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AP News Radio
Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport
"The Islamic State militant behind a 2021 deadly bombing of the Kabul airport has been killed by the Taliban. I Norman hall. U.S. officials say a ground is sold by the Taliban killed the Islamic State militant whose spearheaded the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. troops at about 170 Afghans dead during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Initially neither the U.S. nor apparently the Taliban were aware that the mastermind who was not identified was dead. He was killed during a series of battles early this month in southern Afghanistan between the Taliban and the Islamic State groups affiliate, Islamic State khorasan, is the Taliban's most bitter enemy in top military threat. I Norman hall
The Doug Collins Podcast
The Oakland A's Are Moving to Las Vegas
"Big thing is we're in sort of this baseball mode a little bit. The Oakland a's, first and foremost, can't play baseball. That's a big one. Yeah, they've won three games. I think 8 to 9 games out. We're not even two weeks into the season good. I mean, they're starting as horrendous. I mean, everything's bad. But now they have bought, it looks like land in a shocking shocking Las Vegas. They paid they're getting ready to build a agreement is for 49 acres on the side owned by red rocks resort. The parent company of station casinos, they told the Las Vegas journal of 1.5 million 35 seats stadium, 35,000 he stated with a parcel tried to roof will be built on the side, adding the other developers, including restaurants and amphitheaters are being discussed. The a's warrant with Nevada and Clark county on public private partnership to find the stadium, Kabul says the a's hope to break ground by next year and hope to be moved into their new home by 2027. The Las Vegas Raiders now are going to have the Las Vegas a's. It appears. Or whatever they're going to call them because that's a terrible name. You know? It's a shame because I think if you want to watch good as baseball just put on the movie Moneyball, that's about as good as it gets. Oh yeah. And of course when they had the bash brothers and all the steroids and all the fun stuff. But honestly, we need to talk about the fact that Oakland just has absolutely nothing left. Oakland had the Raiders which were there like everything. They go to Vegas. And the a's are their second everything. Yes, they have the warriors, but the warriors are now in officially in San Francisco.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Nigel Farage on France's Strengthening Relationship With China
"Really want to dive into though an element of this. Macron and G that are creating this new cozy relationship. You know, if you talk to the neoliberals that run the American regime, one of the arguments they'll make is that look, we need to do this war in Ukraine. We need to keep on pumping money because we have to keep our European partners close to our interests. It's a bad argument, but on the surface it seems if it makes sense. However, that's not even true. We're now seeing France. No. We're now seeing France, which is supposed to be one of our closest allies that is supposed to be in alignment with all these neoliberal ideas, cozy up to the CCP. Tell us about it. I think historically, the American link with some European countries has been a very, very important bulwark for democracy. Against both fascism and communism. But it's never been true, of course, of all European countries. Macron's visit to Beijing was totally astonishing. Rather than saying, do not do not one moment consider territorial ambitions with Taiwan, what macro basically said is, look, you know what? You invade Taiwan. We're effectively going to do nothing. And that casts massive doubt on French membership of NATO, quite frankly. I mean, because if we don't have any commonality of goals, then frankly, what's the future of it? So you've got a fracturing going on at two levels. One, the military structure that's been there since the late 1940s of naysayers now has one of its major players taking a very different policy position to that that we've taken a new take and over China and Taiwan. So that's going on and at the same time, you've got America's role as a global leader cast into serious doubt, not just I would emphasize because of Chinese diplomatic activity important though that is. But also, also, you know, after Afghanistan, after the fall of Kabul, after giving the Taliban $85 billion worth of top class American military equipment, there is also a question about can we trust America?
AP News Radio
Biden review of chaotic Afghan withdrawal blames Trump
"The Biden administration has released a summary of its report on the deadly 2021 Afghanistan pull out and is laying the blame on the president's predecessor. In a review of what went wrong as U.S. forces ended the nation's longest war, the administration takes little responsibility for its own actions, saying President Biden was constrained by Donald Trump's moves to slash the U.S. troop presence and cut a deal with the Taliban. Decisions made and the lack of planning done by the previous administration, significantly limited options available to him. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the report does note overly optimistic intelligence community assessments about Afghan forces. Clearly, we didn't get things right here with Afghanistan. The images of disorder at Kabul's airport remain fresh, Afghan families falling off U.S. planes during the evacuation and the devastation after a suicide bombing that killed 13 American troops, Kirby, who was The Pentagon spokesman at the time, pushed back against White House reporters, describing it as chaotic. For all this talk of chaos, I just didn't see it. Not from my perch. Saga or Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
House GOP to subpoena Blinken over Afghanistan dissent cable
"House Republicans plan to subpoena Secretary of State Antony Blinken over an Afghan descent cable. I Norman hall, GOP House members plan to deliver subpoena to secretary state Antony Blinken for classified cables related to the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the so called descent cable was written by diplomats at the U.S. embassy in Kabul shortly before the August 2021 withdrawal, foreign affairs committee chairman Mike McCall of Texas as blinken told him on Monday he would not be handing over the document or his response to it, according to a letter seen by the AP the State Department had said it would release the substance of the cable, Norman hall, Washington
AP News Radio
Suicide bomber kills 6 people near foreign ministry in Kabul
"A suicide bomber has struck near the foreign ministry in Kabul, killing at least 6 people and wounding several others. People clear up a broken glass in the attack aftermath. While eyewitness Omar ansari tells the AP a lot of people were wounded and martyred, the casualties, ambulances arrived and carried them to 400 beds and to security forces hospitals. Stefano Souza, the emergency non governmental organization country director, says among the injured who all male is a child. Once again, he says, we're reminded that although the war has ended, we continue to treat victims of violence. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, but the regional affiliate of the Islamic State group has increased attacks since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in mid August 2021. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Taliban want control of more Afghan diplomatic missions
"The Taliban say they're trying to take charge of more Afghan embassies abroad despite their international isolation because of their restrictions on women and girls, in a video the government's main spokesperson said they had sent diplomats to at least 14 countries to take charge of other diplomatic missions abroad, the UN and foreign governments have been extremely critical of the Taliban's treatment of female education and employment as a result the international community in general remains wary of officially recognizing the Taliban in Kabul, tenth grade students had awards, told the AP she has few prospects under the Taliban's rule. We're living with an uncertain future women's futures are wasted because they can not study and go to school, despite the disapproval to Taliban policies on women and girls, some countries retain an active diplomatic mission in Afghanistan, including Pakistan, turkey, Qatar, and China. I'm Karen Chammas
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
New Intel on Biden's Disgraceful Withdrawal From Afghanistan
"There is a telling new piece of information concerning Biden's disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan from Kabul. And this, if anything puts to Biden people in an even more deplorable light. In fact, it doesn't make the U.S. Military look very good either. Now a little bit of background just to refresh your memory in July 2021, Joe Biden abandons Afghanistan. He does it by abandoning the Afghan Bagram airfield in the middle of the night. I mean, essentially they just turn the lights out and took off, they didn't even tell the Afghan commander who only found out about the departure two hours after it happened. As we know, the United States left behind all kinds of military equipment, to humvees, uniforms, rations, even all kinds of sports drinks. For the Taliban terrorists who were just downright delighted to find this huge stash of weapons gifted to them. Worth tens of millions of actually perhaps billions. I'm not sure. I don't remember the number now. Now, the Taliban takes over the background air force which by the way is about 30 miles north of Kabul. And if you'll remember, there was an ISIS suicide bomber who murdered 13 U.S. servicemen and women, 6 and a 169 Afghans as well. And this guy was one of the guys at the Taliban released from a prison at the Bagram base. So by abandoning Bagram, we turn it over to the Taliban, they release the guy who turns out to be the suicide bomber. His name is Abdul Rahman. And he sets off this explosive that causes all this carnage. Now our story picks up right here and involves a sergeant, his name is Tyler Vargas Andrews, U.S. Marine Corps sniper, and he was serving in Afghanistan at bad time. Turns out that he spotted the suicide bomber. He recognized that this guy was about to do something bad. He might not have known how many explosives the guy has on him, but he recognized him, he stood out and he requested authority from the U.S. Military to shoot. This is where things take a very bad turn. He says, I requested engagement authority while my team leader was ready. The response, leadership does not have the engagement authority for us. Do not engage.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
State Sen. Anthony Kern: Waging Against Washington Elementary District
"You've heard this story and we played your remarks just a few moments ago when you first heard about this, what was your initial reaction? Well, when I first heard about this, it's like, okay, the fight is on. You're not going to you're not going to negate a contract that you've had for anywhere from 5 to 11 years with a great university that's in my district. Washington elementary school is also in my district. And Arizona already has the shortage of teachers. It's discrimination plain and simple. And this school board is breaking the law. What's been the reaction from your constituents? I have gotten so much positive. I've had principles reach out to me in the district. I was talking to a couple of teachers this morning, I was talking to teachers yesterday. I mean, the outpouring of support and the outpouring of people wanting to see a leader stand up and fight for not only our constitutional rights, but for Christine and Christianity in and of itself. It's very fashionable to beat up on Christians and we've had enough. And so the outpouring has been absolute 100% positive. Now, if I was to go on my Twitter feed, it's probably 50 50, but when people have messaged me and called me and called my office here at the state Senate, they have been overwhelmingly positive. This
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Rep. Andy Biggs: Tucker Carlson Is Doing the Right Thing With J6 Tapes
"I'm curious to get your take on Tucker Carlson. Here's a guy coming under attack, he released unedited video footage. Meanwhile, you've got the J 6 committee they had a professional filmmaker to produce some sort of a made for TV special. And yet it's Tucker who's producing the unadulterated unfiltered videos that's catching all the flak. Tucker's right on the money here. He's doing the right thing. You're going to he's going to be attacked. And we knew he'd be attacked when I saw that Kevin was going to give him the video. Why? Because what I knew that when the video came out, it would start undercutting the left wing narrative that has been there for two years. And there are apoplectic. They want control of the American populace. And when you lose the narrative here, they're going to lose the control. And everybody's going to know, hey, they were lying to us. They were lying to us on everything from COVID to January 6th. And all of this is being revealed to the American people. All right about the same time, which is kind of sensory overload, but it's important to get the message out. I
