Best of the Program | Guest: Chad Robichaux | 1/16/23

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Speaker 1 The alerts were going off all over the country in the first segment. Yeah, this is.

Speaker 1 Well, I was talking about. Thank you for joining us.
I was talking about the

Speaker 1 Biden administration. And gosh darn it, where did I put all those top secret documents? And the fact that McCarthy's like, God, the hypocrisy, shut up about the hypocrisy.
We got it.

Speaker 1 We got it.

Speaker 1 So I explained what's really going on there. Also, in the next hour, based on something else, I kind of

Speaker 1 expose what people really mean when they're like, I just don't care anymore. That's not entirely true.
And you'll hear the explanation. Then Chad Robicho, who is just a real-life Tom Cruise, comes in.

Speaker 1 He's got a new book called Saving Aziz. It is what, this is finally the official story of what happened.
We raised all of that money to free these people in Afghanistan.

Speaker 1 This is how it was done. So this is really your story, Saving Aziz.

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Speaker 1 So Kevin McCarthy, he's come out and said the discovery of more classified documents in President Joe Biden's possession. Oh, that highlights the hypocrisy with inside the federal government.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay, it does do that. It does.
Yeah, we, but

Speaker 1 is this new?

Speaker 1 Haven't we always said this?

Speaker 1 Think of Donald Trump. I mean, I could go back in time.

Speaker 1 Think of Ronald Reagan would have done that.

Speaker 1 Think of Eisenhower if he would have done that. I mean, you can go all, think of Lincoln if he would have done that.
This is the same story.

Speaker 1 It's the same story.

Speaker 1 We got it.

Speaker 1 Now, why is this story happening? Well, let me give you,

Speaker 1 they found more documents over the weekend. Now, remember, the White House said, we're absolutely done with documents.
They found everything about.

Speaker 1 They found more. over the weekend at another house.
How many houses, this guy is like Ronald McDonald. Ronald McDonald's constantly building another Ronald McDonald house.

Speaker 1 How many houses does that clown need? How many houses does the president need? He's got to have more houses.

Speaker 1 So they went to another house and they're like, whoops, okay, it's not exactly over, but these documents really don't matter.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 Well, they're classified documents, so I'm pretty sure that would matter. Now,

Speaker 1 they went to Wilmington

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 when I say they, they went to Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach. That's where his other house is.
And when I say they, I mean the same people that went to, you know, his foundation with the university.

Speaker 1 So who are they? His attorneys.

Speaker 1 Now, this started back in, what was it, November or October, where the president's attorneys went to his office to pack up stuff

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 close that office? His attorneys. Now that is the world's most expensive moving company.

Speaker 1 Why would you have your attorneys do that? Well, I could provide a thesis.

Speaker 1 Let's say...

Speaker 1 You know you have something you shouldn't have, and maybe you've done something you shouldn't have done.

Speaker 1 You go to your attorneys first,

Speaker 1 because to them, you don't have to say, I know this guy. What you say to them is, you guys can't talk, right? I mean, legally, everything I say to you, you can't repeat it, right?

Speaker 1 Right. Good.
I got all these stop secret documents. Okay.
There's a

Speaker 1 bunch of them over there. There might be a bunch of them.

Speaker 1 I mean, I think I might have some in Sandy Berger's socks. I don't know.

Speaker 1 So, can you guys go in there? And if you find them, just do what you have to do. I don't want to know about it.
Okay.

Speaker 1 The president has said last week, the attorneys told me, you know, to not even ask about it. Oh.

Speaker 1 Hmm.

Speaker 1 Did you guys talk about it before they said that to you? So the attorneys go in, they find it, and they immediately call and cooperate. You know, that is big of Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 You know, that's why he had the attorneys there.

Speaker 1 Now, go to his house, but I have it with my Corvette. Ah, yeah, we're going to come back to that.

Speaker 1 That is like the safest place on earth. You have an old Corvette? I'm telling you, you can't break into that.
The garage door opener?

