EARHARDT: “Let’s talk about the Defense Department’s annual report, because it is saying that Biden’s fumbled withdrawal from Afghanistan was a propaganda gift to China. Do you agree with that?”

KIRBY: “No, I do not. And I don’t know that that’s the Pentagon’s assessment that it was a propaganda gift to China. If anything, nations like China and Russia took a look at what we did in Afghanistan. And we’ve talked about this many, many times over the last year, and had to marvel at the speed, the efficiency and effectiveness that a very small —“

KILMEADE: “Oh, please!”

KIRBY: “— number — a very small number of troops — Brian, you listen to me now, hear me out — that a small number of troops were able to move that many Afghans safely out of that country. No other nation in the world can do that.”

[They marvel at it, all right … but not the way Kirby wants us to believe. — Ed]