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Rep. Andy Biggs: A 'Good Idea' to Release J6 Videos to the Public
"Congressman, we've got a lot to go through here and I want to start with these J 6 tapes. First of all, the latest news Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House in an interview with bright part a few moments ago, said that he doesn't anticipate releasing these tapes to the general public. Do you think that's a good idea? Yes, I do. I really do. I've been trying to get in to see the tapes myself, as well as transcripts of depositions that were taken by the J 6 committee. And I've had trouble, even though we now control the particular committee that has jurisdiction over that. But just think what would happen if the American people could see 40,000 hours. They would see what I have seen and having been in the House floor during the riot. I can tell you, I know that there were people that were attacking the police officers and writing. But at the same time, there were a lot of people who were peaceful and they trespassed. They weren't supposed to be in. We need to know everybody's role. We also suspect that there were a number of federal agents amongst the crowd. And the feds won't tell us who or how many there were and what their mission was. So there's a lot going on, and I think releasing the video to the public would be good.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: U.S. Supported Afghan Terrorists by Leaving Equipment Behind
"Like to say yes, I absolutely feel that the Biden administration has completely abandoned and did completely abandon our military before the bombing went off when they had the means to take care of business. But it also like to touch on the implications of not only financial, but the support implications to terrorism that was had when we abandoned all the equipment on the field there. And to top that off, as we walked out, the Chinese marched in to start harvesting the lithium in that country, which are the largest deposits in the world. So now they're going to control the battery market for electric cars. It's just office rails. This whole world. The whole thing is nuts and roger the billions of dollars of military equipment that we left behind in Afghanistan. You better believe those are in the hands of some very bad people right now. They sure are. And Todd, I mean, it's treasonous what was done. Our own government just turning inside out, rolling up the red carpet for the terrorists and getting rid of our money without any approval, getting rid of our equipment without any approval. These guys need to be held accountable. They do. And I hope the Republicans can do that in the house. You know, it's not going to go anywhere in the Senate, but at least we're able to hear their stories and I don't know about you, roger, just listening to that young man who gave up so much of his life. It's awful. It's awful. My heart bleeds for him and my heart bleeds for America.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Lt. Col. David Scott Mann: 73% of Afghan War Veterans Feel Betrayed
"Colonel David Scott Mann, and he's weighing in on what happened in Afghanistan. This whole thing has been a gutting experience. I never imagined I would witness the kind of gross abandonment. Followed by a career preserving silence of senior leaders military and civilian. As a result of the way that we've left Afghanistan, we're on the front end of a national security crisis as 27 violent extremist groups are now operating on former NATO security bases with Taliban top cover. And I think we're on the front end of a mental health tsunami. As 73% of our Afghan war veterans say they feel betrayed by how this war ended. Calls to the VA hotline have spiked 81% in the first year since the Afghan withdrawal. And they keep coming. And
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews Testifies on Afghanistan Evacuation
"Going to hear him testify that he was given orders to stand down. They were they would have had the opportunity to take out the suicide bomber, but they were ordered by Biden's Pentagon to stand down. Let's take a listen to the testimony of sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews. Over the communication network we passed that there was a potential threat in an idea attack imminent. This was a series that could get a requested engagement authority while my team leader was ready on the M1 ten. Some automatic sniper system. The response leadership did not have the engagement authority for us. Do not engage. I requested for the battal commander, lieutenant colonel Brad white, to come to the tower to see what we did. While we waited for him, psychological operations individuals came to our tower immediately and confirmed the suspect met the suicide bomber description. He eventually arrived and we showed him our evidence. The photos we had of the two men. We reassured him of the ease of fire on the suicide bomber. Pointedly, we asked him for engagement authority and permission, we asked him if we could shoot. Our battal commander said, and I quote, I don't know, end quote. Myself and my team leader asked very harshly. Well, who does? Because this is your responsibility, sir. He can reply, he did not know, but would find out. We received no update and never got our answer. Eventually, the individual disappeared to this day, we believe he was a suicide bomber. We made everyone on the ground aware operations had briefly halted, but then started again, plain and simple. We were ignored. Our expertise was disregarded, no one was held accountable for our safety. About 1730 staff sergeant Darren Hoover, friend and mentor, came to get me from the tower to go help find an Afghan interpreter in the crowd. We found the interpreter and his brother, born with American passports. They told us 5 told us of 5 family members still in the canal. I stayed there waiting for the family members standing against a two foot canal wall, ten minutes passed. Then a flash in a massive way to pressure, I'm throwing 12 feet onto the ground, but instantly knew what had happened. I opened my eyes to marines dead or unconscious lying around me. A crowd of hundreds immediately vanished in front of me and my body was catastrophically wounded with a 150 ball bearings. Now in it. Almost immediately we started taking fire from the neighborhood and I saw how injured I was with my right arm, completely shredded, and unusable. I saw my lower
AP News Radio
Veterans testify of 'catastrophic' impact of Afghan collapse
"A house panel has heard firsthand testimony from active service members and veterans on the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. I'm Ben Thomas, with some of what they had to say. For millions of people in Afghanistan and the U.S. Aiden Gunderson served as an army medic during the evacuation, he says he's plagued by the memories. I see the faces of all the people we can not save all those that we left behind. The majority of witnesses argued blamed for the fall of Kabul touches every presidential administration from George W. Bush to Joe Biden, retired green beret, lieutenant colonel David Scott Mann. America is building a nasty reputation from multi generational systemic abandonment of our allies that we leave as smoldering human wreckage from the montagnards of Vietnam to the Kurds in Syria. Testimony focused not on the decision to withdraw, but on what witnesses described as a desperate attempt to rescue American citizens in Afghan allies with little planning and inadequate support. Tyler Vargas Andrews then a marine sergeant detailed the horror after suicide bombers attacked the crowds at Kabul airport. He now wears a prosthetic arm to withdraw was a catastrophe in my opinion. And there was an inexcusable lack of accountability and negligence and they implored Congress to help the allies left behind. Peter lucier is a marine veteran, now working with team America relief assisting Afghans in relocating. It's not too late. We're going to talk a lot today about all of the mistakes that were made leading up to that. But urgent action right now will save so many lives Ben Thomas, Washington.
AP News Radio
World marks Women's Day but abuses, inequality still rampant
"There are demonstrations rallies and events around the globe today to mark international women's day. It's a day established to celebrate and demand equality for half the planet's population, but it's a long road ahead for countries such as Afghanistan, which has become the most repressive for women and girls since the Taliban take over in 2021. Hafiza is a former Kabul university law student. The worst situation is when your dreams are shuttered, and you are punished for being a woman. Islam had not banned women from their right to education. Our beloved prophet's wife was a businesswoman, while she was the wife of our beloved prophet. But we are not even allowed to study and get educated. 18 year old shahida was in the tenth grade when the Taliban took over, now she works in a yarn factory. Women don't have any rights in Afghanistan. Schools are closed, educational centers are closed, and all other options for women are closed. We just demand from the government to reopen schools and educational centers for us, and give us our rights. But there have been major advances. In Spain, the country on Tuesday passed a law requiring that women make up at least 40% of boards of directors for larger companies, the same will apply to Spain's cabinet, on Monday, United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres noted that women's rights are being abused, threatened and violated around the world, and gender equality won't be achieved for 300 years on the current track. He says progress won over decades is vanishing because he says the patriarchy is fighting back. I'm Donna water
AP News Radio
Afghan men, women, children chase rumor to Kabul airport
"Dozens of Afghans have rushed to Kabul airport, following a rumor that an airlift operation was flying people to turkey to help on the deadly earthquake. The dash, which included women and children, was captured on videos and photos posted on social media. The footage and images showing dozens of views and families running in the darkness and cold toward the airport, Kabul police say there were no such a flight to turkey and that the situation has returned to normal at the airport. The scene harked back to August 2021, when thousands of desperate people stormed the airport for the airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover in the last weeks of U.S. and NATO troops withdrawal from the country. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Eric Metaxas Show
Doug Sits Down With Award-Winning Investigative Reporter Sara Carter
"So how often do you stay in the event of orders there? Because I say you down there all the time. How much do you think you're staying down there right now? A good percentage of my life has been at the border. I feel like I'm more I'm more familiar with the border and Kabul than my own house right now. Are you saying that? I just got back in off the road. I literally, you know, because we were getting this done, I was so glad to get to you and I were going to be able to talk. And I was flying and I was in New York, then went to D.C. and then got back and I had the actual beauty last weekend and air force. And so I'm just getting back home like 30 minutes ago and it's like, okay, is there something about Sarah just walking back into your house and you look around and it's like yes, like a big sense of relief and I'm always, you know, especially because our youngest is ten, so we have the older kids, right? Who are all okay? We don't need to be around and the youngest one is the one that I feel worse for whenever I'm gone. And so I'm on the phone with her every night or FaceTiming. And then when I'm home, I'm home, so I am blessed that I'm not going to complain. It's first world problems, but when I'm home, I'm home and I get to take her to school and do all the mommy stuff, but I do feel bad sometimes, but she knows and I've taken her on trips with me and let me tell you this. This will be funny. Now, you're gonna laugh at this. So when I took her, it was like over a year ago or when cpac came back, right? Remember when it was in Dallas? I took her with me there because I was speaking. And she hung out with other kids and she was out on her own with the other kids while I was getting ready to go up in speak and I was so busy running back and forth and then I thought, okay, president Trump's going to speak, let's all get together and go around and see him speak and we were sitting kind of towards the front. And my daughter is ten, she looks up at me and at that time, she was 9. She looks up at me and she goes, oh, I already met him. He and I already talked. And I was like, I spoke here and I didn't even get a chance to say hello to him. She goes, oh yeah, he was walking towards the back and I said, mister president, my name is Anna lease.
