We've all seen the terrible images coming out of Afghanistan.

Bagram Air Base abandoned.

The Kabul Embassy evacuated.

Now everyone just at the airport with Taliban all around, the rest of the country, having

already fallen.

Biden doesn't seem to have many answers for any of this.

Biden's Secretary of State can't even guarantee that the president knows what's going on. Things have gotten so bad that even the media

are beginning to ask questions. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. So glad to be back with all of you. Thank you so much. If you have not liked, subscribed, left a five-star review. We would really appreciate that as we ramp up again, get ready for our fall tour, all while

we've got this crazy news from Washington, D.C., from Kabul.

It seems as though the American foreign policy is just collapsing around us.

Senator, what's going on?

Well, it's an absolute mess. It is heartbreaking to see the disaster

that's unfolding in Afghanistan. And no matter how low of expectations you had for the Biden administration,

what has unfolded in the last two weeks, I think, has been even worse than anyone anticipated.

It's a really dangerous combination of radical ideology and manifest incompetence.

And I got to say it reminds me of the border crisis.

The two are really quite similar in that both are

catastrophes under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and they're both catastrophes because they embrace

left-wing ideologies that are disconnected from reality, what they believe is wrong,

and they combine that with a really stunning inability to execute

with any effectiveness, and that produces disasters. It's reminiscent of Jimmy Carter in the 1970s

of naive, leftist ideology and blatant, blatant incompetence.

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