A GPS Special: The Fall of Kabul, One Year Later

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As the one-year anniversary of the chaotic Taliban takeover of Kabul approaches, Fareed has an exclusive interview with the former president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, about why he fled the country, if he feels betrayed by the U.S., and whether the rumors are true that he escaped with many tens of millions of dollars. Then, former U.S. Marine turned journalist and author Elliot Ackerman discusses his time fighting in Afghanistan and what America did right and wrong there. And the show begins with Fareed’s Take on the lessons the U.S. can take from the war. Air date: 08/14/22 GUESTS: Ashraf Ghani (@ashrafghani), Elliot Ackerman (@elliotackerman) To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a special edition of GPS, the Global Public Square, the fall of Kabul one year later.
0:14.4	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:17.5	I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you from New York.
0:23.6	The Taliban has taken over Afghanistan.
0:28.6	Using control of Kabul with hardly a shot fire.
0:32.0	On the program, the entire U.S military effort is collapsing.
0:36.4	The embassy has been completely evacuated.
0:39.2	It has been a year since the fall of Kabul.
0:42.2	Shear desperation.
0:43.9	Afghan trying desperately to board outgoing flights.
0:48.2	A year since then President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan.
0:52.3	The President of Afghanistan please the country.
0:55.6	For a year he has been virtually invisible.
0:58.8	What a difference.
0:59.8	24 hours made.
1:04.3	Today you will hear from him directly.
1:07.1	Why he left so hastily.
1:08.8	Had no plans of fleece.
1:10.6	Whether he took tens of millions of dollars with him.
1:13.6	This is part of a disinformation campaign.
1:16.3	And why he wants to go back to his country.
1:19.1	The place that every cell of my body belongs.
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