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Amanpour: Adm. William McRaven (Ret.), Elizabeth Becker and Michio Kaku

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.2929 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Three U.S. presidents have tried and failed to end the war in Afghanistan, and President Biden says he refuses to be the fourth. By September, he will withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from the country and NATO is likely to follow. Former head of U.S. Special Operations Command Admiral William McRaven (Ret.) was the commander of the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, he joins Christiane Amanpour to explain how there probably will still be a small U.S. presence in Afghanistan even after President Biden pulls out troops. The contributions of journalists Kate Webb, Catherine Leroy and Frances Fitzgerald have long been overlooked, but now Elizabeth Becker – herself a former war correspondent – is telling their story in her new book, “You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War.” She explains the story of these three women correspondents who changed war coverage forever. The discovery that a subatomic particle is behaving in a way nobody could have predicted has physicists excited. Our Walter Isaacson speaks to Michio Kaku, physicist and author of "The God Equation", about how what we know about the laws of the universe may be about to change. 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

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Now it is time to bring our forces home.

0:12.0

The United States will withdraw troops from Afghanistan

0:14.8

and end its longest war by the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. But will there be

0:20.3

another Taliban takeover? I talk to the man who oversaw the deadly raid on Osama bin Laden,

0:26.1

retired Admiral William Mcravan, author of the new book, The Hero Code.

0:31.0

And, you don't belong here

0:33.2

former war correspondent Elizabeth Becker tells me how three female journalists

0:38.0

defied the odds and rewrote the story of the Vietnam War.

0:41.9

Plus, aha, maybe just the story of the Vietnam War. Plus...

0:43.0

Ah ha!

0:44.0

Maybe, just maybe this is a signal that there's a higher theory out there.

0:49.0

Has Einstein's dream finally come true?

0:52.0

Physicist Michio Kaku tells our Walter

0:54.8

Isakson about a breakthrough scientific discovery and his new book The

0:59.4

God Equation. equation. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Three US

1:20.4

presidents have tried and failed to end the war in Afghanistan. Joe Biden is really We known as the graveyard of empires and NATO is likely to follow.

1:35.0

Today, Biden saying the 9-11 attacks are no justification to stay.

1:40.0

War in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multi-generational undertaking.

1:45.0

We were attacked.

1:47.0

We went to war with clear goals.

1:50.0

We achieved those objectives.

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