So the FBI says it routinely warns people about potential misinformation
I wonder why they didn't warn themselves
or the FISA court in 2016
Well, you had a really good high-minded discussion with your last guess I'm just going to get really to the bottom of all this. Most Republicans, including me, believes when it comes to Trump
there is no law. It's all about getting
him. There's a double standard when it comes to Trump. What happened with Hunter Biden is that the FBI weighed in to make sure his story didn't break for the 2020 election. We now have whistleblowers at the FBI telling Senator Grassley that they were told to slow down and back off Hunter Biden.
And I'll say this.
If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information
after the Clinton debacle which you presided over and did a hell of a good job, there'll be riots in the streets.
Yeah, you know, I'm a simple-minded guy, Senator. I think people ought to be treated the same without regard to political ideology. And I remember that Jim Comey press conference
really, really, really well. All right, I want to ask you about something you care about and have from the entire time I've known you, which is our foreign policy. We are at the one-year mark in Afghanistan
after the withdrawal. I want to play a clip from you from General McKenzie and then get you to react to what he said.
So
in your opinion, was the withdrawal a mistake?
I advised against withdrawing.
My recommendation and my opinion, and it remains so today, was we had the opportunity to remain in the country with a small force.
I realize the Taliban could very well have chosen to attack us. But I do not believe based on the intelligence I was reading at the time,
that
we would have been forced to add more forces
in order to maintain
a 2, 500-force level in Afghanistan.
Where are we 1 year later after the withdrawal, Senator?
Well, we're more exposed to another attack than we've ever been. The Taliban are back in charge of Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda and ISIS
are thriving in Afghanistan.
They desire to hit our homeland. Joe Biden canceled the residual force insurance policy to make sure they couldn't gather up over there to hit us here. President Biden says he has no regrets about what he did in Afghanistan.
He's a fool if he really believes that. I have a lot of regrets about what he did. I regret the fact that we left thousands of our allies behind who bravely fought along
our side.
I regret the fact that all the women that kind of believed in us have been turned back over to the Taliban.
I regret the fact that the Afghanistan
is going to become another breeding ground for terrorism and most likely another 9-11 will emanate there going through a broken southern border. So the general is right. He gave the president sound military advice
And if Joe Biden doesn't regret what he did in Afghanistan,
he really is deaf, dumb and blind.
All right. Before I let you go, the district attorney in Georgia is apparently a huge fan of yours.
And she's even willing to go to court for for a chance to meet you in person. That's how much he wants to meet you in person.
Look,
you and I are laughing. It's actually really serious. I mean, should all members of the House and Senate begin to block off time for state prosecutors going forward? Is that where we are?
Well, if we let county prosecutors
start calling senators and members of Congress as witnesses when they're doing their job, then you're going to throw Ida Kilter our constitutional
balance here. I've got a good legal case. I'm going to pursue it. But I just want to sort of end in this note. You love the law. I love the law. I've never been more worried about the law and politics as I am right now. How can you tell a conservative Republican
that the system works when it comes to Trump? Look at what happened with Crossfire Hurricane. It was a joke of an investigation.
People lied and manipulated the evidence. Look what happened to Hunter Biden. They gave him a complete pass apparently.
And the social media outlets in this country suppressed information that could have mattered. And if they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling
classified information.
After Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement, they literally will be riots in the street.
I worry about our country. I do too.
The lady is blindfolded for a reason. When you begin to start peeking out from behind that blindfold, you're finished as a republic.
Thank you Senator Lindsey Graham from the great state of South Carolina.
