Veterans at the Keystone Grill near Fort Lee in Virginia react to the president calling the withdrawal a complete success
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Ainsley President Biden
Ainsley President Biden,
declaring the United States exit
from Afghanistan, calls it a
success,
but what does the rest of the
country think
Brian? He screamed it by the
Way
Fox AMP friends, enterprise
reporter Lawrence Jones, just a
few miles from Fort Lee in
Virginia with thousands of
afghan refugees who have passed
through the medical care and
processing, and he joins us now.
Keystone, grill,
hey Lawrence whats happening,
hey Brian
im, still trying to figure out
why the president of the United
States was yelling
who he was yelling at.
I got MIKE here,
youre a veteran.
Thank you! So much for your
service.
You worked on those c 17 planes
and now you are a pastor
and you are talking with
Veteranser Single day.
Yes
Lawrence. What are they saying?
The biggest thing they are
concerned about is: did their
sacrifice matter
you just referenced a few
minutes ago
we were in this war to twenty years.
My son served in Afghanistan.
He told me this week as he put
his uniform on for the first
time after deployed back from
Qatar, and what does it mean?
Did it have any value
we watched twenty years of our
sacrifice of our investment
literally evaporate in seven
days,
the billions of dollars of
equipment that we left behind to
equip an enemy? That is our sworn
enemy,
and yet what did we gain from?
It?
Veterans are calling me and they
are struggling.
They are struggling with the
idea that the sacrifice
mattered.
Thats really concerning to me:
where is the mental health of
our veteran community and are we
making sure they are okay
Lawrence thanks MIKE
and thats a sentiment that we
continue to hear guys from a
lot of folks here?
I want you guys to hear from
Kevin here.
Thank you so much for your
service too,
sir.
You said you lost buddies in
nine Slash eleven
yeah.
We lost not only the civilian
casualties that we had when the
towers came down,
but we had over three hundred and sixty five firefighters
that lost their lives and
hundreds of law enforcement
officers that lost their lives,
not to mention what happened at
the Pentagon.
You know we are. We are back
to square one.
You know, President Bush, I
remember him standing on that
pile of rubble telling the world
that were going to get the
people that did this
and taking the steps that we did
throughout the years to put this
country in a position where we
could protect ourselves. Protect
our borders, protect our people.
Now we have turned over a
country back to a terrorist
state thats going to put this
entire country in the world at
risk and its shameful. It
shouldnt have happened the way
it did
Lawrence Andrew you say we
never should have heft that
equipment there, and that
concerns you.
I mean absolutely
its one thing to leave that
country the way we did and leave
the equipment behind,
but you know to leave
Americans every creed of our
military. Do you not leave people
behind
and to leave the equipment with
a known terrorist organization,
unacceptable,
completely unacceptable from the
Biden administration
Lawrence? What do you want to
hear from the commander in chief,
as well as the joint chiefs?
They need to step up,
they need to step up.
They took an oath of office to
protect us and leaving equipment
behind, leaving Americans
behind that does not its
just unacceptable
Lawrence guys. As you know,
Fort Lee is right down the
street
a lot of veterans here,
a lot of military spouses here,
and they are passionate about
this
and were going to be honoring
the troops,
the thirteen troops all morning today
we got a table set up for them.
We thank them for their
service and they thank them for
their sacrifice.
I will send it back to you guys
in New York,
Steve Lawrence. Thank you very
much.
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Transcript generated on 2021-09-02.