Front Burner
"kabul" Discussed on Front Burner
"How you have traveled around afghanistan for many years as a journalist and how familiar to you was what you saw and heard at the home today that the home of this family completely familiar completely familiar but what was shocking about. It was that this took place in the city of kabul. You know. I got there this morning around nine. Maybe and there was all these people standing outside and they were so one of them came up to me and he got mad. The what's wrong with you journalists and he said because you came here you saw what happened and you still said that they were terrorists initially after the bombing you know were saying that they were terrorists. I guess for lack of better one positive point of of this was that it took place in the middle of the city of kabul so all of these journalists and all these media outlets could come and see for themselves so often. When these things happen it happens in villages in the night. So many provinces have been plagued by this by these airstrikes in these drone strikes for for the last twenty years but they happen overnight in a remote part of a province that you know a lot of people can't go to and so by the time even if journalists are rights workers or any kind of investigators went by.
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
"kabul" Discussed on AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
"Jason. You kind of mentioned that not necessarily the brightest of ideas and you got some pushback on that saying well. It was a risk that they were willing to take and they calculated the risk and leave it at bath. I'm with you. I think i don't think that was necessarily the best way to get to where they got given the situation. But i can see the other side of the argument mostly. Yeah i definitely. I'm not going to be convinced. But i can see the other side's argument that it was fine that they were in contact with. What was pakistani air traffic control. They're not going to proactively. Give them any traffic alerts. Are anything like that. But they were in contact with them and if something really did go wrong they could divert out of afghanistan. Same time why it wouldn't add Amount of flight time to go around afghanistan through pakistan. They already had overflight permit since they went through pakistan to get to afghanistan and it just seemed like in unnecessary kind of risk. Because the last thing you need is some forty two year old seven to seven landing in kabul with an emergency clogging up the runway as evacuations are in high-gear like nobody needs that and there's no emergency services. They're assuming or if there is they're extremely minimal so it may not have been a great risk to the aircraft but it presented in in my is an unacceptable risk to the operation in kabul Need to happen. But i suspect there's more going on to that fight than we truly will ever actually know given the coincidence with the global crossing aircrafts. I mean if you know more podcasts. At two four dot com we would love to know yes. Send us a nicely redacted he met with redacted email the best kind of email yes. And let's see just that a curiosity what's going on now. They're even right now as we record this a ton going on. It looks like Down to satellite-tracking tracking on the ground in kabul which ab means the one of the receivers is down but there's a us air force c. One thirty a turkish air force a four hundred m the camera. A three forty three hundred is around a royal air force a four hundred m a casey thirty-five circles overhead. Another royal air foresees seventeen is inbound from the south end is with another royal air force. C. one thirty and it's just a constant stream of these military is some cases commercial aircraft in and out in and out pretty much twenty four seven at this. Yeah it's a massive operation and on a future episode. Podcast were hoping to have someone on who has been helping. Coordinate these things obviously there a bit busy at the moment and were unable to join us this week but hopefully in the future will soon be able to have someone on to talk about the coordination. That's gone on behind the scenes to make this all happen. Yeah hopefully it's not just one heavily redacted. The beeping sound yeah. I think it'll be a bit better than that. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and besides everything that's happening afghanistan. There's a lot going on in the world of aviation so we'll come back in just a second and talk about.
The Daily
"kabul" Discussed on The Daily
"Anyone who's still here is going to have to stay here. And they will have to face. The new reality of the taliban government and hopefully civilian flights resumed the airport. Hopefully they'll be able to get out in. You know kind of regular fashion with visas but the fact is we don't really know what's going to happen. It very much feels like the end of the twenty year. Us operation in afghanistan has been a series of competing images images like children and families flooding onto the tarmac and clinging to c. Seventeen plane some of them. Being ultimately killed in the process and scenes like tens of thousands of people being very efficiently airlifted out of kabul. By by the united states incentive military bases to eventually be resettled of images comes the carnage of this suicide bomb. And so i wonder how you're thinking about this. As a final image of the us operation he seems like a distillation of all the hatred and fear and violence of the past twenty years and it's ending our presence here on note that reflects just the the violence and the degradation of war. The kind of hopeless cul-de-sac that we found ourselves in evacuation It's just a coda to tragedy in. It feels so inevitable and so horrible and in many ways..
The Daily
"kabul" Discussed on The Daily
"Your day. How did your day start in kabul. will this morning. I went to meet up with interpreter. That i've been following in touch. With how are you. He's someone who worked for the united states. He were the special forces and had one of these cases was hoping to be evacuated to go to america because he's afraid it actually fled kandahar before the fall of kabul fearing for his life and since then has been trying the airport basically every day without success long. Has it been since you sell your family. How many days almost no good two months. He told me today that he was bringing his family for from canada har- his wife and children. And that they were gonna make one final attempt at the airport in the closing days of the evacuation And so we sat and talked and then his family came from canada. Hara was an emotional moment for him. They were afraid obviously because they'd been seeing the news of the horrible situation the airport but they were determined try. It really wanted to go. Oh so you saw. You saw the entire family kind of reunite there. Yeah i saw them roll up in a taxi and he was obviously emotional so after they'd come and i had met them i cons left them at the place. They were staying and they told me that they are planning to try the airport that afternoon. Only one aggregate. They said they were playing. Try aggregate And when you say aggregate that's a particular point of entry into the airport in kabul exactly. There's several points of entry that are controlled by different groups. Somebody the taliban by marines and buy back alicia and people are just of trying different gates on different days depending on what they've heard whether they can get through so at. What point in the day. Matt did you find out that something had happened at the airport sometime after five o'clock and i was sitting at my desk my room with a window open. And i heard this kind of pop and you know when you've been living in a place that kabul for awhile. You become attuned certain noises. I mean my house is more than two miles away from the airport but still something about maybe notice it. And then i had dinner plans that night with a with the mayor of kabul and he called say that he had to cancel. Because something's going on. And then. I got a message from someone else. Another interpreters saying there had been a complex attack which is like a combination of a suicide bombing in gunfight at abbey gate That same gate that the family said they were headed towards exactly so all you knew at this point is that something very serious has happened at the hamid karzai international airport at applegate. Yeah and you know this has been something that we've been dreading now for for days. There have been reports that isis was going to try to do a suicide attack against the airport. Right so it was immediately. You know the first thing sprang to mind. This is finally happening. So i came downstairs and call them a housemate. Jim hoyle brooke photographer times. Like hey jim. Are you hearing this in his again. This attack of the airport. Yeah so do you wanna go check it out. Yeah so we jumped on my motorcycle which is usually how we get around with. These things are happening because it's much easier to get through traffic and we started riding toward the airport. And you know it's a route. We know quite well because we've been going there lot. Can these past days and as we got closer we could tell was up. What do you mean you could just see the way that people kinda gathering clusters inside the street talking. The traffic was kind of empty. And as we got close to the game because the the taliban were very agitated they were kind of beating people to clear them out of the roundabout and we drove straight into it and several journalists and they actually let us through so we got through the first checkpoint and kept driving and then we're driving along the airport now. We could hear the sound of gunfire from inside and sirens. There's an ambulance came up behind us. We let the ambiance go ahead and and then we want to go through this next checkpoint but the taliban guard there is saying no. You can't go any further so we just stayed there. I started talking to people who are coming now out of the site. And what do the people around you say had just happened. They said that there have been a bomber. There have been a suicide bomber in the crowd on that a lot of people have been killed but some foreign soldiers have been killed. A lot of civilians have been killed now. The area that we're at this is. This is where there was a canal. People are waiting through and they said there was now bodies in the canal. Thing about these airport gates is that they designed basically to prevent car bombs and they have these really high concrete walls narrow lanes and when you have crowds trying to get through them which is not whether designed for the become his death deathtraps with at funnel people in and leave no avenue for escape so even just like given the normal crowds that have been happening at the airport of last week or so. You've had people trampled to death and suffocating so to have a suicide bomber go off in the middle of this like intense crowd of people Is just and as best. You could piece together. Why this location. I think the bombers wanted to get as close as they good to foreign soldiers in this is one of the places where afghans r- actually getting out and having their documents looked at by americans Just kind of the way it works is like you spend the whole day just fighting in the queue and pushing your way the front and then you have a few seconds to show you know whatever it is that you have to soldiers in in the hopes that they'll let you through and i mean that's the tension that right now is that on the one hand you have like tens of thousands of people just hoping the airport many of them don't really qualify for evacuation. Just anybody who thinks a chance to go to the west but on the other hand is incredible pressure to get the right people out to get citizens to get green card holders to get afghans out within a few days remaining right so as a result. I think you had this perfect recipe for disaster. Where you had mobs meeting. Foreign soldiers have close. And what do you do next will at this point. We're like well we with dangerous day here because there's always the risk for like a secondary attack ray and we can't get any closer so.
