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each other, and get in our future. >> ill keep us out of world war iii and then revive national pride. >> america needs israel and we need to make sure that we have their back. >> do you want a leader who is going to put this country first, or do you want dick cheney in three inch heels. >> they are five inch heels and i dont wear them unless you can run in them. >> tiktok should be bad because they are poisoning american minds. >> we have to declare economic independence. >> not energ...

240 bravo mounted machine gun in an ambush against our scout platoon we went house to house day after day to find a rifle. we ended up not finding it. when you think of that, vis-a-vis the decision made on bagram. the decisions made to allow them to release prisoners, the decisions that were made to not accept -- we were accepting every other deal of the taliban, we didnt accept their deal to stay out of kabul. we didnt pay attention we should to the threat assessment while marines were vulnerab...

Infiltrated the whole country so fast and we were just kind of left to this one little airport concerned me. the videos that we were getting and the pictures that we were getting from him looked somewhat chaotic. we got the video that you had just played and we got other ones where he was really interacting with, you know, the locals. and was in awe in his approach to his difficult job. so just, you know, that video that you saw and his pictures and how he handled it put us at ease to where we f...

Property. they have a hospital, shops, gyms, hangers and barracks. last month bagram had a prison that held thousands of foreign fighters including isis and the taliban. for the first time in 20 years, the lighting went out at bagram. locals understood what was going on. without warning, the u.s. military just left. split in the middle of the night and turned off the power as they did. the new afghan commander fled, too. in minutes, looters descended. they found thousands of vehicles, a huge cac...

On bagram, for example. the president is fond of saying now the military commanders say that bagram field said it wouldnt be much use. mark milley said it was ant tack call support. why was that? as milley testified or as he said in a news conference on august 18, he said the mission was to protect the embassy. obviously the embassy is in kabul. there was no thought that you would add forces to keep bagram open. he wanted -- what biden wanted was forces out. they had to surge forces in to kabul ...

If an 05 battalion commander had a similar complaint, fired. we had a secretary defense testified to congress in may that the afghan national security force that would we stand the advance. theyre supposed to advise on military policy. we have a marine commander, all of these people -- im not saying we have to be in afghanistan forever, but im saying that if any of you throw your rank on the table and say hey, its a bad idea to evacuate bagram air field a strategic air base before we evacuate ev...

Miscalculation. that is clear. the decision to abandon the air field is idiotic and led to the killing of 13 service members yesterday. given the local, kabuls airport is impossible to defend. yet despite the fact that it cant be defended, its the only way for american citizens to get out of the country. as bill said it, abandoning bagram air base saying yes, cant do and not this is madness because im putting the lives of americans at risk and you need to find someone else to do it. tragically n...

That are -- >> and think of that young man who signed up, did this. saw what he was saying to the kids over there. that breaks your heart. >> it does break your heart. yeah. decency came through. >> so in light of that, unbelievable they closed bagram. he said, you know, im a carpenter. i can tell, that is not a good idea. im a talk show host. thats inside. how did we get there? >> its tempting -- i dont think any of these military leaders have covered themselves with glory in this. it wouldnt b...

0 >> that would make me look pathetic. >> do it, waters. >> have you finished "how i saved the world?" >> im on page 342. >> doesnt go up that many pages. thanks nor watching "fox prime time this week." dont forget "how i saved the world", still selling out. >> tucker: were starting to learn the names of the 13 american service men that were killed yesterday in that -- in kabul. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in the middle of the night, kabul air base plunged into darkness. nothing happene...

The americans left this base? i dont want to talk about it, he said. everywhere on bagram we visited was dark. >> reporter: you hand over a base, cant turn on the power, its not too useful. the main battle planning room is offline. here are the racks that had the computers and servers, the brain behind this operation center, thats all been stripped out. the americans say they handed over this base to the afghans in an orderly way to continue the fight against extremists. they left them a base th...