On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, The cover-up continues today, just like yesterday, with the Biden Administration praising the best airlift in history, which is actually the greatest surrender in American history. Meanwhile, Americans and Afghan nationals continue to be slaughtered on their trek to the Kabul airport. Then, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s State department is not trustworthy and is placing the onus on “Americans that won’t leave” Afghanistan. Multiple reports have emerged from Americans and Afghani’s warning that they’ll be killed if they leave their homes to get to the airport. Later, Speaker Nancy Pelosi spreads more lies about Republicans stifling the right to vote as they close the loopholes exploited by democrats who want to weaken elections. Also, Democrats are hard on vaccines and mask mandates, but not at the southern border. Yet the media will still portray effective Governors like Ron DeSantis as if he were the Taliban. Afterward, former White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany calls in to discuss how the Biden Administration lies and is covering up for one another over the Afghanistan surrender.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
The propaganda, the narrative, the cover up started in earnest today, but I could smell it yesterday. Good night. I could smell it yesterday. This is the greatest airlift in American history. It just shows how how fantastic this administration is. We’ve never seen anything like this before. 80,000 people have been removed so far, they tell us. They have reconfigured their numbers of American citizens, it was anywhere from 11 to 15,000, now it’s 6,000, with 4,500 removed. Amazing how these numbers adjust, how flexible they are. I don’t care if we get 50 million people out of Afghanistan, if one American is there. And our government doesn’t get that one American out and there’s some terrible things going on here, the secretary of state said today essentially. Our effort to get Americans and allies out of Afghanistan doesn’t end on August 31, I will do everything diplomatically and economically to get them out of there. Well, we have a slight military presence and you haven’t done everything. They get them out of there. So this is more of the new propaganda. Just because they’re there doesn’t mean we’ve left them behind, you know, just because we surrendered. Look at this fantastic airlift we have going on here. And by the way, the American military will do whatever it has to do and it will do it better than anybody else. This has nothing to do with the American military except that the highest ranks. And everything to do with Joe Biden and the buffoons that surround him. Remember this from yesterday, and I’m doing this for a reason. Cut one from yesterday, go, so stop, this is one of the guys who’s now going to try and. Push the propaganda and the narrative. So this is this is that the most successful airlift in the history of people as opposed to something else, I guess, which is why they keep throwing the numbers out there without the denominator. Now, what it is, is the most massive hostage situation the world has ever seen because people who want to leave can’t leave, whether they’re American citizens, whether they’re allies of ours, whether they’re just anybody. Go ahead. Operation that only the U.S. military could perform. Yeah, only the U.S. military could perform this, but only. Politicians like Biden at all could screw it up. He seemed quite happy, seemed almost jocular, did he not, Mr. Producer? He doesn’t see what’s a big deal started off bad when we’re getting our footing now, just in time to get out it. It’s all right. It’s disgusting, he’s disgusting. This is an insurrection that’s taking place in Afghanistan. Just for the media in this country to know what an insurrection looks like, it looks like this armed. People getting maimed and killed and brutalized. That’s an insurrection. But apparently it’s quite tolerable to. To Joe Biden and Eugene Robinson and their ilk, no pushback from the morning show, of course, thinks everything’s going swimmingly. It’s not a big deal. Then there was this cut to the greatest airlift in history, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the greatest surrender in American history. It’s the greatest surrender in American history and they’re trying to spin it. If you don’t despise these people as much as I do, I don’t get it. Ah, it’s going to be one of the greatest. Greatest airlifts in America and the Democrats are saying the same thing is Eugene Robinson, you know, the the. The corrupt Praetorian Guard media. We don’t want the greatest airlift in American history because. That’s the result of the greatest surrender in American history, but look at what they’re praising themselves on. Look at how they’re praising themselves. Politico, White House to media, we want our props on Afghanistan. President and his team have taken it on the chin for the past week now amid a massive evacuation effort. They want kudos to they want to be celebrated. They want to be thanked. And the span of a week, writes Natasha Korecki, that is her name. The White House went from struggling to explain a rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan to beating its chest, beating its chest. People, as I speak, are being slaughtered over there. We don’t have cameras in the rural areas that the Taliban control and al-Qaida and now