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The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
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"As we've been discussing tonight. The president repeatedly insisting he's got to stick to this thirty. One august evacuation timeline deadline because of the threat posed by isis k. That's this terrorist. Group said that today claimed responsibility for this attack in kabul that has killed over a dozen. Us servicemembers nbc news. Chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea. Mitchell has our report tonight on this group in their motivations have been warning for days about the threat from isis k. Culminating in a red alert last night for americans to stay away from the airport gates a warning that all too true today. What is isis k. Off-shoot in afghanistan of the islamic state that originated in iraq created six years ago in pakistan an avowed enemy of the us and rival to the taliban is extremely real. We've been talking about. This is manifest here last few hours. Thousands of hardcore islamic state commanders were released from jails across afghanistan by the taliban in recent weeks since the taliban takeover easily melting into the teeming masses in kabul only yesterday the secretary of state warned it was a high risk threat were operating hostile environment in the city and country now controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis attack. And i says kay isn't the only terror threat. The taliban is name the leader of its most radical branch. The connie never to be in charge of security in kabul khalil. Connie a five million dollar bounty on his head. Brazenly showing up at friday prayers in kabul last week and the connie's have strong ties to al qaeda also in the mix. What's clear is that the taliban either couldn't defend against today's bombings or won't now the question is. How will the president deliver the forceful response. He's promised after the us withdraws
The Young Turks
"kabul" Discussed on The Young Turks
"A congressional delegation. That was trying to do the same thing. They luckily got turned back. This is okay. So i can't stand photo ops and so this a glorified by the way. They applies to everybody. So fred thompson. was a former actor and senator from tennessee and he used to drive up To campaign and went in his limo and get into a red beat up pickup truck and go around. The press. never told anybody that he actually came in lil they would do the photo op with with the red pickup truck and by the way both the left and the right win they go to the border and they just look at the border like. Oh this is the border now. I know yeah. I already know. I don't need to go and look at a piece of dirt and go. This is the border right. It's just a photo op. And then when they go to war zones is the biggest photo op of all. I mean mccain lindsey graham joe lieberman. They love that crap. They'd always go to the struggling break. Everybody gets to write the perimeter girl lockdown. Who don't want any. They probably cost people's lives trying to do extra protection and security for them. And and like what myers says here. We need to see with our own eyes. What are you seeing with your own eyes. Are you walking around kabul. Don't be absurd. What are you seeing with your own eyes. No you're going to be any and by the way reporting is that they largely stayed inside the building which is good. They should say inside the building. What did you see inside the building except for molten claiming that he went outside like a superhero pulled people through the gates right. It's just it's politicians being at their cheesiest and then finally molten. There's one good piece of news here. Because molten in the last couple of decades would've been a classic establishment democrat and this cheesiness woulda worked so they love veterans who are pro business and take endless corporate cash and that's south molton so like if he ran in the one thousand nine hundred ninety two thousands for president which by the way. You probably don't remember. But he ran for president. Twenty twenty okay. If he'd run a two decades before that or just a decade before that he would have been celebrate south. Molton who knows who's been to war zones. He's taking pictures there and he'll give business interests anything they want. This great south molton is but now that stuff is so outdated you have to be more sophisticated be a bit smoother liar like buddha jr right and so when multi ran for president you know what he got in every poll zero percent now remember that. The margin of error is about three percent of normal poll. So there's some chance molten might have been pulling it negative three percent. That's how unpopular he is so. Please spare me your opinion. Ps i know there is no such thing as data three percent. You get it all right. We gotta take a break when we come back we'll Move off foreign policy for bid and talk about How rhonda santa's thinks that the administration can learn a thing or two from his leadership his leadership he claims on kovic nineteen. Come right back. Jiang it with you guys. We have normal bonus. Oh for members tonight as we always do but Next week we're going to have asked me anything So if you remember at producer or higher level to your three or four You had to ask any question. You wants to go to the community tab and make sure that you participate in that because that's one of the privileges that you have the join button below isn't just for joining it's also for upgrades. So you could upgrade to that level to ask questions so hit that button below the youtube video when if you're watching this live thank you or caspar. As the state of florida continues to be one giant hot spot for corona virus the governor of the state rhonda santa's has decided to claim that president joe biden could really learn a thing or two from his wonderful leadership in responding to the pandemic. Let's hear what he had to say. You're just now the new enemy of the state president biden's going after you harder than the. How were you governor. Ron disentis prepared to handle. That won't be standing up against his failed policies at the border his field. He said he was going to end. Cova did he hasn't done that We are the first state to start the treatment centers for monoclonal. Antibodies having great success with that. That should have been a bigger plan. Bigger part of this whole response throughout the country from the beginning but at the end of the day. I think he's trying to find a to distract from the failures of his presidency and so he thinks that he can attack florida sometimes the attacks texas because we're republican states. Now it's incredible. I mean florida currently is number one in the country in terms of corona virus related hospitalizations and rhonda santa's the governor of that state looks at that situation and he's like great success. He's borat borat. Is the governor. Florida complete and utter moron. Why don't we take a look at what that great success looks like That is the state of florida and the reason why everything is in dark. Red is because you see kovic cases spiking in every single part of that state all right. So let's take a look at how florida looks compared to the rest of the country. That florida tends to be a lot redder than the rest of the country. And the red of course Indicates higher numbers of new cova cases. But you know brought to santa's looks at that. Thanks great success. Great success i mean look. We're doing these new treatment. Centers it's working how encouraging the residents of florida to get vaccinated. But i forget rod to santa's only does that for his wealthy donors who he ensured he ensured. He got the vaccines too. I that was lakewood ranch and palm beach which will get to in just a second jake. I can't help myself. I show one more thing. You look at this list of states with the highest number of hospitalizations. Florida.
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"You guys quick. Shot to community which i love so much. Tell me what to put gave two thousand three hundred and forty five bits and gift to this ub. Love you guys for that and thank you. Sam lynn the kind dragon for the raid kind. Indeed love our community. We'll talk more about the youtube community later in the show all right more news. Joe biden took a question. Made a point to a question from peter doocy today during a press conference and of course the press conference was held to address the fact that twelve service members and sixty afghans died following at two bombings near the kabul airport. Now let's take a look at what peter ducey's question is and how biden responded to it way. Let me take the one question from the most interesting guy that i in the press. But that's you mr president. There had not been a us. Servicemember killed in combat in afghanistan since february of twenty twenty. You set a deadline. You pulled troops out. You sent troops back in. An twelve marines are dead. Said the buck stops with you. Do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have unfolded in the last two weeks responsibilities for fundamentally all this happened of late. Here's the deal you know. I wish one day say these things you know as well as i do that a former president made a deal with the taliban's all american forces out of afghanistan by may one.
