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We need to ‘send a clear signal to the world that we’re going to stand up against terrorists’

August 19, 2021

WASHINGTON —Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) joined Newsmax's Cortes & Pellegrino Wednesday night to discuss President Biden's Afghanistan catastrophe, the Pentagon brass' unbelievable strategic failures in Kabul, and the thousands of American citizens still behind Taliban lines.

Full footage of the interview can be found here and some key quotes are below:

  • First and foremost, let's focus on the ten to fifteen thousand Americans who are stuck while the White House is so cowardly running away and leaving them stranded.
  • [President Biden, VP Harris, and Sec. Mayorkas] should be impeached for their lack of ability to secure the border. And now because of their complete incompetence, their willful disregard for enforcing what we should be doing in Afghanistan, how we should've left without leaving so many assets and endangering our country and leaving ten to fifteen thousand Americans still looking to figure out how to get out. And now, they're focusing on importing people from Afghanistan, when we still have ten to fifteen thousand Americans over there.
  • They need to come to Capitol Hill, they need to answer to what they've done, heads need to roll, and frankly, the Vice President, the President, Milley, Austin, all of them need to resign. It's a complete disgrace.
  • It is absolutely incomprehensible what the President's been doing, hiding at Camp David, now going to Delaware, today, coming and lecturing us and saying that they are going to come in and step in the way of governors about what's happening with masks in schools when we've got fifteen thousand Americans in Afghanistan? You go to hell, Mr. President.
  • [We need to] send a clear signal to the world that we're going to stand up against terrorists, and that we're going to do it on our terms.

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