ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today joined CBS This Morning to highlight Maryland’s continued response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor also discussed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Maryland’s commitment to resettling Afghan interpreters who aided America’s efforts abroad.
On Special Immigrant Visas:
“These are our allies that worked side-by-side with us, in some cases for 20 years, and we made a commitment to them. We’ve got to get all of our Americans out of there and our allies as well…We want to continue to try to help them relocate because we owe it to them. We made a commitment. We can’t let them down.”
On the handling of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan:
“I think it was a mistake from the decision making, from the intelligence, from the execution, and from the communications standpoint. The White House seems to be trying to grapple with it, but it’s done about the opposite of any way you should do it.
“First of all, we shouldn’t have given up Bagram Air Base. We shouldn’t have telegraphed exactly what we were doing to the Taliban, we shouldn’t have made an agreement with them that allowed for a lot of this to happen, and we should’ve made sure we get our people out of there before we pull out all of our troops.”
On other states blocking mask mandates:
“Not only are they against it, but they’re mandating against it. They’re Republican governors who are saying they’re all about freedom, and yet they’re taking away the freedom of local school systems and in some cases businesses to make those decisions for themselves.
“We’ve tried to find the right balance, we’ve been encouraging mask usage. We left it up to the duly elected school boards in our state—that’s who has the power to make those decisions. About two-thirds of our school systems voted to wear masks, others decided not to. But to mandate that they have to or mandate that they cannot doesn’t make sense to me.
“I think it’s a basic conservative Republican principle to let local decision makers make decisions.”
We need more Uber drivers and 7-11 workers. Thanks Larry you POS!!
Dammit Bob – you and your reality speak.
You are absolutely spot on!
Libtarded larry at it again..jumping right on the libtard wagon so willing to bend md tax payers over the barrel again..who paying for this larry..are you going to reemburse the money you stole for the test kits..how about allowing us the right to carry, with the coming influx of luciferian terrorists, how about lowering my tax burden..gas food etc sky high you MORON…giving us school vouchers and start acting like a republican..you know things you can do for the real MD citizens and tax payers.
Believe me you will never get another term in any office..you will be joining omally on the marxist soup line
Larry using the moment for political gain/visibility. Stop it Larry, 1600 Penn Ave won’t happen. Maybe a politico appt, but not 1600 Penn Ave. The $9M waste of a vaccine from S. Korea will be your legacy.
Retire or start paying Marylanders back that $9M!
Got an idea- get the donor list of Salisbury University’s public radio station . They all voted for Biden, let them host the refugees.
That’s not true! I work there. Jason Rhodes (SU Communications)
What about Marylands commitment to its citizens? Hogan and the rest of Maryland’s govt. spends more time and money on illegals, criminals, drug addicts and now Afghan citizens. What about those of us tax payers who continually get the shaft?
Sure lets bring in more luciferians
Christianity is the religion where God sends his own son to die for your. Islam is the religion where Allah to die for him. Jesus said love your enemies. Muhammad said murder your enemies with a bloody sword. When Jesus was mocked, ridiculed and tortured, he turned the other cheek, and endured it in silence. “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth. When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead he entrusted himself to him who judges justly” (1 Peter 2:22, 23). When Muhammad was so much as questioned, he ordered their immediate murder
You should CONTINUE Stimulus for MARYLANDERS Before paying for Foreigners !!!!
I’ve got a better idea – wherever dingbat Larry lives, so should everyone he wants to bring to Maryland, under the same roof. They can all enjoy each others company.
Americans in OUR Maryland don’t want them or RINO HOGAN & he don’t speak for us !!!!
America is FULL !!!!
Put them all up at the governors mansion.
Send them to Pelosi !!!!
America is FULL !!!! Taking NO More !!!