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Welcome to the podcast on the program today.

President Donald Trump.

He's his first appearance ever with the program, which is kind of crazy after all this time.

He comes on and talks about

Afghanistan,

General Milley.

He's very funny about General Milley.

I don't think General Milley found it that funny, but I sure did.

He talks about everything that's going on in the country today and maybe

he would have done differently.

We get into that with him.

Also, updates on what's going on with the Nazarene Fund and

your efforts to help save people from certain death from the Taliban, including American citizens.

We, of course, appreciate that.

The Nazarenefund.org is where you can go to help with that effort.

And a brand new development in the Hunter Biden laptop situation.

I will tell you, it's not going to be a huge surprise to you, but yeah, the media was lying this whole time.

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Well, let me set the scene.

This past weekend was the perfect example for everything wrong with Joe Biden.

The gross negligence of the past four years of of media malfeasance.

Everything that the left said would happen under Donald Trump just occurred over the last weekend.

Let me just give you an update on where we are as a nation.

Remember, we were told, oh, everybody, our allies just hate us so much because of Donald Trump.

And Biden would come in and restore our integrity and our role in the world.

Meanwhile, Britain's not talking to us.

France, our longest

ally and one of our most trusted NATO allies, recalled their ambassador for the first time in American history over a botched arms deal with Australia.

Oh, and NATO is about to collapse due to Biden ignoring the NATO heads of state.

They no longer trust us and are talking about a new European League instead of NATO.

Biden was going to be compassionate.

He would never put people in cages on the border.

No, he didn't have cages.

We didn't even care enough to build a place for him.

Now,

I haven't seen AOC crying on the Texas border of the 15,000 people that are living under the Del Rio Bridge.

The border is worse than any time in American history.

A true humanitarian crisis, all because Biden reversed all of Trump's partnerships with Mexico and others.

We were promised the economy would roar back to life.

Well, we have 11 million unfilled jobs.

We're printing money for welfare.

The Dow dropped 600 points yesterday because we're worried about another financial collapse, this time in China, who we are now fully in bed with.

Biden would unite us.

57% of Democrats now think Trump supporters are the biggest threat to America, followed by 56% that think the biggest threat is anti-vaxxers.

Wow, they've just made you doubly dangerous.

The people who support President Trump, the guy who got the vaccine done in record time and has had the vaccine himself and says other people should get it,

he and his supporters are called anti-vaxxers by Joe.

No miracles are coming, Biden.

Meanwhile, Trump was the dictator.

As Biden forces companies to bend to his will on vaccines, our president president now last week told 100 million Americans, quote, my patience is running thin.

Gas prices are higher than ever.

We are no longer energy independent.

And because of what Joe Biden did in his first couple of weeks, Russia this morning is now holding Europe hostage over oil and gas.

Joe Biden was for the working man.

Now we find out, yeah, as long as you're in a union and if you don't mind runaway food inflation, and it's not so bad unless you eat meat.

Our schools are now run by the teachers union, CRT, and you gotta mask your kids.

Violent crime is through the roof.

I'm not sure what our military stands for anymore.

There's no accountability.

And the great uniter and global healer was handed peace in the Middle East.

The historic Abrahamic Accords now in shambles.

They're back to appeasing Iran, putting Israel in danger, giving our weapons and planes to the Taliban.

And to sum up in Afghanistan, Americans have been left behind.

Do you miss him yet?

President Trump, I started that list about 20 minutes ago and I could have gone on.

I cannot believe it's only been nine months and this much damage has been done to our nation.

Well, I'd like to copy that list.

I think I'm going to get that and I'm going to maybe just, you don't mind if I plagiarize you.

No, not at all.

I wrote that.

Thank you.

it is that is astounding that is astounding

it is plenty more it's pretty incredible well look Europe is very very unhappy with him not for a personality reasons because I got along great I actually got along great with Merkel I got along great with Boris I got along great with everybody Macron of France the the problem that I had is that NATO and Europe, they were ripping us off so badly on NATO.

