Tucker: ABC news appears to edit portions that made Biden look 'unpresidential'

yeah welcome to tucker carlson tonight happy thursday nobody seems to remember this but it was just a few months ago that joe biden gave the so-called intel community a vital new mission they had he said until the end of august to find out where the coronavirus came from did it emerge from a pangolin in a wet market or did the chinese military create the virus in a bio-weapons lab in wuhan joe biden assured us he was going to get to the bottom of that he had the canniest sleuths in the world working on that mystery they'll figure it out he said you can trust them so here we are at the end of august and what's the answer where did covid come from so far no one has told us and we're starting to suspect that nobody ever will it's like the media are planning to push that issue vladimir putin's not from china they don't care the coronavirus investigation what coronavirus investigation like joe biden himself they have no memory of anything that happened three months ago and come to think of it maybe that was the whole point of the exercise you announce a fake inquiry into something you have absolutely no interest in learning more about and then you bet on the fact that everyone will forget that inquiry exists it's pretty tricky maybe that's the real purpose of the intel agencies actually not to gather intelligence but to provide political cover to the politicians who control them oh that's a good question wolfe all of the cia look into it and get back to you right just stay on the line this call may be monitored for quality assurance it sounds cynical we know but it is striking when you think about it just how often politicians invoke the intel community when they're lying to you here was joe biden just last month your own intelligence community has assessed that the afghan government will likely collapse that's not true is it can you please clarify what they have told you about whether that will happen or not that is not true they did not they didn't did not reach that conclusion so the intel agencies never said the taliban would sweep into kabul that's what joe biden claimed do you believe him you probably don't the intel world may be partisan and deceitful it certainly is but we're betting they're not completely stupid obviously they knew the afghan government could collapse they must have told joe biden or at least the people around joe biden can we prove that they told him no we can't prove it and that's the beauty of using the intel agencies for cover you get to make any claim you want to make and no one can prove you're lying because the truth is highly classified maybe you're starting to understand why no one ever defunds the cia they're too useful so that was from july the clip that we just played at the time biden told us the intel community quote did not reach the conclusion that the afghan government would fall to the taliban well now it's august and the afghan government has indeed fallen to the taliban that's not our assessment as they say in washington it actually happened as you know the afghan troops threw down their rifles the president ran away there's a black taliban flag hanging over the capitol so how did this all happen and more to the point how did our extravagantly funded intelligence agencies not know it was going to happen well actually they did know sort of that's joe biden's new position he explained it yesterday on abc news watch back in july you said a taliban takeover was highly unlikely was the intelligence wrong or did you downplay it there was no consensus you go back and look at the intelligence reports they said that it was like more likely to be sometime by the end of the year you following this in the space of a single month the official line went from our intelligence agencies think everything is fine in afghanistan two there was no consensus in the intelligence agencies that everything was not fine or something like that it's not exactly clear what joe biden was saying there all we can be totally certain of is that we will never get to see the documents he was referring to so really anything could be true assuming truth still exists pretty smart mark milly the chairman of the george chiefs of staff is not as clever a smarter man might have couched his lies for plausible deniability down the road but unfortunately mark milley is not that man so here's what he claimed this week in public there was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days um that was totally unequivocal according to mark milley there was zero intelligence quote nothing that i or anyone else saw suggesting a coming collapse in afghanistan so he literally had no idea what was coming because nobody told him the people paid to keep track were not keeping track the intel agencies failed completely and given their budgets in power that is shocking if you think about it for a minute clearly someone should be fired if not court-martialed but no says joe biden that's not true in fact says joe biden looking straight into the face of his old friend now the anchor at abc no one in the entire u.s government and certainly not in the white house could have done anything different or better as we withdrew from afghanistan the bad parts you saw in television were inevitable no mistakes of any kind by anyone connected in any way to joe biden occurred no one can be blamed for anything no one should feel guilty everyone's sleeping just fine thank you very much watch you don't think this could have been handled besides it could have been handled better in any way no mistakes no i i don't think it could have been handled in a way that there we're going to go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing i don't know how that happens i don't know how that happened so for you that was always priced into the decision yes really mr president you couldn't handle this better in any way not even a tiny adjustment no says joe biden meanwhile desperate people tumble from airplanes thousands of feet in the air many thousands of americans remain trapped tonight in a country now controlled by the taliban but no problem says the president how do you assess a statement like that well our friend piers morgan described it as quote breathtakingly arrogant and disturbingly delusional and that sounds about right if possibly a little understated watching it you wonder does joe biden understand what this moment means to the country he leads we had to leave afghanistan he was right about that it was always going to be ugly that is true but this ugly this humiliating this destructive to america's authority in the world that's damaging to our future no none of that was foregone none of that was necessary all of that was a choice that joe biden and his advisors made intentionally over months they priced it in as he just told us they knew it was going to happen but they did it anyway what does that say about them what does it tell you that they left thousands of american citizens behind when they fled and then seemed and seem markedly unconcerned about what might happen to those american citizens in afghanistan under the taliban well it tells you an awful lot the united to restate exists to serve its own citizens the u.s government exists to serve its own citizens period the u.s government has no other purpose the moment the u.s government stops serving u.s citizens is the moment the u.s government becomes illegitimate that is true that has always been true since the day the country was founded and it is obvious to most people who live here does joe biden understand it sincerely it's possible that he doesn't toward the end of his interview with abc there was a telling exchange that exchange was never broadcast on camera now television networks edit interviews very often for time but abc news appears to have chosen to edit out portions that made joe biden look how to put it not presidential incoherent confused we think it's worth knowing what happened especially in a moment of national crisis so we're going to read from the transcript that we were provided and here it is george stephanopoulos i think of a lot of americans even a lot of veterans who served in afghanistan agree with you on the big strategic picture they believe we had to get out but i wonder how you respond to an army special forces officer javier mckay he did seven tours he was shot twice he agrees with you he says we have to cut our losses in afghanistan but he adds i just wish we could have left with honor here's joe biden's response look that's like asking my deceased son beau who spent six months in kosovo in a year in iraq as a navy captain and then major i mean as an army major and you know i'm sure he had regrets coming out of afghanistan i mean out of iraq he had regrets to what's how it's going but the idea what's the alternative end quote now we're waiting for that tape but that's the transcript now the president's son was in the navy not the army he was in the army not the navy it's not clear from that we believe he was in the army and not the navy he did not serve in afghanistan he served in kosovo and iraq joe biden can't seem to remember those details we're not attacking him we're not telling you this with glee we're telling you because it's true this is the man leading our country now the scary thing about what's happening in afghanistan is not that afghanistan is collapsing afghanistan has always been in various states of collapse by our standards for a thousand years the scary thing about afghanistan is that it reveals american weakness and weakness of bets aggression power vacuums are always filled the problem with what we just read you is that it reveals weakness at the very center of the u.s government weakness that possibly can't be fixed that's the real problem over time it's the real threat hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to 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Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 19 2021