TREY: THANK YOU SO MUCH TREY.
>> RUSSIA AND CHINA WANT TO TAKE
FULL ADVANTAGE OF CHAOS
UNFOLDING IN AFGHANISTAN.
EVEN AS THEY CONDUCT JOINT
MILITARY OPERATIONS.
CHINA PLANS TO FORMALLY
RECOGNIZE THE TALIBAN AS THE
GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANISTAN.
>> IN BEIJING AND MOSCOW, ARE
YOU HAPPY WE LEFT?
THEY LOVE NOTHING BETTER.
FOR US TO CONTINUE TO BE BOGGED
DOWN THERE.
TOTALLY OCCUPIED WITH WHAT IS
GOING ON.
TREY: THE BIGGEST CONSEQUENCE OF
ALL MAY BE AMERICA’S WANING
INFLUENCE WITH ALLIES AND
ENEMIES, JOINING ME NOW A FORMER
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE, FORMER MEMBER OF
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM
GREAT STATE OF TEXAS JOHN LEE
RATCLIFFE, HOW ARE YOU.
>> GOOD, TREY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
TREY: THANK YOU.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION -- AS
IF WHAT HAPPENED IN AFGHANISTAN
WAS A SURPRISE.
IS THIS A FAILURE TO COLLECT THE
NECESSARY INTELLIGENCE OR IT IS
A FAILURE ON HEED IT AND ACT
UPON IT?
>> IT HAS BEEN FRUSTRATING TO
LISTEN TO PEOPLE ON TV TALK
ABOUT AN INTELLIGENCE FAILURE.
LET ME BE CLEAR, THERE WAS NOT A
FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE IT WAS A
FAILURE TO LISTEN TO
INTELLIGENCE.
UNFORTUNATELY IT HAS BEEN A
TREND IN THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION, THEY DIDN’T
LISTEN TO URINEURE -- OUR INTELL
AT OUR OWN SOUTHERN BORDER AND
THE CRISIS THERE AND
INTELLIGENCE IN MIDDLE EAST AND
ALLOW FOR IRANIAN BACKED ATTACK
ON ISRAEL.
I CAN TELL YOU, WHEN I WAS
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE, I SAT IN THE
INFORMATION ROOM.
WITH SOME OF THE SAME MILITARY
OFFICIALS AND FOLKS IN PENTAGON
THAT ARE STILL THAT INN THEY IN
REGARD TO AFGHANISTAN, WE TALKED
ABOUT THIS AS A NEAR CERTAINTY.
YOU CAN LOOK AT OPEN SOURCE
INTELLIGENCE OVER LAST FEW
MONTHS, EVERYONE SOME HAVE SEEN THIS COMING COULD TALIBAN OF 4
THIS COMING COULD TALIBAN OF 4
HUNTERRER400, TER TERRITORIAL DI
AFGHANISTAN, LATE JULY THEY
CONTROLLED MORE THAN HALF.
THAT IS WHY 23 STAFFERS THAT
WORKED FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
BLINKEN AT THE EMBASSY SENT HIM
A CABLE JULY 13, SAYING THAT THE
TALIBAN ARE ADVANCING FAST, YOU
NEED TO MOVE ON THIS.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DID NOT
DO ANYTHING, IT WAS A FAILURE TO
ACT AND LISTEN TO INTELLIGENCE
WE HAD.
THAT THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
TREY: IF I HEAR YOU CORRECTLY,
THERE WAS A WAY TO WITHDRAW, AND
TRUMP AND PRESIDENT BIDEN HAD
WITHDRAW PLANS, THERE WAS A WAY
TO AVOID THIS ACROSS AND CARNAGE
THAT WE’RE WATCHING.
>> THE PLAN THAT TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION PUT TOGETHER WAS
DESIGNED TO DID THAT, WE TALK
ABOUT CONDITION BASE, A LAST
CONDITION IS WE NEVER WOULD HAVE
GONE BELOW 2500 TROOP LEVEL
WITHOUT SUCCESSFUL PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE TAL TAL
AND GHANI GOVERNMENT.
WE WILL NEVER KNOW.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ABANDONED
THE TRUMP PLAN, YOU SHOULD HAVE
YOUR OWN PLAN, IN THIS CASE THEY
DID NOT.
EXHIBIT A TO POINT THAT BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION HAD NO PLAN WAS
THE FACT THERE WOULD BE NO PLAN
SO STUPID AS TO LEAVE BEHIND
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BEST
MILITARY TECHNOLOGY AND
INTELLIGENCE, WHICH IS WHAT
HAPPENED WHEN WE LEFT THE WAY
THAT WE’RE LEAVING RIGHT NOW.
TREY: DIRECTOR LET ME ASK YOU
THIS, OUTSIDE OF AFGHANISTAN,
WHAT IMPACT IS THIS WITHDRAWAL
AND THE CHAOS AND CARNAGE HAVING
ON OUR ALLIES, AND OUR ENEMIES?
WHEN ARE THEY THINKING AS THEY
WATCH THIS UNFOLDED?
>> YOU KNOW, FOR OUR ALLIES IT
IS HARMFUL AND HURTFUL AS IT IS
FOR AMERICANS TO WATCH.
THEY STOOD BY US.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT MEMBERS SAY
WHAT JOE BIDEN DID WAS COW
HARDLYARD --COW HARDLY AND HURTF
ARE OUR FRIENDS SAYING THIS.
OUR ADVERSARIES ARE NOT SAYING
MUCH, IN A ARE PRETTY HAPPY,
THIS IS CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST, FOR
CHINESE, AND RUSSIANS AND THEY
GET TO GO DOWN THE LIST OF OUR
BEST TECHNOLOGY AND WEAPONRY AND
TAKE WHAT THEY WANT, THEY WILL
USE THE FACT THAT AMERICAN LOST
IN AFTER UNDER JOE BIDEN, AND
USE THAT TO THEIR ADVANTAGE.
THE REAL CONCERN WE SHOULD HAVE
FROM NATIONAL SECURITY
PERSPECTIVE, HOW ARE THEY GOING
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS IN
NEXT 3 YEARS, LAST TIME BIDEN
WAS IN WHITE HOUSE RUSSIANS TOOK
CRIMEA, I AM EXPECTING CHINA TO
MOVE IN SOUTH CHINA SEAS.
BUT EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE
CONCERNED BECAUSE AT THE END OF
THE DAY THERE HAS TO BE
LEADERSHIP TO TURN.
WHAT JOE BIDEN HAS FAILED TO DO,
IS SHOW THAT THERE IS A RED LINE
THAT SOMEONE CAN’T CROSS.
YOU KNOW.
DONALD TRUMP CRITICS SAW WHAT HE
DID TO AL-BAGHDADI AND SOLEIMANI
THAT IS WHY TALIBAN DID IN THE
BREAK THE AGREEMENT THAT WE
REACHED WITH THEM BUT THEY DID
WITH JOE BIDEN THEY BELIEVE THEY
CAN GET AWAY WITH WHATEVER THEY
WANT, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE
PUT AMERICA’S NATIONAL SECURITY
POSTURE ABOVE EVERYTHING EL.
TREY: THANK THANK YOU, FOR YOUR
SERVICE, AND THANK YOU FOR
JOINING US SUNDAY NIGHT, AND
VISITING ME IN SOUTH CAROLINA
FOR LAST 3 DAYS.