I mean, you have no idea.

I got them to pay $430 billion.

I said, look, you got to pay it.

We're protecting you.

They were delinquent.

Most of them were not paying, or they were paying very little, not what they were supposed to pay.

They had a

very strong regulation.

They have to pay up to a certain point.

They weren't even close to it.

Other than eight countries, eight out of 28.

So that was, NATO was a ripoff from the standpoint of that.

And they paid up when I came in.

They asked me, they said, well, would you protect?

I said, no, you got to pay.

And once I said, you got to pay your bills, no other president has said it.

And they were ripping us.

But they got along with me, but they didn't like a lot of the things I did.

Like, for instance,

the second thing about Europe, we can go to many other countries, many other places, but the second thing about Europe is they ripped us off on trade.

We don't sell farm products there.

We don't sell cars there.

We don't sell anything.

They have us so restricted.

And I was breaking that up until we had the rigged election result.

I mean, I was breaking it up.

And we were going to have, I mean, when COVID came in, obviously we had to have another thing.

And we came up with a vaccine in nine months, actually less, believe it or not.

It was supposed to take four or five years and did a lot of good work therapeutically, Regeneron and a lot of other things, which people don't talk about, which is so important.

If you ever get it, although you had it, didn't you?

I did.

I did have it.

Yeah, I had a bad case of it.

But I was taking

the minute I stopped taking hydroxychloroquine, I got it.

Right.

Oh, but that's right.

Well, that was another thing.

I should have said, you should never take hydroxychloroquine.

They say, you must have it.

You know, the wall.

So we had, after two and a half years of lawsuits, which I ended up winning all of them, 11 of them at least,

we started building the wall.

And it was a month from being finished.

It was great.

And it's still great because it covers such vast sections, but just little openings.

And, you know, unlike them, I wanted to get all our equipment back.

Okay.

I wanted everything coming back from Mexico who they didn't they didn't mind leaving $85 billion worth of equipment in in Afghanistan so what so what happens so what happens is Europe is ripping us offline so badly on trade so when I was you know, there on numerous occasions, great relationships, but I said, you can't do that.

You got to buy our cars.

You got to buy

things that we make also.

So we had about, when I got there, we had $190 billion trade deficit, which nobody knows.

And with China, we had $507 billion in a trade deficit.

And I did a great job.

And I made a trade deal with China, which put our farmers in great shape.

They're doing well because of it.

I mean, frankly.

And I don't even talk about it because of COVID, though.

I don't even mention it.

You know, when I talk about a trade deal, it's a big deal.

It's one of the biggest deals ever made.

I also redid our deal with Canada, you know, with Canada and Mexico.

That was NAFTA, was probably the the worst trade deal ever made.

And now it's a great deal for the United States.

And it's, you know, what we did is amazing.

He's breaking so much of it up.

It's terrible.

We have such limited time with you.

I want to cover a whole bunch of stuff.

Can you just tell me?

Were they following the withdrawal plan that you had in place with Afghanistan?

No, not even a little bit.

And we had a great plan, but it was was a very tenuous plan.

It was based on many conditions.

For instance, you can't kill American soldiers.

And I dealt with Abdul, you know, Abdul Ghani Karaka.

And I dealt with him and very strongly.

And he's the guy that's now the boss.

And he was the boss then.

And a lot of people weren't sure.

And I had numerous conversations.

But I said the first.

Absolute first part of the first conversation that, Abdul, hopefully we're going to get along.

but here's the story if you kill any Americans or any American soldiers any

we're going to hit you harder than any country has ever been hit before and we're starting in your village but we are going to hit you harder than any country has ever been hit before

I hate to start off a conversation that way.

It's not very friendly, but that's okay.

I think you understand.

You've been fighting for your entire life.

So

what happened, Glenn, is from that point, for 18 months, I believe it is, approximately, not one American soldier was killed.

We kept everything that we and you have to understand, I did want to get out, but I wanted to get out with dignity and I wanted to take our equipment out and, you know, $85 billion and I wanted to get I didn't want soldiers killed.

