Debate Over Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal and Approval Ratings

Look, if you look at the, if you look at the arc of the Biden

presidency, he was in

really good shape until August of 2021.

When Afghanistan happened, he went under 40, she went under 40,

and they really lived there until the end of the pres-

Why?

He's still there.

Why?

Look, I'll tell you why.

Because, because he, because he ran and told us he was, that the adults

were back

in charge, and that was the opposite of that.

Yeah, they were, because Donald Trump is a child.

And you know, and, and, and you know what else?

Yeah.

And you know what else?

He's a tr- right.

The fact that they wouldn't give these, uh, 13 service members'

families the time of day-

Bullshit, dude

... the time of day. They would not.

I'm sorry.

They would not.

I'm sorry.

It was wrong.

But Donald Trump hates veterans. He called them

suckers and losers. He did. He

absolutely despise- Look-

He has his whole life. He has his entire life.

I, I know you're, I know you're super emotional.

I, I just-

Of course I am

... the, the, the, the-

I'm terrified

... I'm, I'm telling you the political reality

is that when they made that

decision-

It doesn't matter

... when they-

You don't admit-

When they made that decision-

Donald Trump hates veterans.

Let me, let me let-

You don't, you don't get to-

Let me let Scott-

You deny a man, Chief John Kelly, a Marine, you deny, you say he lied.

I know. You're still, you're still campaigning.

You say he lied.

It's all good, brother.

Let me let Scott finish his thought-

It's not over.

It's not over.

And then I wanna hear what Colby has to say.

It'll never be over. It'll never be over.

The, the-

You wish

... the, the political reality is when they made that decision and everyone

realized, "Oh my gosh, these aren't the competent adults

that we were promised"-

Oh, yeah. Donald Trump does

... and then-

Right

... and then when you pile on top of it the

decisions that made inflation worse,

it was a compounding interest of political crap over time-

No

... that they could never get out of, and that's how she lost the race.

Colby, go ahead.

There was a bipartisan consensus to get out of Afghanistan. That wasn't the point.

It was the way it was done.

Yeah, it was Trump's decision to get out of

No, no. Hold on.

No, no. Hold on.

Yeah.

It was, it was the implementation.

I mean, I, I think that's worth saying.

It was the fact that they took out our soldiers, uh, first instead of

last, which is, you would think would be common sense.

And again, it's like you said, we thought the adults were in the room.

That's why people voted for Biden-

... a return to normalcy, a return to competence.

... a return to normalcy, a return to competence.

He's a lifelong public servant.

We thought, "We're gonna get normal.

We're gonna get competent."

We did.

And that's what-

We did

... that's, that's what it's about.

We did. We did. And if, and, and the veterans community, I mean-

Afghanistan doesn't signal that.

Afghanistan-

The, the, the wars, the wars in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq,

the

Republican policies that led to those wars, the idea that,

that Joe Biden

made the final difficult decision, and his administration, and his military

leaders, I mean, you guys live on the tippy top of bullshit

mountain if you

actually think that, that, that, that so many people think

that the pull out

of Afghanistan was the, the pivot point. Are you kidding me?

Well, I mean, I, I can read a chart and I can read a poll.

I guess you can't, but the reality is when he made that decision-

... when he made that deci-

... when he made that deci-

Your petty insults are so weak, dude. You have no idea.

Like, I don't even understand if you hear yourself talking.

Look, listen-

You can, you can laugh all you want, but like-

I'm laughing

... "I can't read a chart." Like, it's-

You can't

... it's just, it, it's so tacky.

So, so on the reas-

It's so uninteresting.

Look, the reason that we-

It's unconvincing

... we brought this up is because-