Biden doubles down on Aug. 31st deadline (with David Sedney)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The clock is ticking ever closer to August 31st. That's the day that President Biden claims we'll have all US citizens out of Afghanistan. Something he doubled down on in his latest press conference on the matter. But what about all those Afghans that fought alongside the US over the last twenty years? Will the US help them escape the oppressive regime that is the Taliban? With only a week to go before the deadline, and too many people to evacuate, the mess has become a debacle. David Sedney, former President of the American University of Afghanistan weighs in on the struggle to get not only the Americans out, but those Afghans who have spent the last twenty years building a new life only to have it seized away in less than twenty days.
GUEST:
- David Sedney (@david_sed), Frm. President of American University of Afghanistan, Frm. US Diplomat & Frm. US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in Afghanistan
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Biden claims US is on track to finish Afghanistan evacuations by Aug. 31st - Here.
- David Sedney Bio - Here.
- Yahoo News' Jon Ward article, Who are the Taliban today - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | A longer-we-stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group |
| 0:06.8 | known as ISIS-K, a ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, which is a sworn enemy of the Taliban as well. |
| 0:14.9 | Every day around the ground is another day we know that ISIS-K is seeking to target the |
| 0:19.5 | airport and attack both the U.S., and allied forces, and innocent civilians. |
| 0:25.8 | The most present Biden on Tuesday is starting with the U.S. military is on track to complete |
| 0:29.8 | its mission in Afghanistan by August 31st, indicating that the United States involvement in that |
| 0:35.3 | country could end as soon as next week. |
| 0:38.6 | It's a highly controversial move that is taken on new urgency as a result of alarming |
| 0:42.8 | intelligence that an ISIS affiliate is plotting an attack on the airport and the American |
| 0:47.8 | troops still there. |
| 0:49.6 | There are even indications that some ISIS fighters have been videotaping the gates of the airport |
| 0:54.4 | as a precursor to an attack. |
| 0:56.8 | Just another reminder that the country we invaded to purgative terrorism 20 years ago is still |
| 1:01.6 | riddled with terrorists who mean to do us and our Afghan partners wrong. |
| 1:07.1 | We'll discuss with David Sedney, the former president of the American University of Afghanistan, |
| 1:11.6 | who is now working desperately to get his one-time students and faculty members out of the |
| 1:15.5 | country on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:18.9 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United |
| 1:27.0 | States. |
| 1:28.0 | I will to the best of my building. |
| 1:30.0 | Reserve, protect and defend. |
| 1:32.4 | Constitution of the United States. |
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