I've spoken to numerous of the parents who will only speak to me.

They won't speak to Biden because they view what he did as having killed their child.

And what he did is just indefensible.

He took the military out first, and he left all these people, and then we became beggars to get the people out.

So I had a plan to get him out very quickly.

But first, the Americans would go out.

I say, go out, and you had a certain amount of time.

If somebody wants to stay, we can't be responsible for them.

But not too many people would have stayed.

Go out.

We were going to keep Bagram open.

We were never going to close that because, frankly, Bagram is more about about China than it is about Afghanistan.

It's practically right on the border of China.

It's perfect.

And now we've lost that.

And you know who's taking it over?

China.

I hear China is taking it over.

We spent $10 billion to build that base.

It's got the longest, most powerful runways in the world.

And

China is now got its representatives that looks like they're going to take it over.

Atlanta, it's not even believable what's happened.

The way we got out, you know, they have Apache helicopters.

These these are really expensive weapons and really they have 28 of them and they're brand new they're the latest model they have you know other obviously planes i i even say this and you you're a man the reason you're great is because you're such common sense okay it's about most it's about 90 percent common sense let's face it And why wouldn't they bring pilots in to fly out the planes or the helicopters?

It would have taken an hour.

Even if you land them in Pakistan,

land them in any country.

You got 10 10 countries you can land them in and get them out of there.

They didn't do that.

Let me talk to you a little bit about Pakistan.

General Hamid and

the Prime Minister Imram Khan

has been remarkable helping us get

Christians

or

on this case, they've been helping us on getting Americans out and people who are targeted.

They've been truly remarkable.

Weren't they part of your plan?

Yes.

I had a great relationship with Khan.

You know, he was a great athlete.

He was a great cricket player.

He was like the Mickey Mantle of cricket.

Okay, I don't know if you know that, but he was a great athlete.

You know, that's how he was famous in the country, and he became prime minister.

And he was a friend of mine, and he appreciated, you know, I wiped out ISIS 100% of the caliphate, which is much tougher than getting out of Afghanistan.

And we were getting out of Afghanistan.

You know, I took it down from 20,000 down to 2,500 troops or less.

And plus, we had some European troops that I insisted be there because why should we be fighting all this stuff?

I mean, another reason Europe wasn't in love with me, but they respected this country.

You know, they respected us greatly.

Now they don't.

They're laughing at us like we're fools.

And the way he got out of Afghanistan was, in my opinion, and your opinion too, I think it was the most embarrassing event in the history of our country.

You know,

it tells me something about the American soul, that it is still wide awake and still open, because I think people saw that and saw that that was the most dishonorable thing we've ever done.

It was dishonorable the way we treated our allies for so long.

Leaving people behind, leaving Americans behind, it has never been done, never been done.

And now, to have the Pakistani general and the Pakistani prime minister helping Americans to get out and doing the things that our own federal government should be doing.

It's shameful.

It's shameful.

Well, it's

an incredible thing, but maybe more incredible is if you watch the news, you see nothing about that catastrophe anymore.

You see nothing about the 13 soldiers, the warriors.

But, you know, they were brought in because we took everyone out and they needed like an emergency.

And they brought these young, generally young kids in and they weren't even there they brought them in they brought them in on an emergency basis they got blown up you know who they never talk about the people the our people and people on the other side 260 people but

they don't talk about our soldiers whose legs were blown off that are right now sitting in a hospital maybe listening to your show.

Congratulations on your success, by the way.

You do great.

Really great.

But they're sitting in a hospital with no legs, with no arm.

They have been badly.

Now we lost 13, but we have numerous really badly injured, as you can imagine, soldiers in the hospital right now.

Nobody even mentions that.

But what's incredible is the news doesn't mention anything about this anymore.

In fact, he's going to make a speech today, and he's going to talk about he got out of Afghanistan.

Now, if you get out of Afghanistan, a lot of people like that, and

people have different views on it, But you get out.

But you leave with great dignity.