ISIS. We get these stories, you see them on the Internet. We get these stories about how people are being slaughtered. What do you think there’s hundreds of thousands of people trying to get out of that country? Top Biden officials. And administration allies have begun aggressively touting the success of their evacuation efforts in the war torn country, offering frequent updates on the number of evacuees. They frame the operation as historic in line with the Berlin airlift. I said all this yesterday. I could smell it. I could hear it. They declare that they’re over performing their own metrics and trumpeted the president as defying expectations. Just startling, 180 from the defensive crouch Biden and his team occupied just days ago when the reflects the sense of combativeness and has emerged in the West Wing as they sort through the first major sustained crisis of the administration. Oh, yeah, the first one. But forget about the border. And while it sparked accusation, the president’s team is trying to divert attention away from a crisis of its own creation by his defenders to stress that for now at least, he deserves to grow. Philip rains this this putz. Is that nobody? He hit his head so far up Hillary’s Tucows, it’s still there, as far as I’m concerned. That’s not a shifting message, he says. That’s the transition. That’s what’s happening on the ground. That’s a change of circumstances. The administration starting with Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Raines said, have been working at an incredible tempo to get the situation under control. So now it’s not even the military, it’s the feckless, buffoonish secretary of state and national security adviser. And with the media, I warn you, before people, the media have turned on Biden, there’s some clips and there’s a little bit, but the media will turn right back. You want. I know there have been reports on TV and elsewhere, we look at them, they’re turning on Biden. I mean, I don’t know. No, they haven’t. No, they haven’t. The media are corrupt. Capital K, Mr. Davis, a corrupt. Markets, I see, I know. But for them, we live in America where they k so they like KS not seize. And, of course, Anthony Blinken. Epiphone, that’s going to cost people lives and already has he thanked himself today, cut three go. This is one of the largest airlifts in history, a massive military, diplomatic, security and humanitarian undertaking. It’s a testament both to U.S. leadership and to the strength of our alliances. And you go, it’s fantastic. We’ve never seen anything like this before. Look, ignore the hundreds of thousands of people surrounding the airport now stepping in their own feces. The sewage has backed up. People are hungry. They’re begging to get in. They can’t get in. They’re being whipped. Some shot. Some are brutalized in other ways by the Taliban. This is a fantastic event. It’s unbelievable. And, of course, forget about the 75,000 U.S. vehicles, 600,000 weapons, 208 planes that we left behind, forget about, hey, it’s OK. Forget about that country becoming a terrorist haven like we’ve never seen in human history. It’s OK. There’s no ramification, look at this. We’ve sent our. A huge freight aircraft and bringing people in by the tens of thousands. Cut, forgo, many of you have asked how many U.S. citizens remain in Afghanistan who want to leave the country based on our analysis, starting on August 14, when our evacuation operations began, there was then a population of as many as 6,000 American citizens in Afghanistan. That’s not even believable. They went from 15,000 to 6,000. How did that happen? Well, they did what I suggested, they do count the passports, but I said you may get the majority of that, you’re not going to get them all. You’re not going to get them all. Because some people will travel to, say, France and then travel to another country and then travel and go into Afghanistan, and there’s no real way to track them in the United States system. This was told to me today. And Dan Crenshaw, one of the great members of the House of Representatives. He also explained that there’s many ways that this would this would somehow avoid the State Department computers. But here’s the thing. He says we’re not going to leave anybody behind even when we leave, we’re not going to leave anybody behind here. He says it cut five go. As the president said yesterday, on track to complete our mission by August 31st, provided you’re going to complete their mission by August 31st. They’re going to complete their mission, their surrender mission. By August 31st. That’s their mission. No matter what. But are they really completing it by August 31st? Listen carefully, go you to cooperate and there are no disruptions to this effort. The president has also asked for contingency plans in case he determines that we must remain in the country to pass that date. He’s not going to remain in the country past the date. Go ahead, but let me be crystal clear about this. Here we go. There is no deadline on our work to help any remaining American citizens who decide they want to leave to do so, along with the many Afghans who have stood by us over these many years and want to leave and have been unable to do so. That effort will continue every day past August 31st. And he was pressed on this. How are you going to do that? Well, with diplomatic and economic pressure. We have no intel, we have no military, we have no diplomatic and nothing there zero. Well, we’re