#540 An Afghan Woman’s Message For The World ft. Jessica Yellin

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Yellin (@jessicayellin) joins Amanda for a timely bonus episode reflecting on the week of reporting on Afghanistan and the evacuation efforts. Yellin, founder of News Not News and former White House Correspondent who’s reported on Afghanistan for 20 years, explains exactly what we need to do to sustain pressure on leaders to ensure Afghans’ safety, why this is our obligation as Americans. Then, Yellin shares an excerpt of her interview with a woman in Afghanistan whose life has been turned upside down, in which she shares her greatest fears and a message for the rest of the world. Listen to the full 25-minute interview on Jessica’s page at @jessicayellin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betches media presents madam speaker madam vice president. You want to hang out with us and get your back
0:05.9	See and so I went to human resources. There's some things I just can't tell you on air. The Betches sub podcast a woman's problem if you will
0:18.1	Hello everybody, it's Amanda and today I'm back for a special bonus episode
0:22.4	The subject matter is timely because it's about how you
0:25.1	Consistain pressure on those in power to help evacuate vulnerable Afghans who many of whom are now refugees
0:31.1	You're also going to hear more about what's at stake directly from a woman in Afghanistan who our guests today spoke to and is
0:37.6	Generously allowing us to share an excerpt of so to discuss all this we have I'm so excited Jessica Yellen
0:43.4	She is the award-winning journalist and founder of news not noise
0:47.1	She was also the chief White House correspondent for CNN in Washington DC from 2011 to 2013
0:53.7	Welcome and thank you for connecting and making time during what has been I mean tireless when do you sleep?
0:59.0	I know it is such an exhausting period, but worse for the people in Afghanistan, so yeah, we're going
1:05.9	Absolutely, so I want to talk about your your coverage of this because you are covering this on news not noise
1:11.6	And you're kind of like helping change the game for news on Instagram, but you have a pretty traditional
1:17.3	News background you've been covering the US story of the US withdrawal and the Taliban take over in great detail this week
1:24.1	And you're obviously a seasoned journalist a former White House correspondent
1:27.2	So I have two questions to start one. I'm curious if this is a story you feel a personal connection to because of your prolonged coverage
1:34.5	You welcomed a series of incredible guests this week that I was wondering if you had a relationships with and what it's if you
1:41.5	Activated immediately because you just know the stakes of this story from covering it for so long
1:46.3	It's a great question and yeah, you know when I first got to Washington
1:50.8	I think my as a reporter my first story was inside the Pentagon covering
1:56.7	preparations for Iraq
1:58.7	And I got to the White House to cover Bush's second term that was my first full rotation at the White House and the story was
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