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What A Day

America's Forever Wars With Spencer Ackerman

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This past weekend marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and beyond the typical yearly commemoration, the FBI released a newly declassified document detailing contacts that two hijackers had with Saudi associates in the U.S. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Spencer Ackerman, joins us to discuss the history of 9/11, the war on terror, and the latest developments in Afghanistan. And in headlines: Iran reached an agreement with the UN’s nuclear watchdog, people who are not fully vaccinated are eleven times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who are fully vaccinated, and Democratic lawmakers still can’t agree on a price tag for their spending plan. Show Notes: NYT: “In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb” – https://nyti.ms/3E97iK1 Forever Wars Substack – https://foreverwars.substack.com/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0

It's Monday, September 13th. I'm getting in wrestling.

0:09.0

And I'm Josie Defi Rice and this is What a Day.

0:12.0

The podcast that some of you may not know is actually widely credited

0:16.0

with reuniting Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.

0:19.0

Yeah, as legend has it, they reconnected somewhere on our show's review page.

0:23.0

True.

0:24.0

That's one of probably a thousand relationships that have started there.

0:35.0

On today's show, Senator Joe Manchin clashes with his Democratic colleagues once again

0:39.0

over the $3.5 trillion spending package.

0:42.0

Plus, we recap the outcome from the US Open.

0:45.0

Yeah, interesting stuff there, but first we are going to dive into the history of 9-11

0:49.0

and the war on terror.

0:51.0

This past weekend marked the 20th anniversary of 9-11 and beyond the typical yearly

0:56.0

commemoration, the FBI released a newly declassified document detailing contacts

1:01.0

that two high-jaggers had with Saudi associates in the US.

1:05.0

It reportedly did not have any more conclusive evidence about the Saudi government's role, though.

1:09.0

This was the first document released after President Biden ordered a declassification

1:13.0

of such materials that have been clandestined for years.

1:16.0

And it comes after many families of victims have pushed for further investigation

1:20.0

and possible involvement of the Saudi government in the attacks.

1:23.0

Yep. And meanwhile, there are more developments in the decades-long war in Afghanistan

1:28.0

that followed 9-11.

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