Speaker 1 Nobody has one of those. Oh, he has one of those.
You can't just

Speaker 1 and get in because the garage door opens. It's locked.

Speaker 1 You need some sort of like, I don't, this is even beyond quantum computing to be able to get past one of those Sears garage door openers.

Speaker 1 So we're going to come back to that one. So then his other house this weekend, after it's all out in the open,

Speaker 1 his attorneys are there at the other house. Now,

Speaker 1 I don't know why they haven't done all of the places could look,

Speaker 1 you know, at once, maybe in November. Hey, we found them in the basement.
Do you have any in, you know, next to your Corvette?

Speaker 1 Well, there is that big box that's just classified and has big red tape all over it. Yeah, we should probably go there.
Do you have any other houses that I don't know why?

Speaker 1 I don't know why, but they're fully cooperating.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 let's ask two questions here. Let's ask two questions.

Speaker 1 When something says top secret, to get a top secret classification, what do they do

Speaker 1 before

Speaker 1 you get that little card? Stu.

Speaker 1 They usually do a background check. Background check.
Okay, good, good, good. What are they looking for?

Speaker 1 Maybe criminal activity. Criminal activity.
Some way you could be compromised. Compromise, sure.
Or, you know, I just toured the Soviet Union.

Speaker 1 you know. They're looking for anything that you've done that shows that you are on, let's say, not America's side,

Speaker 1 or you have any friends that might be, let's say, not on American side, or you have any business dealings with some people that, let's just say, are not on America's side.

Speaker 1 And then you also look, final thing is,

Speaker 1 is he compromised with money, with drugs? Is there a sex scandal?

Speaker 1 Is he prone to a honeypot thing? Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 That's what they're looking for because you can so easily need money and then somebody can come out and go, listen, I'm boris, but I absolutely love America. And I just want to see the...

Speaker 1 I want to see top secret document because I want to show you how American I am. I'll never say anything to Soviet Union.
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 That guy could approach you and go, so you need a little money, maybe, little heroin. Okay, I can help, but I want to see top secret document.

Speaker 1 That's what they're worried about. Okay.

Speaker 1 Now, wait a minute. This is in the president or vice president's house.

Speaker 1 At the time, he was the vice president, and he had them there while he was vice president, and then he kept them there while he was president. Okay, so they've been in there for a while.

Speaker 1 Who else has been in his house?

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh. A guy who is constantly asking for money for drugs and hookers.
A guy who is doing shady business deals with China and with Russia and Ukraine.

Speaker 1 Wait a minute, that's exactly the kind of guy. We don't want to have access to top secret documents.
Yeah, but he was almost never there.

Speaker 1 Well, let's go back to that ultra-secure garage.

Speaker 1 That's the house that Hunter Biden was renting from his dad.

Speaker 1 Not now with his art money. He was renting it from his dad when he had no money.
Remember? I got no money. money.

Speaker 1 That's why she's pregnant. I couldn't afford a condom.

Speaker 1 Oh, poor guy. So his dad said, just stay at my house.
I'm not living there. You just stay at my house.
Oh, my gosh, what a great dad.

Speaker 1 And he wanted to make sure his son grew up a little bit. And you're going to have to work for it a little bit.
You know, this house, the most expensive rent in this area is $6,000 a month.

Speaker 1 so I'm gonna cut you a deal because you're my son you just pay fifty thousand dollars a month but dad remember I couldn't afford the condom

Speaker 1 right well this is a condominium

Speaker 1 more letters gotta be a little more expensive fifty thousand dollars to his desperate son now where does his desperate i don't have any money son get that money.

Speaker 1 Oh, don't worry, he's got a job with like burisma. He's doing deals over in China.
Completely his deal. No big deal.
No big deal. Joe Biden doesn't know a thing about it.
Nothing.

Speaker 1 He's not getting any money from it.

