Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah is good joined by Steve Hayes

And this week we are talking to Congressman Mike Gallagher. He represents Wisconsin's eighth district in Congress

By the way, he's a seventh generation of Wisconsin native

So no question about how he got on this podcast. Steph

But Congressman Gallagher is a former Marine. He did Intel in Iraq was deployed several times

Absolutely has thoughts on what is going on in Afghanistan

Let's dive right in

Congressman

We are mourning for our service members today

And there has been so much that has led up to that moment

And plenty of second guessing and things we could have should have done differently, but

Starting from today, what should the administration do moving forward?

Well, I mean it's hard to set aside what happened. I mean, I think every certainly every Marine is is grieving for the loss of

12 Marines and one Corman, you know, it will go down as one of the darkest days in Marine Corps history

You know, one is reminded of Beirut, my guess things like that and so just a real gut punch

And your heart goes out to the families and you know the wives and the mothers and sisters and everyone who's anxiously

waiting to hear from

Their their loved ones who were deployed downrange. So very sad day very tragic

Where do we go from here?

You know, I

I have encouraged the Biden administration not only rhetorically, but through legislation to

Abandon the arbitrary August 31st deadline. I guess I shouldn't call it arbitrary

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