Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast.

Welcome to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, everybody. We are honored to have you with us,

as always. Then I'm bringing you some updates from that Loudoun County school situation. We have

the sexual assault confirmed by a juvenile court judge. So now this is turned into a major issue for

that school district for the governor's race and for the entire Democrat party as their fortunes

with Terry McCollough seems to be increasingly in jeopardy. We'll also discuss the latest with

Dave Chappelle and the demands from the trans community for an apology from him that he is saying he

will not give. Well, let's turn our eyes to Afghanistan for a moment and somebody who can shed

a lot of light on exactly what happened there and what is going on today as I speak to you as

there are still hundreds of Americans who have been left behind in Afghanistan. We have Zalme

Khalilzad with us now until a week ago, Mr Khalilzad was the US special representative to Afghanistan.

Prior to that, he was US ambassador to the United Nations and to Iraq and Afghanistan. He served

under multiple presidencies. He's also the author of a book called OnVoy Ambassador Khalilzad.

Thank you for being with us. Well, it's great to be with you. A pleasure and an honor.

Tell us, sir, what happened over this summer? I mean, I know that that's a very broad place to start,

but for one thing we were told that Afghanistan by the Biden administration that as things started

to look really bad as the withdrawal looked haphazard as people were running on the airport and

onto the tarmac and jumping onto plain wheels as they were taking off that this was essentially the

implementation of the Trump plan. That was what they were saying. Can you address that first?

What's true about that and what is not? Wow. Thank you for the opportunity. As you know,

President Trump decided in 2018 that we should withdraw our forces from Afghanistan

and because it was costing us too much, some 40 billion a year and that we were not winning the war

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