On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, The country is now experiencing massive propaganda from the White House to sway public opinion on what President Biden is doing in Afghanistan – the greatest surrender in American History. Biden decided how he’d withdraw from Afghanistan against the advice of the generals. It is Biden that capitulated to the Taliban on the August 31st deadline. It was Biden that decided to end air support and human intelligence support for the Afghan soldiers on the ground. Yet, Washington Democrats all voted for a radical $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” bill that makes it easier for illegal aliens to apply for chain migration, while thousands of Americans are stuck in Afghanistan behind Taliban lines. Once the final American troops leave Afghanistan, Americans will likely see a slaughter like it hasn’t been seen since Cambodia. Biden’s withdrawal is indefensible and weakens America. What they are describing as the biggest airlift in history will always be remembered as the greatest surrender in American history. Then, Rep. Michael Waltz, a retired Army Ranger Green Beret, calls in and points out that enemies will not be nice in the face of weakness, he reflected on his experiences across the table from the Taliban and how they’d only respond to strength and resolve. Waltz criticized Democrats for pushing their social infrastructure bill to take over the government and education system with indoctrinated students.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
We are being inundated now with propaganda, propaganda from the Defense Department, propaganda from the State Department, propaganda from the national security adviser and propaganda from Biden. You’re not supposed to believe your eyes and ears, most of you have been watching more TV than you normally would. You’ve been listening to more radio than you normally would because you’re engaged. And the main question in your mind is what’s going to happen to our fellow American citizens? And the polls are turning. Washington lives and dies by Paul’s. Forty one percent of the public approval what Biden is doing, which means almost 60 percent do not. And the question about how we’re going to get American citizens out, the last American citizen, how we’re going to identify them has been the question on our minds for at least a week. The conditions that are in place were put there by Biden. The environment in which we got troops we have there operate was created by Biden. He did this. His generals went along with it. His secretary of state, secretary of defense and national security adviser went along with it. And I. I stand apart from those who say we shouldn’t bring Afghans to the United States or to our ally countries who served with us shoulder to shoulder. One with the other, and I noticed that the vast majority, not all, but the vast majority of men who have fought over there in Afghanistan say exactly the same thing. The vast majority of people here who like to pontificate and hear their own voices do not they don’t matter. They don’t matter. As a larger excuse me, as a logical matter. If we don’t have allies who assist us, whether it’s Syria or Iraq, intelligence information from Iran. Whether it’s in dealing with terrorists in Africa or all over the world. We’re doomed. For those who say we can’t be everywhere, which, of course, is true. More the reason we have to show the world we have to show our allies and by allies, I don’t even mean nation states, our allies in these various hellholes, that we will stand with them, that we will help them. When the going gets rough or we decide to leave. Otherwise, we’ll have no eyes and ears and intel anywhere. He can’t just use satellite. You need human intelligence. So these people make no sense, dismiss them. But the same media, for the most part, that has been lying to us year after year, pushing its political agenda, censoring conservatives, has it disappeared? Now and then they’ll do something that is that it’s effective and give us some information, but we’re getting a lot of propaganda to. How did this White House how did the Defense Department, this guy, Kirby, the admiral? His whole life, he’s pretty much been a communications director and he’s an admiral, a rear admiral. Joe Biden doesn’t take questions, walks away again. Meanwhile, the Democrats just passed the. The first step for the greatest spending bill in world history. That will destroy our voting system, destroy our immigration system, destroy our economic system, massive transformation of money from the private sector to the government sector, massive transformation of money from people who work to people who don’t work. Massive tax increases. Amnesty by the millions and millions followed by chain migration. And they call this a reconciliation bill. And they’re pushing it as fast as they can for several reasons, they know that Biden is doomed. They know that Pelosi is doomed and they know they may lose the Senate. And so these people do not believe in constitutional Republicanism, they do not believe in representing the people, they’re trying to impose their will as fast as they can. And the media have been focused on 10 Democrats. They keep calling moderates like this guy Gottheimer from northern New Jersey, he voted for this today. He’s a fraud. He goes back to the phony, corrupt media in his district. They say, look what our wonderful moderate Democrat, there is no moderate Democrat. He marches behind Nancy Pelosi like all the rest of them. Every single Democrat, including those phony 10 moderates, voted with Pelosi today. Every one of them. And they do it while thousands of our fellow Americans are stuck in