Speaker 1 He's just trying to help out his poor wayward son, giving him access to his house so he has a place to rest his angelic head while dad charges him fifty thousand dollars a month

Speaker 1 and what's in that house

Speaker 1 the boxes of top secret documents right there next to the garage so you don't need macyvor you don't need some genius to go how do we break in past that sears robotic arm how do we do it?

Speaker 1 Because you already have a drug addict inside who's writing his family going, yeah, at least dad doesn't take half your money.

Speaker 1 Remember, he's really bitter and angry with his dad at that time.

Speaker 1 He wants his dad to suffer.

Speaker 1 This is the best of the Glenbeck program.

Speaker 1 On the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills,

Speaker 1 Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Good job.

Speaker 1 Who, of course, was responding to what happened to his teammate. DeMar Hamlin.

Speaker 1 Almost said Lamar Alexander, but yes, DeMar Hamlin is right. I wanted to see if you were paying attention.
Anyway,

Speaker 1 you almost said the senator.

Speaker 1 Forget it.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 he's responding to all of that.

Speaker 1 And And he says over the weekend, you know, I've been the most,

Speaker 1 you know, devoted guy.

Speaker 1 But watching it, watching what happened on the field has moved me deeply.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 spirituality, higher power. And, you know, you don't believe in that.
I'm not going to judge. I don't want to offend.
Well,

Speaker 1 you know, when you can witness something like this

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 you have to be, I am so offended by what he said.

Speaker 1 Shut up.

Speaker 1 Shut up. Stop trying to couch everything.
I mean, we get it. We get it.
And

Speaker 1 you can couch it like, hey, I'm not trying to preach to you, but

Speaker 1 man,

Speaker 1 this has affected me deeply. I am, I mean, I'm going back to praying and everything else.
Well, I'm not. That's poppycock.
Okay, cool. Move on with your life.

Speaker 1 There's a real problem in America when everybody, when Christians are all apologizing all the time for everything. There's a real problem in the country.
And it comes from this wokeness bull crap.

Speaker 1 You don't have to apologize to say,

Speaker 1 nope, dude over there.

Speaker 1 Definitely a woman. You don't have to apologize

Speaker 1 that one you should explain

Speaker 1 wait a minute what

Speaker 1 that one you should explain especially if you're saying that to my third grader in class

Speaker 1 as a fact

Speaker 1 I don't know now maybe we should have that conversation

Speaker 1 All of this stuff is weakening us. And as I was saying last half hour, when people say, I don't care,

Speaker 1 I just don't care anymore. What you're saying is, I've given up because I know nothing's going to change.

Speaker 1 Well, first of all, that's not true. A lot has changed.
A lot has changed. Just look at the great reset.
They're going into the

Speaker 1 World Economic Forum.

Speaker 1 They're going in and they are changing all kinds of stuff this year because,

Speaker 1 really honestly, of you.

Speaker 1 You think you don't have an impact? A year ago, last week, we published the book, The Great Reset. Nobody was talking about ESGs.
Nobody even knew what it was.

Speaker 1 Nobody was talking about the Great Reset. Nobody even knew what it was.
And if anybody was talking about, they were saying it was a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 1 Well, now, guess what the World Economic Forum is doing?

Speaker 1 They're changing their language again.

Speaker 1 They're in retreat because people know

Speaker 1 you made a difference. So don't give up on things because things are changing.

Speaker 1 I understand giving up on things like, yeah, well, they're going to pay a heavy price because there's going to be a hearing on that. That's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen.

Speaker 1 But on things like our schools, this happened in the last year.

Speaker 1 Look what's happened in the last year in our schools. A lot has changed.
Let me ask you this.

Speaker 1 Have you,

Speaker 1 would you have heard this

Speaker 1 a year ago?

Speaker 1 Now, this is at the Oxford Union. Hang on a moment.
And this happened during a debate at the Oxford Union. Remember, universities all woke.

Speaker 1 Listen to this statement. It's gone viral over the last weekend.