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"All of a sudden. Tytypk j. uber antica sparing with you guys giant head. You know it. I know the american people know it obviously serious dues that we're going to have to start with which is afghanistan and then we'll do the whole range because that's what we do at. Trt artistes called the news. Go all right. Twelve service members in the kabul airport have died following to allege bombings near the kabul airport Isis has taken responsibility. One of them has been reported as a suicide bombing. It's likely that the second is also a suicide bombing. Now this has to do with the fact. That of course you have america and its allied countries trying to evacuate Citizens american citizens in the case of the us and also Afghan allies of ours out of the country We need the cooperation of the taliban enable to in order to do that and the taliban is supposed to be providing these security checkpoints to ensure that Some various figures including suicide bombers. Don't enter the airport now. One of the bombers got caught at the checkpoint and decided to you detonate the bomb anyway But one individual one isis fighter Did manage to get through the taliban's checkpoint and a during a press briefing today. Generals are saying that the us is relying on the taliban to do some of the initial security But they say that some of them are good at providing not security. some are not as good so it doesn't appear at the moment that the taliban just allowed the suicide bomber to get through It seems that you know whoever was at that. Checkpoint obviously didn't do a good job in ensuring that the person was who he claimed he was so go ahead so that that gets one of my point so right now of course as usual cable news. Y'all near the top of their lungs. That all joe biden's fault now. If you watch the early you know that we think a lot of things are joe biden salt but this i just don't think did this is one of them the the bombing in particular right. So have they not done a good job of planning their exit. Yes but that least the second point which is the same as The blame for the bombing so to. Cbs's nancy cortez is there. White house correspondent. She came out today and said this quote the worst day of the biden presidency. So now look is some ways. It's true a lot of service members died and obviously this bring out his poll numbers but the politics and the policy the reality of people not being able to get out etc right on the other hand. Well isn't it. Also the worst day for the pentagon i mean. Somebody let him through the check point. Maybe it was taliban person originally remember taliban isis. Our enemies have to remind people that i'll thousand times right and and and maybe it was somebody on the ground for us right now. I'm not blaming the folks that had to stop the bomb at the last second nearly impossible. But if you're saying that and this happened to social media. I said look. Why are we blaming the pentagon so what the pentagon totally faultless. But it's all the president's fault. Why are we blaming the intelligence agency. The you wanna to blame them. Great i agree okay but if you just want to say no and in fact of course somebody respondents said no how the pentagon possibly know what was going to happen on the ground. Well how could biden. How can you say that biting. Should've known but none of the generals should note. This should know intelligence agency should know but somehow magically the president should know. Can i jump. In real quick because factor the matter is the pentagon and biden specifically did know that there was a threat by isis. Which is what they had been repeating over and over again this week because there were people of course trying to flee the country so people are trying to get into. The airport biden has warned a american citizens on the ground in afghanistan. Please don't do that because it creates more chaos in the situation and we're worried about isis fighters targeting Us citizens and our allies as we're trying to do these evacuation efforts and so the warnings were there of course. They didn't know that there was going to be very specific attack on this day. And it was going to be carried out the way it was but they had intel indicating that there were some serious threats. And i think that the commentary that you see whether it be on cable news or on twitter it tends to be very black and white like everyone's looking for a scapegoat right and i understand the human desire to find the scapegoat but at the same time getting troops out of afghanistan was always going to be a messy situation. Could biden have prepared better. I guess but no one's really provided specific examples of what the administration was supposed to do to plan the evacuation efforts better. We unfortunately unfortunately need the cooperation of the taliban who now has control of afghanistan and yes the taleban and isis. They're not friends they're not get along. They are enemies And so it's yeah so look the smart critique that is balanced and spread across all the people who deserve it is great. There's nothing wrong with that. Has the exit been smooth. Don't be ridiculous. of course it hasn't been smooth. Should you does the buck. Stop with the president. Yes pentagon if you blame all say they didn't do this right and obviously they didn't do nation-building right. Obviously obviously afghan military was not ready to stand up. The pentagon has been lying for twenty straight years. If you said like that no problem but if you pick and choose and the thing. I can't abide by dumb criticism. So biden has clearly has a deal with the taliban to let us out and not kill americans on their on our way out now people then criticize him for that deal in weird ways. They're like news your new deal with taliban so what he shouldn't have done the deal and the taliban would then be shooting fish in a barrel as we're leaving and killing all of our will. Why would that make sense. Who use your talk. Your by bombing the alabama now. But then they would murder every american in afghanistan. That isn't already at the airport. And it's about fifteen hundred. Americans let alone the people who work with us. Who are afghans. Please try to be smart. Now that's what i love about our audience. Our on his understands that. But god when you look at cable news owed. Oh don't do both ben. Bed always suspected taliban beds so they must be working together. No you schmucks. Isis and taliban hate each other. And you've got to do with deal with the taliban if you want the safest exit possible and is it going to be perfect..
5 Things
"kabul" Discussed on 5 Things
"The crowded is no one is helping. I don't know if this keeps going. No one would get happy. We are with pressing the government to fix this. Are you american. America working within five years for afghans. Who made it to the. Us there are paralysing fears about what will happen to their family back home particularly if they've previously worked with the united states the taliban pledged not to attack people or their families who have worked with western nations during the war both for a man who told the a p he wants to be identified as just call history any fears or real. He worked as a translator for the united states in afghanistan but now lives in. Wisconsin are very worried about them. So i was signed to pull them out of ghanistan because those people of all this serving military so they go after them and so they'll have sundays right now especially for the fame. Family like did a half like hedo family. Brother husband or father is very difficult. It's very hard for them to go outside. Work feed their family. One of my youngest sister she was she was working for the hospital. Yeah cheese scale also. She's very nervous. She's always thinking when i call her. She's crying please do something for us. My mo- asking to please. Did you talk with someone to do anything for us. The us face issues on friday as its facilities at an airbase in qatar rapidly filled up that backlog forced flights from kabul's airport to stop for several hours but they have since resumed. the state department said friday that it set up a specific task force to identify any. Us citizens left in the country. Who need assistance along with other afghan collaborators president joe biden continues to promise the. Us will bring americans in the country home and the same for afghans who helped the us in the war and their families. This is one of the largest most difficult airlifts in history and the only country in the world capable of projecting this much power on the far side of the world with this degree of precision is united states of america. Let me be clear and america wants to come home. We will get you home. Make no mistake. This evacuation mission is dangerous. Involves risks to armed forces and it's being conducted. Under difficult circumstances. I cannot promise with the final outcome will be what it will be. That will be without risk of loss but as commander in chief. I can assure you that. I will mobilize every resource necessary. And as an american. I offer my gratitude to the brave men and women of the us armed forces are carrying out this mission. Incredible but time is quickly running out on the august thirty first deadline biden. Said to withdraw most remaining. Us troops about fifty seven hundred. People were flown out of kabul on friday. According to a defense official about two thousand people were air lifted the previous two days the us military also flew helicopters beyond the kabul airport to pick up one hundred sixty nine americans. It's not clear if the military will continue to make similar rescue missions estimates have ranged as high as fifteen thousand. us citizens left in afghanistan. Taliban leaders continued to make sporadic public comments. But they're not expected to make many announcements on their new government until that august thirty first deadline passes taleban leader moolah abdul ghani bought a dr is in kabul for meetings with the group's leadership. He negotiated their twenty twenty peace deal with the trump administration. It's been more than a generation since.