Afghanistan thanks to their president. Thanks to their secretary of state, thanks to their secretary of defense, they’re trying to push this stuff through. The most massive transformation and dislocation of our society we’ve ever seen. That’s not what Franklin Roosevelt did when he passed the New Deal. He had massive majorities in the House and the Senate. He took it to the American people. They take nothing. Does this huge omnibus bills where all kinds of stuff is hidden. She did the same thing with Obamacare. She’s fascistic, if not Marxist. No question about it. Nancy Pelosi. So there’s a reality in Afghanistan and then there’s the propaganda you’re hearing. I challenge anybody, Democrat, Republican, independent or nothing to call this program and tell me what the strategy is to get every last American citizen out of Afghanistan, I challenge you. People working on Capitol Hill, you hear this program, people working in the Biden administration, you hear this program, I want to know what it is. What’s the plan? There is no plan. A couple of Democrats showed some angle, the scare or whatever his name is, from California yesterday I played his audio. So what do you want the troops to go into the city and to go into the suburbs and bring them out? That’s not going to happen. And you know what’s interesting? The individuals I see on Fox. Our most aggressive about taking military action are men who’ve seen combat in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, you’ve heard these you’ve heard these special for unless, of course, you cherry pick the one or two here and a couple of people do that, I don’t play that game. Michael Walsh will be on here at the bottom of the hour. The Green Beret. I believe arranger. You see these special forces guys saying, we got to go in there. This is what we need to do. You heard Colonel Kemp Saturday on my program on Fox commander, British forces, right in the teeth of the war over there, said, you can’t do this. You got to go in and get your people out. These are men who are not sending somebody else’s kids in Afghanistan. They were in Afghanistan and they fought fort combat in Afghanistan. Now, they don’t make a bunch of excuses about how this happened and what needs to be done, why the Afghans wouldn’t fight even though 50,000 have died in the last seven years, or they can’t add and they don’t know the numbers. They don’t know left from right. They don’t need to know left from white. And they don’t need to add numbers. You need to know how to aim and fire. And they’ve explained this over and over, we yanked all the support away from them, intelligence support, mechanical support, air support, and they collapsed. But the point is. We now are exposed. We now are exposed. They’re going to go through that country and slaughter and slaughter and slaughter and genocide that we haven’t seen since Cambodia. That we haven’t seen since ISIS. And it really does appall me that so many people are cold blooded about this. Including Biden. It’s shocking how many of the women’s rights groups haven’t said a damn thing, haven’t issued a single statement. It’s amazing Michelle Obama or Me Too Movement haven’t said a thing. Because it’s easy to attack your own country, which is a righteous country, which is a beautiful country, it’s easy to attack your own country. When you know there’s no consequences, in fact, you’ll be celebrated. We’ll be celebrating. And under the cover of darkness, Pelosi and the hoodlums that the Democrats in the House. Pushing their agenda to destroy America from within, to destroy America from within, you know, the food stamp budget has a 22 percent increase that this president is pushing while defense is flat. China’s on the rise, Russia is on the rise, Iran’s building nukes now we have to deal with Afghanistan potentially bleeding into Pakistan and on and on and on. The border is wide open nonetheless. Inexcusable, absolutely inexcusable. Over the horizon, he talks about, but over the horizon, they love their phrases in Washington, we’re going to do over the horizon intelligence over the horizon, you idiot. You have no idea what the hell you’re talking about. You never did. Joe Biden is the gift that keeps giving to communist China, to fascistic Russia, to the Islamic Nazis in Tehran and all the rest of them. He’s the gift that keeps giving while he’s hollowing out America from within. Well, you went on and it’s a funny thing. Is the commander in chief of our troops, right? A couple of weeks ago, wasn’t he calling this a racist country, a white supremacist country? A couple of years ago, the audio was played elsewhere on the Internet, didn’t he say that it’s nothing special to be American? You can’t even define America. Go ahead, define it, he says. We’re literally dealing with a buffoon. And when he had his wits, he was a buffoon. And the Democrat Party. Still at war with the country from within. They’ve weakened our economy, they’re driving up inflation, the price of gasoline and food. The border is wide open, it is they who are perpetuating this virus, not Governor Dissatisfy, Governor Abbott or any other governor, it is they with an open border. All right, I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