Speaker 3 Listen to this now I want to talk to those of you who are woke and who are open to rational argument a small minority I accept

Speaker 3 because one of the tenets of wokeness is of course that your feelings matter more than the truth but I believe in you I believe there are those of you here who are woke who are open to rational argument so let me make one we are told that your generation cares more than any other about one issue in particular and that issue is climate change We're told that many of you suffer from climate anxiety.

Speaker 3 You wish to save the planet. And for tonight and tonight only, I will join you.

Speaker 3 I will join you in worshiping at the feet of St. Greta of climate change.

Speaker 3 Let us all accept right here, right now, that we are living through a climate emergency and our stocks of polar bears are running extremely low. I join you in this view.
I truly do.

Speaker 3 Now what are we to do about this huge problem facing humanity?

Speaker 3 What can we in Britain do?

Speaker 3 We can only do one thing. You know why?

Speaker 3 This country is responsible for 2% of global carbon emissions, which means that if Britain was to sink into the sea right now, it would make absolutely no difference to the issue of climate change.

Speaker 3 You know why? Because the future of the climate is going to be decided in Asia and in Latin America by poor people who couldn't give a about saving the planet. You know why? Because they're poor.

Speaker 3 Because they're poor. I come from Russia, which is not a poor country, it's a middle-income country.
20% of households in Russia do not have an indoor toilet.

Speaker 3 What they have is an outdoor toilet. And I don't mean one of those nice Portaloos that we get here.
I don't even mean a Glastonbury Portaloo.

Speaker 3 I mean a wooden shack with a hole in the ground that holds a collected fermented fermented memory of the last 10,000 visits.

Speaker 3 How many of you are going to go home tonight and say, let's rip out our bathroom and erect a Siberian house in the back garden?

Speaker 3 And if you're not, why should they?

Speaker 3 120 million people in China do not have enough food. I don't mean that they don't get dessert.
I mean they suffer from malnutrition.

Speaker 3 That means that their immune system is breaking down because they don't have enough enough food.

Speaker 3 You're not going to get them to stay poor.

Speaker 3 Imagine you're Xi Jinping, the leader of China. When you were 10 years old, there was a revolution, a cultural revolution in your country, and people came and they

Speaker 3 put your father in prison. Your mother had to denounce him.
Your sister killed herself.

Speaker 3 And you, no longer enjoying the protection of your formerly powerful father, were sent to a village where you lived in a cave house.

Speaker 3 And here you are, decades later, you have clawed your way up the bloody and greasy pole of Chinese politics to be the undisputed supreme leader of the very Communist Party that destroyed your family.

Speaker 3 And you know that the main thing you have to do to survive and to stay in power is to deliver the one thing

Speaker 3 that the people of China want, prosperity, economic growth. Where do you think climate change ranks on Xi Jinping's list of priorities?

Speaker 3 A third of all children who live in extreme poverty in the world live in India.

Speaker 3 That means they are starving and dying of preventable disease. Now,

Speaker 3 about 15 months ago, my wife got pregnant. Not me, because we're old school.

Speaker 3 And for nine months we talked about what our boy would look like, what he might do when he grows up.

Speaker 3 We looked at baby scans and videos on YouTube about what the fetus looks like at nine months and twelve months and twenty months. And eventually he was born.
And he is this cute little bundle of joy.

Speaker 3 He's cuter than about 80% of puppies.

Speaker 3 Now if you said to me that I had a choice, either my son had a serious risk of starving or dying from a preventable disease in the next year.

Speaker 3 Or I could press a button and he would live.

Speaker 3 He would go to school.

Speaker 3 He would bring his first girlfriend home. He'd go to university and graduate and become a woke idiot.

Speaker 3 And then he'd get a job and get married and have children and become a man.

Speaker 3 But all I have to do is press this button and for every day of my son's life a giant plume of CO2 is going to get released into the atmosphere.

Speaker 3 Now, you're all very young, and most of you are not parents. Let me tell you something.
There is not a parent in the world who would not smash that button so hard their hand bled.

Speaker 3 You are not going to get these people to stay poor. You are not even going to get them to not want to be richer.

