Senator Cotton Has A Plan - August 24th, Hour 2

Published Aug 24, 2021, 10:01 PM

Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas joins today to discuss Afghanistan. Senator Cotton served nearly five years on active duty in the United States Army as an Infantry Officer. Tom served in Iraq with the 101st Airborne and in Afghanistan with a Provincial Reconstruction Team. Between his two combat tours, Tom served with The Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery. Tom’s military decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, and Ranger Tab. He joined the military following the attacks on 9-11. 

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All right, our two Sean Hannity Show toll free. It's eight hundred nine for one Seawn if you want to be a part of the program. It is inexplicable why Biden is being bullied by the Taliban and agreeing to stick to this August thirty first deadline. We have what even Democrats now saying that it's going to be impossible to keep that deadline and get everybody out of there. It makes no sense. Depending on spokesman John Kirby announcing that only several thousand Americans have been evacuated since August of fourteenth, it's just a horrendous situation. The President has got us into, even his own you know, even former Homeland Security Secretary J Johnson said that this is going to get a whole lot worse. While Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of Singapore is lecturing Kamala Harris about this blunder and how it's damaged America's credibility worldwide, and even teams that are of people Americans that are trying to orchestrate private evacuations say Biden is actually hurting their efforts. It doesn't get any worse than this. Many US senators are trying to do everything they can do to help people in their district, or just Americans that they know are in trouble, or the death sentence that would await Afghans that we promised if this day ever came, would we would get them out knowing that they will be killed. It's a death sentence if they stay behind. At seven days left and Joe Biden shows no indication of the urgency that is needed to get every single person out of there, Senator Cotton is called for a military rescue of trapped Americans. If Biden's going to stick to this deadline and be bullied by the Taliban, the least we ought to have, you know, tens of thousands of troops evacuating the people all over Afghanistan and make sure they get safe passage to the airport. Because you know, even our own state department they keep sending out emos. You might want to consider making your way to the airport. We can't guarantee your safety. You better not go today, Saturday. It's a bad day. Yeah. Oh, and all the checkpoints are changing and the entry points are changing by the minute. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. I mean, you can't, you can't write a novel this insane. I know one person whose family he went on Fox and Friends and his entire family trap behind enemy lines. Senator Tom Cotton was instrumental in getting him out. His name is Haroon. He was on with us last night on Hannity. Listen to what he said, Haroon. When we talked to you last week and you told us the Harroin story about how you had gone to the airport twice and there were just thousands of people. You were reluctant to show your American passport because you were worried that the Taliban would see that and then follow you to your parents' home and kill your whole family. Tell us, tell us about the day you finally made it through the checkpoints and got to the planes. Eventually, I had to do that. Even my parents, as you just mentioned, they have to show the tolerant all the PaperWorks that he had in his hand. Otherwise they were ask them where you're going and stuff like that. Even myself, I did show them my passport to be honest that I am an American. I want to go inside. So the last day, mister Tom Cotton, he tried his best and his people, Zach Willie and other people's I forgot their names, and I know the other one Sophie Rofi, and those guys did. They did their best to help me get out them and they gave me a ride from home to the to the gate, and from the gate somehow they had connections without going through those that crowd. They put me all the way in the front and I got a chance to talk to one of the Americans so that I showed my passport and they got my kids from over the fence, and then I went behind the wall. They gave me a letter to get in. So this is how I got in the last time when mister Cotton, Zach, Willie and Rophi septof I think because people help it to get into. Okay, that was Harun. Senator Tom Cotton has called for the military rescue. Senator First, great job on helping Harun and his family. I know you've helped others as well. Thank you for all you're doing. The idea that the Taliban is going to bully the United States of America into this heart official deadline, which which could result in Americans left behind. Certainly afghanis that helped us, not that we necessarily have to take them to America. I mean, I think anybody that comes has to be vetted completely before they're they're let free in this country in any way even considered. But we did promise them safe passage the hell out of there because pretty much if we leave them there, they will die because now apparently the Taliban has all the information on anybody who might have helped us over the last twenty years. Welcome back, Senator Hey Sean, it's good to be