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The Fox News Rundown

The FOX News Rundown EXTRA: Congressman Peter Meijer Reveals The Chaos He Saw In Kabul Amid The U.S. Evacuation

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The withdrawal from Afghanistan has been heavily criticized as a disorganized and chaotic mission. Amid this chaos, two U.S. congressmen who served in the U.S. military, Republican Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan and Democratic Rep. Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, carried out their own secret trip to Kabul to provide oversight on the U.S. government’s evacuation efforts. Earlier this week, host Alex Hogan spoke to Congressman Peter Meijer of Michigan who is also a U.S. veteran, to discuss why he made the covert expedition to Afghanistan amid the evacuation, the realities he saw on the ground in Kabul that differed from the information being provided by the Biden administration and the unfortunate situation America found itself in being forced to collaborate with the Taliban to save U.S. lives. The conversation was too long and we could not include everything Rep. Peter Meijer had to say about the chaotic evacuation of Afghanistan. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear all of his thoughts and feelings toward what he described as an embarrassing and shameful position for the country and its citizens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The withdrawal from Afghanistan has drawn a lot of criticism with many

0:26.7

saying that the August 31st deadline was flawed and that the evacuation was

0:30.9

disorganized. A huge story during the evacuation of Americans evacuation was two U.S.

0:35.0

two U.S. Congressman, one Democrat and one Republican who took their own secret trip

0:42.4

to Kabul to give oversight on the evacuation

0:45.2

mission.

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And we spoke with one of those congressmen, Representative Peter Meyer, who was a Republican

0:51.3

from Michigan, and he breaks down why he and his colleague

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made this dangerous trip and the disorganization

0:58.2

that they say they witnessed around Kabul and the airport

1:01.1

during the mission to evacuate as many Americans as possible.

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We had a longer much more in-depth interview that had to be cut down for time and thought

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