Speaker 3 And so, I put it to you, ladies and gentlemen, there is only one thing we can do in this country to stop climate change.

Speaker 3 And that is to make scientific and technological breakthroughs that will create the clean energy that is not only clean but also cheap.

Speaker 3 And the only thing that wokeness has to offer in exchange is to brainwash bright young minds like you to believe that you are victims, to believe that you have no agency, to believe that what you must do to improve the world is to complain, is to protest, is to throw soup on paintings.

Speaker 3 And we on this side of the house are not on this side of the house because we do not wish to improve the world.

Speaker 3 We sit on this side of the house because we know that the way to improve the world is to work, is to create, it is to build.

Speaker 3 And the problem with woke culture is that it's trained too many young minds like yours to forget about that.

Speaker 3 Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 If that is not

Speaker 1 clear and understandable,

Speaker 1 wokeness does nothing to change the world.

Speaker 1 The best of the Glen Bank program.

Speaker 1 I want to read you the foreword, just a bit of it, from Saving Aziz.

Speaker 1 I first met Chad Robichaux in 2016 through a mutual friend, David Barton. I had heard about his multiple deployments in Afghanistan, his struggles with PTSD and suicide after he came home.

Speaker 1 Our shared love of history, independence, and dependence on our faith to transcend the dark valleys of our past and desire to use our struggles to pay it forward. These things instantly bonded us.

Speaker 1 I could tell Chad was the real deal. A man of his word, he was a man of honor.

Speaker 1 I had him on my show several times to share his story and to speak on veterans care and how his organization, the Mighty Oaks Foundation, was working to combat veteran PTSD and suicide.

Speaker 1 Upon hearing his words, I said, sign me up. My wife and I and our charity, Mercury One, became a supporter.
We remained in touch over the years, and when the debacle began unfolding in Afghanistan,

Speaker 1 I didn't give the decision a second thought. Chad and I locked arms and dove in together to do what we really needed to be done.

Speaker 1 We did what our government wasn't doing, and that's saving as many people as possible from the bloodlust of the Taliban.

Speaker 1 Most of these were SIVs, meaning they were qualified for special immigrant visas because they helped our country and American troops when they were deployed.

Speaker 1 It goes on for a couple of more pages, and let me just give you this. I, like Chad,

Speaker 1 while this crisis made me ashamed of our government, it also made me ponder about the American people. I was at the point where I was absolutely hopeless about America.

Speaker 1 I thought, we're just not going to make it. But then I saw people from all walks of life and all income levels and all parties come together and say, this is wrong and we'll do something about it.

Speaker 1 My heart swelled. Our national honor may have meant nothing to those in Washington, but it meant everything to countless Americans.

Speaker 1 For the first time in my life, I felt if the government and elites would just get out of the way of the people, we'd solve a lot of our problems.

Speaker 1 This is a book that tells the story of what happened in Afghanistan, and I mean really in Afghanistan.

Speaker 1 Aziz was the interpreter for Chad while he was over in Afghanistan. For how many tours did you do over there?

Speaker 2 I did eight, and all eight were with Aziz because a very unique scenario end of my job specifically and the way our relationship was.

Speaker 1 This story is also a story of God and the miracles that happen when you just do all that you can do and then doors just start to open. It's pretty crazy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think it's just an example of when you're obedient to God's burdening of your heart and you step forward in faith. You know, the Bible says in

Speaker 2 2 Corinthians 11 or 5, 7, that we walk by faith and not by sight. And we see things that look impossible and they are impossible at times, but

Speaker 2 these are things that God is capable of doing.

Speaker 1 Somebody said to me,

Speaker 1 I've had several Christians say to me,

Speaker 1 you know, Glenn, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? And I'm like, well, you know, I think the only thing that will happen is if we turn to God and we really need to turn back to God.

Speaker 1 And they're like, yeah, yeah, I know, but what are we going to do? And I keep wanting to say,

Speaker 1 you know, the guy you look at as Savior and me too, he rose from the dead. That's a little harder to do than saving the country.

