4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. under President George W. Bush and Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation from September 2018 to October 2021. Khalilzad and Morell discuss the history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan, including in the period during the withdrawal of Soviet forces in 1989, after 9/11, and today. Khalilzad offers new details about the deal his team brokered with the Taliban in 2020 - including the contents of two still-secret annexes - and explains why he believes diplomatic engagement with the Taliban should continue. Khalilzad also reflects on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as well as his own role as lead negotiator under Presidents Trump and Biden.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel. |
0:06.6 | Brought to you by Palantir Technologies, Foundational Software of Tomorrow, delivered today. |
0:12.6 | Zalme Khalilzad is the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, to Iraq and |
0:19.2 | to Afghanistan. |
0:20.2 | He played a major role in the formulation and execution of Afghan policy over the past |
0:24.9 | 20 years. We just sat down with the ambassador to talk about what went wrong in Afghanistan. |
0:30.0 | We'll be right back with that discussion after a word from our sponsor. I'm Michael Morel, |
0:34.4 | and this is Intelligence Matters. |
0:42.8 | I'm CBS News Business Analyst, Jill Slesinger. If you want your money to go further and work harder |
0:49.3 | for you, you probably need to talk to an expert at FASIT-WELT. Every advisor at FASIT is a certified |
0:56.9 | financial planner and a fiduciary, and that means they have the best training and, more importantly, |
1:03.1 | these folks are legally bound to do what's in your best interest. They go beyond just the retirement |
1:09.6 | savings investment strategies that you can probably get for free anywhere online. Professionals |
1:14.0 | a FASIT provide impartial advice around everything that your money touches, new benefits, new home, |
1:20.6 | tax strategies, and they do it all for a clear fixed fee. Call 888-598-3966 for two months free |
1:28.3 | off your first year of financial planning. That's 888-598-3966. FASIT-WELT is an SEC registered |
1:35.1 | investment advisor. This is not investment legal or tax advice. Two months free offer is only valid |
1:40.1 | for an annual fee paid at the time of signing. Ambassador, welcome to our show. It's great to chat |
1:48.3 | with you again. It's been a while. It's great to be with you. I'm looking forward to the chat. |
1:53.0 | Before we get to that, I did want to mention that you're the author of a terrific book called |
1:58.4 | the Onvoy from Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World. You're going to have |
2:04.5 | to update it or even write a new book, given what's happened the last couple of years. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBS News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CBS News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.