You leave with your weapons.

I always knew that government was a fake government.

We'll give you another fake.

And Ghani was, you know, he was seen leaving with loads of cash.

He had to leave some of it on the runway because it didn't fit into his helicopter and his plane.

So he left tremendous amounts of cash on the runway, which nobody talks about.

And I would criticize him for years.

I used to criticize him because I heard certain things and I believed they were true and now he turned out to be true and the soldiers you know they're great fighters but they were fighting for a paycheck they were among the highest paid soldiers the Afghans because we were paying six billion dollars to the soldiers to fight so they weren't really fight they were getting a paycheck that's why it collapsed so fast and I always said as soon as we leave within minutes that thing is going to collapse or before and I said Ghani will will be out right before us.

Ghani had a lot of political power in the United States with the politicians.

That's the only thing kept him in office.

So I knew that.

So therefore I want to take back the equipment because they're not going to use it because they're going to leave.

And that's what happened.

They left.

We could have had the soldiers saved, our people out, everything beautiful, and we could have been out in the same period of time.

It's really, you know, you're not talking about a different period of time or much of a different, maybe you take an extra couple of months, but you're talking about we would have been out.

I would have started.

In fact, I had a May 1st date, but they didn't meet the conditions.

So we knocked the hell out of them.

We bombed them.

They were never going anywhere near me.

Never anywhere near me.

And he understood, remember, they would never, no country would ever have been hit so hard as

if they killed Americans.

And think of it.

In Chicago, that

a thousand people,

what's happening in Chicago is so bad with these Democrats, and New York is having a tremendous problem with crime.

In Afghanistan, we didn't lose one soldier.

Can I ask you quickly?

The book is out today about General Milley.

The failure from Lloyd Austin and General Milley is historic.

But now we find out also that General Milley possibly was undermining you with China while you were president.

You said, and I thought it was very gracious of you to say, I don't believe it.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Do you believe it yet?

So I learned early on that he was a dope.

I learned that when we walked to the church that was smoldering from the rioters, you know, that's what they were, anarchists that tried to burn it down, that they tried to say were wonderful, just, you know, protesters, friendly protesters.

As I'm walking, you see flame, you see smoke.

I mean, literally the day, a day or two before they burn, they tried to burn down the church, which was built along with the White House.

I mean, at the same time, very, very important institution, everything.

And it's a church.

So they didn't quite make it, but it was minutes from burning down.

All right.

And Millie walked with me, and I walked with numerous people, but Millie, the next day I saw him apologizing.

From the day he apologized, I essentially had nothing to do with him because they said, this guy's a dope.

All he had to do is say, it's my great honor to walk with the president or the presidency.

Talk about, not me, talk about the presidency.

And there were other things.

He made a statement to me, and I guarantee you that's what happened to Biden.

He said to me, because I said, we're getting out of Afghanistan.

We have to do it.

Bah, blah, blah.

I said, I want every nail.

I want every screw.

I want every bolt.

I want every plane.

I want every tank.

But I want it down to the nail, screws, bolts.

I want the tents.

You know, those big, beautiful tents that house the planes.

I never saw tents as great as that.

They're like hangers.

I said, I want all of them deconstructed.

I want them.

I want every single thing.

And he said, sir, it's cheaper to leave it than it is to bring it.

I said, wait a minute.

Let me ask you a question because I'm a construction guy, so I understand this stuff better than anybody.

I said, let me ask you a question.

You think if you have an airplane there and you're going to leave the airplane instead of putting a tank of gas in, and the airplane might have cost $40 million, $50 million.

We've got really good stuff, or the Apache helicopters.

I said, you mean some brand new, by the way, millions and millions of dollars.

So do you think it's cheaper to leave it where it is than have 200 pilots fly over and fly all the equipment out?

Do you think it's cheaper?

Yes, sir.

It's cheaper to leave it than it is.

I said, I got to tell you, I think you got to be nuts.

I mean, give me a tank of gas and a pilot, and

I just picked up $40 million,

a $40 million airplane.