going to continue to press like, how may I tell you what? The Taliban are really concerned about what we say now, you know, they want to be in the community of nations. Community, ladies and gentlemen, we’re living in multiple worlds here. Joe Biden’s world is a world of sick, narcissistic. Dangerous fumes. That even Lysol can’t fix. They create this disaster. Now they claim credit for fixing this disaster. Mission accomplished. We heard that one before. But even if the mission is accomplished, I may tell you after August 31, let me be crystal clear, anybody working here, we’re going to see diplomacy like you’ve never seen it before. Oh, my God. We’re going to we’re going to be diplomatic in ways that people have never been diplomatic before. And economically, the Taliban, we’re going to deny them all kinds of stuff, these clowns live in the mountains. All they need are Gotze. All I needed goat’s. They befriend the goats, they eat the goats, goats there, that’s all the Taliban. You’re being lied to, America. You’re being lied to, there’s a full scale, full throated propaganda campaign taking place now, we’ve seen it in other wars that have gone sour, battles that have gone south. There’s no deadline, but they set a deadline. There’s 15,000 citizens, but now there’s 6,000 citizens. And now this disaster is the greatest rescue mission. In history. We had all these contingency, we were ready, we were ready no matter what, we were set. This is sick. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
By the way, folks, people contact me, I want to point out. American Marxism is number one in the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list and the non fiction, hardcover and e-book combined lists, we were alerted today that six weeks in a row. Six weeks in a row, and I can’t do this forever, obviously, but. That is a fantastic run and I want to thank you, folks, very, very much for it. The book has been widely. Credited and supported. Certainly throughout much of conservative media. On the. When the crap media, it’s basically been silent, except for a few backbench lowlife types and guy by the name of Tom Nichols whose book came out the other day, I think it’s No. 712 on the Amazon list. I don’t know. Nobody knows who he is and nobody much cares. And some guy, what is his name, Zachary second here. Something with a P.. That’s right. I’m trying to see his name, Zachary P. Is that what we should call? I’m trying to find it. Sorry, guys. Zachary Patrizio. Who works for Sly, used to be a conservative, used to write for campus reform, humiliated himself at a recent CPAC, we’ll get into him. I think Friday will take some time on Zachary P.. Now he’s gone to the dark side over at Salon and he’s found a horrific mistake in my book, something I’ve already told you about a couple of. About the Franklin School, as opposed to the Frankfurt school, always book a horrendous, disastrous piece of scotch. The punk hasn’t even read, it certainly hasn’t read, he hasn’t read much, actually, but that on another day, probably Friday or when I return.
Hour 1 Segment 3
Just a matter of time. John Kirby, Pentagon spokesman. At a press conference today, and I want you to listen to what he said, vis a vis what? Lincoln had to say cotinine, go outside of that, the Taliban have set up checkpoints, we’ve talked about this before and we are in daily communication with Taliban commanders about who we want to see get in and what the credentials are, what they look like, what’s valid, and that that that communication happens literally every day. We have been nothing but open with the Taliban about who we expect them to let in again, fully recognize that it’s that that that not every step of this process is in our firm control and that there are going to be instances where it doesn’t work as advertised. I think there’ll be a lot of instances like that. And does that sound like the jolly good story that Lincoln was talking about, Mr. Producer? Doesn’t to me. Katende go. If you’re an evacuee that we can get out, we’re going to continue to get get you out of here right up until the end, but in those last couple of days, we’re going to try to preserve as much capability as we can on the on the at the airport, as you might imagine. So in those last couple of days, we will begin to prioritize military capabilities and military resources to move out. All right. So it’s not a week. It’s less than that. And this is why you’re getting the propaganda from the State Department and Blinken himself about. We’re going to continue to fight for the release of citizens after the 31st using diplomacy and economics. Because we won’t be there, there’s not a damn thing we’re going to, you know, hope for the. The good faith of the Taliban. Because we know they fear our economy or economic sanctions and we know they fear our diplomacy. Now, how ridiculous is this? And they want kudos, according to Politico, the full court press, that we should celebrate them. And so, of course, Eugene Robinson does exactly that, as do and well, most of the media in America. And you’re going to see this propaganda now and you’re seeing it today. And his rights group points out, Pentagon spokesperson, you just heard him suggest they will leave behind evacuees, they can’t get out, but then they want you to believe and they pretend we’re not leaving anyone behind just because we pulled out militarily. We’re going to use diplomacy and economics. Now, that’s absolutely