Biden Back to WH Tonight, to Speak on Afghanistan in Coming Days

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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3.9 • 715 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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WH says Biden “taking responsibility for every” U.S. decision on Afghanistan as administration races to evacuate Americans. Afghanistan’s first female mayor says Taliban will kill people like her: “I’m sitting here waiting for them”. Taliban vows more tolerance within “framework of Sharia law”. Texas’ anti-mask mandate governor tests positive for Covid. “We sacrificed lives for a lie”: marine who served in Afghanistan with devastating takedown of U.S. in NYT. 1,900+ dead after catastrophic Haiti earthquake. 45 year old Topeka mayor gets pacemaker after gallbladder removal and multiple hospital stays due to long Covid battle. 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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0:30.9	Out front next. President Biden returning to the White House right now earlier than planned.
0:35.1	The White House on defense and still struggling to explain how
0:38.3	Afghanistan went so wrong, so fast. We're live in Kabul and Washington tonight. Plus, former NFL
0:44.9	player and bronze star recipient Nate Boyer is out front. What he wants to say to his fellow
0:49.8	veterans who sacrificed the ongoing war in Afghanistan. In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott, who's been fighting the counties in his own state over
0:57.0	mask mandates, has tested positive for COVID.
0:59.8	Let's go out front.
1:02.9	And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett.
1:04.7	Out front tonight, President Biden on his way back to Washington tonight, leaving
1:08.6	Camp David earlier than initially planned.
1:11.9	This is the Taliban, makes their presence known across Afghanistan. Today, holding a press conference. It's a slick
1:18.5	operation now. They've had a whole press conference and releasing a video of their co-founder
1:23.8	arriving in Kandahar. It is the first time that he has stepped foot in Afghanistan
1:28.8	in 20 years, hugely symbolic picture and a huge victory for the Taliban. Taliban forces are now
1:37.6	negotiating with the United States to ensure the safety of Americans still stuck inside Afghanistan.
1:42.9	The takeover comes as the White House is mounting a
1:44.9	full-throated defense of the administration's response to the withdrawal of the few remaining
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