You remember ISIS? ISIS in Iraq. They used to call. ISIS in Iraq. Then we have ISIS K, an offshoot of ISIS that operates in Afghanistan. Now, ISIS came about in a significant way because Joe Biden was put in charge of withdrawing our troops from Iraq. We’d been there long enough. That’s what he said. And so the withdrawal was hasty. It was poorly planned. And it resulted in the building of the ISIS caliphate. Remember how they slaughtered people, decapitated American? And now he’s president of the United States and he’s in charge of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He’s done the same damn thing. Because stupid people don’t learn. And he’s a very stupid man. And he is a high. A high bar for pain, the pain of others. The pain of others. He doesn’t blink. When he looks at his television monitor and sees what’s taking place, he knows what’s going on because he’s getting significant intelligence information more than you and I have. It’ll be the next president has to deal with this. Look at the border, he knows what’s going on in the border. He knows that the virus is coming in through the border, he knows him as thirteens coming in through the border. He knows that drug cartels and coyotes are coming through the border. He knows what’s happening to little girls on the border and women. He knows about the cages effectively, that he’s had children in that he used to come. He knows all this is going on. He also knows almost a quarter million illegal aliens are pouring into the country. That’s OK by Joe. All right. He sees his unleashed inflation. He started his press conference off today, such as it is by praising the House Democrats for pushing forward with a three point five trillion, which is actually a five point five trillion dollar bill, but even worse than the spending, which is disastrous. Is that fundamentally alters every aspect of this country? And you don’t know much about it because it’s in a massive, massive bill, thousands of pages long, and they’re not done writing it. He’s OK with that. Communist China is on the rise. And so what does he do with our military after Trump was building it up? He freezes it. Friezes. And death rates through the roof, murder rate is through the roof. He never talks about he never talks about it. When we come back, we will have a here on the program, Michael Waltz, who is a member of the House of Representatives. He’s the first Green Beret elected to Congress and he served in combat tours in Afghanistan. We’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 3
It’s a pleasure to have Representative Michael Waltz on the program. He first Green Beret elected to Congress. He served multiple combat tours in Afghanistan. How are you, sir? You know, Mark, I am a mix between it’s it’s an unhealthy mix between rage and grief right now, but this is just a jaw droppingly disgusting and sad day for for our country and in so many ways, Congressman. It truly is unbelievable. And I mean, obviously, I didn’t fight that. I can’t sleep at night thinking about this, can you? I mean, it is so bad for for it for our troops. It’s so bad for our ally. It’s so bad for our country what’s happened here. And it’s as if nobody can get through to Joe Biden. You can’t get through to this guy. He just is not open to rationality, is he? No, look, this is this is a disaster on so many levels. It’s a disaster from a humanitarian standpoint. The Afghan women, journalists, interpreters that stood and were willing to take a bullet with alongside American soldiers. It’s a disaster for our credibility. You imagine what they’re thinking and places like Taiwan, Ukraine and elsewhere about whether America will stand with you under this administration. And the biggest thing is the disaster for American safety. al-Qaida 3.0 is going to come roaring back. The Taliban takeover equals an al-Qaida takeover. And here we are heading into the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with the Taliban and al Qaeda flag flying once again, dictating terms to the commander in chief. And just my heart is broken for the victims of 9/11, for the Gold Star families, for the veterans who sacrificed so much to watch one man flush it all down the toilet. And that’s right. One man flush it down the toilet because this was all completely unavoidable, wasn’t it, Congressman? You know, it really was. You know, people want to you know, the two narratives, right? One, they want to point to President Trump and say he started this. Like President Trump pointed out, I talked to him about it and and a number of people did. But at the end of the day, he didn’t do it. You know, we went to him and he listened and and left a small force there, no one to keep pressure on the terrorists and no to to provide support to the Afghan army. They were out doing the fighting and dying, but they needed that support. And Biden just ripped it away. And we are where we are. But this was completely, completely avoidable. This is a self-inflicted wound on our country. And as I said earlier today, when we have another Pulse nightclub, another San Bernardino, another terrorist attack, God help us, another 9/11, that blood is on Biden’s hands. For these people that are being hunted down as we speak, that’s on his hands for the Americans that are trapped behind enemy lines, that’s on his hands. And the thing that has me so damn mad is that future American soldiers that are going to have to go back over there, but now with no bases, no local allies, and fight our own damn equipment. That the Taliban are going to use against us. That blood is on his hands and I got to tell you, we are going to hold him accountable and I’m going to never let him and the group of clowns that are sitting around him, forget it. You know, Congressman Walti, where he was largely responsible for the complete breakdown after we withdrew from Iraq, fundamentally, mostly withdrew from Iraq. ISIS brings up a caliphate is developed. Obama really doesn’t bend a finger in any serious way to address it. Trump comes in, eventually wipes them out and so forth. This guy’s a walking, talking, wrecking ball. And I’ll tell you what amazes me. What amazes me is there’s not a general with the