CNN's Jake Tapper presses Secretary of State Antony Blinken on President Joe Biden's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. #JakeTapper #StateoftheUnion #CNN
@@johnnywhite58, Fox seems to be the only mainstream news station asking tough questions from Biden. Others are just licking his boots and protecting Democrats at every opportunity.
Trump told Pakistan to release the head of the Taliban and 5,000 Taliban soldiers. 1) We do not negotiate with the terrorists who enabled 9/11 and 2) Trump sent a clear signal to Afghanistan that he supported the Taliban over democracy. PLUS Trump had the worst economy since the Depression AND added $7.6 TRILLION to the deficit. Trump promised to get us out of Afghanistan. He failed at that too.
just proves CNN and MSNBC arent left wing, they are corporate media..... and corporations are mad we left a country they were plundering resources from and now cant
@@ExiledByForce1 what if they’re not actually being voted in and instead just cheating there way in? That seems like a more logical explanation at this point
Your missing the point. The only reason Tapper is asking tough questions is because he is upset American is no longer fighting an endless War. CNN is part of the war machine
What? Biden just fumbled the exit from Afghanistan and put tens of thousands of people in serious danger. He had more than 6 months to figure this out and he totally blew it just like every other major decision he’s ever had to make in his career. Biden’s administration just got a lot of people killed, gifted military equipment to our enemy, and is responsible for the biggest embarrassment our country has had to deal with in 50 years. Biden is a stone moron and people are really angry. This line of questioning was warranted.
@@toonpangboon8526 Biden is a poor excuse as a President. This guy checked out long time and the left is using him as acTrojan horse to destroy the US.
Lesson that US has never learnt: stop invading a country if you have no clear strategy and process to solve the real issue. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.
@@DrBrule-ht2ms Yes but he was squatting. He lost both elections by a combined 13 million votes or so. I finally evicted him back in November. He left un-flushed toilets and pregnant chickens. He and his legions are having a difficult time accepting it.
It sounds easy, but it takes a special kind of husk-person to do what he does. Most humans have a soul or a conscience or at least a mirror to look into and not see emptiness enough so not to lie on top of lie. These Americans arent stranded... we talk to them on radios and even some of them on actual phones even. They can get out if they really pull up their bootstraps and quit lounging around. Thats pretty much what these shitbags have to say.
Omg! A republican adm put is in Afghanistan and walked away..trump did absolutely nothing if his reelection wasn't involved! Omg. A terrible exit definitely and Biden will own it but this war has sucked the life out of our deficit and Biden at least did something! At least we're not dying by the thousands like last year today!! That's what dems voted for.
Trump is who called for us to pull out. He gets the credit for wanting our people back but Joe is the dumb ass who completely fucked up executing it. End of story.
@@brandonhollaway7294 Hardly the WHOLE story Trump also gets credit for sucking up to the taliban by releasing thousands of taliban prisoners including the current head, and got nothing for it, other than them not attacking us - until the withdrawal - their plan all along. That was all Bidens fault too, right? BTW the US has never withdrawn from a failed invasion without complications - the military simply does not train for failure. At least this is miles better than vietnam withdrawal.
@@mickey3424 That is not true. I always compare the different news to build my opinion but lately CNN has seriously been a joke. It resembled a lot Chinese, Russian or Turkish Broadcasts that would always support their regime. I wish very much that CNN would become a real source of news again.
Kamalia was always the liberal presses pick, Biden was just a tool to get her in the White House, now Biden’s done his part and they are ready to toss him under the short bus and put the person they really wanted in.
True, but let's not forget CNN, and the rest of the liberal media, bear some of the blame for the deaths that have already occurred and will continue to occur during this debacle by getting him elected.
@Jay R Oh man we lost that war the second Bush Jr sent us in. There was no end game. Just endless fighting and a drain on our economy. Glad a president finally nutted up enough to take the heat to get us out of it. Two president before failed to do it.
As far as rear-end kissing is concerned, almost all of the GOP Congress has been doing that to Trump for nearly five years now. That's probably why they went along with his crazy idea to bring the Taliban to the White House for negotiations. Even George W. Bush famously said "we do not negotiate with terrorists." At least CNN reported on Trump's ineptness in the WH for four years. Of course he and his supporters called CNN's reporting a "witch hunt."