The Lawfare Podcast
"kabul" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"And now they're going or evacuees and twenty two thousand we're going to go to the. Us come here to the us and then sense they said what we mean is that we have the capacity to take twenty two thousand to the us and the next day of. They're saying what we mean. Is we have the capacity to take up too. I want you to notice this very concerning backsliding the the amount of people we say that we're actually going to bring to safety including wartime allies. I think it's deeply concerning chris. Let me come back to you to push on another part of this although again i'd welcome communities entity jump in as well which is that. There is a fear that it's under control of the united states. And that's the airport but there is also a barrier that is being administered by the taliban the other side of the razor-wire the buying administration appears to have gotten had some luck engaging with the taliban around certain aspects evacuation around american citizens at least. The president certainly sent his remarks last night like the taliban. It said they're allowing americans through and that appears to be the case now with uniform success but as a more general mattis earlier reports of american citizens being harassed but not at the level of afghan citizens but what space is there for engagement with the taliban to facilitate facilitator. These efforts are they likely to allow large scale exits through their checkpoints on outside of the airport. Which is in their control. And is there anything to be done about that diplomatically or otherwise and then more importantly i think the bigger question here somebody hard questions that we are on a limited timeframe but it doesn't seem like it's a forever scenario. The president last night said we are willing to stay past august thirty first if necessary to evacuate. I think american citizens what he said that's passed regional withdrawal deadline. But we don't know what the level of tolerance is for the taliban for our presence at the airport nor What may require to expand that little tolerance were pushed back so how that relationship playing into this and and which we expect you know. Is it all in a unknown at this point. Well i think what i'll say on that is that the taliban are an entity that up until a week and a half ago two. Maybe two weeks had not governed a a metropolitan area right. They they they did own some small towns and some some some provinces but it wasn't until very recently within the last two weeks. They started taking over major metropolitan areas in municipal diminished diminish byron and were it had governing and so we could add tell the taliban leadership everything we want but the question remains do they have the capacity to have the command control from top to bottom to implement their promises. The taliban says oh yes. We're going to offer an an corridor down this this area and these are where people can go. Whoa molest american citizens. Visa holders were fleeing afghans. Will the people on the ground. Respect that and what we've seen so far is that they will not They will respect it in a limited fashion but there are lots of boards of taliban checkpoints shaking down american citizens for money Requesting money to be wired passer this checkpoint and look it's not in the taliban interests the the leadership anyways to be seen in this light and so if they can't even control their own troops on the ground in kabul when all the world is looking at this one this one city I don't know how long we're going to be able to evacuate any type of real lasting cohesive peachtree with us To to get our people. I think chris really address the side of what we think we can expect. I'm based on the limited information. We have now you now that the taliban is governing all of afghanistan except for the kabul airport. I think i just want to add this. I think part of the calculation that we're seeing from biden's. Abc news interview yesterday. Was saying that you know you mentioned that. He committed to stay to get us citizens out. What about legal legal permanent residents and for wartime allies. I just wanna draw out what that means. Not just the idea of of not saving refugees. There are veteran. American veterans who've been working with their their interpreters and translators for years for years In in a program that was asid program that was always deeply troubled with Inefficacy ease illogical denials. That were then overturned. One in six appeals overturned. One in six. after rejections appeals. Overturned the appeals process was overturned the rejections in one of six of the cases right so we had some deeply serious problems and then significant delays. Right that it's over three years to go through this. Iv program as an applicant on average even the congress mandated nine months. That means that they're american veterans who've been working for three years and in some cases more because that was the average with our interpreters to try to get here. That's had terrible systematic problems. So if the biden administration zinc's that somehow the news cycle or the veteran groups are going to get over this once he's able to effectively withdrawal Us forces i. It's a bad read and journalists who've been covering ghanistan for years and have their own reporters and people sources that they've been using for years also well aware so that's not gonna disappear. I don't know who in the west wing is reading them in on this or at what secretary level. They think that this is just going to go away. It's not. I think the point that suzanne is making is so critically important especially the reaction in the military and veteran community and chris wrote a piece of a. I think a week ago. That was so eloquent. Is summed up heat. some of those killings. Don't wanna put him on the spot on this but also to go back to the august thirty first deadline. It reminded me so much. The the address that the president made a but mid july the first time he addressed publicly or a second time you just probably the afghan withdrawal and one of the first questions. He got from journalists that time which notably. He took nine this past week. But one of the questions was. Do you trust the taliban as a partner in this and he got really angry And and sort of yelled back. No of course. They don't trust the taliban astonishing to now see him. You know almost speaking of the taliban as negotiating partner in the given us saugus thirty first date. And you know we're we're we're working within these cameras. and why. why do we think that they're going to honor. I mean we already know. They're not we already know that they're the house outside. The airport shooting guns chain whipping individuals. Who are who have connections to to the us on looking for evidence and in times going to the homes of individuals who are known to have worked with the us. And and i think it's to to sort of loop back to. Suzanne is plane the military community event and community which chris can speak so much on behalf of myself obviously feels such a sense of betrayal. But it's not just them. You know everyone who was sort of invested over the last two decades into helping rebuild afghanistan. I mean the women and the girls everyone who supported them to see what's happening there is dramatic and this is a serious misread on the president's part if he thinks that he's just gonna keep going publicly stating this was the right decision and you have to believe me. And he's going to sort of convince us all but that was the case because if not an eighteen keys seriously underestimating the deep deep sense of betrayal. That many of us are feeling as a result of what we're seeing play out right now in kabul ghanistan. Sometimes even when you know getting outside we'll give energy. It can be hard to find time to actually do it. But if you only have a few minutes you can listen to take in the outdoors with.
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"kabul" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"Will the americans primarily seem to be the ones that controlled the facility. Although there are other foreign troops there british contingent German troops as well could have access in some degree of control there but of course anybody who has a private flight or private airlines or other groups want to be able to use this airport because it's the only way out if you're a kabul private citizen or if you're a private organization trying to bring people out we know early on when the. Us took control the airport. They shut down. Those private flights for my understanding was relatively brief period. I understand that are happening again. But how are they fitting into. This picture is truly limited channel. I know a lot of international airlines and things are not operating. we're primarily talking about charter. Flights what is the mentally of routes out that are being channeled through kabul airport or is it really at this point primarily a us jian foreign government dominated channel so we can look at the public. Statements said the government. The us government has made press secretary kirby yesterday briefing reiterated numbers that he's been sharing recently. Which is that the. Us military has the capacity on the military side alone to five thousand people a day. They had he said in yesterday's press briefing that the airport inside of the airport is completely secured by the us military. These statements and yet we only moved two thousand individuals yesterday. If we keep this pace we leave three thousand. A day of vulnerable populations in kabul with no means of exit So that's i. That's what's happening on the commercial side in briefings pentagon briefings yesterday. They also mentioned that will military flights were moving out on the north military side of the airport. Commercial flights were inconsistent. We also know that. The faa said yesterday that they would permit u. s. airlines to fly in and out commercial flights to kabul airport. So we have that kind of spoke but we getting on the ground information. The commercial flights are running currently. We don't see evidence that that is the case that consistently that is the case in these certainly needed. We look for private efforts to to get commercial flights for the citizens who have visas because we have people with visas at the airport unable to fly because they can't get to brew inside of the court and and it's not clear whether in addition the commercial flights would be there for them to take camille. Let me come to you. You know a lot of the barrier. We've been talking about so far are in very different. Circumstances very familiar wants to people working in immigration refugee law the visa process the iv process. And these are processes. That in the best of circumstances can take a very very long time Which are a lot of administrative and bureaucratic barriers in place. How are they interfacing with this. Very urgent situation on the ground are they simply still being an obstacle. Are there efforts being made district invent some of these I know kristin zana both hit on the need to essentially move these processes further steps down the process people to a safe location and then going to pursue these legal processes. I'm but what steps have been taken in the current status quo to try and alleviate some of the pressures of those or are they still just a big bureaucratic bottleneck. A i mean. I think you you hit the nail right on the head with that. I mean that's sort of the almost the crisis to come or or the potential crisis to come because this is about to collide with a very broke in very decimated very under resourced and pressured immigration system. Which is already by designs. Set up to make anybody especially including those who are seeking protection fail. That i think is the next step i mean right now the effort of the last however many days or hours at this point right since saturday is really to get everybody out And chris sort of hinted at that earlier. We don't want the military planning the agent at the airport. They just get everybody out and we'll triage and we'll figure out what's going to happen. Next in terms of the legal needs and the legal status is that they need to enter the united states and remain in the united states. But the more we lean on third countries the more problematic. That is a lot of obvious reasons you know. We saw a very very small window into what that might look like with the roughly twelve hundred. Who made it to fort lee before before the crisis really hit before kabul fell and the taliban regained control of the country that started susanna in. Chris can correct me but for memory started late july into early august and those were individuals were very much in the league stages of the visa and also many of those individuals were not the principal applicants. They were family members. Who are coming to the us to join. Principal africans many of whom are already in the us and even that was quite confusing. Although i did see immigration agencies take a more affirmative role in the process actually going to fort lee to process applications and trying to speed things up as much as possible in a way that i've never seen before and that certainly is probably not scalable. You know to the levels that we need it to be now. So i think a lot of the answer to that question hinge on how many come to the us directly or potentially you know there are so options available in us territory such as guam and such versus how much we're going to rely on their countries and what happened to those countries but the us immigration system is designed to lose people it is designed to confuse them and make it hard for them to understand what the expectations and their requirements are. There's no right to an attorney in immigration. Certainly not in in what we call the affirmative process. Which has this process rate when you're asking for our benefit not when you're defending yourself in immigration court and when you're asking for benefit you have no tune attorney whatsoever even when that you pay for so you're lucky enough to find one in time or you're forced to go through the process on your own and that's in a normal circumstance incredibly confusing and in okay. Arctic situation like this not helped by things for example the department of state putting out what they're calling an entry pass to the airport right now for individuals who are trying.
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"Who would say that. They don't have the right. So let's say that the plague is back and we we can't control it. That killed seventy five to two hundred million people so busy. University's supposed say oh. Yeah come on with the playing no problem. You don't have to wear a mask you don't have to be vaccinated. Just play smeared all over the rest of us. Are they allowed to then spit on us to refer freedom freedom. Well but in a in a situation where you're contagious. Disease breathing on us is actually similar to spitting on us. And so that is. That's just a fact and it's uncomfortable fact true right and so this is not the plague but over four million people have died and especially in modern times. That is stunning absolutely stunning number. And in america over six hundred twenty thousand people have died if you're a university and you're trying to stop that spread on your campus your negligent and an incompetent and so of course. This is the correct decision by the quick note on freedom. I think that the right wing agree right. Wing would agree that one of the guys who gave us. Freedom was george washington one of the founding fathers and the general of the of our army at one freedom He vaccinated his troops because the british had already had an outbreak and were pretty much immune from smallpox. At the time and he had an and backseats back there were brutal and and really risky and you vaccinated is whole army anyway. Otherwise we're gonna lose the british and never have american the first place so read history. And then finally amy coney barrett and i think you headed is she's in this way in the case of the university exactly sure but the very next is going to be corporations and so when it comes to corporations this she dismissed it so out of hand she did not bring into the entire court and she said they could not win on the facts no matter what basic reasoning nori like. It was as much of a rejection as you could possibly have on the supreme court and one of the reasons is because these conservative judges or just pro business. There john they. They are in favor of giant corporate. She's that's why they were selected by corrupt politicians and so when corporations come and say we're gonna do vaccine mandate trust me to bear it in all of the almost all other right wingers. Yes sir absolutely sir. Corporations can do anything they want sir. And that's a preview for this exactly and look governor greg abbott of texas should take note because he has implemented a an anti Basically he has banned mask mandates now. The dallas school district has decided to ignore his band of the dallas independent school district in texas will maintain its mask mandate for students. Despite texas is supreme court ruling that upheld governor abbots ban on such measures. So who knows if this case is going to make its way to the supreme court but at this point we have precedent based on the way that judge amy coney barrett supreme court justice. amy conybeare. it handled The indiana university case. So we'll see what happens. Yeah and by the way in the bonus episode for the members. I'll tell you story of my kids first day of school and a little bit of drama. That happened there in la Hit to join biden below. You're watching on youtube and you can get that bonus episode But i just think about what Avid is saying in texas. If you've decided that your school is going to be safer with mass. I'm not going to let you make that decision band. Yes i'm going to ban you from being safe so now imagine you had your kids in that school and the people running. The school said were positive. They'd be safer if everybody was wearing mass and a bunch of people said no. We don't want to. We want to endanger your kids. This is a recipe for disaster. And these are the guys who said oh. We're in favor of local rule. Nope nope the minute. You disagree with local rule. You're in favor of basically what you would call tyranny. That ain't right and only forty five point three percent of texans or fully vaccinated one of the lowest facts vaccination rates in the country. So keep that in. Mind the worst outbreaks in the country and the most amount of deaths in the country. Texas really got this thing figured out keyboarding for see how many more people can die all right. That does it for our one. Stick around for our to where we will lighten things up. See you.
