Biden: "It was time to end this war"; White House briefing following Biden's address on Afghanistan; One-on-one with Biden's National Security Adviser; Five people killed in storm, Louisiana Gov. expects death toll to rise

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

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Biden: Will get remaining Americans out "if they so choose"; Biden: "I take responsibility for the decision" to withdraw; Biden: Couldn't stay in Afghanistan indefinitely because "everything had changed" after Trump's deal with Taliban; Biden: "To those asking for a third decade of war, I ask: 'What was our vital national interest?'"; Biden: "I was not going to extend this forever war"; Biden: Choice was "Between leaving or escalating"; Biden: 90% of Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan did; Biden: August 31 "Was not an arbitrary deadline.... it was to save American lives"; Biden: "I respectfully disagree" that evacuation should have begun earlier; Biden: Afghanistan war "Should have ended long ago"; Biden: "The war in Afghanistan is now over"; Biden: Must defense U.S. from threats in 2021 and beyond, not from 2001; Biden: "Don't need to fight a ground war" In Afghanistan any more; Biden: We believe 100-200 Americans still want to leave Afghanistan; Biden: Taliban said "All bets were off" If U.S. stayed past 8/31; Biden: Choice was "Between leaving or escalating"; White House briefing on Afghanistan, Hurricane recovery; White House Briefing following Biden speech declaring "The war in Afghanistan is now over"; Biden: "We can never repay" 13 troops killed din ISIS attack; 1M+ without power, drinking water limited, cell service down; Power outages put strain on critical services; long lines for gas, generators, food, water; 1M+ without power with days of 100-degree heat in forecast; Report: Most oil and natural gas production offline in Gulf coast; CNN one-on-one with controversial GOP front-runner Larry Elder; GOP front-runner Larry Elder falsely says young people don't contract covid, don't need to be vaccinated; GOP fron-runner Larry Elder draws scrutiny for past comments on women, race, and sexual assault 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	Welcome to the lead out, Jake Tapper, and you've been watching President Biden addressing
0:04.7	the nation just one day after the end of America's longest war, President Biden praised the
0:10.9	troops just minutes ago.
0:12.7	The troops involved in the mass evacuation efforts, he said, we can never repay the 13
0:17.4	U.S. service members killed in the terrorist attack last Thursday.
0:21.2	President Biden also pledging that the United States will help evacuate any remaining Americans
0:27.5	or Afghan nationals who want to leave Afghanistan.
0:31.7	Joining us now to discuss, CNN's Caitlin Collins and Clarice Award, we also have with
0:36.1	us a retired Lieutenant General, Douglass Loot, former coordinator for the poor Afghanistan
0:41.4	at the National Security Council under President Obama and Bush.
0:44.1	He's also the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO.
0:47.2	Caitlin, let me start with you at the White House.
0:50.2	What are you hearing from the White House about the tone of his speech, which at times seem
0:54.8	rather defiant?
0:57.2	It was very defiant, Jake.
0:58.7	I think actually throughout a lot of that speech, a very defiant and forceful response to
1:03.8	what some criticisms of the way that the handling of this exit has gone.
1:08.4	He also defended, of course, the idea overall, the bigger picture that the U.S. is leaving
1:12.6	Afghanistan and now has now left Afghanistan, of course, a decision he made back in April.
1:18.1	And the President was saying that he does not believe that there is any better way that
1:21.6	this exit could have gone.
1:23.0	He said he respectfully disagrees with the critics who say that this is an evacuation,
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