absurd. And this is why Representative Walsh and some of the others are saying this is the greatest hostage situation in American history. People who want to get out, is there a single American who wants to stay? What kind of talk is this? You want something? Sounds weird. It is weird. When something sounds weird, it is weird. And it sounds weird. And see. Blinken also suggested there roughly 500 Americans remaining in Afghanistan who who wish to be evacuated. Noted that out of some reading from National Review that out of 6,000 U.S. citizens who stated they wanted to leave when the evacuation effort began, 4,500 U.S. passport holders were rescued, leaving 1,500 people, approximately 500 of whom are still actively looking for passage out. Well, how do we know the other thousand are? But maybe they don’t have access to electricity or iPhones or computers or whatever. They can’t email. They can’t text. The numbers he cited do not include those in possession of U.S. green card report is confirmed at the press conference. The State Department, National Gay Rights is trying to ascertain the status, about 1,000 U.S. citizens have not contacted the government explicitly requesting evacuation. At a subsequent briefing, White House Press Secretary Psaki said the administration believes as many as 1,000 who are currently unaccounted for may be dual citizens. Of the U.S. and Afghanistan. But the numbers fluid, they said. The numbers fluid. And the Taliban have made public and private commitments to the. The number Blinken provided Wednesday contradicts the estimate the State Department revealed earlier in the day to congressional staffers. We’re told that 4,100 U.S. citizens remain in Afghanistan or wish to be evacuated. I don’t trust the State Department. How do you go from 40, 100 to 1,500 and ultimately a thousand? In the period of a few hours. Earlier Wednesday, the Pentagon confirmed that 19,000 evacuees exited Afghanistan in the last 24 hours. So Americans who want to leave. You know, they act like all these Americans have free will over there in Afghanistan, don’t they, America? Oh, yeah, I’d like to leave. But I’m afraid somebody’s going to kill me if I leave my house. Now, how do we know this, because Fox. Has had a number of people. On their programs, who said exactly that? They’ve also had people in the United States. Afghan Americans who have family. In Afghanistan, they said they can’t get it out and that they’ve been in touch with the State Department. Now, that’s pretty frightening, isn’t it? Yeah, I think it is. What are you going to do about it? Don’t worry, after. So here’s what they’ve done and they think they’re clever. I really want you to think about this. This is important. August 31 is the deadline and it’s a hard deadline, they’re pulling the troops out, what’s left? But they want you to believe. It’s really not a hard deadline in the sense that we’re still going to get people out, but we just won’t use the military so you can go to bed, OK, here in America, it’s not a big deal. It’s not a big deal. Don’t worry about it. You know, when politicians and press secretaries and others. Lower themselves to this kind of sophistry. This kind of propaganda. You should be very, very concerned about it. Very concerned. Tell me, how are these American citizens? By August 31st, how are they going to get food in Afghanistan? How are they going to eat? In fact, how are they going to communicate? How do we even know they’re going to be allowed to communicate? I despise the double talk to begin with, but when you’re in a situation like this, the double park is a thousand times worse, it’s a thousand times worse. So let’s understand, we’ve gone from 15,000 to 4,500 this morning to 1,500 in the afternoon to really 1,500 who haven’t been in contact with us, OK. While they whittled that down very fast and they. And we don’t have any idea, really, because a lot of these people can’t contact authorities. They just can’t. God knows where some of the Americans are. This caught them by surprise to the way this was handled. This caught them by surprise to. But don’t worry, we’re even though we’re getting our troops out. We’re still going to get out any other citizens because because of diplomacy and economic pressures. No, they’re not. So they want you to believe they’re not going to leave people behind, but they are going to leave people behind, you’re a Democrat and Republican who served in Afghanistan, who went over there yesterday or the day before they’re being attacked by Pelosi. You don’t get to go there by yourselves. I seem to recall Pelosi went to Syria by herself and the prior speaker. Right? He went to Nicaragua. But that aside. They said there’s no way they’re getting out. Yeah, I even had Adam Schiff after he was briefed. He had some truth serum, he said there’s no there’s no way it’s very unlikely everyone is going to get out by the thirty first. Because that’s what the intelligence briefing is telling people on the relevant committees. It ain’t going to work. And so the secretary of state. Who is essentially a pathetic secretary of state, any propagandists, they came up with a new idea. Let me be crystal clear, which cut is that, Mr. Producer? Let me be crystal clear. You have a rich. It’s one, two, three or four. Let me let me help you. Hold on, everybody on the list. I think it’s cut out on everyone. That boy. Stick with me. Here it is, let us go to cut five, please go. The president said yesterday