Speaker 1 I mean, I think God could take this on if we all just rededicate ourselves to him.

Speaker 2 Well, you know, this story, and if I could get one thing out of this story of Saving Aziz, it is to tell that the story of God doing miracles today. Because what would happen

Speaker 2 in the rescues of 17,000 people, by the way, by just a handful of civilians who had no money to do it, had never done humanitarian operation like that before, and we're not with the government anymore,

Speaker 2 is a story of a divine miracle. I'm not smart enough or capable enough.
I have the experience and background to do these things, but I'm not smart enough, capable enough to pull that off.

Speaker 2 It was too big of a thing.

Speaker 1 It was amazing because you went and you actually were over there and you were doing the work, but like you said, you didn't have the money. And I was over here raising money, not connecting yet.
No.

Speaker 1 Raising the money, our audience was giving money. And I was saying internally, we don't have any guys on the other side of the fence.

Speaker 1 How are we going to get them to these planes? And that's when we connected. And it was amazing.

Speaker 1 Organization after organization all brought puzzle pieces together

Speaker 1 that we were all short of.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a, it is.

Speaker 2 It was a perfectly orchestrated series of events that if any one of the, I've been speaking a lot about this, if any one, looking back now, if any one of these pieces didn't work, it fell or the door didn't open, the whole thing didn't work.

Speaker 2 I mean, when we went there, you know, obviously my original intent was to go rescue my friend. You know,

Speaker 2 I had did eight deployments with that, with Aziz. He was

Speaker 2 so dear to me. So I'm going.

Speaker 1 He saved your life several times.

Speaker 2 He saved my life on three occasions. So to give a little background of how we worked,

Speaker 2 I was in a JSOC task force, the Joint Special Operations Command Task Force with one of our premier special operations units.

Speaker 2 And I was what's called an AFO there, advanced force operator, which really is like the best way I know to describe it. It's like being undercover.

Speaker 2 You go in a single tin capacity by yourself, and you work with a local national to go out and advance your unit in the mountains of Afghanistan, across border and Pakistan, to build the infrastructure to put our soldiers on target to capture or kill the bad guys.

Speaker 2 That was my job. And Aziz was not only my interpreter, but he was my teammate.
And ultimately, you spend weeks and months like that.

Speaker 2 Either you're going to hate the guy or you're going to love the guy. And, you know, I fell in love with him.
He's one of my best friends in the world.

Speaker 2 He saved my life multiple times, but I'd say he saved my life every day. Like, don't walk there.
Don't eat that. Don't talk to this person.
If you speak right now, they're going to kill us.

Speaker 2 And I've seen him put his life on the line for

Speaker 2 other service members. I mean, we just got him recognized by U.S.
Congress. He was the first Afghan ever to be recognized by the U.S.

Speaker 2 Congress for the rescue of four Navy SEALs that an operation he and I were on.

Speaker 2 I was tasked with this operation to recover these, do a clandestine extraction, these four SEALs that were caught in this Taliban village. And we were out of options.

Speaker 2 And it was Aziz who stepped up and said, I know how we're going to do this. Let's take this vehicle.
He drove us through the night into this Taliban village, and we got these four Navy SEALs out.

Speaker 2 So he's an incredible human being.

Speaker 1 You knew when this was all falling apart,

Speaker 1 you knew that Aziz should have been on the list, would have, I mean, he had been in the process six years.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 He had been in the SIV process for six years. It was a broken system.
It's supposed to take nine months.

Speaker 1 Right. But six years, it's close to nine months.

Speaker 1 Turn a nine upside down. It looks like a six.
Anyway,

Speaker 1 so he is,

Speaker 1 you knew immediately there's no way he's going to get out.

Speaker 2 No, because I had already tried to use my relationships in Congress and Senate, and it just wasn't happening. And it wasn't happening for many SIVs.