guts. I’ll say it with the guts to resign in protest, not one. That’s absolutely right. No, you’re absolutely right. This the same team that’s around Biden with the same ones that are around Obama Austin, Jake Sullivan, Feiner Avril Haines, who’s the director of National Intelligence, was the deputy CIA and not just the pull out of Iraq that led to ISIS, beheadings of Americans and attacks around the world. They’re also responsible for Benghazi, same crew responsible for the Bergdahl trade. I had to lead the search for Bowe Bergdahl as a Green Beret. By the way, never in a million years did I think I would see all of these all of these idiots standing around Obama declaring him a hero. They’re all Susan Rice is still lurking in the background, by the way, in the White House. So it’s all the same people. And the two fundamental flaws, one, they believe America’s more of a problem than it is a solution. And number two, if we’re just nice enough, if we just give away enough, if we just concede enough that our enemies will be nice back. And let me tell you, I’ve sat across the table from the Taliban. They understand strength, they understand leverage, and they understand bombs on forehead, period. And when they smell weakness, which they do right now in the White House, you’re going to see them take full advantage. And that’s exactly what they’re doing. Let me ask you this. It’s a little deeper, a little more fundamental. But I want to ask you, you’re very, very smart, gentlemen, as I write this book, American Marxism, to try and point out areas in our culture and society that are under attack from within, calling the nation racist, white supremacist, that the American territories are legitimate because of all these white Protestants who came from Europe, the war on separation of powers, the war on the economic system, trying to brainwash our children when a country from within is destroying itself fundamentally, when it is attacking the minds of its own children. The next generation, when the media regurgitate this stuff day in and day out, when you weaken a country from within, it doesn’t have the resolve when it comes to matters like that, or at least the politicians don’t. Do you agree with that? I absolutely agree with it. Right. We have our external threats, you know, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, global terrorism. And those are you know, those are kind of outside forces pounding on your house. But the much more insidious danger are the termites that eat at the foundation from within. And you just described all of them. And we face far greater threats from within. I’m sitting right now off the House floor, the House of Representatives, and we should be dedicating every waking moment to saving the thousands of Americans that are trapped behind terrorist lines right now. But instead, what are we doing? We’re voting on what they call social infrastructure, the biggest mass giveaway of future wealth, all borrowed from China. By the way, I don’t even like to call it taxpayer dollars. It’s borrowed from China. That’s what that’s what the left is pushing right now in the middle of an international crisis. With American lives at risk, they’re pushing their social infrastructure. And in that bill, they’re also pushing permanent control of the government, their voting system, a massive amnesty which will have chain migration, the big redistribution of wealth from from the private sector to their base, which they want to grow, that this will fundamentally alter the nature of this country. Don’t you think this is free? I mean, I’m just relooking the legislation, free daycare, free pre-K, free college, free of evil, that we just keep going down the list that no one, no one can possibly afford to pay for except for a massive redistribution. And socialism has never worked anywhere in the world, will never work and is not going to work here, but it will be a massive anchor that will sink this country. So. So you’re absolutely. It is rotting the core within it, but I think that at the heart of it all is our education system that is producing are the vast majority of our military officers now come from ROTC, from university. That’s it. It’s producing the next generation that thinks this country is fundamentally evil, racist, misogynist and colonialist. I want to take some of those kids and send them over to Afghanistan right now. I want to send them to where the interpreters who are willing to die with us, that are so desperate to get out of there and get to this country, they’ll cling to the side of a jet and risk that rather than stay where they are and watch them kiss the ground when they land here, the very lucky few that get out of there. But, you know, they’re lacking any perspective. And that’s one of the reasons I’m pushing to get us back to national service like the Israelis do. Because I tell you what, when you learn leadership, followership, teamwork, and you do it with people who don’t think like you and you’re forced to sacrifice for something bigger than you, and you learn what that flag means. But we don’t have that anymore. And that’s why we need more veterans in Congress. And that’s why, you know, I’m here to fight for this great nation. I think we’re in for some very, very, very difficult times. You know, we’ve had Jack Kent on the program. We had Colonel Richard Kemp, the head of British forces, for a period of time. There they are so thoroughly. And they talk about how this is going to resonate throughout terrorist organizations, throughout enemy nation states, even as close as Pakistan now, which has nuclear weapons in the Middle East, I saw yesterday Saudi Arabia’s cutting some kind of military deal now with