back on with you. So we're pleased Haroun and his family, but unfortunately there are thousands of others like run and both American citizens and those Afghans who risk their life to support American troops over the last twenty years. And as you said, President Biden has this arbitrary deadline. It just a week from to day to be out of the airport. Obviously, that means that evacuation flights have to stop in just a few days because we still have to get troops we have on the ground safely out of the country if he tries to do that by August thirty one. That's why even people of whom we normally don't agree, like Adam Schiff, have said that Joe Biden needs to reverse course and make a commitment, as I've said for days now, to stay at that airport and secure it for as long as it takes to get out every American citizen. And furthermore, Shine, we do need to start entering into the city to identify, collect and return with Americans to the airport. I mean, the French, the British, even the Dutch militaries are doing this now, Shane. If the Dutch military, for goodness sake, can protect its citizens and bring them back to the airport, then surely the American military can. The only thing which it takes my breath away, Senator, I mean, I cannot believe it you're saying takes my breath away, Sean. Imagine being one of those young marines or young soldiers standing at a gate at the airport in Cobble and you can see hundreds of not thousands of people in front of you, and you know that some of them are American citizens. You know that some of them have a valid visa and have been thoroughly vetted so they're not a security threat to us, and Taliban goons are obstructing their progress towards the gate in many cases, Taliban goons are beating them with sticks or pipes or chains, and your rules of engagements say that you cannot go out to protect your country man. You cannot go out and protect those who served alongside you in your battle. Bayse that you just have to stand there at the gate. Meanwhile, the Dutch are just rolling out freely to go pick up their citizens. This has to change. We have to make a commitment to stay at the Cobble airport until we are all of our people out. And you know, it was pretty shameful the other day when the Sectary of State kind of charge his shoulder and said, well, the Taliban is in control of Cobble. Well, guess what. They may be in control of Cobble, but only until the American presence says, now we're in control of Cobble. That's all it would take. Our military is more incapable of conducting this evacuation mission if their commander in chief didn't tie one hand behind the back. So I'm not sure why do you think it was, Well, what is the thinking in Biden's brain to go along with this artificial deadline? Clearly, I guess the Taliban threat got to them because they said absolutely, it's absolutely not even under consideration extending the deadline. And Adam Schiff is even acknowledging that the odds of us getting just every American out of there, never mind those that supported us that will die if we leave them there, is that this is probably not going to happen. Is Joe Biden saying he's going to leave Americans behind? I don't say you interpret in any other way, so I mean to this day, just in the last few hours, my office has continued to receive phone calls and emails from American citizen who attract behind Taliban checkpoints, who can't get to the airport. And Joe Biden announced a month ago that we would have our troops out by August thirty first. He had stubbornly clinging to that deadline, and I do believe that he is now fearful and timid towards the Taliban because they are threatening to take a military action against our troops if we stay at the airport beyond August thirty first. President Bidens make it clear to the Taliban that we'll stay as long as it takes to get every American out, and any Taliban soldier who interferes with that evacuation or who tacks an American soldier or an American citizen will be killed on site. You know, we have to. We just didn't just unfold overnight. I mean, the Taliban had been on the march now for a couple of months. We watched them take over ten percent of the country, twenty percent, thirty percent, forty percent, fifty percent. Is the intelligence that wrong? Were they not paying attention? How did they get caught flat footed? You know? How did we end up giving billions of dollars, including Blackhawk helicopters, to the enemy. So now now they're armed to the teeth with our weaponry that we paid for because they didn't think ahead of time to either return it to the US or at least destroy it. That's the same goes for computers that identify every Afghan that might have supported us the last twenty years. That's that's their death sentence, signed by Joe Biden, United States President. It's a disgraceful fiasco. And Sean, you're right, it's all under the order and execution of Joe Biden and the way he implemented this withdrawal. The reasonable people can disagree Sean about the decision to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan. No one can believe that this was the right way to do it, and Joe biden decisions actually contributed to the class of the Afghan Army. You know, we trained the Afghan Army for several years to fight the way Americans do close air supports, and they were flying their own aircraft, They had their own pilots, but they didn't have were the refuelers and the maintainers to help up keep all those aircraft. And when