Congressman Seth Moulton on Afghanistan

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Joe Trippi

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Congressman Seth Moulton, Marine & member of the House Armed Services Committee, joins the pod to talk the situation in Afghanistan, what we need to be doing right now to save lives, and how you can help. Read Rep. Moulton's statement here: https://moulton.house.gov/press-releases/moulton-statement-on-the-situation-in-afghanistan This David Rohde piece in the New Yorker stood out to us: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trying-and-failing-to-save-the-family-of-the-afghan-who-saved-meSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show.
0:10.8	This week we have a special guest who as soon as the
0:13.6	Afghanistan crisis worsened I knew I had to hear his perspective or that you did and
0:18.2	he's a marine who served for Tours in Iraq now now serves on the House Armed Forces Committee, my friend, Congressman
0:27.6	Seth Moulton.
0:28.6	Seth, welcome to the podcast.
0:31.5	I really appreciate you coming on.
0:33.6	It's great to be here, Joe.
0:35.1	And I wouldn't be here without you in that first campaign,
0:38.1	so thank you.
0:39.0	Thank you again.
0:40.2	Yeah, I know.
0:40.8	It was a really hard fought and a good one and a great win and I'm really glad you're there.
0:47.6	In fact, this is one of those moments where I'm really proud to have worked with you and that you're representing
0:58.7	your district in the house. The thing that happened was, you know, I read your statement and I just want to read this the first part of it
1:06.9	to the audience, to get a sort of set the show and what I want to talk about to say that, and this was four or five days ago that Seth put this out.
1:17.0	To say that today is anything short of a disaster would be dishonest.
1:22.0	Worse, it was avoidable. of a disaster would be dishonest.
1:22.8	Worse, it was avoidable.
1:25.2	The time to debate whether we stay in Afghanistan
1:28.5	has passed.
1:29.8	But there is still time to debate how we manage our retreat.
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