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BRIAN: BOMBING AFGHANISTAN
MOSQUE ON SUNDAY RAISING FEARS
TO SOME THAT THE COUNTRY IS ON
THE BRINK OF A CIVIL WAR.
AINSLEY: IT COMES AS EXPERTS SAY
BIDEN’S RUSHED WITHDRAWAL LED TO
AIRCRAFT LEAVING KABUL WITH
EMPTY SEEDS SEATS.
WE SAW SOME OF THOSE IMAGES,
REMEMBER?
HERE SOME MORE 100,000 AFGHAN
ALLIES LEFT BEHIND.
STEVE: A LOT OF AMERICANS TOO.
PLEDGING BLACKOUTS AS GOVERNMENT
FAILS TO PAY ELECTRIC BILL ON
TIME JUST LIKE A LOT OF OTHER
PEOPLE.
G.O.P. SENATOR TOM COTTON SERVED
IN AFGHANISTAN.
HE JOINS US LIVE.
SENATOR, GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK IN STUDIO
WITH Y’ALL.
AINSLEY: HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE.
STEVE: GO BACK ABOUT A MONTH
AGO.
YOU WERE ACTUALLY TRYING TO HELP
SOME OF THE AFGHAN ALLIES GET
OUT AND YOU DID SUCCESSFUL.
BUT NOW THE NEWS, APPARENTLY
THESE AIRPLANES WERE FLYING IN.
AND FLYING OUT EMPTY BECAUSE
PEOPLE WOULD NOT ALLOW THE
AMERICANS AND OUR ALLIES TO GET
ON THE PLAIN.
BRIAN: CAN I TELL YOU EXACTLY
WHY THAT HAPPENED.
TALKED TO PEOPLE ON THE GROUND.
TWO REASONS.
FIRST SO, CHAOTIC THAT EVEN OUR
OWN CITIZENS, GREEN CARD
HOLDERS, OUR AFGHANS WHO HAD
FOUGHT WITH OUR TROOPS AND WERE
APPROVED FOR SPECIAL IMMIGRANT
VISA COULDN’T GET INTO THE
AIRPORT.
SO PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO
BE ON THOSE PLANES COULDN’T GET
IN TIME TO BOARD THEM.
THE SECOND REASON IS THEY WERE
TRYING OUT OF THE KABUL AIRPORT,
ONE RUN WAY.
GET TO THE POINT TOO MANY AIR
PLANES BACKED UP AND TOO MANY
COMING IN HAD TO TAKE TO HAVE TO
GET THEM OUT.
GOT TO BALGRAM MULTIPLE RUNWAYS
AND MORE SPACE TO PARK
AIRPLANES.
YOU WOULDN’T HAVE HAD THAT
PROBLEM IT GOES BACK TO JOE
BIDEN’S ILL PLANNED DISORGANIZED
CHAOTIC DECISION TO WITHDRAWAL
FROM AFGHANISTAN.
BRIAN: DON’T YOU THINK THE STATE
DEPARTMENT DESERVES SOME OF THE
DISCREDIT BECAUSE ANTONY
BLINKEN, ACCORDING TO THE
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, IT WAS UP TO
STATE TO ORGANIZE A LOT OF THIS
STUFF?
THE REASON WHY THESE PEOPLE
DIDN’T GET OUT.
THE REASON WHY THE MANIFEST
WEREN’T FULL THE STATE
DEPARTMENT SAT ON ITS HANDS.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
WE HEARD LAST WEEK FROM THE
GENERALS WHO HELPED ORGANIZE
THIS AIR LIFT THAT THE STATE
DEPARTMENT REFUSED TO CALL FOR
THE EVACUATION OF NONCOMBATANTS
FOR AMERICAN CIVILIANS AND GREEN
CARD HOLDERS UNTIL THE VERY LAST
MINUTE.
THE MILITARY WAS PLANNING FOR IT
AS EARLY AS APRIL AND MAY RIGHT
AFTER JOE BIDEN MADE THIS
DECISION SHOULD WE DO THAT TONY
BLINKEN STATE’S DEPARTMENT SAT
ON ITS HANDS THE TALIBAN ON THE
GATES OF KABUL WHAT IS SO
UNFEWERIATING SEE THESE SEATS
EMPTY.
WE REMEMBER HOW WE FELT ON THOSE
MORNINGS REPORTING ON THIS.
HEARTS GO OUT TO ALL THE PEOPLE
STRANDED LEFT BEHIND AND WANTED
ONE OF THOSE SEATS.