Afghanistan has a stronger sense of self than America in my view. A majority of them obviously support the Taliban. Otherwise they would not have taken over so fast. They do not allow minority rule like we do in America.
Afghanistan belongs to Islamic civilization. No NATO, no western civilization, no democracy. If someone things it can be changed in 20 years, is no different than a communist.
That's an understatement. People are relying on private US citizens to send money so they can bribe the Taliban at checkpoints to make it to the airport. These people were encouraged to stay because the Biden administration thought (or pretended to think) that the Taliban wasn't going to take over. The Biden presidency was such a bad idea.
I am South African and can not stand CNN,but well done to Jake for finally doing some journalism again. I feel so sorry for all American veterans who have to see this playing off.
South Africa was the greatest country in Africa until the Communists wrapped their tentacles around it. Thanks to the hard work of a few brave, dedicated souls, people all over the world are waking up to what's been happening there. (Look up the History Reviewed Channel with Jan Lamprecht)
20 years? I mean damn we could have train as many afgan troops as were we taking out usa troops and slowly transitioned them unto protecting themselves but something tells me that they would have surrendered and not fought as hard for they country as we did for them. Why do we have to sacrifice American lives for Afghanistan when they leader flees the country and you don't see any of those people sending they sons , husband's daughters and fighting back for they freedom. They expect America to do it.
Shouldve NEVER made our exit timeline public(ESPECIALLY TO THE ENEMY). We shouldve just left, instead of saying "September 11,we will be gone". That basically told the Taliban "hey get ready to take over soon cuz we're OUTTA HERE)
@@tonywilliamsjr.9103 That was the agreement Trump made with the Taliban, they had to agree to it, how do you keep a secret from the group your agreement is with?
@@comedianpottymouth We did spend the last twenty years training the Afghan Armed Forces. It looks like we never instilled in them the will to fight though.
A rare instance where I see a respectable CNN show. Good job. Make an effort to keep repeating this kind of integrity. Its absence is why I left CNN years ago.
Just imagine all that money wasted in Vietnam, Afghanistan and in policing the world spent in America and on Americans. America would be so much better off but not so good for the Military Industrial Complex Tycoons.
Agreed we never should have occupied it, but we at least could have exited in an orderly manner that would have allowed those that needed to flee. That was sad to see people clinging to airplanes as they left and then falling to their death because they had no way to get out
The US gov is a joke. They can’t even contain militants that wears flip flops🤣🤣 The US are only a super power in Hollywood movies. Such a fraud🤣🤣 Congrats to the Taliban. Finally winning the war and regaining peace in Afghanistan. Everyone is laughing at the US. The western media is trying very hard to down play this historic embarrassment of the U ASS A🤣🤣🤣
@@jessegarcia7798 Jokes on you, The United States is now a shithole country, but it's home. Whenever you fight a war it is in either one of two places: A shithole if you happen to be lucky, or a place you call home if you happen to be very unfortunate.
It's the same if another US embarrassment and debacle with China or Russia in future. The CNN will then press the US administration on its mishandling, incompetence and its wrong foreign policies on US-China or Russia relations. The CNN will also question the wrongs of the US trade and technological wars, on the whys of its provocative and confrontational posturing instead of cooperating in peace with China, Russia or others it deemed enemies.
please don’t do that. That’s exactly what they want you to do, they want to make you think they are on your side when they are the reason for the pathological lying over the last 4 years that gave us this mess in the first place. That’s how EVERYONE should look at it.
Their ratings are as low as ever only watched this interview in the last 3 years after fox aired it to see just hm this Tapper guy pressed the Secretary of State.
@@suomynona4607 Biden went against trump's plan ANYONE who could support Bidens decision making at this point has to be a troll or just fckn ignoring what's going on around them Biden hasn't done a fckn thing useful raise food stamps more welfare from a government that just proved it would abandon you at the drop of a hat yea.... Pathetic
i can agree on that...but im torn on how long we should support them..they are corrupt,they cant defend themselves and their ways support the taliban..none of those men want women to have power..man,goat,woman...thats the pecking order...pull out,refocus and see how we can help the population ,while not there..
