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Professionals. if. pete: joe biden and his administration continuing to defend his withdrawal from afghanistan that was a disaster. the evacuation led to the fall of kabul and into the hands of the taliban, and to a suicide bombing attica bull airport which two years ago today took the lives of 13 u.s. service members. our next guest is the gold star father of 20-year-old lance corporal jared schmidt9. he d only been in afghanistan for two weeks when he was killed that day. joining us now, mark schmidts. mark, thanks for being here. first, on this tragic an resterly, share with our audience just a message of your son. jared would have done this all over again if he had to. he was, he was the type the true brotherhood and spirit was in him, and he would never want ....
From their positions. they don t deserve to be there. you don t make these kind of mistakes and and still have your job at the end of the day. these guys should have resigned, and i m honestly rather disturbed that the generals didn t slap their stars on the table and resign before this even happen. that s what should have happened and it didn t. and thousand they re going to pay the consequences for it as well. so we re not going to stop fighting until we get the accountability that we deserve and the rest of the veterans that served in this 20-year war, i feel, deserve as a well. i mean, they everyone there did such a wonderful job, but their leadership fail them. pete: you re right. i mean, the it s still staggering to this day to think the only person held accountable was a a marine colonel, stu sheller, who spoke the truth. no one involved in that devastation of that mission at all has either resigned or been held accountable. and you still don t have answers on a lot of thing ....
Definitely coming to light. certainly when biden had no trust this his military and intelligence community that was giving him information about not leaving bagram, and here s the reasons why, can if he chose to ignore that, and it came back and bit him in the rear end and, unfortunately, cost our 13 families their kids. i think their legacy is certainly going to be tarnished by this massive blunder, and the fact that they keep doubling down on it is only making it worse for them. they should have just come clean and admitted their mistakes, and we could have all moved on. pete: absolutely. mark, you re going to be a round table on the 29th, we had colonel mike waltz on the program as well. you said you re not going to hold back. what is your message? well, i m going to speak directly to biden and the other leaders that i feel are on our hit list. and hit list, i mean removed ....
It s so painful that even the image causes more pain for those families. speech of the time has changed a couple times from when that might happen, and there were discussions before we see them. we are still waiting to see the time that popped up today. he s going to address this. when i tell you that you can google the video, outside of this important moment, we will just do it. he can t wait for this to become bigger. he s got to say something. harris: he has to face this. jerry schmitt, who we heard from, his son excuse me, mark schmidts who died at the age of 20, we heard further from him, watching him with no reporting on this. he detailed it a little bit on hannity last night, saying he ....