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"Of an organization take news out of your goddamn name just called fox or foxe propaganda or fox lives or something and then we're okay with it okay. Then i get a your conservative. You're allowed to do media if you're conservative and you lie and we tell the truth and we battle over it and eventually we win. And that's what happens every time news news is it makes us selling and tv. Did the protests right out of nowhere. And t- antifa came in attack these guys when they're the ones that started in the first place. Now look as always. There's some right wing provocateur in there. That has one out of context video so the all the counter. Protesters perfectly peaceful. No that's why we're partly saying get out of there and you shouldn't be there in the first place let alone being aggressive in any way shape or form so we're fair we're honest about it. You think they're fair and honest about it. They took the big misleading videos and fox. News then makes it seem like. That's the whole story anna's right when you go to counter protests come on you like you know. Something's going to break out. And you know the media is going to frame it as you guys did it yet. You walk into that ambush exactly right so so frustrating all right look the last thing for me. Give last word to the members because he said a couple of interesting and funny things but But for me look guys worry. Man like yeah. Those are small groups there. But we're all getting at each other. Today's the first day of school parents against parents things are starting to devolve If it was just proud boys antiques. Maybe you know coordinated off and it just happens rarely et cetera. Now we're all starting to get at each other and it's because we can't stand them then their total lack of logic and they said well i get to spread disease on you know. That's not part of your freedom and they can't stand us they think. Oh good a free concert. They really believe that with all their heart and he believe we're coming after their kids at all sorts of insane conspiracy theories. How long is this powder keg gonna go before blows in a giant way and i'm super worried about it. I think it's only gonna get worse from here on out. But on a lighter note will end on the members to dot com slash joined to become part of the show Because we do. Read your comments from time to time Colorado blue blazer regular road in that field drop kick is a perfect metaphor for these jack holes totally Mister arrogance said they're also getting out of their anger issues that they're too proud to go to therapy for totally right to write therapy doing irrationally. No me do drop kick me full on. Asked me get feel really good about it but actually the best comment comes from nugenix who actually corrects us. And i like that too. You guys are in a sense. Our editors okay. I know i love it and you guys are great about it. Knicks let the record state that it is a failed roundhouse kick out. Thank you good correction. It's not it's not. it's an accidental. drop kick. he didn't mean a drop. Kick humanity roundhouse cake and he just fell on his ass. Thank you for the important lucky. If you're going to be attempting those roundhouse kicks you better work on that core. You know got got gotta have good balance and that guide no good balance maybe spend more time at the gym time at these ridiculous protests anyway. let's do one more story before we wrap up our first hour. Conservative supreme court justice amy coney barrett handed down a decision. That is shocking. Now this had to do with a vaccine mandate at indiana university and This case made its way all the way to the supreme court where students were hoping that the supreme court would block indiana university's vaccine mandate. But that is not what happened. Conybeare rejected an emergency request by a group of indiana university. Students who were seeking to block the school from enforcing a covert nineteen vaccine requirement for the coming semester. She denied the request without comment. And without referring the matter to the full high court for consideration. I have to be honest i. I am pretty surprised by that. Because you know the whole point of ensuring that you install these conservative justices is so they carry out this vision of america that's deregulated it's all about the individual. But that is not what happened here. Now look if we were talking about corporations. I guarantee you amy. Conybeare would vote in a way. That would not shock us. But let me give you more details. Lower courts actually declined also to block the policy saying the students were unlikely to prevail on claims that the mandate violated the constitution. And just to give you a one of the comments from a judge in the us circuit court of appeals. He's from the lower courts. Of course he argued university. We'll have trouble operating when each student fears that everyone else may be spreading disease. Few people want to return to remote education and we do not think that the constitution forces the distance learning approach on a university that believes vaccination or masks and frequent testing of the unvaccinated will make in-person operation. Safe enough now. The school states. That if you refuse to get a vaccine you you have to wear a mask at all times when you're on the campus and you have to submit To cova tests on a regular basis. But of course the don't like that which is why they made this big case in the first place so first of all easterbrook has right. He's actually story Judge and and one of the brighter judges we have whether you agree or disagree with this philosophy judicial philosophy and he's saying something really simple of course institutions have a right to stop the spread of disease at their students. Hi this jank uber. 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"On kanana when you guys a little bit more afghan and then we have other devastating stories all right so ted cruz decided to go after a cnn reporter. Who's on the ground in afghanistan. As she was reporting she mentioned the fact that there were afghans behind her chanting death to america but she also said that they seemed friendly at the same time. Now senator ted cruz response to that. Was is there an enemy of america from whom. Cnn won't cheerlead in mandatory burqas. No less okay. so why. don't we respond to that before we get to. Cnn's response to ted cruz. Because it seems as though. Ted cruz has a difficult time. Separating the disdain that citizens might have for a government versus the people of that said government right so the people who have to live under that government so i wouldn't want the afghans to judge me personally based on the decisions that are made by the american government. It's similar to how i feel about. Let's say the turkish government. I don't judge turkish citizens. But i certainly judge the turkish government and the actions that they take And it's just anyway but jay. Why don't you jump in before we get to see it then She's in the streets of kabul risking her life demonstrably. So it's obviously so and you don't want her to wear a burqa. You want what you want to wear miniskirt. You wanna hurt her waving american flag you what do you. She's a reporter. She's not a cheerleader. For republicans or for the american government that would be insane to ask her to do anything else. And by the way ted cruz your ass loves to flee whenever there's an emergency you're questioning her. She's a thousand times more brave than you've ever been on your best so please spare me and look. There's just the guy's a snake he he never you know disappoints you if you think he's going to go lower. He always goes lower. And so this profile encouraged by the way of course after trump a set his wife was ugly and his dad was a murderer phone bank for trump so sparrows any conversation about her incredible courage to report from that situation. Honestly i when i think of the most cowardly members of congress senator. Ted cruz is way up top on that list. I mean we're talking about a man. I the example. You gave perfect jank someone who can't even stand up for his own immediate family and immediately cowards so the likes of donald trump who later in his presidency turned out to be nothing more than a bunker boy and then let's move on to cnn's response. Because i think that they actually hit them. Right word hurt they. They argue that rather than running off to cancun in tough times. Clarisa ward. that's the cnn. Reporter is risking her life. To tell the world what's happening that's called bravery instead of retweeting. A conspiracy theorist misleading soundbite. Perhaps your time would be better. Spent helping americans in harm's way yes..
