ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS.
>> MARK MEREDITH, BACK TO YOU.
AS HE REPORTED, THE WHITE HOUSE
SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN THE
BRIEFING BLAMING THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION FOR THE BOTCHED
AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL.
WATCH.
>> WHILE IT WAS ALWAYS THE
PRESIDENT’S INTENT TO END THE
WAR, IT’S UNDENIABLE THAT
DECISIONS MADE AND THE LACK OF
PLANNING DONE BY THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION SIGNIFICANTLY
LIMITED OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO
HIM.
>> MIKE POMPEO WAS SECRETARY OF
STATE IN THAT ADMINISTRATION.
HE JOINS ME NOW.
SECRETARY POMPEO, THIS HAS TO BE
SOMEWHAT STUNNING TO YOU BEING
INVOLVED IN THAT.
I JUST WANT TO READ THIS BECAUSE
THIS JUMPED OUT AT ME IN THIS
QUOTING HERE, THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION PROVIDED NO PLANS
FOR HOW TO CONDUCT THE FINAL
WITHDRAWAL.
YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS REPORT,
SIR.
>> WELL, TRACE, I’M NOT STUNNED.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS
CONSISTENTLY TRIED TO BLAME
SOMEONE ELSE FOR EVERY FAILURE
THEY’VE HAD IN THESE TWO YEARS
WHERE THEY LEAVE AMERICANS MORE
AT RISK THAN WHEN THEY CAME INTO
OFFICE.
I’M OUTRAGED.
I’M OUTRAGED BY THE FACT BY THE
13 AMERICANS KILLED THERE DIDN’T
HAVE TO HAPPEN.
PRESIDENT BIDEN MADE THE
POLITICAL DECISION TO ANNOUNCE
THE DATE OF WITHDRAWAL, TO
PUBLICIZE IT IN SPITE THE FACT
THE MILITARY TOLD HIM THAT WAS A
LIKELY OUTCOME.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY’RE
TALKING ABOUT.
I WAS THE CIA DIRECTOR.
I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS.
THE MILITARY OUR ENTIRE FOUR
YEARS MADE CLEAR IF WE WITH DREW
TOO HASTILY, IF WE ANNOUNCED A
DATE, PRECISELY WHAT YOU JUST
SAW HAPPENED IN THE SUMMER OF 21
WOULD LIKELY HAPPEN.
IT WAS A REASONABLY LIKELY
OUTCOME.
FOR KIRBY TO STAND THERE AND SAY
GOSH, WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED
THAT GHANI WOULD FLEE?
EVERYONE THAT DEALT WITH
PRESIDENT GHANI KNEW HE WAS A
LIAR, A SCOUNDREL, CORRUPT AND
THE MOST LIKELY THING HE WOULD
DO IS DEPART AND SAVE HIS OWN
LIFE.
THIS IS ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE.
WE DIDN’T CONSTRAIN THEM AT ALL.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS
DEMONSTRATED THEIR WILLINGNESS
TO BREAK UP GOOD PLANS THAT THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAD.
THINK OF OUR SOUTHERN BORDER.
WE HAD A GOOD PLAN.
REMAIN IN MEXICO.
NOW THOUSANDS COMING ACROSS EACH
DAY.
THINK OF THE WORK WE DID TO
DETER VLADIMIR PUTIN.
THEY KNOW HOW TO PROTECT AMERICA
ONLY FROM EMBARRASSMENT TO THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.
IT’S OUTRAGEOUS WHAT KIRBY SAID.
THIS REPORT IS BASED ON THINGS
THAT ARE NOT TRUE.
>> ONE OF THE OUTRAGEOUS THINGS
THAT HE SAID THAT PEOPLE ARE
PUSHING BACK ON IS THIS.
I’LL GET YOUR OPINION ON THE
OTHER SIDE.
>> AND SO FOR ALL OF THIS TALK
OF CHAOS, I DIDN’T SEE IT.
NOT FROM MY PERCH.
AT ONE POINT THERE WAS AN
AIRCRAFT TALKING OFF FULL OF
PEOPLE, AMERICANS IN AFGHANS
ALIKE EVERY 48 MINUTES.
NOW ONE SINGLE MISSION WAS
MISSED.
I’M SORRY.
I WON’T BUY THE ARGUMENT OF
CHAOS.
IT WAS TOUGH IN THE FIRST FEW
HOURS.
YOU EXPECT IT TO BE.
THERE WAS NOBODY AT THE AIRPORT.
NO AMERICANS.
IT TOOK TIME TO GET IN THERE.
>> THE AIRCRAFT HAD PEOPLE
FALLING OFF OF THEM, SECRETARY
POMPEO.
THIS THING WAS A DISASTER.
THERE ARE STILL AFGHAN HEROS
THAT HELPED US OUT IN THAT WAR
FOR YEARS AND YEAR STUCK IN THAT
COUNTRY AND CANNOT GET OUT.
THIS IS WAS AS ADMIRAL KIRBY
SAID AND UNMITIGATED DISASTER.
HE SAID WE HAD SOME GOOD THINGS.
THIS WAS A DISASTER.
THAT’S THE CONSENSUS.
>> TRACE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
AND EVERY VETERAN THAT SERVED
THERE SHOULD BE PROUD.
FOR KIRBY TO SAY THAT HE’S PROUD
OF THE WAY DEPARTED, THIS WASN’T
AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER, BELIEVE
OUR OWN EYES.
THIS WAS CHAOTIC.
13 AMERICANS KILLED.
THEY SABOTAGED A PLAN WE HAD PUT
IN PLACE THAT WAS CONDITIONS BASED.
BASED.
WE HAD IT DRAWN DOWN TO 2,400
AND RELATIVE STABILITY.
THEY CAME WITH IN, TOOK THE PLAN
WE HAD AND JUST BOTCHED IT.
HE MADE A HASH OF IT.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE
SUFFERED FOR IT AND FRANKLY
AMERICA’S STANDING IN THE WORLD
IS COVERING FROM THAT TODAY.
>> SIR, THEY WERE TOLD AGAIN AND
AGAIN, DO NOT LET GO OF THE
BAGRAM AIR FORCE BASE.
THEY LET IT GO AT A TIME THAT
WAS PIVOTAL.
PIVOTAL TO WHAT HAPPENED.
>> OF COURSE THEY WERE, TRACE.
I WANT TO GET TO ONE MORE THING.
KIRBY USED THE WORLD
"CONSTRAIN."
THERE WERE NO CONSTRAINTS.
WE KNEW THE TALIBAN.
WE KNEW HOW EVIL THEY WERE.
WHEN THEY VIOLATED THE AGREEMENT
ON MY WATCH, WE CRUSHED THEM.
GENERAL MILLER, AMAZING MAN.
HE AND I WORKED CLOSELY
TOGETHER.
WE MADE SURE THE TALIBAN DIDN’T
ATTACK A SINGLE AMERICAN AFTER
THE DATE WE SIGNED THAT
AGREEMENT.
THEY CAME IN AND ACTED LIKE THE
HOUSE WAS ON FIRE SO THEY COULD
EXECUTE WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN
INTENDED 2010, A FULL SCALE
WITHDRAWAL.
IT’S OUTRAGEOUS FOR THEM TO