{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=B30539A3-0FC6-474F-95F4-275DA4090ADC", "Graham on One-Year Anniversary of Afghanistan Withdrawal", "2022-08-16", "2022", "2022-08", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Lindsey Graham", "G000359", "www.lgraham.senate.gov", "graham", "https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today joined America\u2019s Newsroom to discuss the one-year anniversary of the Biden Administration\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cThe likelihood of another attack on American soil and on American allies emanating from Afghanistan because of what Biden did is through the roof. We haven't ended any war at all \u2013 we started a new one.\u201d https://youtu.be/v8ctg0MVUdE?t=39\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cAl-Qaeda training camps are emerging in Afghanistan as I speak\u2026We're repeating history and it was all avoidable.\u201d https://youtu.be/v8ctg0MVUdE?t=123\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cIt was Biden's decision to pull the plug on Afghanistan against sound military advice. There were conditions in place for our withdrawal. The Taliban were not meeting those conditions. This was a political decision by Biden.\u201d https://youtu.be/v8ctg0MVUdE?t=97\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cYou\u2019ve got ISIS fighting al-Qaeda, and al-Qaeda is aligned with the Taliban. What do these three groups have in common? They\u2019re radical Islamists. What have we learned in the last year? If you're a woman in a radical Islamic country, your life is miserable. We're teaching a new generation of young boys to disrespect women. They're starving to death because radical Islamists couldn't run a one car funeral. The conditions in Afghanistan are deplorable. Everything we worked for the last 20 years was wasted, and the training camps that existed before 9/11 are being re-established.\u201d https://youtu.be/v8ctg0MVUdE?t=200\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of time before terrorism in Afghanistan migrates to America and the likely path would be a broken southern border.\u201d https://youtu.be/v8ctg0MVUdE?t=234\n\nWatch Full Interview Here\n\n#####", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:26:22Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=B30539A3-0FC6-474F-95F4-275DA4090ADC"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2038927525281906, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}