Senator, nice to be with you, and the Biden administration is really excited. They think they

nailed it on Afghanistan. They're very proud of what they did. They came out with this paper

that they said proves how good the withdrawal was from Afghanistan. And that's apparently the

history books, how it's going to be remembered if you listen to this administration.

Your reaction.

Look, I think it's really sad.

We've talked before in this podcast about how this White House treats national security and foreign policy as public relations.

It's all a communications effort.

So they put out this 12-page white paper that is just designed to say

everything's perfect, everything's fine. And they're hoping that the media will, will bleat like sheep,

and go along with that the disaster, the debacle of Biden's surrender to the Taliban and withdrawal from Afghanistan

will be forgotten. I think that's disrespectful to the 13 servicemen and women who were murdered there.

I think it's disrespectful to the Afghans we left behind who were tortured,

whose lives who may well have been murdered as well, I think it's disrespectful to all of those who shed blood, who lost limbs fighting in Afghanistan, that this administration cares so little about their sacrifice, they're not even bothering to worry about what went wrong.

You and I talked about this on a previous podcast, not that long ago, that one of the individuals

on the ground there that was trying to save lives told his story finally that he believed he had the suicide

bomber in his sights.

Yes.

There was no chain of command.

There was no orders allowed basically for them to take out this prospective suicide bomber.

And then all of a sudden he and he's blown up and survived it.

Many others did not that you just mentioned.

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