@@mrredeyex no you’re right I agree man. there was unfortunately no way to win this. afghan military clearly isn’t capeable of holding its own. we can’t do it forever. if we left 10 years ago, or 20 years later, I think we would of had the same result. it’s just how we pulled out is my issue. we left billions of $ in equipment there, didnt evac our people beforehand just rushed out last second. taliban been closing in on the capital for legit months now and we decide to evacuate when they’re knocking on the door.
He should have called out the pumpkin and he would just put his tail between his legs, instead of calling him out on his treasonous idiocy. Maybe if the had had a spine back then, we would probably had less misinformation spread among all the ignorant people that believed the unhinged idiot. Not that this might not be an issue, but I find his attitude disrespectful and hypocritical at this point.
Trump had a deal to orderly withdraw in may, which Biden broke. And Trump would not have left military material behind, and if the Taliban had acted up would have MOAB’ed them.
@@raidersacdc4892 because he fcked up like I've already said but the gift of a withdrawal had already been promised to the Taliban by trump but still a major fckup by Biden
There's got to be the funniest thing I heard he's actually trying to blame the Trump Administration for this mess in Afghanistan prophetic thing about if some people are going to believe them
@@maddmonk505 He probably only prepared to answer questions about his favorite ice cream flavor. Actual journalism at CNN probably caught his off guard.
@@ericecho5118 Trump negotiated a peace deal with the Taliban where they reduce violence in exchange for withdrawing foreign troops. Since the Taliban didn't hold up any part of the bargain, it doesn't make sense that Biden had to follow through with Trump's promise to withdraw troops. It is lie to deflect responsibility, and only a fool would fall for it.
In this world nothing happens like this without it being part of a bigger plan first they make the innocent suffer then they blame them for some things we bomb them then they ask they're friends and neighbors for nukes then they bomb fla not NY or DC that will take Care of their trump reelection problem the we bomb the shit out of talibon some escaped and the war machine roles on an on and on on and on
he sounds like a desperate film director losing the claimed budget, failing the central storytelling subjects and running empty of the technical-centered distributing supervision needed to create visual effect😅 now entirely loosing
@@iconcanada3660 I can’t I hear it now you’re right. The stuttering from Obama and all the uhh from both him and psaki. Nothing without that teleprompter.
Happy you’re ‘finally’ refreshed. You could have stopped watching Fox News a long time ago. CNN will continue to have actual reporting now, as they did 20 years ago, as they will 20 years from now
@@maksimatic Yeah you re right. They are nt so soft now with tbe Democrats and J B.. However did you watch 9 that interview with Don Lemon and J B. That was absolutely pathetic. All those Qs from the audiance were rigged and JB had the answers all ready. So I m glad CNN is toughening up. I could nt imagine Chris Wallace interviewing JB That just would nt happen
I didn't vote for Trump, but seeing what i see now, i wish I did. This administration is a total embarrassment, everything they have done ends is crisis. Disgusting, this man needs to face a military tribunal, and Joe Biden needs to resign
So the training and nation building and government that was the literal justification for staying there for two decades collapsed the second we left. And that doesn't seem, to you, to be strategic failure of the US in a massive scale? Really?
It's as if they were never trained for 20 damn years. Given their response, and how easily the Taliban took over, there never would have been a right time to leave.
Afghan troops favourite saying i give up all the countries in this mess have sent troops to bring people out but the Gop created this mess 20 years ago trump signed his rotten deal.he didn't even turn up he sent his son in law Jared
I actually thought it was more like a majestic bull in a china shop,with a water buffalo evading multiple crocodiles as a dancing partner. Simply splendid.
He did a great job answering, Biden was in a no win situation. If he went against Trumps peace deal (which he did for months actually) you all would be crying about Biden mistreats our troops…
Hopefully this is the shit on the fan that starts making both political sides of the general public hold their leaders accountable. Forget about the last administration whatever you thought of them good or bad,loved or hated. This one needs to own up full stop.
CNN finally asking questions that need to be asked. Bravo. And it's about time. Stop dodging questions and give the American people true answers. That is a huge part of the job
@boss 630 thank you 🙏 these monsters are pathetic! Republicans sent us to Afghanistan 20 years ago, they achieved nothing, then a democratic president Obama accomplished the mission and then Republican Trump administration still kept our military there and now a Democratic President says enough is enough and pulled our troops out and you’re crying rivers? 🙄 please!
