This is after the State Department said everybody's back from Afghanistan. We brought 57 more back. They're still manifest for hundreds of American citizens that are held in Afghanistan. So The Biden administration, by leaving these American citizens to be hostages, the Taliban could not destroy the equipment. because then the Taliban would be putting American citizens on the news in orange jumpsuits. So they set themselves up to not be able to destroy this equipment because they left the Americans there. (43:56–44:07)
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Asserts that the Biden administration's actions prevented the Taliban from destroying equipment due to American hostages.
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