THEIR LIVELIHOODS THEIR LIVES
DEPENDED ON IT WHEN YOU SAY THEY
COULDN’T GET THROUGH THE GATES
AT THE AIRPORT, WE DIDN’T HAVE
OUR TROOPS THEREON THE GROUND TO
HELP OUR AMERICAN CITIZENS OR
OUR ALLIES GET TON THESE PLANES,
THEN YOU READ SOME OF THEM WHO
HAD CREDIBLE DOCUMENTS WERE
STOPPED AND WERE NOT ALLOWED TO
GET ON THE PLANES WHILE OTHERS
THAT HADN’T BEEN VETTED WERE
ALLOWED THROUGH.
WHAT’S THE VETTING PROCESS NOW
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE
THAT CAME FROM AFGHANISTAN, HAVE
WE VETTED ALL OF THEM?
>> NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT, AINSLEY.
JOE BIDEN SCREWED IT UP COMING
AND GOING.
FIRST WE LEFT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN
AFGHANISTAN WHO SHOULD HAVE
IMONT OUT.
SECONDS WE BROUGHT A LOT OF
PEOPLE OUT WHO SHOULDN’T HAVE
GOTTEN OUT.
PEOPLE HAD NO PARTICULAR
ATTACHMENT TO THE UNITED STATES
AND FOUGHT WITH OUR TROOPS.
SEEN REPORTS OF A YOUNG FEMALE
SOLDIER BEING ASSAULTED AT FORT
BLISS IN EL PASO OR SEX OFFENSES
BY OF BEGAN MEN BY FORT McCOY AN
OTHER OFFENSES THERE IS REALLY
NO VETTING.
BRIAN: AND JUST WALKING OFF THE
BASE.
>> HARD TO DO IN AFGHANISTAN.
ONE REASON IT TOOK SO LONG
INTERVIEW PEOPLE FACE TO FACE.
AFGHANISTAN IS A NIGHT OR DAY
WORLD COUNTRY.
YOU DON’T CALL UP THE FBI OR THE
HIGH SCHOOL OR LOCAL POLICE.
WE HAVE ALMOST NO WAY TO VET
THESE PEOPLE.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS
TAKING THEIR NAME IF IT IS THEIR
NAME TESTING IT AGAINST
DATABASES AND IF THEY DON’T COME
BACK WELL THEY MUST BE FINE TO
GO.
STEVE: I HEARD ONE INTERVIEW
SOMEBODY WAS INTERVIEWING WHO
EXACTLY DID WE FLY OUT?
THE NUMBER WAS 75% OF THE
PEOPLE, THE AFGHANS WERE NOT
SPECIAL IMMIGRANT VISA HOLDERS.
IN OTHER WORDS, WE FLI FLEW OUT
75% OF THE WRONG PEOPLE
UNBELIEVABLE.
>> BASICALLY WHOEVER WAS ABLE TO
GET INTO THE AIRPORT, ESPECIALLY
ON FIRST CHAOTIC DAYS AFTER THE
FALL OF KABUL.
AGAIN, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHO THESE
PEOPLE ARE TAKING IT ON FACE
THAT THEY’RE USING THEIR REAL
NAME AND TESTING AGAINST
INCOMPLETE DATABASES AND SAYING
WELL IF WE DON’T HAVE A RECORD
OF YOU BEING A TERRORIST YOU
MUST BE TYPE.
YOU NORTH GOING TO ATTACK
AMERICANS AND COMMIT SEX
OFFENSES AGAINST AMERICAN WOMEN.
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BRING ANY
KIND OF DISEASE OR ANYTHING ELSE
INTO THE COUNTRY AND YOU DON’T
HAVE RIGHT UNDER AMERICAN LAW TO
BE HERE.
YOU ARE NOT LIKE THE BRAVE
AFGHANS WITH WHOM I SERVED TO HO
FOUGHT ALONG SIDE US WHO RISKED
THEIR LIVES AND FAMILY LIVES WHO
WE LEFT BEHIND.
AINSLEY: WHAT DO WE DO?
SEND THEM BACK OR WHAT HAPPENS.
>> THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS
BASICALLY CLEARING EVERYONE
THROUGH.
JUST LIKE ALL THE MIGRANTS WE
SAW AT THE BORDER IN DEL RIO A
COUPLE WEEKS AGO.
BASICALLY THE WORD IS OUT ACROSS
THE WORLD IF YOU GET TO OUR
SOUTHERN BORDER CAN YOU GET.
IN A LOT OF SPECIAL IMMIGRANT
VISA HOLDERS WOULD HAVE BEEN
BETTER OFF TO GET OUT OF KABUL
AND GO TO MEXICO.
BRIAN: GOT EVERYONE ELSE COMING
THROUGH THROUGH COLOMBIA AND
PANAMA COSTA RICA AND RIGHT
THROUGH.
SENATOR, GREAT TO SEE NEW
PERSON.
>> GREAT BEING BACK.
STEVE: YOU WHILE YOU ARE IN NEW
YORK CITY DO YOUR CHRISTMAS
SHOPPING NOTHING IS GOING TO BE