The more the government officials tried to ‘avoid’ the questions asked by reporters, and not giving a straight answer, the more they admitted the validity of the question.
Jake Tapper would have had us wasting American lives another 20 years. This is the state of our politics and media now. Everyone is for something until it comes time to pay the price and then Liberals become conservatives. And conservatives become liberals. Love it. No one wants the truth they just like reminding you of what's right and just but Tapper wouldnt take his ass to Afghanistan and fight for two seconds how dare he try to imply other men and women who willingly join to fight another minute when it wouldn't make a damn it of difference.
@@wjones8149 Simply my perspective. The majority of us aren't upset about that. It's good we're leaving. We’re upset that 1000s of our Afghan allies, who have worked with us, are being abandoned to the Taliban rule due to an embarrassing evacuation. It is a moral obligation to support them and the US citizens stuck in Kabul. I agree the media is an enormous issue but that is separate from what I noted.
@@wjones8149 Couldn’t have said it better, ppl like Tapper make me sick. So willing to send young men off to die for nothing that has to do with this country. It’s truly disgusting, I was over there and saw the complete shit show Afghanistan is.
The administration keeps saying "they will help whoever wants to leave, they will help them leave"! Who in the hell would not want to leave! Who would want to stay there and get butchered!
That's exactly what I've been saying! The "if" gives this sh*tty administration a huge way out of rescuing the Americans they abandoned by using that word! "IF" my a$$! You know these people want to come home!
“We were their for one thing: to fight the people who attacked us on 9/11” And literally none of the terrorists were Afghans, they were Saudi, including bin Laden. We still fund the Saudis to this day.
Nah they are just in it for the money and oil. They don’t really care about that stuff and have used taliban and innocent afghan people as a cover for their problems
The first time I’ve managed to watch a whole cnn segment right to the end! Well done Tapper! I knew you had it in you to pull some ‘real journalism’ out the bag from somewhere! 🙄
Trump told Pakistan to release the head of the Taliban and 5,000 Taliban soldiers. 1) We do not negotiate with the terrorists who enabled 9/11 and 2) Trump sent a clear signal to Afghanistan that he supported the Taliban over democracy. PLUS Trump had the worst economy since the Depression AND added $7.6 TRILLION to the deficit. Trump promised to get us out of Afghanistan. General Bonespurs failed. Biden is doing in his first 6 months what Trump should have done in his first year.
I did not vote for Biden, and will continually,solidly, CONDEMN all who did. It’s just a shame that what is happening in Afghanistan is not happening to each of you personally.
@@BadMoonRising92 So ugly to see the contrast of 1975 and 2021, while you have this narcissist claiming he did a good job leaving 10% of Americans in a hellhole.
@@BadMoonRising92 yes it is worse than Saigon. I think North Walked in without much resistance soon after the last US aircraft left. It was surprising as there were no war crimes by the north in south after the fall if saigon. Plus they have a functioning country with a solid economy. I hope Afghanistan follows that even with their stupid oppressive laws, but its unlikely.
I'm Hmong. My grandfather and father were murdered by the VCs because 3 of the 5 sons of my grandfather served under General Vang Pao who sided with the Americans in Laos. They carried out battle plans under the American advice and supervision in Laos to disrupt the VC's advancement into Laos (even though it was supposed to be a neutral country), to disrupt the VC's supply route (the Ho-Chi men Trail) used by the North, and to rescue downed American pilots. When South Vietnam fell to the commies, so did Laos. The commies came with a vengence and launched a genocide campaign against the Hmong. I was only 4 but remember the long foot trek from North East Laos to randevu with the rest of my uncles near the Mekong river to cross into Thailand. We were the fortunate first wave of those who were able to exit Laos. Thousands of Hmongs would lose their lives to the communist soldiers who patrolled the Mekong shortly afterwards. The same scene we see of Afghans clinging onto the military transport plan was also the similar to the scene that played out in the city of Longtiene, the base of General Vang Pao where many Hmongs moved to to be "safe" from the VCs. When the Americans left, they just left. The chaos and tragedy that remained is being replayed in Afghanistan. Many of those that were fortunate enough to make it into Thailand and get sponsorship into the US have become US Citizens. I am one of them, as are the parents of our new Olympic Gold Medalist Sunisa Lee. I agree we needed to leave Afghanistan but to do so in such a manner was irresponsible. I know first hand how deadly it is to be a friend of the US.
