as you point out. Sohrab ahmari, a reporter and a thinker in one. Great to see you. Appreciate it. Thanks, tucker. Tucker well, as kabul felt, we decided to talk to her old friend, who Out Of Nowhere told us an amazing story about how his life and the life of Joe Biden intersected in afghanistan. Its a memorable story. Thats next. Hello, im michael youssef. You know, the Covid19 Virus has infected millions around The World, but the virus that has infected every Human Being on the face of the earth is called sin, and the only vaccine against that virus is the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross. Will you come to him for healing . [announcer] find out more today. Visit us online at findingtruepeace. Com. Thats findingtruepeace. Com. Tucker welcome back to a Special Edition of Tucker Carlson tonight. As kabul fell, we decided to sit down and talk with our old friend, who founded blackwater years ago. One of the largest private Military Contractors in The World, and spent an awful lot of time in afghanistan. During that conversation, he revealed something we didnt know, which is that blackwater once saved Joe Bidens life. Here it is. 30 years from now, last question for you, since you are good at imagining what the future will look like, what does america look like . Well, we are coming to an inflection point, and i think we are in the 1977, you know, the Carter Administration which if you think about it, in the 70s, was a major setback for the west. We had all kinds of foreign policy setbacks. Inflation and stagflation and high Unemployment And Oil crises and all the rest. We just had what did carter say . We had a malaise. And the leadership can turn it around, just like leadership can turn a failed business around, surprisingly quickly, good leadership can turn a country around. Yes, our congress is useless and in the wrong direction, but there is a reason the founding fathers set it up so every two years, you can throw them out, do so. The same with the senate. You can turn over a third of those senators every two years. That country requires leadership, and whether that is election integrity, do that on a local basis, and if i think the biggest problems in America Stem from the fact the federal government has gotten way too large. And i think we need to maximize the tenth amendment. States rights, limiting the powers of the federal government, to stuff that has only been directly entitled to the federal government to do, otherwise it is left the states. So states have to be much stronger at flexing those muscles and saying no, were not going to pay for your stupidity anymore, washington. Tucker i said that was my last question but i have to get to this. This is your book, which is excellent, the civilian the inside story of blackwater. Page 180. You have this picture, i dont know if you can zoom in on this, it is right here, and it says three thensenators, Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel, John Kerry, future president , secretary of defense, Secretary Of State respectively, posed while waiting for blackwater rescue. What is that . They run a congressional visit to afghanistan in the winter, the u. S. Army helicopter got lost in a Blinding Snowstorm and set down in taliban territory on the side of a mountain. U. S. Military launched a Ground Convoy to get them and they got lost and the black waters Guys Launch and did not get lost, rescued them from taliban territory, i think the winter of 08. Tucker you rescued Joe Biden and John Kerry and Chuck Hagel . Afraid so. Tucker are they grateful . You wouldnt think so, no. Tucker to Joe Biden write you a thank you note . I did not get a christmas card. Tucker eric prince, a man are policymakers should have listened to. You can watch that full episode on fox nation. That is it for us tonight, or Special Edition of Tucker Carlson tonight. Have the best weekend with the ones you love. We will see you soon. Sean and welcome to the Special Edition of hannity. Bidens Afghanistan Disaster appeared for the hour, we are going to review Joe Bidens catastrophic withdrawal from afghanistan, leaving americans behind enemy lines. We will cover the idiotic planning, the poor decisionmaking, the moral cowardice from a president who is clearly not fit to lead this country. If theres american citizens left, we are going to stay until we get them all out