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all right gently uh bombing at a mosque
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in afghanistan's capital on sunday
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raising fears to some that the country
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is on the brink of a civil war it comes
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as experts say biden's rushed withdrawal
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led to aircrafts leaving kabul with
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empty seats we saw some of those images
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remember and here's some more with more
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than 100 000 afghan allies left behind
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and a lot of americans too kabul also
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faces plunging blackouts as their new
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taliban government fails to pay its
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electric bill on time just like a lot of
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other people
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uh gop senator tom cotton served in
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afghanistan he joins us live senator
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good morning to you good morning thank
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you it's good to be back in the studio
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with you all yeah it's great to see you
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happy here so uh you know go back about
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a month ago you were actually trying to
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help some of the afghan allies get out
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and you did successfully but now the
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news apparently these airplanes were
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flying in and flying out empty because
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people would not allow the americans and
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our allies to get on the plane yeah i
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can tell you exactly why that happened
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because i've talked to some of the
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people who are on the ground there's two
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reasons first it was so chaotic that
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even our own citizens green card holders
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or afghans who had fought with our
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troops and were approved for a special
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olympic visa couldn't get into the
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airport so people who were supposed to
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be on those planes couldn't get in in
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time to board them the second reason is
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they were flying out of the kabul
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airport one runway you get to a point
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where there's too many airplanes backed
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up too many airplanes trying to come in
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and they just had to take off to get
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them out if they had been at bagram we
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had multiple runways you had more uh
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space to park airplanes you wouldn't
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have that problem
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yep it all goes back to joe biden's
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ill ill-planned disorganized chaotic
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decision to withdraw from afghanistan
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don't you think the state department
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deserves some of the discredit because
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anthony blinken according to the defense
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department it was up to state to
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organize a lot of this stuff the reason
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why these people didn't get out the
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reason why the manifests weren't full
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was the state department sat in his
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hands yeah absolutely i mean we heard
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last week from the generals who helped
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organize uh this airlift that the state
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department refused to
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call for the evacuation of
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non-combatants for american civilians
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and green card holders until the very
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last minute that the military was
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planning for it as early as april and
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may right after joe biden made his
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decision they were like hey we're ready
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to go we're going to start taking people
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out should we do that yet tony blinken
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state department sat on its hands until
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the very last minute when uh the taliban
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was on the gates of uh couple what's so
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infuriating is if you see these images
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of seats that are just empty and we
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remember how we all felt on those
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mornings when we were reporting on this
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hearts go out to all the people that
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were stranded and left behind and wanted
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one of those seats i mean their
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livelihood their lives depended on it
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and when you say they couldn't get
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through the gates at the airport we
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didn't have our troops there on the
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ground to help our american citizens or
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our allies get onto these planes then
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you read some of them who had credible
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documents were stopped and were not
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allowed to get on the planes while
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others that hadn't been vetted were
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allowed through what's the vetting
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process now for all the people that are
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here that came from afghanistan have we
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vetted all of them no absolutely not
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ainsley and joe biden screwed it up
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coming and going so first we left a lot
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of people in afghanistan who should have
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gotten out second we brought a lot of
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people out who we shouldn't have brought
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out people had no particular attachment
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to the united states who hadn't fought
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with our troops and you've seen the
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reports now of a young female soldier
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being assaulted at fort bliss and el
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paso or sex offenses by afghan men at
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fort mccoy and other offenses there's
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really no vetting i mean he's just
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walking off the base and it's really
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hard i mean it's hard to do in
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afghanistan that's one reason it took so
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long is you got to go interview people
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face to face i mean afghanistan's a
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third world country you don't just call
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it the fbi or the high school or the
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local police so we have almost no way to
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vet these people the biden
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administration is taking their name if
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it is their name testing against
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databases if they don't come back it's
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like well they must be fine to go i i
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heard one interview where uh somebody
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was interviewing people and said who
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exactly did we fly out and the number
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was like 75 percent of the people the
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afghans
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were not a special immigrant uh visa
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holders in other words we flew out 75
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percent of the wrong people yeah
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unbelievable and it's basically whoever
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was able to get into the airport
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especially in those first chaotic days
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after the fall of kabul um again we have
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no idea who these people are we're just
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taking it on faith they're using their
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real name and then we're testing against
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incomplete databases saying well if we
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don't have a record of you being a
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terrorist then you must be fine you're
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not going to attack americans you're not
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going to commit sex offenses against
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american women you're not going to bring
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any kind of disease or anything else in
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the country and you don't have a right
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under american law to be here you're not
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like those brave afghans with whom i
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served who fought alongside us who
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risked their lives and their family
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lives who we left behind what if they do
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make it to america what do we do do we
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send them back are they incarcerated
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here what happens no i mean the
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administration is basically clearing
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everyone through it's just like all
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those uh migrants that we saw at the
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border in del rio a couple weeks ago i
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mean basically the word is out across
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the world that if you get to our
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southern border you can get in i mean a
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lot of these special immigrant visa
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holders would probably be better off
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trying to get out of kabul and go to
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mexico and then come to our southern
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border didn't wait to get on the plane
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the double well you got everybody else
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coming through why not uh through uh
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through colombia to panama and then
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costa rica and then right through uh
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senator great to see you in person yeah
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all right thanks for helping us out
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while you're in new york city do your
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christmas shopping because absolutely
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nothing's going to be on the shelf don't
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put it on layaway i've heard that i've
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heard that all right thanks senator
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