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Vice president or many democrats. they are running away from this story. well, look, i think the democratic party, they have remarkable talent, they know that there are wolves out there and no matter how bad their leader is they stick with him and deep pressure not to break and not to say what you really think and in the case of harris, you know, the vice president s job is to stand near the president and smile and be supportive. why sending her to sigone or vietnam at this time is a little strange but i don t think they thought that afghanistan was going to collapse this fast so they didn t think about the optics of the two places. she s on the way back from asia. newsom, the governor of california is in deep trouble. ....
On fox business to assess all of this including biden s afghanistan pullout. maria, you don t take the military at first, you take the military out last. this is like the captain jumping out the ship if the ship is sinking. it s crazy, it s too late now but you have to take out the soldiers first and then out first into the field. you have to take them back so that everybody is protected. the people have to come out of the country first. then you have to get all your equipment. we have billions of dollars of equipment. brand-new blackhawk helicopters, they have everything. last to come out has to be the soldiers. maria: and yet president biden keeps defending his operation out of afghanistan dismissing an internal state department memo dated back in july, july 13th, in which own officials in kabul warn him that a taliban takeover was eminent and without u.s. troops there afghan security ....
Joe biden s disastrous withdrawal. now he has to do business with the taliban. the taliban have checkpoints all over kabul and controlling in many cases access to the gates to the airport. his priority needs to be getting american citizens out but he needs cooperation to a degree from the taliban to do so. so he s operating from a position of tremendous weakness because of his ill-planned execution of the withdrawal from afghanistan and i m very worried if americans remain in afghanistan, if joe biden won t commit to getting every american out, then that will be the case going forward and that will only empower the taliban to provide safe haven to organizations like al-qaeda and other terrorist groups. al-qaeda remember attacked us from afghanistan in 2001 and they want to do it again and afghanistan because unique geography and hundreds of miles away from the ocean or friendly neighbors and the concentration of foreign terrorist groups there has the unique threat of being able to plan ....
yeah, maria, i think this illustrates very well joe biden s incompetence in handling the withdrawal. we announced the withdrawal in the spring. we had 2500 troops in afghanistan. we now have 7,000 troops in afghanistan, maria, to try to get americans out. so we have almost 3 times as many troops in afghanistan to get out of afghanistan as we had when joe biden announced we were getting out of afghanistan. nothing can probably better indicate the incompetence of joe biden of executing the withdrawal and then when you talk about bagram air base, the chairman of the joint chiefs made it pretty clear the other day that the military was given a maximum troop level that they can have in afghanistan starting july 1 and to control both the embassy and the airport as well as bagram required more troops and they were not allowed to have the troops there. they had to shut down bagram. why would they shot down bagram? massive air base where we have ability to sustain thousands of troops and afgh ....
Checkpoint or moved in a place that they weren t permitted. we used american power and made clear to the taliban that there would be real consequences. what happened here, maria, is you had a leader who was unprepared to do that. when the taliban pushed on the trump administration, we pushed back even harder and imposed real cost and when the biden administration pushed, they withdrew to commercial airport that in no way has capacity to get our people out with speed that needs to happen to keep them safe. this is an incompetent method of getting our folks out and presents real risk. i pray that we get them all home but i m watching today even now they haven t yet organized in a way to push the american power out in a way to make sure that we can get americans out of the country. maria: and things are getting dangerous and more severe by the minute this morning the washington post is reporting that those people going to the airport are getting beaten up and there were 7 afghan civilians ....