Speaker 2 And like I said, it's a nine-month process and a promise that we gave in 2009 to our interpreters. And

Speaker 2 we had forfeited

Speaker 2 our commitment to them. And Aziz is a guy who had access to top secret information, served in special operations for 15 years, been polygraphed.

Speaker 2 If he couldn't get out, you had to think about some of the others, right? So

Speaker 2 I knew he was in danger in April, not August,

Speaker 2 but all the way back in April. One of our old teammates that had turned on us to the Taliban and had

Speaker 2 been hunting Aziz before.

Speaker 2 This guy had 10 of our team members killed who are friends of mine.

Speaker 2 He drove a vehicle. Well, he had someone drive a vehicle bomb in my house looking for Aziz.

Speaker 2 He had me abducted by a foreign intelligence agency, which I can't say which one.

Speaker 2 So, I mean, this is a really bad guy. We had him arrested.
He was put in jail, but President Obama's administration let him loose

Speaker 2 with many others. And he turned back to the Taliban.
So he's looking for Aziz all the way back in April. And so we started moving Aziz, and I'm getting more and more desperate.

Speaker 2 And we hear President Biden announce that date to say, we're going to withdraw on the anniversary of 9-11,

Speaker 2 my heart sank. And I knew a couple of things.
One, I knew this was going to be catastrophic.

Speaker 2 And we could go into, if you want, why for the global security and national security of the world, that was catastrophic.

Speaker 2 But secondly, my heart went selfishly to my friend and said, I have to go get my friend.

Speaker 1 So where did you first go? What did you do? What was your plan?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 I had two plans, and the first one didn't work out.

Speaker 2 The first plan is I called Richard McGinnis, who works for uh tucker carlson he's done went undercover with antifa and blm i knew he was crazy enough to do it and i said hey do you want the story in afghanistan of the withdrawal i'll get you there and we'll go in and we'll get a we'll get my interpreter on the ground to be our cultural liaison once we get the get the interview we're going to fly him back to Dubai to interview him and his family and then he's never going back and they were in and a daily caller actually approved it uh and and uh but it happened too fast so we couldn't pull that off and so I said we're just gonna have to go in and get him.

Speaker 2 And so I started calling former special operations guys that I knew I could trust because I knew them long term. They had the ASO, AFO level experience to work independently.

Speaker 2 And they were mature guys who had already been to combat, so they wouldn't be itching to go and get in a gunfight with the Taliban.

Speaker 1 And is that what you mean by you knew you could trust them?

Speaker 2 I knew I could trust them. And that, yeah.
I mean, I didn't want to bring guys that were like... hadn't got the chance to go get some, you know, in combat and then be out there.

Speaker 2 That was not what we're going there for. The time for combat was over.
This was going to be to rescue my friend, his family, and potentially others. But where it shifted was one of our teammates.

Speaker 2 We had guys from SEALs, Fort Shrekon Marines, Green Berets. We had a couple of paramilitary officers from the CIA, some very experienced guys.

Speaker 2 And one of the guys said, hey, there's this group of 3,500 orphans. Why don't we get them too?

Speaker 2 And then we kind of paused for a second and said,

Speaker 2 the skill set we have in the room, the passion that we have to do this,

Speaker 2 let's get as many Americans, interpreters, their families, women, children, Christians that are being persecuted. Let's get as many people as we can.

Speaker 2 And I believe that I think everyone in that room was believers,

Speaker 2 Christians. And I think we all felt this burden on our heart.
That's why I called it Task 4 6.8 from Isaiah 6.8, hear my, send me.

Speaker 2 And we just all wanted to be obedient to that.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 2 if we get credit for anything, and I know you've given me credit with the Bottle Offer Angel Award and Congress has recognized me for this, but if we get any credit for anything, the only thing I feel like we deserve credit for was being obedient to say yes to that burden that God put on our heart because after that, everything was a divine divine miracle i mean within three days

Speaker 2 the uh sarah varardo talked to the joint chiefs and got permission for us as civilians to go in hkai airport which is dod controlled and do a civilian evacuation anybody knows anything about the military that's impossible for that to happen and i still don't know how it happened they gave us permission to go there and they said they would bet our manifest uh now secondly we have to move people without visas to another country, which is human trafficking if you don't have paperwork.

