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I think i counted and the word complicated was used four or five times. this is complicated. a perfect example is, i was one of those who was really aggressive back in may and june about starting the evacuation of the translaters, the people who helped us, the so-called s.i.v.s and pushing and making speeches on the floor and calling the white house and all of those things. but on june 25th, the president of afghanistan directly asked president biden not to start that evacuation because he was afraid it would demoralize the country and lead to the collapse of the government, which, in fact, happened eventually. but the point i m only making is, it s a complicated decision. and there are all of these things, closing bagram is another example. i was one of critical of that, on the other hand it would have ....
Up pretty bad. jason: we have to change the perception, that does lead one to believe that he knows that the taliban are actually winning the fight and marching on kabul but didn t really do anything about it. in fact, the administration started to move on closing bagram, the air force base which is 25 miles to the north of the kabul airport. not just change the intelligence apparently, apparently what happened, ignored what the true intelligence was on the ground and beyond that allowed himself to be intimidated which no american should ever be intimidated into into withdrawing from bagram, withdrawing from the embassy and leaving on the taliban s timeline and beyond that siding with the taliban, seeking to give them recognition instead of siding with those that are still in afghanistan fighting the terrorists right to this very minute. jason: somehow this administration, the biden-harris ....
With president ghaani where he s saying we have to change the perception, that does lead one to believe this he knows the taliban are actually winning the fight, andnd they re marching on kabul but didn t really do anything about it. in fact, the administration started to move on closing bagram, the air force base which is 25 miles to the north of the kabul airport. not just change the intelligence, apparently, is apparently what happened, ignored what the true intelligence was on the ground. and then beyond that, allowed himself to be intimidated which no american should ever be, intimidated into withdrawing from bagram, withdrawing from the embassy, leaving on the taliban s timeline. and beyond that, siding with the taliban, seeking to give them recognition instead of siding with those that are still in afghanistan fighting the terrorists right to this very minute. jason: somehow this administration, the biden/harris administration, believes they ....
Turkmenistan, afghanistan, anywhere in those areas of former soviet socialist republic, they re not going to allow us in there. there s no person on the ground in there in those regions that are begging to say, hey, let me go become american human intelligence asset and work with them, because we ve seen how well they treated those who worked with them in afghanistan. there s nobody begging to do that. soor that means our most vital forms of intelligence are totally blacked out in one of the most key regions to go and defendst against iran, to combat china s aggression and to go out there and defend against russia s aggression as well. that s exactlyag what s happeni, and they are working together to make sure that we have a blindfold on when w it comes to that region. jason: yeah. the president said the bagram air force base was as much the presence about china as it was afghanistan. more ahead, don t move, we re coming right back to you, congressman mast. as a chorus of lawmakers c ....
Honoring them all morning, you re absolutely right. i know that you were against closing bagram a while back, and i think it s really important to show the proximity of this air base relative to china, relative to the uyghurs where they re locked up in the shenyang region and relative to where china is building up its nuclear facilities. i wonder if also xi jinping was among those pressuring joe biden to close down this air base. i mean, whose decision was it, and what kind of consequences is this going to mean for america over the long term? those are the questions we re going to have to get answered as we go forward. i ve had and directed our republican leaders in the three different committees to send a letter to the white house to secure those documents. we want the know the answers. because, one, why would you close it down; two, why would you close it ahead before all the americans are out, why would you, in that place, harm not just our americans still sitting ....