They didn't just give them anything that was since George Bush went over to Iraq and started dropping bombs even though the United Nations told him to wait 24 hours. He basicly flipped them off and went anyway.
@@amimks235 Did the US leave the Afghan Military with "Protection"? 300.000+ new Taliban Soldiers trained by the US, with US money and weapons!!! The Taliban says "Thank You"
Yes, scratching his head think hard how I lie this time 😱😱😱 Went to Afghan with 1 purpose Lol everyone has critical thinking knew 9/11 an excuse, they used that to screw up Iraq too 🤥🤣
"Everything except use the US military." Oooooof. Blinken looking like he was just slapped. Get more clips like this and I might actually start watching CNN again.
What's the end-goal for occupation of Afghanistan? Can you answer that? Is it just endless war? Boeing and Raytheon and Honeywell would love another 20 years of no-bid defense contracts which makes killing brown people easier. Suck it up and take the L. You lost. The american people lost, the afghani's lost. The only winners were the war profiteers.
@@MrBytorr I might agree with what you say but this withdraw has to be the biggest fuck up in modern military/political history. An 18 y/o serviceman could have told this would happen. For a president who has been In politics his whole life this is incomprehensible ignorance. He needs to resign NOW!
@@MrBytorr dude, they don't care. They hate the Afghanis. They just think they have a reason to criticize Biden. Meanwhile, majority of Americans agree with what he's doing.
Tapper has a conscience finally thank you from a conservative viewer. This is the path to better ratings pursue the truth and serve your fellow citizens.
"It's really important our brave police and military fight to the end, to protect our great people. I'm quickly heading down to the corner store to get cigarettes. I'll be right back."
first time in your life and you're old that you gave him a thumbs up? Huh..then why keep listen to him for years? Just to wait for this moment? Make no sense at all. Like, I know my wife been cheating on me for years but I hope she will stop one day and today is the day?. Just dump her and go get another one...
I give full credit to Biden for this idiocy of an exit strategy. However, 20 years of this complete shit show, the biggest blame goes to Bush, for starting it without a real plan. Obama, and Trump didn't do crap about it either.. Don't pretend that any party or administration did anything to reel in the military industrial complex, they dragged this out for 2 decades, there are kids fighting that war that weren't born when it started.
@@loudharley6926 I agree with that. The people in the pentagon and CIA are bureaucrats and politicians not competent professionals. We should be very afraid that a group of illiterate goat herders defeated us with 40 year old small arms
Jake tapper, I am a republican, I watch CNN as much as I do fox. It's obvious that CNN never ask the questions in a multitude of issues facing the nation because of CNN employees lean to the far left. BUT you ask all the right questions in this segment. And pressed blinken to answer what you needed answered. Thanks great job.
Mike pompeo on CIA - I was the CIA director. We lied, we Cheated and we Stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you the glory of American experiment.
@@bkaladhar7087 we are on high alert why because they left sensitive information behind about america like the guns and ammo and vehicles of war all on sky news live report from the taliban
Last time we double-crossed the Afghanis we got the mujahideen as a result. Afghanistan needs to solve it's own problems for sure, but how can we leave such a mess? So many people who helped us high and dry?
One of the Taliban commanders was a prisoner at Gitmo, we let him out. See where he is now, Mr. Blinken? How did we "succeed at our objectives" from 9/11?
How many Taliban did DJT set free again? Five THOUSAND! DJT made this deal, set a date in MAY, then didn’t do a single thing to prepare for the transition. What we are seeing right now IS DJT’s plan. This is what it looks like.
Not only that, Blinken talks nonsense. He sounds like he's not seen any pictures, or aware that terrorists, who indeed wish us harm, are the government that is already running the show over there.
@@davidkelley5382 all the polls indicated that the populace wanted a more moderate version of islam than the one the taliban was selling, one that allowed women to gain education and enter the workforce. i remember speaking with afghans in the middle east and they almost all said "taliban bad" but in the same breath "western troops need to leave", i told them to pick the lesser evil or stand up and fight for your convictions. i guess their convictions weren't that strong.
