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The Megyn Kelly Show

Biden's Afghanistan Blame Game, with Robert O'Neill and Ric Grenell | Ep. 147

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Robert O'Neill, veteran Navy SEAL and best-selling author, and Ambassador Ric Grenell, former acting Director of National Intelligence, to talk about President Biden's Afghanistan blame game, the attempts to blame Trump for the Afghanistan debacle, the blame that should go to the Afghanistan military, the failures of the U.S. intelligence community, how veterans of the Afghanistan war feel now, the seering images of Afghanis falling from airplanes trying to leave the country, and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.

0:15.3

Today, more fallout in Afghanistan.

0:18.4

And Biden, who says, I stand squarely behind my own decision, in fact seems to be pointing

0:24.9

the finger at anyone and everyone else.

0:28.2

He took responsibility for nothing yesterday and very little's changed other than assurances

0:34.5

that he is going to get our personnel out of the embassy that he is going to try to get

0:40.5

the Afghans who helped us out to safety though very unclear how he's going to do that.

0:45.8

We're sending another 6,000 troops in after we withdrew the Samad 2500 left and the condemnation

0:54.1

against him remains near universal. Some of the more leftist media personalities, Joy

0:59.4

Reed, Nicole Wallace, they're starting to defend Biden, but this is a humiliating moment

1:05.3

for him. The images that came out of Afghanistan yesterday are nauseating. They were completely

1:11.8

unnecessary and they are on him. So we're going to be joined today with reaction from

1:18.3

Rob O'Neill and why he's feeling disgusted by what he's seeing. O'Neill changed his

1:24.2

Twitter bio description of himself to quote, just a dude who fought for this country for

1:28.8

no reason. So Rob's here and we're going to talk to Rick Grinnell, former acting director

1:34.5

of national intelligence, former ambassador to Germany on the finger pointing at Trump

1:40.3

and whether in fact some of this is Trump's fault and whether Donald Trump will be sitting

1:44.8

there right now watching the Taliban take over in Afghanistan without doing anything,

1:49.4

which is essentially the implication. What do you think? I'm going to get to our guest

1:52.7

in one minute, a quick ad and we'll get right to it.

1:55.5

Rob, how you doing? I'm well making out for you. I'm good. Oh my gosh. I'm so happy

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