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"Well in the church. You're an experience with you guys so Tons of white flags being waved today Including in domestic policy circles but obviously in afghanistan as well so Lot to get to especially on the withdrawal. So let's get right tour guys and has got the news on that and we'll take it from there. Let's do it. Hundreds of afghans running alongside and trying to grab onto a us air force jet as attempted to take off. At least three people died after falling to their deaths while clinging onto a us plane. Another died on the tarmac. Afghans stormed kabul's airport in a desperate attempts to flee the country following the taliban's ability to control or take control of the capital kabul. Over the weekend this follows the us troops withdraw after twenty years In this war this forever. Worn afghantistan is finally. Come to an end. Now there were some awful and pathetic takes in regard to the us troop withdrawal which will get to a little later in this segment so hold before we get to that but first a little bit of context for you. President ashraf ghani fled the country as the insurgents entered kabul on sunday taliban leaders ensconce themselves in the palace only hours after ghani fled taking control over what was once one of the most secure locations in the country and you know just before the weekend ghani had alleged that he was going to do whatever it took to fight back against the taliban and its attempts to take control over kabul but apparently he fled and the taliban was able to gain control of that area now. Afghan officials in other cities were filmed handing over power to insurgent leaders former president hamad karzai. Said he had formed a council with other political leaders to coordinate a peaceful transition to a new taliban government. but of course it hasn't been all that peaceful There were already several examples of retaliation against officials from the now former government of afghanistan. The government that was propped up by the united states and the troops on the ground there previously president. Joe biden made it appear. As though the taliban's would not easily take control of afghanistan. here's the statement from july eighth takeover of afghanistan now inevitable is not because you have the afghan troops have three hundred thousand. Well equipped is equipped as any army in the world. An air force against something like seventy five thousand talamante. It is not an. It's kind of incredible. Just how inevitable it was. There were some suspicions that maybe it would take several months for the taliban to take control of afghanistan after. Us troops left the country. But it's clear that it was only a matter of days that it happened and now because there's this desperate attempt to get Us allies and remaining us citizens out of the country. The biden administration sending thousands of troops back to afghantistan to help with that specific effort. Jank okay so there's some irony here. First of all binz decision withdraw from afghanistan is one hundred percent correct and the first irony. Is that this debacle preuss. How correct was turns out. We stay there twenty years and got absolutely nothing. Done nothing at all. Okay and what. They take kabul in three days off. Let's be honest about the incredible failure of the united states. Military the incredible failure of neo conservatives. Who said that we could turn afghanistan into our democracy and this is important. The incredible failure of the defense contractors that we spent trillions of dollars in american resources. To who said oh no oh no we'll stand up to afghan army. Dan army will be bullying now now to the second course i course you should. We have withdrawn. And now. I've got nuke assertiveness centrists and conservative democrats all over the place. We should have stayed another twenty years. You see this shows that we just stayed another twenty or two hundred years. This would have been fine. I looked live on different planet than we do. Okay but the second corey shoes did they screw up the withdrawal first. Obvious answer to that is yes. We can see with our own eyes but it is more complicated than that as you can tell. I got no love for defending the establishment. Democrats including joe biden. Who's part of the obama administration. But if you're being fair overall you'll snow to facts number one by never agreed with obama to do a surge in afghanistan and other note side. Note here mainstream media. As anybody noted that obama surge over a decade ago was a miserable failure. That was just preposterous. It didn't work at all. It was ridiculous total and utter failure by obama on that count now by the way bush started the failure. We're fair show. We got no need to beat up on obama but that is reality and buying was not in favor of that search so you have to give him credit for that asked four and i'm now read enough details to that you you obviously do not trust depending on from the get-go but it appears that they did a bunch of contingency planning. Was there contigency planning good enough. Well obviously not. You got people falling off of airplanes in mad insane scramble at the airport let alone how quickly the taliban took over the country. But did they tell joe biden they. Yes we think we have this withdrawal. All the contingency plans figured out. It appears that they did so. That would be the twenty eighth time or the two hundred and eightieth time that the pentagon screwed up and is a total buckle. So i'd like to know when the mainstream media is ever going to say. Oh by the way you know whose fault. Apparently the idiots at the pentagon who had twenty years to figure this out and they're idiot corrupt friends that enter the defense contractors and they never figured out an inch of it. Three hundred thousand afghan government is buying just said in the afghan military. They all lay down their weapons immediately by the way what happened in iraq. Something very similar. Why because they don't want the fight for us. They just want to take our money for twenty years and then joined the taliban as soon as we can and by the way lockheed martin and all your other contractors and pentagon brilliant job and making them the most well equipped army. Guess what the taliban now has all of that equipment. Yeah that is. That's an excellent point that no one is making if you watch specifically jake tappers coverage of this. I mean as someone who presents himself as like this straight news guy does quite a bit of editorializing on this particular topic and he seems to think that this was a massive mistake by administration. I completely disagree especially given the fact that when you look at the objectives of this war wasn't really about democracy building was.
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"It's monday august sixteenth and before we even left the country. Afghanistan is now under taliban control. We start here. A twenty year saw that comes to an end as fighters take over kabul this the taliban of one game over our team is on the ground as a new era takes. Hold asking how president biden's predictions unraveled. It's back to school season unless your classmates already have ovid are i use are full. Our children are getting airlifted. Out of harris. County would an alarming wise and child hospitalizations. Tell us about the delta variant. And just because they're tough to find doesn't mean they're not the biggest wildfires in the world. There's a fear that as it continues you get into the sort of feedback where it gets harder and harder. The earth is getting hotter. So what happens when the birth below. You is made of ice from abc news. This start here here. I'm brad mielke tally. Bon takeover of afghanistan now inevitable. It is not. This was president biden in july at the white house less than six weeks ago as he was. Withdrawing troops from afghanistan and the afghan troops have three hundred thousand well equipped as well as any army in the world and an air force. The natural concern of course was won't the american withdrawal empower. The taliban and biden was dismissive. Where do they go from here. That the jury is still out. But the likelihood there's going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely again. This was not even six weeks ago last week. The taliban took control of afghanistan's third largest city. Herod's they took over the second largest city can to heart. These cities are not close together. The taliban that was over running everything and eventually within a few days the only question was could the afghan government hold onto. Its capital of kabul. Will yesterday we got the answer to that question. Helicopters and black smoke visible american diplomats including the ambassador evacuated to the airport at least five hundred staff leaving the country so far the embassy shuttered the flag coming down in the span of less than twenty four hours. The city that the us entered nearly twenty years ago fell back under taliban control. We are taking you to the epicenter of all this morning. We are on the ground in kabul. Where a senior foreign correspondent ian panel has been taking all this with his own eyes. Ian four days ago you and i were talking about kandahar asking whether kabul could ever fall in weeks or days. What has happened since then. Yeah i mean wouldn't incredible week certainly over the weekend of first of all they take herat this big western city then. They take canada the second largest city in the country. Then there are only really to hold outs missouri sharieff in the north jalalabad just to the east of the capital suddenly missouri sharieff which was supposed to be the big hole. Doubt it was weather. Resistance was going to be mounted against taliban essentially cave to the taliban and jalalabad they handed over power to the taliban without a shot being fired and by the time we landed in kabul on sunday morning it was only kabul left pentagon tonight has now revealed it as sending three thousand american troops back into kabul to help remove a significant number of us embassy personnel as the taliban now sweeps across the country became defacto that very morning the last standing major city in the country full and we heard the taliban were applegate's and then of beans choices. Let this before suddenly panic and rumor-mongering starts to set and paranoia and these dangerous things. Suddenly suddenly people think that they seem them. In the city. Police stopped to abandon. That men in uniform starts take off those uniforms and on local dress when finally we got a message from the taliban who said we are outside the gates of the city. We're not going to go into the city per with sending a delegation to the presidential palace. At which point the writings on the wool. This is over. They are able to drive up to the presidential pilots meet with the presidency and senior political leadership then surely all better off the taliban and their backers should know that force is not the way to compile enough one to set mission later emerges the president ashraf ghani the man who is held out all this time refusing to elections refusing to meet with the taliban refusing to move out of the way refusing to admit the town of. I'm gonna win. He's left the country we and he left the country and because he thinks he's gonna get killed or kidnapped her. What well we've just had an explanation from him as to as to why. He said he left the country. He left the country to protect the rest of the country. Well he's number. Two was immediately going taking twitter. Issue video statements Essentially accusing betrayal. How madonna nazis taliban fighters behind the desk of the presidential palace. The taliban are in a process of some kind of provisional government no be some form of elections or tribal meetings where they will decide what the future government is but make no mistake. This is it. The taliban have one game over. There's no more debates about what is going to happen. The future afghanistan the taliban sweeping to power the tana. Bana here. they're in town. They're at the doors. We and then in. I know that the us has been withdrawing troops but we still have people in the country right like our american diplomats or even servicemembers. Are they about to get taken hostage. And they've got to get killed. What are the. What are the risks for americans there. No it's one of the width things. That's happening at the moment and again the taliban would have you think about them have been very politically savvy about this. We had a very good conversation with the leader of the taliban today. And they're looking to get this ended and we're looking to get it ended ever since the us announced its withdrawal. They've not attacked. Us troops pulling out. Given that american troops. America is the great nemesis straps all of this They stood to onside. Allowed the americans to leave knowing that that would allow them to get to this point where they were. Empowering inch of these provincial capitals fall. i've been to probably every single one of them with our soldiers and marines over the years. And i have talked to many of them in the past few days. Many are horrified horrified. Mostly because we're leaving afghan partners afghan interpreters and those who helped the us behind and those soldiers and marines feel very helpless about that. So even as i'm talking to you come here in the background. There chinook helicopters constantly ferrying people back and forth to the apple c. One thirties transport aircraft commercial aircraft ferrying. Us diplomats civilians minute scenes of total chaos at the airport. I have a friend and afghan friend. Who's trying to get out with his family today. The traffic was so bad. You had to get out the calm. And you've seen this in the movies to get out the car with his family ditches luggage and they will have to run to the apple and in the end. The airport security abandoned their posts of the security situation deteriorated. There was some kind of skirmishing some fighting going on a live ended up having to retreat in that the now hiding in a different location in kabul these people who run the fifth of their lives. So how did this happen so quickly. What we've been told that this would be orderly. Were americans lied to were was our intelligence just way off about the taliban capabilities or did the taliban somehow get way stronger.