Biden asks were pulling out, he pulled on all those Western contractors as well, so we basically grounded the Afghan air Force overnight, and therefore they weren't able to fight the way we trained in the fight. Furthermore, when Joe Biden announced that we were taking all of our troops down, I think it a huge psychological effect on those Afghan troops to realize that they weren't going to have that small continent of Americans in the pench that they needed them or just to provide basic logistical support, Sean, you know, we have been processing the payment systems for individual soldiers in Afghanistan for a long time I've had a lot of them wondered, you know, am I going to get paid next month whenever I'm out there fighting the Taliban in defense of my country. So it's present Biden execution of a decision to withdraw that directly contributed to the collapse of the Afghan Army. Now, grant, I mean, they have their problems, to be sure, but Joe Biden set them up for failure from the way he executed this position. That's not what he was telling us by a few short weeks ago. You know, in this constant blaming of the Trump Plan, Well, the Trump Plan number one was built around outside And I know this is hard for people to believe, but they actually have what is known as fighting season in Afghanistan, and it was before the fighting season. It was always based on conditions on the ground. It always included keeping total complete control of a gram Air Force base, and also it was the threat of obliteration if you dared. Before they even discussed having an agreement with the Taliban, it was made clear and it's been confirmed to me by former President Trump, Mike Pompeo, the former Secretary of State, former Mark Meadows, the chief of staff of the President. I mean they all confirmed in this meeting. Trump said I will obliterate you if we make a deal and you don't abide by every comma and every period, and if one single American gets threatened or hurt before any discussion ever began. Donald Trump laid that out. That didn't happen here, because they've been on the march now for months. Yeah, and Sean, it's a it's a total farce for Joe Biden to claim that somehow his hands were tied behind because of Donald Trump's policies. Well, if only his hands were tied, would say Donald Trump's border policies, we wouldn't have the fiasco we have at the border. It's just one specific area where Joe Biden has made such a disastrous calculation that you'll beg yeah, exactly exactly. But it's one area which has become a total total catastrophe. Joe Biden's trying to blame Donald Trump. Look, it was not Donald Trump's fault. It's not the military's fault. It's not primarily the fault of anyone else in our government, whether it's the military and intelligis community for not fully assessing the situation. It is President Joe Biden's fault. The buck stops with him, as he said last week, but then as he immediately began to pass to everyone and anyone he could find. Why is Joe Biden allowing the French, Great Britain and even the Dutch to get people out and he's not made any moves outside of the perimeter at Karzai International Airport into Cobble, which we know from the Secretary of State Tony Blinkin this week and is in full control of Cobble to get into Cobble and escort American citizens and others to the airport. Why have we not done that? And how many days do we really have left to accomplish that, considering Joe has agreed to the deadline yet again today that Sean is mystifying to me why we haven't been going on in controls for a week to pick up Americans. We know where they are. My office has the exact grid coordinates for where they are, while these other countries are going to collect up their citizens. I mean, I can only speculate. And what are these people telling you is they make their attempts to the airport. What's happening to them? You know? They go there. In some cases they go and they just stand in the long line and they can't get in, so they go home after hours and hours in the hot sun and running out of water and food. Some cases they get assaulted by Caliban thugs. In some cases they've had their path sports or their piece of paperwork stolen. Now in many other cases, we've fortunately been will talk them in through some of our brands who are at the airports and who are cooperating with my aide, and get them to the right gate at the right time and get them on the inside. But there are many people who are still on the outside trying to get in. Again, these are not just random Afghans who are fleeing a brutal, repressive government. They are American citizens, I mean who are holding American passports. And the fact that President Biden executed this withdrawal in a way that left ten to thousand or ten thousand or more of them stranded is grossly reckless and it is a complete advocation of his duty to say that we might leave before we get every American out. Unbelievable. Well, thank you for all you're doing. I'm very afraid for our fellow Americans right now behind enemy lines, ostensibly hostage to the whims of a terrorist organization. This, how this has ever happened and just it's unimaginable to me. We hope you keep working hard to get these people home. Senator keep us updated. We appreciate it. Thank you, Sean. We will all right, eight hundred and nine for one. Sean, We're going to update you on and Joe Biden begging Opec to produce more oil when we come back.

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