Bonus Edition – Chaos in Kabul: An Exclusive New Look Inside the Afghanistan Withdrawal

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@mosheh / tentwentytwo

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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A year after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, we are still learning brand new details about the chaotic and deadly final weeks and days. In today’s edition, we speak with award-winning film producer Jamie Roberts, who premiered a new documentary, Escape From Kabul, on HBO Max this month. It focuses on the final 18 days at Kabul airport with new exclusive footage and conversations with the US Marines who were there, the Afghans trying to flee, as well as Taliban leaders who were on site. Roberts says it is past due that legislators in the US start to ask questions about what went down in August 2021. We learn for the first time about the tragic details on how the Kabul airport airfield was cleared after the first days of mayhem on the runways. Roberts also tells about his interview with the Taliban commander who manages suicide bombers and explains how they literally hide bombs up their…you know what. – Please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Newsletter: https://monews.bulletin.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/moshehnews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh

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0:37.0	I try to regularly bring on newsmakers and experts to really break down headlines on the news
0:42.0	and issues you're asking questions about.
0:44.0	Today's conversation takes us inside those final couple weeks of the draw
0:48.0	from Afghanistan last August in a way you have never seen before.
0:52.0	Jamie Roberts and his team have put together an incredible documentary
0:55.0	with never before seen footage from Marines
0:58.0	who were at the Kabul airport, the Afghans, some who made it out
1:01.0	and some who didn't, as well as the Taliban soldiers
1:04.0	that were on site those last couple weeks.
1:07.0	The escape from Kabul is now streaming on HBO Max
1:10.0	and features an immersive day by day look at the last 18 days of the war,
1:15.0	the chaos, the tragedy, really what was happening on the ground
1:19.0	away from all the politics, what the US Marines there
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