But he was strong.

He just, it was amazing.

So I learned early that this guy's a dope.

But what he did do is he hurt our country.

And he hurt us on trade because I was making trade deals.

He hurt our country, and he shouldn't have been allowed to do it.

And bad things should happen to him.

Mr.

President, it is a privilege to have you on.

You could stay for more.

I know you have a busy schedule, but we'd like to have you back on again.

Thank you so much, President Donald Trump.

Thank you very much, Sled.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

So yesterday,

I am, you know, it's like I have, I swear to you, it's like I have Tourette's in some ways.

I will say the wrong things that I know are wrong because I know that I'm not supposed to say those things.

And it just like comes out.

It's like with names, Stu.

I have names down.

It's totally fine.

The minute I get on the air, I can't say a name.

You know the name, you've said the name 500 times in a row, and then you get on the air and you say it wrong or you forget it completely.

Yeah, I mean, it's

horrible.

Yesterday, let me just clarify on a couple of things before we get into this story.

32 girls and their families with the FIFA-registered Afghan women's youth national soccer team were evacuated to Portugal.

We told you that yesterday,

in great part, by the help of the Pakistani prime minister and your donations.

You probably have read stories about the soccer players getting out before the U.S.

troops left, but that's a different national soccer team.

That's adult players.

They were evacuated to Australia.

These girls are on the youth national soccer team.

They were in real trouble after the bomb went off and the U.S.

troops withdrew.

Their rescue is really nothing short of a miracle.

They are FIFA registered, but I FIFA, but I was.

See, again, you said FIFA to me off the air 25 times, and then you get on the air and you say FIFA.

Yeah, anyway.

That is true.

It's another example.

I know.

And this is why you're in the Radio Hall of Fame.

That's exactly right.

They're like, this guy somehow made it.

I mean,

that's worth Hall of Fame.

We're not saying the show is good.

We're just saying he kept a job this long.

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

FIFA was not involved in their rescue, but they were monitoring the situation.

Nick McKinley is with us now.

He is the founder and executive director of Deliver Fund.

How are you doing, Nick?

Doing good, Glenn.

Thanks for having me.

You bet.

Nick and I have not met until yesterday, and Deliver Fund is, well, explain what you do and how we came to know each other.

So Deliver Fund, we are a counter-human trafficking organization, and we work primarily with law enforcement in the U.S.

and overseas to identify human traffickers so that they can rescue the victims and hold the human traffickers accountable.

Little did I know, and I think you didn't know this either.

Little did I know,

Mercury One is one of your major sponsors.

Here we are.

We tried to find each other recently.

You tried to find out who was running these planes out of.

And,

gosh,

here we are.

We've had such close relationship and neither of us knew it.

Yeah, and little did we know, we're right down the road from each other.

Yeah.

So, Nick,

tell me about the girls and how all of this happened.

The whole thing happened because

so to kind of start at the beginning, DeliverFund was working with the U.S.

administration on counter-human trafficking policy, you know, know, laws and things like that.

And then, when Afghanistan went high order and all of a sudden, everything just started

being the chaos that it is, the administration reached out and said, hey, we need some help getting people out of Afghanistan.

And

we're a pretty apolitical organization in that our focus is on human lives.

And so we'll work with anybody

just to save those human lives.

So we started working working with

the original group of U.S.

government personnel that were getting people out,

started, helped with the Khalid Wardock rescue, helped with a bunch of other rescues of people who were working for the administration, or for the U.S.

administration through all the administrations during the war.

And it's important to understand that the Taliban was telling these people, we're going to kill you and sell your children.

So it's kind of an ultimate

poke in the eye to their enemies to be able to do that.

And since we're counter-human trafficking, that's

right in our skill set.

And so we started helping to evacuate people.

We were originally doing that through Eagle Base.

That's all over the media.

Nothing classified about that, which is the CIA base in Kabul.

And then

we got asked to help get out the girls' soccer team.

We thought this would be yet another easy operation.

We put them into the same mechanism.

