Former Deputy National Security adviser KT McFarland weighs in as hundreds of Afghans are evacuated from Kabul. She also discusses President Biden's handling of relations with China after the country tested a hypersonic missile.
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Throughout the day, thanks so
much
twenty eight minutes after the top of the
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I wanted to bring in k, DOT T
mcfarad National Security
adviser author of Revolution,
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people,
K, DOT, t your reaction to what we
just heard.
We heard just about one hundred penal
are going to be left
that was like six weeks ago.
There is many more than one hundred
the state department seems to be
giving the Heisman to the
evacuation efforts.
Yeah look. The state
department said oh its a
handful.
Just one hundred
the Pentagon was saying it was
several thousand Americans left
behind.
This is good news that were
getting them out.
The bad news is that we left
them in the first place.
The big question mark is how
many were left behind. Nobody
knows
not one or two
chances are. It could be as much
as one thousand. If you listen to the
Pentagon report,
Brian move on and talk about
Afghanistan from Robert Gaetz
Perspective served seven
presidents.
He straddled went from Bush to
President Obama. Why dont you
stay here,
he has held every significant
job he could in Washington.
He commented on Jond
Joe Biden,
Joe Biden likes him but
published in his book, but
published on his book. He has
been wrong on every national
security issue in the last forty
years.
What about his withdrawal? He
said last night in 60 minutes.
Do you think he made a
mistake in Afghanistan the in
the way he handled the
withdrawal?
Yes,
once the way President Biden
affirmed, there was going to be a
firm deadline. Date thats the
plan at which they should have
begun, bringing those people out.
You have to be pretty naive, not
to assume things were going to
go down hill once that
withdrawal was complete,
Brian, also critical of
president Trump. As soon as
signed that deal, we should have
started bringing people out.
Then
your reaction from what you
heard from Bob Gaetz
look.
President Trump was bringing
people out
even before we signed that deal,
and so the continuation of
bringing those people out would
have meant by the time you got
to the deadline. They would have
got out.
The Biden administration came in
and stopped taking people out.
In fact, they added people
they wanted to shore up the
afghan government.
The bigger point that Bob Gaetz
makes
I have known him since one thousand nine hundred and seventy when
we shared an office together in
Henry Kissingers Suite in the
Nixon White House,
when he says Joe Biden has been
wrong on everything.
Joe Biden has been wrong on
everything
I worry about what Joe Biden is
going to get wrong going
forward.
I think thats, China,
Brian right,
so lets talk about China.
Over the weekend it became
confirmed that they have
hypersonic missile that went
around the earth at twenty one thousand miles
an hour and can strike anywhere
according to NORAD. It would
breach our missile defense
system
almost by every quote, im seeing
most anonymous. We were shocked
by this.
Your reaction,
well ive, got three
reactions to it. This is a game
changer technology. It has a
missile system that we could not
detect. When it was fired.
We will not be able to shoot
down,
but number two heres, a: u DOT S
intelligence community, getting
it wrong.
We didnt know when it was going
to happen.
We didnt think it would happen.
We didnt think Afghanistan
would collapse this quickly.
They are not getting anything
right
and then the third part of it
that, I think is even more
upsetting is now. This is not
just the only thing China is
doing.
China is doing a whole range of
weapon systems,
a whole range of economic
warfare,
a whole range of even more
threatening statements about
Taiwan and other places.
This is part of a bigger chinese
plan.
The thing that is so maddening
Brian
Guess, where the Chinese got the
technology for this.
This was an american program,
the hypersonic program, that the
Obama administration canceled
its our technology and they
built the weapons
Brian, unbelievable and Russia.
Has it too.
We have three point: five million going into
weapons. I dont know if thats
enough,
the China faced power cuts,
computer shortages everywhere,
taken a toll on chinas economy.
The National Bureau of Stats
Chinas economy grew at four point: nine
supposed to grow at seven
construction ground to a halt.
They are having huge issues.
Some say this is like two thousand and eight in
America because their projects
are under financed and people
arent getting paid. There is an
opportunity here economically to
really press them now.
Hopefully, we take advantage of.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-18.