wait without confirmation, the less likely you'll get confirmation. All right, so I don't know about that.

The United States is being coy about what we're going to do to rescue the rest of the Americans and our allies that are trapped in Afghanistan. But do you fault them for not telling you what we're going to do about it or being vague about it or general? Do you fault the administration for not being specific about how we plan to get more Americans out of there? I don't. Because I think that would be the wrong thing to be specific. Because probably we're going to have to do some things that even the Taliban has to be flexible about. Maybe we might have some secret threats with the Taliban. We might even have a secret deal. It's possible we have a secret deal with the Taliban where we'll release their funding if all the Americans get out or something like that. So I would support the administration not being straight with us on this topic.

I do think that for national security sometimes your military leaders have to lie to the public. Would everybody agree that that's an acceptable lie? If the military genuinely believes that they can protect the country better with a temporary lie, do you favor it? I do. But I could respect an argument that says you don't. Yeah. So Tony Blinken and Biden, I'm not going to give them a hard time for acting as though we don't have a plan or speaking only generically about it like it's some kind of weak plan. Because I imagine a real plan would look like this: tell the Americans to get to this specific place where the Taliban doesn't have any surveillance or air coverage and we'll drop some helicopters in there and we'll take you home. So it seems to me like they would have to keep secret from the Taliban and the rest of the world some of their plans. Because some of it is going to be stuff the Taliban doesn't know we're doing, right