on track to complete our mission by August 31st, provided the Taliban continue to cooperate and there are no disruptions to this effort. The president has also asked for contingency plans in case he determines that we must remain in the country in the past. That’s all fine. But he has no intention of using them. They just want. They’re press people will be able to say it. That’s a there’s no contingency plan for the military to stay none, none that they’re going to use anyway. Go ahead. But let me be crystal clear about this. There is no deadline on our work to help any remaining American citizens who decide they want to leave to do so, along with the many Afghans who have stood by us over these many years and want to leave and have been unable to do so. Now, what does that mean, ladies and gentlemen? That means nothing, absolutely nothing. We don’t have any ability to know if they’re there. We have no ability to get them out. We have no leverage whatsoever, none. And if you want to get out of Afghanistan, why would you wait till after August 31st? There are people who want to get out and cannot get out. We’re going to be leaving a lot of people behind. And if this is our government’s official propaganda, which it is, and those people are eventually slaughtered. Other than their families going on Fox and going to some of the other few media outlets that really want to know the truth. How are we going to know? So they’ve put these families in impossible situations, they put the American public in an impossible situation. I want to remind you. And I wrote about this at some length and on freedom of the press, but really there’s three professors who did a fantastic job in exposing The New York Times. It really wasn’t until 1944. That the readers of The New York Times knew the full extent of Hitler’s. Attempt to exterminate the European Jews. 1944. So when will we know the full extent of the number of Americans who’ve been left behind in this horrific surrender by the greatest airlift in human history? Maybe never. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
What else are you saying in the media? I told you yesterday, and you see it today about Joe Biden deserves credit for the most fantastic surrender in world history. Let me show you what else I’m seeing. Bleed into our media here. And that is that, well, look, the Taliban really do seem to be changing, they making all kinds of promises here. They they say they will work with us after the fact. You heard Lincoln say it. So what Blinken says the media will regurgitate and yet NBC is now reporting this just broke that the Taliban spokes idiot, the spokes terrorists, said that there’s no evidence Osama bin Laden was involved in 9/11. What do you think of that, Mr. Producer? There’s no evidence Osama bin Laden was involved in 9/11, but we’re going to believe this guy when he says he was sure. After August 31, you just show up at your papers. Let you through. I don’t know whose propaganda is worse, the Taliban or the Biden administration. The Taliban are the Biden administration. They’re both lying, and the Biden administration wants you to believe that you can rely on the Taliban, but we’re going to be very careful. We know who they are. Yeah, yeah. They speak out of both sides of the and we know they’re dangerous. We know who they are, but they promise. They said, you know. We have to rely on their word, because that’s all they’ve got, the Biden administration, when they pull the military out the first time and they’re pulling it out again. That which they sent. To make sure the surrender went smoothly while the surrender isn’t going smoothly. And these people are effectively hostages in Afghanistan. They can’t get out. Now, put yourself in their position, you’re an American citizen and you’re hearing the secretary of state say, well, it’s really their fault they didn’t contact us early enough or we’ve sent out 19 messages. You know, and by the way, I don’t know if somebody got 19 messages. I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. I read to you one of the forms I think it was last week, which was ridiculous. It goes on and on. Hey, we need two pieces of evidence of your utility bills and and a passport and maybe a driver’s license from from North Carolina. And we need. What are you talking about? And still, Mr. Producer, et cetera, I saw on TV the Afghans, they just wouldn’t fight. Now, we’ve talked about this at length, General, on the program, we’ve had a colonel on the program, both of whom fought in Afghanistan. We’ve had men who lost limbs on the program, who fought in Afghanistan. They said that’s not true. When you pulled the airpower, the intelligence pulled the rug out from under them. When you shut down our main airport, our military airport, Bagram, without telling them in the middle of the night, they knew they didn’t have a chance. And they all say the same thing over the last seven years, the Afghans lost 50000 men. I don’t think they were all shot in the back, do you? Rich? So I don’t think they were all shot in the back running all the tough guys out there. They they wouldn’t fight, they you know, we can’t prop them up, they seem to forget we were not in Afghanistan for us. And now that we’ve left and left the way that we’ve left, we’re in deep s. Borders still open. Same same crap going on. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got a lot more. I shall return. I hope you will, too. We’ll be right back.