A Historic Peace Plan Collapses

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🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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President Trump abruptly called off negotiations between the United States and the Taliban that could have ended the war in Afghanistan and canceled a secret meeting at Camp David. We look at how a historic peace deal went off the rails. Guest: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:The United States and the Taliban, after nine rounds of painstaking negotiations in Doha, Qatar, appeared to have ironed out most of the issues between them. But President Trump canceled a secret meeting at Camp David and called off the talks.What jarred many Afghans was how a single attack and the death of one American, cited by Mr. Trump, could upend 10 months of negotiations.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:32.8	This is The Daily.
0:37.4	Today, President Trump has abruptly called off the negotiations between the US and the
0:46.0	Taliban that could have ended the war in Afghanistan, saying that the talks are dead, the story
0:54.4	of how a historic peace deal went off the rails.
1:03.3	It's Tuesday, September 10.
1:08.9	Peter Baker, tell me about this meeting in the White House situation room.
1:12.9	Well, on the Friday before Labor Day, the president sits down in the situation room with
1:16.9	his top national security advisors talk about whether or not to make peace with the Taliban.
1:21.8	His administration been negotiating a deal for nearly a year with these militants we've
1:27.0	been fighting since 9-11.
1:29.2	In that room, at this moment, he was presented with a choice.
1:32.4	Do you go ahead and make peace with them or not?
1:34.7	On the one side was Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State and his special envoy, Zalme Khalilazad,
1:40.0	who has negotiated this deal.
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