Russia. Iran’s going to do some military exercises with Russia and China. Everybody sees a shift, a power shift here. And I’m very concerned, Congressman, I’ll be honest with you. Half the country sees us. We see this. The other half kind of controls the tools and the mechanisms of our government. And what we’re seeing is the decline of the United States and the rise of communist China. And it is happening on our watch. By the way, Mark, Joe Biden uses an excuse for this disastrous policy. Oh, we need to we need to be shifting towards China, which I agree with. But guess what? What’s the only place in the world where we had a base? Sandwiched between China, Russia and Iran, it was Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan that he just gave away, he just gave it away for nothing. We had one on their back flank right next to their nuclear missile silos, the new ones hundreds of miles from their western border. And he just gave it away. So, yeah, you’re absolutely right. It’s just can we survive the next couple of years? Can we survive the next 18 months until we get the majority back, at least in the House, and fire Nancy Pelosi? And they’re going to do as much damage as is humanly possible because that’s why they’re pushing so hard. Now, she’s a three vote majority in the House. They have a no vote majority in the Senate. The Constitution gives them the vice president’s vote and they want to make changes to this country that have never occurred before. Even when the Democrats have had supermajorities in the House and the Senate. We have we have abandoned our constitutional system as much as we have abandoned our allies overseas. It is a disgrace. Congressman, I want to thank you for your service and your current service and keep up the fight. God bless you, my friend. All right. Well, we’ll be down in that foxhole, Mark. And and this this country is worth fighting for. Amen. And thank you for everything. You take care and is a great man there. One of many, I might add. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
So the CIA director had a secret meeting with the putative head of the Taliban. Guy’s name is William Burns. He’s been a hack for a very, very long time, mostly a diplomat. The Libs love him. You know, when Trump sent people to meet with the Taliban, you knew about it, and when he made proposals about meeting with them at Camp David, you knew about it. This administration, everything secretive. I wish they were doing things in secret, they would help protect the country. Joe Biden makes Neville Chamberlain look like George Patton. Tumbulgum, let us do a little bit of Joe Biden, as tough as it is. As tough as it is. Let’s start with cut 21 go G7 leaders and the leaders of the E.U., NATO and the U.N. all agreed that we will stand united in our approach to the Taliban. We agreed the legitimacy of any future government depends on the approach it now takes to uphold international. Hitler was concerned about the legitimacy of his government. Do you think Mao was concerned about the legitimacy of his government? Do you think Stalin was concerned about the legitimacy of his government? Do you think the Islama Nazi regime in Tehran is concerned about that? How can you be in Washington, D.C. for 50 years? And I’d get this. Well, maybe that’s why. That statement says it all. The legitimacy of their government. These are terrorists who just took over our country because Joe Biden surrendered to them. There care about the. The international norms, that’s why they’re terrorists, they don’t follow international norms. Enemies don’t follow international norms. The legitimacy. And they’re all staying together, these G7 leaders, I don’t believe a damn thing that comes out of this man’s big mouth, I really don’t. You know, every one of those governments is. Is furious and frightened by what Biden did and what he’s capable of. Cut 20 to go, United States will be a leader in these efforts and we’ll look to the international community and our partners to do the same. OK, pal, I have a question for you. How are you going to get our citizens out of. Out of Afghanistan, stop talking about what you’re going to do and diplomacy and we’re going to have meetings, phone calls, oh, it’s going to be great. Seminar’s America is back. Joe Biden is America’s back, we’re back into the global economy, the global foreign policy. The guy’s not just taking us down, he’s taking down our allies to. Go ahead, Dean. Our allies commitment, they’re bringing they’re they’re bringing to their countries, the Afghans who served alongside their forces as translators are in their embassies, just as we’re bringing to the United States those Afghans who worked alongside our forces. No, we’re not bringing them. We’re only bringing some we don’t even know how many citizens are over there, let alone how many Afghans are over there who are. So friends of ours. We hear the stories, we watch the story, this man’s a propagandist. It’s a propaganda’s, that’s what he is. Let’s go to cut 23, please cut 23. So we agreed to stay vigilant against terrorist threats that have metastasized around the world. Well, really, I guess you’re not aware of Afghanistan. Go ahead. We went to Afghanistan with our allies in 2001 for clear reasons, one, to get the people who attacked us on 9/11 and to get Osama bin Laden and to make sure that Afghanistan was not used again as a base from which to attack the United States or our allies. Oh, wow. Really? Now what? We actually found Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Now what now what can we make sure we won’t get hit from Afghanistan? Of course not. It’s a thousand times worse. They now control the whole damn country. I’ll be right back.