Everything would be just fine.

And then suicide bombs started going off.

That

changed everything.

People don't understand how much that changed everything.

When that suicide bomb went off, doors were closing immediately.

Immediately.

Nothing that everybody had planned was going to happen.

Absolutely.

And then once that suicide bomb went off, kind of the rules of the game on the ground started changing by the hour.

So you'd put together an entire plan to get somebody out and then four of the mechanisms in your plan were no longer viable.

So it was just this constant pivot.

You know, internally, we were saying it was like building an airplane while you're flying it.

It was incredibly difficult operating circumstances.

And

we didn't have time to, you know, be all over Instagram and all over social media to be trying to talk about what it is we were doing.

We're just trying to get the work done.

Then fast forward to

we had two two failed missions where we're trying to get these girls out.

And one of them, they're literally watching Eagle Base burn to the ground while they're standing about a half a kilometer away from it.

That was their way out.

Tried again the next day.

We had them within about 40 meters of the black gate.

A lot of people understand what that is.

And then

couldn't get them out because the U.S.

military would not open the gates.

So we sent them home, and then very rapidly, the Taliban started going door to door looking for young girls.

And once we started getting the cries for help from the girls saying, you know, the Taliban are on our street, we had to pivot very, very quickly.

And so we implemented a mechanism we had on the ground to get them into the north and to figure out how to get them out of the country.

And that was when the real, real heroics started.

USAID in the current administration was kind of running the lead on this, and they were absolutely phenomenal.

I'm glad to hear that.

And

it was excellent to see, you know, with everything that's going on in the political environment being what it is, there were some real heroics from all sides.

The first thing that we knew was

we had to have a landing place for these girls because it's important for people to understand we see them as young lives that need to be saved.

But many countries around the world saw them as a busload of expensive refugees.

And

we had to counter that

by showing that these are lives.

These are people whose lives matter.

I mean,

these are teenage girls who

were the Taliban to get their hands on them, were going to be forcibly

raped through a forced marriage by somebody anywhere from 20 to 40 years their senior for the rest of their lives.

I was.

And we can't stand by and let that happen.

Yeah, and this is why the Nazarene Fund, we spend a lot of money

on the aftercare because we can't just dump them into countries won't take them.

And so you're like, we'll teach you a language, we'll give you a job skill, we'll we'll pay for your housing for you know a year just so you get your feet settled and then you you've got to perform and they do we've seen it in af in uh australia they will perform they will meet those standards but no country just wants you know 10 000 refugees that have no place to go and no one taking care of them

That's exactly right.

So that was

the first

problem to be solved.

And between USAID kind of pushing the diplomatic envelopes back and forth and Senator Kuhn's office was absolutely instrumental in making a crack in.

Yeah.

So

the country of Portugal stepped up and said, we'll provide political asylum for these girls.

That was absolutely phenomenal.

That is what needed to happen in order to trigger everything else that was needed to get them out of the country.

Because before we were working mechanisms to try to get them into other countries and the other countries said, sure, we'll let them stay.

We'll even let them stay here for 30 days.

But we want to guarantee that they're following on somewhere else and we're not going to have to take care of them forever.

So for Portugal stepping up and making that happen

really, really launched the entire operation.

So once we got the political asylum, then it was a matter of getting overflight clearances and all things that you're familiar with.

But then it was, okay,

now we have the problem.

Can we get them out over land?

And that was becoming an increasingly less viable option.

Plus, we're talking about a bunch of teenage girls.

In that part of the world, these girls are commodities.

So, how are we going to guarantee if we take them out over land, especially if they're smuggled out, that they're not going to be abused along the way?

So, air was really the most viable option.

And

we had heard that there were folks who had lines on airplanes, couldn't really figure out who that was

in the beginning.

And yet at the same time, we were burning thousands of dollars a day housing and feeding these girls.

So

one of our donors, Andrew Duncan, stepped in and said, I'll cover that cost.

And that was a huge help because we were able to then have a little bit of breathing room to be able to figure out

who's the magic magic people who have these airplanes, who

seem to be able to

get things moving.