Speaker 2 The only place that's allowed is right here in Laredo, Texas.

Speaker 2 But in the real world, you know,

Speaker 2 we have to have permission. So we called the royal family of the UAE because we had relationships there with some of the family members.

Speaker 2 Two of our teammates actually had historical relationships there. And we told them what we were going to do.

Speaker 2 And they said, not only can you bring them here, but we'll give you a humanitarian center, doctors, food. We're going to care for them.

Speaker 2 And we'll work with the State Department to build to actually get them to the U.S. because a lot of people gave us slack for we're bringing people to the U.S.

Speaker 2 I don't have the ability to bring people to the U.S. I had the ability to evacuate people from Afghanistan, but bringing them to America is not up to me.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 that's happening. And then the Royal Family says after that, not only that, but we're going to give you two C-17 planes and pilots, which sounds like a lot, but we even need it more.

Speaker 2 And so that, but that was amazing.

Speaker 2 And then the next thing that happened, all within three days, is I got on the phone with you and you told me that you got behind a microphone because you wanted to do what

Speaker 2 you could, what you had. This is your greatest weapon.
And you used your voice voice

Speaker 2 and people responded. And I think you were like, I didn't know what was going to happen, but we raised billions of dollars.
And what are we going to do with it?

Speaker 2 And then you connected me with Rudy Atala, an amazing, amazing human being at Mercury One.

Speaker 2 And we synergized on the effort to start coordinating the procurement of planes to be able to manifest planes and get planes rotating in. And the large majority of

Speaker 2 the 17,000 people we got out were on planes at Mercury One in your audience. So I'm super thrilled to be here to be.

Speaker 1 It's amazing. 17,000 people.
And it started with, I got to go over and save my friend.

Speaker 2 It started with, I got to go over and save my friend. And we did get a Z's the first day.
You know, we had, we had so much happening. We had

Speaker 2 our team in Abu Dhabi, which is where I was running operations. We had a team in Sarah Veroardo was running in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 2 to take applications and make sure they're the right people, not just anyone. We're vetting the right people, which unfortunately DOD did not do that.

Speaker 2 And people said they were concerned about who was coming here. I was too.
I want to make sure. I I mean, I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 I was concerned about every single person that was in our purview on our planes. We were concerned.
The United States government didn't seem to care.

Speaker 2 Didn't care. Yeah.
I mean, we did our due diligence and we didn't bring him straight to America. We put him through a filter process in a third-party country.

Speaker 2 But, you know, for us, we having that process running was very intricate and it was amazing how fast. I'm so proud of everyone that was involved, how fast we were able to get a system in place.

Speaker 2 We had our ground team going outside the wire to HKAIA and three-man teams to grab people as we coordinated a rescue list.

Speaker 2 And no one stopped to sleep. I was so amazed by everyone.

Speaker 2 10 days, if you stopped for five minutes to sleep, you felt like you were trading that for a human life. And so no one, see, my friend C.

Speaker 2 Spray, we wrote about in the book, he lost 37 pounds in that 10 days.

Speaker 2 We didn't know how long we had. We just knew we couldn't stop.
But when that Abbey gate blew up and 13 of our service members were killed,

Speaker 2 we watched the military weld those gates shut. And the U.S.
military did not want to leave, but they had to, but we didn't have to. And we chose to stay.

Speaker 1 I want to talk to you about that here. Let me give me a minute here, and we're going to come back.
The name of the book is Saving Aziz by Chad Robichaux.

Speaker 1 And it is, it's fantastic, and it is the story of what happened because you responded. He was over the 17,000 people that he got out.

Speaker 1 Many of those were out because you gave five bucks or a hundred bucks or whatever it was. This is your story: Saving Aziz.
You can get it now. No, no, no, no.