August 29 — Sec. Antony Blinken, H.R. McMaster & Dr. Anthony Fauci

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🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken discusses the final days of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan following Thursday’s attack. Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, former National Security Adviser, breaks down President Biden’s and President Trump’s foreign policy. Dr. Anthony Fauci explains what we can expect for the future of vaccine boosters and the Delta variant. Courtney Kube, Eugene Robinson, Matthew Continetti and Amna Nawaz join the Meet the Press roundtable.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, terror and dread in Afghanistan.
0:05.5	The U.S. evacuation in peril as the death toll from that ISIS attack reaches nearly 200,
0:11.5	including 13 American service members.
0:13.8	We will not forget. We will not forget.
0:17.4	We will hunt you down and make you pay.
0:20.9	The U.S. hits ISIS with a drone attack in eastern Afghanistan.
0:24.3	Two high profile ISIS targets were killed and one was wounded.
0:29.6	But President Biden says another terror attack is highly likely.
0:33.1	We have other active threats to, extremely active threat strength against the airfield.
0:37.9	And the president is sticking to his Tuesday withdrawal deadline.
0:41.6	This morning, my interviews with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and President Trump's second
0:46.5	national security advisor, H.R. McMaster.
0:49.5	Plus, surging COVID cases.
0:51.4	The amount of death and dying that we're seeing is in my whole nursing career.
0:57.7	I've never seen anything like it.
0:58.8	More than 100,000 Americans now hospitalized.
1:01.3	The patients we're getting are younger and they're turning sicker much faster.
1:08.4	As millions of Americans refused to be vaccinated.
1:11.8	We could have avoided this whole weight if more people in our country had gone and just
1:17.8	gotten two shots.
1:19.1	My guest this morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
1:22.0	Joining me for Insight and Analysis R.
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