And then that's when we were introduced to Rudy and the Nazarene Fund.

And from that point,

the collaboration between us and Rudy

just was incredible.

And there's a really important piece here that's really a feather in the cap of the Nazarene Fund.

And that is.

No, no, go ahead.

And that is the fact that the Nazarene Fund

was smart enough to have credit with Cam Air.

So, you know, it's one thing to be able to pay for an airplane.

And, you know, thanks to Andrew, Andrew Duncan, you know, we were able to pay for those airplanes.

But it's another thing to be able to pay for the airplane right now.

Because obviously wires take a long time to clear.

And so that was very smart of you guys to have that credit so that as soon as there was a window of opportunity, we're able to take advantage of that opportunity and fly right then and there.

Well, Rudy is, um, he's been running this operation for the Nazarene Fund, and he's just amazing.

I think it's a miracle.

Him being placed where he is now has just been miraculous.

Uh, he pretty much runs all of the airspace now for any kind of uh operation like this.

He's kind of really doing all of it in Afghanistan, which is crazy.

Just crazy.

Yeah.

And it's interesting.

I see, you know, all these groups out there saying, oh,

we have claims.

We have a manifest.

And

when it all comes down to it, it's all Rudy.

Rudy's the guy making it happen.

Everybody.

I know.

All right.

You guys did excellent hiring him.

If you are looking for a really rock-solid group to invest in, that's the way I look at charitable money.

It's an investment in people and who who does the best job and who gets the most right to where you want it to go.

Deliverfund.org.

It's something that Mercury One has been investing in, if you will.

Deliverfund.org.

We've helped them for several years and we were thrilled to be able to help them with the Nazarene Fund on the ground.

But please donate to deliverfund.org.

So the other thing is, and I,

you know, Donald Trump and I were just talking about Prime Minister Khan, who he said was a big part of his plan to hold this thing together.

Prime Minister Khan has been amazing,

along with

General, I think it's Nazir.

What is his name?

Do you remember?

But they've been remarkable in putting this together.

I don't know how it happened.

But I think he was like a fan or

something.

And I was asked to write to him because he'll listen to your email.

And I'm like, what?

And he did.

And tell us the role that he has played in this.

So Prime Minister Khan definitely

deserves our thanks and

a debt of gratitude for

the role that he played.

And I think it's important for people to understand why.

So, you know, they say that luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Personally,

I like to say that luck is nothing more than divine intervention.

And there was some serious divine intervention going on here.

So

Prime Minister Khan, turns out,

as I understand it,

actually listens to the Glenbeck Radio Show.

And

so

once, yeah, I mean,

who saw that coming?

And so what was needed in order to get these planes to take off was for somebody to interface with the Taliban.

I happen to find myself fresh out of Taliban contacts.

And so

somebody

had to do that because whether we like it or not, the Taliban is the government on the ground in Afghanistan.

And there's nothing Nick McKimley is going to do about that.

And what we do with the LiverFund, we always work within the system to enhance the system.

We don't work against the the system.

So if we're going to get these planes off the ground, it's only going to be because the Taliban allows them to take off.

So

that was a real problem.

And

it took weeks to figure out how to solve that problem.

So even though all the heroics had been done on the diplomatic side, somebody had to get the Taliban to allow the planes to take off.

And even almost more important than that, somebody had to tell the Taliban not to mess with the passengers who were going to get on the the plane.

Nick, I got a report last night that when the girls came to the airport, because

Pakistan had said, leave them alone, when they got to the airport, not a single one was even asked.

They were just asked for their name.

They weren't asked for anything, and they were left entirely alone.

Just go to the airplane.

And that is all because of Prime Minister Khan.

It is.

It is.

Thank you so much, Nick.

I appreciate it.

I hope to talk to you again and hear some more of your stories.

And thank you for everything that you and your team are doing at Deliver Fund.

If you'd like to donate, deliverfund.org.

Deliverfund.org.

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When Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping.

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